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It's Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story [1] from a Mark's Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark's Daily Apple community please contact me here [2]. I'll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!
I think most of us have experienced a significant occasion that, due to its life changing effects, becomes a milestone in our lives, be it graduation day, the first day of a new job , the day you first met your mate to be, your wedding day, the birth of your child, the death of a loved one, etc. One such recent occasion for me occurred on August 11, 2010 at about 4:45 p.m. while driving south on US Route 119 in Charleston, WV.
I happened to turn the radio on to a local talk show airing on WCHS Radio 580 AM, hosted by Rick Johnson. He was just concluding an interview with a fellow by the name of Mark Sisson about a book he had recently authored called "Primal Blueprint". I heard just enough to cause me to stop at the nearest bookstore to buy the book but unfortunately they didn't have it. So I went home and logged onto his website, "Marksdailyapple.com." And, as they say, "the rest is history."
Let me back up just a bit to give you a little personal background so you might better understand why that moment in time was to prove to be so significant to me.
I grew up in a family with 12 other siblings. As long as I lived at home our family never owned a car and, as I was to discover in my teen years, we were pretty darned poor, however, we always had food on the table, a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs and were far too proud to seek government assistance for anything. Our diets primarily consisted of cheap high carbs and low protein; the more expensive meat were primarily only for Sunday dinner or special occasions. Mom was well renowned for her baking abilities. (Don't ever tell her, but we kids used her baked goodies for bartering at school and they surely brought top dollar trades for us.) Our intake consisted of lots of bread, pb&j, rice, beans, potatoes, corn, oats, and, as I mentioned previously, an occasional serving of meat.
With no car, we managed to get plenty of exercise walking everywhere we went and we carried a lot of heavy things. We kids were the grocery mules back then. Try lugging a 25 pound bag of potatoes, 15 pounds of flour, 10 pounds of sugar, 10 loaves of bread, a basket of tomatoes, etc. home from the grocery when you are just a kid. Let me tell you, it's a load. We also had several paper routes and delivered about 200 newspapers door to door every day. Even with that kind of diet we all managed to stay exceptionally slim (read "skinny") growing up but we had developed good strength for our sizes as well. As an example, in Basic Training at Fort Benning, at the age of 20, I was 5'- 10" tall and weighed only 135 pounds yet I managed to finish in the top 10% or higher in my company with every physical or academic challenge they presented us.
Let's fast forward now to my 50's. I was now married for 30+ years, had seven kids, was a structural engineering department head for a branch office of a nationally recognized engineering firm, was heavily involved in church and school activities and was working long stressful hours at the office. We were always on the go for church, PTA, school pageants, wrestling, baseball, soccer, volleyball, and track, events which usually occurred at several different grade levels and oft times even at different schools. With so many teenagers and all of their accompanying friends to feed, we seemed to live on fast food, chips, pizza, pasta, pb&j, cake and ice cream (lots of special occasions), mashed potatoes (my personal favorite), etc. I topped out at 245 pounds but, unfortunately, I had failed to grow another foot in height to compensate for the added weight gain. I imagine that this sounds like an excerpt straight out of Ken Korg's diary, doesn't it?
I really didn't mind the extra weight at first, at least now I didn't have to listen to the old jokes about me turning sideways, sticking out my tongue and looking like a zipper or, while playing basketball, hearing, "don't get too close to him or you might cut yourself on his ribs." But, I didn't like the aspect of showing up at our large family reunions and being the largest (read "fattest") member of our family, a family who seemingly were all masters at dishing out negative humor. I was so embarrassed by my physique that I always wore long pants and a shirt, even when out in the blistering sun on the south Florida beaches.
During this time I began my prescription medication collection with pills first to control my high blood pressure, then added some more for high cholesterol and then added a couple of more for Type II Diabetes. Those combined with all of the supplements I was taking became a pretty big mouthful to swallow several times a day.
To try and gain a little control over my weight I read books on dieting, such as "Sugar Busters", "The Atkins Diet" and "The South Beach Diet" but with my lifestyle and the fact that I was the only one attempting to diet in the family it was doomed to failure before I ever started and the diets typically lasted only a few weeks at most.
Now let's fast forward to July of 2010. I sat in my doctor's office following his exam. He told me that my A1C had been progressively elevating and was now at 7.1. The diabetes pills were no longer effective for me. It was time for me to escalate on to insulin injections. My cholesterol was a whopping 250 and something more needed to be done to reduce it. My EKG apparently showed some abnormalities and he was referring me to a cardiologist. My creatinine levels were also a cause for concern; it appeared that I might have Stage II kidney disease, so he was referring me to a nephrologist as well.
My dad (deceased) had Type I Diabetes which was diagnosed when he was but a teenager and my older brother has Type II Diabetes. Both had to take insulin shots several times daily and I saw firsthand what that entailed and have seen my father in diabetic comas on several occasions. Not pretty! I have also known acquaintances who have suffered eye hemorrhages and amputations due to diabetes. I feared that my health was taking a huge nose dive.
I ask that you try to put yourselves briefly into my shoes for a moment. At this time of my life I am 63 years old. My physical health was progressively failing. I had chronic back pain in both upper and lower back, elbow tendonitis, loss of bone density and terribly achy joints. I could no longer do a single push up or even a sit up. It seemed that my muscles had atrophied from sitting at a desk all day with little to no physical exercise.
My mental health was at low tide as well. Job wise, my upwardly mobile career got caught up in a failing economy and serious downsizing with huge layoffs. I could not afford to retire since my investments were taking a beating and, in order to work, I embarrassingly had to take about a 20 year backward step in my career and start anew. My kids with whom we had invested most of our time and energy were now out of the nest and on their own – they no longer needed me. I was extremely tired all the time; I didn't sleep well at night. I had become impotent (EDS) somewhere along the way which stripped me of my sense of masculinity. I was getting more and more depressed and I really just didn't care whether I lived or not. Living was no longer fun. I had no dreams, no future to look forward to, and had no sense of purpose. Then the doc comes along and drops this bombshell on me as well.
Suffering through all of this in quiet desperation, this was what was foremost on my mind that fateful day when I happened to tune in and hear Mark Sisson being interviewed by Rick Johnson on the radio.
I came to realize that basically I was committing suicide one bite at a time with all the "comfort" foods I was consuming. Within about three months after gradually ramping up with the Primal lifestyle I had lost 40 to 50 pounds and was off all medications except for my blood pressure meds. Technically I could still do without them but my BP would run at a high normal so I elected to cut them in half for awhile to see if I can gradually wean myself off of them via other means. I eventually got a clean bill of health from the cardiologist, the nephrologist and my family doc. They were all greatly impressed by the drastic improvements in my physical well-being, something evidently they seldom see in their line of work.
It has now been over a year since I began the Primal lifestyle. I currently weigh 175 pounds and have lost over 60 pounds since I started. My energy level is up and I find myself planning and dreaming of my future once again. Also, I no longer suffer from impotence. I believe that it most likely was a side effect of some of the meds I was taking.
Here is a recent photograph of me carrying 60 pounds of extra baggage that represents all the fat which I have lost.
My LDL is still a bit high (even the bad LDL cells) and my cardiologist suggested that I consider taking medication for it. My response to him was that he could write a prescription if he liked but I would not get it filled. I would rather drop dead right there in his office than to go back on the medications which I had previously been on and to feel the way I did back then. He said that he thought I was being a bit overly dramatic but I assured him that I truly meant every word of it. I will exhaust all other means to reduce that LDL before I will ever consider taking another prescription drug, if I even do so then.
In late December 2010 I decided to take a walk in a state forest about a 30 minute drive from home. It was late morning on a drizzly cold Sunday. The trail I chose was a rutted, dirt maintenance road up a fairly steep incline. The temperature was dropping, mud holes began to ice over and the snow started falling and covering the ground. My energy level was at an all time high. I spontaneously burst into occasional sprints up the mountain. I was alone in the forest and was in rapt awe with nature, the cold wind, the falling snow, the bare trees, and the quietness of the forest surrounding me. It seemed that every one of my sensory receptors were operating in high gear. I searched for a way to describe the keen sense of exhilaration I felt within my being. What popped into my mind was MDA's logo of Grok charging through the forest with his spear in hand, leaping over fallen trees. The image described me perfectly in that moment. I ended up walking some 13 miles that day, the last 90 minutes of which were in the moonless blackness of deep woods after dark. Talk about a thrill. WOW!
