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A Difficult Spring
Dear Family & Friends (& especially those of you who are wondering why I never answered your e-mail),
It's been a difficult spring.
(Forgive me if I repeat myself.)
Jack turned 80 on April 7, which is like turning 50 if you've been in your 40s for a decade, or turning 21. A monumental birthday.
The first thing he did was wreck his car. A typical 80-year-old crash. Running late for his doctor's appointment, he was driving 35 mph (almost) on a 30 mph residential stretch when he began to wonder how late he was. His side of the road looked empty except for a white car a ways ahead of him, so he shook his sleeve off his watch and looked at the time. Ten minutes late. He looked up. The white car had stopped dead in the street and Jack couldn't.
He did turn a bit so the car smashed at an angle. Took out his headlight, etc. The other driver, who had stopped to turn left illegally across double lines into her driveway, wasn't hurt. Nor was her car (not much). Nor was Jack. But his ancient red Volvo station wagon sighed and insisted on a tow truck ride to Dingman's. Dingman's offered to fix Jack's headlight, etc., for more $$$ than he'd paid for the vehicle. So Jack bid his beloved wagon a reluctant good-bye. He had loved the old dump. As for me, I wouldn't drive the boat. Its only virtue, from my perspective, was the passenger seat that could be heated in the winter. I'll miss my seasonal hot seat.
So, BOOM, we became a one-car family.
The next thing Jack did, to avoid a fine for hitting the car, was take a police class on safe driving. As the teacher talked, Jack recognized himself: an occasional runner of red lights, a driver who spaced out and missed Interstate exits, etc. An Unsafe Driver. So he stopped driving.
BOOM, we became a single-driver family. Suddenly I chauffeured Jack everywhere, but especially to doctor's appointments way across town, where I waited in TV-dominated rooms, struggling to read my NEW YORKER. Every time we needed anything from the grocery or the hardware store or the pharmacy, I was behind the wheel again. I became an ardent MOBY supporter, and in time, Jack was okayed to ride that special bus. This helped.
One of his many doctors convinced Jack that being on a low-salt diet did not mean eating humongous chunks of cheese at most meals. So we got serious, eyeballing sodium in deli cooking, frozen foods, and fast foods. (Oh, we had occasionally eaten real food. Jack cooks a mean chicken soup and I can do a now-and-then stir fry.)
So Jack picked out a couple "good" foods and began eating corn tortillas and no-salt peanut butter. He cried whenever he thought of cheese. I remembered cooking, so I got down my JOY OF and cogitated. We agreed to eat one solid meal (protein, carb, veggie) a day, so I shopped for it and cooked it. (And ate it: pork chop, corn on the cob, and yam isn't too bad.) So now I've become the resident chef. BOOM.
Then about ten days ago, I woke at 5 a.m. feeling uneasy. Eventually I went upstair to check on Jack. He was in the bathroom.
"How are you?" I hollered through the closed door.
"Sick!"
I'd never heard him admit to sickness before. "How sick?" I asked. "Bad sick?"
"No, honey, I'm okay." Jack lurched out of the bathroom and staggered to a dining room chair.
I only half heard him because I'm dialing 911. The ambulance guy tells me, "Contain your pets," so I'm herding cats, opening the front door, dashing downstairs and dressing in street clothes, in the time it takes for the big black-rubber-suited boys to get there, put Jack on a stretcher and head to the VA Hospital.
I'll spare you some of the details. Jack, who has a sub-par immune system, had caught a urinary infection that was about to infect his blood stream. Had it, I might be writing a post-cremation notice.
But that's not all. Jack wore a pacemaker for a decade. Indeed, he should have replaced it last year, but he didn't notice that and neither did his doctor. So at the hospital, the heart doctors feared that his pacemaker would die--and so would he.
The doctors wouldn't replace his pacemaker until the urinary infection cleared up, so Jack was in the hospital for nearly a week. The infection did mend, the pacemaker exchange was successful, and he came home.
Until the surgery heals, Jack can no longer move his left arm, so BOOM I take over his jobs: hauling out the garbage, cleaning the litter boxes. I refuse to make pancakes his way.
During all this time, I'm writing--would you believe! Working on a revision of my Dorothy Parker Writing Case piece. Managing to snatch an hour. Taking a 40-page printout to the hospital and editing all 40 pages there. Getting ready for the Saturday reading from MAIL-ORDER KID at the Nebraska Book Festival in Lincoln, NE.
Friday night, in my peejay's, planning my Saturday morning shower, I notice the toilet running. I call my trusty handyman.
"Oh, I can fix this easy," Jack says. He puts his good arm in the tank, starts squirreling around, and breaks some seal. Now the toilet's REALLY running. Nothing to do but turn the water off for the entire house, he says, and he does.
"You can turn the water back on any time you need it," he says.
If only I knew how.
Instead, I haul out my great grandfather Zachary Taylor Kemper's thunder jug and use it during my middle-of-the-night run. Saturday morning, I wash my hair with my special No Rinse Shampoo, used by NASA's astronauts on their space flights; makes me feel so modern. I don't tell Jack how sleepy I am for fear he'll talk me out of driving to the book festival some 50 miles away. Instead, I gulp many cups of coffee and challenge Fate.
Now that Jack's turned 80, we're talking marriage.
WHAT? I hear you say. PUT HIM OUT ON THE ICE, the way any sensible Eskimo would do.
But I can't do that.
Where would I find another like him, big and bushy and gushing with language. Who would sing old 1930s songs to me? Who would laugh at my stupidest jokes? Who would accept hugs and kisses at the drop of any old hat any old time of the day and night? Who would call me his Gracie Allen? Lather me with love?
So we're talking marriage.
And we plan to drive right down to city hall for a license and a judge just as soon as I can gas the car, take the garbage out, clean the litter boxes, cook lunch, put food on the table, wash dishes, do the laundry, drive Jack to the hardware store--and finish my Dorothy Parker piece.
Marilyn June Coffey
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Enlightened by $$$
I don't know how frequently your thoughts pitter-patter beneath your cranium, but mine sometime rat-a-tat-tat for hours. On bad days, I'm at their mercy, brought to my knees by their morose battering.
"Pay no attention to them," Donna, my meditation teacher, says. "They're just sparks of electrical energy." But I find electric sparks difficult to ignore. They so often mimic my mother's voice, silent now two decades but still alive in my head. "You're too generous." "You should try harder." "Are you going to wear THAT?"
So when I spotted Sandra Ingerman's book, How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation (Sterling, 2007), I grabbed it. "This one's for me," I thought.
But it wasn't.
"Start by just breathing deeply into your abdomen," Ingerman writes. But I've been belly breathing for years. For a while in the Sixties, I even taught slow, deep inhalations in Yoga classes. I still breathe deeply. It takes the edge off my anxiety, I'll say that for it, but my thoughts go swaggering on.
Ingerman pitches meditation, too. Again, I agreed, nothing beats meditation for dropping clear down deep into the blank space that precedes thought, but some days the electrical energy goose-steps so briskly I can't find my way there.
So, disappointed, still needing a way to deflate the constant rapping of my mind, I set the book aside.
Meanwhile, out of unrelated curiosity, I paged through Shira Boss's Green with Envy: A Whole New Way to Look at Financial (Un)Happiness (Warner, 2006). Her examples were funny. The U.S. congressman who wants everyone to think he's arrived, but sleeps on a cot in his office. The 50-year-old baby boomer with kids in college, no retirement fund, and the clock ticking. And Boss's own jealousy at the "couple next door" who paid cash for their condo and go on shopping sprees. How can they afford it?
Green with Envy had a nice gossipy quality; I raced right through it. However, Boss's conclusion surprised me. All of a sudden, hoping to avoid her preoccupation with money, she's training to run a marathon. In doing so, she learned to train her mind. The phrase Boss used to train her mind, "But it doesn't matter," sounded purely American, not like the Hindu mantras I know. But she used the phrase like a mantra: at the grocery store when the line inches along, in her hallway when she hears her neighbors talk about jetting to Tahoe for the weekend.
How can that work? I wondered. It's too simple.
Denise Cassino of "Perspectives and Ponderances" awarded my blog for "exemplary writing and interesting entries," August 24, 2008. She called it "a chronicled commentary on life, literature and the ironies that surround us" full of "humorous anecdotes and ponderings of daily life." Take a peek at my blog, Marilyn Coffey, Great Plains Writer. Or at Denise Cassino's blog , Perspectives and Ponderances
OF ITALIAN ICE & SPITTING CAMELS
Checked out the Midway at Omaha's SeptemberFest. What a blast! A large colorful invasion of plastic since I had been on a Midway, especially in the children's section. My favorite: huge green dragons whose round bellies opened to swallow a child.
I rode the merry-go-round. I always do. It's my favorite. That and the Ferris wheel. I love the view from the top of the wheel, although Omaha's wheel was nothing compared to the first Ferris wheel, the one that Mr. Ferris designed and built for the 1893 crowd at the World's Fair in Chicago. His stood 26 stories tall and could carry 2,160 passengers. Ferris meant his wheel to rival the Eiffel Tower. What a gas it must have been to ride! Took six stops to load all the passengers; then the wheel revolved just once. But what a revolution! I expect it hardly mattered that the wheel rose to only a quarter of the height of the Eiffel Tower.
I wanted to ride one of the ponies, but the sturdy little beasts wore no stirrups. The man who circled them around also lifted the young riders onto the saddles. I didn't think he'd lift me, so I watched. One little boy got positively glassy eyed, imagining himself wheeling across the prairie, I supposed.
Purchased an Italian ice, the first I had eaten since I had left New York in 1989. It was much bigger than the New York version, not as lemony, and the tiny chunks of ice had been ground into something like a pudding. I spooned away and watched all the rides I avoid: dropping from a great height, locked in a cage and tumbled around, spinning upside down and the like.
Then I bought a tiny cup of critter food and began feeding the goats. How they spotted me coming! They butted their tiny two-horned heads against each other in food frenzies. The Australian kangaroo was much smaller than I expected, and the tortoise much larger than my little box turtle but just as inclined to ramble. The zebra was neat, but the camel was awesome, his big bushy heady swirling much higher than the fence. This camel did not look content, and I had heard that the beasts spit, so I edged past him quickly. (To watch a camel spitting at a transvestite, go tohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAuy-Jeb_sY&NR=1.)
Wandered the huge grounds, listened to live music, and eyeballed the antique cars and trucks lined up for a contest. The older the vehicle, the more preposterous the design, it seemed. A truck so low its skirts almost touched the ground. A car with a grill so huge it looked like the entrance to a fun house. All of them seemed positively spit polished.
Figured I was due one new experience, so I bought a Chicken-on-a-stick, all warm juicy white meat inside and horrible peppery high-cholesterol dough on the outside. A fly and I fought over nibbling rights, so I left my nibbled stick high in the garbage for the fly and went home.
How about you? What is your favorite midway memory?
Jared, the Subway Guy
When I read the words, "Subway Guy," on the cover of a nonfiction library book, I grabbed it. Naturally, I assumed the book was set in New York City's subways; I'd lived in New York nearly thirty years. Later, at home, I realized the book featured the guy who lost 250 pounds eating sandwiches from Subway.
I never would have bothered if I'd known that.
Then I began to wonder what force led this young man to adopt such a strange solution. Curious, I began to read. I followed Jared into the doctor's office when he weighed 425 pounds. The doctor gave him a death sentence. Lose weight or else. This motivated Jared. Just a college student, he didn't want to lose his whole life.
Using his doctor's diet booklet as a guide, Jared went to the grocery store and filled his cart with okay food, shopping in sectionslike producethat he'd hardly ever visited. Then he went home to cook, a rare activity, and to eat smaller portions of food than he ever had. But he just couldn't hack it. Two days later, he scrapped the doctor's diet booklet.
Boy, did I empathize! Now what?
Next he brought home frozen foods, low-calorie, complete meals. The only problem was taste. Lasagna like chalk. Cheese like melted plastic. Dry turkey with bland stuffing. You get the picture.
After that, he began chasing the promises of commercial diet plans. He tried out diet shakes, but ended up pigging out at a buffet. Still he dreamed of weighing less than 200 pounds, he dreamed of being without the health problems that his weight caused him. So he continued to read, but the other diets he encountered made no sense: don't eat protein, or eat only fruit or just rice.
Fortunately, Jared lived in a building with a Subway in its corner. He dropped in for a sandwich. While he waited, he picked up a Subway dietary guide and realized he could lose weight with a careful selection of Subway food. So, as you may know, that's what he did. Black coffee for breakfast, Subway for lunch and for supper.
How clever! I thought, even though I knew Jared's program would never work for me. Eating the same thing day after day after day would bore me. But I admire the way Jared stuck to his goal and, through trial and error, figured out a way of eating that worked for him. He still eats at Subway, so he not only lost weight but he maintained his loss.
Reading Jared, the Subway Guy felt invigorating. I not only satisfied my curiosity, I put down the book with the sense that I'd met a winsome young man. Nice to pass his way.
And these days, I pass his way frequently. Every time I drop into my local Subway for an illicit dish of Goodrich ice cream, I see Jared, thin as the cardboard that holds him up, displaying a pair of pants nearly as wide as he is tall. I tip my hat. "Nice going, Jared."
Book Review: Bagels & Grits: A Jew on the Bayou
Title: Bagels & Grits: A Jew on the Bayou
Author: Jennifer Anne Moses
Publisher: Terrace Books
Price: $26.95, Publication Date: 2007, Page Count: 166
I do not know what I thought I was getting when I picked this memoir up. Something humorous, perhaps. The title of another Moses' book is FOOD & WHINE. Something Jewish, of course. So many of my lovers were and friends are Jewish that I am perpetually attracted to that subject. And the bayou? That uniquely Southern/French combination. New Orleans is my favorite, but hey, Baton Rouge is close enough
That is what I expected, but what I got was the author, Jennifer, a terrified whiny young woman who wants it all (including God) for herself but does not know how to get it. Her beloved scattered family, people dying of AIDS in St. Anthony's where she volunteers, her rabbi, and her therapist all influence her. She writes, "God alone knows what the folks at St. Anthony's would think of me if they knew that not only do I cry buckets at the drop of a hat, but also that I actually pay money to someone to listen to me when I cry."
Early reviewers aptly use words like witty, honest, probing to describe Bagels & Grits, which lives up to its reputation. The book opens with Jennifer driving a minivan, listening to HIV-positive patient, Lorraine, with skin "like polished mahogany" describe, again, how she shot her husband "right in the head" when she found him in bed with her auntie. "My favorite damn auntie." The book pads quietly on from there, word by word, day by day, slowly changing into a moving memoir of spiritual growth
Jennifer questions much of what she sees. Of the Christian God she encounters repeatedly in St. Anthony's she writes, "This is the God Who forgives you every last nasty thing you've ever done, and all you have to do [is] ask. So you've killed a few folks? No problem! Just call on Him at the very end and presto!you get into heaven. Whored around? Don't sweat it! Cheated on your income taxes? Come on down!"
