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Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker website. Sam Lipsyte’s “The Naturals” was originally published in the May 5, 2014 issue of The New Yorker.
I loved Sam Lipsyte’s story, “The Naturals.” A story about death, it’s crammed with life. It’s funny, poignant, awful, wonderful, thoughtful, scary, and witty. It is so filled with acts of love by such flawed people it’s like watching a Cirque du Soleil put on by the local Lions Club. How dare we live when we’re so bad at it? How fair is it that we die, when, occasionally, we’re so good at life? How do we deal with it all, anyway?
Caperton, a single guy with business problems, has to fly home. His father is dying — again. Home means revisiting his mother’s death, his lonely childhood, and his father’s failures as a father. Home means, in the words of his step mother Stell, the temptation or even compulsion to unleash the inner “crumbun.” Life, the way it does for all of us, seems to be happening all at once to Caperton: his father is dying, the love of his life has left him, and his consulting business is falling apart. That is not to mention the fact that Caperton has to watch his step-mother and his father’s best friend take solace in each other.
You’ve been in a house where someone is dying, right? It’s not all hospice and honey. (Though Hospice is one of the great, great inventions of the twentieth century.)
Caperton seems to have a split consciousness: that life ought to be capers and cream cheese, on the one hand, and that life is as heavy as heavy as a ton of bricks, on the other. He is filled with “an unassuageable rage,” and he tells us about how he is periodically seized by “The Intermittent Belt of Sorrow,” something that feels an awful lot like an impending heart attack to the reader. So familiar to me, and maybe to you, too. Is he going to make it, the story asks? Or, if he does, how?
I loved this story, I loved these people, I loved the riffs on food, and I loved the offhand fruitcake mélange of serious literary stuff. How do we deal with death? One way we deal is we eat. One way we deal is to flounder around. Inevitably, we deal by behaving really badly. In the house of death we even fight with each other. Sometimes we even rough each other up. Oh, so sad! So totally off-base! So true!
But way more to the point, we tell stories. That’s what Lipsyte does, and that’s what the characters in this story talk about — they talk about stories! But how they talk! Like real people.
Each of the characters in this story has a take on how stories work and why they’re important and what they should be. This potpourri about story-telling is fabulous and worth the read in and of itself. I want to take a minute and remark that TV, the internet, movies, memoir, advice, and stories are all legitimate parts of their discussion, and in fact, a rave about a TV serial (what Roddy Doyle would have called a “Box Set”) turns out to be pivotal in the way Caperton’s father is able to give him a parting gift. Lipsyte is echoing Roddy Doyle: writing comes in all forms, and readers come in all types. I even wondered if either Lipsyte or The New Yorker editors were reacting to Roddy Doyle and the pull TV had for his characters a few weeks back in “Box Sets.” Caperton and his father discuss which version of The Natural is better, the movie, with its changed ending, or the dark, dark book. This is not so much a discussion of craft as one of philosophy: how should you look at life? What gets you through? But also, talking about stories is one of the ways we talk to each other. What we talk about when we talk about stories is what matters most to us.
In “The Naturals,” Lipsyte says: life is full of love and death. And we’re so-so at both, and occasionally we’re god-awful, and occasionally we’re great. In talking about Thomas McGuane’s “Hubcaps,” I remarked that a couple of his characters chose love. But that was a dark, dark story, and we weren’t sure how McGuane’s boy would survive, even if a couple of people showed him love when his own parents didn’t. Lipsyte is more hopeful than that. In “The Naturals,” people are broken, limited, silly, and selfish, but they also redeem themselves with surprising, right, natural, wacky, wonderful acts of love.
Lipsyte makes a point of this. A guy Caperton meets on the airplane, a pro-wrestler named “The Rough Beast of Jerusalem,” is love itself, pumped-up, turned-on, unacceptable, larger-than-life love.
I don’t want to overstate the point of the wrestler’s name. Lipsyte doesn’t. Lipsyte is moving so fast in this story that he doesn’t linger or overstate. But the bravery! The writer embraces the idea that even a crumbun deserves love, and crumbuns though we all are, foolish and selfish as we are, we sometimes find the means to give it. Though he does echo the idea that it’s a choice.
I love the way the writer uses being funny to bear the weight of this lyric idea. I also love the way he says that stories are part of how we survive.
What a great story. Lipsyte debates Yeats on the nature of the rough beast slouching toward Jerusalem. There’s a lot there to think about. But what craft — to be so real, so funny, so literary, so touching — in such a small space! What a great story.


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List of publications on a keyword: «verbalization»
FSBEI of HPE "Ufa State Oil Technical University" , Башкортостан Респ
«Cognitive comparative analysis of «civilization» and «culture» concepts in Russian and English languages»
The article considers content-based links between the concepts of «civilization» and «culture» in the Russian and English languages. The purpose of the study is comparing their content-based components in the lexical semantic fields of verbalization of the concepts under consideration in the Russian and English languages. The research employs the method of cognitive comparative analysis. The analysis of lexical and semantic composition reveals similarities and differences in their structuring in the English and Russian languages. According to the author the result of comparison suggests implications that the concepts under study are perceived differently by the representatives of the Russian and English cultures and contributes to the revelation of national peculiarity of conceptualization of cognate phenomena in the mentality of different peoples.
