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Local and federal authorities in South Bend are seeking pre-trial detention of a man accused of making violent Facebook threats aimed at police before a peaceful Black Lives Matter rally that took place Saturday.
Isaiah Deonte Jovan Beavers, 26, was arrested over the weekend by the FBI and South Bend police and appeared Monday before Magistrate Christopher Nuechterlein in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division. According to a statement from the office of Northern District U.S. Attorney David Capp, a hearing has been set for 2 p.m. Wednesday to determine whether Beavers will be in custody before he's tried.
The 16-page affidavit outlining the probable cause against Beavers contains the Facebook posts authorities say he made on the eve of the Black Lives Matter march in South Bend. The affidavit references the recent Dallas march in which five police officers were ambushed and killed by a gunman.
Beavers is alleged to have made posts under the screen name Thoty Nut. In one, he pledged he would be at the rally with bottles containing gasoline and a gun. "im ready to riot and if u don't want no violence stay away from me," he allegedly said in one post. "He ends his post by stating, 'lets burn this bitch downnn' along with emojis for a handgun, fire and buildings," the affidavit says.
A concerned citizen contacted South Bend police about the post. South Bend P.D.'s High Tech Crimes Unit connected Thoty Nut's account to Beavers through his birthdate and cell phone number, among other identifiers.
The affidavit said Thoty Nut posted another image and comments regarding civil unrest and actions against police. "Moreover, he suggested that when people are ready to go, they can send him a message via his inbox or telephone him," the affidavit says.
Thoty Nut also posted photos of rioters jumping on and damaging a police car and an illustration of a gun shooting an officer in riot gear through the head with the caption "Speak to cops in a language they understand."
Beavers was charged with violating USC Title 18, Section 844(e), which prohibits the use of interstate commerce to make threats concerning an attempt or alleged attempt to kill, injure, intimidate; or to unlawfully damage buildings or property with fire or explosives. If convicted, the charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.


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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Days 51 & 52: Surigao City-Butuan-San Francisco, Agusan Sur
It was raining when I left Surigao City at 5:30 yesterday morning. I decided to put on my Northface Jacket to keep myself dry. I didn't want to catch cold again. I maintained a fast pace as the rain and wind caressed my face. What a pleasant sensation. I only slowed down as I began my ascent along the mountain overlooking Lake Mainit. The rain stopped by 9 am after ascending the mountain. With only 60 km to go, I increased my pace to 25-30 km per hour. As I reached the bridge before Butuan City, the ABS-CBN TV camera crew aboard their pick-up was waiting for me and took some footages. When I reached the Cathedral rectory at noon time after biking for 121 km in 6 hours, the ABS-CBN newscaster interviewed me. I was welcomed by Fr. Nene Caldoza, the rector of the cathedral and immediately had lunch with some of the priests.
I spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and preached at the 5:30 pm mass.
After morning prayer, I left Butuan at 6 am and biked at a leisurely pace across the mountains of Agusan del Sur. San Francisco was only 84 kilometers away so there was no need to ride faster. The weather was perfect for biking - cloudy and cool. There were a lot of climbing but also some descents. Along the way I saw this sign which I found very meaningful: "We are judged by what we finish, not what we start." As I reach the end of my journey, I can only agree.
I reached San Francisco at noontime and was welcomed by Fr. Allen, the Carmelite who is the new parish priest. After lunch with the members of the Carmelite community I spent the afternoon washing my clothes and then resting. I am scheduled to preach at the 5:30 pm mass.
So far, I have already biked for more than 4,800 km.
Some people have been asking me if the president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has read my letter. Now I can answer that she has and is taking the letter seriously. The other night, I received a call from an Australian Redemptorist priest based in Baclaran and he told me that an old friend who happens to be a member of the president's cabinet has contacted him and wants to set a meeting with me to discuss the letter. I agreed to meet the guy next week in Baclaran, the night before I depart for Bangkok. So I'll write about it after the meeting takes place. Well, it seems that delivering the letter to Malacanang was not in vain. Of course, I can thanks the media for covering the event and disclosing the content of the letter to the public.
Another day of solo biking tomorrow. I am once again a hermit on a bicycle, meditating and praying as I pedal. Yesterday and today, I prayed in a special way for a biker - Eric Reyes - who is dying of cancer. He texted me yesterday before he was put on a medically induced coma. His friends thought he was lying when he claimed he had cancer.
3 comments:
- bimbim said...
hi 'dre
nipayat na kag maayo 'dre
hapit na jud ka abot...
iron man na ka 'dre, hehehe...
god bless you!
- Nonie said...
Hi ding. Hapit na jud ka mahuman sa imong biyahe. I hope your journey was not in vain.
Take and God bless.
Your sis,
Nonie P.
- allan lew said...
gud day..
this is allan lew of san francisco. isa ko sa mga nakig storya nimu dre sa kumbento beofre ka natulog. ako bitaw unta to mouban nimu sa barobo pero wala ko kauban kay naa ko work...
musta naman ka dre.. god bless sa imu bike your for life.. i hope imu na-achieve ang imu tumong sa imu lakaw... bilib jud ko nimu dre kay imu gi-bike ang tibouk pilipinas ug labaw sa tanan bilib ko niu kay imu jud gi-fight ang kanindot sa kinabuhi inspite sa tdaghang temtasyon nga napalibot mga katawhan.. gud luck n god bless sa imu meeting kay president. i hope nga makasabot sa ug mo-uban sa nimu sa pagkab-ot sa imu tinguha..
ayo2 nalng sa imu lakaw, god bless n more power.....
congrats form sacred heart of jesus parish....

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The Way We Live
Ellen Fagg, editor
Chapter 2
In the Shadows of Upshot-Knothole
Dianne Nelson
[p.26]My mother and I ran away only one time, on a sunny May morning when the world was about to end. She didn't know where we were running to, but my mother, Lorraine, was smart and she would have figured something out, a place for us to go-Cedar City or Tonopah. For a while after she met my father and married him, she said that she only thought between her legs, but time had passed and I'd come along and life had resumed its normal colors and my mother was trying to think with her head again. Lewis and Elly Barlow, our nearest neighbors, lived almost four miles away on a dirt road that cut through sagebrush and scruffy cedar, and since my mother was on foot and I was in a stroller, their house [p.28]was the first stop on our way to somewhere, to any place without movie stars.
We had left my father back at the house sitting sullenly on a kitchen chair, and even then he looked a little too much like Tony Curtis to my mother's way of thinking. Black slick hair, a face that you remembered as cheekbones and clear eyes. He was all shoulders and tight waist and he had a raw, sleepy sexiness that he knew nothing about. That morning, though, his arms were folded over his chest and he sat in the chair tipped back on its two legs and he was staring at the wall, tired and angry. He said my mother didn't understand him.
The breakfast dishes had just been washed-cups and bowls and plates stacked into the small artful piles that women can make of ordinary things. My mother had dried her hands, stepped over me on the floor where I had balled the rug up around me, and gone to my father's side. "This is what I understand," she said, her voice rising, straining, finally sending Lowry, our big nearsighted collie, slinking from the room. "You'd rather go off and play than stay here with your wife and daughter."
