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A couple months ago, a friend raved to me about eating some wonderful grass-feed beef that she had cooked after buying it at Staff of Life's new Farm to Fork meat department.
It took me a while to get there myself, as I'd received a Christmas gift subscription to local butcher El Salchichero's CSM (monthly meat box) and was well-stocked in the meat department for three months. Last month, I finally tried Staff's expanded meat products, and was very impressed so I decided to find out more.
Santa Cruz native Anthony Blanco purchased the Natural Meats and Seafood department at Staff of Life last November, and has been enthusiastically operating it ever since.
Many don't realize that this is a separate business that first opened in 1997, and is run independently from the rest of the store.
Anthony has more than two decades of experience as a local butcher, including jobs at Freedom Meat Lockers, Deluxe Foods, The Fish Lady, and New Leaf Community Markets. For many years he has cooked and prepared food for his family—which includes his wife Shana, 14-year-old son Shane, and 6-year-old daughter Hazel. He even prepares food for the family dog, Grace, who appreciates the cooked ground meat/rice/puréed organic pumpkin combination.
Anthony has brought lots of improvements to the department—including greatly expanding their product line. Recently, I had the chance to catch up with him.
Q. Why did you buy Staff of Life Natural Meats and Seafood?
I saw an opportunity to serve my community by nourishing families and creating jobs for local people that want to learn about the art of real butchery. All by doing what I love! People ask me, "Are you tired? Sounds like a lot of hard work…" But the truth is, I haven't worked a day since I started here at Staff! I enjoy it so much.
Q. What are one or two of your favorite parts about running this business?
The customers and employees. First, I get to show customers including moms and dads how to save time making a yummy dinner on a busy schedule, cause I have first-hand knowledge in everyday family operations.
Then there are my employees: I absolutely love it when I can give promotions to our staff. It's a process of paying it forward–knowing that they feel appreciated and will have good news to tell their family when they get home.
Q. How has your past experience led you to being ready for this position?
I have been a butcher in Santa Cruz for the last 25 years. I was ready for this position early on in my career when I realized that what I'm handing over the counter to customers is not just a piece of meat. It's someone's dinner, it could be someone's favorite meal, it's someone's fuel for life and I don't take that lightly. I'm a people person and I treat all my vendors the way I would like to be treated. Be nice! It's easy!
Q. Can you tell me more details about the meat you offer?
We strive for complete transparency in all our meat products. That's why we make sausage, cold cuts and sauces in-house so you know what they are made of. We feature local pork from Chico.
In March, I had the pleasure of taking my crew to meet my friend Loren Poncia, the owner of Stemple Creek Ranch in Tomales. This is how I can bring transparency to the people that want to buy local meats. My crew and I can personally verify that the meats we sell are grass-fed and grass-finished, and have all of the standard "no's:" no antibiotics, no hormones etc. In April, we visited the ranch where "Mary's organic chickens" come from.
We receive most of our meats "Whole Carcass.'' This allows us to cut down on packaging materials that may go to the landfill, and also enables us to create custom cuts while keeping the art of butchery alive (to see examples of butchery, and learn more about the department including its Farm-to-Fork philosophy, visit the Staff of Life Natural Meats Facebook page.
One day when I was shopping at Staff of Life, an employee came and asked if I needed help. It turned out to be Jodi, one of Anthony's managers. I told her I wanted something easy-yet-delicious for dinner, and she gave me a comprehensive tour of the department's tempting house-made offerings. These included chicken enchiladas, Mediterranean-stuffed chicken breast, and cold cuts sliced to order—customers can purchase any amount of the latter, as small as a quarter-pound, and these include prosciutto and organic house-roasted turkey breast and roast beef.
A sign on the butcher counter explains that because the Staff of Life Natural Meats Department butchers their meat products in-house, each week they save an average of 107 plastic bags from going to the recycling center or landfill, and multitudes of packing scraps and other plastic materials that are deemed non-recyclable. Customers are encouraged to bring in their own containers to receive a 50-cent discount per item at the meat counter.
Also of note: Stemple Creek Ranch has chosen Staff as their exclusive meat vendor for Santa Cruz, so no other grocer in town can offer these meats.
Q. What are some products you have that can help busy people save time when preparing a meal?
Rotisserie chickens can be used to make a variety of quick healthy meals like Asian chicken salads, enchiladas, tacos, casseroles and a whole bunch more! We offer house-made entrees like chicken cordon bleu, kabobs, Thai curry pork cutlets, take-n-bake (gluten-free) turkey meatloaf, Tandoori chicken, Moroccan lamb meat balls with currants, just to name a few—and a plethora of easy to cook, marinated items in our grab-n-go case.
We are dedicated to fast and friendly service. Sausages are also easy — we make 25 kinds in-house! We can walk you through a recipe for Shepherd's pie or slow roast chuck roast. F.Y.I., we are the only butcher shop in Santa Cruz that can offer a grass fed, grass finished seven-bone chuck roast, and this is because we cut from whole carcasses.
Q. How about a detail or two about your seafood?
We have a permit from the Department of Fish and Wildlife that allows us to buy directly from anyone with a commercial fishing license. This helps us support locals and also guarantees the very freshest catch. We offer many different kinds of fish including whole ones.
Fresh fish, caught just hours before this photo was taken.
I browsed the department's Facebook page and noticed they pride themselves on "having the freshest fish with the most variety in town." I was delighted to see photos of seafood such as wild steelhead, halibut, and house-made wild salmon sausage. I decided to call seafood manager Elmer Flores to find out a little more, and he was very excited to share his perspective. He emphasized they carry a lot of whole fish, so that people can see a product from start to finish, and also mentioned the diverse selections.
"I want to offer people a great variety of seafood including things you wouldn't find anywhere else," he said. "We want to open people's eyes to different types of fish." So there are options if you want to try something new, and if you want something more traditional, they carry that too (for example: tilapia, snapper, and catfish).
The bottom line: it's only been a few months since Anthony took over the Staff of Life Natural Meats and Seafood department, and it's already clear that he and his staff are committed to providing top products and service to their customers.
Even Anthony's son Shane pitches in; he has a work permit and enjoys working at the store on occasion. I'm excited to see what the future holds as the Blanco family continues bringing the freshest meat and seafood to our community.
Tara Fatemi Walker first fell in love with Santa Cruz as a UCSC student long ago. She returned in 2004 and is grateful to live in such a wonderful community. She loves to write about food, restaurants, and culinary events; see more of her writing at santacruzfoodie.com.