FSBEI of HE "Voronezh State University" , Воронежская обл
«Specifics of translation of emotive vocabulary»
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«The communicative world image as a basis of actualisation of implicit theories of a person (on the example of english language)»
The article is devoted to the cognitive aspect of verbal actualization of implicit theories of a person in a dialogue, to the definition of a concept as a fragment of ethno-cultural background in the mental world of a person, to the analysis of a speech-making process that accompanies the verbal implementation of implicit theories of a person. The article contains the examples taken from the English and American literature that support the ideas put forward in the article.

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North Carolina has 96 Important Bird Areas across the state that support wildlife in very special ways while offering a recreational playground for birds and people alike. In this special blog series, each of Audubon North Carolina’s 10 chapters will take a walk through their IBAs to give readers a glimpse of what can be enjoyed in our own backyards.
Please welcome guest-blogger and member of the Mecklenburg Audubon Society, Jim Guyton.
“More than 200 species of birds have been documented at this 900+ acre county-owned wildlife refuge lying along the banks of the Catawba River. Other state and local agencies protect adjoining lands, preserving a total of more than 2,000 acres of wildlife habitat along both sides of the river.” NC Birding Trail
On the first spring morning, driving slowly to the parking area at the observation deck, I was immediately greeted with a surprise.
I came across four other birders who had their eyes to the sky listening to a song, but the tune we heard was a bit off from a Northern Parula. We had high hopes for a Cerulean Warbler sighting! Hope prevailed and we had quick glimpses of the Cerulean.
This was the first record sighting of a Cerulean in the Refuge in five years. What a great way to start the day!
Two of the birders were at the Refuge to check on some Prothonotary Warbler boxes, initially placed in 2009 using IBA conservation funds. The first four years had warbler counts of 27 clutches with 59 fledglings. Ron Clark and Tom Sanders have now begun their fifth year of monitoring the boxes, and eleven were replaced for the 2014 season.
After the excitement of the Cerulean Warbler sighting, I continued on to the see what activity I could find at the observation deck. Eastern Bluebirds were busy working on a cavity nest in a dead tree just out from the deck. The deck is a great roost that often provides spectacular bird viewing and photo opportunities, and it is also used for the Mecklenburg Audubon Society’s annual Big Sit.
Along with the bluebirds, I was also able to watch Common Yellowthroats, Palm Warblers, a Belted Kingfisher, Chipping and Field Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers– plenty of entertainment. Then a grey Northern Harrier cruised by looking over the prairie area for his breakfast.
I returned for a second spring visit later where I spent most of the morning at the observation deck with my cup of hot tea, binoculars and camera, what a great morning of birding!
I was able to see the returning Indigo Buntings, Orchard Orioles and Yellow-breasted Chat, Yellow Warbler, Bobolink, Wood Duck, Eastern Kingbirds and Blue Grosbeaks. Overhead, a Bald Eagle, Osprey and Red-tailed Hawk were spotted.
What a great way to start the weekend! I highly recommend you all visit this vibrant IBA anytime of the year. You will be in for real a treat.
The Cowan’s Ford Wildlife Refuge is located on Neck Road in northern Mecklenburg County and was designated as an Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society in 1999. Also deemed Protected Natural Area, public access to the 850-acre refuge is limited to a mile-long stretch of gravel road and the wildlife observation deck on site.
Even with limited access, the gravel road travels through several diverse habitats including hardwood forest and open fields while the observation deck overlooks a grassland restoration area complete with two ponds.
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Cubs (0-0) at Pirates (0-0)
1:05 PM — PNC Park, Pittsburgh
TV: ROOT Sports, WGN, ESPN
It’s not doesn’t get much better than this — well, until Buctober, that is. After a long winter full of memories from a great 2013 and anticipation for 2014, Pirates baseball is returning to PNC Park. The forecast is absolutely beautiful and the North Shore will be buzzing all day. It should be an awesome day to spend at the park – but for the first time in a while, that’s not the only thing PNC Park has to offer — competitive baseball is now the top priority and headline. That’s what I’m really excited about.
It’s a long season and one game, week, or month doesn’t mean a lot in the long haul, but it is definitely going to be important for the Pirates to get off to a good start. A poor start would get all the talk about the bad offseason and the how last year was a fluke — obviously I’d much rather maintain momentum from last year instead. The Bucs also open the year with a long streak of games within the NL Central, so a hot start would be extra-beneficial in the standings. It’s true that the Bucs don’t look as good on paper as they did in the playoffs last year, but they do look better than they did at the start of last season. Let’s hope that means a better start than last year – in 2013, the Bucs lost the opener at home to these Cubs and went on to start 1-5.
As for today’s opponent – the Cubs appear to be destined for last place again, but it does seem like they know what they’re doing as they rebuild. They have a new manager (Rick Renteria) and a few new faces here and there (and an awful new mascot), but this is mostly the same club that lost 96 games in 2013. They should be a little better with some minor improvements and a lack of improvements around the rest of the division, but this doesn’t appear to be a team poised to surprise.