"At St. Anthony's, not only did He exist, but also, at times, He came down to earth to say howdy or give a thumbs-up. He was so present, so everyday, that you almost expected to bump into Him at the grocery store."
I love this book. It brought me to tears, which books rarely do. Indeed, I loved the book so much I could not bear to put it down. So I didn't. I turned right back to page one and read it over again. Knowing what would happen, I focused on the wealth of detail Jennifer supplies, like this description of Geraldine, one of the AIDS patients: "she was pretty the way a bird is pretty, with small jutting bones under smooth skin and quick, darting movements."
Read it if you can. Whether you are Christian, Jewish, or (like me) something else, this odd, detailed, delightful spiritual journey is bound to touch you.
Slipping into the Gap
When I turned thirty-one and realized I might never grow younger, I decided to get in shape. However, I hated to exercise.
My mother, who loved things cultural but not physical, bequeathed me that attitude. "Look at her legs," she cried as the ballerina floated across the TV screen. "Aren't they ugly? All those bulging muscles."
A speeding volleyball that struck me in the face during recess reinforced my dislike. That the accident was my faultI had been daydreaming when the ball arriveddid not stop me from hating to exercise.
I also despised sweating.
Nevertheless, now thirty-one, I combed through bookstore shelves, determined to find some exercise book to help me regain my fleeting youth. I chose a small unimposing paperback entitled, Yoga for Physical Fitness by a Richard Hittleman.
Hittleman's book worked just fine. I taught myself any number of yoga postures, and I never sweat. So I was startled at the vehemence of my recently acquired boyfriend, Jon, who declared, "Oh, you don't want to learn yoga from that guy. He doesn't know a thing about it."
And here I thought I was doing so well.
Never mind. Jon, a decade younger than I, had just turned twenty-one, while I was in that horrid 1960's category of "over thirty." We were both hippies, but Jon came by hipness honestly while I slummed. So when he came home and announced that he had discovered a "real" yoga teacher, I tossed Mr. Hittleman and followed Jon into Boston. There a housewifely woman, Mrs. Lind, held a small class every week.
Mrs. Lind taught us slow, fluid stretches; I seemed to move under water. Her sweet melodious voice modulated our activities. After we stretched every muscle in our bodies, we hit the floor. Corpse pose. Flat on our backs as Mrs. Lind lit a candle and switched off the electric lights.
"Don't think of anything," she said. "Just rest."
In the near total darkness, we placed our attention on our toes, our ankles, our calves, etc. until we reached the tops of our heads. Then all fell silent. After we rested a while, Mrs. Lind's gentle voice called us back into our bodies.
I loved these classes, especially the way I disappeared in that final pose. I did not know where I went, but I knew I was not sleeping or thinking or daydreaming. I felt as though I had shot right out of the top of my head into a thick black luscious embracing space.
However, I took Mrs. Lind's classes for granted. This is how a yoga class is supposed to be, I assumed, until Jon and I moved to New York and I began to shop for another Mrs. Lind. I never found her equal, although years later in Charlotte I came close. On the Hindu temple grounds, doing yoga with Pradip, I watched the sun inflame my eyelids as I melted into stretches the way I once melted with Mrs. Lind.
Only recently did I discover a name for what I experienced in the restful darkness of Mrs. Lind's class: Deepak Chopra calls it "slipping into the gap," that moment sometimes experienced in meditation when you forget your monkey mind and you forget your mantra and you slip into the welcoming arms of Old Mother Universe. Ahhhh!
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Re: On Diagramming (& the Art of Being Right)
Title: North River: A Novel
Author: Pete Hamill
When I realized that Pete Hamill wrote North River, I almost let the book lie. Hamill seems more journalist than novelist to me, although a top-notch journalist whose writing has graced the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, The New Yorker, and Newsday. Still, his early novels seemed too flat for my taste, more journalese than fiction, so I stopped reading his books.
However, the jacket of North River featured a New York City skyline. An ex-New Yorker, I love stories about the Big Apple, and that's exactly where North River is set: New York in the 1930s with gangsters, Tammany hot shots, World War I vets, and prostitutes. Sounds just like Hamill, I thought. Then I noticedNorth River was his ninth novel. Maybe he's improved, I thought. So I took the book home and read it, just to see.
Hamill has improved. He still uses his plain, almost flat, journalistic style of writing, but what a story he pens! It features tall lean Dr. James Delaney whose closest World War I buddy is a hood, Eddie Corso, and that spells trouble. So does Dr. Delaney's daughter, who dashes by on her way from South America to Europe, dropping her three-year-old son, Carlito, in the doctor's vestibule. Naturally, the doctor has to hire a caretaker for his grandson so Dr. Delaney can continue to treat the stream of broken, downtrodden patients that makes up his practice. He hires Rosa Verga.
Both Rosa and the doctor have pasts. He is mourning his wife, Molly, long disappeared and presumed drowned in the North River, which is what New Yorkers called the Hudson then. Rosa, who cracked her husband's skull wide open with a baseball bat, is hiding her past. And the story steps briskly on from there.
Hamill's characters are believable; I particularly enjoyed Rosa. But I loved most the way Hamill recreated the doctor's 1930's Manhattan world. When Dr. Delaney and his grandson, Carlito, begin to explore together, this old world rises right up off the pages. I could just see antique cars spinning their tires on the street, the paddleball purchased in the toy store, Angela's restaurant in Little Italy. And the experience, near the end of the book, of the doctor and Rosa dancing in Roseland.
If you enjoy a story jam packed with persons and places, try North River. Like any good story, its tension increases as you approach the end. The book's resolution is strong, both certain and uncertain until page 340 when Rosa's "God damn you, Dottore" tips the balance.
Marilyn Coffey is an award-winning writer of poetry and a widely published author of prose. Visithttp://www,Amazon.com to purchase her work: Great Plains Patchwork, Marcella, or KANSAS QUARTERLY Vol. 15 No. 2.
The Funky Chicken
My beloved husband Jon, twelve years younger, danced like a professional. I loved to watch his lithe body glide along. I danced, too, but I was too self-conscious to move with ease. "Honey," he teased me, "whatever dance you dance, you're always doing the Funky Chicken."
That made me laugh. I'd never heard of the Funky Chicken. I thought Jon, born and bred in New Jersey, was spoofing my Midwestern roots.
I forgot about the Funky Chicken until recently when I read Alice Sebold's Lucky, an account of her brutal rape. "In high school I began as a geek," she writes. "A geek because I played the alto saxophone and...was in jazz band, where, as second alto, I jammed on such tunes as the "Funky Chicken" and "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head."
Goodness! Funky Chicken existed? Beyond Jon's imagination?
I hit the Internet and found instructions for the Funky Chicken dance, posted by Ben Zuidwijk & Sandra Boer. As I watched them dance, I saw that, yes, I do a mean Funky Chicken, but I never incorporated advanced moves like wiggling my knees a la the Charleston or scratching the floor with my feet and clucking.
Then I found Blues Legend Rufus Thomas, Jr., billed as "The World's Oldest Teenager." He did a mean chicken scratch, as only the son of a sharecropper could. I admired his red cape. It made great wings as he rolled his eyes, clucking, crowing. scatting. I read about Thomas's famous performance at Wattstax, a Los Angeles festival in 1972 to commemorate the Watts riots. He led a crowd of 40,000 there in the "Funky Chicken."
Jon's been dead more than a decade now and Rufus dead since 2001, but I'm still dancing. Since I realized that dancing is a particularly pleasant way to rack up steps on my pedometer, I dance nearly every day. I'm delighted to know that when I dance, I'm part of this impressive tradition. After watching Thomas in action, I'm thinking of adding a red cape and sound effects. Definitely clucking and scatting. Maybe even scratching the floor.
You can listen to and watch Rufus here.
Book Review: Poster Child: A Memoir
Title: Poster Child: A Memoir
Author: Emily Rapp
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: $24, Publication Date: 2007, Page Count: 230
Reviewer: Marilyn Coffey
I love to read memoirs, especially "little guy" memoirs. Celebrity memoirs are okay, especially if the celebrity is a writer, but time after time I'm drawn to books written by ordinary people. I find it easy to imagine myself in their lives. So it was small wonder that I gravitated to POSTER CHILD with its cover picture of a pert red-headed girl posing with her training bike. It's warm out. She's wearing shorts. Her artificial right leg looks like it's made of plastic; a bulb in its knee joint lets her pedal.
Emily Rapp, the author and the poster child, turned out to be a remarkable writer. She told me her story in such detail, including emotional detail, that I was swept into her anguish of being a child and a young woman who had a portion of her leg amputated when four. I had no idea, really, when I picked up this book what living with an artificial leg would be like. But soon I felt I was alongside her as she went through dozens of operations to replace her artificial leg as she outgrew it.
Listen to how clearly Rapp writes. "For my first fitting, I stood barefoot on the dirty floor of the changing room while the prosthetist took measurements of my stump. The stink of the healing wound was finally gone; the limb was clean. Now that the left foot had been removed, or "disarticulated"the sharp sound of the word matching the rough nature of the action itselfI had my natural heel at the end of the short leg."
But no wonder Rapp writes well. A Fulbright Scholarship recipient educated at Harvard, she is a professor in the M.F.A. program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
I highly recommend this book, primarily for the skill with which Rapp leads us through the first thirty years of her life, showing us what it was like to live with her "grievous, irrevocable flaw." Unflinchingly honest and sometime darkly humorous, POSTER CHILD is written without sentiment. I watched her struggle to keep up with her fashionable friends, her agony about making love to a man (should she leave her prosthesis on? off?), her final, tenuous, gift of acceptance.
An elegant writer, an amazing book.
Marilyn Coffey is an award-winning writer of poetry and a widely published author of prose. Visit her website,http://www.marilyncoffey.net for a sampling of her writing. Or read her work: Great Plains Patchwork, Marcella,or KANSAS QUARTERLY Vol. 15 No. 2.
GUEST BOOK REVIEW by Carole Rosenthal
I give you a high recommendation of a book I read this summer in both gulps and sips, Robert Roth's HEALTH PROXY. It's not a long book, but I found myself often putting it down while I thought about its ideas, even as I was gripped by its urgent self-questioning voice. Roth's observations about life and death, social and economic hierarchies, and the nature of our responsibilities to each other form a jittery, loving, and conscience-ridden record of his fierce engagement with the lives of friends and family from the 1980's to the present. "In ways deep and often constant, I engage other people's pain, their panic. Never letting myself fully be touched," Roth writes. "What at once shields me, simultaneously allows me to be open. But my openness also creates a constant state of low-level trauma that further creates . . . distancing in myself from myself."
Creating its own form, halfway between a memoir and a chronicle, this is a book of tremendous immediacy that begins with Roth's appointment as the "health proxy" for a friend dying of AIDS, a role he also assumes for his gravely ill aunt. A sixty year-old socialist/anarchist who consciously defies the limits of convenient labeling, Roth narrows the space between narrator and self--a space which can only be narrowed, never eliminated. For this narrator, all issues are intimate and personal; all issues are moral questions. Yet HEALTH PROXY is playful in part, or at least ironic, in its examination of what we see and how we are seen in large and small scale. The author discusses his low-status job delivering the largely unread New York University student newspaper, the hearty unrecognized condescension of academics reassuring themselves of their own good will towards laborers, the tacit institutional scams furthered by the printer and the distributors. He introduces his own bemused reaction to his waning good looks, his health fears, his lusts for women, his identification with socially and sexually disavowed segments of society. Despite the gravity of Roths central material, lives dwindling ("I watch myself age/before my friends very eyes,") while "friends socialize each other into old age," the real subject matter of this honest, unpretentious, freely associative book turns out to be an affirmation of life ongoing. In this more celebratory vein,HEALTH PROXY concludes with a section called "Wild Berries Singing," which is about the writing and performing of an exhilarating children's opera in Great Britain. (HEALTH PROXY is available from Yuganta Press, 6 Rushmore Circle, Stamford CT 07905-1029 or http://yuganta.com/health.html
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On Diagramming (& the Art of Being Right)
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey released a flood of memories for me.
In high school, we had a somewhat dour old-maid school teacher named Miss Mackey. She took her English seriously and of course taught all of us freshman how to diagram sentences. Diagramming sentences was in the air. In those days, the 1950s, it seemed that every school child learned how to diagram, although I hear it's not much of a sport these days.
I loved to diagram. In that regard, I was in good company. Gertrude Stein loved to diagram sentences, too. "I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences," she writes. I agreed. It was one of those activities I understood instantly. Soon I felt I could do no wrong.
And I couldn't.
I found this out when our school acquired a young coach who, to our amazement, taught us English. He assigned a research paper. I selected as my topic, "Miracles," and researched it thoroughly in my mother's stacks of Reader's Digest. I turned it in, expecting an "A," my usual grade when I wrote a paper. But when the Coach returned mine, the "A" was crossed out and replaced with an "F." He explained to me that he'd taken off a point for each time I'd misspelled "Miracel" [his correct spelling]. But when I could find no Miracel, only Miracle, in the dictionary, I demanded my A back which, of course, he had to return. Reluctantly.
After that, the Coach seemed to look for ways to take me down a peg, as we said in those far off days. I bristled, too. When he started teaching us to diagram sentences, he went backhesitantlyover the same material that Miss Mackey had covered so efficiently. I knew it well, and must have squirmed in my seat, because the first thing I knew, the Coach had grabbed my textbook, opened it to the very back, and said, "If you're so smart, let's see you diagram this!" His finger landed on a sentence half a page long. Then he pointed to the blackboard.
I began to diagram, drawing lines here and there, copying the words onto the lines. I loved it. It was a joy. When I used up all the blackboards on one wall, I went right on to the next wall and used all those boards, too. Maybe Henry James wrote that sentence. He's known for his capacity to "construct convoluted but still perfectly lucid sentences." writes Kitty. But he wasn't the champion. Marcel Proust is even more famous than James for long sentences. His longest, 958 words in translation, is the subject of a poster whereupon it is diagrammed. It's a sentence with no subject.
"I'm finished," I said.
The Coach picked up his text and turned to the back where all the answers were printed. But he found no answer for that particular sentence. I guess it was too advanced. He looked at what I'd done, then read the original sentence, then looked again. At last he went out and asked Miss Mackey if she'd come in and see if I'd diagramed that sentence correctly.
I had.
He must have hated me.
Anyway, all this is just a preliminary to explain why I was so delighted to find Kitty Burns Florey's book on diagramming sentences. It made me long for a blackboard and a piece of chalk. It made me long for those days when I was always right.


