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Lake Valley Seed Packet
(Heirloom) Unique, useful herb that looks great in the flower garden! This distinctive dill remains short, unlike its tall cousin, yet is used the same way. Seed heads are a must for pickling. Fern-like foliage, often called "dill weed", is used to flavor seafood, poultry, eggs and salads. Matures in 70 days and produces prolifically.
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According to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the two parties covered mutual cooperation of Tehran and Moscow in the United Nations and other international bodies, as well as regional and international issues.
They also discussed solution of disputes in the Middle East and expressed interest in the expansion of constructive cooperation of Russia and Iran and continuation of contacts between the two countries.
Issues related to Syria, fight of terrorism, the Persian Gulf, and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) were also discussed in the meeting.
Jalali had met Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russian Andrey Rudenko on Wednesday to discuss regional issues, such as conditions in Southern Caucasus and Central Asia.
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What does a lump inside vagina and vaginal bleeding indicate?
Question: I just detected a lump inside my vagina. Yesterday I had some bleeding on the toilet tissue when I wiped myself. I'm wondering what might be wrong.
Brief Answer: ATROPHIC VAGINITIS,GROWTH,EROSION OR FOREIGN BODY Detailed Answer: Hello Thanks for writing to us with your health concern. You could have just felt your normal cervix inside. Spotting after menopause ( I assume at 57 you ARE menopausal ) should be investigated though. It could be mostly due to atrophic vaginitis - the hormone deficiency affects the local mucosa of the vagina. It dries up and becomes brittle and fragile. IT is thus easily prone to injury, breakage and infections, thus leading to spotting . Also, there could be some erosion, polyp or growth on the cervix, which you might have felt too, and which caused the spotting also. Are you sure there is no old retained forgotten foreign body inside ? For a patient with your clinical profile presenting to my clinic, I would first perform a thorough internal evaluation - per vaginum and per speculum. Next I would go for a pelvic ultrasound scan. If necessary, a swab for infection and a Pap smear as the findings dictate. THis workup would reveal diagnosis. In any case, do not ignore post menopausal spotting in conjunction with a lump. Please consult a gynaecologist soon. Take care.
I am not menopausal. I haven't had a period for 10 years. I also have had constant vaginal itching (maybe unrelated). Also, I had a pap smear about a month ago. Everything was fine. All I had at the time was thinning of uterus wall. The blood I saw yesterday came out of nowhere and was not like spots. More life streaks of blood. I also had my urine tested my urine tested for a urinary tract infection last month. It came back negative. Could I possibly have a yeast infection. I was given a gel cream for the itching but it keeps coming back. My biggest concern is the blood that came out of nowhere. Although I haven't had any bleeding today.
Brief Answer: DETAILED BELOW Detailed Answer: I fail to understand. If you have not had a period for 10 years, that does make you menopausal, doesn't it ? You did not mention the itching - that is a definite clue. As the Pap and the urine tests are normal, I feel that yes, this is a new infection. The most possible explanation is yeast infection, as that is the most likely one. Get your blood sugars tested. Also, have a repeat internal checkup. A yeast infection would have clearly shown up on a check up - that part still baffles me. Get a vaginal swab taken - it will diagnose an infection if it exists. In addition to the cream, you might need vaginal or oral antifungal tablets. The blood of course should not be ignored. More reason to have a repeat evaluation. Take care.
One last question, please. Why would I get my sugar levels checked?
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Suspicious Packages Found Near Public Defender Office
The sheriff's department bomb squad examined two suspicious packages discovered near the Orange County Public Defender's downtown Santa Ana office this morning but nothing inside goes "Boom!"
Officials did not use those exact words, of course.
Inside the containers were boxes of plastic tools.
The Santa Ana Police Department took the initial call around 8:45 a.m. before the bomb squad was called out to the building at 14 Civic Center Plaza.
While a perimeter was set up in the area as the packages were being examined, no one was evacuated.
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Anti-gay opponents of the freedom to marry start airing TV ads
October 02, 2012
This week, the so-called National Organization for Marriage is launching the first of its television advertisements in order to push their anti-gay messages even further in Maine and Minnesota.
Yesterday, "Minnesota for Marriage," the group working to limit the freedom to marry in Minnesota, kickstarted its $175,000 TV ad blitz with two advertisements that push the same anti-gay talking points and sling the same anti-gay mud. The ads try to soften the language, but the pitch remains the same: They want to amend the state constitution so that committed same-sex couples are forever denied marriage in Minnesota. The videos play on scare tactics, incorporate religious language, and reiterate many points about marriage and same-sex couples that have long been disproven.
NOM is also pushing its anti-gay crusade in Maine, where they recently donated more than $250,000 to Protect Marriage Maine, the group working to defeat marriage at the ballot. Frank Schubert, one of the men behind Proposition 8, which stripped Californians of the freedom to marry, is heading up NOM's push in the states. He spoke about the $250,000 contribution to Maine in truly apocalyptic language, saying that denying same-sex couples marriage is "critical for the survival of the institution of marriage."
That's why Freedom to Marry and other marriage advocates are working harder than ever to advance the ballot campaigns in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. We need to ensure that our state allies have the resources needed to win so that our opponents don't get the upper hand.
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Panther Creek Inspiration Ranch holiday fundraiser continues to grow with help from its friends THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Dec. 21, 2017 – As an in-demand Realtor, Gloria Mechaley’s work load doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, but in early December she was among the volunteers at Panther Creek Inspiration Ranch’s Christmas in The Woods II. With a mission […]
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Dec. 13, 2017 – Children’s author Margaret McManis will visit The Woodlands Children’s Museum Friday, Dec. 22, to read and sign copies of her newest book. McManis, who lives in Conroe, will arrive at the museum at 11 a.m., just in time to be a guest reader during Storybook Theatre. She’ll […]
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Nov. 30, 2017 – In the midst of the holiday shopping season, families can browse through a rich collection of fiction and nonfiction books for children during the Usborne Book Fair at The Woodlands Children’s Museum. The fair is set for 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 21, at 4775 W. Panther […]
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Nov. 28, 2017 – For children whose lives have been touched by cancer, creative expression can be a lifeline, a means of empowerment and a way to help others better understand their journey. This fall, The Woodlands Children’s Museum is giving children coping with cancer a public forum for their art and writing by hosting […]
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Fashion meets function with the insulated Gem tumbler. Durable break-resistant Tritan bottle features an attractive faceted design. Double-wall insulation keeps drinks colder longer and prevents condensation.
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USA / 1951
The MGM Cartoon Studio studio began in 1930 by releasing Ub Iwerks creation Flip the Frog after the Disney star animator had been tempted away, but neither this series or Iwerks later Willie Whopper was a huge success and in 1933 MGM turned to directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, who had recently split from producer Leon Schlesinger at Warner Bros due budgetary disagreements. This was seemingly the catalyst to MGM becoming a major player in animation, and later in the 1940s when Disney lost interest in shorts to concentrate on features and Fleischer studios went bankrupt, MGM became Warners’ main rivals.
Harman and Ising poached artists like William Hanna and Robert and Tom McKimson from Warners and so began a merry go round of personnel (and sometimes cartoon stars) between the studios. In 1937 Harman/Ising walked out again after more budget disputes and MGM hired novice producer Fred Quimby to replace them. Quimby raided more studios for experienced artists but, still unable to establish hit characters, he re-hired Harman and Ising. Soon after this Harman, in a moment of what turned out to be pure genius, teamed storyboard artist and character designer Joseph Barbera with director William Hanna to make their first cartoon, Puss Gets the Boot.
The short concerned a cat called Jasper trying to catch a mouse, nothing radical there and no one thought it was anything special until it unexpectedly turned out to become a huge hit. After that not only did Puss gets the Boot go on to get nominated for an Academy Award but it gave birth to several of animation’s most successful and best loved partnerships; Hanna and Barbara, one of the most successful creative teams in animation history and Tom and Jerry, two of the most popular cartoon characters of all time.
The stories were almost entirely the work of Barbara, one of the most creative forces in animation history, of whom Hanna said, “He has the ability to capture mood and expression in a quick sketch better than anyone I’ve ever known.” The animator Michael Lah said, “Hanna loved cutesie stuff . . . Joe was the other way, wild as hell.” Barbara’s ability to conceive inventive gags, plus his animation skills, complemented Hanna’s flair for timing and story construction, and putting a team of artists together, and the pair struck up a working relationship that would last most of their careers.
In Puss Gets the Boot Jasper’s design is quite different from what would later become the look for Tom. Jasper’s body is more kitten-like, with a rounder face, fluffier fur, and bigger feet, although, somewhat contradictorily, Jasper’s face is also more aggressive and adult. The design of the unnamed mouse in the cartoon is virtually unchanged from the later look of Jerry however. One difference is that we hear the mouse saying a prayer in a squeaky little voice, whereas a familiar characteristic of the pair in future years was their speechlessness ( although occasionally voices are heard, such as Tom singing Spike the bulldog to sleep in Quiet Please (1945). The Puss Gets the Boot story follows the now-familiar path of the mouse managing to turn the tables on the bullying cat, this time by breaking, or threatening to break, the glass and crockery in the house after the cat is told (by Mammy Two-Shoes , the maid whose feet are all we ever see of her) that he will be evicted if there are any more breakages.
