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Black Cat
Black Cat
Black Cat

A Novel

by Tristan Egolf

“The voice is unforgettable, at times attaining the incantatory power of Whitman’s ‘barbaric yawp.'” –New Yorker

  • Imprint Black Cat
  • Page Count 400
  • Publication Date January 24, 2006
  • ISBN-13 978-0-8021-7016-3
  • Dimensions 5.5" x 8.25"
  • US List Price $14.00
  • Imprint Black Cat
  • Page Count 400
  • Publication Date May 01, 2007
  • ISBN-13 978-1-5558-4631-2
  • US List Price $14.00

About The Book

The new novel from acclaimed young novelist Tristan Egolf, the author of Lord of the Barnyard, is the story of a community in Pennsylvania terrorized by an Amish teenage werewolf–and a wildly imaginative tale that recalls young Kurt Vonnegut.

Tristan Egolf was one of our most talented young writers–a ferociously witty writer with an absolutely original imagination, whose novels Lord of the Barnyard and Skirt and the Fiddle were widely acclaimed. His new novel is a book about the return of an old curse–the Kornwolf, a ferocious werewolf whose nocturnal rampaging becomes increasingly impossible to ignore.

Kornwolf is a book about not being able to keep a good Amish werewolf down. It takes the reader for a good old-fashioned romp in the stubble–a journey through the slums and honky tundra of rural Pennsylvania farmland, where nothing quite passes for good or bad, sublime or dismal, discrete or brash: just ‘solid, implacable, unbroken gray.” And then the monotony breaks. Something–a freak of creation–is running amok in the fields. To solve the mystery, three generations of prodigal sons–a writer and hometown boy who swore he’d never come back to Penn’s Woods; a middle-aged former pugilist who runs a decrepit boxing gym; and a misfit, mute, beaten-down Amish boy about to become a man–are brought together by the light of a blue moon, in a town called Blue Ball. Kornwolf is a book about Rumspringa, fisticuffs, homecomings, alienation, and Amish whiskey ministers, as seen through the eyes of a young man who finds himself inexplicably waking up nude in the fields every morning.

A masterfully orchestrated, hilarious, and compelling take on the classic horror yarn on one level, Kornwolf layers in social satire of suburban sprawl, closed minds, and all manners and varieties of self-satisfaction–Amish, civilian, or. . . other–in the best tradition of Tom Robbins and George Saunders.

Tags Literary

“The voice is unforgettable, at times attaining the incantatory power of Whitman’s ‘barbaric yawp.’” –New Yorker

“Only the author of Lord of the Barnyard could pull off a tale like this.” –Library Journal

“It’s not every day that someone tells you to read a book about an Amish werewolf, but today is that day of days. This story is not for the faint of heart. It is also one you want to keep reading and aren’t always sure why. You’ll come face to face with not-so-perfect families, religion, frustration with coming-of-age and fitting in.” –Amy Gillard, Shelf Awareness

Praise for Tristan Egolf:

“Exuberant . . . outrageous.” –The New Yorker on Lord of the Barnyard

“An arctic blast of fresh air and a far cry from the formulaic writing so prevalent in much contemporary fiction.” –San Francisco Chronicle on Lord of the Barnyard

“A Rabelaisian explosion of language . . . not only a stylistic tour de force but also a baroque novel reminiscent of C”line, John Kennedy Toole, and Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. It is farcical, satirical, and prodigiously inventive.” –Detroit Free Press on Lord of the Barnyard

“[Egolf is] a writer eager to take chances, totally unafraid and allergic to conventions. . . .
Skirt and the Fiddle is certainly Felliniesque.” –The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) on Skirt and the Fiddle

“Egolf’s prose is dizzying and exhilarating, like a roller coaster that’s all loops. . . . His dialogue is snappier than His Girl Friday, and he can make a plot twist faster than a trapped rat.” –Philadelphia City Paper on Skirt and the Fiddle

PART ONE: Introductions – Owen

For years, had it been suggested that Owen might ever again reside in Stepford, he would have endeavored to let it slide, but not without having been vaguely insulted. In over a decade away from the town of his birth, he had always defined it outright as the ‘source of his lasting discontent,” the one place on earth he could never live ” Weekends “home” were bad enough: fraught, as they were, with urges to seize on the nearest suburban dolt in passing and pummel him into renunciation. In time, the farther he strayed abroad, the brighter such impulses flared on return. By early adulthood, more than an evening in town was a field-tested nonpossibility. He wouldn’t have lasted a week as an actual resident. Stepford County. Jesus ” Better off dead than a prodigal son. The mere idea would have left him reeling.

In youth, on many an afternoon, he had climbed the neighborhood water tower, and, from thirty rungs over the treetops, regarded the rolling, unbroken expanse of forest (three thousand years of native prosperity, two extended colonial wars, an influx of German and Swiss migration and a meltdown at Three Mile Island, upriver, gone by and still, by appearances, Penn’s Woods, in the actual lay of the treaty) set to emerge from a decade of semi-privileged suburban honky conquest with all but scattered clumps of fauna lost in a maze of development housing–the “gingerbread eyesore modules,” he called them–and overlapped highways and treeless lawns, to the mall, and beyond: to the outskirts of town, hazily gray with industrial smoke, and nary a cropping of overgrowth fit to sustain the groundhogs in between: where once this valley had thrived with game, now it was crawling with Astro Vans. Regarding it thus, Owen felt odd, if ill-suited, in knowing that he, at the age of thirty, remembered the good old days.

As good old days they had rarely been.

On most of those afternoons, staring across the as-yet undefiled valley, with nowhere to go, in particular, no one who knew what to make of Blonde on Blonde, no parlors or pool halls, and unbelievably, not one God damned sidewalk, for miles–just a Quik Mart whose owner prohibited loitering, a half-buried junkyard off in the woods, a couple of churches per every mile, and a ten-acre asphalt and Plexiglas hamburger factory known as Hempland High, from out of the stifling vortex of which only fleeting points of light would escape, through the plasticine tarpaulin thrown over everything, pinpoints suggesting a world out there, a place where pedestrians wandered the streets, where music drifted from open windows, where blankets of smoke and aromas of coffee and laughter filled dimly lit taverns at night–around fountains, through courtyards, cathedrals, down riverbanks, into the shallows by light of the moon–where young people met under streetlamps in cobblestone plazas to shuffle and mumble and dance–(instead of resorting in boredom and sheer desperation to feats of vandalism: from hurling garbage toward oncoming traffic on back roads at seventy miles an hour, to golf balls driven through schoolroom windows, dung from the overpass, spray painting, brush fires: anything able to quell the furnace, to strike some terror into these people)–where public schooling wasn’t a daily incentive to go on a shooting spree, where the architecture reflected the most remedial grasp of human aesthetics, where open discourse was considered a virtue, and everyone read on buses and benches, and people like Owen would not go forever unnoticed by members of the opposite sex–a place suggested in celluloid images, songs from the dustbowl, Keaton and Garbo, late night shortwave radio broadcasts, veiled accounts from the roaring twenties–instead of the universe Owen had inhabited (captive stooge in the honky tundra) where nothing quite passed for sublime or dismal, discreet or brash, even fair to midland–just solid, implacable, unbroken gray, with the least of all plausible worldly variance.

Owen had grown up dreaming of nuking it. Stepford could render such impulses rational.

