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Classical Guitars:
Classical guitars owned or loaned to Julian Bream while a professional adult guitarist
Guitar: Simon Ambridge, UK (2009)
Date acquired: bought in 2009
Hermann Hauser I replica of the 1940 guitar owned by Saul Marantz (likely the sister guitar to the one loaned to Julian Bream by Rose Augustine/Augustine Estate). The Marantz owned Hauser I is externally identical to the Rose Augustine guitar except for the omission of the head inlay and the engraved Mother of Pearl tie block on the Augustine guitar. The Marantz guitar has two bone strips on the tie block. Internally, the Marantz has a striking difference in that it has a double lining made up of two separate kerfed strips.Both of these Hauser I guitars (Marantz and Augustine) are tuned or have a resonance of E/E flat.
Unlike the Marantz guitar, the Ambridge copy made for Bream has a single lining.
The guitar was commissioned by Julian Bream.
Ambridge guitar has a resonance of low E.
No known recordings with this guitar.
The Ambridge guitar was used on occasion for impromptu, secret recitals given among friends and at local churches.
The guitar was used at a private memorial recital at the Wigmore Hall.
This guitar was Julian's daily practise instrument until the time that he loaned it to Jonathan Leathwood.
The instrument was loaned to Jonathan Leathwood and later bequeathed to him after Julian Bream's passing.
"Remembering Julian Bream", American Lutherie - The Journal of the Guild of American Luthiers, Number 142/Spring 2021, p. _
by Cyndy Burton, José Romanillos, R.E. Bruné, Jeffrey R. Elliott, Kevin Aram, Gary Southwell, and Simon Ambridge.
ECA/USP GRADUATE COURSE: Conversations with Julian Bream - Prof. Jonathan Leathwood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_jTLdjjjg
Information verified by Simon Ambridge. www.ambridgeguitars.co.uk
Guitar: Gary Southwell, UK. No. 240 (2008)
Hermann Hauser I replica of the guitar loaned to Julian Bream by Rose Augustine/Augustine Estate.
This guitar has a resonance of low E.
This guitar became Julian's daily practice instrument once the Ambridge guitar was loaned to Jonathan Leathwood.
This guitar was found on a guitar stand in his home at the time of Julian Bream's passing.
This guitar was auctioned off by Semley Auctioneers for 12000 GBP (16,400 US). The proceeds of the sale went to the Julian Bream Trust.
The guitar is currently in a private collection in the United States.
Information verified by Gary Southwell. www.southwellguitars.co.uk
Gary Southwell guitar. No. 240 (2008)
Guitar: Gerhard J. Oldiges, Germany (2008)
Date: acquired: bought in 2008
Hermann Hauser I replica of the 1940 guitar loaned to Julian Bream by Rose Augustine/Augustine Estate.
He selected it from a choice of three; this one having the closest feel to his 1940 Hauser. It has a body resonance around F, which is low and deep.
Sold in 2009 by Kent Guitar Classics. https://www.kentguitarclassics.com/classical-guitars/gerhard-oldiges/gerhard-oldiges-2008-ex-julian-bream-2
This information was verified by Gerhard J. Oldiges.
Guitar: Gary Southwell, No. 185 UK (2000)
The guitar became Bream's number one backup guitar to the Hauser I loaned to him by the Augustine Estate.
The guitar was gifted by Julian Bream to a friend who later sold the guitar to Miles Roberts at Kent Guitar Classics.
Miles Roberts of Kent Guitar Classics sold the guitar in 2005 to the current owner.
The guitar was accompanied by a certificate provided by Gary Southwell confirming that the guitar was used by Bream during the UK National Trust properties tour. It isimportant to note that it appears that more than one Southwell guitar was used on the UK National Trust properties tour in addition to No. 185 (yet to verify).
Guitar: Brian Cohen, UK (1997)
The first guitar commissioned in 1991 was a replica of the Hermann Hauser I
During the years 1991 through 1996, eight guitars were commissioned by Bream.
Sold in 2008 by Kent Guitar Classics (click on the KGC link for more information on this guitar
Guitar: Gary Southwell, No. __ UK (199_)
Date acquired: bought in 199_
This guitar was commissioned by Julian Bream.
This guitar became Bream's number one backup guitar to the Hauser I loaned to him by the Augustine Estate.
This guitar was taken to the final Wigmore Hall recital along with the Hauser I owned by the Augustine Estate as a possible option for the performance.
This guitar was taken as a backup to the 2006 recording of Benjamin Brittens' "Nocturnal" at Snape Maltings along with the Hauser I owned by the Augustine Estate. The recording of the "Nocturnal" was for the DVD Julian Bream - My Life in Music. Both guitars played during rehearsal and initial film camera placement.
The guitar became Bream's favourite guitar after 2008. He used the sister instrument, Southwell No. 240, for daily practice.
The guitar was found in a guitar case in the bedroom closet at his home at the time of Julian Bream's passing.
This guitar has been bequeathed to the Julian Bream Trust.
"Remembering Julian Bream", American Lutherie - The Journal of the Guild of American Luthiers, Number 142/Spring 2021, p. _by Cyndy Burton, José Romanillos, R.E. Bruné, Jeffrey R. Elliott, Kevin Aram, Gary Southwell, and Simon Ambridge.
A portion of this information was verified by Gary Southwell. www.southwellguitars.co.uk
A portion of the information was verified by Paul Balmer, director for Julian Bream: My Life in Music DVD 2006.
Date Acquired:
The first guitar commissioned in 1991 was a replica of the Hermann Hauser I loaned to Julian Bream by Rose Augustine/Augustine Estate.
During the years 1991- through 1996, eight guitars were commissioned by Bream.
Guitar: Hermann Hauser I, Germany (1940)
Date acquired: Loaned to Julian Bream in 1990?
Loaned to Bream in 1990. Owned by Rose Augustine/Augustine Estate.
This guitar has a resonance of low E/E flat.
Guitar used for the recording of the album To the Edge of Dream: Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Arnold recorded in October 1990, June 1991 and February 1992.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Nocturnal: Britten, Lutoslawski, Martin, Takemitsu and Brouwer recorded in September and October 1992.
Guitar used for the recording of the album J.S. Bach recorded in October and November 1992.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Sonata: Paganini, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Josérecorded in November 1993.
Guitar used at the final Wigmore Hall recital on the 26th of November, 2001.
Guitar used in the 2006 recording of Fernando Sor's "Study in B minor" at Broad Oak for the DVD Julian Bream: My Life in Music.
Guitar used in the 2006 recording of Benjamin Brittens' "Nocturnal" at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh for the DVD Julian Bream: My Life in Music.
This Guitar was loaned to Julian Bream for about 20 years by the Augustine Estate.
The guitar remained with Jullian Bream many years into his retirement. It was returned to the Augustine Foundation in 2008.
Currently being displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/506776.
In 2015, the Met Museum organized a Historic Guitar Concert Video series. Jorge Caballero performed on this guitar for the series. Link to the Met video series.
"Many years ago Rose assigned the instrument to me on the basis of an ongoing loan. I found it hard to repay her for that wonderful gesture, which made me ever more determined to make it sound as eloquent and beautiful as I could" Julian Bream.
Guitar: Kevin Aram, UK. (1988) "Myrtle"
Date: Purchased in 1988
Likely the guitar was used for the recording of the album La Guitarra Romantica recorded on October 1989 and August 1990. Selections 1, 7-18.
Guitar: Kevin Aram, UK. (1986)
Guitar: Jeffrey R. Elliott, USA, (1986)
Possibly the guitar used for the recording of the album Guitar Concertos: Rodrigo and Brouwer, recorded on July 7-9, 1987.
Definitely the guitar on the cover of the album Guitar Concertos: Rodrigo and Brouwer but J. Elliott is not convinced it is his guitar on the recording.
Guitar: José Romanillos, UK/Spanish builder. " La Buho"(1985)
Sold in a Sotheby's auction on June 14th, 1990. The guitar was expected to fetch £4,000-£5,000. Final bid not known.
Guitar: José Romanillos, UK/Spanish builder. No. 592 " La Lechuza" (1981)
Romanillos replaced the three-piece back with a two-piece back in 1983 and reduced the string action to make it easier to play for Bream, who had injured his elbow in a car accident at the time.
"La Lechuza" is Spanish for "the owl". Romanillos named the guitar after something that symbolizes wisdom.
This is the guitar featured in Michael Taylor's portraiture of Julian Bream that is displayed in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Guitar: Hermann Hauser I, Germany. (1944)
Date: Purchased by Bream on 197
Guitar used for the recording of the album Villa-Lobos: 12 Etudes for Guitar and Suite Populaire Brésilienne recorded in May and June 1978.
Guitar: José Romanillos, UK/Spanish builder. (1973) No. 8
Date: Purchased by Bream on 1973
Built specifically for Julian Bream
Copy of a 1936 Hermann Hauser I guitar. [1]
Guitar used for the recording of the album Julian and John/2 ("Together Again") recorded in June 1973.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Giuliani and Sor recorded in February and March 1974.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Rodrigo and Berkley recorded in November 1974 and May 1975.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Music of Spain, vol. 4 - The Classical Heritage: Sor and Aguado recorded in October and November 1980.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Music of Spain, vol. 5 - Plays Granados and Albéniz recorded in June and July 1982.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Music of Spain, vol. 8 - Joaquín Rodrigo recorded on October 1981, December 1982 and January 1983.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Dedication recorded in October and December 1981 and January 1982.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Music of Spain, vol. 7 - A Celebration of Andrés Segovia recorded on February and May 1983
Guitar used for the recording of the album ¡Guitarra! The Guitar in Spain, recorded in 1983/1984. Side 1 Boccherini: Fandango and entire Side 2.
Guitar used for the recording of the album La Guitarra Romantica recorded in September 1983 and April 1984. Selections 2-6.
Guitar: Hernández y Aguado, Spain. (1965)
Date: Purchased by Bream on 197_?
Guitar used for the recording of the album Julian Bream '70s recorded in September 1972 and February 1973.
Date: Purchased by Bream on 197?
Bream took this guitar to Jose Romanillos for repairs and he asked him to take thae back off and accurately sketch the interior construction.
One of the guitars used for the recording of the album Julian Bream Plays Villa-Lobos, recorded in February and May 1971.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Julian & John ("Together"), recorded in July and August 1971.
George Clinton, "Bream and the Luthier", Guitar International magazine July 1985, p. 32
Date acquired: Purchased by Bream on 197_?
Date acquired: Purchased by Bream on 1969
Guitar: (Manuel?) Ramírez, Spain. (19__)
Date acquired: Purchased in 196_?
Guitar used for the recording of the album Romantic Guitar, recorded in May 1970.
Tony Palmer mentioned in his book A Life on the Road that this guitar was a "Manuel Ramírez, 1968". That information has then been repeated in other publications.
The information in the Palmer book was reported incorrectly.
Manuel Ramírez died in 1916. The workshop was continued first by his widow and then for a few years by Modesto Borreguero. Most probably the guitar in question was an instrument made in the workshop of the José Ramírez family (José Ramírez was the elder brother of Manuel Ramírez) that still exists today in Madrid. The Manuel Ramirez workshop, working under "Viuda(widow) de Manuel Ramirez", closed in 1923 a few years after Manuel's widow passed away in 1921.
It is also possible that the guitar was a Manuel Ramirez guitar but the date of construction incorrectly stated. Maybe 1968 was the date that Bream acquired the guitar.
If this Ramirez guitar is in fact a Manuel Ramirez instrument then it would have to be from 1923 or earlier.
This guitar could possibly be the same guitar stated below under "(Manuel?) Ramirez, Spain. (1963?).
Ramírez Guitars: Company History
A well-respected luthier, Gerhard J. Oldiges
Guitar: Daniel Friederich, France. (196?)
Guitar used on tour 1969
Guitar: David "Jose" Rubio, UK. (1966)
Date acquired: Purchased by Bream on 1966.
Commissioned by Julian Bream while Rubio was still in New York City, NY.
Julian Bream used it at a performance in San Francisco, CA immediately after receiving it.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Julian Bream and His Friends, recorded in November and December 1967.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Classic Guitar, recorded in September 1967 and September 1968.
"The English Gentleman Luthier, David Rubio: An Identity Born in the USA" by James Westbrook, Journal of the America Musical Instrument Society Vol. XLV 2019.
Webmaster's numerous communications with Dr James Westbrook.
Guitar: David "Jose" Rubio, UK. (196?)
Date acquired: likely 1965-66
Julian Bream traded his 1965 Rubio (below) for this guitar that was on the shelf at the Rubio shop in NY.
This guitar was likely made at the same time as the originally commissioned guitar from 1965. Rubio would oftentimes make 3 guitars at a time.
The "off the shelf" guitar is not mentioned in Rubio's order book since it was not specifically ordered by anyone. The exact number of this guitar is not known.
Guitar: David "Jose" Rubio, UK. SP/CSAR (1965) No. 40
Commissioned by Julian Bream while Rubio was still in New York City, NY
Used from 1965 to
Guitar was a based on Jullian Bream's 1964 Robert Bouchet guitar.
Guitar used for the recording of the album 20th Century Guitar recorded in September 1966.
Despite the success of the 20th Century Guitar album, Bream took the guitar back to Rubio and ended trading it for a new guitar he had just built.
Interesting story about the next buyer of this guitar as told by David Rubio. The guitar was resold as a new guitar. The buyer then resold it because he wanted one that sounded more like Bream's!
Click on the Guitar Salon International link for more information on this guitar- sorry this particular Rubios guitar is no longer on their site.
Guitar: Robert Bouchet, France. (1964)
Date acquired: Purchased in 1964
This was the third Robert Bouchet guitar ordered by Julian Bream.
This guitar was meant to replace the 1962 Robert Bouchet guitar stolen from Julian Bream's car.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Baroque Guitar recorded in 1965.
According to a 1981 article by James Sherry, Julian used this Bouchet during 2 US tours in 1966 and 1967.
Guitar used by Bream for the recording of the album Julian Bream and John Williams "LIVE" recorded in October 1978.
Sold in a Sotheby's auction on June 14th, 1990. The guitar was expected to fetch £8,000-£12,000. Final bid not known.
" Then I had another Bouchet, which I still got. I've used that on a number of records. Most recently I used it on that recording with John Williams called "Live"; because John was using a Fleta and José Romanillos' sound and the Fleta are so different that it seemed to me a pity not to throw in a better match. So I dug out my old Bouchet. And I do play it from time to time. It's a lovely guitar, but I still think that the one which was stolen was a finer instrument." JB, Guitar Int. July 1985
Vera King, "Sotheby's auction Bream's guitars", Guitar International magazine June 1990, p. 4 (incorrect information - it states that this 1964 Bouchet guitar was used to record the 1962 album, Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar, when in fact it was the 1962 Bouchet along with the 1957 Bouchet owned by Michael Jasset.)
Guitar: (Manuel?) Ramírez, Spain. (1963?)
One of the 2 guitars used for the recording of the album Rodrigo, Vivaldi, Britten, recorded in October 1963.
Date acquired: Loaned in 1962 for a recording.
This guitar was owned by Michael Jasset.
It was loaned to Julian Bream so he could complete the recording sessions for Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar.
One of the 2 Bouchet guitars was used for the recording of the album Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar, recorded in November & December 1962.
This guitar was only used on the December 1962 recordings of the album above due to the stolen 1962 Bouchet guitar after the November session.
Julian Bream thought that this guitar was nearly as good as the 1962 Bouchet guitar that was stolen.
"The interesting thing is that there is just one half record with that guitar on Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar and I had to complete the record on Michael Jasset's Bouchet, which was also an excellent guitar! In fact, it is very hard to tell which is which on that record." JB, Guitar International, July 1985
Vera King, "Sotheby's auction Bream's guitars", Guitar International magazine June 1990, p. 4
Julian Bream thought that this was the best guitar that he had played made by Robert Bouchet
One of the 2 Bouchet guitars used for the recording of the album Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar, recorded in November & December 1962.
This guitar was only used on the November 1962 recordings of the album above because shortly afterwards it was stolen from Julian Bream's car.
"He built me a most lovely guitar. But I felt that he could produce a better one, and eventually, he did, in 1962 and that was the one that was stolen from my car."
"Now that was a really beautiful guitar; it had something very special." JB, Guitar International, July 1985
"The interesting thing is that there is just one half record with that guitar on Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar and I had to complete the record on Michael Jasset's Bouchet, which was also an excellent guitar!" JB, Guitar International, July 1985
One of the 2 guitars used for the recording of the album Rodrigo, Vivaldi, Britten recorded in October 1963.
Guitar used for the recording of the album Music for Voice and Guitar recorded in September 1963 and March 1964.
Guitar used for the recording of the album J.S. Bach: Lute Suites, Nos. 1 and 2 recorded in September and October 1965.
"He built me a most lovely guitar (1960 Bouchet). But I felt that he could produce a better one, and eventually, he did, in 1962" JB, Guitar International, July 1985
Guitar: Edgar Mönch, Germany/Canada, 1959
Date: Purchased by Bream in 1959
Guitar used for the recording of the album Guitar Concertos, recorded in September 1959.
Guitar: Hermann Hauser II, Germany. SP/CSAR (1957)
Used from 1959 to 1963
The guitar used for the recording and album cover of The Art of Julian Bream, recorded in October and November 1959.
Sold to Robert Spencer, currently owned by Russell Cleveland (Dallas, USA)
"I used the Hauser junior for The Art of Julian Bream, it had a nice clear sound but it suffered somewhat on a tour I did od Canada in the winter and it cracked up, and never really quite recovered its original voice." JB, Guitar International, July 1985, p. 32.
Date: Borrowed by Bream in 1956 for this recording.
Guitar used for the recording A Bach Recital for the Guitar recorded in May 1956.
"That was another Hauser which I borrowed; that was the most beautiful guitar." JB, Guitar International, July 1985, p. 32
Guitar: Hector Quine, UK. No. 2 (1954)
Date acquired: 1954
Guitar used for Bream's fourth Wigmore Hall performance on September 1954
Guitar used for the recording Spanish Guitar: Turina, de Falla, Sor, recorded in September 1955
Guitar used for the recording Guitar Music of Villa-Lobos and Tórroba, recorded in September 1955
Guitar: Hermann Hauser I, Germany. SP/CSAR (1928)
Used in early recitals from 1950 to 1955
Last restoration 1989
Sold on January 18, 1992
No specific information is known about the following guitars except for the builder.
Guitar: Mauchant Freres, Paris, circa, No. 50, 1840
Guitar: Matthias Dammann, Germany, cedar double top (sold)
-No known recordings with this guitar.
Guitar: Masaru Kohno, Japan, Model No. 2 (c.1964)
Sold in a Sotheby's auction on June 14th, 1990. The guitar was expected to fetch £800-£1,200. Final bid not known.
Sold in a Sotheby's auction in 1990. Final bid not known.
More information on this guitar in the Guitar International magazine, June 1980, p. 4.
Guitar: Masaru Kohno, Japan, No. 50 (c.1978)
Guitar: Santos Hernández
Webmasters notes:
Thank you to all that helped www.julianbreamguitar.com compile this significant amount of information. Thanks so much to Miles at Kent Guitar Classics and Guitar Salon International for all the useful information. Above all, I would like to give a special thanks to the guitar aficionados at the Delcamp Classical Guitar Forum. Some of those guys have been compiling and revising their Bream guitar list for decades.
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As of 1981, Julian Bream nearly always used Augustine Red label.
1- Julian Bream: My Life in Music


