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PAIN – A Comparison of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western biomedicine philosophies
It is estimated that almost 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, which is more than cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke combined.1 The prevalence of chronic pain for adults, is about 30% of the adult population, with women affected slightly more often than men.2
Types of Pain
Western Treatments for Pain by type
Risks involved with medications
Oriental/TCM Medicine Approach to Pain
"Qi" is defined as "vital life force" or "primal energy" that all beings have and is central to the theory of TCM. In addition, "Qi" should flow easily and freely at all times otherwise, symptoms can arise. As an example, pain in a particular part of the body indicates an imbalance or disharmony in the flow of "Qi" in that area. The role of the acupuncturist is to locate the source, type and location of the imbalance, and treat accordingly. In general, the acupuncturist will:
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UNM Professor Luke Lester Elected IEEE Fellow
December 03, 2012
Categories: Inside UNM
Luke F. Lester was recently elected to Fellow by the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and SPIE, the Society for Optics and Photonics. The grade of Fellow is the highest grade of membership in both organizations and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
Lester, Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Microelectronics Endowed Chair Professor, was cited for contributions to quantum dot lasers for both organizations.
"Luke's work in quantum dot lasers is outstanding and elevation to the grade of Fellow by both IEEE and SPIE demonstrates the significance of his achievements," said Catalin Roman, dean of the UNM School of Engineering. "It is particularly impressive that he has received the status of Fellow in both organizations at the same time."
Lester's signature achievement since joining UNM has been his ground-breaking investigation of semiconductor quantum dot lasers, specifically using the "dots-in-a-well" (DWELL) technique. The DWELL approach embeds a quantum dot nanostructure within a thin-film quantum well region to improve electron capture into the dot material. Lester was the first person to describe the device physics that improves the efficiency and reduces the threshold current of the DWELL laser.
This influential work, first published in 1999 in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, led to numerous invited lectures on quantum dot technology at international conferences throughout the world. In recognition of this important research, he and his co-authors received the Best Paper Award at Photonics West 2000 in San Jose, CA. His other awards for quantum dot research include the 2012 Harold E. Edgerton Award from the SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the development, characterization and integration of quantum dot mode-locked lasers as high-speed optical sources, Dr. Lester received the 2012 Harold Edgerton Award from the SPIE.
"I feel very honored to receive these distinctions from the IEEE and SPIE and want to thank all my student advisees and collaborators who over the past twenty-five years have contributed to our exciting technological discoveries in semiconductor nanotechnology. I couldn't have done this without your help and camaraderie," said Lester.
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Jazz Greats Gerald Albright, Norman Brown & Boney James to Share The Stage at the Terrace Theater
2011-12-20 · By Editor
Treat your loved one to a romantic evening of soulful jazz at the Terrace Theater/Long Beach Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 11, 2012. Celebrate the month of love with Rainbow Promotions' Valentine's Day Concert which features performances by distinguished artists Gerald Albright, Norman Brown and Boney James. Tickets are available for the performance and the VIP Dinner Package.
Gerald Albright
Gerald Albright has received several GRAMMY Nominations, sold over 1,000,000 albums in the U.S. alone and garnered notoriety within the industry for his multiple talents. His self-produced music features him on bass guitar, keyboards, flutes, drum programming, and background vocals. He is a remarkable musician that has the ability to surprise audiences with something out of the ordinary every single time he mounts a stage. Friends and lovers rejoice because on Saturday the 11th Albright will give the audience what they come for – a fantastic show!
Norman Brown
GRAMMY Award winner Norman Brown is on close intimate terms with his audience and his upcoming performance at the Terrace Theater will be no exception. For almost two decades the multitalented guitarist, composer and singer has been offering tasty sonic tidbits of classic R&B and contemporary jazz, melting into satisfied aural bliss with every succulent, jazz inflected note. This innovative vocalist and guitarist has been front and center in the fast evolving fusion of pop, R&B and jazz that has captured the imagination of true music aficionados across the world.
Boney James
Boney James has four Gold albums, three GRAMMY nominations, a Soul Train Award and an NAACP Award nomination to his credit. He also received his ninth #1 Contemporary Jazz album with Contact released on March 29, 2011 on Verve Records. Currently, Boney is enjoying a #1 single with the song "Spin," his twentieth single to hit No.1 on the Billboard Smooth Jazz Chart. This February the talented musician will warm hearts and soothe souls with his most intimate and memorable tracks.
"It is an honor to have Jazz musicians of this caliber come together for this special concert," said Dan Spellens, Director of Theaters & Entertainment for the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center. "We are thrilled to welcome them to the Long Beach Terrace Theater."
Ticket prices for the performance start at $40. VIP dinner packages are available for $125. To charge by phone, please call TicketMaster at (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com. The Box Office is located at 300 E. Ocean Boulevard, and is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm.


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Movie: High Security Vacation (Каникулы строгого режима/Kanikuly strogogo rezhima)
Year: 2009
Director: Igor Zaytsev
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Sergey Bezrukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Elena Babenko, Vladimir Menshov
Synopsis: Two not very young men - Koltsov and Sumarokov - due to unforeseen circumstances find themselves working as camp leaders at a child summer camp that has an energetic administration and overly energetic children. All would be well only the two men have come to the camp straight from prison. At the camp the former prison inmates have to deal with all sorts of difficult behavior from the children in the best traditions of kids summer camp. From their hard work with children to make their team the best at camp and thus worthy of the award of a trip to St. Petersburg the two men Koltsov and Sumarokov discover a number of talents within themselves and hitherto unused inner potential for good...
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Organizational Behavior Trends
Trends, commonly referred to as fads, are known influences of behavior among many individuals. Such trends in individual behavior are linked to the trends in organizational behavior, which influence and affect an entire organization. The awareness of organizational behavioral trends is essential in maintaining a high level of behavioral balance. According to Schermerhorn, Hunt, and Osborn (2005), authors of Organizational Behavior, "When managers fail to monitor their environments [and] recognize important trends . . . their organizations may slowly suffer and lose their competitive edge" (p. 489). The influence of ethics on decision-making and the impact of technology on work-related stress are trends associated with organizational behavior. A complete evaluation of these trends is critical to understanding their total affects.
Regardless of the simplistic appearance of many circumstances, ethics surrounds every aspect of decision-making, especially decisions relative to the business environment. Individual ethics stem from morals, values and beliefs that are near and dear to ones heart.
Similarly, business ethics stem from the mission and vision of the organization. Not all organizations share the same missions and visions. However, the ethical standards set by organizations may have similar aspects. Ethical standards within organizations generally consist of words such as honesty, integrity, equality, fairness, and respect. Often individuals combine their own ethical beliefs with the ethical standards of the organization.
Societal influences on the morals and beliefs of individuals are reflective upon the moralistic and ethical values of an organization. For those individuals whose ethical standards have been lowered, what was once unaccepted is now accepted. On the other hand, standards are increased by many individuals resulting in the once accepted now being unaccepted. Such trends in individual ethics are largely influential in the ethics of many decisions in business. With each rise and fall in ethical standards,


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Saturday, 5 March 2011
A no-fly zone should urgently be imposed in Libya
It now is becoming increasingly clear a no-fly zone is urgently needed in order to stop Gaddafi from using his army and security forces to slaughter even more civivilians. Michael Singh, writing in Foreign Policy, explains the case for a no-fly zone:
But for others, especially those closest to Qaddafi, the sanctions and threats of international prosecution, combined with the advance of opposition forces, may convince them that they have little choice but to hunker down in Tripoli and Sirte and fight.
To deal with this possibility that Qaddafi and his loyalists will use all of the force at their disposal before giving in, and that the violence in Libya may therefore get considerably worse, further international action is needed. The United States and EU should seek U.N. Security Council authorization for the imposition of a no-fly zone in Libya.
We have heard much from U.S. officials in recent days about the risks of imposing a no-fly zone, but inaction also has its consequences.
Qaddafi has used warplanes against the opposition in recent days, and there is little indication that he will cease doing so as long as it is an option. This not only increases the chances of mass casualties, but it will extend the conflict as the relatively lightly-armed and poorly-trained rebels worry about advancing while Qaddafi has such armaments at his disposal. As the fighting drags on and the violence deepens, the risk that extremist groups will enter the fray as they have in other conflicts in the region increases as well, which has serious implications for our future relations with whatever Libya that emerges from the fighting.
