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For the Windows Server 8 Developer Preview, there are three main installation types: Full, Server Core, and Features on Demand. The Features on Demand option is new compared to Windows Server 2008 R2, and is made to provision a complete installation of Windows Server with the option for additional features available for installation remotely.During an installation, selecting the new Features on Demand option will provide the basic features while additional roles and features can be added from a remote source. This is primarily a disk space-saving technique, and this option is shown in Figure A:
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Features on Demand as an installation option.
The key difference with Features on Demand is that all of the capabilities of the server role can be run on this installation, but they don't take up unnecessary disk space after the system is installed. Further, this will also reduce the surface area for Windows Updates, ongoing. I had a chance to talk to a distinguished engineer from Microsoft, Jeffrey Snover, about this very topic on a podcast, and the logic is that we can reduce the resources on the server yet increase the reliability. Giving this some thought, it makes perfect sense in the virtualized world and resource constrictive parameters that we deal with today.
On a Windows Server 8 system installed with the Features on Demand option, you can easily see how all of the features are removed with the DISM tool. The DISM is a deployment tool that can modify and report on Windows installations. See the following command:
Running this on a default installation shows a number of features "Disabled with Payload Removed" listed for each feature, as shown in Figure B:
Dism.exe /online /get-features /format:table
Figure B
Listed features (click to enlarge)
This shows the feature inventory on a system, and in the case of Features on Demand installations, what is not consuming disk space for the features. A Windows Server 8 Core system takes around 5.5GB of disk space, a Features on Demand installation takes around 7.5GB of disk space, and a Full installation takes around 8.9GB of disk space. While a 1.4GB or so savings may not sound like a bunch, it would be significant across hundreds of virtual machines.
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I have several letters from people who have had close encounters with the stars, which used to be one of the possibilities of life in Los Angeles.
Those were the days when stars of the first magnitude sometimes did their own shopping, ate in ordinary restaurants, and went abroad in open cars, instead of opaque-windowed limousines.
It was a time when a kid was offered a ride on the running board by Tom Mix; when the young Ray Bradbury literally bumped into an astonished Greta Garbo on the sidewalk; when I myself had a beer in an otherwise empty bar just two stools away from Robert Mitchum.
Dan Clements of Encinitas, who used to work for United Air Lines, remembers one night when he was working the ramp (this was before the indoor concourses and boarding security) and a girl in a brown skirt and sweater motioned to him. It was Marilyn Monroe. She was there to meet Joe DiMaggio, flying down from San Francisco.


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Sports and politics revolve around freedom of choice
By Derek Joy
The dog days of summer in South Florida have brought ample rain with its customary searing hot temperatures.
Seems the 'Boys of Summer' found two Miami Marlins – outfielder Giancarlo Stanton and pitcher Henderson Alvarez – on the National League's roster for the All Star Game.
While the Miami Dolphins prepare for the opening of training camp later this month, the Miami Heat hasn't missed a beat in dealing with lost of LeBron James, who chose to return to his Ohio roots and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
No. Miami Heat fans didn't spew venomous words at James for leaving the Heat after helping them win two championships in four consecutive trips to the NBA Finals.
That wouldn't be in the spirit of the American way, where freedom of choice is a cherished right. Too bad the late Curt Flood, and those of his generation didn't have that freedom.
Flood, by the way, was the St. Louis Cardinals outfielder, who lost a career and his life after challenging Major League Baseball in court. He lost.
And years passed before professional athletes enjoyed the benefits of free agency.
So, you see, there really isn't any justification to engage in angry attacks on athletes exercising their freedom of choice. None. Not at all.
Heat President Pat Riley signed Luol Deng to help fill the void left by James. Those who watched Deng in college at Duke University and with the Chicago Bulls, know his skills and highly competitive attitude should be a plus.
Chances are the Heat will make the playoffs again. Might even challenge for another championship. Would be nice to see the Marlins and Dolphins show the same competitive results as the Heat.
Goes right in step with the close of FIFA World Soccer Cup in Brazil with Germany knocking off Argentina to win it all.
There's the world of professional sports. Happens that the political arena is heating up as the Aug. 26 Elections draw near. That time when municipal elections reach an end, unless a runoff is warranted, while state and federal elections are the primary.
Former Governor Charlie Crist appears well positioned to outdistance former Legislator Nan Rich to win the Democratic Gubernatorial nomination. Governor Rick Scott is loaded with money to take on the winner.
Hence, a haunting question remains to be answered. Will money alone buy the Governor's Mansion? Or will it be a battle of issues?
It wasn't just money for James. Nor for Deng in choosing to sign with the Heat. James has two NBA Championships. He wanted to go home. Deng has no championships and wants one. Granted. It wasn't quite that simple. But capitalism is that way.
And we see no less of a capitalistic reality when it comes to political office. All about the money. Which candidate can raise the most money to buy media campaigns to sway enough votes to win.


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Since the earliest days of computing, passwords have existed as a way to prevent unwanted parties from accessing privileged information. Considering the earliest days of computing were more than 50 years ago, it's shocking how little the password has changed since — more or less, it's always been a string of characters entered through a keyboard or similar input. There have of course been added layers of protection here and there — a recent example being Google's 2-Step verification — but the core idea has remained the same. Now Google wants to take its verification method another step forward and eliminate passwords altogether.
The tech giant is currently testing a new way for users to log into their Google accounts using just a mobile phone. According to Android owner Rohit Paul, who posted about his access to the new feature on Reddit, all a user has to do is authorize their Android mobile phone and it can allow them entry into their Google account on any computer. They'll simply get a notification on their phone, confirm it's them trying to log in, and that's it.
"We've invited a small group of users to help test a new way to sign-in to their Google accounts, no password required," a Google spokesperson told The Verge. "'Pizza,' 'password,' and '123456' — your days are numbered."
In addition to removing the burdensome process of remembering various passwords, this new feature would serve as a much more robust defense against hackers who leverage commonly used passwords and "phish" for others by collecting information through fake login screens. Overall, it's an initiative aimed at boosting security, and even if it's only for Google accounts at the moment, it may join Apple's Touch ID as a relatively reliable natural evolution for passwords on the web. So the password as a string of characters may well die someday, but the concept of having that security layer never will — it'll just take one of these more secure forms.
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If there is only one thing that's certain about life, it is that it comes to an end. And this question of what is it that happens after death is a question that has intrigued us human beings since the beginning of time.
When we to look at the journey of a deceased human being, when left to natural causes, we can understand that at two levels. At the physiological level, the transformation that occurs is one that we can witness so we see that the heart stops beating, the lungs stop breathing, and the body is starved of blood and oxygen. This termination of blood flow to the outer extremes of the body leads to the impalement of the skin. Then with the oxygen cut off, cells begin to breathe anaerobically for a time, producing the lactic acid which causes the stiffening of the corpse's muscles. Then, as the cells begin to decompose, the stiffening wanes, the temperature drops and the flesh begins to rot – until all that is left is dried-out bones.
The journey that the soul takes after death is very different in that it cannot be witnessed, nor can it be gauged through scientific inquiry or experimentation. It is simply beyond human capacity to do that. This is where within our Islamic tradition as well as other traditions, the concept of a Hereafter comes in – a life beyond death, resurrection, and a Day of Reckoning all of which falls under what we refer to as 'ilmul ghayb or knowledge of the unseen. The only way in which man can come to know anything of the unseen world is through divine revelation.
And with Allah are the keys of the unseen, none knows them but He.
Generally speaking, if you ask anyone to define death, you would be told that death essentially is the absence of life. However, if you look through the Quran:
Tabarak allazi biyadihil mulku wa howa 'ala kulli shay'in qadeer. Allazee khalaqal mawta wal hayata liyabluwakum ayyukum ahsanu 'amala.