So then, the question begged of its own: how did he find himself driving up Old Route 30, heading east in “Chiffon” (his locally insured Subaru Legacy), Owen Brynmor, East Zone Cops Reporter for the Stepford Daily Plea: a gainfully employed, taxpaying registered Independent and downtown resident?

Right now, swamped in rush hour traffic, it made no sense. He couldn’t get his mind around it. Everything was vaguely incomprehensible–adding to which, his nicotine fits hadn’t let up for twenty-four hours and counting ”

(His “patch” had been tossed in the can that morning, prompted by nausea, fever and madness. From there on out, he had gone cold turkey–so much worse than he could have expected: black as the cosmos, noxious bobbing, as bad as withdrawing from any drug.)

He gripped the wheel.

The road before him was jammed on an angle. The sky was red. And the drivers around him, clearly intending to thwart him at every turn, were to blame. Traffic was tied up for miles. He hadn’t been caught on this stretch of highway in years. The landscape had been overhauled completely: more motor resorts, more developments, dining and shopping outlets to every side: another campaign of de-sanctification gone by, and no one the wiser, apparently.

Sickened, impatient and reeling with visions of bombing it all, he could take no more.

He shifted his Legacy into gear and gunned it across the highway divider. Veering in front of oncoming traffic, he vaulted into a parking lot. From there, he blew by a taffy emporium, rounded a corner and shot up a one-lane strip running under the elevated monorail system of the Dutch Land amusement park. To either side, enormous metal support columns flashed in rapid succession. Off to the left, a moat full of porcelain Dutchies appeared in a fountain basin. The park had been closed for the season, apparently. None of the rides were moving. Horror.

Continuing: under an overpass, back onto Old Route 30 a mile up flow, then three more lights until finally, a left onto 891–a two-lane road winding north through a stretch of forested gray. Owen, relieved to have shaken the clot of humanity, maintained excessive speed. Traffic like that, back there, enraged him beyond all limits of human endurance. Traffic like that was apocalyptic. And like it or not, it was back in his life.

He suddenly found it incredible, shocking, an earth-rendering bolt of primordial awe–to think that he’d actually chosen to re-immerse himself in this world of shit. What on earth had gotten into him? Had he come here expecting a rebirth of wonder? If so, he was in for a rude awakening. That’s what this was. The traffic proved it ”

Five turns later, a road sign appeared for the Lamepeter Township game reserve. Owen followed it down a gravel path cutting into the woods for a mile. Beyond a rickety wooden bridge, he came to a field of matted grass, on one end of which sat a tiny cottage with stacks of timber out front.

This was it.

He parked. Releasing his white-knuckled grip on the wheel, he got out of the car and stretched. He drew in the air, then looked around. Alone, it appeared. In an open clearing. With one other vehicle–a pickup truck.

Above him, a network of juniper limbs extended across the afternoon sky: for miles on end, gnarled and twisted and stark, with occasional hatchings of pine.

He made for the cottage–across the clearing and up a wood-chipped path to the entrance. A plaque read: “NO DRUNK SHOOTING” –facing outward. Then: “VIOLATORS WILL BE SHOT.” Signed: “KRATZ.”

Kratz, Owen had to assume, being Joel, his contact, the Lamepeter Township game warden–Kratz, who had claimed to have ‘something bizarre” which the paper would ‘definitely” want to see (though he hadn’t known how to explain it by phone, and “no one would ever believe it anyway”), Kratz, the smallish, rigidly coiled, if typical make of a warden inside, beckoning hither, all scruff and grizzle: pure Kascynski behind his desk ”

Owen swallowed and stepped inside. The room was hot and stunk of mold. A pair of antlers hung on the wall–and beside it, a VFW flag.

The warden spoke first: “You the reporter?”

Owen nodded, displaying his press badge.

Kratz looked him over, appearing uncertain. A wrinkle creased his brow. He was tentative.

Then he broke off and, shrugging, produced a manila folder.

“Here’s your story.”

As Owen himself would reiterate back at the office, the explanation followed.

The morning before, October 6th, one Dwayne Gibbons, a native of Blue Ball and longtime hunter on Kratz’s reserve, had come by the office with a puzzling set of negatives from his photographic ‘motion detector.” Motion detectors, the warden explained, were battery-operated mechanisms used in the tracking of game–in this case deer. Entirely legal, these common devices consisted of two very basic components, two small plastic boxes to be mounted on separate trees in close proximity. Between these units, a laser transmission was maintained. In the event of the beam’s disruption, a built-in camera was triggered, recording the scene–with a flash, if needed–and the time. The purpose and function being: to determine the herding patterns of local deer. By such means, both effective stalking and the placement of tree stands might be determined.

The use of motion detectors was not at all unusual, Kratz explained.

“But this,” he continued, shaking his head while presenting the folder, “this is a first.”

Not knowing what to expect, Owen took it and, flipping the cover, looked inside. There were photographs in there–a stack of enlargements. Grainy, underexposed and off angle, the first one appeared to be shot in the dark: a falling leaf in the flashbulb’s range. The second exposure wasn’t much clearer, just brighter, having been taken at dawn. The third and fourth prints showed a tangle of hooves and hindquarters, shot by the light of day. The fifth was a buck in profile, marked 9/28, 17:49. The next four shots featured groundhogs digging. Certainly nothing to fire up the presses ”

Then he flipped to number ten.

Years down the road, he would hearken back to the very first image that came to mind: a fuming heap of scrapple some Philth Town waitress had served him, back in the drink–a brazenly heedless order placed, the arrival of something unfit for display, scarcely to be recalled, until now: something which shouldn’t, and won’t occur naturally. Something right out of a waste dump in Jersey. Or up from the depths of a portable toilet.

In days to come, opinions would vary with wild extravagance, far and wide: some people claiming this blotted image resembled a dog–only backwards and rearing with some kind of horrible skin disease. Others would argue those “weeping lesions’ were actually calluses. Or parasites, maybe. One man would claim that it looked like Richard Nixon plastered in mud or feces. Others would lean toward a five-legged brown bear entangled in hawk wire, down from the Poconos.

No one would know what to make of the face. The jury would go out on every feature. A knotted mound of what might be considered a cheekbone was really a snout, some would say. Others would doubt it, seeing the bulge instead as a cyst on a back-turned head–or maybe an angry boil, hives, a case of the shingles, cauliflower ear ”

In truth, there would be many takes on which end of the photo was even supposed to be up–and which direction the “figure” within it (if even conceded) was actually facing. Skeptics would howl, of course–but to little effect, overall, and with dismal wit. Regardless of what else was said of the photo, it naggingly begged some basic questions. Such as: who would have gone to such crafty, elaborate lengths in staging this image but not followed through with a sharper photo? Why leave out a discernible profile? Why the contusions and the hairless patches? Why would anyone go so far without adding the final, convincing touches? After all, as long as Gibbons didn’t check out as an anarchist yahoo, his alibi couldn’t have been any tighter. It was brilliant–too brilliant not to be true. Why allow room for controversy?

Of course, maybe that was a part of the plan: befuddle the public with imprecision. Which would have accounted, in part, for Gibbons, whose record would complicate matters further. Domestic charges. Bankruptcy. Drunk driving. Outstanding warrants for unpaid fines–all of which would be held up to rigorous public review in days to come, yet none of which fingered Gibbons for a practical joker.

In a word, he was simply a wretch.