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Lynne Lamberg (born 1942) is an American freelance medical journalist, writer and editor. In addition to books on sleep, dreams, and biological rhythms, she has written hundreds of articles on mental and physical health for medical professionals and the general public.

Early life and education
Lynne (Friedman) Lamberg, the daughter of Ralph M. and Fay G. (Bialick) Friedman, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1942. After a year at the University of Michigan, she earned an A.B. degree in 1963 at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a writer and editor for the campus newspaper, Student Life, and editor-in-chief of The Hatchet yearbook. She earned an M.A. in 1967 at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She married Stanford I. Lamberg in 1962.

Career
In 1962 Lamberg began her career as assistant director of public relations at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis (now Barnes-Jewish Hospital). In 1964 she became director of public relations at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

In the 1970s, Lamberg began to work as a freelance medical writer, focusing on the then-emerging science of sleep. By 1986, she had already written more than 60 articles on sleep and dreams for general circulation magazines, according to The Baltimore Sun.

She continued to contribute articles to medical publications and popular magazines, according to WebMD: "Lynne Lamberg writes on psychiatry and sleep medicine for physicians in The Journal of the American Medical Association and Psychiatric News." The Sleep Foundation said, "She is a regular contributor to JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), and Psychiatric News, and reviews consumer books on sleep, biological rhythms and dreams." She has written hundreds of articles, book reviews, and op-ed essays for Better Homes and Gardens, Self, Psychology Today, Brainwork, New Choices, Working Woman, Ladies' Home Journal, and other national circulation magazines, as well as for The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Constitution, Orlando Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, and other newspapers."

Critical responses
In the foreword to Bodyrhythms: Chronobiology and Peak Performance (William Morrow and Company, 1984), William C. Dement said, "...this is the most comprehensive text on sleep and wakefulness that has ever been written for the lay reader, and Lynne Lamberg, its author, is as much of a scientific expert as any nonscientist could be." A review in The Baltimore Sun quoted Lamberg's example explaining chronotherapy: "A drug like aspirin stays in the body for a very long time; it may not make any difference what time it's taken. Other drugs disappear within three or four hours, so the timing may be important." Elizabeth DeVita wrote in American Health that the book "...explores changing sleep patterns throughout the life cycle", concluding, "Eventually, says Lamberg, we may see a shift in school schedules, with high school students starting later and ending later in the day, and younger children starting earlier."

Montague Ullman, reviewing Crisis Dreaming, wrote that Lamberg, "...judging from her preface, has a natural affinity for dreams. The result is an excellent introduction to dreams and how to understand them. Written in a graceful, flowing style and set in a personal tone, there results a sense of intimacy between author and reader. This book is authoritative, informative, respectful of the dreamer and the dream, and it offers a structure within which dream work can be pursued."

John Langone, reviewing The Body Clock Guide in The New York Times in 2002, wrote, "Most of us can tell time, but few of us know how to tell body time, according to the authors of this book on (take your pick) chronobiology, chronomedicine, chronotherapy and chronorecord-keeping. 'We pay more attention to watches we wear on our wrists than to clocks we acquire in the womb,' they say. That diverted attention, they add, apparently prevents people from using the body's time machine, its natural rhythms, to fight illness and achieve maximum health. Sound too good to be true? Perhaps. But the science of body time is valid… All in all, it makes for informative reading, and it may well do some good."

