If / when the ONS expires the pain would come back rapidly but please don't feel sorry for me or unnecessarily impressed at the moment!
I have adjusted the text in the bloggage in a way that I hope avoids that confusion.
no pain, just confusion in here!
What is the origin of that old wives' tale? Presumably an old wife told the story of how someone pulled a silly face and the wind changed just at the moment that person suffered a facial muscle spasm and couldn't change their face. I did some online research and have not found a conclusive answer, although one person suggested that we all pull silly faces when wind changes from internal to external (ahem).
Tomorrow morning I am heading into London early to have some injections that may give me some relief from the constant migraine that I experience. They are Botox injections.
[pause while you laugh and make derogatory comments about me needing to lose all the wrinkles on my face].
It seems that Botox injected into the correct areas of the scalp can provide some relief for people with chronic migraines. It's not permanent but it's worth trying in my opinion, having exhausted all of the current drug treatments and tried some others that also failed. I have been waiting for a new battery for an occipital nerve stimulator since February and have had the chronic migraine since then. (You can read about ONS here). The wonderful news is that the ONS worked brilliantly and I was headache-free while the battery lasted, and I will be getting a replacement in November. But until then… aaaaargh!
When we experience chronic pain we tend to get a bit desperate when normal pain relief does not work. I guess that's why people in the past came up with all sorts of bizarre remedies for different ailments and why the victims were willing to subject themselves to indignities and invasive procedures in the (often vain) hope that they would be cured. Leeches anyone?
In circumstances like this evangelical Christians can struggle. When we are busy singing about Jesus having the victory and I have a screaming pain in my head I can feel less than victorious. When I hear people saying that all we need to do is trust Jesus and he will sort out our problems and I have had this headache since February I want to stand up and raise an objection. When I read of preachers who say that if we only believe then we will receive all that we want from God I find myself ranting at the article about how that is not my experience.
Does this invalidate my faith?
Does this mean I don't have enough faith?
Does this mean God is punishing me?
I find solace in the honesty of the psalms, where the writers can express joy in God (and I can too) and at the same time express their pain, frustration and sorrow and ask God to sort it. They often find some sense of peace in knowing that God is with them, even if they are frustrated that they can't see any evidence of him in action.
God is bigger than my headache.
God's love will not be erased by my pain.
God gives grace beyond the frustration.
An image that I find helpful is that of a hug. There are times when words are not enough, or when they are inappropriate. The only thing that communicates deeply and effectively is the embrace of a hug. It speaks volumes.
I am not a naturally huggy person but I do have a sense that God hugs us when life is at its worst: reassuring us that he is there, that we are held, that we are not alone, that we are loved, that we can hold onto him.
And if you see me in the next couple of weeks and I don't smile it will be because the Botox has made my face stay like this, or the wind changed!
We have interesting euphemisms for innocuous occurrences.
I'm not sure why we do it for innocuous events and circumstances because surely the idea of a euphemism in to say something indelicate in a delicate way. I am about to indulge in some navel gazing, so if you are not in the mood for that you could stop here and simply enjoy the euphemisms.
At the moment I need to recharge my batteries. But that is literal, not euphemistic. The implant that lived within my abdomen and sent electrical impulses into my brain to (successfully) stop the chronic migraines and cluster headaches has ceased to be. It has shuffled off this mortal coil. It has curled up its tootsies. It has bitten the dust. It has croaked. It is dead.
Sadly this means that the headaches are back and seem to be enjoying their unfettered freedom by running at maximum. So, by way of a warning to you if you see me and I look like a bear with a sore head, I might be feeling like one too (without the fur or claws). If I am grumpy it may be because sleep is at a premium at the moment. If I look like death warmed up, it may be that I am struggling to cope. Sorry (in advance) if I am not up to expectations.
It has been my experience in the past (and is now) that God gives me the grace to cope (just) and the perseverance to carry on despite the pain. That's not because I am heroic, but because he is gracious.
It has given me a fresh appreciation of what it is like for many people who live with chronic pain, and I can honestly say that if you are in that category I sympathise and empathise with you.
bloggage update about my health – if you are not interested I won't mind at all if you don't read it!
However, it is battery-powered. And the battery has almost expired. No matter what you think, I don't have a solar panel fitted to the top of my head, so the battery will need replacing.
Today I went to the National Neurology Hospital in London (where wonderful people do incredible things to brains) and found out that because of the funding hoops through which we have to jump in order to get a new ONS fitted, and because of the waiting list, it may be anything from 6 months to a year before it can be done.
If you are a pray-er, I would appreciate prayers for grace to cope and a smooth journey through the NHS bureaucracy. If you are not a pray-er, perhaps you could just think nice thoughts for me and be tolerant if I am out of sorts.
Author nukelearfishing67Posted on Feb 24, 2012 Categories headacheTags chronic migraines, occipital nerve stimulator4 Comments on bloggage update about my health – if you are not interested I won't mind at all if you don't read it!


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Athletic Park body is that of a female aged 50 to 60 years
A post-mortem has revealed the remains found Sunday in Athletic Park are those of a female between the ages of 50 and 60.
However St. Thomas Police are not yet linking the badly decomposed body with that of 55-year-old Cindy Brant, the city woman missing since early July.
"I'm not going to comment on that," said Staff Sgt. Hank Zehr. "I know the answers but I'm not going to comment."
Zehr said the investigation will continue and police may rely on DNA testing to assist with the identification process.
"There are other investigative avenues we have that are available still."
Zehr did stress at this time the cause of death does not appear suspicious.
The post-mortem was conducted Wednesday in London and included a forensic pathologist with the assistance of a forensic anthropologist and members of the Identification Unit and Criminal Investigations Unit of the St. Thomas Police Service.
The body was discovered Sunday and city police were alerted the remains had been found by a group of teenagers. A preliminary examination revealed it was in a state of advanced decomposition.
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Well yesterday's post seemed to hit a nerve and I got quite a few emails and messages from folks telling me that, while it was hard to read, they appreciated me posting it. I appreciated that kind of response. But I don't want that to be the post hanging at the top of the site for too long, so let's get on to talking about my novel some more.
And Bryon Quertermous, the commissioning editor for Angry Robot's crime fiction imprint Exhibit A Books, has written his first novel, Murder Boy (Jun.), a dark satire that is a mix of Donald Westlake, Elmore Leonard, and Carl Hiaasen.
I'm still giddy. I've been bullish on digital-first publishing for a while but this sort of exposure due to the prestige and connections of my publisher makes me feel even better about it. And speaking of which, there's a sidebar feature on my editor and publisher, Jason Pinter, in the issue as well.
So once again, I'm very very very happy with my publisher and will repay his faith in me by turning in a great second book (which includes actually finishing said second book of course). I can't wait for this book to come out. Have I mentioned how happy I am?
Be sure to check in tomorrow to see my answers to that Four Questions meme going around. I've been double tagged so I must abide.


SAN DIEGO, May 22 (HSMN NewsFeed) -- Victory Pharma, Inc. announced today that Dr. Shawn A. Scranton has joined the Company as Vice President of Scientific Operations. Dr. Scranton will report to Matthew Heck, President, and will serve as a member of the Company's senior executive team.
"Victory is pleased to have attracted a person of Dr. Scranton's caliber, and his strategic medical knowledge signals our focus on bringing products to market and increased growth in sales," commented Mr. Heck. "As we bring more pharmaceutical products through the pipeline, Dr. Scranton's contributions will be extremely valuable." Dr. Scranton observed, "Victory Pharma's proven management team and recent commercialization successes combined with high potential products currently under development were the key reasons I decided to join the Company."
Dr. Scranton brings over 15 years of drug development experience to Victory Pharma. Most recently he was Senior Director of Translational Medicine for Kalypsys, Inc., where he contributed to nonclinical, regulatory, and clinical strategies that allowed for the successful opening of NCE INDs, and conduct of subsequent Phase I clinical programs in neuropathic pain and metabolic disease. Formerly, Dr. Scranton was Director of Clinical Development and Program Director of the SDX101 program for Salmedix, Inc., which was acquired by Cephalon, Inc. in 2005. Additionally, Dr. Scranton has also held academic positions at University of the Pacific, University of Houston, and Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Scranton will be based in the Company's corporate headquarters in San Diego, California.
Victory Pharma, Inc. is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company, headquartered in San Diego with sales and marketing operations in Cary, NC, focused on acquiring and marketing pain and related products. Victory markets its existing pain products through its physician based field sales force. The Company is also developing several proprietary products for treatment of chronic severe pain and commonly associated opiate induced side effects. Its lead development product is currently near completion of Phase II clinical testing in the United States. Further information regarding Victory is available at http://www.VictoryPharma.com.


