There is a lot of talk about symptoms of an unhealthy gut and the path or paths to take to heal the gut, but I can't find much that describes a healthy gut. I realize it may be different from person to person, but what are some of the general physical symptoms of a healed and healthy gut? What should we look for in digestion? Should passing gas be completely eliminated? Should we be on a regular daily BM schedule? What should those BMs look/smell like? Will sleep be optimal, meaning no interrupted sleep? What should we look for in terms of metabolism and weight management? Those are just some of the things I would be interested in knowing, but I am sure there are other symptoms one could determine if the gut is healthy.
Also, I am curious if anyone has completely healed their gut and were able to go back to some of the gut irritants like caffeine, dairy, FODMAPs, etc?? If so, did it cause the gut to become unhealthy again or would that just be another sign the gut wasn't completely healed in the first place.
Perhaps be a little more specific, no bloating, pain, constipation, diarrhea, gas with your normal diet. It's not unreasonable that a significant change to one's diet (going hog-wild over say, spinach) would cause some discomfort (a little gas, bloat), not necessarily indicating an unhealthy gut though, just a gut that's not yet accustomed to that intake.
This is a great question by the way; people should pay more attention to how to know you're healthy and what that means instead of only thinking about illnesses and their symptoms. To become healthy, one should know what it means to be healthy first!
I have been following a GAPS diet (dairy-free, nut-free, sugar-free, caffeine-free and low in FODMAP) for over 9 months now because of post-infectious IBS, FODMAP intolerance and SIBO and have been through periods of ups and downs. Increased stress in my life worsened my gut health a few months ago and while I used to tolerate butter, I had to go back to ghee only for a few months. I could not tolerate any forms of dairy. Chocolate, even dark and good-quality, gave me severe GI problems, headaches, insomnia, etc. Same goes for nuts and sugar. I avoided these foods for months in addition to doing more bone broth, adding fermented cod liver oil, probiotics, sleeping a lot and of course better managing my stress. Before that, having traces of butter or trying even a square of dark chocolate would make me feel very sick again.
Since then, my health and my food tolerance has improved significantly. I recently tried a little bit of cheese (cow's cheese one day, goat cheese the other) and did not have any symptoms. I don't do cheese regularly, but now have butter every day. I feel like my increased food tolerance is a sign that things are improving. I used to not digest raw vegetables, but can now tolerate them better. I also tried dark chocolate and a small French macaron, which contained sugar obviously, without any symptoms!
How do you feel? It's probably the single most important argument. The gut has an effect on the brain (and vice versa), more so than other organs. You should feel better in your gut, but better overall too.
Gas should be minimal. Some gas is normal, but it only if it doesn't stink too much and it doesn't cause any pain whatsoever.
Stool should have a specific shape and color: shape (http://www.gutsense.org/constipation/img/BSF-with-highlight.gif) should be like type 3 or 4, the further away from 3 or 4, the worse. Stool color should be a shade of brown (typically light brown-ish). Variations can indicate problems (see http://www.symptomfind.com/health/stool-color-meanings/).
You shouldn't have any problems holding up your poo for a while (in case you don't a have bathroom nearby). This doesn't mean you should hold it up, but it does mean you should be able to do so when there's no alternative.
Increased food intolerance can be a 'symptom' too, but be careful: don't eat too much of the foods you couldn't tolerate. You might reverse some of the progress you've made.
This list is by no means complete (as a healthy gut can simply manifest itself in many, many positive ways); these are only some ideas that indicate your gut is healthy. I hope you find them helpful.


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Locals of far-flung Rukum build hospital on their own
Published On: August 23, 2018 08:10 AM NPT By: Republica | @RepublicaNepal
RUKUM, Aug 23: Ram Bikram Budha of Jhumlabang in Bhume Rural Municipality-3 of eastern Rukum had lost his wife ten years ago. She died due to lack of treatment during labor pain. Reportedly, she suffered for five days in want of treatment.
Likewise, Ramesh BK, another local, too had lost his wife 12 years ago. His wife died after developing health complications while giving birth to their fourth child.
They are just representative cases of people who have lost their beloved due to lack of access to treatment. Many women and children in the rural settlements have lost their lives untimely as they do not have access to basic health care facilities.
Although the government has promised to make health service accessible to every corner of the country, the settlements in rural Rukum did not catch their eye. Due to such repeated incidents, the locals united to construct a hospital building in their village.