Selected publications

Books

Selected articles
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Awards, honors
While she was still in college, her factual feature article, "It's All in a Day's Work", won first prize in the local 1962 National Society of Arts and Letters contest.

In 1986 she was awarded Class AAA first place of the American Academy of Family Physicians in Kansas City, Mo., for "Arthritis: An Encouraging Progress Report", published in Better Homes and Gardens.

Lamberg was presented the first Writer's Award of the Maryland Psychiatric Society Inc., in 1986, cited "for bringing information about mental health and mental illness to the public through the use of the media".

She received the 1999 National Alliance on Mental Illness Outstanding Media Award, for "What Are You Going to Do With a 41-Year-Old Man?"

In 2001 she won the Outstanding Book Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, for The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use Your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health, co-authored with Michael Smolensky.

In 2005, she received the National Sleep Foundation Communications' Career Leadership Award for her skill in translating complex scientific concepts and reporting on diverse aspects of sleep medicine for a variety of audiences for more than three decades.

In 2006, she received the Society for Women's Health Research Excellence in Women's Health Research Journalism Award, for "Risks and Benefits Key to Psychotropic Use During Pregnancy and Postpartum Period". The citation said, "Lamberg chronicles the difficult choices mothers and their physicians face regarding the complex risks and benefits of taking psychotropic medications and the impact of that decision on mother and child from conception through breastfeeding."

In 2016, the National Association of Science Writers gave Lamberg its Diane McGurgan Service Award, for volunteer service as NASW's Book Editor for more than 16 years, producing resources that highlight members' work and provide support for authors.