Now, at the age of 64 there are a few things that I have finally come to acknowledge that I will never ever be able to do in this life, like play ball for the NFL, NBA, NHL, or compete in the PGA, become a jet pilot, or ever score a "10" on the LGN charts. Actually for the LGN chart, I think that I might have moved up from a negative number to maybe at least a "1" by now. I learned a long time ago that it's not the package but what's inside it that really matters.
I always found it so humiliating in days past when stepping out of the shower in the morning that my two dogs would roll on the floor laughing at me while they made snide remarks about my distorted overweight physique – they gave me no respect at all. Now, maybe I won't ever rock the LGN charts but at least when I open the shower curtains now my dogs stare in open admiration at the new ALPHA MALE in their lives as they anxiously await me to see what I have in store for them that day. I love it! 🙂
I really don't consider this to be a "success" story, but rather a "work-in-progress" story. Success to me is a destination at the end of a journey. I am still on my journey but traveling with a lot less baggage, in better mental and physical condition and with a lot more energy, than a year ago.
I will count myself successful when I can stand before my creator someday and hear Him say, "Well done thy good and faithful servant." To me that will truly mean that I have been successful.
Mark, thank you for all that you and your tribe have done for folks like me. You are a blessing to us all. This story seems far too long to fit into your blog but at the same time I have left out so-o-o-o much more – the sense of joy, the compulsive desire to run and play, the alertness, all the great compliments from friends and associates, and the keen sense of being alive again. Sure there are still aches and pains of aging; sure there are still down days and occasional mood swings, but nothing like my life of a year ago. Again, much thanks and you have my deepest appreciation.
God bless you,
Gerry Endres


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Father charged with homicide in death of 20-month-old girl
Police say Domer Wade Burkholder Jr. hit girl in North Union Township
State police say a father beat his 20-month-old daughter so severely that she suffered a lacerated liver and a perforated spleen, and died of her injuries.
Domer Wade Burkholder Jr., 30, has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of Caylee Jo Burkholder. He was awaiting arraignment Friday night.
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"From my perspective as district attorney, this is a particularly sad event resulting in the death of an innocent 20-month-old child," said Fayette County District Attorney Jack Heneks.
Police said Burkholder hit the girl in her stomach Thursday evening at a home on Washington Avenue in North Union Township, Fayette County.
She was taken to Uniontown Hospital to be treated for "severe internal injuries," police said. The girl was later transferred to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, where she died from her injuries on Friday, police said.
Police said Burkholder and Caylee's mom have three other children who are now in the custody of Children and Youth Services.
Domer's brother, Robert Burkholder, said he called CYS two or three weeks ago after he suspected drug use in the family "because of their bouncing from home to home and the drugs. They didn't have no money for a home. They were staying with everybody."
Robert said no one from CYS called him back.
"It's really upsetting knowing that they were informed about some of this stuff and nothing was done," he said.
Other family members have been interviewed and police continue to investigate. Troopers say more charges could be coming in the future.


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She may be on a break from classes at "Gossip Girl's" Constance Billard School, but teen actress/rocker Taylor Momsen recently got a crash course in geography.
While on tour with her band, The Pretty Reckless, in Glasgow, Scotland, Taylor tried to fire up the audience, by announcing, "We are The Pretty Reckless and we have heard that Glasgow is the craziest crowd in all of England!"
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Unfortunately for the "Gossip Girl" star, the flub did not go unnoticed by the audience.
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"People began to cheer as they presumed she was going to say Scotland, but when the penny dropped all you could hear was boos," concert-goer Paul Krane told The Daily Record. "It was right at the start of the gig and it took the shine off it. I was really looking forward to it, but after Taylor said that it just left a bad taste. She didn't even apologize."
Taylor and the band went on to finish their set without addressing the gaffe (presumably unaware of the mistake). However, the actress/singer later took to her Twitter page to apologize.
"Glasgow, I love you, I now HAVE to tour SCOTLAND (haha, sorry bout the slip up!)" she Tweeted after the show.
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"You could tell people were really offended. The crowd just seemed flat from then on," concert-goer Stuart Neilson told The Daily Record. "There really isn't any excuse. Surely someone backstage could have said something to her… I think she needs to go back to school for geography lessons."
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Here is the last spread from our book:
One final page from David's book. It's all tracing but I think he did such a great job.
With its ups and downs, I loved this project to bits. I think having a book full of things that make you smile would be great for all of us.
David's Book of Good Memories is a bi-weekly project for 2012 with my seven-year-old son David. You can read more about it here.


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Krayzie, Sin, and Tombstone:Thug Mentality 1999
Silence(Silence) is nessecary/ Don't tell them who you are
Formulate a different tactic/ Let's sing anthems/ No stereotypical categorizin'/
Rising above all
Make-shift realities/ Fantasies misconstrued the thoughts of wicked men/ They
cough as lungs inhale
Exhale poisonous gases/ Oh well, I guess I'll just protect myself and good
health/ Done played out
the wickedest hand man has ever dealt/ I felt like dyin' just the other day cuz
Satan was tryin'
Walkin' too close by my side/ Stay still; Please don't move! Your soul you could
lose/ No cryin'
Where's my blood? You'll find out soon enough/ All right, I'll ride/ In due
time, we'll get our chance
to die/ Hold on to my mind/ No use for guns or drugs, need more love/ But, yet,
and still
Slugs gets fired off constantly/ Immorally destroyin' my holy oracle, but I just
ignore it though
Keep a steady pace, just movin' slow, slow, just movin' slow
As I sit in my livin' room, chillin' in my thug mood/ I begin to hear noises
comin' from the other room
So I pause my Nintendo, then I walk over to the window/ Is it paranoya from the
Then cuz I thought, then I another thought; run and get the pump, ";Who goes
What the fuck you want?"; Cuz I done off that bud and I'm a buck a muthafucker
down, You on my ground
So you got another round/ All of the sudden I heard a crash, my first instincts
was to blast
But the Mossberg didn't last so I had to dash/ Run upstairs, I was frantic and
But I managed to make it to the top, to my artillery shop/ I was runnin' but I
could hear the sounds
comin'/ I don't know, they must think I got some money, AK-47 and a Mac-11/ Jet
into the bedroom, lock myself
in, we couldn't see 'em/ Teach 'em a lesson it ain't healthy to rob/ They fin
to slip on the job soon as they twist on the knob, just like I figured when they
twisted it
The AK-47 was hot, I had to drop it, but I emptied it/ The Mac-11 I get, and hit
the niggas up from head to toe
A nigga escapin' but I was out the window/ Here I go, I hit the ground ";Uh";,
then I look around
Shake the fall, hopped in the Benz and hauled/ Call in my niggas let's get ready
for war, I think I
killed 'em all, but I know they'll be sendin' some more/ So when they come back
around I say we
show 'em that rappin' don't mean a thang, and this is a gun, and this is your
grave/ Rest In Peace
you're not feelin' me/ Truly Mr. Leatherface, I dedicate this...
Fight, movin' in the night (Watch out!) Daylight, takin' slow paces might outrun
the race
Never want to rely on murda/ Enter my life, but life's so strange and hectic/
All backwards/ It's
shelled/ The killin' factor in jail/ The streets is hell/ You can tell by the
smell/ Off with his head
Oh well! You know they don't give a damn if that make the weak mind feel the
same/ It's a shame
how they watch you, stalk you; pinnin' every step I make, knowin' every breath I
take/ Makin' it easy
for the next man to get his hands on a 38/ They be buckin' on niggas in these
last days, but thanks
for the fun/ Can't stay focused, causin' ruckus/ The devil done played with the
earth like a puppet
Now we all in fucked shit/ That's why silence is necessary/ Don't tell 'em who
you are by far
Don't you tell them who you are


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Theoretical Weekends at Scission has arrived again. Last week I brought you something on the 1992 LA Uprising by the Chicago Surrealist Group. This week it is the Paris Group of the Surrealist Movement taking a look at the 2005 Uprising in Paris.
Check it out. This is taking from the Surrealist Movement of the United States web site.
A Surrealist Statement
on the Recent Riots in France
|For three weeks, in the ghettos of the poor suburbs, euphemistically named "sensitive neighborhoods," on the outskirts of the outskirts, thousands of cars were burned, public utilities devastated, troops of police deliberately attacked.
