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My breast cancer is estrogen fed. To reduce the opportunity of a re-occurrence my oncologist has recommended an estrogen reduction medicine. She first mentioned it way back in November, right after my surgery. She said we'd talk again after I completed my radiation
Wayne wasn’t able to accompany me to my oncologist appointment I was updating him on our conversation. She always takes the time to clearly discuss the options and discuss my choices. As I listed the side effects, he quietly listened to the laundry list of possible symptoms for my headfirst chemically induced entry into menopause. I paused to wipe away tears. The past six months have been filled with so much emotion and stress. I hate to take a medicine that might derail the positive feelings and calm I’ve tried to embrace. With a smile he asked, “did she suggest any pills for me?”
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In a statement sent to MobileSyrup, the president of Nokia Technologies, Ramzi Haidamus, stated that combining Withings’ award-winning products with Nokia’s “world-class expertise,” positions them to lead the next phase of digital health technology.
“Withings shares our vision for the future of digital health and their products are smart, well designed and already helping people live healthier lives,” said Haidamus.
The connected health company was originally founded in 2008 by Chairman Eric Carreel and CEO Cedric Hutchings and currently ha a head office in France with locations in the U.S., Hong Kong and Cambridge, England. In addition, the company employs approximately 200 people.
Withings produces a wide variety of smart health devices including fitness trackers, weight scales, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and baby monitors.
“Since we started Withings, our passion has been in empowering people to track their lifestyle and improve their health and wellbeing. We’re excited to join Nokia to help bring our vision of connected health to more people around the world,” said Hutchings in a statement sent to MobileSyrup.
In a blog post written by Hutchings this morning, he goes on to say that the company was originally founded to explore the possibilities of the Internet of Things.
The CEO also stated in his post that Nokia’s plans for the digital health company include preventative health and patient care.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Withings products are already compatible with over one hundred apps for iOS and Android.
Withings was one of the first companies to enter the smart health market and continues to be a leader in the space today. Rajeev Suri, the president and CEO of Nokia said in a statement that digital health has long been an area of strategic interest to Nokia and that this acquisition represents a new phase in the development of the technology company.
“With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things in a way that leverages the power of our trusted brand, fits with our company purpose of expanding the human possibilities of the connected world, and puts us at the heart of a very large addressable market where we can make a meaningful difference in peoples’ lives.”
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The best rated movie David Kirby has been a part of is the movie 1986: The ACT, where they had the role of Self - Journalist. It has a rating 6.9 on IMDb.
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Questions about why Dale Earnhardt fell asleep at the wheel of his race car last weekend remain unanswered Thursday, but the doctor who performed the tests cleared Earnhardt to drive this weekend.
Dr. Charles Branch of the neurosurgery department at Bowman Gray Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., said the seven-time Winston Cup champion can get back in the car, NASCAR said.
In last Sunday's Southern 500 at Darlington, S.C., Earnhardt fell asleep at the wheel twice while waiting for the race to start. He then wrecked on the first lap and had trouble finding his way back to pit road.
Branch's clearance came after Earnhardt underwent four days of testing at two hospitals. The results were reviewed by specialists at two other hospitals, then sent to NASCAR headquarters in Daytona Beach, Fla.
NASCAR's statement gave no details about what caused Earnhardt's sleepiness or what Branch found. It said the answers would come from Branch and Earnhardt during a news conference this morning.
Waltrip's lap of 122.227 mph around Richmond International Raceway's 3/4 -mile oval edged Park's 122.216. The time difference between the front-row pole starters was .002 seconds.
It was Waltrip's 10th career pole in the Busch Grand National series, and fourth at Richmond International Raceway. He also started first in this race last year, but finished 38th after crashing midway through the race.
BOXING: Augusta's Jacob Hudson was named to the first team of the U.S. squad that boxes in the Muhammad Ali Cup beginning Sept. 20 in Louisville, Ky.
Hudson, a 132-pounder, will fight in the amateur event that has more than 20 countries participating. Tommy Stepp, a 156-pounder from Atlanta, also will be on the team.
BASKETBALL: First, UNLV lost top recruit Lamar Odom over a test score controversy. Now, the Runnin' Rebels face the prospect of playing half the season without their star center and another prized recruit.
A trip to Florida paid for by a registered sports agent prompted the NCAA to suspend center Keon Clark for 11 games and ban recruit Kevin Simmons for 14 games.
UNLV filed an appeal Thursday on Clark's suspension, hoping to get the penalty reduced. The school did not challenge the penalty to Simmons.
FOOTBALL: Todd Marinovich, the former Southern California and Raiders quarterback, pleaded guilty in Laguna Niguel, Calif., to a felony charge of cultivating marijuana. He was sentenced to six months in jail.
Marinovich, 27, entered his plea to the felony count, and a misdemeanor charge of possessing prescription drugs not in his name. He must begin the jail term on or before Nov. 7.
CYCLING: Eleven months after discovering he had testicular cancer, Lance Armstrong he intends to find a new cycling team and return to European competition next year.
Armstrong's cancerous testicle was removed Oct. 3, the day after diagnosis. Soon it was discovered that the disease had spread to his lungs, stomach and brain. Chemotherapy and brain surgery followed.
Doctors told him the chances of future surgery were "almost zero" and death is almost "totally out of the picture," said Armstrong, who lives in Austin, Texas.
Last week's news wasn't all good. Cofidis, the French cycling team, told Armstrong it would not exercise the second year of a two-year contract, forcing him to seek another team. His agent, Bill Stapleton, said they have a 4-6-week window in which to find a new team. Armstrong said he hasn't had the chance to seriously discuss contracts yet.
ROWING: Fifteen boats from USRowing's national team have landed in the finals of the World Rowing Championships on Lake Aiguebelette near Chambery, France.
Five boats led by women's lightweight single sculler Sarah Garner and men's single sculler Jamie Koven qualified during Thursday's semifinals. Others are men's lightweight single sculler Steve Trucker, men's pair Adam Holland and Ted Murphy and women's pair Mary and Betsy McCagg.
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There is no raven more chill than this raven.
Val Borrell with London Wildlife Trust captured a joyful video of a childlike raven rolling in the snow.
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Commonwealth Court Nixes Lawsuit Over 'Adequate' Education in PennsylvaniaIn dismissing the suit brought by six school districts, parents, and the NAACP, Commonwealth Court ruled that funding schools is an issue for the state legislature, not the courts.
Courtroom Efforts Continue To Get City Commissioner Singer Back on Election BallotIf the judge removes her from the ballot when the hearing resumes next week, says she she'll appeal to Commonwealth Court.
Phila. School District Takes Dispute Over Teacher Health Premiums to a Higher CourtThe district is appealing to Commonwealth Court, where it seeks a judgment on whether the School Reform Commission has the authority to cancel the PFT contract.
23 Couples Want Their Pa. Same-Sex Marriages Certified By Changing Wedding DateThe proposed settlement would essentially move the anniversary date for the twenty-three couples still part of the case to May 20, 2014 -- the same date a federal court found Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Philadelphia Court Backs City Hall in Dispute Over Rescinded Fire PromotionsThe fourteen firefighters were promoted this past spring, under an order from Common Pleas Court judge Leon Tucker, but last week a Commonwealth court tossed out that ruling and ordered Tucker to dismiss the case.
Number of Plaintiffs Suing Conrail Over Paulsboro, NJ Derailment Nears 100As the cleanup from the Conrail freight train derailment in Paulsboro, NJ continues, people are lining up to sue the rail carrier over the leak of vinyl chloride.
Montco's Voter Photo ID Van Will Traverse County Until Election DayThe picture identification cards will be issued through Parkhouse, the county’s senior care facility, but you don't have to live or work there -- or even go there.
Commonwealth Court Hears Closing Arguments In Voter ID CaseThe parties in the voter ID case presented closing arguments yesterday, closing two full days of testimony before the Commonwealth Court on the accessibility of voter IDs, after the state Supreme Court asked the judge to reconsider his decision not to block the law.
As Courts Reevaluate Voter ID Law, Pa. Eases Procedure For Obtaining a CardAs of Tuesday morning, voters can get a voting-only ID without first trying to get a Penndot ID and without showing two proofs of residence.
Legal Expert: ‘Unlikely Court Could Do Anything But Issue An Injunction’ In Voter ID CaseThe Commonwealth Court is set to hear more evidence on the voter ID law next week. A legal expert explains why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided to punt the ball back to the lower court.
Pa. Supreme Court Sends Voter ID Ruling Back To Lower Court For ReviewOpponents of Pennsylvania's recently enacted voter ID law have notched a preliminary victory in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Pa. Court Rejects Foxwoods Appeal On Loss of Gambling LicenseCommonwealth Court on Thursday upheld the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s decision of last December revoking Foxwoods’ license.
Ousted Foxwoods Group Makes Oral Plea In Pa. Court To Get Back Casino License“We feel very confident that we did exercise the proper discretion and did the right thing,” an attorney representing the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said afterward.
DROP Challenges In Philadelphia Elections Shifted To Pennsylvania High CourtA panel of Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judges says it is the state Supreme Court that should have jurisdiction over the challenges to the candidacies of City Council members Frank Rizzo and Marian Tasco, and city commissioner Marge Tartaglione.