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1942 births
Living people
American columnists
American medical journalists
American medical writers
American women columnists
American women non-fiction writers
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
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The Technical Indicator
Sources of strength in a volatile U.S. market
Published: April 1, 2007 at 4:35 p.m. ET
Michael Ashbaugh
Cyclicals, energy and even select tech groups remain well positioned
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CINCINNATI (MarketWatch) -- In a surprising twist, the U.S. markets finished the first quarter essentially flat.
Specifically, each major U.S. benchmark posted the following first-quarter performance:
The S&P 500 added two points.
The Nasdaq gained six points.
The Dow industrials dropped 109 points.
Yet as those watching closely know, the flat net results above mask a pronounced uptick in market volatility.
The S&P 500's chart above serves as a proxy for the U.S. markets' recent performance.
As the chart illustrates, the S&P's path to a flat first quarter was circuitous to say the least.
In late February, the index staged an aggressive move under its 50-day moving average before establishing support around the late-November low.
After holding support, the S&P rallied respectably, finishing March at about the same point it ended December -- hence, a flat first quarter.
Yet stepping back from the recent price action, a more important point above is the S&P remains within a longer-term uptrend. The index is positioned comfortably above its 200-day moving average, illustrated in blue, and the 200-day is upward sloping.
And drilling down within specific sectors, several groups have navigated the volatile backdrop well, and remain well positioned going into the second quarter.
Among the more surprising pockets of strength has been the Cyclical Index.
As the chart illustrates, the group has maintained a stance atop its 50-day moving average unlike the S&P 500.
Moreover, even during the broad-market breakdown - in late February - the cyclicals generally held their uptrend, exhibiting relative strength vs. the broad markets.
And fundamentally speaking, the cyclicals' ongoing rally bodes well for the U.S. markets. That's because the Cyclical Index is designed to measure the strength of economically sensitive industries within the U.S.
Cyclicals have profits most closely tied to the performance of the U.S. economy, making them most sensitive to impending economic shifts.
That makes the cyclicals an oddity in a market where many investors are anticipating a global economic slowdown. Put another way, the chart above contradicts the "impending recessionary" view.
In a related move, the energy sectors also staged a strong first-quarter performance.
The charts above illustrate the recent strength among three major energy sectors - the Integrated Oil Index, the Oil Services Index and the Natural Gas Index.
Like the cyclicals, each group above holds comfortably above its 50-day moving average, outpacing the S&P 500.
Yet also note that in late March, each index spiked above its 20-day Bollinger bands.
Those bands, illustrated in red, bracket two standard deviations of each group's 20-day volatility, and a close above them suggests a tension between two time horizons.
On a near-term basis, a break above the bands implies an index is extended and due to pull in. That is, a reversion to the mean should be expected.
Yet longer-term, the strength underlying its breakout has been extreme, and will likely lead the group higher.
Setting aside the bands, all three energy sectors hold within striking distance of new highs, exhibiting relative strength vs. the broad markets.
Perhaps aided by energy strength, the Utility Index is also among the stronger U.S. sectors.
As the chart illustrates, the utilities rallied near all-time highs in March after closely observing well-defined support.
And notably, the group's price action fits with investor expectations for lower interest rates - or at least steadier rates over a longer period.
That's because when interest rates fall - or are expected to fall - the dividend yield on utilities looks more attractive by comparison, sending the stocks higher.
That means from the standpoint of price action - how the markets are actually acting - the utilities are contradicting concerns about higher interest rates, while the cyclicals are countering worries over an impending recession. Both bullish developments, particularly with the prevailing concerns over a global market meltdown.
Taken together, cyclicals, energy and utilities have been conspicuous outperformers through a challenging first quarter.
Yet even within technology, there have been notable pockets of relative strength.
Starting with the Software Index, it staged a strong three-month rally spanning from August through October.
Since then, it's established an orderly five-month range, digesting its gains.
And like the groups previously profiled, the Software Index is positioned atop its 50-day moving average, outpacing the S&P 500.
The group's already-bullish outlook would further strengthen on a close above the February high, a move that would place the Software Index at a five-year peak.
Along with software, the Telecom Index has also outperformed the broad markets.
As the chart illustrates, it holds comfortably above its 50-day moving average, and notched five-year highs to close out March.
What does this mean for April?
Despite first-quarter volatility, the U.S. markets remain within a primary uptrend.
That's partly because each major U.S. benchmark - the Dow industrials, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq - holds above its 200-day moving average, and in each case, the 200-day is upward sloping.
And while the near- to intermediate-term backdrop has been admittedly challenging, the charts above highlight useful pockets of relative strength.
Starting with the Cyclical Index, it's maintained a six-month uptrend, and holds within striking distance of all-time highs.
Elsewhere, energy related names have also outperformed. The Integrated Oil Index, the Oil Services Index and the Natural Gas Index each staged a statistically unusual rally in late March, notching consecutive closes above the 20-day Bollinger bands.
And even within technology, the telecom and software sectors have held up well. Both groups are positioned above their 50-day moving averages, and each holds within striking distance of multiyear highs.
All told, the groups above outpaced the broad markets through a volatile first quarter, and their relative strength makes them attractive sectors looking towards the second quarter.
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Written by Benny Polacca
Benny Polacca
As the 10th Special Session's focus shifted to prioritizing which bills seeking American Rescue Plan Act funding would be approved, the Seventh Osage Nation Congress and Executive Branch discussed which bills they agree should be funded.
The Nation received an initial disbursement of $108.3 million in ARPA funding and the Congress members filed various bills requesting funding for respective projects and endeavors for the special session. However, by the time the special session started in late July, the Congressional Office reported more than 20 appropriation bills seeking ARPA funding were filed and those request amounts totaled more than $195 million, prompting the priority discussion.
On July 30, the Congress and Assistant Principal Chief Raymond Red Corn – on behalf of the Executive Branch – discussed prioritizing which bills would be passed after the Congressional committees heard most of the filed bills and ARPA fund requests earlier that week. "Our first priority is direct assistance, our second priority is the housing projects for our elders, the third priority is assisted living," Red Corn told Congress, adding other items included a $12.5 million bill to continue ongoing projects funded with 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act money, the broadband internet projects and infrastructure improvements to the three Osage villages.
Altogether, Congress passed 15 appropriation bills seeking ARPA funding on Aug. 2 before ending the special session.
"As was stated during (July 30) Congress Committee as a Whole, our priority No. 1 is the Direct Assistance Program which has had in effect since last year," Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear said in a statement, referring to the 2020 direct assistance offered to all Osages from the CARES Act funding. "The difference between what the COVID Task Force, led by James Weigant, proposed months ago and what Congressman (Joe) Tillman filed, is that our COVID Task Force proposal is compliant with what we believe the federal rules will be and also, we do not believe every single Osage will end up making the application. After this, the priorities are Primary Residential Treatment Program (men, women, and juveniles), and then Senior Housing (for Hominy and Fairfax)."