There is nothing new about what sparked these incidents: the absurd death of two adolescents seized by panic, in the course of "normal police behavior." Comparable police blunders also occurred in the past, and nearly always lootings and burnings were the inevitable response. But such incidents were localized.
Nor is there is anything new in the methods employed or the visible targets: For many years now, notably in Alsace, cars are burned on New Year's Eve or at the time of more obscure commemorations. And for a long time schools have been vandalized by schoolboys expelled from school; buses or police cars stoned; passengers methodically robbed in public transport.
What is new today is the immediate extension of this violence, its rapid spread to the provinces, well beyond the borders of a spontaneous and unpremeditated movement.
This is a movement without explicit demands, except the resignation of a Minister of the Interior disqualified by his remarks and, as everybody knows, scorned by his superiors. This is a movement impossible to reduce to ethnic or racial demands. If the majority of the rioters are of Maghreb or African origin, some of them are Asian and French. This is also a movement irreducible to the category of youth, for the majority of the youth—unlike those of May 1968, or the demonstrations against the CIP in 1994, or the secondary school movement of last spring—, have no associations there.
This is, moreover, a movement without spirit or class consciousness—a movement typical of those common uprisings that blur conventional distinctions: a movement of "imperative revolt" due to permanent poverty and daily humiliation. But it is also a movement without strategy, a movement more prone to gaze at itself on television screens, drawing its ephemeral strength from the media coverage it produces, and thus depending on the self-censorship of information put in place to avoid "the telethon effect." It is a movement nevertheless more Luddite than playful, sustaining itself at the source of real despair, but lacking utopia, its horizon limited by bars and block towers.
For sociologists, journalists and certain revolutionaries, this movement is incomprehensible since it resists the well-oiled arguments they use to explain social movements: neither social analysis, nor the study of the composition of class succeeds in defining its specificity. These riots are made by an unidentifiable mob—rebellious bodies whose existence is reduced to bare necessity, and who have not found any other language than that of destructive gestures.
Let us not fool ourselves; in everyday life many of this mob are detestable; some are numbed by religion, many alienated by consumerism, or enthusiasts of masculine values, sharing with the masters of society the stupid worship of sport (some riots were suspended during televised football games). Many are contemptible in their behavior toward women—whose absence in the riots signals an unacceptable limitation. Most of this mob would certainly not be friendly to us.
What is remarkable, however—beyond them—is their revolt. Through their actual contradictions, they represent the dark face of a vengeful social unconscious held back for too long, as those in bygone days representing the "dangerous classes." But, at the risk of plunging back even more bitterly in their poverty, it will be necessary for them to draw on the lessons of their recent experience in order to gain lucidity. Already they have seen at work the repressive role of the imams and of Islam, mere auxiliaries to the police— as is all religion. This movement still has to get rid of all forms of puritanical and masculinist morality so that women will join them as equals—like the women fire-raisers of the Paris Commune in 1871—to take an active part in all future stuggles. Likewise, they must have done with the stupid gang rivalry that nails them to their "territories" and deprives them of a mobile offensive. And finally, they must learn to choose more directly political targets.
In a society in which all previous forms of belonging, and therefore of associated consciousness, have been wiped out, these events testify to the eruptive and uncontrollable return of the social question, firstly under an immediately negative form, that fire—emblem of all apocalypses— symbolizes. Indeed, unlike the rebellions in Los Angeles in 1965 and in 1992, the population of the districts here did not massively join the rioters. And in contrast to May '68 neither poetry nor brilliant ideas are on the barricades. No wildcat strike is going to spread widely with these troubles. But the rulers have been given a good hotfoot and have been forced to unmask themselves.
A democracy which, in order to face up to a quantitatively limited movement (considering the number of participants), has been obliged to put back in force an old colonial law, but also to reveal its constituent deception: that is, where the police abuse their powers, the state of emergency gives to their abuse the legitimacy that it lacks. What we long ago called "individual freedom" is today known as the "discretionary power" of the cops.
In a flash, such warning lights have revealed—during these November nights—the return of a possibility that seemed to be lost: that of throwing power into a panic even when its forces are harassed in a disorganized manner through the whole territory by a handful of forsaken social casualties. From now on, we can imagine the strength of an uprising that would—beyond the inhabitants of the ghettos—include the whole population suffering from the rise of impoverishment, and would turn into civil war against the organs of capital and the state.
Beyond recent infernos presented as the very image of a nightmare, it is time that the dream of concrete utopia is raised anew.
The Paris Group of the Surrealist Movement
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Single-Origin Dark Chocolates from Pralus
"Single bean chocolate varieties are replacing blends, and the result is fascinating."
While in London, I stumbled upon a great coffee shop that specializes in single-origin coffee, brewed not by the pot, but by the single cup. To my delight, I also found a small latte bowl, filled with little stacks of single-origin chocolate samplers wrapped in candy-colored paper, at the register.
The "pyramide des tropique," a selection of ten bite-sized chocolates made by the French company Pralus, is a fantastic way to introduce yourself to the newest trend in quality chocolate—single origins. Many companies have long been prized for their exotic blends of cacao from around the globe, but lately the focus has become much simpler.
Single bean chocolate varieties are replacing blends, and the result is fascinating. The flavors are just as complex and eating my way through the ten countries was quite a discovery.
Upon the first few bites, some of the chocolates didn't seem that different. But as I nibbled into a few more, my palate experienced an expansion of sorts. As I tasted the rest and returned to the originals, finding all the flavors very unique.
If you love dark chocolate as much as I do, get your hands on some. Here are my tasting notes for each:
Trinidad: Deep bitter tar flavor with distinct smoky notes.
Papousie: Soft, creamy texture with a light coffee bean flavor.
Venezuela: Quick-melting and mild with a clean cocoa flavor and black cherry finish.
Indonesie: Intensely smoky with dark, tangy berry flavors.
Ghana: Musty, cinnamon bark scent with a smooth earthy flavor.
Colombie Sweet, buttery caramel with toasty undertones.
Sao Tome & Principe: Earthly, black truffle flavors with a black tea and honey aroma.
Tanzania: - Bright red licorice flavor with a minty, cooling finish.
Madagascar: Smooth, creamy cocoa flavor with red berry notes and a vanilla bean aroma.
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Spontaneous combustion caused the fire that destroyed a Beverly Farms mansion last week.
Rags soaked in painting solvents spontaneously combusted and caused the four-alarm fire last week that destroyed a Beverly Farms mansion the former chairman of the state Republican Party owned.
The distance from the home to available fire hydrants hampered efforts to bring the fire under control.
State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan and Beverly Fire Chief Richard F. Pierce announced the findings on Friday.
Darrell Crate owned the home, at 890 Hale St., and was the only one home at the time of the fire. His wife and four children were not at home when the fire broke out. No one was injured.
The rags were part of a renovation project that was going on in the house at the time of the fire, the Fire Marshal's office said.The fire was reported just before 9 p.m. on Aug. 21.
Firefighters from at least eight surrounding communities helped Beverly firefighters at the scene with a combined total of 17 fire trucks and engine companies.
The front wall and three chimneys were about all that was still standing after the fire.
Beverly firefighters stayed at the property through the day on Friday.
Fire Department Capt. Peter O'Connor said firefighters put out hidden pockets of fire that were still burning, some in voids of space created when sections of the house collapsed, preventing water from getting to the fire.
"Crews doused those spots with large volumes of water and in some cases worked to dismantle structural members that were concealing the hidden fire," O'Connor said.
A four-car detached garage located near the house was saved, O'Connor said, even as many embers flew from the fire.
Last summer, Crate built a new deck, which city permits said cost $245,000. The rags were being used while the deck was stained.
In addition to about $80,000 in interior renovations to the kitchen, basement and bathrooms, Crate had recently applied for a city permit for management of invasive species and to add plantings and construct trails and a fieldstone bridge on his property, according to an Conservation Commission agenda for its meeting next week.
Crate, who served as chairman of the Republican State Committee from 2003 to 2007, is chief financial officer at Affiliated Managers Group, a money-management firm whose headquarters are only about a mile down Hale Street in Prides Crossing.
At first firefighters went inside to fight the fire, but once they learned that everybody was safely out of the house and "the magnitude of the fire was realized," they fought the fire from outside the building, far enough away in case that walls collapsed outward, said O'Connor.The roof collapsed as fire engulfed the home.
The home was on seven acres and assessed by the city, for tax purposes, at $3.1 million.
