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Record This Week: 4-2.
Overall: 11-8, first place by one game.
4/23: DH Jonny Gomes’ RBI single broke a 4-4 tie in the eighth- and in conjunction with Drew Stubbs’ subsequent two-run hit- gave the Bats a 7-4 victory over Toledo. Carlos Fisher, who blew a save by allowing a runner inherited from starter Ramon Ramirez (6.32, 5.2 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 5 K) to score, ended up with the victory (W 2-0, 1.93, 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 K). Pedro Viola pitched two hitless innings for save #1 (1.80, 1 BB, 2 K). Gomes finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI (the other ribbie coming on his second home run of the season). He’s now raised his average to .262. Stubbs, who’s also struggled all season so far, was 2-for-4 with the two RBI to raise his rate to .179. SS Chris Valaika picked up a homer (#2) and a single (.184) and 1B Danny Dorn two hits and a RBI (.195). 3B Adam Rosales smacked a double and triple to keep his average over .400 at .408.
4/24: Bats should have had this one. They led the Mud Hens 4-1 going to the bottom of the eighth, but Toledo scored one off Robert Manuel (5.19, 1.1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER) in that inning, two more off closer Josh Roenicke to tie in the ninth (BS #2, 1.1 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 4 K) and the winning run in the tenth to beat Adam Pettyjohn (L 0-2, 4.66, 0.1 IP, 2 H, 1 ER)- final score: 5-4. Good news has Matt Maloney with a third straight strong start- 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 7 K in 106 pitches, 71 strikes. His ERA is now 1.86. Valaika homered again (#3, 2-for-5, .204), 1B Kevin Barker was 3-for-5 (.229), and Rosales kept it going (.407, 2-for-5).
4/25: Norris Hopper started the Bats’ first with a bang by socking his second triple of the season, then immediately scoring on Valaika’s sacrifice fly. His next time up (in the 3rd), he lined a one-out single and then stole second a few pitches later. But Valaika grounded out and Rosales flied out to end the inning. Starter Sam Lecure did nicely at first, surviving back-to-back singles with two out in the third to keep the Mud Hens off the scoreboard. 3B Wes Bankston crashed homer #4 in the fourth to make it two-zip Bats. Lecure seemed to get stronger as he went along; his pinpoint control caught two Toledo hitters looking in a 1-2-3 fifth. It wasn’t until two outs into the seventh, after Sam walked his second man of the inning, that manager Rick Sweet pulled him in favor of Pedro Viola. Final line for Lecure: 6.2 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, 6 K, 102 pitches, 60 strikes. Viola grounded out Jason Tyner to end the seventh and threw a scoreless eighth with a hit, walk, and two strikeouts (1.42). Manuel pitched a 1-2-3 ninth (4.66, 1 K). The Bats lineup added more runs here and there, thanks to solo homers from Barker and Gomes (both #2). Bankston also knocked in two in the eighth with a single to finish with three RBI (.349). Bats win, 6-0.
4/26: Homer Bailey got his revenge on Toledo after he was ejected in his last start on them for hitting a batter following the third of three Mud Hens homers in just two-plus innings. This time around, Bailey got a big early lead from his offense, then proceeded to whiff no less than 15 ‘Hens (tying the Louisville team record, held by Ken Hill in 1990) in 6.1 innings! He got all three men in the first (around a double), one in the second, two in the third (a solo homer to C Dusty Ryan and a walk in there), three in the fourth (all swinging), three in the fifth (also all swinging, with a single thrown in), two in the sixth, and the leadoff hitter in the seventh before a walk to Ryan that caused manager Sweet to replace him with lefty Ben Jukich for the rest of the Bats’ 10-3 rout (4.41, 2.2. IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K). The bad news: Bailey racked up 118 pitches for that 6.1-4-2-2-2-15 line (W 2-2, 6.20). Barker continued his hot hitting with a pair of homers (#3 and #4, 3 RBI, 3-for-4) and so did Bankston (.354, 2-for-5, homer #5). 2B Danny Richar, still starting with new acquisition Drew Sutton sidelined by mono, was 3-for-5 with two runs scored and two RBI (.182). Hopper also knocked in four runs with a double and triple. Another note I picked up later: with the two-homer game, Kevin Barker now holds the Bats team record for career homers (71) as well as multi-homer games (7). You ask who held the previous records? Guess before clicking.
4/27: The Bats’ bats ON FIYAH! They brutally battered Indianapolis (PIT) starter Daniel McCutchen for four runs in the first inning of this one- Hopper led off with a single, Richar doubled to score one, Rosales doubled to score Richar, and one out later Bankston capped the burst by bashing a two-run bomb, #6. Meanwhile, Daryl Thompson looked far better in his second start, holding the Injuns to four hits and three earned runs over 5.2 innings despite exactly zero strikeouts (W 1-1, 9.31, 1 BB, 1 HR). Carlos Fisher came on to strand a runner and hold a 4-3 lead in the sixth, then the Bats added a couple of insurance runs- a Stubbs RBI double (2-for-4, .211) in the sixth brought in SS Luis Bolivar and Rosales (completing a perfect night in which he went 3-for-3 with a walk and two RBI) singled in Hopper an inning later. Bats win their third straight, 6-3, after Robert Manuel (3.86, 2 IP, 2 K) and Josh Roenicke (save #2, 1 IP) set down the last nine Indianapolis hitters in consecutive fashion.
4/28: Indy pounded on Ramon Ramirez (L 0-2, 7.65, 4.1 IP, 7 H, 8 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 2 HR) for a ton of early runs and the Bats’ three-run seventh left them two short of a comeback; Indians take it, 8-6. Good relief work by Jeff Kennard (3.86, 1.2 IP, 2 K), Pedro Viola (1.23, 1 IP, 1 H, 1 K) and Adam Pettyjohn (3.86, 2 IP, 1 H, 1 K) left the door open. Stubbs led off this game and responded nicely, lashing three hits, including a double, and recording his first stolen base of ’09 (.256). Rosales is now at .431 after two more hits and two more RBI. (He also played SS this time around, interestingly.) And Gomes pounded a three-run homer in the first (#3). Chris Valaika started this game at 2B and was 0-for-4, dropping his average back down to .176.
Moves & Notes: Our Man Homer is the International League Pitcher of the Week for 4/20-4/26. Bailey struck out 18 in 12.1 innings, walked six, and won twice.
(4/28) INF Adam Rosales was recalled by the Reds after he extended his hitting streak to 11 games in the afternoon; he was in the Cincinnati dugout that night. C Brian Peterson was activated from the Billings roster to replace him. You may remember Mr. Peterson, who played in the Reds' system from 2001-2005 (best season 2004 at AA: .300/.365/.444) despite originally being signed and released by Cleveland. He spent 2008 at AA Bowie in the Baltimore system after signing late following a stint in the indy leagues.
Record This Week: 2-5.
Overall: 8-12, fourth place, 2.5 games behind Tennessee (STL).
4/23: All the runs in the game had scored by the middle of the second inning- it was Huntsville on top, 2-1, and that’s the way it stayed. SS Zach Cozart singled in CF Chris Heisey, who’d doubled, in the bottom of the first for the only Mudcats run. 3B Jose Castro reached base four straight times with three hits and a walk- but couldn’t score or drive in any runs (.389). Starter James Avery struggled with his control (L 0-2, 3.60, 4 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 5 BB, 4 K). Alex Smit turned in a nice stint (1.23, 2.1 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 4 K) and so did Derrik Lutz (1.23, 1.2 IP, 0 H, 2 BB, 3 K).
4/24: Carolina blew a 5-0 lead to fall behind 9-6, then rallied to tie before the Stars popped Federico Baez (L 1-2, 2.79, 2 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 1 K- it was Baez’ own throwing error that caused the unearned runs) for three in the top of the ninth to pull out a battle of field goals, 12-9. The Mudcats built their early lead on power, smashing four bombs off Stars starter Mark Holliman. Heisey led off the Carolina first with homer #4; C Chris Kroski connected the next inning for his first; 3B Juan Francisco hit a two-run shot as well in the second, his third; 1B Logan Parker launched a solo shot in the third, his second. SS Zach Cozart was 3-for-5 with two runs scored (.345) but committed two fielding errors, uncharacteristic of him. Heisey finished 3-for-6 with three RBI- he’s now hitting .340/.462/.698 in 15 games with four homers, nine RBI, and six stolen bases. At this rate he’ll be in Louisville by mid-May. Parker (2-for-2, 2 R, 2 BB, 2 RBI) raised his average to .292. Francisco finished 2-for-5 to crack the Mendoza Line at .203.
Relievers Ruben Medina (3.72, 2.1 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 1 K) and Camilo Vazquez (9.00, 1 IP, 1 BB, 2 K) looked pretty decent, although starter Misael DeJesus couldn’t say the same (12.27, 3.2 IP, 6 H, 9 R, 6 ER, 4 BB, 1 K). That’s one fabulous start and two terrible ones for the 24-year-old.