Blessed is the one who has in his hands the dominion and he has power over all things. The One Who has created death and life to test you and try you to see which of you is best in deed.
So we see that Allah (SWT) mentions that He has created death, which is very interesting because again, the general perception of people is that death does not have an in independent existence, rather death is non-existence of life. There is a prophetic tradition, in which Rasulullah (SAW) said that on the Day of Judgment, death would be personified. It would be brought in form of a ram and slaughtered.
Rasulullah (SAW) has advised us to reflect upon death as a means of staying focused on our journey to Allah (SWT). In one tradition, he said:
Aktharu min zikri haazimil lazzaat
Frequently remember death, the destroyer of pleasures.
There are certain benefits that are ascribed to the remembrance of death. Atta ibn Rabah (RA), who was a tabi'i and amongst the students of ibn Abbas (RA) says that there are three benefits of remembering death:
1. Ta'jeelut Taubah
You would hasten the repentance. If we are always thinking about death, we would be naturally thinking about the Hereafter and consequently, we would prepare for it. Because there is not guarantee for the amount of time that is available to us. I may be standing before you one moment and may very well drop dead the next.
2. Ar-rida bi-qaleel
To be content with less. So whatever Allah (SWT) would give us, we would be happy with it. We would be satisfied and pleased because we know that this is a temporary residence, this is not where we belong, therefore we wouldn't give it that much of concern and attention. So whatever Allah (SWT) gives us, Alhamdolillah.
Kullu man alayhaa faan
All that dwells upon the earth is perishing
This concept of fanaa is very important because if we are able to internalize it our perspective on this world and all that it has to offer, completely changes. A scholar was once asked by a newly appointed king for advice and the scholar said:
Law daamat li ghayrik lamma wasalat ilayk
If the power had lasted with the person before you it would not have reached you.
You are here because someone else is gone, voted out of office, or their term is over, or they died. That's why it has come to you. And as it did not last with the person before you, it would not last forever with you. That is fanaa.
Kullu ni'matin manqoosa
Nothing of the pleasure of this duniya is complete.
There is nothing of the blessings that we enjoy except that we experience its deterioration, health, we fall ill; wealth, we experience financial crisis; families, we experience all kinds of issues. Al-Mustafa (SAW), he buried all his children in his lifetime except for Fatima (RA). He buried with his own hands. That is why the ulama say that if Allah were to make everything perfect in this world, then how would people have thought about the hereafter?
Kullu ni'matin manqoosa
Every pleasure would eventually diminish in duniya
3. La yushahih ahlud-duniya fi duniyahum
We would not compete with the people of this world over this world.
Fa yurithuhu zaalika tumaneenatan fil-qalb
And that would cause you to have tranquility in your heart.
What makes people anxious is competing over material things. Because nothing can really satisfy these desires of human beings as Rasulullah (SAW) has said that if the son of Adam has a valley of gold, he would request another one and nothing would satisfy his greed except dirt. So when we go back to the dirt, that would close or terminate all of those desires. So the person who is always thinking about death will not fight over this world realizing that it's temporary and not worth fighting for.
Ta'ammaltu fi amrin naas min 'arabin wa min 'ajabin min sagheerin wa kabeer dhakarin wa untha faqeerin wa ghanee fawajadtu annahum qadijtama'u 'alaa tarkil ham. Fa maa wajadtu an ja'ala tardil hammi minat tafakkuri fi amril aakhirah
I have pondered upon the affairs of humanity, be their Arabs or non-Arabs, young or old, male or female, rich or poor, I found that they all had one thing in common; that they all agreed in ridding themselves of anxiety. I have not found a better cure for anxiety than reflecting upon the matters of the Hereafter.
Because at that point everything becomes so insignificant compared to what is awaiting for a person on the Day of Judgment.
When a person is dying, they go through this period of time before death called ihtizaar, and this is a stage in between where a person is going through the change from duniya to akhirah.
To better relate to this, imagine you're in a room with another person who is sleeping and that person then wakes up suddenly in a state of shock and mentions that he or she saw this nasty dream. Now if you had a chance to look at that person's face moments before they woke up and shared their dream with you, you would never have thought that this person is actually going through all that. What you would see is a person who is resting and is at peace yet in those very moments that very person is in fact experiencing the pain that he or she experienced while seeing that dream. In the same manner, when a person dies, that person may appear to be in peace but that person is actually experiencing bliss or otherwise depending on what that person spent his life doing.
For the disbeliever and evil doer Allah says:
Wa lauw tara iz yatawaffawna lazeena kafarul malaikatu yadriboona wojoohahum wa adbaarhum wa zooqu azabal hareeq. Zaalika bima qaddamat aydeekum wa annalaha laysa bizallamil lilabeed.
And if you could see when the angels take away the souls of those who disbelieve, they smite their faces and their backs saying face the punishment of the blazing fire, this is because of that which your hands had forwarded and verily Allah is not unjust to His slaves.
During this stage, even for the believer there could be some anxiety so Allah provides comfort to the believer glad tidings.
Innalzeena qalu rabbunallahu thummas taqaamu …
Verily those who say our Lord is Allah and then they stay firm, on them the angels would descend saying fear not nor grieve but receive the glad tidings of paradise which you have been promised.
Abdullah ibn Imam Ahmed narrated that his father while on his death bed and in the state of naza' said Laa ba'th laa ba'th (not yet, not yet), which left him concerned. When Imam Ahmed regained consciousness and Abdullah asked him why he said that, Imam Ahmed replied that Shaitan was standing right next to me biting on his fingers saying O Ahmed you have slipped out of my hand so I was telling him no not yet not yet, not until I die.
So Shaitan was clearly upset that Imam Ahmed had slipped his hands. And Subhanallah this is the life of believers that we continue to struggle against Shaitan until we die because he would never give up.
Imam ibn Taymiyyah has said that the reason this happens is that this is the last chance that Shaitan has with you, so if he misses you in the last moment, he'll never have a chance with you again. That is why Shaitan puts great emphasis and gives special attention to the last moment of our lives. So if we put a criteria to ourselves and think about it, if we are losing to Shaitan now when the battle is easy what would happen to us when we approach our death when things get tough. These are the fitan and that's why we say in our Salah:
Allahumma inna na'oozu bika min fitnatil mahyaya wal mamaat
We seek refuge in you from the fitnah of life and death. This is the fitnah of death.
And as our scholars mention that we don't expect that Allah would allow anyone who spent their life on the straight path to be misled during the time of their death. But we should always pray to Allah seeking His help and guidance.
Man maata a'la shaiyin bu'itha a'laiyh
Whoever dies on something would be resurrected on it
If you die in hajj in ihram making talbiyyah Rasulullah said you would be resurrected reciting the talbiyyah. If you die as a martyr on the battlefield Rasulullah said you would come out on Qiyamah with your wounds bleeding. That is why the most important stage of our life is the khawateem.
Wa fil ardi aayatul lil muqineen
Surely in this earth are signs for those seeking yaqeen
How many of us have witnessed death of a loved one in the last 5 years and been to the graveyard to attend the burial? We've put dust on them.
Minha khalaqnaakum wa fiha nu'eedukum wa minha nukhrijukum taaratan ukhraa
From the earth did We create you and into it shall We return you and from it shall We bring you out once again
So we see a person who is healthy, wealthy, walking around us, interacting with us turn into dust.
Wa fil ardi aayatul lil muqineen
If one sees aakhirah then the duniya becomes eclipsed. It doesn't seem bright anymore because fanaa comes on it.
One of the companions from the ansaar who was dying in Uhud, Rasulullah (SAW) asked about him. So the companions went around and found him at the last moment of his life. So he was told that Rasulullah (SAW) is asking about you. Kayfa tajiduk? How are you feeling? He said: Inni ajidu reehal jannah. Tell the prophet, I smell paradise.