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Fits: American Girl Doll White bunny slippers with elastic straps.


What can be more fantastic and geeky than a project that connects: OpenSource software (a lot of software), Open Source hardware and space (by satellite communication)?!
Sounds like a revolutionary slogan? Maybe, but the whole idea is very simple: build an Open Source network for communication with satellites and take data from space, because it's free and available for all.
This idea is developed by Libre Space Foundation and their main project called SatNOGS (Satellite Networked Open Ground Station).
and, what is most important for us (as a data nerd company), we want to start gathering (BIG!) data from satellites and do some data science!
A lot of effort goes into building a satellite, a lot of effort is required to put it into space, and then, when it's up there, we can finally communicate.
Until SatNOGs came to be, there were only two possibilities to do that: wait until the satellite is "over your head" (and this may take a lot of time) or rent a commercial ground station network for communication.
Now with almost ~60 ground stations all over the world, there's a good chance for contact with the desired satellite.
It all began 4 years ago, during NASA SpaceApps Challenge in 2014 at Athens Hackerspace - Libre Space Foundation initiated SatNOGS project.
Imagine that lots, LOTS of data fly above our heads and no one uses them - they are unused, and they shouldn't be.
SatNOGS is a complete platform of an open satellite ground-station network. The scope of the project is to create a full stack of open technologies based on open standards, and the construction of a full ground station as a showcase of the stack.
SatNOGS is retrieving signals from LEO satellites in UHF and VHF bands. It is able to retrieve status and telemetry signals, data from scientific and research satellites (p.e. magnetospheric experiments), weather data, etc.
SatNOGS Ground Station – The actual ground station instrumentation with a tracker, antennas, LNAs and Software Defined Radio which is connected to Client.
ALL you need to begin full communication with Space! Literally!
UPSat - first open source satellite!
Open source Space is real!
Open Souce destroys all barriers and makes it possible to work with a group of people no matter what skills they have and where they are.
The satNOGS community is still growing. Currently, there are more than 60 ground stations in the production environment and many more in the development environment. But, it's still not enough, considering that you can catch satellite only in short period (during its fly-by over your head). More ground stations mean more significant opportunity to get more data!
We have joined and submitted few merge requests and it didn't require any space knowledge - python/django is all you need.
But if you want to do actual communication build your own node and join the network! We are in the process of building our nodes (with various antenna types to test which is best for us). We will inform about the work progress here and on our Facebook Page and Instagram.
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Carlos Augusto Alves Santana, född 20 juli 1947 i Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexiko, är en mexikanskfödd amerikansk gitarrist och sångare, känd som ledare för musikgruppen som bär hans namn, Santana. Sedan slutet av 1960-talet har han gjort skivor under gruppnamnet Santana, men han är den ende som konstant varit medlem i gruppen. Santana har främst agerat gitarrist i gruppen och under åren överlåtit sången åt andra medlemmar i gruppen. Santana blandade salsa, rock, blues och jazzfusion till latinsk rock, och han har gjort mycket för att sprida och popularisera denna musikstil liksom latinamerikansk musik i övrigt.

När han var barn flyttade hans familj till Tijuana. Carlos hade lärt sig spela både gitarr och fiol av sin far som var mariachimusiker. Bland tidiga musikaliska influenser har Carlos Santana nämnt Ritchie Valens, B.B. King, och John Lee Hooker. Senare flyttade först hans familj, och sedan han själv till San Francisco där han drogs in i stadens musikliv. Han blev amerikansk medborgare 1965.

1968 spelade han med Al Kooper och Mike Bloomfield på Fillmore West, inspelningen gavs ut på albumet The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, och innehöll Santanas första inspelningar som gitarrist. 1969 slog Santana igenom stort, och ett flertal framgångsrika studioalbum med gruppen följde. Till en början spelade gruppen en mix av hårdrock och latinomusik, men 1972 blev Santana mer intresserad av fusion. Mot slutet av 1970-talet och på 1980-talet blev hans musik mer pop och rockinriktad och mindre experimentell.

I och med Santanas intresse för gruppen Mahavishnu Orchestra och John McLaughlin blev han introducerad för gurun Sri Chinmoy 1972. Han blev en följare av denne och tilldelades namnet Devadip som betyder ungefär Guds lampa, ljus och/eller öga. Namnet kom också att användas på två av hans soloalbum. 1982 bröt han med Chinmoy då han kände sig begränsad av de stränga regler gällande kost, hälsa och äktenskap gurun satte upp för sina följare, samt utnyttjad för sitt kändisskaps skull.

Carlos Santana gjorde 1987 filmmusiken i den amerikanska biografiska dramafilmen La Bamba. Filmen handlar om rockmusikern Ritchie Valens väg till berömmelse. Santana gjorde ett stort återtåg in på försäljningslistorna med albumet Supernatural 1999 efter flera år i skymundan.

Santana har belönats med 10 Grammy Awards.

Diskografi (urval)

Soloalbum
Studioalbum
1973 – Love Devotion Surrender (med John McLaughlin)
1974 – Illuminations (med Alice Coltrane)
1979 – Oneness: Silver Dreams - Golden Reality
1980 – The Swing of Delight
1983 – Havana Moon
1987 – Blues for Salvador
1993 – Santana Brothers

Livealbum
1972 – Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!
2004 – Carlos Santana Live
2007 – Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988

Källor

Externa länkar

Carlos Santana på Allmusic

Födda 1947
Amerikanska rockgitarrister
Mexikanska musiker
Män
Levande personer

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How can Infinidat promise storage that's both highly available and low cost? Its CEO explains. Moshe Yanai has an impressive track record in the storage industry. Some 20 years ago while working at EMC, he developed the Symmetrix storage array and from there he moved on to start up the storage array company XIV, which was sold to IBM. He's now come out of retirement to work on another new project, a storage company called Infinidat. The hottest innovation in storage currently is flash memory. It seems that everybody in the IT storage world is talking about flash, a technology that offers fast storage at a high cost when compared to conventional storage.


