Developers have submitted an outline planning application for 136 new homes, reinstatement of a historic hall site and amenities in a village north east of Lincoln.
The proposed development in the village of Sudbrooke, called The Parklands, includes a mix of housing types, containing affordable housing, a pub/restaurant, open spaces and a novel outdoor gym.
The application from Jackson and Jackson Developments Ltd follows an 18-month design period which has taken into account discussions with the local and parish council, as well as the local community.
It is proposed that the vacant site of Sudbrooke Holme would be sensitively rebuilt from historic photos and original data to provide up to 25 retirement apartments for people aged 55 and over.
Developers' vision for The Parklands in Sudbrooke.
The scheme, following comments from members of the local community, includes investment in woodland areas and footpaths, land for community allotments and an outdoor gym by Fresh Air Fitness.
The proposal also suggests the demolition of nearby poultry units, reducing unpleasant odours and heavy goods vehicles.
It is anticipated that the development will be linked to an agreement which outlines eligibility preference to local residents or people with connections to the village.
The application has been submitted to West Lindsey District Council, with a website developed for people to view related documents.
Dominik Jackson of Jackson and Jackson Developments Ltd, said: "The Parklands is an exciting high quality residential opportunity which will deliver a quality new addition to the village of Sudbrooke.
"There is a huge amount of inaccessible land being opened up to the public and the new amenities such as the outdoor fitness area and allotments are designed to create new hubs within the community.
Jackson and Jackson also submitted in March plans for a 35-home traditional village development in Scothern.


Local entertainers Nadanja and Nishanthi presented their annual N'tertainment Scholarships today [Jan 2], with Ryan Day and Zawditu Maryam both receiving $3,000 scholarships to assist in their educational endeavors.
Ryan Day is studying Theatre Lighting Design at the Roya Central School of Speech and Drama, while Zawditu Maryam is studying Theatre [Specialization in Technical Theatre] at Acadia University.
Founded in 2014 by sibling entertainers Nadanja and Nishanthi Bailey, the Nadanja & Nishanthi N'tertainment Scholarship supports the educational endeavours of college students pursuing a degree in the performing arts.
Since its inception, the scholarship has awarded over $15,000 to students studying in the areas of dance, music and musical theatre.
Nadanja and Nishanthi are legit Bermuda gems.
This is a wonderful story of how a few caring people can make a big difference – congratulations to these remarkable siblings and the chosen recipients of their generosity.
It has often been said that one true measure of generosity is giving while getting and not waiting to get before giving. Lovely to see these young people being helped as they make their way in our world.
Continued success to all involved.
So happy for both the givers and the recipients. Lovely story.
What a great duo! Thanks for all you do in the community to make a better Bermuda! True gems. Continued success for them and congrats to the well deserved receipients.