My father had no response to that—sometimes he was tongue tied; sometimes he needed to filter things and kick some dirt before clarity rushed him—but it didn't matter because my mother spun around, walked back to the bedroom and began to collect the odds-and-ends that would compose our survival kit: a hairbrush, a silver baby spoon, a Sears and Roebuck catalog, talcum powder, an [p.29]eyebrow pencil, diapers. She threw them into a waterstained overnight case and she did it loudly so that my father could hear in the next room, but he didn't budge. They were at one of those impasses where husbands and wives sometimes find themselves—exhausted, speechless, the reckless fear that things will never be the same growing larger and more distinct by the second.
My mother didn't say good-bye. She just walked out into the kitchen with me on her hip and we stood there like a last photograph for my father. He never looked away from the green-and-white wallpaper checks on the kitchen wall. I drooled and gurgled and reached for him, my mother tells me, my hands round and fat as little pin cushions, but he didn't move. He had a point to make and he was serious about it, the chair tipped back, his silence stretching beyond the movies, beyond all the dark-haired leading men into our early morning reality.
My mother was in every way his match. She gathered our things like the slender tornado she could be. Gracefully she walked down the front steps of the house with all the future she could carry-me and an overloaded suitcase and a wobbly baby stroller—and when we were out in the yard, she put the suitcase down, wrestled the stroller with one hand, locked the legs into place, and slipped me in.
I was a year old, just a small flowing river of sounds, words that spun unrecognizable, but my mother and I [p.30]had complete conversations anyway. She says that she had been waiting her whole life for me. When I arrived, there was a lot for us to talk about.
With the suitcase in one hand and the stroller handle in the other, she pushed and explained. "Everything is going to be all right, sweetheart. These things just happen. Your dad has some silly idea stuck in his head and he can't get rid of it."
I reached up with one hand and batted the endless blue sky and jabbered a hundred things back to my mother, and she listened and sorted it out and understood.
"I know. I know," she said. "He's immature. More looks than brains."
I took hold of the plastic stroller tray in front of me and shook it and it seemed to be just the advice my mother was looking for.
"You're right," she said. "I've gone weak and one-minded every time he turned those big blues on me. Putty in his hands. But no more. It's time to get things rolling." As if it were a pact we were keeping, she stopped and reached down and touched my head—a mass of curls that kept me prisoner until I was old enough to find the scissors and cut it myself. "Okay," she said, "it's agreed upon, love pie," and when she started pushing the stroller again, the wheels went straighter and we moved faster, though on a rutted dirt road that even the county wouldn't claim, there was no such thing as speed.
[p.31]Months before I was born, my mother had mail-ordered that stroller and x'ed off the days on Hinkley's Feed and Grain calendar until it arrived. "You won't be able to use it out here," my father had told her, but my mother was determined to do things right, to push me in a stroller like any other baby, despite the fact that the nearest sidewalk or park was a rough forty miles away. She used to tell people that we lived an hour and a half from nowhere, on a rocky ranch headed for no good, and she was just about right. In the southwest comer of Utah, amidst backcountry that was hallucinogenic in its loneliness and landscape, my father's family had slowly carved out a ranch.
The stroller proved difficult but not unmanageable out there, though my mother, that morning, had only one hand to use. When the wheels stopped in the ruts or hit loose dirt, she placed her hip against the handle, pushed hard with all of her one hundred and fifteen pounds, and got us moving again.
Who can really know the exact moment when something begins, but my mother's opinion is that the real trouble with my father had started months before when Milo de Rossi's car drove up, dust flying, the hom honking, two girls in the back seat tangled up with de Rossi in a way that was still illegal in this state. He introduced the girls as actresses.
Later, my mother looked at my father and scowled and, because her hands were full of wet laundry, blew a [p.32]piece of hair tiredly away from her forehead. "Warren," she said, "let me ask you this. How many movies do you think those girls have been in?"
He stuck his hand in his back pocket, as if to get more room for thinking, and before he could answer, she continued. "Looks like they got the auditioning down." Milo de Rossi had been looking for a place to film his next movie and he'd heard about our ranch and the land it sat on: red cliffs, deep canyons and the stark Bull Mountains in the distance. He found our land to be a cheap and ready-made set, just as other producers had discovered it and made it fit their needs. With a few props and the right camera angles, our ranch had been alternately transformed during the early 1950s into the Sahara, the moon, the Apache nation, and a hidden Mexican outpost filled with copper-faced desperados. In one of the lowest budget films ever, my father watched cavemen battle dinosaurs in the mock prehistoric valley just below our house, and everything in those ten days of filming would have been perfect, had my father not got into a shoving match with a caveman who, during a break, flirtingly lifted the edge of my mother's skirt with his spear and then grunted.
Milo de Rossi was not the first director to visit us, to shake my father's hand, and make a deal, but he was the first to tempt him. "And by the way," he had said to him casually, "we might be able to use you in a few scenes that haven't been fully written yet." De Rossi backed up, [p.33]squared his hands out in front of his face to make a fleshy lens through which to look my father over. "Tum to the left, Warren, and lift your chin a little." My father complied, looking straight into the sun, squinting in a way, that would later become Clint Eastwood's searing trademark.
They say that acting is a bug that bites, and if that's true, then my mother could tell you how that bite makes a person sick. My father didn't run a fever after de Rossi left, but he was as hot and irrational as a child with the flu.
"Honey," my mother tried to tell him, "the movies are a long shot. And you can't trust those people."
But my father had taken up staring at the horizon. He rode his horse and irrigated and cut hay and worked hard like he always did, though de Rossi had planted a tantalizing idea out in front of him. And around that time my mother noticed how often he was combing his hair. Any reflective surface would do: a fender, a piece of glass, the still surface of water. By then de Rossi and his crew were due back in three weeks.
We didn't wait for bad news to collapse around us. When my father had turned ice cold that morning and said that his mind was made up, that he'd take whatever de Rossi would give him and that he'd work his way up from there, my mother set her shoulders, let him have one last look at us, and headed out.
The sun was warm and she had stopped to give me [p.34]a bottle of water. "Hey sweet meat, we're doing fine," she said, kissed both my arms, tickled the warm wet spot under my chin, and pushed the stroller on. The breeze quickened and the cedars waved. A sugar-fine pelting of dust blew over my mother's ankles and between the stroller wheels, and from some indeterminate distance we heard a cow bellowing, low and sorrowful, then echoing back to itself off the high sandstone cliffs.
Some said the sky turned liquid; others, that it flexed and burned like at the beginning of time, but what we had seen from our ranch many times before were sudden long flashes as if a huge brilliant light had been turned on and then off in the distance. Ninety-eight miles away as the birds fly was the Nevada Test Site and in the middle of that was Yucca Flat, ground zero. From hillsides on our property, we had watched the explosions of test bombs Ruth, Dixie, Ray, Badger, and Simon. Sometimes we packed fruit or a small picnic to take along, we threw an old blanket on the ground, stretched out and waited, but we had grown bored with those events, stopped watching and accepted the bulletins which said everything was safe.