Congress passed the largest ARPA-related bill ONCA 21-52 (sponsored by Congressman Joe Tillman), which is an Act to authorize and appropriate $35 million for direct assistance payments to the members of the Osage Nation. Tillman said he sponsored the bill as a way to offer assistance to Osages still impacted by COVID-19 pandemic disruptions including job losses, furloughs and other income losses. The relief aid is now available and offered by the Nation's Financial Assistance Office.
Other APRA-related bills passed by Congress include:
Congresswoman Alice Goodfox sponsored ONCA 21-51 requesting $7,694,373 toward land purchase and design/ engineering and building costs for senior housing in Hominy. Goodfox noted there are only senior housing units in Pawhuska and it's time to offer more in taking care of elders. Congresswoman Brandy Lemon offered similar comments in the session as she sponsored ONCA 21-55 requesting $8 million for similar costs to build senior housing in Fairfax on land the Nation has already purchased from the city.
Second Congressional Speaker Jodie Revard sponsored ONCA 21-58, which is an act to authorize and appropriate $12 million for an adult male and female Primary Residential Treatment (PRT) facility, an adolescent male and female PRT, a transitional living facility, and a counseling center with administrative and counseling offices. Revard said the current PRT facilities are small, outdated and "the conditions are not the greatest" and the facilities are about "helping people turn their lives around."
ONCA 21-78 (Congressional Speaker Angela Pratt) is a $4 million appropriation bill seeking ARPA funding for land purchase, design/ engineering, and construction costs for an assisted living facility. Pratt said she sponsored the bill after visiting with elders who shared situations where they fell at home while alone and noted: "it's time to do more" for elders.
Congresswoman Paula Stabler said having an assisted living facility "fills the gap" between independent living and nursing homes because assisted living staff help people maneuver and with other mobility needs.
ONCA 21-61 (Goodfox) is a $12.5 million appropriation bill to continue projects already underway and funded by the 2020 CARES Act funds that were distributed to the Nation. According to Weigant, who met with the Congressional Government Operations Committee during the session, plans call for ARPA funds to go toward operations for the Butcher House, Harvest Land, Emergency Management projects, Information Technologies projects, as well as those for language/ culture and exhibit costs at the ON Museum.
ONCA 21-80 (Congressman RJ Walker) is an appropriation bill for $4,750,000 for replacement and upgrades to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in Nation-owned buildings. Walker referred to the former First National Bank where the Congressional Office and some ON departments are located because the HVAC system is outdated and has broken down several times in recent years.
Casey Johnson, director of operations for the Executive Branch, said other buildings, including his office, have experienced similar HVAC issues, as well as the Welcome Center and Heritage Center. He added that replaced HVAC systems would also improve filtration that can reduce exposure to COVID-19 and other airborne illnesses.
ONCA 21-81 (Walker) appropriates $4 million to the Judicial Branch for improvements to the current Judicial Building and for the design, engineering and construction of a new Judicial building. ON Supreme Court Chief Justice Meredith Drent attended the virtual Congressional Government Operations Committee meeting and noted the round building currently housing the tribal courthouse has had issues with a leaking roof and black mold in recent years and now newer building standards are being recommended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Drent said the current building's size is not suitable for social distancing, especially for court proceedings. "We're not going to get this chance again," she said of using funds for newer court facilities because other court-related grant opportunities are competitive and difficult to obtain.
After the special session ended, Standing Bear signed the 15 ARPA-related bills to take effect.
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Benny Polacca started at the Osage News in 2009 as a reporter and has covered various stories and events impacting the Osage Nation and Osage people. Polacca is part of the News team awarded the Native American Journalist Association's Elias Boudinot Free Press Award in 2014 and other NAJA Media Awards and SPJ Oklahoma Pro Chapter awards for news coverage and photography. Polacca is an Arizona State University graduate and participated in the former American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota. He previously worked at The Forum newspaper covering the Fargo, N.D. region as the weeknight reporter.
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Miss Potter instantly came across to me as being a dull recollection of the life of just another dead author. But this movie is far from that. It turned out to be a moving and beautifully told story of the beloved children's writer and illustrator, Beatrix Potter, a woman who created the timeless story of Peter Rabbit and who led a far more interesting life than most would believe. Her steadfastness and determination to publish her stories remains constant throughout the film without ever losing sight of her charming youthfulness. The debate as to whether it all gets a happy ending is a little 'touch-and-go' but ultimately leads to a highly enchanting movie.
Beatrix (portrayed by an unlikely Renée Zellweger) has ambitions to publish her picture books and little else, much to the ire of her mother (Barbara Flynn) who wants her to marry into status before she becomes unmarriable. Beatrix's unwavering focus is fulfilled when she meets Norman Warner (Ewan McGregor) of Warner Brothers publishing. He falls fast in love with both Beatrix and her books, and together they carefully arrange publication. This starts a beautifully innocent romance between the once snickered about and lonely.
Yet everything can't be about cute woodland animals. The pairing of Beatrix and Norman slowly molds into a tragic love story when Norman becomes ill. Miss Potter painfully shows us that Beatrix Potter had a very sad and lonely period in her life which was in stark contrast to her drawings of the happy animals she attempted to hide behind. Watching her deal with the hard shock of reality, which amounted to her conforming to the status quo, growing up and losing childhood innocence made it hard not to break into tears at times.
The Lake District scenery and the gut-wrenching, doomed love reminded me a lot of Becoming Jane and the story of the young Jane Austen and her lover Tom Lefroy. Both were also filmed in a similar fashion – long, sweeping artistic shots and powerful sequences were used to capture every nuance. The most memorable scene in the movie was the first and last kiss shared between Beatrix and Norman on a railway, with the smoke from the train covering them – it captured every emotion possible in that one instant. However, the story of Miss Potter did seem to lack some of the long-drawn emotional intensity that Miss Austen's biography had.
So with that said, I do feel it's a bit extreme for this film's tag line to be the over-zealous: "One of the greatest love stories never told". I certainly agree the amazing personal life of the world's favourite children's illustrator has definitely been well told in this piece but Becoming Jane was a better movie all around. I still highly recommend Miss Potter though. The delicate and precise camera work from director Chris Noonan capturing the stunning British scenery and the engaging tragic romance, coupled with the brilliant acting from Renée Zellweger sums up to a powerful story, that quite frankly, more people should know about.
I'd never even heard of this movie. It sounds good but there maybe should have been more publicity around it (or maybe I was just hiding under a rock). I had a couple of Beatrix Potter books when I was younger but I was more of an Enid Blyton girl. I'd still like to see this movie though, seeing as you are recommending it.