Info on today’s game:
The game is on ESPN nationally, but not in the local markets – those near Pittsburgh will get it on ROOT Sports, as usual. The first pitch is at 1:05 instead of the usual 1:35, presumably because of that ESPN telecast.
There will be lots of on-field ceremonies before the game, beginning at 12:30. Here’s all the info – the headliner is the return of Barry Bonds to present Andrew McCutchen his MVP award. This is a pretty shocking thing to me – regardless of what you think of Bonds, I’m pretty sure he’s going to be booed loudly, which will kind of put a damper on Cutch’s moment. Dick Groat will be presenting it as well, which should help. Jim Leyland and Jack Wilson will also be on hand to present the Manager of the Year and Silver Slugger awards to Clint Hurdle and Pedro Alvarez.
Petrina McCutchen will sing the anthem – an outstanding choice – she nailed it at the Wild Card Game and is obviously a crowd favorite. Ralph Kiner‘s son Scott will throw out the first pitch.
Parking is a nightmare for weekday games at PNC, especially when it’s a sellout. Get there early and have a plan. The Pirates have some suggestions here. They will also be using metal detector wands at the gates, which can delay entry a bit.
Samardzija is no stranger to PNC or Opening Day – you probably remember the gem he tossed a year ago to send the Bucs to 0-1 in 2013. He has excellent numbers in Pittsburgh – the Pirates got to him a few times later last year but he has owned the Bucs for the most part. Overall, though, he had a disappointing season last year and seems like kind of a surprise choice to pitching the opener for the Cubs. Amazingly, he will become the first pitcher (including any Pirate) to pitch multiple openers at PNC Park.
Liriano was the Bucs’ go-to guy all of last season, so he was a no brainer to start the opener. He was especially dominant at home and always seemed to come up big in the spotlight, so you have to feel good about sending him to the mound. The knock on Liriano this winter has been the fact that he’s never had good seasons back-to-back. That seems like more of a random stat to me than something that has actual predictive value, but I guess we’ll see. Durability may be a concern (he got off to a late start last year). I’m confident in him – he was consistent in 2013 and nothing about his results seemed fluky, and as a lefty pitching to Russell Martin – in front of the Pirates’ defense – at PNC Park – he has a lot going for him.
LET’S GO BUCS!
*Just a note — instead of previewing every game like this, I’m going to be doing it on a series-by-series basis this year, as they tend to get tedious and monotonous. I’ll make exceptions from time to time, though, and Opening Day deserves its own post.

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Thursday, 29 January 2009
Tug boat, Marine Museum, Rotterdam
Boat Painting # 1, Marine Museum, Rotterdam
oil on canvas
18 x 13 cm
painted on location, Tues 27 Jan 2009
This was made just before yesterdays Red Lighthouse boat painting. One could spend weeks on end painting in this location, as there is a vast assemblage of boats and ships to work from. The play of light made this fun for me to paint. As I was working on a rather small format, I had suffiecent time to record it, before it changed.

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An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
Union Films is your student-run cinema, right at the heart of Highfield Campus. Located in the Union, we're completely run by volunteers; from the from the front of house staff who sell tickets and refreshments, to the projectionists who show the films on our 35mm and digital projectors. You can help out as much or as little as you like, and when you do, you get to see films for free!

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Review: could Menopause cause Agitation?
(By eHealthMe on Feb, 28, 2014)
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On a scale of 1 to 4: 1=least, 2=moderate, 3=severe, 4=most severe
We study 3,903 people who have Menopause. Among them, 27 experience Agitation. See who they are, other conditions they have and drugs they take. This review is based on reports from FDA and social media, and is updated regularly.
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Menopause (latest reports from 13,220 patients) is typically treated by Estradiol, Premarin, Prempro, Prometrium, Progesterone, Femhrt.
Agitation (state of anxiety or nervous excitement) (latest reports from 304,980 patients) has been reported by people with depression, quit smoking, pain, stress and anxiety, acupuncture and pain.
On Feb, 28, 2014: 3,898 people who have menopause are studied. Among them, 27 (0.69%) have Agitation.
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- Arimidex (25 people, 92.59%)
- Estrace (25 people, 92.59%)
- Lisinopril (25 people, 92.59%)
- Prempro (25 people, 92.59%)
- Gentamicin (24 people, 88.89%)
- Ibandronate sodium (24 people, 88.89%)
- Femhrt (24 people, 88.89%)
- Erythromycin ethylsuccinate (24 people, 88.89%)
- Combipatch (24 people, 88.89%)
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This paper on nature-based tourism in protected areas of Japan highlights the policy and institutional arrangements of Japan’s unique park administrative system, and presents an overview of park tourism in the country. Common trends and challenges to park tourism that emerge from the overview include a focus on guiding aspect of ecotourism; the issue of “I-turns” and definitions of “local community;” regulation of tourists entering protected areas; roles of the local and prefectural governments to provide institutional support for ecotourism in a market already dominated by the private sector; and difficulties in developing ecotourism under the current Japanese national park management system. The paper emphasizes the importance of local community consensus and participation for sustainable park tourism management, and highlights the opportunities for multi-stakeholder partnership that have been made possible by recent amendments to the National Parks Law. The paper ends with the proposal that community-based nature tourism has a potentially critical role to play in facilitating effective integrated protected area management in the future.