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Your Brain Is Playing Telephone
Your Odds Were Long
Take The Last Shuttle To Sexville
The Universal Ma'amer
The Dumpling
Grok Say 'Uff Da'
When Death Approached: The Floofy Swan
The Silver Swanne
Almost Well Done
As a writer, I have observed that my output improves dramatically if I pause now and then to play Solitaire. It is so fruitful that I no longer even worry I'm wasting time, and I just go ahead and play whenever the mood hits.
A typical session might go as follows: black queen on red king, black six on red seven, turn, turn, OMG Camilla needs to be kidnapped and Hattie totally loses her shit in the next scene, three on ace.
It's reliable and cheaper than running a hot shower all day, which is the other way to produce ideas. But I've been at a loss to understand how it works.
In order to understand how creativity works, or any thought process at all, you must know a little about neurotransmission. Fortunately, that's exactly the amount I do know about neurotransmission.
Neurotransmitters are chemicals that poot out of the pointy axon end of a neuron and get gobbled up by the fluffy dendrite end of the next neuron over. It's the way they communicate. Without neurotransmitters, all our cells would just be a jumbled collection jostling each other on the platform, wondering when the train would arrive. But with neurotransmitters, our cells are lined up and whispering to each other in sequence, such that "Take your hand off the burner" eventually arrives in the spinal cord as "Tag Old Stan in the bunghole."
The first named neurotransmitter was discovered in 1921 by a guy named Otto, who got to name it. He called it Vagusstoff, but he was wrong, it turned out to be acetylcholine. Anyway, ol' Otto suspended two beating frog hearts in saline solution and molested one of them, causing it to slow down, and then the other one slowed down too, even though it was not otherwise involved. Also, all the frogs within a ten-mile radius dug deeper down into the mud.
The neurotransmitters in the brain cross over a gap between neurons called a synapse (Greek for "hole in the head"). There are gobs of neurons in the brain, and if you have a very small head like I do, they're packed in really tight. In addition to the neurons, there are even more cells called glia. They are not well understood but appear to be the support crew. They're either tightening bolts or sending out for sandwiches. In addition, they keep the neurons from rubbing up against each other and chafing.
It's not really known if the adult brain continues to create neurons. For a while there it was thought to, because this was observed in rat brains. People were really pumped about that, because they were pretty sure the standard neuron allotment wasn't cutting the mustard. Recently, it's come to light that this might be a rodent thing, and primates more or less make do with what they started with. This would be depressing were it not for the fact that we're already not doing much with the ones we have.
Synaptic pruning in process.
Furthermore, the adult brain is a sleeker model than the child brain, because during adolescence the brain undergoes something called "synaptic pruning," in which some 50% of the neuron connections are tidied up and disposed of. Theoretically this makes the adult brain more streamlined and efficient, but it's possible this is more of a process of civilization for the good of the species as a whole; a process by which humans transition from a life of unbridled masturbation to overeating, TV, and quiet desperation.
Back in oldener times, the brain was thought to be a wired-up electrical model. This was a daunting analysis in the days when people could devote hours to unscrewing every light on the Christmas tree to find the bad bulb. Nowadays we have a more nuanced understanding of brain processes, secure in the notion that if things go wrong we can always unplug, wait a few minutes, and plug back in.
And that's where the Solitaire comes in.
Labels: brain chemistry, creativity, humor, neurons, neurotransmitters, solitaire
Looking for frog eggs
Eggs. Red-legged frogs lug them around this time of year, and they don't look comfortable. After consulting with the hormone department, I got rid of all mine. It was one of my better moves.
We female humans have all the eggs we'll ever need and about a million more when we're born. In fact, the high point of our egg-carrying life occurs well before then. At twenty weeks gestation we're packing five million of the suckers. Fortunately, brain development is continuing apace, probably including the ability to track the egg surplus, and we begin feverishly killing them off until we're left with only about a third. Don't tell the Pope.
That still leaves a lot of eggs to lug around. The human female trots out only about four hundred during her reproductive ("bloaty") years and the rest have to die, because otherwise she'd menstruate for several hundred years, and you think men are warlike. So our human female continues to destroy some 11,000 eggs a month until she hits or otherwise smacks into puberty. Now we're down to a more reasonable 300,000 eggs, which is a lot of attrition by any standard. There is no evidence that the selection of eggs to discard is anything other than random. If there were quality control, the 2016 election would have turned out a lot different.
The immature eggs live in little bags of goo called follicles. Thirty or forty of them audition to be a human being every month, but only one matures and gets sent out to the show. Tryouts go on constantly and are not hormone-dependent. But the winning follicle is generally the first to react to Follicle Stimulating Hormone and gets a head start that none of the other follicles can catch up with. The now-mature stimulated egg gets the tiara and all the others die. Which means all of you are here because at some point you sprinted ahead and turned your back on all your fellow follicles. You must be very proud.
The egg with the tiara then gets pooted out of the ovary and into the uterus via the Fallopian tubes. Amazingly, a man named Gabriello Fallopio discovered them 450 years ago; he probably was alerted by the name similarity. He was noted for his dissection skills early on, a distinction that can lead to a life as either a respected scientist or a serial murderer. As later developments revealed, he should have studied tuberculosis instead.
Anyway, our mature egg now travels to the uterus, which has recently been staged with overstuffed sofas and a full pantry, and sits back comfy with the tiara waiting for a date, but when he doesn't show, all the furniture gets shoved out for another month, through a tiny hole, and isn't that a righteous picnic for everyone involved. Sure as shit is.
You're done with it all, however, when the eggs run out, which they will. One thing about those last eggs, though, is they are not spring chicken eggs. They've been through the wringer. Older women have a far greater percentage of Abbie Normal eggs and although the most common consequence of that is their eggs don't properly take to the comfy furniture and turn into humans, another possibility is that they do turn into humans, but not necessarily the kind you were hoping for. There's a lot more likelihood of chromosomal aberrations in an older woman's eggs due to longer exposure to free radicals and fevers and stress and whiskey and such.
Which might have been a thing for my mom to think about when she had me at age forty, if indeed I had been thought about at all, although indications are I was not specifically on anyone's agenda. But my egg was probably all right. It was tucked inside a Norwegian. You can't get much safer than that.
Labels: Fallopian tubes, Gabriello Fallopio, human eggs, humor, ovulation, tiara
We've been scooping up frogs and bucketing them across Highway 30 for several years now, since that is the direction they insist on going in order to make replacement frogs, and we want them to keep doing that. Frogs have a number of obstacles in life. The other name for tadpoles, for instance, is "lunch." But even if they manage to grow right the heck up to full size, they're no match for a Chevy.
We've also been keeping nice data on them. We know exactly what sorts of conditions they require to make the trek (damp, dark, warmer than 43 degrees). Although, to be fair, we started out knowing that. It's in The Literature. The Literature is where all the scientific knowledge is stashed so no one needs to remember it. We do keep track of the sex of the frogs and the weather and the temperature and stuff. It helps us know when to be on the lookout. This season we had something like six frogs venture out over the course of a few weeks and then, bam, 345 in one night. You want to be prepared for a detonation like that.
One of the patterns we've noticed over the years is that the great frog migration is led by males. They'll be down at the pond telling tall tales and scoping out the competition weeks before the females make the trek. You can tell the males because they have long, uh, thumbs, and they're very avid. Boing! Boing! Boing! Also they're a lot smaller than females. This leads them to compensate, and for all we know, they're compensating away day and night down there in the pond once we let them go.
Later the females lug themselves down the hill with nothing like the verve of the males (or spunk, if you will). Bloop. Bloop. Bloop. It's hard to say whether they're just not as enthusiastic about the enterprise or if it's all that water weight. They're packing upwards of a thousand eggs each and, honey, it shows. They're one strand of elastic away from a world-class muffin-top. Perhaps there is some kind of primal drive getting them to the Mixer but it's entirely possible they just want to dump the eggs. As soon as they hit the water at least one male is going to want to grab on and squeeze and he's not about to be ditched at the punchbowl. He's on there until he gets something to fertilize--that's the nice term for it--and then he's all done and the female has to find someplace to arrange the eggs in a neat ball and then she bops back uphill, stretch marks and all. The guys hang out a little longer in case another lucky lady happens by looking for a big thumb.
Plus, a bonus salamander.
