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Useful Tricks To Stop Wheezing Without An Inhaler

Wheezing is a common disorder nowadays, and we see plenty of people struggling with this issue. It appears as a tightening in the throat, and even if is treatable, wheezing can be pretty annoying.

When someone is suffering of wheezing, makes a strange sound while breathing, and is mostly heard in exhalation. Sometimes it is heard during inhalation.

Wheezing is stopped, most of the times with an inhaler, but it can also be stopped using some tricks if you don’t have an inhaler at hand.

Sit upright

When you face a wheezing attack, immediately stop whatever you are doing and get into a sitting upright posture. Do not bend over or lie down as this can make breathing more difficult.

Take long deep breaths

The best way to clear the congestion is by taking long and deep breaths. You can also indulge in yoga-inspired breathing techniques. The breathing exercise is designed to follow a regular inhalation and exhalation.

Try to relax and stay calm

Anxiety and panic can make breathing more difficult. You need to stay calm and try out techniques such as breathing exercises and steam inhalation for quick relief. Staying calm will prevent the chest muscles from becoming tightened. This makes breathing easier.

Stay away from causes that triggers wheezing

Asthma and breathing allergies get worse when triggers are around. Controlling your exposure to these triggers can help a great deal. Avoid allergy triggers if you have a chronic respiratory condition.
Dust, smell of chemicals and cigarette smoke are usually the prime triggers. Move to a place with clean air.

Steam inhalations

This is one of the most effective home remedies. Inhaling moisture-rich, warm air can be soothing and would clear up the sinuses ultimately opening up the airways. You can pour hot water in a large bowl and then breathe in the steam. For extra moisture, place a towel over your head. You can also add a few drops of menthol to the water to make the steam more powerful.

In case the situation is getting worse, please call 911.

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6 ways big data is helping reinvent enterprise security

The advent of big data hasn’t changed the ideas behind most enterprise security practices, but it has made them better. While network security and endpoint security have always relied on the processing of files or traffic against threat databases of to determine whether they’re dangerous, big data lets them gather, store and analyze much more data. The result, in theory, are products that are more intelligent than their predecessors and that make the guys tasked with keeping a company secure that much better at their jobs.

Here are seven big data-inspired approaches to security that have piqued my interest lately. I know I’m leaving out a lot of other approaches and companies, so please fill in the blanks in the comments section.

Prioritizing threats

Software-as-a-Service security startup Risk I/O announced $5.25 million in venture capital funding on Tuesday, based in large part on its ability to simplify security administrators’ lives by telling them which vulnerabilities are best fixed now and which can wait a bit. Co-founder and CEO Ed Bellis first recognized the problem of information overload while serving as CISO at Orbitz (s oww), where he told me he was subsumed by the noise of dozens of products spitting out information on untold numbers of vulnerabilities, all in different formats and all without any guidance on what to do next.

And the problem is only getting worse as companies grow and inevitably roll out or acquire new security products along the way. “Nothing ever dies,” Bellis said, “it’s just one more thing you end up having to support.”

Risk IO tackles this complexity by taking in the data from all of a company’s security applications and analyzing the context around the threats they’ve discovered. (And because it’s a SaaS offering, Bellis said Risk IO can easily include crowdsource threat analysis to include intelligence gleaned from its 400-plus enterprise customers.) Once the data is analyzed, Risk I/O tells users which vulnerabilities they need to tackle immediately, basing its recommendations on many criteria, including how exposed a vulnerability is, whether there’s an exploit published somewhere online and how often other companies are getting burned by it.

Really, Bellis said, the goal is to let users sleep relatively easy knowing that of the 10 million vulnerabilities their system might have, perhaps only 50 or 60 are likely to result in a breach. “We’re here to help organizations make much better security decisions,” he said. “… They can’t fix everything and not everything needs to be fixed.”

Letting admins play C.S.I.

Sourcefire’s FireAMP product does detect malware, but it’s real magic comes into play when it’s time to do forensics. A cloud-based backend takes care of all that heavy lifting around processing, while security personnel can work their way through the data to determine everything from how a piece of malware moved through the system to whether the behavior or certain employees or departments is unduly exposing the company to attacks. This type of analysis lets a company identify the causes of attacks rather than just treating the symptoms, Sourcefire’s Zulfikar Ramzan told me in January.

Stopping crime in its tracks

For Silver Tail Systems, a four-year-old company that EMC(s emc) purchased earlier this month, the focus is on building always-learning behavioral models for web visitors that let customers identify and thwart attacks as they’re happening. When its software spots activity from an untrusted source or that’s deviating too far from the norm for a given IP address, it can flag security personnel who can then respond as they see fit or it can just deny access outright. If there’s a question about a visitor is real or a bot, Silver Tail can deploy a CAPTCHA or other test to try validate its humanity.

Visualizing threats

PacketLoop is a security startup that was clearly born in the age of big data. The company touts its Hadoop- and NoSQL-based platform for its ability to store and process many terabytes of network packet data, and it’s all about presenting the results via visualizations that tell a story. From a functionality perspective, the company claims its big data architecture allows it to analyze every single packet every time its intrusion detection systems are updated, meaning its always on the lookout for nefarious activity, even in historical data.

Keeping BYOD in check

Tenable Network Security performs a lot of network security tasks for its customers, although one capability that recently caught sole investor Accel Partners’ eye — to the tune of $50 million — is its ability to identify in great detail the mobile devices on the corporate network. Tenable’s Nessus software can determine how many mobile devices are on their networks and just about everything about them — serial number, model, OS version, whether it’s jailbroken, when it last connected to the network, you name it.

As Tenable Founder and CEO Ron Gula told me at the time of its funding in September, “People say BYOD, but it’s really connect your own device to the network.” And when they’re doing that from any number of coffee shops and hotels across the country, it’s important to know who’s who and that they’re not bringing any hangers-on with them. A jailbroken phone that hasn’t had a software update in three years? Well, someone might want to address that.

Opening the data — lots of it

CloudFlare is a pretty impressive company, if only because of the sheer amount of data it collects trying to improve performance and security for the more than 500,000 websites that use its service. According to Founder and CEO Matthew Prince, the company handles between 75 billion and 80 billion pageviews a month, and its database now includes about 650 million IP addresses. Cloudflare’s system ingests 20GB of log data per minute, and the company is currently in the process of building a 20-petabyte cluster to store all that data (the fraction it retains) using its custom-built file system.

All that data means CloudFlare’s behavioral models are very good at detecting malware and bot activity, and it will only get better as more data gets added to the system, Prince said. And thanks to the service’s distributed architecture, the company claims it can fend off even large, persistent DDoS attacks without its users feeling a thing. But the company’s biggest contribution to the security space might be yet to come.

Prince said he’s on a mission to open up the company’s stockpiles of data on malicious traffic with the intent of letting even small companies get in on large-scale data sharing like large web companies already do among themselves. The bad guys share data like crazy, he said, and “only through coordinated efforts are the good guys going to be able to win. … Any individual site can only be as secure as the lens through which it sees.” CloudFlare’s data could help many companies open their apertures.

Of course, there are some complicating factors to Prince’s plan, including the possibility that cybercriminals would be able to learn from the data to further their own efforts. Even some of Prince’s colleagues don’t think widely releasing the company’s data is such a good idea without some serious thought into how to do so ethically and securely. So for now he’s going to start small by publishing a blog post identifying the global networks most often involved in DDoS attacks, although, he noted, “I could do down to the machine level.”

Playing petri dish

Although Bromium’s technology isn’t inherently data-centric (it’s more about using a novel approach to virtualization to isolate untrusted processes), the company is starting to let users capture some very interesting data. Similar in theory, if not architecture, to the virtual sandboxes that companies such as Palo Alto Networks (s panw) employ at the network level, Bromium’s new Live Attack Visualization & Analysis (LAVA) feature lets malware run its course within an insulated micro-VM so security analysts can see how it plays out and what it’s trying to accomplish.

During a recent call, Bromium’s chief security architect, Rahul Kashyap, said LAVA could helps these analysts hone their definitions of what’s actually malware and what’s not. Whereas many network, web and endpoint security services gather lots of data about suspected malware activity from across their user bases (like, nearly everyone mentioned in this post), the log files and signatures they generally collect might not provide enough evidence to completely eliminate false positives. LAVA, he explained, gives analysts the ability to eliminate the doubt around whether something is malicious — even undocumented zero-day attacks — because they can watch it watch it run its course in the safety of the micro-VM like a biologist watches bacteria in a petri dish.