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Robot droppings – curio & co.
Would it be a faux pas for a robot to accidentally lose a washer or drip oil, the same way we get embarrassed if we accidentally spit or sneeze or fart? In some of these drawings by scientist Verdie Z. Goodsey, that would seem to be the case. Of course, if the cultural comparisons are really similar - it must actually be much more embarrassing for the AZR-0 robots. After all, we don't have to collect our spit and reinstall it.


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Turkey is Landgrabbing Syria with Daesh Help
March 5, 2017 Geopolitics101	3 Comments
Western interventions in Syria are illegal, and so is the uninvited armed incursions by its neighbor Turkey.
Recep Erdogan
Two-faced Erdogan is playing a dangerous game by pitting Russia and the West against each other, while silently grabbing as much territory it could get from the militarily inferior Syrians.
Erdogan is doing this by threatening to remove the US military base inside Turkey if the latter continues to help the Kurdish minority, who are now helping Syria in its fight against Daesh in the latter's Northern border with Turkey.
At the same time, Turkey is also pretending to help the Russian efforts to get rid of Daesh to justify its own illegal incursion into Syrian territories, while actually trying to get rid of the "terrorist" Kurds, and purposely, to acquire more real estate in the process.
Photos and videos have surfaced showing that Turkey is building a border wall that is already encroaching into Syrian territory in Idlib province, with help of ISIS militants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYeWLbAehU
Exploiting the situation which Syria is in right now is not only cruel and monstrous, but bereft of any semblance of humanity whatsoever.
Photos: Turkey completes wall that annexes Syrian land in Idlib
By Paul Antonopoulos 05/03/2017
Turkey has finished building a large part of the wall dividing Syria and Turkey.
Turkey says the wall is built between Turkey's Hatay province and Syria's Idlib province is to prevent terrorists from smuggling in and out of Syria.
Days ago, locals in Idlib protested against the construction of these walls.
A video and photos emerged demonstrated people protesting against this wall as it penetrated into Syria proper, effectively annexing Syrian land into Turkey.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkey-completes-wall-that-annexes-syrian-land-in-idlib/
What used to be a pro-Turkish Idlib resistance fighters and civilians are now turning against dictator Erdogan.
Here are a few shapshots of their protest against the illegal annexation of their lands.
People in Idlib often pro-Turkish. But mood changing a bit. "We escaped regime &came here 4protection but now Turkey stealing our lands." pic.twitter.com/MeJoHOFMky
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) March 2, 2017
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/videosphotos-protests-erupts-idlib-turkey-steals-syrian-land-new-border-wall/
That ground-based evidence are not being shown inside Turkey and elsewhere.
In order to further decapitate Syria economically so it could not afford to protect itself anymore, the retreating Daesh terrorists from Palmyra have also sabotaged oil wells in the area…
… and this…
Syria's Water Cut Off By Turkey Following McCain, Erdogan Meeting – https://t.co/t7wTCY7O98
— vanessa beeley (@VanessaBeeley) March 5, 2017
Before this show of desperation, ISIS Chief Al-Baghdadi made a "farewell sermon" urging his fellow mercenaries to lie low for a while, as per instruction from the ISIS Godfather John McCain.
Like any other armed interventions of the Turkic Khazarian Jews, they are multiplexing these war efforts with "humanitarian" propaganda, from time to time.
Turkish Rescuers Find Wounded Pilot of Jet Crashed Near Syrian Border – Reports
Sputnik Middle East 06:48 05.03.2017(updated 07:23 05.03.2017)
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Daily Sabah newspaper, the found pilot has been injured. He was first taken to the gendarmerie and then hospitalized, the NTV television channel reported.
The news comes after the Syrian army said it had lost contact with a jet performing a reconnaissance mission near the Turkish border. The military was also said to be looking for a pilot who had ejected, according to the Syrian news agency SANA.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703051051276638-turkish-rescuers-pilot-syrian-jet/
It is estimated that at least 40,000 people are being displaced by Turkish operations inside Syria [here].
Why is Turkey doing the same thing as ISIS does?
The only explanation is that this Turkic people are just conniving with their Khazarian brothers in grabbing as many sovereign resources as possible.
The precursor to the ongoing covert hybrid WW3 has its colorful beginnings in the Kingdom of Khazaria, a Turkic empire which had its epicenter center in what is now known as Ukraine.
Khazaria was ruled by an evil king, who had practiced Babylonian black arts, with the occult oligarchy serving as his court.
… Khazarians become known to surrounding countries as thieves, murderers, road bandits, and for assuming the identities of those travelers they murdered as a normal occupational practice and way of life.
https://geopolitics.co/2017/03/01/covert-war-between-russia-and-khazarian-jewry/
Indeed, the situation in Syria is still dire owing to a clash of vested interests in the region, and will continue to be the case until the Turkic Khazarian Jewry, who have the glaring propensity to build walls on lands not of their own, is fully neutralized by simply taking out its leadership structure.
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3 thoughts on "Turkey is Landgrabbing Syria with Daesh Help"
ewald1952 says:
Sie ist die Schwester der ISIS ,deshalb machen sie das gleiche wie die ISIS …
JEFFERY ROSS FOLEY says:
You have a lot of wisdom in most of the posts you put up but please consider this historic linguistic fact….The Hebrew word for man is ISH and then observe all the Nations so named on the end for they stand out as Hebrew or Hebraic.
Starting in the West with the Irish, Scottish, English, Cornish, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Flemish, Polish, Amish, Turkish, Jewish, Kurdish Daesh or Daish so you see what becomes plain is that the Turks and Kurds have been bickering for centuries.and so bring in each ones animosity for the other notwithstanding the CIA background involvement….DNA tests will vindicate my observation
Haji says:
Jeffery kind of an idiot arent you?