I don't know. I've never wanted to be a male but there are some things about the female condition that are not ideal. Primarily the bloat. I'd have been fine with lower pay and condescension if I could have negotiated away the bloat. If I were a frog I'd want to ditch those eggs all at once and as soon as possible.
In fact, I wouldn't have minded that option myself. It's one thing to harbor a pizza for a night or two and another thing altogether to suffer involuntary tissue turgidity once a month for decades, for no good reason. And to make it worse--it exactly coincides with the time everyone around you gets super annoying.
Labels: bloat, eggs, frog sex, humor, red-legged frogs
"Yes ma'am," I said, and winced instantly, with a furtive glance at the grocery clerk I was directing it to. Stout in the eyebrows, sure, and kind of a mustache, sure, but otherwise a doughy feminine model of a face, with no offense registered on it. I get this wrong a lot. To be fair, I always have. I grew up saying "Yes ma'am" to pretty much everybody and I'd have had to be in a heap of trouble in a formal situation to let fly with a Yes Sir. To my way of thinking, "Ma'am" is Yes's last name.
It doesn't always go over well. People can get prickly about their pronouns and they can't be expected to know that I Ma'am universally. I always feel bad and embarrassed when I get corrected and it would be worth my while to work on eliminating the whole locution, but it runs deep. The worst one was the day I was facing a gang of mailboxes (don't laugh, that is what they're called) poking letters into them and someone came up behind me and asked, in a highish voice, if I was done with Apartment 503 yet. "No ma'am," I sang out, and my new friend immediately said "Sir." Which threw me into the usual jumbled panic syntax and I turned around to apologize, only to find I was face to face with a person completely covered in tattoo ink, including every side of his head. Jot this down. If you are an individual of the checker-headed persuasion, it would be more considerate not to spring yourself on someone from two feet away.
None of the words in my apology were in the right order to begin with, and after I turned around and caught sight of the man, it all just collapsed into unrelated syllables. I do not know if he enjoyed my discomfiture, because his checkerboard interfered with his expression. We ended up becoming friends, which is how I found out he wasn't completely covered in tattoos after all--he was still missing half of one sleeve and the palms of his hands, I believe, plus his eyeballs, but I understand these omissions have now been rectified. Nothing has been left out, which you can see for yourself at his website, as long as you check the "over eighteen" box.
That was the worst episode, but we're conditioned to feel bad when we get someone's sex wrong. People feel strongly about it. I don't, myself. Or, at least, I don't think I would care if I got Sirred. I can't remember it happening. No one ever thinks I'm a boy, even though I lack couth, fart audibly, and don't clean up after myself.
One time when I was a little girl I pulled my hair back severely and said to my parents, Look, this is what I'd look like if I was a boy! There would be no reason to remember this episode except for how quiet it got afterward. Real quiet. My folks were quiet anyway but when they got that quiet it put a spotlight on the Thing That Must Not Be Said. Their sudden silence framed it like the city painting around a pothole. You can't miss it.
I didn't know it at the time, but my father's sister had declared herself a boy at a very young age and there was no precedent for such a thing in local society. Not in the early 1900s. It didn't work out for him or anybody else in the family, not that that was Uncle Bill's fault. I didn't meet him until I was grown, and by that time he'd fended off the Ma'am thing by wearing a suit jacket, fedora, and wingtips from the boys' department at all times. He had an unusually thick head of hair and his mustache wasn't that great. I'm pretty sure I never ma'amed him. I would have felt awful. But it wouldn't have been the worst thing that ever happened to him.
He deserved better. We all do, so don't tell my friend from the mailbox that I call him Checkerhead. Or That Colored Boy.
Labels: Gertrude/William Brewster, humor, Matt Gone, tattooed man, Yes Ma'am
Why? What does your plunger look like?
My insurance company sent me a card on my birthday, just like Grandma used to do, only instead of having a five-dollar bill in it, it had a home colon screening kit. I sent Grandma a thank-you note every year, but these folks want something different.
It's pretty easy, but you do have to think about it. Weeks can pass by when you do what you're used to doing and then go, oh crap. I forgot to do the kit again. And it's a little problematic because most of the time when I'm on the toilet all kinds of things can happen. Well not all kinds, but one thing or the other. And in this case, you don't want the One thing, you just want the Other thing.
But finally I remembered to get out the kit at just the right time, at the E.T.A. of the B.M., and I unfolded the tissue paper and laid it neatly on the water surface, and everything was going just fine. Then you get the little twiddle stick and twiddle it in your Issue Of The Residuum, pack it away, and mail it off. It's a tiny twiddler. It looks like a toothbrush for a shrew. You only have the one shot at it, but I had a lot to work with, so I picked a particularly nice spot to twiddle. You don't want to be sending off a corn kernel on a stick.
I packed off my nice sample, fine of texture and hue, and then I cleaned up per usual and gave 'er a flush.
I will pause here to note that I have never plugged up the toilet I use regularly, as it were. My toilet and I are on the same page. Other people have plugged up the toilet. Or more often they make it run on and on. We have a toilet with a little handle in the center of the tank. I thought it was adorable when we picked it out but it has its drawbacks. You are supposed to pull it up gently, but for some reason guests like to reef on it like they're starting up a lawn mower, and then the little chain gets overexcited and bunches up, and the toilet runs on and on. And because you can't just take the tank lid all the way off, because the chain is attached to it, you have to try to fix it blind with your arm jammed under the lid.
But I have never plugged up my toilet. Until now.
I flushed gently, and watched the perfectly centered tissue paper fold up neatly around my production like a Chinese bao--oh, let's go ahead and call it a Dumpling--and wedge itself in the go-away hole. And there it sat, a big toilet bolus. It wasn't awful to look at or anything--it was very neatly wrapped indeed. A bow wouldn't have been at all out of place.
I've certainly plugged up a toilet before. Not mine. Notably, I once visited a world of hurt on the spotless bathroom belonging to an obsessively tidy gentleman who threw himself off a bridge shortly after the incident, and I'm not even kidding. But my record with my own toilet is clean. So this was a situation. Several flushes served only to send the water level to the uh-oh zone. I was not at all inclined to sacrifice a barbecue fork, although I believe a simple perforation would have done the trick. Finally I annoyed the bolus with a plunger and it slipped the swirly bonds. No harm done.
But I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the tidy dead gentleman, and I'm sorry to have handed my mailman a biohazard, and I'm sorry to have stressed out my toilet. Really, I should apologize to my toilet every day. It was such a champ during my last actual colonoscopy prep. I'm not a bit sorry about anything that might have happened during my colonoscopy. Those people had it coming.
Labels: Chinese bao, colonoscopy, dumpling, home colon screening kit, humor, plugging the toilet, toilet bolus
Hans and Petra Skari
I went ahead and sent my spit to a DNA company, because I feel there is such a thing as too much privacy, and also because I was curious about my genetic heritage. Lots of you have done the same thing, including some 589 close relatives of mine, which is extraordinary, inasmuch as I thought my family tree had been reduced to a stump with a few of us suckers coming out of it. (I haven't paid the extra to be introduced to these people, because of the risk they'd be a lot like me.)
I generally describe myself as half Norwegian. Americans like to do that. We have only the single citizenship and no familiarity with other languages or cultures or anything but you ask any of your basic paler Americans what they "are" and they'll start ticking countries off their fingers. We're real proud of our immigrant heritage as long as it has at least a few decades of antiquity to it. So I say I'm half Norwegian because my mom's parents were both from the old country and it was assumed their parents were too, and so on and so forth. I describe the other half as a dull mixture of pasty peoples in the English realm, but don't get too specific. I figure they're all interchangeable anyway.
But I was surprised to discover that I actually am 43.7% Norwegian. Surprised, because this DNA business goes back a long way and it seems to me people should have moved around a bit more than that, or, in the case of the Vikings, conquered more people than that, and so I would have expected my DNA to reflect inferior vanquished overrun peoples' DNA. Your Russian, your French, Spanish, Welsh, Irish, Greek, Italian, maybe even some Mi'kmaq from Newfoundland. Could I possibly have come from Viking stock? Oh looky there! I'm 0.4% Northern African! The Vikings conquered Morocco in 845. Boo-yah!
So I am quite tickled about the results, because mild-mannered folk like myself like to imagine we harbor an inner Viking. Robust! Hearty! Swinging a broadsword through a cranium like it was butter! In fact--if we are what we eat--buttery! And that includes us womenfolk, with our fat blond braids tucked into our belts alongside our battle axes, ready to bash people over the head with our krumkake irons. Uff da!
All I've got to threaten people with is writing them into my novels.
Anyway, sure enough, the rest of the story was mixed and pasty. Until we get to the good stuff. The stuff I was most interested in.