Despite the fact that we have grown accustomed as consumers to have the option of buying films for home entertainment in a number of different mediums, the ability to watch a film on demand is a relatively new concept in the history of cinema. As such, there are decades of films which were created before VHS, DVD, Laserdisc, Blu-ray and digital copies. These films have been lost in the clutter of the constant influx of new movies, but 20th Century Fox regularly dips into its archives in order to make these forgotten films available once again.
The reason they are able to do this is by making the discs to order, realizing that the production of any discs would most likely result in a lost profit. There are certainly downsides to having the films on DVD-R rather than DVD, and there are formatting flubs which treat even the widescreen films as though they are being screened on old box-shaped televisions. At the same time, it is better than not having these films available at all.
There is at least one spectacular reason to see this forgotten espionage thriller, and that reason is named Peter Lorre. The entire film is actually quite entertaining, albeit somewhat frivolous in the handling of the material. At times it is unclear whether this is meant to be suspenseful or comedic because of the airiness of the material. It is never boring, however, and much of the credit for that is due to Lorre's ability to steal every scene. The plot involves a stolen set of blueprints and a new aircraft on its maiden voyage. My biggest issue with this film is the blurb included on the back of the DVD, which not only tells the entire film, but the ending is inaccurate.
The gangster picture is a perfect example of a B-film from the 1930s that took off in popularity, and The Escape is an easily forgettable addition to the genre. With a running time of less than an hour, the storyline doesn't have time to get complicated. A former gangster returns home from a stint in prison to find his sister engaged to a policeman. He returns to a life of crime, which leads to the only inevitable result for a gangster film during those times, due to the Hays Code. Kane Richmond, Amanda Duff, Henry Armetta, Edward Norris and June Gale star.
Cynicism is beginning to seep into the narratives of this World War II film, hinting at what would eventually become of the war genre. When four U.S. Army Seabees are given the task of infiltrating a Japanese-occupied island in the Asian Pacific to see if it is suitable for an airfield, they are given a near impossible task. They are outnumbered and stranded in the jungles, forced to take any opportunity they can to even the odds. Although this is a clear B-picture which could have easily been filmed on a preexisting set, the narrative is much heavier than you might expect to find in this type of movie.
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Blood and billions of dollars: Nato's long war in Afghanistan
BRUSSELS (REUTERS) – Taleban fighters seized vast swathes of Afghanistan in the last few months and the Islamist militants have accelerated their offensive in the past week.
Meanwhile, the remaining foreign troops in the country are preparing to complete their withdrawal by the end of the month and have left local Afghan forces to fight the insurgents largely on their own.
Here are some facts about Nato's military involvement in support of the United States:
* On Sept 12, 2001, Nato allies invoked their mutual defence clause for the first, and so far only time in the Western alliance's seven-decade history, after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the United States by Al-Qaeda militants.
* After US-led forces defeated Taleban leaders harbouring Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, the architect of the Sept 11 attacks, Nato took command of an international coalition in 2003. It aimed to restore peace to Afghanistan and build up Afghan security forces. In 2015, the mission, known as ISAF, was replaced by the current training operation, Resolute Support. As of April, it numbered around 10,000 troops from 36 nations.
* The international military coalition has suffered over 3,500 fatalities since 2001, among them around 2,400 Americans, according to US Congress data. More than 20,000 US troops were wounded in action. The website www.icasulaties.org puts the total number of fatalities at 3,577.
* Nato's troop presence peaked in 2011, with over 130,000 foreign troops from 51 allied and partner countries in Afghanistan. Since 2003, Nato has trained hundreds of thousands of Afghan troops and police officers, including establishing an Afghan air force.
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First of all, it does not come with the tools required for this installation meaning that you will have to get them yourself. The manufacturers also recommend that you use a professional to set it up for safety purposes. Anyway, here you can find some excellent suspension sets. And here you can find hanging chair stands, but for aesthetic reasons, we recommend to suspend it from the ceiling.
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Sat Apr 15 2000 18:08: Nate, Clark and I went out and played frisbee in the dark last night. It was fun and we got wet since it had been raining all day. I went to work today, unlike many other people. I was the only person in the dishroom most of the time and I stayed an extra hour and a half before I just gave up and left. I'm tired.
Sat Apr 15 2000 18:13: I cut Clark's hair the other day. His roommate showed me how to use the clippers. Nate is coming over right now so I can cut his. I should start a business. It's better than washing dishes.
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First Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary Injunction In Non-Compete Dispute (ANSYS, Inc. v. Computational Dynamics North Am.)