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We left Bitti in the morning, and headed to Cantina Deidda in Simaxis, about 1.5 hours to southwest by car. Simaxis is located about 20 km (13 miles) from the coast in the west.
A tiny winery, Cantina Deidda, is easy to miss there. This cantina was founded by Giampiero Deitta in 1998. Giampiero had an aspiration to transform noble Sardinian wines into fine spumante by using methode Champnoise. His cantina also makes some still wines (both red and white), too.
Deitta's enologo, Daniel, hosted our visit. He gave us a full tour of the cantina.
Their sparkling wines are made from Vernaccia, Nuragus, and Cannonau grapes.
Daniel showed us the degorgemant machine. Unlike large cantinas, their machine was old and small...but very efficient.
Some Vernaccia wines are aged in barrels by leaving some space on top, so the flor (a film of yeast) is foamed on the surface gives unique nuance to the wine during aging.
We got to taste Cannonau base wine before the 2nd fermentation. It was quite elegant. The alcohol level at this point is about 10%, then it will increase after the 2nd fermentation.
We also tasted their Fleur Brut, right out of the pupitre before disgorgement.
Among the already bottled spumante wines, we tasted the following.
2002 Marzano Millesimo Brut...Aged for 13 - 14 years sur lie. The bottle was disgorged 4 months ago. It was creamy and elegant.
2002 Marzano Millesimo Reverse...with effect of flor.
Then, we headed near the coast, and stopped by at a small local restaurant in Santa Giusta. The place is called Ristorante da Leonardo. The place was such a humble looking place with local people dining there. I love this kind of place. They serve local bottarga dishes there.
So many antipasti, including minced fish croquettes, sautéed squid, marinated squid, mussels, octopus, and fried eggplant. So good.
Their house wine was perfectly casual.
Bottarga time! Clam and bottarga spaghetti was served with extra bottarga (in a tupperware) on the side. It was super delicious. We also had Sa Fregula, similar to grain couscous, cooked with seafood in tomato seafood broth. Wow, the fregula pasta soaked such wonderful rich seafood flavors. I enjoyed it so much.
Such a perfect casual meal, very local style.
After lunch, we headed to Cabras to visit Azienda Vinicola Contini, a leading winery in the region. Contini is a family winery established in 1898, and their 4th generation Mauro hosted our visit. Now, the winery produces about 900,000 bottles/ year.
We first drove about 15 minutes to their Vernaccia and Nieddera vineyards. Their vineyard is situated near a river and salt lake, and it's also close to the ocean. In the area, the wine making history goes back to around 1,500 BC.
Back in the cantina, we had a tour of the wine making facility and cellars.
At Contini, they age some of Vernaccia in barrels while letting flor foam on the surface for a long time.
We had a tasting of their extensive lineup.
2015 "Mamaioa" Fermentino di Sardegna DOC 14% al. Organic. No SO2 is added.
2015 "Karmis" Bianco Tharros IGT 13.5% al. Vernaccia plus some Vermentino.
2014 "I Giganti" Bianco Tharros IGT 14% al. Vernaccia plus some Vermentino. Aged for 1 year in barrel.
2015 Nieddera Rosato, Valle del Tirso IGT 12.5% al.
2015 "Mamaioa" Cannonau di Sardegna DOC 14% al. Organic. Fermented and aged in inbox.
2015 Nieddera Ross, Valle del Tirso IGT 13.5% al. 4 days maceration.
2013 "I Giganti" Nieddera Valle del Tirso IGT 14.5% al. Fermented in inox, then aged in cement tank, then transferred to barrel (both new and old) for 10 - 12 months.
2005 Vernaccia di Oristano DOC 15% al. Aged for 10 years in oak and chestnut kegs, partially filled to form flor.
1991 Vernaccia di Oristano DOC Riserva 17.5% al. Same style as above. Aged for 20 years.
NV Antico Gregori, Vernaccia di Oristano DOC Cuvee 18.5% al. Same style as above. Aged for decades. Blend from old vintages in 1960s to 1980s.
2014 "Pontis" Bianco Dolce da Uve Stramature 13.5% al. Made from partly dried grapes and late harvest grapes.
Finally, their enologo brought a very special wine (not for sale). It was his family wine, aged for over 50 years. He said the alcohol is about 27%, and it was not even fortified! With the effect of the flor and natural evaporation over so many years, the alcohol gradually increased while the wine stayed so healthy. It tasted really special, indeed, with the nuance of nuts, dried fruit, and somewhat like whisky.
We left Contini and it was already almost 9 pm when we got to our next hotel in Cabras. We checked in, then we had a little "night snacks" at the hotel restaurant.
Another very busy and fun day.


