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How to treat and prevent poison ivy

Poison ivy is short for a rash from poison ivy, as well as just the name of the plant that causes the rash. The rash is an allergic reaction to the oil urushiol which is found in the leaves and stem of the poison ivy plant as well as poison oak, poison sumac, and other more unusual sources like the shell of the cashew nut. The allergic reaction is an autoimmune response.

Not everyone has the strong allergic reaction. But some people that were immune develop an allergy after repeated exposure. And there are claims that immunity can be developed temporarily from repeated ingestion of the leaves. That is not a claim I am ready to test for myself.

“Leaves of three let them be.” is the adage that tells us what poison ivy looks like. However, there are examples of poison ivy that aren’t so easy to identify. And the dead stems can still provoke the rash.

Don’t burn poison ivy, since there is the possibility of spreading the oil through the air if the fire is not hot enough. Breathing this smoke can cause a systemic reaction.

If you want to get rid of the plant, I have had the best luck with cutting the vine near the base, and spraying the leaves with an herbicide like Roundup. Wear long sleeve shirt and long pants, and be sure to wash your clothes and take a shower when you are done. Wear vinyl gloves but not rubber gloves. A barrier lotion of Ivy Block has been FDA approved for the prevention of poison ivy rash. If you do know that you have skin contact with poison ivy, soap and water washing within 10 minutes will increase the chances of avoiding all rash. There is some fear that soap and water may actually help spread the oil, and that rubbing alcohol should be used to clean before you use the soap. Tecnu treatment before there is a rash can reduce the severity, or even prevent the rash. A cold shower may be preferable to using hot water because the hot may increase absorption of the oil.

For large areas of poison ivy growing, a fun solution is goats have been used to destroy the plant since they don’t have a problem eating poison ivy, and are pretty voracious eaters. There are some businesses that will rent goats out for clearing brush. But any farmer may be willing to rent you goats if you have the ability to fence them in, and will supplement the goats diet with a nutritious feed.

If you do get poison ivy, make sure to clean all your dirty clothes, sheets, and towels. You can’t spread poison ivy from scratching the rash, but it sometimes seems like you can since the oil is invisible and may not have been cleaned from shoes and other forgotten surfaces. Also, the allergic reaction can be slow to develop in some areas, so parts of your skin that you thought were clear may develop a rash a couple of weeks later. Bad cases of the rash are sometimes considered systemic, and the rash may appear where there has been no oil contact. A doctor may prescribe an antihistamine or Prednisone. If you need Prednisone, make sure the prescription will last you while tapering off for at least a full two weeks.

One of the reasons it can take so long for the rash to clear up, is the oil is still there in the skin causing the allergic reaction. The product Zanfel is expensive, but it can quickly stop the itching, and bind to the oil to stop the allergic reaction. If you search for “compare to Zanfel” you will find at least one less expensive generic version of Zanfel called Walgreens Poison Ivy Wash. You may need to make repeated applications of Zanfel for lasting relief.

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Thursday, 16 August 2012

Arts et Metiers Station

On our way out for the evening, couldn't resist a snap at our favourite metro station. They've converted it into what looks like an old submarine. Seriously cool. Finally got to wear my Manoush shorts, amazing right! And yes that is my ipad cover that I've accessorised with...too far?

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Went To Rue des Rosiers for falafel and froyo

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Saturday, 18 August 2012

Palace of Versailles

Left Paris for a visit to the Palace of Versailles. Thought it suitable to pull out some gold for the occasion. Spent most of the day sun baking and picnicking in the incredible gardens..luckily everyone was too busy admiring the scenery to notice that I'd stripped down to my underwear to avoid grass stains on my Manoush skirt....(I hope!)

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THE $19K Employment Exclusion Zone

The gap between the Newstart allowance and the federal minimum wage has created a $19,000 Employment Exclusion Zone.

It is this zone – the difference between the $12,922 Newstart allowance and the $31,536 federal minimum wage where it is illegal for employers to take on people.

It is the ghostlands for the unemployed – those people willing to work for less than the minimum wage.

These people are the long term unemployed, young workers, students, single parents and so on.

The most recent (September 2012) ABS People Not In The Labour Force survey found there were 106,600 discouraged job seekers.

These were people who wanted to work and were available to start work if offered a job, but were not actively looking for one because they believed they would not find one.

These are the people in the Employment Exclusion Zone.

People could be offered work for less than the minimum wage, except that it is illegal for employers to do so with severe penalties that could be applied.

It is extraordinary that with unemployment rising that employers are prevented from offering work to those who want it.

The federal minimum wage should be scrapped to give people who want to work to the opportunity to do so.

Making it illegal for employers to take on people for less than the minimum wage is just one of the absurdities of an outdated industrial system.

Further information:    Ian Hanke 0407 841 957.

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25 Points: The Mandarin

The Mandarin
by Aaron Kunin
Fence Books, 2008
209 pages / $17.95 buy from Fence

1) Language is a form of disobedience.

2) Or: words have no loyalty. Or: language facilitates perversity. Or: to speak is to be reminded of language’s inescapable techné. Or: to employ language is to court malfunction. Or: to write is to run the risk of making more sense than you ever intended. Or: language is always on the cusp of being carried away. Or: talking is almost always talking back. Or: language was designed in emulation of water, a force, a flow without shape but the rare ability to hunt direction down and wear it out. Or: nothing could be more nonsensical than if our every utterance were understood literally. Or: you teach a child to say “no” at your own peril; those early “no“‘s are no ventriloquism act. Or: the so-called precise word is precisely that, so-called, a chimera. Or: to speak is to confuse irrevocably the matter of whether one is announcing something before it happens, or whether one is announcing something as a way of compelling its presence to coincide with its occurrence.