"The pain of losing our loved ones is very deep. In order to avert such deaths in the future, we constructed a hospital ourselves," informed Kamala Budha, a local school teacher.
The locals had set up an institute named 'Jhumlabang Village Foundation' in 2012. The foundation has been providing primary health services to the villagers since the past three years. At present, a hospital building has been constructed in the village with free labor contribution from 65 households.
Various youths who have gone for foreign employment contributed some money for purchase of medicines and salary to health workers, according to Ram Bahadur Budha, chairman of the foundation. "About 80 individuals of the village who are in foreign employment provided financial aid to construct the hospital building," he informed. "So far, the expenses for the construction have reached over Rs 50 million. We did not receive any grant from the government for the construction."
According to him, they requested the district administration many times to construct a health post in their village. "Despite repeated pleas, they did not show interest to help us. So we had to take the initiative ourselves," said chairman Budha.
The hospital's chief Shiva Kumar Budha informed that around seven people visit the hospital daily to receive treatment. Currently, the hospital employ's three health workers.
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M. Meloun, J. Militký, M. Forina: CHEMOMETRICS FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, Volume 2: PC-Aided Regression and Related Methods, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1992, 330 stran, ISBN 0-13-126376-5.
Today, data treatment and data interpretation are highly developed areas that make up the subject known as chemometrics. This interdisciplinary subject aims to extract the maximum amount of information from data, by the use of computer-assisted methods.
This chemometrics text is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduates and postgraduate students in chemistry, other natural sciences, and chemical engineering, and for working professionals in the chemical sciences.
At the college of Chemical Technology in Pardubice (Czechoslovakia) and the College of Pharmaceutical and Food Technology in Genoa (Italy) we have taught chemometrics for some years, and recently we have given post-graduate courses to personnel from the chemistry industry.
The first volume contained five chapters on data analysis by statistical methods. The second volume describes interactive model building and testing. Our intent is that each chapter is reasonably self contained. We explain each method in conjunction with worked examples, and the chapter ends with a summary of the suggested procedure for data treatment. Additional solved problems describe variations on the techniques, and present results on diagnostics performance.
In current chemometrics practice, methods of statistical data analysis are very important. The advent of the personal computer has revolutionized the treatment of experimental data in the chemical laboratory. Our daily lives are directly, or indirectly, affected by the ubiquitous personal computer. Chemists and chemical engineers now make extensive use of personal computers for interactive data analysis.
Most chemometrics approaches have been based on the use of the concepts of classical statistical theory. This textbook introduces the use of interactive data treatment by personal computer. The attitudes underlying exploration, though long used by skilled data analysts, have been little exposed to public view. The book provides the basis for an understanding of exploratory and confirmatory techniques by use of examples and a relatively unsophisticated level of mathematical knowledge. Interactive statistical data analysis is introduced here as a form of numerical or graphical detective work.
Most of the programs used in this book are available in the computer package CHEMSTAT, (or later version called ADSTAT as ADvanced STATistics) which is distributed by Trilobyte Statistical Software Ltd, Pardubice. More information is provided in the Appendix.


The list below includes 455 free or cheap things to do in or near Geneva, Illinois, including 110 different types of inexpensive activities like Parks, History Museums, Mini Golf and Races.
From Island Park to Peck Farm Park, there are a variety of budget-friendly attractions in Geneva and in nearby cities within 25 miles like Lombard, West Chicago, Aurora and Naperville.
Island Park is close to the town and has plenty of shade for cool outings. It's quiet and features excellent conditions for bike riding. The view is enriched by the presence of Fox river.
Peck Farm Park is a park and botanical garden area with a large play area and picnic facilities. Features include an observation silo with panoramic views, a butterfly garden with a variety of colorful species, and expansive flower gardens.
Wheeler Park is a park featuring an 18-hole disc golf course. The course is known to be rather challenging due to the large number of trees that must be maneuvered around. The park also maintains a playground and picnic areas.
The Stone Creek Miniature Golf is an 18-hole mini-golf course that offers challenging golf to individuals of all skill levels. Visitors commonly enjoy attending birthday parties, group outings, or having a night-out at the course.
Besides admiring the old Victorian buildings, in Downtown Geneva Historic Shopping District the traveler can also shop in the boutiques and stores, eat at the restaurants, as well as engage in other activities.
Home of the Kane County Cougars, the Fifth Third Bank Ballpark in Geneva, Illinois plays host to Minor League Play. Class A game acitivity is regularly featured at the site.