The 15-room, 10,000-square-foot home that was built in 1896 was set back from the street and the flames were visible from the street and firefighters worked to get water from hydrants to the fire, which was at the end of a long, uphill driveway.
Firefighters laid more than 3,500 feet of hose up the main driveway, O'Connor said, which consisted of three separate hose lines to three different hydrants.
From the back of the property off Juniper Street, firefighters laid 1,500 feet of hose up a dirt access road.
"All of the responders worked extremely hard to get sufficient water to the scene," said Deputy Chief Paul Cotter. "Some of the heavy lines had to be stretched by hand down dirt roads to locations pointed out by (Public Service Director) Mike Collins with his infrastructure expertise."
In addition to all the firefighters, crews from Northeast Regional Ambulance, Beverly Emergency Management, Beverly Public Services Department and Peabody-based Rehab 5 helped at the scene.To hear audio of emergency transmission during the fire, go to: www.scanmerrimackvalley.info/files/Beverly-3rd-082108.mp3


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What's Up in Pizza: Oregano as Medicine, Your Chance to Affiance Pizza Hut, and More!
In what's either a very clever or very depressing marketing twist, Business Insider has reported that Pizza Hut has created its very own OkCupid profile...just in time to remind those of us left alone this Valentine's day that there's always pizza. It's not purely a stunt—it's also a contest! "Every day, fans tweet marriage proposals [at us]. We're flattered, and we're into it" (apparently Pizza Hut received upwards of 10,000 proposals over social media in the last year). So now they're on the hunt for their number one fan, someone "zany" and "rad," to be the recipient of the Greatest Proposal Ever (which seems to amount to pizza for life). To enter, just send a video proposal on Instagram or Vine to Pizza Hut, tagged #CommitToGreatness, by February 21st. From there, they pick the 3 "most creative suitors," to take on a get-to-know-you trip where they'll narrow it down to one lucky bridge/groom to be.
Over on Red Orbit, the news of a new study out of the University of Arizona has revealed that a substance in oregano oil might be an effective way to fight the norovirus. The report was published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, and the idea is that carvacrol (the aforementioned oil substance) attacks the protective protein shell of the norovirus, making it easier for antimicrobials to enter and destroy it. Norovirus, by the way, is often the culprit behind food-borne epidemics, and is especially tricky to treat in contained environments like hospitals and schools. Because the carvacrol acts on the external, rather than internal, features of the virus, it's unlikely that norovirus would ever be able to build up a resistance (plus, any disinfectant developed from it would be safe and non-corrosive. Unfortunately, if unsurprisingly, simply chowing down on oregano-blanketed slices isn't enough to be particularly helpful...but it can't hurt, right?
And just in case you missed it yesterday, Edinburgh resident Alisa Burn-Murdoch was walking to work when she noticed the above. Apparently, someone at Papa John's was a little new to the dough game—the oozing mass was found dumped in a bin outside one of the chain's restaurants on Crown Street. Lesson (hopefully) learned: pizza dough expands! I just feel sorry for the hapless sanitation worker going along his usual route only to encounter this behemoth.
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Which one of the following is an advantage of providing accessor methods in a class, rather than making the class's fields publicly accessible?
Choice 1 Accessor methods can ensure data integrity by validating the proposed value. Any value could be written to a public field.
Choice 2 Accessor methods can prevent memory overwrites by performing bounds checks on arrays. Public fields are not checked for bounds overrun.
Choice 3 The accessor methods are automatically available to other tasks using the RMI subsystem. Public fields cannot be remotely accessed.
Choice 4 Accessor methods improve performance by avoiding a context switch in the bytecode interpreter. Accessing a public field requires loading the object's data pointer.
Choice 5 Accessor methods can be made accessible to classes in other packages. Public fields are only usable from the same package.
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Biggest setback in Adderall defense: Lawyers for accused murderer George Huguely will not able to examine slain UVA fourth-yearYeardley Love's medical records except for those portions dealing with her prescription for Adderall, Judge Bob Downer rules December 22.
Biggest bummer for state employees: Governor Bob McDonnell voices support for a 3 percent raise, but wants to require employees, who haven't seen a pay increase in four years, to contribute 5 percent of their salaries to the state's retirement system, leaving take-home pay down another 2 percent.
Biggest fundraising gap: Charlottesville Albemarle Rescue Squad is barely halfway to its goal of $350,000 days before the end of the year. The 40-year-old volunteer organization extends its drive through January, and notes it does not charge for its services. (Albemarle, by contrast, began charging for ambulance rides in 2010.)
Longest child porn sentence: Three years and 11 months for Christopher Michael Watson, 20, who is sentenced on eight counts of possession December 28 in Albemarle Circuit Court, Tasha Kates reports in the Daily Progress.
Saddest times on Black Cat Road: Richard Gibson Jr., 48, dies on the Keswick road December 29 when his car goes off a bridge and lands on train tracks 28 feet below. Police believe speed and alcohol are factors in the crash, and they say Gibson wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Shortly after noon on New Year's Day, 19-year-old Stephen Hughes Heim loses control and hits a tree. Gibson was County's 12th traffic death in 2010, and Heim was the first of 2011.
Latest Wachovia building evacuation: The Downtown Mall bank building is emptied December 21 when a sewage backup in the basement at an air intake stinks up the place. The Fire Department determines that the sulfurous odor is not a hazard, and people are allowed back into the building.
Most closed streets: Park Street detours traffic for 24 hours starting December 29 when a water main breaks between Cutler Lane and North Avenue. And both lanes of U.S. 29 are shut down December 30 when a southbound car hits a log truck crossing the four-lane highway in Greene County south of Route 33, NBC29 reports.
Most unusual gender suit: Deerfield Correctional inmate Deena Kaye Myers, a.k.a. Scott Myers, files suit against the state for $25 million and demands to be transferred from the male prison to a female one. Myers was born a boy on Christmas Eve 1981 with a birth defect so severe that she was surgically altered to a female, which is how she's identified on her birth certificate. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Myers was convicted of 11 felonies as a male.
Scariest place for a fire: Finley's Barracks Road Exxon, where a car smashes into and knocks over a gas pump and catches on fire December 31. Fortunately, it's quickly extinguished, and Finley's– a rare breed of fuel station that also offers auto service– reopens for business.
Stupidest accident: A UVA student's leg is run over after he tries to kick a passing taxi on the Corner early December 18.
Least surprising detail: Alcohol was involved.
Fattest: Thirty-five percent of area fifth graders are obese, compared to 26 to 28 percent of the general population, according to a study from Commission on Children and Families.
Newest historic districts: Greenwood in western Albemarle and Afton in Nelson and Augusta counties join the Virginia Historic Register for their 18th-century settlement by Scots-Irish immigrants from the Shenandoah Valley, as well as for the Claudius Crozet-built railroad tunnels through the Blue Ridge Mountains, the early 20th-century African American communities of New Town and Free Town, and the country estates that were turn-of-the-century seasonal playgrounds for the wealthy.


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Hello, my lovely Scribelings! Suze here. First off, a bit of news. My cozy mystery, FETA ATTRACTION, will release from Berkley Prime Crime on January 6, 2015! I've had a sneak peak at the cover and, just like all the Berkley artwork, mine is just gorgeous. I'll show it to you as soon as I can. FETA ATTRACTION is the first book in the GEORGIE'S KITCHEN MYSTERIES and I hope you'll love the village of Bonaparte Bay and its residents as much as I do. When it's available for preorder, I'll let you know.
So you'd think, with a traditional contract and two books in the series written and the third one about to be started–as well as a few partial manuscripts living under the bed with some unsatisfied dust bunnies who may or may not ever find out what happens at the end of those stories–I'd know everything there is to know about writing a genre fiction novel. After all, I'm also a freelance editor (www.crazydiamondediting.com), so I work with other authors on their manuscripts too.
HA! SNORT! (Hang on a sec while I get myself under control) OK, I'm back, still giggling. The answer is Not by a long shot. Producing these two manuscripts drove home the fact that I have a lot to learn.
So to help me become a better writer, I signed up for Debra Dixon's Book in a Day Workshop, presented by the New Hampshire Chapter of Romance Writers of America. Along with some of my best writing buddies, I spent the weekend in New Hampshire with Writing Goddess Debra Dixon, whose book Goal, Motivation and Conflict (available in ebook and hard cover) has become standard material for anyone seriously pursuing a writing career, no matter what kind of stories you write.