3) Aaron Kunin’s novel The Mandarin is a self-conscious (perhaps even sentient) construction of language, some phenomena I wish to differentiate from the notion of a linguistic construction… For I want the suggest that The Mandarin is more like a self-organizing discourse than it is a “work” composed-slash-authored. The Mandarin is thus less a novel as commonly defined in terms of “long story” than it is an exercise in novel-ese, or the novel as style. This is not to say that either text or author fail in any way to fully realize whatever metaphysical potential is latent in the novel-as-form. Rather, what I want to claim for this book is that it is a brilliant, occasionally scathing, yet ultimately poignant tribute to the inherent limitations of an imagination whose eide and eidola alike are utterly—dimensionally—verbal.

4) Or: The Mandarin is an exceptionally manneristic “novel of manners.”

5) Or: if you squint at it in the proper way, this is a conceptual novel. Kunin supplies a 3-page synopsis that you need not read past, excepting you wish to satisfy your curiosity regarding the novel’s execution. Quoted in full, however, I find that this explanation is just a scheme for disclosing a question that, in order to be dramatic, cannot remain undisclosed; that is, must be secret, only formerly. Is this synopsis a lie?

6) In a sense, the book is naming itself every time one look at its cover or spine, insisting that it has to remind you that it is a novel, a book that has to be taken “seriously.” And, as much as this title’s prodding is about a kind of salesmanship, the relationship between word and world is more suspect than that. Most “things” can’t speak the way a book can, nor do they suffer the arc of the Lomans. (The main character and narrator upon whom Kunin depends is a Willy.)

7) And what is a mandarin anyway? A living etymology, thus a kind of fossil, a word that survives despite going largely unused; a museum exhibit that does not have to be put on wheels because it installs itself everywhere around you the moment you decide to judge it into being. (And every time you recall Henry James.). Mandarin: it’s a pejorative, and what makes our mandarins so worthy of disdain—and so funny—is the complete un-self-consciousness (rather: blind narcissism) of the pose. Such is pedantry, this trying-so-hard-all-you-do-is-drown-flailing-in-gelatinous-effort. Even if taken as an adjective, “mandarin” is a point-of-view compact in its three syllables. An evaluation, and a coping with something which looks familiar but which we, uttering, would like to believe has naught to do with us or our position. But the use of a term like this is a power-play: it elevates us, uttering, to some superior vantage from which we can describe a sham noble. And phoniness makes of such rare essence the cheapest cardboard: what a noun like “elitism” names, just as that The here qualifies and specifies. So I think.

8) As one reads, one discovers that The Mandarin is a novel-in-conversation, but it could not be more different in tone and (apparent) intent than similar “experiments” such as Duras’ The Square or Gaddis’ JR, to take but two examples. For the exchanges here do not move toward revelation via vaguely Socratic gestures; unlike The Square, very little is asked in The Mandarin. Instead, much is pronounced. But neither does the narrator evince an obsessive’s commitment to “how people really talk”, the kind of photorealistic prose that, in Gaddis, turns everything into plastic and a kind of dense, you’ll-knock-your-knee-or-elbow-against-it nausea.

9) Rather, Kunin, through careful application of a few linguistic effects, seems to be after a parody of novelistic prosody. Example: here are “characters” who speak without relying on contractions.

“I have written a play for Natasha,” said Hallamore. (9) “Without our burnt offerings,” said Mercy, “St. Peter would have to eat in the kitchen.” “St. Peter must love abandoned restaurants, because he made so many of them,” said Hallamore. (13)

Perhaps it is not so much that contractions are absent here, absence in this instance implying a forgetting, or a negligence: a grammar active, but only in the form of exiting / having left the stage. Rather, the contractions feel avoided. They have been deliberately excluded, so long as the characters retain control of their emotions or do slip from the perch of their poses.

And there’s softness for you: shit. [Mercy speaking] (5)

10) Grammar is being acted upon. All of which reinforces or superimposes again, needlessly, the presence of authors, narrators and characters (the narrator, Willy, writes novels that may also be soporifics), the last two of which are authors manqué anyway.

11) So, The Mandarin invents, over and over again, realms of conversation which are not “conversational” as that expectation has been created by the majority rule of contemporary American literary fiction. Instead, they are words in a novel, have the pretense of being “real”, vocal, but belong to no voice, only to the text itself. They are neither interior nor exterior to anyone involved here: characters, narrator, author, readers. They have hollowed out some third space which they then must occupy. And how they do sprawl all over the elapsed Minneapolis of The Mandarin in setting up residence where they once lived.

12) Chekhov, quoting De Maupassant in The Seagull: “And it goes without saying that it is as dangerous for society people to pamper and encourage writers of novels, as it is for corn merchants to breed rats in their granaries.” What Maupassant means, I think, is that nothing uttered in a novelist’s presence, no matter how inane, innocuous or intended to be impermanent, is ever innocent. Almost as if the novelist him-/herself, in his/her compulsion to transform every experience into “material” (and, in The Seagull, it is Trigorin, the writer but also perhaps the least aesthetic of the play’s characters, who gives eloquent expression to how dissatisfying existence in that minor circle of Hell—The Realm Of The Once-Removed—is), destroys the order that ensures the social, and precisely by recording that order. Preserving it. Rendering it perceptible. In other words, much of what is “said” in novels is the normally-unsaid posing as the enunciated. Call it subtext, or circumlocution, or the dictates of repression. Perhaps this explains why Kunin’s various voices all aim for a narrational authority—to speak in the voice of the book—to escape the quotation marks between which they are condemned to appear. Or: the quotations marks which are the basic condition of their appearance.

13) The only way out of the prison of voice for these characters is via another kind of constraint, a volunteered-for deafness to themselves, and themselves only. This is quite different, I think, from a phenomenon we often note in “bad” novels: that all the characters baldly ventriloquize for the author and the author’s agenda. The authenticity of any given literary voice is always fraught with artifice. Is Kunin’s point—or one of his points—that the real, in its dreams of power, always aspires to be ideal?  That seems awfully heavy for a book filled with voices that have a certain frothiness to them.