The destination is a complete family center. There is a well-stocked gallery which puts up many interesting and informative exhibits. There is a special section for Geneva clothing. It carries the town's rich heritage.
Fox River Trail Runners is a place where locals can organize, attend, train for, and support charity races such as 5ks, 10ks, half marathons, marathons, and a number of themed fun runs.
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Positive analyst comments and acquisition chatter fueled a sharp rise in the e-commerce platform's share price.
What: Shares of Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) surged 26.1% last month, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The provider of cloud-based commerce solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses saw its stock price boosted by an analyst upgrade as well as rumors that the company could be a takeover target.
So what: In early March, research firm Pacific Crest upgraded Shopify's share to "overweight" from "equal weight" and set a $35 12-month price target for the stock. With Shopify's shares trading around $26 at the time, Pacific Crest's price target implied about 35% upside potential for the stock over the next year.
While gross margins on the payments business should remain lower than on the subscription business, the target operating margins are similar for both businesses. Because customers usually start with subscriptions and then add payments, the incremental payment revenue has very limited customer acquisition costs, which we believe is driving improving leverage.
Now what: Further boosting Shopify's stock price was a report by Re/code that tech titan Google has assembled an "early working list" of acquisition targets in the areas of cloud computing and workplace applications, including Shopify.
Shopify would fit nicely under the Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) umbrella. The move would bolster the company's e-commerce and mobile payments solutions. And as fellow Fool Leo Sun points out, Google could use Shopify's features to strengthen its Google Wallet, Android Pay, and Google Express services.
With a market cap of only about $2.4 billion, Shopify could be an attractive acquisition for multiple cash-rich tech leaders. In addition to Alphabet, I wouldn't be surprised to see a bid for Shopify from the likes of Facebook, Amazon, and/or Ebay. Importantly for investors, however, is that Shopify -- as the leading cloud-based commerce platform for small businesses -- appears poised to deliver strong gains in the years ahead, whether or not an acquisition bid materializes.


However, the market of smart home devices is like the Wild West at the moment. Everybody is just starting, and every company wants to sell as many of its products as possible. That's why there is a big push to buy all devices you need from one distributor - have all your switches, lights, thermostats, etc. from the same company, and use their app to control them. If you want to use a few different devices in your smart home system, it gets a little tricky.
So let me tell you about the smart home systems available on the market to help you make the right decision.
Most devices on the market operate within a closed system. That means that you can only use them from a dedicated app, in conjunction with other devices from the same company. If you also want to use devices from other manufacturers, you're out of luck - you will need to use 2 different apps for that, and you can't integrate both of them. Some of them require an additional hub to connect to the internet, some don't.
If you're not sure if the manufacturer has any integrations, it belongs in this category. The less expensive it is, the fewer integrations it will usually have.
IFTTT stands for "if this then that", and is not really a platform, but a neat protocol which enables communication between different systems. In IFTTT there are triggers and actions - a trigger defines under what conditions something will happen, and an action defines what exactly will happen. You can make these yourself, or use some of the community-created recipes. And the best part of it - there are a ton of different services to choose from, not only smart home related! So you can set it up so that when you get a new email, the light on your desk blinks for a moment. Or you can turn your cameras on automatically when your phone detects that you left home. The possibilities are endless, and IFTTT being the easiest platform means that a lot of smart home devices work with it. It runs on a server, so you don't need any additional devices or payments. The only downside is that it may be a little slow sometimes - there can be up to a 5 minute delay from detecting a trigger to firing the action, but most of the time it's closer to 2 seconds.
Before talking about hubs we need to talk about protocols. A protocol is a way to communicate between devices. The one that we all know is WiFi - it's good, it's fast, but it's quite power-consuming, so it's not common among smart home devices, even though some of them use it. IFTTT for example, uses WiFi.
Other ones that I want to talk about are ZigBee and Z-Wave. They have long range and low battery consumption, which makes them perfect for IoT. A lot of devices like switches, detectors etc. operate on one of these two. So if you want to use one of those devices, you need a hub to "translate" the z-protocol to WiFi, so they may connect to the internet, and ultimately, your phone.
That's where smart hubs come into play. Their goal is to combine devices from different companies and protocols and enable controlling them using just one app. The main ones are Wink, Harmony and Smartthings. All 3 work with many different companies and protocols. Harmony stands out because it also combines infrared, which means it can replace remotes for TV or AC that you already have in your house. Smartthings from Samsung on the other hand have allowed the community to write handlers for devices that aren't officially supported, so if you want to do a little bit of DIY you can gain access to many devices that aren't supported anywhere else.