4/25: Dallas Buck tried to keep his record perfect at the expense of the Tennessee Smokies (CHC), but they jumped him in the first inning for a run to take the early lead. They made it 2-0 in the second on a RBI hit by Smokies starting pitcher Chris Lambert (a throwing error on Cozart, his third in two games, didn’t help matters; he was then ejected shortly on the scoring play for reasons I don’t think I want to know). Dallas continued to walk the tightrope through six innings, serving up twelve hits and five runs (three earned, so it was technically a quality start) (L 2-1, 3.47, 0 BB, 4 K). He threw 67 strikes in 89 pitches, which may have the problem- too many grooved fastballs. The Mudcats got six singles and two walks and stranded all eight on base in the 5-0 loss.
4/26: Four straight losses, as the Smokies got three unearned runs in the seventh off hard-luck starter Travis Wood (L 0-3, 0.83, 6 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 3 K) and Derrik Lutz (0.96, BS#2, 0.2 IP, 1 H, 3-3 inherited runners scored) to turn a 3-1 deficit into what later became a 4-3 win. Carolina made three errors all told, including #6 of the year for Francisco and #5 for Cozart. Both of those miscues came in the fateful seventh. Juan did have a RBI double (.194) earlier. Frazier (.338) singled in one of the other Mudcat runs and 2B Eric Eymann brought home the third (.190).
4/27: Justin “Biff the Understudy” Mallett took the mound for the Mudcats as they looked to snap their losing streak. He wasn’t shelled (4.2 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, 5 K) but he was Smoked out by the fifth. Ruben Medina came on to strand a man in the bottom of the fifth and preserve a 4-4 tie, then throw a 1-2-3 sixth. Federico Baez set down six straight with two Ks (W 2-2, 2.31). In the top of the ninth, pinch-hitter Mike Griffin led off with a double. A sacrifice bunt attempt by Chris Heisey resulted in two Tennessee throwing errors on the same play (courtesy of their third baseman and rightfielder), and when the dust cleared Griffin had scored and Heisey went all the way to third! (Five Smokies errors in total on the day). Cozart grounded out. Francisco was intentionally walked, but Frazier popped up. Logan Parker then stepped up and delivered a clutch single to make it 6-4 Mudcats. Sean Watson would almost need that insurance run, as he loaded the bases with one out before getting a strikeout and a fly ball to center to end the game and the losing streak. First save for Watson, who sports a 1.13 ERA despite ten baserunners in eight innings. Heisey finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored (.373) and Parker was 4-for-5 with two RBI (.300) despite two caught-stealings. Francisco was also 3-for-4, raising his average to .224.
4/28: Carolina blew leads of 2-1 and 4-2 early in the game, but a Francisco two-run bomb (#4) in the fifth and two key insurance runs in the ninth helped them hold on to beat the Smokies, 7-5. Juan finished 3-for-4 with a single and triple in addition to the longball (.250, 2 R). Heisey drove in those ninth-inning runs with a single and also picked up his seventh stolen base. Starter James Avery used better-than-normal control to get through eight innings on just 97 pitches (W 1-2, 3.52, 7 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 2 HR). Ramon Geronimo continues to struggle; he served up a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth and now has an ERA of 10.12 on the year- with nine walks and three homers in eight innings.
4/29: Tennessee won the rubber match of the five-game series (standard in the Southern League) over the Mudcats, 8-4. Misael DeJesus was better than the last two times, just not good enough to win today (L 1-2, 9.92, 5.1 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 2 HR; one was by the Smokies starting pitcher). Smit gave up one more unearned run later on (1.00, 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K) after Francisco’s seventh error of 2009 and a passed ball on Kroski. Camilo Vazquez walked three and permitted three earned runs in his one inning, exploding his ERA to 9.72. Nobody in the Carolina lineup could manage more than one hit save 2B Jose Castro (2-for-4, .345, R, RBI). The Castro RBI hit and a two-run error gave the Mudcats three in the ninth, but Cozart grounded out to end the game.
Moves & Notes: (4/25) RHS Jordan Smith placed on the 7-day DL; RHP Justin Mallett added from Louisville or Billings or whatever sheet of paper he was on at the moment.
Record This Week: 3-4.
Overall: 7-12, last place, five games out.
4/23: Jeremy Horst pitched well (L 0-2, 2.25, 6 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 5 K) but was outdueled by Charlotte’s (TB) David Newmann, 2-1. Sarasota had three runners caught stealing and hit into three double plays, greatly reducing their scoring opportunities. 1B Yonder Alonso’s sacrifice fly in the top of the first scored CF Jeremy Reed with the Reds’ lone run. Interesting note: Ben Davis, the 32-year-old converted catcher, made his first game appearance as a pitcher and threw a 1-2-3 scoreless ninth with a strikeout.
4/24: Sarasota started promisingly enough, plating three in their half of the first on an Alonso sac-fly and RBI hits from DH Carson Kainer and LF Dan Perales, but it was straight downhill from there. When the dust cleared, Palm Beach (STL) had completed a 10-3 rout. Starter Jerry Gil wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t good enough, either (L 0-3, 6.94, 5 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 3 HB) and Daniel Guerrero was racked for six earned and eight hits in 1.2 innings of relief (8.71).
4/25: Palm Beach beat on starter Matt Klinker for two in the first, but the Reds fired back with two outs in third when Alonso doubled, scored on 3B Neftali Soto’s double, and C Devin Mesoraco drove him in with a base hit. This held until the fifth, when the Cardinals chased Klinker (4.79, 4.2 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K) by breaking the tie; Logan Ondrusek came on to stop the bleeding and hold the score at 3-2. Again the Reds retaliated, tying the score in the seventh after SS Justin Tordi and CF Jeremy Reed both singled with two out, moved up on a wild pitch, then Tordi managed to score on Alex Buchholz’ fielder’s choice grounder before Reed could be retired at third. On came lefty Joe Krebs for the eighth (Ondrusek didn’t give up a hit for 2.1 innings, cutting his ERA to 1.54.) He walked two, but got through it. After Alonso and Soto made outs in the Reds’ half, Mesoraco stepped to the plate and launched his first FSL home run, breaking the tie! On came Ben Davis to get two fly balls and a groundout for the save, and Sarasota wins it 4-3. Mesoraco’s two hits and a walk raised his average to .154 (yes, it’s been that kind of a start for him). Krebs got the win (1-1, 4.26).
4/26: Ben Davis struck out the final Palm Beach hitter in the top of the ninth to strand two runners and preserve a 5-4 Sarasota win! It was a fairly rough inning of work for Davis (save #2, 3.00, 1 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 K) but he got the job done. Enerio Del Rosario got the win in relief (W 1-1, 0.96, 2.2 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 K) of starter Travis Webb (4.70, 4 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 3 K). 2B Justin Tordi, not known for his bat, lashed three straight hits and drove in a run (.200). Reed was 2-for-4 with a run scored, a RBI, and steal #4 (.268). Buchholz picked up two ribbies with a single and sacrifice fly and Kainer got the last one with a bases-loaded walk.
4/27: Zach Stewart headed Back Out There to see if he could miss a few more bats this time around, what with the eleven hits in five-plus (despite only 1 ER) last time around. But the Stonecrabs (TB) battered him for three in the first (only one earned). One alarming problem was Charlotte stealing three bases off the Stewart-Mesoraco battery in the first inning alone (!). Charlotte went on to score six runs in total off Stewart in the first three innings. Zach settled down to put up a zero in the fourth before departing with two outs in the fifth (2.89, 4.2 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 6 K). Two shaky outings in a row. Meanwhile, the Sarasota bats fought back. Down 6-0 in the third, they put up five runs, four coming on Yonder Alonso’s grand-slam homer- his fourth of the season. An out later Mesoraco walked and RF Denis Phipps tripled him home for the fifth run. The Reds then grabbed the lead in the sixth with three more. Mesoraco walked again to lead off the inning. Phipps singled. A passed ball moved both runners up. An out later, DH Jason Bour smacked a double to score two! Justin Reed then doubled in Bour to make it 8-6 Reds. Luis Montano allowed a run in the top of the seventh, but held the lead (W 2-2, 5.79, 2.1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 1 BB) for Logan Ondrusek (1.42, 1 IP, 2 BB, 1 K) and Phil Valiquette (save #2, 1.04, 1 IP, 1 H, 2 K) to preserve. Excellent comeback win for the S-Reds.
4/28: Jeremy Horst looked good (1.64, 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K) as the Reds and Stonecrabs were knotted through six, but the 2009 debut of righty Jeremy Freeman resulted in Charlotte breaking the tie in the seventh and then piling on six runs in the eighth (L 0-1, 1.2 IP, 4 H, 6 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, 1 HR, 1 HB) to finish with an 8-1 rout. Freeman, 22, pitched at Billings last year and had a 3.95 ERA and a fine 9/48 BB/K ratio in 41 IP, so this might have been level-jumpin’ jitters. Alonso singled in Reed, who’d stolen second (#5) after smacking his own single, for the Reds’ only run. Yonder also walked twice and now has nine walks to eleven Ks to go with his .227/.312/.485 line in 18 games. Reed’s two hits and walk pushed his average to .297.
