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Christmas Tradition #15: Going to Ride (or a Walk) to See the Lights and Decorations:
My Atlanta family has always gone to ride. We went to ride in the country on Sunday afternoon when we visited my grandparents, we went to ride at the beach to see the sunset and find the deer, we went to ride in the fall to see the leaves in the north Georgia mountains, and I take mom to ride whenever I'm in Atlanta. But my favorite rides have been rides to see the lights and holiday decorations including and the department store windows
Growing up in Atlanta, most people did not put up outdoor lights. A wreath on the door and a tree in the window was about it. But in the 60s we always went to see the Governor's Mansion in Ansley Park and later on West Paces Ferry. And we always drove downtown to see Rich's Great Tree, see and hear the local chorales and choirs sing from the multistory overpass and drive by the windows at Rich's and Davison's. There was also one house near Chastain Park that was over the top.
As Atlanta got bigger and more folks from the north settled in Atlanta, the decorations and lights got grander. And today there is a Brookhaven house that has over a hundred blowups in their yard.
There are also the extravagant holiday light tours that you pay to drive through. I've been to see the lights at Callaway Gardens, Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agriculture Center in Perry GA, Lights Under Louisville in the Mega Cavern and McAdenville near Charlotte (actually McAdenville is free). The first time I went to McAdenville, an old mill town near Gastonia NC, I took John. It was the first year we were dating, 1979. It was a disaster because I missed the exit. I drove all the way to Gaffney SC, 40 miles farther … so we drove 80 extra miles on the interstate for a 20 minute driveby light extravaganza. And I have made day trips and overnights to see the decorations at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, both interior and exterior. Biltmore is beyond extravagant.
I also remember the first time I went to Louisville at Christmas. There were neighborhoods that were totally lit. I began to understand why people in Atlanta said it was a "northern thing."
And then we moved to Wilmette near Chicago. It was magical at Christmas. Every neighborhood decorates. And the City decorates. And they still had stores that had decorated windows!! Marshall Fields had Harry Potter themed Christmas windows one year. The parks and museums were gorgeous. I still love the wreathed lions at The Art Institute. And on Christmas Eve , all the residents on Ashland Lane, our street in Wilmette, lined the street from our end to the Lake, almost a mile, with luminaries. And as soon as it was dark, we walked to the lake with our neighbors. One family that we knew well was so over the top that they were featured every year in the Pioneer Press, the local Wilmette paper. Molly was spending the night at their house and I still remember the joy when they took her on a holiday ride in a motorcycle sidecar to see the lights and experience the first snowfall. Did I mention it was magical?
Charlotte is getting into it more and more. There is one street, Hillside Drive in Myers Park, that hangs huge lighted balls. They ask for donations for a food bank. I usually drive down Hillside a few times.
And I still "Drive Mama Lindsey" to see the lights in Atlanta. I'm looking forward to the Brookhaven house with the 100+ blowups.
I must mention a holiday children's book called "The Amazing Christmas Extravaganza" about a family that has out of control decorations. I wonder what it is like to live next to the Wilmette friends or Brookhaven family.
I do miss the department stores, but I am lucky to have visited both NYC and Chicago at Christmas in recent years.
I still love to drive the backroads and see the holiday decorations in small towns. They are often way out of proportion to the size of the town. Davidson NC is lovely.
And, of course, the best light show is a beautiful starry sky on a cold winter's night in the country. I'll never forget driving into Pineview GA on New Year's Eve in the early 2000s.
I am enchanted by the lights.
Do you have a favorite adventure to see holiday lights and decorations?


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No. 10 – The After Abuse
This is going to be one of the most difficult pieces I have written. I underestimated the impact of rewriting much of my story. I made assumptions that due to the amount of therapy I have had, I will be able to breeze through this, and on paper give people a message that will help them begin a process of their own exploration, maybe even start to heal. While the story is stirring much in other people and giving others words to their silenced pain, it also has me reliving the details of what has been the most difficult to overcome.
Ahead are the words of a quick, yet pivotal chapter that marked many years of my therapy. In a short time, there was a combination of lethal trauma, that requires pause, and patience to understand and embrace. Bear with me.
I have looked back at calendars and photos many times to assess the exact moments the abuse took place. I have been curious to when it started, and what else was going on at that time and how the overlapping could have created more tangling of messages I began to believe about myself.
Looking back at the Sexual Abuse:
The sexual abuse from the previously mentioned abuser began around January of 1990. I was 13 years old and in the eighth grade. Puberty was in high gear and much of my history with my dad proved to validate my theory of being unwanted. We had a difficult time connecting, and around this time, I can now look back and see my desperation for wanting to belong to my dad that much more. My sexual abuser was telling me how much I meant to him and even then I knew I would trade his affection any day for a connection to my dad.
Shortly after the abuse started, I believe my intensity and hunger for my dad increased. I wanted his attention. I wanted validation. I desperately wanted to be rescued. I wanted my real dad to take me back from the man posing as my rescuer. It was torment to sort through the confusion of raging hormones combined with the after effects of being molested. Every attempt of talking back, or pushing/pulling toward my dad was a deep need to be seen. I have often said "When I needed my dad the most, he needed me to have no needs."
I felt a constant ridicule by my family. There was no way for them to know about the molestation going on, but that secret mapped every encounter of every day of my teen years. It dominated my brain and soul, and so I responded the way that made me be able to function. I was loud. I was aggressive. I was angry. I was 13.
One evening my anger escalated. I was being antagonized by my mother, and opened my mouth to let the name calling flow: "Bitch." My mom, not surprised by my response, calmly called for my dad. My mom always had my dad do her dirty work. She would rile me up, make hurtful remarks, and when I implode, she simply calls for my dad. Calling for my dad meant that in a few short minutes, I would have new leathery, red, welp marks across my legs, from my dad's cheaply made belt.
When my dad instructed me to go to my room, I refused. I refused to participate. I refused to obey. I refused, in that moment, to be his pawn, that I had been for years. Of all his kids, I was his whipping post. When I said no, my dad moved towards me with speed. The speed increased and I moved, briskly to the hall, to find him right behind me. We are suddenly running, through our home. I have enraged my dad, and knew what this meant, so I ran. I ran as fast as I could to the empty upstairs bedroom, where my teenage sister cared for her young daughter. I was trapped with nowhere to go.
In this moment, I believe God was looking down, angry, frustrated and in awe of how the human race can miss these moments with such reckless abandonment. To my dad, he had a rebellious son. To me, I had too many needs and should be punished for being different. There is no guidebook for how 13 year olds should reveal the angst living inside of them. The very things we can not say out loud, we assume our parents can at least attempt to find.
The moment was heated. I had been in many familiar moments with my dad, just like this. In that minute, I felt his wrath. I danced with his fury. Until…my dad tossed me face down on my sisters bed. He mounted my body, by forcing his knees in my back. Once he was positioned, he held my face still and threw his fists under my jaws, then to the side of my eyes, and the center of my face. I screamed for help. Only the beginning of the scream had volume, as the hardening of his hands, silenced my voice with each stroke. I could hear his blows more than I felt them. I could hear his rage, as my face and heart went numb for survival. My dad yelled with his aggression "I am the only help you need!" I believe he meant it. I believe he felt justified to my body, and my well being. I believe he joined forces with all the lies in me that were already suggesting, that me being loved, was out of the question.
Beyond all of the moments I have had with my dad, nothing hurts more than knowing my presence had potential to bring him in to such rage, that he physically craved (and chose) to harm my body. The bruises could never unveil the actual heartache that lied deep beneath the rejection. That night, something severed in me, where the hope of ever belonging to or connecting with my dad dissolved.