HomeKit is smart home platform released by Apple in 2014. You control it on an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or from Mojave - also on Macs. The UI is simple and aesthetically pleasing, and it's been adding lot of devices under its belt recently. Apple puts strong emphasis on security, which is definitely a plus. The downside is that you need to have Apple TV or a HomePod in your house to setup automation or access the system remotely. Also the possible automations are simpler and more restrictive than those offered by the competition.
Voice assistants are tricky. They are an essential part of a smart home and they might work as a platform, but they work best with other platforms. There are 3 main voice assistants: Alexa from Amazon, Google Assistant from Google, and Siri from Apple.
Siri is the newest in the smart home space and the most underdeveloped of all 3. It is a part of the HomeKit ecosystem mentioned above. You can use it on your phone, or buy a pricey HomePod and set it up as HomeKit hub.
Alexa is the oldest one and has the biggest number of integrations. There is an app that you can use to control connected devices, but the focus is on voice input. Its automations are also limited in comparison with dedicated hubs. If you're willing to create some code, you can even write your own integrations using Amazon AWS.
Google Home is newer, so its compatible devices list is not very long, but what it loses in number of integrations it gains in smart solutions. Its AI is more refined than Amazon's, and it can perform web search much, much better. However as a smart home system it's not great - you cannot control devices by any app, and there are no automations possible. It works, however, with the dedicated smart home hubs mentioned before (Alexa does that too), so you can treat it like an additional device.
Your choice of assistant will mainly come down to platform you like the most. Want to order stuff on Amazon by voice? Go with Alexa. If you're into the G-suite and YouTube, you'll probably want Google Assistant. And if you own lot of Apple products, HomePod might be a good choice for you.
If getting your hands dirty and doing it all by yourself sounds good to you, you can achieve arguably the most with a DIY approach. The biggest, most supported platform for smart home tinkering enthusiasts is called Home Assistant. To use it, you need to download it from Github, and set it up on a small computer, like a Raspberry Pi. It's quite a hassle, but the best part about it is that the software is 100% free.
This software is open-source, so there are a ton of cool scripts and integrations written by somebody. So with a little of know-how, you might build yourself a platform that works with pretty much anything. It takes, however, some time and skill.
So in the end, your platform choice will boil down to what end devices you want in your smart home. Think about which switches, bulbs, thermostats, voice assistants look most appealing to you, and then see what they integrate with. All of the platforms listed have their pros and cons, and figuring out what is important for you is crucial.


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Frontline responders and community volunteers honoured in most diverse honours list ever
Frontline workers and community champions dominate the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2020, published on Saturday 10 October.
This bumper List showcases 414 exceptional contributions of unsung heroes in all four nations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and is the most ethnically diverse list to date, with 13% of recipients from a minority ethnic background.
The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2020 awards 1,495 honours to people across the whole of the UK for their outstanding contributions to UK society.
Of those who have been awarded, 72% go to those who have worked tirelessly for their local community. This reflects the huge voluntary effort across the country in response to COVID-19, with recipients cumulatively supplying millions of free meals to those shielding, delivering care packages to NHS frontline workers and clocking up countless voluntary hours to support those at risk.
David Maguire MBE, 62 years old, from Glasgow, who repurposed his restaurant to provide free food to thousands of NHS workers at the hospital, vulnerable people and school children.
Jolene Miller BEM, 42 years old, from Stockton, County Durham, who volunteered as a paramedic to help her former colleagues while also continuing to work as a train driver.
Healthcare and social care workers make up 14% of the List, for contributions as diverse as setting up the COVID-19 hospitals to delivering medical care on the frontline. Celebrating the World Health Organisation's Year of the Nurse and Midwife, 41 nurses and midwives are included in the List compared with 17 in the New Year Honours List 2020.
Jade Cole BEM, 39 years old from Cardiff, was the only member of her team able to enter the intensive care unit to deliver clinical trials which informed how COVID-19 patients were treated. Her work helped show that there was a survival advantage for patients prescribed a particular drug.
Felicia Kwaku OBE, 52 years old from London, is Associate Director of Nursing at King's College NHS Foundation Trust, who provided a support network to thousands of BAME nurses.
The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2020 is the first List to have 11% of recipients under 30. Young people have provided innovative solutions to keeping the country connected and supplying the NHS with Personal Protective Equipment.