4/29: I guess the Reds keep starting Jerry Gil to get him some innings after his conversion from position player, but his performances have not been strong in a starting role. Charlotte was merciless, bombing Mr. Gil for eight runs in three-plus (L 0-4, 10.20, 3.1 IP, 9 H, 8 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 1 HR) and winning, 8-6, as they held off an extended rally that saw Sarasota score in five straight innings between the second and the sixth. Del Rosario (0.69, 3.2 IP, 1 H, 4 K) and Ondrusek (1.23, 2 IP, 3 K) did great relief work. Kainer hit his second homer and added a single and run scored (.260). Soto, slumping as of late, was also 2-for-4 with a run and RBI (.213). Mesoraco picked up a RBI double in his trek towards the Mendoza Line (.154).
Moves & Notes: (4/23) RHR Ben Davis was activated and INF Jake Kahauleilo placed on the 7-day DL with a left hand contusion. INF Kevyn Feiner (who apparently was not released) was added to the roster. LHR Jesus Carnevales was sent to Dayton. (4/26) RHR Daniel Guerrero was DL’ed with an elbow injury and RHR Justin Freeman added from Billings.
Record This Week: 4-3.
Overall: 5-14, last place, ten games back.
4/23: Make it 1-12; the Dragons were never in this game, as Great Lakes (LAD) led 2-0 after 1, 4-0 after 3, and 7-0 after 4. They finished with a 10-0 shutout. Eight hits and ten men left on base for Dayton. Curtis Partch (L 0-2, 8.03, 3.2 IP, 8 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, 1 HR) started.
4/24: DRAGONS WIN! DRAGONS WIN! The Loons hung a five-spot on starter Oscar Castro (7.50, 5.1 IP, 8 H, 0 BB, 5 K) in the fourth, but Dayton BATTLED BACK with three in the fourth (two-run triple from RF Byron Wiley, RBI infield hit from 1B Carlos Mendez), one in the fifth (C Jordan Wideman’s sacrifice fly) and three in the sixth (two-run single by Wiley, balk) to TAKE THE LEAD and WIN 7-5! Mace Thurman (W 1-0, 2.61, 2 IP, 0 H, 2 BB, 5 K) dominated in relief. Scott Gaffney struck out both men he faced (7.71) and Aguido Gonzalez punched out two of three in the ninth for the save (6.48). Wiley’s 2-for-3 night (4 RBI, BB) pushed his average to .345. LF Kyle Day scored three runs. Dayton supplemented their seven hits with seven walks and both Day and RF Brandon Menchaca recorded outfield assists (the latter at the plate).
4/25: Same old thing, sadly, as Dayton falls behind eight-nil at the hands of South Bend (ARI) and then does too little, too late in a 9-3 loss. Starter Leo Astorga may need some fine-tuning in extended spring training; he was blasted for seven more earned runs on nine hits in 4.2 innings to fall to 0-3 with a 18.90 ERA. Wiley continued a hot streak with two more hits and two more RBI (.375).
4/26: DRAGONS WIN AGAIN! Everything clicked on both sides of the ball for the Dragons, as they whomped South Bend, 8-1. Lefty Matt Fairel built on his dominant 12-strikeout previous start with seven more good innings (W 1-1, 2.61, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K). LF Tyler Stovall, an Ohio University product who’s struggled badly so far, smashed a three-run homer and added a RBI single (2-for-5, .148). 1B Humberto Sosa was 3-for-5 with two doubles, two runs scored, and a RBI (.228). Puckett hit a two-run homer in the eighth, #3. Mendez was 3-for-4; he’s now 5-for-11 in his first three games. CF David Sappelt, his hitting streak ended, started a new one with three hits (.292).
4/27: Rained out.
4/28: MAKEUP MADNESS! Dayton and Josh Ravin were whitewashed 8-0 in game one (L 1-2, 4.50, 5 IP, 5 H, 6 ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 1 HR) as the Dragons got just three hits, but the good guys ROARED BACK to take the nightcap, 6-3. Partch went five for the win (W 1-2, 7.27, 4 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, but also 3 HB) and Gonzalez got save #2. Sappelt (#2) and Puckett (#4) hit solo home runs; C Kevin Coddington poked two more hits to put his line at .375/.412/.500 (12-for-32) on the season; and the Dragons D turned three double plays in the seven-inning extravaganza.
4/29: Lefty Oscar Castro stymied Beloit (MIN) through seven two-hit innings! (W 1-1, 5.21, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K), Drew Bowman set down four straight (8.00, 2 K) and Scott Gaffney picked up save #1 (5.68, 0.2 IP) in the Dragons’ 2-1 victory. Coddington and Mendez both got a pair of hits (both .389), Sappelt did the same (.299).
Moves & Notes: (4/23-4/24) OF Tony Brown was placed on the 7-day DL retroactive to 4/22 with a strained right hamstring. RHR Mike Bohana was sent to the GCL. INF Carlos Mendez was added from extended spring training and LHR Jesus Carnevales came down from Sarasota. (4/27) LHS Matt Fairel was named Midwest League Pitcher of the Week (4/20-4/26) for whiffing twenty over two starts with just two runs allowed.

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By Robert G. Hauser, MD, FACC, FHRS, chair of the Cardiac Insight, Inc. scientific advisory board.
A decade ago, my 72-year-old wife suffered a major stroke while we were attending a medical meeting in France. Fortunately, that country has excellent acute stroke care, the blood clot blocking blood flow to the dominant side of her brain was quickly dissolved by an intravenous drug. While in the intensive care unit, her ECG monitor revealed a short burst of a fast, irregular rhythm: it was atrial fibrillation, a rhythm that diminishes blood flow and allows blood clots to form in the heart. My wife had had no signs or symptoms of atrial fibrillation until that moment when she was suddenly paralyzed by a clot that dislodged from her heart and traveled to her brain.
My wife’s story is all too common. Undetected and untreated atrial fibrillation is a silent killer. In addition to stroke, it can weaken the heart by causing it to beat too fast. When the heart’s pumping function is weakened, patients may develop heart failure, and some suffer sudden death. The incidence of atrial fibrillation is growing as our population ages. Risk factors include obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart valve disorders. Women are particularly at risk because, compared to men, their atrial fibrillation tends to cause more severe strokes and worse heart failure.
Nearly all the consequences of atrial fibrillation can be prevented. But the key is early detection and treatment. In the case of my wife, the only way her brief bursts of atrial fibrillation could have been found is if she had worn an ECG monitor for some period of time.
What is the right period of time? Multiple studies have been conducted to assess the proper amount of time required to detect arrhythmias while achieving cost efficiency. For decades, the commonly held belief was that 24- to 48- hours was long enough. However, newer studies have found otherwise. For example, studies in Clinical Cardiology and Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology concluded that seven days is the ideal length of time. A study in the American Journal of Cardiology found that, for all types of arrhythmias, diagnostic yield increased with a monitoring duration of > 48 hours. Among symptomatic patients, 92% of arrhythmias were detected by the 8th day of monitoring compared to just 47% during the first two days.
Researchers have found that the vast majority of clinically relevant arrhythmias can be identified by continuous ECG monitoring for seven days.
The timeline leading us to today’s ambulatory ECG market is:
- Too little: Since the 1970s the gold standard was the 24- to 48-hour Holter monitor.
- Too long: Later studies suggested that extended monitoring beyond 8-14 days was generally not cost-effective and should be reserved for special cases.
- Just Right: Evidence now suggests that wearable ECG patch monitors that record at least 8 days of ECG identify the most clinically relevant arrhythmias are well-tolerated and cost-effective.
While an ECG patch and other types of monitors may be worn for up to a month, studies suggest that the peak diagnostic yield for arrhythmia detection occurs during the first week of monitoring. Research has shown that nearly one-third of important arrhythmias occur beyond 48 hours, and the vast majority are detected during eight days of continuous ECG monitoring. Thus, wearing an ECG recording device for just a week can significantly improve diagnostic yield compared to a Holter monitor that is worn for just 24-48 hours.
Further, while patients who have frequent symptoms may be diagnosed during the first one or two days, patients with intermittent or sporadic symptoms may require monitoring for seven or eight days, and the occasional patient may need to be monitored for several weeks or even months. Studies have shown that 24-48-hour monitoring is often associated with a low diagnostic yield and does not improve significantly when the legacy monitor is worn for 72 hours. This is especially true for patients with infrequent or intermittent symptoms.
Patient preference also comes into play. Most patients indicate that they prefer a monitor that:
- is unobtrusive.
- can be worn while bathing or showering.
- is relatively itch-free and does not irritate the underlying skin.
- can be removed at the end of the monitoring period, and
- collects and analyzes the data in the shortest effective time.
Diminishing Returns Reduce Cost Effectiveness
Since prolonged monitoring beyond eight to 14 days is unlikely to improve the detection of clinically significant events, it is logical to conclude that cost-effectiveness also erodes over time.