You have to invoke ideology to support an irrational position: "We can all agree to share the cost of certain social services like public education, fire and police protection, highways, etc. but we cannot share the cost of health care because that would be socialism."
You have to invoke sarcasm to support an irrational position: "We cannot peg the minimum wage to inflation because ... why don't we just raise the minimum wage to $100 per hour?"
You have to hide behind a rational position to support an irrational position: "We have to implement voter suppression in the name of protecting the integrity of our elections through stricter voter-ID laws."
You have to cling to an irrational position that is demonstrably false: "We don't need to address manmade climate change because it is not proven science but simply a political agenda perpetuated by a left-wing media."
You have to make absurd comparisons to support an irrational position: "We need to repeal the Affordable Care Act because it is as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the Fugitive Slave Act."
Since the General Assembly is in session, I would like to mention a couple of things that need fixing along with a couple that don't.
We don't need more bills to regulate women's personal lives and interfere with the rights they already have.
We don't need bills changing workers' rights like trying to get a "right to work" law passed. This is not a worker-friendly law but a law allowing companies to work their employees for less. Workers need pay raises since these have been few and far between and some even get their pay cut.
Companies are making healthy profits but these profits are going to the top employees and not being shared with the middle class and below employees.
Raising the minimum wage is badly needed. Some states have already raised their minimum wage above the national level and so can our legislature.
We need to screen nursing-home employees to make sure the right people are taking care of our loved ones. The ones selected should be paid a living wage to give them the incentive to do a good job.
We don't need a bill taking away telephone landlines. Landlines are needed by people who have medical alert machines (including my mother-in-law) or burglar/fire alarm systems. There are areas where cellphones don't work and if you moved in one of these areas, you would be out of luck all the way around. AT&T is making healthy profits and doesn't need to cut services.
A Jan. 18 letter referred to an Dec. 22 op-ed I wrote on the issue of language in Eastern Kentucky. The writer said, "...while I agree with a recent column writer that we should speak correctly, I do not believe we should try to lose our accent or try to conceal it."
The column, suggesting that we strive to make Eastern Kentucky a "Linguistic Empowerment Zone," notes that we should cherish our dialect, and at the same time "aim to expand our language skills past proficiency to mastery."
The focus was on thoroughly learning the conventions of standard English usage, not on trying "to lose our accent or conceal it." I probably could have made that clearer in writing on this touchy subject.
The op-ed closes with a quote from the children's book Mommy Goose, that says it more succinctly: "To talk like your flock is no disgrace. Just use the right word in the right place."
In other words, use any accent you feel comfortable with (whether it's 100-proof Clay County or 80-proof Pike County), but be able, as second nature, to speak and write grammatically correct English when appropriate. If some folks look down on our accent, as the letter writer said, "that is their bad."
But being able to understand and employ standard English grammar when it's called for (and it ain't always) is our responsibility and powerfully to our advantage.
Far-right Republicans can be counted on to blame government and President Barack Obama for every ill. Their mantras are "government can't do anything right" and "get government off our backs."
But it's OK that government is big on armaments and cozy with agribusiness, big oil and pharmaceuticals. It's like telling Sam to cut the grass, but while you're at it, stay off the lawn.
Sure, government has its screw-ups. But to harp on that while ignoring Enron, Bear-Stearns, BP, Freedom Industries and other private-sector mishaps and misdeeds is hypocrisy on a grand scale.
Heck, even Mother Nature, irritated at our material excesses, keeps sending us miseries. Let's blame Obama for these, too?
Truth is, things go wrong and there's no way to correct or avoid all of them. Technology and globalization changes everything, and neither more nor less government is likely to bring satisfactory job numbers or economic security.
Better that we drop partisan wrangling and do our best together. And it wouldn't hurt to think before plunging ahead with wars and domestic drones and gee-whiz innovations that seem to come back to bite us.
One of those slick TV ads that annoys is the IBM message, "making a smarter planet."
Far better to temper those smarts with wisdom and moderation.