After the success of Puss Gets the Boot, Hanna and Barbara were set to work making more shorts about the cat and mouse. A competition was held among MGM staff to choose a new name for the duo, and Tom and Jerry was selected. They became MGM’s most popular characters and are among the most famous and popular of all cartoon personalities. Tom and Jerry cartoons are considered to have been at their peak in the mid-forties, when story ideas, gags and personality all came together in a string of miniature masterpieces. The theatre shorts were made right up until 1967 and after that were created for television, with the TV production ongoing, although sporadically for specials and commercials, to the present day.
The quality of Tom and Jerry cartoons makes it very difficult to choose just one for a list like this, so I’m going through a few stand outs before I choose my favourite.
In 1941, The Night Before Christmas was released, a cartoon in which the Rudolf Ising’s influence of sentimentality on William Hanna is more to the fore as Tom softens when Jerry kisses him under the mistletoe, but it still proved a hit and won the team a second Oscar nomination. 1942 produced the stunning Bowling Alley Cat, which not only had great sight gags but some of the most beautiful visuals, with the reflections of the characters seen racing round the gleaming bowling alleys. Tom and Jerry’s first Oscar came with Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943), using the winning idea of combining Tom and Jerry’s ultra violence with army weaponry. The arrival of Tex Avery at the studio in 1941 encouraged a further increase in pace and aggression and in Fine Feathered Friend (1942), Jerry twice nearly decapitates Tom’s with hedge clippers, the kind of antics that would cause censorship on TV in later decades due to parental concerns about subjecting their little ones to small screen mayhem.
Quiet Please (1945) won the team their second Oscar and the same year bought Mouse in Manhattan; Scott Bradley’s excellent musical scoring for Tom and Jerry is often overlooked but it reached new heights here as Jerry leaves the country to try his luck in New York, with predictably mixed results. A third Oscar and more musical excellence was awarded for Cat Concerto (1947), one of the team’s most fondly remembered works, in which Tom is a hilariously pompous concert pianist whose performance of one of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies is sabotaged by Jerry, who had been sleeping inside the piano, the battle brilliantly timed to the music as they chase around the piano keys. Mouse Cleaning (1948), a reworking of Puss Gets the Boot with some excellent gags won another Oscar for the series, and two more came for Two Mouseketeers (1952) and Johann Mouse (1953).
The team had also worked on feature films, starting with their collaboration with Gene Kelly for George Sidney’s musical Anchors Aweigh, in which Kelly performed a brilliantly joyous and innovative dance duet with cartoon Jerry – ironically, though Hanna and Barbera were “house” animators at MGM, Kelly had first requested the services of Disney, who declined. George Sidney then asked the team to provide an animated opening for his musical, Holiday in Mexico (1945), and later Tom and Jerry swam alongside Esther Williams in Charles Walters’s Dangerous When Wet (1953). The team worked with Kelly again when they created a whole segment of his portmanteau movie Invitation to the Dance (made in 1952 but released in 1957), later released on its own as a short feature titled The Magic Lamp.
My personal favourite Jerry’s Cousin (1951) seems a slightly controversial choice as it was made outside what is considered the forties heyday and doesn’t feature in most of the best of Tom and Jerry lists you’ll find online. It also doesn’t feature the often seen third characters of Mammy Two-Shoes or Spike the dog, who are always welcome additions, but it is mainly set within the house, where I think the best Tom and Jerry battles are located and it does introduce a new funny character, Muscles.
Jerry’s Cousin is the 57th Tom and Jerry short and was again nominated for the Academy Award, which it lost to UPA’s Gerald McBoing Boing, perhaps a factor in Hanna and Barbaras later adaptation of many of UPA’s methods. We first see a tough guy mouse (Muscles) in the big city, mercilessly dispatching a gang of alleycats. He receives a letter asking for help from his cousin Jerry and sets of for the country where Jerry is being terrorised by Tom. There follows an excellent series of gags where Tom is beaten up in a multitude of surreally violent ways, his body often ending up twisted into the shapes relating to his instruments of torture, a vase or a bowling ball and at one point having live bullets shoved in his eyes and then detonated, an act deemed too much for it’s Cartoon Network screenings of the 1990s where it was censored out. The short ends with Tom subdued into kissing Muscles feet and when Muscles sets off back to the city he leaves Jerry an identical costume so that the mouse worship continues. Ray Paterson, animator on many of the best Tom and Jerry’s, provided many of the key visual moments.
By the mid-fifties, budget restrictions caused a distressing reduction in quality. In 1955 MGM put Hanna and Barbera in charge of their own cartoon division, but it closed in 1957 (the last Tom and Jerry cartoon, released that year, was Tot Watchers) and the pair cashed in their MGM pensions in order to start their own company and make cartoons for television.
As for their working method from which magic was born, Gus Arriola, a gag man for their team, said: “Barbera came up with about 75 per cent of the gags. He would inspire the rest of us to come up with material, because he was so fast.” Animator Jack Hannah added “Bill Hanna wrote the exposure sheets…Joe could sit with a pencil and ideas would come off the end of his pencil as quickly as he could move it”. Another animator Irven Spence told Leonard Maltin, author of ‘Of Mice and Magic’ (1980),“Bill and Joe had it all planned out, with Joe’s thumbnail sketches and Bill’s timing, before the animators ever got it. When they would hand out the work to the animators, they would act out the entire picture, in a very hammy fashion, which seemed exaggerated when they would do it, but it was just right for animation.” As Maltin wrote “Tom chasing Jerry is the ritual of the series. But somehow the audience realises that when all is said and done, the cat doesn’t want to eat the mouse; it’s the thrill of the chase that counts. There is an underlying bond between Tom and Jerry that gives these cartoons tremendous strength and likeability.”
Hanna and Barbera spent 15 years working for MGM on Tom and Jerry cartoons, in thier time at the forefront for technical skill and quality of gags, winning seven Oscars and 14 nominations. After MGM’s animation unit closed down in 1957, Hanna and Barbara formed their own production company with the intention of creating animation for the new medium of television. With an eye on the modest success of the first television cartoon series, Crusader Rabbit, they first produced The Ruff & Reddy Show (1957), an idea they had developed at MGM but had been turned down. A year later they hit the jackpot with The Huckleberry Hound Show.
Taking the UPA stripped-down, limited animation model but dispensing with the high style, Hanna-Barbera productions became an animation factory that dominated television animation for the next few decades. Hanna-Barbera’s television budgets were a fraction of the average budgets for theatrical shorts that they’d had at MGM and the adaptation to this meant that they became known as the kings of ‘limited animation’, leading Warner Bros. legend Chuck Jones somewhat unkindly to describe their work as “illustrated radio.”
After Huckleberry Hound, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced many more hit shows, which will be, along with their catchy theme tunes, instantly familiar to anyone alive in that era. Yogi Bear was a support act from The Huckleberry Hound Show, but soon became stars in their own right, even spawning a feature film Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear (1964) (and the inevitable CGI ‘realistic’ abomination in 2010, which is best not dwelled on). The Flintstones (1960) and then The Jetsons (1963) were basically the first animated sitcoms, set in the prehistoric era and the space age.
In the late 1960s, the company produced more notable hits such as Scooby Doo, Wacky Races, and the live-action/animation psychedelic experience The Banana Splits And Friends Show. These are just a few of the many Hanna-Barbera hit shows that, while based on cheap and limited animation, managed to maintain a funny and memorable watchability due to the writing, characters, and the catchy tunes that created a bubblegum pop culture freshness with every new flavour that came off the production line.
As for Tom and Jerry, the series was revived by MGM in 1961 and briefly farmed out for a year to ex UPA director Gene Deitch, then based in in Czechoslovakia, with mixed results, and then later taken over by Chuck Jones from 1963-67 at his own Sib Tower 12 Productions company, with another not altogether welcome change of style. None of these later attempts managed to recapture the magic of the Hanna-Barbera shorts, although to be fair the budgets were much reduced.
William Hanna died in 2001 and Joseph Barbara in 2006 but their legacy in animation and popular culture is immense; in fact its hard to imagine anyone in modern society who isn’t familiar with the cartoon characters they created.
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Man who helped thwart attempted kidnapping killed in crash
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — An 18-year-old Las Cruces man who was hailed as a hero for helping thwart a 2020 attempted kidnapping and assault has died in a motorcycle crash.
Police said Canaan Bower was killed Wednesday when his motorcycle collided with a car making a turn.
Bower was a 16-year-old high school wrestler when he body-slammed a man who allegedly punched a woman at a bus stop and demanded she turn over her three children to him.
Bower intervened and held the man for sheriff’s deputies.
Bower’s mother said on social media that her son lived life to the fullest and “will be forever missed."


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sharing recipes from one generation to the next
Recently I received a copy of Adam Liaw’s “Asian After Work”. It’s full of recipes of pan Asian origin that are super tasty and quick to prepare.
I tried out a rice combo idea of brown and white rice mixed with red quinoia and sesame seeds cooked together in the one pot, an idea that really appealed to my liking of textures AND saving dishes!