Yes, folks, read it and weep. I have way more Neanderthal in me than most of you. Nearly 4%. The reconstructions of Neanderthal skeletons are not as dreadful-looking as most people imagine, I'll have you know. The Neanderthal is short and stocky and has thicker, denser facial bones than their skinny-ass compatriots in the H. sapiens school. I can relate. I am short and--oh, let's substitute "sturdy" for "stocky," why don't we--and I have empirical evidence that my head is not fragile, because I keep falling on it, and nothing has spilled out. Between my inner Vikings and Neanderthals I'm pretty sure I could keep my smug inner Irish and English portions in line. I like to think they didn't contribute much to the wonder that is me.
Maybe just the eyebrows.
Labels: 23 And Me, DNA, humor, Neanderthals, Norwegians, spit, Vikings
I might have been a little hard on ol' Orlando Gibbons, there, the madrigal composer, who, after all, did write some mighty melodic songs. Sure, he whacked the bejesus out of that silver swan, but he also got in some pointed commentary. "Farewell, all joys! Oh Death, come close my eyes" is followed by "More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise."
The bit about the geese and the fools is timeless. It's every bit as appropriate now as it was in the seventeenth century. Doesn't matter when you live, you can count on being surrounded by idiots. But I'm not sure it's all that fair to the geese.
Ducks and geese and swans all roll off the same general template, the Anseriformes, with a lot of the same attributes, only in different sizes. I suspect the geese are assumed to be fools because they go off honking all the time, like a clarinet recital by first-graders. Gibbons's silver swan, on the other hand, says nothing at all, a tactic that makes one seem wise, except in the case of Clarence Thomas. The silver swan sings a swan song upon her death and that's the whole repertoire. At least, that's what a lot of people believed.
But even Mute Swans make a racket. So it isn't true. Not only that, but the song the swan supposedly sings upon death probably is no such thing, but the sound of its lungs collapsing and forcing air through its massive tracheal loop, with a coda later when the dead swan bloats up and the gas farts out. Much the same effect could be achieved with a bagpipe or accordion dropped from a high place, as has been demonstrated many, many, many times.
The actual moment, featuring my entire sister.
The other thing that's not really fair is this idea that swans are all that wonderful just because they're fancy. People think poorly of the goose but revere the big, white, graceful, fluffy swan. I know my sister and I admired one when we happened upon it in a lake near her house. "Look how beautiiful," she said, as it floofed up and advanced smoothly toward us at the shoreline. "Get my camera," she said, and crouched down and prepared to snap a tremendous close-up of the floofiness and regal neck.
And then the swan hove up and grobbed my entire sister and flang her in the lake.
Evidently, I commemorated the event in silk.
To be fair, my sister was not at all a large person, but she wasn't threatening anyone, and that swan was an asshole. We read up later and discovered that your fluffy swan is a homicidal swan, and you'd best keep your distance until it sleeks back down. Basically, it's no improvement on an irascible goose, except it's bigger.
I will admit it didn't sing a note. But that's just because it's sneaky.
Historical note: I didn't write much of anything for about thirty years, but interesting turns of phrase appeared in my head often enough that I thought of myself as a writer. I never wrote any of them down, but I did remember the one about the swan and my sister, and I thought: some day I'm going to put that in something. So I just did.
Labels: angry swans, Anseriformes, geese, humor, Orlando Gibbons, The Silver Swan
I miss our madrigal group. I do. There's something awfully satisfying about making music with other people. Even if our instruments are not in tune, and ours weren't, it's fun. Nobody pays much attention to anybody but the first soprano, and with Dorothy nailing down that spot, we probably didn't sound too bad, from a distance. Madrigals are particularly fun because they're written with tight, interesting harmonies. Even the alto gets the occasional star turn instead of the usual mid-range mayonnaise that's only in there to keep the tenors from bumping into the sopranos. You do not want to bump into a soprano. We altos sacrifice our bodies to keep the peace and keep down the chafing.
I didn't used to be an alto. I sang soprano in the church choirs, and while anything above high F was painful to me and anyone else around, I could hit it in a pinch. I'd be in the front of the group on account of being small but never sang the really high parts. Guess you could call me a minute second soprano.
That's the worst thing about quitting church, if you don't seek out other choral groups. You quit singing, and in no time your range compresses down to a wafer. Since the alto parts rarely ask much of the singer, it works out. You get to doodle around with your allotted five or six notes but you do make a contribution. You're not the steering wheel or the engine but everyone likes cup-holders.
The madrigal group met periodically. Oh, we cut loose with our merry lads and bonny lasses, but we couldn't quit until we'd wallowed in The Silver Swan. The Silver Swan, in case you don't know, is a long drawn-out murder of a very depressing bird, and almost impossible to sing without clutching your chest and keeling over and making gack noises. The poor silver swan, living, had no note. Didn't sing a lick until she was at death's door, and then sang her first and last and sang no more. Farewell all joys! Oh Death, come close my eyes!
This madrigal should most properly be sung in a bathtub with razor blades.
Once we'd slain the swan, we were free to go, but we usually had to knock back a tankard of ale first just to regain our desire to live. Orlando Gibbons wrote The Silver Swanne in the early seventeenth century and it's his best-known effort, but he did bang out quite the oeuvre, hitting many of the same themes (musically, this is known as a "rut"). For instance, there was his Daintie Bird. Yet another bird, this one encaged, and so like the composer! Both imprisoned, both singing to please a woman, but unlike the daintie bird who sings to live, he sings and drops dead.
Or "Farewell, all Joyes," in which he begs to "let me die lamenting."
It's the dang swanne all over again.
Orlando Gibbons died at age 41, which is said to have surprised his peers, but jeezy peezy, they should've seen this coming. He hadn't written himself any alternatives. They called it apoplexy at the time, one of those antique general-purpose deaths, like consumption, that could refer to any number of things but got the job done. Three hundred years down the road, genius pianist Glenn Gould declared Gibbons his favorite composer, but Glenn Gould would fold up and fall apart if the air temperature wasn't just so, and groaned all the way through his pieces, and basically died of hypochondria. An apoplexy, actually. Cue the swanne.
Labels: altos, Glenn Gould, humor, madrigals, Orlando Gibbons, The Silver Swanne
The other day--you probably heard--a group of people working together stuck an entire robot on Mars. They totally did. They shot it out into space and time both, and sliced it through the Martian atmosphere just so, and figured out how to reach the brake pedal from here, and the little sucker ploopeted down to the dust and took a selfie. No it didn't. But it did take a picture of Mars.
And that's simply an extraordinary accomplishment. It would be for anybody, but I happen to be the kind of person you don't stand behind while playing horseshoes. I can't chuck bad fruit at the compost pile without having to mount a rescue mission in the neighbor's yard. I once missed my face with a toothbrush.
So that day, I celebrated the remarkable cleverness of humankind by putting my hand on the metal handle of a pan right out of the stove. I pulled the pan out of the oven with a proper mitt and left it on the stove top, and a short minute later I turned around and grobbed it by that handle, and searing commenced. Something made me let go of the handle right away, but not soon enough. That's the thing about too-hot. You get the message, but it takes an awful long time to get to the brain or even a spinal way-station, even when you're kind of short, and then it has to make it all the way back to your hand. Similarly, if you step into water that's way too hot, you have time to pull your foot out and pen an apology to your toes before the pain actually hits.
I'm not going to put any of the blame on the sympathetic nervous system. Mine is a system that doesn't give a shit about me one way or the other.
In order for the message of pain to get all the way from my burnt fingers to my spinal cord and back again, a series of electrical impulses needs to be sent along a neural pathway, in my case at a dead mosey. "Hey," my fingers say to my neurons, "here's a pigeon. Take this note to the people in charge and tell them we've got a situation here, and get back to me with instructions." And off they go, and probably miss the turn at the shoulder, whilst wondering what rhymes with "ouch" and what that smell is.
The thing keeping me out of worthwhile employment at NASA isn't the initial burning of the hand. It would be the repeated burning of the hand. I'm certain I will do this again. That's just how I broil. In my defense, I never owned a frying pan that went directly into the oven before now. So when I took it out and put it on the stovetop, in short order it looked like all the other frying pans I have known, none of which has been hostile.
Here's what I know. If I walked out of my house and saw a sinkhole appearing before me, I would not step in it. What I would do is turn around to go get my camera, and maybe pick up some dropped laundry and check my email, and then I'd go out and step in the sinkhole, because my default front yard doesn't have a sinkhole in it, and I got used to that.
The closest I can get to clever now is to deliberately introduce new habits for my increasingly perilous dotage: squaring up at the top of the stairs before going down, taking an extra second to plant my feet getting out of the shower, and now, leaving the oven mitt draped over the pan handle when I take it out of the oven. Orange safety cones won't work on me. I trip over those.
Labels: frying pans, humor, NASA InSight Mars Landing, sympathetic nervous system