So here are the Top Seven Things I took away from the workshop:
1. You can do anything you want, as long as you do it well. This means that you can break the "rules" as long as it's beautifully executed. However, and this is just my personal, more conservative opinion, if you're trying to break into genre fiction, start out following the rules so later on, when you're more experienced, you know what rules you can and can't break.
2. Force your character make choices–and make those choices Sucky and Suckier. Most of us have probably heard the basics of story structure broken down like this: Put your character in a tree. Throw rocks at the tree. Get you character out of the tree. So what Ms. Dixon means is that in the rock-throwing phase, put your character in a situation where she cannot win and force her to make a choice: should she save the child, or save the man she loves? Whichever choice she makes, she is changed forever. Powerful stuff!
3. Goal, Motivation and Conflict (GMC) can be summed up in five words: Who, What, Why, Why Not? Who is your character? What is the situation the character finds herself in? Why does the character behave as she does and want what she wants (this is often a function of backstory, and most of that backstory will not make it onto the page)? Why Not–Why can't the character have what she wants? There should be both external reasons (the bad guys are throwing rocks at her while she sits in a tree, so she can't physically get to the child who needs her or the man she loves) and internal reasons (she has a paralyzing fear of heights because she saw her father fall off a cliff to his death, and she couldn't save him). She can't see any way to get out of the tree without jumping, whether or not the bad guys are there.
4. What is fun for you, the author, is not necessarily fun for the reader. While you might gleefully kill off your main character, your readers might see that as not playing fair. Related: Give the reader the candy you promised them. Don't withhold critical information and spring it on the reader at the end. They'll feel cheated, like they've been sold a bill of goods, and might not read more of your work. You must play fair with the reader. This is especially true in a traditional cozy mystery where the clues should be planted early on, and it's only later that the sleuth figures out what they mean.
5. Every character in the book must have GMC. A minor character's GMC does not necessarily need to be spelled out on the page, but there has to be a reason for the presence of every character.
6. We root for the underdog. Cowards make great heroes/heroines. The reader can relate to underdogs and cowards. It isn't satisfying to have a character already be at the top of his game unless you bring him down and change his goal. And your character must have fears and insecurities that make it difficult or nearly impossible for him to make the choices necessary to move ahead.
7. Every scene must have at least three reasons to be present in the story, and at least one must be Goal, Motivation, or Conflict. Goal: The scene illustrates your character's progress toward the goal. Motivation: The scene provides your character with an experience that strengthens or changes his motivation. Conflict: The scene brings the character into conflict with opposing forces. The best, pivotal scenes will encompass all three elements.
These seven items were my big takeaways from the workshop (which also encompassed the Hero's Journey model for story structure). I would highly recommend that anyone who has not done so take this course. As I sat through the workshop, I thought about my own characters in different ways–and I already feel like a stronger writer.
My only regret? My third book did not actually get written in a day. Sigh. Well, BICFOK–no, that's not a dirty word. It means Butt In Chair, Fingers On Keyboard. This book ain't gonna write itself (although, how awesome would that be?).
Have you seen Debra Dixon speak? Have you read Goal, Motivation and Conflict? Are you conscious of the concepts as you write?


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"SF Decorator Showcase, Michael Burg . . . "
Quite often when I visit a decorator showcase, I'm always so excited to get to the top floor. When I was part of the showcase house for the first time (good Lord, almost 15 years ago), we were up there. And I loved it. Often the top floor rooms in these grand old homes were designed to only be used as servants quarters - and so they tend to be small, low-ceilinged spaces, with oddly shaped and/or placed windows, or - in other words - the perfect test of a designer's skills.
So, up the stairs to the top floor I go - because with this myriad of challenges - the resulting designs are quite often some of the most creative spaces in the house. And this year, local designer Michael Burg was clearly up to the task. When offered the small, low ceilinged, dark room - with the tiny french doors and even tinier balcony - he simply stepped back, closed his eyes and saw . . .
A retreat inspired by a marvelous, chic European hotel room . . .
the perfect place to retire after a busy day in a new, mysterious city.
Complete with antique secretary for correspondence.
And cutting-edge, modern electronics . . .
A custom-designed tufted leather daybed.
And antique mortician's chest used as a side table.
(and how much do you LOVE the little corner sink. When Michael began to work on the space, the first question asked of him was, "we assume you'd like us to remove that tired, dirty old sink?" "Don't you dare!" he replied. "It's going to be perfect."
The dark tone-on-tone wall coverings (intricately covering every surface - including the multi-faceted ceiling) give the space even more drama and provide the perfect backdrop for the chic, well-edited furnishings.
And what hotel room would be complete without a collection of toiletries and libations in an antique brass vitrine mounted right above that marvelous corner sink!
getting ready to dive into bed myself,
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Laura asked:
Hi Blackheath Bugle
I was wondering if you know anything of any netball clubs in Blackheath/Greenwich?
Well, netball (being a sport) isn't one of my strong points.. However, it seems that there is a netball club near Blackheath, and according to their site, The Blackheath Wanderers train on Tuesdays at 7.30pm, where interested newcomers are welcome. Membership is £50 for adults, or £25 for juniors, plus £1 per session.
They have been around since 1975, and are just outside Blackheath, see their location page here, or my google map here. (They should really peel down that wallpaper on their site and put something else up though).
If anyone else has played with them, or can share any experiences, please jot it down in the comments below!
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DETROIT (AP) - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has agreed to be grilled by union lawyers about his decision to let Detroit file for bankruptcy protection, state attorneys said Tuesday.
Attorneys for Snyder and other state officials had been resisting a deposition, based on executive privilege, but told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes during a court hearing tht they had changed course.
Unions opposed to the bankruptcy said Snyder's sworn testimony is important as they argue that Detroit isn't eligible for Chapter 9, a bankruptcy process that could let the city shed billions in long-term debt. Rhodes has scheduled an eligibility trial for Oct. 23.
Snyder's closed-door deposition will be limited to three hours. No date was immediately set.
'We want to understand the motivations for filing and the timing of the filing,' said Sharon Levine, attorney for the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, which represents workers at Detroit City Hall.
Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr took the city into bankruptcy on July 18 with the governor's required blessing. Long-term debt totals $18 billion or more in a city that has lost at least 25 percent of its population since 2000.
Rhodes criticized the attorney general's office for shifting the reasons to avoid a deposition late last week.
'The city is struggling under incomprehensible financial burden,' the judge said. 'In an attempt to create a viable, if not thriving future for itself, it needs to do that with all deliberate speed.'


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Our reporter follows DonMonique, a young and ambitious hip hop artist making her way to the top.
In Johannesburg, artists help with rejuvenating the center of town.
The highlights of the Hennessy 250 Tour Opening in Johannesburg
Hennessy launched its anniversary exhibition this week in Johannesburg. Open from 20-25 August, the Hennessy exhibition celebrates heritage and contemporary creation at Circa Gallery.
The Time Barrel made the trip to Joburg with the rest of the exhibition. South Africans can leave a message to the future at Circa Gallery before the Time Barrel is moved to another location in Johannesburg.
South Africans flock to Circa Gallery in Johannesburg to learn about the Maison's history and its legacy, presented in the form of an art exhibition with archives from the past centuries.
American visual artist Daniel Arsham talks about his creation for the Hennessy 250 Tour and about his obsession with time.
Discover the artists on stage at Lincoln Center
The New York-based choreographer talks about his creation for the Hennessy 250 Tour, which was created in collaboration with his friend, the visual artist Daniel Arsham.
Legendary rapper Nas live at Lincoln Center
Contemporary creation is at the very heart of The Hennessy 250 Tour. With his "rocket", French visual artist Xavier Veilhan sheds light on past, present, and future simultaneously. The creative, human, and universal adventure of Hennessy soars into time and space.
The Hennessy 250 exhibition in New York attracted more than 2650 visitors in 3 days!
Our reporter recounts the highlights of the Hennessy 250 Tour Opening at Lincoln Center
Hennessy celebrates its 250th anniversary this week in New York.
The 250th Anniversary Tour in New York opens this Tuesday. Are you ready for the show?
The Hennessy 250 Tour is live from South Street Seaport where The Hermione is anchored this week. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the ship first landed in the U.S. at Yorktown on June 5th. The Hermione is a precise recreation of the ship that brought French General Marquis de Lafayette to America in 1780. A seaworthy vessel that took 17 years to build!