Feature image courtesy of Shutterstock user mkabakov.

3 Responses to “6 ways big data is helping reinvent enterprise security”

  1. I’m disappointed that this focused solely on products/services. The real promise of security data warehousingis that it takes the power away from point security solutions that our industry continues to sell, and puts it squarely back in the hands of the most important control, our talent.

  2. Great article, Derrick. Itâ€™s absolutely imperative for new techniques and security strategies to be in place as technology continues to evolve and spread within and outside of organizations. A company not only needs security policies in place for analyzing data, but also for the emergence of BYOD within the workplace.

    The days of the paper shredder are gone. Company data is no longer just in the physical hands of employees, itâ€™s in their virtual hands, traveling with them wherever they go. This creates growing risk for data loss and security breaches. When these data breaches occur, it can cause devastating legal, financial and reputation crises. Itâ€™s hard to ignore the cost benefits when employees purchase their own device, but with as much as 70% of the intellectual property living on email alone, a huge percentage of data assets are â€œout thereâ€ on somebodyâ€™s smartphone or tablet.

    IT needs to examine employeesâ€™ devices in greater detail and implement a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution to manage this concern. It impacts the bottom line of any company when you consider the costs that can be associated with data breaches that can occur if employees access corporate data on potentially unsecured mobile and WiFi networks.


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This $1 origami microscope could boost education and healthcare in developing nations

You remember your high school biology lab’s microscopes: heavy, complicated and expensive machines that you wouldn’t dare take home, let alone into the field. Now imagine one made of paper. The Foldscope project, which went live online today, totally turns the old-school scope on its head with a microscope that can be assembled in less than 10 minutes from paper and an inexpensive lens.

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The Stanford University lab behind Foldscope foresees it being used for education and healthcare in areas where access to basic scientific equipment is difficult. The microscope costs less than $1 and could be used to dramatically increase the number of people screened for malaria.

“Our microscope has all the little bells and whistles of a traditional microscope, but it is all implemented in a different medium,” bioengineering assistant professor Manu Prakash said in a video.

Foldscope is made of thick paper, glue, a switch, a battery and an LED. At $0.56, the lens is the most expensive part. The microscope is designed to be cheap enough that it is disposable after one use, potentially lowering the risk for spreading disease.

To work it, you place your eye near to the lens and move it up and down with your hand to achieve the right focus, just like a regular microscope. The Foldscope site showcases a few images of what you can see through the microscope at a micrometer scale:

Images taken through a Foldscope. Photo courtesy of Foldscope.
Images taken through a Foldscope. Photo courtesy of Foldscope.

MIT Technology Review reports that the Stanford team is looking at mass-production opportunities for Foldscope, which could allow them to produce billions a year. Foldscope is also looking for 10,000 people to test the microscope and help write a field manual before it goes out to the world.

“In the end, there is both a training gap and an instrumentation gap,” Prakash said in the video. “It’s the community of health workers and the community that is physically out there day to day that is going to fill up the training gap. But what we’re doing initially is providing them the tools to be able to do that.”


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Notice the dark green, emerald color of this beautiful, high quality oil unlike most refined avocado oils people are used to seeing that are clear and flavorless. This cold pressed, extra virgin oil is pressed from fresh avocados without the use of any chemicals or heat, meaning more of that avocado superpower nutritional benefits are retained for your consumption.

Enjoy the flavorful, richness of this oil for cold use on salads or heated for cooking. A smooth, creamy flavor comes out as this oil warms up making it great for sauteing veggies, cooking meats, and even popping popcorn.

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Ballet is perfect for boys and girls from age 3 upwards, it is one of the most elegant and beautiful forms of dance. The lessons themselves are designed to be fun and challenging, following a structured syllabus to aid progress and development.

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Classes are offered from Pre-Primary to Regulated Graded Syllabus & Advanced . Classical Ballet forms the basis for all other dance styles as it helps develop strength, posture, grace, co-ordination, muscle tone, technique and musical awareness.

Our Ballet dance classes take place every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in Newtownabbey, Belmont, Holywood and Lisburn. For a full list of days and times click on the icon to view our dance timetable.

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Our ballet lessons at Gillian Jones Dance & Stage Academy will help to develop your child's sense of rhythm and musicality, as they learn to coordinate their bodies in time with the music. We offer our services in areas including Belfast, Newtownabbey, Holywood and Lisburn.

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My daughter Anna, now aged 10, first started at Gillian Jones Dancing when she was 4. I have watched Anna blossom under Gillian's teaching. Her school has the perfect balance of professionalism and fun. Gillian's approach ensures that the atmosphere at every class builds self-esteem and confidence in a safe happy environment. The annual shows show the skills that have been taught and create unforgettable memories.

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Going to Miss Gillian’s dance class is the highlight of my three girls’ week. The classes are n equal mix of great fun and discipline as the girls learn jazz, tap and ballet. A particular favourite of my daughters is the musical theatre element of the classes. They cannot wait to tell me which musical has been chosen for new choreography. As a parent the absolute treat of the dance year is the annual “Dance Extravaganza” at Lisburn Arts Centre where over 100 children put on a full afternoon of dance in a most spectacular show. How Gillian and her assistants coordinate so many dances and costume changes for children from 3 to 18 years is unbelievable!

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Set me free – MD

Why must one despise for what is just?

It’s uncertainty that makes you lose trust?

I plee to you, teach me to read.

Educate my mind, let me be

the greatest a woman could possibly become.

Gain knowledge and be the one,

concurring theories from the great Aristotle,

whilst elucidating stars one recalls from Plato.

Haven’t you heard I’m extraordinary as thee,

How can you wander this earth, experience the great seas.

Travel to gain knowledge yet not let me see?

Allow me to write, show me how to read.

Why do you hold me back to wonder languidly?

Set me free.

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Rebuilding a Community After a Disaster

From Katrina to Sandy, SBP has been working hard to shrink the time between disaster and recovery. 2014 Social Impact Fellow Zack Rosenburg is the Co-Founder and CEO of SBP (formerly, St. Bernard Project), whose mission is to ensure communities impacted by disaster can recover in a prompt, efficient, and predictable manner. Rosenburg co-founded SBP in March 2006 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and has since managed the organization’s vision, marketing, partnership development, and fundraising.

In this role, Rosenburg oversees a number of SBP programs including: Good Work/Good Pay, a construction training program for war veterans, unemployed local citizens, and citizens recently released from jail; Opportunity Housing, an innovative affordable housing program that turns blighted properties into well-built affordable housing; and Disaster Resilience and Recovery Lab, which allows SBP to train other organizations to utilize SBP’s systems and processes.

Zack Rosenburg is the recipient of numerous awards, including, New Orleanian of the Year, Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project Champion of Justice, the Manhattan Institute Social Innovation Award, an Honorary Doctorate from Muhlenberg College, as well as a distinguished alumnus award from Washington College of Law.

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Part 2 in a series of stories about getting reacquainted with living in the United States after three years abroad.

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I believed the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that the U.S. inflation rate has held at around 1-2% for the past five years. However, I noticed from our trip abroad to Sicily in 2012 that one U.S. dollar was worth about .80 Euros, and on our most recent trip through Europe in 2014 one dollar was worth about .72 Euros. That is a 10% loss of the purchase power of my dollars in two years. Something is not right.

Shortly after our return to the U.S., I had a conversation with a friend of mine who was trained as a financial advisor at Morgan-Stanley. I told him I noticed a discrepancy between what my dollars were worth and what our government was telling me about the inflation rate. I mentioned also that my wife and I both were experiencing severe sticker shock¹ at the price of basic…

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  1. Keith Ainsley says:

    Interesting post. How does the flooding of the market with dollars factor in? Isn’t the flooding of dollars also reduce it’s buying power?

    • Mike Lince says:

      As it was explained to me, Keith, most of the dollars printed do not flood the market. Banking laws require that a percentage of a banks assets must be held in reserve. The largest amounts of dollars are part of the Federal Reserve. Large amounts of dollars are also held by the multinational banks, and proportionally less amounts are held by the many regional and local banks. While the Treasury may be printing billions of dollars, that figure is small compared to the collective assets of the banks which are in the trillions.