When Billal (RA) was dying, his wife said "Waa karbaah" What a calamity. Qaala laa karba ba'dal yawm. There is no difficulty after this day. Nalqal ahibbah muhammadan wa sahbah. Tomorrow I meet my beloved, Muhammad (SAW) and his companions.
Syeda Fatima (RA), during the last days of the Prophet, he once whispered something in her ears and she started to cry. He called her back and whispered in her ear again and she laughed. The first time he told her that he'll be dying soon. The second time he told her that you will be the first one from my family to join me. The scholars said, Subhan Allah, what kind of a lady was she? When he told her about his own death, she cried. When he told her about her death, she laughed.
Ibn Ataa Illah As-Sikandari said:
Law ashraqa laka nooral yaqeen, lara-aytal aakhirah aqrabu ilayka man tarha ilayha…
Were the lights of certitude to shine you would find the hereafter so near that you could not move towards it and you would see that the eclipse of extinction have come over the beauties of the world.
The Quran continues to remind us about the aakhirah because it is one of the most denied things. Even some people who claim that they are Muslims they do not have certainty about aakhirah.
Yaqeen of aakhirah doesn't mean we do not enjoy duniya but we need to put things in the right perspective.
Once Rasulullah (SAW) was given some nice clothes, which he wore and then delivered a khutbah. Later while the prophet was among his companions, the companions started to touch that garment. Rasulullah (SAW) said ata'jaboon min haazih?, Are you amazed by these clothes? And they said ya Rasulullah, this is so soft and nice. Qaala waAllahi inna manadila Saad ibn Muaz fil jannah afdalu min haazih. He said by Allah the handkerchief of Saad ibn Muaz in paradise is better than the clothes I'm wearing. He brought them back to what? Al-Aakhirah. Don't let the duniya be in your heart.
Allahumma ya zaljalali wal ikraam, ij'al ahsana a'maalina khawatimaha wa khaira ayyamina yawma nalqaak.


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Providing spiritual support is an important aspect of palliative care. Supporting and acknowledging a person's spirituality has been shown to reduce the distress that many people experience when they are dying. [1]
There is no universally accepted definition of spirituality. For many people spirituality is linked to religious belief and practices or recognition of a higher power. A person's spirituality may be independent of religious belief. Spirituality may be defined as a person's connections to other people, to the natural world or to the search for meaning. In essence, spirituality depends on the individual.
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Hardback published - Aug 2001: 978-0709069553
Large Print published - Mar 2003: 978-0708994382
Through narrowed eyes, Cassidy stared at the three playing cards clutched in his right hand. He held an ace and two jacks, and with two aces on the table, he knew that his poker hand was strong. After playing for two hours, he could read the worried expressions of his three opponents, and knew that from the final deal, they didn't have anything to beat his hand. With everything being equal, he should risk betting whatever it took to win the pot.
Unfortunately, Cassidy knew everything wasn't equal….
So began my first published novel. I look back on those opening lines with a mixture of joy that something I created actually got published and horror that something I created actually got published.
The Outlawed Deputy was my second attempt to write a western. The first one started life as an sf / horror novel set on an airless asteroid where a mutant cyborg holes up in an abandoned space station and fights off a gang of crazed, zombie aliens. About half way through writing this masterpiece it dawned on me that the story might not be the classic I'd hoped it would be and, in one of those blinding flashes of logic that occasionally hit me, I worked out why. I was trying to write a version of the film Aliens, except I was sure I'd once read that when James Cameron made that movie he claimed he had tried to make Assault on Precinct 13 in space. And John Carpenter, when he made Precinct 13, said he was trying to make Night of the Living Dead in a police station. And George Romero had said that when he made Living Dead he was trying to make Rio Bravo with zombies.
This meant that the problem with my story was that I was trying to write a western in space and so if I got rid of the space bits, I'd have a better story. It turned out that I was half right. I changed my mutant cyborg to a marshal, changed the space station to a ghost town, and changed the zombie aliens into an outlaw gang. The story then made more sense, although sadly it was still a terrible one. I decided I needed to read more westerns.
I hadn't read a western since the early eighties when they'd disappeared from bookshelves in the UK, but I found to my delight that the library was full of Black Horse Westerns. I picked some at random, loved them, and then, fuelled on with enthusiasm, I tried again to make my mutant cyborg turned U.S. marshal tale work. I then hit another problem that was bigger than the fact the story was rubbish; it was already 50,000 words long and I'd only just started writing the middle bit. As this was already longer than a western's length, I decided to try the second, more sensible option.
I put that story aside and started again with something that got to its point slightly quicker. I instantly had a vision of a lawman who had been locked in his own jail cell. I didn't know who he was and why he was there, but I decided to start writing and answer those questions. Two seconds after starting writing he got the name Cassidy Yates, as I was watching Deep Space 9 at the time and I liked the name of the character Kasidy Yates. Shortly after starting writing he got a sidekick Nat McBain, named after a character who got shot up in Once Upon a Time in the West, although I later found out I'd remembered that wrong and the character didn't get named.
The story that developed involved a lawman getting wrongly accused of a crime and then going on to clear his name. It was an uninspired story and, looking back, I find it irritating that I wrote something that was so linear with few plot twists. I also tried to copy the style of several western authors rather than write with my own, albeit basic, style. But on the plus side it got published and the image on the cover happened to be quite close to how I'd envisaged Cassidy to look. Either way, I remember the novel as being messy and long-winded, but I like to think I learnt a lot from the process and the next one was a bit better.
Next month: The Last Rider from Hell.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
The Outlawed Deputy
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May 4, 2011
Invitation to Discuss and a Red Fish
Dear Readers, Picture Viewers, Random Blog Finders,
I proudly present the new commenting system on my blog, Disqus! You might have seen it over at Kendi's blog, or Sarah's, who actually helped me with some useful tips in installing. The most useful of them definitely being "don't panic". :)
I would like to thank each and every one of you who left me comments, followed me or e-mailed me so far, it's been a wonderful experience, starting blogging and meeting so many nicer than nice people all over the world! From now on, connecting will be even easier, it will be much easier for you to find my answers (or anyone else's) to your comments, and if you feel like, you can reply. That possibly means a start of a conversation! How great is that?
Hopefully the change to the new system will work fine, but please e-mail me if something doesn't seem to be working, or the settings aren't practical, or something along these lines.
To celebrate, let me include this picture Zsófi Raffay took of me last week, needless to say, she's brilliant, and this picture is so much more me than the photos I'm trying to snap of myself. The fish I'm holding is a recurring star in her photography, she hands them to her models to see what they'd do with it, sometimes with hilarious results. :)
Looking forward to reading your comments and answering them too! See you soon! :)
21 comments:
- Kirstin said...
That's such a pretty picture!
- 05 May, 2011 00:13
- Madeline Quaint said...
Thank you, Kirstin, Zsófi's a great photographer!
- 05 May, 2011 00:54
Hehe, love the fishy :) great photo! xxx
- 05 May, 2011 01:36
- Sarah said...
Yay, successful transfer! This photo of you is quite fantastic, I must admit. And the fish is fun! (Not only because I have a thing for fish.) The conversation part of this feature is great. Enjoy. (:
- 05 May, 2011 01:47
Gorgeous picture of you! I've been thinking about switching to Disqus but I think I"m too much of a turkey to do it. You'll have to let me know what you think!
- 05 May, 2011 05:00
- Titine Totoche said...
Hello!!! It really is a beautiful picture!! Plus I saw all the other ones, and it's really cool the use of the fish a recurring motif.
- 05 May, 2011 05:18
- Titine Totoche said...
Hello!!! It really is a beautiful picture!! Plus I saw all the other ones, and it's really cool the use of the fish a recurring motif.
- 05 May, 2011 05:18
- Madeline Quaint said...