They were the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a squad of loyal Japanese-Americans who had to battle prejudice as well as the Axis enemy. Van Johnson stars as their contemptuous top-kick, whose bigotry gives way to respect in the crucible of war. Supporting Johnson is a cast of veterans, all former members of the highly decorated 442nd, whose battle cry, "Go For Broke!" means, "Shoot the works!" Nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay at the 1952 Academy Awards®.
I expected to enjoy this film, but I was not prepared for this little gem. It really should be counted among the classics of WWII films and seen by anyone interested in film and/or history.
The Japanese - Americans need to be recognized even more.
It was one of the best WW2 movies. I first saw it about 40 years ago and always liked it.


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Q: Moving object with forward is multiplying instead of adding I need to move an object forward a specific distance from a start point in space. The start point does not have a forward vector, so I need to compute one from the start point to (0,0,0).
I can successfully compute a new start point with the correct forward vector, however when I use it to move an object it multiplies the move distance instead of adding it.
// "start" is actually a raycast hit point, but am using a Vector3 here for simplicity
float moveDistance = 2;
Vector3 start      = new Vector3 (0, 0, 3);
Vector3 center     = new Vector3 (0, 0, 0);
Vector3 fwd        = start - center;
myObject.position  = start + fwd * moveDistance;

Debug.Log (fwd);               //returns: (0.0, 0.0, 0.3)
Debug.Log (myObject.position); //returns: (0.0, 0.0, 9.0)

The result is myObject.position = 0, 0, 9 // multiplying moveDistance
And the desired result is = 0, 0, 5 // adding moveDistance
The result does have a forward vector, but it's multiplying instead of adding distance. When I do the same calculation for myObject.position using the forward vector of a gameobject, it adds the distance.

A: Remember that vectors have both direction and magnitude. Multiplying a vector by a scalar will multiply each of its components. If fwd is (0,0,3), multiplying it by 2 will yield (0,0,6). To get a vector in the same direction with moveDistance length, you could normalize it first:
myObject.position = start + fwd.normalized * moveDistance;

(Personally, I would rather normalize the vector before assigning it to fwd, but that's up to you.)
You can always separate the direction and magnitude parts of a vector, which makes it easier to work with them separately:
Vector3 move = <some vector>
Vector3 moveDir = move.normalized;  //a normalized vector has length 1
float moveDist = move.magnitude;    //move = moveDir * moveDist

A: Try something like this:
float distanceToMove = 2;
Vector3 start = new Vector3 (0, 0, 3);
Vector3 center = new Vector3 (0, 0, 0);
Vector3 fwd = (center - start).normalized;
myObject.position = start + fwd * distanceToMove;
Debug.Log (myObject.position);

