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Great Western Air Ambulance cannot land on BRI helipad
An air ambulance charity says it needs to raise funds for a new helicopter or it will not be able to land on a new helipad at a Bristol hospital.
The Great Western Air Ambulance said its current helicopter was too old to land at the £500,000 helipad being built at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.
It will be one of six providers transporting patients to the BRI and neighbouring children's hospital.
The charity needs a total of £250,000 to replace its current 1960s model.
Flights landing at the Bristol Royal Infirmary will include emergency transfer, airlifting patients to the hospital, and transport from hospital to hospital, as required, the charity said.
The Great Western Air Ambulance is the last air ambulance charity in England to rely exclusively on the Bolkow Bo105 helicopter.
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, which runs the BRI, said it has always been aware of the situation with the charity's helicopter.
'Losing valuable minutes'
Patricia Gaitan, fundraising manager for the charity, said the upgrade was vital.
"Our medical team offers the best pre-hospital care, and unfortunately by not being able to land on elevated helipads, we are losing valuable minutes as we have to land nearby and transport the patient by road ambulance," she said.
"Therefore, it is critically important that we upgrade our helicopter to be able to get our patients to the most appropriate hospital for their needs and continue offering a high standard of care for the people of the region that we serve."
The charity's helicopter currently lands at a site on the Clifton Downs, with patients then taken by ambulance across the city to the hospital - a journey that can take more than 30 minutes at peak times.
Despite the construction of the new helipad at the BRI, this would still be the case for the Great Western Air Ambulance helicopter, if they are unable to raise the funds needed.
Bond Air Services pilot, John Rigby, who flies for the air ambulance, said: "The regulations relating to landing on a rooftop helipad differ to those allowed for ground level helipads.
"The requirement for an enhanced performance capability when operating to a rooftop means that the Bolkow Bo105, under certain conditions of aircraft weight, air temperature and altitude, may not be able to always meet these additional requirements."
The charity has currently raised £170,000 towards their target and is hoping to have the funds in place to upgrade the helicopter by the first quarter of 2014.
Raising funds
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust said: "We have always been aware that Great Western Air Ambulance charity's current helicopter does not meet the specification required to land on the helipad, currently being constructed.
"However, the charity is in the process of raising funds to improve its helicopter, so that it will meet the specification required to land on our helipad when it becomes operational in April 2014."
The trust added that Great Western Air Ambulance is one of six air ambulance providers which will be able to use the helipad.
The landing site has been funded with £500,000 from the Helicopter Emergency Landing Pads Appeal (Help) and is part of a £110m revamp of the BRI.
The BRI redevelopment will mean specialist paediatric services will be centralised at the BRI.
A new extension will house children's burns and neuroscience services - meaning the majority of air ambulance transfers will be for children and infants.


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There is a user profile that offers five slots so that up to five people can have their scores and information saved. This makes for a perfect tool to use for the entire family as there were several facts that I didn't know – for example they list the different animals in the areas selected and offer some interesting tidbits about them. Once you select your user name (you also have the option of uploading a picture of your child or of yourself) you are off and running. The page opens up to several choices including: Map the Globe, Rewards, Map the Continents, Flash Cards and Fun Facts, Quiz Master and even a scoreboard. The whole family can play this together and see who scores the most points! The Quiz Master offers several levels up to Level 5 which would be for your older middle school child. Questions include: What is the capital city of Kenya? You are given four choices and if you choose the correct answer (Niarobi) then you get a point. Some of the questions are quite fun such as what country did yoga originate from?
I really like that they offer a Rewards section. Here you are able to collect items with your points such as a pair of binoculars (100 points), a backpack (50 points) and a compass (200 points) for your trip around the world. I know with my six year old is motivated by gathering as many points as possible and the Reward section is a bonus as she can actually purchase items with her hard work. You are told that if you collect every time you are then classified as a world traveller!
The Flash Cards and Fun Facts section is really interesting as well and the page opens up and lists all the continents. You are able to choose which place you would like to learn more about. We started with Asia together and learned some interesting facts about Cambodia such as the currency is called Riel and some animals native to Cambodia include the Sun Bear and the gorgeous Green Peafowl which we are told are probably the most iconic birds of Cambodia and that their beauty has turned them into prestigious imperial pets in the world's royal palaces ffor centruries. The whole family can learn some fun and interesting facts with this impressive app Map My Globe! In each page of Fun Facts we can learn about a countries landmarks, animals, fun facts and even music. For example, we learned about the Erhu which is a kind of violin (fiddle) with two strings that dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). It is now one of the most popular instruments in China.
The developer description of Map My Globe:
The continents, oceans, and poles have lost their places! Map My Globe encourages children to broaden their global awareness, by asking them to place all 7 continents, 5 oceans, and 2 poles back in their proper world locations. Children will learn not only the names of the continents, but the way they are visually represented on all maps and globes. Voiceover of each object teaches children name/object association. A fun animation precedes and ends the game with each play!
We really enjoyed this app and I plan to use it quite a bit to help teach my daughter about the world around her.
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If they have buyer's remorse over Trump, that is just fine, and I will welcome them back with open arms. I cannot believe how many friendships I ended of people I unfriended and blocked on Facebook over this. It's never been that way with any past elections, ever. And I sort of need some of those people as sources for instance for this site. I keep thinking I should take a certain number of them back, but then I don't do it. And all the ones I gave a break too pretty much came out as deplorables later.