In a study in the American Heart Journal, researchers noted that “cost per diagnosis is important because a definitive diagnosis halts further testing, thus saving health care resources, and leads to appropriate therapy.” They went on to state that the marked improvement in diagnostic yield offsets the cost of external loop recorders, making them “an economically attractive alternative.”
Guidelines published in the European Heart Journal found that while 24-48 hours with legacy ECG monitors have relatively low setup costs, they are expensive in terms of cost per diagnosis. Further, an analysis in the Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research found that repeat monitoring “did not yield a diagnosis and patients continued to experience clinical events at a substantial healthcare cost.”
Another study, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that there was only “incremental cost-effectiveness of each week of event monitoring,” while the Clinical Cardiology researchers noted that prolonged monitoring produces “very little additional diagnostic yield compared with rapidly rising costs.”
A seven-day ECG monitoring patch:
- Provides physicians with the information required to diagnose clinically important rhythm disorders
- Is well-tolerated by patients
- Is cost-effective
- Can be used to assess the effectiveness of anti-arrhythmic drugs, devices, and procedures.
- Are ideal for screening patients who may be at risk for atrial fibrillation
I believe a seven-day monitor would have found my wife’s atrial fibrillation, that she would have been placed on a blood thinner, and her stroke could have been prevented. Thanks to her wonderful care in France and subsequently at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, she has suffered no sequelae from the stroke and is enjoying life.

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Evansville police say a 50-year-old Indiana man has been arrested after he attempted to rob a gas station customer.
Police say James Worthington pulled up to a gas station on a bike early Tuesday morning. They say he approached James Shelton as he was pumping gas and demanded money.
Shelton says Worthington pointed a gun at him when he initially denied he had money. Then Shelton told Worthington he had $20 in his truck.
Shelton instead grabbed a club and fought off the would-be robber.
Police say they located Worthington and chased him down after he attempted to flee. Officers say they saw him toss a gun as he ran and it turned out to be a BB gun.
Worthington is charged with attempted robbery, pointing a handgun and resisting law enforcement.
The Vanderburgh County Jail didn't know if Worthington had an attorney.
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Sixteen months ago, at The Oval, Jonathan Trott, on his England debut, made a century that all but clinched the Ashes for England. At the Melbourne Cricket Ground today, he made another, a monumental effort of unflappability from first ball to last, that might, in the fullness of time, be regarded in the same light.
Trott batted through all but four overs of the second day in making an unbeaten 141, his fifth Test hundred and his third in five Tests against Australia. With an average that has returned above 60 in 17 matches, he is now established in the highest echelons of England batsmanship. For the last part of the innings, he hobbled, having been struck so hard on the inside of his left knee by a deflection from his inside edge that he required lengthy treatment.
After two days, the game had moved on apace, seemingly a day ahead of itself on account of Australia's rapid and cheap‑as‑chips first‑day demise. Australia, having woken to more damning headlines, were seeking quick wickets in the morning to haul themselves back into the game. They managed, through the indefatigable spirit of Peter Siddle, to remove England's openers inside the first half‑hour, and later extricated at bargain-basement prices, both Paul Collingwood and Ian Bell with Mitchell Johnson bouncers and Siddle catches in the deep, real rope-a-dope cricket.
Throughout the morning they held England in check with drum-tight bowling, England's progress less a cavalry charge than ground gained inch by inch, yard by yard. Kevin Pietersen made a cultured half‑century before becoming another Siddle victim, helping to add 92 for the third wicket and taking the brunt of the second new ball in the process.
Later Matt Prior survived a catch to the wicket from Johnson when five, as the bowler overstretched fractionally – the suspicions of the brilliant Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar confirmed as he asked for a video check according to his entitlement – and, after a shaky start, batted purposefully, adding impetus as his partner Trott tired, to flog a flagging attack and was unbeaten on 75 at stumps, his coffin-nail partnership with Trott worth 158, a sixth‑wicket record for England on this ground.
By then, England had reached 444 for five, establishing a first‑innings lead of 346 with five wickets in hand, and reducing the match effectively to one in which Australia knew they would be fighting for their Ashes survival.
As the day wore on it was not easy to discern whether it was the pitch or the Australian body language which had become flatter. Arms were folded, hands thrust in pockets and not just from the cold. The ease with which Trott constructed his innings would have lent some hope for Australia's ability to bat for the two days or more that might be necessary and they may have taken some comfort from England's own transformation in Brisbane.
But England's strategy in this match has been built not so much around the abilities of spinner Graeme Swann in the later stages (there are no hoofprints from Doug Bollinger here to trouble the right-handers although Swann will still have an important part to play) as the prospect of the sort of reverse swing which enabled Dean Headley to propel England to victory here a dozen years ago. The second new ball was barely 20 overs old when Ben Hilfenhaus began to drift the ball into the pads, and Johnson began to float it away yesterday.
Clearly the necessary abrasion is out there and England generally have been regarded as better exponents of reverse swing than the opposition.
Trott's powers of concentration are astonishing. He is totally absorbed in his batting, a self‑contained unit who appears unaware of the world around him. Bowlers try to break his rhythm, but it is he who commands the beat of the drum. There is an unobtrusiveness about him too, and his play. You would not find Trott caught for speeding in a yellow Lamborghini. In supermarkets he would go unrecognised. The hair refurbishment people so popular among some former players might find him unwilling to hide his own bald patch, for he does not appear to do vanity or frippery.
At the crease, he is the batting equivalent of the fellow at a party who no one recognises, who stays in the kitchen on his own but is last to leave. Until some late flurries where he was able to drive, as the seamers sought a fuller length with their reverse swing, Trott had accumulated his runs, working the leg side as Australia, believing vulnerability in front of the stumps, saw only efficiency. He does not do flamboyance. If a wealthy man he becomes, it will be because he puts away the pennies rather than on the back of a lottery win: he managed 12 fours in all today, but there were only two in his half‑century while his hundred was reached with his sixth.
Australia may argue that this was a day when the fractions went against them with the potential to prove costly in a variety of ways. When he had made 46, Trott played Hilfenhaus firmly through mid-wicket and saw three safe runs. But Ponting had chased, and his throw put Trott under such pressure that he needed a desperate dive to gain his ground. The Australians thought they had got their man, and one extra intermediate replay frame might have confirmed that. Instead Trott survived.
Dar's late intervention on Prior's behalf also cost them heavily, the umpire having made his decision in the affirmative then noting Johnson's footmark on the crease and asking for a check. With a review system, that just seems common sense on his part.
It was earlier that the unsavoury element of the system emerged, as Ponting engaged Dar in angry conversation after their appeal for an inside edge by Pietersen and subsequent review was rejected. HotSpot showed an energy spot on the bat but near the toe rather than where the ball passed and later the snickometer indicated no contact.
Even allowing for the difficult circumstances of the game and his personal troubles within it, the vehemence of Ponting's ire was inappropriate by anyone let alone the captain, and directed at the wrong person to boot..


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NQV Media’s The Male Gaze series returns with a new selection of short films in The Boy is Mine. Our journey starts with Uneven. As a discarded old sock dreams of the life it once had with its owner, its tatty threadbare body longs to be touched. Director Rafael Ruiz Espejo plays with the beauty of the male form in creating a delightfully humourous ode to the cum-rag as our intrepid sock is tossed to one side, only to find a new connection. In Wolves, sixteen-year-old Josh (Roly Botha) finds solace and peace in the woods surrounding his house. But, when an afternoon spent catching bugs leads to the discovery of a naked young man who doesn’t speak, Josh is both captivated, nervous and enthralled. However, as both boys build a new non-verbal bond of security, love and experimentation in the undergrowth, the adult world invades their security.
Johnny is the tale of two unlikely companions, one timid and unsure and the other full of energy and artistic desire. But can they both find more than just a fleeting romance in the arms of each other? Or will the unspoken doubts in their minds stop the birth of a new romance? These questions also find a powerful voice in Debut as two young models meet in the studio of a female magazine photographer. Here a spark of instant desire is lit between them before the impromptu photoshoot turns into a heated and dangerous experiment in sexual art. Finally, Guardian explores the mental turmoil of a life lived in compartments, one with a loving boyfriend and the other in a repressed world of chaos.
THE MALE GAZE: HIDE AND SEEK

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“O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being.
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yes, November has arrived along with the falling colored leaves and winds that briskly move them over the landscape to hide the few flowers that remain of summer and the ordered gardens where they reside. The last of the plants that migrate indoors and out have returned to their wintering places inside and all the pups have gotten their new sweaters to ward off the approaching cold.
I love this time of year, the month that Emily Dickinson always called “..the Norway of the year.” The cold sets in, birds swarm in flittering layers looking for warmth and food, and the days grow shorter until the sunlight feels fleeting indeed. It’s a wonderful time for reflection, reading, writing, and knitting. Of cosy rooms and closeness. Its Thanksgiving, family gatherings and sharing. Its quiet, and dark, and contemplative. So many things to so many people.