Henry James BEM, 23 years old from Edinburgh, designed, created and delivered PPE for healthcare workers, using 3D printing technology. He's supplied thousands of masks to local businesses, vets, care workers and local food distribution all free of charge.
John Challenger BEM, 17 years old from Flintshire, Clwyd, kept thousands of Sea Cadets together through lockdown, running weekly virtual quizzes and managing forums to keep Cadets connected.
Footballer Marcus Rashford receives an MBE for services to vulnerable children in the UK during Covid-19.
Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator (Derrick Evans) receive MBEs for their accessible, live workouts to encourage people to stay physically and mentally fit during Covid-19. Joining them are Lavina Mehta and Rajinder Singh Harzall 'the Skipping Skih' who receive MBEs for encouraging elderly people to stay active in lockdown.
The majority of the Queen's Birthday Honours List was compiled before the ongoing pandemic. The List was deferred in order to consider nominations for people playing crucial roles during the first months of the COVID-19 effort and has prioritised frontline and community heroes who went above and beyond their duties to help others. These recipients are, like Sir Captain Tom Moore, outstanding examples of the many contributions continuously being made right across the UK, and symbolic of the collective national effort.
As well as those awarded for their response to COVID-19, recipients are being recognised for a wide range of other contributions to society.
There are damehoods for food writer and broadcaster Mary Berry and actress Maureen Lipman, and a knighthood for actor David Suchet.
There are CBEs for Professor Brian Cox, TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, actor Adrian Lester and singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading.
Former rugby legend Gareth Thomas receives a CBE, writer Sally Wainwright receives an OBE, and cricketer Darren Gough is awarded an MBE.
The honours system strives to be proportionally representative of UK society. This Honours List demonstrates the breadth of service given by people from all backgrounds from all across the UK. Of the 1,495 people who received an award:
1,358 candidates have been selected at BEM, MBE and OBE level:
537 at BEM
561 at MBE
260 at OBE
1,069 (72%) of the recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities either in a voluntary or paid capacit
740 women are recognised in the List, representing 49% of the total
13% of the successful candidates come from a BAME background (previous highest was 12% in NY19)
6% of the successful candidates consider themselves to have a disability (under the Equality Act 2010)
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"Dare you see a Soul at the 'White Heat'?" was the unnerving question put by Emily Dickinson in one of the poems she sent to a new correspondent, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in the summer of 1862. The answer, fascinatingly explored in a book that pairs the reclusive Belle of Amherst with the man who assisted in the first posthumous publication of her work, is that Colonel Higginson both dared and feared. Meeting Dickinson for the first time in 1870, after eight years of correspondence, the colonel told his invalid wife he had never encountered anyone "who drained my nerve power so much." Riding home to Newport, a town he loathed, Higginson was nevertheless ready to express gratitude that the newly fashionable resort stood no nearer to Amherst. "I am glad not to live near her," he confessed.
Praising Sewall's work, Wineapple takes him to task only for his dismissal of Higginson, a bias that betrays, as she puts it, "a presumption typical" of Sewall's generation. By restoring the colonel to what now seems his rightful position — as a courageous, principled radical who was Dickinson's chosen reader, admirer and advocate — Wineapple throws what she describes as "a small, considered beam" upon the work and life of these two "seemingly incompatible friends," the recluse and the activist.
That "beam," when directed by a writer as thorough and intuitive as Wineapple, brightens not only the pale figures of the poet and the hitherto elusive colonel but the poems for which, upon occasion, Dickinson drew inspiration from Higginson's more active life.
Already a committed abolitionist, Higginson was about to take to the battlefield with the Union Army's first regiment of freed slaves when — in response to a literary advice column he had written for The Atlantic Monthly — Dickinson sent him four poems, asking "if my Verse is alive." Higginson did not appear to mind that his subsequent editorial suggestions were ignored; neither did he show surprise that such an audacious writer should have selected for her correspondent a man whose own poetry, as he himself recognized, suffered from a deadening sense of decorum. ("My gentility is chronic," he lamented.) The answer, Wineapple leads us to conclude, was that Emily Dickinson sought not a master but a disciple: one whom she could bewitch, baffle ("The Riddle that we guess / We speedily despise," she announced in one penciled offering) and engage as her audience.