That morning, predawn, 1953, as part of the series of bombs codenamed Upshot-Knothole, Harry had been detonated, a shot that was named to sound as if you were talking about a friendly next-door neighbor. It hung from a 300-foot steel tower out there on Yucca Flat. At the end of the countdown, soldiers positioned three miles away [p.35]as first-hand observers heard a loud click and then felt the raving heat of a new sun. They had been ordered down on one knee, left arms tight over their closed eyes, heads tucked. In those first two seconds of Harry, some of them saw the bones in their own arms-everywhere a huge luminous x-ray spreading outward. The ground shook and then the shock wave hit, knocking some of the men back, a wave that they eerily felt pass right through their bodies, front to back. And then the sound.
Some soldiers put their hands over their ears, though they had been instructed to keep their eyes covered. Others held their heads against the intense pressure of the blast. They felt a sudden heat in places like their kneecaps and the backs of their hands, and a slow—almost pleasant—tingling in their crotches that shortly, however, turned to painful needling. A private first class jumped up, hollering, holding himself between his legs, but a buddy pulled him back down where he crouched and covered his head and moaned.
Little by little the roaring diminished and the soldiers' heads came up. They uncovered their ears and were ordered to stand. By that time darkness was ebbing and against the mauve sky they saw a swirling golden fireball, alive, kinetic. The gaseous ring around it shimmered red, green, and blue and even the most nervous and frightened soldiers saw it as beautiful, mesmerizing. They watched as the fireball was lifted higher and higher in a [p.36]mass of roiling gray-black clouds, which didn't mushroom as they usually did, but spread and then drifted.
A sergeant yelled for the men to doubletime it into nearby assault vehicles, and when loaded, they headed for ground zero. They drove past a line of mannequins that had been planted upright on metal poles. The mannequins had been suited up in utility jackets and helmets, and then placed in formation like a scraggly half-wit battalion. The helmets were blown off, the jackets burning, and the mannequin faces melted into flesh-colored pools onto the desert floor. The vehicles slowed. Some of the soldiers laughed as they went by, but most were quiet.
Not far from there they passed a small reconnaissance team already at work herding pigs out of an experimental trench. These were important pigs. They wore specially tailored uniforms that were made from a new synthetic fabric that the Army was testing, supposedly durable and lightweight, a promise for all future soldiers. The scientists were disappointed when they failed to train the pigs to stand on hind legs- more closely simulating humans-but the moment that Harry went off, the pigs were suddenly upright, standing, squealing, urinating, front hooves pawing the air. Dogs, monkeys and burros were also somewhere out there being monitored in dry underground bunkers.
Closing in on ground zero—less than half a mile—the sparse landscape turned empty. Trucks and equipment [p.37]that had been left there were gone, everything flash-burned into the minute particles that fell, ash-like, here and there as a strange rain. Five hundred yards out the assault vehicles stopped, the rear ramps lowered, the soldiers disembarked, and began to move in formation up the incline where the detonation tower, now vaporized, had stood. The ground everywhere was winter white, but hot. Above them, the desert dawn had been erased by heavy black clouds, smoke, floating debris.
Two hundred yards from center they stopped, and having fulfilled their orders and not knowing now exactly what to do, the sergeant stepped out front, smartly saluted ground zero, turned, and ordered the men to head back. With each heavy booted step, the snowy dust and ash floated up so that from a distance the men looked as if they were moving, knee-deep, through clouds.
Elly and Lewis Barlow, our neighbors, were card players—experts at Hearts and No Knock Rummy; tender for a game that they had taught my parents called Michigan. Winter nights the four of them would be hunched over a kitchen table, moaning about what they'd been dealt. My mother never held her cards in close enough and oftentimes my father got a peek at the Queen of Spades or at a run or he'd push her hand toward her chest and give her a warning. "Lorraine, you're showing us everything."
"Well, not everything," she'd say, putting her cards [p.38]down and starting to unbutton her blouse. Lewis smacked his cards face down and clapped. Elly squealed and took the time to roll a cigarette—Prince Albert in a can. My father got up from the table, stood behind my mother and wrapped his arms around her, as if that was the only way she could be stopped. "Okay, okay," he said, "I'm sorry."
Actually, my parents were wrapped around each other like that almost half the time—embracing, clutching, hugging, pawing. With other men, my mother said she would have felt mauled, but with my father, she felt her heart race, she felt her shoes suddenly wanting to be thrown off. They had sex like animals and she was not ashamed to say so: on a living room chair, in the root cellar, in the orchard during spring when the ribbon grass was still soft enough to make a bed. Nearby, I dozed or chewed my fist and waited.
My mother knew that leaving wouldn't be easy, and maybe that's another reason we headed for the Barlows that morning: comfort and an understanding shoulder. Elly and Lewis had lived a fairly bumpy life themselves—fast times and booze in Vegas casinos—and they looked on other people's trouble with gentle eyes.
My mother gauged that we had gone over two miles and were more than halfway there. We had passed the S-curve in the road a while back and she thought we must be close to Carpenter ash, but time and long brown vistas mingled and distorted both. She prodded the [p.39]stroller to the side of the road, found a flat rock and we sat facing each other.
"Huh, movies," she said. "What baloney. What trash."
Months before at a nearby filming site where my father was caring for the horses used in breakneck cavalry scenes, my mother had met a brawny blonde named Jeff Cantrell, an in-demand lead for B Movies, and she was thoroughly unimpressed. Brusque and egotistical, he spent too much time dabbing perspiration from his face and yelling for someone to bring him iced tea, and when she learned that his real name was Ira Kaufmann, she was even more disgusted. "What, is he ashamed to use his real name?" she wanted to know.
All the hubbub and shouting around the set didn't seem to foster any character in those people as far as she was concerned. Everyone was either whining or cussing or laughing with the fake high-pitched laughter that she identified as Hollywood.
Milo de Rossi hadn't shown her anything different. My father had escorted him around our ranch for several days, pointing out box canyons and high rocky fortresses, and by the second day de Rossi was convinced that this was the place for his movie, Apache Sunset. He already had Audie Murphy lined up, he said. He hoped for Anthony Quinn or Lee Marvin as the sad-eyed Apache leader who would glimpse the future and see the pain for which his people were bound. De Rossi was still new [p.40]enough in the business to be regarded with hope, but his lack of financial foresight and his thudding story lines would finally catch up with him, and in the years ahead he was destined for junk.
Smoking fat Havana Cristo's, he took pleasure in confiding to everyone at dinner each night: William Holden had a drinking problem; sometimes had to be thrown in a shower before he could complete his scenes.
My mother shook her head as she served the venison or roast she had carefully prepared. Everyone ate as if they'd been deprived for months.
"Kirk Douglas?" he asked. "Know him? Gotta hire a full-time tutor to teach him his lines. Sorta like training a dog, I guess. A little thin between the old ears. Of course, this is only what I hear. I'm just passing it along."
My mother couldn't stand de Rossi's feral gaze when anything female moved past him. "Call me Milo, my dear," he had told her as she bent over the oven pulling out hot rolls.