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Source: Associated Press | April 4, 2001
Anti-Defamation League Case Upheld
DENVER (AP National) -- A federal judge upheld a jury's findings that the Anti-Defamation League defamed a couple by publicly accusing them of being anti-Semitic, but reduced punitive damages against the organization.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Nottingham said Tuesday that evidence was sufficient to support the jury's conclusion that the ADL ''acted recklessly in its efforts to publicize what it perceived to be anti-Semitic conduct.''
In April 2000, a jury awarded William and Dorothy Quigley $10.5 million in damages, saying the organization had gone too far in accusing the couple of anti-Semitism stemming from a dispute with their Jewish neighbors.
Nottingham reduced the amount the ADL must pay the Quigleys to $9.75 million. But Dorothy Quigley will receive interest that Nottingham estimated could add $545,000 to the total payment.
A statement from Long & Jaudon, the law firm representing the ADL's Mountain States chapter, promised an appeal, citing ''reversible errors made during both pretrial and trial proceedings.''
The Quigleys and Mitchell and Candace Aronson had been neighbors and friends in the upscale mountain community of Evergreen, 15 miles west of Denver. The Aronsons' large dog allegedly attacked the Quigleys' smaller dog, and a feud followed.
The Aronsons claimed the Quigleys made anti-Semitic remarks in telephone conversations on their cordless phone. The Aronsons overheard and taped the conversations, violating federal anti-wiretap laws.
At a news conference in support of the Aronsons, ADL leaders claimed the Quigleys were anti-Semites.
Nottingham reduced the jury award because the Quigleys had already received compensation from another lawsuit involving the wiretaps.
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Most buildings repaired — but as many as 200 teaching jobs unfilled — as new Detroit public district approaches the first day of school
By Erin Einhorn Aug 29, 2016, 5:44pm EDT
Dozens of Michigan schools could get some tough news when state rankings are released Friday
Eight months after hundreds of Detroit teachers made national headlines by calling in sick to draw attention to deplorable conditions like rodents and buckling floors in public schools, city officials today announced that they've spent $2.5 million to get most city schools into tip-top shape ahead of the start of classes next week.
At a press conference at the elite Bates Academy in northwest Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan and school officials said that all but eight of the 94 school buildings in the state's largest district are now in full compliance with city health and safety codes.
"Here at Bates, there were ceiling tiles missing, floor tiles missing, plumbing problems, heating problems, window problems, electrical problems," Duggan said recalling that when he first heard about the issues in the wake of teacher demonstrations, he discovered that the district had been doing its own inspections and had let repairs lapse in the face of financial distress.
Now, with many repairs done, he said, the city will continue to invite teachers, students and parents to post complaints about possible code violations on the city's website and promised a robust response.
"This is not something where we're saying this is done, we pat ourselves on the back and it's over," Duggan said. "We are going to be diligent to make sure every single building in this city is safe for our children."
The remaining eight schools have roof issues that the district expects to find contractors to repair in coming weeks.
Today was the first day of school for teachers in the Detroit school district. Students are due back for class on Tuesday.
Interim Superintendent Alycia Meriweather says she's hopeful that enrollment declines will be reversed this year in the face of new programs like a new tuition-free Montessori program.
"The best strategy is to be the best," she said. "When you're striving to be the best, you don't worry about people siphoning [off students] … Facilities being upgraded is a step in that direction. Looking at our academic plan is a step on that direction. Offering new innovative programs is a step in that direction."
Meriweather acknowledged that with just days to go before the start of school, the district is still trying to fill as many as 200 open teaching positions. It plans to hold teacher job fairs next week and the week after.
New state law has made Detroit the only district in the state that can hire uncertified teachers but Meriweather says that's not an option she's considering.
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Elevating women in vascular surgery
A Frank J. Veith International Society webinar that that discussed how to promote women in vascular surgery
Over a one-year period, Association of American Medical Colleges data showed that 25% of women in surgery reported experiencing disrespect based on their gender, Melina R. Kibbe, MD, chair of the department of surgery at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, told a recent Frank J. Veith International Society webinar that sought to address how to promote women in vascular surgery.
"We have a problem, and we have an issue," Kibbe told a group of four fellow women vascular surgeon presenters and another five male colleagues invited as discussants.
In a talk that looked at barriers and strategies to becoming a chair of surgery, Kibbe identified key areas standing in the way of women, based on her own lived experience.
"For one, I will tell you that implicit bias against women is definitely still prevalent and exists in surgery," she said. "I think, speaking here as a female leader, expectations of female leaders are different than those of male leaders. I think that female leaders are under the microscope much more than male leaders for their decision-making processes.
"I think that decisions that female leaders make are questioned and challenged more often than male leaders. I think that people try to manipulate female leaders more often than male leaders. Female leaders receive less overall support and encouragement, and support for female leaders I don't think is as strong when going against the status quo.
"Female leaders are often not as recognized as their male counterparts. And I would also say female leaders are still subject to the stereotypical descriptors, for example, of being 'difficult' instead of 'decisive and 'authoritative.' Or being 'indecisive' instead of 'thoughtful.'"
She underscored how "significantly" underrepresented women are in positions of leadership in surgery.
"But, plenty of qualified women are there," Kibbe added. "I do think women leaders face unique challenges, so we must become more aware of our implicit biases. As all of the other speakers have commented, we must actively think of and promote women into these positions of leadership to overcome these barriers."
Following an introduction from Enrico Ascher, MD, executive director of the society, a robust session of five talks and associated discussion took place with moderation by Keith D. Calligaro, MD, chief of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, and Amy B. Reed, MD, professor and chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Venita Chandra, MD, program director of the vascular surgery residency and fellowship programs at Stanford University in California, spoke on ways to improve diversity at the conference podium.
"Clearly, a more diverse podium will result in improved discussion, an increased number of perspectives and opinions and increased innovation and research ideas," she said.
"But there are other benefits as well. We all know that the people going into medicine today are changing. There's an increasing amount of diversity in our medical students, and particularly an increasing number of women going into residencies in medical schools. Increasing diversity on the podium allows these young people to look up to the podium and see people who look like themselves."
Among the other presenters, Ruth L. Bush, MD, associate dean for medical education at the University of Houston, took viewers on a journey through the barriers and strategies to being an academic editor.
Julie A. Freischlag, MD, the CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, discussed lessons she learned on the way to becoming the first—and to-date only—president of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS). Meanwhile, Edith Tzeng, MD, professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and chief of vascular surgery for the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, explored how to develop and retain women as vascular surgeon-scientists.
The discussants were Ali AbuRahma, MD, president-elect of the SVS; Peter F. Lawrence, MD, chief of vascular surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Richard Powell, MD, chief of vascular surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire; Anton Sidawy, MD, chair in the department of surgery at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; and Frank J. Veith, MD, professor of surgery at both New York University and the Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine.
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I don't have the patience to homeschool my children.
"I don't have the patience to homeschool my children" has to rank in the top 5 things that people say that annoy me.
There is no homeschool mom that I know of (and I know a lot of them) who will stand up and say that each day they homeschool their child they keep their cool and never lose their patience.
I imagine that if you take a poll of homeschooling moms they would each admit, albeit it anonymously, that there are days that they have to stop short of their homeschool day just to save their own sanity.
You see, homeschooling is messy. It is hard. Most Some days it is not fun.
Homeschooling is also one of the most rewarding challenges God has ever laid in front of me!
Remember the joy you felt when you heard your child said "mama" for the first time. Now, multiply that by 20 and you will have what it feels like to teach them to read. Seriously, after I taught S to read I felt like I could do anything. Then the next week we met up with a thing I like to call evil – others call it subtraction – and then we fell back into beating our heads on the desk.
The beauty of this homeschooling thing is that I have God to fall back on. In the hard times He is there waiting to comfort me and renew my strength.
His mercies are made new not just each day but each moment. He can take you from the worst day ever to grace.
Without Him in our day I wouldn't be able to homeschool.
I am not a patient person. Don't believe me, ask my husband!
Put the books away and end our schooling – yep, just like that. I have learned that it is often best to just cut the day short and pick it back up the next day. It is okay to take some time away from the books to refresh minds and attitudes.
Pray with my children – we will often stop and pray out loud for our hearts and minds to refocus. Sometimes this works, other times see the first point.
Oil Up – I love essential oils. I am not going to tell you they are the best tool for everything, because I don't believe that, but I do believe that they can be used for certain things and one thing I definitely use them for is to uplift and inspire. If we are having a bad/rough day I will choose one of our many oils or blends and reset the chaos.
Send them outside – if it is warm enough I will send my children outside for a break. I have them go 'run it off' and usually that helps get the wiggles out and they are ready to get back to it.
Bribery – when all else fails.
Not everyone is going to be able to homeschool. Not everyone should homeschool. That is not the point I am trying to make. I guess what I am trying to say is that each day is different. Each day will bring challenges and victories. It is all in how you decide you want to handle them. You can be defeated and walk away. Or you can stop, give it to God, and come back tomorrow.
Now, excuse me while I gather up the bits of ripped paper from yesterdays math lesson and tape them back together so we can try to do it again today!
Not having the patience to homeschool our children is one homeschool myth I believe we are all tired of!
Today I am teaming up with several of my blogging friends to bring you more homeschool myths that we have debunked!
Head over to the Homeschool Blogging website and find out more about these homeschool myths!