Inaction also strikes a blow to U.S. credibility. On Capitol Hill March 2, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the "stakes are high" in Libya, which she warned could become a "giant Somalia." The United States has "joined the Libyan people in demanding that Colonel Qaddafi must go now, without further violence or delay," she asserted. Yet it is not clear to the world that we have joined the Libyan people in doing anything about it. Our sanctions will work indirectly and over the long term. Our warships are standing off the coast of Libya, but taking no part in the struggle there. This perception -- that we can help but have chosen not to, despite calls from the Libyan opposition to impose a no-fly zone --is one we may rue for years to come.
The reasons provided by senior U.S. officials for not imposing a no-fly zone in Libya seem pale in comparison to their descriptions of the stakes in Libya. They have said that imposing a no-fly zone would be complicated and would not account for fighting on the ground. These are prudent points, but they make better arguments for a smartly-crafted intervention than for doing nothing. There are well-grounded fears that a no-fly zone could turn into a long-term commitment (like the one over Iraq in the 1990s) if a stalemate develops. But this risk must be weighed against the potential of a no-fly zone to bring the conflict to an earlier end, keeping in mind that a protracted conflict will carry costs for U.S. national security regardless of whether we are directly involved. U.S. officials have also questioned whether aircraft are being used by Qaddafi against civilians, or whether the Libyan opposition wants a no-fly zone. Recent news reports undermine both points. Likewise, fears that Russia and China would veto a no-fly zone in the Security Council should not deter us from putting the question to them.
Read the entire article here.
If the UN Security Council is unable to agree on the no-fly zone, then the US and NATO should act on their own. The killing of civilians bust be stopped in Libya!
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Palm Solutions Group is attempting to reinvent itself as a serious participant in the enterprise.
As Microsoft's rival Pocket PC platform gathers enterprise momentum, Palm is looking to entrenched enterprise players IBM and BEA Systems to help it convince corporate IT to give Palm serious consideration.
According to executives from Palm SG, Palm is already on the procurement short list at more than 70 percent of enterprise-level companies.
Until now, membership on that list may be just a courtesy to senior managers who have brought their own devices into the office over the years.
Automaker Lexus is piloting a project that puts all the specifications of its models, along with competitive comparisons, on a Palm. Yet there are still no dynamic links to back-end systems in the solution.
"The Pocket PC was looked at, but we felt with the proliferation of the Palm -- [with] 24 million units -- that the sales people were more than likely to have some experience with it, and [its] price makes it a better solution," said Robin Pisz, the national interactive marketing manager in charge of the pilot program at Lexus, a division of Toyota Sales America in Los Angeles.
The case illustrates what Palm executives understand is the company's need to prove itself as an enterprise player at a deeper level.
Hardware-focused Palm SG's first step will be to separate itself from Palmsource, Palm's OS division.
Part of Palmsource's road map includes Web services support in devices, said Chris Morgan, director of strategic alliance at Palm SG.
"Palmsource has a [larger] OS community to support. They have their own schedule, but we have a short-term goal, and if the OS doesn't have some of the things that our customers need, we will implement them on our own," Morgan said.
And indeed Palm SG is doing just that, buying connectivity infrastructure from the acquisition of ThinAir Apps earlier this year, and announcing partnerships last quarter with IBM and BEA.
ThinAir Apps gave Palm its RT (Reliable Transport) technology. Resident on both the server and the handheld, it provides developers with a series of APIs that make calls to the server and to the handheld to facilitate wireless communication handoffs.
"It's the part of the infrastructure that developers don't want to be involved with," Morgan said.
IBM's WEA (WebSphere Everyplace Access) will also support Palm devices, allowing developers to create client-side applications that access back-end systems.
Meanwhile, BEA is embedding Palm support into its WebLogic 7.0 J2EE application server as well as giving Palm SG the client-side Web services technology the company needs to tell an enterprise story.
"IBM delivers the corporate application to a handheld and the BEA solution delivers a customized execution environment to deliver responses to the device," said Ken Wirt, senior vice president of marketing and product management at Palm SG.
The first release of IBM applications that support Palm is scheduled for later this year. "We are trying to sync two product cycles, IBM's WebSphere EveryPlace Access and ours," Morgan said.
WEA 4.2 is due out in several weeks, an interim release will surface in January or February, and a major release of WEA in May will give Palm the total support it desires.
"Connectivity between Palm and WEA will be bundled into the IBM product including installers to push apps down to the handheld," Morgan said.
Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said that on its own, Palm has no business on the server, calling RT a short-term server solution. "Their real play is with IBM to sell to enterprises," Dulaney said.
The vision of WEA is from any application through any network through any device according to Dulaney. "Microsoft has the same vision, [but] it's not unified yet," he added.
Palm SG's strategy includes the promise that it will deliver custom enterprise SKUs for its devices that include a SOAP engine, a JVM, and a corporate image burned in at the factory for its larger customers, Morgan said.
Carl Zetie, a vice president at Giga, is "optimistic" about Palm's chances in the enterprise, saying the company as left its slow innovation history behind.
"There's no safe choices in this market but nobody today in the enterprise could be looked on as being foolish for buying Palm, and that is essential to their viability," Giga's Zetie said.
IBM makes a handheld grab via back-end apps-- P.J. Connolly.
Dagnabbit. I had the handheld computing space all figured out, then those rotten so-and-sos at BEA Systems and IBM had to go and spoil it.
You see, my premise was that the Palm platform was the Apple II of handhelds. In both cases, we're talking about groundbreaking hardware that established a market where none existed. The Pocket PC was to be the original IBM PC, representing the commoditization of the technology and acceptance as the dominant paradigm.
After all, it's become commonplace to write off Palm as being not quite friendly enough for Windows. The premise behind Pocket PC -- according to the theorists who claim every move of Microsoft's is a giant monopolistic landgrab -- is to extend the reach of .Net into the handheld space, and ultimately to wipe Palm off the face of the earth.
But IBM is maintaining its adroit ballet, always managing to get in Microsoft's way without overtly seeming to do so.
Making WebSphere a back-end enabler for the Pocket PC's rival is an astute move on IBM's part. The advantage isn't in IBM getting the Palm loyalists in their camp, but rather the opportunity to deliver real product while much of the .Net family remains little more than slideware, or at best beta software.
This isn't just good for IBM, but rather it's good for just about everyone who wondered if IBM had a strategy for dealing with the relatively immature market for pervasive client computing. It's certainly a smarter tack than for IBM to go out and try to build and market its own handhelds -- I shudder to think of the abominations that could result from that.
Of course, IBM's customers come out ahead because they can now use relatively mainstream tools to fit their applications to Palm's hardware. Even if you're talking about a relatively simple view into an inventory management or another business process application, that's still not a simple task given the constraints of the platform.
How does IBM exploit this? Well, the real prize is getting apps into users' hands. If the developer community finds that adding Palm access to the homegrown legacy application is now child's play, IBM gets a new market, Palm gets a lease on life, and some nerds at Microsoft will get some nasty e-mails from the Big Guy.


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After 35 years on the air, "Wheel of Fortune" letter-turner and co-host Vanna White is sharing her thoughts about retirement, and about that time she was on the cover of Playboy.
According to People, In an interview with Fox News, the 60-year-old says she was low on money and "too embarrassed to ask my dad for rent money" when she posed for the photos.
"I was young and I wanted to do it on my own," White says. "So, I did these lingerie shots and from the moment I said I would do them, I thought, I shouldn't be doing this, but I'm not going to ask my dad for money, so I'm just going to do it!'"
White remembers the pictures only came out -- in the May 1987 edition -- when she had reached a certain level of fame after snagging the job on "Wheel of Fortune."
"Hugh Hefner then bought those pictures," she says. "He's the one who put me on the cover of the magazine. I didn't do it for Playboy."
According to People, White gave this advice: "Never do anything you don't want to do. Listen to your instincts and follow (them). It was a great lesson to learn, but what can I say? I did something I shouldn't have."