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Neurofeedback is a sophisticated biofeedback and is very versatile for many illnesses.
The American Academy of Pediatrics have recognised it as effective as medications for ADD and ADHD. It rarely has side effects. It is a form of brain training. It has also been approved for some kinds of epilepsy and helps with anxiety, post traumatic stress conditions, learning disorders, brain injuries, migraines and autistic sensitivities.
When neurons fire by the millions, they create brain waves which are measurable. Calm focused waves are Beta waves. Sleeping waves are Theta waves.
At NASA, the astronauts were getting epilepsy from exposure to the rocket fuel. NASA found increased awareness that can lead to neural changes and neurodifferentiation.
Barry Sherman found that we could train ourselves to prevent epilepsy.
Fisher Wallace Stimulator comes from Russian technology. It is about to be approved by the FDA for insomnia, depression and anxiety. It is used in Russia instead of sleeping pills. They induce sleep using a frequency 5-25 Hz.
A lot of fatigue is connected to poor adrenal function. The adrenal glands sit above the kidneys and are part of the endocrine system. They produce several hormones to do with the stress response.
The adrenal gland consists of the cortex and the medulla. The cortex is the outer part and produces cortisol, a powerful anti inflammatory hormone. Inflammation occurs in many health problems eg allergies, asthma, arthritis and lupus.
The medulla is the centre part of the adrenal gland. It puts out adrenaline, (which is also called epinephrine), and norepinephrine. These hormones are almost a direct extension of the nervous system. They govern the body's stress response, also known as the fight-or-flight response.
When the brain thinks there is a threat (stress),the adrenal glands prepare to either fight or flee. The nervous system stimulates the circulatory and respiratory systems to be ready. This diverts oxygen and blood away from normal bodily functions and accesses the body's energy reserves.
When this system switches off, the body stays on alert for a long while afterwards. This exhausts the energy supplies and wears down the adrenal glands and kidneys, impairing immune function.
The body reacts to real and imaginary stressors. These can be emotional or psychological and can be caused by stress. This can be overuse of caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, drugs, poor nutrition or deficiencies of vitamins.
'A person with weak or impaired adrenal function may have low blood pressure, low blood sugar, low body temperature and a feeling of complete exhaustion.' Other health problems creep in such as hypoglycaemia and neuro-mediated hypotension (NMA). With NMA, the central nervous system instructs the heart to slow down, causing decline in total volume of blood circulating per minute, and in blood pressure. This allows the blood to pool in the lower limbs and less is available to nourish the brain. Other symptoms of poor adrenal function are depression, dizziness or lightheadedness and memory lapse.
Digestive enzymes aid digestion and assimilation of nutrients. Supplements cannot work unless the body is able to use them. Digestion and absorption are the keys to the effectiveness of supplements, and enzymes are the key to thorough digestion and absorption.
Panax ginseng root extract 80-160 mg. The Chinese use this to enhance longevity and quality of life. It helps during stress or recovery from long term illness. It may help the muscles use energy more efficiently.
Bupleurum root extract 50-100 mg. This is known as Chinese thorough wax. It enhances adrenal function and is a mild pain reliever.
Dr David Amaral, director of research at the University of California, Davis, MIND Institute, one of the world's leading research institutes on autism and inflammation, said of children at risk of autism in a recent PBS special, 'Vaccination for these children actually may be the environmental factor that tips them over the edge of autism.' He thinks it is important to find out why some children are 'at risk for having certain vaccinations'.
Vaccinomics is a new science 'which aims to develop personalised vaccines tailored to a person's genetic profile and individual medical history.' This 'acknowledges that our current one size fits all approach to vaccines is less than optimal, and that for some people, current vaccines may be ineffective, and for other people may be harmful'.
Resveratrol slows the ageing process, boosts blood flow to the brain, promotes heart health and curbs fat cells by inhibiting their development. It helps the body's immune and defence systems.
Dr David Sinclair from Harvard discovered resveratrol's ability to activate certain genes called sirtuins which affect longevity. Researchers in the UK in 2010 experimented with the effects of resveratrol on the brain. They recorded that there were marked increases in blood flow in the brain while performing mental tasks when taking resveratrol. The harder the task, the greater the effect of resveratrol.
5 mg daily of resveratrol will help positively.
People with low cholesterol have more depression. People taking cholesterol lowering drugs, statins, can become more depressed. Studies in the last ten years show a connection between total low cholesterol and depression and impulsive behaviour including suicide and violence.
Study after study shows a connection between low cholesterol and depression. People with suicidal tendencies have been associated with 'low serum cholesterol'. This is cholesterol levels of less than 160. These are 200 times more likely to attempt suicide. This also shows a connection to bipolar. Those with bipolar are much more likely to attempt suicide if they have low cholesterol.
Eggs False - that the eggs we eat is converted directly to blood cholesterol.
Many studies have shown that the intake of eggs makes no difference to our cholesterol levels.
Dietary cholesterol reduces the body's production of cholesterol. More than 80% of the cholesterol in your blood is produced in your liver.
A study in 2013 from researchers at the University of Connecticut showed people on a low-carb diet, eating whole eggs, even on a daily bases, improved insulin sensitivity and other cardiovascular risk parameters.
The whole egg contains all the essential amino acids we need to survive, vitamins and minerals, and antioxidants known 'to protect the eyes'. They contain ample choline which is very important for aiding helping healthy brain function as well as pregnancy.
Anthony William has a different perspective on eggs. He tells us that eggs feed viruses, especially the Epstein Bar Virus, which many of us have dormant in our body. He recommends to avoid eggs for this reason. Epstein Bar Virus causes many different symptoms of many different illness in our body.
Grade school science tells us light energy enters the eye, hits the retina and rod and cone cells. It is converted into patterns of electrical energy. It travels along neurons in the optic nerves to the brain's visual cortex at the back of the head producing a visual experience.
In ancient times, light therapy was called Heliotherapy after the Greek god of the sun, Helios. The ancient Egyptians knew that sun was essential to growth and life everywhere. The sun god was Ra. The pharaoh included this name - pha-Ra-oah. They saw the sun as the primary source of life. All growth on the planet comes from the sun.
The ancient Chinese knew each organ had active times. The heart is more active at midday when we move around. Our digestive system is awake after meals. The organ clock deactivates the kidneys during sleep so we don't have to urinate.
Around the early 1900s people who had smallpox were treated with red light, wrapped in red blankets and had red balls put in their bed. In Japan the SAMe was done. The children were given red toys as well.
This is the yellowing of the skin and eyes when the liver of the newborn is immature. It is caused by the chemical bilirubin (from the bile, produced by old red blood cells when they break down), builds up in the body. Eventually they found that by exposing the baby's skin to sunlight acted on the blood and brought it back to normal. Blue light is also used. If jaundice is left untreated, the bilirubin builds up in the body causing permanent brain damage.
In 1979, Russian scientists in Moscow showed our bodies are filled with numerous light sensitive chemical switches and amplifiers. Different colours or wavelengths of light have different effects. Some colours stimulate bodily enzymes to work more effectively and can turn processes in our cells on and off affecting which chemicals they produce.
In 1984, Dr Norman Rosenthal found exposing depressed patients to sun exposure could be as efficient as medications with fewer side effects.
In 2002, another pathway was discovered. Alongside the retinal cells we are seeing, over rods and cones, other light sensitive cells were found that send electrical signals on a separate neuronal pathway, also in the optic nerve, to a clump of cells in the brain that regulate our biological clock, the supra chiasmatic nucleus (SCN). It controls when major organ systems turn on and off during the day. It is a clock and a conductor, and regulates hunger, thirst, sexual longings, cravings for sleep, by adjusting our hormones. They also influence our levels of arousal and our nervous system.
In the evening this SCN sends messages to the pineal gland, the third eye, which releases melatonin, the hormone that makes us sleepy.
Different wavelengths of light have different effects on organisms. This means that light frequencies carry energy and different types of information. Extraordinary sensitivities to colour exist in cells and proteins of our body.
In 2005, they found that placing patients recovering from surgery in a sunlit room, as opposed to an artificially lit one, significantly reduced their pain.
Fasting blood glucose, for diabetes and prediabetes. Normal range is 70-100mg/dL. Above this is a sign of insulin resistance and diabetes, and increased risk of brain disease.
Hemoglobin A1C referred to as HbA1C in Australia. This is one of the greatest predictors of brain atrophy.
Fructosamine, similar to HbA1C, measures average blood sugar level over 2-3 weeks.
Fasting insulin, a very effective warning system for diabetes and is important for preventing brain disease.
Homocysteine, an amino acid. High levels are associated with many conditions including atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke and dementia. It can often be lowered by specific B vitamins.
Vitamin D, a critical brain hormone. It is not a vitamin.
C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation.
Cyrex Array 3, the most comprehensive marker of gluten sensitivity.
Cyrex Array 4, optional, measures sensitivity to 24 'cross-reactive' foods to which a gluten sensitive person may also react.
DHA 1000mg. This can be included with EPA in fish oil, or use DHA derived from marine algae which is the best.
Probiotics 1 capsule daily, taken on an empty stomach 3 times daily. Get one with 10 billion active cultures, including lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium.
Renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, blows the lid off a topic that's been buried in medical literature for far too long: carbs are destroying your brain. And not just unhealthy carbs, but even healthy ones like whole grains can cause dementia, ADHD, anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, and much more.
Dr Jacob Teitelbaum has written books on Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and specialises in these illnesses. He runs the Fatigue Practitioners Network and lives in Hawaii.
Jacob Teitelbaum had CFS/Fibromyalgia and spent more than 39 years studying it.
A low thyroid is a common trigger for Fibromyalgia. Difficulty sleeping is a common symptom of fibromyalgia. There is also a loss of digestive enzymes, and food allergies. Dr Teitelbaum feels that everybody who has fibromyalgia should try taking thyroxine. 95% of people who do, improve.
Symptoms of CFS/Fibromyalgia are being excessively tired, achy, have weight gain, brain fog and insomnia. If you cannot sleep and have these other symptoms you may have fibromyalgia.
If your ferritonin level is under 60, you cannot process T4.
Take selenium 60-200 mcg daily.
The most important thing is how you feel. Low thyroid levels need more than 35 mcg of selenium. He says the T3 and T4 tests are unreliable. Don't rely on blood rests. It is more important how you feel. He feels Nature-Throid and Westthroid are the best medicines for the thyroid. If you have high T4, you are at risk of getting osteoporosis.
This is the best at strengthening bones if you have osteoporosis.
Don't take more than 120mcg a day other than rare exceptions. If you have been on it a while and still not feeling good, reduce your thyroxine. Those with CFS/Fibromyalgia need more T3.
T4 is the storage form of the hormone. The cell push off iodine, creating T3. T3 gets the body moving. If you take T3, divide the doses throughput the day. With T4, take it all at once.
To induce sleep use lavender, an Epsom salts bath or a herbal mix. Take Ashwaganda and phosphatidylserine if you can't sleep at bedtime. Eat a protein snack at bedtime if you get low blood sugar throughout the night, eg a boiled egg, or six nuts.
Take medications in low doses.
If you are sleeping in the day you may have sleep apnoea. If you have restless legs, you may have an iron or magnesium deficiency. For magnesium deficiency, take 200 ml of magnesium glycinate. If you are low in iron you may need ferritin. Levels need to be 60.
DO NOT LIMIT SALT. You need more salt if the adrenals are not working. Use unprocessed sea salt, Celtic salt, raw or pink or Hawaiian salt.
However do restrict sugar. Drink lots of water.
Take 1 scoop 3 times daily. For 3 weeks, then twice daily. It is a great energy booster and improves energy by 60%. Ribose looks and tastes like sugar. Add a teaspoonful to your hot or cold drinks. It helps ease pain.
Vectomega 1, this replaces 8 fish oil capsules.
If taking Prednisolone, taking 20+ mg will start to give adrenal suppression.
Low testosterone and low thyroid will help men.
If they are in bad pain, they will also be deficient in testosterone.
If you have Candida symptoms and you have fibromyalgia, you may also have post nasal drip, nasal congestion, irritable bowel syndrome, gas and bloating. Often the muscles get locked in a shortened position. You may also often get viral or antibiotic sensitive infections.
Air hunger is a classic sign of Lyme infection. Lyme infection is like a tick bite.
TSH doesn't measure circulating hormone in the blood stream.
T4 or T3 may be low. Reverse T3 (rT3) may be blocking.
It is probably best if the TSH is less than 1 or 1.5.
Test Free T4 and Free T3. The Free T4 must be in the top half of the normal range. The Free T3 must be in the top quarter of the normal range.
Take thyroid medication on an empty stomach. Wait 1 hour before eating. No coffee. Take at least 3-4 hours away from calcium or iron supplements. You can take them at night if needed. If taking T3, it may be better dividing the dose. If you crave coffee, it is an adrenal dysfunction.


