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Friday, August 24, 2007
Another riveting faerie tale
The book opens with a scene in which Keenan, the Summer King, is offering a wooden staff to a mortal girl who is in love with him. If she is the chosen Summer Queen, the staff will have no power over her. If she is not, she (like the many girls before her who have tried and failed) will take the cold and frost from the Winter Queen's staff, living apart from the rest of faerie, in pain and alone, until another mortal girl either succeeds in becoming the Summer Queen or fails (and takes the girl's place). Because this scene is in the prologue of the book, I will tell you that the girl does not succeed.
Enter Aislinn. She has the Sight: she can see faeries, while everyone around her cannot. And these are not, for the most part, sweet Tinkerbell-like pixies that glitter and frolic; they are strange, often grotesque, violent and cruel. Aislinn's grandmother has the Sight, too, and Aislinn has lived by Grams' rules her entire life: Rule #1- Don't stare at invisible faeries. Rule #2 - Don't speak to invisible faeries. And rule #3 - Don't ever attract their attention. But what is she to do when, even though she has assiduously followed rules 1 and 2, she has definitely, irrevocably attracted their attention?
Aislinn is being stalked by them, and she's not sure what to do about it. If she confides in Grams, she knows her freedom will be abruptly curtailed - she will be homeschooled, kept in the house, and - worst of all - she won't be able to visit her best friend, Seth, who lives in a refurbished railroad car home (a very safe place when it comes to faeries, because it is made of iron). She'd like to confide in Seth, but he'll probably think she is crazy, talking about things no one but she can see.
Keenan, after centuries of searching for - and tragically failing to find - his queen, the only one who will be able to restore his full powers and help him stand up against the cruel Winter Queen - is convinced that Aislinn is the one. But Aislinn, whose relationship with the very attractive Seth is finally moving beyond friendship, is not at all interested. Evan so, how can a mortal boy hope to compare with the allure of a powerful, handsome faerie, especially when Keenan reveals himself in all his faerie glory?
There is romance, suspense, adventure, and a dash of mystery in this gripping novel. The only thing I didn't much care for was the title, which I felt didn't do the story justice.
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (HarperTeen, 2007)
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Really? I like the title. I think it's cool-sounding.ReplyDelete
If you liked this and Tithe, you might also want to try The Hunter's Moon by O.R. Melling. It's another faerie series and I really enjoy them. :-)
Oh, I think the title sounds fine - I don't mind it as a title. But just not for this book. If you read it, maybe you'll see what I mean - it just doesn't seem to have anything to do with the book. In fact, I was telling someone about the book and I couldn't even remember the title!ReplyDelete
I've heard of The Hunter's Moon - I will definitely have to check it out. Urban faerie is a fun sub-genre, isn't it!?
Actually, I have read Wicked Lovely, and really enjoyed it. And I think there was a sentence in the story referring back to the title; like the main character said something (maybe the faeries or the power of the faeries?) was both wickedly and lovely. Something like that.ReplyDelete
I love urban fantasy, especially faerie tales. It's definitely a fun genre to explore. ;-)
Another book that sounds just like my kind of thing, and I had never heard of it before. Thank you for the great review!ReplyDelete
That comment must have completely flown over my head, dance chica! I will have to retract my criticism. :-)ReplyDelete
You are welcome, nymeth! The only problem with all these great reviews I read on your and other wonderful book-blogging sites is that my TBR list has doubled in length (and it was already huge before I started doing this!). But that is, of course, a good problem to have!
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2007
Aii me! You keep adding books to my wish list! *falls over from exhaustion and peers into an empty wallet*ReplyDelete
Tee hee! :-DReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2007
Cool sounds like just my kind of book, I will add it to my list. If you enjoyed this and Tithe check out The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint. It's another tale of faeries with a teenage female "hero" and is well worth reading.ReplyDelete
Oh, rhinoa - I LOVE Charles de Lint, and The Blue Girl was great. Have you read any of his other books? I also enjoyed The Dreaming Place, another YA novel he wrote. Oh, and I just thought of another one you might like - have you read Patricia McKillip's Solstice Wood? Same kind of theme, if I remember correctly.ReplyDelete


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Vixey, the new white arctic fox at Great Bend's Brit Spaugh Zoo, is ready to move to a display for public viewing. Members of the Great Bend Zoo Society can be among the first to see her at 6 p.m. Friday. This after-hours event is for members only, but new memberships will be accepted, Zoo Director Scott Gregory said. The cost for a family is $25 a year. Starting Saturday, everyone who comes to the zoo during regular hours will be able to see Vixey, who is named after the fox in Disney's animated film, "The Fox and the Hound."
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In the first of our Marketing Pros series, we're talking to Sarah Lukacher, Content Manager at Brooklyn Museum, which uses Linktree. Sarah shared with us some amazing insights from her job at one of New York's most respected art museums, and a cornerstone of Brooklyn culture.
Marketing Pros: Sarah Lukacher, Content Manager at Brooklyn Museum
Exterior of the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn Museum photograph by Kolin Mendez.
I was lucky enough to jump on the phone with Sarah and pick her brains on all things marketing, including museum selfies! With over 800,000 followers on Instagram, almost 700,000 on Twitter, over 250,000 on Facebook and close to 10,000 on YouTube, I wanted to know how Brooklyn Museum connects with its audiences and meet the team behind the magic.
Sarah, tell us about your journey to becoming content manager at the museum
I've had a pretty interesting path at the museum. I began working here about four years ago, but my position was in the public relations department. Within a year of my tenure here we started developing a brand new marketing department. I expressed interest in taking on more marketing responsibilities – I really enjoyed the work I was doing on the marketing side rather than public relations.
I was lucky enough to jump into a brand new role as the inaugural content manager at the Brooklyn Museum. That entails being the marketing lead for copy writing, email, video, printed materials. And I also co-manage our social media platforms.
I feel super fortunate to have the opportunity and they shaped the position to fit my talents. I've been doing this position for about a year and a half now and it's been really rewarding.
And how does that plug into the wider marketing team?
The marketing team, traditional marketing team, is split up into three divisions. One is public relations, the other is traditional marketing within advertising and partnerships. And then my team, which is digital, which entails social media and my position as a content manager.
There are two of who us in digital who manage all of the social media platforms. My colleague Brooke manages the traditional social media and I manage more of the experimental things within video and email marketing.
Egyptian Art Gallery. Brooklyn Museum photograph by Kolin Mendez.
How important is social media to Brooklyn Museum?
We're extremely active. Every time we have an exhibition announcement or a new idea flowing, we're always thinking of how we can translate that onto social media. We work in tandem with our public relations and marketing teams so that our social media is also communicating exactly what they're communicating, in a different tone to hit every audience.
Keeping our audiences aware of what's going on here is really important.
Tell us about your online community.
Our social community is super engaged and very socially aware. They expect a lot out of us, which keeps us accountable and we really appreciate.
We find that our followers really are engaged with current events, whether that's in likes or in the comments – they share and they get the conversation going. And we really welcome courageous conversations and difficult conversations to happen both on our social media platforms and in our galleries.
"We welcome courageous and difficult conversations on our social media platforms and in our galleries."
What type of content does best with your audience?
For one, current events. But also our most engaged posts consist of our anchor shows, like our David Bowie and our Frida Kahlo exhibition. It's definitely those recognizable artists within our most engaged posts.
For the past two years we have been showcasing our online community more through the #mybkm hashtag. From that we compile our favorite visitor photos into a slideshow and we encourage others to share their visit using the hashtag. It's a great indicator to show us what our followers and visitors might gravitate towards in real life.
How far out are you scheduling content?
We like to be at least a couple of weeks ahead on our content planning. Sometimes it's a little tighter than that. We like to stay flexible in case a world event happens and we need to squeeze something in, or we forgot a certain holiday's coming up. We should be able to shift things around. We like to plan ahead but also stay nimble.
What marketing tools do you find helpful?
Well, for starters I can say Linktree has been a phenomenal tool. It's so easy to use and not having to change the link in bio constantly has really freed up our time and our energy of what needs to be done on a daily basis. Also, one thing I want to point out is that, we've seen a great deal of website traffic leading from Linktree to our website, which was something we weren't expecting but has been an incredible plus.
We love Later for Instagram, it's a great way to see how the images look side by side on a feed. We also started using Slack about two years ago as a marketing team and it's so helpful keeping us all up to date on projects, things in the works. And it's also been really fun for company morale because we share a lot of memes with one another. It's a fun tool just to keep us going through the day!
"Linktree has been a phenomenal tool. It's so easy to use and not having to change the link in bio constantly has really freed up our time and our energy."
How are you staying on top of changes and trends in the marketing world?
I have to say our team are all very active on social media in our own right. I get a lot of ideas from the people I follow and I try to translate what individuals are doing into how an institution can incorporate that. Linktree came out of that process, one of our team members were seeing that a lot of influencers are using it and we thought, "Oh, why don't we use it? We do link in bio all the time. My team is constantly sharing things we've seen, read or heard within the week.
Our most interesting initiatives stem from what we see on our own feeds. We're not looking for it – it organically inspires us.
What are you most excited about for the next year and beyond?
In terms of audiences, our 2020 exhibition calendar is going to be really exciting and really different than what we were doing in the past couple of years. So I'm really looking forward to tapping into new audiences that might have an affinity for these shows and the topics that they're sharing. I can't share exactly what it is yet! But we're excited to expand our audience base and get different people into the museum and interested in our content.
I'm also really interested in exploring both low and high video production in the future. It's becoming more of a priority in engaging content. So I'm excited to use video as a platform to flex both the rest of our collection and also the creativity of our team. I'm hoping to get the voices of our curators and the artists we work with in more of a focus on our social media pages.
Finally, Sarah do you have any tips for the Linktree community on growing and connecting with audiences?
I think the thing that we've learned that we do best is just to be authentic and to lean in to difficult conversations rather than just brushing them over. I think audiences really appreciate when you are courageous as you're willing to dive into interesting topics that aren't just lifestyle related.
But I think, knowing your tone of voice and engaging with your audience with that voice is really important. And as a consumer myself, I love when people respond to my comments and like my comments – being engaged and being involved with your audiences is really important.
BM's Linktree
Some of the neat ways Sarah and her team are using their Linktree to drive traffic:
- The team have changed the header title to say "coming up @brooklyn museum" which contextualizes the links.
- It's got a clear, monochromatic color scheme.
- Dates at the start of links highlight events.
- Social icons (avail on PRO) make sure audiences grow across platforms.
- Thumbnail images draw attention to the hottest events.
Our enormous thanks to the brilliant Sarah for chatting to us and lifting the bonnet on institution comms. Stay tuned for more industry brains in our Marketing Pros series.
And if you are, or know, a rad marketer doing cool things with online audiences – let me know! Drop me a line to firstname.lastname@example.com
Now go follow Brooklyn Museum, pronto!
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When Drake loves a woman, he shows her with ink. It's officially his thing. He's done it with his mother, allegedly did it with Rihanna and has now with Sade.
Shared to social media were the rapper's recent tattoos of Sade, who he met in-person for the first time earlier this year. "Two very important ladies in my life," he captioned the photo with his mother and the iconic jazz singer.
As reported by Complex, just when you thought his love for Sade peaked, Drake came back to up the ante. Belgian tattoo artist Inal Bersekov linked up with the Toronto native on Monday, and he added a second picture of Sade—along with some gorgeous scenery—to the previous ink already on Drake's body. At the very least, you have to respect the detail and artistry on the touch-up.
We agree, Sade is pretty awesome.
And while fans acknowledge her being awesome, some are feeling some type of way about all the ink he's covering his well-toned body with.
Ah, well. You can't please 'em all.