14) But do the subjects of The Mandarin actually qualify as people, much less constitute a family (brothers and sisters), i.e., a miniature society? Hard to know in a novel such as this, in which setting is so ghostly, and “society” is constantly in a state of dysfunction. I.e., unstable, all positions contested if out of grasp.

15) On page 162 of The Mandarin, it occurred to me to write: “If it is true of most novels that one need not read every word, then how much more true in this novel. A novel, from a certain poetic perspective, is a tremendous waste of language. And breath. The novel as a rubber dinghy that can never be inflated, hand to mouth.” This is not to say that The Mandarin‘s language is not painstaking. But one feels this meticulousness most whenever Willy (also known as Aaron and Flavio), Hallamore, Mercy and Natasha (who only speaks in one chapter) become participants in dialogue… as conducted by the Marx Brothers on barbiturates. So, where does this waste accumulate? In the novelistic convention of “he said,” “she said,” and “I said,” of course. This constant marking or accounting (I originally wrote “flag-planting”) punctuates every vocalization, and in only one of two ways. A) Fermata: “Spoken falsely,” said Mercy, “like a true novelist.” (66); B) Decrescendo: “There’s not enough room for truth in the novel!” I said. (66).

16) I suspect Kunin wants to direct our attention to this clutter, this clatter, the busy hands of identification. And I will confess that there are times when it is easier and more enjoyable to read this novel as a rhythmically supple weave of interruptions and underminings. To hear it as a subtly modulating drone of “I / he / she said”‘s rather than a play of pretend voices.

17) But what happens as your attention penetrates further and further into a drone, which is, from one vantage, just silence in an excited state? Individual particles (or is it valences?) begin to emerge and command or at least magnetize the attention. I would say The Mandarin is quite comparable to a filed of coded information, the dimensions of which make it impossible to “take in” in any perceiving’s present. As any novel is… further, I think of the first time I experienced Robert Altman’s Nashville and its multi-tracked, “natural” (an authenticity artificially crafted) sound. I knew I was hearing many different voices speaking simultaneously, over-lapping, at times canceling each other out—sensibly, and at the level of frequency and wavelength—even as I could not actually perceive all those voices in all their difference all at once. And, were I to try and puzzle each voice out (to “read every word”, truly), I would miss the more crucial if hazier effect.

18) Since this novel is not about elaborating any sort of plot, why are these attributions necessary at all?  If no one is actually going to be affected or incited to change by what anyone else says—and saying is all that occurs here—why is it important to keep one voice sorted from another?  As Kunin notes in his prefatory synopsis, only when these characters agree on what is happening in their world—read: are all playing the same game, each equally a contestant—does the story achieve any propulsion. In fact, this possibility haunts the book, this suspicion that The Mandarin is actually one of Willy’s novels. What difference is there, if any, between this narrator Willy and the author, Willy, of such unread (within The Mandarin) titles as Sick of Irony, a novel?

19) But what is one of the cardinal rules of narrative? “Agreement makes for poor stories.” And, true, the agreement to which Kunin refers scratches out a space in which these these voices jockey most fully for co-existence. Agreement for the sake of a differentiating disagreement, or, conflict for the sake of conflict. Perforce, imitation—a weapon most cruelly and expertly wielded by children and idiots—injects protecting coloring into what would otherwise be a dispiriting or spiritless sameness, making that sameness rational… just as all warfare is.

“I’m making fun of you, Willy!” said Mercy. “I’m imitating you!” “You don’t know me well enough to make fun of me,” I said. “In fact, I love it when you make fun of me, because it only shows how little you understand me.” “I know you well enough to telephone you,” said Mercy. “So I can make fun of you even if I don’t understand you.” (124)

20) Or: Kunin (better: The Mandarin) likes to repeat phrases and certain syntactical formulae, and have them pass from character to character, too, like a benign parasite. This wandering anaphora confuses consciousness, of course, but it also creates a certain continuity, and it certainly gives the prose here a distinctive cadence. Because metaphor does not seem to work or be terrible relevant in this fallen Midwestern metropolis, parroting serves as a characteristic trope here. The emphasis remains, again, not so much on the personalities behind or responsible for the words, but the words’ as wearable, discardable characters… the sheets these ghosts are donning as they float up and down these corridors that are actually closed to their haunting (so they keep bumping into things, maybe because, Schulz-style, they forgot to cut eye-holes in those sheets.)

“You’ve become a Board of Welfare for me,” I said. “You control my thoughts by making it impossible for me to think of anything else.” “I must learn to content myself with proximity,” said Mercy. “To become indispensable… until there’s no difference between the contents of our heads, yours and mine.” “Being inside a person’s head is not the same as knowing a person,” said Hallamore. “It’s not even a way of knowing.” (125)

21) And, as I read more and more, I feel this is becoming a “bigger deal”: are these characters jockeying for the power to narrate, to write their own novel?  Or is to be a narrator to put in a kind of straitjacket, forced by form to repeat the obvious, to be redundant, with every action?

22) Oh, and objects speak in The Mandarin. They deliver dialogue. They offer commentary. They hail and farewell. They name. And these objects speak more like recognizable human beings than the novel’s ostensibly human actors. Maybe because the objects are given some rather funny lines. “Great wine, Flavio,” said the Christmas cactus. “Yeah, not from concentrate,” said the dust-ruffle.” (150). Yes, these toenail clippings, T.V. sets and so forth are comic characters in a rather traditional novelistic sense. They are Forster-flat, and are possessed of more exaggerated linguistic capabilities than the ostensibly creative, adaptive, “fleshy” characters here. Really, Shakespeare is being invoked… the depth of shallowness when it comes to relief. A fool will say anything, thank god. And, always, always, Kunin’s characters are talking without saying-qua-materializing. They are always talking about speaking, as if speaking begins and ends with explaining.