For the terriers, it’s the deer in the backyard munching on acorns and the remnants of the hostas. It’s the squirrels, and raccoons, and possums at the feeders, sharing along with the birds and odd field mouse. And always watching in the background, still and opportunistic, wait the fox, the hawk and the owl. Even as the pups voice their objections to our visitors, I love the interplay I can observe and the many places they all find within the confines of my gardens and trees.
Even now as the wind whips by and the threat of our first frost appears, I love that it’s November.
I hope you all had a wonderful October. There were so many great books released that your lists should be bulging by now. If you missed it, check out our October 2014 Summary of Reviews and Best Covers. Let me know what covers you loved that we missed and what books you have added to your pile of novels you’re swearing to get to now.
Here is this week’s schedule at Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words:
Monday, November 3:
- A MelanieM Review: The Devil Lancer by Astrid Amara
- A Barb the Zany Old Lady Review: Starstruck by L.A. Witt
Tuesday, November 4:
- Riptide tour: Cornelia Grey’s Circus of the Damned Tour
- A MelanieM Review: Circus of the Damned by Cornelia Grey
- A MelanieM Review: Sleigh Bells: Minnesota Christmas by Heidi Cullinan
Wednesday, November 5:
- Book Tour: Jude Dunn’s One Thing Leads (contest)
- Riptide Book Tour: L.A. Witt’s Starstruck
- A MelanieM Review: Heat by Chris Quinton and RJ Scott
Thursday, November 6:
- TB Tour: LM Brown’s Between Heaven and Hell
- A MelanieM Review: The Best Corpse for the Job by Charlie Cochrane
- A MelanieM Review: Cold Day in Hell by Lee Brazil (PF2014, story 5)
Friday, November 7:
- RJ Scott Book tour: Darach, book 2 in the Fire Series
- DESERT FOXE: A Skyler Foxe Mystery Haley Walsh Book Tour (contest)
- A MelanieM Review: Off Course by Bailey Bradford
YA Saturday, November 8:
- An Aurora YA Review: Carnival-Decatur by Zoe Lynne
We are still looking for reviewers. If you are interested, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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I'm very interested in just about every instrument and style and if I could I would learn them all. Every instrument is like paint with its own unique color and texture. I love hearing how different instruments, genres, and styles sound side by side, and how they fit on the "canvas".
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Incubus, Weezer, Ellegarden, Homeboy Sandman, Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, Chris Thile, folk music, Lindsey Stirling, punk rock of all types, Foo Fighters, Jurassic 5, Megadeth.....I'll give just about anything a second listen. Lately I'm really into scouring the internet for random people and "youtube artists". It's nice seeing people sitting in their room expressing themselves just because it's what they love to do.
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I'm a 19 going on 20 year old songwritin' kid looking to turn what I love to do into a career. I'm not the greatest musician in the world, but when I do what I do, I sound like me. I like to think of music -- and life -- like a blank white sheet of paper. It can be shaped, folded, or colored in infinite ways and will always become something different depending on whose hands it is in and it's a reflection of that person's individual self and their story. So here's to blank pages becoming my autobiography.
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Newly released internal documents are raising questions about the Trump administration’s decision to end protections for tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants – and whether the argument that the protections were no longer merited was valid.
Under President Donald Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has been aggressive in ending a number of temporary protected status designations that have been on the books, in some cases, for decades.
Roughly 300,000 people who have lived in the US with legal permission, most of whom have been here for upward of 15-20 years, could have their status pulled in the coming months as the protections expire. In the case of Haiti, nearly 60,000 immigrants are set to see their status expire next year.
The justification from the administration for ending the protections has been that by law, when the conditions from the original disaster that triggered the protections have improved, they must expire. DHS has been clear that it does not believe it can look at the totality of conditions in the country to factor in its decision making.
But the documents released Tuesday as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit raise questions about whether DHS was accurately interpreting information in drawing those conclusions.
The documents suggest DHS contradicted its own staff assessment of Haiti when it opted to end TPS for the country, which was put in place after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The documents also include email correspondence showing Haiti’s deep concern about ending TPS for the country.
While many of the documents are redacted, the release includes a report prepared by staff about the conditions in Haiti, which was included as part of a recommendation by the director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Director L. Francis Cissna wrote in several instances that conditions in Haiti have improved enough from the 2010 earthquake to lift TPS. But the attached report in many cases paints a much more dire picture than the data points Cissna highlighted. Both documents were sent to then-acting Secretary Elaine Duke and resulted in her decision to end the program with an 18-month wind-down period.
In one example, the staff report stated: “Many of the conditions prompting the original January 2010 TPS designation persist, and the country remains vulnerable to external shocks and internal fragility.”
The report closed with the conclusion that given a number of conditions – including economic difficulties, a cholera epidemic, a housing crisis and food insecurity – recovery has been severely hampered:
“Due to the conditions outlined in this report, Haiti’s recovery from the 2010 earthquake could be characterized as falling into what one non-governmental organization recently described as ‘the country’s tragic pattern of ‘one step forward, two steps back.’ ‘”
Cissna, though, wrote to the secretary: “Haiti has made significant progress in recovering from the 2010 earthquake, and no longer continues to meet the conditions for designation.”
The report did note that much of the recovery was exacerbated by Hurricane Matthew in 2016, which DHS maintains is not relevant to the earthquake and cannot be factored in.
DHS has made similar decisions about protections for hundreds of thousands of Central Americans, despite the Bush and Obama administrations both extending the renewable TPS designations in most cases.
In response to the documents, Cissna maintained that the government’s review concluded that the 2010 conditions that prompted the status no longer exist.
“The decision to terminate TPS for Haiti was made after an inter-agency review process that considered country conditions and the ability of the country to receive returning citizens,” Cissna said in a statement, saying the review included an “extensive outreach campaign: for others’ input. “Based on all available information, Acting Secretary Elaine Duke determined that the extraordinary and temporary conditions that formed the basis of Haiti’s TPS designation as a result of the 2010 earthquake no longer exist, and thus, pursuant to statute, DHS concluded the current TPS designation for Haiti should not be extended.”
Separately from the report, email correspondence released as part of the FOIA suit showed that Haitian officials repeatedly reached out to the US government about their concerns over ending TPS, requesting that the program be extended for “at least another 18 months,” per Ambassador Paul Altidor. DHS did opt to delay the official end date of TPS for 18 months, but did not formally renew the program.
The documents are the result of a lawsuit brought by the The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, a pro-immigrant group.
“DHS’ decision to terminate TPS for Haiti is manifestly contrary to the evidence reflected in this report,” project Legal Director Sejal Zota said in a statement.
DHS will make a decision in May about another roughly 80,000 immigrants from Honduras protected by TPS. The agency has been sued by advocacy groups who allege racial motivations for ending Haiti’s TPS.

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As of Sept. 28, there were 573 COVID-19 cases in Edmonton public schools, but all of those were self-reported by parents of students, Edmonton Public School Board board chair Trisha Estabrooks said Tuesday.
Alberta Health is no longer notifying schools or districts about positive COVID-19 cases, nor is it providing contact tracing nor mandatory isolation of close contacts of positive cases.
“That information isn’t being shared in an open, transparent manner with school divisions,” Estabrooks said. “We know that number is not accurate.
“That is our biggest frustration… We don’t have an accurate picture of what COVID looks like in our schools.”
This time last year, she said there were 68 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Edmonton public schools.
Currently, 12 schools are on outbreak status. There are 573 self-reported cases in 165 schools.
Estabrooks said the division is committed to being as transparent and open with whatever data it has to help inform parents and keep students and staff as safe as possible.
“We are asking the government to be as equally transparent.”
Based on the numbers reported by students’ families, 78 per cent of EPSB schools have at least one case of COVID-19, Estabrooks said. Seventy per cent of total cases are in kindergarten to Grade 6 schools, with children who are under 12 and cannot yet be vaccinated.
She said EPSB trustees wrote a “strongly worded” letter to the province, asking it to bring back contact tracing, mandatory isolation for close contacts of positive cases and — most of all — sharing COVID-19 data with schools.
EPSB wasn’t the only metro school division to write such a letter, Estabrooks said.
“I’m pleased to say we had a meeting recently with the minister of education… to share our concerns and make it clear what we’re asking.
“That, at this point, the situation is not improving in our schools and an immediate ask to reinstate some of the measures that were in place last year.”
The rate at which COVID-19 is increasing in schools is alarming, Estabrooks said.
“We have an incomplete picture,” she added, saying it makes it difficult to make decisions about moving classes online without accurate information.
“We need access to data in order to make good decisions.”
During a COVID-19 update Tuesday afternoon, Premier Jason Kenney acknowledged that percentage-wise, the highest growth in Alberta’s COVID-19 cases is in school-aged kids who can’t be vaccinated, particularly in rural areas with low vaccine uptake in the general population.
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When asked if it’s time to cancel in-person learning and shift back to online learning, the premier said the province has always sought to prioritize in-classroom instruction, “recognizing that there are real and lasting negative impacts on children and their life chances, on their mental health and well-being to create the constant instability of opening and closing schools and not having the opportunity for socialization.”