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Does your payroll fluctuate throughout the year? Is your payroll higher in the summer and lower in the winter? This is normal for a lot of businesses that are seasonal. Did you know that some workers comp carriers offer a "pay as you go" payment option that can actually improve your cash flow. You report your payroll monthly, and your premium is calculated based on what you report. So when your business is up and cash is good, your bill will adjust up and when things are slow, your bill will go down. Pay as you go also eliminates an audit bill that may hit at the end of the policy period.
Does your payroll fluctuate? Want to improve your cash flow? We have a number of companies that offer "Pay as you Go."
Derek Martin
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|1. Auflage, 2008
A sound background in dermatopathology is essential for the diagnosis of both inflammatory dermatoses and cutaneous tumors. This book provides an introduction to the principles of dermatopathology, aimed primarily at dermatologists and pathologists in training, but useful for a wide audience
Everyone interested in dermatopathology will profit from combined knowledge of 4 experienced dermatopathologists, uniform structure approach concentrating on common diagnoses, logical presentation of clinical and histological features, large clearly labeled illustrations, clues for differential diagnostic considerations.
All pictures are in color, printed on high-quality paper, clearly labeled and designed to help every reader become skilled at identifying both patterns and specific diagnostic features rapidly.
A dermatopathology designed to be used, not just read - written by practitioners for daily practice.


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Only 25% of contact center are actually on cloud, but in 3 years analyst predicts that more than 70% will migrate in cloud
It's time to move your contact center in the cloud, gaining flexibility and reducing costs
Only 25% of contact center are actually on cloud, but in 3 years analyst predicts that more than 70% will migrate in cloud
It's time to move your contact center in the cloud, gaining flexibility and reducing costs
that makes the best use of voice, text and social channels and which improves operations thanks to artificial intelligence and BOTs. No more migrations, hardware upgrade, and long lasting processes because of the infrastructure expansion. Ask for your needs and we'll do it, transforming months of work in weeks
• Reduce implementation and maintenance effort by 40%
• Control end to end the service with a single player
• Thanks to a modern widget based Desktop, the Agents will have every tool under control and contextualized on the customer profile
• Browse the always available customer history
• Use multichannel inheriting all the integrations
• Thanks to extensive usage of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) improve efficiency for the customer, for the Agent and increase customer experience
Eudata is an "Amazon Service Delivery" certified partner; this important recognition decrees our company as the only certified partner for Amazon Connect in Southern Europe
Eudata is a global provider of customer service technologies for mid and large enterprises. Mixing Amazon Connect and Eudata solutions we provide a enable customers and AWS partners to deliver efficient, automated, scalable and omnichannel solutions to make clients happy and loyal. we are is very active across Europe, Africa and Middle East.
Amazon Connect is the most innovative Contact Center solution on the market and thanks to the cloud provided by AWS allows you to scale horizontally on the over 200 collateral services offered (infrastructure, DB, storage, TTS, ASR, image recognition, text analysis, application server, …).
Eudata has developed a suite of modular products that integrated with the AWS-Connect platform make this solution the most advanced CLOUD Contact Center platform on the market.
Eudata is able to provide the Amazon Connect solution quickly and efficiently, which can be activated in a very short time and available to every type of customer, alongside it from
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The NFON contact center (Ncontactcenter) is a complete, feature-rich solution for effective and transparent multichannel communication via your web browser. Offering maximum flexibility and future-proofing without the need for hardware and software installation.
Eudata is able to integrate, maintain and evolve NContactCenter, adding more channels and automation from its portfolio.
– Sandro Parisi (Eudata CEO)
– Marco Pasculli (Managing Director NFON Italia)


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Enjoy fresh berries in cream on August 7th during National Raspberries N' Cream Day. With the raspberry season in full swing, what better way to celebrate than with this simple and delicious treat.
There are several days on the calendar celebrating raspberries. We just finished National Raspberry Cake Day last week.
At one time, raspberries were a midsummer crop. However, new technology, cultivars, and transportation make it possible to enjoy these sweet berries all year long. Because of these new technologies, raspberry growers now have an extended selling season.
Did You Know?
- There are more than 200 species of raspberries.
- Scotland grows an abundance of raspberries. Raspberries love their fertile, well-drained soils.
- However, Russia produces the most raspberries in the world at 120,000 tons per year.
- Besides red, raspberries also come in purple, gold and black colors.
- Unlike other fruits, raspberries don't ripen off the shrub. If picked green, the raspberry will not sweeten or soften.
Explore More…
- Raspberry Bombe
- Raspberry Cake Day
- Raspberry Cream Pie Day
- Raspberries N' Cream Day
- Raspberry Popover Day
HOW TO OBSERVE #RaspberriesNCreamDay
While enjoying raspberries at the height of their season, explore recipes. There are so many ways to enjoy raspberries. Preserving them in jams and jellies is just one way. Another delicious treat this time of year is ice cream. Baked goods are always a family favorite, too.
However, eating berries fresh off the shrub is one of the greatest pleasures around! Visit a pick-your-own farm and experience warm, juicy berries popping in your mouth on a summer day.
Use #RaspberriesNCreamDay to post on social media and spread the word.


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Saturday, December 12, 2009
J.L. Chave Selection Mon Coeur Cotes-du-Rhone 2006 Wine Review (NW)
Tasting notes:
Intensely resinous nose with dried lavender, currants, and mushrooms
Densely structured on the palate
Long finish of dried herbs and red berries
Here's a powerful and dense Cotes-du-Rhone that could masquerade as a Chateauneuf-du-Pape. It's deeply flavored and has long layers on the finish. Also, there's tons of the resinous garrigue aroma that gives a good Cotes-du-Rhone it's character.
Expect to pay around $20- and raise a glass!
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Summer Tea: 2011
A colorful tea set with a backdrop of colored glass lit by they sun on a bright afternoon. Seen in Carnegie Antiques, it was all just so colorful and gleaming it was hard to resist.
It's always interesting to see what is collected, what is saved, and what survives to be shared again, sometimes the most unlikely things! If you're local to Carnegie or the Pittsburgh area, don't forget to stop in at Carnegie Antiques, and the shop's owner is also hosting an estate sale this Saturday, July 21 that looks like a collector's dream.