What is certain is that the characters are speaking—and the speaker is always clearly identified—but it’s never certain that their speech accurately describes the situation in which they are speaking. They may be talking about what they’re actually doing in the place where they’re really standing [read: narrating], or they may be remembering or imagining something they did or would like to be doing in another place [read: acting]. (ii)

24) I have just finished reading The Mandarin. It is a much more tragic book than I could have allowed myself to imagine.

25) Do we really know what we’re volunteering for when we say, so blithely, that novels are capable of a “greater truth”, of materializing it? Or: language is a machine, perhaps even the primal machine. And novels are particularly complex instances of heavy industry, constructed out of many intricate, minuscule parts that have been wrought out of some obdurate, graceless material. A contraption powered by steam, poised in its reproductions between the noxious and the efficient. Novels manufacture consciousness, and this novel is somehow no different. Except The Mandarin is very different in the way it runs its assembly line. So long as one reads The Mandarin, one remains in the same predicament as The Mandarin‘s characters, trapped, coerced, a servant and a mouthpiece. Yet, reading or not, as creatures never apart from the levering power of language, this is our common predicament. Our realization of this dependency may or may not be cathartic, but surely it counts as anagnorisis, and a most ennobling brand of irony.

Joe Milazzo is the author of The Terraces (Das Arquibancadas) (Little Red Leaves Textile Series, 2012). His writings have appeared in H_NGM_N, The Collagist, Drunken Boat, Black Clock, and elsewhere. Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX, and his virtual location is http://www.slowstudies.net/jmilazzo.


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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way.

Distant stars serve as a backdrop for Supernova 1987A, located in the center of the image. The bright ring around the central region of the exploded star is composed of material ejected by the star about 20,000 years before its demise. Gaseous clouds surround the supernova. The clouds' red color represents the glow of hydrogen gas, which is fueling a firestorm of star birth.

Supernova 1987A was discovered in 1987, and Hubble began observing the exploded star in the early 1990s. This latest view was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in January 2017. The colors of the foreground and background stars were added from observations taken by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.

Supernova 1987A resides 163,000 light-years away.

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Wednesday, 1 May 2013

A customer, Dr. Colin Harris, runs a club for collectors of curious items!  One such item was a three bladed table knife which he had recently purchased and found that neither he nor his fellow curio collectors had ever seen anything like it before and had no idea what it could be used for!  Dr. Harris e-mailed Hungerford Arcade with pictures of the knife and asked if anyone here would know anything about it!  Well, we have Barbro Rees at the Arcade and fortunately, she specialises in cutlery!

This is Barbro's reply to Dr. Harris!

"I've never seen a three parallel bladed knife but
I find there are several patents about them e.g.

The latter patent includes the following paragraph:"

'The knife, according to the invention, comprises a
handle which is joined with multiple parallel blades
so that the number of cutting operations for slicing
a food product is reduced as every cutting operation
gives several slices at the same time. In a preferred
embodiment the invention relates to a multiple-blade
knife for cutting food products into slices, wherein
the multiple blades are arranged in parallel and joined
to a handle, and wherein the handle has means for
setting and adjusting the distance between the blades
and wherein there are means for a temporary removal
of the parallel blades in order to free the knife blades
from the food product after the cutting'.

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  1. How very interesting! I've never heard of a 3 bladed knife before. Minerva x


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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

The "End of Year" list for 2015

Here we are again.  Another year come and gone.  Another list to compile of stuff I did, stuff I mock when I look back (the list of things I want to do), and the general feeling of the year as it was.

Let me just say: What a bloody crazy year it was!  I wasn't expecting most of the stuff that happened this year.  It's been wild, to say the least

After losing my job in January, the months off in between were lovely.  But stressful at times.  I had a blast hanging out with Valerie during that time.  Being "mom-extraordinaire" was a lot of fun work.

Then, while at the beach in June, I got the phone call I had been hoping for during those past few months.  The phone call that I was being offered the job I hoped for.  So, I started June 29th, and it's been wonderful working with such a great group of people!

That being said, I read next to nothing this year.  I've read all of 2 books.  One of which was a dime-novel with the spine less than a centimeter!  So, I've been pretty bad when it comes to my reading.  But, in my defense, the second half of the year was just as crazy as the first - if not more.

First, let's mention the Low-lights of the year (because I want to end on a positive note):

  • My uncle died in April
  • Lost my job in January
  • Marriage dissolved in August
  • Daughter is having a rough time of life right now.

Highlights this year (my positives):

  • Got to hang out with Valerie in Carpool for the last half of 8th grade
  • Found a new, better job in June while I happened to be at the beach with family.
  • Saw Ingrid Michaelson live in June
  • Later that month, I went to Rocky Horror's Live show
  • I know exactly who I can - and who I can't - count on when the going gets tough.
  • Got to see the Biltmore Estate for the first time in September.  It was beautiful and extraordinary and everything they say it is.
  • At the end of this month, I'm hoping to see the new Star Wars

So, what do I hope for next year?  I hate to say that I want the dust to settle, as I know I'm going to look back especially at that statement and laugh and laugh.  But, it's true.  I just want the dust to settle.  I want to know that the ground I'm walking on isn't about to swallow me whole any moment.  It's probably an unrealistic expectation.  So, I should lower my standards for life-goals again, I think.

So, yearly life goals next year:

  • Don't break.
  • Get a new roof and ceiling.
  • Save for next year.
  • Spend time with friends.

Maybe I'm aiming to high again.

How about just to spend time with friends every now and then.
And read more books.