I changed the proportions to suit the quantities of ingredients in my pantry and also adjusted the cooking times, well, actually I messed up the cooking times because at the end of a long day my comprehension skills were zero. In hindsight though, I think I’d have found the brown rice underdone if I’d followed Adam’s very clear instructions. It’s a fabulous idea to combine these grains and made for a texturally satisfying accompaniment to our meal of tandoori chicken and sweet potato vindaloo.
Here’s what I did to Adam’s “two-to-one rice.”
1/2 cup brown rice
1 cup aged basmati rice
1/4 cup red quinoia
1 heaped tablespoon roasted sesame seeds
3/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 Bring 2 cups of water to the boil with the salt.
2 Throw in the brown rice, cover the pot, reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
3 Stir in the basmati, quinoia and sesame seeds and enough water to raise the level 2cm above the top of the rice.
4 Return the pot to the boil, cover and simmer at the lowest setting for 10 minutes.
5 Turn off the pot but leave the lid in place.
6 Allow the pot to rest for 10 minutes.
7 Remove the lid, fluff the rice with a fork and allow to rest for another 5 minutes before serving.
The rices should maintain their structure, and the quinoia grains should be just beginning to pop.
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I got into Indian food in a seriously roundabout way. My good friend Bob Pollitt made me my first Chicken Curry at Sgt. Pepper’s British Pub in Roanoke about a zillion years ago. So there’s a mad Englishman making a fiery Indian dish for a puzzled American. Funny old world. Since those days, I’ve turned my hand to a fair bit of Indian cooking myself. I make wonderful aloobhujia, my chana masala will bring tears of joy (and pain; I always put in too many chilis) to your eyes, and my chicken curry is almost as good as that first one Bob made me so long ago.
But I’m from Appalachia, not Arunachal. So I’m definitely no expert, but I may have found a few at Nawab Indian Cuisine in Downtown Roanoke. We had called ahead for a reservation on a recent weekend night, and it was a good thing we did. The sixth thing we noticed when we walked in was that even though it was creeping up on closing time, the dining room was packed. The first through fifth things we noticed were the beautiful music, the overwhelmingly beautiful and lavish décor with rich and permeating colors, the glorious artwork with a genesis in one of the world’s oldest living cultures, the sharp and pleasantly pungent aromas, and the ego wall stacked to the ceiling with framed accolades from a certain local lifestyle mag which shall remain nameless.
But before we knew it, we were sitting in a snug booth under a fantastic, panoramic hunting scene, and considering the exotic choices on the menu. While our waiter was off getting me a bottle of Kingfisher (very tasty Indian lager), another kind gentleman brought us a basket of papadums, a sort of crisp cracker or flatbread, with a delicious tangy mint chutney. The tart relish tasted fresh enough to be right out of my garden.
If, that is, you can make delicious things out of crabgrass and good intentions… As we nibbled on these tasty starters, we ordered a Vegetable Samosa, which is a kind of vegetable-stuffed fritter. Very tasty, plated with a tangy sauce and fried to a golden blonde. Being a confirmed potato addict (seriously, I know I have a problem), I also chose an order of Tikki Chole, which was a delicious sort of spicy potato cake with chick peas and a sweet tomato-y sauce. If there was a sour note to the appetizers, it was a sour, soapy taste from a leafy bit of coriander, which Americans are possibly more used to encountering in the de-leafed seed form.
It was harrowing, but we survived. Ah, well, there was more Kingfisher (not to mention a full bar and a quite credible wine list) to chase away the blues. I quickly moved on to an order of Lamb Tikaa Masala, flavorful chunks of lamb swimming in a creamy tomato sauce with blended spices. Rich, delicious and spicy, I’m hoping to find a way to replicate this at home so I can pretend to my friends that I’m actually a good cook. Meanwhile, my wife had ordered the Tandoori shrimp, served with broccoli, carrots and onions in a light creamy sauce. Her one minor grievance was that it could have been more spicy. She did, however, mention that she would never “complain about shrimp of this size.”
When we’d been considering our entrée choices, we noticed on the menu two options that no self-respecting food-eater should go without. First and foremost, there was the assorted bread basket, with garlicky naan, roti and kulcha. They’re all three Indian flatbreads, but they’re all unique and delicious, and served as an excellent delivery mechanism for the sauce in my lamb dish. We also decided it would be downright goofy not to order the assorted condiment tray, which came with raita (cucumber and yogurt sauce), mango chutney, onion and tomato chutney, and achaar. If you’ve never had this last item, be aware that it can be a bit of a challenge. A sort of ultra-spicy pickle relish (and sometimes just called “pickle”), it’s pungent, powerful and lively enough to put a little fire in her shrimp, I can tell you that much.
For desert, our knowledgeable and friendly waiter recommended we try the Gulab Jamun, which were dark-brown fried dough balls, sort of like dense beignets in a honey sauce. We also really enjoyed the kulfi, a frozen dairy treat with nuts and fruit, sort of like an ice cream with a sweet mango sauce. Dining at Nawab was an unadulterated riot of flavors, sounds, smells and colors. The service was wonderful even during the late hours as the operation was winding down, and we were reluctant to leave. A bit of postprandial research (who likes to Google on an empty stomach?) revealed that “Nawab” actually means a sort of demi-king or major noble in South Asia, and the staff certainly went to extremes to make us feel like royalty. However, they also made me acutely aware that I’ve got a long way to go before I can cook like these guys. Bob, get your “Wots yer pleasure, ma’am?” apron on and let’s get to work.


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Ivy Plus Event: Nasher Museum Art Tour - Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art
U of Chicago Club is hosting a special guided tour at the Nasher Museum.
University of Chicago is hosting a special guided tour at the Nasher Museum of Art. Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art questions and explores the complex and contested space of the American South.
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Indian Navy’s Third ASW Corvette Launched
Kiltan, the Indian Navy’s third anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette, designed under Project-28 (P-28) by the Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design, was launched in Kolkata on Tuesday, March 26, the Hindu writes.
The launching ceremony was attended by numerous dignitaries, including GRSE, Rear Admiral (Retd) A K Verma, Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral DK Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, along with some other representatives of Armed Forces, Indian Ministry of Defence and West Bengal administration.
The 3000 ton Kamorta class corvette is constructed by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (GRSE) and it is capable of developing a speed of 25k. Designed to boost Indian Navy’s underwater warfare abilities, the 2,500t P-28 ASW corvette features a low-signature of radiated underwater noise and can operate under nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) environment. In addition to a bow mounted sonar and capability to deploy a helicopter, the Kiltan is outfitted with Integrated Platform Management System for control and coordination of the propulsion, auxiliary and power generation equipment.
In the next stage, the warship will be fitted with indigenous weapons and sensors, such as a medium range gun, torpedo tube launchers, rocket launchers and close-in weapon system.
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Legendary bottom-feeder Davy Jones is the old haunt in the bottom-of-the-barrel Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest (2006). As a sequel, it fails to achieve the same level of spontaneity and charm of its predecessor, largely because it is reusing the same bag of tricks, but to lesser effect. Action sequences and special effects take precedence over story, a compromise that barely keeps the movie afloat for its bloated 2 1/2 hours.
Like hidden treasure, the plot is buried deep within a chaotic structure filled with too many ghost ships, sea serpents, island cannibals and conniving British exporters—only once you dig up the plot, you discover how little it is worth. Squid-faced ghoul Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) is out collecting on Captain Jack Sparrow’s (Johnny Depp) soul. Meanwhile Sparrow, with Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) in tow, is in search of buried treasure—a chest that contains Jones’ still beating heart. Whoever is in control of this is in control of Jones and, in turn, the seas that he still haunts. However, Sparrow isn’t the only one who wants the treasure: Will Turner has his own reasons for assisting Sparrow, as does the tyrannical East Indian Trading Company, who wants to create a monopoly on trade waters.
The script leans more on adventure and excitement than on character, a decision that weakens our connection to the story. It is as though writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio expected our empathy with the characters to carry over from the first film, and they do little in this sequel to help re-forge the bonds. For example, the relationship between fiancés Will and Elizabeth (whose marriage is interrupted in the opening scene) seems stagnant: they hardly share any on-screen time together, and when they do the proverbial “sparks,” typically felt between the ingénue and leading man, are decidedly absent.
Johnny Depp, the highlight of the first film (who even garnered an Academy Award nomination), reprises his role as the gangly, strangely flamboyant pirate Jack Sparrow, but adds nothing new to the role. His mannerisms have grown redundant, and his character meets, but never exceeds, our expectations—in short, he is predictable. He shies away from valor and adventure at first, choosing always to save himself over others, but just when you think he’s a selfish lout, he joins the fight and waxes gallant like the rest.
The film tries to maintain a sense of humor throughout, but often it feels out of place. Instead of being witty, the writers often resort to anachronisms: modern jests that are out place in the movie’s historical setting, such as Depp sprinkling paprika under his arms as though he were in a deodorant commercial, or the way in which characters slip out of their stylized dialect to say lines in a more contemporary manner. During these winks at the audience, the historical façade drops, and it seems that neither the actors nor the writers are up to the challenge of creating authentic pirate humor.