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It Starts With Pronouns: Understanding Non-Binary Survivors
Editor Lexie Bean of Written on the Body answers readers' questions
By Amanda Kippert
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Last April, we announced our third book club selection, Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. In this collection of unique letters, survivors wrote to different parts of their body—brains that won't let go of memories, eyes that have seen too much, skin that longs to be touched without violence. It gave readers of all identities a new perspective on how abuse can infiltrate anyone's life, and how it can be especially sinister to those in a fragile place, trying to understand their identities.
The stories were compiled by New York writer and editor Lexie Bean, 27, themselves a survivor of abuse and assault. Bean, who identifies as either non-binary or "trans-boy-ish" answers some of your questions on their book below.
"What's the difference between gender binary, gender non-binary and intersex?"
Bean: Gender binary is the construct that there are two kinds of people in the world—there are men and there are women. Growing up in the '90s that was also framed as men are from Mars and women are from Venus. [laughs]
Non-binary is the acknowledgment of people who know or believe that there are more than two options. Because I grew up with the men are from Mars metaphor I sometimes think of the galaxies and how they're larger than two planets. Non-binary is the large umbrella for everything in between.
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Intersex is different. I'm trying to think of the most simple way to define it… it's somebody who was born with something in between, based on Western medicine, that measures what somebody is. It's a Westernized idea of a binary. If someone is too close to the cusp of what this over-defined thing is, they're pushed to one side or another. It often implies putting a newborn in some sort of surgery situation to fit them into something that other people can categorize or understand and it's often framed as, let's give this person a better life.
"What's the best way to address someone who appears non-binary if you're not sure what pronouns they prefer?"
Bean: I think it's good to ask. And not make it a big deal. I think it's even healthy to ask cisgender people what their pronouns are so it doesn't make the trans person the odd one out for having to introduce themselves that way. Also, someone can change over time. I want to be addressed as "they" but if I'm around a certain group of people, I'm OK with "she" because I don't want to do all that work.
"How do you respond to hurtful remarks from strangers?"
Bean: I think the hurt can take many forms depending on the day. So, for example, I'm dating someone right now who identifies me as his boyfriend and they introduced me as his boyfriend to someone I've never met before. And although this person said a nice thing the look on her face did not feel good. And in that sort of moment I'm grateful to stand next to someone who can witness it with me. It feels a little scarier alone. It feels like, why did I go outside today? Why did I try to affirm myself when I have to explain it other people?
And then sometimes people will say or do directly hurtful things, or larger scale things like the military transgender ban.
I think a lot of it is my privilege of living in NYC. I have creative spaces that are mostly queer people so knowing that I have these things to rely on I can handle a lot of the small scale and larger scale things. But it's harder when I'm by myself, it's hard to be one of anything in a room, even if it's a woman or person of color.
If people do say something that's offensive, just being willing to acknowledge they said the thing goes a long way. I've had many times with loved ones when I gently correct them on my pronouns and they say, "When did I do that?" and then I have to say, "Actually it was 10 seconds ago and actually you always do that." The lack of acknowledgment cuts deepest.
"I've written a lot about my experiences as a non-binary person who has survived abuse. What should I do with it? Can I get it published somewhere?"
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Bean: The short answer is there's a lot of online publications that specialize in LGBTQIA dialogue such as Them, Out, GoMag, Bust or Bitch. There's so many others that are looking to better understand these issues. When writing, consider who you want your audience to be because there's pros and cons to each. There's a lot of power to tapping into a more mainstream publication. But also, in the more LGBTQ specific ones, you know exactly who your audience is and there's some safety to that. If you're looking to write a book, I recommend starting with articles and writing from there.
And start by writing for yourself first and future drafts can be meant for sharing. I know I get in my own way if I think about an audience too soon. Also, read other things by non-binary people that have been more recently published.
"I'm currently transitioning from female to male. My partner went from being unsupportive of this to downright mean, berating me and putting me down every chance she gets. Is this abuse?"
Bean: Yes. I did the same thing where I stayed in a similar thing and, I will only speak for myself in this, but those sorts of conditions made me believe that I had to stay because no one else would ever love me. Abuse is someone making you believe that you depend on them for love. If it is escalating, don't wait for it to become too big or change form.
"Transgender individuals are being murdered at an alarming rate. What can we do to stop this?"
Bean: Definitely one of my goals in putting my book together was this [education]. Think about if you know any transgender individuals and if you don't, think about why not. It might be geographical, it might be prejudice, but start there. Acknowledge your own biases when you walk into a space.
It's trans women who are most likely to be attacked on the street and trans men who are most likely to commit suicide. Reproductive rights have been on my mind a lot lately, a lot of assigned-female-at-birth trans people I know will not go to the gynecologist. We need to be included in the discussion on trans health and feel that we're not insidious.
All of this comes down to treating trans people as a burden. Pronouns are a very small example but represent something much larger. Some people say it's a burden to think about someone's pronouns, but those who say that have never actually met a trans person and that's a small way of being like, this person's a burden.
Perhaps that's the biggest thing of all to counter death… there's nothing wrong with loving someone who's not like you, or is like you. We're not taking away anything from you by existing.
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Saturday, Dec 02, 2017 at 2:09 am
Women's Ice Hockey Defeats Lindenwood 4-1
By Sam Rothman
SYRACUSE, N.Y.— Syracuse Women's Ice Hockey could not find the back of the net in its first three games of the season. Now, in its last three matchups, the Orange has recorded 13 goals. Syracuse's improved offense was evident in its 4-1 win over Lindenwood on Friday.
The Orange came flying out the gate, with freshman Victoria Klimek scoring just 1:36 after puck drop. Her linemate Alysha Burriss fed her the puck from behind the net and Klimek snuck it past Lindenwood goaltender Jolene deBruyn to give Syracuse the 1-0 lead.
Halfway through the first period, Sarah Stuehr fanned on a pass coming out of the defensive zone and turned the puck over to the Lions for its first offensive possession of the game. Lindenwood was able to spend some time in the Syracuse zone and recorded two shots on goal. However, both attempts were denied by goaltender Abbey Miller and Syracuse kept the one goal advantage.
The Orange added to its lead late in the first period after dominating play. With 4:30 left in the period, forward Brooke Avery found the back of the net and scored her sixth goal of the season. Just a minute later, defenseman Lindsay Eastwood found Sarah Stuehr alone in front and she put the puck past deBruyn for her first goal of the season.
"It felt great to contribute," said Stuehr. "The first two lines usually get most of the goals for us. But we are starting to get more goals which is great."
Right after Syracuse's third goal, Kristen Siermachesky was called for interference. Although Syracuse has improved its offense, it still struggles with its discipline after establishing the lead. However, the Orange's strong penalty kill allowed it to take the 3-0 advantage into the locker room after the first period.
Head coach Paul Flanagan said he wanted his team to get the offense going early and grab the lead.
"We wanted to be really aggressive," said Flanagan. "I thought we did a real good job with that in the first period, and that was definitely our game plan."
Syracuse continued that game plan in the second period. After spending most of the period in the Lindenwood zone, forward Kelli Rowswell put in Savannah Rennie's rebound with 11:14 left in the period. The Orange closed out the second period leading the Lions 4-0, and also led in shots 10-4.
The Lions began applying some pressure in the third period, trying to cut into the Orange's lead. Forward Taylor Girard, who leads her team in scoring with eight goals, was all alone in front of Abbey Miller halfway through the period. But Miller stretched out her pads for the kicksave and kept the Lions scoreless.
Syracuse then had a chance on the opposite end of the ice as Emma Polaski got past both Lindenwood defenders. She also could not capitalize as deBruyn saved her shot. Both teams traded chances, but both shots were denied by the goaltenders.
However, Girard scored just moments later to spoil Miller's shutout with six minutes left in regulation. Then she took a penalty since Syracuse was already on the power play, giving Syracuse an opportunity to extend its lead on a five-on-three in the final minutes of the game. However, the Orange was not able to capitalize on the two-man advantage and ended up with the 4-1 win.
After starting the season 1-7-1, Syracuse has posted an undefeated 4-0-1 record in conference play. Flanagan said it is great to see Syracuse's hard work down the stretch lead to wins against league opponents.
"We were a little frustrated with our record early on, but I think we played some really good hockey, " he said. "There are definitely a couple of games we would like to have back. But I think staying true to our system and having a good solid work ethic early on is now starting to pay off."
Syracuse hopes to continue its strong offensive play in its rematch against Lindenwood on Saturday.
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Gamester 81's channel update shows why you need to evolve.
John Lester is one of the original YouTubers with a focus on retro video games. He is also the creator of the Game On Expo in Arizona. 11 year ago John created the YouTube channel Gamester 81 to focus on retro video game topics.
As of January 2019, he has 107 thousand subscribers and has recently announced that he will be cutting back his content even more because it's no longer profitable and his channel isn't growing the way that he would have liked it to be. He also wants to spend time with his family and other, profitable business ventures.
John has put a lot of work into his channel and even maintains a consistent upload schedule but with a channel his size, only 2 of his past 50 videos have cracked 10k views with the lowest being 930. It's pretty easy to understand why John might not want to put too much effort into videos when the success rate is that of a channel 1/10th his size.
But why has his channel been stalling?
Channels plateau all the time; Nathan Barnatt aka Keith Apicary returned after a very long hiatus and with a channel three times the size of Gamester 81, he had similar results – paltry view counts and growth compared to a channel of the same size. Even efforts to kickstart the channel with diverse content seemed to make things worse and Nathan has abandoned the original format altogether.
There are countless other channels that have suffered the same fate but one thing that's in common with all of them is that the creators don't change with the trends of YouTube. The content is not the issue. I'm not saying to rag on whatever console Soujia Boy is peddling this week. I'm talking about SEO, and how YouTube has changed their algorithm to deliver content to users.
John's channel hasn't really changed over the past 11 years. If you were to close your eyes and listen to a video from that period, you'd be hard pressed to tell if it was a recent one or not. Which is not necessarily bad, but for new users the content may come off as cheap.
Both John and Nathan have content all over the place and so for a subscriber, it's hard to watch every single video if they aren't interested.
Even Gamester81 mentioned that people had asked him when he was going to upload another video and he was surprised to hear that because he posts very frequently. Even I had wondered what had happened to John until I saw his "State of the channel" upload a couple days ago. And even then, the video was a few days old when YouTube recommended it to me.
How can Gamester81 recover?
I'm just a small channel with 1170 subs so I'm not really an expert, but I am very good at noticing trends and determining what works and what doesn't. John Lester can salvage his channel by taking a step back and reevaluating what works and what doesn't. It seems that his subscribers are pretty good at using the dislike button to tell John that they don't like what he's producing. Also it doesn't matter if you have 100K subs or 1K this advice can be applied to any channel.
Solidify your content
Maintaining a consistent schedule is important, but having a predictable content format keeps subscribers in the loop on what they can expect the next video to be. If I don't watch 5-6 videos from the same channel, YouTube assumes that I'm not interested and doesn't recommend it as much. It's the same thing with Gmail – if I don't open up a newsletter, eventually Gmail assumes I don't want to see it and it winds up in my spam box.
Recently I found Chadtronic so I've been watching a lot of his episodes. I'll give you a guess as to which creator is dominating my suggested feed.
Bring in new viewers
Gamester 81 should also work on his titles and thumbnails. The naming convention of his videos is boring and the same with his thumbnails. New people unfamiliar with Gamester81 won't know that he was one of the first. Instead, he's one of the countless other channels that cover these topics.
2008 or 2019? These are the thumbnails of a channel with over 100k subs
Standing out from the countless other channels is as big of a challenge as creating videos. Having a hook keeping subscribers coming back will give YouTube the impression that your content is worth viewing.
Engage your current subscribers
Also take advantage of the tools YouTube provides - The channel community tab is great for keeping viewers engaged in your channel. Run polls to see what people want to see. Post photos of upcoming topics you have planned. Also pin, like and heart comments. John is very active in the comments, but he doesn't pin or heart comments
Even if you're not on board with YouTube's new social media options. Maintaining an active Twitter/Facebook/Instagram account is very important and promoting it in the channel as well.
YouTube is still social media and a lot of people trying to apply the Old Media format to the platform will soon run out of juice and money. Interacting with your audience is key as well.
John's channel isn't dead. Not by a long shot. It will be completely up to him to decide to focus his efforts on this channel. If he doesn't want to, that's his choice and I respect him for walking away from a big channel that he's built for over a decade. A channel should always be fun first. Especially if you're the only one behind it. If the passion isn't there, why continue?
Hopefully John's realization serves as a reminder to up and coming channels that you can't rest on your laurels and expect to be successful without evolving over time.
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Spring is a time of blooming flowers, green trees, and lush lawns. Of course, your lawn won't be that beautiful, lush green you're looking for if you don't properly apply lawn fertilizer. Lawn care can be sensitive to various factors, such as the season, time of lawn fertilizer application, the type of fertilizer used, and even how lawn care products are applied. If you'd like to see a beautiful yard this spring, Hackmann Lawn can help!
You might have packed your rake away at the end of fall, but you'll actually need it to prepare for spring as well. It's important to thoroughly rake your lawn to get rid of any dead growth that may have accumulated during the winter. You want to make sure that you keep an eye out for any spots that make need special treatment and clear the path for your lawn fertilizer.
No one likes a scraggly lawn, but you don't want to go chopping away at your lawn too early in the season. After raking, you might find that your lawn has not grown in evenly, which means you can't attack the whole lawn with the same blade level and expect to have a polished result. You also might want to schedule your first mow for when you plan to apply fertilizer, as the lawn clippings can sometimes act as a natural fertilizer.
We all love the April showers that bring May flowers, but while the rain provides valuable hydration for plants and your lawn, it can cause issues with lawn fertilizer. If you apply fertilizer right before a big downpour, all your carefully applied, high-quality fertilizer could be washed away. Of course, an overly dry lawn won't properly absorb the nutrients from the fertilizer into the soil. It's best to time your lawn fertilizer application to be one to two days after a light rain, or after you've watered the lawn yourself. After application, you'll need to lightly water the lawn again to ensure that fertilizer on the grass blades makes it down into the soil.
It can be tempting to start working on your lawn as soon as warm weather hits, but you don't want to do too much too soon. The timing of your last fertilizer application before winter hit will affect the timing of your spring lawn fertilizer application. Over-application will not lead to a healthy lawn! If you're not sure if your lawn is ready for fertilizer or not, it's best to contact a lawn care professional.
If you know your yard is prone to weeds, spring can be a good time to start weeding. You can pull any weeds that have already popped up and apply herbicides to areas that you know struggle with weed infestations.
If you have any doubts, don't hesitate to contact us for all your lawn care and lawn fertilizer needs!