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Memo to Staff: Food

TO: The Staff

FROM: His Imperial Excellency, Imperator, Grand Director of All Stuff, Iain

DATE: February 1, 2009

RE: Food

I would like to indicate some changes to the lunch/dinner/snack protocol.

1. I will no longer consume cut up prunes. I will chew on them for ten minutes and then force you to fish out the half-masticated shell, causing you to gag.

2. I may have indicated interest in the Korean rice crackers last week, but this week they are non-starters. I will toss them on the floor.

3. New foods that are acceptable include: hummus, Nutri-Grain Bars (apple flavor).

Please note these changes.

Heather said...

Well. He has spoken.

chris bray said...

The staff at Team Cherkis-Bray world headquarters similarly learned this morning that tiny pumpkin-ricotta pancakes ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The floors, they are strewn.

Fiona said...

Ridiculous! Those sound delicious.

We have entered a period of non-swallowing, as well. Iain will chew, slobber on, and generally mush up a food item (prune, rice chex, and today a piece of bacon) but not swallow. For like 15 or 20 minutes.

It's gross, dude.


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Since this is I-Love-to-Read month, I thought I'd share an excerpt from Hutterite Diaries, that has to do with a book I wanted some years ago.  I'm sure most people have books they long to own, or read, and may even have interesting stories about how they found them. Once Upon a Lifetime was one of those for me, but the story that unfolded while I was looking for this particular book, gave the title a whole new meaning.

                                                            A Circle Not Unbroken
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. Ecclesiastes 3:1
On a crisp winter evening, my Night Writers group met, like we do every month, to critique and celebrate each others work. One of my writing friends brought Patricia A. Williams’ book Once Upon a Lifetime, and we passed it around. Full of ideas for recording events in one’s life, this book appeared to be an excellent writer’s tool, and I decided to try to obtain a copy. A page in my friend’s copy provided the ordering information.
When I dialed the phone number, however, it led to an answering service with an empty promise: “Please leave your name and number, and we’ll call you as soon as possible.” The web address drew a blank, and the email address was a virtual boomerang.
At $19.95, the book was reasonably priced—if only I could find someone to take my money! But somebody clearly forgot to tell online booksellers what this book is worth. They offered used copies for $181.31. As much as I wanted it, sacrificing a year’s worth of coffee and chocolate wasn’t an option. Five stores in Winnipeg informed me the book was out of print.
Now that electronic connections give us information at our fingertips, I decided to try some e-magic. I googled the book’s name until I felt cross-eyed, with no magic in sight. The information highway left me wondering why I was so driven to find this book.
Finally, I found an online review of the book by a John Melchinger. It was a long shot, but I fired off an email to him asking if he knew where I could get a copy of this book. He replied that he might have some copies, and perhaps an audio version as well, but he would have to check first. He told me that he also happened to know the author very well. Touchdown! I now knew I’d get a copy of the book.
The story continued to unfold, however, like something from Chicken Soup for the Soul. In fact, it gave the phrase “Once upon a lifetime” a whole new meaning. Upon learning that I live in Manitoba, John Melchinger informed me, “My wife Jayne is originally from Oakville, Manitoba. We make our home in Tampa, Florida now.”
Living in the  Oakville area, I was naturally curious. So I replied: “Small world! I live on a Hutterite colony just five miles from Oakville. Perhaps we know Jayne’s family.”
John wrote back:  “My wife, Jayne Alford-Melchinger, is the younger sister of Bette Holliday, who still lives in Oakville. Their mother used to teach at a nearby Hutterite colony.”
My family had known the Alfords in Oakville, but we had lost touch over the years when some of the family died and others moved away. But I wondered if my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Audrey Alford, might happen to be Jayne’s mother.
“Audrey Alford was indeed Jayne’s mother,” John wrote. “She taught at your colony from 1968 to 1970. Jayne said one of those Christmas Eves a Hutterite family’s home burned down and she donated her favorite dolly to a little girl. Small world indeed.”
John’s answer took me back to a tragic time for my family. Yes, it is a small world, and he didn’t even know how small when he sent that email. The time of the fire was not quite accurate, but that detail wasn’t so important. The multi-family house fire happened on an extremely cold January evening. Nobody ever learned how it had started. The fire affected me more deeply than John knew; it took the lives of my two little brothers and left my sister with severe burns. She had to be hospitalized for many months. I was at the children’s dining room having supper, so was not hurt.
At five years of age, I was also too young to have a real sense of this loss and what it meant for my family and the other families who lost their home. One thing I clearly remember from that tragic day is that, while the house was still in flames, my friends asked me to come to their house, as it was too cold to stay outside for long. There, one of the girls suggested we pray. So a circle of little girls knelt down on that hardwood floor, near the coal stove in the living room, and prayed. We asked God to help us and ended our petition with the Lord’s Prayer.
Dad, Mom, and I lived at my grandparents’ house until another home was built. That part was comforting. In addition to Grandma and Grandpa, there were five aunts there to dote on me, especially since my parents had to spend a lot of time with my sister at the hospital.
I was in grade one at the time. And as you may have guessed by now, I was the little girl to whom Jayne gave her favorite dolly. I remember it well; tall with dark hair, which I always fondly called ma Alford Puppela (my Alford doll).
In the end, John Melchinger generously sent me a copy of the book that had taken me on an interesting and emotional virtual ride. Then, after many years, against obvious odds and thanks to an electronic connection, I was able to thank Jayne for her noble gift. That doll meant so much to me in those sad days, for I had not only lost all my toys but also my home and, worst of all, my two brothers.
As John so eloquently put it: “All of life seems an endless array and disarray of circles that cross every which way. This circle is not broken, although the way it came around to be whole is quite amazing.”