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I found this recipe on one my favorite blogs - Eating Bird Food and I started making/eating this during lent because it doesn't have any meat in it. Of course you can substitute chicken or tuna for the egg in this recipe if you prefer! It's super yummy and a healthier spin on traditional egg salad and easy to make! If you want it with a li1ttle less calories, only use 1 or 2 of the egg yolks, and the rest just egg whites! I like to eat it with triscuits, but you can toast up some bread, lettuce, or just fork it in all by itself :) Enjoy!
Curried Avocado Egg Salad
4 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
½ large avocado, cubed
½ Tablespoon dijon mustard (I just use a litle bit of this, it can be a little strong...)
1-2 teaspoons relish or chopped pickles
1-2 teaspoons green onion, chopped1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
¾ teaspoon curry powderdash of hot sauce
sea salt and ground pepper, to taste
Add the avacado to a bowl and mash it up. Add in remaining ingredients except for eggs and mix up until blended. Chop up the eggs (or chicken or tuna) and add into the bowl and mix together with a fork. Season with additional salt and pepper.
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This 'Strike Up The Band' YouTube video shows how music has transformed in the digital age. People can now create what is commonly called 'multitrack audio,' songs with several instruments or parts, performed by only one person.
This YouTube video showcases a group of inter-regional artists who have spun the idea of 'multitrack audio' by performing 'Strike Up The Band' using multitrack audio, but with four singers across the globe. Multitrack audio is a fairly popular tool for singers who enjoy the old barbershop style, which has four distinct vocal parts.
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While maladaptive daydreaming (MD) is not currently recognized as a psychiatric disorder, a new study suggests that the condition deserves more clinical attention. The researchers found that only about 20% of an ADHD sample met criteria for MD, suggesting that maladaptive daydreaming involves a unique form of inattention that makes it distinct from ADHD. The findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Maladaptive daydreaming is the act of immersing oneself in detailed, imaginative fantasies that consume one’s attention at the expense of everyday functioning. This type of daydreaming shares some overlap with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a condition involving difficulty maintaining attention.
However, the authors of the current study proposed a distinction between MD and ADHD. The researchers suggest that the daydreaming associated with ADHD is better described as mind wandering — the spontaneous shifting of attention to task-unrelated thoughts. Maladaptive daydreaming, on the other hand, is defined by daydreaming that is intentional, complex, and vivid. These distinctions are important because the two forms of daydreaming may have different underlying mechanisms and call for different treatment.
“In a previous study, we recruited about 40 people with MD and did a full clinical interview with each of them to identify if they meet criteria for any DSM-5 disorders, and if so, which. The most striking finding in that study was that they had overwhelming levels of clinical-level psychopathology: all participants met criteria for DSM-5 disorders, with most of them meeting criteria for more than one, often even three or four,” said study author Nirit Soffer-Dudek, a senior lecturer and head of The Consciousness and Psychopathology Laboratory at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
“In addition, we found that 77% of the sample met criteria for ADHD, most of them to the inattention only type (without hyperactivity). Spontaneously in the interview they explained that their difficulty concentrating on tasks was a result of their addiction to fantastical daydreaming. Thus, we began to view meeting criteria for ADHD as a secondary result of MD.”
“Moreover, we came to view this supposed ‘comorbidity’ not as a true comorbidity but rather as inaccurate labeling. Specifically, it seemed that if MD were a formal diagnostic syndrome, the label of ADHD would be superfluous for these people (because the symptoms seemed to be better explained by MD in their cases). We assumed that having MD leads to meeting criteria for ADHD, but not necessarily vice versa.”
For their new study, Soffer-Dudek and her colleagues aimed to investigate whether MD is a distinct mental phenomenon from ADHD by examining rates of MD among people with ADHD. While studies have found high rates of ADHD among people with MD, if the two constructs are independent, people with ADHD will not have similarly high rates of MD.
A group of 98 people with ADHD completed online questionnaires that assessed ADHD symptoms, several measures of psychological distress, and maladaptive daydreaming. Of these participants, 59 had elevated MD scores and were contacted to undergo a clinical interview to assess MD. After 44 of these participants responded and were interviewed, 17 met criteria for MD. Accounting for selective dropout, this means that roughly 20-23% of the full sample of ADHD participants also met criteria for MD.
Notably, this rate of MD in an ADHD sample is far smaller than the previously reported incidence of ADHD in an MD sample, which was around 77%. This suggests that the two constructs are distinct, with MD involving unique characteristics that are not explained by ADHD.
The study authors suggest that maladaptive daydreaming is better described as a dissociative disorder or behavioral addiction, rather than an issue of attention. They suggest that MD is an “independent mental phenomenon, which often creates a deficit in attention as a side effect, causing MDers in some cases to also meet criteria for ADHD, but not necessarily vice versa.”
Participants who met criteria for both ADHD and MD had higher depression and loneliness, and worse self-esteem. These heightened symptoms of distress were not explained by ADHD symptom severity, suggesting a unique contribution of MD.