Appeals Expected After Philadelphia Judge OKs Candidates Who Took PensionsOpponents say they are not dropping the "DROP" issue -- the controversial city pension plan that's created a large measure of debate in and around Philadelphia.


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Change Is Inevitable. What was so important 30 years ago may be deemed a trivial thing nowadays. What one may have treasured 50 years ago may mean nothing to her/his descendant today.
But one thing is for sure, our stories can't be changed. Perhaps it's time to focus more on the story we leave our kids & not much on how long we owned a thing.
Read on to see why kids don't want their parents' stuff. And even if they do, they might need to let it go.
There was a time when family heirlooms were cherished, but now minimalism is valued more.
Young people don’t want their parents’ stuff – much to the parents’ disappointment. As many Baby Boomers reach an age when it’s time to downsize from large suburban homes and move into smaller, more manageable apartments or retirement communities, they are discovering that handing down one’s treasured family heirlooms is no longer a given. Millennial-aged kids just aren’t interested in Mom’s fine china or Dad’s antique desk.
An article in the New York Times explores this unprecedented phenomenon. It is the first time in history that people have owned so many things that it feels overwhelming to deal with a parent’s estate. It’s also only been in the past half-century that household items have become so cheap and easy to come by that younger generations do not feel the need to accept and cherish items from parents. From the Times:
“We are definitely getting overrun with furniture, and about 20 percent more donations of everything than in previous years,” said Michael Frohm, chief operating officer of Goodwill of Greater Washington.
Tastes have changed, too. The age of consumerism really took off in the post-World War II period, when “wedding gifts were meant to be used – and treasured – for life.” All throughout the nineties, the trendy interior design look was one of rich lavishness, inspired by Mario Buatta, a.k.a. the Prince of Chintz. Only in the last several years has another movement really taken off – that of Marie Kondo’s minimalism that insists on keeping only those items that ‘inspire joy.’ Empty spaces are sought after, rather than filled as quickly as possible.
Millennials purchase homes much later in life than their parents did, and often those homes are significantly smaller than the suburban mansions once so highly prized. Many have embraced the sharing economy and alternative ways of getting a hold of goods when needed, i.e. renting dinner place settings for a party or hitting up thrift stores in a pinch. It’s now more socially acceptable to ‘do without’ or hack it in a non-traditional way. Storing large quantities of things for once-a-year occasions is increasingly frowned upon.
It is interesting to see what commenters have to say about the NYT article. Some express disgust at young people’s ingratitude, blaming the spoiled young people for “demanding new.” I don’t think that’s the case. While I imagine every generation of young people has had some degree of reluctance to accept their parents’ stuff, it’s unfair of Boomers to expect kids to be saddled with the detritus of their rampant consumerism, even if that stuff is still functional.
We’re moving beyond that now, mercifully, with younger people being more interested in experiences than accumulation of goods. With the exception of clothing and technology, I suspect Millennials spend more on travel, cool restaurants, high-end groceries, and fitness than our parents ever did. All our adventures are photographed and shared online for public admiration. Even our perception of retirement has changed, with many opting out of the professional rat race much earlier in life, while trading a simpler lifestyle for that freedom.
Nevertheless, it’s still a smart idea to sit down and talk with one’s parents about what’s wanted and what is not, and how you both plan to deal with it going forward.
So make sure, the stuff you leave your kids won't only make them remember the good ol' days but they can wear & carry with them & not stuck it in the basement to accumulate dust.
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This expansion demonstrates the increased adoption of our software due to the amplified scrutiny in compliance and increased demand for visibility of companies' operations in Mexico
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Integration Point, Inc., a provider of Global Trade Management (GTM) Software solutions, has today announced the expansion of its operations to a new office in Torreon, Mexico. The office located in the Laguna Trade Center is strategically located near the airport, many logistics providers, and government agencies.
Raul Conte, Operations Manager of Integration Point's Torreon office, states that the central location of the office is strategic in servicing Integration Point clients across the Mexican Republic. "This expansion demonstrates the increased adoption of our software due to the amplified scrutiny in compliance and increased demand for visibility of companies' operations in Mexico," says Mr. Conte.
Integration Point provides the Mexican market with a web-based system which integrates to all parties within the supply chain, communicates with all major Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and is part of a Global platform that allows organizations to standardize their Global Trade Management (GTM) operations while still having a best of breed application supported within Mexico. Industry leaders must find the balance of allowing separate regions in the world to operate efficiently, while employing controls and visibility to ensure global compliance and movement of goods through the supply chain. Integration Point has focused on providing software tools to do just that.
"Web-based Global Trade Management technologies hold a lot of potential to help companies improve efficiency of the GTM process and make it less costly," said Tom Barnes, President of Integration Point. "Companies with Mexican operations increasingly want to integrate Mexican Trade into their overall strategy."
The Torreon office of Integration Point will manage global content, free trade agreement qualification rules and Mexican Trade software for management of IMMEX (Pitex / Maquiladoras) and other trade programs.
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Integration Point, Inc. (http://www.IntegrationPoint.net) is a provider of Global Trade Management Software solutions for some of the largest companies in the world. Integration Point offers a suite of integrated products that facilitate visibility and compliance for organizations managing international trade through Global Classification, C-TPAT, AEO, Import, Export, Denied Party Screening, Free Trade Agreement qualification and Duty Deferral Program participation around the globe. Established as an industry leader, Integration Point combines robust functionality with state-of-the-art technology to address the diverse needs of importers and exporters in all industries throughout the world.

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When deciding where to go on your next vacation, peruse the following Top 10 Vacation Destinations that may help you make up your mind.
With skylines of super reality, melange of the Stature of Liberty, a giant lion, a pyramid and constantly glittering buildings, there is no other city like Las Vegas in America or elsewhere in the world. In other cities, hotels are built around major attractions, here, in Las Vegas, hotels are major attractions. With the skyline made up of buildings from other cities’ skylines, Las Vegas buildings tend to replicate some other reality – ancient Egypt, Paris, Venice and New York. But the biggest draw of the city is naturally casinos with their non-stop action and sound, and almost blinding lights. Gambling is the main attraction of this place and you are bound to come across casinos and slot machines nearly everywhere you go. The most famous hotel casinos are located on Las Vegas Boulevard, better known as the Las Vegas Strip. Many of these hotels are massive, carrying thousands of rooms, with their large adjoining casino areas. There are many hotel casinos in the city downtown area as well.
Besides fabulously opulent lush hotels, Las Vegas has got access to some marvelous hiking with awe-inspiring rock formations in Red Rock Canyon. You can also have water fun on Lake Mead, enjoy breathtaking desert vistas of Valley of the Fire State Park, and marvel the engineering and architectural genius at Hoover Dam. Back in town there are plenty of shows, some of them are one of the best in the world. There is even Liberace Museum with real masterpieces. The Southern Nevada Zoological-Botanical Park, also known as the Las Vegas Zoo, exhibits over 150 species of animals and plants.
You may even have one of the meals of your life in Las Vegas, with many of the most prominent chefs of the country attracted to this site. From Food Network favorites such as Puck and Emeril, to Jean-Georges, Julian Serrano, and more, they are considered one of the finest chefs alive.
The gorgeous Hawaiian Islands are famous all over the world as an exciting and romantic destination with its peak season in winter when humpback whales swim past the coast. It is a place where you can relax in your heart’s content on one of the fabulous beaches, with the gorgeous view of majestic emerald mountains. The sapphire waters and turquoise waves of the best beaches of Hawaii await you: Wailea Beach, Ulua Beach, Big Beach, Haoma Beach, KoOlina Lagoons, Kailua Beach and Lanikai Beach – all offering phenomenal surfing, snorkeling, kayaking and, of course, diving.
Being a super travel destination, Maui offers super of everything – landscape, ocean, comfort, shopping and dining. Nowhere is such a profusion of luxurious resorts fronting gorgeous ocean views and rimmed by magnificent landscapes as in Wailea, Lahaina, Kihei and Wailuku. A stunning road to Hana will overwhelm the senses with the splendor of natural beauty around you. And of course, there are miles of amazing golden sand beaches with strong trade winds and consistent surf, such as in Wailea Beach, Ulua Beach, Big Beach, Makena Beach and others. If you are itching to try out your underwater gear, go to Molokini islet where warm transparent waters are teeming with marine life.
Experience the best of shopping in Shops at Wailea, which is the collection of more than 60 island chic shops, galleries and upscale restaurants in the Wailea resort area. It is considered one of the most beautiful shopping centers in Hawaii, providing a wide array of stores from high-end shops like Louis Vuitton and Bottega Veneta to Gap, Pacsun, The Walking Company, White House/Black Market and Maui-exclusive shops.
Waikiki is famous all over the world of its lush hotels like the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, also known as the “Pink Place”, Sheraton Moana Surf Rider, the oldest hotel in Waikiki, and The Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa, and a stretch of warm, golden sand, known as Waikiki Beach. In Waikiki you will find a two-mile strand of dozen beaches just outside your doorstep. They stretch from the Ala Wai Yacht Basin to Diamond Head and are known as Kuhio, Sans Souci, Gray’s and Kahanomoku.