If you still don't have a copy of Hutterite Diaries just click here. Or ask for it at any bookstore. If you live in my area, you can get an autographed copy directly from me. Just leave a comment and I'll get back to you.
Have you ever looked for a particularly hard to find book? I'd love to hear about it!

  1. That was an interesting post. When someone I loaned my "The Journey Home by Dr. Bill Bright" kept the book I needed another copy. It was hard to find but I finally found a gently used copy cheaply priced on the internet. It is a book I enjoy revisiting now and again.

  2. Thanks for sharing, Michelle! I've experienced that too - loaning a book to someone only to never see it again. I'm glad you found a good used copy, though.

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The American Astronomical Society has a list of reputable eclipse glasses and handheld viewers on its website - stamped with this approval code: 12312-2.

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News !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am now an Independent Stampin Up! Demo - whoop whoop !!

Below you will see an example of one of the cards that I have designed for a Card Class.  I have designed five cards altogether, and if you are interested in holding a class in the comfort of your own home (I will bring everything you need), then please contact me - details under the Class & Workshop tab (above), or just leave a comment below and I will contact you.

Please also contact me if you would like to purchase a Stampin Up! catalogue priced at £3.95, the value of which will be deducted from any order you place.

If you are interested in attending either a Cardmaking Workshop, Scrapbook Workshop, Project or Technique-based Workshop - then please contact me via the Class and Workshop tab above.

(I will soon have a link to the SU online catalogue - I promise)

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I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you health and happiness in 2011.

Love 'n' hugs.

misteejay said...

Lovely card Cal - congrats on your achievement.

Wishing you all the best for 2011

Toni xx

Glen said...

Ooo...very pretty card Cal. Good to see you blogging again - welcome back and congrats on your new 'calling'! *Ü* Would LOVE to have a little SU party for you but I'm in the deep south! Where would I get a catalogue? ~Glen~

Nancy said...

Congratulations :)

Christine said...

Lovely card Cal - good luck with you new venture. Looking forward to seeing more of your work :)


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Super Mario & Friends

David, vintage inspiration meets current trends, styled by Super Mario.

We are walking vintage. Every single day that we walk out the door and into the world, our goal is to kill all other outfits. Sometimes we fail, all the time we try. That's the great thing about fashion, you can continually reinvent yourself and your style, every day that you walk out the door and into the world.

Recently, I got up with my friend David and I asked him why vintage is so important to him?

His response “Vintage is important to me because each generation adds something to the fashion world. I can now pull fashion from past decades to create fly outfits today. and the vintage era might have been the most fashionably era that there ever was.” Fresh words from a fresh man.

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Choice: Black truffle & chicken velouté (3 courses is £39) Chooser: Waiter

Early in the week atmosphere comes guaranteed at but a fistful of Brum's bistros. Dining with Annexe early on a Tuesday evening, in the middle of holiday season, might have sounded like a toughie, and yet the team delivered that hard to reach intangible around buzziness, without a hint of the frenetic. The menu has changed entirely since our last visit, with a set price three or five courses full of combinations that felt like they had been designed for us — deliberations, in concert with the kitchen, hit the half hour mark before our order was placed. And though, taken together, it felt like the dishes could have done with a bit more roughage and range to break through a pretty uniform richness, on their own, there were some podium finishes. The black truffle in chicken velouté was the out and out victor of the evening, with a depth of flavour so gratifying it induced table-wide food envy and an immediate decision that a repeat visit would be occurring. Ideal for small groups and non-boring dates, all the wine matches we were sampled were très bon. Menu


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Creative Portraits by Harold Davis
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Go beyond the basic rules of photography to capture stunning portraits

Portrait photography is a vital topic for photographers of every level of experience, from amateur to professional. Written by renowned photographer Harold Davis, this inspirational book encourages you to define our own photographic style and capture stunning, creative, and unique portraits.

You'll discover tips and techniques for "breaking the rules" of basic digital photography so that you can go beyond the fundamentals such as composition, lighting, and exposure in order to create memorable and incomparable portraits.Explores the most common subject of most photographers-people-and explains when, why, and how to forgo the fundamentals to capture memorable portraitsEncourages you to define your own unique photographic style and offers information and inspiration to help you do soDelves into a variety of creative techniques that you can use when exploring ways to take lively and stunning portraits

Illustrated with Harold Davis's striking portrait photography, Creative Portraits will both inform and inspire you.

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"For Anna Young, stabbing at her veins with a needle was a normal part of life. It’s what she had wanted since she learned in seventh grade that her idols were heroin addicts. She strived to become a junkie and was successful. In I Hate Myself and Want to Die, Young recounts her struggles with drugs, suicide, and bipolar disorder.

Honest and self-disclosing, Young narrates the intimate details of her drug use and the path to addiction, her time spent in jail and detox, the ravages of withdrawal, her efforts to rehabilitate, her unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide, and her diagnosis with bipolar disorder.

This memoir provides a behind-the-scenes and firsthand look at the trials of drug addiction, its wide-reaching effects, and the very real challenge of recovery.

I walk into my new cell; it is lockdown after lunch … I … lay my head down to ease my headache from the bright lights.

I just sit in my bed and shake, sweat, and groan. Once in a while I drift off to sleep. I dream about Elle and getting high, and then I am startled awake. I stare at the ceiling looking for a spot to hang myself."

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Rebecca Ann Majors fled the temptation of a ménage once, but now the two sexy men starring in her wildest fantasy are back and demanding her complete surrender for the weekend. Emboldened by lust, she succumbs to her desire and learns ecstasy has a price.
They demand everything she has and more.

Joe Davenport and Dillan Morrisey are used to handling any situation—including the sexy siren who sashayed out of their lives two years ago. This time she’ll quench their lust, even if it means they have to share her.

When Sunday morning dawns, the three must decide if one weekend was enough to sate their shared passion.