The researchers note the importance of distinguishing between the two conditions. “There are many reasons why people may find it hard to focus,” Soffer-Dudek told PsyPost. “The ADHD diagnosis is a bit broad in that it looks mainly at the end result, and not on the inner dynamic of thought leading to that result. We suggest that different thought dynamics should be treated differently.”
“If your ADHD stems from general mind-wandering with ever-changing distractions (which is characteristic of typical ADHD), you may need different treatment than if you find yourself compulsively drawn to engage in elaborate, narrative, vivid and highly emotional fantasies (characteristic of MD). If it is the latter, we suggest seeking psychological help, and introducing to the clinician the concept of MD, which has been researched extensively in the past years, but is still quite unknown.”
Along similar lines, many people with MD have called for better recognition of the construct of maladaptive daydreaming, expressing that the existing psychological definitions do not adequately capture the depth of their experiences. While further study is needed to confirm whether MD should be considered a psychiatric disorder, it could be that some people with an ADHD diagnosis would be better served by a diagnosis of MD.
“If someone has fanciful immersive daydreams but does not experience them as a problem, then that would not count as MD, and is not a problem,” Soffer-Dudek noted. “Our aim is not to pathologize normal daydreaming. MD describes a situation where the person feels that their addiction to daydreaming is impairing their lives (e.g., loneliness, difficulties concentrating due to daydreaming, or difficulty creating or maintaining relationships because it is easier and more rewarding in the short run to daydream them).”
“Many MD communities exist online (e.g., Facebook, Reddit) offering peer support,” Soffer-Dudek added. “Also, we have a website dedicated to the research of MD, where people who see themselves as suffering from MD can register to get news updates on the topic and be offered to participate in research.”
The researchers are currently seeking participants for a new study. “We are looking for people who have been diagnosed as suffering from ADHD (they don’t have to be maladaptive daydreamers),” Soffer-Dudek said. Information about the new study can be found here: https://bgupsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2lQVt6a2JKLFzD0
The study, “Could immersive daydreaming underlie a deficit in attention? The prevalence and characteristics of maladaptive daydreaming in individuals with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder”, was authored by Nitzan Theodor‐Katz, Eli Somer, Rinatya M. Hesseg, and Nirit Soffer‐Dudek.

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A summertime story only Elin Hilderbrand can tell: a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fill an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises.
Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement.
It's only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she's embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery store - a place without distractions where they can escape their troubles.
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So I LOVE any nature show that’s in HD with lots of close ups.
Needless to say, the Plant Earth series is one of my absolute favs!
Planet Earth II is set to come out soon! This trailer looks amazing.
Think of all the tiny little drones with camera they had to use to film some of this stuff!
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Icy roads blamed for several accidents
Most of the crashes involved vehicles rolling over or sliding into the ditches and medians after hitting slick portions of the area’s major highways, including Interstate 94 and U.S. Highway 10. The roads became slippery after winds blew snow across them during the late morning and early afternoon hours, authorities said.
In one crash, law enforcement and rescue crews responded to a single-vehicle rollover at 12:50 p.m. on I-94 at mile marker 336 east of the Casselton, N.D., exit.
There were two occupants in the vehicle. One was airlifted to MeritCare Hospital in Fargo, said North Dakota Highway Patrol Sgt. Dave Wolf. The other was taken to MeritCare by ambulance.
Other North Dakota crashes occurred on I-94 at the Ayr exit and on I-94 at the University Drive exit, Wolf said. There were no injuries.
Clay County Sheriff Bill Bergquist said his department responded to nearly a dozen vehicle crashes today that were likely caused by icy roads. No serious injuries were reported, he said.
Bergquist recommends drivers slow down because the posted speed limits are not ideal for driving on slick roads. Drivers should also avoid using their cruise control feature and use headlights during the day, he said.
Minnesota State Patrol authorities responded to a single-vehicle rollover at 12:14 p.m. on Highway 10 just east of Lake Park involving two adults and a 1-year-old baby.
Road conditions were icy at the time of the crash, the State Patrol reported. The pickup was being driven by a pregnant Detroit Lakes, Minn., woman.
Ashley Collins, 19, was not wearing a seat belt at the time and suffered nonlife-threatening injuries, according to the State Patrol.
Also riding in the pickup were Kenneth Hampshire, 21, of Audubon, Minn., who received nonlife-threatening injuries, and an unidentified baby who had no apparent injuries, the State Patrol said.
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On Sunday, a major march for immigration reform will take place in Washington, D.C. Tens of thousands of people will gather to call on the White House to lead, and put forward an immigration reform bill whose time has come.
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Wildlife and gorilla trekking tours adventure combines gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Volcanoes National park. Enjoy gorilla trekking, an adventure of a life time in both Uganda and Rwanda.
The ideal option for value and almost guaranteed sightings is Uganda, where you’ll find the mist-capped Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, while Volcanoes National Park, in Rwanda, is traditionally known as the best place to trek.
Bwindi gorilla safari gives you an opportunity of budget gorilla tours in Uganda which is so far the best safari activity in Africa.