The poet also, as Wineapple convincingly argues, relied on Higginson as a valued reporter from the world beyond her garden gate. Emily's brother was among many New Englanders who elected to pay a substitute to take his place in the Union Army. Higginson had joined a clandestine group, known as the Secret Six, that backed John Brown's planned attack on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry. He had helped send rifles and ammunition to Kansas in the anti-slavery cause; in 1856, he had traveled there himself. In other words, Higginson was not afraid to fight for the cause in which he believed.
Possibly, Dickinson's poem "My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun" was inspired by a fiery Higginson essay, published in 1861, just before she began to correspond with him. (Later, she told her friend she had read every line he'd ever written: no mean achievement.) Certainly, the valiant colonel's lost letters from the field of action — written with the "thrill of joy at last on finding myself in the position" where John Brown "only wished to be" — brought firsthand knowledge and fierce emotions into the placid backwater of Amherst. Emerson could squirm at the idea of Frederick Douglass joining the Town and Country Club; Dickinson's lines "God of the Manacle / As of the Free —/ Take not my Liberty —/ Away from Me" suggest that she was imbibing her friend Higginson's accounts, sharing his enthusiasm and, perhaps, spurring him on.
In 1879, two years after the death of his sickly, childless wife, Higginson married a girlish beauty and soon became a doting father. As Wineapple comments, it was with almost perfect symmetry that Emily (who had lost her dour father in 1874) at that same time formed a passionate attachment to Edward Dickinson's "crusty conservative" friend Judge Otis Lord. Surviving scraps of letters suggest she even considered becoming this elderly widower's wife.
Lord died in 1884; Emily followed him two years later. Higginson, surviving both, joined forces with Mabel Todd, the longtime mistress of Austin Dickinson, to proclaim the hidden genius of Austin's sister. Wineapple's account of their testy collaborative editorship blames Todd for most of the notorious "improving" of the poems. While praising Higginson's (usually overruled) wish to promote Dickinson's poetry in its original form, this excellent biographer also reveals a bolder, stronger man than the feeble espouser of good causes devotees of Dickinson have been encouraged to despise. Emily Dickinson herself gains from this new perception in Wineapple's lively, thoughtful and admirable book.


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Aston Martin offered two versions of it's DB7 that were reworked by the talented hands at Zagato, the DB7 Vantage Zagato in 2002 and the DB AR1 the following year, each in an edition of 99 cars with an additional one of each produced for the factory archives. What we have here is neither of those, but rather a fantastic homage to the bygone cars of Aston Martin, but with a twist, as this car is underpinned with the chassis from the DB7 like it's factory built cousins. The Evocation, as it is awkwardly named (do we expect anything less from British coachbuilders?), is arguably far more appealing wearing a skin reminiscent of the greatest of all AM customs, the legendary DB4 GT Zagato from 1960.
Evanta Motor Company in Hertfordshire, England, has been producing replica AMs since 1995 and chose the DB4 Zagato as a fitting tribute to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original. The new car features the optional V12, and retains the DB4 dash and seats coexisting with evident DB7 console and switchgear, but also features thoughtful and welcomed updates including A/C, airbags, and heated seats. The body shell too owes more to modern technology than old-world craftsmanship, tho there is plenty of both evident in the photos. It's made of carbon fiber and kevlar, finished in factory spec "Solent Silver" paint and underneath that sensuous cover is an ingenious bespoke tube chassis/unibody mash-up designed to sit atop the donor chassis while supporting the new body. The company indicates that customer commissioned models will feature made-to-measure pedal lengths and other modifications tailored to the new owner.
Be sure to have a poke around the Evanta Motor Company website for some more, truly amazing photos of their projects. I'll have one DB4 Barchetta please!
Photos © Richard Pardon
(His site is also a great place for a gearhead to spend some time.)
DB7 donor car above, tube frame work being done below.
Vintage Cars Appear to Float in French Artist's Photography
Renaud Marion has an eye for beautiful machines and a great mind for fantasy. He is the photographer behind the imaginative series "Air Drive" which playfully depicts fine vintage automobiles reworked into retro-futuristic vehicles by setting them aloft on an imaginary cushion of air (with a little help from Photoshop). We especially appreciate his love of vintage Mercedes.
While these works remind us of the also non-existant Jetsons car, and even more so Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder, it doesn't take much of our imagination to know we would love to sneak one of these through the Florida Everglades, airboat style, while making our own shortcut to Disney World given the chance.
All images © Renaud Marion.