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Five days before Halloween, all sixteen-year-old Tori has on her mind is vacationing with her family and scoring lots of candy. Her grandmother's estate, with its Gothic spires and trails that lead out to the woods, holds an unexpected secret: a lantern that lights up for Tori and nobody else. Certain that it's a ghost or a prank, she investigates further and discovers a mysterious life that shines in the darkness.
This charming and romantic tale was a breath of fresh air. Sixteen-year-old Tori adores Halloween and she can hardly wait to get her costume ready for this year's trick-or-treat. But until the spooky night, there is time for a short vacation so Tory, her little brother and her parents are paying a visit to her grandmother. Grandma lives on a big spooky ranch close to the forest and this makes it even more enjoyable for our girl. One night she wanders around the woods and sees a light deep into the woods so she decides to investigate. Who could have lit the lantern in the middle of he forest and for what reasons?
Grandma knows all about the old lantern and so does Tori's father but what they don't know is that the lantern is magic : a tiny boy lives inside it. Tori soon learns that the boy's name is Jared and he is from another realm .He doesn't remember how he got inside the lantern , his last memory was while he was working in the workshop building lanterns and now he seems to be captive in one of them.
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Richard Pryor Suffers a Minor Heart Attack in Australia
Comedian Richard Pryor was in stable condition today in a Brisbane hospital after suffering a minor heart attack three days ago, hospital officials said.
Pryor was admitted Tuesday to Wesley Hospital after complaining of chest pains, according to hospital spokeswoman Janice Wyatte. She said doctors diagnosed a "minor heart attack" after conducting tests on the 49-year-old entertainer. She said Pryor has been in "very stable condition" since his admission, and has suffered no complications.
Hospital doctors expect to release Pryor by early next week, Wyatte said. She said he was visiting Brisbane, 600 miles north of here, on vacation.
Pryor recovered from an earlier heart attack while visiting his grandmother in Peoria, Ill., in late 1977. In the past, the stand-up comic-actor has suffered from addictions to drugs and alcohol.
In June, 1980, he nearly died after he caught fire while free-basing cocaine.


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I got an interesting email this morning about the Chicago Blackhawks. (Wait guys, that's not a joke!)
Last month, the Hawks had six straight road games sandwiched around the Thanksgiving holiday. They went from Phoenix to Dallas to Toronto (nice travel agent), then had three days off before heading out for a California swing. That three-day break was their only chance to get home before the holiday, and the team had arranged for a commerical flight to take the players back to Chicago right after their game against the Leafs on Saturday night. General Manager Dale Tallon was staying behind, to attend his father's funeral in rural Ontario. Take it away, crazy anonymous emailer.
This plane departs on schedule, but without a single member of the hockey team. Back in the locker room a vote is taken after the game was complete, and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no heat and begin a journey two hours straight north into a sparsely inhabited Canada , but where hockey is its passion. They arrive at their destination to the surprise of the teams general manager who is there attending his fathers wake.
After a few emotional hours, this team boards the buses and heads back for a two-hour trip back to Toronto . On the way they ask the drivers to stop in a tiny Canadian town because they are hungry. To the shock of the patrons and workers at this small hockey town McDonald's, a professional team walks out of two rickety buses and into the restaurant, which just happens to have pictures of two members of this team on its wall. The patrons know every single one of these players by sight being Fanatic fans of hockey in these parts. One can only imagine their amazement of the locals seeing and the entire professional hockey team sit down and have a meal in their tiny little town in the middle of a hockey season. After a while they board the buses and catch their same flight 24 hours later, giving one day to their general manager.
Have I made this up, is this an excerpt from some fictional book? No.
This a true story of the Blackhawks last Saturday night and they decided to attend Dale Tallon's fathers funeral. It's amazing that such a good story can be found nowhere on the internet, and not even mentioned in the Chicago papers. Had one of the Blackhawks got into a fight and punched some drunken loser in a Toronto bar it would be plastered all over papers and the television. This being said, its hard to imagine any professional football, basketball or baseball team doing this, but the members of the Blackhawks claim any "hockey" team would have done this. This is one reason I continue to be a big hockey fan, and another reason I am excited about this Chicago team. I thought I would share as this story appears to have gone unnoticed.
Still skeptical, I sent an email to Sarah Spain of Mouthpiece Sports, who has forgotten more about Chicago hockey than I care to remember.
Got a response from one of my contacts in the org. This is a funny addition - it's true that they took a bus up to his dad's funeral — and afterwards they all went to McDonald's where there were [Patrick] Kane and [Jonathan] Toews trading cards in the happy meals. I don't think the unheated part was true, but yeah - these guys are all nice, which makes the job very easy.
Yeah, the unheated bus did seem like a bit much, didn't it? Was that embellishment really necessary? But it is a sweet story nonetheless, and it is shocking that more media outlets haven't picked up on it. Do you know how much fuzzy, heart-tugging mileage SportsCenter could get out of this? Don't even get me started on Costas.


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Vancouver Chinatown Night Market – May 17 – September 8, 2013
This summer, the Chinatown Night Market is bringing a heady mix of time-honoured tradition and new school flavour to the festivities on Keefer Street.
Live music, storytelling, and Mahjong; new vendors, more food, and some other stuff that wasn't here last year like outdoor classic movie screenings and epic ping pong tournaments. Imported wares, both fanciful and functional, are still standard fare, as are such legendary snacks as the Potato Tornado. But by the magic of the moon (and the odd overhead flood light)–lo and behold!–something new might strike your fancy, something made fresh in Vancouver llike delicious Hainanese chicken, homemade pie and unique, hand-crafted treasures.
Best of all, it's about spending those long, warm summer nights with your friends and family, shopping, eating, playing and getting nostalgic for the Chinatown of yore while creating new memories in a pretty special place.
Every weekend from May 17th to September 8th from 6pm – 11pm.
Vancouver Chinatown Night Market Summer Schedule 2013
June 1st – Tiger Ping Pong presents The Chinatown Ping Pong Club
June 7th – Okinawa Drummers / Seymour Taiko / The Hastings Street Band
June 8th – Rain City Chronicles
June 14th – Tiger Ping Pong presents The Chinatown Ping Pong Club
June 15th – TBA
June 21st – Chinatown Mahjong Social
June 22nd – Chinatown Outdoor Cinema presents Iron Monkey
June 28th – The Kingsgate Chorus
June 29th – Weekend Leisure Karaoke
July 5th – Night Visions: Projection Photo Show
July 6th – Hip Hop Karaoke
July 12th – Tiger Ping Pong presents Chinatown Ping Pong Club
July 13th – Chinatown Outdoor Cinema
July 19th – Project Limelight Variety Show
July 20th – Sonic Boom! Chinatown Street Fighter II Tournament
July 26th – Chinatown Mahjong Social
July 27th – Girls Rock Camp / Green Burrito Records Presents The Courtneys & The Shilohs
Aug. 2nd – TBA
Aug. 3rd – TBA
Aug. 9th – St James Music Academy & City Opera Vancouver
Aug. 10th – Weekend Leisure Karaoke
Aug. 16th – Dumpling Weekend – Dumpling Cook Off
Aug. 17th – Dumpling Weekend – Demonstration / Eating & Making Contest
Aug. 23rd – TBA
Aug. 24th – TBA
Aug. 30th – TBA
Aug. 31st – Green Burrito Records Presents The High Drops & Gal Gracen
Sept. 6th – TBA
Sept. 7th – AM1320 Closing Ceremony
Vancouver Chinatown Night Market
May 17 to September 8, 2013
Every Friday, Saturday, Sunday
6:00pm to 11:00pm
Keefer Street (Between Main & Columbia)
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Public transport in Jakarta could become free with a new road pricing system being implemented, Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama said.
The city will introduce an electronic road pricing (ERP) scheme to regulate traffic. The fees collected through this system will be used to subsidise public transport, he said. And with sufficient funds, public transport could become free of charge.
"If ERP generates a good enough income I want buses to be free … for the whole city. This will improve the lives of Jakartans," the Governor said, according to the Jakarta Globe.
The system will be entirely run by the city government. The Governor decided against working with the private sector so that all of the revenue goes to the city and can be used for public transport.
"Earlier we wanted to cooperate with private firms. But I decided not to share with the private sector so 100% [of the revenue] generated goes to the city and we can subsidise," he said.
The ERP system will replace a failed carpooling system which required each private car to carry at least three people on busy roads in the city. The system has, however, led to people giving themselves up for hire as passengers for drivers to meet the requirement.
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I won't lie – it's going to take a few for me to put something meaningful here. In the end this will give a brief overview of who I am and why this site exists.
Until I can formalize it, here are the most salient points:
- I am a pretty good DJ.
- I produce a podcast called "Voyager" that you can access via the above menu or subscribe to with this URL
- As of this year in addition to the normal feeds the podcast is broadcast live at Livesets
- You can always find my schedule and up-to-date information on my Facebook page. (Likes are always appreciated)
- I maintain a Soundcloud account and a Mixcloud account but they are simply reflections of the source podcast.
- I am occasionally a writer.
- This year I hope to actually complete a book started via NaNoWriMo years ago.
- I plan on at least attempting to bang out some off-the-cuff serials posted here for everyone's amusement.
- I have opinions. Who doesn't?
- I get a kick out of writing video game reviews. I will post old ones and sometimes write new ones.
- There will occasionally be blogging, most likely related to my work in IT but also an in-depth discussion on electronic music genres.