She was not fired and went on to wear more than 6,500 dresses on the show -- "never the same one twice," she says.
White says she still doesn't know the secret to the success of "Wheel of Fortune."
"I still don't have an answer! I really don't. It's just one of those things that every once in a while, everything falls into place. ... It's an escape.
Her own personal success hit her in a big way, telling Fox News she remembers seeing herself on the cover of a magazine when it hit her.
"I was on the cover of Newsweek," she remembers. "That was the moment for me. The other one was when I got my star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. When I first moved to L.A., I went walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and I would tell myself, 'One day I'm going to have my own star.'"
Despite achieving her dreams, White says she doesn't see herself retiring soon.
"I'm sure I will one day," she says. "But I'm enjoying my job so much. I don't want to retire. I hope to continue doing it for as long as I can."
Leonardo DiCaprio, Q-Tip bro it up
NEW YORK (AP) -- Longtime friends Leonardo DiCaprio and Q-Tip hung out at an intimate showcase for an Australian band making its New York City debut late Wednesday.
The Oscar-winning actor and Grammy-winning rapper were in the small audience at Ludlow House as trio Chase Atlantic performed songs in a stripped, raw form.
DiCaprio bobbed his head from his plush chair while sitting next to Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Nina Agdal and chatting with the leader of A Tribe Called Quest.
Q-Tip went to the stage to watch when the band asked people to come closer, as DiCaprio, in a fedora, sat back. The audience included music industry insiders, record label players and some press.
Chase Atlantic performed songs from its three-song project released in January, "Part One," as well as tracks from another three-song album, "Part Two," to be released Friday.
The group's genre-bending sounds echo The Weeknd and The 1975. Band members include brothers Clinton Cave and Mitchel Cave, and Christian Anthony.


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Come hear city council candidates' positions on important human services and social justice issues and connect face-to-face with voters. Some of the groups co-sponsoring this event include: Child Care Resources, One America, YWCA, Church Council of Greater Seattle, the Seattle Food Committee, Solid Ground, Lighthouse for the Blind, Real Change, Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, Senior Services, and Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund. The forum is free and open to the public.
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Janiva Magness' new album Love Wins Again is yet another evolutionary step for the soulful, elegant, award-winning singer-songwriter. It's 11 core songs and two bonus tracks are built on a sonically sophisticated architecture that's in full service of Magness' remarkably flexible and generous voice—which can flow smoothly as champagne or churn up gravel on command. The album's title is a mantra that resonates throughout: the concept of love as a physical, psychic and spiritual force that has the strength to conquer negativity, sadness and personal demons.
"Love is a bigger power than hate and darkness," Magness explains. "It's easy to forget that when we're struggling or when the world often seems frightening and out of control. But love can transcend barriers between people and cultures, and bring us closer in ways we might not have imagined. Love can also be frightening. It requires opening yourself up and taking risks, but in the end, love will always win."
Love Wins Again marks Magness' fifth collaboration with producer Dave Darling, who has produced four Grammy nominated albums and credits include Glen Campbell, Brian Setzer, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx, John Waite and Stray Cats, and whose instincts compel Magness to tap her deepest creative powers and lead her songs to unpredictable places. He has become her key songwriting foil and is the primary architect of the album's gorgeous textural sound, which blends acoustic and electric instruments, flourishes of Latin percussion, horns and an enlightened approach to the studio to create perfect settings for her vocal prowess. And there's more than range and craft to Magness' voice. Her singing rings with sincerity. Since launching her career with 1992's More Than Live, she has grown to become an accomplished storyteller and diviner of the heart, allowing songs like the title track, "Doorway" and "Say You Will" to reveal life's potent truths.
"Love Wins Again" begins the album—which shatters genre barriers by enshrining elements of Americana, soul, rock, pop, country and blues—with a zesty, groove-propelled message that's part manifesto and part testimonial. Love won again in Magness' own life last year when she married English bluesman and singer-songwriter T.J. Norton. And her joyful melody soars above the song's bed of percolating percussion and ringing R&B guitar.
Even when Magness is sending a warning flare in her state-of-the-world address "Your House Is Burnin' Down," she does it with grace. The tune's "get up" call to action, sung with a handful of gravel in her voice, and its punching horns and high-energy beat invoke the urgency and drama of early James Brown.
"Doorway" and "Say You Will" both speak to the need to open one's self to the power of love. "Doorway" spotlights Magness' artful vocal melody, balancing melismatic sensitivity with soul-deep gospel phrasing over acoustic-electric bedrock. And "Say You Will" also taps gospel music for its call-and-response balance of male and female voices and its backing choir, but mates those qualities with a tight textural sound built from guitar, organ and a rocking rhythm section that makes the tune entirely contemporary.
For Magness, both numbers are tied to the album's title theme. "'Go where the love is' is a phrase you hear a lot these days," she offers. "But that's not always easy. To survive life on life's terms and to find the positivity behind its circumstances requires developing an understanding of the power of forgiveness. These song are about people who have learned to do that, including me."
Following up her last album is no easy task. Original, from 2014, marked her debut as a songwriter and raised the creative bar for her collaborations with Darling. It entered the Billboard blues chart, where her releases routinely appear, at number five and topped the blues radio charts. Original also scored her seventh Blues Music Award, for Contemporary Blues Female Artist. In addition, the album received a Best Song nomination for "Let Me Breathe," co-written with Darling. Altogether, Magness has been nominated for 25 Blues Music Awards and follows the legendary Koko Taylor as the second woman to win the highly coveted B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award.
Original also revived her own label, Fathead Records, after a six-year stint with the internationally respected blues imprint Alligator Records. "It was really time to get out on my own again and take full control of my music," Magness says. That change also reflected her rising status in the Americana music scene—where Original climbed into the Top 20 on the radio chart—alongside such similarly tough, soulful and literate artist as Mavis Staples, Sharon Jones, Bettye LaVette, the Alabama Shakes and St. Paul and the Broken Bones.
Love Wins Again is being released on Fathead in cooperation with Blue Élan Records, a new artist-friendly label headed by Kirk Pasich, who first met Magness via their mutual interest in working on behalf of at-risk youth. Magness is an alumnus of the foster care system and is a spokesperson for the Casey Family Programs National Foster Care Month as well as an Ambassador for both the Foster Care Alumni of America and the Child Welfare League of America.
Blue Élan is the home of a diverse roster of artists that includes the legendary Eagles songwriter Jack Tempchin, Colin Devlin of Irish rock band the Devlins and singer-songwriter Cindy Alexander. "To have a label that truly takes the artist's interests to heart is a blessing," says Magness. "I really feel like I've found a home with Blue Élan."
Magness explores her own turbulent youth, her rise to stardom and more in her just-finished, yet-untitled memoir—a book that took three years to write and has already inspired an in-the-works musical. Having lost both parents to suicide as a young girl, traversed through 12 foster homes and given up a child for adoption at age 17 left Magness in the deepest despair. But ultimately, inspired by the encouragement of her final foster mother and a galvanizing performance by the legendary bluesman Otis Rush, she found stability and salvation in music.
Today Janiva Magness is one of the most beloved figures in the Americana, blues and roots music world. She's reached a larger and more diverse audience with each succeeding album and developed a reputation as a live entertainer that's made her a staple of the international festival circuit.
Nonetheless, in December 2012 her voice was jeopardized by a neck surgery that left her unable to speak for several weeks. Both Original and the new Love Wins Again are impressive proof that she regained the entire scope of her vocal range—from confidential whisper to soaring declamation—and then some. Her performances on stage and on Love Wins Again are an outstanding testimonial to the power of the human voice.