The Red Fish is definitely the best model material. :)
- 05 May, 2011 08:39
- Madeline Quaint said...
I'm already loving disqus, it's wonderful that answers can be seen so clearly. :)
I hope Zsófi's photography will feature more on the blog. :)
- 05 May, 2011 08:41
- Madeline Quaint said...
So far so brilliant, Leanne! :)
I always answered to every comment but I knew it was difficult for the commenters to check back for my answers. Hopefully this way we can even start conversations!
- 05 May, 2011 08:43
- Madeline Quaint said...
Thank you so much for the award! Thank you as well for keeping up with reading me! :)
- 05 May, 2011 08:47
- Lea said...
Ha! The fish is so silly :) The pictures in her gallery are so much fun. Good luck with Disqus! It seems to be working beautifully.
- 05 May, 2011 16:26
- Madeline Quaint said...
Red Fish is a cool guy. Sometimes a bit out of order, definitely wild at heart. :D
- 05 May, 2011 22:08
LOVE this picture! Its so creative. :) And disquis seems great!
<3Chelsea Elizabeth
- 05 May, 2011 22:37
- Madeline Quaint said...
Thank you! :) I greatly enjoy Disqus so far! :)
- 05 May, 2011 23:17
- Gracey Pankey said...
Gorgeous picture of you - I like the fish very much.
- 06 May, 2011 01:54
- Madeline Quaint said...
Thank you, Gracey! :)
- 06 May, 2011 09:30
- Jazzy Elizabeth said...
Wooooo it's loaded now :) x hivenn
- 07 May, 2011 10:34
- Madeline Quaint said...
Phew, I'm dead glad! :)
- 07 May, 2011 19:17
- Catherine . said...
i like you. You're pretty.
- 09 May, 2011 21:31
- Madeline Quaint said...
Wow, I'm flattered, Catherine, I don't hear that often out of the blue. :)
- 09 May, 2011 21:42


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More often than not, highly virtuosic music sounds mad masturbatory. That's because this thing people call "musician's music" can often start to feel like that kid who shoehorns in complaints about the inauthenticity of calling nachos "Mexican food" after everyone drunkenly decides they want Chipotle. I mean, there's a lot of truth to what they're saying, and on a different day I'd probably agree. Fundamentally though, when will I care? Because seriously, when will I not be in the mood for Chipotle? So I've got to look at it like a gift when I hear an album as steaming, musical and approachable as Hello Ocho's sophomore album In Portuguese.
The rhythmic intricacies that leave In Portuguese captivating but accessible let the band play the mellow lounge-y card as uniquely as they do, while also managing to play up the more frenetic and morbid feelings that their songs illicit. There are as many sides to the record as a whole as there are sides to the individual songs. The first three quarters of the nearly seven-minute long opening cut "Irish Wrist Watch" bathe you in this ethereal shimmering pool of gasoline before a shriek stops the song and promptly sets you on fire. It really makes a point to set the tone for the rest of this charming and visual descent into hell.
The bass on songs like "Tear Wagon" or the jazz piano and stubbly guitars on the short interlude "Nail Tractor" are rolling and oppressive, but tastefully contrasted by the big Dark Side of The Moon, King Crimson-esque instrumentals on "Hallo Gallo" or by the kind of coked out reggae groove at the beginning of "Canadian Sorry"; a song that later transitions into an uber theatrical almost whimsically classical and intricate resolution.
Even when Hello Ocho plays around with a slightly less interesting arrangement/instrumentation on the more straightforward and indie rock influenced "Baker', the song still highlights the bands underlying commitment to musicianship while not necessarily robbing the album of any of the inner-song diversity that makes it great. While the musicianship is there, and is really the selling point of the record, it does come at a price. The price being that the vocals don't really pop out of the mix the way you'd like them to sometimes. But, it's only a shame when you consider how colorful and off kilter they can be; especially on the song "Tear Wagon"
While the whole album flaunts a relatively crystalline aesthetic, the production on the title track and the closer "Orange Peel" is particularly exceptional. On the former, a dense polyrhythmic vibraphone/bass guitar break primes you for this syncopated full band explosion where Hello Ocho ride on a kind of Latin expressionist wave of percussion; and it just doesn't give a fucking inch.
In Portuguese is executed so flawlessly and with such personality, that you don't even mind that it doesn't really draw on many novel concepts. It's a finely juxtaposed, challenging listen that's decidedly modern. It takes itself super seriously without coming off as pretentious or unmoved. There's a real emotional weight behind these instrumentals. In Portuguese is the album you did not know that you needed, but won't be putting down.


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Over at Let's Scrap it is once again time for a new sketch, designed by the very talented Cheri O'Neill
When I saw the sketch I was very excited to get started and choose some pictures. The reason, I do not have a lot of portrait pictures, and this layout is filled with ONLY portraits. So I had to do a bit of digging, but in the end I found some lovely pictures to use. Here is my take on the sketch.
The pictures were taken while I was in the Kruger National Park during August. I really wanted to scrap something african, as I had the BoBunny Zoology Collection that I wanted to use, so I decided to use the KNP pictures and the Zoology collection. All the paper and embellishments were from that range, except the word "Kruger Park", which is from FabScraps. Instead of using a die-cut for the middle part of the layout, I made my own, by just cutting a square and I used a border punch around the edges.
I had a bit of a mishap with this layout - The day made this layout, I was scrapping with my mother-in-law. Once she left and I had finished the layout on the Saturday, I left it on the patio table where we sat the whole. Needless to say, my dear puppy - Sherlock - decided that evening, that he also wants to contribute towards this layout. So when I arrived downstairs the following morning to let him out, I got a bit of a surprise................. (thinking about it now, I should have taken a picture to scrap). I had to do some damage control, luckily I could salvage MOST of it! So in the close-up pics, you will see some teeth marks - those are Sherlocks :-)
What was really awesome about this collection from BoBunny, is that I got hold of all the stickers as well as the brads. I could use the G (giraffe) and Z (zebra) and E (elephant) as well as the "Monkeyin' around, as they matched the pictures perfectly. Below are pictures of the brads that I used. What I really loved about the big brads, was how they incorporated the South African monetary system into their brads!
For the title I had three portions:
- "Day Trippin'" which is also from the sticker sheet, I just added some staples to each side;
- "through the" is from the alpha-set, also part of this range;
- "Kruger Park", a chipboard word made by Fabscraps.
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Marinades make food taste great―but they can make a mess. Put meat or vegetables in the container, pour over the marinade and close with top cover. Now, simply turn it over every three or four hours. Special grills on top and bottom ensure marinade flows―plus meat, fish and veggies stay extra fresh, even overnight.
You are welcome to do one or both sides, flip it, rotate it, interchange them for cards or layouts. You will have until 11.59pm (main page time) on Tues. Dec. 6th to upload your creation to be entered in the draw. For each time you upload a layout or card your name goes in the hat one time for our wonderful weekly prize! So let's see what you do with this sketch!
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I hope you enjoyed reading the post and have an awesome day!