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What are the suicide figures for Ireland?
As Taoiseach Bertie Ahern infamously said at a 2007 trade union conference in Donegal "Sitting on the sideline or the fence, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. In fact I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide." Reported by the Independent on Sunday 'the sense of shock caused by his televised words to anti-suicide campaigners was heightened by the fact that some delegates greeted them with laughter'.
|Turn the Tide on Suicide vigil, Dublin
The truth is that suicide is an increasing challenge in Ireland which politicians have yet to rise to. The official statistics show that there were 527 suicides in the Republic in 2009, a 24 per cent increase year on year. But another 200 deaths that year were of an undetermined nature. It is believed that the true suicide figure for 2009 was actually between 600 and 700 and of those 80% were men.
Suicide, like alcoholism, is known to increase at times of unemployment and even anticipation of unemployment. A letter by specialists in public health led by David Stuckler of the University of Cambridge, published in the Lancet this July, notes a recorded annual increase in suicides in Ireland of 13% and comments that this is 'consistent with historical studies that show immediate rises in suicides associated with 'early indicators' of crisis, such as turmoil in the banking sector, which precipitates later unemployment'. The data are still preliminary which is a reminder, as Stuckler says, 'of the contrast between the substantial efforts expended by governments to collect up-to-the-minute financial data while health data lag by several years'.
On the same theme Brendan Walsh wrote in May in his major report on unemployment and suicide in Ireland (see below) that 'there is some evidence that the suicide rate is being increasingly under‐reported in recent years'. Figures published by the Central Statistics Office this June for example record that '386 men and 100 women took their own lives in 2010', which the Irish Times reported emphatically under the title "Drop in number of suicides to 8% welcomed by research group". But after further emphasising these figures the same article acknowledges later on that 'researchers believe actual suicide rates are typically higher than official statistics as some people who take their own lives are classified as "deaths linked to undetermined intent" in official statistics'. The Times also reports that the office's 'Vital Statistics Yearly Summary 2010 also shows the population increased to 4,470,700 last year... an increase of 11,400 people on the 4,459,300 population recorded in 2009'. With record emigration figures for the same period, you begin to wonder where these figures are coming from?
No doubt with similar thoughts in mind, The National Suicide Research Foundation welcomes this apparent "levelling off" in the number of deaths but cautions that 'the statistics were still provisional and could change'.
How or why official records of deaths can change is a mystery, but they may need to change in the light of European statistcs discussed by David Stuckler in The Lancet on 7th July which compares suicide statistics across ten European states since the recession kicked in. Put neatly by RTE, 'Suicides rates rose sharply in Europe between 2007 and 2009 as the financial crisis drove unemployment up, with Greece and Ireland worst affected'. In 2008, according to the research, suicides among people aged younger than 65 in the other eight European states studied rose by 7% over 2007, but 'two of the worst hit economies' Ireland and Greece saw a rise of 13% and 17% respectively.
Suicide and Alcohol
The link between alcohol and suicide is unequivocal. We already know from one Irish study of people who died as a result of suicide that more than half had alcohol in their blood, and in 2007 alcohol was a factor in 41% of all cases of deliberate self-harm. Now a confidential report into suicide and mental illness in Northern Ireland by Professor Louis Appleby published in June has found that "Of all the patients who died by suicide, 60% were thought to be misusing alcohol by their doctors. About half of these were alcohol dependent." Dr Uzma Huda, Vice Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern Ireland, calling for a minimum pricing for alcohol, said: "We can no longer afford to ignore the growing trend linking alcohol and suicide, particularly in young people." For a full report see the Gargle Nation article here.
The Influence of Alcohol and Unemployment on Suicide
The link between suicide and alcohol is further explored in a study published in May by Professor Brendan Walsh of University College Dublin. Tragically predicting that 2011 will be the worst year for suicides yet, Professor Walsh studied the relationship between unemployment and alcohol in Ireland and found that 'Alcohol consumption is a significant influence on the male suicide rate up to age 64'. Professor Walsh's findings suggest that higher alcohol consumption played a major role in the increase in suicide mortality among young Irish males between the late 1960s and the end of the century. As Walsh concludes: 'the recent rise in the suicide rate may be attributed to the sharp increase in unemployment, especially among males'. His recommendations are clear:
"Increased taxation of alcoholic beverages is generally regarded as the most effective of the available policies to discourage heavy drinking .... The close association between the level of alcohol consumption and the suicide rates among young males suggest that a reduction in consumption due to heavier taxation of alcoholic beverages would lead to some reduction in the incidence of suicide. [The] relatively lenient tax treatment of alcoholic beverages over the last decade does not reflect the widely‐expressed concern about the high suicide rate among young people".For information and contacts, and more on suicide and alcohol see the Gargle Nation suicide page. To read how NI Health Minister Edwin Poots has avoided mentioning alcohol after welcoming a report linking alcohol and suicide, see here