See New York through the eyes of our reporter as he captures the street life and follows the Hennessy 250 anniversary events!
Our reporter spent a day inside the famous Russian institution
Our reporter takes us for a cultural ride under the Russian ground
Interview with Russian artist Olga Kisseleva
Our reporter tells us how Russians do Saturday night
Hennessy takes over St Pancras station this week. London friends, come leave your message to the future!
Interview with Valérie-Anne Creps, Head of Communication for Hennessy Russia
The best moments of the Hennessy 250 Tour Grand Opening in Moscow
The Time Barrel was of course the big star of the New Manege exhibition. Inspired by the idea of legacy, our Russian guests left their message to the future. You too can join this human adventure online on our website.
Meet the expert blenders behind your favorite Hennessy cognacs. The Tasting Committee takes a moment of free time to wonder around the Kremlin after the opening of the Tour in Russia. This one is for posterity!
Hennessy invites artists and performers from around the world to join the celebration of its 250th anniversary. This week at the New Manege, guests had the pleasure to watch Farfor perform live on stage. This Russian modern dance company created a show inspired by the concept of time and legacy.
The Hennessy 250 Tour celebrates heritage and contemporary creation. It's a unique opportunity to meet the artists taking part in this adventure. Legendary photographer Anton Corbijn and visual artist Laurent Pernot were in Moscow this week to talk about their work and share an intimate moment with the public.
This week marks the opening of our anniversary tour in Russia. On this occasion, we have live performances, a gala dinner, contemporary art works and a fantastic collection of the Maison's archives... all at the New Manege!
Taking a look back at the set up of the Hennessy 250 exhibition and gala dinner
Russia will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Maison next week at the New Manege. Meanwhile, French and Russian teams are working on the installation of the Hennessy 250 exhibition and gala event. More surprises to come!
It's official! The Hennessy 250 Tour had landed in Moscow to celebrate its 250th anniversary at the New Manege! The world famous museum will hold the Maison's exhibition and gala dinner, as well as many other surprises. Before the real kick-off on May 25, let's take a moment to discover the city, while keeping a close eye on what's happening at the New Manege!
For its 250th anniversary, Hennessy invited a group of influential Instagrammers to shoot an empty department store in Berlin. Our reporter joined the fun!
The Hennessy 250 cascade was presented last week at the KaDeWe Berlin. This poem in light celebrates 250 years of crafting the future.
Germany celebrates the 250th anniversary of Hennessy. Find out soon what happened this week at the famous KaDeWe department store in Berlin.
Germany celebrates this week the Maison's 250th anniversary at the KaDeWe department store in West Berlin. Our reporter was there.
Our reporter from the Hennessy 250 Tour presents the fascinating world of Chinese puppeteers
Our reporter from the Hennessy 250th anniversary takes a look at Guangzhou's oldest harbor, once the most important gateway for trade in South China
According to the British artist, each venue of the Hennessy 250 exhibition will create a new dynamic
Kelvin Wood recently opened "Sip Till Morning". His bar offers a unique cocktail experience in Guangzhou. It's a place where bartenders create and present their own menu with a list of self-styled cocktails. Definitely the kind of place where Hennessy belongs.
Exploring the Chinese nightlife in Guangzhou
French contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan enters the stage at the Hennessy 250 Tour gala dinner in Guangzhou. Veilhan is one of the eleven international artists on board of the Tour. He sees art as "a tool for vision which must be looked through to understand our past, present, and future". The work he presents in the exhibition, a rocket sculpture entitled "La Fusée", is seen as a reference to progress and optimism.
Discovering the Maison's archives in Guangzhou felt like revisiting the history of creative advertising. Throughout the Hennessy 250 tour exhibition, advertising posters since the turn of the twentieth century are exposed, witnessing Hennessy's collaboration with the most famous of contemporary illustrators and designers.
A heart-shaped light is projected on the Maison's anniversary logo, while waitress stand backstage at the Hennessy 250 gala dinner in Guangzhou Opera House. Each of them is holding a Hennessy 250 Collector Blend to be presented to the guests. This distinctive cognac is the product of a unique blending and aging process, born of the inspiration of Hennessy Master Blender Yann Fillioux and the Comité de Dégustation (Tasting Committee).
The first stop on the Hennessy 250 Tour was a major success. Guests in Guangzhou had a chance to discover the Hennessy spirit and the rich heritage of the Maison. Hennessy's CEO Bernard Peillon once again proved to be a master of ceremony during the gala dinners where was presented the new creation of the House, the Hennessy 250 Collector Blend. These galas were moments of intense celebration and cultural "blending".
The Comité de Dégustation (Tasting Committee) took some time off after the inauguration of The Hennessy 250 Tour to discover Guangzhou and blend itself into the Chinese landscape. Here they are in front of the Canton Tower, the tallest building in town standing at 600 meters!
I had a chat recently with Elvina Tsun, Brand director of Hennessy Prestige & Ultra Prestige range for China. The Hennessy 250 exhibition was in full swing at the Guangzhou Opera House and Elvina was running around in her impeccable peacock dress, greeting guests and helping with the organisation of the event. We eventually managed to sit down a few minutes so we could talk about her work.
While the Hennessy 250 Tour was in full swing at the Opera House, I took some time to wander around Guangzhou and capture the essence of the city. Commonly known for being the main manufacturing hub of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou has a lot more to offer. Also, experiencing the local life of this modern capital was easier than expected. Before we go any further, here is a quick peek at the town.
The Hennessy 250 Tour inauguration in Guangzhou was an event-filled week marked by moments of intense emotions. From the 17th to the 19th of March, visitors from China and the Pacific Region flocked to Guangzhou Opera House to discover the Maison's anniversary exhibition and its new creation: The Hennessy 250 Collector Blend. Let's turn now to some of the highlights of this very special moment.
Looking back at the installation of the H250 opening exhibition in China
Jeremy Suyker is a French reporter and photographer specialized in sociocultural issues, travel photography and visual storytelling. He spends most of his time on the road looking for new fascinating adventures and unique stories to narrate.
This year, Jeremy is reporting for Hennessy on the Maison's 250th Anniversary Tour across the world. A new exciting challenge he accepted with great enthusiasm. As Hennessy's special reporter, Jeremy will follow the Tour in China in March, Russia in May, America in July, South Africa in August and of course, Paris for the "Grand Finale" in September.His principal mission is to narrate -very much like a storyteller- the events occurring during that period of time. He will be reporting from the "backstage" principally, taking an intimate look at the unique exhibitions and events Hennessy will organize around the world this year. This blog has been created specially for you to follow the Tour. Jeremy will be posting pictures and words on a regular basis. He will be our eyes and ears, travelling long distances to bring back the best moments of the Tour.Follow him on his journey for Hennessy around the globe. We promise you that you won't regret it.
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Despite the massive and often neurotically inaccurate Western media coverage of the Fukushima nuclear accident, British public confidence in nuclear power has increased. In a poll by Populus for the British Science Association, 41 per cent of respondents said the benefits of nuclear power outweighed the risks – up 3 per cent.
It's a striking contrast to Germany, where politicians bowed to the "Green" fringe and the vowed to end the country's nuclear programme – a move that will increase reliance on "dirty" coal and increase energy costs.
Britain opened the world's first nuclear reactor in 1956, but can no longer be described as a pioneer.
So what can explain this?
Perhaps the British public isn't as stupid as the media – and many environmentalist campaigners – seem to think. Perhaps they were impressed by the resilience of the rattling, 40-year-old steam kettle at Fukushima that went into full meltdown – but which has yet to cause one fatality.
(The word "meltdown" no longer has that mythical resonance in the popular imagination that it did in the 1970s when it was a signifier for the beginning of the end of the world. As we noted here, we have now seen several, with minimal damage).
What the poll certainly indicates is that people are more rational than scaremongers suggest – and perfectly capable of performing risk analysis, weighing up the costs and benefits of a technology. This is hard to imagine happening without the internet as a source of information.
So it may be back to the drawing board for Greens, who seem to have lost their Kryptonite: the ability to steer people towards policy goals by scaring them witless. We've become numb to so many of these Chicken Little moments, and consequently have become a lot more sceptical when someone bursts into the room, screaming that some plan must be implemented immediately, and there's no alternative, or time to lose. Since so much environmental policy now requires the Precautionary Principle – the suspension of rational cost/benefit analysis – this poses serious problems for the Greens, an issue climate activist Mark Lynas confronts head-on in his new book.