I just had to throw two more or less Alt Right guys out of my group. I am increasingly doubting whether there can be an Alt Right/Alt Left alliance or even if I can ever ally with the Left Wing of the Alt Right. We are just too far apart on too many things. These guys are either White nationalists or flirting with the White nationalists. I am not against allying with certain White nationalist people, but it looks like the number of White nationalists I can ally with is about zero.
Also lately I have come out in strong support of Spencer getting punched and riots at antifa and Black Bloc demos. All those anywhere near the Alt Right really hate the antifa and the Black Bloc. No one worse in their book. I don't like them much either, but I will ally with them against Trump if they will allow me to.


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Today I went to Academy (training) for the morning, then left at lunch to go to the office and do some real work. And it really was quite the contrast. The morning was laid-back, I was very passive, mostly relaxed, and almost bored, wanting the clock to go faster. There were a couple of things that I did learn that I might use sometime, but I didn't really feel guilty about leaving at lunch.
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Blue talked for the hour, throwing out story after story. A couple of them, either the CASA or the caseworker challenged her on, but not too much. I think everyone can see that this is going to trial, and really, that is the best place for everything to come out. (And when I say trial, I mean a trial to determine if the kids should become "dependents" of the state, giving the state more longer term authority. This, however, does not terminate her parental rights – that comes a bit farther down the road if deemed necessary.)
To top it all off, Blue stated that she would blow off a job interview to go to her visit with her son (which she also knew about the previous week). However, she didn't show and her very cute 4 year old was very disappointed that he did not get to see her.
After that I got a bit slammed by work. A new referral (allegation of maltreatment) came in on one of my new kids who is living with grandparents. So I was talking with the CPS workers about it and what they saw (not much). There was also trying to track down a provider that I haven't heard from at all and finally getting the voicemail of her supervisor. There was writing a letter to a criminal court on behalf of a client and her lawyer wanting me to put more and more in there while mine was telling me to keep it short and simple. There was trying to rearrange visits that have not been going well with a different client. And finally doing a homevisit on my own of the little girl with the new referral (which had already been planned).
And it was so different at the office than Academy. I was moving a hundred miles an hour. I was doing about 5 things at once and being pulled in lots of different directions. It is like being at a busy urban ER on a Friday night. Except, the work I don't finish, still has to be done at some point. Unlike the ER, there is no one coming in on the next shift to make sure everything is done. It is just me, trying to get it all done. But there are aspects of that that I like – as masochistic as that is.
And I think I will leave the office politics, staff changes for another day. Sigh.


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I married an incurable womanizer; three years after marriage Jimmy hopped from one relationship to another looking for something I'm not sure he ever found. First, it was another doctor like him, then a nurse, then another doctor, then another nurse .. ad nauseum. All of these hurt terribly but I rationalized it was me that he came to. It was I who was queen of his home. I was so naively young and inexperienced about the ways of the world and busy mothering. I was perfectly willing to live with his little flings. My experience was that they hardly ever lasted. Just when I had wisened up to one, it would be over and another one was just about to begin. I thought Jimmy was sick that way. The way some other men might have asthma or migraine. He is chronically afflicted: an attack comes, then subsides; then another and another. Was he insatiable or simply vulnerable?
My children -- three of them married -- thought I was hopelessly oldfashioned. They called me a martyr who would never be cannonized. But my eldest daughter was more perceptive. She told me one day: "Mama, I know you have no choice. Even if you wanted to leave Daddy, you are so dependent on him in every way." Emotionally, socially, financially -- Lizzie meant. That's Lizzie -- she understands more than she cares to let on.
Right, I was just a school librarian; he is a doctor with a thriving practice. Thanks to him, my children went to the best schools, got to travel, enjoyed the good life. If I left him, my children would have to settle for less, much less -- unless I left my children to him. Which was unthinkable.
In a sense, I am a product of old values. In the '70s, a failure of marriage implied a failure of the wife. A wife was supposed to eat dirty bread and like it. A wife was supposed to take final responsibility for the marriage. A wife was supposed to preserve the family at all cost. Yes, I reckon I was old school. I flinched at the thought of going back to my home town in Palawan with the stigma of "SEPARATED WIFE" written in bold letters on my forehead.
I was a campus belle. I played the field, in a manner of speaking. At FEU, I was chosen muse of the varsity basketball team. I went steady with the captain ball. At a town fiesta the summer my athelete-boyfriend was away playing in the Olympics. I met a tall and handsome medical student from UST. That was Jimmy.
There is something in the white uniform of a medical student that sends a girl's heart hippity-hop. Jimmy would drop by our school library, where I was working as student assistant. "Psst, Naida," my friends would whisper with a wink, "your 'white man' is here now." When I strolled the campus with my white man, I felt like floating on air. In turn, Jimmy relished the idea of courting a librarian. When he had to explain his late hours, he simply told his mom he had to go to the library. She had no way of knowing he went to the library of another school.
Ours was a whirlwind courthsip. "Daig niya ang basketball player sa man-to-man guarding." I was 19, just about to graduate, when we got secretly married. Jimmy was about to start his medical residency.
Jimmy is basically a good man, who loves his children to distraction. He is quiet, gentle, undemonstrative. I guess he loved me in his own way, except that he had this incurable affliction. Reckoning that on the balance, I could have done worse, I was determined to make our marriage work. I closed my eyes to his little affairs -- sure that in my otherwise "charmed" life, his girls were just little mosquitoes that hover, annoy, and distract but in the end may simply be swat or shoeed away.