"The voice is something that allows us to communicate past the limitations of the left brain," Magness says. "It's the primary instrument, the first instrument...and more than that, too. The voice has the power to link all the parts of ourselves—the brain, the heart, and even the spirit and the soul. That's why the ability to sing is a gift, and I love nothing more than sharing it."Source: http://janivamagness.com/about/
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She begins to grow even more faint as the monstrous tsunami waves of grievous circumstances continue to crash up against the high walls, eroding them at a distressing rate. It won't be long till they break and everything the walls are hiding will become vulnerable and exposed. She is not the type of girl to let others see that she has internal demons. It will be the first time that they will be seen by the people who have known her for years. Or so they thought they knew her. She is scared by the storm and by the demons who are torturing her. Her loved ones will be shocked to find self-hate, self-consiousnes, depression, anxiety, envy, and so many other harmful afflictions have overtaken her. The light from her eyes have dimmed and she no longer glows. The menaces inside her, tell her she deserves to wear only the tattered rags that they have given her. They tell her she isn't beautiful or worthy of love. The worst lie they utter to her is that she does not have a purpose in life, and that she will never accomplish anything that she had dreamed of doing. Lie after debilitating lie, she believes what she is being told. Despair. Thats all she feels, besides the nagging pain of a purposeless and insignificant life.
The great walls she put up around this cataclysmic house, in which she resides, were built to look like love, confidence, abounding joy, peace, and contentment. Walls that appear to be made out of the strongest and sturdiest materials. Frail and feeble are what they truly are. The cement is about to disintegrate as this terror of a storm lashes its fury out on the deceiving bricks of the weary walls who, once so deceptively and energetically guarded the cataclysmic house. All of it was built out of fear. Fear of failure, judgement, and imperfection.
She never wanted to show anyone what has happened to her soul. So she hid it all from the outside world. She wanted to be seen as accomplished and put together and so she built beautiful high walls that gleamed in the sunlight and looked fearsome to sail boats who went by. All who saw these misleading walls, thought a great and powerful lady lived behind them. A duchess with endless riches and virtues, whose life was all put together and never feared a thing. She had everything under control and had nothing to hide. What a brilliant mirage those walls display. This duchess is a damsel in distress in desperate need of saving from the storm and waves about to crush her, and from the devil inside her head.
After the wind, rain and sea have done what they intended to do and nothing is left and everything has been revealed to everyone; there will be a weeping little girl sitting on the bluff where her cataclysmic house and deceptive great wall once stood. Over looking the calm ocean water and clear sky, she will feel relief, contentment, peace, love, joy, and purpose. Her demons will be gone. Taken and beaten down by those who truly love her and the One who created her. She will know no fear or pain because He will have taken that all away from her. She will never need to build walls like that again. For He is enough and completely sufficient. She will want nothing more than to be in His protective arms of love. That is the only place where she will be safe from the storms that surge toward her from the outside, and from the devil who puts lies in her head to hurt her.
She prays that that day will come very soon.


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Configure a D-Link router by using the setup wizard and following on-screen prompts or by manually configuring the settings based on user preferences. Individuals with adequate knowledge and experience in setting up a router can choose the latter option.
For USB-enabled routers, such as the DIR-855, users can transfer wireless configuration data between a Windows-based computer and the router through a USB pen drive. To manually set up a DIR-855 router, follow these steps:
- Access the Wireless Network Setup Wizard
Navigate to the Windows control panel and click on Wireless Network Setup Wizard. Select the option "Use a USB Flash Drive" and then click on "Manual Configure."
- Input wireless settings
- Set up the Internet connection type
- Configure the network settings
- Configure the USB settings
Enable the router's wireless connection feature. Select preferred wireless channel and transmission rate. If necessary, provide or modify the settings including the network name, visibility status, security mode, cipher type, group key update interval and pre-shared key, WPA enterprise, authentication timeout, radius server port, radius server IP address, radius server shared secret, MAC address authentication and SSID list.
Choose applicable connection type from the options provided. Configure the primary and secondary DNS servers, maximum transmission unit, MAC Address and 3G USB adapter settings.
Access the router's settings through the LAN interface and set up the IP address, subnet mask of the router and local area network, device name, local domain name, DNS relay, router IP address, gateway and primary and secondary DNS servers. Configure the DHCP server settings, DHCP reservation settings and DHCP reservations list.
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Crowdfunding is practiced in other parts of the world and, thanks to the passage of the JOBS Act, is now the law in the United States, although potential market participants are awaiting regulations before declaring themselves open for business.
The term refers to raising capital, typically over the Internet, for private companies or projects that provide investors with some but not extensive documentation. The term is not yet part of the official lexicon in Canada, but there is considerable activity behind the scenes. It's reasonable to expect that the local activity will heat up once the U.S. regulations are promulgated. Otherwise Canadian companies will head south of the border for funding.
Jim Richardson is a Calgary-based businessman who is working on developing a site — crowdcapital.ca — to facilitate the financing method that has also been used for other types of equity capital raising including pre-funding for tours by rock groups, for the production of CDs and for the financing of films. (Others have set up similar sites.)
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Here's how it could work in Canada: Private companies would go to the website set up by Richardson and indicate that they want a certain amount of capital. Investors would go to the site and see the investment possibilities. If they like what they see then they could become investors.
What has to be worked out, both here and in the U.S., is the role, if any, the securities regulators will play in the process, given that their main objective is investor protection and that retail investors are the likely target audience. Currently, capital is raised via a prospectus with full disclosure for public deals or via an offering memorandum with limited disclosure for exempt market deals.
"So you are raising, say $2,000, from a bunch of people you don't know under perhaps a new exemption," said Richardson, while indicating there would be some, but limited disclosure about the company. "It may be three or four pages that would not be a cost burden on the company but gives the investor the information about what they are investing in — and the risks. And potential investors could ask for more information."
It's needed because it allows entrepreneurs to source more available capital faster than otherwise
Richardson said that in his view, equity crowdfunding is ideally suited for private companies that need at least $200,000. For a typical start-up company, the first $200,000 usually comes from friends and family. "Up to $200,000 is doable," he said. The next $300,000 – $500,000 is the problem. "It's in the gap," because it's too small for the venture capital firms to get involved.
For issuers the main advantage is raising capital that otherwise may not be available. "You get to raise the money you are looking for. You can't go to the bank, you can't go to a venture capital firm. This is a way of raising capital efficiently and cost effectively," said Richardson, who would receive a commission based on the amount raised and who would do some vetting of potential issuers.
Richardson has some allies. The Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance is also involved in furthering the idea that it describes as "social media meets finance." The alliance has formed a working committee, InvestcrowdfundCanada, and is actively telling the story to securities regulators. "It's needed because it allows entrepreneurs to source more available capital faster than otherwise and also because of the trend to declining investment into early-stage companies," said Cindy Gordon, chairwoman of the working committee. "It works elsewhere so it should work in Canada."


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studio apartment for sale
Cape Verde - Sal
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Full description:
Cape Verde Property have the largest portfolio of property and land investments available across the Cape Verde Islands.
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Cape Verde Property were the first agents in the UK specialising in marketing property and land investments across the Cape Verde islands. The company was formed to fulfil the rapidly growing demand in the UK and Europe for the purchasing of investment and holiday property and land in Cape Verde. We are independent, and can offer properties and land on all of the main development islands of Cape Verde, including Sal, Boa Vista, San Vicente, Santiago, Maio, Soa Nicolau, Santo Antao and Fogo.
From our offices near Windsor, Berkshire in the UK and Santa Maria, Cape Verde we offer friendly, expert advice on all aspects of property and land purchase on these lovely islands. We have the largest portfolio of properties available in Cape Verde, including small apartments to large frontline villas, both off plan and key ready.
We can help arrange inspection trips and have an office in central Santa Maria in Sal with excellent, experienced staff who can show clients the various developments in Sal and can arrange meetings with our partners on the other islands in Cape Verde to view the various properties on sale.
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This is an emerging market with massive investment potential and we are here to give comprehensive, professional advice and help make it easy for investors, both large and small, to find the right property or land for them.
We can also offer a snagging service and also excellent quality furniture packs at discount prices.
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I used MDS for the designer paper and stamps and was able to resize the sentiments and the plane to suit my needs. The rest is "real" card, embellishments etc. I added some crystal effects over the plane image to give it a bit more dimension and you can see that better in this second photo:
Materials used:
- stamps - Daring Adventure (MDS)
- card - basic black, basic grey, very vanilla, designer paper from MDS
- other - apothecary accents die, Big Shot, jumbo metal brads, crop-o-dile, crystal accents, dimensionals
So what do you think? Would love to hear from you, especially if you are in two minds about the whole digital stamping thing.