If you would like something unusual and different from traditional entertainment, try party sail called Pirates Bar. The crew practices Aloha in the most gracious way, so if you just call for reservations they will welcome you on board for a party. Fancy yourself sailing off Waikiki shore, snorkeling and swimming with dolphins, enjoying the sunset under the spectacular fireworks show while helping yourself to an open bar. Besides snorkeling, other ocean activities available are surf lessons, kayaking, shark diving, swimming with whales and turtles. On board the ship you will learn pirate lore and have a nice chat with the ocean loving crew.
Home to hushed redwoods, wild beaches, magnificent mountain ranges that scrape the sky, tumbling rivers and immense Deserts, California is varied, diverse, and as a real beauty, fickle. Nowhere else you will be able to find such immense diversity of natural wonders. In the Northwest corner, the world’s tallest trees preside over a wild and stunningly beautiful landscape, with the state old-growth forests like in the Redwood National Park. In the South, recharge and renew with an exhilarating mountain escape to Big Bear Lake and the Forest Falls to discover and enjoy cascading mountainsides, lush hills, crystal clear waters, bountiful wildlife and endless hiking trails.
From mountain tops to sun kissed deserts, all of vast spread of maltifaceted California has become the ultimate playground. Surfing and kayaking in San Diego, hiking the redwood forests, climbing Big Bear, soaking at hot springs in Deserts, scuba diving, kitesurfing and snowboarding - the possibilities are endless in California.
Confined by bay and sea to just 47 miles of extremely coveted real estate, San Francisco features amazingly dense concentration of unique cultural attractions, incredible architecture and delicious food as well as busy urban life. Poke around the historic waterfront of Fisherman’s Wharf, toss some bread to the gulls, or watch the fishing fleet unload the catch. At Fisherman’s Wharf, you will find specialty restaurants, unique shops and entertainment for the whole family. San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf features plenty of unique, interesting and fun attractions that can only be found in the legendary City by the Bay. There is truly something for everyone to enjoy. You can see the world famous sea lions at Pier 39, or visit the Maritime Museum, take a stroll through Aquatic Park and enjoy the breathtaking views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz.
For once-in-a-lifetime experience go to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, offering something for everyone in the family with marine life, wildlife, fast and furious rides and spectacular shows. With over 30 animal attractions, 197 different species and more than 1,700 animals, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom has the best the "Land", "Sea" and "Sky" have to offer. This one-of-kind theme park brings together interactive animal attractions and the best family rides and roller coasters in Northern California. Within 135 acres, this original attraction combines in itself a wildlife park, an oceanarium and a theme park.
One of the best places in the world to entertain and have fun, California is home to Disneyland Resort located in a charming town of Anaheim. Here you can feel the magic of the land of Mickey Mouse, especially at night when it lights up with parades and fireworks. Here you can jump inside Tarzan’s Treehouse which is a climb-around attraction based on the animated film. Nearby is a Jungle Cruise, with passengers boarding an authentic looking Mississippi River paddleboat and drifting along the Amazon like river. But the real star ride of Adventureland is the Indiana Jones Adventure, based on the Stephen Spielberg films. Next door at Disney’s California Adventures soar over California in a simulated hang glider tour or pump the adrenalin when riding The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
Immerse yourself into a fanciful world of magic, breathtaking attractions and dazzling shows and parades in the best land of the Earth – Disneyland! Here, in the magical wonderland, kids make their dreams come true and adults wish they were kids again.
Come celebrate the wonders of the sea at SeaWorld San Diego. At the very heart of this 165-acre multimillion-dollar aquatic theme park is the shoreside family entertainment center where dolphins, otters, sea lions, walruses and seals are real performers, with 30-minute shows which are run several times each through out the day. Here you can have a lot of fun with seasonal events such as Summer Nights that sizzle with high-energy nighttime shows and fireworks. Feed and touch dolphins and bat rays, and get up-close to beluga whales, polar bears, sharks and penguins. Enjoy fascinating aquariums, sea turtles, manatees, and exotic birds from around the world. Create memories to last a lifetime.
If traveling with children, take them to Legoland California Resort, a 128-acre interactive theme park dedicated to families with children between the ages of 2 and 12. At LEGOLAND everyone is sure to have great fun, including even the youngest guest, with its 50 super rides, shows and attractions. Another reason to visit Legoland is the new SEALIFE Aquarium next door, offering the fabulous underwater world where the visitors can meet diverse marine residents. Here you can watch California's freshwater fish playfully swimming through pristine waters, and experience San Francisco's nightlife like never before, from the eyes of sea creatures normally found in its waters, sharks, rays and a Giant Pacific Octopus including. On a tour of the rocky California coastline, you will be able to view creatures which normally inhabit rock pool areas, and you won’t even get your feet wet. Under the guidance of the shark expert, you will also learn about how sharks have survived to present day and why so many species are now extinct.
Florida dazzling beaches promise a super vacation that includes fantastic shopping, dining, entertaining, boating, golfing and tennis. Escape with that special someone to forested and secluded Key Biscayne, the exclusive residential community with multi-million Dollar homes and stunningly beautiful ocean views featuring outstanding public beaches, top resort hotels and high-end restaurants. Maimi sparkling beaches are beyond compare. If you want to see and be seen there is no better place than the hyper trendy South Beach, chic and high glam 24-hour-a-day playground for the ultra rich and famous, with exciting shopping and diverse night life. Feel an exquisite touch of history at St. Augustine, the oldest city of the country, whose past comes to live in a quaint historic district, with its cobblestone streets, quaint cafes, bars, unique shops and bed-and-breakfast inns. Feel the unique charm of this city while having a moonlit horse-drawn carriage ride past historical buildings and the twinkling water of the bay.
Every year millions of people travel to the Western United States to explore the largest canyon of America – the Grand Canyon of Arizona. There you can stand on the rim of the gaping chasm, mesmerized by the view of this natural wonder of the world. Or you can hike down the canyon and experience its magical landscapes and abundant natural history. And for adventurous white-water rafters there is a wild ride on the Colorado River, right through the heart of the Grand Canyon. All year round the state of Arizona offers its residents and visitors tastes of real adventure and stunning beauty. The Grand Canyon is largely contained in the Grand Canyon National Park, located in Northwestern Arizona, with the Kaibab National Forest creating a buffer of undeveloped land around the central canyon. The Grand Canyon National Park provides a wide array of recreation opportunities for visitors of diverse interests and abilities.

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Another Harrisburg School Board member has opted to resign, the second resignation to impact the board in the last month.
Harrisburg School District and School Board officials received the resignation of appointed School Board Director Tyrell Spradley on Monday, according to a news release.
The resignation will become official when the board accepts it at the next public meeting, which will be held on Monday, Aug. 6.
"A School Board vacancy notice and timeline for prospective candidates will be made available in the coming days," according to a release issued by district spokeswoman Kirsten Keys.
Spradley previously served as treasurer for the city of Harrisburg, a post he resigned from after less than two years on the job.


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The 2023-2024 Season is Set!
We're proud to announce our 2023-2024 Season is titled "A Journey Through Song." We begin the season with "A Journey Through Time." Our Christmas Concerts will include some of your favorites along with some new and exciting repertoire.
In the spring of 2024, we'll take you on "A Journey Through Nature," and finally we will wrap up the season with our Kentucky Derby Fundraising Gala. We want to encourage everyone planning to attend to wear their best bow ties and big, beautiful hats!
This season, the Chorale we are happy to announce that we will have a new location for our mainstage performances - our fall, Christmas, and spring concerts. These mainstage performances will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, 220 40th St NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402. We are so grateful to be partnering with Christ Episcopal Church this season! Our Kentucky Derby gala will be held at the beautiful Scottish Rite Temple again this year.
Members of the Chorale, their families and friends had a wonderful time in New York City, seeing the sites and rehearsing for hours in preparation for our concert in Carnegie Hall Monday, March 13!
We sang Elaine Hagenburg's Illuminare in a combined choir of about 250 singers under the director James Rodde. Chorale Midwest performed its own set under the direction of Bradley T Barrett - resulting in a standing ovation!
If you are interested in learning more about Chorale Midwest or have any questions about tickets, our performances or auditioning for the Chorale, please contact us at email@example.com

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In winter 2004, 34-year-old Erlbaum (Girlbomb) volunteered at the shelter where she herself had lived as a teenager. Dubbed "The Bead Lady" by the residents, she hefted a large, rattling bag of beadworking supplies to the cafeteria once a week, hoping to reach out to a younger version of herself over jewelry-making sessions-to "believe in them and listen to them," as her volunteer-orientation videotape had instructed. When she met Samantha, a charismatic 19-year-old addict with an unyielding resilience in spite of a horrific childhood, Erlbaum knew she'd found a favorite. Though Sam had been on the streets since age 12, she was well read and quite gifted as a writer-a prodigy, it seemed. The two quickly developed a friendship, which deepened over the next several months as Erlbaum comforted Sam through health problems, abuse flashbacks and rehab, promising her a trip to Disney World if she stayed sober. Erlbaum was determined to save Sam and even offered to become her legal guardian. Erlbaum realized that, at times, details in Sam's backstory didn't add up (she was a skilled classical pianist), but these incongruities raised only the occasional, short-lived suspicion. Finally, Erlbaum realized Sam had been lying to her all along (she actually came from a sold middle-class suburb and hadn't had the childhood she described), snookering her out of her time, attention and affection for a year. Erlbaum's narrative begins promisingly, her savior fantasies and insecurities rendered with honesty and self-effacing good humor. However, her conclusions fall flat, missing opportunities to ponder larger issues at work in the story and opting instead for a mere cautionary tale.(Mar.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
Have You Found Her: A Memoirby Janice Erlbaum
And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?
Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer, she’d changed her life for the/i>
And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?
Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer, she’d changed her life for the better; now she wanted to help someone else–someone like the girl she’d once been.
Then she met Sam. A brilliant nineteen-year-old junkie savant, the product of a horrifically abusive home, Sam had been surviving alone on the streets since she was twelve and was now struggling for sobriety against the adverse health effects of long-term drug abuse.
Soon Janice found herself caring deeply for Sam, following her through detoxes and psych wards, halfway houses and hospitals, becoming ever more manically driven to save her from the sickness and sadness leftover from Sam’s terrible past. But just as Janice was on the verge of becoming the girl’s legal guardian, she made a shocking discovery: Sam was sicker than anyone knew, in ways nobody could have imagined.
Written with startling candor and immediacy, Have You Found Her is the story of one woman’s quest to save a girl’s life–and the hard truths she learns about herself along the way.
“A rich and compelling account . . . Ultimately this is a book about the narrator’s journey and the dangers that attend the urge within us all to believe we can save another soul. A terrific read.”
–Cammie McGovern, author of Eye Contact
In her highly acclaimed Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir, Erlbaum detailed her experiences as a troubled adolescent who had spent more than a year in New York City's shelter system in the 1980s. In this follow-up memoir, she is now a confident and successful 34-year-old writer who's gotten her act together, complete with a committed romantic relationship. Wanting to give something back, she decides to volunteer at the same homeless shelter at which she herself had stayed 20 years earlier. There, she meets "Sam," a brilliant but troubled 19-year-old who reminds her of her earlier self. Despite admonitions from the professionals running the shelter, Erlbaum becomes more and more deeply involved in Sam's life. Just as she is about to become Sam's legal guardian, the story takes a sharp turn for the worse, revealing new and deeper problems of which no one had been aware. This compelling and fast-paced memoir reads like a novel while providing an inside look at American social problems. Recommended for public libraries and a possible purchase for academic libraries. [Visit the author online at girlbomb.com.-Ed.]
Alison M. Lewis
Adult/High School -Twenty years after spending time in a New York City shelter, Erlbaum returned as a volunteer, bearing beads for crafts therapy and a desire to make a difference. Breaking the rule against playing favorites among residents, she found a kindred spirit in tragic, brilliant Sam. Erlbaum giddily forged a connection with the teen, discussing books and philosophy; feeling outrage at her tales of parental abuse, drugs, and life on the streets; and acting as an advocate to get Sam the help she needed. During Sam's multiple stays in the hospital for increasingly serious infections, Erlbaum encouraged her to focus on getting well and into rehab, spending hours next to hospital beds and on the phone, taking time away from work and her partner. An AIDS diagnosis intensified the strong feelings Erlbaum was developing for Sam and set the ball of discovery rolling as she realized that the girl, who had almost become an adopted daughter, was not what she seemed. Throughout, Erlbaum is honest about her own motives; she mocks her own selfish drive to be important. The chatty narrative, heartrending and funny, is full of dialogue reconstructed from journals; the writing is unobtrusively good and compulsively readable. Teens who enjoy gritty reality like James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (Doubleday, 2003) or the twisted humor of Augusten Burroughs's Running with Scissors (St. Martins, 2002) will race through this one and come back for Erlbaum's chronicle of her own unstable past, Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, 2006).-Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CACopyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
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How I Became the Bead Lady
It’s a Wednesday evening in late May, and
I’m at the shelter for my weekly workshop, which is officially listed on the calendar as “Jewelry Making with Janice.” This has been my shtick for the past two and a half years—every Wednesday evening, I
come uptown to the shelter, and I sit around for a few hours with the girls of the Older Females Unit making beaded bracelets and necklaces and earrings. I am known, colloquially, as “Bead Lady,” as in,
“Bead Lady, you got more alphabet beads this week? ’Cause last week you was runnin’ outa vowels.”
All of the volunteers here have a shtick. Some teach ballet, some lead prayer circles; theater groups come in to do presentations about conflict resolution. Out-of-town church choirs give concerts. The Junior
League, a group of young professional women committed to volunteerism,
sends representatives once a week to lead workshops about things like prenatal health and budgeting. One guy comes in and supervises pickup basketball games in the gym. There’s a guy named Carl who’s been volunteering on the Older Females Unit for the past fifteen years—a white guy, mousy, quiet, and kind. I have no idea what his shtick is, but the girls seem to like him.
They don’t like everybody. I guess when I started, I thought the girls would be so grateful for any kind of sympathy or attention that they’d fall all over the volunteers, but I’ve seen them turn their backs on a lot of people, watched them size up a bunch of white women in high-heeled shoes, out to do their annual Good Deed for the Poor
Little Black Girls, and seen them “put it on frost,” as they say, ice up like snowmen. Because the girls at the shelter do not want your charity.
They did not ask you to come stare at them with your pity, like they’re some fucked-up zebras at the zoo. They know you have some reason of your own for coming, whether it’s to burn off your bourgeois guilt, spread the word of Jesus, or pad your résumé—you’ve got your shtick, and then you’ve got your angle. What are you doing here,
the girls want to know. Slumming?
They’ll still ask me that, directly or indirectly, the new ones who haven’t met me before—and there are always new ones, every week.
Every Wednesday evening, I’m missing a few girls from the weeks before (“Where’s Angela? Where’s Zuzu? Where’s Grenada?”), and there’s a fresh crop of intakes, girls who watch me warily as I dump my bead supplies on the table in the lounge.
“What’s this?” they ask, skeptical.
“We’re going to make jewelry. You want to make some?”
Invariably: “Is it free?”
“Yeah, it’s free. You can make earrings, or a necklace, or a bracelet.”
“What about all three?”
That’s when I know I’ve got them. “You can make all three,” I tell them, smiling. “If you’ve got the patience, I’ve got the time.”
“All right then.” And the chairs scrape back, and I’ll have a table full of girls sitting with me, just like that, asking for a string “big enough for my man’s wrist” or “small enough for my baby.”
And soon enough, if it’s an all- or mostly new crowd, between talking about popular music and cell phone plans and whether or not you can tell the sex of a baby-to-be by the changing breadth and flatness of the mother’s nose, the subject will eventually come up: “Miss,
Bead Lady, why you come here like this?”
As it has tonight. Tonight’s asker is a butch girl of about nineteen,
wearing an oversized hockey jersey in black and red, extra-large baggy jeans belted around the upper thighs, do-rag over her braids, and cork-sized fake diamond studs in each ear. She is making a blackand-
red bracelet, Blood colors. I always try to dissuade the girls from making gang beads, to no avail. The bracelet has alphabet beads that spell rip pookie.
I concentrate on daubing a finished knot with glue. The glue won’t keep the cheap elastic from snapping, ultimately, but it will forestall its demise. “Well,” I say, without looking up. “I used to live here when I was a kid.”
“For real?” asks the butch girl, eyebrows high. “You lived here?”
“Huh,” murmurs someone else. Another girl at the end of the table elbows her neighbor, Are you listening to this?
I keep my eyes on the knot, blow on the glue. “Yep. When I was fifteen, I got sick of living with my mother’s husband, so I left home,
and I came here. I was in the minors’ wing for about two months,
then they helped me get into a group home, and I lived there for about a year.”
“I hate my mother’s husband, too,” offers the girl to my left, the one with the tattoo of a bleeding rose on her left boob. She hands me an earring in need of a hook.
“Fuck all of them,” agrees the butch in the hockey jersey, and turns her attention back to me. “So, wait—so things was messed up at home, and you came here, and then they hooked you up, and then things got better? Things is good with you now?”
I bend the hook with my pliers, smiling to myself. Succinctly, yes.
“Things are very good with me now. And I’m really grateful to this place for helping me get to a place where I can say that.”
She leans back, nods. “So that’s how come you came back.”
I return the hooked earring to the girl with the bloody-rose tattoo,
and she holds it up to her ear, flips her head back and forth like America’s
Next Top Model, emits a little squeal of pleasure. “Pretty much,”
“That’s crazy,” decrees a girl at the end of the table, pale and haughty, with traces of a Spanish accent. “No offense, miss, but when
I get outa here, I am never coming back. Never.”
“That’s understandable,” I tell her. “I didn’t come back for almost twenty years.”
“So what made you decide to come back, then?” asks the butch girl.
Well, okay. This is a question I’ve asked myself over and over, ever since I walked through that door again—What made me decide to come back here, goddamn it? I’d successfully managed to avoid this place for nineteen years, though I never left New York, never lived farther than a subway ride away. After purposely staying away for so long, why did I decide to return to the scene of the crime? Why couldn’t I just leave well enough alone?
Two and a half years later, I still don’t know the answer. Survivor’s guilt, I could say, or, because I want to help make a difference. But really,
it was something more selfish than that, something I still can’t name.