Nothing ever prepared me for Sarah. Not the mosquitoes -- oh, no, not those lightwieghts. She was a big one -- vicious and ambitious. I almost got swat by her.
An anonymous call alerted me to this new woman in Jimmy's life. Another nurse, the caller said. So, what's new ?! Oh, but this time, not a practising nurse but a medical representative. Oh, one of those, I thought. It was the nature of their jobs to pander to and flirt with doctors. Oh, well, since the caller gave me a number, I might as well call her up The voice -- somehow unagitated -- agreed to meet me at the Army and Navy Club, where Jimmy and I were members.
When I first saw her, I felt a teeny-weeny pinch of fear. A tall, well-built American mestiza, she looked too poised and in-control for her 21 years. But her words soothed me. Naku, Ma'am. How can you think that? I'm just doing my job. Si Dok, he's just a good client. Ay, Ma'am. My parents are so strict. They brought me up well. They'd kill me if I did anything like what you're thinking.
I left the club somewhat assured that the anonymous call was a false alarm. Meanwhile, my antennae were up. The way my husband was carrying on was far from assuring. He took to borrowing our son Mark's clothes and affected a young man's long hair and sideburns. When I rode in his car, I got a whiff of a jasmine scent, definitely not mine, for I detested jasmine. Once, I found a hankie that was neither mine nor my daughters'. Most of all, Jimmy was coming home late, later, or not at all.
Getting swat
I was in a cab with a cousin one day when I happened to spot my husband's car from the opposite direction. Traffic was heavy on Espana Street that noon. So vehicles were crawling. In a few seconds, I got out of the cab, ran to his car and climbed into it through the backdoor. I pounced on the girl -- berated her for lying ... called her names ... told her: "Sayang ka."
This time, she didn't try to dodge. "Uso naman ito," she said.
My husband took her side. "Don't be afraid, he consoled her. "I am with you all the way."
What do you do when you are about to get swat? You call for reinforcements, naturally. I phoned Lizzie, my daughter, to join us ahora y mismo. She came in another cab, ready for battle. As I bluffed about lawyers and legal separation proceedings, Lizzie attacked Sarah: "Huwag kang umasa. My parents will never separate. My mother will be Mrs. Soliman forever."
Perhaps Jimmy has gone soft in the head. Perhaps he really fell for her. Na-truelove, so to say. Perhaps, at 51, he thought he'd make this last hurrah an affair to remember. Or perhaps Sarah was really a heavy-weight. Perhaps she is gifted and talented in the love department in ways unfamiliar to me. Whatever the reason, Jimmy was hopelessly enamored. He brought her a condominium unit. I've never known Jimmy to go go that far.
In the eight years that the affair lasted, I tried everything to stop it. When I couldn't, I tried mightily to stop me from hurting.
I sent Sarah a picture of my family. "This is the family you are about to break," I wrote on the back. She returned it to sender without reply.
I talked to Sarah's father, who promised to talk to his daughter. Nothing happened.
I sent her letters -- alternately sweet talking, wheedling, pleading, threatening. In turn, she wrote me vicious replies. One of them read in part: "Even if you killed yourself trying to look young and beautiful, you will just succeed in looking pathetic. If I were you, magpatuka na lang ako sa ahas."
I had access to painkillers -- Jimmy had all these medical samples lying around. One night, when the hurt was so intense, I took an overdose of Madrax. In the twilight moments between waking and sleep, I felt I had to go to the bathroom. Too drugged to walk or crawl, I crept. Otherwise, I would have defecated on my bed.
If you think I had hit bottom then, think again. My grief was a bottomless pit. I turned to bottled spirits, drank till I puked. One morning, Jimmy came home and found me incoherent and reeking of alcohol. He hugged me in remorse as -- quite uncontrolably -- I alternately laughed and cried. The next day, he came home as late as before. He and Sarah didn't skip a beat.
I looked for other painkillers. Hare Krishna, Zen Buddhism, Mt. Banahaw, Science of the Mind and Man. I took all these routes, Lizzie in tow. They were effective analgaesics. Like their encapsulated and bottled sisters, they were good for only a few hours, but by then I began to soul-search -- go inwards.
If you need them, they will come
If you need them they will come. I mean people. Friends and strangers. Support systems. They helped me cope.
One of them was Mr. Bondoc. He was also a regular at the Army and Navy Club where I took my son swimming. I didnt know him from Adam, but he sought me out. He said he was compelled to talk to me because though I smiled, I had very sad eyes.
Mr. Bondoc became my listening post and best friend, until the time of his death two years ago. At the time of our meeting, he was also trying to get over an unfortunate marriage. He rationalized that with him, it was bound to happen because he was gay. But he had good vibes about my marriage, he said.
He advised me not to do anything drastic. He drew this wonderful analogy between an extramarital affair and and aircraft. "When an aircraft has just taken off, there's nothing you can do to stop it. The energy is just tremendous. Wait until it is up on the air and has settled. That is the time you can force it to land."
"In the meantime, Naida, while you're waiting for the plane to land, equip yourself. Gather your ammunitions. You owe that to your children.