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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Sundays sundays sundays
Well, had a great day yesterday! We went into town on Saturday morning for a look around the shops and then we went to the theatre to see The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Lew had such a great time, he loved it! And we met some of our friends who we havent seen for ages! Karen was there with William and Bethany and Emily and Elisha! Lewis was so excited to see them and we had a lovely chat and a cuddle during the interval! Lewis particularly liked the special light effects during the performance, the sparkly lights and beams and of course the wonderful sounds! He could see the stage, and enjoyed that as well, but it really was the sensory parts that got to him the most! After the theatre we went to Tesco for some shopping. Lew does love to go shopping as he sees lots of people to smile at! While at Tesco, I bought a jar of stage 1 babyfood to try Lewis and he LOVED it! We didnt give him the whole jar, just a few spoonfuls, but he so enjoyed the sensation of eating and he managed the swallowing very well! At 7pm he went to bed, sooooo tired after a very busy day! After Lew was in bed, I popped up to Olga's to drop off a balloon and a card for Ilya to say 'get well soon' after his tonsil surgery. I had intended to leave the balloon and card on the doorstep as a surprise, but they caught me so I went in for a cup of tea! Later, I went across to Denise and Jon's for a lovely chinese take away and lots of chatting. It was very very relaxing! Just what we needed! This morning we got up at 10am ... these lie ins are getting to be a habit! Best not lay in tomorrow as we have playgroup at DRI! We watched some TV and Lew had a bath. Then James came home from football and we went to B&Q to buy a fire surround for the fire we bought 3 years ago (!) and also a light for the soon to be built conservatory! We've had a very very lazy afternoon ... just sat watching TV in the warm ... its soooooo cold outside! Lewis received a lovely present from a postpal yesterday - a bright orange spinner thing that hangs from the ceiling and twirls around! It goes brilliantly with his blacklight as the blacklight makes the orange glow very bright! Lewis has also received several lovely emails - thank you very much for our emails from Joseph, Ele and family (Joseph has VACTERL association) and also thank you from Miharu, Michuru and Mirai and their mum Izumi who are in Mexico! Thank you also to Laura (lawse) who we are hoping will be able to come and visit us some time next month! And a quick date for your diaries for those of you who know us personally and live close by: Lewis' 3rd birthday party, Wednesday 28th February 2007, 4.30pm to 6.30pm - puppet show and entertainment Please mums and dads bring a contribution to the buffet (just let me know beforehand if you are bringing sweet or savoury) Also, as we are saving for sensory equipment for Lewis' new room, please no presents, but if you would like to contribute towards our fund for sensory equipment, that will be very gratefully received!
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Sunday, January 28, 2007
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Baby massage!
Hello! Well yesterday was a very very busy day! We had a bit of a lie in which was lovely! Then we went to hospital for our first appointment which was with Dr Mordekar. It was a very positive meeting, and we laughed alot. Dr Mordekar was telling us that people who know Lewis (who work in the NHS) will see Dr Mordekar and he knows what they will say ... 'have you found out what is wrong with Lewis?' and he says before they even ask 'NOO! I still dont know what is wrong with Lewis!'!! More test results came back and they are all NORMAL!!! Dr Mordekar said its great that the results are normal but if the people who are reporting the results to him could see Lewis, they would see that Lewis is not normal!! He also mentioned that we should be on Professor Surtees' cancellation list at GOSH so fingers crossed we can get in before April. Then we went to the Renault garage and ordered a new car! Now dont think that because we ordered a new car that we must have won the lottery!!! From 28th February Lewis will be entitled to Disability Living Allowance - mobility component. If you dont already know, I'll explain. With the mobility component, you can, instead of having the benefit as money each month, have a new car for three years. So the benefit is paid direct to a charity called Motability who provide the car, pay the insurance and tax, and maintain the vehicle, and we get a reliable (hopefully!) brand new car! So we ordered a Renault grand scenic in eclipse (the colour) which is a kind of greyish black colour. It should be ready for us to collect mid March. So thats exciting! We had a visit from Roz and a nice cup of tea at home before going back to the hospital for our other two appointments! First we saw Dr Ahmad (Lewis' paediatric consultant) and then we saw Zoe (Lewis' dietician). Both of those meetings went really well, and again we felt very positive and upbeat. We also managed to pop in and visit Ilya who was looking very well to say he'd just had his tonsils out! I do hope Olga managed to sleep well last night in the hospital and that her and Ilya can come home today for some rest!! We arrived home quite late (5.40pm) and Lewis was soooo tired from his busy day that he went straight to bed!!! Margaret from SENCO popped in briefly to lend us a mathmos projector lamp which is fantastic. I put it on for Lewis this morning on the ceiling above the bed and he was mesmerised! So thank you so much AGAIN Margaret! This morning we had a mad rush to get to baby massage for 10.30am! And it was the best! Lew was, as expected, the oldest child there. They were mostly teensy babies! But he loved it anyway and it was great for me and him to do something together like that. We both really enjoyed it. Lew loved looking round at the babies and we also met a lady and her little girl who we had seen many times at Ward 31 when we were staying in. She had stayed in alot longer than us, her little girl is not very well at all, but thankfully she is out of hospital at the moment and so we were able to have a nice chat. As her English is not very good, she is Chinese, our conversation was difficult, but we managed! But any assistance with the Chinese language would come in very handy for next week! Also, she showed me some traditional Chinese massage for Lewis which she does on her own little girl. Like Lewis, her little girl has a silk tube down her nose, but unlike Lewis, her tube does go down to her bowel which she had to go to Sheffield for. We are looking forward to seeing her again next week. Lew and I came home so I could have some lunch while Lew watched some Pocoyo that I had recorded for him, and we are shortly going to visit Denise, Oliver and Maisie! Thank crunchie its Friday! Lewis and I are going to the theatre tomorrow to see The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe! PS. Thank you Mel for your card! ... again! x
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Friday, January 26, 2007
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Photographs, conservatories, tonsils and lie ins
Hello! morning! Well yesterday was great! Lew was very very clingy, but he still managed to have a very long cuddle with granny which I think pleased granny an awful lot! In the morning Teresa came over and helped give Lew a bath and then watched him (turn blue twice!) while I got a shower!! Poor Teresa had not seen one of Lewis' reflex anoxic seizures before and had quite a shock as he did it to her twice!!! Later on granny and grandad came and Lew enjoyed seeing them and while I took Samuel to his year 10/11 options meeting at school, granny had a cuddle with Lew and both benefited hugely from it! Later, Kath came to do some physio which Lew didnt like quite so much as cuddles with granny, but needs must! Then Luke and Georgia and Ilya arrived and had a play. After Kath had finished 'torturing' Lew (!!) we popped up to Olga's for a cup of tea and Lew was very very vocal and excited to be sat with the big children and it was a wonderful wonderful pleasure to watch him being so happy! I do think that granny's tapping and Kath's physio helped him enjoy himself alot more, but I dont think Lew would agree about the physio part!! So conservatories ... well we now have, instead of a patio/terrace, a trench ... well we did have trench ... right this second it is being filled with cement!! And in the next 1-2 weeks it will transform .. TA DAAAAAAAAAA .. into a conservatory! Whohoooo! Style-a-Home is owned by James friend who has very kindly done us a VERY good deal and so to increase our downstairs space (an absolute essential now for Lewis) we are having a conservatory ... I will I WILL remember to put some photos on I promise (someone please remind me .. Yolanda thanks for reminding me once but I need it stamped on my head!). Now enough about us for now ... except to say today we have THREE appointments at DRI! With Dr Mordekar, then with the dietician, then with Dr Ahmad ... so we're going to be kind of busy today! But please think (and pray if you do) for Ilya who today is having his tonsils out at DRI ... I am sure they will do a wonderful job of looking after him, but even so its just not nice having to go into hospital for an operation, do they still give lots of ice cream for tonsils??! So a busy day, will catch up later! Oh forgot lie ins ... this morning I changed Lew's nappy while he was still asleep so I could have a guilt-free lie in .. you see he is soaking his nappies overnight and hence his pyjamas and sheets and bed .... so brainwave .... I changed his nappy before it soaked through, at around 7 this morning, and then went back to bed, perchance to dream!
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Thursday, January 25, 2007
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Good morning!