For Joel Kratz, the answer lay elsewhere–as yet to be fathomed, though pressing, surely: either somebody was running amok in a steel wool jumpsuit, at risk of drawing fire, or something ungodly was loose in his woods.

Either way, it gave him the creeps.

For Owen, the case was less in doubt. Moreover, it called for a tip of the hat. Somebody–other than Kratz or Gibbons, most likely–had whipped up a fabulous hoax. Its presentation, down to the last detail, made Owen flush with envy. It also managed to take his mind off of smoking (or not), if just for a moment. For that much, he would remain indebted, and moreso, amazed: he had actually laughed ” It was truly a first-rate piece of work. The least he could do was publicize it.

Back at the office, his (questionably mad) city editor, Terrance Jarvik, agreed. On viewing the photo, the old man broke down in laughter. Emerging from which, he was game.

His rival pulpit, the Horaceburg Screed, would be livid, he claimed. They had no sense of humor.

Thereby, Owen was handed not only the story, but his very own “Halloween” series (he couldn’t dispute the title just yet), beginning with five hundred words by midnight–an order which, after speaking with Kratz, then delving into the public files, would yield his unearthing a long-forgotten chapter of Stepford County’s past: something familiar to none but an aging resident few. The caption would follow: a lead that, upon publication, would cast a tenuous line into area memory, something to prompt many locals to ridicule, others to barring their doors at night, and the rest to a vague, bewildered disquiet.

The Blue Ball Devil was back.

Reading Group Guide

1. Tristan Egolf was a member of the Smoketown Six, a gang of political activists who made headlines by burning an effigy of George W. Bush and, during a presidential visit, stripping to their underwear and posing in a pile of bodies to protest prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. How is gang identity depicted in Kornwolf? Do the gangs in Kornwolf represent a cause or do they exist for the sake of destruction? Is there evidence of Egolf’s political philosophy or social discontent evident in his writing? What social statement, if any, does this novel make?

2. At the start of the novel, Owen Brynmor reluctantly returns to his hometown of Stepford. Why does he return to a place he so obviously loathes? What are his aspirations? Why is he so despised by his coworkers at the newspaper? Describe Owen’s relationship to the kornwolf. How does Owen identify with him? Ultimately, what purpose does Owen serve in the novel?

3. Rumspringa, which means “running around” in Pennsylvania German, is an Amish tradition in which a young person is set free from the community for a time to experience life outside the church and its rules. The idea is that one must return willingly and accept Christ in order to be baptized as a member of the church and community. How are the various young characters in Kornwolf faring in their rumspringa? Who will return and who will not? Those who do not return to the church are shunned by their families and the other members of the community. What does this reveal about the spiritual dynamic of their society? Are there similar rites outside the Amish community?

4. What is the “Sinner’s Bench” and what is its place in Amish tradition? Why is Grizelda so incensed that Ephraim is forced to sit on it during church? What has Ephraim done to deserve this punishment, and does it fit his crime?

5. Consider the relationship between community acceptance and social avoidance as it is depicted among the Amish in this novel. How has each affected Ephraim? As both a werewolf and a troubled teenager, can his behavior be explained by social conditioning or genetic misfortune? How are these social customs present also in the “English” or secular American society?

6. Kornwolf is set in a region of the United States not often depicted in literature–lower Pennsylvania near the Kentucky border, an area known as “Pennsyltucky.” How would you characterize this region based on the novel’s representation? Describe its geography and culture. Do you get a sense of how the author felt about this area from his depiction?

7. Perhaps it is Jack Stumpf who best represents the dual nature of man and beast in Kornwolf. Discuss the two sides of Stumpf–Jack the boxing trainer and Jacob the upstanding young Amish man who becomes a werewolf. What are Jacob’s crimes and how does Jack reconcile his guilt? How did he inherit the werewolf curse and how is it passed along to Ephraim? How does Grizelda intervene to stop the curse, and does it truly end?

8. Describe the close-knit relationship between Ephraim and Fannie. While they are introduced to us as cousins, we ultimately learn that they share a greater kinship. What are the circumstances? Where does the split between them occur? What prevents Fannie from being more like Ephraim? How does their relationship mirror that of the siblings Jacob and Maria?

9. The novel’s chief villain may be Benedictus Bontrager, also known as the Minister and the Crow. How could Ephraim’s mother have ever considered Benedictus a proper suitor? Why is he so abusive toward Ephraim, and how much is he to blame for the young man’s troubles? Is there anything redeeming about the Minister or is he purely evil? What aspect of religion does he represent?

10. The local police play an adversarial role in Kornwolf. Is this a believable depiction of a small-town police force, or is it played for satire? Who are the “good cops’? What kind of statement do you believe Egolf has made about law enforcement?

11. “All Hail Discordia!” is a sentiment repeated in Kornwolf, as well as a favorite pronouncement of the author. The principles of Discordianism–in which meaning, or meaninglessness, is sought through chaos and disorder–have been explored by writers such as Robert A. Wilson, Thomas Pynchon, and Chuck Palahniuk. How is the idea of discordia reflected in Kornwolf? Consider Egolf’s language, narrative style, characters, and plot. Does the sense of disorder in the novel achieve a higher purpose?

12. The werewolf legend has been a mainstay of Western lore. How does Kornwolf compare to the werewolf stories you’ve heard or read? How is Egolf’s tale an original take on the legend? What triggers the werewolf to emerge in Ephraim and what sort of violence does he enact on the community? What is the significance of the repeated observation that he resembles Richard Nixon?

13. In his werewolf research, Owen comes across a description of the “Harvest Sabbath,” a ritual event from the sixteenth century: “When a group or community lost its faith, or was errant in performing the will of The Lord: “a blight would overcome their fields, as a madness would overtake their young, as a devil would grow to appear among them, enticing their gentlest hearts to murder.” This devil, this spirit of vengeance, would “bury its seed among them by light of the moon,” from which would grow their undoing, in time. The Sabbath itself was a rite of destruction” (p. 155). In light of this discovery, how is the reappearance of the kornwolf a reflection of the Amish society? Is it a scourge sent only to punish the Amish or “the English” as well? What are the “English” transgressions in light of the Harvest Sabbath? Finally, what is the significance of the moon to the kornwolf legend?

14. What aspects of the novel did you find amusing, and how would you characterize Egolf’s comedic style?

Recommended Reading:

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; The Crucible by Arthur Miller; Vineland by Thomas Pynchon; Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk; Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs; The Wild by Whitley Strieber; Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King; Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon; A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories by Victor Pelevin; Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger by Malaclypse, Robert Anton Wilson, and Kerry W. Thornley; The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson; Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo; The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey; Wolf by Jim Harrison

Devil’s Playground (2002 documentary) by Lucy Walker


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ISBN 9781901414431 (Hard Back) and ISBN 978-1728879406 (Paperback) 239 Pages

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Glen Segell, Hussein Solomon, Moshe Terdiman, eds. Research on Islam and Muslims in Africa, London: Independent Publishers, 2018

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Soli Shahvar and Eran Segal, eds. The Persian Gulf: New Trends in Interdisciplinary Research, Tel Aviv: Ktav Publishing - Academic Series, 2014 (in Hebrew).