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw stressed that 10 days ago, the province added more requirements to school operations, including mandatory masking and cohorting in elementary schools.
“We are working with the education ministry to determine if anything additional is needed. But as was mentioned, education is a key determinant of health, and the access to in-school opportunities for learning and development is something that is a high priority,” Hinshaw said.
“The number one thing we can all do to protect schools is to reduce our in-person contacts outside our household and for all those eligible to come forward and be vaccinated.”
Two different classes in two separate schools have moved to online learning, Estabrooks said.Last week, all students at Westglen School in northwest Edmonton shifted to online learning after dozens of cases of COVID-19 were identified.
In a letter sent to families Thursday, the school’s principal said 31 cases of COVID-19 were reported to the school. In a statement, the EPSB said 29 people at the school had self-reported cases since Monday.


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Horgan, Hicks, and Cash Join Ancient Forest Alliance on Tour of Avatar Grove and to Canada's Biggest Trees and Stumps
Juan de Fuca area's provincial and regional representatives look at possibilities for protection of potential eco-tourism gems
Ancient Forest Alliance Media Release, September 28, 2010
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CRD Director Mike Hicks, son Beau Hicks, NDP MLA John Horgan, and Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce member Jon Cash stand before "Canada's gnarliest tree" in the endangered Avatar Grove.
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Port Renfrew, BC- Malahat-Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan, CRD Director for the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Mike Hicks, and Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce member Jon Cash joined the Ancient Forest Alliance’s TJ Watt and Ken Wu for a visit to the threatened Avatar Grove, San Juan Spruce (Canada’s largest spruce tree), and a nearby clearcut with giant stumps this past Tuesday, September 28. Both politicians have expressed an interest in the protection of these world-class old-growth stands.
“BC's endangered ancient forests are incredibly valuable for many reasons,” states TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance co-founder. “Not only are they among the most at-risk ecosystems in the world but they're probably some of the most beautiful places on the planet. People come from around the globe to visit these forests and they spend money here in the process. Old growth tourism has enormous potential here to combine long-term, stable jobs with sustainability. Lots of people have realized this: that's why local businesses and politicians have shown such strong support for the protection of these forests.”
To date, local representatives from every level of government have spoken up favorably for protecting old growth stands on southern Vancouver Island. Horgan's, Hick's, and Cash's tour comes hot on the heels of Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca MP Keith Martin's proposal to extend Pacific Rim National Park Reserve’s boundaries to protect adjacent endangered forests, including the grandest stands of old-growth trees in Canada in the Upper Walbran Valley, Avatar Grove, and forests in and around the Red Creek Fir and San Juan Spruce.
In addition, local businesses took a similar stance when the Sooke Regional Tourism Association and the Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce submitted a written request earlier this year asking the BC government to spare the Avatar Grove from logging. Yet the province refuses to heed the rally cry from the public and businesses alike.
The Capital Regional District’s parks department also undertook a public input process in the spring to determine candidate areas for new regional parks in which there was a large amount of public support for the protection of the Avatar Grove and forests around the Red Creek Fir and San Juan Spruce. The CRD board of directors earlier this year voted to increase the annual parkland acquisition fund from $10 to $20 per average household by 2014, raising tens of millions of dollars for the purchase of private lands. Crown lands, such as in the Avatar Grove, would require a transfer of management authority from the province to the regional district should the area be made a regional park.
“Whether by supporting their protection in new CRD regional parks, provincial protected areas, or in an expanded Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, local politicians like Hicks, Horgan, and Martin are vital to ensure that a solution is implemented that protects the last remnants of ancient forests here while a sustainable second-growth forest industry is developed,” states Ancient Forest Alliance campaign director Ken Wu.
“Tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry in BC and the province’s largest employer. Millions of tourists come to see BC’s giant trees and ancient forests, and millions more will come if they are protected and promoted while we shift the logging industry into sustainably logging second-growth stands instead,” adds Watt. “It’s 2010 and the logging of centuries-old giant trees with trunks as wide as a living room is continuing daily in this province. For now, we still have the golden opportunity to protect some of the most charismatic and threatened ecosystems on Earth.”
Old-growth forests are extremely important for sustaining species at risk, tourism, clean water, and First Nations traditional cultures.
About 75% of the original productive old-growth forests have been logged on Vancouver Island, including 90% of the valley bottoms where the largest trees grow, according to satellite photos. Only about 6% of the Island’s original, productive old-growth forests are protected in parks.
With so little of our ancient forests remaining, the Ancient Forest Alliance is calling on the BC government to protect our endangered ancient forests, ensure sustainable second-growth forestry, ban raw log exports, and assist in the development of value-added, second-growth mills and facilities.
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The Upper Room Disciplines 2022: A Book of Daily Devotions helps readers become rooted in the teachings of God through meditations and scripture reading. A diverse group of 53 Christian thought leaders each contribute a week of topical devotions that reveal something new about God and humanity, sin and grace, revelation and humility, individual discipleship and life in community.
Daily readings in The Upper Room Disciplines include a selected scripture passage, a meditation on the scripture, and a prayer or suggestion for reflection. Each week has 7 devotions focusing on a particular theme, engages readers with texts from the Revised Common Lectionary, and helps show how the ancient stories of the Bible relate to our lives today.
Among the writers for 2022 are Patricia Raybon, Steve Harper, Lydia Wylie-Kellermann, Will Willimon, Gennifer Brooks, Ben Ingebretson, Layton E. Williams, Ben Yosua-Davis, Amy Oden, Juan Carlos Huertas, Kathy Khang, Derek Weber, Brandan Robertson, and Heather Murray Elkins.
Situated on the main street of the historic Delaware Riverfront town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, Farley’s Bookshop and its knowledgeable, experienced staff have endeavored to satisfy the literary tastes of the area inhabitants for over fifty years. Whether you are Bucks County born-and-bred or just stopping by to enjoy the crisp river air and delightful scenery, you will be pleasantly surprised to find the largest and most diverse collection of books-in-print in Bucks County. Farley’s may have competition, but it has few peers. We encourage you to browse our website, but please remember that getting acquainted with our online persona is no substitute for exploring the narrow passageways and teeming shelves of our storefront and discovering that perfect book nestled amongst so many others.

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Broken Arrow man who entered AT&T with weapons pleads not guilty
By John Dobberstein, Editor
The Broken Arrow man arrested after walking into an AT&T store possessing an assault rifle, pistol and metal knuckles had his initial court appearance this week and a plea of not guilty was entered.
Zachary Morrissey, 26, faces charges of unlawfully carrying a firearm, possession of explosives without a permit and carrying a weapon with prohibited ammunition. A jury trial has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. and Morrissey’s bond was set at $10,000. He has been assigned a public defender, Tulsa County court records show.
The explosives charge mentioned in court records was not mentioned in police information that was released last week.
Morrissey set off a flurry of phone calls to police on June 13 after witnesses said he showed up armed at several locations. Some of the information was later clarified by Broken Arrow police.
Around 11:52 a.m. that day, a Broken Arrow city employee called 911 to report “witnessing someone who they believed to be armed approaching the Broken Arrow Justice Center,” police said. Witnesses said Morrissey was at the jail on legitimate business, but Broken Arrow police said when they arrived he was unarmed and not breaking the law.
“At no time did he attempt to enter the building with any kind of gun,” police clarified. “He properly secured his firearms in the trunk of the vehicle that he arrived in prior to approaching the building.”
Officers responding 6 minutes later “interacted” with Morrissey, who was interacting with jail staff via intercom prior to police arrival and was cooperative with responding officers. He left the area without further incident and had committed no crime, the department said.
For reasons unknown to police, Morrissey’s driver chose to leave him at Lynn Lane Road and Hillside Drive. “At this point he was armed with what appeared to be an AR-15-style rifle and was visibly carrying a revolver in a holster,” police said.
At 12:46 p.m., Morrissey walked towards the Target store located near 1100 East Hillside Drive. Broken Arrow police received calls about a man with a gun headed towards Target. A different set of BAPD officers contacted Morrissey near the entrance doors to Target.
“He was again cooperative and officers determined that he was not breaking the law,” the release said. “There were no reports of him attempting to enter Target. Officers warned Morrisey that his presence would inevitably lead to more calls,” but no crime had occurred.
Morrissey then walked over to a nearby AT&T store and entered with his rifle, and a holstered revolver. Police said his attire and armed presence led to another series of 911 calls.
Between initial contact with Morrisey at the Justice Center and final contact with him at AT&T, “we were able to confirm the existence of a newly entered misdemeanor warrant from that morning,” Broken Arrow police said, although the nature of the warrant wasn’t mentioned in the news release and doesn’t appear in court records.
Morrisey was arrested for the warrant just before 1:30 p.m. During this arrest, officers discovered Morrisey was further armed with a set of metal knuckles, which is a violation of state and city law. He also had a .50-caliber semi-automatic pistol concealed in one of his pouches and not in a holster.


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Eric Church‘s upcoming three-album set, Heart & Soul, was recorded over the course of several weeks while with his band, songwriters, other musicians and producer, Jay Joyce, in the mountains of North Carolina. The massive project comes on the heels of Church’s 2018 Desperate Man record, although there are very few similarities between the two.