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Matthew Cupido
Matthew Cupido came to Canada from Holland in 1955. His paintings and drawings have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, both in Canada and abroad. Most recently, he spent a year as artist in residence at Redeemer College, Dundas, Ontario, where he held two exhibitions: Job and Table Talk. He lives in Canning, Nova Scotia.
Ron MacInnis
Ron MacInnis has worked in various capacities on over 250 CBC radio and television projects, including such programs as Land and Sea and Gzowski and Company. From 1987 to 1997 he was the editor of the Canning Gazette. He presently lives in Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia, where he writes and operates a retreat centre.
The Quest for the Magic Appletree
Matthew Cupido, Ron MacInnis
1999 / Young Adult / $14.95
There is only one tree left in the world. A wise old man named Zadok and a band of followers set out to find it, against great odds. Can its 'magic' save them? Or will an evil deceiver find and steal the tree for the price its seeds will bring? The Quest for the Magic Appletree is a work of magic realism that investigates many of our age's important social and environmental concerns. Written as a chapter book with pre-teens in mind, The Quest is ideal for use in the classroom, as a bedtime ritual, or for self-directed reading.
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Useful. If a thing we have is not useful, it ends up in the trash or the recycle bin. Most people want to feel useful, that they serve a purpose. We want to know that what we do matters, to someone. Without purpose, we founder.
People with disabilities want to feel useful too. They want to serve a purpose, as much as they can. Yet there are a lot of disabled people in the world who are cast aside, because they are not considered useful. Well, they aren't considered useful beyond the arrival of their disability check in the mail, which goes in the pocket of whoever gets to the mailbox first.
There are people with autism left stimming in a back room, hidden away, because their family thinks that they are useless and crazy.
There are people in wheelchairs stuck in a house because their family thinks that they are useless and won't build a ramp.
There are people with cerebral palsy who would love to talk to someone, but their family thinks that they are useless and that they can't possibly have anything to say. So those "loving" family members imitate the disabled person instead.
There are people who drag themselves around on their arms because their family thinks that they are useless and won't spend the money to get a wheelchair; even if the wheelchair is free, sometimes they can't be bothered to take the disabled person to go and get it.
If a disabled person is able to get a job and earn a paycheck, many of them don't have transportation, and their family doesn't believe that they are useful, so why bother? That kid is retarded/autistic/cripple, you often hear. Not worth wasting the gas to drive there.
I don't think that I have to point out who the useless people are in these cases.
I once had a father tell me that he wanted his disabled son to grow up to be a taxpaying citizen. I think that is a fine goal. Everyone can contribute to society in some manner, whether they are disabled or not. It is high time we all recognized this. There are tons of jobs out there--some of them can be done by a person with a disability. Need clothes folded? A person in a wheelchair can do that. Need your entire miniature train collection cataloged and organized? A autistic person could do an excellent job, as long as you're okay with his version of organized. A blind man would make a good listener, useful for hearing flaws in the sound checks that happen before concerts.
This country was built on the premise that all men(and women) have the right to the pursuit of happiness. Disabled people have that right too. They have the right to be taxpaying citizens and we need to give them as much help as we can to get them there. Because that is what makes US useful.


Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is escalating his war on the Palestinian people, although for reasons almost entirely related to Israeli politics. He has just given the green light to a legislation that would make it easier for Israeli courts to issue death sentences against Palestinians accused of carrying out "terrorist" acts.
Netanyahu's decision was made on November 4, but the wrangling over the issue has been taking place for some time.
The "Death Penalty" bill has been the rally cry for the Israel Beiteinu party, led by ultra-nationalist Israeli politician and current Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, during its 2015 election campaign.
As Netanyahu's coalition grew bolder and more unhinged, the Israeli Prime Minister joined the chorus. It is time "to wipe the smile off the terrorist's face," he said in July 2017, while visiting the illegal Jewish settlement of Halamish, following the killing of three settlers. At the time, he called for the death penalty in "severe cases."
Ultimately, Netanyahu's position on the issue evolved to become a carbon copy of that of Lieberman. The latter had made the 'death penalty' one of his main conditions to join Netanyahu's coalition.
Last January, the Israel Beiteinu's proposed bill passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset. Months later, on November 4, the first reading of the bill was approved by Israeli legislators, with the support of Netanyahu himself.
Netanyahu is "weak," "afraid" and is unable to take decisive steps to rein in Gaza, "therefore he should go home," Barak recently said during an interview with Israeli TV Channel 10.
Comparing his supposed heroism with Netanyahu's "surrender" to Palestinian Resistance, Barack bragged about killing "more than 300 Hamas members (in) three and a half minutes," when he was the country's Defense Minister.
Barack's sinister statement was made with reference to the killing of hundreds of Gazans, including women, children and newly graduated police cadets in Gaza on December 27, 2008. That was the start of a war that killed and wounded thousands of Palestinians and set the stage for more, equally lethal, wars that followed.
When such ominous comments are made by a person considered in Israel's political lexicon as a "dove", one can only imagine the vengeful political discourse championed by Netanyahu and his extremist coalition.
The law is "intended mainly for the Palestinian people," she told reporters last January. "It's not going to be implemented against Jews who commit terrorist attacks against Palestinians, for sure," as the bill is drafted and championed by the country's "extreme right."
On July 19 of this year, the Israeli government approved the Jewish "Nation-state Law" which designates Israel as the "nation state of the Jewish people," while openly denigrating the Palestinian Arab citizens of the state, their culture, language and identity.
As many have feared, Israel's racist self-definition is now inspiring a host of new laws that would further target and marginalize the country's native Palestinian inhabitants.
The Death Penalty law would be the icing on the cake in this horrific and unchallenged Israeli agenda that transcends party lines and unites most of the country's Jewish citizens and politicians in an ongoing hate-fest.
Of course, Israel has already executed hundreds of Palestinians in what is known as "targeted assassinations" and "neutralization," while killing many more in cold blood.
So, in a sense, the Israeli Bill, once it becomes law, will change little in terms of the bloody dynamics that governs Israel's behavior.
However, executing Palestinians for resisting Israel's violent Occupation will further highlight the growing extremism in Israeli society, and the increasing vulnerability of Palestinians.


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Орандж () — місто () в США, адміністративний центр округу Орандж найбільш східне місто У штаті Техас. Населення —  осіб (2010). Розташоване на річці Сабін на межі зі штатом Луїзіана, частина агломерації Бомонт — Порт-Артур. Засноване в 1836. році Морський порт на річці Сабін.

Географія
Орандж розташований за координатами  (30.116631, -93.760373).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 58,13 км², з яких 55,19 км² — суходіл та 2,94 км² — водойми. В 2017 році площа становила 62,64 км², з яких 57,18 км² — суходіл та 5,46 км² — водойми.

Клімат

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 320 осіб/км².  Було 8868 помешкань (153/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,0 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 5,2 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 24,8 % — особи молодші 18 років, 59,3 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 15,9 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 39,1 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 95,5 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 91,2 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долари США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 21,2 % осіб, у тому числі 29,1 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 11,9 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 18,3 %, роздрібна торгівля — 17,3 %, виробництво — 14,9 %.

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Посилання
 Офіційний сайт

Міста Техасу
Населені пункти округу Орандж (Техас)
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Q: TYPO3: Extend FAL sys_file_reference with a new textfield I'm just trying to extend the sys_file_reference table with a new textfield "copyright" just the normal extbase way. Worked like a charm, field shows up. But when I save a record with a sys_file_reference relation, it won't add the reference. It's just empty after saving... It doesn't matter if the record is a page with the regular media field or if it is one of my custom extension. Anyone got an idea what I am missing?
Thanks a lot for any help!
TCA:
$fileReferenceColumns = [
'copyright' => [
    'exclude' => true,
    'label' => $ll . 'sys_file_reference.copyright',
    'config' => [
        'type' => 'input',
        'size' => 20,
        'max' => 255,
        'eval' => 'null',
        'default' => null,
    ]
]];

\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility::addTCAcolumns('sys_file_reference', $fileReferenceColumns);
\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\ExtensionManagementUtility::addFieldsToPalette(
    'sys_file_reference',
    'imageoverlayPalette',
    'copyright'
);

SQL:
CREATE TABLE sys_file_reference (
  copyright VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT ''          NOT NULL,
);

Model:
class FileReference extends AbstractEntity
{

    /**
     * uid of a sys_file
     *
     * @var integer
     */
    protected $originalFileIdentifier;

    /**
     * @var \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\File
     */
    protected $file;

    /**
     * @var string
     */
    protected $copyright;

    /**
     * setOriginalResource
     *
     * @param \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\FileReference $originalResource
     * @return void
     */
    public function setOriginalResource(\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\FileReference $originalResource)
    {
        $this->originalResource = $originalResource;
        $this->originalFileIdentifier = (int)$originalResource->getOriginalFile()->getUid();
    }

    /**
     * @return \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\File
     */
    public function getFile()
    {
        return $this->file;
    }

    /**
     * @param \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\File $file
     */
    public function setFile($file)
    {
        $this->file = $file;
        $this->originalFileIdentifier = $file->getUid();
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getCopyright()
    {
        return $this->copyright;
    }

    /**
     * @param string $copyright
     */
    public function setCopyright($copyright)
    {
        $this->copyright = $copyright;
    }
}

TypoScript:
config.tx_extbase {
    persistence {
        classes {
            Interlutions\ItlGallery\Domain\Model\FileReference {
                mapping {
                    tableName = sys_file_reference
                    columns {
                        uid_local.mapOnProperty = originalFileIdentifier
                        uid_local.mapOnProperty = file
                        votes.mapOnProperty = votes
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        objects {
            TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FileReference.className = Interlutions\ItlGallery\Domain\Model\FileReference
        }
    }
}

A: The problem was, that if the new field "copyright" wasn't filled out, it tried to save the value as NULL. But NULL was not allowed by SQL definition.
So changing the SQL definition to for example the following worked (looked at the field definition of sys_file_reference title and description):
CREATE TABLE sys_file_reference (
  copyright TINYTEXT,
);

I knew it was something really simple...