The desire was gone. The innocent ideals of a young boy longing to be close, seen and nurtured by his father, were diminished by the assault of his aggression and the message with his words. In the few minutes he spent on top of me, he managed to rearrange any vulnerability or longing I had for him to rescue, or reassure me again. The line crossed was permanent, and my little boy heart grew into the shape of the most appropriate wall.
Over the next several weeks, I moved from home to home, while my parents were investigated. One of the families I lived with in particular, had a lasting impact on me during that time. They were safe, and aware. They understood what had been done, and somehow the gravity of what this means for a young boy. They were loud and disruptive to the lies I was believing. I remember the mom always telling me what a beautiful smile I had. They were calm, gracious and patient. I was not able to eat solid foods for most of my stay due to nerves, and anxiety. They cordially helped me feel light by joking about the possibility of me eating a full meal each day. They gently walked me through every possible avenue of healing that could happen for my body and my mind. Their home gave me a reflection of what relationships could look like.
Six weeks later, Child Protective Services placed me back in my parents home. They felt it was best for me to be with my family. My dad apologized for what he had done over a phone call before I was returned home.
The foster families actions for my own justice, provided enough of a lifeline for me to hang on when I needed to address this years later. Let's not forget the growing minds and souls of a young teenager. Lets not complicate our own awareness for those who have not been so fortunate, and assume "Surely, they know what was done was wrong?" This is furthest from the truth.
That evening my dad affirmed every lie that I had been building, and not fully justified. Through the course of the newly arrived sexual abuse, and my dad's previous abuse, I was completely busted up, and looking for confirmation that it was wrong, and shouldn't happen, or the contrary: based on the way I am feeling from it, that I was meant to be abused.
This identity has played out in every part of my life. There is nothing organic about abuse, and no child will ever have the tools to navigate abuse in a way that helps them immediately overcome. Their precious souls and hearts are then divided by a need to constantly be alert, and find validation for the gaps and holes they feel, define them.
It took me many years to speak openly about the details of this Thursday evening with my dad. It took that long, because on some level, I believed his abusing me was ok because it helped my dad express himself. I believed the message it sent finally validated a persona that I was becoming, as someone who helped others by letting them abuse him. In the most grievous way, it was how I knew we were connected. It was affirmation that he did, see me.
Decades later, when the therapist asked me the details, my chest tightened, and my fists became clinched. He asked me to repeat the details, and since the moment I sat in my social workers office many years earlier, I had never uttered the specifics, yet they were fresh on my mind.
I was not sure what could come of this digging of old memories. I had protected that evening by building a life that showed how successful I was, and funny even. Would revisiting this memory require me to be done or will it further validate that identity I had spent years running from (You are unlovable)?
My mind is tense with memories. I close my eyes. I inhale with what I hope is a breath I have never known, and sit. I listen, as I am instructed to allow God to show me where He was when this happened. My awareness of God was still much of His tie and alignment with my parents. I viewed God as the creator of much of the chaos that was crushing me. To invite God in to this piece of my history seemed risky. The vulnerability hung like literal tons of emotional angst, floating on the surface of my chest, anticipating where to let it go.
I inhaled, and trusted. I noticed the moisture in my eyes gather quickly, and the rage I felt became sorrow. The grief steadied my heart, as the most appropriate emotion for that moment. I inhaled more to find a new piece of my story. Inviting God in was not as necessary as actually seeing God was there all along.
In the next moment, there was a beautiful peace that cut the tension, and gave the vulnerability rest. The simple words "I hate what he did to you. I grieve seeing my creation hurt."
I can't give the psychological definition of what took place in that moment, but I can tell you this: That moment carved a new lifeline for me to understand that the God I believed harms others in order to control them was a myth and part of a sicker plan to harm and control. The God that spoke to me has continually showed up as the most gracious, kind, loving, safe and powerful being to mend my pain. I've accepted that God grieves over my pain. God, the creator of the world cares that harm was done, and wants to give me the tools to overcome it.
That session was one of the only times I have discussed these details. There were many more stories etched in the weeks around there that had lasting impact on my undoing trauma later. I still think of how unnecessary so much of the years of angst I carried were. I believed so many lies that abuse invited me to.
I believed God orchestrated the abuse to make me more dependent on Him.
I believed I deserved the abuse because I was unlovable.
I believed my abusers found relief in being able to abuse me.
I believed these things, and allowed them to shape a lens on how I viewed life, love, and intimacy. Until I was told someone was grieving over it.
Abuse and assault must be addressed at it's core foundation, so that it can then no longer house these lies. I think those of us who have been abused, downplay it's impact because we are afraid of ever being that close to the situation again, so we think "being strong" is the way to overcome.
Today, I am drained from this story. Rewriting the details, makes my heart heavy. It forces my mind to think quick, and sharply. Then, I relax and remind myself that this has all been addressed. It has been engaged and the conclusion was that someone grieves over harm done to me, including me.
These stories we have shape so much of our lives without us knowing it. We believe by not saying these things out loud it will minimize the actual harm. We believe that saying it out loud will somehow expose weakness in us, that it has impacted us in ways that we can not manage.
So, what do we do with the stories? Do we bury them as far as we can and let the decision to deny shape our next steps?
Do we run as far away from this God that we believe abandoned us, or in some way allowed this to happen as part of His will?
Or, do we say them outloud to someone, trusting that they can carry our pain with us, and be that gentle reminder that says "I am sorry."
If you are carrying unnecessary harm that has been done to you, please know and trust that you are cared for in ways that you may not know. There is a beautiful world of survivors who have fought to carve a path for you to be able to say outloud, what was done in secret. May you begin to trust that this was written specifically for you, and that each word is shared so that you can feel safer in your pain.
For me, further redemption comes from being able to express this story, knowing someone can grab these words, and tuck them in to their pain, while finding words that break up their lies, makes my reliving it, worth it.
Don't minimize the power of what has been done to you. Do not believe your pain is insignificant. Do not leave that younger version of yourself left to manage all the wreckage that has come from the harm.
Oh, what pain. Oh, what love. Oh, to know: It was never meant to happen. Someone grieves over my unnecessary harm.
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This site has been inactive since I got on Facebook and will remain so. I'm keeping it up for the old travel reports, but I don't want to put in the effort to keep it spam-free, so I've just turned commenting off. If you want to contact me, there's an email link at the very bottom of the page (click on "Godsmurf"). Maybe some time in the distant future I'll make a site with just travel photos, that would be nice.
Voila, the Morocco travel report is finished! Three more parts were added, about the gorges, about the kasbahs of Taourirt and Telouat, and about Casablanca. All have some fantastic pictures I think. I'm too lazy to put up samples here, just look at the index to see some of the very best pics.
After a few months of intense website building (first VlaamseTaal.be and then ProPolitiek.be) I've picked up the Morocco travel report again. Here is part 7 about our desert trip and nearby Rissani. The other parts will follow quickly now as I've already sorted out all the pics.
The picture of Tongeren that National Geographic bought for their Traveler magazine has appeared in two more publications since. Today I got another small cheque because the picture has been reused in a magazine called "Slovenian Traveler", sweet!
I've been working on a new website for a while but this weekend I continued the Morocco travel report, which now has two new parts about the first days of our car trip in the south. There are mostly pictures of the great landscapes we drove through and of Aït Benhaddou, Morocco's famous kasbah.
"In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically-elected Iranian government". I never thought I'd live to see the day when an American president would admit to something like this (and there is plenty to choose from), but Obama said this in his speech to the muslim world today. Truly amazing, even though they're only words.
Marrakesh was the nicest city to stay in in Morocco and had the most impressive monuments, but it lacks the pleasant culture shock effect of Fez. Read all about it in part 4 of the Morocco travel report (I link to the index now coz it's starting to look good :) ).