      What the market is flooded with is credit supported by those reserves. While the FDIC steps in should large numbers of account holders demand their funds, they only insure bank accounts, not loans. BTW – There is speculation by some analysts that banks are now excessively issuing subprime loans for automobiles.

      Thank you for your astute questions. I hope I addressed them even though I am no expert. – Mike

  2. reocochran says:

    This is a serious matter, when our dollars are of less value across other countries, Mike! I did not know that! Used to be worth more! I know this, from my Mexican, Canadian and Spanish trips. I could ‘buy’ more with my dollars and I think the exchange was more, too. This was in the 70’s and 80’s… I guess we need to figure out how to make this better, but not sure if changing the way the government works, with projects and war zones being helped, if we can discontinue what we already have on the budget….Interesting and thanks for this information, Mike! Hugs, Robin

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Stick to the Trail

I live in the mountains at Glorieta Camps and I love to hike on the trails. For me, hiking is a fun way to work out and a time when I can be in the beauty of God’s creation. In these moments, I get to see Him through what He has created.

On most of my hikes, I stick to the trail. These trails wind through the mountains, over rocks, around fallen trees, through thorny brush, and under heavy ground cover.  Because of this, there have been many times I have walked a quarter of a mile or longer before realizing I was no longer on the trail. In order to get back on the path, I have to consult my map, or the Trail Forks app and see if I am in step with the path set before me.

Hills and Valleys

We know that God is a God of the hills and the valleys (1 Kings 20:28), so it makes sense that we navigate those hills and valleys on a trail He has set before us. Often we lose the trail and need to stop and look at the Trailmaker to set us back in the right direction. He is the one we trust in to make our path straight and our way sure (Proverbs 3:5).

I have many friends who would prefer to walk on well-paved roads and never experience the thrills of the hills and valleys. They don’t want to take the time to navigate the trail and consult the map to keep them in the right direction. On the well-paved road, there are fewer dangers and less effort is needed. On the road, we can be more comfortable and in control of our lives. These friends like the broad open road where they can control the destination without outside consideration.

Relinquish Control

The Kingdom of God is a lot like the trails and paved roads. In order to be a follower of the God in the hills and valleys, we have to realize we are not in control. We need to rely on Him for direction and guidance. On the trail, God will show us amazing things, but we will also have to go through some deep valleys. Even in the deepest and darkest valleys, He is with us and guiding us (Ps 23:4).

There is a path that leads to eternal life and one that does not (Matthew 7:13). Full reliance and trust in God are required to navigate the trails.  He will not lead us through valleys we cannot handle (1 Cor. 10:13). While staying on the trail it is not easy, it is worth it!

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Four GM stroke units in top 20 in England

The latest stroke national audit data is out (SSNAP) and we are delighted that our three Hyper Acute Stroke Units are all now in the top 10 of directly admitting teams (i.e. HASU type stroke units) in England.

We have 4 units in the top 20 of all stroke units (out of 181 scoring teams) as Trafford General is ranked 10th.

You may well have seen Stepping Hill celebrate their status as the number one performing stroke unit on Twitter which is a monumental achievement!

The region’s stroke pathway continues to deliver excellent care, with every resident receiving ‘A’ rated inpatient care when the data is looked at by borough.

Rank Stroke Unit SSNAP overall score
1st Stepping Hill Hospital 95
2nd Whiston Hospital SU 94.3
3rd Charing Cross Hospital HASU 94
4th Northwick Park Hospital SU 92.7
5th Royal Victoria Infirmary 92.1
6th Colchester General Hospital 92
6th Broomfield Hospital 92
6th Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast 92
9th St George’s Hospital SU 91.7
10th Salford Royal Hospital 91
10th Trafford General Hospital 91
12th Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 90.7
13th Wycombe General Hospital 90
14th St George’s Hospital HASU 89
15th Northwick Park Hospital HASU 88
15th West Suffolk Hospital 88
15th Fairfield General Hospital 88
15th Whiston Hospital HASU 88
15th Royal Sussex County Hospital 88
15th Worthing Hospital 88

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"My mom's insistence taught me to be a mindful user of our planet's resources," says designer Mark Einselen

Architectural Designer, Mark Einselen of Old Town Design Group shares 3 books that have influenced his life in architecture.
"My mom's insistence taught me to be a mindful user of our planet's resources," says designer Mark Einselen

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Mark Einselen

Architectural Designer, CAD Manager at Old Town Design Group

Mark Einselen is a 2011 graduate of Andrews University School of Architecture. He spends his days (and some nights) as an Architectural Designer for Old Town Design Group in Carmel, Indiana. Most of his time is spent meeting with clients, walking through construction projects and mud, developing new products (such as pre-designed plans and townhouses), and managing the CAD department. Occasionally he can be found riding his bike in downtown Indianapolis, hiking in creeks, napping in his hammock at home, or backpacking abroad. Someday he will tend a flock of chickens.

What 3 books have impacted your life in architecture and why?

Classic Houses of the Twenties

This book came to me as a Christmas present when I was young. The economy of the roaring twenties, popularity of the automobile, and "kit" homes (like those sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co.) helped detached single family residences explode at an unprecedented rate. Loizeaux's book showcases some of the most popular romantic revival home styles from the 1920's. It's influence on my sense of proportion, scale, and architectural character continues to this day.

30 Energy-Efficient Houses You Can Build

Alex Wade and Neal Ewenstein

My mother's architectural library is as eclectic as any. This obscure book from 1977 profiles 30 custom projects, each with a peculiar spin on sustainability. The architect embraced each clients' own practical construction skills, local geography, and materials. There are strong correlations between these projects and Auburn University's Rural Studio. This book, along with my mom's insistence, taught me to be a mindful user of our planet's resources.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

I was unfamiliar with this book until it was assigned in college. Now I recommend it to everyone who asks for a reading recommendation. It broadened my interests beyond the individual dwelling and to the whole urban context of a structure. Jane Jacobs also, discreetly, makes the compelling case that everyone who is affected by the built environment has a valid opinion. Because of Jane Jacobs, I tell my clients that their personal experience informs my work as a professional in the industry.

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Friday, 1 December 2017

It's Market Time

At this time of year there seem to be markets popping up everywhere. Yesterday Hand Made Under the Stars  was held at the Cobb and Co Museum and as usual it featured a vast array of crafts which would make great Christmas gifts. Yesterday was also the start of the Bush Christmas Exhibition which finishes on the 9th December.

I paid a flying visit to both events just to have a look-see as I wasn't planning on buying anything. The Bush Exhibition showcases the craftwork of rural and remote artisans and everything that is on sale is top quality.

As you walk in the doors there are always tin animals there to greet you and I just love them. I couldn't get any decent photos but there were also magpies, roosters, pigs etc. for sale.

Once inside one is spoiled for choice. There are beautifully made leather products including these gum leaf book marks I bought for my granddaughters.... well as purses, jewellery, hair clips and you name it.... it was probably there in that section.

These were intriguing and looked like they were made from book pages.

Once again Gabriele Case from Zoe Design had her beautiful doily tote bags for sale as well as her unique jewellery.

Then there were lovely cushions....

...and I especially loved the little girls on this one.

...and every jam known to man.

If you live anywhere near Toowoomba this is really worth the trip up the Range but I wouldn't leave it too late to visit the exhibition in case they sell out.

Although I hadn't intended to buy anything at either of the markets I did spy this Soap Saver Suds Maker on my way in at the RADHA stall. I remembered the discussion some of us had had a few years ago on the Down to Earth Forum about these suds makers as many of us had used them when we were growing up and were finding it hard to locate anyone who made them in Australia at the time. Many of us had grown up using them when it was time to wash the dishes.  So I ended up buying one.

It came complete with handmade soap. I found out a while ago that they are now available from Odgers and McClelland but I never did get around to ordering one from there and unless I am mistaken, RADHA may be the suppliers as they look very similar.

So I think that will do for visiting craft markets for the year. Stall owners go to so much trouble to make their crafts and I don't think they ever get paid for the amount of time it takes to make something. However, it is so nice to see handmade products instead of the mass produced ones in the shops.

Don't forget to enter in the Christmas Giveaway before midnight on Sunday. This is only open to those living in Australia unfortunately due to the cost of postage. I can't wait to see who the winner will be. Do come back and visit on Monday if you have entered.