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Biblioteca Nacional (The National Library)
Here you can learn all about the Spanish language. The scent of books fills the air in the Biblioteca Nacional, the Spanish National Library.
Pure neoclassicism.
Pure neoclassicism It has all the makings of a portentous building and a grand staircase with sculptures overlooking the Paseo de Recoletos. Even just the façade itself is worth a visit. The Biblioteca Nacional is the institution which has preserved and made available books, incunabula, maps, periodicals, photographs, sound and music reproductions published in the Spanish territory over the centuries. Here you can learn about the Spanish language with 30,000 manuscripts and works such as the Madrid Codex by Leonardo da Vinci, the fourteenth-century copy of the Cantar de Mio Cid and modern monumental works such as as One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez. Unfortunately you need a reader or researcher card to be able to access the collection, but you can easily and freely enter the exhibition rooms. In this last room, you'll learn the keys to the work of a librarian throughout history, see reproductions, facsimiles and original important volumes for Humanity and you can delve into the characters of Cervantes and El Quijote (for more information visit www.bne.es). If only they had taken us to a library like this during our boring literature classes at school!
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Y Combinator, one of best-known Silicon Valley accelerators, has an impressive track record of success. With well-timed investments in Dropbox, Stripe, and Airbnb, the startups in the company's portfolio are now worth an aggregate of $600 billion in market capitalization.
While Y Combinator has made a clear impact on the tech sector, the company also launched an internal side project in 2007 that would end up becoming highly influential in a different and surprising way.
Its user-powered news aggregator called Hacker News, which is now visited by 20 million people per month, has become a mainstay for entrepreneurs, tech professionals, and venture capitalists around the world. Using a Reddit-like interface, users can upvote and downvote articles that they think have the most relevance to trends and issues affecting the tech sector.
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Discours du Senateur Steven BENOIT devant le Congrès Américain...
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- Publié le vendredi 20 septembre 2013 19:07
Washington, DC (touthaiti.com) ---Tout Haiti vous présente le discours en anglais du sénateur Steven Benoit devant des députés (Congressman) américains sur les dérives de Michel Martelly et de Laurent Lamothe. Ces démarches d'après, Steven Benoit et Desras Simon Dieuseul, les deux sénateurs qui séjournent maintenant dans la capitale américaine s'inscrivent dans le cadre de la mise à la disposition des amis d'Haiti et du congrès Américains des informations pertinentes sur les dérives de Martelly qui a maintes reprises et sans égards pour le pays a violé à répétition la constitution.
De plus, Martelly a décidé de ne pas organiser les élections à temps et utilise ce prétexte pour tenter de dissoudre le parlement et par ainsi sortir de la constitution pour diriger par décrets.
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..... President Martelly also violated articles 200 and 236 of Haiti's constitution when he designated (January 24, and June 15, 2012) his wife and his 23-years old son to coordinate and manage millions of US dollars in public funds and run social and sports development programs outside of all legally-established channels. For several months, contracts were granted to companies owned by or connected with friends of the Martelly family among rumors of millions being kicked back to the wife and son (the latter is currently building a million dollar-commercial building in one of Haiti's most expensive neighborhoods. When two Haitian lawyers filed a legal complaint against the Martellys, the District attorney and the investigating Judge received threats. Finally, the investigative Judge accused the Chief Judge of the Court of 1st Instance of taking him to a meeting with President Martelly, Prime Minister Lamothe and Minister of Justice Jean Renel Sanon. That was a clear violation of the separation of powers under Haiti's constitution.
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Honorable Senators, Congresswomen and Congressmen
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are taking the opportunity of this visit to brief you on some of the events that have brought Haiti on the verge of a major political crisis. As legislators and believers in the representation of the people through legislative bodies, it is important for us to submit this analytical paper to your attention. We thank you in anticipation for your kind attention.
Foremost, we would like to state that we are looking for ways to move ahead with Mr. Martelly toward the organization of democratic, fair, transparent elections as quickly as possible to fill hundreds of posts at the local level and in the Senate (10 seats). As legislators we would like to maintain a stable political climate and work in harmony with the executive branch to attract new investments, create new jobs, sustainability and keep the hopes of the Haitian people for a better future.
However, since he arrived in power, Mr. Martelly has shown a profound dislike for democracy, legislative Representatives, as well as for the check and balance of the powers granted to him by the constitution. Currently, municipal government is being managed by hand-picked men and women totally dedicated to Martelly. This means that all 420 municipal executive agents replacing the elected mayors whose term has expired, since 2011, are close Martelly political allies. Thousands of elected county officials have also been hand-picked by Martelly to replace those whose term had run out.
President Martelly has also done all he could to have a hand-picked electoral council he hoped could rig the votes in favor of his political friends.
The following is a summary of the citations and recitals of a resolution proposed by thirteen Haitian Congressmen to have President Michel Joseph Martelly tried by a High Court of Justice as prescribed by the Constitution of the country.
Through this, it is possible to get a good, but incomplete, view of all the violations of Haiti's laws and constitution by the highest members of the executive branch of the country.
Among other things, President Martelly has been accused of violating article 153 of the constitution when he tried to dispose a neighbor of his private residence of his house and surrounding properties by using the equivalent of the IRS to falsely accuse the individual of not paying property taxes.
As early as October 26, 2011, President Martelly ordered or authorized the arrest of a Haitian Congressman as he stepped out of a plane following an official mission abroad, in violation of article 114.2 of the constitution and without any legal ground to act in such a way. He lied and denied that he had anything to do with it while it is well known that his collaborators are terrified by him and would never act without his approval.
Violation of article 218 of the constitution by President Martelly when he unilaterally levied two (2) taxes on international phone calls and money transfers from abroad without any law supporting that decision. No one beside President Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe have control over those funds which surpass US $200 million today. He has been trying to get Parliament to ratify his decision at posteriori …
President Martelly also violated articles 200 and 236 of Haiti's constitution when he designated (January 24, and June 15, 2012) his wife and his 23-years old son to coordinate and manage millions of US dollars in public funds and run social and sports development programs outside of all legally-established channels. For several months, contracts were granted to companies owned by or connected with friends of the Martelly family among rumors of millions being kicked back to the wife and son (the latter is currently building a million dollar-commercial building in one of Haiti's most expensive neighborhoods. When two Haitian lawyers filed a legal complaint against the Martellys, the District attorney and the investigating Judge received threats. Finally, the investigative Judge accused the Chief Judge of the Court of 1st Instance of taking him to a meeting with President Martelly, Prime Minister Lamothe and Minister of Justice Jean Renel Sanon. That was a clear violation of the separation of powers under Haiti's constitution.
But things went even further as the investigative Judge stated that President Martelly addressed him disrespectfully and threatened him and summoned him to stop the investigation of his wife and son. The next day, the Judge told his associates that he would abandon the investigation and leave the country. But he was to die the day after under mysterious circumstances that remain to be explained. Both the Congress and the Senate undertook an investigation of the matter that points to violations of the separation of powers by the leaders of Haiti's executive branch and their Minister of Justice and conclude by making them liable of a trial by the High Court of Justice.
If all of these illegal and unconstitutional decisions could take place, it is because President Martelly had also previously violated other articles of the constition when he was making the nominations of the Judges of the Cour de Cassation (equivalent of the US Supreme Court). He managed to select at least three Judges (disregarding all protests by the Senate) who did not meet the requirements and to have one of them (whom he has known since his childhood) become Chief Justice and President of the Higher Council on Justice.
Through a number of nominations of District Attorneys, Prosecutors, Judges and Justices of the Peace (by Chief Justice Anel Joseph his childhood friend), etc., President Martelly and his Minister of Justice have been able to turn the Haitian justice system into a political arm at the service of the executive branch (or the Martelly crew: he used to call himself and his close friends ''legal bandits'' and has a song written on the topic). A very dangerous and scary development.
Two accusers of Mrs. Martelly are currently in jail under trumped-up charges, awaiting a trial that may never come … Two lawyers who were very critical of the Martellys' ways in running the affairs of Haiti are now in hiding and one of them is forbidden to leave the country/travel abroad. No later than yesterday, one of the most critical journalists of the Martelly government has been ordered to surrender all documents pertaining to an information she had on a contested Judge in office which had been nationally disbarred for ten years by the bar associations (federation) of Haiti.
Last but not least, a close friend of the President came to port with 55 packs of marijuana on his private yatch and called the police and the District attorney to come and get them at his beach hotel. When the Prosecutor had him come to his office for questioning and later sent him to a District Attorney, the police spokesperson and even the Minister of Justice scolded him and the Minister threatened to remove him from office. Only the scandal throughout Haiti's public opinion and press forced the Minister to back-track.
Being the first person to agree to this. His election was a controversial one as he did not win the first round but was forcefully imposed as a winner. Winning the second round against Mrs. Manigat was easier and he may have won it. Haiti's political class let Mr. Martelly have his days for two years, despite warning signs that the man was an admirer and follower of former Presidents for Life and well-known dictators François and Jean-Claude Duvalier. Indeed President Martelly had several run-in with members of Congress and of the Senate were he clearly said he would rather run the country without a Parliament.
After two years of hide and seek first to publish the amendments of the constitution, then to form an electoral council, then to send the electoral law to Congress (he kept the document for two months at the palace), President Martelly waited for the lower Chamber to almost end its regular session before depositing the electoral law. The way things look today, there is no way the latest electoral law can be worked on by both Chambers unless the President calls Congress back into session. Last week, Mr. Martelly told a crowd that for the next two years he would '' … run Haiti as he saw fit to him since he is the only Chief in the country. Whatever he says will have to be done …''.
Having President Martelly run Haiti without a Congress and without holding elections, with practically all elected and public administration positions filled by his nominations, would be equal to going back to the political instability and turmoil of the years that followed President Aristide's departure from power in 2004. A perspective of violence that Haiti is incapable of sustaining on top of all its other ills: vulnerability to earthquakes, tropical storms and hurricanes and deforestation and erosion, without mentioning lack of investments and jobs …
As responsible politicians we are counting on the understanding and support of all the hemispheric democracies to assist Haiti in ending its years of political upheavals and confrontations. We are looking forward to having good and peaceful elections, but above all an executive branch respectful of the constitution and of the laws of the land and of its opposition, of the right to demonstrate, speak out and criticize peacefully and in order, rights which thousands of Haitians have died for from 1957 to now …
Long live HAITI, longue vie a notre chere HAITI
Steven I. Benoit
Senator of the proud Republic of Haiti.
A Lire Aussi:
- Prospère Avril augmente la confusion: Ministre Jean Renel Sanon révoqué de l'armée pour trafic de drogue ou pour Complot de coup d'état?
- Le totalitarisme grimaçant...ordonne à la journaliste Liliane Pierre Paul de révéler sa source
- Radio Kiskeya et Liliane Pierre Paul attaquées par le pouvoir Martelly-Lamothe par l'intermédiaire du Juge Zafra Lamarre Belizaire
- Audio : La drogue de Port-Salut à Dan's Creek - Martelly directement impliqué d'après l'ex délégué départemental du Sud
- Floride : Laurent Lamothe Premier Ministre en fonction devant un tribunal étranger a créé un mauvais précédent pour Haiti
- Dossier Prisonniers Politiques: Le juge Lamarre Bélizaire en disgrâce - pour 10 ans du barreau de Port-au-Prince


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Our ministry in Bangladesh is blessed by excellent managers who are contributing to the lives of marginalized children.
Piyush is one of those managers making a difference in the local community with his intelligence, talent, creativity and, most importantly, his heart for God and children.
Piyush had a difficult childhood. His father abandoned his mother just before Piyush was born.
His mother remarried and his stepfather didn't appreciate Piyush. This little boy never had the opportunity to stay with his mother, as his stepdad didn't want that. During holidays from school, he visited his aunt's house rather than his mom's.
God filled this boy's need for love through his mom's sister and her husband. Both of them loved Piyush a lot and cared about him.
Piyush was involved in a non-Compassion sponsorship program at the church hostel where he stayed. He had a sponsor from Denmark who wrote letters to him. Little Piyush was overwhelmed by his sponsor's love.
God was preparing this boy's heart for the bigger picture.
Several years later, when Piyush became a manager of a Compassion child development center, he committed to contributing to the lives of ignored and neglected children. He spread love among the children, love he'd been given from his aunt, uncle and sponsor.
Piyush is familiar with rejection, so he takes good care of every child at the center.
As the head of the development center, he is required to be a visionary leader who controls the present for a better future. He can't afford to let his decisions be influenced only by emotion, because he knows one mistake can create disadvantage for children.
"I understand the heart of the ministry. When I make any decision, I try to imagine the impact of that decision on the children."
As a manager, Piyush creates activity plans for the children throughout the year. He breaks down activities into spiritual, physical, social and educational needs, and prepares lists of new initiatives. Planning is not the end of his responsibilities, however, as he also works with his staff to execute those plans throughout the year.
Piyush maintains a comfortable relationship with his colleagues. He inspires them by involving them in decision-making processes. His staff have the liberty to make comments and suggestions on any decision.
Piyush runs the Baramchal Child Development Center with wonderful team effort. Children are always first priority.
At this center, children from two different tribes participate. One group is from the Bagani tribe and another is from the Khasia tribe.
Piyush is from the Khasia group, but his heart is communal. For him, children are more important than their castes, customs and skin color. Piyush treats every child equally, with love, dignity and proper respect. He spends time with the young ones and has fun with them.
He is also very popular among the teenagers. Children age 15 and older like him because of his friendly behavior.
"I often spend time with adolescent boys and girls at the development center. I inspire them to be attentive in their studies. I truly believe that they are our future leaders, so it is my duty to give them time that they could be energized."
Piyush participates in different games with the children. He volunteers as game teacher. Children love to see their center manager participate with them in games of football and cricket. Piyush is always with the children on the game field.
He wants them to know that they have access to him for any difficulties, issues or questions.
As Piyush speaks both the Khasia and Bengali languages, it is easy for him to be friends with both the Bagani and Khasia children.
When he can break from his regular office work, he serves lunch to the children. Children enjoy his presence in the dining hall. His servant leadership has made him the children's choice.
He often visits children's homes and meets their parents. His presence in the homes has big impact, because the community is aware of his commitment and dedication. He prays for the families and spends casual time with them.
At the same time, he tries to find out major difficulties in the community that could affect children.
Piyush is successful in creating an environment where children from two different tribal groups can learn, grow and have fun together.
"In this center, children of Khasia family and children from Bagani family come together. They are making friends among them. During learning sessions, activity time or game period, the children do everything together.
"Here, we have great communal harmony. We never allow any kind of discrimination, rejection or attitude that may hurt any child's emotion.
"I learn a lot from the children. They love and forgive easily. Children are happy with the smallest things, and their satisfaction doesn't depend on the earthly materials but on the amount of love they receive.
"I have a lot of joy when I work with the children. The dedication and commitment of the sponsors also touch my heart. I thank all of them for their continuous love. Their dedication gives me strength to run the extra mile."
Piyush is one of many caring managers carrying the torch in the darkness of deprivation and extreme poverty. His dedication, creativity and gratefulness to God are assets for our ministry. The children love Piyush and his influence on them is winning many little hearts.