I also had the feeling that I had seen some parts of Pirates’ before, and not just in the original. A scene on a cannibal island where Jack Sparrow is mistaken for a god and Will Turner is bound to a log seems very much a scene from Return of the Jedi (1983) in which the ewoks think C-3PO is a god, and Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca are bound to logs in preparation for cooking.
As often happens when too much attention is given to special effects, they cease to be neither special nor effective. Such is the fate of Pirates’ densely grotesque visuals, particularly Davy Jones and his salt-water zombies, whose scaly flesh writhes as though it were still living. Director Gore Verbinski and his special effects crew have painstakingly integrated live-action footage and computer animation seamlessly, but they lay it on so often that the spectacle soon loses its impact. It might be archaic of me, but with blockbusters becoming increasingly reliant on CGI, I long for another filmmaker like David Lean who is able to create epics without all the artifice and gloss. In films like The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965), Lean was able to craft visceral, exciting images using actual landscapes, and the simplicity is effective and immediate. I find the spectacle of reality more invigorating than any computer generated sea monster, which is not to say that the two are mutually exclusive and cannot share the multiplex together, but just that they don’t anymore. Blockbusters like Pirates and superhero movies dominate theaters, and I am left to look elsewhere for other varieties of cinema.
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Border crossing! I left the last story at the beautiful beach of Popoyo in Nicaragua. Today Mike, Lyndsay and I are going to cross into Costa Rica. It’s still a bit of a drive to the border. We heard Costa Rica is going to be way more expensive so we wanted to stock up on food and gas. Surprisingly the last gas station and supermarket are quite far away from the border so we missed it. The Nicaraguan side of the border is pretty quiet. We assume a waving guy is a helper so we drive past him. Turns out he was official. He gets really mad at us and starts yelling for our papers and passports. We calm him down and everything turns out to be fine. The car import permit needs stamps from a gazillion different people. One of them is a cop, we find him sitting in the shade on the floor, he doesn’t look at the car or the papers and just signs/stamps it. The Costa Rica side of the border is a big surprise. A big modern building, bags have to go through x-ray machines and there are five trash cans for recycling. Weird after all the dusty, falling apart messes we had before. But surprise surprise, this is still Central America so we still need to get copies at a copy shop and it turns out the power has died. A simple comment written on our forms “copies will follow” is deemed sufficient. Not sure where those copies are going to come from. Well now I’m officially in country number eight! Mike and Lyndsay had picked a campsite at Playa Hermosa which was close to the airport so they could pick up their friends visiting from the US. Talking about visitors…. I was going to get a new visitor too, a bit more than 24 hours after I dropped off my parents and Jasper. Maarten (yes, another one) was going to join me for a bit. I hadn’t talked to Maarten for maybe 10 years until I saw him again last June at the Anne and Alex wedding. About a month ago I get a message from him saying he is going to travel for 6 weeks in Central America and likes my travel stories. So would it be OK if he came travel with me for a week or two. Sure! In all the chaos of travelling with my parents and Jasper; changing plans to travel some more with Mike and Lyndsay and crossing a border, Maarten and I hadn’t really clearly decided where we would meet. But surprise surprise he just walked up to my van! Just in time for a sunset swim. On the campsite we also meet an American couple who just started their trip cycling from Costa Rica back to the US. Good times exchanging stories over a beer.
As I said, the last few days had been pretty chaotic. So I could really use a empty day to clean out my van etc. Luckily Mike and Lyndsay were driving to the next town for the day and were happy to take Maarten along with them. When they came back they had some big fishes that went on the BBQ that night. Mike’s friends’ flight was delayed so now we had to stay awake until 1:30. Insane! But playing cards and drinking beer made it easier.
New day, new surf beach. We could either take the long boring road inland or the short pretty road along the coast. Only thing we didn’t know was that this road was mostly unpaved, very steep and included multiple river crossings. This time it wasn’t just a bit of water that spilled over the street. This looked serious. We stopped to go spot how deep it was and what would be the best way through. If I would be by myself I would have turned around. But with a 4×4 pickup in front of me and 5 extra people to push, we decided it was a go. Well… in the end it was a bit of a anticlimax but it felt like we were on a real expedition and once again the van showed no problems whatsoever. A bit further down the road a big cat ran across the road. It was to big to be a normal cat plus its run was weird. It was followed by another two which we could see a bit better: Jaguarandis! So cool! We found a great camp spot directly at the beach. It all looked pretty underdeveloped and not too touristy until we found the ultra modern and ultra expensive restaurant next door. At the back of the restaurant was a big fence around some trees. From a distance I could see two pigs standing there. Until when I walked closer it turned out to be one ginormous pig, the size of a small hippo, listening to the name Lola. Since it was probably the last day we would all travel together we went out for dinner (not at Lola’s place but a cheap spot down the road). That evening had one of the best sunsets and starry nights I had seen in a long time.
Because Maarten and I don’t really surf and because the other guys mostly only surf, we decided to say goodbye and head into the mountains in the direction of the famous Monteverde park. We hit some more dirt roads with some more small river crossings. Now more confident about what the van can handle we quickly check them and pass them. Near Monteverde the roads aren’t paved either and get pretty steep up and down. We camp in the garden of a little restaurant in the middle of nowhere on the countryside. The garden is really nice with big grassy fields. The lady that works at the restaurant loves the van and wants to check the inside. Once she’s inside she yells at the other ladies in the restaurant that she isn’t coming back anymore. They all come over and want to take pictures with us and the van.
The road continues steep and unpaved to Monteverde. The entrance to the park costs a whopping 20 USD. Costa Rice really isn’t cheap. It’s really windy all day and because this is a cloud forest it’s cloudy too. So once we get to a viewpoint there isn’t much to view. Until we wait a few minutes and the clouds clear up and we can actually see the Pacific Ocean from up here. The main hiking trail is really well maintained and almost wheelchair accessible. That doesn’t make it a very hard hike. So we decide to walk all the other trails too. We get to cross a cool suspension bridge and see loads of birds and some raccoon-like animals. Once we’re done with Monteverde it is time for scenic driving. Down the mountains and almost all the way around Lago Arenal. Even though our hostel for tonight is only 15km away from Monteverde it is a 150 km, 3 hour drive to get there. At some point when were almost there we have been driving behind a single car for a few minutes. All of a sudden the car stops and when I overtake them they start waving at us. Turns out they were a Dutch couple and the guy got slightly confused when he looked in his rear-view mirror and saw a Dutch license plate all of a sudden. They want to know what we are doing and invite us for a drink at their hotel which we of course happily accept. While we’re having a drink it starts getting darker and looking like it might rain a lot. Our hostel is only a few minutes drive away but I don’t want to drive that in a storm. Well it’s dark now anyway and the road is really steep and really bad. Interesting driving but we make it and are allowed to camp there. The next day some of the other guest are surprised we made it, they had 4x4s and had a hard time driving that road when it was light. 100 points for the van!
Next to lake Arenal (and our hostel) is volcano Arenal and on the side of the volcano is the smaller Cerro Chato volcano, with another crater lake. Time for a hike. The hike is wet and muddy, but the landscape is really nice. There are mud slides and large parts of the trail turned into deep trenches after all the rain. Once we make it to the top we look over the edge to see the lake… and only see clouds… Even inside the crater it is too cloudy to see anything. But while chatting with some people there we find out the same trick as yesterday works: wait for a bit and there will be small gap in the clouds. The lake is good for swimming and since we’re wet already anyway we decide to head down the steep cliff with a group of other hikers. It’s pretty muddy but we make it. When we get to the bottom it starts raining some more so we hop in the water. The water is actually warmer than the rain (which doesn’t mean it’s actually warm) and the clouds/fog give it a nice spooky feeling. The way back up the cliff is pretty fast as we can use the roots as a ladder system. The downhill from the volcano down to the car goes pretty quick too. Sadly enough it doesn’t stop raining. We head to La Fortuna where Maarten knows a nice hostel where I can camp and he can sleep on a couch. Let’s hope it stops raining soon…

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The Big Bang Theory finished ahead of Fox behemoth American Idol in the key 18-49 ratings demographic last night. Idol, now in its eleventh season, dominated the night's ratings, despite a year to year decline of around 25% in its ratings.
The 100th episode of The Big Bang Theory was watched by 15.83 million people, down only marginally from last week's audience of 16.13 million viewers. The Big Bang Theory finished second, behind Idol, in total viewers and households.
In the important 18-49 demographic, Big Bang beat American Idol in the same half-hour period with a 5.3/15 rating to Idol's 5.2/15. Idol's 18-49 rating rose to 5.7/15 for the 8 o'clock hour as a whole. Both Big Bang and Idol were adjusted up a tenth of a rating point in the final ratings. The Big Bang Theory matched its 18-49 rating from last week, seemingly unhurt by the return of the popular reality show. The Big Bang Theory was the night's most-watched and highest-rated scripted program. American Idol was the top show of the night overall.