Meet the Bastard Child of a Mercedes-Benz 540k and a G4 that has a 38-foot Turning Radius
The latest Captain America film is set to premier worldwide sometime in 2014 and that gave us cause to remember our favorite "character" from the first film, the menacing behemoth of an automobile driven by the Captain's nemesis, Red Skull. The car is a purely original design created by Daniel Simon (also the mind behind the grid vehicles from Tron: Legacy) who took only minimal direction from the Director and producers when designing what was described as the fastest car in the world within this fictional universe. Featuring a nose and tail inspired by the luxurious 540K roadster, mashed-up with the lumbering 3-axle G4 staff car for the middle section, and topped off with slit headlight masks as found on WWII military vehicles to evade enemy aircraft... this is not your grandfathers W123 diesel.
The car needed to be produced in full scale, not merely within a computer as graphics, so the 25-foot long beast was built up over a truck chassis, with the bodywork in fiberglass. The entire vehicle is motivated in the real world by a 700-hp Drexler engine (?), but it's imaginary stats sees it powered by a 16-cylinder aircraft engine (tho we count 18-exhaust ports). There is a non-functional Supercharger casing mounted to the front, much more of a Bentley Blower design cue than how Mercedes prepped their supercharged cars, but it works wonderfully on this car.
Personally we would just add a set of CocoMats, and hit the open roads; preferably long straight ones with no curves considering the excessive length of this monster Benz doppelgänger.


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A Pastor's Reflections
"There's Nothing Wrong with This Child!"
Victor Lee Austin
abortion, disabled child, love
A brilliant novel from 2021 that is mostly about life lived in "the portal," that is, on social media, makes, mid-course, a dramatic turn and engages the world of the flesh. The sister of the unnamed female narrator conceives a child who is prenatally diagnosed with a terrible disease that has scrambled her brain cells. Because of oppressive laws imposed by an authoritarian regime, not only is abortion unavailable, but even early inducement of labor is a felony.
In the end, labor is induced at 35 weeks. No one expects the child to live through birth. She does. No one expects her to be able to go home. She does. The narrator, now an aunt, falls in love with her niece; from here the book presents a realistic and honest and compassionate picture of what it is like to love a disabled child—who is never called disabled; the aunt sees everything about her as revealing a "normalness" that we don't often perceive.
We read: "All the worries about what a mind was fell away as soon as the baby was placed in her arms. A mind was merely something trying to make it in the world." Although the baby's brain was a mess, her family still told her stories. "What did a story mean to the baby?" the narrator wonders. "It meant a soft voice, reassurance that everything outside her still went on, still would go on. That the blood of continuity still pumped, that the day ran in its riverbed." When a doctor told the aunt that the baby was having seizures, "she stared at him over her nose like a seagull, because if he wanted her to name a hundred saints and desert mystics who were epileptic, she could do it, starting with the letter A."
Indeed, "Looking at the baby she sometimes believed that nothing was wrong or could ever go wrong, that they were on a planet together where this is simply what a baby was." When, in an early meeting, the neurologist had said that maybe, with luck and perseverance, someday the baby might be able to count to three, "she almost turned the table over on her, because who needed to count to three? Look what counting to three had gotten us."
The book is No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, and if you can handle the raunch and bracket out the politics, you will find wonderfully thoughtful sentences like the ones I have quoted here. I give you one more. When a nurse says of the baby, "Everything's wrong with her," the aunt wants to shout: "With us! . . . Everything wrong with us!"
I think baby Jesus would have been taken as an imperfect, defective child. There was nothing wrong with Jesus' body. But being sinless, he lived entirely by love. And such a person is an affront to the world, a contradiction to everything we live by. Of Jesus, the world says, "Everything's wrong with him!"
But the problem is not in the babies. This is the unsentimental meaning of Christmas.
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San Antonio Spurs: Team consistency on and off the court
By Tiago Fonseca on	 17/10/2017 Basketball Stories
June, 1997. A kid from the Virgin Islands landed in San Antonio and 6,000 fans gathered at the Alamo to greet him.
Unwillingly. Shy. He walked to the podium and said: "It's great being out here. I don't know what to say. I just hope you're ready to win a lot of games." This was Timmy 20 years ago.
And he remained this way the following two decades: Shy. Humble. Efficient.
It's ok to mistake Tim Duncan with the San Antonio Spurs. They're almost the same. I don't even know who molded who anymore. Duncan, as the Spurs, was always sparse in words but consistent on the court throughout his long tenure as a Spurs player.
For the past two decades the San Antonio Spurs have offered us nothing but consistency. Consistency of excellency. Offensively, defensively, on and off the court.