Last year, I wrote about a decision from a federal district court in New Hampshire, which denied an employer's attempt to enjoin an employee, Dr. Doru Caraeni, from violating a non-compete agreement. That case, ANSYS, Inc. v. Computational Dynamics, served as a nice illustration of the difficulty in applying the legitimate business interest test to employees who are not in a client-facing position. In particular, the situation in the ANSYS case involved a source code developer who went to work for a direct competitor.
The First Circuit, in affirming the district court's order denying injunctive relief, did not provide a whole lot of clarification for what New Hampshire law might say regarding the protectable interest claimed by ANSYS in seeking to enforce the non-competition covenant. It effectively punted back to the district court's findings that ANSYS had not proven at a preliminary injunction hearing that Dr. Caraeni actually used, or threatened to use, anything proprietary during the course of his new employment.
For its part, ANSYS claimed that it only needed to show two facts for the non-compete to be enforceable: (a) that Dr. Caraeni had access to certain proprietary information; and (b) that he was employed in a position to use this knowledge or information for a competitor. Though the circuit court was not overwhelmingly persuaded by this logic - calling it "not irrational" - it was careful to note that New Hampshire had never adopted this standard as the prevailing law.
ANSYS' theory sounds an awful lot like the "inevitable disclosure" theory of trade secrets misappropriation. This doctrine, which can be used in certain circumstances to create an enforceable non-compete or even create a de facto restraint in the absence of a contract, is narrowly applied and by no means universally adopted.
For employees who have deep proprietary knowledge, but have little ability by themselves to cultivate client goodwill, the risk associated with enforcing general non-competes is quite high. Other types of restraints can achieve the same goal, with lower risk of non-enforcement. ANSYS may have been better off having Dr. Caraeni sign a garden-leave clause or paying him to sit on the sidelines for a short period of time.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Cite: ANSYS, Inc. v. Computational Dynamics North America, Ltd., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 2858 (1st Cir. Feb. 12, 2010)
Favors: Employee
Law: New Hampshire
Labels: New Hampshire, Non-Compete Agreement, Preliminary Injunction, Protectable Interest
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Rustic Motifs Blog
Handmade With Love…..
by Merl
It has been a few weeks, since I last updated you on what's keeping us busy at Rustic Motifs….well we are currently at the production stage and hope to be ready with our first collection by early April.
Yes I know you might be wondering, that we have been around and we are yet to show you our products and all that we talk about at Rustic Motifs 🙂
But that is the thing about handmade products, it needs time, it needs passion
and it needs its creators to share a bit of themselves in every piece they create.
You may ask what is so special about handmade products….it serves the same purpose as its machine made counterpart and yet costs more. My answer to that is, it's all about how you see it and it is all in your perception.
Everyone has their own definition for handmade, some say its unfinished and rustic, some say its unique made with a lot of love and care, some see it as adding that personal touch.
At Rustic Motifs we see handmade products as a way to create rural employment, as a means to empower the women folk in the deepest corners of our country, as a channel to ensure our age old traditions and ancient art forms continue to find patrons and even our future generations get to see and experience it.
We love the fact, that it takes longer to make something by hand than it does by machine, because that ensures that the beauty and essence of each piece is unmatched.
Handmade products remind us of all the laughter and stories shared while they were put together. Every motif, every thread, every stroke, every weave speaks of ancient folklores, beliefs and traditions that inspired its creators.
We love the fact that the materials used are organic and locally sourced be it the grass from the riverbanks or vegetable dyes, because it ensures that we leave fewer carbon footprints on the sands of time.
Madhubani artist, Ashok Kumar Das is a national awardee from Madhubani, a village in central India famous for its paintings. I met Ashok recently at an exhibition and he had this to say, " I can never commercialize my art, the day I do that, I will lose my inspiration and my skill. More than money we seek people who would appreciate the effort we put in, the amount of work that goes into making each painting is immense since everything used is organically sourced and processed. The days we remember are not the days we sell more, but the days we meet customers who see the sweat behind our creations."
Unfortunately, artisans like Ashok can count such days on their fingertips, because these are far and few….
It is quite sad to see, that despite being a country where 'maa ke haath ka khana' beats any 7* restaurant spread, where we still believe that all things handmade from greeting cards to pickles to Diwali sweets speak of love and warmth and where handicraft is the second largest occupation after agriculture, handmade goods and their creators don't get the kind of respect and recognition they truly deserve.
Most of us including me, we don't mind going to a mall and shelling out thousands for branded products without so much as a squeak, but then we go to a local potter or a crafts mela by rural artisans and we can't stop ourselves from polishing our bargaining skills and wrestling out a deal even if it is just for a few rupees.
Am I complaining, maybe or maybe not; I understand why we behave the way we do. It is all about creating that brand experience, about ensuring that the value asked for is the value a product truly deserves. This is what we intend to do at Rustic Motifs, provide our artisans with a platform where they can find the right value for their creations, create the right brand experience for our customers and eventually reach out to people who will appreciate the effort of these artisans and the uniqueness of their craft.