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Ido Zelkovtiz, The Fatah Movement: Islam, Nationalism and Armed Struggle Politics (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2012), 190 pages. [Hebrew]

Ido Zelkovitz, Student and Resistance in Palestine- Books, Guns, and Politics (Routledge, 2015)

Roy Cahanovitz, Iran and the Persian Gulf: History, Strategy and Diplomacy, Tel Aviv: Resling, 2012 (in Hebrew)

Dr. Thamar E. Gindin, The Good, The Bad and The World: A Journey to Pre- islamic Iran. Modan Publishing House Ltd. , 2011 (in Hebrew)

Dr. Thamar E. Gindin, The Book of Esther Unmasked

Dr. Soli Shahvar,'The Forgotten Schools': The Baha'is and Modern Education in Iran, 1899-1934. London & New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers

Dr. Soli Shahvar et al., The Baha’is of Iran, Transcaspia and the Caucasus.

  Vol. I: Letters of Russian Officers and Officials

  Vol. II: Reports and Correspondence of Russian Officials

Dr. Glen Segell, Theory and Case of Warfare (2017)

The Islamic State Delusion (2016)

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Israel, Gaza and Hamas 2014: Operation Protective Edge (2015)

Civil-Military Relationships in Developing Countries (2013)

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 Glen Segell, The Bi-national Red Sea Marine Peace Park: Setting an example for the Han River Estuary, (London: The London Institute of Security Policy in collaboration with the City of Gimpo South Korea and the Peace Institute in The Hankyoreh Foundation South Korea, 2018).

Issue No. 1: "The Creation of Environmental Governmental Organs in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia"

Issue No. 2: "After Rouhani's Election: Looking into Saudi Arabia's Policy towards Iran" (In Hebrew)

Issue No. 3: "Iranian Involvement in the Syrian Civil War: Transnational Pro-Iranian Shi'i Networks in Action"

Issue No. 4: "Building the First Green Mosque in the United Arab Emirates"

Issue No. 5: "The Clerical Regime at the Crossroads: Factional Politics in Iran after Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani" (In Hebrew)

Issue No. 6: "The Mystery of Hermes: Iran alleges that it shot down an Israeli UAV over Natanz"

Issue No. 7: "Europe and America are fighting on Islam’s Territory"

Issue No 8: "The Elections in Bahrain: a Deadlock" (In Hebrew)

Issue No. 9: "Does the Jihad Movement Distress the Gulf States?"

Issue No. 10: "Higher Education is Westernizing in Gulf Cooperation"

Issue No. 11: "The Kuwait Ministry of Defence School of Languages"

Issue No. 12: ""Green Campus": Student Protests in Iran" (In Hebrew)

Issue No. 13: ""Negligible Breakthrough": Women in Saudi Arabia voting for the first time in municipal elections" (In Hebrew)

Issue No. 14: "Iran and the Missile Dilemma"

Issue No. 15: "Ten American Marines captured by Iran- Analysis and implications" (In Hebrew).

Issue No. 16: " The first year of the rule of King Salman bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia"

Issue No. 17: Nasrallah's threat against Haifa ammonia from getting reinforcements from Iran (in Hebrew)

Issue No. 18: "The Ayatollahs Vote for Hillary Clinton" (Hebrew)

Issue No. 18: "The Ayatollahs Vote for Hillary Clinton" (English)

Issue No. 19: "Statements and Dealings of American Presidential Candidates Clinton and Trump with Persian Gulf State"

Issue No. 20: " Implications of the Emergent Russian-Hezbollah Coordination in Syria"

Issue No. 21:" Islamic Republic of Iran Textbooks Perpetuate Pahlavi Nationalism

Issue No. 22: "Iran Wants to Leverage Aleppo into a Campaign Against the Gulf States and Israel"

Issue No. 23: "American President visits and meets Arabia"

Issue No. 24: "Iran Demonstrates the Trouble with International Agreements"

Issue No. 25: "Avenging the Revenge of the Iranian Clergy"

Issue No. 26: "Nofuzophobia - Iran's fear of Western influence: Roots and ramifications"

Issue No. 27: "A preliminary evaluation of the Iran protests: causes, characteristics, scope and responses"

Issue No. 28: "Muhammad bin Salman and the Succession Question in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Monarchies."

Issue No. 29: "Challenges and potential solutions: Should Saudi Arabia and Israel move towards energy cooperation?"

Issue No. 30: "Is Khamenei Ruling out Dialogue with Trump?"

Issue No. 31: "Iran’s Lies – A Tool for Concealing its Policy Contradictions in Syria"

Issue No. 32: "Iranian Advances into Africa"

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What is Hair Transplantation? Hair transplantation is basically a surgical process which required great techniques and hard-core skills. Hair transplantation is doing very good in the market since very long. Using such technological advanced technique is not a new thing anymore. Hair transplantation is taking place in almost every corner of the world. The demand for Hair Transplant in Dubai is increasing day by day. It is also the matter of the fact that now Dubai is having a great deal of technological expertise. Reasons for Hair loss The percentage of people suffering from hair loss is multiplying. The noted Reasons for Hair loss are, Stress, because it weakens the roots which result in hair loss. Unhealthy eating habits, consumption of food directly affects the body, skin and hair. If you are not providing your body with proper vitamins and minerals then one can see the depleting conditions of the body including hair loss. Harmful chemical based hair products, yes, it is true, and these days there are thousands of hair products available in the market which includes hair bleaching and other such chemicals which damages the follicles. Genes are also responsible for the loss of hair if your forefathers suffered from early hair loss, then the chances for you are also high. When is the need for Hair Transplantation? Losing hair can lead to depression for some people. Rather getting into depression phase, it is better to undergo hair transplantation surgery to save yourself. If you are young and in your 20s and going through hair loss, it could be disturbing, so hair transplant is there to help you out. Even if it is genetic, it can be cured. Another reason is when you are in a show business, you work as an actor, stage artist, anchor or you are into modelling field, where looks matters. You should choose hair transplantation to steal the show every time. A normal person can also desire for hair transplant and the reason could be very simple, you want to look and feel good. There are no such constraints for the reasons to have hair transplantation surgery. What are the hair transplant techniques? Hair Transplantation is the process includes two terminologies, Donor site and Receiver site. The donor site is the area from where the hair follicles are extracted and receiver site is the place where one is observing baldness. The donor area is selected by checking the availability of the hair follicles that have to be genetically strong. There are principally two the hair transplant techniques:

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Fill ice cube tray with a little baking soda, add water and a mini dino figurines and then freeze them

To "excavate" we used these 2 methods:

1.  Little bowls of vinegar to drop each dino into and watch them fizz out and melt (very exciting!) *Note: Use only 1 bowl for 1-2 dinos each time or the baking soda won't react to the vinegar over and over - so make sure to have several small bowls of vinegar handy or be ready to empty and refill 1 bowl with fresh vinegar

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Mac Miller's Friend: Ariana Grande Was Very Supportive of His Sobriety

Mac Miller's Friend: Ariana Grande Was Very Supportive of His Sobriety

He added: "Every time someone close to me passes away I always text their phone and, I don't know why I do this often, I just wrote 'I love you man, ' and I knew he wasn't going to write back but I just felt like I had to do it anyway".

Speaking to E! News, the 26-year-old singer said: "We talked nearly every day and I don't get a lot of friends who come into my life who I hit it off with so quickly. What do I do?' This little girl was unbelievably involved and helpful to him being healthy".