Fits Bbflocking Wren and other crickets.
Only dress included in this sale. No doll or other accessories.
My outfits are OOAK (one-of-a-kind), made one at a time and won't be repeated so I don't get bored and your girl won't dress like another. My collection of vintage and antique fabrics/laces make these little dresses really unique and original. I make one at a time and I often use no pattern or I alter it as I go.


Dark merlot of a decent year. But a mediocre young man only grows to a mediocre old guy. Times does not always serve. It's medium-bodied, not smooth, short rough finish. Yeah yeah yeah, it's strong with all that oak spice fruit flavors yada yada yada... But this old guy is too BS-vulgar to begin with making the whole experience another California strip mall one-night-stand. He's pretty horrible. I would trade him for Two Buck Chuck Merlot. They're basically pretty much the same kind of guys.


Microsoft recently rolled out Windows 10 build 17661 to Fast Ring Insiders and Insiders who chose to Jump Ahead. This new build introduces a collection of new features which will be available on Redstone 5. The objective of the Windows Insider program is for user to test and code of their upcoming Windows 10 variant so as to detect any significant bugs.
The Redmond giant already published a list of known issues impacting the release, but as it happens with each new build, Insiders came across a lot of new bugs. We scoured Microsoft's forums to identify the most common Windows 10 build 17661 issues recorded by Insiders and we'll record them below.
Many Insiders obtained error 0xc1900101 when they tried to set up the hottest Windows 10 build. Their computers quickly reverted all of the changes, and they're now stuck on the previous build release.
I updated to Construct 17661 now and obtained error 0xc1900101 and reunite to 17134.
In Preferences, Storage and click on Free Up Space Now used to populate with several things to choose from for cleanup Much like Disk Cleanup. Just nothing showing now. This is still happening in Build 17661 as it has been in the last couple Skippy Builds.
Microsoft also revamped the Windows Defender Security Center and named it Windows Security. It seems that this name change also brought along one minor problem — Windows Security is totally blank when users start it for the very first time. The good thing is that a few restarts usually fix the issue.
OK, it does kind of populate marginally, but nothing shows. A green test and then everything hangs, then closes. Don't even have a title bar. Also can't start from WU.
Using the copy function on Edge often neglects with this build. The components that consumers replicate do not go to the clipboard.
These are the Windows 10 build 17661 issues. As you can, this build version isn't influenced by serious issues such as system freezes, crashes, BSOD mistakes and so on. If you already installed assemble 17661 on your machine, use the comments below to tell us more about your expertise.