So I've put up pictures of 10 of the 20 days now after being back less than a week. The rest will be a bit slower in coming but not much. From now on it's all picture of nature and kasbahs, and though the first half of the trip was great we thought the 8-day car trip that I'll talk about in the next parts was even better.
Here is part 3 of the Morocco pictures about the empirial city of Meknes, the Roman ruins at Volubilis and the holy town of Moulay Idriss.
Here is part 2 of the Morocco pictures about Fez, the country's most fascinating city.
We're back in Belgium since yesterday! It's been a great trip, one of my best trips in fact, but the last few days (after we returned the car) were a bit too much so we're glad to be back home.
I promised to put up the pictures quickly this time and I deliver: here's part 1 of the travel report already with pictures of our first three days, spent in the northern towns of Tetouan (a world heritage site) and Chefchaouen (our favourite place in Morocco).
There should be a new part every few days. Up next: Fez!
We're four days into our car trip so far and it's been fantastic already, wonderful views along the way - especially the mountain passes - and beautiful kasbahs, especially Ait Ben-Haddou which was the highlight of the trip so far, just like I expected it would be. We first visited it in the evening but it was cloudy so I woke up at 5am next morning, saw that the sky was clear and went back again to make lots of beautiful pictures in the early sunlight. I did the same next day to climb the little mountain near Zagora, that way lazy Lotte can sleep late while I get some exercise.
Two days ago we arrived in Merzouga on the edge of the Sahara near the Algerian border. We walked and climbed the lovely dunes there and last night did a camel trip including a night under the stars. Unfortunately it was cloudy and almost no stars to see, luckily I'd already tried out the star map my little sister gave me the night before and actually found Saturn and the constellation of Leo (my sign incidentally). I hope to get more stargazing occasions in the remaining days. We're now starting to head back west towards Marrakesh and plan to visit the Todra and Dades gorges along the way and hopefully visit a silver mine.
Since Lotte is following a Moroccan cooking course today, I'm using my solo time to back up some of the photos we made so far. Which gives you the chance to view them...
Aaah, finally found a decent internet connection. Yesterday we arrived in Marrakesh and were very amazed to find a very modern, clean and seemingly prosperous city. This feels more like Barcelona than like what you'd expect here. Also, mostly modern looking people. You see more women with head-scarves in my area of Antwerp than here, for example. Very touristy feel to the place though, even though only a small percentage of the people walking around are actually tourists.
On the train yesterday I made a great plan for a tour around the south of Morocco by rental car. We're leaving here friday morning and it will take about 7 days, filling most of the rest of our journey. It will take us over the highest pass in the Atlas, through the Draa valley, past all the major kasbah's and castles, into the Dades Gorge and over small roads in desert area right to the edge of the sahara for a desert excursion. So I'll probably be offline the whole week, dunno.
Btw if the swine flue catches on in Europe we're not coming back and will just settle in Marrakesh :p
A quick update just to let the home front know all is well. We spent the last two days in Meknes which we liked a lot. Today we visited the Roman ruins of Volubilis. Tomorrow we head to Marrakesh. We're changing plans completely and will probably rent a car there to tour the south, as traveling there without your own ride seems too hard.
Hello from Fez where we just arrived. I gotta keep it short and probably won't be updating a lot during this trip, BUT I'm gonna put up the pictures quickly afterwards as promised. We already visited the small cities of Tetouan and Chefchaouen (VERY nice place) and yesterday spent all day hiking in the Rif mountains near Chefchaouen, so our legs are hurting today but not in a bad way. The next few days we'll be in Fez.
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Whilst making an assertive step forward in the band's sound and dynamic, 'Young Male Rage' once again echoes the band's penchant for insightful lyricism - this time, front woman and lyricist, Lucy Jowett, turns at- tention to gender norms and conditioning. Speaking about the track, Jowett says: "This is about gender norms - the conditioning we subject our children to from a young age in the values we instill and in particular the idea of male dominance and the toxic effect it can have. Earlier this year this topic was constantly cropping up between us, and 'Young Male Rage' was the result of these conversations - from the perspective of a mixed gender band. We wanted to flip this on its head and project it from the female voice."
Dead Naked Hippies, comprising of Jowett, guitarist Joe Clarke and drummer, Jacob Marston, emerged back in 2016 with a post-punk/alt-rock sound likened to the Smashing Pumpkins, Blood Red Shoes and Savages. Since their inception, the band have received support from 6 Music, BBC Introducing, KCRW, Amazing Radio, PRS and the Metro, as well as earning spots at Leeds and Reading Festival and sharing stages with the likes of IDLES, Dream Wife and Honeyblood.
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Earlier this year we visited one of our main chocolate suppliers, The Arran Chocolate Factory and got a sneak preview of Jan's wonderful Easter creations. These beauties have hopped over the water to Geraldo's of Largs. Adults and children alike will love their handcrafted eggs, novelty bunnies and chocolate ducks. And have you seen James of Arran's chocolate 'twins' on our Facebook page? Enter our competition for your chance to take them home for Easter.
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Here's the questionnaire from that other time:
Before 2014 is up, I intend to undertake serious study of two languages, one of which is popularly studied and the other of which very much is not:
(1) They are both the official languages of one nation each
(2) The nations they are affiliated with share the same colors in their flags
(3) The nations begin with the same letter in most European Languages spelled with the Latin Alphabet
(4) One of the languages is endangered
(5) Take one of the countries' languages and translate the other country into that language. One possible result of this word will sound like a word (not the nicest one) associated with that other country (and that word is in English).
And here is your answer!
FRENCH (European)
Item number 5? "Frakland", and the word in question is "Frog".
The riddle was correctly solved less than an hour after it came out by the brilliant and wise Julian Tsapir! Congratulations, Julian!
You are hereby entitled to write a blog post on this site, on whatever topic you want, even if it isn't related one bit to any of the existing posts! You are also welcome to write it in any language that your heart desires!
As to these two languages, my current attack plan is as follows:
(1) I intend to complete the Brazilian Portuguese Tree on Duolingo to its fullest. Thereupon I will have the energy to continue with the French course. Beginning from there, I will go my normal route of media immersion and reading—and I expect there to be a lot of it, more than there would be for Faroese.
(2) I've already looked into Faroese pronunciation a bit, and I'm going to write a bit on my impressions of the language. This week I am going to Karlsruhe to buy the Kauderwelsch Faroese guide, which will teach me pronunciation better than almost anything. I expect to grow into Kringvarp Føroya the same way that I did with KNR (which currently has the biggest collection of Greenlandic media on the web).
As for the third language referenced in the post, the one that my textbook said was a combination of French, Polish, and Chinese—it is on the "back burner" for now, but at some point before 2014 I will bring it up again, definitely in another riddle with more details.
And again, I expect that a set of languages in my current collection may be getting the "axe", but I can't say for sure which ones. I'll know when that happens.
Two things in the near future: (1) a project for when I am back in the U.S. in August and before my semester begins and (2) I will write a post about my first impressions with Faroese!
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Highland Park continues its ascent to the highest strata of cool with the opening of the Lodge Room — a music venue inside the former Masonic Temple on Figueroa. Following a complete refurbishment, you can now catch an act in the intimate (yet gorgeous) space, then head upstairs for a cocktail at Checker Hall.