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This small Bible fits in the palm of your hand and now speaks all the books of the Bible, old and new Testament, in a real human voice. You can jump from book to book, and chapter to chapter with the press of a button. You can also jump ahead or back in 15 second intervals. It can be powered by the sun or and light source or charged from a 9 volt DC adapter (not included). Fully charged batteries will allow the unit to play for approximately 10 hours.
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Moffat's stylish heated display unit keeps food in prime condition
Moffat's bespoke division has just created a heated display unit with an unusual design – it's square all over, and is divided into square display areas. The heated Squared Display Servery was originally built for a customer looking for something very different to promote its savoury products, which are served with potato wedges.
The unit was ordered by Aaroc Solutions Ltd. Managing director Kevan Jack says, "The client was after something unique, bespoke and, of course, functional. The Moffat Squared Display Servery certainly fits the bill."
"As well as looking stunning, the produce must be kept in prime condition," says John Wannan, sales and marketing manager at Moffat. "We used a special heating system to ensure different product options stay at the correct temperature, without drying out or becoming soggy."
The unit is divided into three main sections – in the centre is a potato wedge scuttle, while on either side are three shelf display areas, holding a selection of savoury products. Each of the unit's three main sections has its own temperature and light controls.
The shelves, which are standard 1/1 gastronorm, have toughened glass thermo-panel insets with built-in elements. These guarantee even distribution of heat, eliminating hot spots, distortion and discoloration.
The unit has a stylish 10mm-thick UV-bonded glass screen to top, sides and front. This not only protects the pies but also emphasises the squareness of the design. Bright LED lights and polished stainless steel construction underline the eye-catching effect. The rear of the unit has a worktop shelf to assist with service. The controls are housed in the base of the unit for easy access.
Despite offering six 1/1GN heated shelves plus the heated potato wedge scuttle, the whole unit runs off a 13 amp supply. It measures 1200mm long by 950mm wide and 1260mm high.
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It makes sense to keep notes on how you do things. WordPress isn't complex, but it has lots of little nooks and crannies. Also, you're going to want to hand the office on one day, and with luck the next hierophant won't insist on rewriting it from scratch again!
- Click Pages / Add New
- Type the title
- Type the instructions
- In the Attributes section, select Useful Links / Hierophant as the Parent.
- In Exclude Pages, untick the box
- Click Publish
- Click the Edit button next to the Permalink (up the top)
- Delete what's there and choose a shorter name. For example, this one defaulted to "writing-these-instructions" but I changed it to "instructions".
- Click Update
- Go back to edit the Hierophant's instruction page
- Add a link to your page as a bullet point in alphabetical order, linking to "hierophant/the-name-you-chose". For example, this one is linked as "hierophant/instructions".
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The demand for breast pumps is gaining momentum in the global market. The increased awareness regarding the benefits of breastfeeding among people has fueled the global market for breast pumps significantly. The favorable environment for reimbursement is also anticipated to boost the market in the near future. However, analysts expect the rising concerns over the risk of contamination from utilized pumps to restrict the growth of this market in the coming years.
North America Leads Global Breast Pumps Market
North America is leading the global market for breast pumps in terms of both, revenue as well as volume. The increased number of women preferring breastfeeding, encouraged by the rising awareness about it, has stimulated the demand for breast pump in this region extensively. This trend is likely to be continued in the coming years and, owing to this, the North America breast pumps market is projected to register remarkable growth over the next few years.
The North America breast pumps market is closely followed by the breast pumps market in Asia Pacific. A large population base with a conservative perspective, preferring breastfeeding over other mediums of feeding newborn babies, is the key factor, driving the demand for breast pumps in Asia Pacific. The soaring childbirth rate in this region is also propelling the Asia Pacific market for breast pumps significantly.
Europe and Rest of the World to Report Significant Growth
The U.K., Germany, and the Rest of the Europe leads the breast pump in Europe. Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico drives the Rest of the World. Analysts projects these markets to exhibit substantial growth in the forthcoming years on account of the rising awareness about the advantages of breastfeeding.
Ameda AG, Pigeon Corp., Whittlestone Inc., ARDO Medical AG, Bailey Medical Engineering, Hygeia Medical Group II, Medela AG, Lansinoh Laboratories Inc., Mayborn Group Ltd., NUK USA LLC, and Royal Philips Electronics NV are the key players operating in the global breast pumps market.


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Monday, January 13, 2014
Therein Lies the Problem
But Sally [his daughter] did not want to be set free for anything, for it was living itself that she enjoyed. She liked lighting a real fire of logs and fir cones, and toasting bread on an old-fashioned toaster. And she liked the lovely curve of an old staircase and the fun of running up and down it. And she vastly preferred writing a letter and walking with it to the post to using the telephone and hearing with horror her voice committing itself to things she would never have dreamed of doing if she'd had the time to think. "It's my stupid brain," she said to herself. "I like the leisurely things, and taking my time about them. That's partly why I like children so much, I think. They're never in a hurry to get on to something else."
― Elizabeth Goudge, Pilgrim's Inn
20 comments:
- Jody Lee Collins said...
Jodi, I have been thinking to myself, "It's time to get another Elizabeth Goudge book" but didn't know which one to get.
Thank you for this.
Fabulous photos.
- January 13, 2014 at 5:23 PM
- Jodi said...
Jody, Pilgrim's Inn, along with The Scent of Water, are my two favorites of Goudge's.
- January 13, 2014 at 5:35 PM
- Southern Gal said...
I've never read anything by this author. I'm going to look her up at the library. I love these photos that go right along with the words.
- January 13, 2014 at 6:17 PM
- Leslie said...
You store up a treasure house of goodness and then pour it all out for us here. LOVE the photos, every one.
- January 13, 2014 at 8:00 PM
- Lucy martin said...
I love that quote!!
and that blue chair!!!really this whole thing...glad I stopped by...
I hurry too much I think.
- January 13, 2014 at 8:05 PM
- Nancy said...
Alright. That does it. I've got to read me some Goudge :)
Loving the yellow in photo #8. Cause, you know, yellow.
- January 13, 2014 at 8:18 PM
- Jodi said...
Hi Lucy, thank you for stopping by.
- January 13, 2014 at 9:24 PM
- Amy said...
I own her Scent of Water and have never read it! Going to the pile now:) Love the peeks in the photos. I look at them and just think, "Yes." :)
- January 14, 2014 at 11:16 AM
- Jodi said...
Amy, do read it! It's wonderful.
- January 14, 2014 at 11:28 AM
- Val , Kate, The Cute Kitten ,Razzy, Kepsey,Darwin ,Charon and Echo. said...
Elizabeth Goudge sounds lovely and I've just ordered a selection of her books from the library..she sounds just right for January...Thanks for the intro Jodi.
- January 14, 2014 at 11:54 AM
- Jodi said...
Val,yay!!! I hope you like her,please let me know. :)
- January 14, 2014 at 12:18 PM
- Kristi in the Western Reserve said...
I haven't read Pilgrim's Inn for far too long! It's really one of her best. And The Scent of Water is another favorite of mine. I love your photographs, Jodi! You are so engaged with life!
- January 15, 2014 at 6:48 AM
- Brenda@CoffeeTeaBooks said...
Pilgrim's Inn was my first Goudge and like first love, is probably my favorite.
Although I love all that I have read!
- January 16, 2014 at 2:03 PM
- Connie Smiley said...
Now that's a delightful excerpt! Might I guess that you feel a certain kinship with Sally?
Love those pictures from your world, especially the bookshelf, and the blue chair by the window, and of course, your paints.
- January 18, 2014 at 9:57 PM
- Olivia said...
Love! Looking forward to reading that again... I love Sally. Lovely pictures too.
- January 23, 2014 at 10:54 PM
- Sara said...
Ah, the magic of Elizabeth Goudge!
- February 6, 2014 at 1:24 PM
- Kristi in the Western Reserve said...
Dear Jodi, Hope you're doing well with this Long Winter! Wishing you well.
- February 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM
- Jodi said...
Kristi, yes thank you. This just happens to be the busiest winter ever. A lot of it spent behind a shovel ha ha. Hope to be back to reading blogs and writing one soon. Hope all is well with you.