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Lost London – Lesnes Abbey…
by exploringlondon June 25, 2021 June 25, 2021
A viewpoint overlooking the the ruins of Lesnes Abbey. PICTURE: M W Pinsent (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Located in London's south-east, Lesnes Abbey was founded in 1178 as the Abbey of St Mary and St Thomas the Martyr by Richard de Luci, a joint Chief Justiciar of England at the time.
It's believed de Luci did so as an act of penance for his support of King Henry II in his dispute with St Thomas Becket (in fact, de Luci was ex-communicated by him twice before Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in December, 1170). De Luci retired here after resigning his office in 1179 and died soon after. He was buried in the chapter house.
The Augustinian monastery, never a large or wealthy community, had fallen into a state of disrepair and debt by the early 15th century apparently due to mismanagement but at least partly caused by the cost of maintaining the river wall and draining the marshes in which it was located.
Some rebuilding was carried out at the start of the 16th century but in 1525 it was closed or suppressed on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's orders and the monastic buildings were demolished with the exception of the Abbot's lodging.
The site was subsequently sold off and passed through various hands – it spent some 300 years as a possession of Christ's Hospital – and eventually became farmland with the abbot's house forming the core of a farmhouse which was demolished in 1844.
The site was excavated under the direction of Sir Alfred Clapham in the early 20th century and was purchased by the London County Council in 1930. It was opened as a public park in 1931. Since 1986, it's been owned and managed by the London Borough of Bexley.
The site today, a scheduled ancient monument, includes some impressive ruins from the abbey. The nearby woods takes its name from the abbey.
The ruins of Lesnes Abbey. PICTURE: Axel Drainville (licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0)
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Lost London – Merton Priory…
by exploringlondon May 11, 2018
Little remains of this priory which once stood on the banks of the River Wandle in Surrey (and is now encompassed in Greater London).
The priory, which was founded as an Augustinian house in the early 12th century, rose to become one of the most influential in all of southern Britain.
The institution was created thanks to Gilbert, the Sheriff of Surrey, Huntington and Cambridge, who was granted the village of Merton by King Henry I. Gilbert came to live in Merton and there established a priory, building a church and small huts on land thought to be located just to the west of where the priory was later located.
Gilbert had been impressed with what he'd seen of the Augustinians, also known as the Austin friars, at Huntington and so gave control of the new church to their sub-prior, Robert Bayle, along with the land and a mill.
It was based on Bayle's advice that the site of the priory was then moved to its second location and a new, larger wooden chapel built with William Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, coming to bless the cemetery. The canons – there were now 17 – moved in on 3rd May, 1117.
Among the high profile people to visit the new priory was Queen Matilda, who brought her son William with her. In the early 1100s, a certain Thomas Becket (later the ill-fated Archbishop of Canterbury) received an education here as did Nicolas Breakspeare (later the first English Pope, Adrian IV).
The priory expanded considerably over the next century and in 1217 its chapter house was the location of a peace conference between King Henry III and Louis, the Dauphin of France. The Statutes of Merton – a series of legal codes relating to wills – were formulated here in 1236.
The connection with royalty continued – in the mid-1340s, King Edward III is thought to have passed the Feast of the Epiphany here while King Henry VI apparently had a crowning ceremony here – the first outside of Westminster Abbey for more than 300 years – in 1437.
The priory remained in use until the Dissolution of King Henry VIII. The demolition of the buildings apparently started even before the priory had been formally surrendered to the commissioners – stones from its building was used in the construction of Henry's new palace – Nonsuch – as well as, later, in the construction of local buildings.
The site came to be referred to as 'Merton Abbey' and, passing through various hands, was used to garrison Parliamentarian troops during the Civil War. It later became a manufacturing facility, works for the dying and printing of textiles, one of which became the workshops of William Morris.
Some of the priory buildings survived for some years after but the only remains now left as sections of the perimeter wall (the arch which now stands over the entrance to Merton parish church is reconstructed – there's another ornamental gateway in the outer court wall which was also replaced with a replica in the 1980s).
The foundations of the unusually large chapter house, meanwhile, have been excavated and are now preserved in a specially constructed enclosure under a roadway. Construction is now underway to build better public access to the remains.
PICTURE: A ceiling boss from Merton Priory which still bears traces of its original red paint and guilding. It was found during excavations at Nonsuch Palace in 1959-60 is now on display in the Museum of London. Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) (licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0).
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Where's London's oldest…church?
by exploringlondon January 10, 2011 April 29, 2015
Like many of London's oldest questions, this depends on what you mean – the oldest site of worship, the oldest continuous site of worship, or the oldest building are but a few possibilities. For our purposes, it's generally accepted that London's oldest surviving parish church is St Bartholomew the Great in West Smithfield.
This atmospheric church is now only half the size of what it once was but that part which remains – the original quire, altar, side aisles and lady chapel – was founded in 1123 AD as the priory church for a community of Augustinian Canons.
The church owes its origins to Rahere, a favored courtier of King Henry I, who after the death of King Henry's wife Queen Matilda and then heir, Prince William, along with some other family members, renounced his way of life and decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome.
In Rome, he sickened, and fearful for his life, vowed to found a hospital for the poor on his return to London. Subsequently recovering, he was about to head home when a vision of St Bartholomew appeared to him and told him that he had helped him to recover and now desired him to found a church in Smithfield.
On his return to London, Rahere did just that – founding the priory with its church and a hospital for the poor. He died 1145. Amazingly, his tomb still lies within the church, on the left hand side of the altar.
The priory grew in importance with income coming not only from offerings and rents but from tolls at St Bartholomew's Fair which was held on grounds to the north of the the church (as an interesting aside, it's also known that the church had a low wall built in front of its western facade to separate it from Smithfield. Known as the Cheyne, this could be closed with a chain on market days to stop cattle wandering inside).
The church's current configuration came about in the Great Dissolution – the priory was dissolved in 1539 and the nave of the church was pulled down, leaving the quire, altar and lady chapel. The church was briefly used by some Dominican friars but since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I has fulfilled the role of parish church. A concerted restoration effort began in the mid-19th century.
Livery companies associated with the church include The Butchers' Company which still hold a special service here in September prior to electing a new Master. These days, St Bartholomew the Great is a welcome refuge from the hustle and bustle of the City and still gives a strong sense of the life it has known.
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The Great Wrong Place: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles at 70
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They seemed to fit together right from the very beginning. The right town and the right words.
"The lights of the city were an endlessly glittering sheet. Neon signs glowed and flashed. The languid ray of a searchlight prodded about among high faint clouds…. The car went past the oil well that stands in the middle of La Cienega Boulevard, then turned off onto a quiet street fringed with palm trees…." —from "Blackmailers Don't Shoot"
It was the very first piece of detective fiction written by one of the greatest of all mystery writers, Raymond Chandler. "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," published in 1933, appeared in the rough-edged pulp pages of Black Mask magazine.
In the 70 years since he penned that first tale of crime and corruption, Chandler has come to occupy a singular place in the cultural history of his adopted town. Called by S.J. Perleman "the major social historian of Los Angeles," Chandler used his tough, bourbon-soaked poetry to re-create the city as a character, as real and intense as Chandler's private eye hero, Philip Marlowe.
With his distinct descriptions of all that was unique about L.A. ("The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel, but I didn't move."), Chandler introduced our beautiful and brutal city to more readers than any other author, despite once declaring Los Angeles had "the personality of a paper cup."
In post-World War II America, Los Angeles was a frontier town, ruled by a crime syndicate that was under the control of a cabal of shady politicians, lawyers and police officials. Chandler turned the greed, cruelty and despair of his crime-infested metropolis into the stuff of fiction. For millions of people around the world, he defined not only a city, but the genre of the hard-boiled detective story and even the style of movie-making that came to be known as film noir. His influence on mystery novelists from Ross Macdonald to Robert B. Parker, and on movies and television shows from Chinatown to The Rockford Files to L.A. Confidential have been well-documented by scholars and critics. Chandler's path in creating that legacy is in evidence at the Special Collections Division of the UCLA Research Library, which contains the most extensive collection of Chandler's work in the world.
Manhunt for an Identity
Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago on July 23, 1888. His alcoholic father frequently abandoned his family for extended periods, a habit that ultimately caused the divorce of Chandler's parents. Eventually, young Raymond's father vanished for good.
Chandler's mother filed for divorce. She saved enough money for a move to England, where she and Raymond lived with relatives. Beginning at age 7, he received a proper British education at a school in London. He won awards for mathematics and was an avid reader of the classics. At 17, he attended London's Dulwich College and later studied in France and Germany.
After a time, Chandler returned to London and became a naturalized British subject in order to take a civil service exam. He passed and soon acquired a government clerking position. But Chandler grew bored working as a civil servant and left the British government to work as a journalist and essayist for London's Daily Express and Bristol's Western Gazette, for whom he wrote articles on European affairs, along with poetry, reviews and literary essays.
Chandler found his way back to the United States in 1912. Searching for his niche, he worked on an apricot ranch, made tennis rackets in a sporting goods firm and, after studying bookkeeping, became a junior accountant. Chandler's restlessness during this period was at least in part due to a problem with alcohol. It was a problem that would plague him for the rest of his life. "I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year," he once said, "just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
In 1917, Chandler began a year of service with the Gordon Highlanders of the Canadian Army, just after the start of World War I. As a member of the Royal Air Force he saw action in France. Chandler's first real brushes with violence and death changed him. As a 30-year-old sergeant, he was ordered into trench warfare, leading his platoon into direct machine-gun fire. After that, he said later, "Nothing is ever the same again." He was discharged in 1918 after sustaining a concussion in combat.
After the war, Chandler returned to America, this time to California ("The department store state," he would later write. "The most of everything and the best of nothing.") He worked as a banker in San Francisco and a reporter for Los Angeles' Daily Express (he was fired after six weeks for being "lousy") before finally joining L.A.'s Dabney-Johnson Oil Corporation as a bookkeeper.
By 1924, Chandler married Pearl "Cissy" Pascal and was promoted to auditor for the oil company. Soon, he rose to the rank of vice-president, but over the next several years, his battle with alcohol took its toll. After several self-destructive displays of excessive drinking and erratic behavior, he was fired in 1932 for absenteeism, womanizing and drunkenness.
Raymond Chandler was 44 years old.
The firing was a wake-up call for Chandler. The Great Depression was on and work was scarce. Chandler stopped his excessive drinking (temporarily), picked up a copy of Black Mask and vowed to dedicate his life to writing. The man who would soon turn Los Angeles into a film noir landscape never looked back.
For a novice writer during the Depression, there was no better place to start than the pulps, those thick, cheaply produced magazines filled with dark and bloody tales of mystery, murder and action, all written in the most purple of prose.
A fan of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade and Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason, Chandler registered himself as a writer in the Los Angeles City Directory and began his apprenticeship in detective fiction.
Chandler decided to tackle the mystery pulps because he believed that some of them, in spite of their preoccupation with cheap-thrills melodrama, actually possessed an honesty and moral code that appealed to him. Also, he believed that the literary bar was low enough in the pulp fiction trade that he might actually have a good shot of earning even as he learned.
For a full year after his ignoble exit from Dabney Oil, Chandler worked daily at learning the craft of writing detective fiction. At first, he leaned heavily on the styles of Hammett, Gardner and even Ernest Hemingway as models for plot, character, pace and style. It didn't come easy. That first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," running just under 18,000 words, took him five long months to finish. He submitted the story to tough-minded Joseph Shaw, the editor of Black Mask, the leading hard-boiled detective pulp of the day.
Shaw accepted the story and published it in the December 1933 issue. Chandler's career as a mystery writer had officially begun. For his months of labor, the author received $180, at the standard pulp rate of a penny a word.
For the next six years, Chandler continued his apprenticeship in the pulp magazines, perfecting his craft and building, story by story, the character of his many-named private detective hero (known in various stories as Mallory, Dalmas, Carmady, Gage and Delaguerra, among others).
Though the detective story was a popular form, it did not pay very well. Never a prolific writer, Chandler struggled to earn even a modest living from his short-story sales. In 1938, his three published novelettes earned him a total of $1,275. Often short of cash, Chandler and his wife moved from furnished apartment to furnished apartment throughout Southern California—sometimes two or three times a year. He later recalled: "I never slept in the park but I came damn close to it. I went five days without anything to eat but soup once."
Marlowe, P.I.
As the Depression wore on, Chandler continued his education in the pulps. Over the next six years, he sold 10 stories to Black Mask, seven stories to Dime Detective, and one to Detective Fiction Weekly. Chandler learned much from toiling in the pulp jungle, but by 1938 he was ready to move on. In the spring of that year he began writing The Big Sleep, his first novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the romantic and chivalrous private eye with the thoughtful, introspective approach to investigation that would mesmerize audiences in a total of eight novels, all set in steamy and seamy Southern California.
When The Big Sleep was published by Alfred A. Knopf in February 1939, the novel sold 10,000 copies in the United States and paid Chandler $2,000 in royalties. Those figures didn't make him a best-selling author, but they were remarkably high for a mystery story, particularly for one by a first-time novelist.
Chandler wrote for the pulp magazine market for only a few more years, publishing three stories in 1939, none at all in 1940 and a final one in 1941. For the rest of the decade, Chandler devoted himself to the novel, often cannibalizing plot points, action set-pieces and whole characters from his own short stories. The years during which Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The High Window (1942) and The Lady in the Lake (1943) were published also saw the slow death of the pulp and the rapid rise of the paperback. These small, cheap reprints of hardcover novels were not only in bookstores but in drugstores, newsstands and even railroad stations.
For Chandler, the paperback revolution and the reprinting of his novels resulted in more income and something new: fame. By the beginning of 1945, 750,000 copies of The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely had been sold. Just four years later, a Newsweek report on the crime-fiction business noted that there were more than 3 million copies of Chandler's mysteries in the hands of readers.
As a writer who saw himself following the path of Dumas, Dickens and Conrad, Chandler devoted his life to the principle that genre writing is writing first and generic second. "My theory," he once wrote, "was that readers just thought that they cared about nothing but the action; that really although they didn't know it, they cared very little about the action. The thing they really cared about, and that I cared about, was the creation of emotion through dialogue and description."
Chandler's L.A.
Those descriptions included colorful portraits of Los Angeles landmarks and landscapes, like that of downtown's Angel's Flight cable car in The High Window: "I parked at the end of the street, where the funicular railway comes struggling up the yellow clay bank from Hill Street, and walked along Court Street to the Florence Apartments."