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The man smiles as he watches the white horse plunge into the waters. He raises his hand and watches as the now black animal returns to the surface, in doing so redoubling its effort to swim to shore. with a satisfactory smile on his lips, the man motions with his hand as if to push the horse towards the shore, and it begins to be able to swim in the guided direction. The water around it calms and it has no trouble swimming the rest of the way to the edge of the lake and manages to run back to the herd as the black coating falls from its hide, revealing scales that are deep red, like dried blood. But whereas the previous horse managed to escape, the newly captured stallion finds that it can’t move. It is pulled farther and farther out until it rests at the center. The water churns and a black coating begins to cover the new horse, the white blotted out as the black lake stains its skin. The village men atop the hill stare out over the lake, straining to see the horse. Lightning flashes again, this time striking the horse. The electricity hovers in the air, a continuous bolt of light connecting the horse to the dark clouds above. The man on the hill starts laughing, unable to contain his mirth as the animal transforms before his eyes.
The horse rises out of the water, its skin a dull black color, blending in with the dark clouds in the sky. But as the horse stops and floats in the air, the clouds open and the moon is able to shine through. A moonbeam strikes the creature, and it shudders as the skin begins to fall away. The hair and outer skin fall from its body, revealing the small, midnight blue scales beneath, reflecting the somber light. Veins of silver appear on its back and spread downwards on either side. One starts just behind its front legs, the other almost even with the back legs. They flow down the legs and begin to bulge, pulling out away from the body. The veins of life and light rip away from the body, connected only by the ends on the back as they grow thicker and wider, growing more dull and starting to fill with color to match the scales. The air around the creature begins to shimmer, drawing in the elements around it as the veins grow. The elements fuse together, creating new skin and tissue as the now blue veins connect at the tips and take on the shape of wings. The animals body expands, gaining width and a greater fullness of its chest to make room for the new muscles required for flight. The back starts to rise up and expand, creating a jutting spire of bone on either side of its body behind the wings, and two horn like handles in the middle of its neck. Its feet grow larger as well, claws replacing hooves and breaking out through the skin and flesh as the bones expand and grow to accommodate the new shape so as to support the body.


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Im old(school) enough to be a Motörhead fan. One song that I used to hear a LOT when I was young was “I am the Sword” from the album “Bastards”. If you haven´t heard about it, it might not have been available in your country. Due to the German label XYZ Music it was only widespread in Germany at first. But this post is not about albums, but about magical weapons inspired by the lyrics of “I am the Blade”. OSR-style, LotFP(tm) compatible. The magical bonus is in all cases incorporated in the weapons base damage.
“(…) I was the one that you didn’t see / I was the cut down to your bone / I put you there under that stone / I, I am the blade (…)”
The Unseen Blade
A long, straight steel blade, somewhere between a long dagger and a short sword. The simple handle is wrapped with leather, a round disk functions as the guard. The words “I am the one that you did not see” are engraved across the edge of the round guard. The Unseen Blade counts as a magical (+1) small weapon (1d6+1 base damage) that grants a +2 bonus to all Sneak Attacks made with it. When drawn within 20 feet of a designated victim, The Unseen Blade may bestow upon its wielder the equivalent of a 2nd level Invisibility spell. This effect may only be invoked in the nights of the new moon, and the wielder must be aware of this ability of the weapon.
“(…) I am the dream of the brave (…)”
Blood of Heroes
A sword with a gold-plated lion head at the pommel and engravings in form of a stylized crown above the cross-guard. It counts as a magical (+2) medium weapon (base damaged: 1d8+2). Once a day, when the wielder is outnumbered in melee at least 3:1, the Blood of Heroes may bestow upon its wielder an effect equal to a 3rd level Heroism and Army of One spell. The Blood of Heroes is a proud and unforgiving blade. If its wielder ever surrenders after it has been drawn, it will turn into a cursed (-3) weapon for this character until his or her death, and will never bestow its powers on this wielder again.
(…) I, I am the sword / I bring the fear of the Lord (…)
The Fear of God
A broad sword whose hilt and guard are formed to resemble a christian cross, with the the words “Fear Thy God” engraved into the blade (in Latin). It is a magical (+1) medium weapon (1d8+1 damage). If a Lawful wielder of this weapons becomes the target of a detrimental magic-user´s spell, the weapon will negate the spell once per day with an effect equal to a 4th level cleric´s Dispel Magic. To a character of Chaotic alignment the weapon counts as (-4) cursed weapon.
(…) I am the promise unmade (…)
A fine two-handed sword that has the words “The [insert noble line] must be removed from this land” engraved along the blade. The weapon was forged during a feud or civil war, and was crafted for this one and only reason. It is a magical (+2) great weapon (1d10+2 damage) that puts a 6th Level Geas onto anybody that uses it in an actual combat at least once. The geas is to remove those of said noble line from the land (killing them, driving them into exile, etc). The curse brought upon those that decide to ignore this obligation (that a character becomes immediately aware of) is that they shall know no friends in this land: all future random reactions of human and demi-humans cannot be better than Indifferent, the moral of retainers will will drop by one per day (if it was below 10 already) or week (Moral 10+). This curse will not affect the reaction of those not born in this land.
(…) Centuries pass, dust in the wind / I shall remain, shining in sin / The metal I am, the iron you feel / The song of the dead, the chorus of steel (…)
[It has no name]
A seemingly ancient iron sword that is never the less free of rust (and immune to the tests of time). It is a magical +3 medium weapon (1d8+3 damage). A Chaotic wielder will not age a day (neither natural nor magically) as long as the weapon is kept nearby, and may once a day cast an effect similar to a 3rd level Speak with the Dead on the body of somebody the character has slain him- or herself with this weapon.
(…) I am the ax / To cut down heroes like rats (…)
A worn but still sharp battle ax, with more than two dozen notches at its handle. Against human or demi-human foes of at least 4th level it counts as a +4 magical weapon (1d8+4 damage). Nobody will be able to make a notch into the handle without breaking it entirely (and thereby destroying the magic abilities forever), for it proofs to be harder than stone. When a human or demi-human of at least 4th level was slain with it, another notch will appear on the handle.


“Packaging our support and services with IMO (Problem (IT)™ Terminology) is going to make using EHR simple and efficient, and is a must-have for any practice”, says John O’Keefe, Chief Executive Officer of ITelagen.
Jersey City, NJ (PRWEB) June 12, 2013
ITelagen, a technology IT support service that specializes in the healthcare industry, announced that it is partnering with Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. (IMO), developers of the most widely-used and physician-preferred terminology service for electronic health records (EHR) systems, to provide clients with the most current medical terminology services. IMO provides terminology packages and products that integrate with Electronic Health Record (EHR) applications to assist with simple and easy medical terminology coding. This Solution provides healthcare and industry clients with ICD-10 and Meaningful Use Stage II-ready diagnosis terminology and content mappings for effective and simplified data recording.
ITelagen will market its support and services packages with IMO® Problem (IT)™ Terminology effective June 1, 2013 to current and prospective clients. “Packaging our support and services with IMO (Problem (IT)™ Terminology) is going to make using EHR simple and efficient, and is a must-have for any practice”, says John O’Keefe, Chief Executive Officer of ITelagen.
The IMO database includes over 260,000 clinician-friendly terms, a vocabulary maintenance website, as well as target terms for clinicians, coders, and patients. IMO Problem (IT)™ Terminology receives ten updates per year, reflecting regulatory changes, community feedback and IMO’s normal terminology improvement cycle ensuring that their client base stays current with the latest evolution in medical terminology. In addition, AHIMA provides advisory services to IMO on ICD mappings.
“We are happy that ITelagen is adopting IMO solutions for their user community. As more vendors recognize the responsibility to capture and preserve the clinical intent, they can use IMO interface terminology to comply with regulatory code sets (ICD9, ICD10 SNOMED CT® and others). This way, everyone wins! The doctors’ documentation reflects what they said and will never be changed. Patients know exactly what their doctors are thinking about their conditions, the administrator gets the billing code and clinical organizations will have clear picture of the risk of the populations they serve,” said Frank Naeymi-Rad, PhD, MBA, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IMO.
To use the system, all medical providers need to do is click in a diagnosis field. For instance, if a doctor wants to look up the coding for “lower back pain,” he or she can type in abbreviated terms like “lo ba pa”. Due to the inclusion of IMO® Problem (IT)™ Terminology, the new system is able to recognize even a few letters and pull up whole terms and key words. “Lo ba pa,” is identifiable for “lower back pain” and pulls up a variety of codes from which a clinician can select that best describes the patient encounter including:
•Low back pain (724.2)
•Low back pain radiating to both legs (724.2)
•Low back pain radiating to left leg (724.2)
•Low back pain with sciatica (724.2)
Additionally, ITelagen will continue to include EHR licenses, integrated solutions, implementation, hosting, and support as part of the packages offered. According to ITelagen, this “one-stop shop package for EHR” provides a medical practice with a full-spectrum platform that ensures the technology is accurate, efficient, and current with clinical and technical terms within the industry.
ITelagen is a cloud-based technology support IT service that monitors and hosts infrastructures for the healthcare, financial, and small business industries. The service provides onsite and remote technical support, manages EHRs to organize medical records and bills, coordinates and submits medical claims and insurance collections, and allows medical staff to send scripts online.
The staff of ITelagen is composed of security engineers, computer technicians, certified network administrators, and more to support infrastructures at a fraction of the cost of an in-house IT team.