At Rustic Motifs it is our mission to bring that shift in perception, so that the next time you see a handmade product you realize that no matter how much one may try…the closest they will get is an imitation of the original, the original will still be unique with its own tales to tell…..
Post By Merlin Francis
The Making Of Our Brand's Identity
Two months back when we first started giving shape to our idea of Rustic Motifs, there were a lot of words we could think of, to describe what Rustic Motifs was all about, but most of what we expressed was ambiguous and abstract with no physical co-relation.
It was how we felt, what we saw and what we dreamt of. So when we set out on a hunt for a designer who could give an identity to Rustic Motifs, the brief was simple; Someone who could translate all that Rustic Motifs believed in and stood for into a logo, we wanted someone who could see what we saw when we described Rustic Motifs and our business concept and someone who could feel what we felt every time we talked about our products and our artisans……excitement and goosebumps 🙂
We were lucky to meet Pooja Panjabi of Design District. The first time I spoke to Pooja, it felt as if I had known her forever…she patiently heard me ramble about the company, our vision for it and our expectations from the logo. To us the logo was an entity, something that would be a physical representation of our Brand's personality and beliefs. It can be quite challenging for any designer to deal with a hyper excited bunch of individuals, who feel a lot of different things about the same thing 🙂 but Pooja could share our vision and took on the task with equal enthusiasm and passion.
Pooja tells us, that when she started working on her brief, she decided to go with an interesting motif which will help people identify with the brand. Not an inane design but something that looked intelligent and alive, beautiful but subtle, had pride but was not proud.
She adds, "Rustic Motifs logo was created keeping in mind the simplicity and the bold character of urban India, carrying the old world charm. This meant having an identity that reflects pride and a sense of attitude, standing tall and moving forward. The gothic style font is used to bring about the solidity of the brand."
I distinctly remember the moment we first opened the file sent by Pooja with the first set of logo options and the moment we set eyes on our birdie with her head held high……Love happened :). She completely bowled us over with her attitude, we found her a little rustic yet charming, confident and proud of her roots and the values she holds and yet grounded in her beliefs. We just knew it right then, that it had to be her…she was the one who people will think of when they think of Rustic Motifs.
Apart from the aesthetics, I think what helped us connect with the motif and the overall logo design was how well it went with our tagline – "Tell Tale Designs".
In traditional folklore, there is always a story narrator, who is called a 'sutradhaar'. To us our birdie is the sutradhaar, she is our brand mascot who will go around telling interesting tales about our artisans, their lives and their beautiful works.
American Writer Daniel J. Boorstin once said "An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
So thanks to Pooja, we believe we have found the right image that represents and reflects the personality of the minds that work at Rustic Motifs, our products and all those things we feel within.
For all our sakes I hope, our customers will also love Rustic Motifs and give us shelf space not only in their homes & offices but also in their hearts and minds 🙂
Bon Voyage…..Rustic Motifs!
Today as I write the first blog post for Rustic Motifs, I feel a little emotional. After all, it is the start of a new journey, a new phase in our lives, one we hope will beat the excitement of anything we have ever worked on in the past.
The last few weeks at Rustic Motifs have been the craziest and yet the most satisfying days of our lives.
We are working with some such real gems to put together a collection of traditional yet trendy, interior and exterior decor products for our customers.What motivates us further is the passion these artisans have for their art. They don't have a lot to support their art but they make up for the lack of it with their love for it, doing everything possible to preserve the skills passed onto them by their ancestors. They have limited options to preserve it, either pass on to an unwilling gen-next or find genuine patrons who will appreciate it and take it mainstream. The kind of things we learnt about our culture, our traditional art forms, our artisans who so effortlessly create such beautiful masterpieces, their willingness to share their trade secrets and welcome strangers like us with open arms and the soulful interactions we had with them ……. is beyond anything we could have experienced sitting within the four walls of a corporate office or in front of our super efficient machines.
When we think of Rustic Motifs, we think of the smell of wet Earth just after the first monsoon showers….we are striving hard to recreate the same magic through our products. We love all that is Indian and we hope that through this venture we will be able to bring ourselves and our customers a little closer to our roots, learn a little more about all those beautiful objects that enrich our living spaces and in the process help someone in a faraway village or town in the heartland of India, fulfill their dreams.
I think, just these few weeks have changed all of us, humbled us and evoked a sense of belonging to something bigger, a larger family out there. There is also a sense of pride, which comes when you know your own worth, your history and all the great things that are a part of who you really are.
There is a plan and we have our heart in the right place, wish us nothing but 'Bon Voyage'….for we believe it is the journey that counts more than the destination 🙂