"She was an unbelievably stabilizing force in his life, and she was deeply helpful and effective in keeping Mac sober, and helping him get sober". From 2016 to 2018, Mac Miller dated Ariana Grande. Because whether he was an addict of not, the way that Mac partied was not healthy.

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Shortly after his split from Ariana, Mac was charged with a DUI after crashing his auto into a utility pole in Los Angeles.

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Judging from her Instagram, Meyers has been her son's biggest fan his entire career. They all grew close to Mac during his relationship with Ari. Now TMZ reports that as a result of his death, the Los Angeles City Attorney has been forced to drop a DUI case against him.

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wedding-bandComing off that kind of emotional high, I was hit smack in the face, first thing Monday morning, with all kinds of human misery.  The bruised, the terrified, the homeless, the helpless, the hapless, the psychologically broken.  The usual Monday crowd, filling up our little waiting room with despair.  Every cracked plastic chair occupied by a lost soul, many with babies or toddlers – or both – whining or sniffling or clinging, in as much confusion and fear as their mamas.  Did it only seem worse that day compared to my own happiness?

How could I feel so good, how could things be suddenly so good for me when they were still so terribly bad for so many others, and in a way that I simply couldn’t fix?

I talked with Patty over lunch, a quick 20 minutes or so we grabbed in the dingy break room, ignoring the ever-present smell of burned popcorn.  “Everyone has their own karma, Hani,” she reminded me.  But my mind balked at that.  Big time.  Wasn’t I supposed to fix everything?  For everyone?  Wasn’t that what a decent human being did, or tried to do?  Wasn’t that what I’d always believed?

I flailed around the next few weeks trying to find some kind of balance on that karmic scale, spending more and more of my time with Bob – he came and spent nights with me in my crappy apartment while I was working during the week.  His work, his world, was flexible, fluid, portable.  And our talk just naturally turned toward the future.  He was full of ideas, and he was the kind of person to make even the most outlandish dreams into reality.  He had that touch.

I can’t even say when the assumptions shifted from talking about what he wanted to do to what we were going to do, together.  I guess that happens when you fall in love.

You hear all these cute stories about how guys proposed to their girlfriends, all these carefully staged scenes in romantic locales, complete with props and accomplices?

I wonder how many proposals are actually made in bed, in the middle of the night.  Because that’s how Bob asked me to marry him.

I didn’t point it out, and it didn’t occur to him until later, that he hadn’t thought to offer me a ring.  When he realized his oversight, he insisted on taking me to Tiffany’s on my next day off, ready to buy the place out.  But then, we stood outside, looking in the windows, and suddenly we looked at each other with the same thought.

When we finally did go inside, the snooty saleswoman quickly lost interest in this couple who only wanted a pair of plain gold bands.  Even when she noted the name on Bob’s credit card, looked up at his face – a face that had been on the cover of Forbes only a few months before, and a name beloved by the folks at the Wall Street Journal – I could see that she thought it was just an odd coincidence.

Whatever he’d budgeted for an engagement ring, I convinced him to use the balance instead on some new chairs and sofas for the waiting room at the Crisis Center.  Maybe I was just trying to ease my guilt, but it sure spiffed the place up.

There was a poem I remembered reading months before.  It was by Mary Oliver, a poet Patty had recommended to me, a poem called The Journey.  It’s incredibly powerful.  But don’t take my word for it; listen to the poet herself reading it.  Then, if you’re agonizing over your own next move, find it in print and let it sink in.

And yeah, once I determined – as Mary Oliver said – to save the only life that really was mine to save, there wasn’t any good reason not to put those gold bands to good use right away.

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As the 2017 couples keep flooding in, we are so happy  to introduce you to them and let you hear some of their story as well as thoughts on the wedding planning process! Meet Lauren and Ben, marrying in June at the Womans Club of Portsmouth. We have already enjoyed so much getting to know them and can’t wait to continue that!echard_wheeler_taylor191-1

Let’s start with an easy one first, how did you lovebirds meet?

Lauren’s Side of the Story- On the afternoon of Saturday, July 25th, 2009, I was working as a manager of a pool at the time, and my friend came to pick me up saying that I had to go with her to her mom’s friend’s (Colleen’s) picnic, because Colleen had invited her son’s soccer coaches (Ben and Brandon), knowing that we’d get along. On the way there, my friend’s mom told us there was a “cute funny one” and a “hot one.” I immediately claimed dibs on the cute funny one, of course. I had no make-up on and was still wearing my swimsuit from swim team practice that morning with typical soccer shorts and my friend’s tank top. Shortly after we got there, I met Ben and Brandon, and I kept looking at Ben hoping he’d notice me or make eye contact. My friend and I walked around to the back of the house to see the new goats that were only 3 days old! Ben and Brandon met us back there, and Ben and I kept entering into little side conversations, laughing at each other’s jokes. Soon, we joined the kids in their World Cup soccer game – Ben said I was Switzerland and he was Greece. He kept blocking me from the ball saying he was a “stone wall,” we were laughing so hard and having so much fun with the kids. Afterward, knowing I was about to leave to go back to work, he came over and asked me, nervous and stuttering “do you have a phone?” Giggling, I gave him my phone number and then left for work. He texted me only a few hours later saying that he was on his way to come see me at work that same day! They waited around, and after I got off of work, we went to Brandon’s house, then they walked us down to the playground. Ben and I spent hours playing on the spinning things, laughing and talking. We walked to the James River edge and dangled our feet off the edge, looking out to the golden lights of the James River Bridge. He didn’t even try to kiss me – what a gentleman! That was the best night of my life. I had just gotten out of another relationship recently, because I knew there was someone out there who was a better fit for me. I had been praying for God to take over my relationships and to place someone in my life when it was the right time – I certainly wasn’t expecting it be less than a week between my break up and meeting Ben! Ben and I couldn’t get enough of each other. We saw each other every day, and he started asking me to be his girlfriend only 2 days after we met! I told him that I needed time to pray and make sure this was what God wanted, and that I wasn’t just jumping into another relationship. He asked me to be his girlfriend every single day, even introducing me to people as his girlfriend before I said yes. Within the first week of us meeting, he told me that he was going to marry me. I agreed to be his girlfriend August 1st, 2009.

Ben’s Side of the Story- I first met Lauren at Colleens house on July 25th, 2009. I had been helping coach Colleen’s son with my friend Brandon, so she invited us to a cookout at her house. I had nothing better to do. I went. Before long, two young women joined the festivities. I noticed one of them because she was so beautiful and unique. What I mean is, she had no make up on, was wearing just a t-shirt and shorts, and she had the most confident nature about herself. It was as if she had planned everything out and nothing was unknown to her. I remained at a distance watching her and her beautiful smile. I watched as she interacted with others and observed how much love and compassion she had for people. So I had to get to know her. I was nervous. I eventually made my way over to her while she was playing with some kids (of the goat variety). I started with a few subtle jokes and loved her quick wit. Some human kids then came over and wanted to play a game in soccer called World Cup. I chose to be the Greeks and promptly gave her the Swiss. I don’t know why I gave her the team name Switzerland, but I did. I quickly and mercilessly defeated her and the children with my “stonewall” defense. After the game, we talked. As she was about to head back to work, I decided to ask for her number. I asked, with all the charm I posses, “D-d-d-d-d-do you have a phone?”. She initially answered with her big laugh. However, despite my best effort, she gave me her phone number. To this small gift of a phone number, I will always be indebted. It changed my life in the most wonderful way. That evening, we met up in Hilton village. We went on a walk and because of both of our playful natures, we ended up spending hours at a playground on the James River. It was wonderful. We spent most of the time laughing and learning about each other. If after that night you told me that some day we would be married, I wouldn’t have been surprised in the least.