On Mr. Bondoc's advice, I gathered all our savings, bonds and stock certificates and sent it to a sister in the United States. I withdrew all our bank accounts and put it in my name. In time, Jimmy found out. Though he raved and ranted, I stood my ground. It was an insurance for my kids. It was also a warranty for me. He couldn't leave me then -- I had all the money. And even if he did I felt secure that my children would not be deprived.
Meanwhile, Sarah's attacks escalated. She'd leave an indecent trail of her person -- now a panty hose, then a pelota sock, then a hairpin. Our car often reeked of jasmine. The phone rang at midnight -- it was she pretending to be a patient.
"Enough is enough," Mr. Bondoc cried, pre-empting my anger. He encouraged me to file disboardment proceeding with the Professional Regulation Commission against Sarah. After praying over the decision, I did. My case was strong, because of all the letters she sent me. And I could charge concubinage because I could show the courts their love nest.
All hell broke loose when Jimmy found that I filed the case at the PRC. "If you dont withdraw the case, you'll never see me again." With all the courage I could muster, I told him to do what he wanted but that I would never withdraw.
When the sheriff served Sarah the subpoena in her office, Jimmy rushed by her side. But in a few months, she lost her nursing license, then her job.
In six months, Sarah had left for the United States.
End of affair? Guess again.
My husband carried his torch for his mistress over the long distance. He burned the wires to hear her voice. He found ways to fly to the U.S. twice a month to renew their passion. The all-expenses paid medical conventions abroad were heaven-sent to him. That I sometimes travelled with him was just a piddling inconvenience. It was on such trip that I met another stranger that influenced my life.
What's your problem?
I met her in a connecting flight beween San Francisco and Miami, en route to Sao Paolo, Brazil, the site of yet another medical convention. We had just spend five days in San Francisco with Jimmy's sister. I had also just then firmed up my decision to leave Jimmy once and for all.
Louise, an elderly American, was seated between Jimmy and me in the plane. She told me that she lived in a nursing home, but that she was being taken by her only daughter on a vacation to Miami -- an annual treat she never fails to give her. She recounted her past -- her daughter was a love child whom she was tempted to abort but chose to have instead. She never married, she said. How she would have regretted it if she got rid of her baby, she exclaims, "...for look, she's my greatest joy now."
Then Louise asked where I was bound for. I told her and then pointed to my sleeping husband. "Oh, how nice," she said. "I hope you'll have a wonderful time." "I dont think so," I retorted, "because we're on the verge of a breakup. I told her I had decided to go to a lawyer once we got home.
But why, what's your problem?" she asked.
"Well, we spent five days in San Francisco ith his sister. He disappeareed for three days to be his mistress in another state."
"What's your problem," she said again.
"Well, he's been carrying on with her back home for years and years. If she didnt lose her license, they would've been still together. He's so crazy over her that he goes to visit her every so often."
"Fine. But what's your problem?" she persisted.
"Oh, can't you see? It's hopeless. I have to leave him."
"I can't see that you have a problem right now. Your husband is with you, isn't he? At the moment, the other woman has a problem, not you."
That jolted me.
Where did Louise come from? She shouldn't have been sitting beside me -- she was a wheelchair-bound invalid who should be occuping a special seat in the plane. The stewardess who met her was astonished too that the ground staff did not issue her a special aisle seat. But there she was at the very moment I needed someone to drive some sense into me.
Back in the Philippines, Louise's words resounding, I convinced myself I had no problem. I decided to stay in the marriage. I have survived all these years. What else is there to fear when I have gone through hell.
I met Sarah one last time. She came back for a short visit and insisted on seeing me. By then, my husband had taken up with another woman, one of the lightweights who didn't really threaten my happiness.
Sarah was crying. "Bakit ganun? No. 2 na nga ako, kinakaliwa pa. Talk to him, Ma'am. You're the wife. You have the right."
I told her to write off Jimmy from her life to clear the way for a new man. Before she left, I could not resist a parting shot. "Invite me to your wedding. I'd love to be your Ninang." We hugged each other then.
Growing old together
At 70, Jimmy is still practising medicine, but he has slowed down. Does he still cheat? Not to my knowledge. I'm not really sure, for I have stopped following him around. I am 65, retired as a librarian, but a starting a second career as trainer on value education and advocate for the green movement.
I surrounded myself with friends with whom I went dancing, outing, swimming. Years ago, I joined the Ramon Mitra presidential candidacy campaign, which put to use my organization skills. More recently, I joined the Toast Master's Club, which developed my gift for public speaking.
When I let go all my fears of losing my husband, I found myself. Where before, I revolved around him, I have now found other orbits. No longer as needful of his "sun," I shone on my own.
I lead a full life these days. Last week, I was invited to talk on parenting by a parent-teachers association. Next weekend, I'll be in Baguio to join a foruim on the green movement. When I return, Jimmy may or may not be waiting. Either way, I no longer hold my breath because he comes home eventually.
My daughter, Lizzie is, as usual right. I will be Mrs. Jimmy Soliman all my life. Honestly, I feel more "married" today than ever before. Years ago, Jimmy and I promised each other that come what may we will grow old together. We are doing that right now.
Whenever I see our numerous grandchildren flock around him nowadays, I know for sure that I have made the right decisions.
(Watch out for other stories of hurting and healing by Anna)
Friday, January 5, 2007
Naida's Story (as told to Anna): NAIDA OF THE OLD SCHOOL
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Hugh Hewitt's despondent dispatch from planet Bizarro:
My biggest worry is four more years of starving our military, and here the House must simply say no, even if it forces the showdown that the GOP strove so hard to avoid for fear that it would wreck their political chances.