"If I had the chance, I'd call him a lot worse than that," she told me as we sat at the side of the road. Her shoulder-length dark hair blew forward around her face, and with one hand she quickly gathered it up and held it at the back of her neck. With the other, she moved the stroller back and forth, gently rocking me in the sunshine. I babbled my heart out to her, kicked my feet, and squirmed in the cotton netting of the seat and these things she understood as my wanting to get back on the [p.41]road. She picked up the suitcase, turned the stroller around and shoved us forward.
By then, in the far-off distance ahead, the sky was changing and at first my mother wasn't concerned—a hundred changes rolled by each day in that enormous unpredictable sky—but as the disturbance came closer, she pushed more firmly against the stroller. From the first good look, she could see that it was not the deep pouting gray of a thunderhead. It was another one of those churning purple-black clouds from the test site, but it was larger this time and lower. In it, she saw sparks of light, glimmerings, electricity, she didn't know what.
"Nothing to worry about," she told me, though I wasn't worried. I was happy, totally entertained. The scenery slipped by, right and left, like wavy blue-and-brown streamers. I pointed randomly and screeched.
"Tree," she said. "Rock." "Fence." "Horse." "Mountain." She reeled off a vocabulary that I was at least a good six months away from, but she encouraged me to try anyway. She loved the sound of me, unlike Miss Lud, my third-grade teacher who years later put tape over my mouth. "Miss Yakety Yak" she called me, and my schoolmates picked it up, chanted it at recess, whispered it down the rows at the spelling bee.
My mother and I passed Carpenter Wash and then the wind grew stronger and came in bursts. My mother's skirt clung to the front of her legs and flared out in back, [p.42]waving behind her. She stopped, dug through the suitcase, took out a lacy white bonnet and put it on me, drawing it down low over my forehead, tying the straps firmly beneath my soft clefted chins, which she couldn't resist pinching. My mother loved all of me, but it was my head that she had high hopes for and therefore protected—a bonnet, a scarf, a ratty straw hat used for gardening. Sometimes, in the heat, she put a wet cloth on my head, water dripping down my neck and shoulders, my face scrunching up into a good cry, but she hushed me without any sympathy. She wanted me to be able to think, to reason, which is where the trouble lay for her.
My mother didn't have to reason that morning, however. A mother simply tastes trouble; she feels it in the small of her back or in her blood or somewhere along her jangly nerves. Even ten miles off and blowing toward her, trouble was about as discreet as an ocean liner full of singing drunks. My mother said she suddenly smelled something carried on the wind: lye and dust and burnt liver or kidney beans, an awful combination that made her gasp. She hadn't eaten much that morning, and her stomach turned once and then she got ahold of herself. She dropped the suitcase right there in the road as if it was something that had become crude and pointless, and with both hands on the stroller, she started running, barreling into the wind, pushing us madly up a small ridge from where, she hoped, we might be able to see [p.43]the Barlows' windmill. The stroller wheels kept hitting rocks and ruts, but she powered through, sending the stroller sideways and the front end off the ground. I slid down in the seat, crumpled formless as a pillow, laughed and squealed and did my best to kick away my shoes.
On the broad Lincoln County range that runs from Nevada head-on into western Utah, sheep were grazing. The bells they wore jingled like a soft stuttering music out in no-man's land. These were Western sheep, medium-sized and perseverant, muzzles down in sagebrush and galleta grass. Though spread out and foraging, they still moved as a loose, ever-present herd.
The cloud blew over about nine that morning. The wind came with it, blowing to the east and then suddenly shifting north, stirring up dust devils, rolling tumbleweeds across the desert into the midst of the feeding sheep. They scattered with the noise and sudden movement. As the sky overhead turned dark, sheep dashed for cover that wasn't there. The bells on their necks clattered wildly, bringing more confusion and panic. A fine dusty mist began to fall from the cloud, and like rain, covered and penetrated: the dense layered wool of the sheep, the heavy leafed sage. The sheep veered right and left, stumbled and doubled back on themselves, and even after the cloud had passed, the bleating continued. They hopped and skittered at a falling rock, at a shadow, at a waving branch. Finally they lowered their heads again, though the ground and plants were now covered with a film of [p. 44]ash which lent a strange new taste to sagebrush. Slowly they grazed their way into the next valley.
Not far away in Elgin, Nevada, three children came out of a trailer house and played in what they imagined to be snow. They spread their arms, ran in circles, and turned their faces up into the gray-white storm. The oldest one—the only one who could write—used her finger to trace her name through the snow collecting on the hood of a junked car in the driveway. She licked her finger to clean it and then cartwheeled while the two younger ones, in wet drooping diapers, made themselves dizzy spinning.
From there the cloud moved due east-Nevada into Utah, though there was no marked change from one place to the other. It was all just dry unrelenting terrain. Here and there, almost like accidents, a tarpapered house sprang up and next to it the rotted posts of an abandoned corral, and in those lonely places, a Basque shepherd or a used car salesman holding a geiger counter looked up, wondered to himself, and shrugged.
A young husband, hauling furniture in his truck from Veyo to Santa Clara, was surprised by how the cloud seemed to engulf him and even to move with him down Highway 18. He'd driven in weather before, sometimes been able to outrun the big spring and summer cloudbursts if he caught them far enough on the horizon in time. Ten miles out of Veyo, though, this cloud had caught him, surrounding the truck in whirling sand. [p.45]Particles hit the windshield and seeped through every crevice of the old Ford until even his clothes were covered with a fine light soot.
When he finally turned off the side road and moved onto Highway 91, which led into Santa Clara and then on into Las Vegas, he was surprised to find a roadblock set up at a Texaco station. He shifted down, idled forward, then stopped his truck and got out. Hours later, before the young man was allowed to go, the deputies burned his clothes, patted his shoulder to reassure him, and let him borrow a Texaco uniform to wear home. Even with her own furniture in the back of the truck, his wife didn't know him when he drove up to their house and stepped out of the cab.
My mother's lungs burned from running. Her arms and shoulders felt disconnected and one of her ankles was swelling, and by then she realized the stroller wasn't worth the trouble. She picked me up out of it, wrapped me in her arms and she wished, for once, that there was more of her to cradle and cover me. She had run herself out, so she trotted on from there, off balance and heavy footed, alternately watching the sky and the road and me.
Coming in fast from the southwest, the cloud grew larger, its edges spreading like thin fingers. In the midmorning sky, it appeared to be a piece of boiling twilight that had broken away from somewhere else. Instinctively my mother moved over to the far side of the road, putting a little more distance between it and us.
[p.46]I worked my arm away from my mother's chest and touched her chin and talked to her in code-coos and broken syllables and among them she was almost positive that she heard the name John. Had the moment been different, she would have stopped, sat me in her lap, and we would have had a heart-to-heart, but as it was, we kept going.
My mother had shaken John Wayne's hand and that was about all. He was making arrangements for his upcoming movie, The Conqueror, in which he would play Genghis Khan and tempt Susan Hayward with his made-up almond eyes. It would be filmed not far from our ranch and he wanted to look things over, make some plans for his sons who would accompany him. Someone had given him a cup of coffee. My mother remembered Wayne stirring in two teaspoons of sugar and drinking the coffee so slowly that it had to be ice cold when he got to the bottom. He nodded his head shyly when they were introduced, stood up out of his chair and extended his hand and she could see that he was a big, sensitive meatblock of a man.