The Santa Monica Pier, the San Bernardino Freeway, The Dancer's Nightclub at La Cienega and Sunset, Beverly Hills ("the best-policed four square miles in California"), The Bradbury Building (renamed The Belfont Building by Chandler and later used as the site of Marlowe's office in the 1969 James Garner film, Marlowe) all fell under the eyes of Chandler and his private detective. Marlowe's Hollywood office, Chandler told us, was on the sixth floor (number 615) of "The Cahuenga Building" (in reality, The Security Trust and Savings Bank at the corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga). Once the tallest building on the Boulevard, the six-story structure erected by John and Donald Parkinson, designers of Bullock's Wilshire and Santa Monica City Hall, became a high-profile home for Hollywood's best-known private detective.
"If, as is often said, every city has at least one writer it can claim for a muse," author and critic David L. Ulin once noted, "Raymond Chandler must be Los Angeles'." Chandler's background as both a journalist and a poet made him, said Ulin, "the one Los Angeles writer whose books have as a consistent center—the idea of the city as a living, breathing character–capturing the sights, the smells, the bleak glare of the sunlight, the deceptive smoothness of the surface beneath which nothing is as it seems."
Ross Macdonald may have put it even better: "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence."
Yet Chandler's Los Angeles is no City of Angels. It's an urban swamp filled with darkened back alleys, endless expressways and oppressive architecture. It's a city of decay and corruption, right down to the foliage. When Chandler, as he does in Farewell, My Lovely, describes "a tough looking palm tree," it is a tree that could only grow in Los Angeles. When, in the same book, an afternoon breeze makes "the unpruned shoots of last year's poinsettias tap-tap against the cracked stucco wall," lovers of Los Angeles—even those who have never lived here–recognize it as home. And when private eye Philip Marlowe makes his lonely drive from The Hobart Arms on Franklin Avenue to Arthur Gwynn Geiger's House on Laurel Canyon Drive, as he does in The Big Sleep, we travel with him on atmospheric "mean streets" of a town without pity.
Making a Case for Mystery
Despite the income all those paperbacks generated, their lurid covers advertised Chandler's stories as nothing more than collections of sex and violence. This kind of image angered and depressed Chandler, who considered the mystery story a valid form of literature. He dove deeper than ever into his drinking, coming up only often enough to produce some of the English language's greatest crime fiction. In a letter to Lucky Luciano in preparation for an interview (at the suggestion of James Bond creator Ian Fleming), Chandler told the gangster: "I suppose we are both sinners in the sight of the Lord."
In defiance of the sensational images screaming from the paperback racks that did little to promote Chandler as an important or even talented writer, a small number of Chandler supporters were beginning to argue for his literary value, as was Chandler himself. Writing to his overseas literary agent, Helga Green, Chandler said, "To accept a mediocre form and make literature out of it is something of an accomplishment… We are not always nice people, but essentially we have an ideal that transcends ourselves."
Chandler was lucky enough to start writing novels at a time when Hollywood, based on the success of John Huston's adaptation of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, was turning to the hard-boiled detective genre for stories. In 1941, RKO Pictures bought the rights to Farewell, My Lovely for $2,000, using the novel as source material for The Falcon Takes Over. A year later Twentieth Century Fox paid Chandler $3,500 for The High Window. Chandler wasn't seduced by the attention, however, claiming, "If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I should not have come."
Like many novelists during Hollywood's Golden Age, Chandler turned to screenwriting to earn the money his books could not. In 1943, he signed on with Paramount Pictures to collaborate with Billy Wilder on a film version of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity. He was paid $10,500, more than his entire earnings to date for any single novel. Chandler continued working for the studios for the next four years, earning increasingly higher salaries.
Seldom had a novelist's work been so successfully or so frequently translated to the big screen. Chandler's career as a screenwriter peaked in 1946 and 1947 with the release of director Howard Hawks' film version of The Big Sleep ("The Violence—The Screen's All-Time Rocker-Shocker!!" screamed the studio advertising), adaptations of The High Window (as The Brasher Doubloon) and The Lady in the Lake, plus Chandler's Academy Award nomination for The Blue Dahlia (the screenplay for which Chandler crafted under an agreement with Paramount that he be allowed to write at home while drunk). In 1947, he was signed by Universal to create an original screenplay called Playback, but the film was never produced. Chandler tried screenwriting one final time in 1950, adapting the Patricia Highsmith mystery Strangers on a Train for Alfred Hitchcock ("He threw out nearly everything I wrote and brought in another writer.").
Farewell to Filmland
After that film (the 16th written by or adapted from him), Chandler quit what he called the "Roman Circus" of Hollywood screenwriting to devote his energies to his remaining novels, The Little Sister (1949), The Long Goodbye (1953) and Playback (1958). Hollywood returned his ambivalence. Aside from a truncated television version of The Long Goodbye for the CBS series Climax in 1954, it was nearly 20 years before audiences saw another adaptation of one of Chandler's books on screen.
Chandler saw no reason to cry: "The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large."
If Hollywood had grown indifferent to Chandler's work, the same could not be said for his growing legion of readers. As the genre of detective fiction increased in popularity, Chandler was hailed as its most accomplished practitioner. The growth of his reputation in literary circles was based primarily on his first two novels, The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely and on his sixth, The Long Goodbye, but the demand of mystery fans, hungry for the work of a man who had not produced much of it, kept all of his fiction continuously in print.
Chandler once said, "The actual writing is what you live for." And, indeed, his tight, clean prose, with its rapid rhythm, flawless precision and inspired similes ("He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.") seemed the perfect conveyance for the detective story that he, more than anyone else, had elevated from its pulpy roots. The power of Chandler's language and the emotion of his characters resulted in stories driven by mood and soaked in atmosphere, revealing and perhaps even explaining the darker side of human nature. Said poet W.H. Auden: "Mr. Chandler is interested in writing not detective stories but serious studies of a criminal milieu, the Great Wrong Place, and his powerful, but extremely depressing books should be read and judged not as escape literature, but as works of art."
The end of Chandler's own story reveals a personal life filled with difficulties, disappointments and disasters. His epic bouts of heavy drinking cost him his health, his lifestyle, his professional and personal relationships—and even his talent. Eventually, he wrote virtually nothing but letters.
Chandler suffered from depression, once saying that he could no longer look out at the Pacific Ocean because it had too much water and too many men had drowned in it. And he was a victim of self-loathing. Although he agreed to become the president of the Mystery Writers of America, he threw his ballot out because he could not face the prospect of voting for himself.
When his wife Cissy died of fibrosis of the lungs in December 1954, Chandler's sense of loss turned from devastation to desperation. One boozy night, he loaded a .38 revolver, walked into his bathroom and fired twice. He missed both times. When the police arrived, they found him on the shower floor in the midst of a third attempt. He was taken to a sanitarium. When the news of his botched suicide made headlines, letters of support poured in from all over the country. Chandler dismissed the sentiments as silly.
Finally, in 1959, Chandler was hospitalized for pneumonia, his system weakened by years of alcohol abuse. He died alone at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla on March 26, just three days before the premiere of Philip Marlowe, a new ABC television series based on his most famous character.
Chandler's funeral was attended by only 17 people. They included local acquaintances who hadn't known him well enough to be called friends, representatives of the local Mystery Writers chapter and a devoted collector of first-edition mysteries.
Chandlertown
Yet 70 years after penning his first Los Angeles crime tale, Raymond Chandler lives on. His seven novels and 25 short stories are still in print and readily available, as are the movies and television shows made from those works. And Chandler lives as well at the very place where Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe once hung his hat, coat and gun.
On August 5, 1994, in honor of the first writer to chronicle Los Angeles and all its vivid eccentricities, the city of Los Angeles designated a familiar Hollywood street corner as a Historic Cultural Monument. Raymond Chandler Square now occupies the corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga boulevards, the site of Marlowe's office. Journalist Jess Bravin, who first approached the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission with the idea of the tribute, said then: "Of all the artists of the 20th century, perhaps no one shaped the image of Los Angeles more than did Raymond Chandler. His novels, which featured private detective Philip Marlowe, portrayed this city and its people with a depth and texture that both inspires and chills each generation of readers. His style, terse and metaphoric, gritty yet romantic, bridged the worlds of rich and poor, of losers and dreamers, of 'popular novels' and literary art."
To stand at the corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga is to stand in the middle of Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. With a little concentration, The City That Is gives way to The City That Was. Soon, words from the author's essay on detective fiction, "The Simple Art of Murder," come to mind. It is Chandler's view of Marlowe, and maybe—finally—of himself:
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid…. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man…. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world."
by Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.
Farewell, My Lovely. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
The High Window. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.
The Lady in the Lake. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943.
The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
The Long Goodbye. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Playback. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
"Blackmailers Don't Shoot." Black Mask. December, 1933.
The Simple Art of Murder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Trouble Is My Business. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Raymond Chandler Speaking. Ed. Dorothy Gardiner and Katherine Sorley Walker. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Collected Stories (Everyman's Library). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
on Raymond Chandler
Baker, Robert A. and Niestzel, Michael T. Private Eyes: 101 Knights. Bowling Green: Popular, 1985.
Clark, Al. Raymond Chandler in Hollywood. New York: Proteus, 1982.
Geherin, David. The American Private Eye. New York: Ungar, 1985.
Goulart, Ron. The Dime Detectives. New York: Mysterious, 1988.
Luhr, William. Raymond Chandler and Film. New York: Ungar, 1982.
Nolan, William F. The Black Mask Boys. New York: Mysterious, 1985.
O'Brien, Geoffrey. Hardboiled America. New York: Van Nostrand Renhold, 1981.
Ward, Elizabeth and Silver, Alain. Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Woodstock: Overlook, 1987.
Wolfe, Peter. Something More Than Night. Bowling Green: Popular, 1985.
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Mike Valerio, Raymond Chandler
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Forcefully argued and by turns unsettling and deeply frustrating, Mark Andrejevic's iSpy is an account of modern life in a surveillance society that suffers from deep basic limitations. Time and again the reader is reminded that modern life is basically a sucker's bet. Andrejevic's stance is a basically conservative one -- the dissolution of "traditional" communities and forms of social organization is invoked repeatedly and with sorrow. And yet there is no mention that the village-based society being mourned was one where most of society -- women, blacks, workers, gays, etc. -- were under the continual surveillance and power of the white male Christian elite, who controlled social political, religious, and sexual life. This basic framing of the issues discussed substantially limits the persuasive power of the argument advanced more generally.
One of Andrejevic's key theoretical frames is the "digital enclosure," which he defines as the creation of an interactive realm wherein every action and transaction generates information about itself. The term does more work than just the definition -- which at a basic level is merely describing a networked computing environment -- and some of the book's strongest passages are when Andrejevic explores both the analogy of digital enclosures to the enclosure movement of feudalism to capitalism, and the way in which it works to impinge upon individual liberty. He writes, "The invitation to interact is consequently being replaced by the invitation to immerse ourselves in a digital enclosure that takes on the burden of heightened interactivity for us" (111).
At the same time, over-reliance on the feudal analogy to our own time is where Andrejevic begins to run into serious trouble. He proposes that digital enclosures are promoting and reinforcing the same class divisions of the early industrial period, between workers and those who own the means of production, but backs away from an explicitly Marxist reading of contemporary information technology.
Andrejevic throughout the book tends to treat individuals as relatively powerless consumers in an unfettered marketplace. People must "submit" to surveillance (unwittingly or in ignorance) in exchange for services and convenience, and powerful corporations either are or "could" misuse the data gathered in actively malign or darkly hinted ways -- and their agency are largely absent from Andrejevic's account.
I would hardly argue for Google's inherent beneficence, but what is lost in this reading is that individuals are not merely powerless consumers but are in fact citizens with ultimate power over corporations -- not simply in their ability to decline services (which I agree with Andrejevic is increasingly a false choice) but to set the rules for market activity through legislation. Given the absence of the Federal government as citizen advocate on telecom issues during the Bush and late Clinton years, it can be tempting to read this absence as a structural deficit, or view government as merely another malign actor -- and Andrejevic does succumb to these dual temptations repeatedly through the book.
But governments need not be laissez-faire or complicit in corporate (or for that matter, their own) surveillance merely because the first two administrations of the Internet era have been so. Incumbency effects do make it more likely that the status quo continues in this (and any other) case, but that is a different question.
A frustrating tendency through the book is Andrejevic's explicit unwillingness to define his terms or let himself be pinned down, such as when he writes, "Although this book explores various dimensions and proposed definitions of interactivity, it avoids defining interactivity in the abstract" (8). Andrejevic repeatedly notes what the book is "not about," acknowledging and not quite dismissing arguments and examples that run counter to his central thesis. The book would be a more complete and engaging account if Andrejevic spent more than the odd paragraph here and there dealing with counter-examples and instead substantially addressed those arguments in the context of his larger frameworks.
At one point he lashes out against audiences who find him too negative as a way of dismissing their implied criticisms. But both that criticism and its dismissal are not quite right. The central shortcoming of Andrejevic's approach is not negativity but rather that he does not allow competing explanations of the issues a fair hearing or treatment on the page. His own arguments suffer for it. His frame, by virtue of its monopoly over the page and argumentative space, seems neither reasoned nor justified but nearly polemical. He introduces some potentially compelling frameworks and adaptations of others' work, but without the force of opposition they work merely to bludgeon and not convince.
Howard Rheingold, Derrick de Kerckhove, and Nicholas Negroponte are dismissed as "unreflective, celebratory" (16-17) advocates of new technologies, though few examples are specified and none of their arguments are substantively falsified. It is this tendency that is perhaps the book's weakest and most unfortunate tendency -- the author refuses to engage opposing arguments in good faith, and his own thoughts suffer for it, sounding increasingly arbitrary in their isolation.
Andrejevic is at his most incisive when he is discussing not abstract ideas but the behavior of real people, particularly in the "iMedia" chapter with his focus on Television Without Pity forum members. Rather than sarcasm, he employs a sympathetic tone, allowing him to understand the interpersonal social capital motivations for participation even as he analyzes the role that these fans are playing for the TV shows' producers. But eventually Andrejevic frames those TWoP posters as full of "resentment," participating in "self-submission" and "knowing -- with the insiders -- just why things are as bad as they are, and why they couldn't be different" (160). Even those for whom he displays sympathy are ultimately dupes.
The dangers of "digital enclosures" are real enough, and Andrejevic does well to frame them in a novel way. Overall, iSpy would be a more persuasive account if more competing explanations of the issues discussed were given air, and Andrejevic's framework allowed to stand or fall in competition.