Have a wonderful weekend and stay safe if you live in Victoria and Southern New South Wales as it sounds like you are in for some bad weather.

  1. Hi Chel,
    I bought my soap shaker from Odgers and have used it regularly. I have found that commercial soap doesn't do as good a job as home made soap. You guys have the best exhibitions in Toowoomba. I am quite envious.

    1. I wonder if yours is the same one, Jane. I will have to make some soap for when the original one runs out.

  2. Beautiful crafts. I remember seeing a soap saver on Rhonda's blog, but I've never used one.
    Have a great weekend Chel.

    1. They aren't that easy to find these days, Nil.

  3. Chel I just love Linda's cushions. She has been making them for years and always does a great job. Have this on my 'to do' list - perhaps next years will be the year.

    1. Lynette, I didn't see the tags on the cushions so had no idea who made them but they are absolutely gorgeous.

  4. Everything happens in Toowoomba. We have a final craft market for the year tomorrow so hoping I have time to go. The ones just before Christmas are the best.

    1. We are a bit spoiled for choice here, Kylie. There are too many markets on before Christmas to go to them all I find.

  5. am on the look out for one of the soap savers too, might have a look at odgers too.
    thanx for sharing

  6. Such lovely handmade items there! I'm like you Chel...really not interested in the mass produced any more. Thank you so much for the links in this post so we can follow up on items. Love those soap savers and remember them so well from my childhood.

  7. I love going to pre-Christmas craft markets and always admire the skills of artisan craftspeople. Those jam makers are very professional with their beautiful jars and labels, a bit different to my home printed labels LOL. I can also remember the Soap saver suds makers on the old wash tubs at home. Amazing that you can still buy them. Pauline.

  8. We have a lot of Maker's Markets happening too, at the moment,there's a lot of very talented artists and craftspeople across the Valley. I've been to quite a few, but feel bad just looking and not buying, as you say, they put so much time and trouble into making beautiful items, but are not really compensated. I hate over-hearing people saying how dreadfully expensive some of the items are, they obviously have no idea. I love the doily bags and the patchwork cushions, so pretty. I'm glad you bought yourself something, a soap sudser is a great gift to yourself.

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The art of being

A few years ago, during our road trip across the U.S., we stopped at the Jewel Cave National Monument in South Dakota. The cave is currently the third longest in the world and is best explored with a guided tour. So we joined one. Following a park ranger through a maze of passages and tunnels, I tried not to think about metres of rock above my head. As our tour was nearing the end, we stopped on a large platform. Our guide explained that she was going to turn off the lights for a few minutes and encouraged us to listen to the sounds of the cave. Seemed like an easy enough challenge. Once the lights went off and we plunged into complete darkness, I could hear a distant drip of the water. There were other sounds close by: the shuffling of feet, the rustling of clothes, whispers and giggles. On our way back out of the cave, the ranger shared her observation: over the past few years those three minutes of quietness are getting louder. It’s as if people forgot how to be still.

There are many reasons why I enjoy getting outdoors. But it is the moments of utter stillness that I cherish the most. Those seconds right before a sunrise when I hold my breath waiting for the red orb inch its way into the sky. All those times we sit in our canoe watching a loon frolicking around or a beaver crossing our path, not daring to move for the fear of scaring them away. The moment when an incredible vista opens up in front of us, leaving no room for words only a feeling of collective awe. All those mornings I spend watching the campfire, a coffee mug in hand, mind wandering. Doing absolutely nothing.

What a radical concept and such a luxury in a world that is constantly on the move, panicking at the slightest sign of a void, frantically stuffing it with activity, even if it is just checking our Facebook updates. Somehow we got convinced that we need to fill every waking second with doing things and buying stuff. That we need to continuously demonstrate our growth with promotions, new degrees, bigger houses, newest phones. That to do otherwise would rob our lives of meaning. That not being constantly busy equals being lazy.

And as we continue to be reduced to human doings and human havings, spending time in nature helps me restore the being part of my humanity. It reminds me that I don’t have to always achieve new heights, both literally and figuratively, to prove my worth. The forest generously shares its gifts with everyone regardless of our accolades or titles. The trail doesn’t care how expensive my hiking shoes are as long as I tread lightly. Wildlife doesn’t ask about the size of my house or the brand of my car, only to be left in peace. Coming face to face with nature’s majestic powers is an exhilarating and humbling experience: on the grand canvas of the universe we are but one stroke, no more important than the other elements of this magnificent masterpiece.

So as I get caught up in the everyday whirlwind of things to do and places to go, I remind myself that there is always time to watch a leaf twirl in the wind. Even if it means missing the bus. I make myself pause, stay still and just be. I challenge you to do the same.

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  1. Love this! Good message right before Buy Nothing Day, er I mean Black Friday.

    One of the main reasons why I think we both can relate to photography, I love how I see nature and my surroundings differently. I no longer pass a stand of trees on my walk, but I look for something unique. Helps me to connect with nature on a deeper level.

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    • Thank you, Cobi. Black Friday is where that the inspiration came from. Pre-Christmas shopping season is a scary time for me. Try to avoid malls like a plague.
      I agree about photography. Definitely makes me stop and stay still, sometimes for a long time, look beyond the surface and connect.

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  2. A truly beautiful testament to the silence and stillness that is sorely lacking in our modern world. I am the first to admit that it is precisely the fact that nature imposes or impresses this stillness and acceptance that I am so addicted to walking in nature. Thank you for such a perfect soliloquy on quietude and its potential for breeding meaning.

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Why do I procrastinate? I’m sure it’s either genetic or some kind of childhood trauma…but that’s irrelevant. I do it. And it makes for a lot of stressful times…but somehow, it also motivates me and lights a fire under my lazy bum. It may even be (partially) responsible for some of my best work! So what I’ve decided to do is Embrace the Procrastination! Instead of fighting the inevitable, I’m learning how to work with it and to use it as a motivator. I haven’t perfected it yet, but I’m getting there. My advice: never stop with whatever self-improvement efforts you have going on, BUT part of those efforts should include cutting your losses. Instead of fighting The Thing that make you feel bad that you continually try to “fix,” figure out how you can mitigate the negative impact of The Thing and use it as your touchstone, your hyper-drive, your magic bean. You, too, can turn that frown upside down…tomorrow, of course.

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Why I wear a red poppy and not a white one

November 08, 2010 @ 23:17 By: gordon Category: Current affairs

RCL poppyThere’s a group in PEI called the Island Peace Committee that has been distributing white poppies. The IPC says that their white poppies stand for non-violent conflict resolution. The implication seems to be that the red poppies somehow denote support for armed conflicts (i.e. wars) or even glorify them.

This has, needless to say, upset a lot of people, including the Royal Canadian Legion. Generally speaking, the white poppies are being disrespectful to the brave men and women who have fought and died for their country. Aggravating this is the fact that the Island Peace Committee is distributing them at the same time the Legion’s Poppy Campaign is underway.

The red poppies are not glorifying war. They are symbols of “Remembrance, our visual pledge to never forget all those Canadians who have fallen in war and military operations”. Though they’ve been this symbol since 1921, their association with those who were killed in wars can be traced back to the Napoleonic Wars in the 1800s, more than 110 years before being adopted in Canada.

Personally, I wear a poppy to remember people I never knew but who died serving my country and family members like my great-uncle Fred who died in 1944. I also wear it as a sign of respect for those who have served and survived, such as my neighbour, Jack, who I have seen in the crowd shots in the television coverage of more than one Remembrance Day ceremony. Jack told me a couple of days ago that he has been asked to lay a wreath on behalf of our MP at the local Remembrance Day ceremony this Thursday afternoon, something he is proud of.

It’s important to understand that the red poppies are for those who died and not for the wars they died in. To suggest that they stand for anything else is incredibly disrespectful of their sacrifice.

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  1. kaitlin says:

    Yes. And no. I bought a poppy this year, a red one, with the intention of wearing it to commemorate those past heroes. My problem with the poppy campaign that is being run, is that it has more recently been under the precipice of chest thumping and cheering for the current war and the Support Our Troops campaigns associated with them.

    I agree with you that suggesting that poppies stand for something other than the sacrifice of soldiers in the name of freedom is disrespectful. The problem is, the new meaning associated with them is being articulated by the government, the legions and the media. And those are forces that are not easy to combat.

    • gordon says:

      There is a huge difference between supporting our troops and supporting the current war.