With a minimum of 400 mountain gorilla population which is more than half of their entire world population (880) of which 15 groups are habituated for trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Only 80 permits are granted per day both in Uganda and Rwanda. Make sure your outfitter books the lodge closest to the entry point noted on your permit. You have paid $600 to see the gorilla the $20 goes to a local man living near the forest.
Gorilla tracking permits are available from the Uganda Wildlife Authority. While the permit may seem steep, 20% of the receipts go to communities living around the park while the rest is required to finance the Uganda Wildlife Authority’s efforts to provide adequate protection of the gorilla families in this area of Uganda.
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park can be done in any of its 4 trekking regions including Buhoma where the three gorilla families of Mubare, Habinyanja and Rushegura thrive; Ruhija where other three gorilla families of Oruzogo, Bitukura and Kyaguriro, Rushaga with its five gorilla families of Mishaya, Nshongi, Bweza, Busingye and Kahungye and lastly Nkuringo with one gorilla family named Nkuringo.
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The Valle de Tena has many distinctive old houses with thick stone walls and sloping slate roofs, marked and decorated with beautifully crafted doors windows and heraldic emblems, etched in stone.
The Roman and Medieval bridges together with Romanesque arches are also some of the architectural features to be seen here.
Within the area it's worth visiting the The Ángel Orensanz Museum which collects material and artefacts from all over the Pyrenees and nearby is the Mueseum of Drawings in Castle (sketches) which is one of its kind in Spain.
The Serrablo Route of Romanesque churches is a set of 15 churches all in similar style, each with unique features and quite particular to this small area.
All of them are situated in the left bank of the Gállego river: Lárrede, Isún, Satué, San Juan de Busa, Oliván, San Bartolomé de Gavín among more. Chronologically they date back to between the mid 10th and mid 11th centuries.
It's worth including the Catheral in Jaca here too as it isn't that far from the Tena Yalley. It's a Romanesque building dating back to the 11th century and whose Diocesan Museum houses a wide collection of Romanesque and Gothic paintings. A little farther from Jaca is the Romanesque Monastery of San Juan de la Peña carved into the rock and declared a National Monument in 1889. It's also worth visiting Santa Cruz de la Serós, a medieval village with an 11th C monastery and a church called San Caprasio which is an excellent example of Lombardy Architecture.


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Avocado is a common sight in our Japanese restaurant in Bellevue. Though native to Mexico, these hearty fruits first made their debut as a sushi ingredient back when the dish was still a novelty in the United States. Sushi chefs in LA discovered its potential to help simulate the experience of eating raw fish, thusly easing wary Americans into the idea. In this way they created the first California roll, and avocado has been a staple of Japanese fusion ever since.
Apart from being a delicious addition to sushi rolls, avocado is also one of the planet’s healthiest foods. They contain over twenty-five important nutrients, including copper, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, fiber, and vitamins A, B, C, E, and K. Their abundance of protein and iron has made them a long-time vegetarian favorite as a substitute for meat. A diet rich in the fruit can protect you against heart disease, prostate cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, strokes, obesity, and even bad breath!
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The findings of a recent study on air pollution levels in Nairobi are shocking. The study shows contamination scale of air inhaled by city residents is five times higher than the recommended international levels.
Experts attribute the dangerously high toxic levels to extreme concentration of diesel-consuming vehicles and high-rise buildings that hold the polluted air while blocking out cleaner air. But with excessive air pollution usually associated with myriad health conditions, this is an environmental hazard we cannot afford to harbour anymore.
The Government has a chance to reverse the situation before it gets out of hand. And it would not take rocket scientists to do this. First, scientific studies have shown that trees can significantly decrease overall air pollution levels by removing gaseous air pollutants and particulate matter.
The Government should also enforce deliberate measures to trim over reliance on motorized transport, effectively trimming the number of vehicles in the city. This can effectively be achieved by investing in railway transport. Relocating public matatu termini to the city’s periphery could also be a part solution to this problem.
It would equally be prudent that the proactive measures to curb air pollution be considered during architectural planning. This should involve constructing skyscrapers a healthy distance away from each other and relocating highly populated facilities such as shopping malls away from the city centre.


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My dream of Paris
20 April 2015
My wife and her friend went to France at early in April.
She said, it was very wonderful that walk in Paris city of early spring. And I heard that she tasted many delicious foods. Fresh oyster and white wine, Macaron, Fruit tart etc.
And more she said with joy, she was very much impressed by Mont Saint-Michel.
I have never been to France.
I regret that I could not go to France with her.
I want to walk in Paris city.
If I can go to Paris, I will walk a riverside of the Seine on a fine morning.
If I can go to Paris, I will go on a cruise to art museums in the daytime.
If I can go to Paris, I will drink many cups of wine, and I will eat delicious foods in the night.
I’m dreaming of Paris.