“The comfort element is something that, on the Desperate Man album, I felt like that was a harder album to get, for me,” Church says. “The hardest that I had, because I felt like everybody was just a little bit comfortable. And it was harder to get the record because of that. This time I wanted to make people really uncomfortable. We sequestered ourselves in the mountains of North Carolina, a place I’ve been many times. There’s a restaurant called Artisanal and everything’s wood, the entire place. I said to my wife, ‘This would be a great studio.'”
While Church knew in theory that his idea was a good one, executing it was an entirely different process — and much, much harder than he anticipated, both for Church and his longtime producer, Jay Joyce.
“So we descend on this restaurant,” Church recalls. “It’s not very big, and we’re still using it as a restaurant. It’s what we fed people. I remember the day we were loading in, he’s looking around going, ‘Okay, I’m gonna put guitar, here, I’m gonna do this here.’ They just moved the tables out of the restaurant. There’s a bar. He goes, ‘I don’t know what I’m gonna do with that bar.’
“To see Jay react to that, I think that put him back where he started,” he adds. “He’s not comfortable at all, and he’s just trying to go, ‘How do I make this album in this place?’”
The process of writing and recording three separate albums was arduous in other ways Church didn’t anticipate as well.
“Every day, what we would do, we would write a song in the morning, or whenever during the day, and we would record the song that night,” Church explains. “It really put creativity in the driver’s seat, and it was exciting to me, because there were a number of days that I didn’t really have a good second verse yet, or maybe my bridge was missing something, but I liked the song. And I decided, just start it, and we’ll figure it out as we go. Normally it’s not like that. You know exactly what you’re going to cut, and you cut it.”
Now that it is completed, the 43-year-old is grateful for the entire process, and especially glad that it is finished.
“I spent about a month on-site,” Church says.” I did not anticipate the mental creative grind that doing this daily would do, where you have to come up with something everyday. I got to where there was one stretch, three or four days, I didn’t sleep, because when I would lay down at night to try to sleep, after we recorded a song, first of all, you’ve got a lot of energy from recording. But then immediately you go, ‘We’re gonna do this again tomorrow, and I have nothing.
“There was a period there where it was hard,” he admits. “It was a lot harder than I thought, and just going through that grind mentally, creatively, I’ve never been there before. I’ve never been that far out on a limb with the creative process.”
Heart & Soul will be released on three separate dates in April. Pre-orders are available at EricChurch.com.


The mass protests growing out of recent killings of unarmed African-Americans by white police officers are focused on the need to end police brutality, but they also present an opportunity for a valuable teaching moment -- a chance for us to begin overcoming our miseducation in human relations and make progress toward handling our problems peacefully.
What needs to be done to change the pervasive "us-versus-them" mentality in urban communities, particularly those made up mainly of African-American residents? On the surface, the answer is simple: mutual respect. Law-enforcement officers should respect the communities they serve as much as they respect the ones in which they live. And citizens should respect each officer's position of authority within the community. Simple? Yes. Easy? No.
The key for law enforcement is that officers commit themselves to appropriately enforcing laws in a fair and equal way and not demeaning or degrading citizens for any reason. But citizens have a responsibility as well, to educate themselves about the laws that govern their communities. By doing this, they gain a better understanding as to when law-enforcement officials are, and aren't, working within the prescribed scope of their lawful authority.
The case of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died in July after being stopped by police on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes, provides an example. Selling untaxed cigarettes in New York City is a violation of the law; no one disputes that. But what is disputed by many is whether police have the right to stop any person at any time. The U.S. Supreme Court case that defines this authority is Terry v. Ohio, dating from 1968. Often referred to as the "Terry Stop," this gives police the right to briefly detain a person when there is a reasonable suspicion -- one that police can clearly articulate -- that the person being stopped is committing a crime, has committed one or is about to do so.
So clearly police had the right to stop Eric Garner, even over a crime as minor as selling "loosies." The real question is what must be done to reduce the risk of such a situation turning into the kind of tragedy that occurred in the Garner case. The answer to that starts with the attitudes and training of police. Officers must always approach citizens in a professional and respectful manner and must recognize their responsibility to explain the reason for the stop in a polite and courteous way.
For their part, citizens must recognize an officer's authority to stop them and not become defensive or irritated -- reactions that will only aggravate the encounter. They must give the officer the chance to explain the reason for the stop and the opportunity to investigate the perceived reason for it. Once the investigation is complete, the officer should explain what it has revealed. This requires that officers know the laws that they are enforcing and are able to articulate the usage of those laws, both orally and in writing.
A fundamental part of being a good police officer is not just being able to identify the "bad people" but also those who do abide by the law and not subject them to the same aggressive enforcement as those who commit criminal acts. Officers should leave behind subjective attitudes and unproven theories regarding the people they serve. And law-abiding members of the community must make officers feel welcome in their neighborhoods. Just as citizens don't want officers to view them as those who are committing crimes, officers don't want to be viewed as enemies. Small pleasantries, good manners and common sense go a long way.


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Sheffield Doc/Fest has selected Diego Maradona, the forthcoming feature-length documentary from Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna), as the opening film of the 26th annual UK festival.
Through more than 500 hours of rare footage, the 120-minute film documents the career of celebrated Argentinian football star Diego Maradona during his time at Italian Serie A club SSC Napoli. Upon his arrival in 1984, Maradona elevated the team to its most successful era in its history, winning the squad’s first ever Serie A Italian Championship in 1986–87, followed by a second league title in 1989–90.
The film will also chart Maradona’s struggles off the pitch, as he became a near-prisoner to the city of Naples, where the mafia held enormous influence, and suffered a 15-month ban for failing a drug test for cocaine before leaving SSC Napoli in disgrace in 1992 for Sevilla FC.
Diego Maradona will host its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival followed by its UK premiere at Sheffield.
“Asif’s aptitude for finding the personal face behind troubled brilliance shines through in immersive, never-seen-before archive footage,” said Luke Moody, director of film programming at Sheffield Doc/Fest, in a statement.”We’re proud to present the UK premiere of Diego Maradona as our opening of the 2019 festival.”
“Once again Asif has crafted a powerful, surprising and gripping story about an icon who we, and the rest of the world, already thought we knew everything about,” added Hamish Moseley, head of distribution at Altitude Films.
The full Sheffield Doc/Fest program will be announced on May 9. The six-day festival takes place from June 6-11.


In just a few months after launching, the Breitling Avengers Blackbird Scout Watch has been favored by many technical watch enthusiasts. Now it will launch a new style with a smaller watch diameter, continuing its winning style with the same classic design and strong style.
With innate performance, precise timing and practical functions, the Breitling Avengers Blackbird Scout Watch with 48 mm diameter perfectly embodies the brand spirit of Breitling. The new Breitling Avenger Blackbird 44 watch fully inherits these extraordinary features, and also has a strong presence on the wrist. ‘Power of action’ is its unquestionable manifesto.
The case is made of titanium, a material favored by the aviation industry, which is light but not rough. The surface is treated with high-strength carbon-nitriding, showing a cool and tough pure black matte effect, avoiding the reflection interference during the action, and this visual presentation is even more prominent after the matte treatment. The lugs extending from the case are cleverly designed with inner curved design, and the contour lines are smoother and ergonomic.
The large large hour markers and hands on the dial are coated with luminous coating, while the calendar display window is also equipped with a red border to ensure excellent readability and clarity. One-way ratchet-type rotating bezel with four bezel indicators makes operation more convenient and ensures the most accurate flight and diving timing. The large, screw-in crown with non-slip design and protection provide excellent protection against impact. The rugged, anthracite military band is made of high-tech synthetic fabric, further demonstrating its clear mission to achieve the highest achievement.
To ensure first-class performance, the new Breitling Avenger Blackbird 44 watch is equipped with a self-winding mechanical movement certified by the Swiss Official Observatory (COSC), equipped with a sturdy and reliable case, and has a water resistance of 200. Meters (660 feet). New companion for the most extreme tasks.
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Case: black titanium; water resistance up to 200 meters (660 feet); screw-in crown; unidirectional ratchet-shaped rotating bezel; curved sapphire crystal, anti-glare treatment on both sides; diameter: 44 mm.
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As an expert in precision timepieces, Breitling has played an important role as a pioneer in the development history of modern chronograph watches, and is also a leader in complex function watches. With its accurate, reliable and outstanding performance ‘professional wrist watch’, witness Countless glorious moments of human conquest of the sky.
As the only watch brand in the world equipped with the most accurate and reliable movements for its entire range of watches, all Breitling watch movements (including mechanical watches and quartz watches) are certified by the Swiss Official Observatory (COSC), and Breitling is also one of the few One of the watch brands with the ability to manufacture automatic mechanical chronograph movements. The development and production of the movements are completed at the Breitling Precision Timepiece Center. As a family business, Breitling is also one of the few independent watchmakers in Switzerland. Welcome to the world of Breitling!