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What is Knowledge? Where does it come from? Can we know anything at all? This lucid and engaging introduction grapples with these central questions in the theory of knowledge, offering a clear, non-partisan view of the main themes of epistemology including recent developments such as virtue epistemology and contextualism.

Duncan Pritchard discusses traditional issues and contemporary ideas in thirteen easily digestible sections, including:

the value of knowledge
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virtues and faculties
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What is this thing called Knowledge? contains many helpful student-friendly features including study questions, annotated further reading, a glossary and a guide to web resources. Clear and interesting examples are used throughout.  This is an ideal first textbook in the theory of knowledge for undergraduates taking a first course in philosophy.

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(BRUSSELS) - The EU continued its fight to close tax avoidance loopholes Tuesday, as finance ministers agreed their position on rules to close down 'hybrid mismatches' with the tax systems of third countries, reports EU Business.

The draft directive, the latest of a number of anti-tax avoidance measures, is aimed at closing down 'hybrid mismatches', mismatches between EU tax systems and those of non-EU countries commonly used by corporate tax dodgers.

It seeks to prevent multi-nationals from exploiting disparities between two or more tax jurisdictions in order to reduce their overall tax liability. The EU sees such arrangements as resulting in a substantial erosion of the taxable bases of corporate taxpayers in the EU.

Despite some compromises, the result should give another tool to tax authorities to recoup lost revenues, said Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis at the press conference following the meeting: "Clearly, tax avoidance is an issue about which governments and Member States feel very strongly, he said. For us, it's another piece of the puzzle in ensuring effective taxation for big companies in the EU."

"Today is yet another success story in our campaign for fairer taxation" added Commissioner Pierre Moscovici: "Step by step, we are eliminating the channels used by certain companies to escape taxation."

Ministers compromised on the following issues:

for hybrid regulatory capital, a carve-out from the rules is established for the banking sector. The carve-out will be limited in time, and the Commission will be asked to present a report assessing the consequences;

for financial traders, a delimited approach is followed in line with that followed by the OECD;

as regards implementation, a longer timeline is foreseen than that set for the July 2016 directive. Implementation is set for 1 January 2020 (one year later), and for 1 January 2022 as concerns one specific provision.

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ESPN Star Sports has been run as a 50/50 joint venture between Walt Disney's entertainment and sports network ESPN Inc. and News Corp.'s Star unit, a media company which offers satellite television and other services in Asia.

Financial details of the transaction weren't disclosed. News Corp. owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of this newswire and The Wall Street Journal.

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Should hearing babies learn sign language?

Should hearing babies learn sign language? It's a question that's been posed for some years now, and it's unlikely that the debate will be settled anytime soon. However, supporters of the practice say there may be no better way to introduce the concept of vocabulary into the life of an infant.

An Early Start

Some mothers actually begin teaching their children sign language at birth. In fact, one woman was quoted as saying that her son understood the sign for milk at the age of three weeks. While this may sound a bit far-fetched, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that signing can be helpful to babies.

Dr. Joseph Garcia is credited with the popularization of baby sign language. He's the inventor of the "Sign With Your Baby" system. Certified instructors teach the language to parents and babies nationwide.

Sign Language Promotes Other Skills

Dr. Garcia has been quoted as saying, "Signing is different than verbal language in that there's an eye connection. You must look at someone when you're signing to them." The physician believes that the majority of babies can start learning American Sign Language at six to eight months of age. In addition to language skills, ASL helps to teach them the importance of stopping, looking, and listening — habits they can carry with them throughout life.

Through the system, an 18-month-old can learn how to sign more than 150 words — a phenomenal number by any count. Usually, parents start by signing the words for eating and milk. Of course, it takes a great deal of patience for a parent to teach sign language to a baby. In fact, it may be several months after the initial lessons before the baby begins signing on his or her own.

If a sign is paired with a spoken word, chances are the signing child will actually start talking sooner than his or her counterparts. People who answer yes to the question, should hearing babies learn sign language, claim that, rather than retard speech development, ASL actually promotes it.

Should hearing babies learn sign language? It would appear that there is certainly no harm in it, and that, in fact, it can help to improve communication between parent and child. And what could be better than that?

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New Baby Nappies Checklist

Baby Nappies Tips

Always have plenty. Newborns can soil up to 12 nappies a day. In a year you will need over 4000 nappy changes. Change the nappy every time the baby wets. nappy change frequency can help you understand how many nappies you need, how frequently you need to wash the cloth nappies and how much money you need to budget.

You will probably use both disposable and cloth nappies. When you decide, you should consider the cost, the environmental impact and how easy the two options are.
  1. Cloth nappies. Can save you a lot of money, some are as easy as disposables. There are different types: fitted, flat, pre-folder or all-in-one.
  2. Disposable nappies. Save you a lot of time, but they are more expensive, require different sizes (so you'll have problems with starage and disposal). Some disposable nappies are more natural and environmentally-friendly than others.
  3. Wipes. Avoid wipes with fragrance. Warm water may be sufficient in the first days.
  4. Nappy Pail. Choose a nappy pail that minimises the use of nappy bags. Consider a washable environmentally-friendly cloth nappy pail liner.
  5. Nappy Cream. Choose a natural nappy cream that doesn't contain petroleum derivatives.
  6. Nappy changing. Disposable nappies are the easiest to change. Ensure you have all the nappy changing products and clothing at hand before you start.
  7. Nappy rash. It is very common that babies' skin becomes red in the nappying area, caused by bacteria. To reduce rash ensure you change the baby every time the baby wets, avoid detergents and fragrances. Consult your doctor if the rash persists.
  8. Nappy bag. In addition to the products above, you'll need blankets, bibs, tissues, food and drink, a hat, toys and pacifier.
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Welcome to the Itasca Police Department homepage.