A: Hey and welcome to Stackoverflow :-) I guess all your references get lost because you completely "replace" the original FileReference object using:
config.tx_extbase.objects.TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FileReference.className = Interlutions\ItlGallery\Domain\Model\FileReference
In your whole system Extbase FileReference will be replaced with your FileReference. Because of this, I think important informations about every FileReference won't be stored to DB because your "override"-model is missing alot of Setters / Getters because your model only extends the AbstractEntity.
Please try to extend the existing FileReference - this will maybe solve the problem:
class FileReference extends \TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FileReference
Please notice that overriding classes using config.tx_extbase.objects may cause other extensions to break. You may consider just overriding it for your extension using plugin.tx_yourextension.objects.
Your new field is anyway accessible for the default FileReference by using file.properties.copyright for example in Fluid templates.
Another thing: Because of your need of a copyright field this extension does the same: https://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/tgm_copyright

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Alternative Solutions: Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for Endometriosis Pain
By: Kasthuri Nair - Jul 12, 2018
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation has proven to be an effective long-term treatment option for patients suffering from endometriosis-associated pain.
)Highlights:
This study focused on the effects of and safety associated with the use of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) for patients with endometriosis-associated pain (EAP).
Importance:
There are several treatments on the market that attempt to address endometriosis-associated pain, but all the therapies are inadequate. Thus, there is a need for a safe and effective treatment option.
There are not many studies that focus on the effects of NMES on EAP.
What's done here?
154 females who have endometriosis and pelvic pain.
83 of them were considered the experimental group (subjected to NMES) and the remaining 71 patients were considered the control group.
All the participants in the treatment group were subject to NMES, The participants in the control group did not receive the NMES therapy
Outcome measurements:
Pain as measured by the numerical rating scale (NRS), which ranges from 1-10, and the Endometriosis Symptom Severity Score (ESSS).
The secondary outcome of quality of life was measured using the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). This form also had two subscales.
Outcomes were measured before and after 5 and 10-week treatments.
The researchers made notes of all adverse events
The data was subject to statistical analysis.
Key results:
After 5 weeks of treatment or the lack thereof for the control group, the researchers found no difference in pain or quality of life between the experimental and control group.
After 10 weeks of treatment, the experimental group had better results according to the NRS, ESSS, and SF-36. Moreover, there were some mild and acceptable adverse events that occurred within the experimental group, but there was no significant difference in the adverse events that occurred within the two groups.
Limitations of the study:
The authors listed the following as limitations of the study:
There was no placebo control group.
The study did not assess the effects of NMES after 10 weeks. This means that the authors cannot ascertain the long-term effects of this treatment.
Bi and Xie, researchers from The Yan'an People's Hospital, recently published the results of their retrospective study titled "Effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation for endometriosis-associated pain" in Medicine. The study hoped to elucidate the effects of using a complementary and alternative medicine, namely neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), for the treatment of endometriosis-associated pain (EAP).
There were 83 patients with EAP in the treatment group and these participants underwent NMES therapy. There were 71 patients with EAP in the control group and they did not undergo NMES therapy. The researchers used a numerical rating scale (NRS) and the Endometriosis Symptom Severity scale (ESSS) to judge the primary objective, which was pain. They also used the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) to judge the quality of life, which was the secondary objective. The aforementioned outcomes and any extraneous adverse events were measured for each patient before and after 5 weeks and 10 weeks of treatment.
The researchers saw no difference in the primary or secondary outcomes between the two groups at the 5-week time point; however, the experimental group had better NRS, ESSS, and SF-36 scores after the 10-week time point. There were no significant differences in adverse events between the control and experimental group. The NMES group did experience some mild to acceptable adverse events. Overall, the researchers concluded that the NMES therapy is an effective treatment option for patients suffering from EAP.
Research Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29953000
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Directly converting CO2 into a gasoline fuel
Future of fuel is up in the air
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An inexpensive catalyst has improved the efficiency of converting carbon dioxide into gasoline.
Fossil fuels take millions of years to form naturally and burning them releases harmful greenhouse gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide (CO2), into the atmosphere. Capturing the waste CO2 and creating fuel from it is an appealing solution, but getting CO2 to react takes a lot of energy.
A team including researchers from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a catalyst that provides multiple points for CO2 to react with hydrogen and uses relatively cheap ingredients including sodium and iron oxides. The catalyst could be tuned to convert CO2 and hydrogen into 78 per cent of fuel-friendly hydrocarbons. It also released very little methane and remained stable for 1,000 hours.
Converting waste carbon dioxide into gasoline could reduce air pollution and fuel cars, but the cost and availability of hydrogen create an obstacle to manufacture on an industrial scale.
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Nature Communications 8, 15174 (2017). doi: 10.1038/ncomms15174
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Sometimes tools can help us. Thanks to @dogtrax Kevin Hodgson in #IMMOOC , I discovered a new tool called Legend. It is possible that you may like it too. I hope you can use it to assist you as you learn or share ideas or thoughts in this MOOC. You may wish to use it in one of your blog posts. However you use it whether with students , staff, friends, or colleagues, enjoy … it's easy and fun to use. You can check out how I used it today below.


Resort & Golf Course is enormously popular with the people in North Woodstock. If the conditions are nice, you may be lucky enough to achieve an albatross here at Jack O'Lantern Resort & Golf Course, or at least a couple of eagles.
All the cheery folks and the skillfully run operations are in themselves motive enough to come here. A glorious approach shot with the suitable fairway wood is all it takes to get from the fairway to the green.
These outdoors activities are available near Jack O'Lantern Resort & Golf Course.


When I look through the popular baby names lists year after year, there are some names that make the cut every year: Sophia, Jackson, Aiden, and Emily are so popular right now, I'm not sure when or if they'll ever drop from their top spots.
If you take a look at some of the fastest rising names each year, you'll find inspiration in popular movies, TV characters, or new pop culture slang. It's a common place that parents-to-be look for name inspiration, but in my experience, their popularity doesn't tend to stick around as long as those classic names do.
The Netflix show Orange is the New Black premiered their second season in 2014, and we got to watch along as the main character, Piper, met new challenges in jail. The show has been a big hit, and because of it, so has the baby name Piper. While the show is still awesome, I predict the name will phase out this year.
If you're a fan of the HBO show Game of Thrones, you heard a lot of this name (albeit with the less-used spelling Margaery) through 2014 as we saw the character rise, fall, and rise again — she's one of my favorites and clearly so for others as well. This name shot up in popularity over the past few years, but I think it's going to be very short lived.
Christian has never really been an unpopular baby name, but with the hit book-turned-movie 50 Shades of Grey, we've seen a big rise for this name. I predict that not only is the movie going to be a big flop, but we'll see this name take the plunge in popularity, too.
Unless you've been away from all Internet and news sources through 2014, you'll have noticed the hit that was Disney's Frozen, and because of the popularity, the name Elsa has been tremendous. I have a feeling that, this year, we won't see the same use of this name because it's time to let it go!
A surprise name that rose to popularity was Everest — a continuation of the very popular "destination name" trend. This one was unexpected but rose 70% in popularity. This year, given that overall the names of places are down in popularity, I don't think this one will stick around much longer.
This is another name choice that can trace inspiration from Disney's Frozen that became a bit hit throughout 2014 when we saw the popularity rise, even though he's not one of the main characters (or particularly likeable!). This name has never really been off the radar for people, but I don't think we will see it's popularity spike like this for a while.
What names do you predict won't be as popular through 2015 as they were last year? Share in the comments!


Amid efforts to avert a partial government shutdown on Dec. 21, a leading Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has expressed interest in taking a closer look at government spending that's on "autopilot," and not ordinarily part of the annual congressional appropriations process.
Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.), the outgoing chairman of the intergovernmental affairs subcommittee, urged members and the upcoming Democrat majority to take a closer look at the ballooning of mandatory government spending and spending authority.
The Government Accountability Office told the subcommittee that between FY 1994 and 2015, the amount of mandatory spending and agency spending authority grew by 88 percent. In 2015, that amounted to more than $3.2 trillion.
"As a result of the growth of these authorities, more budget authority is available to agencies that do not require them to await congressional action to incur obligations," Tranchau Nguyen, the GAO's acting director of strategic issues, told the subcommittee.
While Congress does not review these spending authorities each year as part of the annual appropriations process, lawmakers can revisit them at any point.
investigative process," Robert Weissman, president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, told lawmakers.
Since FY 1995, agencies have established 129 new accounts with offsetting collection authority, which allows them to collect fines, charge fees, or charge for permits, among other things.
GAO found the Postal Service made the most use of this authority, collecting $74 billion through its Postal Service Fund in FY 2015. However, USPS also does not receive funding through congressional appropriations.
The Agency Accountability Act, which Palmer introduced in February 2017, would send most fees, fines and penalties collected by agencies to the Treasury. Agencies would only be able to use those fees and fines if Congress approves them in an appropriations bill.
The bill doesn't apply to fees collected by USPS or the Patent and Trademark Office. The latter agency already sends Congress a yearly report on its annual collection of fees.
James Wallner, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, told lawmakers that the Palmer bill would bring offsetting collections out into the open.
"The vast majority of Americans don't know what these things are. That doesn't mean that they won't support them. But I think that they have a right and an expectation that their representatives in Congress are going to debate these programs," Wallner said.
"What we're talking about when we say mandatory spending is a legally authorized expenditure that Congress has debated, amended and approved in the open," Cartwright said.
Three agencies — the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration and the Treasury Department — accounted for more than 90 percent of the total mandatory spending in FY 2015.
To put these numbers in perspective, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that mandatory spending totaled about $2.5 trillion in FY 2017, more than double the $1.2 trillion spending package lawmakers approved that year.
HHS accounted for the largest amount of spending authority and permanent appropriations in FY 2015, with about $979 billion, or about 30 percent. SSA, by comparison, accounted for about 28 percent of total government spending authority and permanent appropriations.