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For dinner, we Angles went to Vincent's, a great new Italian restaurant in Marietta. It is a place where we dress a little better than usual to visit, but for some reason there was an astounding number of trucker hats and NASCAR/sleeveless/beer t-shirts. The dinner and the service were fantastic - linguine with pesto sauce for M, chicken saltimboca for P, and chicken fingers and fries for G which he did not eat, of course - but the parenting was not the most fun ever. We will just say that we wanted to raise an energetic, joyful, adventurous, intelligent child and we are succeeding on the energetic part. Oh, and the highlight of his behavior was when he sneezed directly onto the disapproving woman at the next table. Come to think of it, maybe she deserved it for being so uptight. Her child looked like way too serious for a child her age (but darn if she wasn't cute anyway).
Today, we had brunch at IHOP, because we Kellys used to go to the one on Woodward (or is it Coolidge?) for several years and P always loved the chocolate chip pancakes, although she had a Belgian waffle today. After about 5 cups of coffee, P inexplicably needed a nap so we headed home for her and Gabriel's nap. When we woke up, we went for a hike with Mom and Dad at the Kennesaw Battlefield. We found a new section of trail that complements our usual route and found that it was a pretty strenuous hike but great fun. Gabriel had a great time in his carrier and was sure to greet everyone we passed:
Later, Matty made a spectacular dinner of tilapia with a garlic thyme butter sauce and Thai jasmine rice, with fresh salads on the side. The fish was so good that we ate the salads last!
It's been a busy few days, because yesterday was the Race for the Cure for M & P, then tea and church, and the day before, we had Gabriel's friend Mak over for much of the day. They didn't interact a whole lot, but they were both very well behaved, especially at the park, where we saw a movie with some more of their friends. Notice his cool new shirt - what little you can see of it, anyway:


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In the summer of 1869, when he was already sick and ailing, Charles Dickens began to contemplate the last of his novels. He had the notion of a young couple who would not marry until the end of the book; he had stray visions of the East End of London, where he wandered late at night trying to fight off the symptoms of weariness and debility that invaded him. He also had "... a very curious and new idea for my new story", the curious idea connected with the effects of opium and the consequent state of altered consciousness. Just a few weeks before, he had visited an opium den in Bluegate Fields, by the dark Thames, where an American companion noted that "we found the haggard old woman blowing at a kind of pipe made of an old penny ink-bottle". Although it is sometimes hazardous to identify the "originals" of Dickens's characters, so vast and multifarious is his power of creation, it is very likely that this old woman appears again in the first pages of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
As soon as he had conceived the plan for this novel, he entered negotiations with his publisher, Chapman and Hall, to bring out a series of 12 monthly parts. He was working on a limited canvas, since in the past he had contemplated his stories unfolding themselves in 20 parts. He was aware that some of his energy had left him, in other words, and prepared accordingly. He also had some intimations of his mortality, since he stipulated in the contract that there should be some arrangement for recompensing the publisher in case of his sudden death.
And so he began work in the early autumn of 1869. His writing arrangements were in a sense somewhat delicate. For much of the time he remained at Gad's Hill Place in Kent, his family home, where he retreated to a Swiss chalet erected at the bottom of his garden. For the rest of the time he was living secretly in a suburban villa at Peckham in south London, which he shared with his companion, or perhaps mistress, Ellen Ternan. Here, under the assumed name of Charles Tringham, he also worked upon this novel of secrets and of disguise.
In his notes for the first monthly instalment he wrote "Opium-Smoking", and then slightly later he jotted down "Cathedral town running throughout". The cathedral town in the novel is named as Cloisterham, but is based upon the town of Rochester that Dickens had known all his life. He had lived close by it, when he was a child, and Gad's Hill Place was only a mile or so distant. It had always been one of the sources of his inspiration - part of the landscape of his imagination - but in his last novel it is a place of old time and old stone, eerie, broken, desolate, inhabited by some of the strangest creatures that Dickens ever invented.
Yet who else but Dickens could have created that imp of the perverse, Deputy, who assists Durdles homewards by throwing stones at his back? The most extraordinary character of all, John Jasper, emerges fully armed from Dickens's imagination. The novelist had created the character of the hypocritical or smooth-fronted murderer in previous short stories, and at the time of composing The Mystery of Edwin Drood he was engaged in the ritual of "killing" Nancy in his public readings from Oliver Twist. It has often been suggested that the strain and exhaustion attendant upon that murder reading hastened Dickens's own death. So death, and murder, were very much on his mind in the composition of the novel. That is why it becomes such a mysterious disquisition upon finished time and last things.
He continued through the autumn and winter months of 1869, but he told a friend that the writing gave him "trouble and anxiety". His earliest biographer, John Forster, has remarked that he seemed unable to work at his old pace or with his old instinctive energy and that he suffered from a "manifest abatement of his natural force". That may in part account for the restrained tone of the narrative. There are few of the flourishes and extravagances that marked some of the larger and longer novels of his maturity; The Mystery of Edwin Drood is marked by the austerity and simplicity of its style. It was so economical, in fact, that he found to his horror that he had written too little for the monthly number. For the first time in his writing career, he was six pages too short. He rushed to add another chapter, and to transpose a scene from a later part of the book.
He also made an unaccountable decision. He broke the habit of a lifetime by agreeing to a series of public readings even while he was engaged on a piece of fiction. In previous years he had kept the activities apart, for the sake of his energy as well as his health. But now, even while deep in the composition of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, he agreed to give a series of "farewell readings" to his adoring public. He finished them at great cost to his strength. He was now considered to look much older than his 58 years. George Eliot dined with him one evening and declared that he was "looking dreadfully shattered". He was also growing increasingly lame.
Yet it was always his philosophy to work on - work on, he used to say, while it is still day. By the third week of March he had completed the fourth number of the new novel, and read it out loud to Forster and to his family. His daughter, Kate, has left a record that "my father's brain was more than usually clear and bright during the writing of Edwin Drood ... the extraordinary interest he took in the development of the story was apparent in all that he said or did". But she added somewhat ruefully that the composition of the book was "a tax too great for his fast ebbing strength". Yet there never had been a way of stopping him working. To warn or advise him, she said, was as idle as "stretching one's hands to a river and bidding it to cease to flow". It is apposite and significant therefore that in the narrative he was even then writing there is the image of the river Thames as it proceeds ever downstream, "heaving with a restless knowledge of its approach to the sea".
The first number of the novel was published at the beginning of April 1870, in the familiar green covers that Dickens had fashioned as his "trademark", and sold approximately 50,000 copies. The book was immediately welcomed as a return to Dickens's "old manner" after the dangerous experimentation of Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend. It should be remembered that such great masterpieces of Dickens's late period were treated with disdain by the newspaper reviewers, who saw nothing in them but the wearisome longueurs of difficult plots combined with a somewhat strained and wayward humour. The relative brevity and succinctness of The Mystery of Edwin Drood came, in that sense, as a welcome relief. The illustrator of the new novel, Luke Fildes, also met with approval. He was a young artist whose more modern style of graphic illustration seemed a world away from the caricatures of Hablot Browne or "Phiz" who had illustrated Dickens's earlier fictions. The new style, closer to Punch than to The Pickwick Papers, consorted well with the new age. Among the advertisements that accompanied the monthly numbers of the novel were those for washing machines and self-raising flour.
It is clear enough that Dickens knew the direction in which his narrative was travelling. The disappearance of Edwin Drood, and the peculiar behaviour of John Jasper, provide evidence to suggest that Jasper was indeed the murderer. He may have killed his nephew in a delirium induced by opium, an act that he can only recall when he is once more in a drugged condition. This may have been the "curious" turn in the plot that Dickens had been contemplating. But there are so many loose ends in the unfinished story that a whole cottage industry has grown up around possible sequels. Who is the strange Mr Datchery who appears in Cloisterham? What is the role of "the Princess Puffer" in the resolution of the plot? What will happen to the Landless brother and sister? These questions must alas remain unanswered, with the consolation that the plot itself was not the sole or principal object of Dickens's attention.