      The soldiers are fighting because their country has asked them to, even though they don’t have a choice but to follow that command regardless of whether they believe in the reasons for the war. The have taken an oath to serve their country, an oath all the soldiers I know take very seriously. This is an honourable act that I cannot but respect.

      Regardless of whether one believes in the current war, I cannot think of a reason not to support the soldiers.

      I don’t recall seeing anything from the Legion “chest thumping and cheering” for the current war. I don’t know any veterans who wanted to go to war, but I know those who felt it was their duty to, particularly those who served as peace keepers (the original meaning) to defend those who could not defend themselves.

      Protest the war if feel strongly about it, but support the troops because they are only doing their duty.

  2. One of the things that has always pissed me off, from when I was old enough to figure out what was going on (so we’re talking Viet Nam days) is that people get mad at the MILITARY for prosecuting a war.

    The military does what it is told by civilian politicians. If you don’t like a war, blaming soldiers, even the commanding general is weapons-grade stupid. It’s the politicians that send soldiers to war, and the politicians that call them back. So many people don’t understand this. We’re lucky to live in a country where the army can’t decide to go to war all by itself.

    For Joe Soldier, it’s just a job. In fact, most soldiers are not super keen on going out and tear-assing up and down the country side killing people. Most soldiers, will never see “the enemy” even in time of war. The few that are on the pointy-end generally want to do their patrols/whatever and get back a live. They’re not interested in killing and destruction either, but they’ll do what they have to do to get the job done.

    So hooting and hollering at soldiers and military installations is misdirected rage. It’s like protesting matches because there are house fires. If you don’t support a war, protest at your local MP’s constituency office and on Parliament Hill – they’re the ones responsible, and the ones with the power to change the situation.

    But leave the soldier alone. Soldiers are just doing the job you’re paying them to do, and there’s a good chunk of it they don’t like any more than you do.

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Graduate School wins grant to study PhD career outcomes

By Alissa Ewer

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School has been selected to take part in a $2 million multi-institutional grant, aimed at studying PhD career pathways. The Graduate School will be awarded $80,000 to collect data on doctoral alumni and current students, to be used for program improvement.

Understanding PhD Career Pathways for Program Improvement is led by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation. CGS announced today that it has selected 29 institutions to participate in the three-year project, including Texas A&M University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Results will help universities strengthen career support, professional development, and mentoring, as they gain insight into the relationship between doctoral training programs and career outcomes. Data will also demonstrate the wide range of academic and nonacademic jobs held by PhD alumni.

“Career outcomes is a high-profile topic on campus, in the state of Wisconsin as well as across the country, and this project brings the successes of our PhD alumni into the conversation,” explains Graduate School Dean William Karpus, who serves as award principal investigator. “We will better understand the research and economic contributions of our doctoral alumni and how graduate study at UW–Madison led to their success.”

PhD Career PathwaysThe Graduate School will include all 102 of its PhD programs in the Career Pathways study, across the arts, humanities, social, biological, and physical sciences. It plans to track alumni cohorts three, eight, and 15 years past graduation and survey current graduate students at years two and five. The survey begins in the fall of 2017, and CGS intends to publish the first set of results the following fall.

The Graduate School has chosen the University of Wisconsin Survey Center to administer the survey, which includes questions for alumni about why they choose their current jobs, attributes and skills needed for the work, and how well their PhD prepared them. The survey for current students focuses on career aspirations, factors influencing employment decisions, and professional development participation and satisfaction.

“This is an important initiative, and our university will be a major contributor,” states Assistant Dean Marty Gustafson.  “UW–Madison ranks third in the nation for number of PhDs awarded. Our campus alone will survey over 7,000 alumni and 5,000 current students as part of the project.” Gustafson heads academic planning and assessment in the Graduate School and is project manager for the grant.

Findings will shed light on the skills and training valued most in the workforce, and lead to further enhancement of professional development resources at UW–Madison. The newly launched DiscoverPD, which introduces a competencies framework and helps graduate students plan their professional development, is one such resource.

Data will enable prospective and current graduate students to make informed career decisions, like better understanding the value of graduate study and how it prepares them for success in multiple career paths. As a result of the project, faculty mentors can use evidence about training experiences and performance dimensions that are linked to career outcomes, to inform conversations with graduate student advisees.

Traditionally, PhD programs prepared students for the professoriate, but in recent decades, graduate career interests and matching career opportunities have broadened. They now land jobs in industry, non-profits and government sectors, become entrepreneurs and leaders – yet the path to this array of employment outcomes has gone largely unstudied. –William J. Karpus, Dean of the Graduate School

Academic programs and graduate faculty will benefit from study findings as well. The project aims to generate data for assessing learning outcomes and program review, in support of the campus commitment to student learning and high quality academic programs. Analysts will explore relationships between student experience, performance, and career outcomes, as well as the impact of institutional, field of study, and demographic factors.

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Art du Jour 37

imageThis was time-consuming and labour intensive.  But also fun, except maybe for all the glue and paint and paper scraps everywhere.  Now I have a greater appreciation for artistic people who put these things together.  In case you don’t notice it on your own, I would like to point out that the main part of the house is strips of paper in basket weave.  That’s how it started.

Yes, I do have a lot of time on my hands and I’m trying many new things to make a dent in using up all the massive amounts of paper I purchased having very few clues at the time about what I would ever do with all of them.  When I take pictures of these finished products,  I set them on my easel so they are leaning back slightly, and the upper left hand corner always looks blurry.  Although maybe the fact that I used a lot of water on this board and it warped a bit could be a factor as well.  Life is full of mysteries.

So, bonus day.  Here’s how it looks on my yellow wall.  Beside something equally strange and in different light.  Why does my wall not look yellow??

The paint on my art room walls is called Elephant Grass and in real life is much nicer than this looks.

Before embarking on this project I watched an artist on YouTube put together an art journal page using paint and paper and stencils with a drawing of a partial face looking rather ghostly and emerging from the background.  She had a whole book full of stencils and took half the video choosing the ones she wanted to use.  With all the stopping and starting and talking and pausing and speeding up and waiting for things to dry, it’s a wonder I learned anything, other than knowing I am not ready to make a video of my own any time soon.  Mine would include too much profanity and hand washing.

I’m happy with this result, even though I don’t think it’s something I’d want hanging over my dining room table.  Good thing I don’t have a dining room table.  It might be nice in a kids room.  I don’t have one of those either any more.

Well, for someone who thought she didn’t have anything much to say today, I’ve managed to write a lot of words, as well as post two pictures of the same thing.  This blogging thing is so easy.  And you can do it most days without glue.

Dear House

Ever felt like writing a thank you letter to something you take for granted?  I mean without someone prompting you to do it?  Nope, me neither. (Because, duh, taking it for granted….)

Well this is not how I wanted to start a letter to my house, so let’s begin again.

Just like I don’t understand the need for ridiculous extravagance when you marry somebody, I don’t get it when it comes to building yourself a crazy-ass mansion to live in, with thousands of square feet that you love to look at and admire but rarely use.  There are many people in my life who have gorgeous new homes, or homes that are old but have been renovated to look like gorgeous new homes.  This is obviously important to them and makes them happy and that’s all good.  My house is not new, not renovated, and not gorgeous.  And that’s okay.

Dear House,

Hello.  Just wanted to let you know I love and appreciate you and I’m sorry for taking twenty-eight years to tell you this.

I don’t know how you felt about your builders way back in 1973,  or your first owners or your second.   But I’m pretty sure you loved us when we moved in all those years ago, right?  Because three’s a charm.  We were lucky to find you at a great price, and thankful that you didn’t need too many changes right away.  However, we wasted no time taking down those gawd-awful green drapes in your living room and getting rid of the brown leafy wall paper, a crappy carpet in one of your bedrooms and your ugly kitchen linoleum.  You’re welcome.  Eventually we got around to painting everywhere.  I hope you like the colors.  Or should I just say I hope you love yellow.  We promised you we would finish the unfinished room in the basement and put in another bathroom downstairs.

Yes, I know you’re still waiting.  But your attic needed new insulation, and your roof now has excellent shingles, and there’s the new kitchen counter and the beautiful new floor that looks like real wood and a new furnace to keep us both warm.  We do try to keep you clean and presentable.  Maybe gorgeous just isn’t in the cards for us.