Sometimes in panic and in trying to protect our life, my mother forgot things about the movies: the sweet temperate nature of John Wayne, the way Milo de Rossi had written father a large check for his and my mother's hospitality and it was that very check that gave us Christmas that year. My mother unwrapped her dream of a sewing machine and cried on and off all day.
[p.47]A mother's intuition is seldom wrong and my mother's was always right about her babies. If she was mostly right about Milo de Rossi, she was absolutely right about that cloud. We had to find shelter.
She had taken only two steps off the road-toward a feeble overhang in the rocks-when she heard the long frantic blasts of a horn. My father, like a man driven by deep stinging forces that we couldn't understand, had ingeniously spliced the ignition on the old Dodge flatbed and gunned his way to find us. His puzzlement and fear had grown by leaps as he found first the suitcase in the road and then the abandoned stroller.
At the sound of the horn my mother turned and scanned the road behind until finally she could see the grill and the familiar green hood and the brown trail of road dust. She put her arm in the air and waved.
When finally he was next to us, my father opened his door, the engine still running, and came around and opened the other door for us. They didn't say a word, didn't give each other the cool slender glance of people still carrying grudges. With me held closer than ever to her chest, my mother skip-hopped onto the running board and then up onto the seat, looked straight ahead and waited for my father to slam the door.
He, of course, thought she was coming back for him. He couldn't stand two hours without her and he thought she felt the same, and in a while, she did. But at the moment when she had jumped into the truck, she was [p.48]all mother, all pounding heart, and she didn't for one second analyze our escape.
We drove back to the house while behind us, in the valley to the west, in the very spot where The Conqueror would be filmed the next year, the cloud unloaded sheer white dust and here and there glassy particles that would end up driving the camera men wild, sudden glints and glarings appearing in the uncut footage. Sitting in the truck that day, we didn't know it, but my father would be there at that filming, too, maybe not a star but at least an extra. For weeks, dressed in blousy Mongol pants and wearing snow boots, he was destined to ride a skiddish buckskin a hundred times across the same stretch of red sand until someone finally yelled that they had a take.
My father, glad to have his wife and daughter back that day, drove carefully and watched in his rearview mirror; my mother kept turning around. They didn't know exactly what they were seeing back there, but they were spooked, and in no time she had slid across the seat and partnered back up with him. The cloud hung low for a while and didn't seem to move. Beneath it, wind and dust and fallout created a turbulent hothouse that we could see and would hear about on the radio the next day.
Maybe to calm herself, my mother started—right there in the truck—by kissing my father's cheek, even though it was a little too smooth for her taste, a little too much like a young James Stewart's. Then things fell into [p.49]place: a kiss, a hug, and my mother's skirt coming up over her legs.
As my father was trying to drive with one hand, trying to sneak quick views of the road ahead, I told him, in the only way that I could—with grunts and aaahs and jibberish—that I loved him, whatever he was going to be.
In the months and years that followed after we safely arrived home, Telsa was exploded, Priscilla, Diablo, and Hood. There were others we didn't learn the names of. They drifted overhead, engraving a darkness in the sky, but in time they only appeared to pass and move into the shimmering distance.


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Sony has announced a new PS4 bundle that includes Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection. It will be released at the same time as the game and will set you back by $400. There's no unique design on the PS4 like the Star Wars or MGSV bundle.
The Collection and the Bundle comes out on October 9th, so that's like next month. It will probably feature the new PS4 model and we would've liked to see more hard disk space.
Considering there are other bundles which offer more, you certainly have a bunch of options as to which one to get.
This is a great way to experience all the Uncharted games again and prepare for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End which will be released on March 18.
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Environmental Committee
INTERTANKO established the Environmental Committee in 1996 to develop its understanding on environmental issues and to participate in an informed manner, so that the issues directly effecting tanker operations are better represented by INTERTANKO for the benefit of its Members. Further, to develop environmental policies for INTERTANKO to follow up at IMO and elsewhere, and to be pro-active in approach. In addition, to establish effective dialogue with environmental groups.
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Main aims
- To develop understanding on environmental issues
- To participate in an informed manner, so that the issues directly affecting tanker operations are better represented by INTERTANKO for the benefit of its Members
- To develop environmental policies for INTERTANKO to follow up at the IMO and elsewhere, and to be proactive in approach
- To establish effective dialogue with environmental groups
Main issues
- Ballast Water Management *
- Environmental compliance
- Biofouling and antifouling
- United States Vessel General Permit (VGP) scheme
- Port reception facilities
- Environmental performance and benchmarking
- Ship recycling
- Liaison with environmental organisations
- Environmental initiatives and projects
- Environmental information sharing
- Air emissions *
- Waste management and MARPOL Annex V
- Integrated Bilge Treatment Systems (IBTS) *
* items jointly addressed with ISTEC
Chairman: Ko Ko Naing (Chairman) – Stena AB/Northern Marine
Secretary: Tim Wilkins
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The Minutes from INTERTANKO's Environmental Committee meeting held in Lisbon 12-13 September are now available on the INTERTANKO website. The... MORE
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Terms of Reference
- 1.1. To develop INTERTANKO's understanding of environmental issues and to participate in an informed manner, so that the issues directly affecting tanker operations are better represented by the Association for the benefit of its members.
- 1.2. To develop environmental policies for INTERTANKO to follow up at the IMO and elsewhere, and to be pro-active in approach.
- 1.3. To establish an effective dialogue with environmental groups.
- 2.1. The Environmental Committee is composed of a maximum of 20 members at any one time. The Committee will draw on additional outside expertise if required.
- 2.2. The Committee members term is two years which can be extended for another two years, unless other reasons apply and are approved by the Executive Committee. Examples of when other reasons apply could include when it is difficult to get new members to join a Committee or the member has specific expertise that would be valuable in the resolution of an important issue under discussion by the Committee.
- 2.3. Members should attend Committee meetings and actively participate in the Committee discussions. Repeated non‐attendance/non contribution may result in a review of Committee membership by the Committee Chairman and Secretary and a recommendation of removal from the committee. A Committee member may, on occasion, be represented by an alternate from his company.
- 2.4. Membership on the Committee is based on the expertise/qualifications of the individual, therefore, membership on a Committee rests with the individual, not the company that the individual works for.
- 2.5. The Committee shall be composed of individuals from Member companies that have experience and expertise which will contribute to the aims and objectives of the Committee and its work programme items.
- 3.1. The Committee shall elect from among its members a Chairman and up to two Vice-Chairmen which are to be approved by the Council.
- 3.2. The Chairman's term of office is two years which can be extended for another two years, unless other reasons apply and are approved by the Executive Committee. Examples of when other reasons apply could include when a new Chairman cannot be found or the resolution of an important issue under discussion by the Committee would benefit from the Chairman's leadership.
- 3.2. The Chairman will also act as a Vice-Chairman to ISTEC on Environmental issues.
- 4.1. The Committee aims to meet at least twice a year.
- 4.2. The Chairman may invite observers to the meetings. INTERTANKO's Chairman, ISTEC Chairman and Managing Director may participate in the meetings.
- 5.1. The travel expenses of the Committee's membership should be paid for by the member company.