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Relive Kendall Jenner's Top Moments From the Decade: From Teen Reality Star to Top Model
by Kelsey Klemme | Sun., 29 Dec. 2019 6:00 AM
Kendall Jenner Dishes on New Show With Kirby Jenner
Sometimes, it seems like just yesterday that Kendall Jenner was a shy teenager on Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
At least, that was the case a decade ago, when the show was only in its fourth season. Now, ten years later, Kendall has grown up in front of our eyes into a successful model and businesswoman who has also had a lot along the way.
The 24-year-old is one of the most sought after faces to walk down the runway of high-end designers like Tom Ford and Balmain, with the star also landing campaigns like being the face of Stuart Weitzman's 2019 fall collection.
The celebrity has also become a producer as she is developing a show for the new content platform Quibi that is scheduled to launch in 2020.
We've also seen her steal the spotlight with viral moments like impersonating her sister Kylie Jenner or setting the Internet ablaze when she and her sisters dressed as Victoria's Secret angels for Halloween in 2018.
Of course, it wasn't too much of a costume for Kendall—the model had a dream come true in 2015 when she got selected to walk on the stage of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, an honor she got to repeat two more times, too.
Kendall Jenner Impersonates Kylie in the Best Way
Of course, some moments of the past decade have been anything short of fun.
Kendall unfortunately had multiple incidents of a man trespassing on her property and got caught up in the whole Fyre Festival drama as an influencer.
However, she has her solid family by her side to get through it all.
Take a look back at Kendall's most memorable moments of the decade below!
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Kendall's Empire
Kendall Jenner was only 14 years old at the start of the decade, and while she watched her older sisters build their empires, she started the foundation for hers, too.
True fans remember that in 2010, there was an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians where Kris Jenner sets Kendall up at Wilhelmina Models and she got to work with designer Sherri Hill, kicking off the start of her now iconic modeling career.
In the past ten years, Kendall has walked for many legendary fashion houses, like Burberry, Fendi, Versace, Balmian and Tom Ford, to name just a few. One of the model's biggest achievements was making the cut to walk at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, debuting on the brand's infamous program in 2015.
Kendall will also be producing a show for Quibi alongside Kirby Jenner, the performance artist who has consistently been curating an Instagram where he Photoshops himself into the model's pictures.
Kendall's Viral Moments
While Kendall's high-fashion looks from the runway frequently go viral, the Los Angeles native has also been a trending topic for being her funny, authentic self.
Earlier this year, Kendall was caught at a hockey game impressively chugging a beer and giving Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner a run for her money on which star is best at downing the beverage.
Also, the model made us laugh when she impersonated her makeup mogul sister, Kylie Jenner, by purposely overlining her lipstick and getting it all over her teeth on a recent episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
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Kendall's Style
Kendall's off-duty style is just as fierce as it is on the runway!
Around town running errands, the 24-year-old rocks athleisure looks that have us emptying our bank accounts to recreate.
However, where her style evolution truly shines is on the red carpet or at iconic events, such as the Met Gala.
Kendall rocked this year's Met pink carpet with a feathery Donatella Versace gown that made the star look like a rising phoenix and was fire.
She also took the amfAR Gala at Cannes by storm in a pink Giambattista Valli tulle dress that later showed up in the brand's collaboration with H&M.
The 5'10" trendsetter can pull off any bold outfit or element, like her gown at this year's Emmys that featured a latex turtleneck component.
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Kendall's Relationships
Over the past ten years, the reality star's love life has included flirty, rumored flings like Blake Griffin and Jordan Clarkson and alleged relationships we'll never forget, like being romantically linked to A$AP Rocky and Harry Styles.
Kendall and the former One Direction singer famously dated on and off for a few years, including getting caught packing the PDA on a yacht in 2016.
The two still have a great friendship and even recently appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden together, playing the show's game "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts," where Styles ate cod sperm rather than answering what songs of his were about his ex.
Kendall now seems to be reconnecting with Ben Simmons, who she had dated in 2018. We're staying tuned to see how this relationship blossoms into the next decade!
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While Kendall's past ten years were full of fun, there were also times that were downright terrifying for the star.
Back in 2018, Kendall got a five-year restraining order against a man who repeatedly trespassed on her property.
Also, Kendall found herself wrapped up in controversy after promoting the Fyre Festival experience on her Instagram, an event that went down as a disaster and was famously broadcast in real-time on social media.
The celeb has found herself the subject of a lawsuit from the event's trustee, Gregory Messer, to try to reclaim some of the funds from the event that the star promoted.
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Kendall's Family
Kendall is now the sole sister without kids, which is a big change from the start of the decade when the only baby in the Kardashian family was Kourtney Kardashian's son, Mason.
However, Kendall loves to joke that now that with "so many new babies," she may be the favorite aunt!
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Kendall's Transformation
Finally, the model has transformed over the past decade with her style and beauty regimen, growing up in front of our eyes from the quiet teen she was into the trendsetting fashionista she has become.
Kendall's career on the runway has translated to her everyday style, where she rocks edgy looks that we totally covet.
She also has experimented with her hair, from a brief stint as a blonde to getting bangs.
Whatever the next decade has in store for Kendall, we can't wait to watch!
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Elizabeth Gonzales
Better bus service soon
PTSC, THA sign MoU
SIGNED: THA's Department of Infrastructure Quarries and the Environment's Richie Toppin signs the MoU as PTSC GM Bashir Mohammed, left, and chairman Edwin Gooding look on.
CHAIRMAN of the Public Transportation Services Corporation (PTSC) Edwin Gooding promised Tobagonians improved and efficient services during the signing of a MoU between the PTSC and the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) on Tuesday.
This MoU formalises collaboration between the two institutions where the THA will provide the expertise of mechanical engineers and technical officers from the Division of Infrastructure, Quarries and the Environment.
In return, the PTSC is expected to assist the division with the upgrade and use of a database system fleet management. The THA will provide a number of engineers to assist with PTSC operations.
The signing was done at the division's office in Shaw Park where THA Chief Secretary Kelvin Charles and Secretary for the Infrastructure Division were present to sign.
From left, PTSC GM Bashir Mohammed, PTSC chairman Edwin Gooding, DIQE chief administrator Richie Toppin, Reyon John, THA Chief Secretary Kelvin Charles and Secretary of Infrastructure, Quarries and the Environment Kwesi Des Vignes at the signing of an MoU between the THA and the PTSC.
After the signing, Charles told Newsday, "the MoU is a result of work we started last year. It comes from the fact that the quality of our work to the Tobago public has been affected. It has not been what we wanted because of our inability to provide the reliability of the buses."
"The mechanical engineer from the THA will coming into the PTSC to provide management, structure, to provide some sort of discipline in terms of preventative maintenance and repairs. In that way we expect the reliability of the fleet to improve and of course the service to the Tobago public to also improve."
When this is done PTSC will provide knowledge of the their fleet management system "Maximo" so that the THA can now manage their fleet of vehicles.
He said in the past PTSC Tobago was poorly managed and proper maintenance of the buses were neglected. It is hoped, with the THA onboard these issues will now be a thing of the past.
"In terms of structuring the support necessary, we have had some challenges trying to get Tobagonians to manage the operations here. This has not been very successful. We are looking for somebody to manage the overall operation."
He said he wants to have a direct oversight of Tobago engineers, "we want to an engineering capacity at the highest level to manage that. We want to provide the kind of leadership and direction we want from an engineering standpoint.
"This is where the agreement with the PTSC and the THA comes in. They have that skill and experience to give us that oversight of our engineering team to ensure an improved service."
He said there are many qualified engineers in Tobago and he hopes PTSC Tobago will be able to employ a Tobago engineer to continue to improve and maintain the standard and quality of public transportation on the island.
Last year Tobago received a new fleet of 15 buses; including five CNG buses. Gooding told Newsday since then, the traveling public in Tobago have regained their confidence in public transportation, after one man lost his life in 2015 when a PTSC bus malfunctioned and crashed over a precipice.
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The Rofe of High Dose Rate(HDR) Intracavitary Radiation Therapy for the Management of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Jeong Gill Cho, Eun Kyung Choi, Hye Sook Chang
Department of Radiation Oncology, Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea.
From September 1989 to June 1992, 22 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma were treated in Asan Medical Center with an external beam of 60 Gy followed by a boost dose of 15 Gy HDR brachytherapy. There were 5 females and 17 males with median age of 44 years (range: 20-69 years). All patients were histologically confirmed and staged by physical examination, CT scan and/or MRI. By the AJCC TNM staging system, there were 2 patients with stage II (T2NO), 4 with stage III(T3NO, T1-3N1), and 16 with stage IV(T4 or N2-3). Four patients received chemotherapy with 5-FU and cisplatin prior to radiotherapy. All patients were followed up periodically by a telescopic examination and radiologic imaging study of CT scan or MRI with a median follow-up time of 13 months (range: 3-34 mouths). Twenty ore patients showed a complete response one month after completing therapy and one patient showed a complete response after three months. At the time of this analysis, seventeen patients remain alive without evidence of disease, but four patients developed distant metastasis and one patient died a month after treatment. The local control rate was 100% in a median follow-up time of 13 months. The two year overall and disease free survival rates by the Kaplan-Meier method were 94% and 67%, respectively. Serious radiation sequelae have not been observed yet. Although longer follow-up is needed, this retrospective analysis suggests that HDR brachytherap given as a boost therapy for nasoharyngeal carcinoma may improve the local control. To reduce the incidence of distant metastasis, we need to develop a more effective systemic chemotherapy.
Key Words: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, HDR intracavitary radiation therapy
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Intracavitary Irradiation of Carcinoma of the Nasopharynx1985 December;3(2)
Accuracy of Dose Estimation in High Dose Rate Intracavitary Radiotherapy of Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix1987 December;5(2)
Radiotherapy Results of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma1988 June;6(1)
The Role of Postoperative Adjuvant Radiation Therapy in the Management of Adenocarcinoma of the Colon: A Review of 21 Patients1988 June;6(1)