Hey, we could have abandoned you and moved on and let somebody new fix you up properly, and that’s still a possibility for some bright day in the future.   I know I’ve used it as an excuse to delay the things that should be done, saying ‘what’s the point, whoever buys this house will probably change it anyway.’

Did that scare you, hearing me say it all the time?  I’m sure it’s gotten so old and repetitive now that you don’t pay attention to it anymore.

We no longer need the unfinished room to be finished, and the time when we really needed that extra bathroom has come and gone.  I AM promising you a renovated main bathroom before we leave,  because I think both of us are just completely sick and tired of purple in that seventies style.  A few more years and it will be an amazing retro feature – except that bathroom fixtures (even annoyingly durable purple ones) don’t last forever.

And right now you are beautifully functional and you suit us just fine.  Every one of your rooms holds wonderful memories of growth and change.  I look at the little bedrooms and remember who used to occupy them and how those teenagers grew up and left home and came back and left again.  And then how they brought their own little people here so that we needed the unfinished room to morph into a playroom.  And the downstairs bedroom to accommodate two beds and mattresses on the floor and the library to double as a guest room.  One of these days we won’t need all that.  We won’t be able to so easily go up and down your stairs or shovel your driveway or paint your ceilings.  You will be too big for us, and you’ll start longing for another family to fill your rooms with noise and laughter.

Meanwhile, we will continue to love you and look after you in our hap-hazard fashion and appreciate you until the time is right to let you go.  I don’t think there will be any new red walls in your immediate future, and I am trying really hard to stop hanging strange things on the ones you already have.  You may not be gorgeous, but wow, you have character and you are able to hold an amazing amount of junk.   You are warm and cozy in the winter and bright and breezy in the summer.  We are blessed to have you.

Thank you house, for being our very fine house.

Charming Owners Number Three

(who love their home, have dubious interior decorating skills, but very big hearts.)

My Big Fat Greek Holiday (Crete)

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This is my last big fat Greek holiday post.  Probably for this lifetime, because I can’t imagine going back, or even flying across the ocean again.  With three days left in our HOE-liday (at one of the little shops someone had painted on the parking area ‘Enjoy your stay, Happy Hoeliday) I bought a hat.  It’s a white visor with ‘Santorini/Greece’ written all over it in silver, with a brim about ten times bigger than an old-fashioned little girls bonnet.  And there’s a ribbon tie at the back.  I don’t know what I was thinking.  So if you know anyone who needs a good hoeliday hat, I could be persuaded to part with it.

We arrived at the Albatross Spa and Resort Hotel in Heraklion, Crete, after nine o’clock at night following our last long ferry trip and about a thirty minute bus ride.  The rooms here lacked Greek-ness.  They could have been anywhere, really.  There was a shortage of hot water and loud live entertainment in the courtyard until well after eleven at night.  See how you can tell it’s all winding down by how whiney I’ve become?  If we had arrived in Crete first I probably would have loved it more.

On Saturday my nieces opted for a relaxing pool day and a walk to the beach, and the rest of us braved the public transport system and got ourselves to Knossos.  The first thing we did there was sit down at a street-side restaurant for lunch.  By now this will not come as a surprise to anyone since 80% of our trip appears to have been spent sitting down and eating.  Then we paid six euros entrance admission per person to this bronze age archeological site and once through the gates were strongly urged to pay another ten euros per person for a guided tour.  We decided to wander around on our own and learn as little as possible.  There were a lot of rocks and ruins.  We saw a peacock.  The sun was really hot.  We congratulated ourselves on six euros well spent and hit the gift shops.

This is where I bought a cute little chess set.  I don’t even play chess.  But that doesn’t mean I can’t admire the cuteness of Zeus and Athena and the Spartan warriors. There are some very persuasive shop owners in this country.

Sunday, the 25th of May we were up early to catch yet another bus, this one taking us to the Imbros Gorge.  Here’s what the brochure says.

This gentle walk lasts about 2 hours and takes you through the captivating countryside, passing mountain villages and the impressive White Mountains.  At the end of the Gorge is Komitades village, where you will have free time for lunch.  Afterwards, drive to Frangokastelo, an old Venetian castle, where your guide will tell you all about its interesting past before you go for a swim in the Libyan Sea.

Here’s what actually happened.  Our guide told us the eight kilometre walk was not an easy one, down hill over very rocky terrain.  She made it sound sufficiently horrendous that when I was given the option to ride down the hill with two French-speaking ladies (one of them had a cane) I completely chickened out and got back on the bus.  The others all did it in a little over two hours while I sat around drinking water and lemonade.  I regret this not one little bit.  Because when the walk was over my family informed me that I would not have enjoyed that at all.  Which I took to mean I would have been a complaining pain in the ass all the way down and they had a much better time without me.

I don’t remember any castle.  Did we see a castle?  And I wasn’t out in the sun for eight km either.  I do remember some crazy Libyan Sea swimmers, but I wasn’t one of them either.  I was impressed by some interesting washroom doors though, so the trip certainly wasn’t wasted on me.

On the 26th we were homeward bound.  Bus at five a.m. to get to the airport, one hour flight from Crete to Athens.  About a three-hour wait to board the Transat flight from Athens to Toronto.  Nine or so hours in the air watching movies and tv shows and playing games on a touch television screen.  I never even thought about sleeping.  Our flight arrived 45 minutes early in Toronto.  That meant almost a six-hour wait for my next flight, but I was able to change it to an earlier one.  Thank you WestJet.  Then there was another three-hour flight home.  With nine hours mysteriously added to the day.  A cab ride home I barely remember.  And then sleep consumed me.

I had one day to deal with jet lag and then it was back to work for four days, one day off, and three more days of work.  And here I am, still alive and in relatively good humor.  Amazing.

I’m glad I went on this trip and I know I’m lucky and blessed and privileged to have been there and done that and gotten back home safe and sound.  Now can I just stay at home forever and never go anywhere again?  Except for our trip to Ontario this summer of course;  that doesn’t count.  I mean flying across oceans.  I think I’d like to be done with ocean crossing and messing around with time zones and figuring out other country’s plumbing.

Thank you for listening and commenting and looking at my photos.  I’m off now to reply to comments that are so old you’ve forgotten you made them.


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Mini Reviews For The Week Ending 2/22

Sometimes, the staff at Graphic Policy read more comics than we’re able to get reviewed. When that happens you’ll see a weekly feature compiling short reviews from the staff of the comics, or graphic novels, we just didn’t get a chance to write a full review for.

These are Graphic Policy’s Mini Reviews.

X-Men #6 (Marvel)– Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Buffagni build off the Orchis space mission plot thread from House of X to tell a Mystique-centric story, show that Orchis is still a threat, and make Krakoa even a more morally ambiguous place. Basically, Xavier and Magneto have made Mystique a one woman Suicide Squad, who spies on Orchis and their new technology for the hope of getting her wife, Destiny back. Buffagni is a wonderful artist choice for this issue with all of its tech floating around, and he uses skinny panels to nail the emotional beats between Mystique, Xavier, and Magneto as they continue to manipulate her. But she has sort of an ace up her sleeve that could be the downfall of Krakoa as Hickman brings back the multiple timelines in this issue.Finally, X-Men #6 is another example of Hickman forsaking the multi-issue arcs of modern, mainstream comics for single issue stories that help convey the larger tapestry of life on Krakoa. Overall: 8.4 Verdict: Buy

New Mutants #7 (Marvel)– Jonathan Hickman and Rod Reis wrap up the old school New Mutants in space arc in an experimental and occasionally abrupt fashion. Hickman definitely is having a ball writing the relationship between Sunspot and Cannonball and opens the issue with Sunspot breaking the fourth wall to complain about how the series has been broken up. Then, because they ran out of room or something, the climactic fight scene is decided by you, the reader, rolling D6’s. (In my case, the Shi’ar Imperial Guard won, and Mentor was the last one standing.) The intergalactic politics thing ends up just being a joke and an excuse for Cannonball and Sunspot to hang out more and banter. However, Rod Reis’ art and colors continue to be lush and emotive, perfect for the space-scapes and scenes of conflict between the New Mutants and Guard. Overall: 7.5 Verdict: Read