ITelagen® redefines Healthcare IT for medical practices by providing EHR as part of an entire back-office solution that includes unlimited onsite & remote technical support for all of your staff and secure hosting of your patient data. We are more than just desktop technicians, but a complete technology team made up of CIO's, engineers, and healthcare EHR experts. With ITelagen, you can have all the benefits of your very own fully-staffed IT Department, without the expense of an in-house staff. By combining IT, hosting and certified EHR experts, ITelagen becomes the single point of contact and “One-Stop Shop for EHR” for IT and EHR infrastructure, all for a flat monthly subscription fee. For more information, visit ITelagen on the Web at http://www.itelagen.com. Follow ITelagen on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ITELAGEN, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itelagen, or LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/itelagen.
About Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO):
IMO provides the most widely-accepted medical terminology solution for the development, management, and licensing of medical vocabularies and software applications at healthcare organizations worldwide. IMO's terminology database is used by over 2,500 hospitals and 350,000 physicians daily, and physicians report greater satisfaction with their EHR after switching to IMO. IMO’s medical vocabulary and mapping products effectively capture clinical intent and help EHRs preserve and communicate this across the entire spectrum of care. This accelerates workflow and increases clinician utilization and satisfaction. The accuracy of IMO’s interface terminology was found to be ‘nearly perfect’ by an independent study published by the Centers for Disease Control. Read more at http://www.e-imo.com. Contact us at press(at)e-imo(dot)com.
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Two days ago I finally found Buddha Volume 2 while I was browsing at Mt. Pleasant library in DC. For some reason V2 has been checked out again and again every time I go for it for the past 2 years!!! I guess I was meant to wait for greatness 😉
The author & artist Osamu Tezuka is a legendary Japanese storyteller who worked for Disney for a long time. (This can be evidenced in his cutesy drawings)
This drawings actually push some folks away, but I really like them. As far as volume 2 compares to volume 1… I thought it was better! Many folks think that 2 isn’t as good. But in volume one you have to wait till page 268 before Siddartha is even born! The second book begins with stories from Siddartha’s young life. He questions death at an early age…
I appreciated Tezuka’s careful yet honest way of approaching these aspects of the human condition. Later Siddartha becomes a rabbit in order to experience death itself. After this he realizes he must experience life outside his castle and soon escapes with Tatta (from volume 1). Outside of the castle Siddartha observes for the first time all the suffering in the world. He can’t take it and returns to his castle only to realize his lover from his adventures outside is from a lower caste and cannot come in the castle with him. Soon he is forced into marriage with another but Siddartha still longs to return to the outside and understand suffering. His wife becomes pregnant and though Siddartha feels troubled about leaving he decides he must understand suffering even if he has to leave his wife and child. Bandaka seeks to take over Siddartha’s wife and his kingdom. He doesn’t succeed in taking the wife but does take the kingdom and a different wife. His wife bears a child; Devadatta. At the end of the volume it is said that Devatta & Siddartha will meet in 20 years. Can’t wait till I find Volume 3! 🙂 Hope you enjoyed!
Have you read Buddha V2? What did you think of it??
Shout out to this GN by a POC. I came to Greenlight bookstore in Brooklyn, NY in April and I let myself get one treat: Nat Turner by Kyle Baker. There are many things I like about this GN, and the intro is actually at the top of the list. I love a motivating intro to any project where the creator/author gets real with their audience.
Kyle Baker has worked with DC Comics, Nickelodeon, HBO, The Voice and more. He’s done all this and he is into self publishing? Cool. Damn cool. Because I find self-publishing to be a very empowering act. Especially for populations and communities whose stories aren’t told in the mainstream. The best way is for you and your community to make space to tell your story or an over looked story from the past… Or future 😉 No doubt Mr. Baker has access to some friends that also know a lot about publishing but still I found his words empowering.
One of my favorite frames when little Nat Turner is learning about the Egyptians through reading.
Nate Turner is a powerful figure in history. He was a slave who led a rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831. Read this graphic novel to learn more, or read The Confessions of Nat Turner -as recorded by Thomas R. Gray. I wonder if the slave population of Virginia (and consequently Mr. Turner) had been influenced by the African and Indian Nations allegiances formed during the French and Indian War, where both Indians and Blacks took part in an armed resistance to whites in 1727. What do you think?
I enjoy diving into less told/heard stories in the Graphic Novel form. Join me for more adventures!
Sorry all, I been really sick, I have severe asthma which gets in the way of everything. But, with out further delay–
“Watermelon…and other things that make me uncomfortable as a black person”- Whit Taylor (2011)
I found this gem at zine fest in dc this past July. Really, nothing can beat a fantastic new zine in the dead of summer heat when you think who is so noble and great that they are out promoting their zine? And then, there is someone. Besides the fortuitous timing Whit Taylor is a great mini story shower/teller. In her zine she is showing us why certain things don’t roll so smooth for her. She keeps the tone light even during more serious topics. Taylor is able to do this because of a dry and even tone through out the story. Her drawings rock. They remind me of the drawings from “Tina’s Mouth” another awesome lady comic.
Watermelon can easily find a place among folks working to deconstruct the stereotypes that can plague different communities. Humanizing an experience is a big part of breaking down stereotypes. When you don’t know someone personally its easier to paint them as something their not.. literally. Tayor does a great job at this. In fact my favorite quote from her is: “I love Alice in Chains, which according to my uncle makes me a teenage white boy. I grew up on my parents’ 1960’s & 70’s soul music but became a victim of 90’s suburban life. So sue me.” Her honesty is fresh. And yet it leaves me wondering about somethings… like what about her cousins in the frame about New Orleans? What kind of comic/zine would they write? Would they agree with her?
These are questions that often come up for myself as I and many other creators find pieces of their autobiographies show up in their work…would my family/community agree?
How do they see it?
And this is what’s great about Watermelon. This is how Taylor experienced growing up where and when she did, being who she is. Really that’s all we got: our experience and it’s one that others are either going to learn from or identify with. Zines really open up a space for folks who usually don’t show up in books or magazines to share their version.
Thanks Ms. Whit Taylor for sharing yours. Watermelon is a great zine about one girls’ reflections on the stereotypes that live in her world. Specifically this zine helps to thwart the power these stereotypes might have on others by simply humanizing them and breaking them down. After all it did spark a pretty humorous discussion amongst friends about our own battles with awkward/embarrassing moments striving to straddle the lines between our cultures and the way others see us in our culture. It never ends, as is shown by Whit Taylor in Watermelon. I look forward to finding more by this author in the future.
Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to a zine reading at The Doll House, a group house in upper Petworth D.C. I wish I could have got the other two zines but I budgeted for two and stayed with in my means. 🙂
But the event was awesome! Each reader brought a unique voice to their presentation. The readers were:
Kerri (deafula)– a transcribed conversation between the author and her mother. Really beautiful exploration of a parents journey with a hard of hearing/ deaf child.
JC (tributaries)– I didn’t get the zine that JC actually read from; I got one from 2012 because the cover was so cool! And she is a librarian (Awesome!)
I got these two! ^
Sarah (tazwell’s favorite eccentric) — a great reading about religion and finding your own path with… a fantastic balloon presentation to accompany!!!
Taryn (lady teeth) — awesome examples for self-care!
I’m so happy to have gone and hope the rest of their zine tour has been rockin’!
Find them on FB at “zine tour, thank you for being a friend”
I am paying respects to the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War by reading three authors: Howard Zinn, Andrea Smith and the author of this weeks graphic novel Joseph Bruchac.
“I honor those who die in war, but I do not honor war it self” — A Power governments cannot suppress by Howard Zinn (2006)
“Orientalism (understood as the West defining itself as a superior civilization compared to an “exotic” but inferior “Orient” or other) serves as the anchor for war, because it allows the United States to justify being in a constant state of war to protect it self from its enemies” — Color of Violence by Andrea Smith (2006)
I engage this GN today in honor of all Native/Indigenous peoples and all those who experience war, violence, genocide and colonization.
Dawn Land assumes full participation from its readers. I love this. When reading a creation story, readers are compelled to recall their own engagements with origin stories. These are special stories that exist in all cultures. In Dawn Land we share in an Abenaki creation story set in New England 10,000 years ago. There is a giant who devastates communities eating only people. Two young boys survive from one village. One boy has mischievous side to him, which is explored throughout the book. Ever present are two loyal dogs who travel with the boys on their journey. The artwork wasn’t my favorite, but it is nonetheless very beautiful. You can see some frames by clicking the link below:
This is the native Abenaki creation story as told in Dawn Land using artistic frames of the GN via youtube:
Check it out!
And, heads up the Lakota grandmothers are traveling in from the Pine Ridge Rez in SD this April…here’s their website below!! They will ultimately land here in Washington, DC on April 16th. If your in the area come out to give your respects to these elders!
This was a contest for Pantheon Books: “Draw the house you grew up in; mimic Chris Ware’s Building Stories style”. Well, I did kind of. But the directions are hard to follow if the question it self assumes things about you that are not true… Like growing up in a house, one place with one family… That’s not how it went down for me, but I still tried! Hope you like!