I cut another bracelet length of elastic string, triple-knotting the end.
“Well, you know how it is,” I tell her, smiling. “I missed the company.”
I’m interested in volunteering here because I’m a former resident of the shelter, and I want to give something back to the place that helped save my life.
That’s what I wrote on my application almost two and a half years ago, back in the winter of 2004, when I was all fresh and dewy-eyed. It had been nineteen years since I’d been inside the building, since the day I’d left the shelter for the group home, my donated bag full of donated clothes, a skull and crossbones drawn in eyeliner on my temple,
ready to impress my new roommates with my hard-core stories about stabbings and lesbians and twelve-year-old hoes. See you, wouldn’t want to be you. Anymore.
Then there I was again, age thirty-four, in my pinstriped pants and my good-enough shoes, sitting around the conference table in the volunteer department with my paperwork in front of me, sneaking looks at the other prospective candidates: a young white girl with her hair in braids, looking to earn college credit; a woman in her forties,
also going for college credit; and a bald, muscular guy with a big tense grin. When the volunteer coordinator asked him why he was interested in volunteering, he grinned so hard he almost broke a sweat.
“I love kids!” he exclaimed. “I’ve been a foster parent, and I’m really . . . I love kids. Wanna help ’em out.” Grin, grin.
Creep, I decided, for no good reason. Child molester. It was something about the muscles; I could picture him shirtless, screaming at his foster kids while he made them do push-ups. He grinned at me,
and I smiled back weakly.
The volunteer coordinator put on a videotape about the shelter.
“Our crisis center serves two to three thousand kids every year,” said the narrator. “Without us, they have few alternatives besides the streets.” One black-and-white photo of a sober-faced kid dissolved into another: kids leaning against walls, kids lying curled up on the sidewalk. Then the happy kids, the shelter kids, in color, with smiles and graduation robes. The music swelled. “With your help,” the narrator urged, “we can make a difference in their lives. We can give them more than just food and shelter—we can give them hope.”
Had this place given me hope? I tried to remember. I remembered the food: white bread, cereal, and milk in the morning; bologna sandwiches for lunch; meat loaf and mashed potatoes out of the box for dinner.
SpaghettiOs, canned vegetables, vanilla pudding. Never enough of any of it. I remembered the narrow metal bed frame, and the scratchy industrial sheets, and the bathroom I shared with six other girls; I remembered the paneled drop ceiling over my bed. I remembered the three dollars a week they gave us for spending money, and how every Friday night the counselors would open up the supply cabinet and hand out douches, one for every girl.
I remembered the douches. I didn’t know if I remembered the hope.
I frowned, trying to concentrate, but it was distracting, being back in the building again after all that time, the same building I’d dreaded and dreamed of for years after I left. That smell—cinder blocks and construction paper, the ragged, musty, wall-to-wall carpeting, the heat coming through radiators thick with cracked paint—it hit me like an old song. Right. The night I came here was windy, it was November;
I was fifteen years old. I walked through those doors downstairs,
went into that office I passed earlier, and talked to my very first nun, who said, “You can stay here, for now, and we’ll find you a place to live.”
There was another nun on the videotape now, saying, “Your first responsibility with these young people is to listen. First and foremost,
you have to listen to them, and you have to take what they say seriously.
And they may not always be telling the truth—in many cases,
they won’t be; they don’t know how. But even if you don’t believe the facts of what they’re saying, you still have to believe in them, and believe that you will eventually get the facts. Believe in them, and listen to them, and keep listening, and eventually they will tell you the truth, and they will tell you how to help them, and how to teach them to help themselves.”
Listen, I wrote in my notebook, and underlined it. That’s what the first nun did for me, the night I came here. She listened to me, and she believed me.
Now I remembered the hope.
All the remembering was starting to overwhelm me; I was getting dizzy from it, from the heat in the close room, crowded with extra dimensions of time and space. It was nineteen years ago; it was today.
It was in that stairwell right over there, three floors down, those girls wanted my eyeliner and I gave it to them. It was thick in here, the air swollen and static, and I knew from experience that the windows didn’t open. The Ghost of Janice Past was squirming on my lap.
What are we doing here? she wanted to know. And when are we getting a smoke?
“These young people are suffering,” the nun on the tape continued.
“Suffering from abuse, addiction, poverty, neglect . . .” I twisted in my chair, tugged the waistband of my pants, slipped my feet out of my shoes under the table and curled my toes. I could feel the bald guy grinning from two seats away. “Heightened risk of gang violence,
prostitution, disease . . .” Oh god. Okay! We get it, all right? We’re here! We’re here, and we’re going to stop all that bad stuff from happening,
so let’s quit talking about it and get to work.
Finally, the tape was over, and the volunteer coordinator switched on the lights. “Are there any questions?” she asked.
I slumped in my chair, wrung out. The grinning bald guy raised his hand and asked my question for me. “When can we start?”
I was still flustered when I got back to my apartment that night, pacing the living room with my three cats in tow, their tails crooked with curiosity. I couldn’t stop thinking about the kids I’d seen: the young girl waiting for the elevator with me, carrying her days-old baby,
smaller than a loaf of bread; the two roughnecks on the corner, with their supersized jeans and their plasticized sneakers shaped like steam irons—I was three feet away from them when I realized they weren’t boys. The girl with the pink yarn in her braids, waiting downstairs in front of the intake office, singing softly to herself, that song from The Little Mermaid.
I want to be where the people are . . .
Ever since a few weeks ago, when I’d made up my mind to go back and volunteer, I’d been impatient to start making a difference,
to start digging through that pile of needy kids and helping them, one by one, until they were all good and helped, and I could relax again,
knowing they were all right. Volunteering felt like something urgent
I’d left undone, something I’d been putting off for years—like the nightmares I had sometimes, where I’d left the cats neglected and unfed for a week and was racing home to see if they were still alive.
Now that I’d laid eyes on these kids, I was even more anxious to get back there to the shelter, to help, to listen and believe, as the nun on the videotape had said.
I plucked a half-smoked joint out of the ashtray and lit it, swallowing a deep drag and holding it in my lungs. Such an old habit, my pot smoking—the only vestige of my drug-addled adolescence. I’d quit all my other teenage habits long ago—cocaine, ecstasy, acid, thumb sucking—but now, in my thirties, I continued to smoke pot daily.
Self-medicating, I told myself, against the leftover anxieties of a tumultuous youth; after what I’d been through as a kid, I figured I was entitled to smoke as much as I wanted. Besides, everyone said I was the most productive pothead they’d ever met—I could get up in the morning, run a few miles on the treadmill, then smoke half a joint before going to my editorial job; with a few drops of Visine in my eyes, it seemed that nobody was ever the wiser.
I paced as I smoked, thinking maybe I’d call my boyfriend, Bill;
he should have been home from work by then. I took another long hit off the joint, put it back in the ashtray, and dialed his apartment in
“Our hero returneth,” answered Bill, his chair squeaking in the background as he put his feet up on his desk. “So? How did it go?”
I could hear him smiling at me over the phone, could feel it all the way from Queens. Bill and I had been together for two years already,
after meeting online, and I still couldn’t believe my luck in finding him, this smart, funny, nerdy, handsome guy who adored me, whom I adored. I pictured him—his warm hazel eyes behind his squared-off glasses, his broad shoulders, his long runner’s legs propped up on his desk next to a stack of comic books and
Macworlds—and I wished we’d made plans for him to come over that night.
“Okay,” I said. “I mean, good. They said my application looked really good, and my recommendations were strong. So now I just have to pass the criminal-background check, and then they can place me on a unit.”
“Excellent,” he said, sounding very satisfied. “That’s great, Shmoo.”
I flopped down on the sofa, disarmed as always by Bill’s support.
Even after two years, it was still hard to get used to the idea that I had a partner I could lean on and trust, someone who responded to my plans and ideas with “That’s great, Shmoo,” instead of “Well, the only problem with that is . . . ,” like the voice inside my head, like every jerk boyfriend I’d ever had.
“I’m so proud of you,” continued Bill. “You feel good about it,
“Yeah, I feel good. I feel . . .” Tired. I felt tired all of a sudden, like
I’d run out of adrenaline, like it was three in the morning instead of nine-thirty at night. “I just . . . I don’t know what I’m supposed to do for these kids. I don’t know what the hell I think I’m doing. I’m not a social worker, I’m just some person off the street.”
Bill cut right through this, authoritative. “Babe, you’re more than just some person off the street. You lived there. Nobody’s going to understand these kids better than you. And they’ll train you, right? I
mean, once you’re placed on a unit”—he threw a little extra relish on
“on a unit,” like I was going to work at Oz Maximum Security Prison,
and I was buoyed for a second by his vicarious excitement—“I’m sure they’ll give you instructions, tell you how the whole system works.
“I wish you were here,” I said abruptly. “I love you and I miss you and I wish you were here.”
He paused, restarted carefully. “I wish I was there too, Shmoo.”