Hello! Had the most wonderful day yesterday. We went to play group at the hospital and Lew had the best time, singing and sticking and playing on the touch screen computer. Rachel and Jill are just the best! They adore the children they look after and it totally shows because the children always have the best time. Lew has taken quite a shine to Linda too! As usual, we managed to meet lots of Lews other friends from the hospital, particularly the physio and OT teams! Then we went straight across to musical minis at the community centre and met Denise, Maisie and Oliver there and also Barbara and her grandchildren Ellie and Luke and her daughter Kate. Lew loved musical minis! We sang lots of songs and played with musical instruments and Lew LOVED the hokey cokey as he really does laugh and chuckle when he is 'whooshed' towards someone (in his giraffe chair) - he finds it so hysterical! And of course with the hokey cokey you do all zoom into the middle and so he thought that was just great! Must remember to do the hokey cokey at his birthday party!! Then we went to the yorkshire outlet (sorry .. Lakeside Village ha ha posh name) with Denise, Maisie and Oliver for a nice cup of coffee in the Thorntons Cafe and then we watched Maisie and Oliver play in the soft play area and Lew loved seeing them play and also smiling at other children who were there. We came home around 5pm and Lew was sooooo tired after his long but very happy day! Jodie and Nicola arrived for our chinese girls night in and Lew was surprised to see them out of nurses uniforms!!! Then it was off to bed for Lew - head hit the pillow and he was almost straight off! Then Samuel and I, Jodie and Nicola enjoyed our chinese while James ate .... what did James eat? Then we watched trashy TV and I bored the pants off Nicola and Jodie looking at photographs ... they did say 'WE LOOOOVE LOOKING AT PHOTOS ...' - I think they might have now regretted that comment!!! It was a late night, I think we said goodbye around 11.30pm but it was so great - a totally wonderful day for all. And now its Wednesday but more about today when today is finished lol! xx
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Wednesday, January 24, 2007
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Not happy
Spoke to Great Ormond Street Hospital today ... the earliest appointment they will be able to offer us is April and we cant confirm that until it has gone through their allocations process which can take a week or two .. so not the best news. Still, at least we can plan things for the next couple of months without having to worry we'd end up dropping everything for GOSH. Lewis has had such a good day today, he has been smiling and happy. I think he must have had a cold and sore throat (which I have now got!) and so now he's feeling better. Thank you to Teresa and Luke for coming over this morning to watch Lew while I showered! Thank you Denise for putting up with us all afternoon, moaning and tears, and for offering to come over at 8am tomorrow for the shower patrol! And Gill, it was so lovely to see you. Tracie (butterflykiss) thank you for your email, sorry I havent replied yet, just havent got my head round it yet!
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Monday, January 22, 2007
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Someone please remind me about photos!
Hello! Still havent uploaded new photos! But have managed to do thank yous to postpals who sent Lewis and Samuel cards and presents over christmas and these first 3 weeks of January. Just got to do thank yous to everybody else who sent Lewis and Samuel presents for Christmas! But with having been in hospital from 29th December to 15th January its been a bit difficult!!! Well, we have something to look forward to! Our conservatory is being started on 29th January! Exciting! So if you are in the area that week (does it take longer than a week?) then please please see if me and Lew are in as we may be going completely bonkers making cups of tea for builders!!! Lew pulled his tube out again today!!! So we had to phone the paediatric district nurse to come out and put it back in! Lewis DOES NOT like having that done one little tiny bit!!! If you havent already, please do take a look at www.postpals.co.uk where you will find details of children who, like Lewis, are struggling with life threatening, life limiting, illnesses or conditions who would welcome emails, cards, postcards, letters, gifts to brighten their days. Even a quick email just to say hello and how are you will bring a smile to their face so please please if you get chance, take a look and give a pal a smile!
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Sunday, January 21, 2007
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Photographs - a reminder!
Hello again! I am soooo tired out! Have sorted out loads of stuff from the garage and made piles for charity shop (James took some to make some space!) and for hospital (toys) and for friends who have children. Lew cannot play with most of his toys anymore as they are not suitable now he has no mobility at all or use of his hands. He loves books and he loves to look at things so we have ordered this fantastic projector called laser cosmos which we hope will give him some enjoyment! We approached social services recently about assistance with converting our garage into a downstairs bedroom/bath for Lewis and they have arranged for the plans to be drawn up and they also arrange for the certified builders (certified to do disabled conversions), project manage, and provide the bath, bed, ceiling track, hoist, etc, which is fantastic news!!! So we are saving up our pennies for Lewis so that we can get him some sensory equipment in his new room when it is finished. We have also arranged with our bank to borrow some money to add a conservatory onto the back of our house which we will use as a playroom for Samuel and Lewis. We would like to get Samuel and Lewis in the same place at the same time so we will move all Samuel's computer equipment, xbox, ps2, etc downstairs, and have some of Lewis' toys in there as well (and a TV cos he lurvs TV!) and so even though they are not playing together, they are together and the aim is increased interaction as Lewis totally adores his big brother! Yesterday I had the most wonderful massage which was arranged through a contact at Lewis' hospital. It was total bliss and James is booked in to have one tomorrow! The guy who is doing it, Ian, is re-training as a sports masseur and he needs people to practice on so he has practiced on me and will practice on James tomoz! Yummmm! Also yesterday, Aunty Wendy arrived with us and cooked us the most scrumptious chilli con carne - it is a Pettifer speciality and we all had second helpings (except Wendy which is a good job as there was none left!!). Tonight Aunty Wendy is cooking us good old bangers and mash, scrummy! Elastic waistbands required! Today she has taken Samuel into town to do some shopping which Samuel is very chuffed about! He really loves Wendy (although he is very shy to show it!) so he'll be having the best time, I am sure. James is out tonight, well this afternoon (!), with Richard and Steve. They are on orders to be back by 7pm (Van and Teresa orders I think!) but we'll see! Get those three together and we'll be lucky to see them before midnight! Ooooh, we are going to see the Wiggles in June at Manchester with Denise, Oliver and Maisie! Soooo excited about that! But before then, we are going to the civic theatre (Lew and I, next Saturday) to see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! On Tuesday, Nicola and Jodie (nurses from Lewis' hospital who have become friends) are coming over for a girlie night in and we are having chinese take away yay!!! Lewis is currently sitting on daddy's lap watching The Shiny Show ... but if Daddy had his way, he'd be watching the football!!! Well, thats all from us for today! But please remember to pray (or think about) Laura who's nan is very poorly - we hope her final time here is as kind and peaceful as possible. And for Yolanda and Stephen, Naomi and Joshua and gorgeous smorgeous Joel who did indeed have pneumonia and is now fighting it off - keep strong Joel! Oh and a final note for Lewis' Doncaster granny and grandad - thank you so much for being such super grandparents, and we are looking forward to seeing you soon, especially grandad cos we havent seen you for a while!!! And for Grandad Skinny who has gone back to London, Lewis absolutely adores you!
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Saturday, January 20, 2007
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Bit late, but here's an update!
Hello everybody! Thank you for your comments, and sorry its been so long since our last update! Well, we came out of hospital on Friday 12th on home leave to see how we managed over the weekend, and then we had to go back on Monday for the doctors round to be formally discharged. So we came out on Monday morning and then we were back Monday evening!!! Lew was vomiting so we were a bit concerned! We stayed in Monday night and it was one of the most depressing nights/days I've had for a while. The room was dark and dingy and I had really had enough of being in hospital so by Tuesday I was really struggling. Lew was, of course, quite happy to watch hospital TV! We escaped on Tuesday evening and Lew seemed to have improved and (fingers crossed) no sickness yet. On Tuesday we went to the special seating clinic to see about a new pushchair/wheelchair for Lewis and a fab new chair has been ordered which will be ready in 3 weeks. On Wednesday we went to nursery to spend the day with Lewis' friends which he enjoyed so much, and so did I as it was sausage casserole and mash for lunch yummmmmmmm! (For me, not Lew, poor Lew was very confused at not being fed like the other children). Yesterday we spent a lovely day in town with Denise, Maisie and Oliver and got some marvellous bargains in Debenhams!!! We had a delicious lunch out and then had a mental time trying to get home as the strong winds had closed off all the roads!!! Today we are waiting for lots of visits! 1-1.30pm Lynda coming from Bluebell Wood 2pm Health Visitor coming 3.30pm conservatory quote man coming 4.30pm Ian massage man coming to give me a massage this evening - James sister coming to cook us a meal yummmmm yummmmm! Also ... at some point we are expecting the pdn (paediatric district nurse) to come as today Lewis decided to pull his tube half way out of his nose arrgghhhh! Please send your love to our very good friends Yolanda and Stephen and Naomi and Joshua and of course little Joel ... Joel is in hospital at the moment as they are concerned that he may have pneumonia. Also please think about Laura's nan who is poorly. Then tomorrow I've got to sort out all the stuff in the garage!