Tell us a little something about you guys that others may not know.

Our favorite way to unwind together is while drinking hot tea, without any distractions, deep in conversation with each other.

What has surprised you most in planning a wedding?

All of the little details and decisions

What has been the biggest challenge along the way?

Being in a long-distance relationship!

Do you have any advice to offer current brides?

Really research your vendors and wedding planner! We spent so much time researching and speaking with different people, and we’re SO glad we did. Knowing we have such a strong team of experienced, kind, and well organized people has really made this whole process enjoyable! I honestly don’t know what this would have been like without Hannah as our full wedding planner.

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Thursday, 28 February 2013

New Duke/Norsewolf Video: European Awakening!

Here’s the latest video and perhaps our most artistic and inspiring yet. A celebration of the European people and a deep dedication to their Human Rights!

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  1. Beautifully done - except for the poor grammar. I know Englis is not synonymous with European, but if you choose to create a video with English subtitles then at least get someone with a grasp of English grammar to do some basic quality control.
    Other than that - inspiring stuff!


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Welcome to Harvest Home Books

Map of Cape CodHarvest Home Books is a small publishing company that specializes in producing books about Cape Cod. Started in 1999 by Jack Sheedy, Harvest Home Books, which is based in Dennis, Massachusetts, has grown from a single title to a collection of eleven books that relate to the history and lore of the narrow land. Over the twenty years of the company’s existence, Harvest Home Books has sold over 60,000 books.

Harvest Home Books provides readers with a selection of inexpensive publications about the wonderful heritage of Cape Cod, including books for children. Since 2004 the company has been owned and operated by Jim Coogan.

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Algae expert meshed science and native culture

Isabella Abbott straddled two worlds and excelled in both, mentoring and inspiring generations of scientists and native Hawaiian cultural practitioners.

The world-renowned algae taxonomist and ethnobotanist “loved her people,” said Hi’ilei Kawelo, director of Paepae O He’eia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for Heeia Fishpond. “She loved her culture, but she also excelled at it through Western science. She’s someone to look up to (who showed us) that we can do both. We can exist and practice our culture, but also develop this love of science.”

The retired University of Hawaii at Manoa ethnobotany professor remained a resource to many in the scientific and native Hawaiian cultural community until her death Thursday, while surrounded by friends and family. She was 91.

A longtime member of the board of directors of the Bishop Museum, Abbott wrote more than 150 research papers and eight books.

“We always saw her as the Energizer Bunny,” said Allen Allison, Bishop Museum vice president. “She just lit up every room that she was in.”

Born in Hana, Maui, and reared in Honolulu, Abbott got her first limu lessons under her Hawaiian mother’s tutelage, and went on to become the foremost expert on Central Pacific algae.

“She had extraordinary scientific talent, but she also had an incredible knowledge of history,” said Allison, a longtime friend.

“She was a wonderful cook,” he added, and her knowledge encompassed “songs, meanings of words, the full range of ethnobotany. It’s extraordinary.”

Allison, 60, first met Abbott when he was a science student and she was teaching with her husband, Donald, at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. They became reacquainted and remained friends when the Abbotts moved back to Hawaii in 1978. Donald Abbott preceded his wife in death.

Abbott’s book on limu, published by Bishop Museum, remains “one of the finest examples of the blending of science and culture into something that advances knowledge and builds interest and appreciation amongst a wide array of people,” Allison said.

A 1937 graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Abbott received a doctorate in botany from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950. That made her the first Kamehameha graduate and the first native Hawaiian to receive a doctorate in science.

In 1972, she became the first female and first minority full professor in biological sciences at Stanford.

“She was that kupuna we needed for guidance,” said Kanekoa Kukea Shultz, a former student and now Kaneohe Bay marine coordinator for the Nature Conservancy. “She would scold us and also love us. You felt good when she scolded you because you knew she cared. She was always there to help support, to make sure there were avenues, not only for Hawaiians, but for women.

“The trail she blazed allowed all of us behind her to walk in her footsteps, to understand we could do anything we want.

“She knew what to plant, what was there, what used to be there,” said Shultz, who restores native limu and removes invasive, non-native algae from the bay. “She was that repository of cultural knowledge, which is even more rare — a wealth of knowledge in both worlds, and that’s something we’ll miss.”

Abbott’s many accomplishments were detailed last week in a cover story in the UH-Manoa magazine Malamalama. Among them: the Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal from the National Academy of Sciences for excellence in published research on marine or freshwater algae. She was also named a Living Treasure by the Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii.

Abbott is survived by daughter Annie Abbott Foerster and granddaughter Catherine Foerster.

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BOOK REVIEW: In Like Company: The Salt River Review & Porch Anthology

In Like Company: The Salt River Review & Porch Anthology, edited by James Cervantes, is equal parts reminiscent and refreshing measured over the course of thirty plus years of poetry and fiction.

For longtime readers of the former print journal Porch (1977-1981), and its later online counterpart the Salt River Review (1997-2010), this collection serves as a spring well of memories, eliciting fond recollections of such things as “The shared silence / in the land of ants. / The sleep of lizards / that never hear the bell. / Talk of fish / about things liquid. / Stories of the spider / at war with the mosquitoes” (9).

For newcomers, like myself, the collection reads like a Greatest Hits compilation of some of America’s best contemporary poets and writers without the sentimentality or datedness found in most other anthologies. Works like Pamela Alexander’s “Who Stayed,” Cynthia Hogue’s “the good,” and Sam Pereira’s “The Blue Scent of Juniper” are as fresh and exciting now as they were when once written.

And while it’s easy to look at this collection as a Who’s Who of contemporary poetry, especially with such names as Rubén Darío, Norman Dubie, Jim Heavily, Frederico García Lorca, and Pablo Neruda, you cannot underestimate the power of each individual voice:

If this girl
is the cause of my ecstasy and distress—

who built her like a nest of all the skies
that the bird in my heart
wants to fly in? (Ankur Betageri, 21)

And though labeled an anthology, In Like Company is more a reunion of old friends retelling new stories, their youth eagerly listening with bated breath.

In Like Company is available through Mad Hat Press

Reviewer: Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Teaching Associate in Arizona State University’s Department of English and a poet in ASU’s Creative Writing Program. He holds a Master of Arts in English from Saint Louis University and a Master of Arts in Anglo/North-American Cultural and Literary Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid. His research focuses on early 20th century literature and poetry, robots, and superheroes. Travel, diaspora, and Spanish culture are common themes in his poetry.

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August 2016 Update

Broomhouse Summer Programme

Broomhouse Health Strategy Group are delighted to say that we have had a fantastic summer  in Broomhouse, working alongside local organisations including The Big Project, The Broomhouse Centre, St David’s Church and Napier University. We all got together to provide activities for  ‘all ages’  through July and August, culminating in our ‘Broomhouse Street Party’ for the whole community. We had lots of fun with many stalls and activities with 22 volunteers, 16 organisations, and around 250 people taking part. With support and donations in goods and kind from many others too.