That came after Hewitt's description of the "good and generous" and "virtuous" Mitt Romney's "disciplined and idealistic campaign" which was defeated only because "Nature intervened."
Clear throat.
As to the U.S. military, what Hewitt describes as President Obama's starvation of it resulted last year in a defense budget that outpaced by $16b the combined military budgets of China, Russia, UK, France, Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Brazil, Italy, South Korea, Australia, and Canada.
Finally, that showdown? The one Hewitt recalls being fearfully avoided by a politically sensitive GOP? Somewhere, On Hewitt's planet, perhaps that took place. It didn't happen here. But Hewitt's drooling reference to such a catastrophic event suggests to me that the far right simply cannot wait for another shot at the Apocalypse.


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Guest Blog: "Your Brain on Technology" By ryandake
So there you are, writing your historical novel, and in your book it's 1735, and your hero has to take a poo, and you stop: have they invented the toilet yet? So you leave the poor bastard grimacing while you get out Nell Du Vall's Domestic Technology, and you read:
The toilet, or water closet at the English call it, had several false starts. [...] Sir John Harrington, a man ahead of his time, installed a toilet of his own design in his country house at Kelston [...] in 1586. Harrington, who bathed every day, was considered a bit eccentric and his invention did not become popular.
And before you know it, your allotted writing time has gone down the crapper, because Nell's book is so fascinating. But you know a lot more about the technology of your chosen time.
If you're writing only about your own current time, no sweat--you're swimming in the technological sea your writing is about. But you step out of now at the peril of your work's verisimilitude. If your brain is as erratic as mine, you probably don't even know your own technological past as well as you think. Quick: when did Walkmans become ubiquitous? Hell if I know, and I had one for years. Did the iPod come before or after the iTunes store?*
Fortunately we have Nell's book (1988), and Wikipedia (2001). Facts can be ferreted out. And speaking of Wikipedia...
Think about what a change it's made. Before Wikipedia, you had to find your car keys or bus pass, go to the library, bug the librarian, find the correct reference work, and hunt through it until you found (or gave up on) your targeted fact... now you just have to "go" to Wikipedia. If you know what you're talking about, you can even add facts to Wikipedia. We have infinitely more facts at our disposal than even those poor slobs half a generation ago. Are you, you monad, any different? And how has that technology changed society?
Technology shapes us just as much as we shape technology.
And Facebook! Oh, admit it, you're a FB junkie. You now have access to intimate details about the lives of perfect (six degrees of separation) strangers, sometimes whether you want to or not. Has it changed you? What interactions has it brought to your life that were unthinkable before 2004?
And Nutrasweet! Viscose (the fabric formerly known as rayon)! The cotton gin! MRIs! GPS! Aibo! Man, the list goes on forever. Every one a death knell to Natural Man. But if you're writing, you'd best know when they showed up, and what they did to that innocent creature and society.
Unless you're worldbuilding sf. Then you have to make them up, and they have to be convincing.
*2001 and 2003, respectively. The Walkman, for the terminally curious, launched July 1979.
ryandake is currently plotting the downfall of the United States of America, and how Northern and Southern California will split the sheets, via her sf novel Tulare Lake, to be published sometime before we all get our brains uploaded to AwesomeMommy, the giant AI in the sky.


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Hey buddies,
Hope everyone had a great weekend.
I wanted to show you our new palm tree, a Sable Palmetto that we got at Outdoor Gardens in Okatie, SC.
Hope looks pretty pleased standing next to it:)
The most shocking thing was how fast it was planted. Matt was rushing home from work with a 45 minute drive and they were gone in about 30 minutes.
(Second photo is the bed before the palm.)
There's Michael in the black shirt ready to assist:)
Notice how the palm is a bit naked? We were told that instead of the palm concentrating on growing leaves for the first year it will establish a better root system, and we don't need this tree falling over, so grow roots grow.
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Yes, you read that correctly.
If you haven't tried Cincinnati style chili, specifically Skyline, you are missing out my friend!
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I need to try that Salted Caramel Latte...I think I would like it. Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
Go Browns!!!!! I can't believe it's so cold there! We were at 93 yesterday! Thankfully, I love warm weather!!!ReplyDelete
Skyline Chili wins at life- hands down ;) It's so good! And so is that Carrie song!ReplyDelete
I cannot believe it's so cold....we are seriously working on breaking heat records here. I am with X....I totally love watching myself in the mirror...love to see what I look like when I'm talking and such I do not know why. Have a super weekend!ReplyDelete
if you like lattes try the toasted graham!!! it is so so yummy!!!!ReplyDelete


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One of the most important things to me was to see photographs in print because that to me is where photographs really shine. We all know that most, if not all, photos will stay on our phone or on a hard drive or somewhere in the cloud, and that's fine – It's practical and it's the nature of dealing with our increasingly online lives. One estimate puts the number at somewhere near One Trillion photos taken through 2015 and this number is set to rise. I'm not great with numbers, but I don't thing there is even enough paper and ink on the planet to actually print every one of those pictures! (Facts not verified, BTW…)
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Physics and Math Shed New Light On Biology by Mapping the Landscape...
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences make a breakthrough.
Although the qualitative description of evolution -- its observed behavior and characteristics -- is well-established, a comprehensive quantitative theory that captures general evolution dynamics is still lacking.