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Friday, January 19, 2007
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Home again!
Hello! Well we came home this afternoon. It was very scary, soooo much responsibility, but here we are, at home! Lewis was sooooo tired today! He was up at 5.30am and didnt manage a nap today so no wonder he was so ready for bed! He had his old tube taken out and his new 'silk' tube put in today (he was not happy about that, but its done and dusted now!). He's upstairs now in bed, all plugged in to his 'infinity pump' with his milk going down his tube to his tummy to fill him up! Imagine that ... eat while you sleep lol! I have had the most relaxing bath and now I am also very very ready for bed!! Sooo tired! We are on 'home leave' from hospital so that we can go straight back to ward 31 at any time over the weekend if we are worried. All being well, we have to go back to hospital for ward rounds on Monday morning and then we will be discharged. So fingers crossed the weekend will go well! I did have a few hiccups with the new tube as the syringes I was using for Lew's medicines dont fit it so I had to go and find syringes that fit! But I think I'm all sorted now ... fingers crossed! I dont think we've got anything planned tomorrow - just relaxing hopefully! Although my dad (who is visiting from London) wants to go and buy a coat cos he's so cold. It is soooo windy here at the moment, I think Lew and I were better off in hospital this last 2 weeks out of this horrid horrid wind! Thank you to everybody for our lovely cards and presents and beautiful flowers (I had the most beautiful roses from Angela who visited all the way from Cardiff!!!). Lewis has a great selection of cuddly toys to put on the end of his bed. I've added some photographs from our recent stay in hospital so please do check them out!
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Friday, January 12, 2007
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
stir crazy!!!!
hello again what a fab day we went down to playgroup at 10am and lew had the best time - singing and sticking and playing on the computer. he tried so hard to press the screen - well done lew!! we came back from group just after 12 and lew fell straight to sleep!!! granny came to visit, then olga, and lew lurved flirting with her!!! grandad came later and so i took advantage and went for a stroll around the hospital. lew had a temp spike late afternoon which was controlled with ibuprofen and paracetamol. later daddy and samuel came. i have been practising doing lews tube feeding and i feel very confident about that. i would like to send hugs to joel who has been frightening his mum and dad again with his asthma - we hope you are all ok. xxxxxxxx also lily and tom (and beth) - gentle hugs - you know why xxxx
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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Monday, January 08, 2007
hello, what a good day we got up early as lew had his eye test at 9.38am precisely!! all was fine with that - no change since the last one several months ago we then went to early skills group and lew loved it!!! we met 2 new children and their families and enjoyed singing, activities - sticking pasta and colouring pictures. lew had a go on the touch screen computer and then we went to the sensory room for a bit. james spoke to lews neurologist today and lews mri from 20th december was completely normal!! he is referring us asap to professor sertes (sp) at great ormond street i was very relieved to hear the mri was clear when i brought lew back upstairs to be reconnected to his feed he went straight to sleep! we had a very productive visit from bluebell wood and are feeling very positive about what they can offer thankyou to teresa, van and olga for visiting - thank you van for the flowers and olga thank you for lewis books thankyou barbara for your visit and for lews scrumptious mickey mouse and my flowers! thank you to granny and grandad again for coming to see lew we got a card from mel - thank you mel!! rachel, nick, heidi and phoebe - thankyou for your email - keep in touch x
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Monday, January 08, 2007
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hello had a good day again lew came off his feed at 10.45am so we zapped down to the hospital chapel for the 11am service there was just one other lady there so it was just us 3 and the vicar lady lew fell asleep in his chair!! he was given a special blessing at 12.30 we had a visit from katie from bluebell wood hospice about the help and support they can provide - she was very lovely and helpful we went down to the sensory room with yolanda and lew enjoyed it very much
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Monday, January 08, 2007
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
good day
fingers crossed been a good day today lew had a bath which he quite enjoyed then we went down to the sensory room and he loved it!! came upstairs to a posh supersoft mattress and lew went straight to sleep!! i had a go at giving lews meds through his tubes which wasnt too traumatic! getting an early night as we are very tired!! laura - please keep in touch re your email x
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Saturday, January 06, 2007
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Friday, January 05, 2007
hello from dri
sorry about no capitals, etc but typing on a screen is quite difficult!! we have had a good day today - lew is still tolerating his ng feeds, we are up to 50ml per hour now we have had lots of visitors today - teresa, miss tina (with a card and a bear from lews friends in teddies), gill, paul (pat has a cold - hope you feel better soon) and finally munmun, paulash and livia. lewis had a great time watching samuel and livia play today we visited the sensory room (snoozarama) but as lew was tired he didnt enjoy it as much as anticipated ... however as it closely resembled a white padded cell, i felt right at home!!!! seriously it is the most amazing room
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Friday, January 05, 2007
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
lew did ok overnight with his ng tube he has slept alot today, he is so tired our neurologist is away until monday so we will be here until at least then thankyou aunty wendy and co for the lovely card xxx thankyou jodie for the postman pat balloon and teddy thank you yolanda for the noddy books and naughty chocolates!!! thank you miss charlie for the cheeky monkey thank you james / daddy for being the best and for the lovely flowers thank you to all who have managed to visit us - it means so much to us and brightens our days xx thank you teresa for the wine!!!!! thank you to those who have sent emails and texts - we appreciate your kind thoughts and wishes bath booked in at 3pm for lew ... with the nurses ... i bet you men are jealous!!!!
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Thursday, January 04, 2007
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
really struggling tonight, watching our baby lose more and more abilities now all he can do is move his head slightly left and right when he is supported we love him so much and he is being taken from right in front of us and we cant do a thing to stop his decline please God help our little boy, please make him better, please dont take him away from us
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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Monday, January 01, 2007
in hossy
hello just wanted to say if u wouldlike to send card to brighten up lews room we are in ward 31 at dri xxxx
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Monday, January 01, 2007
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More from sister Nicola....
Happy New Year to everyone. Further to the last update, Samantha has asked me to post another as things are currently. She says: "We have made it into 2007! Lew is still in hospital, on IV fluids as he vomited up his feeding tube! Got to see some specialists tomorrow about feeding and will be here for a few more days at least"
Posted by Samantha Tolmie at Monday, January 01, 2007
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The Lewis Jeynes Fund
The Lewis Jeynes Fund was established to provide care and support to Lewis Jeynes and the success of the Fund has meant that we have also been able to purchase specialist equipment for other children with undiagnosed neurologically degenerative conditions in Doncaster and the UK.
Lewis and his friends around the UK all suffer from acute and undiagnosed life limiting or terminal conditions and very often specialist equipment is difficult to afford due to the changed circumstances at home. This is where the Fund can provide vital assistance to those in need. All of the proceeds of the Fund go straight towards helping Lewis, and other children and families like him and us.
Contributions should be sent to The Lewis Jeynes Fund, 15 Kentmere Drive, Doncaster, DN4 5FL or by BACS to Nat West Bank, "The Lewis Jeynes Fund" Account No. 35662565 Sort Code 60 06 39. You can also go into your local Nat West Bank and pay into the Fund over the counter.