- 6.1. The Terms of Reference shall be approved by INTERTANKO's Council.
- 7.1. The INTERTANKO Secretariat undertakes the secretarial and administrative tasks for the Committee.
- 8.1. The Environmental Committee will report to INTERTANKO's Council through its Chairman, as required.
Updated and approved at 37th Meeting held in Istanbul on 12th September 2013.
Endorsed by the Council in Hong Kong on 26th November 2013.
Download the Environmental Committee Terms of Reference (PDF file).
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Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Ltd
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Marinvest Shipping AB
Ms. Panagiota P. Chrysanthi
Andriaki Shipping Co Ltd
Capt. Allan Dutton
Columbia Shipmanagement
Mr. Antonios Georgantzis
Latsco Marine Management Inc
Ms. Marina Hadjipateras
Dorian (Hellas) SA
Capt. Pradeep Kale
Teekay Marine (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Mr. Ko Ko Naing
Northern Marine Management Ltd.
Capt. Michael Reppas
Sea World Management & Trading Inc
Ms. Emma Scheiris
Exmar Shipmanagement
Mr. Ole Christian Schroder
Scorpio Tankers Inc.
Ms. Maria Sotiriou
Minerva Marine Inc
Mr. Fabio Tagliavia
d'Amico Societá di Navigazione SpA
Capt. Atul Vatsa
Thome Ship Management Pte. Ltd.
Mr. Nikolay N. Zinenko
SCF Management Services (Novorossiysk)


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This model of 21st century competencies is one that makes a lot of sense to me as far as understanding the importance for teachers. At the core of everything we do is the student and the goal of helping them to become literate and logical. Historically, this was important in order to instruct students in the subject areas that education decided was necessary for students to learn. And this was about it. From there educators would send students out into the world to pursue careers where employers would take over guiding their lives and determining what was important.
Now however, in the 21st century, things are different. Employers want to hire individuals who take initiative, make them money, are self-directed, communicate well, have a positive online presence, are leaders, and are culturally aware. But don't take my word for it; check out a couple of these links from cnn.com, Helium.com, thegobeandmail.com, and The Conference Board of Canada. Looking back at the model above, these are the competencies we should be building in our students as we teach them the curriculum for our subject areas. The content of the course should be learned in ways that also allow students to acquire and strengthen the 21st century competencies. Subject matter should be focused, when possible (which is very often) on these areas. For example, the texts an ELA teacher chooses could help build global awareness, or a Math class could ask students to consider an innovative application for the concept they are learning. As we teach the curriculum with a focus on building 21st century competencies, we then develop students who are engaged thinkers, who are ethical and entrepreneurial citizens.


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So this is the first post I will be doing, and most likely I will do many more in time.
All my friends call me Bubbles, I am a wife, and a mother. I will be 25 this year.
The last few weeks have been very hard for me, so I am returning to writing my feelings out, I used another site before but found out that it shut down a few months ago, so I found this place and I really hope it is as good as the old one, I really miss it.
So the thing that has brought me back to writing is that 1 week and 1 day ago I was in the hospital having an emergency surgery because I lost my baby, I was suppose to be 14 weeks pregnant that day but instead I was in the ER bleeding uncontrollably. Since then I have been having a hard time with my grief with knowing two of my children I will never hold or watch them grow.
Yesterday was Mother's Day and even though I feel very blessed to have two living healthy children it was still very hard on me, because it was exactly a week from the day I said goodbye to a baby I loved and waited for 2 years to have. I dont know how long it will take to heal, but i cant keep bothering my family with my sadness so I need an outlet for my pain, my grief and a place where I can go and write about the family I love including the child I lost.


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Board of Canvassers announces consolidated polls
Board of Canvassers announces consolidated polls
PAWTUCKET –The Pawtucket Board of Canvassers has announced that the consolidated polling locations for the special June 5 Democratic primary for the at-large council seat, and the July 10 special election will be as follows:
• Council District 1: Uniao Portuguesa Beneficente Club (Portuguese Club), 134 Benefit St.
• Council District 2: Burns Manor, 95 Park St.
• Council District 3: St. Teresa's Church Hall, 358 Newport Ave.
• Council District 4: Portuguese Social Club, 131 School St.
• Council District 5: St. Germain Manor, 401 Mineral Spring Ave.
• Council District 6: Kennedy Manor, 175 Broad St.
These are the only polling locations that will be open for these two special elections, down from 31 typically. Voters from each of the council districts are asked to cast their vote between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. at their designated polling place on the days of the votes.
Call 401-722-1637 for more information.
City officials had asked state officials to approve reducing the number of polling places for the at-large election, citing low turnout in past special elections as the reason all spots aren't needed. The cost of running a full election, with all polling locations open, is about $100,000.
Democrats running in the at-large primary are Michael Araujo and Emmanuel Echevarria. A third Democrat, John Arcaro, dropped out. The winner of the primary will face independent Rodney Barber. City Registrar Ken McGill last week said Echevarria, Araujo and Barber all submitted the signatures needed to run.
Tonight, Wednesday, May 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Smithfield Avenue Congregational Church, 514 Smithfield Ave., the Fairlawn Against Crime Team (F.A.C.T.) is hosting a meet-and-greet event for Pawtucket residents and candidates for the at-large seat vacated by Sandra Cano after she won a special election for the Senate District 8 seat vacated by former Sen. Jamie Doyle. Araujo is not expected at the event, citing a prior commitment. Fairlawn resident and WBOB talk show host Scott Rotondo will facilitate.
Echevarria, the chief innovation and performance officer for the city of Providence, is touting his history of fiscal responsibility with the capital city's department heads and working with business owners to improve the delivery of municipal services. One project under his direction was making the application and renewal process for business licenses easier through the use of technology.
"We brought the process online and made sure that those who would be applying for licenses had some say in the way the new application process would look," he said in a release.
The work has given him the opportunity to promote the principles of transparency and collaboration in government, he added.
In a release of his own, Araujo said he's been a strong advocate for creating 21st century learning environments during his seven years on the School Committee. He helped create a $273 million facility master plan, and both Potter-Burns Elementary School and Nathanael Greene Elementary School received significant overhauls.
"These upgrades are significant and are state-of-the-art remodels," he said. "However, we have so much more work to do to have all Pawtucket school buildings be like these two models."
State leaders are bringing forward a $500 million plan through two separate bonds for school improvements across the state, an effort he supports, said Araujo.
"If the bonds go to a vote and pass, I will work hard as a member of the City Council to see that Pawtucket can take part in this program, a program that will give over an 81 percent reimbursement rate to Pawtucket, a program that will allow us to keep chipping away at our facility's needs and continue towards our goal to have all of our schools be a 21st century learning environments," he said.


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Absorbed in Thought - Kolibri [Demo] (1993)
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BCCI top officials Amitabh Choudhary and Aniruddh Chaudhry can't continue
Both the acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary and treasurer Aniruddh Chaudhry refused to comment on the court order. There is no information on what their next course of action will be
A relaxation in the mandatory 'cooling off' norm by the Supreme Court may be seen as a relief for the BCCI but not for its incumbent acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary and treasurer Aniruddh Chaudhry. Both Amitabh and Aniruddh have served a combined tenure of more than six years in their respective state associations and the BCCI, making them liable for a cooling off period of three years as per today's SC order.