- February 22, 2014 at 3:13 PM
- Kristi in the Western Reserve said...
I am well, thanks. and very glad to hear you are and have been busy, this cold winter.
- February 22, 2014 at 6:54 PM
- Sara said...
A lovely quote from my favorite author! I hope you are enjoying your new blog-less life and experiencing a lot of wonderful creativity in other ways! Miss you here on the blogs however.
- June 12, 2014 at 6:48 PM


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First, start your water boiling. You want to get a nice, rolling boil going, so keep those flames hot. Once you've got the boil going, you'll start your journey by tossing in a handful of dirt. Doesn't matter where it comes from, but don't skimp on that handful. Add three oak leaves, with the veins removed, and two acorns. Let the mixture stew for a moment, then put on your protective clothing. Add a fourth-generation honeybee queen, being careful to keep the drones defending her from touching the boil. Using a stick from a sapling of less than two years, stir the mixture three times counter-clockwise. Then, add the saltpeter and step back – you should see a healthy boom.
If the pot survives the explosion. Instantly remove it from heat and let the mixture congeal. Scoop out three spoonfuls onto three separate cheesecloths, and place them at the corners of an equilateral triangle the size of the portal you wish to make. Make sure that the triangle points northwards – a south-pointing triangle is not something you want to experience. Step into the triangle formed by the three cheesecloths and do the hokey pokey but do NOT turn yourself around. Following this, hold your breath for three seconds and jump. If you have completed the recipe correctly, you should break through the ground into Flavortown. If not, you will land solidly on the ground and will lose your access for three years.


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FastMail is email, calendars and contacts done right. With an elegant web interface that's faster than native apps, and 15 years experience running a rock-solid service, it's easy to see why FastMail is a leading choice of businesses, families and professionals worldwide. FastMail is an independent, employee-owned company based in Melbourne, Australia.
We're always happy to talk. Please direct all press enquiries to firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you are writing about FastMail, or integrating FastMail support into your product, we're happy for you to use our logo. Please note though, the FastMail logo must only be used to represent FastMail, not any other product. You must not use our logo in whole or in part for your app's icon.


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January 31, 1939 - November 10, 2017
Easley, South Carolina | Age 78
Mr. Tommy Dale Harrison, 78, husband of Carol McQueen Harrison, passed away Friday, November 10, 2017 at St. Francis Hospital.
Born in Pickens County, a son of the late Wayne Fant Harrison, Sr. and Mary Beatrice Greene Harrison, Mr. Harrison was a graduate of Liberty High School and retired from Pace Electric Company, Inc. He was a member of West Greenville Baptist Church where he formerly served as minister of music.
Mr. Harrison was a passionate musician, singer and drummer for fifty years. He was a life time Master Mason with the Tate Masonic Lodge and a Shriner since 1973.
Surviving, in addition to his wife of twenty-six years, are two daughters, Casey H. Morgan (Tommy) of Easley and Pamela H. Boggs (Bobby) of Pendleton; two brothers, Wayne F. Harrison, Jr. and Randall Harrison (Elinda), all of Cateechee; and three grandchildren, Lexi, Neve and T.J. Morgan. In addition to his parents, Mr. Harrison was predeceased by a sister, Carolyn Patricia Harrison.
Funeral services will be 2:00 PM Tuesday, November 14, 2017 in the chapel of Robinson Funeral Home-Downtown. Burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Park, Pickens.
The family will receive friends from noon until 1:45 PM Tuesday at the funeral home, prior to the service.
The family is at the home.
Memorials may be made to West Greenville Baptist Church, P.O. Box 14548, Greenville, SC 29610.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or in person at Robinson Funeral Home-Downtown Easley, which is assisting the family.
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Our Job as Human Beings
TouroCOM Middletown Student Rishi Thaker Expounds on Role of Healthcare
TouroCOM Middletown Student Rishi Thaker was born into a healthcare family.
As a child, he accompanied his mother, a nurse, on her home health rounds after school. It was a formative experience.
"It showed us what a life of medicine is like," Thaker recalled. "It's about caring for other people."
Thaker also recalls when he realized what type of doctor he wanted to become. While watching the nightly news on television with his father as an eight-year-old, he saw United States Senator Bill Frist, speaking. Thaker's father gestured to the screen.
"My father said that Frist was a doctor," Thaker explained. "That really affected me. It gave me a vision for what kind of impact I could have as a doctor."
After graduating from the University of Texas-Austin with a degree in economics, Thaker attended Drexel University to pursue a Master's in Public Health.
"I knew a background in public health would allow me to become a better doctor, especially given the larger health crisis America faces like diabetes and hypertension" said Thaker.
He joined TouroCOM in 2015 and was elected to be his class representative in his first year. He currently serves as the president of the American Medical Association chapter in TouroCOM Middletown along with a host of other positions.
"Touro's mission is to help in medically underrepresented communities and that resonated with me," said Thaker. "Our job as human beings is to look after one another and value the life and potential of every single person."


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SOMERSET — You can't score if you don't have the ball.
SOMERSET — You can't score if you don't have the ball.
That was the dilemma facing the Bishop Stang football team on Saturday, as Somerset-Berkley's punishing ground attack kept the Spartans' offense on the sidelines. Stang fell to the Raiders 25-6, ending their hopes of capturing an Eastern Athletic Conference crown. The Spartans (4-3, 2-2 EAC) are still alive for a berth in the MIAA playoffs as the second-place team in the EAC.
On its first drive of the game, Somerset-Berkley (4-3, 4-0 EAC) took up the entire first quarter, capping off a 19-play, 67-yard drive with a four-yard touchdown by junior running back Mark Tonucci. The Spartans' defense thwarted the Raiders two-point conversion run, leaving the score 6-0 in the opening minute of the second quarter.
The Stang offense struggled mightily in the first half, failing to register a single first down. Meanwhile, the Raiders increased their advantage to 19-0 at the half on a 32-yard touchdown by Chip Wood and a 14-yard score by Tonucci. The Wood touchdown came on 4th-and-4, and on Tonucci's second score of the game, the Raiders converted a 3rd-and-12 from near midfield.
"We knew they were tough up front," said Stang head coach Ryan Sylvia. "We knew we would have to win the battle of the offensive and defensive lines. They did a good job. Their first drive of the game took up the whole first quarter. They had some third and fourth down conversions where we didn't stop them."
The Spartans' offense started to wake up in the second half. In their first drive of the third quarter, Stang marched 68 yards in 13 plays. Senior running back Jared Zaniewski took a pitch from quarterback Matt Golden and bolted into the end zone from six yards out. The Spartans' drive appeared to stall at the Somerset-Berkley 11-yard line when Golden was sacked on 4th-and-9, but the Raiders were whistled for holding and Zaniewski found pay dirt one play later.
The momentum appeared to be shifting in favor of the Spartans after they forced the Raiders into a three-and-out offensive series. After an impressive drive to start the second half, Stang did not register a first down the rest of the game. The Raiders added an insurance score midway through the fourth quarter when Tonucci bulled his way into the end zone from five yards out.
Zaniewski led the Spartans' ground attack with 27 yards on three carries. Jack Landry finished with 20 yards on eight carries and Golden, who was hit hard the entire game, contributed 10 yards on 11 carries.
WHAT IT MEANS: The Spartans fall to 2-2 in the EAC with the loss to the Raiders and are currently in second place in the league. They qualify for the playoffs by being the EAC runner-up. ... Somerset-Berkley finishes league play undefeated and wins the EAC championship.
KEY PLAY: With Stang trailing 19-6 early in the second half, the Raiders defense dropped Golden for a loss on 3rd-and-9 from the Spartans' 20. Stang was forced to punt instead of marching for a score, which could have made it a one touchdown game. The Raiders punched in an insurance score on their ensuing offensive series, putting the game out of reach for the Spartans.
SYLVIA: "We didn't stop them and we couldn't get anything going offensively in the first half. That hurt us big time."