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Recovering from surgery isn't easy for anyone but it's especially challenging when the patient is only seven. My daughter was grumpy and uncooperative. That was understandable but not helping the situation. Coming out of surgery, she needed to be monitored; the medical sensors weren't optional. Kasey was not responding well to the doses of loving kindness and patience shown by those around her. There was nothing anyone could do to satisfy her. She was simply cranky.
"I need a blanket!" I pull up the blanket. She kicks it off with a scowl: "I'm too hot." Then, "I'm thirsty!" The nurse says, "You'll throw up. You need to wait awhile." "No, I want water now!" she cries pitifully. Heart aching, I ask for some water. They give her a red popsicle. That should make her happy if anything will. One little nibble and she resumes her wails for water. "Can't we give her a little water?" I ask. "What's the worst that can happen?" So we gave her some water and she was satisfied. Then, she promptly threw up.
I start running through all of my good Love and Logic tools that might help to insure the oxygen sensor stays on her finger. What might work? Enforceable statements? Nah, not the right thing at this moment. Empathy? Yeah but I'm already giving her lots of that. Choices? Ah ha! Let's try that one. "Would you like the sensor on your finger or your toe?" No response except the stubbornly set chin and a turn of the head.
With a heavy sigh, it struck me again how hard it is to set limits around misbehavior when our child is sick and in pain. When our children are hurting, it is so natural for everyone around them to acquiesce to every demand. We feel so badly for them and just want to make it all better – make it all go away. For a short period of time, that might be tolerable and not harmful. Sometimes we all need a little extra leeway and grace. But when giving leeway impedes good health care or giving understanding enables poor health decisions then thoughtful parenting choices become critical. And correct parenting responses are even more critical when pain and sickness are a part of everyday life.
These circumstances lead many children to understandably become more demanding and entitled. However, continually bowing down to the constant, and at times unreasonable, demands of a spoiled tyrant can be wearing on everyone in the house. And sadly, it doesn't even help the demanding child that parents may be attempting to pacify. Illness and pain make it hard to know where to draw the line. At what point does a parent say, "I am happy to bring you a popsicle when you ask me nicely?" And how many parents are really strong enough to withstand the tantrum that is likely to ensue?
When a child is chronically ill, guilt often kicks in along with close cousins: sympathy and fear. Guilt, sympathy and fear can control our parental responses before we are really even aware of them. As we trot off to retrieve the demanded item for an ill child, the thought might not even occur to us to accept only polite requests. And if the thought "I don't like how she is treating me" does occur, it gets drowned out by the other thoughts like "Give her a break, she doesn't feel well" or "She might get even sicker if I don't do as she asks" or "I want all of her moments to be happy ones so I won't say no" or "I have no energy to handle the fighting that is sure to happen if I say no."
The problem is that the more we give in to a tyrant, the more he demands. ****** is the extreme example that appeasement simply doesn't work; not for dictators and not for children. We are all part of the same human race with the same only too human nature that says: "I want more." All who have spent time around a strong willed two- or three-year-old know the truth of Lawrence Kutner's statement, "The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe." Left unchecked, demanding toddlers grow up to become controlling and demanding adults.
So, what is a parent to do? How do we best insure that our children cope with their health challenges in productive ways? How do we help them grow up into adults who are respectful, responsible, and hopeful?
Effectively responding to an ill and demanding child starts with an awareness of the dangers of an entitled mentality. Although parents may put up with a child who is demanding, rude, or lacking self control, the real world of adulthood is much less accepting. The best gift a parent can give a child is the opportunity to learn how to treat others with respect and to guide them in taking responsibility for getting their own needs met instead of demanding that others meet those needs.
Parents must effectively deal with arguments when setting limits. One-liners can be very effective. A calmly delivered response such as "I love you too much to argue" can turn down the heat when tempers start to flare – on both sides.
Share control as much as possible. Children who are chronically ill have less control over their bodies, time and circumstances than other kids. Allowing children to make as many decisions as possible helps them feel like they at least have some control in their own lives.
Parents must take good care of themselves by setting loving limits around how they are treated. Gently delivered phrases such as "I will listen to you as soon as your voice is calm like mine" or "I am happy to do nice things for you when I feel treated with respect" or "I'll get you the remote control when you ask nicely" will help your child learn to treat you, and others, with respect.
When children make mistakes, including treating others badly, wise parents respond with empathy and sadness rather than anger and frustration before delivering consequences. "Oh sweetheart, this is so sad. All of this arguing (or disrespect) has really worn me out today so I won't be taking you on your play date. Maybe we can try again tomorrow."
As I gazed at my daughter's firmly set chin and pursed lips, I pondered how to handle this oxygen sensor issue. I knew telling her to "just do it" wasn't going to cut it. That would only make her dig in and be more resistant. Of course in the extreme, the doctors could make her keep it on but that's not what I wanted to do. Forcing a child to comply might win the battle but loses the war of building character and internal ability to make good decisions.
In the end, it was simply allowing her to the freedom to make her own decisions that did it and trusting that she was a good decision-maker if given information in a matter-of-fact manner without showing my frustration. "Sweetheart, I understand you don't like it but I don't think it's a wise decision to keep the sensor off. If your body starts to get sick then the doctors won't know it and it could be a problem for you. So what do you think you'll do here?" I could see the wheels turning….
And without a word, she picked up the sensor and popped it back onto her finger. Oh wise child!
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Hart leaves the erotica behind in a dark and intricate kidnapping tale
Opening Line: "This was the life she'd made."
I am rapidly reaching the point with Megan Hart that if she were to write a phone book I'm pretty sure I would read it because she's just that good at making words beautiful. She also manages to put those words into exactly the emotions and private thoughts I assumed I was alone in having while weaving and layering together an achingly thoughtful story. And here with Precious And Fragile Things I've learned that she can hold my attention without the erotica too. Because this was so not erotic, it wasn't even in any way a romance, in fact it was kind of disturbing. Yet in the end I would have to say that it was also amazing, because its lingered with me for days now.
I've never read anything like this before, (which I seem to say with each of Hart's books) 99% of this takes place within a secluded, snowed in, mountain cabin and its here within those 4 walls, in a simple character study that we watch two very different yet equally damaged souls bounce off each other. By all rights this should have been boring and tedious read yet because of Hart's gifts as a writer I was left utterly entranced.
Gilly Solomon is exhausted. Mentally and physically burnt out from the endless cycle of looking after her house, her husband, and her two young children. All she dreams about is a couple of hour's peace, a break from the constant crying children, menial tasks, and endless demands to her time, someone to look after her for a change. Gilly's at a breaking point the night a man jumps into her Suburban, holds a knife to her throat and tells her to drive. She isn't thinking clearly when she manages to get the children out and she's definitely lost it when they stop for gas and Gilly doesn't run….
Now she's stranded in a remote cabin with a dangerous knife wielding stranger who can't release her because he fears going back to prison and she's only got herself to blame. Time however forges a bond of sorts between the captor and the captive and as the snow piles up around them and the days turn into months she learns that her kidnapper -Todd is not the lunatic she first believed. He's but a man shaped by his horrific past much in the same way Gilly is.
The tension throughout this is palpable by the end though the suspense was killing me because I had absolutely no idea how this was going to play out, and I knew there couldn't really be any kind of conventional HEA. All I will say about "that" is I was VERY surprised by what did happen and my only disappointment in this book lies here as well, as I would have liked more details on the …afterwards. Cheers people.