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Cairo: Three Indians were killed and 13 others sustained injuries after two tourist buses collided with a truck in Egypt’s Suez governorate on Saturday, the Indian embassy in Cairo.
“We regret to inform that 3 Indian citizens have lost their lives in the bus accident that occurred on 28 December near Ain Sokhna. Others who are injured are receiving medical treatment at various hospitals in Egypt (list attached),” the embassy tweeted.
The tweet attached the list of people undergoing treatment in different hospitals in Egypt.
The embassy said that the relatives of the deceased and the injured have been contacted and all assistance is being rendered to them.
“Relatives of the deceased and the injured have been contacted. Embassy officials are present at the hospitals and in touch with hospital authorities. All assistance is being rendered,” the tweet read.
16 Indian people were on the buses at the time of the incident which took place near Ain Sokhna in Egypt.


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Crossover High is a project I'm working on in conjunction with my crazy friends Ghost and Kuroi (You can thank philosophy class with Kuroi for that). We all co-wite, I make pretties, Roi does sitely/coding stuff, and Ghost provides the inspiration for the short jokes.
I'm self taught, artwise, and working on CH has been and still is a great learning experience. And I love that I get to torture my characters and those of my friends. Dance, puppets, dance!! >:D
Aside from CH, my interests revolve around creative writing, art, philosophy, religion, mythology, and anything that uses that part of your brain but isn't particularly applicable to everyday life. :P But if you get enough caffeine in me, I giggle uncontrollably and start singing about random things. I once tried to serenade a loaf of banana bread. Sadly, it was unmoved.
Anyways, my goal is to one day be published as a novelist and/or illustrator, but we'll see how that goes.
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How to use Electric Rice Cooker offer many benefits over stovetop models. They’re easy to use, Fast, And cleanup is a breeze. Here are a few tips for getting the most out of your cookers:
Follow the manufacturer’s instructions. Its vary in terms of the amount of water required And the time it takes to cook a particular type of rice. Be sure to read the instructions before beginning cooking.
Use caution when adjusting the settings on your cookers. Some models have hot spots that can burn your hands if you’re not careful while using them.Work from center to edge when cooking in order to avoid these hotspots.
Choose an cooker that is compatible with your type of rice. Some models work better with long-grain brown rice than short-grain white rice, For example.
What is an Electric Rice Cooker?
It’s appliances that cook rice by heating it up And preventing sticking or burning. It heats the pot, Lid And inner cooking area quickly And evenly. This prevents overcooking or burning of the rice. There are many different types of this on the market, So it is important to choose one that best suits your needs. Some common features include: automatic shutoff, Detachable nonstick pot, multi-cook function, Easy-to-read LCD display, And easy storage.
How does an Electric Rice Cooker Work?
Cookers have become popular in recent years because they are faster And easier to use than traditional cooking methods. The machine heats up water in a reservoir, Which is then circulated through the cooker’s heating element. This heat cooks the rice quickly And evenly, Eliminating the need for stirring or babysitting. There are several different types of cookers on the market, Each with its own unique features. If you’re looking for an easy way to prepare meals without having to worry about burning or sticking foods, An is a great option.
What are the Features of an Electric Cooker?
Today’s it come in a variety of styles and sizes, So there’s sure to be one that fits your needs. Some feature automatic cooking settings, While others offer more control over how the rice cooks. Here are some key features to look for when shopping this :
-The size of the cooker will determine the amount of space it takes up on your countertop, As well as its price. For small kitchens, Consider opting for a mini model.
-Some models have removable cookware that makes cleaning easy. Others come with nonstick surfaces that require no special care.
-A timer is a handy feature, Especially if you’re busy And don’t want to fuss with the pot every few minutes. Some models even have cool-touch handles for added safety.
How to use an Electric Rice Cooker?
In the world of cooking, There are a few things that can be considered as staples. One of these staples is rice. Whether it is for a simple breakfast or an elaborate dinner, Rice is a must-have ingredient. However, Cooking it can be a daunting task for some people. If you are one of these people and don’t have the time or inclination to cook on the stovetop, You may want to consider investing in an cooker. Here are four ways to use this :
- Make a batch of white or brown rice And heat it up in the microwave before serving.
- Cook regular or long grain white or brown rice according to package instructions.
- Use the cooker to make risotto – simply add all ingredients to the cooker, Stir once or twice, And press “start.
Benefits of Using an Electric Cooker?
Cookers are a popular choice for those who want to save time And energy in the kitchen. Here are some of the benefits of using this :
- They’re simple to use, Requiring just a few minutes of prep time before you can start cooking.
- They’re more energy efficient than traditional stovetop methods, So you’ll save on your electricity bill.
- They often have more features than traditional rice cookers, Such as the ability to slow cook meals or keep food warm after cooking is complete.
- There’s no need for separate pots And pans, making them convenient for larger families or groups.
Disadvantages of Using an Electric Cookers?
This is a popular choice for those who want to cook quickly and easily. However, There are some disadvantages to using an cooker that should be considered before making the purchase. First, It can be more expensive than other types of cookers. Second, They often require more attention than traditional cooking methods, So they may not be the best choice if you need your rice to simmer gently in water or broth. Finally, Electric cookers can produce uneven results, So it is important to follow the instructions carefully if you want consistent results.
What are Some Recipes That Can Be Cooked in an Electric Cookers?
It is perfect for those who have trouble stirring pots And pans And want to get dinner on the table fast. There are countless recipes that can be cooked in an electric cooker, From brown rice to wild salmon.
Some of our favorite recipes that can be cooked in an electric cooker include garlic stir-fry with chicken, Seafood paella with shrimp And clams, And black bean chili. Whether you’re in the mood for a simple meal or something more extravagant, An cooker is a great way to get it all done without having to fuss over the stove.
What are the Different Types of Electric Cookers?
There are many types of it on the market, Each with its own advantages And disadvantages. Below is a breakdown of the different types of cookers.
Convection Cooker: This type of cooker uses hot air to cook the rice. It has several advantages, Including that it cooks the rice evenly And quickly, And that it doesn’t require any stirring. However, It can be a bit noisy And tends to be more expensive than other types of this.
Which Electric Cooker is best for you?
Looking for an cooker that is perfect for your needs? There are a variety to choose from, So it can be hard to decide which one is best for you. In this article, We will discuss the different types of cookers And their features. Afterwards, We will provide a comparison table that will help you make the best decision for your needs.
There are three main types of it: automatic, Multi-cooker, And manual. Automatic cookers heat up the pot while you fill it with water And rice. Multi-cooker rice cookers have several compartments where you can put different ingredients, So they can do a variety of tasks at once like cooking rice And eggs or reheating leftovers.
Final Thoughts on Electric Cookers
It have quickly become one of the most popular options for those looking to cook rice. They offer a number of benefits that make them an ideal choice for many people.
One of the most notable features of this their ability to keep this properly cooked without having to constantly stir it. This can be particularly helpful if you are cooking for a large number of people And don’t want to spend time stirring the pot.
Another benefit of this is their convenience. They can be set up quickly And used without having to worry about open flames or hot pans. This makes them a great option for those who are concerned about safety concerns.
One downside to this that they tend to be more expensive than traditional methods.

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“Refuge is a wonderful story about the need to find one’s place in the world—and the price paid to remain there. With her narrative gift and keen ear for Appalachian speech, Dot Jackson gives her readers a beautifully rendered portrait of a lost time and place.” —Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Cove
Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously packs a suitcase, gathers up her son and daughter, and steals away in her abusive and dissolute husband’s brand new Auburn Phaeton automobile leaving her privileged life in Charleston behind. It is the beginning of a journey of enlightenment that leads Mary “Sen” to the mountains and mysteries of Appalachia where she will learn unexpected family secrets, create a new life for herself and her children, and finally experience love and happiness before tragedy will once again test her.
Written by an authentic Southern voice, Dot Jackson has spun a story that will captivate readers looking for an entertaining saga of self-discovery, family, love, loss and redemption.
“With its descriptions of the hardships of rural mountain life in an historical setting and a strong Southern woman survivor theme, this new voice in Appalachian fiction echoes Robert Morgan (Gap Creek) and Charles Frazier… Amidst family dramas of life and death, love interests, storms, and deprivation, this regional tale with a thick local accent develops into an entertaining saga. It should find an appreciative audience in Southern fiction fans.” —Library Journal
“Refuge is an intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties—the struggle of a strong woman through the odyssey back to her roots. Dot Jackson is a true Southern voice, a master storyteller and an Appalachian treasure.”—Dori Sanders, author of Clover and Her Own Place
“Exceptionally well-written, Refuge is very strongly recommended for the readers seeking a vivid tale of love, intimacy, fate, and an evocative mystery.”—Midwest Book Review
“What a glorious event is the publication of this beautiful novel by Dot Jackson, one of the most gifted souls who ever breathed the sweet air of Appalachia. In Refuge she confirms the verity that the love we give, whether to place, people or other creatures, is all the shelter we need.” —Jerry Bledsoe, author of Bitter Blood and Before He Wakes