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I was at home with the kids. The ex had moved out only a few weeks before so I was dealing with that, with finding out that I was married to someone who lied and cheated and treated me like crap but still hoping to make it work. Don't ask me why. It's not what this post is about.
He was coming over that morning to take his computer that I'd been using so I was waiting for him to show up.
Sometime after 9 am my Mom called me and told me to turn on the TV. She said a plane had hit one of the towers.
As I turned on the TV I was thinking it was a little plane, maybe a 2-seater. Someone had made a flying mistake and I hoped there wouldn't be too many causalities.
Even as I first saw the news I was thinking it was an accident. I think a lot of people thought that. Probably hoped for that.
And then everything changed as I watched the world we knew disintegrate before my eyes.
I watched the second plane hit. I watched as people fell from the building, the screaming, crying, blood covered faces, then suddenly it switched from New York to D.C, and I watched the smoke and destruction at the Pentagon and then it went back and I watched the towers collapse...and somewhere in there flight 93 hit the ground.
It was like watching a movie.
Like being in a dream.
It could. not. be real.
At some point in time the ex showed up and all I could think was, we're at war. We're under attack. How insignificant are our marriage issues when the world is coming to an end. Of course, they were significant enough to end the marriage but, once again, this is not about that.
I remember him unhooking his computer and refusing to hook my old one back up because he was busy. I even asked him because I had all of my online friends to help me get through this marriage thing...Cis, Tree, Patty...you guys know who you are and I needed you.
And somehow I got it back together, the TV still blaring scenes of death and destruction. Again and again and again.
It was unbelievable. I still remember the fear, the sadness...everything mixed up between the loss of my marriage and the loss of everything that was collapsing around us.
For months afterwards I read the stories and looked at the photos and videos that were repeated over and over again.
CNN had this thing where they posted a profile for every person lost. I read each one, refusing to miss any. I had to know more and more about the lost. Maybe because it was the only thing, the last thing, I could do for them.
I read about the married couple, 7 months pregnant who probably tried to get out together and never made it. Years later the husband was identified through DNA, I don't know if the wife ever was.
I read about the New York cities police officers and firefighters to rushed to their deaths believing that they could save someone and being lost in the process.
I read about those who were there on their first day of work, those who were there for their last, those who were late and missed the attack and those who were covering some one's shift and were killed. The final phone calls goodbye, the heroes of flight 93 and the heroes that have never been truly acknowledged.
The parking lots still filled with cars that will never be picked up by their owners again. The pregnant wives waiting at home for some shred of hope. The funerals, the pain, the young and the old and all those in between. They all, and so many, many more, were with me. And still remain with me.
Somewhere in a desk I have an issue of Newsweek with photos and articles that came out that week. I don't want to read it right now. I don't know when or if I will ever read it again but something compelled me to buy it. Maybe someday when the kids are older and have more questions I will pull it out and have them read it. I don't know. I guess we'll see.
I remember exactly what I was doing that day. I remember what I was feeling and what the world was watching along with me.
And I will never, never forget.