He was in this novel concerned with the subtleties and inflections of human behaviour, with the sudden irruption of violence into a small community and the no less insistent note of secrecy and mystery involved in the understanding of human temperament. His own life enters in an oblique manner. He was preoccupied with secrecy too, in the conduct of his relationship with Ellen Ternan. One of the themes of the novel lies in the truth that the most interesting part of a life is that which remains concealed. It has been suggested, for example, that the passionate but now non-sexual relationship between Dickens and Ternan resembled the relationship in the novel between Rosa Bud and her "lover" Edwin Drood:
". . . let us be courageous. Let us change to brother and sister from this day forth."
"Never be husband and wife?"
By the beginning of May 1870 Dickens had completed the fifth number of the novel but, rather like John Jasper himself, he was in such pain that he was forced to take large quantities of laudanum in order to sleep. He had been discussing the book with a friend, emphasising its title as a clue to its meaning. "Well, you or we," he said to Dickens, "are approaching the mystery." By this he meant that they were approaching death itself, and at once Dickens became silent and fell into a reverie. It seems possible that Dickens knew that this book, so concerned with death and disappearance, would be his own final work. In some sense he identified the book with death itself, and may have been loath to complete it.
During the last days of May he was working on the sixth number in the offices of All The Year Round in Wellington Street. It should not be forgotten that, busy and infirm as he was, he still continued to edit this weekly periodical. His son, Charles Dickens Jr, came in to bid him goodbye. He found his father "writing very earnestly", and said a few words to him. Dickens looked up, but showed no awareness of his presence. His son spoke out again, and Dickens looked at him. But he did not see him. He was so enveloped in the world of Cloisterham and Jasper that he saw nothing around him. "He was in dreamland with Edwin Drood," Charles wrote later, "and I left him - for the last time." This is an apt image of the novelist at the very end of his life, still in thrall to his visions.
He went back that weekend to Gad's Hill where he began work on the last chapter he would ever complete. He wrote of Rosa Bud arriving in London and gliding on a boat down the dark Thames when "all too soon, the great black city cast its shadow on the waters, and its dark bridges spanned them as death spans life". He walked in the garden and his daughter, Kate, was shocked to see him "a good deal changed". After dinner he talked of his hopes and plans for the novel "if, please God, I live to finish it".
But he never did. On the morning of Wednesday, June 8, 1870, he walked over to his chalet, as was his custom, and worked with some concentration upon the narrative. The surviving manuscript shows that he was writing with unusual ease and facility. He wrote down the words "and then falls to with an appetite", and broke off for the day. He returned to the house an hour before dinner, but then he became noticeably paler. He experienced some kind of fit, and fell to the ground. He never regained consciousness. The pages of The Mystery of Edwin Drood were later found in the chalet. In its unfinished state it is fated forever to remain just that.
· The Mystery of Edwin Drood is published by Everyman's Library Classics (foreword by Peter Ackroyd) at £9.99. To order a copy for £9.99 with free UK p&p call Guardian book service on 0870 836 0875.


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What Types of Cases do Business Attorneys Handle?
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Lab Report: Beginning ASL 3 & 4 Essay, Research Paper
Sign language is a method of communication of which I am becoming more and
more familiar. This is in great part to a series of videos I am currently watching entitled
?The Bravo Family,? Beginning ASL 1-15. I have recently finished watching videos three
and four. I have discovered there are many things that I did not know concerning such
topics as the culture and grammar of the deaf community. I feel these are two aspects
which deserve an abundance of credit and require a large amount of studying.
The culture of the deaf community is still thriving and continues to grow in
strength. This in spite of the years of suppression that people have enforced on these
unique individuals. Technology has extended a great helping hand to all mankind,
especially those of a deaf nature. Flashing lights are becoming a very useful tool in deaf
peoples homes. For example, to help accommodate the special needs of those who can
not hear the telephone or doorbell ring, systems can be installed into someone?s home
which alerts them of someone?s presence at the door or on the phone. The flashing light is
also used to help wake people up in the morning; alarm clocks can also be connected to
the lights. There are also dogs that are trained for sounds. For years blind people have
used these animals to help get them from one place to another. Now the people in the
deaf community can use canines to help alert them of sounds or noises. Another grateful
tool that is used to help the special needs of those who can not hear is a device known as a
TTY or TDD. This is a device that helps two people communicate over the phone lines
by typing on a machine. The message is transmitted over the phone lines and received by
another person on the other line. The problem with this was communicating between a
deaf person with a TTY and hearing person without one. To solve this problem many
states offer what is known as a relay station. This is where a deaf person can type a
message on a TTY, the message is run through a relay station, and the hearing person on
the other line hears a voice which states the message. The opposite is also possible. A
hearing person on one line says something. It runs through the relay station and is
transmitted to the TTY in a typed statement. There is also the entertainment aspect of the
culture. The TV set is a universal tool of education and entertainment. Almost all TV?s
and stations offer closed captioning. This is a great service which scrolls white letters on a
black background across the bottom of the screen. People can see what is being said and
still watch a program. Another aspect of entertainment which is greatly incorporated with
culture is folklore and storytelling. ASL incorporates very creative storytelling with body
language, facial expressions, and the numbering system in number story telling. In this
form of relaying a story numbers represent people, actions, or things. It is very
entertaining to watch someone tell a story using numbers. As you can see the culture of
deaf people runs deep and involves a great many things.
The technical aspect of ASL is just as important as understanding the culture.
Proper grammar is essential when communicating with other people. In ASL you are
required to put the negative at the end of a sentence rather than first. This is opposite, in
form, of English. Another rule of grammar is known as the topic comment rule. This
states that the topic is established first and then what you want to say about the topic, the
comment, is stated last. These rules are very important and can not be overlooked.
I thoroughly enjoyed these two videos over The Bravo family. I learned new signs
for oven, living room, couch, onions, shop, and many more. I am looking forward to
watching more videos and learning more signs. The culture of deaf people is amazing to
me and although the grammar is difficult for me to understand I plan to stick with it and
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The Isle of Wight Council is advising members of the public to observe closure barriers on East Cowes Esplanade following the landslip in the area in late April.
Following a period of wet weather, a large section of land fell onto the road and it has continued to move since then and remains unstable.
The road has since been closed and safety barriers erected to keep people away as the area is dangerous.
Councillor Luisa Hillard, Executive member for the environment and the local member for East Cowes, said: "Following the long periods of adverse weather this winter, many coastal areas remain at risk and it is important all precautions are taken. Residents should make sure they keep well away from this dangerous area until it safe.
"It is a shame that the planned work of the East Cowes Community Partnership to manage the woodland and build a new footpath will need to be put on hold until such time as the area has stabilised."
The council is continuing to monitor the area and will be in a better position to determine a way forward once the ground has stopped moving.
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Tasmanian Burl is the successor to one of our most famous patterns: Rocky Bush. Our clients loved the interplay between the strong gold and amber tones of natural cork coupled with the black tiger striping. Warm tones – in medium depths – made for happy success. We have worked hard with our manufacturer to reproduce the most successful aspects of the Rocky Bush pattern. We called it Tasmanian Burl. This is an homage to the strong amber colour of the Tasmanian Oak found in the Australia and the Island of Tasmania.
The gold highlights make this a light "mid tone". The range of colours present in the pattern means that Tasmanian Burl can be used beside dozens of different wood species – it can be used as the product that makes all the wood tones in a home "work together". Instead of adding "another wood colour" it can be used to bring harmony to a space. This is critical when working with partial renovations.