"... In our view it would be appropriate to direct that a cooling off period of three years after an individual holds two successive terms in office either in the BCCI, or in any state association, or a combination of the two," the apex court order read. "The cooling off period would also apply in a situation where an individual holds a post for one term in a state association followed by a post in the BCCI successively or vice versa," it added.
While Amitabh was the president of Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) for more than a decade before becoming a BCCI office bearer, Aniruddh served as Haryana Cricket Association (HCA) secretary for six years before taking up the treasurer's position in the board. The SC order implied that former president Anurag Thakur will also need to go for 'cooling off' in case he gets relief from the apex court in near future and is able to come back into the BCCI fold.
Thakur has also had consecutive terms as joint secretary, followed by secretary and then president -- the post from which he was removed by the Supreme Court. He was also the top boss of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association for more than three years. Both the acting secretary and treasurer refused to comment on the court order. There is no information on what their next course of action will be.
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My puppy just got his shots, he's 6 weeks old. He threw up and keeps having the runs! One minute he's playful and the next minute he's not and won't move at all! Please tell me what should I do? I don't think it's the food, we changed his food 3 times.
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I hope you have already taken your puppy back to see the vet as this can only be diagnosed by a professional. This could be mild or it could be life threatening so see the vet ASAP.
Hopefully your puppy is all better and you have nothing to worry about but if not, read some of these notes.
When I take the 6 week old puppies for shots my vet warns me this can happen. He tells me that the dog won't have energy for the day and could have some vomiting and diarrhea. I am told to expect this for the first day.
You want to make sure this dog is not infected with parvo. I would rather be safe than sorry. Call the vet, especially if there is blood in the stool.
I would worry about a serious illness like parvo. Definitely go to the vet. Good luck
I would call the vet back and ask for advice.It is probably normal the first few days.
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Duration: 6 hours
Price: £60
Run by:
Catherine Marshall
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About the Course
Learn to make your own traditional cold process soap with Medical Herbalist Catherine Marshall.
On this course, you will learn about the basics of soap making using natural ingredients, including natural colourings & essential oils.
In the morning, we will look at the soap making process and ingredients, including learning how to calculate your own soap recipes, followed by a live demonstration of soap making.
After lunch, you will get to make your own 2 batches of soap (approx. 1kg of soap), using the natural ingredients & recipes provided on your worksheet.
Soap recipes are all palm oil free.
Courses are run at Catherine's garden studio at her home in West Dorset and also occasionally at Holton Lee in Poole, Dorset on various weekdays & weekends.
If booking with a CraftCourses voucher for part or all of the course fee, please fill in the contact form above or telephone us. Your voucher code must be provided at the point of booking.
What's included in the price?
The course fee includes making & taking home 2 batches of soap (approx 1kg/10 bars), a worksheet with recipes and refreshments throughout the course.
Lunch is not provided so please bring a packed lunch along.
A lovely day in a beautiful setting. Catherine is very clear in her teaching and happy to share her vast knowledge. Went home with two batches I made during the afternoon. Would thoroughly recommend.
Helen Nourse - - #17236
In a select group of four we had a wonderful relaxed and interesting day.
The teaching was really informative and welcoming, we felt in safe hands as we embarked on putting theory into practise. Delighted with the day, thrilled with the results, would thoroughly recommended. The course surpassed other craft skills undertaken elsewhere .
Joules Crowe - - #10194
Wonderful course! A fun and informative day with Catherine who is so knowledgable about the subject and her passion shines through what she does. She has a gorgeous workshop in Usk. I was lucky as a few people had cancelled so I had a private course! I really enjoyed learning a new skill, made 2 batches of soap which are smelling delicious. Highly recommended. Can't wait to do another of her courses!
Sandra Woodley - - #9225
Loved making the soaps. The process was explained in detail and was made very easy to follow. Catherine makes you feel very welcome and answered any questions and explained the reason for my failures in the past. You have so much choice of essential oils, colours, dried flowers and herbs to choose from. Can highly recommend anyone having a go.
Donna Hale - - #7781
I did my very first cold processed soap making course at the beginning of February and I can highly recommend the course.
We were 3 women on the course. Catherine was very organised and managed to demonstrate, teach us and supervise us to make two batches of soap within 3.5 to 4 hours. Very impressive! Catherine is also very friendly, and very experienced and skilled in her subject. I am looking forward to do her other courses as well.
At the moment my soap has been cut and is drying out, being cured. The whole house smells of the delicious essential oils I used in the soap.
Catherine provides some very useful handouts and I am hoping to do my own soap in the spring.
Rosmarie Starck - - #7759
Me and a friend went to a soap and lip balm making course with Cath. Her knowledge and enthusiasm for her trade is unbelievable and she shares this so freely with you. We absolutely loved the course and I can't wait to try my soaps when they are fully cured. Got to bring home loads of our products we made - great value for money. I'll be keeping my eye out for other courses we could do with Cath. Highly recommended.
Sian Roberts - - #7717
This craft course provider has been awarded Gold status for receiving 10 or more 5 star ratings from previous students.
The Students' Choice award ensures that course providers get recognised for their efforts in the teaching and practice of UK craft.
They also allow tutors to gain valuable feedback on their courses and for new students to find the course that's right for them.


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Acoustic Room Kits
Primacoustic room kits have been carefully designed to address primary acoustical concerns that are common to all rooms by combining various components such as wall panels, bass traps, diffusion and hardware into an easy to use format.
Each kit contains an assortment of Broadway panels that tackle problems affecting any room, such as primary reflections, flutter echo, standing waves and excessive bass. London room kits also includes all the corresponding mounting hardware and instructions for easy installation. Available in black, beige or grey fabric or in white paintable finish.
Broadway panels are made from high-density fiberglass, offering nearly five times greater absorption than typical low cost foam alternatives. This means that you get more absorption with less panels, while assuring an even absorption curve throughout the frequency range.
- London 8 room kit, designed for rooms up to 100 ft2 (9m2).
- London 10 room kit, designed for rooms up to 120 ft2 (12m2).
- London 12 room kit, is designed for rooms up to 150 ft2 (15m2).
- London 16 room kit, is designed for rooms up to 200 ft2 (20 m2).


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Everybody has that friend that is just obsessed with something. Usually they are things that make sense like a celebrity or a city they've visited. Other times it is the weirdest obsession, like avocados. Luckily, if your friend is obsessed with this fruit there are plenty of things you can buy them for holidays and birthdays. Here are just 25 things you can get you avocado obsessed bestie.
These 25 Gifts Are Perfect For Your Friends Who Are Obsessed With Avocados
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As your daughter develops into a young adult, she may start asking questions like "What's a period?" "Where do babies come from?" and "What's a condom?" Before she is misinformed by her peers, she needs to be given accurate information about sex from her parents, especially by her mother.
If having "the big talk" with your child makes you nervous, Dr. Phil offers the following advice:
It's OK to feel embarrassed.