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I couldn't care less about the worst ranking. I would like local residents to be proud of Ibaraki and speak out about its wonderfulness.
Ibaraki Governor Kazuhiko Oigawa, shrugging off a recent survey by the Brand Research Institute that ranked his prefecture as the least attractive in all of Japan.
© Asahi Shimbun
JeffLee
the implication being that the locals are not speaking about its "wonderfulness." Gee, I wonder wonder why not.
When we drove through that prefecture on our way to Oarai, my constantly thought was, "These people really don't care about how their environment looks."
Don't know why Ibaraki has such low rankings. It is a nice place to live. Lots of space, which is something I value. I'm not much for big cities- I hate Tokyo and Kyoto, but Mito in Ibaraki has a real charm that I fell in love with. So yeah, I love Ibaraki.
I think the governor of Gunma went on TV and railed against his prefecture being in the bottom three and was pissed off about it. Made him look petty. I like this governor's attitude about it. Ibaraki has surf. Shouldn't be anywhere near the bottom.
It's Japan and ranking is important for Japanese, their whole lives are subject to ranking. If Ibaraki was ranked the second most dangerous place in Japan they would be upset it wasn't ranked first.
If you are going to rank all the prefectures, then one of them will be deemed 'the worst'.
If all of them then improve 100% - one will still be the worst.
I don't get the point of these rankings.
Thomas Goodtime
I like Ibaraki. It's nice.
Jimizo
Don't know why Ibaraki has such low rankings
One of my coworkers, originally from Saitama, said the reason why Ibaraki, Saitama, Gunma and Tochigi get such low rankings is because of their proximity to Tokyo and Kanagawa - two of the most desirable places to live and so the comparison is starker. This doesn't explain why Chiba does reasonably well, but it may be worth considering.
One of my coworkers, originally from Saitama, said the reason why Ibaraki, Saitama, Gunma and Tochigi get such low rankings is because of their proximity to Tokyo and Kanagawa - two of the most desirable places to live and so the comparison is starker
Tokyo is a place I would never want to live. Ibaraki, Saitama, Gunma Chiba and Tochigi are far better places to live in my opinion
Alfie Noakes
Well, a few years ago I went to a little town in north Ibaraki to help out a friend with some work. On the road into the town everything was shuttered and abandoned: pachinko parlours, hair salons, nameless ugly buildings, small factories, distribution centres and the like. Only the used car lots showed any signs of life. In the town centre on the main drag there were many empty shops, low-rise apartment buildings half occupied, and office buildings with no tenants. The only people were milling around a supermarket. We got lost and drove around for a while, marveling at the lack of cars and people. Later we came across an old Bubble-era wedding palace with chains looped through its front doors; there was grass growing through the cracked asphalt in front and a municipal crew cutting the overgrown trees and bushes round the sides. There were many abandoned houses that had just collapsed on themselves.
The only people we saw who looked happy were some little kids playing at a kindergarten and a group of old dears laughing and joking at a trestle table selling vegetables. It was depressing beyond words. On the way back everyone in the car cheered when we crossed the border into Tokyo.
Alfie do you remember the name of the town?
Aly Rustom 11:48 am JST
I couldn't remember the name of the place while we were actually there and had to ask twice. By the time I got home I'd forgotten it again. It's weird how the brain works.
Mickelicious
On the way back everyone in the car cheered when we crossed the border into Tokyo.
Alfie, Ibaraki doesn't border Tokyo. Are you sure you weren't crossing the Tone going into Chiba?
Otherwise you were dissing Saitama or Chiba, like smug metropolitans.
Ibaraki has its moments. There's the cosmopolitan Tsukuba science city, great cycling around Kasumigaura and up to Mt. Tsukuba, and that surf at comparatively uncongested beaches (population density is low for Kanto).
It's let down by its people though, who can be a sour lot.
Mickelicious 02:07 pm JST
You should change your name to Pickylicious. Yes, we actually breathed a sigh of relief as we crossed the Tone into Chiba, and then cheered as we crossed the border into Tokyo, like the callous sophisticates we are.
The driver is an architect. I asked him what he thought of Ibaraki. He just stared at me and didn't say anything for about ten minutes.
We also laughed at Judy's tiny head:
https://lgoldcommuter.blogspot.com/2012/04/callous-sophisticates-laughed-at-judys.html
When I came to Japan back in 2004 I lived in Koga-shi (古河市) in Ibaragi-ken and loved the place. There are good places and lousy/boring places in Ibaragi, so what gives?
Less of a fan of Saitama though and pretty much agree with the 埼玉県のうた(Saitama Prefecture Song from 翔んで埼玉(Fly me to the Saitama) movie. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvdQC7BvKks
marcelito
I remember reading on JT last year when Ibaraki went up by 3 or 4 places from the bottom , some prefectural officials actually complained to the tune of ' from marketing perspective its actually better to be last because most people know the last placed prefecture and you can run witty campaigns based on the " kawaisoo looser " angle whereas nobody knows who placed 45 or 46th. Makes sense. Tsukuba is a real nice, modern looking city btw.
ShinkansenCaboose
@Alfie: Got Kliban'S book on our coffee table.
Alfie NoakesToday 02:24 pm JST
> We also laughed at Judy's tiny head:
Short on brains but a terrific dancer.
I'll repeat what I said in the original news item- these rankings are basically heavily biased towards "where would I like to go on vacation", which puts far-away, seasonal destinations like Hokkaido and Okinawa high on the list.
As for a "place to actually live day in and day out year-round", that rarely seems to factor into the equation. But on that metric, a lot of places in Ibaraki would rank pretty highly. If you're looking for an environment to raise a family, convenience, and overall quality of life, anywhere on the Tsukuba Express line will compete with any other suburb in Japan. (IIRC, Moriya placed #1 in the Sumyasui Easy Place to Live category recently, so if you like rankings, here you go.)
As pointed out by others, there's plenty of outdoor activities at the beach, Lake Kasumigaura, Mt. Tsukuba, and Hitachi Kaihin Park. Tsukuba Circuit is a fantastic place for car lovers. Tsukuba city is quite a unique place in Japan with its high educational levels and somewhat international vibe. Soccer fans have Kashima. Definitely less crowded than other places in Kanto. Easy access to Narita airport.
That said, there's no doubt that the majority of the prefecture is stark, brutal inaka. As pointed out, the close proximity to Tokyo and Kanagawa only makes it more pronounced. And "a sour lot" is perhaps the best description I've heard for the locals- there are just a lot of unpleasant people there, for whatever reason. (And better hope that you don't have a problem with Yankee types.)
But overall, the pictures is a lot more mixed than this low ranking would lead many to believe. Nothing's that clear-cut.
kyushubill
Ibaraki is like those ghost towns in westerns. Minus the busy saloon.
Peter Neil
What a difference a few years make. When the Tsukuba Express opened from Akihabara to Tsukuba in 2005, everywhere along the train line became a boom town. Moriya in Ibaraki was listed as the most desirable place to live in all of Japan - new houses, mansions, stations, shopping centers, Ikea, Costco, plenty of parks and golf courses, etc.
Sure, Mito is old, there are more than enough new and vibrant places throughout Ibaraki to tip the scales to the positive.
Tsukuba is like the Silicon Valley of Japan with lots of high tech companies, pharmaceuticals, state-of-the-art hospitals, JAXA (Japan Space Agency), etc.
I think the March 11, earthquake changed the image for Ibaraki, Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures, not the people or places. I spent over 12 years there and thoroughly enjoyed it, but March 11 made me move not just out of Ibaraki, but out of Japan.
I suspect it's a good thing to be last now, to keep people from moving to Ibaraki. For me, I think the most dreadful place in Japan is Saitama.
I really like the idea of 'wonderfulness'.
These surveys are subjective. Why not ask locals to rate their own prefectures on a wide variety of metrics and find the place in Japan with the happiest and most satisfied residents?
Ibaraki is nice. Saitama and Aomori are not.
what I really don't get is why everyone is dissing Saitama? Why does everyone hate it so much?
The best place to live is any place that I wake up for.
It's the Peterborough of England, the Logan of Australia, the Regina of Canada and the Mendota, California of the US combined into one.
I think if you were describing certain cities in Saitama I would agree with you, but to brand the whole prefecture that way is, in my opinion, unfair and inaccurate.
Certain cities there certainly fit that label like Yoshikawa, Misato, and Koshigaya. Absolute garbage places to live. But Kasukabe and Saitama city are nice, and the whole western part of Saitama Prefecture is just beautiful.
Umaibo have been the same price for so long so a 2-yen increase is a big deal. I was surprised.
How much of a risk of these sort of incidents do they (authorities) believe exists along local lines with fewer passengers? Forcing us to take countermeasures designed by taking into account only the circumstances in Tokyo will simply cause trouble.
Many customers are buying chocolates for themselves, as a reward for refraining from traveling and other activities to avoid getting infected.