NOTES: Somerset-Berkley ran 29 offensive plays in the first half compared to 10 for Stang. ... The Spartans managed 66 yards of total offense for the game, all coming on the ground. The Raiders rang up 192 yards rushing, led by Wood with 98 and Tonucci's 85. ... Stang struggled in the kicking game with heavy winds swirling around the field. Punter Michael Chicca has one attempt go for 12 yards and another for 22 yards. Jon Hojeily's extra point attempt following the Zaniewski score landed far to the left of the goal posts after getting caught in a massive wind gust.


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Chapter 95
Jun 4th – Things have been real quiet. We were supposed to go to church today but the weather has looked so scary that Rand doesn't want to leave Sparkleberry Ranch. I can't blame him. I hate when the sky has that nasty green tinge to it. Still no rain but I'm thinking we might see something soon; there has been some really odd, cold breezes come out of nowhere.
June 5th – I'd no sooner written those words last night than we had a brief hail storm followed by a heavy down pour that lasted almost an hour. It was scary the way the wind whipped and shook things. Rand went out this morning and two huge limbs were in our road. He used the mules to pull them to the side and then he and Austin went to check on folks.
It wasn't good. Not many people saw the hail but the heavy down pour caught a lot by surprise. Momma O's family was okay and so was most everyone else on our side of the county but word at the Shack was that down in Mayo and further south outside the county in Bell and Trenton, the damage was pretty extensive. Lots of downed trees. Both the rivers were able to hold the water and keep any flooding at bay. Maybe that was the reason for the drought, so that the rivers and streams and ponds would be low enough to hold the rain to keep something worse from happening.
I'm just beat all to pieces. Scared myself for one. I thought I really was in labor but with both Rand and Austin away I didn't have any choice but to let things be whatever it was going to be. But it stopped. It must have been that false labor, those Braxton-Hicks contractions, that the books and the other women have spoken to me about. The worry did more harm than the scare did.
I never realized, not really ever given myself a chance to realize, that I'm scared. I've hurt before and I know you survive it, especially since I know that it will be over with at some point, but I'm scared all the same. To think that some little person is going to come out of me, possibly ripping me to up in the process … I can't tell you the dreams I'm starting to have about it. If I write the dreams down it means that I'm going to have to admit to being scared.
I haven't told Rand about it because I already know he is scared and worried. He hasn't said as much in so many words … well, maybe a little … but he's been trying really hard not to show it. He still thinks about LauraBeth and what she went through. And I think he thinks about the other stories we've heard about how the birth is going OK one minute and then suddenly there is some major emergency and no one to help with it. Sometimes the stories still come out all right but a lot of the time they don't. I guess that is why the old cemeteries are so full of babies and women who have died giving birth to them.
Gak … morbid. I just have to have faith. But at the same time I can't be blind to what might happen … not what will but what might.
I've been making a notebook. I haven't told Rand about it, nor Austin. It is a book about a lot of stuff that if something happens to me, the last of my family, I would want someone to remember. Most of the stuff in the notebook is good. And it has been good for me … therapeutic … to remember it and write it down. But some of the stuff hasn't been good. But, it has still been good to write it out. It is the kind of stuff that teaches life lessons, about my mistakes that I don't want my kid to repeat.
If something does happen, that notebook will be for whoever is left … the baby … or Rand. Gosh, I'm making myself cry. Better stop before Rand asks why.
June 7th – I've finally got everything for the baby finished. All the stuff for the cradle and the baby bed. All the little clothes. I've gotten the diapers sewn and the little covers to go over the diapers. I decided to do everything in yellow and green. Actually I didn't have much choice to do everything in yellow and green, it is the only yarn and embroidery floss that I had in any quantity.
I finished the edging on the last spit up rag as Rand and Austin were sitting down to a late lunch. And get this … Rand asks, "Why are you bothering to put a lace edge on a rag the kid is going to puke on?"
"Because I can. I want the baby to have … stuff to use that doesn't look like it comes out of a rag bag."
"But it did come out of a rag bag. Right? You didn't use trade goods to buy something like that … did you?"
So what if I did. I contribute plenty to the stuff that goes to the Shack. I don't know why Rand had to get so bent out of shape about it. He's never acted that way before. I don't know why he had to act that way today. He got all snippy and started lecturing me … me of all people … about being more frugal and being responsible.
I was so surprised that I just sat there and took it. Then he got up and stomped outside and went back to work. I sure as heck don't know what burr he sat on.
June 8th – Rand is still foul and now I'm foul. We got in this really big … well it was big but we had to whisper so that Austin couldn't hear us … argument. It was after we went to bed last night. He wanted to cuddle and I have to tell you I was just too tired and hot to cuddle and well, one thing led to another and he started acting all weird and saying stuff that totally isn't true. Like I only think of the baby. Or, I never pay him that particular kind of attention anymore and don't want to either.
Personally I think he's lost his marbles or something. I'm fat. I've got stretch marks that are competing with my scars, neither of which will ever go away. I'm hot. No matter what I do I can't get away from it. I can't even enjoy a cool bath anymore because Ken says that it might not be such a good idea. I'm so big and so far along I can't get in and out without a lot of help and I could get hurt. None of my shoes fit so I'm barefooted or in tired sandals all the time which shows my legs and only a couple of pieces of my clothes fit … and that's if I don't mind that they're so tight you can see my stomach ripple with the baby moves. And I feel like I have an alien inside me. Yeah, I'm going to feel like doing that sort of stuff when I feel like this. Right. Sure I will.
We've only been talking to each other because we don't want to upset Austin. I suppose that is something to work with but still … first the lecture on money like I'm some kind of spendaholic bimbo and now he acts like I don't have any consideration at all for his feelings.
Oh no … more thunder. That's all we need.
Jun 9th – Rain. And rain. And some more rain. Either Rand is going to go out of this house for a while or I am. I'm so mad I could just about spit. You know, if he is scared that is one thing but he's making me feel like I'm disgusting or something and I'm … I'm …
I think I'm gonna cry. What did I ever do to wind up in this kind of situation?
June 10th – Wash day … in the rain. It was either wash or watch all the dirty clothes mildew and ruin. Rand acted like I was out of my mind and then complained that I had laundry strung all through the house like a hillbilly housewife … and threw in the barefoot and pregnant remark just to get a little dig in.
We aren't speaking to each other at all now. He made me so mad I threw a pair of his wet underwear at him and they caught him in the face and the look of surprise caught me off guard and I started to laugh.
Then he really went off how I didn't appreciate anything. That he was stressed out and it was shaving years off his life and had I seen that he'd actually started having gray hair and … and then I lost it and left the room and went upstairs to the hidden bonus room and locked the door and had a long cry.
He did try to come up a couple of times but I was still pretty wasted and I screamed at him to stay away and leave me alone since I didn't seem to suit him anymore. He stopped after a while and I guess I fell asleep on the pallet up here. I got up because I had to use the outhouse but it was too dark and the house was all locked up so I used the bathroom that Austin uses at night.
He just went to bed, left me up in that hot attic space. I guess I can't blame him. I don't know what is wrong or what we are coming to. I thought having a baby would be joyous and happy, make us even more of a family but it is so scary and it seems to be doing just the opposite.
I'm so tired I just don't know what to do anymore.
June 11th – Church day. Doesn't seem any day is restful any more. I couldn't sleep hardly at all last night. My back was killing me and I doubt I'll sleep much tonight after what I heard at the services.
Bandits are getting really bad. You can't go anywhere anymore unless you are armed and most people won't travel alone anymore either ... and won't leave their homes unattended. The cause is supposedly the drought that has ruined a lot of peoples' gardens. People have reverted to taking what they need whether anyone else wants to give it to them or not just like after the collapse.
The heat, the humidity, the drought followed by these intense rains we've been having, the bandits … the news is sobering. I didn't like the news but at least it took my mind off of my own troubles.
Then the service. Talk about guilt tripping. I swear I wonder how Ken knows just what to preach to make me squirm. It was all about family and how husbands and wives are supposed to treat each other, how men and women are supposed to act. It made me feel worse because it didn't look like Rand was feeling anywhere near as guilty as I was feeling.
I was so uncomfortable on those old metal chairs. Rand snipped at me to stop squirming and distracting him. I felt the tears welling up and he looked like he was so satisfied by that. I escaped to help with the dinner on the grounds as soon as I saw some of the other women leaving. As soon as I got to the tarp that had been set up all I heard from several ladies was, "Aw Honey, we didn't expect you to help. We didn't put you down for anything. Why don't you just go back inside."