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That's why I switched from L i p i t o r ® to a (mostly raw) vegan diet. When a so-called 'Wonder-Drug' precludes me from eating grapefruit, requires a liver-function tests and generates a kick-back to my doctor for prescribing it, I start to wonder.
uhg.. I totaly understand. I get past the side effects with the hope that eventually I will get used to the meds and side effects will disapate. What kind of meds are we talking about here? Im on suboxone which is for opiate addicts and it causes major side effects and withdrawal.. But it helped me get clean so I am thankful for that . Its been hard but im still on the meds. Sorry you have to go through this, it sucks
Yes and I research natural ways to treat conditions and use it as much as possible. I don't know why but doctors will sit down with their presc<x>ription pad and write out one or more presc<x>riptions rather than clue their patients in on diet or other treatments that could be highly therapeutic for treating the condition. I've talked to two different people at a store where I worked who were limping painfully to the pharmacy to pick up a presc<x>ription for gout medicine. Both told me how painful it was and neither were advised by their doctors on the gout diet which avoids certain protein foods and includes foods like cherries, dark cherry juice & strawberries to help neutralize the uric acid levels.<br />
Nearly all pharmaceutical medications have side effects that will effect certain people more than others, it's a big risk and experiment to take them.


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Jokers are fun too. Simple Face Painting Ideas for Kids that include jokers are as fun as the animal paintings. The most important reason why kids love joker's faces is that they are interesting, as the element of emotion is exaggerated in the face of a joker. Besides, joker's faces are easy to paint. Have a look on free printable coloring pages for kids.
Spooky Pumpkin Halloween Face - This is one of the easier Halloween face painting ideas, and you can easily customize it for multiple people by making the "pumpkin's" mouth show different expressions. For example, here you have a "spooky" pumpkin, but you could also have a happy, sad, or maybe surprised pumpkin.
Whether your kid wants to be a dog, skeleton or tiger, these easy-to-follow instructions for 12 different Halloween face painting ideas will guide you through every step of the painting process.
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Author Tags: Fiction
Born and raised in Ontario, Jenn Farrell is a freelance writer and editor in Vancouver. A two-time winner of the Vancouver Courier fiction contest and a recipient of the 2002 Maclean-Hunter Endowment Prize for non-fiction, she has authored two collections of short stories, Sugar Bush & Other Stories: Stories of Sex, Discovery, & Emancipation on the Canadian Shield (Anvil, 2006) and The Devil You Know (Anvil, 2010).
[BCBW 2010] "Fiction"
The Devil You Know by Jenn Farrell (Anvil $16)
from BCBW Winter 2010
Some stories, such as Jenn Farrell’s “day of the dead,” grab you by the lapel and don’t let go. Doesn’t matter where you are. You can be stuck in traffic, on a hot afternoon, trying to get onto the Lions Gate Bridge.
“Sam found the car keys on the hook by the front door and drove her mother’s rusty Accord straight to the hospital. She gave her name at the reception desk and waited for a social worker named Elise to take her down to the morgue.”
By the time you’ve reached Lost Lagoon, Sam (Samantha), the good-looking but single Vancouver hairdresser—whose flight to Toronto didn’t get her to the deathbed in time—has to identify her mother’s emaciated, cancerous carcass.
“For the first time, Sam could see the resemblance between her mother and her grandmother.”
Your seat belt is fastened. You’re not using your cell. There’s no by-law against reading, is there? Yet.Rubbernecking and reading are both acts of curiosity. You can’t not slow down and peek. Jenn Farrell’s opening story in The Devil You Know is like a roadside accident scene.
The fastidiously polite Funeral Services Director, Michael, who addresses Sam as Miss Black, explains some bloodless protocols. To assert herself, Sam asks how do clients know for certain that a $600 urn for ashes isn’t replaced by a cardboard box, then re-sold again and again?
Our Miss Black is not a nice girl. She has inherited some of her mother’s nastiness. And anger. When Michael produces the pamphlet with suitable phrases for tombstones, she inwardly composes her own alternate epitaphs. Thin at last. Or, even better, I told you I was sick.
We start to care about Samantha when she confesses she is oddly enamoured of this business-like cemetery guy, Michael. It’s a bit humiliating for her, but it’s better than feeling nothing.
“She’d been aching for physical contact with someone—no matter how stupid the circumstance—even this small-handed man in a suit.
“She had brushed against the hand of the gas-station attendant when he passed her her credit card slip that morning, and the urge to wrap herself around him had almost made her cry with longing.”
Geez, West Vancouver is so bland. You are glad you don’t live there anymore. You’re opposed to light summer reading. If anything, we need an antidote to Frisbees, ice cream cones and fireworks...
Samantha retreats to the stifling house in southern Ontario that she now owns. Her mother has left her a vindictive, self-centred note, a final rebuke to her desertion. Past the bitter end, her mother is suffocating. Farrell writes, “Her loneliness felt like a garment around her.”
Sam can’t bring herself to sleep in her mother’s bed. She drinks cherry whiskey that tastes like cough syrup and wakes on the sofa. She eats a bag of ketchup chips for breakfast. She calls Michael to make an unnecessary second appointment.
“She was two for two now, if anyone was keeping score on missing the death of a parent. Sam hadn’t made it to her father’s passing either, when he was crushed between two train cars at the steel mill a month before her birth.”
Wearing a sundress that she worries is too young for her, Sam returns to the cemetery where she tells Michael she’ll take a Robert Browning quote. It’s the least offensive item on the remembrance menu. The undertaker surprises her by reciting four lines of the stanza from which the line has been taken.