All I had to do, I knew, was ask Bill to move in with me, and he could be there every night. I didn’t know why I was balking. He was ready to give up his lease in Queens; he was sick of schlepping his overnight bag to work every other day, of trying not to let the milk in his fridge go bad, of missing the three cats he and I had adopted together on nights he spent alone. Two years—that was more than enough time to decide whether or not you wanted to move in with somebody, especially in New York, where rent usually dictates the course of a relationship, and it’s not like I didn’t have enough room;
I had more than enough. I just had to ask him, already.
“Anyway,” I demurred, “I won’t know more until I hear from this woman Nadine, she’s the head of Older Females. And it might take her a while; they’re really busy over there.”
“I’m sure they are busy,” said Bill, and yawned. The desk chair squeaked again; his feet landed back on the floor. “Listen, I’m going to eat something, maybe throw on the hockey game—you want to call me back before you go to sleep?”
The nightly before-bed phone call—another amazing feature of the Bill and Janice deal. I was crazy for not asking him to move in. I
rose from the couch, and the cat on my lap made an exasperated noise. Me and my wanderlust.
“Yeah, okay,” I told him. “I love you, Shmoo.”
Meet the Author
Janice Erlbaum is the author of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir and Have You Found Her, which was named one of the New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember. A former columnist for BUST magazine, she lives in New York City with her partner Bill Scurry. You can find her at www.girlbomb.com
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I just finished a book, after running back to the beach because it was mistakenly left there, that I am going to pass on to everyone looking for a good book to read. HAVE YOU FOUND HER by Janice Erlbaum was a gut-wrenching, pull-at-your-heart strings, can't-put-it-down memoir. It actually reads like a novel, a suspenseful one at that, full of plot twists and turns. I finished it in two days. The little blurb I read about it in my local library's Bookpage didn't do the book justice.
Janice Erlbaum one day decided to volunteer at a homeless shelter for teens in NYC. Very noble of her, don't you think? Volunteering at this one homeless shelter was more than just an act of graciousness for her. Twenty years ago, she lived at that shelter for a time. She wanted to do something for these kids, show that you can change your situation and become successful. Janice definitely changed her life for the better. Now she is a successful author, living in a nice apartment with her husband (or domestic partner, as she calls him) and three cats.
At first, the volunteering doesn't go very well. Her nervousness shows and the kids are gravitating to her for help. Janice is just not sure if she can do it. She soon realizes she has to have a shtick if she wants their attention and find a younger version of herself to help. So one day, she brings a bag full of beads for a craft-making jewelry session. It does the trick and she is forever known as the Bead Lady.
One of the rules of the place is "Don't choose favorites." That rule goes completely out the window when Janice meets Samantha. Samantha is a brilliant junkie who has been on her own since she was twelve. She is incredibly lovable and also incredibly damaged. Samantha says a lot of things throughout the time Janice comes to know her that should be questioned. At any rate, Janice ends up falling for Sam - not a romantic love like she has for Bill, but in a deeply caring, friendship/parental way. She wants to save Sam from the streets, and this leads Janice and Sam through hospitals and halfway houses and rehabs.
The one thing Janice never suspected was how sick Sam really was.......
The book was like a roller coaster ride for me. When Sam was up, in good health, on the right track, you cheered -- but when she was down, sick, so weak that you though she would die at any second, you couldn't help but get sad and emotional. You start to wonder if you can really save another person's soul.
I just wonder where Sam is now.....
I haven't read Girlbomb but I thought this memoir was magnificent. It detailed a homeless teen's mental health travails and how the author, once sheltered herself, emerged from her own traumas and her young friend's similar, albeit deceptive, journey. A great read!
I read Girlbomb last month and I just finished this book. I knew I would enjoy it because I loved the authors writing style in Girlbomb. It's hard for my to write a review and not give away too much of the story but I will say this book takes you on an emotional roller coaster. I think it gives a good lesson to tread carefully, I'm all for making well meaning people aware of what lurks in the world.
Twenty years ago, as a young teen, Janice Erlbaum lived for a while in a homeless shelter for teens (see A HALFWAY HOMELESS MEMOIR and GIRLBOMB, not reviewed by me). Overcoming the dope and returning home now in her thirties, she felt a deep need to give back what was given to her by that New York shelter: her life. Thus she volunteered her time where she would bring her bag of beads and related paraphernalia to teach those who remind her of her fourteen years old Janice how to make jewelry. There she meets nineteen years old junkie Samantha Dunleavy, who told her she traveled the country with her meth chef dad and junkie mom, and sold her body as needed. Janice became like a big sister to the intelligent ¿junkie savant¿ and was always there when Sam needed her especially when her protégé had accidents. However over time Janice begins to realize Sam¿s saga was filled with incongruities as a twelve-years-old runaway from a drug traveling show should not be a trained classical pianist. Janice finally makes some inquiries into her beloved ¿ward¿ learning a shocking past. --- This is a terrific memoir that focuses deep on a savior being saved from her obsession by an apparent schemer. Ms. Erlbaum provides a combination cautionary saga with a bit of real life sleuthing, but in many ways Samantha and the ¿Redhead¿ at the beginning of Ms. Erlbaum¿s adventure steal the show. Although well written and gut wrenching, the overarching issue of what society should do with runaway teens and tweens is never deeply explored still Ms. Erlbaum makes a strong case that volunteering is good for the soul, but walk cautiously before you give away your heart as the author confesses when she was the runaway lying was her norm while an alternate title considered for HAVE YOU FOUND HER? sums that up: ¿Sucker: A Love Story¿. --- Harriet Klausner
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Girlbomb was wonderful but this new title from the author is a bomb! Boring and of little interest to anyone except maybe the author herself!

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Encomiums poured in over the weekend in honor of Jim Frederick, a prominent author and former high-ranking editor at Time who died suddenly last Thursday at the age of 42.
"Jim's storied career at TIME, and before that at Money, was a reflection of his great gifts, his energy and his lively curiosity," Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs wrote in a Friday memo to the magazine's staff.
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"All of us who got to work with Jim have wonderful memories of his collegial style, rigorous standards and profound commitment to the very best of TIME's values," the memo continued.
"He always put the reader first; he was tireless in his ambition to expand the reach of our journalism, across all borders, all boundaries, all platforms. He reminded the teams he was leading that they were part of something important, and pushed people to test their assumptions, build new skills, continually reinvent themselves; he loved identifying and promoting young talent. That spirit of adventure never flagged."
During his decade-long career at Time, Frederick served as Tokyo bureau chief, London-based senior editor, managing editor of time.com and editor of Time International, among other positions. Before joining Time in 2002 he worked at Money, a sister title within the Time Inc. stable. He was the author of Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death, a celebrated 2010 book that Gibbs described as a "classic of war reporting and non-fiction narrative."
"Even more than his prodigious abilities as a reporter, a writer and an editor, Jim had an enormous talent for friendship, which is why so many people, in so many places, are bereft today," Time's Bryan Walsh wrote Saturday on the magazine's website, calling Frederick "a born connector, the life of the party in all the best ways. If any friend or colleague passed through the city Jim was living in—London, Tokyo, New York—it was an occasion to be celebrated. He made sure it was big, and he made sure it was fun."
Frederick was living in San Francisco with his wife, Charlotte Greensit, a fellow Time veteran with whom he had just launched a digital strategy and media consulting firm called Hybrid Vigor Media.
New York Observer editor-in-chief Ken Kurson, a friend of Frederick's who'd worked with him at Money, reported Friday that the cause of death was a heart attack.
"This was a guy with more vitality than anyone, a lover of life, a total stud," Kurson wrote. "A heart attack in San Francisco. At 42. That’s just…not fair. It’s not right."
Other friends, former colleagues and journalists took to social media to express their shock and sadness.
On Twitter, Wired writer Brendan L. Koerner called Frederick a "fantastic writer and a magnanimous soul. How can this be?"
"Jim not only gave me my first job in New York but in turn allowed me to be part of one of the most talented magazine staffs of its time," Money alumnus Sridhar Pappu wrote on Facebook. "He was a superb editor, a great writer and reporter and just a really, really great guy."
Frederick's own Facebook wall was likewise filled with eulogies.
"So difficult to imagine that this handsome, strapping, intelligent, enthusiastic and witty young man is gone," wrote Syndi Becker, another member of the Time Inc. family, while a high school friend who said he hadn't seen Frederick in 25 years offered the following:
"He was probably the most intelligent, kindest person I have ever met. I am now working in his hometown so I have thought about him often over the last few years. I know I will continue to think about him for years to come."


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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone industrial production was stronger than expected in July, data showed on Wednesday, thanks to rising output of capital and non-durable consumer goods.
The European Union’s statistics office Eurostat said industrial output in the 19 countries sharing the euro rose 1.5% month-on-month in July for a 7.7% year-on-year rise.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected a 0.6% monthly and a 6.3% annual rise.
Eurostat said capital goods output jumped 2.7% month-on-month in July after a 1.1% drop in June, for a 5.9% increase against the same period in 2020. Non-durable consumer goods production was up 3.5% on a monthly basis and 10.1% annually.
Compared to last year, output of intermediate goods also rose by a strong 11.2% and of durable consumer goods by 9.8%.
The stronger data for the start of the third quarter comes after the euro zone economy grew 2.2% in the second quarter, as the easing of coronavirus restrictions spurred a rebound from a brief recession.
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Lives and works in New Orleans, LA
2009............M. F. A., University of New Orleans, concentration in Painting.