1. Where can I find the latest price list and how often does pricing change?
a. Consultants can find the price sheet on the "Consultant Materials" section of the Consultant Dashboard.
These prices will change quarterly throughout the year. There are occasional corrections/additions made throughout the quarter-‐-‐-‐when these changes are made, it will be announced in the "news' section of your admin site.
2. What is the different pricing that is offered to customers?
a. Q Club Pricing – the lowest possible pricing for those that sign up for the Q, or attend a home party.
3. Why do we have this pricing structure?
a. It is most valuable to consultants if people sign up for the Q or are willing to participate in a Home Party Presentation. If customers make this commitment, we will offer them our best pricing available. Consultant website pricing gives consultants another way to give excellent pricing for those that choose not to do the Q or attend a party. This is an added incentive for all customers to do one of those activities.
4. 4. Where can I find this month's specials?
a. The price list highlights the highest discounted products with an asterisk. Additionally, flyers highlighting the specials are available on the Consultant materials section of the consultant dashboard.
5. If I set up a Q customer on the front end instead of the back end what pricing will they get?
a. If they go through your personal website, they will get Q Club pricing. If they go through shelfreliance.com, you must tie them to you as a customer for Q Club pricing.
6. If a Q customer shops for other items not on their Q, what pricing will they get?
a. As long as they log in with their email address they will receive the same pricing they have qualified for on their Q.
7. Can I get a discount if I order products by the case?
a. Case orders receive a 5% quantity discount as opposed to ordering 6 separate cans.
8. Do you have any kind of customer rewards program?
9. Why are there two prices on the price lists?
a. One price is the full retail price and the other is the the Q Club Price. Retail is used to show the discount to customers, as well as for calculating Host Benefits.
10. How do I know what is in the large packages of foods?