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The Porte Saint-Denis a triumphal arch inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome was designed by architect François Blondel and the sculptor Michel Anguier for Louis XIV to celebrate his victories on the Rhine and in Franche-Comté. Built in 1672 and paid for by the city of Paris, it replaced a medieval gate in the city walls built by Charles V in the 14th century. Symbolically marking the entrance into 17th-century Paris at the site of the old toll-gate, the Porte St Denis is the second-largest triumphal arch in Paris.
This Parisian monument was a notable Parisian sight at the time of Cox's visit and had formed the subject of one of Thomas Girtin's 'Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris, and Its Environs' (1803). In Girtin's print the arch, partially obscured by the surrounding buildings, is incorporated into a bustling street scene. Cox indicates similar street activity, but he presents a closer, unobstructed view of the arch.
Cox made only one visit to Paris in 1829. Plans to travel further afield were thwarted by an unfortunate fall on the second day, resulting in a sprained ankle. He subsequently spent six weeks sketching the streets of the city from various hired carriages. Cox's Parisian sketches which have come to be among the most highly regarded of his watercolours, were never exhibited during Cox's lifetime and only known to a small group of family and friends. Wilcox has noted that: among his Parisian subjects, Cox's view of the Porte St Denis is unusual in that it exists in at least two versions. While the present work with its forceful pencil drawing and bold use of watercolour is typical of the works Cox produced during his weeks sketching in the streets of Paris, the other version (private collection; illustrated Bauer, 2000, p. 147) with its more controlled pencil outlines and application of watercolour seems less a sketch than a piece intended for exhibition and/or sale but left unfinished. It is closer in handling to the 'Pavillon de Flore, Tuileries, Paris' at Leeds City Art Gallery, which may be one of the works Cox exhibited in 1830. (Wilcox, op. cit., p. 176).


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Mike Hranica Vocals
Jeremy DePoyster Rhythm Guitar/Vocals
Chris Rubey Lead Guitar
Andy Trick Bass
Daniel Williams Drums
The Devil Wears Prada is the musical embodiment of a generational shift. Built on a diverse array of heavy, dark, melodic and genre-defying music; hardened and sharpened by putting in road work together since the days when they had to skip class to tour: The Devil Wears Prada is at the forefront of a movement that bridges the gap between Rockstar Mayhem and the Vans Warped Tour.
The passionately inspired bands brand new album for Roadrunner Records, cryptically titled 8:18, embodies an unflinching, uncompromising authenticity born from revelatory introspection and obsessive workmanship. The dichotomies are refreshing, invigorating and boundless. Theres an oppressive, suffocating darkness to their heavy music, counterbalanced by the hope within their collective faith. The most brutal of crowd-moving breakdowns ignite with friction, bristling against soaring melodies, progressive yet catchy riffing and keyboard soaked atmospheric esotericism. To put it simply: The Devil Wears Prada have developed the chops, the cred and the audience of a true-blue thinking persons heavy metal band, while simultaneously welcoming fist-pumping hellraisers and youthful moshers alike. 8:18 continues the war against humanitys dark urges, pointing the finger inward and outward through a medium that is itself both bleak and grand.
"Much of the heavy music around us suffers from a total lack of emotion. It's sort of losing an audible sense of sincerity," observes vocalist Mike Hranica. "The guitars, the drums, the songs themselves create that sorrow that I want the lyrics to tell on 8:18. And I made sure that my vocals created emotions that I have heard in post-hardcore, but that I rarely hear in breakdown-heavy metal bands like us."
Guitarist Chris Rubey concurs. "If I listen to the title track and I'm in the right mood, I will tear-up because of the lyrics and vibe of the song," he confesses. "What Mike is saying with all of his lyrics on this album is extremely powerful."
The overriding theme on 8:18 is misery, exploring that mental and emotional state through its various guises, manifestations and interpretations. Tracks like "Gloom," "War," "Black & Blue" and "Home for Grave" spring forth from that foundation, exploiting concepts like mediocrity, existential angst and life's bigger questions under an atmosphere of musical dread, hostility and darkness.
Mike Hranica is blessed with a commanding roar, but infuses the proceedings with a literary sensibility, a commitment to self-evaluation and a painstaking modesty that levels the playing field between performer and listener beneath the surface.
Principal songwriter and guitarist Rubey is an accomplished producer in his own right. Rubey brings all of that experience to the table with his band through an understanding of the groups fans, the result of multiple hours spent pouring through social media, YouTube comments and online forums. It all coalesces into creative leaps that are intertwined with The Devil Wears Pradas established identity. As he squeezes out his self-described ADD compositions, Rubey challenges himself not to repeat the past, both in and out of TDWP.
"All the way through our last album, I had a giant bank of songs. I was going back to material I had written when I was still in high school," Rubey explains. "I had run out of material. This new one is the first album where I had to start from scratch. We already had a bank of like 60 songs and I knew these songs had to be better than all of them. By the time we had 13 songs together, I was able to listen to them and I was like, 'We did it.' It felt like a struggle to write the entire album, but once it was finished, it hit me and I'm so incredibly happy with it."
Rhythm guitarist Jeremy DePoyster contributes the hook-laden underbelly to Pradas brutal musical beast, handling the clean singing with a fine-tuned abandon to rival the pop stars dominating the charts. He grew up listening to Rob Zombie and Korn, but his iPod these days is packed with just about everything one can name. His singing vocals shine particularly on "Care More," a heavily electronics infused song with a dark mood. "There's so much of this crappy auto-tuned singing thing happening right now. It's disappointing to me because I've been singing since I was a kid," DePoyster says. "We all know what auto-tune is and we all use it to get things to work a little better, but when I hear things that are using it just as a crutch, that is extremely disappointing to me. Mike does a lot of passionate, raw, vibey screaming on this record, too. It's great."
Andy Trick has a Minor Threat inspired tattoo that exhibits his early inclinations toward hardcore punk, an ethos and a mindset that still courses through the bass players veins even as he takes the stage playing guitar-driven metal music around the world. His bass playing anchors the theatrics and fluid, tasteful beats of Daniel Williams. Pradas drummer carries the class and finesse of the indie crowd, while pummeling the drums with the power of metal's finest. "Since the beginning, we have liked breakdowns, we have liked heavy sounds, we have liked melodic singing, we have liked heavy metal in general," notes Hranica. "Those are the most basic fundamentals of what this band has been about."
The overseeing hand of executive producer and Killswitch Engage axeman Adam Dutkiewicz (August Burns Red, Shadows Fall, Parkway Drive) and producer Matt Goldman (Underoath, The Chariot, As Cities Burn) resulted in a sonic time capsule representing not only this present moment for TDWP, but a crossroads for heavy music itself. Progressive strains of experimental trailblazers Converge, Botch and Underoath seethe beneath The Devil Wears Pradas unique reverse engineering of modern metal. 8:18 convincingly detours into Nine Inch Nails-isms, then comes full circle with some killer throwbacks to TDWP's earliest work.
"We love a lot of the records Matt has made and obviously we love Adam and he's a great friend," DePoyster points out. "Adam was very involved in doing the vocal stuff with Mike and I and had given us ideas when we were making demos. Both of those guys were great with us and were able to make contributions and make us think about things in different ways without making us uncomfortable.
With 8:18, The Devil Wears Prada cement their status as a band who have not only weathered the pressures of early, youthful popularity, but grown into masters of their craft. From album packaging to merchandising, from video production to stage lighting, The Devil Wears Prada are hands-on and pay excruciating attention to detail to ensure they always deliver their best, that their overwhelming passion will endure. They push themselves to create a lasting work that inspires, empowers and challenges, in equal measure.
"At the risk of sounding cocky, this band is my favorite band," Rubey declares.
"We're not kids who just want to hit the road and see where this goes," adds DePoyster. "We're making a conscious choice to do this because we love it."
The Devil Wears Prada are unwavering in their commitment to each other, their fans, their art, their higher calling toward truth and to their desire to engage. The emotion remains sincere, the musicianship supreme.
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British high street brands have snuck into my favorite local beauty spot, named Vanity Play, at Red Dot:) I was checking out the latest Rimmel Kate lipsticks (Kate as in the brand's face, Kate Moss) during which SA Maxene cuts the scene as he shows my friend Marla Sleek True Colour Barely There. It went into my pink packet instead. I actually bought and tested Rimmel Kate 16 too soon when I discovered it is a lot pinker than what I truly wanted, which is that of an opaque peachy nude as an alternative to Revlon Colorburst Petal (already in my second tube, a fave and the only fleshy tone which works on my NC 30/35).
Barely There is a lot darker from the tube sans flash. I really didn't notice its similarity to Revlon Petal until I photographed them side by side at home. The similarity turns out not too close however. Barely There is more pigmented and sheeny while Petal is sheer with a teeny hint of pearlescence.
Barely There is packed with color, has a non-drying creamy texture; yes, it glides on sleekly, covers well, and is a bare-skin shade in effect, without muddy undertones (which I dislike a lot). I wish it were a little less glossy though. The color faded until I ate 2 hours later, but left a decent barely there tint, heheh. This color reminds me of a popular local songstress in the 80s-90s. Do you remember her?
Oh, I love the little tube casing!
Photo of Blauearth by Maxene
Photographed by Blauearth © Blauearth™ All Rights Reserved 2009-2013