Booze Moor, Whaw, High Faggergill, Low Faggergill, Hoove and Stang….
….how I love Yorkshire Place names.
The dotted line at the top of the map shows the border between the counties of Yorkshire and Durham.
This week we spent a whole day driving (meandering) the 60 or so miles from Lancashire, through the Yorkshire Dales en route to Barnard Castle in County Durham.
We'd arranged to meet up for dinner with friends from Scotland who are touring in North-east England . So why not make a two-day holiday out of it? That's just what we did!
The roads were quiet as the tourist season doesn't appear to have gotten into full swing yet. And the sun was shining. Perfect!
What on earth are Prince Bishops?
I'd never heard of them either!
Prince Bishops in England date back to the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, when William from Normandy in France killed King Harold and assumed the English throne.
Once we were into County Durham it was a short drive to the town of Barnard Castle.
We had time for a short visit to the 12th Century castle before checking into our accommodation which was a (haunted) 17th Century inn.
We were only away from home from 10.00 am on Thursday to 6.00 pm on Friday. It is as amazing as much as it is tiring how much we can pack into 32 hours – and how many blog posts might come out of it too.
There will be more posts about this mini-trip, but that's enough for today!
Love this post! Can't wait for more. And, oh, those names!
Thanks Laurie. I'm delighted you enjoyed it. Must post about the village of Crackpot! I'll ping back to you when I do !
Did you encounter anything sinister in the haunted Inn? I visited Barnard Castle many years ago, but somehow failed to visit the castle. A lovely part of the world, though, Helen.
Only creaky floor boards, rattling teacups and a wardrobe with flapping doors . Enough!
Sounds a bit like last night's episode of Doctor Who. It was very creepy.
How wonderful are those ruins! And your photos, as always, as lovely.
A road trip that discovers Prince Bishops, castles, and a haunted 17th century inn. Sounds pretty amazing to me!!
It was a great trip Joanne. We were in Room 6 in the inn. It's room 7 where all the paranormal activity has been recorded. We did have creaky floorboards that rattled the teacups on the tray and an old wardrobe with doors that kept swinging open by themselves.


Facebook just announced video chat with Skype at a press conference in Palo Alto.
Our first take: it looks extremely easy to use -- you have to download a plug-in once, but the download pop-up is integrated into Facebook and isn't any harder than adding a game, for instance.
And Facebook has a huge built-in user base of semi- and non-technical people who can get going on this right away.
That said, Google really stole Facebook's thunder with Hangouts last week -- it offers group chat with up to 10 people simultaneously, while the Facebook feature offers only one to one calls, just like regular Skype.
This is a big win for Skype and its soon-to-be-owner Microsoft, though: Skype suddenly gets access to Facebook's 750 million users.
Here's our transcript of the event.
10:05 PT: We're here, waiting for the event to start.
10:11: Mark Zuckerberg just walked in, he's hanging out by the free drink refrigerator. So far no sign of Skype CEO Tony Bates.
10:13: Zuck: "Today marks the beginning of 'launching season' in 2011." They've been working hard.
He's amused that his 70-year-old neighbor accosted him to talk about what he's launching today. "I hope it's video chat."
10:16: Social networking -- it was new. But until recently people had open questions whether it would be this widespread ubiquitous phenomenon. That chapter is more or less done.
"We're not everywhere yet, but there's this clear arc where the world generally believes it is going to be everywhere." Billions of people, "whether it's us or somebody else doing it."
Last few years, companies who were really serious about desktop software started building Web apps. We're at this inflection point where we'll see that with social software. Companies in gaming, communications, search, how are we going to offer our product in a social way on a social infrastructure.
10:19: How do you measure these things? It's not just about registered users, or active users. "Hopefully we'll get to a billion at some point."
It's about the rate at which they're sharing more stuff. It's growing exponentially. The amount they share today is twice what they shared a year ago. Go forward, it'll double every year.
So this trend of people sharing 2x stuff every year, it's growing much faster than users.
We hit 750m users. Officially. But that's not the interesting metric.
Moore's law is the most famous instance of logarithmic growth -- 2x the transistors on the same chip every 18 months.
All this is a looooong way of saying "we're ready."
10:25: Aha -- Skype just tweeted that they're looking forward to some "awesome" news being shared.
Group chat -- ad hoc sharing. People have asked for it.
The new design -- billions of chat messages per day. It's hard to find people online, even though the number is massive. You either have to click on buddy list to pop it up, or the "face pile" on the home page (you have to know what your friends' icons look like).
Confirmed: video calling with Skype.
I can go to a profile, even if they haven't installed plug-in to do video chat, quick call and it'll pop up on his screen. Click "I want to download the plug-in" and we're chatting. This only works because the system already knows we're connected.
NOT like traditional Skype where both people have to have the software.
"Turns out that dude who walked by will actually get to video chat with his grandson."
10:32: Now a Facebooker named Peter is demoing group chat. We'll grab some screens and post them as they come up.
New sidebar at lower right shows all your friends online, you get a new camera icon to start video call.
Philip from Facebook's Seattle office is going to demo video calling. Can get to it from the chat tab or any friend's profile page.
Looks pretty straightforward. "Your least technical friend can get online and connect to somebody else." Simplicity. No separate accounts, no separate Web sites, the download is small and easy, one button click to any friend on a social network that already HAS all your friends.
(No group video chat feature, though. I wonder what Google is thinking now.) Even the download is pretty easy.
10:40: Now Skype CEO Tony Bates is on stage. Classic use case of Skype is grandchild speaking to grandparent.
The technology is hard. Started thinking about this 6 months ago. Long-term strategic relationship with Facebook. True partnership.
He didn't say much about what they've done to get ready -- no technical detail.
Now Zuck's back. So the group chat gives users an ad-hoc way to set up groups without doing that up front. Kind of like Google+ Circles, without having to actually set up those groups manually.
We're going to see a lot of new things like this over the next few months and years, very excited to what we have to bring.
Q: And now we're into Q&A.
Is group video chat coming? And what do you think of Google Hangouts?
Zuck: today we're doing 1-1. Just rolled out group chat for text. We were working with Skype before Tony came on board. Now Skype is a part of Microsoft, we have a very longstanding relationship with Microsoft.
"I wouldn't rule anything out." But don't undersell the importance of what we have today. The vast majority of chat is 1-1 today. We're really excited about what we've built.
Bates: 1 to 1 is most important part.
Zuck: I'm not going to say a lot about Google+, we've only spent a little time on the service. But think about the narrative -- the last five years has been about connecting people, now we're building social apps. We'll see a lot of companies who haven't looked at social in their apps. Not just Google.
Netflix is a good example -- they're trying to do social well. It's going to be a hybrid in these places to build on top of social infrastructure as it already exists.
I view this as validation. Every app is going to be social. If we build the best service, there's massive value.
Q: Any concern people will switch from direct Skype usage to Facebook?
Bates: We've set a goal of 1 billion, this helps us get there. This helps us be as ubiquitous as possible.
Q: How do you accept the video invitation?
Zuck: You contact a friend, something pops up on their screen. They click to accept a call. You'll hear a ring as if your phone is ringing.
Q: What's in it for Skype financially?
Bates: There will be an opportunity to have Skype paid products in the future, but today it's just about reach.
Zuck: Video calling is coming to mobile, isn't live yet. The group chat stuff works.
Our messaging system -- the inbox is the same as the IM interface that pops up. Mostly Web features.
They're not giving a date for video on mobile. "We try to develop each thing and make it really good."
Q: How will this impact infrastructure? Huge load. Will you continue to build your own data centers?
Zuck: Definitely makes sense to build more of our own datacenters instead of leasing. One of the fundamental innovations Skype had is it's all peer to peer.
Bates: Think of this as a mini-Skype client that's embedded nicely into Facebook.
Q: What's overlap between FB and Skype users?
Q. What are the financial terms? What did the Microsoft relationship play into this partnership.
Zuck: No economic terms. Same free Skype service they already offer, but put into the Facebook form. But we're figuring out what to do next. We have had work with Skype before, but most features were built into Skype client.
The Microsoft deal -- "we have a really good relationship with Microsoft." They've worked with Bing, ads. "It would have been fine if you were an independent company too." Now it's a sense of stability.
Bates: We're not owned by Microsoft yet. We haven't closed. But we're very hopeful. But we started talking about that.
The day we announced, we came and talked to Mark. Steve (Ballmer) and I are really aligned on this.
Zuck: We had this lined up. "Is the acquisition going to change anything? No."


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