It can be tough enough getting multiple wood products to work together. Tasmanian Burl can make it easier than you ever imagined.
Some key features of this product are:
- Industry-leading UNICLIC® profile
- Insulates against acoustical vibrations and thermal fluctuations
- Warm and comfortable under foot which allows you to save money on heating and cooling bills
- Reduces noise: keep noise from transmitting down through the floor, or up through the ceiling
- Keep out unwanted heat energy in the summer, keep it in the room in the winter
- Resilient, low slip surface making this an excellent surface for seniors, children or people suffering from arthritis or joint pain
- Impact resistant
- Naturally resistant to insects, mould, mildew due to anti-microbial prosperities
- Hypo-allergenic, repel dust, hair, and other small particles – healthy alternative to carpet
- Ecologically friendly – completely natural, recurring, and replenishable material
- Easy to clean and maintain
- Made with formaldehyde free adhesives
- Stain resistant
|Installation Type
|Plank Length
|35.43″ (900mm)
|Plank Width
|11.81″ (300mm)
|Surface Texture
|Plank Thickness
|1/2″ (12mm)
|Finish Detail
|Prefinished with three layers of water based polyurethane
|Wear Layer Thickness
|1/8″ (3mm)
|Residential and Light Commercial (with coating)*
|Core Type
|1/4″ (6mm) E1 Class High Density Fiberboard
|Click Lock – Licensed Uniclic flooring system
|Bottom Layer
|1/8″ (3mm) genuine cork underlay attached
|Recommended Waste Factor
|Edge Type
|Square Edge
|Radiant Heat Compatible?
|Packaging Dimensions (inches)
Weight: 28 lbs
|Floor Grade Level
|On, Above and Below
|17.44 sq ft
|Country of Origin
|Pieces in Package
|10-Year Residential Wear Warranty
Lifetime Structural
Joint Integrity Warranty
Info & Guides
- Installation details
- Warranty
- DIBT Cork Certificate
- CE Declaration of Conformity
- Safety Datasheet Cork
- VOC and Formaldehyde test report
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Water based Poly Loba 2K Supra A.T. Litre + Winterizing Package and Fasting Shipping (Non-Returnable Item)
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Water Based Polyurethane Loba 2K Supra AT Gal + Winterizing Package and Fasting Shipping (Non-Returnable Item)


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3 Effortless Hacks That Can Double Your Email Open Rate
If you stumbled upon this blog post you're probably already aware of the importance of email marketing.
It often plays a huge role in every serious marketing plan.
It's one of the cogwheels of your business machine.
Emails can be used to drive traffic to specific pages, increase sales and get more people interested in what you have to say.
Now the objective of this blog post is not to show you the best email tools or newsletter tips – you can get brilliant guides anywhere on the internet and for free.
Instead, we decided to write down a few quick solutions – you may call them hacks – that are sure to have a positive impact on your open rate.
Here are three effortless and super simple hacks that you should include in your mailing routine to get a better open and click rate.
None of these require additional software nor copywriting skills or tools (though we recommend using tools for optimal results).
DISCLAIMER: If your email copy sucks, this won't help you much.
HACK #1 – It's All About the Timing
Believe it or not, but the WHEN a person on your list gets the email has a massive impact on their willingness to read on.
You should pay attention to your readers' behavior.
Don't do your mailing blast early in the morning. Your message will most likely get lost in a sea of newsletters. Or in the afternoon work hours when an average person can't wait to finish work and go home (or to a bar).
I read this study by Marketing Sherpa. They analyzed about 21 million emails and found that the emails sent in between 8 and 9 a.m., and the ones sent at 3 to 4 p.m. had the best click-through and open rates.
This isn't a safe bet, but rather a starting point.
Try sending your emails at different times, experiment and see what works.
Tweet this: Effortless Email Hack – It's all about the timing
HACK #2 – The Power of the Resend Button
Sounds simple and it is!
Just look up who's opened your email and who hasn't, wait a day or two and resend. You should keep few things in mind though:
- Don't do it all the time and with every email. You don't want your subscribers to see you do it all the time, respect them. That means no spamming.
- Change the subject line a bit so when you resend your reader doesn't know he/she is getting the same email.
Effortless Email Hack – Leverage the power of the resend button
HACK #3 – Clean Mailing List = Better Response
A bunch of inactive subscribers will hurt your inbox deliverability.
In other words, it will lower your open rate which is a key factor for measuring of the Engagement Score. Email service providers like Google, Yahoo or Hotmail are looking at it to determine should they put you in the readers' spam folder.
That being said, you don't need the dead weight – if someone hasn't opened your email for 6 months you might want to think about keeping them onboard.
You can segment your list and put them in a separate one, but before you cross someone over, be sure to send them a last-ditch-effort email to re-engage them. It might work and costs you nothing.
It might just work and costs you nothing.
Effortless Email Hack – Clean up your list and get better response rates
Bonus Hack
Did you know that users who add their picture to their signature get 32% more replies to their emails?
Well, now you do.
People like to know there's an actual human on the other side of the message. A picture can help you gain credibility. Also, make sure it's adjusted for the audience you're trying to reach.
Now go try this simple tricks and be amazed. 😉
If you want to share your email success story or need some more help, you can do so in our Future Marketing Facebook group.
For those that want to know more:
- 20 Ways to Double your Email Open Rate
- Hacks to Boost Email Open Rate
- 11 Sneaky Tricks to Double Email Conversions
- Email Marketing Tricks


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Boston, Mass. – Despite four goals from freshman Alix Hughes (Trumbull, Conn.), the Albertus Magnus College women's lacrosse team lost on the road to Lasell College by a score of 19-6 on Tuesday evening at Grellier Field in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) clash.
FINAL SCORE: Lasell 19 | Albertus Magnus 6
RECORDS: Albertus Magnus (3-6, 0-5) | Lasell (8-3, 4-2)
Lasell opened regulation scoring six unanswered goals five minutes in before back-to-back goals from Hughes and Alex Chan (Monroe, N.Y.) brought the Falcons to within four, 6-2. Shortly after, the Lasers pushed their lead back up to six, 8-2, before finding themselves ahead by 10, 14-4, at the half.
Albertus Magnus could only play catch-up in second half falling to the Lasers, 19-6, after being outshot 5-2 over the final 30 minutes. Hughes would score the Falcons' first goal of the half at the 20:20 mark followed by Kaitlin D'Agostino (Hamden, Conn.) who found the back of the net with 12:12 remaining.
- Albertus Magnus – Lexie Fenn (L, 3-7): 19 Goals-Against | 13 Saves | 32 Shots
- Lasell – Morgan Choquet (W, 9-3): 6 Goals-Against | 6 Saves | 12 Shots
- Lasell posted a 20-12 edge in ground balls as well as outshot the Falcons 38-16.
- Albertus Magnus was 6-for-13 in clears and was 1-of-2 in free position shots.
- D'Agostino led the Falcons with six draw controls as well as scored a goal, scooped up a ground ball and caused a turnover.
- Taylor Yandown and Vanessa Pino registered a game-high three goals and three assists each for the Lasers.
- Jordan McComb collected a game-high five draw controls.
- The Lasers held an advantage in draw controls, 16-11, and in caused turnovers, 12-2.
- Junior Lexie Fenn (Oakville, Conn.) posted a team-high four ground balls for the Falcons.
Albertus Magnus returns home on Thursday, April 12 as the Falcons host in-state rival Mitchell College at 6 p.m. at Celentano Field.


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Despite Claims to the Contrary, Science Says Fracking Not Causing Increased Earthquakes
When you hear supposedly solid sources blaming hydraulic fracturing for earthquakes, remember the facts don't support the accusations. Fracking isn't causing Oklahoma's increased earthquakes.