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The Benchmade Pagan was an obvious choice with the new Texas knife laws. Extremely well made and the out-the-front auto has a very high cool factor. I don't really want to damage the collector's edition (#540/700) so I may buy another with a satin finish. Working with Machine-Solution was a breeze - highly recommended organization.


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Carolyn Brown is a New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and a RITA finalist with more than ninety published books, which include women's fiction and historical, contemporary, and cowboys-and-country-music romance.
She and her husband live in the small town of Davis, Oklahoma, where everyone knows everyone else and knows what they're doing and when. And they read the local newspaper on Wednesday to see who got caught. They have three grown children and enough grandchildren to keep them young.


If you live in the greater Snohomish County area it's obvious to see fall is making its way into winter. The leaves are changing and your home is getting formidably colder by the day. Typically all homes come outfitted with a wood-burning fireplace. If you just moved into your home there is a chance your fireplace hasn't been active in a while.
There are factors to consider such as the overall state of your chimney and any potential blockage. There's also a wrong way to keep a well lit fire in your fireplace. For this reason we've put together the complete how-to guide for using, cleaning, and playing safely with your wood-burning fireplace.
If you're just moving in to the house, get the chimney inspected! Try Murphy's Chimney Service out of Edmonds if you're unsure of a reliable service provider in your area. Next you'll want to make sure you've cleaned out any old ashes, also checking the damper to make sure it's open and functions properly.
After you've made sure your fireplace is ready, lay down some kindling over a balled-up piece of newspaper. You'll then want to open the flue of the chimney by lighting a piece of newspaper freely in the fireplace. This step is important as it heats up the cold air in the chimney so you don't get a bunch of smoke in your face when you light the kindling.
After you light the newspaper and kindling gently fan the flames to produce embers and then put on a larger log. You'll know a log is ready for burning if it makes a hollow sound when knocked against another big piece of dry wood.
How Often Should I Clean The Chimney?
Over time a creosote and soot buildup can reduce airflow, cause smoke to back-up, and in the worst case scenario create a risk of fire. To avoid this it's advisable to have your fireplace and chimney inspected annually by a professional.
When the layer of residue is about an eighth of an inch thick they will likely recommend a cleaning, you can hire professional services from https://elite-housekeeping.com/ if you wish. If you ever notice any large buildup of debris in the fireplace itself put on a dust mask and sweep it out, scrubbing the surfaces with a brush and dishwashing liquid.
Is A Wood-Burning Fireplace Cost-Efficient?
It actually varies depending on the position of the fireplace within your home. Despite being a more antiquated charm to any home, a wood-burning fireplace actually wastes a lot of heat. A lot of heat escapes through the chimney because (as we all know) heat rises. If your fireplace is located against an outside wall it will lose even more heat from cold outdoor air.
Gas fireplaces are surprisingly more efficient though it can be expensive to install one in your home, or a waste of money if you're renting. Especially if you need to make changes to the chimney. If you plan to sell the house later on it might be a good idea to improve the home and upsell it later on because of the improvements you've made.


It's the TOWIE love story we've all been hooked on since the show first aired back in 2011 – young lovebirds Lydia Bright and James 'Arg' Argent.
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And while we were all secretly hoping for yet another reunion – 27-year-old Lydia has dashed all hopes of the pair rekindling as she's gone and dropped the bombshell that she's dating someone new!
But there's a bit of a catch when it comes to Lyd's mystery man as the star then revealed: 'He lives abroad so it's a little bit tougher…but only time will tell with that.' Ooo la la.
Lydia dated Mark Wright's BFF for over eight years but after finding out that he had hooked up with their co-star and reality legend, Gemma Collins in Marbella last summer, Lydia called it quits for good. N'aww.
Arg has since spent some time in a rehab in Thailand – working on getting himself back on top form, but has recently been spotted looking better than ever after losing a load of weight.
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About the Ball
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Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center project is designed to shape cancer care, research and education in Nebraska, the region and the world. The Buffett Cancer Center (formerly known as the Eppley Cancer Center) received its National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designation in 1983, and is the only one in Nebraska to earn such distinction. It is also one of 14 founding members of the alliance of leading cancer centers known as the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN).
The Buffett Center coordinates cancer research, patient care, and education. Through four research programs, the center facilitates and applies the newest findings regarding the causes, diagnostic procedures, prevention, and treatment of cancer. Ten percent of the funds raised at each year's Nebraska Cattlemen's Ball will be distributed to deserving local organizations that provide healthcare, medical, and related services to the Nebraska communities that have helped organize the event. The Cattlemen's Ball of Nebraska is a 501(c)(3) charity focused on ensuring that the money raised goes to cancer research and local health and wellness programs for which it is intended. Over the history of the event, the money raised has gone directly to cancer research and care programs in Nebraska.
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In 1983, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, was founded and, in 1999, became an NCI-designated cancer center. The mission of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is to coordinate basic and clinical cancer research, patient care, and educational programs, and to facilitate the application of new knowledge about the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer.
Research at the Cancer Center is conducted in four Research Programs: Cancer Genes and Molecular Regulation, Molecular Biochemical Etiology, Lymphoma Research, and the developing program for Cancer Prevention and Control. Notable programs in research include the Center's work on lymphoma and bone marrow transplantation, pancreatic cancer, and breast cancer.
Clinical care is provided to patients at the Peggy D. Cowdery Patient Care Center and Clinic in the Lied Transplant Center on the UNMC campus and at the Village Point Cancer Center in west Omaha. Through affiliations with three NCI Community Cancer Center Program (NCCCP) centers, the Cancer Center offers new opportunities for clinical/translational research and provides patients in rural communities access to the Center's clinical trials. In a move to expand cancer care and cutting-edge research to all Nebraskans, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center has expanded its statewide clinical trials network to include affiliate sites at Nebraska hospitals and South Dakota.
The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is also a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance that develops standards and sets guidelines for treatment. Multidisciplinary teams conduct research focused on discovering the mechanisms, which cause cancer to develop and then translate these discoveries into new approaches for early detection and new therapies for cancer treatment and prevention.
In recent years, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center signed a formal Academic Affiliation Agreement with the UNMC Department of Pediatrics and Children's Hospital, which will provide enhanced access and increased accrual of children with cancer into clinical trials in the Cancer Center. The Fred & Pamela Buffet Cancer Center has also developed an affiliate network of hospitals and physicians across the state.
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GameStop has another gaming exclusive figure up for pre-order
by Jorge S · November 9, 2019
While searching the GameStop website I found that there is a pre-order for another Hasbro Star Wars Black Series exclusive figure. A Heavy Battle Droid from the Star Wars: Battlefront II game will be joining GameStop's exclusive line-up. This figure is currently up for pre-order for $24.99 and expected on 2/15/20.
For more details and to pre-order this exclusive make sure to go to the GameStop website.
Modified B1 Battle Droids, Heavy Battle Droids are armed with heavy blaster rifles and shield emitters to deflect enemy fire in the Star Wars: Battlefront II videogame! Kids and collectors alike can imagine the biggest battles and missions in the Star Wars saga with figures from Star Wars The Black Series! With exquisite features and decoration, this series embodies the quality and realism that Star Wars devotees love. Star Wars The Black Series includes figures, vehicles, and roleplay items from the 40-plus-year legacy of the Star Wars Galaxy, including comics, movies, and animated series. (Additional products each sold separately. Subject to availability.) The 6-inch scale Gaming Greats GameStop Exclusive figure is detailed to look like the character from the Star Wars: Battlefront II videogame, featuring premium detail and multiple points of articulation.
STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT II HEAVY BATTLE DROID: Star Wars: Battlefront II features Heavy Battle Droids, modified B1 Battle Droids armed with heavy blaster rifles and shield emitters to deflect most incoming enemy fire
VIDEO GAME-INSPIRED DESIGN: Fans and collectors can imagine exciting moments from the Star Wars Galaxy with this premium Heavy Battle Droid toy, inspired by the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed videogame
GAMESTOP EXCLUSIVE: This Star Wars The Black Series Gaming Greats Heavy Battle Droid toy is available exclusively through GameStop
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/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */
const
  { expect }    = require('chai'),
  nock          = require('nock'),
  path          = require('path'),
  fs            = require('fs'),
  Provider      = require('../../../src/lib/provider'),
  EPost         = require('../../../src/providers/epost/api');

describe('providers/epost/api module', () => {
  it('should export constructor', () => {
    expect(EPost).to.be.a('function');
  });

  it('should inherits Provider base class', () => {
    expect(new EPost()).instanceOf(Provider);
  });
});

describe('providers/epost/api class', () => {
  const epost = new EPost();

  describe('#id', () => {
    it('should set `id` property as type String', () => {
      expect(epost.id).to.be.a('string');
    });
    it('should set `id` property as `epost`', () => {
      expect(epost.id).equal('epost');
    });
  });

  describe('#name', () => {
    it('should set `name` property as type String', () => {
      expect(epost.name).to.be.a('string');
    });
    it('should set `name` property as `우체국`', () => {
      expect(epost.name).equal('우체국');
    });
  });

  describe('#source', () => {
    it('should set `source` property as type String', () => {
      expect(epost.source).to.be.a('string');
    });
    it('should set `source` property as `api`', () => {
      expect(epost.source).equal('api');
    });
  });

  describe('#validate', () => {
    it('should have `validate` method', () => {
      expect(epost.validate).to.be.a('function');
    });

    it('should not throw error without callback', () => {
      epost.validate('12341234');
    });