They propose a new theory of evolution with two ingredients: the underlying emergent "fitness" landscape and an associated evolutionary force called "curl flux," which causes species to move through the emergent fitness landscape in a spiraling manner.
The researchers captured evolutionary relationships in a system of equations. They then created quantitative pictures that visualized evolutionary pathways as journeys through a mountainous terrain of peaks and valleys of biological fitness. The key breakthrough beyond the conventional quantitative theory of evolution is the emergent curl flux, which is generated by interactions between individuals within or across species. The underlying emergent landscape gradient and the curl flux act together as a "Yin and Yang" duality pair to determine the dynamics of general evolution, says Wang. An example of similar behavior is the particle and wave duality that determines the dynamics of the quantum world, he notes. The researchers also note that this combined effect is analogous to the way electric and magnetic forces both act on electrons.
This finding offers a theoretical framework to explain the Red Queen Hypothesis, which states that species continually evolve in order to fend off parasites that are themselves continually evolving.
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A Second SkyDeck™ system at Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
September 28, 2013, West Palm Beach, Florida - A second SkyDeck™ tension wire grid has now been installed at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
That's right! Two years after the Rinker Playhouse was outfitted with a special tiered SkyDeck system a similar grid was provided for the Persson Hall. Both grids were constructed to allow easy access to performance lighting and rigging.
Go experience one of the hundreds of performances the Kravis Center has each year. You will not be disappointed.


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I spent the evening and a little bit of this morning tackling some hand sewing while catching up on some of the real housewives and a little bit of the golden girls. My first actual quilt is now complete, but since it isn't very sunny right now, I am putting off taking a picture of the whole quilt until later today.
There is something so relaxing about sewing on the binding and seeing the whole quilt just come together. (* I tried out a new tip I saw here on splityarn, the binder clip worked out really well and was very effective.)
A few projects are in the works, that if all goes well will be up on the blog later this week. This weekend is going to be filled with tackling a few more things on my to-do list (mainly another small quilt, some pattern writing, working on a hexagon tutorial for the magic valley modern quilt guild, and hopefully sewing up a skirt.) Other none sewing plans include maybe heading out to the local western days celebration, some gardening, catching up on some paper work and maybe I will do a little cooking. Hopefully, the weather warms up so I can spend some time outside while working on a few of these projects.


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The JC Café Menu Offers Gourmet U.S., Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Chamorro and Filipino Cuisine
The breakfast menu includes bacon, corned beef, Portuguese sausage, spam and Chamorro sausage, and an omelet which comes with a serving of steamed or fried rice, garlic rice or toast with egg.
Also available is a wide selection of all-time island favorite appetizers such as beef, fish, or chicken kelaguen, crispy hot chicken wings, crispy pata (deep-fried pork leg) and more; salads, soups and noodles, burgers and sandwiches.
Feast on lunch or dinner at JC Café with the house specialties on top of the list — sizzling beef, chicken, mixed seafood, pork, shrimp or squid served, and mouth-watering hamburger, sirloin, t-bone or tenderloin steak served with your choice of steamed rice, mashed potato or fries. Also offered is a nice selection of fresh salad or fresh grill wraps in tortillas.
Check out the variety of lunch or dinner choices such as beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, mussels, fish, and Champino or a combination of Filipino and Chamorro favorites. You can also try the oriental dishes, and delicious bento platters.
Not that hungry? JC Café serves pearl shakes in various flavors, your favorite cup of iced or hot coffee, chocolate milk, or tea with one free refill. Also, try our fresh squeezed orange juice. We make an effort to provide you with the food preparations you desire so do not hesitate to ask for special dietary requirements.
At night, you can dance the night away or pass the time over bottles of beer, soda and all kinds of juices. Come join the party and ENJOY!
Below you will see a selection of some of our popular menu items. Click SL & FS to view a full screen slideshow.
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Ken Griffey Jr. remained out of the Cincinnati Reds' lineup for a second day Friday because of pleurisy, an inflammation in the lining of a cavity surrounding the lungs.
Griffey was held out of Thursday's game in St. Louis because of soreness in his chest. A chest X-ray on Friday revealed the problem, which is not expected to be long-lasting. He pinch-hit in the seventh inning against Pittsburgh, drawing a walk before being replaced by a pinch-runner.
Griffey recently sat out four games because of diverticulitis, a colon condition that was initially diagnosed six months ago.
Players' union head Donald Fehr doesn't plan to be at the ballpark if and when Barry Bonds sets the career home run record.
"I won't follow him around, but I generally don't go to games during the season, so that's nothing new for me," Fehr said during a meeting with the Associated Press Sports Editors.


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It's September, which means it's also Organic Harvest Month, the time of year that we raise awareness for organic foods and products. In honor of the organic harvest and to celebrate a healthy lifestyle, we think it's appropriate to give away some free PROBAR® product. Exciting right!? All you need is a smartphone or digital camera and the internet and you have a chance to win!
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Winner will be named on Monday following the contest week and notified via social media. If you have any questions about the contest, leave a comment and we'll be sure to clarify. Have fun, and happy Organic Harvest Month!


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And Happy last day of COFFIN HOP!!
Aww, don't be so sad, Skellie, there's plenty more fun to be had!!