Wolverine #1 (Marvel)– Logan returns to solo comics is suitably guilt-ridden, claw-slashing, and bloody fashion in a pair of stories penned by Benjamin Percy and drawn by Adam Kubert and Viktor Bogdanovic. Both are crafted around his role as Krakoa’s last line of defense, the man of the wall, who will do whatever it takes to keep mutants safe. He might open the comic playing hide and seek with mutant children in a brightly colored sequence, but he probably has more in common with Omega Red in the 2nd story or the visions of his actions in the Old Man Logan comic in the first one. The 1st story basically throws Wolverine into a Narcos-like situation where he’s trying to figure out who is using the Krakoan flowers to whip up a human cult that wants to literally drink mutant blood. It’s solid, but the second story featuring vampires, the Paris catacombs, and the story of Catholic saints is much more exciting and pure pulp goodness. Percy and Bogdanovic work in tandem knowing when to cut between panels and when to open up and let Logan or Omega Red cut loose. The Vampire Nation is a powerful threat for Krakoa as well as its twisted mirror. Finally, the real highlight of this excellent, yet overpriced comic is Magneto using the CIA as an example of why Wolverine, and by extension, Krakoa, will never have the moral high ground. Overall: 9.0 Verdict: Buy

Marauders #8 (Marvel)– This is the big reaction issue to the death of Kate Pryde with some Sebastian Shaw maneuvering in the background. Most of the comic is Gerry Duggan and Stefano Caselli turning Iceman loose as he’s less Northstar and more Midnighter in the violence spectrum of queer characters because of his friendship with Kate. Caselli brings the big screen, elemental action showing the effects of Bobby’s power before showing his emotional reaction to Kate’s death. It’s cathartic and bookends nicely with Storm and Emma Frost’s interactions as this issue really drives home how much Kate meant to the X-Men and her Marauder teammates. Throughout the series, Duggan and Caselli have been able to pull off these kind of *water cooler* moments in Marauders, and this issue is no exception. Overall: 9.2 Verdict: Buy

 Bang! #1 (Dark Horse)– The new comic from Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres is a spy thriller that starts as an overt deconstruction of James Bond and then becomes much more metafictional. Think “fiction suits” from the works of Grant Morrison. Bang #1 is that fan theory that James Bond isn’t one man, but a codename given to different men (For now) written larger than life. Wilfredo Torres’ art is smooth and perfectly fit for both sleek action, pop culture/pulp homages, and something a little more mindbending. He uses grids for the hand to hand combat and splash pages for the big reveal. Nayoung Kim keeps the colors reasonably flat because this is pop reality, not reality. Bang! has an interesting concept and examines the misogyny and imperialism of pulp paperbacks while also indulging in its best tropes. Overall: 9.5 Verdict: Buy

 Valkyrie: Jane Foster #8 (Marvel)– Norwegian writer Torunn Gronbekk joins Jason Aaron and Cafu on the issue of Valkyrie: Jane Foster, and they tell a middling, disaster movie-esque, guest star heavy story of Valkyrie, the Avengers, and Thor against the forces of anti-life that were guarded by the All-Father and are now released. The best part of this comic is the two pages that Jane and her friend Lisa get to chat and talk about their lives until the ground opens up. I honestly don’t blame Gronbekk choosing the biggest toys in the box to play with in her first Marvel outing, but with the exception of the aforementioned two pages and the end of the comic, it feels more like an Avengers comic than a Valkyrie one. Also, this issue’s villain is a little bit of a retread of the last arc’s, but with more of a connection to Norse mythology. However, Cafu has a nice photorealistic style that isn’t stiff and makes for pleasant reading. Overall: 5.8 Verdict: Pass

Well, there you have it, folks. The reviews we didn’t quite get a chance to write. See you next week!

Please note that with some of the above comics, Graphic Policy was provided FREE copies for review. Where we purchased the comics, you’ll see an asterisk (*). If you don’t see that, you can infer the comic was a review copy. In cases where we were provided a review copy and we also purchased the comic you’ll see two asterisks (**).

Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá, Shaun Simon, and I.N.J. Culbard Expand the World of The Umbrella Academy

Dark Horse Comics has revealed the first Umbrella Academy spin-off series: You Look Like Death! Written by series co-creator Gerard Way with Shaun Simon, illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard, lettered by Nate Piekos, You Look Like Death explores the trials and tribulations of a young Séance as he navigates the world by himself.

Roughly ten years before the events of Apocalypse Suite, 18-year-old Séance gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy. With his allowance discontinued by Hargreeves, he takes to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated––Hollywood. After a magical high on a vampire-drug-lord’s stash, Klaus needs help, and doesn’t have his siblings there to save him.

You Look Like Death #1 (of six) goes on sale June 17, 2020. Each issue features covers by Gabriel Bá, I.N.J. Culbard, and a third cover by guest artists including Leo Romero, Jenny Frison, and more.

You Look Like Death #1

The Original Predator Screenplay Gets a Comic Adaptation

Before there was Predator, there was Hunters. Now, Dark Horse Comics and Twentieth Century Fox invite you to experience that story in Predator: The Original Screenplay. Adapted from James E. Thomas and John C. Thomas’ 1984 screenplay Hunters, writer Jeremy Barlow, artist Patrick Blaine, and inker Andy Owens bring the original story to brutal life.

In Predator: The Original Screenplay, a team of military specialists are on a rescue mission in the jungles of Central America. The details of the mission are classified, but the team soon uncovers a trail of lies and deceit. Something is observing them—tracking their every move. The hunt has begun!

Predator: The Original Screenplay #1 (of five) goes on sale June 10, 2020.

Predator: The Original Screenplay

Review: Bang! #1

Bang! #1

Matt Kindt is a brilliant writer. His stories can delve into the trippy and ethereal playing off of established genres. Bang! #1 gives us a “James Bond” like debut but with Kindt’s usual twists and turns.

Thomas Cord is a secret agent who works for MI-X, an off the books organization fighting the evil group Goldmaze. Then, there’s an author whose works delve into the spy genre and might be a Goldmaze agent, or at least passing along secrets. The mission? Cord is to hunt down Philip Verve and find out what’s going on. The problem? Cord has memories of missions going back decades before he was even born.

Wait. What!?

Yes, Kindt throws in twists and turns of possible false memories and who knows what else. Bang! #1 takes you down the rabbit hole as Cord himself figures out something isn’t right. This is the type of genre bending that Kindt is known for and excels at. This debut promises a series that seems like it’ll deliver and meet high expectations.

Kindt has teamed up with artist Wilfredo Torres. Torres is joined by Nayoung Kim on colores and Nate Piekos on lettering. The art is good with a style that doesn’t go for flashy. The art is a straightforward delivery. It eschews crazy action-filled page layouts but delivering on the right amount of detail and focus. That visual lull helps in a way as the rug is pulled out of Cord. At that point, the visuals hit and much like Cord’s experience the reader experiences a different visual read.

The visuals extend to opening and closing pages from a novel with its blood soaked pages. Kindt has a habit of extending the story beyond the panel and he does that here adding in a flair that enhances the reading experience.

Bang! #1 is a solid start. It might seem like a straightforward spy adventure with tips to the hat to James Bond. In reality, it’s so much more as we learn the further along the story we go. Kindt nails it again with a debut that’s as much a mystery to the reader as it is to the main character.

Story: Matt Kindt Art: Wilfredo Torres
Color: Nayoung Kim Letterer: Nate Piekos
Story: 8.0 Art: 7.75 Overall: 8.0 Recommendation:

Dark Horse provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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Wednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in!

Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at!

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this Wednesday.

2020 Machine Man #1 (Marvel) – The 2020 story has been just ok but Marvel has been doing some interesting stuff with Machine Man and we want to see where they take this classic character.

Archie Meets the B-52s #1 (Archie Comics) – “Rock Lobster,” nuff said.

Bang #1 (Dark Horse) – Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres is all we need to have us excited about this secret agent/action/mystery/altered reality series.

Canopus #1 (Scout Comics) – An amazing sci-fi debut that’s an absolute must for those that enjoy comics not by the big two. Helen wakes up on an alien planet with no memories beyond a haze and an urgency to return to Earth.

DCeased Unkillables #1 (DC Comics) – The second volume of this new take on the classic “zombie/apocalypse” genre. This time, it’s the villains in the spotlight.

Doctor Tomorrow #1 (Valiant) – A fantastic debut with a character that will hopefully take off. A great addition to the Valiant Universe.