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Our new Flexion Distraction Table has arrived. This table is typically used by the Chiropractor and allows for a new gentle technique option. On the right are pictures of the new table. You can click on the images and enlarge.
Below is a video of Dr. Cox who is a pioneer in this treatment method. This video is more for practitioners but it will give you a good idea as to the actions and gentleness of this method.
As you watch the video you can see that this method is different from the more traditional adjusting techniques. We use numerous methods and this is one more option that may be suited for your specific condition and tolerances.
Be sure to ask the front desk or any of the staff if you have questions and they will be glad to help. We look forward to integrating this new method into the list of techniques, modalities and exercise tools we currently utilize at Healthview.


Kicking off it's E3 2014 press conference, Microsoft showed off an action-packed new trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Activision and Microsoft are still very much in partnership to push the franchise, as the green giant will once again have all DLC launches as timed exclusives.
Check out the trailer below to see the interesting futuristic direction the franchise is taking for its annual outing – we see many of the fancy new weapons and battle-gizmos in action.


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Okla. CattleWoman of the Year Named
August 19, 2018 August 19, 2018 / Roseanne McKee
Republished with permission of the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
By Roseanne McKee
Norita Martin has been named Oklahoma CattleWoman of the Year by the Oklahoma CattleWomen's Association. The award was announced on July 20 in Norman at the Oklahoma Cattlemen's annual Convention and Trade Show.
The Oklahoma Cattlewoman of the Year was recognition for being a spokesperson for the beef industry through many forms of leadership in beef advocacy. As a member of the American National CattleWomen, Martin has participated in state, regional, and national meetings developing beef promotion programs.
"I strive to encourage adults and youth programs to take part in the Masters of Beef Advocacy Program and the Beef Quality Assurance Program, which are both excellent free education opportunities. To assist with a national beef promotion project, I organized members to participate in customer discussions at a large grocery store over a period of six sessions for one of two locations in Oklahoma. As well as developing beef education booths for county and state events , I encourage our local association to develop new programs to support youth education in various areas of agriculture," said Martin.
Martin and her husband, Russell, own Double M Farms, a cow calf operation located between Copan and Wann with pastures in Nowata and Montgomery Counties.
"It is a true honor to receive the Oklahoma CattleWoman of the Year Award, but I feel this honor is shared with the members of our organization, especially the team in our county," Martin said. "In Washington County we work together to promote beef, youth and agriculture. It's a wonderful, supportive group of friends of which I feel so privileged to enjoy."
Martin is also serving a two-year term as vice president of the Washington County CattleWomen, which she has been a member of for 20 years or more.
Martin's family has been in cattle ranching for over 100 years.
"My siblings and I each own a part of the ranch that was started by my Lucas grandparents in about 1917," she said. "My grandparents raised registered Hereford cattle, but my father was a commercial herd man when he took over the ranch. My parents also owned the Dewey Livestock Auction at two different locations."
Martin grew up in Copan where she was active in 4-H Club. A recipient of the state 4-H Santa Fe Leadership Scholarship and the Oklahoma 4-H Danforth Award, Martin graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in Voc Home Economics. She earned a master's degree in Home Economics from the University of Missouri.
During her career, she worked as a home economist for Texas Agriculture Extension, as a home economics teacher in Bixby and Broken Arrow and as a social worker for the Oklahoma Department of Health and Human Services.
"Since retiring [eight years ago] I have been a gate opener, cow counter, cattle sorter, and anything else you can do on foot. We have some part-time help for feeding, haying, and gathering cattle — so then my main job is camp cook and bookkeeper," Martin said.
Martin and her husband moved to their ranch 25 years ago, where they first raised registered Simmental cattle.
"After the kids went to college, we gradually shifted to a commercial herd," she said.
The Washington County CattleWomen meet the fourth Monday of at least ten months of the year and membership is five dollars.
Most meetings are at 11:30 a.m. at on of the area restaurants. Watch for meeting announcements in the news.
For more information on them, follow the Washington County CattleWomen on their Facebook page.
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What's Going on in Europe
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Portugal is weeping, Geert Wilders Says Netherlands Would Be Better Off if It Left 28-Nation Bloc, France can't compete with Germany, Merkel is pissed at Obama, Belgium is ousting Afgans. Is anybody happy?
Re: What's Going on in Europe
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In train news:
Quote from: https://www.euractiv.com/section/railways/news/swedens-night-train-to-brussels-to-debut-in-2022/
The Swedish government announced on Thursday (23 July) night train routes that will link the cities of Stockholm and Malmö with Hamburg and Brussels, in the latest indication that sleeper services are on the cusp of a renaissance in Europe.
A couple years of #flygskam and a pandemic has to be good for something. Now all that remains is not to end up at your destination station at four in the morning or afternoon, or leave at half past one.
The only really good night train was the one between Amsterdam and Prague. Perfect timing.
Perfect it was't, but I liked the Scandinavian system for night trains between Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm. They all left for Gothenburg late evening (11-ish). Then, when in Gothenburg, they rearranged the train cars (ka-KA-klang-KANG!) to go to Oslo/Copenhagen/Stockholm, so depending on the car you were in you'd end up in either one of the destination cities.
Opera 69.0.3686.77
As a life long railway (and rail simulator) fan most interesting news!
I remember very well the Wagon-Lit service. We had it abroad the Lusitania Express.
overhead :: überhaupt
Overnight trains never ceased to be a thing in Russia. You're all welcome to go try them out.
Quote from: ersi on 2020-07-28, 11:11:48
You're all welcome to go try them out.
Better to send Rjhowie first.
I'm certain it will be a wonderful experience for him with all the love he feels for Trains, Putin and Mother Russia.
Kind of an Holy Trinity.
Me? thanks but I'm not masochist.
Yeah dear man I would say you are not masochistic enough to cope with being Portuguese!
Clever you worked out I liked Putin and by the way Tsarism as well - last Tsar is on my wall.....!
This one?
I do make allowances for your limitations ersi seeing you are European.
nodded to my imperial picture (next General Robert e lee the impressive army commander of the Confederates during the civil war in nutjobland - opps America.
It looks like another stunning victory in Belarus for Alexander Lukashenko, his sixth. Preliminary results have it that he won 80% of the votes, while his main opponent, the recent Lithuanian resident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, got 10%.
Possibly due to poor handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, his popularity has slipped notably compared with his fifth victory in 2015, when he got 84.1% of the votes.
It would also be worse than his fourth victory in 2010 (80.4%) and his third victory in 2006 (84.4%), but better than his second victory in 2001 (77.4%), and far better than his first victory in the first democratic election in Belarus in 1994, when he only got 45.8% in the first round, though 80.6% in the second round.
From 2006 or so:
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko
Lukashenko later stated that he had rigged the election results, but against himself, in order to obtain a majority more typical of European countries. Although he had won 93.5% of the vote, he said, he had directed the government to announce a result of 86%.
Might a similar statement appease everyone this time too?
I do not have much time for the man as President but I think the woman who led opposition and now left the place should try to indicate what the wrongs are instead of just claiming something.
On that passing picture from ersi which stole the last Tsar's corner at least Nicholas 2 was a decent man. The stuff we constantly get here in the West about Putin is a groan i must also say.


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President Xi Jinping offered another US$60 billion (HK$468 billion) in financing for Africa and said mainland companies will be encouraged to invest no less than US$10 billion over the next three years, but he also warned against "vanity projects."
Speaking at the opening of a summit with African leaders, Xi promised development that people on the continent could see and touch, but that would also be green and sustainable.
China has denied engaging in "debt trap" diplomacy and Xi's offer of more money comes after a pledge of another US$60 billion at the previous summit in South Africa three years ago.
Xi, addressing leaders at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, said the new US$60 billion will include US$15 billion of aid, interest-free loans and concessional loans, a credit line of US$20 billion, a US$10 billion special fund for China-Africa development and a US$5 billion special fund for imports from Africa.
Chinese firms will also be encouraged to invest at least US$10 billion in Africa in the next three years.
Speaking earlier at a business forum, Xi said China had to be careful about where money was spent. "China's cooperation with Africa is clearly targeted at the major bottlenecks to development. Resources for our cooperation are not to be spent on any vanity projects but in places where they count the most," he said.
Beijing has also fended off criticism it is interested only in extracting resources to feed its economy, that the projects it funds have poor environmental safeguards, and that too many of workers are flown in from China rather than using African labor.
Every African country is represented at the forum apart from eSwatini, Taiwan's last African ally that has so far rejected China's overtures to ditch Taipei.
Presidents in attendance include South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa and Egypt's Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.