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Mark Zoback: Fracking and Oklahoma Earthquakes
In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Dr. Zoback and research fellow Isaac Orr discuss why the earthquakes are happening in Oklahoma, and the best ways state regulators can reduce, or eliminate them. Make sure to tune into this very special edition!
Two recent reports on Ohio's wastewater injection well program discredit chronic allegations by opponents of hydraulic fracturing. These include claims that the creation of such wells leads directly to earthquakes, and that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has neglected to establish proper regulations to keep Ohioans safe.
For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario. In 1994, the American Philosophical Society published a book bearing the title: Is water our next crisis? In 2007, NBC featured: Crisis feared as U.S. water supplies dry up. More recently, in 2011, NPR did a story on Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization—a new book in which the author posits: "water is surpassing oil as the world's scarcest critical resource." This year, a Business Insider (BI) report called "water scarcity problems" a "looming national issue." In September, the Associated Press declared: "The water crisis is already here."
Gasland was many Americans' first exposure to hydraulic fracturing, and the film sparked anti-fracking organizations around the country. These activist groups used the film in efforts to convince people that fracking is responsible for a whole host of environmental problems, including contaminated water supplies, overuse of water, and even earthquakes.
Despite the fact that the science doesn't support the thesis, opponents of oil-and-gas extraction, like Maddow, have long claimed that the process of hydraulic fracturing is the cause of the earthquakes. Earthworks calls them "frackquakes" because the quakes, the organization says, are "fracking triggered earthquakes."
The president of the Space and Science Research Corporation, John Casey, is also the author of "Cold Sun: A Dangerous 'Hibernation' of the Sun Has Begun!" and has called attention to a meteorological cycle that until the global warming hoax occurred, was largely unknown to many people and, to a large degree still is.
Heartland Daily Podcast – Bette Grande: Fracking and Earthquake Misconceptions
In today's edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Research Fellow Isaac Orr and Research Fellow Bette Grande discuss earthquakes and their relationship with hydraulic fracturing. Grande also gives the listeners an inside look at the state of oil production in North Dakota as a result of low oil prices.
Ohio sits above the Utica and Marcellus shales, two geologic formations that have rich energy potential waiting to be unlocked by the process of hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as "fracking." Increased energy production has the potential to be a powerful economic engine for unemployed Ohioans, but the debate over hydraulic fracturing has served to highlight the natural and political fault lines running through the state.


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Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology
Nearly a century ago, the John Wyckoff Adult Cardiology Clinic opened its doors within Bellevue Hospital, the nation's largest municipal hospital. This clinic—the first in the United States dedicated to the care of patients with cardiovascular disease—formed the basis for the Division of Cardiology at NYU Langone Health. Since that auspicious beginning, our clinicians, educators and scientists have continued to make major contributions to cardiovascular medicine and we are now recognized as one of the top programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Our faculty and staff provide comprehensive and personalized cardiovascular care, pursue cutting-edge biomedical research and educate the next generation of cardiovascular specialists. more >>
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Candy Corn Monograms, Spider Buttonhole & BOO Design
This set includes fun Candy Corn Monograms
All uppercase Curlz letters are embedded in the designs.
Included are all monograms in the Candy Corn Applique design with the candy corn tilted to the right (as shown above), tilted to the left & straight up and down.
This fun BOO design is in the set
Also included is a cute Fringed Spider Buttonhole
The spider's body is a covered button ~ the design for this is included too.
~ Design Info ~
Actual design dimensions
BOO Design ~ 5.64" x 3.39"
Spider Buttonhole ~ 1.85" x 2.03"
Tilted (either left or right) Candy Corn Monograms 2.79" x 3.28"
Straight up & down Candy Corn Monogram 2.89" x 2.99"
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Forget to charge your phone? Just use your morning cup of coffee to give it a boost
Epiphany One Puck lets you charge your phone with your hot beverage.
We have all done it before; you get to work and realize that you forgot to charge your phone the night before. Now you can forget plugging in that USB cable for a battery boost, because the Epiphany One Puck will charge your phone by recycling the heat in your beverage into electricity.
The technology behind the Epiphany One Puck is quite simple actually. A Peltier is used to convert the heat into electric energy by thermo-electric-cooling. Basically as one side of the Peltier gets hot, the other side cools down and electrons are shed, generating electricity.
We have seen this technology before and in fact it is used in custom PC cooling setups all the time. Cooler Master even built an entire CPU cooler based on a TEC. The company behind the Epiphany One Puck is about to wrap up their quite successful Kickstarter, so if you want one you better hurry quick to get in on the savings.
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Every new business owner needs to know the fundamentals. Forbes.com is breaking down those building blocks by answering eight core questions related to a given industry. Taken together, the information will give budding entrepreneurs a head start on making those first critical steps.
What legal structure should I choose?
Broker entrepreneurs have a choice of five possible legal structures: sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, S corporation or C corporation. As with many small businesses, an LLC is probably your best bet.
Setting up an LLC protects you from personal liability; only the amount of money you put into the business is at risk. To further limit liability during transactions, real estate brokerages typically carry errors-and-omissions insurance.
While corporations also limit personal liability, LLCs are simpler and more flexible: They don't require a board of directors, shareholder meetings and other managerial formalities. Corporations must have boards; for real estate firms, each director must be a licensed real estate broker.
LLCs also offer the most flexible tax treatment. That's because an LLC's profits can be taxed as a corporate entity (a C corporation) or as a "pass-through" entity (an S corporation), meaning that the company avoids paying taxes on both corporate profits and the owner's personal income. Most LLCs choose the pass-through option.
However, in some cases, LLCs can choose a C corporation tax structure and save money by funneling profits back into the business tax-free.
Another advantage to LLCs is that entrepreneurs can divvy up profits any way they choose, whereas with shareholders, the spoils have to be carved up in proportion to each shareholder's percentage ownership in the corporation.
One caveat to LLCs: If you're planning to build your brokerage into the next


text: If for you eating an Indian incorporates shouting at the TV screen whilst wearing your pyjama bottoms think again. La Porte Des Indes, set just back from Marble Arch, have recently turned 18, which in restaurant years is (similar to dog years) is some what of a golden oldie. The restaurant notes their culinary mainstay as "The Gallic influenced dishes representative of Pondicherry, a former French colony of India, dating back to the nineteenth century", with spice infused french plates such as Cassoulet Des Fruits De Mer, a rich seafood stew simmered in vindai spices or Poulet Rouge, shr...Read more →


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The trimaran is equipped with everything needed to offer all types of events:
We offer three different private charter options with lunch/dinner, two snack options, or just open bar with no food. Each option includes national or international drinks. Our charters have a duration of 2 to 3 hours and include animation, a slow cruise along the Punta Cana coastline with a stop at a natural swimming pool where your guests can take a dip in these waist-deep waters. Meals are also served, at sunset, at the natural swimming pool. Extra hours can be added.
Our Punta Cana Wedding Boat is perfect for wedding groups, incentive groups or anyone who wishes to experience high end service in an incredibly spacious trimaran. Cruise the Punta Cana coastline in Trimaran style.


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Diversified Technology provides managed garbage billing services to municipalities, authorities, private utilities, as well as residential associations around the country.
Save Money Over In-House Staff
How do we do it? Its really pretty simple. Its economy of scale.
Our managed garbage billing service staff works for many different utilities and authorities. These utilities and authorities all operate on different schedules. So, unlike your in-house staff, our billing staff has no "slow" or "down" time in the middle of a cycle. They just move on to the next client.
Also, our billing service is operated by Diversified Technology, the developer of Diversified Billing. That gives us access to the best billing software on the market with all the latest advances.