    it('should call callback with error when validate method fails', (done) => {
      epost.validate(null, (e, isValid) => {
        expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
        expect(isValid).to.be.a('undefined');
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should validate string value `1234567890123`', (done) => {
      epost.validate('1234567890123', (e, isValid) => {
        expect(isValid).equal(true);
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should validate number value 1234567890123', (done) => {
      epost.validate(1234567890123, (e, isValid) => {
        expect(isValid).equal(true);
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should validate string value `abcd` which invalid', (done) => {
      epost.validate('abcd', (e, isValid) => {
        expect(isValid).equal(false);
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should validate number value 123456789 which is invalid', (done) => {
      epost.validate(123456789, (e, isValid) => {
        expect(isValid).equal(false);
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('#fetch', () => {
    it('should have `fetch` method', () => {
      expect(epost.fetch).to.be.a('function');
    });

    it('should not throw error without callback', (done) => {
      nock('http://smart.epost.go.kr')
        .post(/.+/)
        .reply(200, 'OK')
        .on('replied', () => {
          done();
        });

      try {
        epost.fetch('1234567890123');
      } catch (e) {
        done(e);
      }
    });

    it('should call callback with error if something went wrong during request', (done) => {
      nock('http://smart.epost.go.kr')
        .post(/.+/)
        .socketDelay(1000 * 35)
        .reply(200, 'OK');

      epost.fetch('1234567890123', (e) => {
        expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
        expect(e.message).equal('ESOCKETTIMEDOUT');
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should call callback with error if server respond without status code 200', (done) => {
      nock('http://smart.epost.go.kr')
        .post(/.+/)
        .reply(500, 'Internal Server Error');

      epost.fetch('1234567890123', (e) => {
        expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
        expect(e.message).equal('response status isnt 200');
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should fetch with status 200 using test tracking number', (done) => {
      nock.cleanAll();
      nock.enableNetConnect();
      epost.fetch('1111111111111', (e, body) => {
        expect(e).to.be.a('null');
        expect(body).to.be.a('string');
        expect(!!body.match(/<\?xml[^>]*>/i)).equals(true);

        nock.disableNetConnect();
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('#parse', () => {
    it('should have `parse` method', () => {
      expect(epost.parse).to.be.a('function');
    });

    it('should not throw error without callback', () => {
      epost.parse('12341234');
    });

    it('should call callback with error if some went wrong during parse', (done) => {
      epost.parse(null, (e) => {
        expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should call callback with error if xml node is invalid', (done) => {
      const xml =
`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
  <item value="wow">Such item</item>
</root>`;

      epost.parse(xml, (e) => {
        expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
        expect(e.message).equal('Cannot find xml document');
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should call callback with error if error code was unhandled', (done) => {
      const xml =
`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsync>
  <xsyncData>
    <error_code><![CDATA[ERR-002]]></error_code>
    <message><![CDATA[에러 메세지]]></message>
  </xsyncData>
</xsync>`;

      epost.parse(xml, (e) => {
        expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
        expect(e.message).equal('에러 메세지');

        const xml =
`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsync>
  <xsyncData>
    <error_code><![CDATA[ERR-444]]></error_code>
  </xsyncData>
</xsync>`;

        epost.parse(xml, (e) => {
          expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
          expect(e.message).equal('Unknown error message');

          done();
        });
      });
    });

    it('should parse html using test fixture', (done) => {
      fs.readFile(path.join(__dirname, '../../fixtures/epost/api/empty.fixture.xml'), (e, data) => {
        if (e) { return done(e); }

        epost.parse(data, (e, data) => {
          expect(e).to.be.a('null');
          expect(data).to.be.a('null');

          fs.readFile(path.join(__dirname, '../../fixtures/epost/api/results.fixture.xml'), (e, data) => {
            if (e) { return done(e); }

            epost.parse(data, (e, data) => {
              expect(e).to.be.a('null');
              expect(data).to.be.a('object');
              expect(data.provider.id).equal('epost');
              expect(data.provider.name).equal('우체국');
              expect(data.status).equal('배달완료');
              expect(data.sender).equal('명*물류(인바운드)');
              expect(data.recipient).equal('이*열');
              expect(data.sentAt).instanceOf(Date);
              expect(data.receivedAt).instanceOf(Date);
              expect(data.histories).instanceOf(Array);
              done();
            });
          });
        });
      });
    });
  });

  describe('#execute', () => {
    it('should have `execute` method', () => {
      expect(epost.execute).to.be.a('function');
    });

    it('should not throw error without callback', () => {
      epost.execute('12341234');
    });

    it('should call callback with error when validate method fails', (done) => {
      epost.execute({}, (e) => {
        expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should call validate', (done) => {
      epost.execute('wrong\ntext', (e) => {
        expect(e).instanceOf(Error);
        expect(e.message).equal('invalid tracking');
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should call fetch', (done) => {
      nock('http://smart.epost.go.kr')
        .post(/.+/)
        .reply(200, 'OK')
        .on('replied', () => {
          done();
        });

      epost.execute('1111111111111');
    });

    it('should check existences', (done) => {
      nock.cleanAll();
      nock.enableNetConnect();
      epost.execute('1111111111191', (e, result) => {
        expect(e).to.be.a('null');
        expect(result).to.be.a('null');

        nock.disableNetConnect();
        done();
      });
    });

    it('should execute', (done) => {
      nock.cleanAll();
      nock.enableNetConnect();
      epost.execute('1111111111111', (e, result) => {
        expect(e).to.be.a('null');
        expect(result).to.be.a('object');

        nock.disableNetConnect();
        done();
      });
    });
  });
});

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In "How to Choose a Surcingle" Joanna Robson, DVM, CVSMT, CMP, CVA, SFT, illustrates how too often surcingles "undo" positive benefits that can be achieved in a training session. Poorly designed surcingles create pinching at the withers and cause the horse to raise its head, hollow its back and tense up as opposed to relaxing and being "round." Dr. Robson also shows what to look for in proper surcingles. Much of the footage in this video comes from Dr. Robson's new DVD "Recognizing the Horse in Pain and What You Can Do About It." The DVD features: recognizing problem backs, saddle-fitting, treeless and Western saddles, what to expect in a professional saddle-fitting, choosing accessories, actual acupuncture and chiropractic cases, stretches, and more. The DVD is available at http://www.recognizingthehorseinpain.com/ Dr. Joanna Robson is the President of Inspiritus Equine, inc, whose mission is "To use compassion, integrity and innovation to eliminate pain and maximize equine longevity and performance."


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Angry parents say they have been left out of pocket after two day-nurseries closed after going into liquidation.
Branches of WittsEnd Day Nursery in Warwick Road, Solihull, and The Courtyard, Barston, were shut down after being wound up at the High Court last Wednesday.
And parents were left without child care for a second time on Monday when the Warwick Road nursery opened under a new name – Solihull Childcare Ltd – but was closed by Ofsted the same morning because it had not been registered.
A spokesman for the Insolvency Service said: "The company had gone into liquidation. On July 21, the case was wound up at the High Court. The petitioners were the HMRC.
"We attended the premises on Wednesday, July 23 and closed down the two sites in Warwick Road and The Courtyard, Barston and terminated staff contracts.
"On Thursday, documents which contained any confidential information about the children were removed.
Parents said they had paid for a nursery place until the end of the month but have not received child care since last week.
"I am furious along with other parents – what do we do with our children now?" one said.
Another parent, who did not want to be named, added: "I have had no child care since Thursday but I've paid up until the end of the month, so I'm out of pocket.
No one from WittsEnd Day Nursery was available to comment.


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For a while I wanted this to be my full-time profession. I realized quickly however that the stress of having to create for a living was ruining my creative drive, and was sucking the joy out of photography. I commend those that manage to make this their career as well as their passion, hats off to you. I am generally drawn to all things natural and humans interacting with nature. Living in the mountains I am surrounded by these things, so photographing them seemed like a good idea. On the other hand I am also fascinated by architecture, shapes and city life, these things though I prefer in smaller doses.


Baby Tattooville is a weekend-long event celebrating the contemporary art community at the historic Mission Inn Hotel and Spa in Riverside, California (3649 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501). It will take place from 3PM Friday October 4th 2013 through 1PM Sunday October 6th 2013.
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