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CosmosID Appoints Arne Materna as Vice President of Product
Mar. 8, 2018, 07:53 AM
ROCKVILLE, Md., March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CosmosID, provider of leading products and services to unlock the microbiome accurately and actionably, is proud to announce that Dr. Arne Materna is joining its Senior Leadership team as Vice President of Product.
Dr. Materna's experience in product and business strategy in the field of metagenomics and infectious disease genomics will fuel the strategic expansion of the product portfolio and the growth of CosmosID.
Dr. Materna joins CosmosID from QIAGEN where he directed the product management organization responsible for a high-growth segment of QIAGEN's extensive portfolio of bioinformatics products. Prior to QIAGEN Dr. Materna held management and senior roles at CLC bio, Pacific Biosciences and MIT.
In his new role, Dr. Materna will drive product strategy at CosmosID. "We are delighted to welcome Dr. Materna to our leadership team," says Manoj Dadlani, CEO of CosmosID. "Arne's strong understanding of customer needs across the entire NGS workflow, from sample processing through actionable data interpretation, will help drive the best possible products and solutions for our growing customer base."
"I am honored to join the scientifically stellar and ambitious team at CosmosID," said Arne Materna. "Assets like a HIPPA compliant bioinformatics platform and CLIA facilities for end-to-end services uniquely positions CosmosID in providing microbiome solutions for both research and regulated applications."
CosmosID, a Rockville MD based company, is best known for microbial identification and microbiome profiling with unrivaled accuracy and strain level resolution. The class-leading performance of CosmosID bioinformatics is powered by the CosmosID GenBook® database, the largest curated genome database of pathogens, commensals and environmental microorganisms.
"Our technology is deeply rooted in CosmosID's core values, which include a tradition of scientific excellence and extensive collaboration with the scientific community," says Prof. Rita Colwell, founder and chairman of CosmosID. "I am enthusiastic to have Dr. Materna joining our team. He is an accomplished industry leader and an experienced and passionate microbiologist."
Dr. Materna holds a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Konstanz, Germany. His specialization is in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Dr. Materna conducted his postdoctoral research at MIT, where he subsequently directed the experimental research laboratory of Prof. Eric Alm. At QIAGEN, Dr. Materna launched a successful software platform for microbial surveillance and metagenomics that has had broad adoption in commercial laboratories and government agencies including the FDA, CDC and USDA. He also serves as Expert Advisor to the ISO Standardization Working Group 25 for Whole Genome Sequencing of Foodborne Pathogens.
CosmosID®, based in Rockville, Maryland, is a genomics big data company focused on rapid identification of microorganisms for molecular diagnostics, public health, food safety, agriculture, and environmental applications. The CosmosID platform uses proprietary sequence analysis algorithms to accurately profile all microorganisms in a metagenomic sample employing next-generation DNA sequencing. To learn more please visit www.cosmosid.com.
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First of all, you should know I LOVE Walmart Savings Catcher. I was fortunate to be in the Beta launch area so I got to see the first few baby steps of the program and was impressed then and it's done nothing but get better. So let's take a look at why should be using Walmart Savings Catcher every time you shop at Walmart.
Have you ever wanted to return something and couldn't find your receipt? Now you can have a digital copy of every single receipt you load into Savings Catcher on your phone. No more keeping track of little slips of paper!
If you will transfer your Savings Catcher money onto a BlueBird account, you will get DOUBLE your money back! I've got a ton more info about how to sign up for BlueBird here.
UPDATE: Savings Catcher no longer doubles when transferred to Bluebird. You can still transfer it, it just won't double and the Bluebird card is still a ton easier to use than those Walmart eGiftcards.
In short, Savings Catcher is an incredibly easy program to use that will save you big. Be sure to watch the video above for more info. Thanks!
Hello I just want to know which are ur all time apps for couponing? I was on a page n found some u posted but lost it. I Know there are alot but witch ones do you prefer. Thank you.
You can find all the apps at GroceryShopforFREE.com/apps.


Our policy lasts 15 days. If 15 days have gone by since your purchase or parcel reception, unfortunately we can't offer you a refund or exchange.
To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be packed in its original packaging.
Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. A 18€ inspection and repack fee apply for returns. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund, according to the state of the product, accessories and packaging.
If your return is approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days that may vary of your card operator.
If you have received a refund confirmation from us but haven't received a refund yet, first please check not only your bank account but also your credit card statement. For credit cards, a refund may appear as a negative amount credited by 'Blawesome' or 'Blawesome Ventures' that adds to the total expenses on that credit card on that month. It may not appear as an individual statement in your bank account, but as an aggregate charge from your card issuer.
If you do not see it in your credit card statement, please contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted.
If you've done all of this and you still have not received your refund yet, please contact us at hello@thewetsuitdryer.com.
We only replace items if they are defective or damaged. If you need to exchange it for the same item, send us an email at hello@thewetsuitdryer.com to coordinate.
Shipping costs paid on order placement are non-refundable. If you receive a refund, the cost of order shipping will be deducted from your refund.


This newest Watercolor Made Easy title combines the drama of beautiful sunsets with the splendor of oceanscapes, making a perfect guide for any aspiring landscape artist. Accomplished watercolorist Thomas Needham begins with basic watercolor techniques and tips specific to rendering seascapes and sunsets, such as preserving the white of the paper, painting soft blends, and creating realistic reflections. Then he offers step-by-step projects that guide artists from initial sketches to impressive, colorful works of art.
Thomas Needham of Appling, GA, is a graduate of California's renowned Art Center College of Design with a double major in Advertising and Illustration. He has received numerous honors and awards for his watercolor, oil, and acrylic paintings. Thomas says, "I bring vivid imagination to my work and a tremendous love of form and grace. It's through my art that I share the beauty, awe, and mystery of what lies before our eyes."


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Our Savior
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its fascinating history and its amazing architecture, the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan is one that needs to be sav…
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After a recent drive through Cairo, Illinois (article forthcoming), and seeing the effects of decades of racial segregation and violence, and then economic decline and population loss, I wondered what…
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While on an expedition to the upper peninsula of Michigan, namely to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, I stumbled across two abandoned railroads.…
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Deerton, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Alger County, Michigan, was founded in 1882 when the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Railroad constructed a station for a lumbering camp. A post off…
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The Packard Motor Company on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan was constructed in 1903 and closed in 1958. With just the exception of a brief reuse in several locations, the entire complex - 3…
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The streets of West Saginaw are bleak this time of year. This is partially the effect of the season: indifferent gray skies, cutting Michigan winds, trees still and bare. However, the austerity of …
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It's a pretty sad situation when a city plans on downsizing to embody the future. But that is what Detroit Mayor Dave Bing plans on doing in the near future. Plagued with neighborhoods almost entir…
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SoftBank to borrow $4 billion from Apollo-led group
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FILE PHOTO: The logo of SoftBank Group Corp is seen at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, June 30, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
By Chibuike Oguh
(Reuters) -SoftBank Group Corp is borrowing nearly $4 billion from a group led by private equity giant Apollo Global Management Inc , a source familiar with the matter said, as the conglomerate looks to increase cash on hand after its finances came under pressure.
The loan, to be secured by SoftBank's $40 billion Vision Fund 2, is expected to be funded by the end of the year, the source said.
The Japanese investment giant will pledge some of its stakes in technology companies for the loan, said the source, who requested anonymity as these discussions are confidential.
Besides Apollo, its insurance affiliate Athene Holding Ltd and other mutual funds, endowments and financial institutions will be providing the loan, the source said.
SoftBank has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last year, with its stock price and portfolio valuations plummeting in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing the group into asset sales.
To add to the conglomerate's woes, its portfolio company Grab Holdings Ltd has seen a 44% slump in stock price since it went public earlier this month. SoftBank's deal to sell British chip technology provider Arm to Nvidia Corp has also run into regulatory roadblocks.
The company has been raising capital by trimming stakes in companies such as Uber Technologies and food delivery firm DoorDash Inc following the expiry of lock-up periods.
China's crackdown on the sprawling technology sector has also taken the shine off e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, SoftBank's most prized bet.
The borrowing plans were first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Chibuike Oguh in New York and Niket Nishant in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri and Maju Samuel)
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