“Cuteness” is a main character in this GN. And of course I secretly, but not so secretly hope that Merle and Chunky are queer and have strayed from one another to work out their complicated queer love. 😉
In Good-bye, Chunky Rice we don’t know the genders of the main characters. Also, the story doesn’t really show any romantic couples. There are pairs but usually we can assume they’ve stuck together out of fate rather than choice. For example, the Siamese twins and the sailors. So much of our media/story telling revolves around romantic love, usually hetero romantic love and so Chunky gives us a break from that. We can read that story line in to it (as I did by queering the main characters) but in the end it’s now explicitly there.
Queer love, friendship love or it doesn’t matter?
This is one of my favorite GNs and so i’ve included it here as a guest, in this space that is foremost reserved for comics, graphic novels and zines by womyn/folks of color.


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The Olive Pink Opera, produced by the Olive Pink Botanic Garden, is the showcase event in the 2022 Desert Song Festival program.
The opera will be performed on two nights only, 7 – 8 October 2022, in the spectacular setting of the Olive Pink Botanic Garden – the garden that Olive created.
Desert Song Festival
At this ten-day event, extraordinary choirs, voices, and musicians come together from multi-cultural Central Australia and across Australia to make exceptional music.
Set in unique locations of outstanding beauty and cultural significance in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), the country of the Arrernte people, the festival program explores the theme of Sustainability through music, song, storytelling, and symposia.
Our cradle is Mparntwe, the country of the Arrernte people, the traditional custodians. Our stages are unique locations of outstanding beauty and cultural significance, including the Olive Pink Botanic Garden.
Throughout the festival of exceptional music-making, choirs and musicians from this vibrant multi-cultural community will come together with artists from across Australia to present over 50 events celebrating the singer, the song, the instrument, the land, and its people.


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It's a brand new week and time for our latest discovery...
Da Charmin Prince a d Sikidi Boy just redefined what true love is in their recently released music video #MyNyango!
Uprising Cameroonian born star, C E O and founder of Cash Flow Music Group, Da Charmin Prince serves the audience with the highly anticipated visuals to his much and highly acclaimed smash debut hit single “My Nyango” featuring his label signed artist Skidi Boy .
The video was shot and directed by Yan Frame of Creativeye Productions in locations in the heart of Bangkok, Thailand and also in Buea, Cameroon.
The video was edited by Dr Nkeng Stephens of Cameroon Phase Entertainment (CPE).
The afro-beat mid tempo song was produced by the legendary and talented SlimBeatz of Best Music Inc. This is sure, one of the many more great and wonderful songs to get from this young talented Artist/Entrepreneur.
Da Charmin Prince and the rest of the talented Artists of Cash Flow Music Group are the new generation of stars to watch out for!
“Believe In Yourself”
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Enjoy...the best part of it comes at the end! #believeInYourself!
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US Market | Futures Indicator: Dow futures up more than 100 points after blue-chip index rallies back above 25,000
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 172 points, indicating an opening gain of about 207 points when regular trading resumes on Thursday. S&P 500 futures also pointed to a positive open for the index. Nasdaq-100 futures, on the other hand, pointed to a Thursday opening dip.
The overnight moves Wednesday evening promised to add to sharp rallies in the major stock indexes so far this week.
The Nasdaq Composite, S&P 500 and Dow all extended week-to-date gains during Wednesday’s regular trading session and finished the day up 0.77%, 1.48% and 2.2% respectively. The broad S&P 500 closed at its highest level since March, above 3,000; the Dow jumped 553 points to finish Wednesday’s session north of 25,000, its own highest close since March.
The S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Dow are up 2.7%, 0.9% and 4.4% since the start of the holiday-shortened week. The Dow is on track for its best week since the week ended April 8.
Equity of companies that stand to benefit the most under reopenings, such as the airlines and retailers, led the major indexes higher Tuesday and Wednesday. Kohl’s, Nordstrom and Gap all rose at least 14% on Wednesday while airlines Delta, American, Alaska and United rose 2.6%, 7.5%, 2% and 3.8%, respectively.
Meanwhile, those stocks that outperformed as stay-at-home orders went into effect in March have lagged in recent sessions. Zoom Video dropped 1.2%; Shopify, Amazon and Teladoc Health fell 2.3%, 0.6% and 1.1%, respectively.
Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia Philip Lowe offered more optimistic comments on the country’s economic situation and the efficacy of efforts to contain the impact of Covid-19.
Lowe told lawmakers that since the nation’s health outcomes are better than earlier feared, “it is possible that the economic downturn will not be severe as earlier thought.” He added that the central bank’s mid-March move to guarantee liquidity and easy borrowing “is working as expected and it is helping build the necessary bridge to the recovery.”
Thursday’s forthcoming update to the U.S. unemployment claims threatened to keep the week’s optimism in check.
The Department of Labor is scheduled to release the latest update to initial jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. ET Thursday morning. Though economists polled by Dow Jones expect the government to announce yet another deceleration in the pace of claims, the consensus estimate predicts another 2.05 million Americans filed for insurance during the week ended May 23.
Last week, the Labor Department reported another 2.44 million Americans had filed claims in the week ended May 16, which brought the coronavirus crisis total to some 38.6 million, by far the largest loss in U.S. history.

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The return of Kyrie Irving after missing 3½ months with injury was both entertaining and encouraging.
Irving, who was playing his first game since suffering a right toe injury in early December, came off the bench in the first half of Duke's second-round 87-45 win over Hampton to a rousing cheer, and played a relatively benign seven first-half minutes.
But in the second half, when the game was far out of reach, Irving started to loosen up a little and show flashes of the player he was before his injury.
Irving played 18 minutes, led all scorers with 14 points and added four rebounds, two steals, a block and an assist. He also made both of his 3-point attempts and all four of his free throws.
The fact that the game wasn't competitive probably helped. Irving seemed to really settle in during the final 10 minutes and that's where he did most of his damage. He shot jumpers and attacked the basket, though he was careful not to land on or take off on his right foot. Still, he made a leaping steal on a crosscourt pass and seemed unafraid to drive, the type of play that caused his injury in the first place.
Friday's game was a confidence booster and showed exactly how important Irving could be for the Blue Devils to make a run to a consecutive national championship. But things will get a lot tougher when the Blue Devils face Michigan in the third round Sunday. The Wolverines also had a blowout win against Tennessee and will be brimming with confidence when they meet the defending national champs.

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Sleeper: Symphony No. 1, II. Adagio
Paul Phillips and The Meadows Symphony Orchestra perform the premiere of Sleeper's Symphony No. 1 - this video of movement II Adagio - the entire work is on YouTube and was recorded for Albany Records. Phillips will premiere the 4th Symphony this October with the Meadows Symphony Orchestra in Dallas, Texas.


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What is a pleading in law?
Pleadings are the foundations of the lawsuit. Any case or trial lies inside the foundations of pleadings. Means pleadings are documents filed by the parties in the suit, and the basis of that element of the lawsuit parties in the litigation can make their perfect legal stand. The parties to the lawsuit can resolve legal disputes in a case after the pleading has been presented on-court record.
The various types of pleadings sued in the particular purpose of the lawsuit according to pleadings in law. The pleading is a primary element of the court, essentially pleading means A written statement made by the parties to the action, and a pleading may be a complaint, a reply. Whether by a plaintiff or defendant, his field.
About the pleadings of the provision in the Code of Civil Procedure Act, 1908, Order 6 clarified the pleadings in detail in general. Each litigation starts with pleadings where the plaintiff’s side files pleadings known as a petition, claim, suit, complaint, etc.
As a plaintiff, he submits his pleadings in writing and attaches all the necessary documents to the pleadings which are a relay to his lawsuit. Pursuant to order 6 of Rules 1 to 18, explains the various pleading principles.
As the defendant’s party, we can say that the pleadings are a written statement, a counterclaim, a reply to the plaintiff’s case, a reply to the plaintiff’s lawsuit, etc. The defendant may also submit his pleadings along with documents that are relayed to him and take an appropriate defense in the suit.
In short, we can say that pleadings are the primary documents that the parties have filed regarding the legal dispute involved in the lawsuit, whether as a plaintiff or defendant.
Order 6 R. 17 of CPC: Amendment of pleadings:
The provision of the amendment of pleading extracted here below,
“17. Amendment of pleadings:
— The Court may at any stage of the proceedings allow either party to alter or amend his pleading in manner, and terms as may be, and all such amendments shall be made as may be necessary for determining the real questions in controversy between the parties:
Provided that no application for amendment shall be allowed after the trial has commenced unless the Court concludes that despite due diligence, the party could not have raised the matter before the commencement of trial.”
The original provision under Order 6 Rule 17 of C.P.C. is that at any stage of the proceedings, the court may entertain an application seeking amendment of the pleadings if it is necessary to determine the real issues in the dispute between the parties.
That provision was deleted from the 1999 Civil Procedure Code (Amendment). This omission was made to ensure consistency for new Civil Code changes. Yet, later, the Civil Procedure Code (Amendment), 2000 repealed it. The amendment allowed the court the power to authorize, with some restrictions, the submission of claims.