Lynas admits that his former opposition to GM foods "wasn't a science-based rational thing. It was an emotional thing and it was about the relation between humans and other living things".
Public support for nuclear energy has increased steadily in the past decade. Interestingly there is a gender gap opening up – with women much more fearful of nuclear energy, and men increasingly supporting it. What does that tell us? Answers below. ®


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The 2010 Houston Dynamo may take a page out of the 2009 Dynamo playbook in an attempt to jumpstart the team's season. At practice Thursday, 2009 MLS Best XI defender Geoff Cameron was splitting time with defenders Bobby Boswell and Eddie Robinson in the center of the Dynamo defense.
"We will look at it," head coach Dominic Kinnear said of moving the recently recovered Cameron into the back four. "We have some banged-up center backs right now, and we have to put our best team on the field. If that means Geoff goes back to center back, then that is what we will do."
While Cameron has been practicing part of the time in the center of defense, his role against New England is not exactly laid out yet. Cameron, though, hopes that he can now provide a 90-minute option for the team.
"My fitness is good, as I have been running a lot and I am making sure my body is ready for the game," said Cameron. "I haven't talked to Dom [Kinnear] yet and he hasn't talked to me, but I am just trying to be available, and hopefully I'll play."
No one can deny that the Dynamo defense has struggled this year. While those struggles may be partially the result of the team's issues in central midfield replacing Stuart Holden and Ricardo Clark, the defense has not exactly played error-free.
"We have to cut out the big mistakes," noted Kinnear. "When you make big ones, it comes back to haunt you, and that's what is happening right now."
The game plan entering this season was to use Cameron primarily in midfield. Like Holden, it took Cameron some time to get comfortable with his new role. However, just when he appeared to be settling in and playing well, he suffered a serious knee injury.
"You always want your guys healthy, especially someone like Geoff who can change the dynamic of a game with his big old goofy strides," said Boswell. "I am excited he's back, and the team needs him, and with him coming back it is another option."
The other options include Ryan Cochrane and Adrian Serioux, both of whom practiced with the team on Thursday, but still will be game-time decisions at best. Robinson also took a hard knock late at practice and departed early. Regardless, the return of Cameron provides Houston some additional flexibility in the back.
"To not have [Adrian and Ryan] as an option hurts us as a team, as they have been pretty good," said Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall. "But we can't look at that as an excuse, and we have to move on. With Geoff coming back, we have options back there."
Dwain Capodice is a contributor to MLSsoccer.com. Questions or Comments can be sent via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The magic number is 18.
Against the White Sox last Monday, Curt Schilling started strong, but tired around the fifth inning. Facing the Yankees Saturday afternoon, he was sharp for eight innings. He allowed only one hit through the first six, and when it seemed he was fading -- a walk and two singles to start the eighth -- he quickly returned to form, needing just five pitches to retire the side.
Manny Ramirez belted a two-run home run in the top of the first and he and his mates added six more in the fourth (the 27th time the Sox have scored 5+ runs in an inning). That frame featured two Yankee errors, including a dropped fly ball in left by Hideki Matsui (when he looks bad in the outfield, he makes Manny look like Clemente (almost)).
Jonathan Papelbon pitched the ninth for Boston, though I was sort of hoping to see the reliever Tim McCarver referred to as "Keith Falk" -- I figured he'd come out of the pen wearing a rumbled raincoat!


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The first in a new series about the day-to-day travails of an embattled practitioner. This week: Degrees of Diplomacy
'I must remember, there'll be days like this…….' Van Morrison
Friendly drizzle today – perfect. In the office early, it's quiet to start with but soon it's business as usual. I take a call from a client. We've been working on an interior for her. She is also acting as project/construction manager - without a JCT contract against our advice.
A minor crisis arose a week ago. Her joiner was on holiday and our client had been inspecting his work and becoming increasingly unhappy. We met on site, discussed the issues and agreed to meet with the joiner.
After a joint site meeting a couple of days ago our client seemed content with the outcome - the joiner assured her that he would make amends, rectify the work and carry on. Job done.
But today our client says she has lost confidence in the joiner. Truth is the client doesn't really like the joiner and the joiner doesn't really like the client. Neither of them wants to get contractual.
They agree they both dislike solicitors more than they dislike each other
The client wants to appoint another joiner who has apparently been criticising from the sidelines and the joiner just can't afford a solicitor. They agree, it appears, that they both dislike solicitors more than they dislike each other.
Our client wants the joiner to walk away from the project and repay an interim payment. It's not a lot of money but still significant in these straightened times. Can I help sort it out?
This didn't come up in my professional practice course and is possibly on the margins of what I feel comfortable doing but someone has to resolve this and there aren't many candidates…….
I call the joiner. To my surprise he seems relieved. He isn't enjoying the job and can only see losses mounting. He wants to repay by instalments. I email our client. She says she doesn't want to put him out of business and a repayment schedule is agreed. Our client will ask her solicitor to draw up a simple agreement. Job done.
The joiner offers a pillar drill and band saw
Another phone call. The solicitor has suggested that the joiner could go under at any time especially in the current climate and recommends our client stores some of the joiner's equipment as security. I text the joiner. He offers a pillar drill and band saw. The client accepts and her solicitor is set to work. Job done - again.
That's enough distraction for one day. It's raining harder, getting late but there's still time to get back to the drawing board, or what passes for one these days………..
Readers' comments (4)
Interesting ! Distractions that can eat up your week.
All this would fall under work stage K for which the client declined to employ the architect. There is no JCT contract and the terms of any contract between the client and the joiner are not stated. The architect would be extremely unwise to get involved without establishing the terms of agreement between the two parties. It appears that a good number of hours have been spent by the architect sorting this out yet there is no mention of the client being charged for the hours spent providing this additional service. If the architect is not charging then he/she is underselling the profession. It's bad enough trying to get a reasonable fee for our services without having to compete with others in the profession who are prepared to work for nothing.
News editor's note: The anonymous architect has contacted me to say that they did 'charge a fee for the time spent'. And they were paid.
Unless agreed, it is not allowable to retain tools or equipment against losses. And surely this action will precipitate joiner no. 1's bankruptcy.
Clients taking a dislike to tradesmen, and conversely liking bad tradespeople is a serious hazard.
David Berridge
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Stetson University and National Criminal Defense Bar Launch White Collar Criminal Defense College
Stetson University College of Law and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) are launching the NACDL White Collar Criminal Defense College at Stetson, the first program of its kind. The first session of this groundbreaking training for criminal defense lawyers is slated for early 2012. Practitioners in the field of white collar criminal defense will gain key advocacy skills and learn substantive white collar law during this multi-day "boot camp" program for lawyers at Stetson University College of Law.
Topics will likely include corporate investigations; representation of top management, middle management and other employees; grand jury investigation as it relates to corporate documents; the handling of parallel proceedings, such as agency investigations with the SEC or IRS; and sentencing issues unique to white collar defendants.
"The marriage of the leading advocacy law school in the country with the nation's leading criminal defense organization is a unique way to ensure that attorneys have the opportunity to enhance their white collar advocacy skills and also increase their knowledge of substantive white collar law," said Ellen S. Podgor, the Gary R. Trombley Family White Collar Crime Research Professor at Stetson Law, who will chair the White Collar Criminal Defense College.
"This partnership with Stetson is a natural extension of NACDL's educational programs for attorneys from all practice settings who are looking for top-notch legal training from the nation's preeminent criminal defense lawyers," explained NACDL Executive Director Norman L. Reimer.
Among the nation's top white collar practitioners serving on the advisory board of the NACDL White Collar Criminal Defense College at Stetson are NACDL's Chair of its CLE Institute William R. Gallagher of Arenstein & Gallagher; Shana-Tara Regon, director of White Collar Crime Policy for NACDL; and Larry Thompson, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General and Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary for PepsiCo. Other members of the advisory board and those teaching in the program will be announced soon.
NACDL is the preeminent organization in the U.S. advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct. In recent years, NACDL's white collar initiatives have assisted in furthering justice in areas such as discovery and grand jury reform, attorney-client privilege, overcriminalization and sentencing.
Stetson Law is Florida's first law school and has produced outstanding lawyers, judges and other professionals since it was founded in 1900. Stetson strongly emphasizes skills training and professionalism as part of its curriculum. Since 1995, Stetson has continuously ranked among the top four programs in the nation for trial advocacy.