REMEMBER: leave a comment on this (or any of my Coffin Hop posts) to be entered into the contest for a super rad prize pack containing "Play the Way Home," my newest novel "PINS," and an ebook of the Coffin Hop Collector's EP "Death By Drive-In." And don't forget to visit the other rad writers on the Hop. There have been some really fantastic excerpts, prize packs, and other surprises along the way, and today will certainly be no different.
Today's post contains a youthful outing on Halloween night from the first book in my "Darla Decker" series. I hope to start submitting this book for publication next year, so feel free to let me know what you think!! So, without further ado, here's a selection from "Darla Decker Hates to Wait."
Halloween was one of those rare nights when the past and future wounds of schoolyard rivalry were forgotten. It was a children's holiday. Their only enemies were the adults who refused to reward them with sweets. While the younger kids gorged themselves on sugar, the big kids doled out pranking punishments for neglectful grownups. As long as the younger kids kept silent about the tricks, the bigger kids kept their teasing opinions to themselves for the night. It was a welcome arrangement for any kid who was forced to wear a costume regrettably chosen by his or her parents.
Lisa was dressed as a mummy with fashionable, hot pink wrappings, but true to her nature, she wasn't fashionable alone. Between the wrapping were wounds oozing fake blood down her arms and legs. While Darla raved about the disgusting touch, Brian complimented her on how awesome her boobs looked in the costume. Despite the truce between factions on Halloween, not every snarky comment was silenced.
"I didn't think you'd make it out," Lisa said.
"Me neither. But I don't really want to talk about it, if that's okay," Darla replied. "Do you think I could stay at your house tonight?"
"I wish you could, but my mom is making us go to Wayne's for the weekend. We're leaving when I get home."
"I don't understand what your mom sees in him. He's such a dork."
"I know. Maybe they'll break up soon. He's trying to get a job in Virginia or something. My mom tried a long distance thing before and it didn't work out at all," she said.
"I remember. The guy with the weird smell, right?"
"He worked in a crab house. I couldn't eat crabs for over a year because of that jerk," Lisa said. "At least Wayne doesn't smell like crabs."
"No, but he probably has them," Nate said as he jumped between the girls.
"Aren't you supposed to be hanging out with Ricky?" Darla asked.
"Knock knock," Ricky said as he rapped on Darla's cardboard costume.
She hardly recognized him. He usually blended into his surroundings like a quiet chameleon, but he really stood out dressed as a glam-rock star.
"Wow, that's quite a costume," Lisa said.
"Thanks. I like yours too," Ricky replied.
Darla saw opportunity explode like fireworks between the pair. Even though she no longer had a boyfriend, she didn't plan on staying single for long; at least, she hoped not. If Nate hadn't been joking about Darla being the "girl to date," she'd probably have a new boyfriend before the year was through, and she still wanted the same for Lisa. Anyway, Lisa probably needed something to distract her from the repeated trips to stupid Wayne's house, and Ricky Freeman could be just the thing to boost her spirits and make her and Darla as close as they used to be.
Ricky was as tall as Lisa, so she couldn't complain about height, and because he was so quiet, Darla didn't think Lisa could deem him "too immature." Based on his Halloween costume, he liked hot pink just as much as her, so they already had things in common.
"What are you supposed to be?" Joey Barnes asked Ricky.
"I'm kind of a mix between David Bowie and Gene Simmons from KISS."
"You look like a guy who'd want to kiss David Bowie," Justin said.
"I wouldn't blame him," said Kelly Holbine, an eighth grader from up the street. She was dressed in a skintight catsuit that Darla didn't recognize as a cat costume until Kelly pulled on a pair of pointed black ears mounted on a headband.
She hung on Brian Decker's arm, but he quickly shook her off. She then flitted to Joey, who gladly accepted her clinging. She was rumored to have dated every eighth grader in Shiloh Farms and a few of the high schoolers too. Darla didn't know any of the specifics of Kelly's short relationship with her brother, except that one day he was calling her his girlfriend and the next, she was "Kelly Whorebine."
The houses that were dumb enough to leave out bowls of candy instead of answering the door lost their offerings in the first hour of trick-or-treating, and unfortunately, the majority of the neighbors decided to be dumb that year. By the time Darla's group reached the other side of the neighborhood, many of the bowls had been emptied. Without the hunt for candy to occupy them, good behavior became hard to hold onto. The older kids dug into their bags of tricks while others played impromptu games of flashlight tag or hunkered down in the woods and began trade negotiations. Darla tried to arrange for Ricky to sit next to Lisa in the woods, but he was much more interested in playing flashlight tag with Nate. So, after a bit of protest, Darla gave up and let him go. She removed her Oreo sandwich board and dumped her candy onto the back. There was little to be done with the boxes of raisins. Other kids would take them, but they wouldn't trade for them. Sugar Daddies were a similarly hard sell, but Darla knew how much her mother liked them, so she held onto hers in the hopes of making a sugary apology later.
"I'll give you a bag of jellybeans for a peanut butter cup," Lisa said as she dangled them in front of Darla.
"But peanut butter cups are my favorite."
"Mine too, and I don't have any," Lisa whimpered.
"And I guess I don't have any jellybeans. Okay, it's a deal," Darla said, and they exchanged the treats. "Wait, there's only one red jellybean in this bag and the rest are blacks. I hate blacks!"
"That's so racist," a voice said from the shadows.
Her flashlight illuminated Travis Haines' face, as well as the faces of the boys behind him, one of which belonged to Jason.
"I meant black jellybeans," Darla said to Travis.