Michael leads her on a stroll of the grounds. It’s not exactly romantic, but it’s something. She selects a spot for her mother’s remains in the shade of a maple.
When he asks if she has given any consideration to making her own arrangements, Sam is mystified. “I thought you were about to ask me out,” she blurts.
Sam grinds the gears and pulls out of the parking lot.
You have just reached the curb of your mother’s apartment building. Your mother is 83. The story is almost done.
Back at her mother’s place, Sam takes scissors and starts chopping off her hair. She can’t stop cutting. Soon there is only stubble. Sam runs her hands over her patchy head. “The woman in the mirror looked naked, skull-like,” Farrell writes.
“Sam saw her grandmother’s cheekbones, her mother’s baleful eyes. She saw her own emptiness, her heart so open, so capable of love, and not a soul in the world to give it to….
“And, somewhere, a hole in the earth waited for her.”
You ring the buzzer. The rest of these stories are going to be good, too. Some things, you can just tell.
Most hype is just that. But book reviewer Jennifer Croll was bang on when she announced in the Georgia Straight that Jenn Farrell is a bad-ass version of Alice Munro. It sounds like hokum, but Munro’s short stories are similarly ambivalent about conventional morality.


Many customers have been asking for a device to mask odour from vacuum tanker pumps. After scanning the globe for a solution, we are stocking these compact units that fit onto the exhaust of the vacuum pump.
When you switch them on, the unit will mask the odour into the exhaust when you turn the pump on and the air comes out. You can adjust the unit to dose as much or as little as you want.
Regular cleaning is recommended and can be done using a dry cloth.
Refilling the container is easy - the liquid must be diluted with water, which is noted on the side of the plastic container.
Click here to order more of the odour neutraliser concentrate.
Allflow provides a detailed guide about the device that shows how to install it - click here to download it and find all the technical details inside.
There's a lockable door where you insert a key and a general key switch on the right side supplies the pump inside with electrical power through an external cable to be connected directly to the tanker's battery.
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Still looking for something special?
Why not treat your mum on Sunday 26th March to something as scrummy as she is ? She’ll get a free glass of bucks fizz on arrival too.
Available Sunday 26th March 2017 only. Booking is advised to avoid disappointment.
Please ask at the bar for more details, tel 01582 840330 or contact us by email.
Mothers Day Menu
- Smoked salmon with king prawns Served on a bed of lettuce with a horseradish cream & a lime vinaigrette
- Soup of the day Served with freshly baked crusty bread
- Garlic mushrooms (v) Button mushrooms sautéed in a garlic butter, served with freshly baked crusty bread
- Bruschetta (v) Bruschetta topped with finely diced onion & tomato garnished with parsley
- Minted Lamb Pan fried minted lamb rump on a bed of garlic roasted potatoes, served with seasonal vegetables and a port & redcurrant reduction
- Fresh & zesty tiger prawn tagliatelle Succulent tiger prawns and tagliatelle tossed in a arrabiata tomato sauce, dressed with lemon zest and fresh parsley
- Crispy tofu & mango fried rice (v) Seasoned battered tofu served with mango rice and homemade chilli jam
- Three Blackbirds traditional roast Choose from either topside of beef, roast leg of pork or chicken breast. All served with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and seasonal vegetables
- Chocolate Tart Chocolate tart served with salted caramel ice-cream
- Zesty lemon meringue sundae Layers of vanilla ice-cream, meringue and cream swirled with a special lemon sauce
- Fully loaded chocolate sundae Layers of vanilla ice-cream, chocolate ice-cream, fresh cream filled profiteroles, chocolate sauce and marshmallow pieces. Add £1.50 additional supplement
- Apple Tart Warm individual apple tart served with your choice of vanilla ice-cream, custard or fresh cream
V = suitable for both vegans and vegetarians.
We also have a small selection of desserts for vegans please enquire at time of booking
Click here to go the Reservations page or ring us on 01582 840330 to book a table.


The Global Affairs Center at Shoreline Community College, directed by Larry Fuell, will present a program, “Mindfulness in the Classroom” Thursday, Feb. 22, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. The presenter is Professor Carol (Mimi) Harvey, Communication Studies, in Shoreline CC’s 9000 Building, Room 9208.
The program “should be of interest to educators and anyone interested in cross-cultural communication,” Fuell said.
The program is open to the public and free but registration is requested by clicking here. There is a $4 fee for parking on campus in the daytime.


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WEDI, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Foundation, recently announced release of its 2013 report, generated in partnership with healthcare industry leaders. The report identifies the following four critical focus areas:
•Patient Engagement: consumer (patient) engagement through improved access to pertinent healthcare information.
•Payment Models: Business, information, and data exchange requirements that will help enable payment models as they emerge.
•Data Harmonization and Exchange: Alignment of administrative and clinical information capture, linkage, and exchange.
•Innovative Encounter Models: Business and use cases for innovative encounter models that use existing and emergent technologies
The report also presents a set of recommendations for the development of healthcare information exchange over the next ten years.