The hardest part in talking to your child about sex is getting started. "What you need to do first is get straight in your mind that 'This is something I have to do,'" Dr. Phil says. It's natural to feel embarrassed at first. Just work through the fear. If need be, have a sense of humor about it. "You can laugh about being nervous and say, 'My mom never talked to me about this,'" Dr. Phil explains. Letting your daughter know that you're a bit shy about the subject matter may help to let down her guard.
Start with the mechanics and be anatomically correct.
As your daughter develops secondary sexual characteristics, she may ask questions like "Why do I need a bra?" or "When will I get my period?" Dr. Phil says it's a great idea to find a book that has anatomically correct drawings of the reproductive systems to illustrate what's going on in her body. "Explain what happens when she has a period so she's not freaked out when it happens," Dr. Phil advises. "Let her know what to expect. Tell her how to be prepared for it, go through all of those things with her." Use pictures to back up your facts.
Discuss sex in the context of a loving, mature relationship.
After you've discussed the mechanics with your child, hopefully in the same conversation, you need to talk about sex. "The important thing when you talk about sex is that you don't say that this is anything other than healthy and normal," Dr. Phil says. "But you need to explain that this is something that has to be framed in a relationship after you've grown up and there's love and commitment and a history and an understanding that you have to be responsible with your body." The main thing you want is for your daughter to come away from your discussion saying, 'I now have some accurate information, and my mother has told me that I need to really respect and protect my body.'"
Discuss age-appropriate topics.
How much information is too much for your daughter to handle? If you're unsure, use her questions as a barometer of what to talk about. "It would be very unusual for a 9-year-old to ask a question about orgasm," Dr. Phil says. "So don't go there at this point. You don't want to give her information that she doesn't have the constructs or the concepts to deal with. You can be very global and you can be very abstract about it at this point." Ask for her questions, then come back and discuss it in a week. Remember to keep the lines of communication open.
Change the context of your talk.
If you sit your daughter down on the couch, look her squarely in the eye and say, "We need to talk about sex," she may hit the floor. Try changing the context of your talk so it doesn't seem so ominous. "Sometimes it's easier if you're driving down the street, where they can kind of look out the window," Dr. Phil suggests. If you make the environment of your chat disarming, your daughter won't feel quite put on the spot and so conspicuous.
The same-sex parent should have the discussion.
Although dads can be supportive of their daughters as they go through puberty and may want to be involved in the big talk, Dr. Phil says this is something that mothers should be primarily responsible for. "At this point, she is noticing the differences between guys and girls," Dr. Phil explains, "and so she's going to feel uncomfortable with [Dad] being there." Your mate can be available for moral support, but moms should do the heavy lifting.


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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
# 6 A Clean House
I'm definitely no Mary Poppins but this week, I put it on the calendar to deep clean each room. Cruz's was the first and after I moved his bed and rearranged his room, I took a break and enjoyed the moment of a clean space. And then I realized I didn't want to go out of the room and tackle the rest of the tornado wreckage. I am thankful for having a clean house. A clean house brings a happy mom, and a happy mom brings a happy family.
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- grannybabs said...
I used to iron all Harry's shirts and then get upset when he wore them!! Same with clean rooms - you don't want anyone to go in and mess them up!!
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Other Asian markets were mixed, with Seoul higher, Taipei and Hong Kong lower.
By late afternoon, the dollar was trading at 124.34, up from 123.93 yen late Thursday in Tokyo, but down slightly from 124.59 yen in New York late Thursday.
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The Nikkei Average rose 0.63 percent, or 82.18 points, to close at 13,044.61. The broader TOPIX gained 1.29 percent to 1,305.06.
Sony's shares gained 0.9 percent to 8,690 yen and Honda added 0.6 percent 5,530. Computer giant Fujitsu FJTSY, +1.26% climbed 2.6 percent to 1,360 yen.
Telecom shares were sharply higher, with KDDI surging 7.7 percent to 590,000 yen and NTT DoCoMo NTDMY rising 3.4 percent to 2.16 million yen.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top economic advisers unveiled a blueprint of the country's structural reform programs, which included measures to clean up banks' bad loan problems and repair the government's tattered finances.
Brokers fear that while these steps may bear fruit in two to three years, debt-ridden banks will probably suffer in the short-term as will their troubled borrowers.
UFJ Holdings tumbled 3.8 percent to 678,000 yen and Asahi Bank ASIBY slumped 6.7 percent to 280 yen. Daiwa Bank also sank 4.0 percent to 146 yen. But the world's biggest bank by assets, Mizuho Holdings, managed to erase big losses earlier in the session and closed 0.93 percent higher at 540,000 yen.
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In Seoul, banking shares gained ground, helping to push up South Korea's benchmark Kospi by 0.6 percent to close at 599.08. Shares of Cho Heung Bank CHGBY added 0.2 percent and Kookmin Bank KKBKY rose 0.9 percent.
But chipmakers were lower after U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology MU, +2.50% posted worse-than-expected business results, intensifying fears over a slowdown in the global chip business.
Shares of Samsung Electronics SSNGY, +0.00% the world's leading maker of computer memory chips, tumbled 2.3 percent and those of rival Hynix Semiconductor sank 3.2 percent to 3,200 won.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index inched down 0.1 percent, or 13.43 points, to close at 13,174.02. Investors were reluctant to open new positions ahead of a three-day holiday weekend.
The conglomerate giant Hutchison Whampoa HUWHY fell 2.15 percent. Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's company and a partner will pay nearly $100 million to buyout Internet Capital Group's stake in their struggling ICG Asia e-commerce venture, under an agreement announced Wednesday. HSBC Holdings HBC, +7.14% Europe's largest bank, shed 0.3 percent.
Telecom shares firmed, however. China Mobile CHL, +1.61% rose 1.7 percent. China Unicom CHU, +0.08% jumped 2.3 percent. The overseas listed arm of China's second-biggest telecommunications operator said its total number of cellular subscribers jumped 6.4 percent, or 1.1 million subscribers, to 18.46 million in May from one month earlier.
Taiwan's Weighted Index closed down 1.62 percent at 4,904.34. Market sentiment was bearish ahead of a long weekend. Taiwan's stock market will be closed next Monday for a holiday.
Chipmakers ended mixed. Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing TSM, +1.05% lost 1.2 percent and Macronix International MXICY fell 0.3 percent. But United Microelectronics UMC, +1.63% rebounded 1.5 percent after being under selling pressure in the recent sessions.
Singapore's Straits Times Index was up 1.55 percent at 1,712.00 by late afternoon.
In Australia, stocks took their cue from Wall Street's performance and the All Ordinaries Index added 0.52 percent to close at 3,364.70. The market heavyweight Telstra TLS, +1.70% climbed 3.5 percent.
But diversified miner WMC WMC, +0.50% dropped 2.8 percent to 9.70 Australian dollars on profit taking. Earlier in the day, shares rose to a record high of 10.22 Australian dollars on speculation that both Anglo American AAUK and Rio Tinto RTOLY were eying the company. See full story.
New Zealand's NZ Top 40 rose 0.59 percent to close 2,050.00, led higher by a 2.4 percent gain in shares of market leader Telecom NZ NZT, -5.00%
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