"Says the girl dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan."
"I'm an Oreo," she replied.
"You look like a tampon to me," Mark Rickman replied.
"That's what I said," Brian chimed as his group returned with empty egg cartons. "Okay, where did I put that extra toilet paper?"
"Haven't you TP-ed enough houses?" Darla asked.
"You know what they say: the show's not over till the cat lady sings," he said. "We're going to TP Mrs. Marchio's place."
"Are you crazy?" Justin said. "You can't go to that house on Halloween. She's a witch! She'll turn you into one of her cats!"
"Don't be stupid. Marchio's house is no different than anyone else's. Besides, we're not TPing her house. We're going to get the bus," Joey said.
"You can't! Brian, you're going to get us into more trouble than we're already in," Darla said.
"You're the one in trouble, not me. Plus, it's not like we're going to get caught. I never get caught."
"You got caught last summer," Darla said.
"Like anyone but you remembers that."
"I remember," Travis said. "You guys set off fifty smoke bombs in Officer Geers' backyard. It was hilarious."
"Brian didn't think it was so hilarious when he was grounded for a month," Darla said.
"I wasn't really grounded. I snuck out all the time," he scoffed proudly. "Just stay here and keep your voice down. We'll be back in five minutes."
"You coming?" Mark asked Jason as he started after Brian.
"I'm good. I'm gonna see if Decker will trade me some Twizzlers for a Snickers," Jason replied.
"Fat chance," Darla chuckled, paying no more attention to the boys who thrived on tricks.
"Come on, be a friend," Jason said.
Darla sighed dramatically. "Ok, I guess."
She tossed him a pack of Twizzlers in exchange for a Snickers. She loved Snickers almost as much as peanut butter cups, but she didn't mix that one in with the rest of her stash. She planned to save the sweet from Jason for as long as she could.
"I'm surprised you didn't go with the others. Don't all guys love toilet papering stuff?" she asked him.
"Do all girls like playing with Barbies?" he replied.
"I don't."
"Me neither," Lisa said.
"So you get my point," he said.
"I loved Barbies when I was little," Kelly said as she sucked on a Sugar Daddy.
"Again, my point," Jason chuckled.
Darla couldn't help but sigh at his smarts. His pirate costume didn't hurt her affection for him either. She imagined him sailing forth to rescue her from a tower by the sea, killing all who would keep them apart, and whisking her off to a beach under sunset, where they made out for hours. She briefly wondered where the nearest sea was and if there were any nearby towers where she could wait for her dashing pirate love.
"I heard you're trying out for show choir," Jason said.
"I was thinking about it."
"You should. It's pretty fun."
"You're in the show choir? How?" Darla asked.
"I auditioned over the summer. My mom always said I had a nice voice, but I didn't really believe it until I got in. I didn't know if I'd like it or not, but I love it now. There are a bunch of spots opening up at the end of the year, you know, but the auditions are only a few months away. You better start practicing your 'My Country Tis of Thee.'"
"Ew, do I have to sing that?"
"It's either that or 'Happy Birthday.' I'd go with 'My Country Tis of Thee' if I were you. Actually, I did," he said with a grin.
"Wow, no wonder Heather and Karla are always fighting over you," Darla said.
"What do you mean?"
Darla wasn't sure how to answer without revealing her crush. Instead, she popped a pair of wax lips with fangs in her mouth and growled at him. He laughed, and her heart sighed in relief.
"Run!" a voice shrieked from the edge of the woods, swiftly followed by Brian and his cohorts barreling through the trees.
"What's going on?" Darla asked.
"Just shut up and run!" Brian yelled as he tipped her candy stash back into her bag.
Despite Brian's commands, the roar of an engine stopped everyone in their tracks. The engine revved furiously, but an unfamiliar sound followed it: a high-pitched, yowling sound.
"What the heck is that noise?" Darla asked, but the sudden and blinding headlights burned the question away.
Toilet paper fluttered from the top of the school bus and drifted off into the night, but the face of the woman at the wheel didn't move at all. Mrs. Marchio slammed her fist down on the horn and sent the trick-or-treaters running deeper into the forest. The kids playing flashlight tag halted their game to ask what was going on, but they were pulled into the terrified flight to the other end of the woods before anyone could offer an answer.
"She was in the damn bus," Brian panted when the group came to a stop.
"You saw it? You saw her?" Nate asked. Darla nodded as she pinched her stomach cramp. "Dammit! I missed it again!"
"At least she didn't see you. She saw all of us," Lisa said. "My mom is going to kill me."
"Marchio won't say anything. She never does," Mark replied.
"She seemed pretty angry," Jason said.
"Don't tell me you're scared of an old lady, Bollinger," Travis snickered.
"You were running pretty fast yourself, man."
"Only to keep up with the rest of you wussies," he snorted.
On her way to catch up with Lisa, Darla accidentally knocked against Mark Rickman.
"Sorry," she said.
"Whatever, Playtex."
I hope you've enjoyed hanging out at No Vacation From Speculation this Halloween season. I've appreciated all of the wonderful comments and look forward to the next blog hop. The winner of the prize pack will be announced very soon, but keep those comments a-coming!!
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Gorgeous 3.7 acre lot in Belden Woods Estates of Windy Gap Mountain Estates. Convenient location to Roanoke and Smith Mountain Lake. Upscale subdivision with beautiful homes. Panoramic views from back of lot. Tennis courts and picnic area.