New term of Cooking and Physical Activities

In the final week of August we launched bookable  new 6  week term of activities, Tone & Flex, Women’s Aerobics, Adult Cooking, all with crèche.  We continue our ongoing  Adult Walking Group and Chair Exercises.

BHSG Shop Activities

During August our volunteers have continued providing  ‘Tasty Bite’ Thursdays’ from ‘Fare Share’ donations. We have  enjoyed making risotto, banana milk shake, tomato and carrot soup in the shop with free tasters for customers and the  recipes with the food bags to give away on the day.


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Bette Linderman

Title: Life Is Grammar
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I can’t ever recall not making art. Even as a kid, I always loved art stuff . . . crayons, paints, chalk . . . I loved how they smelled and how they felt and the magical trails they would leave on paper. It was magic — alchemy in its purest form – transformative. Being caught-up in the doing: the unexpected possibilities; the endless possibilities; the transcendent quality of discovery.

Today, it is that same love of materials and their magical quality, coupled with a word or phrase or unexpected image that lingers in my mind and pushes me to create.
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“Who Will Stand In The Gap For Me?

The weak and helpless need strong people to stand up on their
behalf, to plead their cause to offer help and protection. The word
“Champion” comes to mind as I consider this idea. Right now we
need more “Champions.” We need people who will “sponsor a child”
helping us to provide shelter, food, clothing and education for them.
$35 on a monthly basis will make you a sponsor and you will enlarge
your family and your heart. It is a noble deed and you can join the
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Flowers at Hellens Manor

Such a delight to attend last spring’s ‘The Foral Escape’ workshop. It’s never too late to learn new skills and styles and so I was excited to be joining other wedding florists in being tutored by the fabulous and talented Sabine Darrall.

Do read on to hear more about the designs we created together and see some of the fabulous photos by Naomi Kenton Photography, who joined us for the styled shoot at the end of our time at Hellens Manor. More can be seen in my photo gallery too….

Styled top table for wedding

By Naomi Kenton Photography

It was great fun to work with a group of talented people to create both individual designs and larger pieces. Fabulous how everything came together to create this awesome table setting too! So much work had been done by Sabine to ensure we could all create designs we could be proud of and to be able to take what we learned back to our own businesses.

Hellens Manor Herefordshire

The workshop took place at historic Hellens Manor in Much Marcle, Herefordshire, set in scenic countryside and with fabulous grounds. It’s amazing how the setting you are in can inspire creativity! I’m lucky enough to work from home surrounded by beautiful gardens, so draw on nature all the time to feel inspired in my work…

Spring table arrangement

We made these individual low centrepieces using gorgeous spring flowers in a range of soft pastel shades and in a loose natural style. So pretty! The designs were made without using floral foam, so great from an environmental point of view too – this is something that I’m always happy to discuss with clients.

Long table dressed for wedding breakfast

By Naomi Kenton Photography

Just how stunning do these individual floral arrangements look placed down the centre of a long table? It just shows that designs don’t need to be complicated to look effective and this sort of arrangement would work perfectly for a long top table, with the advantage that you could give all the individual designs away afterwards!

Square hanging floral designs

By Naomi Kenton Photography

Hanging structures have become popular in recent years – I’ve had fun decorating planks, ladders and bicycle wheels to hang from marquee frames and beams. Just loved decorating these unusual bespoke cubes with plenty of trailing foliage to set off the beautiful flowers.

Top table with hanging floral designs over

By Naomi Kenton Photography

Table centrepieces, candlelight, hanging floral designs – just loved how this look was put together! And the colours were gorgeous too – pale pastel spring flowers with hints of blush, peach and apricot looked stunning against the dark blue table and accessories.

Spring cascade bouquet

By Naomi Kenton Photography

And then it was time to learn how to make a hand tied cascade bouquet…. Love how this technique can be used to create a loose and trailing bouquet filled with beautiful country flowers and foliage – perfect for brides who want a natural style bouquet.

Gardens at Hellens Manor

Time to enjoy the grounds at Hellens Manor, providing a perfect backdrop for the photoshoot….

Bride walking in the grounds at Hellens Manor

By Naomi Kenton Photography

Oh, how I wish I could take photos like that! Love how the flower colours complement the model’s pretty dress – just perfect for a country wedding.

Pale pastel spring cascade bouquet

By Naomi Kenton Photography

To see more of my flower designs do take a look at the featured weddings in my website gallery. And if you would like to chat with me about your ideas for your own wedding flowers please get in touch through my website or by emailing me at - I hope to hear from you soon!

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 CTL|Thompson Designs Helical Anchor Foundation System for Outdoor Tension Fabric Structure in Fort Collins, CO

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CTL|Thompson Designs Helical Anchor Foundation System for Outdoor Tension Fabric Structure in Fort Collins, CO

by Wayne Thompson

Summer, 2017

Colorado-based engineering firm CTL | Thompson is not new to helical piles and anchors. The expert team manages the only testing lab in the world that can perform every aspect of ICC-ES’ AC358 standards.  But CTL is new to rock and roll – or at least applying helical piles and anchors to the sector.

This past summer, organizers of The New West Fest by Bohemian Nights, a free, 3-day music festival held annually in historic downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, contacted Wayne Thompson, head of CTL’s Fort Collins branch, with a question. They needed a new way to anchor large shade structures that shelter concert goers from the formidable Colorado sun at each of the festival’s three stages.

These tension fabric structures are rising in popularity for outdoor festival venues, but they require a temporary anchoring system. In the past, the shade architects, Portland, Oregon-based firm Guildworks,  used “Jersey barriers” to anchor guy wires that held the shade structures. It worked, but the barriers were a hindrance to pedestrian and car traffic in the busy Old Town area that houses the festival.

CTL proposed a solution. Install helical anchors that could be hidden with a manhole cover or sprinkler valve box when not being used. The process was new to city officials and concert organizers, but CTL’s knowledge of helical anchors and its expertise in local soil conditions instilled the confidence needed to try the unique approach.

CTL’s engineers designed a system that included (10) helical anchors to anchor rope “guys” that stabilize  six main truss columns.  The anchors were 1-1/2 inch square shaft piles ranging from six to 15 feet deep, depending on soil conditions. High capacity ropes were then suspended between the trusses to support the shade structures.

“Because of the small diameter of the helical anchors, we were able to work with existing utilities and keep things out of the way of water lines and tree roots,” said Thompson.  “Working closely with city utilities engineers and arborists, we determined where to place the anchors, which included both street and landscaped areas, creating minimal disruption to the pavement, soil and existing tree roots.”

The anchoring system was used for this year’s festival and will remain in place for years to come. Not only did CTL solve the problem created by the Jersey walls, but they simplified the set up and take down process for Guildworks and the city. Moreover, helical piles and anchors are easier to use than drilled concrete piers so the overall impact on the streets, sidewalks and landscaped areas was minimized.

“We didn’t have to be concerned with drilling, extracting dirt or disposing dirt because with a small center shaft, no dirt comes out,” said Thompson.

About CTL |Thompson

CTL | Thompson is a full-service geotechnical, structural, environmental and materials engineering firm. Established in 1971, the firm currently employs 230 technical and non-technical employees and provides expertise in small and large-scale projects in all areas of construction. CTL|Thompson is headquartered in Denver and has offices in Fort Collins, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Glenwood Springs and Summit County, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. For more information, please visit www.ctlthompson.com.