2003 - 5......Studio Art, Hunter College, City University of New York.
Selected Exhibitions (*solo show)
*Gone All Day, Studio 620, St. Petersburg Fl.
*After Forever, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Spaces, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA.
Lost and Found: Louisiana's Landscapes Revisited, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA.
Hit Refresh, Good Children Gallery, curated by Nick Stillman and Cameron Shaw.
Southern Open, Curated by Amy Mackie, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA.
Brain Massage, Parse Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Prospect 1.5 Throwdown, Second Line Studios, New Orleans, LA.
* Leaving the Solar System, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans.
Fresh off the Turnip Truck, Prospect 1.5, New Orleans, Curated by Dan Cameron.
NURTUREArt Benefit, Zieher Smith, New York, NY.
The Sublime and the Silly, UNO St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans, Curated by Dan Tague.
Sailing to Byzantium, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, curated by Adrian Price.
Benefit for Central City Artist Project, NURTUREArt, Brooklyn, NY.
Southern Open, Curated by Bill Arning, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA.
* Outer Space is Pretty Unusual, University of New Orleans, St. Claude Gallery, M.F.A. thesis show.
Garden of Earthly Delights, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Postcards from the CAC, curated by Dan Cameron, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA. 2008.
* We've Got Levitation, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans.
Get There, Open Air Project, outdoor installation, New Orleans, LA.
United Artists, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Bizer, Fields, Jones, Podesta: An Emerging Artist Group Exhibition, Arthur Roger Project Space, New Orleans, LA.
* The Power to Reduce Friction, Kirsha Kachele Projects, New Orleans.
Multi-Function Device, Art in Action, outdoor installation, Chalmette, LA.
This House is Made of Water, Stealth Arts, Birmingham, AL..
Surge: New Orleans on High Ground, Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, NY.
Geography of Now, Pancake Studios, New York, NY.
Lesser New York, Queens Plaza, Long Island City, NY.
Stivers, Caroline. "Artist Interview: Jessica Bizer", Invade NOLA, Mar 8.
Rodrigue, Reggie. "From Louisiana With Love", hyperallergic.com, July 14.
Botero, Julia. "New Orleans’s Prospect in 2010", Studio 360, National Public Radio. Nov. 5
Maccash, Doug. "Prospect.1.5 features Crescent City newcomers", Times-Picayune, Nov. 5
Hunter, Simeon. “Jessica Bizer”, United Artists, catalogue for Good Children, New Orleans, LA
“Bizer, Fields, Jones, Podesta at Arthur Roger Project Space”, Art Voices, Feb. Vol. 1. 2007
Kiesewetter, Erik and Strange, Patrick. Constance: A Collection of Forty New Orleans Artists, Vol. 1. 2005
Wylie, Erin. “Space Invader: Brooklyn Collective, ” Nylon, Sept.
New Orleans Museum of Art
2008 - present....Good Children Gallery, founding member
2007.....................Guest Lecturer, Art Speak, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Grants and Awards
2006 - 9......Graduate Assistantship, University of New Orleans, LA
2008.......... Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation, Economic Opportunity Fund Grant for Good Children Gallery
2008...........Open Air Project and Joan Mitchell Foundation, Grant for Outdoor Installation, New Orleans


Notts Police named as one of the top employers in the country
Nottinghamshire Police has been listed as one of the top 40 employers in the country in Stonewall's annual Workplace Equality Index.
And the Force’s LGBT+ support group, The Network, has been named as a Highly Commended Network Group.
Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers list was released today (Thursday, January 19) and this year Nottinghamshire Police have been ranked 35th, making them the fourth-highest rated police force in the country.
Just five other forces were included in the Top 100 Employers list. Last year, the Force was ranked 64th.
The Stonewall Top 100 Employers are the best performing employers on Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2017, an annual audit of workplace culture for lesbian, gay, bi and trans staff. More than 430 employers submitted entries to the 2017 Index across the public, private and third sectors.
Stonewall judges each entry against 10 key areas of employment policy and best practice: employee policy; training; employee network group; all-staff engagement; career development; line managers; monitoring; procurement; community engagement; and additional work.
Chief Constable, Sue Fish, said: “We are delighted that we have made the Top 100 Stonewall Employers list for the second year running. This is a huge accolade for us and gives us the assurance that we are continuing to head in the right direction to shape our organisational culture and support our people.
“We face operational challenges every day, but we must also ensure we recognise the importance of our people and how we treat them, and reflect our PROUD values on a daily basis.
”Nottinghamshire Police is committed to creating an inclusive, safe and stimulating environment for every employee and works hard to ensure everyone feels supported and is able to do the best job possible. Our work with Stonewall demonstrates our commitment to those who work for us and the communities that we serve, and we must retain focus and strive to continually improve LGBT+ equality.
“During 2017 we will be aiming to become a fully trans-inclusive employer and continue to work within the community to encourage the reporting of LGBT+ hate crime.”
The Force has a number of identified role models, who inspire and encourage colleagues to achieve their full potential, as well as a successful Allies programme which encourages all employees join and pledge to support the LGBT+ community and colleagues and challenge homophobic, biphobic and transphobic behaviour whenever they see or hear it.
Nottinghamshire Police’s Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable and Assistant Chief Constable have all signed up to the Allies programme, as have a number of police officers and police staff.
The Network, Nottinghamshire Police’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans+ officer and staff support network, provides advice and support on issues relating to recruitment, retention and career progression, as well as supporting colleagues.
They also attend a number of LGBT+ community events throughout the year, most notably Nottingham Pride.
Duncan Bradshaw, Director of Membership Programmes at Stonewall, said: “Nottinghamshire Police and all those who have made this year’s Top 100 Employers list have done a fantastic job, and really do put equality and inclusion at the forefront of their work.
“We were thrilled to have 439 submissions for this year’s Index, one of the most competitive yet, and I would like to thank each and every organisation that took part.
“With your continued efforts and hard work, we will continue to work towards a world where all lesbian, gay, bi and trans staff are welcomed and accepted without exception in their workplaces.”


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Inhale. ATMA is a street artist, mural painter and designer. Working with purpose, people and space. To engage, inspire and transform. Exhale.
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ATMA is an international street artist, mural painter and designer driven by upliftism. Through his use of bold colours, sharp lines and natural patterns, he tells stories in large scale. To engage, impact and transform. ATMA is the Sanskrit word for ‘Soul’.
His work transcends locations & status: you can find his signature in (and on) council estates, private homes, motorways, high streets, hidden corners, capitals, cities, villages, restaurants, corporate offices, community centres, schools, art galleries & museums, across 10 countries.
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Kyeong-Yoon (Kim Kang-Woo) and Eun-Ju (Kim Gyu-Ri) investigate a grisly murder of an affluent entrepreneur. The victim was slashed over 20 times and there’s blood everywhere in his apartment. The killer was careful not to leave behind incriminating evidence, but nevertheless, a strand of the killer’s hair is found. The police are then able to determine that the killer is male and has AB bloodtype.
Shortly after the first grisly murder a second murder occurs. The victims seem to be unrelated but the modus operandi seems the same. When the police delve deeper into the victims’ background they discover that the two victims were stationed at the same military base many years ago. A month prior to their discharge they were transferred to another base along with a third man by the name Jay Bae. The police now believe Jay Bae could be the next victim or the killer. Their investigation has only just begun.
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Publication Date: November 15, 2013
If you were used as a tool for murder and then paid afterwards, what would you do next?
A man wakes with no idea who he is and what he’s involved in. Thrust into a world of intrigue and mystery he must rely on his instincts to survive.
Idle Thoughts is a story of discovery. Follow along as the mysterious storyteller uncovers the secrets of his past, the events he is involved in and the rare artifacts that seem to be at the heart of it all.
Can you solve the riddle of the artifacts and unlock the true meaning of Idle Thoughts?
Found this book on Kindle Store free, saw no reviews after a few years of being published, felt sorry for the author and downloaded it.
The book was like a roller coaster, ups and downs, long, slow parts and fast, quick passages. Based on Amnesia stories where the protagonist finds themselves in dangerous situations, they slowly discover pieces of themselves throughout the tangled web of the narrative. Not so with “Idle Thoughts”. What I thought was a promising storyline, quickly became splintered plots, new one-dimensional characters who only had one thought process that really added nothing to the plot.
With each new hit, we are led to believe the protagonist with no name would discover clues about who he is, but no. He discovers a new trail of mysterious icons of unknown origin and age (although we are told ‘hundreds’ of years). No known provenance, age or history-only that they are important. And a worldly, rich and reclusive heartless man wants them. Because he doesn’t know what they do, either. So, through countless deaths courtesy of our amnesiac, he becomes involved in not wanting to discover his own identity, but these icons, that are also chased by a new character.
She becomes a somewhat secondary protagonist of her own, thrown in as a ‘what the hell, here she is’ kind of way. Our amnesiac now is smitten with this unknown woman, who is also after these icons and the original protagonist’s boss, who he now is against.
Still with me?