The Itasca Police Department is a highly trained and skilled professional police department comprised of 23 sworn and 12 non-sworn members. We are entrusted by the public and stakeholders we serve, and we strive each day to provide the finest law enforcement services to our community.

As part of our commitment to excellence, the Itasca Police Department is dedicated to community-oriented policing philosophy. As a result, we have built and continue to develop close ties to the community and actively respond to its needs. Community-oriented policing strategies utilized by the Department includes interaction with the residents and business owners throughout the village.

I ask that if you “see something, say something.” The Itasca Police Department is here to provide a safe and secure environment for our residents and business community. You are invited to contact the Itasca Police Department at any time regarding services and valuable programs available to all who live or work in Itasca. We appreciate the continued support from the community!

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743 TROUT SPRINGS Road, Forest Lakes, Arizona 85931 - Make an offer! Seller wants this 1.24 acre lot that backs to the USFS SOLD! All offers considered! Heavily treed with Large Ponderosa Pines! Lot has a spacious, cleared area which sets high back off the road for building or camping out. Sign on lot. Federal Grant may still in effect for as much as 90% of cost of clearing the lot.*

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History of 6 September 1965

heart History of 6 September 1965.....

The 1965 War was a comical affair! Civilians at the foreign ministry assessed that the Indians could be knocked out at the strategic level while soldiers at the highest military level and political level, the president being a soldier were not interested in any military adventure. The civilian hawks led by Bhutto, however, were in league with a group of generals and brigadiers within the army and finally succeeded in persuading the president
(famous for tactical timidity in Burma) into embarking on a military adventure. Musa the army chief had little strategic insight and was against any military adventure in which he may be forced to exercise his qualities of leadership! Musa had rudimentary understanding of strategy and tank warfare since he was a political choice appointed more because he was seen as politically no threat rather than for any military strategic or operational talent!
The Pakistani offensive plan i.e. a thrust against Indian line of communication at Akhnur in case of a limited war in Kashmir or/and against Indian line of communication between Indian Corps holding Ravi-Sutlej Corridor at Jandiala Guru on Amritsar-Jullundhur road in case of an all out war was brilliant in conception. This was so because if successful any of the two plans would have forced the Indians to sue for peace at best and to surrender at worst. No less an authority than the Indian Western Command C in C Harbaksh Singh thus confessed
“A Blitzkrieg deep into our territory towards the Grand Trunk Road or the Beas Bridge would have found us in the helpless position of a commander paralysed into inaction for want of readily available reserves while the enemy was inexorably pushing deep into our vitals. It is a nightmarish feeling even when considered in retrospect at this stage”.
To the Pakistan Army’s misfortune a plan which was brilliant at the strategic and operational level failed simply because those who were leading the military machine at the highest level lacked the strategic insight as well as resolution! The first opportunity was thus missed in Chamb-Jaurian Sector, when even a foreigner i.e. Chinese Foreign Minister visiting Pakistani thought that Akhnur5 was the key!
The second and most serious operational failure occurred in Khem Karan.This had more to do with poor execution at the divisional and brigade level and poor initial higher organization and composition of troops at the divisional level. The first being an operational failure and the second being an organizational failure at the higher command level.
At the operational and tactical level three events stand out in the war i.e. the Grand Slam Operation in Chamb-Jaurian, blunting of Indian offensive at Chawinda at Gadgor on 8th September when one lone tank regiment gave a severe mauling to two tank regiments out of a total available Indian force of an armoured division, and a brigade level counter attack in Lahore Sector.
Grand Slam failed because of change of command! Not because Akhtar Malik was better than Yahya but because one man either Akhtar or Yahya should have conducted the whole operation! The Indians admitted that their position was saved because of the pause of 48 hours, which occurred at Tawi after the Pakistani Chief Musa ordered change of horses in the mid stream!
Now the battle of Gadgor. Technically Gadgor was 24 Infantry Brigade Group versus 1st Indian Armoured Division. In reality the contest was 25 Cavalry versus Poona and Hodsons Horse since 24 Brigade Commander told Colonel Nisar to “do something”6 the vaguest order of 1965 War! Nisar had no idea of what was in front but by a miraculous coup d oeil deployed his tank regiment 25 Cavalry in a manner which would produce an instant nervous breakdown in an instructor who taught tank tactics at the armour school! 25 Cavalry was deployed by Nisar like a thin line of steel! Like a thin net to catch a whale! The manoeuvre if it can be called one succeeded because the Indian brigade commander was paralysed by the fog of war! Thus Commander Indian 1st Armoured Brigade saw a finger as a mountain! He saw a threat to his flanks which in reality was a half squadron of Indian 62 Cavalry which had lost its way and fired at Indian Artillery opposite Rangre! What Nisar deployed after the “Do Something” order was seen by the Indian brigade commander as a tank brigade! Thus he lost the will to use two uncommitted tank regiments to outflank the Pakistani position! Gadgor was a psychological defeat inflicted on K.K Singh by Nisar with Nisar not knowing what was in front of him and K.K Singh over estimating three times what was really in front of him. Thus in cognitive terms, at Gadgor was a tank regiment commander who did not know what was in front of him against a tank brigade commander who was overawed by what he assessed was in front of him and was reduced into a state of total inertia and indecision. The important factor in this decisive battle was the fact that tangibly K.K Singh had the third tank regiment as well as three uncommitted squadrons within his two committed tank regiments with which he could have easily outflanked Nisar and got to his rear! Nisar had tangibly no reserves with which he could have countered K.K’s outflanking manoeuvre.
The counter attack of Brigadier Qayyum Sher in Lahore Sector was a successful divisional battle ordered by Major General Sarfaraz MC and executed by Brigadier Qayyum Sher most resolutely! It produced a crisis on the Indian side and threw the Indians off balance! Both retired in the same rank sometimes after the war!

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