Back in November of last year, Gary Illyes from Google said content hidden in tabs is okay in the mobile-first world. Well, John Mueller of Google also confirmed that today in a YouTube hangout at the 43 second mark and then again at the 35:29 mark into the video.
So with the mobile first indexing will index the the mobile version of the page. And on the mobile version of the page it can be that you have these kind of tabs and folders and things like that, which we will still treat as normal content on the page even. Even if it is hidden on the initial view.
In short, when the mobile first index rolls out, which won't be for some time, content in tabs or hidden for user experience purposes, will rank just as well as content in plain view of the user.
Currently, content hidden in tabs do not rank as well in the desktop first index world. But that will all change with the mobile-first index said both Gary Illyes and John Mueller of Google.
To take you back a bit in history Google has told us for years that content hidden in tabs, accordions and so forth are not given full weight and may be ignored by their ranking algorithms. Not so in the mobile-first Google index.
On desktop if you hide content then it gets, it's considered a lower weighting for ranking. Now with the mobile first index working to be crawling and indexing content rather for mobile is that going to change now in any way? Because I suppose with mobile and mobile interface you have to hide content, you have to have content in tabs. So is there going to be some sort of more relaxed approach from Google side on mobile with hiding content or is it you know could you kind of try to explain how that's now gonna impact mobile?
With the mobile first index we we decided that sometimes with the UI limitations on mobile you kind of have to use the these kind of I don't know design matter - that's fine from our side.
So on desktop it's something where we think if it's really important content it should be visible. On mobile it's it's a bit trickier obviously. I think if it's a critical contact it should be visible but that's more kind of between you and your users in the end.
When we index the mobile content yes. So at the moment we index the desktop content, that's the canonical yeah. And switch to the mobile version and then we'll be treating it differently.
You'll be treating can hidden content differently?


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ICC World Cup 2019: Captain's Knock from Williamson Steers New Zealand Past Sloppy South Africa
Cricketnext Staff |June 20, 2019, 3:17 AM IST
Lockie Ferguson and Colin de Grandhomme were fast and furious in different departments, but it was the class of Kane Williamson that stood head and shoulders above the rest in the all-important encounter between New Zealand and South Africa on a tricky Birmingham surface on Wednesday (June 19).
The 28-year-old scored 106* off 138 deliveries to help his team come out on top in a nail-biting affair. With this four-wicket defeat, South Africa are now almost out of the 2019 World Cup.
Opting to bowl, a disciplined effort from their bowlers helped New Zealand restrict South Africa to a modest 241/6. After the match was reduced to 49 overs per side because of a soggy outfield, opener Hashim Amla (55) and Rassie van der Dussen (67*) crafted half-centuries to lend some respectability to the South Africa total.
Ferguson was the pick of the bowlers, returning with figures of 3 for 59 from his 10 overs. He received good support from Trent Boult, de Grandhomme and Mitchell Santner, who bagged a wicket each, while Matt Henry was economical too.
It was van der Dussen's fireworks towards the final moments of the innings which propelled South Africa to a fighting total. His 64-ball knock was laced with two boundaries and three sixes. Meanwhile, Amla took 83 balls for his 55, hitting four boundaries in the process.
In response, Chris Morris (3 for 49) bowled his heart out before Williamson and de Grandhomme (47-ball 60) added 91 runs for the sixth wicket. South African bowlers however kept fighting and took the battle to the final over where the genius of Williamson prevailed. The Black Caps captain brought up his 12th ODI hundred and got his team over the line with three deliveries to spare.
Earlier, South Africa were off to a poor start as they lost opener Quinton de Kock (5) cheaply in the second over, castled by Boult while attempting an on-drive.
Amla and skipper Faf du Plessis (23) then shared a 50-run partnership for the second wicket, as South Africa went past the 50-run mark in the 13th over. However, just when the partnership seemed to be developing, Ferguson came with the breakthrough, dismissing du Plessis with a gem of a yorker to reduce South Africa to 59 for 2.
During his innings, Amla became the fourth South African player to reach 8,000 runs in ODIs. He is the second-fastest player (176 innings) from any side to reach the milestone after India's Virat Kohli (175 innings). Aiden Markram (38) then joined Amla and the two added 52 runs for the third wicket before Santner packed back the latter in the 28th over after a good length delivery turned sharply to dislodge Amla's off-stump.
25 runs later, de Grandhomme too joined the party as he accounted for the wicket of Makram in the 33rd over. Van der Dussen and David Miller (36) then stabilized the innings as their slow 72-run stand took South Africa past the 200-run mark in the 45th over. However, the slow partnership hurt South Africa's chances of posting a big total.
Miller in particular struggled to get going and just when he was starting to play some big shots, he handed a catch to Boult off Ferguson, leaving his team at 208 for 5. The Proteas then lost incoming batsman Andile Phehlukwayo for a duck but a couple of lusty blows from van der Dussen towards the end took South Africa to a fighting total. They could have ended up with much more if the top-order would have shown slightly more intent.
South Africa needed early wickets and they got one from Kagiso Rabada who removed Colin Munro (9) in the first delivery of the third over. Both Rabada and Lungi Ngidi bowled with great control in the first few overs and didn't allow Martin Guptill to run away with the game.
Guptill finally managed to break the shackles in the eighth over when he slammed Ngidi for three boundaries. The required run rate was never an issue and Guptill and Williamson added 60 runs for the second wicket. Just when everything was going smooth for New Zealand, Guptill slipped while playing a pull shot and took down the stumps with his back leg. He scored 35 before being hit wicket.
That's when Morris took over and had both Ross Taylor and Tom Latham caught behind to reduce New Zealand to 80 for 4. Williamson however stood tall at the other end and played risk-free cricket to keep the scoreboard ticking. He added 57 runs with James Neesham (23) and just when the partnership was starting to look dangerous, Morris returned to get rid of the latter in the 33rd over.
Regular wickets and South African bowlers kept the pressure on Williamson and that's when de Grandhomme walked in and started attacking. The all-rounder announced his arrival by slamming for Morris for a boundary and then smoked a couple of sixes in the next few overs to take the pressure off Williamson's shoulders.
Needing 59 in the last 10 overs, Williamson survived a couple of close calls but the skipper along with de Grandhomme batted smartly and went after South Africa's weakest link in the bowling department - Phehlukwayo. In the process, de Grandhomme brought up his second ODI fifty.
South Africa were shambolic on the field and that didn't help their cause either. With 14 required in the final two overs, de Grandhomme mistimed one towards long off where du Plessis completed the catch to keep South Africa in the game. Williamson however spoiled what would have been a superb penultimate over by guiding one past short third man for a boundary.
New Zealand needed eight runs in the last over, and the genius, Williamson smoked the second delivery over deep mid-wicket to complete his century and offer South Africa a yet another disappointment.
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Cricketnext Staff | June 20, 2019, 12:44 AM IST
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Q: Capturing Profisafe packets using Lua Wireshark dissector I am writing a Lua script to capture profisafe packets on wireshark.It is above the profinet layer in the stack.The wireshark dissect the profinet packets but does not dissect the profisafe.
For other protocols built on tcp or udp protocol one can do something like
local tcp_port = Dissector.get("tcp.port")
tcp_port:add(1234,foo_protocol)

to capture the packets that arises and received by the port 1234.
But profisafe is built on profinet and does not contain tcp or udp as the underlying layer.How to capture the packets in this case? I tried giving ethernet frame address in the place of port name but it did not work.

A: Use the menu Edit, Preferences, Protocols and search for PNIO:
PNIO options
Then select the checkbox "Enable detailed PROFIsafe dissection" and define a directory, where the GSDML file of the PROFIsafe device is located.