At this point, I wasn’t feeling quite so sorry for the author. I felt I was on a wild goose chase and wondered just where the story would end. And it didn’t. We are cut off from the end scene without explaining what the whole story was about, who the people are and what the whole point of the icons were. I felt cheated. Smith can write but at least in “Idle Thoughts” he can’t string a narrative together in a coherent theme. Books, novels-especially Mystery Novels should have a clear Beginning, middle and end. This was all middle. I give 1 1/2 stars.

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To quote the label, “The original cherry taste liqueur, made from the finest ingredients.”
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Clear, cherry red.
Pungent cherry/sloe berry fruit with marzipan, raspberry jam, rose and black pepper.
Rich and lightly spiced with boiled sweets (hard candy) morello cherry, rose petal, cinnamon and black pepper spice.
Morello cherry and cracked black pepper spice.
Spiced rich Morello cherry boiled sweets (hard candy) with floral rose notes. Some might say a tad too rich and cough medicine-like.

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Based on 172 votes and 40 reviews
Amazing movie! Even if they changed Quicksilver's name they still got the families right! Everything was amazing. SWEET DREAM ARE MADE OF THIS!!! Who am I to disagree?
Really disappointing after DOFP.
Apocalypse was defeated pretty easily. At least Angel showed some of what he could do..but it was a little disappointing. So was Phsyclock. I think that Bryan Singer tried to incorporate too large of a cast this time. I think this movie was a lesson to everyone in Marvel/Disney/DC when making ensemble flicks...Everyone want to have their screen time and fan favourites should, but it gets too over crowded and scenes end too fast. Quicksilver was great as usual. Wolverine wasn't exactly as Brian Singer filmed in his own first couple of movies (where was the box he was locked in originally? He stole the show from the kids.
A colossal waste of story potential! Days of future past was fantastic… but this was an expensive, straight to DVD, low-grade film experience. There was no sense of TENSION, or HIGH STAKES in the plot. The overall characterization was underwritten for the cast. No emotional value. Poor makeup, costume and VFX design. Armature use of Cinematography and editing techniques. Poor sense of rhythm and pacing between scenes. This film was a complete mess from start to finish. A major disappointment for the X-Men series. Too bad...
I didn't see it
This movie is perfect sure doesn't follow the comics but it really gets the characters down especially quicksilver and apocalypse and in the end a really good story so you haven't seen it I definitely recommend it to anybody who loves x-men also if you're going to watch it watch after the credits
Best X-Men so far
It is just a fantasy... and yet it is not.
I am not into comic book movies but this was actually pretty good!
A waste of a evening
Amazing I would see it again!!
Absolutely a movie to watch. Love it.
Great story and movie. I think people are becoming ungrateful for all the work that goes into creating a special affects movies. As the saying goes, "a critic never changed the world".
This movie was amazing. Story line was so good, pretty realistic with the original cartoon (I'm 30 and watched them as a kid), and did a great job of delving into characters' lives in-depth. One of my favourite comic book movies.
Great concepts hidden in the movie for those who have eyes to see!
A Classic storyline,great action and was alot better then most people have said, cameo of wolverine is awsome, cyclops andjean grey are well acted, 4 stars for sure,worth the money to watch
I liked this x-men movie it had made me happy,sad and laugh.good show
FANTASTIC SCI FI FLIX, AWESOME ACTION
Overall, good movie, worth your money. Not the best. There is so much room for improvement.
If you have never seen the film, Please dont even review the film . this movie IS SET 20 YEARS BEFORE THE VERY FIRST X-MEN MOVIE. remember back in 2000 the very first x-men movie was released. Very good acting. Fierce villain. nice of the filmmakers to finally include Psylocke.
A solid summer movie. Good bad guy.
So far, this has been the BEST X-MEN film. Even my girlfriend who doesn't care for superhero films said she was amazed how good the movie was! great acting, and script! Hate to say because I am a huge Avengers fan, but this was better than Captain America:Civil War.
Best moive I ever seen x man is a vary good movie watch it
This is a commercially driven piece of junk. It is dark and brooding. t is a story of earlier Xmen people that doesn't need to be told. it was confusing, all over the place, too much going on....not a block buster, not a need to see movie, even for those fans.
Went with my son who is a Marvel nut - he was wondering if he could get his money back.
I thought it was very entertaining. Good action, a few comedic parts.
Average comic book time filler. Making Mystique less relevant to the story or recasting the part would help immeasurably.
Good movie. Characters well-portrayed.
The villain was lame. They ruined the franchise by not bringing Nightcrawler back for III and killing off Mystique.
I am really looking forward to this movie; I love Lawrence playing as the young Mystique. I have loved all the others and I seriously doubt I will be disappointed. I don't understand why the comments, so far, are so negative; other than debating the "real Mystique".... quite funny because while Rebecca has youthful beauty, she cannot pull off playing a teen or young adult. Well unless you prefer another CG character, which isn't necessary, now that would be very cheesy!!!! I can only assume the Lawrence hate club has the hots for Rebecca... obviously not about the acting... lol that's cheesy too!!! Can't wait... if you're still a fan then enjoy the story, otherwise have fun rewatching the older ones....
thumbs down on the opinions of these people that didn't even see the film yet, and no Lawrence wasn't miscast nor did she ruin the new xmen series of films, nitpicking the ridiculous
They ruined this series when they brought Lawrence in.
This trailer for the movie is a total fail. I haven't seen the first two yet with the old cast with the new cast. This movie should go straight to DVD rental. This movie needs the old cast to spice up the movie. Without them this movie is a fail. I like the old Mystique then the new Mystique. I agree with the other guy.
Love Halle Berry!
Looks cheesy as all get out. Why not bring the real Mystique back? Lawrence is completely miscast in these movies, and the films have suffered as a result. Also, no Wolverine in this one? Not a lot to like if the trailer is an indication of the movie's quality.
Please bring back Rebecca Romjin!!!
Hope they're bringing back the real Mystique for this one...
Welcome back Rebecca Romjin!


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About a year ago, my world turned upside down and inside out when my husband got a new job in a new town. We were living in our dream home, I had finally figured out the school/sport/art/music/friend balance for the boys (at least for a few years to come) and was beginning to get a good flow on the canvas and making time to paint. But we needed to go. Being self-employed had taken its toll in so many ways. The choice to go or stay wasn’t even really a question at that point.We needed this rope that had been thrown our way. But,it’s been a long year. I don’t handle change well and I don’t have any coping skills what-so-ever for goodbyes… seriously none. I knew home sickness would follow me for awhile and I am doing better than I thought… most of my friends would disagree, but I really am trying. I not only went to an arts meet and greet….. solo, but even applied for some art opportunities here. I got rejected.. ouch! But, at least I tried and it got me back to the canvas again. I began trying to paint the lake that is a few blocks from our home that I have fallen in love with. Seeing water every day really feeds my soul. I am fascinated how the colors of the water shift dramatically with the light and wind and as the landscape of trees and foothills that make up its backdrop, change through the seasons. I needed to start to feel familiar with the new canvas I now live in. I began painting the lake over and over. The first were “pretty” but stiff and boring. I was inspired by the beautiful fall leaves reflecting on its surface, but not able to transfer that life and depth I was craving. Frustrated, I put the paints down for awhile. Why couldn’t I find that flow I had before? The one where you loose yourself, feel high on the moment and time is completely lost. As I watched as the leaves disappear and the foothills become brown, the goodbyes I had put off and tried to ignore smacked me like the deep freeze that would soon hit the lake and take my breath away. The lake, though now frozen solid and surrounded by a white winter wonderland, brought me back to calm. It was stunning and then as if on cue, a beautiful Bald Eagle began to glide overhead almost asking me to join. “Look and see, Cat. Life is here.” I sat on the side of the lake in the bitter cold for almost an hour watching this magnificent creature. The balance of power and grace… inspiring. I stayed in my hibernation for awhile for many different reasons, but now feeling the hope of spring perhaps I will find that flow once more. I have begun again painting the lake I feel so grateful for. I have a feeling it will be a subject I return to over and over again as a way to check in with myself and find my footing. This latest canvas of the lake is beginning to feel more like myself and with a connection to place I so crave. There is the hope that before to many more seasons pass, perhaps it will even feel like home.
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Great Aether is Ike's Final Smash in Super Smash Bros. Global Apocalypse. Ike becomes invincible and swings his sword in front of him and anybody who he hits is sent upward. He then leaps into the air, slashes the character(s) seven times with his sword aflame, kicks them twice, slashes them four more times, and knocks them downward with a powerful finishing blow. The attack does 52%-62% damage. The attack is mostly for damage, rather than knockback.
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Minerva Ortopedica e Traumatologica 2001 August-October;52(4-5):225-30
Observations on extraosseus chondrosarcoma: a case report
Fadda M., Manunta A.
The chondrosarcoma deriving from soft tissues occurs very rarely. It is still unclear, as it happens for other skeletal chondrosarcomas, if it is possible to stage histologically the malignity which well correlates with prognosis and therapeutical strategy. The clinical, histological and developmental features are reported of a chondrosarcoma arised from the popliteal fossa of a woman aged 39, staged histologically as a grade 2 skeletal chondrosarcoma: the patient underwent a marginal excision and local post-surgical radiotherapy (for 5 weeks), and at present, either general (metastasis) or local recurrence are not observed. The follow-up at 13 years confirms the effectiveness of the treatment chosen.