Godkillers #1 (Aftershock) – A special forces unit that fights insurgents who use mythological creatures as weapons of mass destruction. The concept sounds awesome.

The Goon #8 (Albatross Funnybooks) – The Goon is one of the most consistently entertaining comics on the market. Think of it as an over the top Popeye.

Hellboy & the BPRD: Return of Effie Kolb #1 (Dark Horse) – A continuation of the classic “The Crooked Man” tale. Hellboy is always entertaining.

Marvel’s Voices #1 (Marvel) – A one-shot comic that features a whole lot of interesting creators taking on a wide range of characters.

On the Stump #1 (Image Comics) – Elections are now decided by hand-to-hand combat and that concept alone has us all in.

Plunge #1 (DC Comics/Hill House Comics) – A sunk ship sends out a distress signal 40 years after it went missing. Sounds like a great horror concept.

Savage Bastards #1 (Mad Cave Studios) – A tale of revenge and betrayal set in 1873. You don’t see a lot of “Western” comics anymore, so we’re always intrigued to check out a new one.

Undiscovered Country #4 (Image Comics) – So far, this series has been amazing blending together so many differnet concepts. We have no idea where this mystery will all go but it’s a hell of a ride so far.

Wolverine #1 (Marvel) – An oversized issue that’s worth the oversized price.

Toy Fair 2020: Dark Horse Presents the Terran Battlecruiser from StarCraft

With a Terran Battlecruiser at your disposal, the Zerg and Protoss won’t stand a chance. Pre-order now to fight back against the enemies of the Terran Dominion!

This highly detailed mini ship replica is approximately 6” long and made from polyresin, including a metal display post to hover over a sturdy Dominion base.

The StarCraft: Terran Battlecruiser Ship Replica will begin to ship October 21, 2020 and will retail at $59.99.

StarCraft: Terran Battlecruiser Ship Replica

Jeff Bridges, Daughter Isabelle Bridges-Boesch, and Dark Horse announce Daddy Daughter Day

The moments people remember from childhood are the small, precious ones. Isabelle Bridges-Boesch and her father Jeff Bridges bring those small moments to life in their new children’s book Daddy Daughter Day

Written by Isabelle Bridges-Boesch, with illustrations by Jeff Bridges himself, Daddy Daughter Day is the story of a simple, fun day from Isabelle’s youth when one morning, Belle wakes up and declares the day “Daddy Daughter Day”! As the day turns into an adventure, the whole family comes along for the simple joy of being together.

The 56-page Daddy Daughter Day arrives on October 6, 2020 for $17.99.

Daddy Daughter Day

Dark Horse International Expands with Gert and the Sacred Stones and Papaya Salad

From Italian publisher Tunué, creators Marco Rocchi and Francesca Carità, and translator Jamie Richards comes middle-grade graphic novel Gert and the Sacred Stones, available in English for the first time!

Gert and the Sacred Stones is a story of heart, bravery, and conflict. Meet Gert, a young orphan whose land is shrouded in a thick fog that hides ferocious, fantastical animals that endlessly constantly besiege her village. Tired of the endless war between humans and nature, Gert sets out to make sure no one else suffers what she has as a result of the war. But to achieve this she’ll have to do what is forbidden to young women like her: become a warrior.

If Gert is to succeed in her quest, she must learn the hard truths of war and violence, and discover that being a hero may not mean what it seems.

Gert and the Sacred Stones TPB arrives in comic shops August 26, 2020 and in bookstores September 8, 2020. The 160-page graphic novel is for $14.99.

Gert and the Sacred Stones

What happens when you find yourself in a war that’s not your own? That’s the question Sompong must answer for himself, and the one creator Elisa Macellari explores as she looks back on the life of her Great Uncle in Papaya Salad with translator Carla Roncalli Di Montorio.

On the eve of World War II, Sompong leaves his native Thailand to study abroad in Italy on a military scholarship. A gentle and resolute man with a love of books and language, Sompong chronicles his life during the war all while finding humor, joy, and love even as the world changes irrevocably around him.

Originally published by Italian publisher BAOPapaya Salad gives voice to an often-overlooked perspective on World War II.

Papaya Salad arrives August 26, 2020 for $24.99.

Papaya Salad

Hellboy Gets a Statue Based on Mantic Games’ Hellboy: The Board Game

Legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, Dark Horse Direct and Mantic Games have announced the first Hellboy Statue based on Mantic Games’ bestselling Hellboy: The Board Game miniature. Limited to 500 and available now for pre-order, the Hellboy Statue—Mantic Series is expected to ship this summer.

This exclusive statue was meticulously sculpted by the creative team at Mantic Games and painted by Ed Bradley as if you lifted our hero right out of the pages of the acclaimed graphic novels and comics. Posed to pack quite a punch, Hellboy stands approximately 9” tall on a hellscape terrain base approximately 7.5” wide. Level 52 Studios did the statue prototype and base sculpt for The Hellboy Statue—Mantic Series.

On sale now, Hellboy: The Board Game is a co-operative experience in which players face off against some of the comic’s most famous foes. Up to four people take control of iconic BRPD members – Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and Johann Kraus – before exploring gothic locations, uncovering ancient artifacts and battling one of Hellboy’s most notorious foes, Rasputin!

Hellboy: The Board Game Statue
Hellboy: The Board Game Statue
Hellboy: The Board Game Statue

Meet Joe Death

Somewhere between Mike Mignola, A Fistful of Dollars, and Johnny Cash’s Ghost Riders in the Sky, rides the gray man, consequential king, Joseph Bones, Shadow of Death! A lone gun story silhouetted against the surreal desert valley where ghost and ghoul, witch and prophet, mystery and dream, ebb in and out. Joe Death and the Graven Image wanders the tombstoned road, poking at the fabric of life, loss, retribution, redemption, and the keys to paradise.

The cleanup of the massacred town isn’t Joe’s first rodeo, but the one life taken by the bandit Scary Harry is. Can he and his friends outsmart Harry’s hellraisers and win back the babe? Life from death? The ultimate magic trick, restoring Joe to the straight and the narrow?

Debut author and artist Benjamin Schipper dives deep into the reaper’s tale, employing a beautiful and quirky style that gives this macabre odyssey all the heart, humor, and tension essential to a modern masterpiece.

Joe Death and the Graven Image goes on sale, September 30, 2020. This 152-page paperback graphic novel will retail at $19.99.

Joe Death and the Graven Image
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Survey On Worm Resistance in Horses

Resistance to wormers is an increasing problem and research in this area is critical to ensuring that we can continue to manage our horses worm burdens. The Horse Trust is funding a nationwide project into wormers and resistance – please do your bit to safeguard the long term health and welfare of our horses and ponies by completing this quick survey! – Thank You!!


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Anastasiades’ Open Heart Surgery Successfully Completed

Nicos-Anastasiades-Cypriot-PresidentPresident of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades is in a stable condition and is recovering in the ICU at Mount Sinai hospital in Manhattan, following a successful heart operation on Tuesday.

In a written statement, Government Spokesman Nikos Christodoulides said the “surgical procedure which the President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades underwent yesterday at “Mount Sinai” hospital in New York was absolutely successful.”

The procedure was performed by heart surgeon Professor Dr. David Adams and concerned the repair of the mitral and the tricuspid heart valve.

The surgical procedure, which was of the type “Maze,” the Spokesman said, “was also intended to cure the heart arrhythmia that the President was experiencing at times. The procedure progressed smoothly with no complications or particular problems.”

Present during the surgical procedure was Dr. Marinos Soteriou, the President`s personal cardiologist, who along with Dr. Savvas Kadis, has accompanied the President of the Republic to New York from Cyprus.

“Following the surgical procedure the President of the Republic was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit where he will remain” for the next couple of days. The Spokesman said the President`s condition is “steady and is progressing smoothly.”
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Cilio Pomegranate Juicer Press

Sold out. More stock expected soon

Multifunction juicer for all citrus fruits, even – and that is extraordinary – for pomegranates. The professional juice press from Cilio is not only a design highlight in your kitchen, it also combines convenience with perfect functionality and quality. The mechanical power transmission is based on the old physical law of lever action. The long handle makes it easy to press down with a lot of force using very  little effort.

  • heavy metal - therefore particularly stable
  • Hopper and press cone made of stainless steel
  • with suction cups
  • Size: 18 x 25 x 48 cm

Type: Juicer

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