The court could allow amendment of pleadings at any stage of the proceedings. The court allows parties to modify and amend their pleadings in a manner that is justifiable and subject to conditions, and require all pleadings to be changed as required to settle substantive disputes among parties.
Basic principles of amendment of pleadings:
In the case of Revajeetu Builders and Developers v. Narayanaswamy and Sons and Ors. (2009) 10 SCC 84, The Supreme Court held the Following are certain basic principles which should be taken into account all the while allowing or rejecting an application for amendment:
(1) Whether seeking an amendment required for the appropriate adjudication of the suit decision?
(2) The application of amendment should be bona fide, and the application could not be made for the mala fide intention.
(3) Other’s praties right should not be prejudice cause of the amendment, which not recovered in terms of money.
(4) For not granting the amendment should not lead to injustice or multiplicity of proceedings.
(5) Whether an amendment would permanently change the nature of the case?
(6) The Court should reject amendments if a fresh suit on the amended applications were barred by limitation on the date of application..
These are some of the crucial factors that may be taken into consideration when dealing with a requirement filed under Order VI, Rule 17. Which are illustrative only and are not exhaustive. The decision on a request made pursuant to Order VI, Rule 17, is a serious judicial exercise, and the said exercise should never be taken casually.
Although it usually deals with an application for amendment, the court does not deny the necessary or bonafide provision of amending pleadings. But if the request for amendment was submitted with the intention of mala fide, then the court will refuse.
In the case of Haridas Aildas Thadani & Others v. Godraj Rustom Kermani, (1984) 1 SCC 668, The Supreme Court held “It is well settled that The court should be extremely liberal in granting a plea amendment unless there is serious injustice or irreparable loss on the other side. It is also clear that, in the absence of convincing reasons or compelling circumstances, a revision court should not interfere lightly with the discretion it exercises to allow an amendment..
When amendment of pleadings is permissible?
The primary purpose of Rule 17 CPC of Order 6 is to allow both parties to amend or modify their petitions in a reasonable manner. The power to allow amendments in full and may be exercised at any stage in the interests of the judiciary. On the basis of the guidelines of the various High Courts, the amendment is indeed right. It can not, however, be claimed in all circumstances. When deciding on such prayers, the courts should not grant them the usual manner.
The court has, admittedly, sufficient power to deal with a petition to amend the pleadings. If the court considers that the amendment is necessary, it shall require a decision on the actual dispute between the parties.
However, the court has limited power under order 6 of Rule 17 if such an application made by the parties after the start of the proceedings can not be allowed and the court has ample authority to reject it. Amendments would be accepted in pleadings in order to avoid the multiplicity of disputes between the parties.
An application to amend the pleading may be granted after the commencement of the proceedings. Such an application may be a grant to reduce the multiplicity of cases.
When the amendment is bonafide, truly valid, and does not cause permanent financial loss to the other party, even after the start of the trial, the amendment of pleadings may be permitted.
When amendment of pleadings not allowed?
No application for amendment shall be allowed after the trial of the case, and no modification of pleadings may be accepted during the trial unless the court concludes that, despite diligence, the party was unable to present the matter before the trial began.
The pleading is an important ground in any legal case, it should be presented very carefully by the parties in court, but sometimes when the circumstances of the case are to be changed, the party needs to apply to the court in order to amend the pleadings.
The court typically allows such an application, but the court must take note that allowing such an application will not change the original nature of the case when making an application to amend the pleadings.
An application to amend a pleading is subject to a grant in court until the start of the case. The court does not allow the application to amend pleadings after the start of the trial, however, the court may grant such an application to avoid the multiplication of cases.
At about the same time, the court finds that granting the other party and application to amend these pleadings does not cause irreparable loss. If he does, the court will not allow pleadings to be amended by the application.
(1) (2009) 10 SCC 84
(2) (1984) 1 SCC 668

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Thanks to all who came out to the PTO meetings yesterday on a snowy night! The grant committee will have a final announcement soon and here are some general meeting take-aways in case you weren't able to attend our monthly meeting last night.
PTO had a well attended Book Fair and Fall Family Night. Through the generosity of families and with Book Fair proceeds over 300 books were added to classroom libraries . The curriculum components were well attended and staff members are looking forward to sharing again at the next event.
Save the date for Dec. 10-11 for our Shop to Donate Days at the Northtown Barnes and Noble. PTO will get a percentage back from all purchases of toys, books, stationary, drinks, made in store or online those days. Principal Nymann will be reading a story on Dec. 10th at 7pm and other readers will be announced soon.
PTO is looking for more Wednesday morning Volunteers as well as co-chairs for Art Adventure, Wed. Volunteers & Green Team.
There was a discussion about mental health and support for students and parents. Schools do have some curriculum around this area and the district is planning a family event aimed for January. If you have any questions or are looking for support, please reach out to the school.

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Alley Cats and Kittens, a local cat welfare group, has launched an urgent appeal for much needed supplies of food and blankets as the cold winter weather approaches.
This appeal comes after an unusually busy few months for the Southport-based group which saw their stock holding of food, litter and blankets whittle down to the bare minimum.
The group is now seeing light at the end of the tunnel with this year’s kitten season seeing over 100 cats and kittens needing help in as many days, 50 of which are still in the care of their fostering and emergency teams.
Helen Gallagher from Alley Cats said: “We’ve seen more poorly and injured kittens this year than ever before. It’s really tested us as a team and stretched our resources to the absolute limit.
“We recently shared the story of Hero on our Facebook page . Hero is a beautiful stray tabby boy who was found wandering the streets with a severely injured tail and in a lot of pain. A local lady alerted us via Facebook and we quickly jumped into action and brought him in for assessment.
“Hero needed emergency surgery on his tail. Unfortunately, due to the extent of the damage, most of it couldn’t be saved.
“He’s currently under the watchful eye and loving care of Trudy Latham and is doing very well. We expect he’ll make a full recovery from his ordeal, minus his tail. We’d like to thank the community for their quick action and alerting us to his situation. You all played a part in saving him from a very grim end indeed.”
The group is in desperate need of donations in order to allow them to continue helping and caring for cats like Hero.
Alley Cats and Kittens have drop off points throughout Southport and the surrounding areas, details of which can be found on their Facebook page .
Items such a wet and dry food, blankets, duvets for nursing mum cats and litter are things they use by the wheelbarrow load every day.
They are a totally self-funded group and rely on donations and fundraising to help them to continue their work in the community.
Please call 07557 879 510 to see how you can help.

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Most of us are driving less, these days. Australians are buying cars at a rapid rate, but we’re driving them less on average. According to the ABS, back in 2000, Australia’s 9.7 million passenger vehicles travelled an average of 15,100 kilometres. In its latest Survey of Motor Vehicle use, ABS revealed the number of passenger vehicles has swelled to 13.4 million, but each one (on average) drives just 13,200 kilometres.
Over the 15 years (inclusive) we are, on average, driving 12.6% less distance – although, obviously there are many car owners driving much less distance than average. If you are one of this substantial group contributing to the decline, there’s something about servicing you really need to consider.
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When to service
Manufacturers specify maximum time and maximum distance intervals for servicing. Hyundai, for example, specifies 12-month or 15,000 kilometres on most of its vehicles. Subaru requires servicing at six months or 12,500 kilometres.
Let’s say you are a driving just 10,000 kilometres annually in your new Hyundai. It might be convenient to assume you won’t need a service for 18 months, but it would also be a mistake. The time and distance intervals are specified on a ‘whichever occurs first’ basis – so if you get to 12 months before hitting the magic 15,000-kilometre odometer reading, you need to get your vehicle serviced.
If you’re not a car nut, you probably understand that some components in your car – like brakes and tyres, for example – wear out in direct proportion to the amount you drive (subject to all other things being equal). If you drive twice as far, your tyres wear out twice as fast. Simple.
However, not all mechanical wear and tear is that simple. Engines buck this trend. The precise clearances in your engine are designed around the thermal expansion of the parts as the engine warms up – as the metal expands, the clearances become optimal. Unfortunately, it means the majority of mechanical wear takes place in the first few minutes after a cold start. It also means that combustion byproducts blow past the rings and contaminate the engine oil.
In other words, typical short-distance drives are a hell-on-earth experience for engine oil – which has only one function: to protect the engine from wearing out. And this is why there’s a time-based component to vehicle servicing. You might not be able to see or feel this assault on your engine oil – but it is taking place.
Service regularly to save your engine
Letting servicing slide on the basis of ‘I really don’t drive that much’ is at best a guarantee of early retirement for your engine. At worst, however, it voids your warranty. (The ACCC is abundantly clear that your warranty depends on complying with the manufacturer’s servicing specifications – on time or before the distance: whichever occurs first.)
Realistically, scrimping on servicing really doesn’t save you that much – and the risk is disproportionate. If the oil fails to protect the engine and it spins a big-eng bearing supporting the crankshaft, the repair bill could be a healthy four- or even five-figure sum.
About the Author:
John Cadogan is an Australian automotive journalist and is currently editor in chief of CarLoans.com.au. He frequently presents news for some of Australia’s top companies such as Channel 7’s Today Tonight and 2UE radio. John can be contacted via twitter or via the contact page here.