Well, going back was the last thing I wanted to do so I wandered off behind the building to find a little shade even if I did have to fight the mosquitoes for a share of it.
"Child, come out from them bushes. You're gonna get chiggers if nothing else." Nothing like Mrs. Withrow's commonsense to put me in my place. "Now, you walk with me over to that fountain and you tell me what's wrong."
"I didn't say anything was wrong," I protested.
"You're mouth didn't but I can tell it all the same. And that husband of yours doesn't appear to be acting himself either."
I was going to lie to her. I really was. Then it all just came pouring out. All of it … how I was feeling, how Rand was making me feel, how only thinking of how I felt made me feel selfish and therefore worse, how I didn't understand why Rand was acting like he was acting, just all of it. I kept waiting for her to laugh or tell me I was overreacting, that it was nothing but hormones.
"Come here child. Let's go sit on that bench over there." When we were settled, neither of us particularly comfortable on the hard stone, she said, "Now, I can't tell you why Rand is acting like he is acting. It does sound out of character. Could be for several reasons or he might not have a good reason at all. He might be tired. Or he could just be worried about all the new responsibility that will be coming his way with this baby … and he could be scared that he might be facing those responsibilities on his own if the Good Lord decides to call you Home. Do you want someone … maybe Ken … to speak to him for you?"
"No!" I told her. "Definitely not. I can only imagine that would make it worse, embarrass him … and me. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. And If I'm not doing something wrong, what the problem is all of a sudden. I mean the world might be going crazy but Sparkleberry Ranch was a place that … that separated us from all of that. It was out there but it didn't come home with us. Do you understand what I mean?"
She nodded her head like some kind of wise Buddah, "Sure do. Your house is your home and your home is your haven from the world."
"Exactly," I told her.
"But you know you can't just run away and hide from what is going on. And Rand is out in it more than you. He's more than likely bringing the worries home with him and you are sensing it even if you don't know for sure what you are dealing with."
"So that means that I'm the one not cutting him enough slack."
"Not necessarily," she said. "Like I said, I can't speak for Rand. I do remember what it felt like to be this far along. And I imagine you are pretty worried about what is shortly to come."
"It's … it's not the pain, not really. I've lived with pain off and on for a long time … well, a long time to me. I know that pain comes and pain goes. I think … I think I even have the idea of being a mother down now. Austin helped with that a lot. So did remembering my own Momma and how … how she wasn't perfect but she loved me with her whole heart. I don't know what it is exactly … just kind of a feeling of … of impending doom."
"Why child? Why do you think you feel this way?" a thread of concern in her voice.
"Because the other shoe always drops," I told her finally putting into words what I'd only been dancing around even when I talked to myself. "Things always happen to take away … to take away … " I couldn't finish it. Then I whispered, "I've been happier these last months than I think I ever have been my whole life, even with all of the bad stuff that has happened. But nothing lasts forever. Nothing. At least not in my experience."
There. I'd said it. Nothing lasts forever.
I think she was going to say something but then there was a scream, not of fear but of anger. Mrs. Withrow and I moved at about the same speed these days so we limped our way over to where the ruckus was going on. There was a crowd and I heard a woman's voice screaming, "I don't care! Take it away!! Get rid of it. I don't want it!!! It just about killed me and now it is sucking the life out of me. I can't take this anymore!! If you don't get it away from me I'll do something to it. I swear I will!!"
"Oh dear," I heard Mrs. Withrow whispered. "It's that woman from over on River Road. She just had a baby … her man left a few months back and hasn't come back … her mother has been worried about her, said the birth turned her brain."
"It" turned out to be her baby. The only time she would calm down is when the baby disappeared from her sight.
Then another woman went and picked up the baby where it had been flung to the ground and drew it to her like it was the most precious thing in the world. I saw her look at the man with her with pleading and pain-filled eyes. Mrs. Withrow whispered to me, "That's Margaret Timberlake. She had a baby girl but it died the next day and Ken still isn't sure why. It only just happened. Look at her dress; she wants that baby so bad."
Mrs. Timberlake's bosom area was drenched and likely not from sweat. I guess the baby crying had made her milk start up and all the emotions and everything with it.
It was two hours before things were settled. We stayed the entire time to continue the dinner on the grounds, people need to eat and this was the only really good meal some of them got between services, but also because Rand had been asked to be a witness to all the papers and everything that the Judge eventually wrote out and had both families sign and the witnesses too to make sure no one was being coerced.
The little girl, called Daisy, was going to go live with the Timberlake family for at least a year with no recourse by the birth mother. This was to ensure that Daisy would be nursed until she could be safely weaned with no danger to her health. At that time the birth mother had one week to make known her intentions to ask for Daisy to come back to her and the request put before the Judge and a group of responsible citizens of the district. If she did not object, or was found to be an unfit mother for some reason, the adoption would become permanent. The birth mother's parents were heartbroken until Margaret Timberlake said that she would never think of excluding Daisy's maternal grandparents from her life and hoped, that if their daughter ever did take Daisy back, that she'd be allowed to keep in touch with the little girl.
I don't see that it was a perfect solution, given all of the unknowns of the future, but it looks like the best one that could have happened with the options that were available. I overheard several women discussing the possibility that the birth mother was suffering some kind of post partum psychosis. There used to be drugs and psychotherapy to help women that suffered from that. I bet there were a lot of women who were locked up in asylums in the old days that could have suffered from something like that. Rotten hormones causing a chemical imbalance in the brain … you didn't have any say over it happening or not. How horrible to have to protect your baby from yourself.
June 12th – From bad to worse.
I'm sitting here in the orchard trying to catch a breeze after check on the plum trees. That hail storm didn't help them but the damage doesn't look catastrophic now that the trees have had a few days to heal. But that isn't what I was going to write about. It has been a rough morning and it is either sit down and write it out or just fall down.
If it wasn't bad enough at church services yesterday, news of a major raid at the Henderson Ranch had us scrambling this morning. You know the raiders are bold and arrogant if they did something like that. Rand was called to help first thing this morning. I didn't want him to go but I couldn't very well tell him not to, Mr. Henderson and Mitch and the rest of them have done so much for us. And it bothers me that we still haven't quite made up though we are being carefully polite to one another. I hope that is a good sign. I've determined that no matter what Rand and I are going to talk it out tonight.
He and Austin came back for a few minutes to let me know that it was mostly OK. Some injuries but the attack was so odd. Maybe they were desperate but they did more cosmetic damage to the ranch's wall than real damage to the ranch itself. Rand and Austin went back to help clean up some more and to try and see if they could figure out the weirdness.
That's odd … they just left and now here they are again. Why would they …………………….
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Chapter Ninety-Five
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World of Warcraft: Legion REVIEW
Developer: Blizzard
Publisher: Blizzard
Release: Out Now
Formats: PC, Mac
Rating: PEGI 12
Price (RRP): £34.99
Despite the initial excitement, Warlords )f Draenor was a disappointing expansion pack for World Of Warcraft. Fortunately, Legion is a return to form for the series, demonstrating that over a decade later, World Of Warcraft's still got it.
Much of that success is because Legion is genuinely fun to play. Removing a lot of the grinding of past installments, it leaves players to find their own way around the Broken Isles that form Legion. Progress is dynamic now, meaning each of the four main levelling zones scale according to your level. Players can explore as much as they like, opening things up.
It's not just these tweaks that help cement Legion's success, but its new additions. A new Demon Hunter class is agile, gliding and dashing around areas, adding excitement to a class system that's often felt too safe.
Each class now has its own unique weapon that grows in strength through items received in quests and dungeons. It works like a talent tree post level 100, ensuring there's always something new to work towards, and the increase of the level cap to 110 is worthwhile, because the new quests are interesting. Frequently, they require abilities unique to one's class, ensuring a more personalised experience. It's a similar case with the new Order Halls, working like Garrisons, but with fewer followers, and more focused on what each class has to offer.
Repairing the damage caused by Draenor, Legion is a great reminder of just why you lost your heart to World of Warcraft all those years ago.
Review by Jennifer Allen