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 MacLean Civil Products Group Announces MVP Grouted Helical Pile

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New MacLean Vortex PileTM (MVP) Includes a 3.5” Diameter Helical Pile That Gets Encased in an 8” Diameter Grout Column

by Bill Bonekemper

August 13, 2013

Early MVP test results suggest a potential for increased compression

capacity of up to 97% versus non-grouted helical pile

When designing deep foundations, two concerns engineers have with piles utilizing long slender columns (such as helical piles) are lateral capacity and buckling.  This concern has typically been addressed in the deep foundation industry with the use of the grouted column. The use of the grouted column offers additional lateral load resistance and reduces the potential for column buckling.   Grouted composite columns are an accepted alternative to heavy steel members or monolithic concrete piers.

MPS Civil introduced the MacLean Vortex Pile (MVP) in June to the deep foundation market as a helical alternative to traditional deep foundation options.  The MVP pile is currently offered on the P35 and P35H pipe shaft (3.50” diameter pipe with a 0.216” and 0.300” wall thickness respectively).  The MVP connection is created by a unique cast coupling that creates a clean and smooth 8” column (which requires no load capacity adjustment for poorly formed sides) and agitates the grout creating a vortex motion to increase grout intake. The MVP is installed with standard helical pile installation equipment with the only additional requirement being a grout reservoir into which the grout is placed during installation.

According to the MPS Civil team, the installed cost for the MVP makes it an economical alternative to auger cast piles on projects calling for approximately 100 or fewer piles or for projects with limited equipment access and tight working quarters.  The MVP requires only a 3-man crew - no rebar to tie, no specialized heavy equipment (auger rig or crane) and no soil spoils.

In February of this year, MPS Civil conducted compression and tension load tests on the MVP product to validate design recommendation assumption.  Click here to read the report.  Due to the acceptance of grouted piles in the deep foundation industry, MPS Civil chose to forgo extensive load testing in an attempt to bring the product to market in summer 2013.  MPS Civil anticipates the MVP to be utilized on project requiring design professional sign off and therefore load testing prior to installation.  MPS Civil will also be updating their MDRS helical pile design software program in early Fall 2013 to support the MVP product.  As with all MPS Civil products, the company supplies engineering support for the MVP product to assist engineers and installation contractors with pile design and calculations.

MPS Civil has displayed the MVP at several shows since the introduction including the Helical Seminar in Vancouver, BC, the American Institute of Architects annual shown in Denver, Co, and local professional engineering society trade shows in the southeast.  MPS Civil is planning on introducing the MVP to the deep foundation industry at the DFI annual show in Phoenix, AZ in September.  Inquires about the MVP can be made directly to MPS Civil or your local MacLean Dixie distributor.  Click here to read MVP tech bulletin.

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Helispecs Commences Heliportable drilling and Seismic operation

In the middle of May 2013 Helispecs started a contract to supply 2 B2 Squirrel helicopters for the Empire oil & Gas, Wannamal 3D Seismic Survey at Gin Gin, 80kms North of Perth, The helicopters are flying on average 8 hours per day each and at the end of May will be joined by a another helicopter for the recording side of the operation. The drilling program which consists of 6 flush drills and 6 air drills should be completed within 5 weeks and the recording should be completed within another 3 weeks after the completion of the drills finishing the drilling program.


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A login mix-up can happen if different stores have active sessions within the same browser. At that point, changes you make may be done in the other store. This is because if you switch Shopify admins while doing work, the shop identifier we receives changes so the settings we think you're updating also changes.

To solve this issue: Use different browsers or incognito/private window when you work on two different stores. Or make sure you are not logged in at two stores at the same time.

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We encountered issues were Judge.me app users with staff account were not able to login. Only account owners and staff accounts with full permissions were able to login.

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To solve this issue: We increased the required permissions on 14 June 2018. The new permission have to accepted by someone with a full staff account (or an account which covers all needed permissions new + old). Until then, nobody with a limited account will be able to login into the app from Shopify. This is part of Shopify security.

Please login, and accept the change in permissions, with your account and then everyone else in the team should be able to login as well. They may require a logout + login from their Shopify accounts to reset the session.


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I updated my videoscribe on the iPad for wich I paid for and now I have the trial version. Now I need to pay again and I think that's not very fair. I'm a student and I also have problems with my project that I need to hand in as soon as possible.

With the free trial I can't safe the video and there are moderations wich I can't change anymore.
Please can you help me.

Kind regards,

Elize van Seventer

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I see that you have created a support ticket I have responded to the ticket.

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Celebrate Small Business Week: Chase Ink Plus and Ink Bold Sign Up Bonus Increased to 60,000

Without a doubt, one of the fastest ways to earn miles is with either the Chase Ink Plus or Ink Bold credit cards.

5 points per dollar spent on office supply stores, phone, internet, and cable TV services.

Here’s a sample of how this card can help you earn huge points:

In my post on how to earn even more miles on home improvement, the Ink Bold or Plus were required for that strategy to earn up to 15 points per dollar at stores like Lowes.

Last week, Office Max was selling $200 Visa Gift cards for $196.95 each.  If you purchased one of those cards with an Ink Bold or Plus card, you’d save $3.05 per card plus earn 982 Ultimate Rewards Miles.

Last month, Office Max was selling $50 worth of Amazon gift cards for $45.  Purchasing those cards means you save 10% on all Amazon purchases, plus it’s just like earning 5 points per dollar on everything from Amazon.

Conclusion: Chase Ink Bold and Plus cards will present you with a lot of massive mileage earning opportunities.

Limited Time Sign Up Bonus 60,000 Ultimate Rewards Points

The usual bonus for this card is 50,000 points, but between June 16th, 2013 and June 22nd, 2013, the bonus increases to 60,000!

Both the Ink Bold and Ink Plus cards come with a $5,000 minimum spend in the first 3 months.

That does seem like a lot of money, but remember that these days there is an unlimited number of ways to reach a minimum spend.

How valuable is a 60,000 point offer?

It’s been over a year since Chase offered a 60,000 point sign up bonus for either of these cards.  Last year, the offer only lasted a few days as well.  If I were a betting man, I’d say this is the best offer we’ll see in 2013 for either the Bold or Plus cards.

  • You can cash out the 60,000 miles and get $600 in gift cards or cash back.
  • You can transfer the points to Southwest and get $1002 worth of Southwest flights.  They can be transferred to airlines like United, Southwest, or British Airways.  United and British Airways don’t have fixed values.
  • They can be transferred to hotels like Hyatt.
  • They can be used as cash value towards the purchase of hotels, car rentals, or flights. With the 20% bonus, that would be $720 worth of travel.

If you’ve been considering getting this card, I’d do it before June 22nd when the promotion ends.

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      You can try and send Chase a secure message letting them know that you signed up for it at 50,0000 points and you’re disappointed to know that it’s now 60,000. If it’s been 30 days or less they’ll probably match the offer.

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Summit Reflections (Part 6)

I guess that's a tension we have to manage.

This was from Andy Stanley's closing talk from day one. Some problems/tensions should not be solved. Example? Work and personal life. Solve it one way or the other and you're likely to lose your family or lose your job. Life is filled with these kinds of tensions. Church life too. Grow believers and reach people far from God. It's a tension we have to manage.

Declaration: I think this is something our team will be saying to each other for a long time to come. We will learn to better identify the tensions that should not be solved but should be managed.