Lewis and his friends around the UK all suffer from acute and undiagnosed life limiting or terminal conditions and very often specialist equipment is difficult to afford due to the changed circumstances at home. This is where the Fund can provide vital assistance to those in need. All of the proceeds of the Fund go straight towards helping Lewis, and other children and families like him and us.
Contributions should be sent to The Lewis Jeynes Fund, 15 Kentmere Drive, Doncaster, DN4 5FL or by BACS to Nat West Bank, "The Lewis Jeynes Fund" Account No. 35662565 Sort Code 60 06 39. You can also go into your local Nat West Bank and pay into the Fund over the counter.
Useful links
- Post Pals - great site for helping poorly children smile
- Bluebell Wood Childrens Hospice
- The Mighty 'C' - my brother's amazing blog
- Kirsty A - a very special lady
- Nathan Bovell - scrumptious dude!
- Declan Kelly - gorgeous boy!
- Parents of Kids with Epilepsy
- My fantastic photographer friend
- Samara's video - please please watch
- Natalie Robinson - Lewis' LURV!
i love you much (most beautiful darling) by e.e.cummings
i love you much (most beautiful darling), more than anyone on the earth and i like you better than everything in the sky -sunlight and singing welcome your coming although winter may be everywhere with such a silence and such a darkness, no one can quite begin to guess (except my life) the true time of year - and if what calls itself a world should have the luck to hear such singing (or glimpse such sunlight as will leap higher than high through gayer than gayest someone's heart at your each nearness) everyone certainly would (my most beautiful darling) believe in nothing but love


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Mr. Speaker, however robust that system is, the minister is not very robust at answering simple questions.
I would like to ask the minister again this time. The only conclusion one can come to is that the American authorities appear to have been more concerned about the safety of all American consumers than the minister was concerned about the safety of Canadian consumers, because if that was not the case, why is it that CFIA decided to close the border to Canadian products going to the United States, to all American consumers, but did not at the same time close access to the Canadian market?
It took a further two weeks for the government to protect the Canadian consumer. Why the delay? Why would the Americans be doing a better job on behalf of their consumers than our government is doing on behalf of our consumers?


text: Another still for "Be Great. Be Covert." He really does look silly there hahah! Be Covert, Be Great held a VIP premier yesterday and as a response to a reporter's question, Soo Hyun stated that he was not afraid to act as a dumb person. He believed that the funny acting will help viewers enjoy the show, and it's what gets people talking as well. He also shared that as he's actually an idiot in his heart, and that everyone has an idiot side to them. (Kudos to this, I'm an idiot sometimes too!) The movie will start screening on June 5th!


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Hymns of My Youth II: Praise Him!
Praise the Lord!
Praise God in His sanctuary;
Praise Him in His mighty expanse.
Praise Him for His mighty deeds;
Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.
Praise Him with trumpet sound;
Praise Him with harp and lyre.
Praise Him with timbrel and dancing;
Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.
Praise Him with loud cymbals;
Praise Him with resounding cymbals.
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord!
—Psalm 150
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessèd Redeemer!
Sing, O Earth, His wonderful love proclaim!
Hail Him! hail Him! highest archangels in glory;
Strength and honor give to His holy Name!
Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard His children,
In His arms He carries them all day long:
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Tell of His excellent greatness.
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Ever in joyful song!
Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessèd Redeemer!
For our sins He suffered, and bled, and died.
He our Rock, our hope of eternal salvation,
Hail Him! hail Him! Jesus the Crucified.
Sound His praises! Jesus who bore our sorrows,
Love unbounded, wonderful, deep and strong.
Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessèd Redeemer!
Heav'nly portals loud with hosannas ring!
Jesus, Savior, reigneth forever and ever.
Crown Him! Crown Him! Prophet, and Priest, and King!
Christ is coming! over the world victorious,
Pow'r and glory unto the Lord belong.
—Great Hymns of the Faith (Zondervan, 1968).
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text: Hi Everyone, I've come across a Firewire CDRW from a friend of mine. I plug it into my B&W, and the firewire bus doesn't see it... I mean, it's firewire, so it should at least come up, even if it isn't finder and itunes compatible, right? Has anyone seen this before? MP


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Sometimes I spend hours trying to come up with some kind of activity that will stimulate, motivate and most importantly keep them busy learning! But it doesn't quite work.
Today I was just puddling when I had this brainwave... My kids LOVE playing cards and they enjoy write the room as part of my literacy activities. So I combined the two of them! Brillance... I KNOW!! :-)
They had to take the top card of the deck, and whatever the number was (J,Q,K A all mean more than 10 letters) they had to find a word in our room with that many letters and write it down.
They LOVED it... there was lots of discussion about the words they were finding, and trying to decode some of them as well using a range of strategies.
It was fantastic to watch! Brilliant infact!
And the best thing... didn't cost me a cent! I just grabbed the cards from the maths box and away they went!
I do have photos to share some other things we have been doing... but they are on my camera at school!
What brilliant activities have you stumbled across?


text: SRINAGAR: Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta has welcomed the decision of the Centre for maintaining truce during the holy month of Ramadan in Jammu and Kashmir. Describing the initiative as a significant gesture, the Deputy Chief Minister has said that the decision will go a long way in restoring peace in the State. He has also hoped that all peace loving forces will take advantage of the opportunity provided by the Centre and help in maintaining lasting peace in Jammu and Kashmir, which is must for the overall development and prosperity of the State, said Mr. Gupta.


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After three years of waiting for his mandatory title shot, unbeaten Selcuk Aydin (23-0, 17 KOs) will face Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero (29-1-1, 18 KOs) on July 28th for the WBC interim world welterweight championship. Aydin had secured his position as No. 1 contender with a KO victory over "Sugar" Jackson Bonsu back in July 2009 but was forced to fight Canada based Romanian Jo Jo Dan twice for the WBC Silver Championship instead of getting a shot at the big green and gold belt.
"I am very happy that the deal has been finalized and I'm looking forward to a great fight", states Aydin. "For all these years I have been waiting for a major fight in the USA but nobody wanted to fight me. Andre Berto ducked me over years, Victor Ortiz decided that it would be better for his career to lose to Mayweather than to me, and Mayweather himself obviously prefers doing time in jail to stepping in the ring with me. I give props to Robert Guerrero that he is man enough to actually fight me. He will eventually regret this decision when he finds himself at hospital with a broken jaw like my last opponent."
In November 2011 hard-hitting Aydin had knocked down Jo Jo Dan twice en route to a unanimous decision win, breaking his opponent's jaw in the third or fourth round.
"I would say against Dan I was at about 60 percent. It was enough to beat him but I know I can do much better", says Aydin. "Against Guerrero I will be at 120 percent. I am already all fired up and I have lots of time to prepare for July 28th. You will see the best Selcuk Aydin ever. I know that this is my big chance to establish myself on the US market and there is no way that I will let it pass."
Aydin's promoter Ahmet Oner secured the deal negotiating the fight with Guerrero's promoter Golden Boy and the WBC.
"I thank all parties involved - especially Richard Schaefer as well as Jose and Mauricio Sulaiman - for their effort in order to make this fight happen", says Oner. "Selcuk has surely come a long way. On July 28th he will finally show the world what he's got. I'm sure that it will be a terrific fight between two rising stars. Both guys need this win to make themselves a name at 147 which is without a doubt one of the strongest divisions at the moment."
The fight against Guerrero will be Aydin's second bout in the USA. In April 2009 "The Thunderstorm from the Black Sea" beat Said Ouali in Nevada by split decision.
"Even though my last major fights have been at home in Turkey I never had a problem fighting abroad", says Aydin. "I will beat Guerrero anytime, anyplace. He calls himself "The Ghost"? After July 28th I will be known as "The Ghostbuster"!"