And finally, because of our volume, it makes sense to invest in the fastest and best equipment.
Sound too good to be true? Make us prove it!
25+Years of Billing Experience
We have been generating ACCURATE garbage bills ON TIME for a long time. And we are very, very good at it.
Our managed billing service staff is well trained and well experienced. They have seen and worked with just about every conceivable situation, issue policy and procedure. And they are ready to handle yours.
Sound too good to be true? Make us prove it!
We Can Handle It All
- If your billings are flat, we will begin the billing process based on the scheduled you have established.
- But if your billings are based on volume or consumption, just send us your meter readings and we will generate your bills.
- We will run a variety of variance reports to check for mis-reads and other anomalies.
- Our managed billing service includes emailing your bills, or printing and mailing them using a CASS certified mailing list to assure you the lowest rates.
- We will receive your payments in a dedicated lock box, process them, and deposit them directly into your operating account.
- We will generate and send late notices and shut-off notices accord to the policies you establish.
- Our manged billing service also includes even answering your phones, answering your customers' questions and dealing with their issues, and interfacing with your operations group as necessary.
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text: My first yarn adventure was learning to crochet. My crochet adventure began when I was 11 years old along with most of the other kids in my neighborhood thanks to a friend's mom and her "talent" for keeping the neighborhood kids entertained and out of trouble. Without telling my age, remember that we didn't always have cell phones, video games, mp3 players, computers and cable television. We played outside, rode our bikes and played group games to entertain ourselves. Crochet lessons that summer became our afternoon group activity. We would meet in my friend's backyard after lunch, sitting in the shade, watching my friend's mother demonstrate how to crochet. This group included both boys and girls, young and older kids all together with a common goal . . . chain stitch, single crochet, double crochet, granny square. We learned to roll that rug yarn into a ball that fit into the empty coffee can with a plastic lid and a hole about the size of a quarter in the middle for the yarn to pull out through (this kept our yarn ball clean and not rolling loose). We all made granny squares using both black and white yarn and I remember laughing and talking and having a great time learning to crochet that summer. I remember making a rug for my bedroom and hot pads for my mom and then I didn't crochet for many years. I have picked up my crochet hooks from time to time through the years making ponchos, baby blankets, afghans, and other popular items. I learned to read patterns, make more complicated stitches and different types of yarns. I can say that learning to crochet is something I have never forgotten and have used throughout my life. From time to time a new fashion fad comes on trend and I like to give it a try and see what I can make. Anyone remember broomstick crochet? Here comes my newest yarn adventure . . . arm knitting. I saw some posts on facebook showing the funky, chunky scarves and cowls that people were making and went to YouTube to watch some videos and learn how to do this new fun method using your arms and no knitting needles or crochet hooks at all. I have made a lot of these scarves now and am adding them to my accessory section in my shop. The arm knitting gives a bulky loose loop texture to the scarves and resembles a fishing net when stretched out on the back side.


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There is nothing quite like taking a break from our hectic day-to-day schedules and escaping into the tranquility of nature. Without the constant distractions, it's easy to relax, rejuvenate, and return home feeling refreshed and ready to go! However, if the thought of roughing it in a campground sends shivers down your spine, we have the solution! The Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls boasts a wide variety of lodging options, including our brand new yurts! Our custom Hocking Hills yurts provide the ultimate glamping experience that you'll want to return to again and again. Here is everything you need to know about Yurt camping in Ohio and what to expect during your stay!
Thinking about yurt camping in Ohio? Download your free copy of our Hocking Hills Vacation Guide to find even more fun things to do during your stay!
What is a Yurt?
Yurts are circular shelters that were used for centuries by Central Asian nomads. There are several variations of the basic design and different names used for the structure. The Ger and the bentwood yurt (also known as the Üy) were the most common. The Mongolian Ger is one of the oldest designs and known for its relatively heavy center ring and straight rafters. The design of these yurts inspired the modern Pacific-style yurts that you'll find at the Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls. Our modernized version of these yurts are made of beautiful Douglas fir, wrapped in NASA-developed reflective insulation, and covered in with architectural fabric. The wood rafters lead upward into the central dome creating an open, spacious feeling with an abundance of natural light. They are truly a marvel to behold and even better to stay in!
About Our Yurts
Our custom designed Hocking Hills yurts combine the very best experiences of refined cabin life and tent camping. It's the perfect opportunity to enjoy the comforting sounds, sights, and smells of nature without sacrificing the luxuries you'd find at most hotels and resorts. Each 20-foot diameter yurt has a king-size bed or two twin beds, full bathroom with a tiled shower, comfortable reading rockers, gas log stove, microwave/under counter refrigerator, a wood deck and more. Plus, they are heated and air-conditioned for year round use!
You may find that our yurts do not have a TV. This gives you the chance to truly live in the moment and enjoy your memorable glamping experience with your loved ones. At night, you'll don't forget to gaze up at an entire sky of sparkling stars right from your bed! It's the cherry-on-top of a truly perfect yurt camping in Ohio getaway.
Escape to the Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls Today
Our sought-after Select Registry bed & breakfast is the perfect place to relax, unwind, and reconnect with your loved ones and the beauty of nature.
In addition to the yurts, we offer a number of memorable accommodations including the 1840's-style cabins, bed & breakfast rooms, and cozy cottages. We are also the home to one of the Hocking Hills' best restaurants, Kindred Spirits, and a relaxing spa. It's everything you need and more to return home feeling refreshed.
Book your stay today at the Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls! We look forward to welcoming you to the Hocking Hills soon.


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Clean Cassia Cinnamon (1 lb)
A staple for all SANE smoothies and many SANE desserts, cinnamon is one of the oldest and most recognizable of flavors in the world. Preliminary lab and animal studies have found that cinnamon may have antibacterial and antifungal properties. It may also has an anti-clotting effect on the blood. Several studies suggest that non-GMO cinnamon may have a supportive effect on blood sugar, making it possibly beneficial for people with Type 2 diabetes. Other studies with cinnamon showed an amazing ability to stop medication-resistant yeast infections. One study even found that smelling cinnamon may boost cognitive function and memory.In a study published by researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Maryland, cinnamon reduced the proliferation of leukemia and lymphoma cancer cells. Studies have shown that just 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon per day may possibly lower the bad types of LDL cholesterol. In addition researchers at Kansas State University found that cinnamon fights the E. coli bacteria in unpasteurized juices. When added to food, it inhibits bacterial growth and food spoilage making it a natural food preservative.
Supporting healthy cholesterol levels
Relieving diarrhea
Supports healthy digestion
May Reduce headaches & migraine pain
Supports cognitive function & memory
Supports the immune system
Anti-clotting effect on the blood
Supporting healthy blood sugar levels
Preserving foods
Eliminating bad breath
May Relieve in arthritis pain
Ability to stop medication-resistant yeast infections
1 to 2 Teaspoons Per Day
Best when added to SANE smoothies
Space your servings out across the day.
Raw Organic Cassia Cinnamon Powder
Origin: Vietnam - Certified Organic
SANE strives to offer the highest quality organically grown, raw, vegan, gluten free, non-GMO products available and exclusively uses low temperature drying techniques to preserve all the vital enzymes and nutrients. Our Raw Cinnamon Powder is certified organic and passes our strict quality assurance which includes testing for botanical identity, heavy metals, chemicals and microbiological contaminants. SANE offers Raw Organic Cinnamon Powder packaged in airtight stand-up, resealable foil pouches for optimum freshness. Once opened, just push the air out of the pouch before resealing it in order to preserve maximum potency. Keep your Raw Organic Cinnamon Powder in a cool, dark, dry place.
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