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By Frosty Wooldridge
One night in 2015 in San Francisco, California, an illegal alien, deported five previous times, and a felon, shot Kate Steinle in the back from a distance as she stood on a pier.
Tony Bennet sings, "I left my heart in San Francisco…." But, because of Sanctuary City ordinances put into place by Mayor Edwin Lee and the city council, American Kate Steinle suffered death in the "City by the Bay."
Illegal Mexican Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, deported five times, admitted shooting Steinle, and faced life in prison, but instead, the jury found him not guilty. He legally killed an American citizen.
Found guilty of a felon carrying a gun, he may serve 18 to 36 months before being deported for a sixth time. Which, at current enforcement rates at America's borders and over 240 Sanctuary Cities across the USA, Zarate will be able to legally kill another American again.
Unfortunately, according to Dr. Steven Camarota's research at www.CIS.org (Center for Immigration Studies), because our immigration laws remain unenforced as to landlords, employers and Sanctuary Cities, 500,000 illegal aliens jump America's borders annually. Estimates range from 11 million to 20 million illegal aliens remaining in the USA.
Financially, immigrants send cash transfers back to their home countries at a rate of $120 billion annually. Mexico enjoys cash infusions of $24 billion annually. The remaining figures disperse into Central and South America, and finally, India, Indochina and Africa. You might call it, "Financially bleeding America to death."
At the same time, both Republicans and Democrats insure employers do not face lawful action against them for employing illegal migrant by not enforcing our stringent laws. It's costly to hire illegals at a charge of $2,000.00 per illegal caught and up to five years in jail for the employer. It means the CEO's of McDonald's, Marriott Hotels, most restaurants, Hormel Foods, Tyson Chicken, landscape, roofing and other contractors would see jail time. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and big money makes sure those laws remain unenforced. Additionally, big money makes sure that E-Verify never becomes law, so that employers may continue their 21st century slave labor.
Sanctuary Cities, their mayors and city councils insure that American citizens suffer death from murders, rapes from rapists, burglaries from felons, drunken car accidents, and billions in welfare costs from anchor babies, schooling, food and medical care for illegals.
President Truman pushed the Federal Immigration and National Act of 1952 through Congress in the closing days of his administration. Under Section 8 USC 1324[a](1)(A)[iv][b](iii) any US citizen that knowingly assists an illegal alien, provides them with employment, food, water or shelter has committed a felony. City, county or State officials that declare their jurisdictions to be "Open Cities, Counties or States are subject to arrest; as are law enforcement agencies who chose not to enforce this law. Police officers who ignore officials who violate Section 8 USC 1324[a](1)(A)[iv][b](iii) are committing a Section 274 federal felony. Furthermore, according to Federal Immigration and National Act of 1952, if you live in a city, county or State that refuses to enforce the law for whatever reason, the officials making those rules are financially liable for any crime committed within their jurisdiction by an illegal alien.
Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
"Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Penalties upon conviction include criminal fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime. Anyone employing or contracting with an illegal alien without verifying his or her work authorization status is guilty of a misdemeanor. Aliens and employers violating immigration laws are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. In addition, individuals or entities who engage in racketeering enterprises that commit (or conspire to commit) immigration-related felonies are subject to private civil suits for treble damages and injunctive relief.
And yet, San Francisco's Mayor Lee and California's Governor Jerry Brown support and encourage illegal migrants into that state along with over 240 cities nationwide with Sanctuary City ordinances to protect criminal aliens, sex trafficking offenders, drug dealers and anchor baby mothers.
How many American suffered death at the hands of illegal aliens? Start off with 9/11 and work down from that point in time. Over the past 50 years, it's into the thousands.
"March 30, 2016 – As many as 7,500 Americans annually — 20 per day — are killed by unlicensed drivers, and Rosenberg calculates that more than half are the victims of illegal immigrants." Source: Fox News
What does this verdict indicate? First of all, a loss of the rule of law as to allowing 500,000 illegal aliens to cross into America annually. It shows contempt for federal laws by 240 Sanctuary Cities including their mayors and city council members. It shows that governors like Colorado's Hickenlooper or Cuomo of New York, and Mayors like Raham Emanuel in Chicago and De Blazio in New York enjoy immunity from our laws. But American citizens become collateral death statistics in the meantime.
It means our national ethos faces extinction because the rule of law no longer applies to all those illegally crossing our borders or the firms that employ them. It means we lose a sense of one country, one people, one ethos and the common good. It means we must all be fearful for our lives in Sanctuary Cities around the country.
View this video to see uselessness of endless immigration. It solves nothing, but in fact exacerbates population growth:
In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, "Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls", Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take five minutes to see for yourself:
As you can see from the video, no amount of immigration will solve the starvation, misery, suffering or hopelessness of people around the world. Why? Because they keep adding 80 million, net gain, annually.
But on a sociological level, America, Europe, Canada and Australia find their countries becoming "Everybody Else's Countries." Whether it's the impact of cultural conflict, religious conflict or linguistic chaos—first world countries will not survive the "Clash of Civilizations."
As stated, all cultures and ethnic groups compete for dominance. With 100,000,000 added immigrants from 190 different countries by 2050, the USA finds those millions pulling for their own culture, ethos, language and religions. America today, already fractures and fragments in the big cities with Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter calling for a separate Black Country. With the advent of more terrorist Muslims, you will see them demanding Islamic caliphates in the USA much like Europe.
Our country faces ultimately pulling apart at the seams. It will not be able to hold in the center as "Americans."
Any culture that will not defend itself against displacement through mass immigration faces extinction. That includes both time-tested and successful cultures. Embracing diversity results in cultural suicide. America's multicultural path guarantees its destruction via cultural clashes and conflict with Islam, Mexican and African cultures that diametrically oppose American culture. The more diverse a country, the more destructive and broken-down its future. The more people, the more it destroys its quality of life and standard of living. The more it adds immigrants, the more destruction to its environment. The more it imports refugees, the faster America, Canada, Europe and Australia lose their own ability to function and worse, their identities. Exponential growth of any civilization leads to ultimate collapse. You see it in Africa, India and China today. You will see it in Europe, Canada, Australia and America in the coming years, "IF" Western countries don't stop all forms of immigration.
If you don't want a Paris, France, San Bernardino or Orlando event in your community, it's time to call for a total "Immigration Shutdown Now."
Call your senators and House rep: 1 202 224 3121 or 1 888 995 2086. Demand a stop to all immigration and stop to any Syrian immigration.
Definition of slogan: "Immigration Shutdown Now means the American people want a total shutdown on all legal and illegal immigration. That means we want all illegal immigration stopped by arresting, prosecuting and jailing employers of illegal aliens. We deport all illegal aliens by taking their jobs away and as we catch them. We want English mandated as our national language. We demand a cessation of Muslim immigration in order to protect our culture, language and way of life. We can't save the world but we can save or destroy our civilization. We demand a stable population that allows everyone to live, work and thrive into the 21st century. Especially our children." FHW


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Motorbikes first came into their own as messenger bikes during the First World War and were adopted by the police in Britain and America because of their speed and nippiness.
Sidecars became the preserve of the adventurous woman and flappers, before the girls finally discovered leather and saddled up.
Nowadays motorbikes are used for providing emergency health services in both urban and rural landscapes, as well as being the preferred mode of delivery vehicle in congested cities.
But motorbikes still fulfil their remit as a fast and fun leisure vehicle, made cool by the likes of Brando and James Dean, but are also most often the favourite transport of middle-aged men – and women – who enjoy the freedom and challenge of riding a machine which has a reputation or being too hot to handle.
The downside is that motorcyclists frequently suffer serious injury in road traffic accidents – and often those injuries can be life changing or even fatal.
Motorcyclists unfairly have a reputation for being the bad boys of the road, ripping it up, cutting you up and eventually coming to grief through their own love of speed and no rules attitude.
This isn't strictly true, as biking requires enormous skill, immense concentration and admirable stamina, which other road users may not give them credit for.
The main problem with mixing motorbikes and other road users is that frequently other road users fail to spot them – or think motorbikes are so fast and nippy they can just get out of the way.
Most vehicles also have a blind spot and fail to see a motorbike coming up on their rear side – or drivers fail to stop or misjudge a motorbike's speed at junctions and pull out in front of them or cause a side impact collision.
Motorcyclists suffer injuries like amputation, fractures, burns, traumatic head/brain injuries and internal injuries. Often they can be trapped beneath their bike and another vehicle in a road accident – or dragged along the road as a result of not being able to dismount after a crash and turn off the engine.
Bikers are not necessarily responsible for such accidents, but for some reason the same reasons that make motorcycling such an exhilarating past-time also have earned it a reputation for being the favourite sport of daredevils who should not be allowed on the road. However, other road users leaving oil spills on the road or not signalling clearly can result in a motorcyclist being maimed for life or killed. If all road users stuck to the Highway Code and maintained their own vehicles, fewer motorcyclists might end up in hospital.
A lack of understanding of what is involved in riding a motorcycle can make other drivers unsympathetic – motorbikes, for example, often have a wet clutch system which means they can slow down with using their brakes. This means other road users have to judge whether they are stopping or slowing, as no brake lights will appear when this system is used. Observing other road users is paramount to road safety, but all too often all road users switch off while driving along and that is when road traffic accidents can occur.
The motorbike has proved its value over the decades as a fast and economic way of delivering messages in wartime, packages in peacetime, enjoyment in leisure time – and paramedics in times of emergency.
However, although many people have ridden a bicycle or driven a car or van, fewer perhaps have experienced the conditions bikers have to acclimatise to when riding a motorbike.
Given the usefulness of motorbikes, rather than ban them, perhaps more road users should master the discipline it takes to ride one – and then they might be more aware of what is required from them as fellow road users whenever they encounter a motorbike on the roads.