For more information about the White Collar Criminal Defense College, contact Professor Ellen Podgor at email@example.com or 727-562-7348.
Media Contacts:
Brandi Palmer
Stetson Law Communications
Ivan J. Dominguez
NACDL Communications
202-872-8600 ext. 262
Post date: July 19, 2011
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April is the Month of the Young Child and the perfect time to share what our local early childhood council has been up to over the past 12 months.
We know that what happens to children in the first years of life affects their ability to learn and be successful in school and later in life. With this in mind, the Montelores Early Childhood Council has been working on a variety of initiatives with the ultimate goal of ensuring there is an effective early childhood system in Montezuma and Dolores counties.
Ensuring that children's needs are met in today's world can be challenging. Organizations representing the four areas of early learning, health, social/emotional and mental health, and parent support and education come together to collaborate to find ways to make the overall system work better for children and their families. Together, we hope to create optimal developmental outcomes by making sure that the available programs and services in all four areas connect and support one another. We know that the problem is not always that services and programs do not exist; it may be that people do not know about them, they have trouble accessing them or the services that exist do not meet their needs.
MECC has been able to secure additional funding this year that has enabled us to expand and sustain our work. We are looking at the whole child as we work on our "Healthy Kids Are Ready Kids" campaign. We are working with teachers to increase quality and school readiness through providing coaching. We are partnering with schools to create a process for children transitioning to kindergarten. We also provide professional development opportunities for providers. Our focus on social/emotional development and mental health includes the Pyramid Model Partnership that provides training and support for teachers as well as having an early childhood mental health consultant who works in classrooms to assist with challenging behaviors and providing other supports.
We continue to focus on oral health through the Cavity Free at Three program. We are also concentrating on healthy living through the 5-2-1-0 message (5 fruits and vegetables daily, 2 hours or less screen time, 1 hour physical activity, and 0 sugary drinks). We are working to produce a navigation guide to help families in accessing services, knowing what to expect developmentally, what to ask doctors, and more.
We provide monthly family nights that are filled with fun and learning. We are also in our fourth cohort of the 20-week Family Leadership Training Institute.
We are a part of the It's About Kids network with the Colorado Children's Campaign and are providing an advocacy training on April 8 and will bring two more in June – one tailored to youth and one tailored to families.
We have an email newsletter, listserv and Facebook page to share insights and happenings.
During April, we have some special activities happening to help celebrate young children. We will have a children's art show at Wal-Mart, beginning on April 15.
Saturday, April 27, is our fourth annual Early Childhood Fair at the County Annex. It is a free event that provides a variety of free screenings and fun activities. New this year will be an Ask the Doctor and Teddy Bear Clinic — a doctor will be available to answer questions and do "well child check-ups" on the toys that children bring.
We will have an Early Childhood Professional's Appreciation event, which is an opportunity to celebrate all the hard work that those working in the field of early childhood do. At this event we name a teacher of the year — "Master Gardener" — and honor a community member that goes above and beyond for young children and families in our communities. We need your input for these awards. Please consider nominating those who make a difference for your children! You can email nominations to email@example.com and also for more information about any of the things in this article.
Take an extra moment this month to let those who work with young children know how much you appreciate their dedication and hard work.
Vangi McCoy is the Coordinator for the Montelores Early Childhood Council and says she is blessed to get to work with the awesome early childhood community in the two-county area.


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Now, I've read Martin Hollick's reasons for his not liking Google Book Search at his blog Slovak Yankee. His examples are reasonable and I understand his frustrations, especially since I worked in a library for four years. However, sometimes, to me, there is nothing as valuable as Google Book Search, but with a caveat. For example, just a few days ago I was transcribing a letter from the Hawaii State Archives written by Henry Wilson to John Owen Dominis in Honolulu in 1848. I know a lot about John Dominis, but who is Henry Wilson? My only clues were that the letter was written aboard the ship "Preble" en route to Canton, China. Even the curator of Washington Place, the Dominis home in Honolulu, couldn't tell me much about Henry Wilson.
I first Googled "Henry Wilson" and, of course, there were a zillion hits. So I entered "Henry Wilson" "Preble" "China" and relevant hits began to appear. When I changed from a Google Web search to a Google Book Search, Bingo! There were several books from the US Navy, the US Government, etc. all with information about Henry Wilson, the purser on board the USS Preble, as part of a Naval expedition to China and the Far East in 1848. I found depositions, crew lists, biographies, and other information about Henry Wilson in two minutes. If I had been at my local library, or even at the Library of Congress, I wouldn't have known where to start looking. Now, armed with these clues from the internet, I can approach a traditional library or archive for more information. That is the caveat. Google Book Search got me started, now I can continue with some real research at a real repository.
Remember, there are lots of schmucks out there doing research at 10:30 at night in their PJs, who aren't near any good libraries. That's me. Right now. In my pink jammies, fuzzy slippers and glass of wine. 10:30 at night and I wanted to wrap up this letter transcription project before midnight. Now I have a USS Preble crew list and I can name that person whose name looked like McG---- in Wilson's 1848 handwriting, or that port that looked like W--- Island because of two minutes time at Google Book Search.
On Wednesday I posted a story on how I used the internet to find out more about Peter Hoogerzeil, my 2x great grandfather http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/08/not-so-wordless-wednesday-peter.html In this case, since Peter was an inventor, I used the internet to investigate his patents. The caveat is that not all the information was online, but it was a good place to start. Using the internet indexes was much simpler than using the book indexes at the Boston Public Library. However, in the end, I needed the Boston Public Library to actually look at many of his patent records. You would, too, for patents before 1976.
Without the internet, some of my biggest breakthroughs would never have happened. A series of stories I did in April on Romanus Emerson all came about because of a story I found in an internet newspaper database. http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/03/madness-monday-odd-romanus-emerson-part.html I never thought of looking for Romanus there because I thought he was just an average New England yeoman, with no life events worth looking for in the newspapers. After finding the initial clue on line, or course I hit the library and archives for more information. I've written about ten blog posts on Romanus Emerson, and I have enough other interesting information now to fill a book on just this one man.
Because of the internet, bulletin boards, Google Book Search and other online databases I've had contact with cousins and complete strangers. In the story http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/02/missionary-to-new-zealand.html Missionary to New Zealand, a complete stranger in Australia told me what happened to my 2x great grandfather's brother during a gold rush (it wasn't mission work!). In the story http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/08/mystery-of-jonathan-batchelder.html The Mystery of Jonathan Batchelder, a complete stranger read my bulletin board posting and mailed me an ancestors account book dated 1847, which gave me clues to his death in an insane asylum. Stranger yet, in my post http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/10/jabez-treadwells-will.html another complete stranger mailed me the 1781 will of Jabez Treadwell. An original folded up into an manila envelope! There are a dozen more stories like this in my notes, and I'm working on putting them on my blog as fast as I can.
Regular readers of my blog will now that I have an ongoing research project on the connection between the Jones sisters of Boston and the Kingdom of Hawaii. In my very first blog post on 27 July 2009, "Hawaii- The Boston Connection to a Royal Lineage" http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/07/hawaii-boston-connection-to-royal.html I explain how for years I had been writing to the archives and curators in Honolulu for information on the Joneses. Finally a new curator at Washington Place saw my post on line and mailed me copies of several letters, and I broke through my brick wall. This has been an ongoing project that not only led to many blog posts and a research trip to Hawaii, but also to a collaboration with Leah Allen "The Internet Genealogist" and her connection with the Mott sisters who also boarded at Washington Place. You can check out those blog posts by hitting "Hawaii" or "Dominis" in the labels listed in the right hand column of my blog. There are too many to list here.
Of course, us regular schmucks sitting at home doing internet genealogy research in our PJs can't be complacent. In every example I gave above, my clues from the internet were followed up with real old-fashioned research at libraries and archives. However, which library? Which archive? What federal, state or local agency? Those answers came from the internet.
Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Internet Searches v. A Real Library
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Internet ate my reply. Gosh, durn it, I love my computer.ReplyDelete
Anyway, great post, excellent examples.
This has been a great discussion. Thanks
Heather, what a great post!ReplyDelete
As one who began research at a library, and who spent an entire day at NEHGS today, and who also spends huge amounts of time on the computer, I love both ways. But, not everybody can get to a genealogical library, so the internet and Google books are the next best thing.ReplyDelete
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