I'm note sure there's a secret formula for their success. But if there is, we will find it somewhere between this Bermuda Triangle compound by the triumvirate of Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich and the Spurs organization itself.
The San Antonio Spurs head-coach Gregg Popovich set the tone since day one. You could see back in 1997 he was different. He takes pride for thinking outside the box. Shortly after Duncan was drafted, Pop went to St. Croix, one of the islands composing the Virgin Islands, so he could personally meet his new addition to the team. They swam together, they spoke about life. Not so much about basketball. "It was like an instant respect and understanding of each other. Almost like we were soul mates", Pop said.
Duncan was well impressed with Pop from the get-go: "It's great to have confidence in who's leading your organization and your team and knowing that they have your best interests at hand," Duncan said in 2014. "That's what made me stay and that's what kept me here all these years."
Even though Popovich has a military background having served five years of required active duty in the United States Air Force, he has a soft touch when dealing with people. Pop has a rare ability to communicate with and demands the same level of effort from Hall of Fame players like Duncan or David Robinson, but also from a rookie or a 10-day signee. They are all relevant pieces of the puzzle. Pop will make you feel like he cares about you because he actually does. It's genuine. But you won't be softened. Because at the same time he won't let you be neglectful. He cares about you, he worries about, he takes you under his wing but he demands high standards. He demands professionalism. And, as I was told when I spend a couple of weeks within the Spurs organization: "We expect nothing but greatness in here."
The San Antonio Spurs are not only an example of consistency in basketball but more importantly in sports by holding the best winning percentage in all major American sports with 63.47%.
Under Popovich, the Spurs have made 20 consecutive playoff appearances, set an NBA record with 18 straight 50-win seasons and won five championships.
When we are talking about this level of consistency it must be something bigger than offensive or defensive schemes.
Gary Neal, former Spurs player, believes Coach Pop is the main reason behind all this success. "He's (Coach Pop) a totally different guy. He takes an interest in the players. That's why everybody that goes through there pretty much does well. Because he can figure out what makes you tick and what makes you play better. I think he's mastered that. I think a lot of the coaches in the NBA don't take a personal interest in the players. They don't know what's going on in the player's life. Pop, in my tenure there, was able to do that. I'm not just talking about locker room speeches or addressing the group. It's bigger than that. It's like when a group is wishing somebody happy birthday it's not as special as when I come to you and say happy birthday. Pop will make that connection. He's able to come to you and say, 'Hey, how's your wife doing?' He'll call your wife by her first name. Call your kids by their first names. It gives you a sense that he cares about you. Any player, if you feel like the coach really cares about you, is gonna go out there and do the best you can do night in and night out. Oh yeah, if you're messing up, he's gonna tell you the truth. But he tells you the good with the bad. That's another quality. He lets you know your role, what he expects of you night in and night out."
Pop will always state the secret behind this success it's on Tim Duncan's side because he was coachable. "Thank you for letting me coach you, Timmy" were his words at the Duncan's jersey retirement ceremony.
It is true that when your star player leads by example and allows the coaching staff to coach, the whole team will easily follow his footprints. However, in this case, either Pop and Duncan's should share merits.
Timmy and Pop have been together for all 1,001 of Duncan's regular season wins. No other player-coach duo has won more than 775 games together. Obviously, RC Buford as General Manager, has done a terrific job finding great talents late in the draft, but Timmy and Pop were the cornerstone.
San Antonio Spurs Assistant Coach Ettore Messina told me he was impressed a 38-year-old Tim Duncan start practicing one month earlier than the rest of team back in 2014-15 season. That was a Tim Duncan with nothing to prove, yet he didn't' know any other way. That's how greatness looks like, I guess.
Pop likes to use logic and he often likes to relativize things. He puts things in perspective. A loss is just a loss, a win is a just a win, and at the end of the day this is just a game. There are no pointing fingers, there are no bad habits. Win as a group, loose as a unit. Don't take yourself too serious. "Get over yourself", he likes to tell his players. Leave your ego at the door. Trust your teammate. And as Timmy said back in June 1997 "I just hope you're ready to win a lot of games". That's what the Spurs do after all.
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When I visited in Oregon, my friend Susan took me to the Oregon Garden, in Silverton, Oregon. It is a kind of Botanical Garden and Demonstration garden. It wasn't as it's peak in late September, but to an Arizonan, it looked pretty good.
The were getting ready for a wedding. The garden is the most popular site for outdoor weddings.
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Euro 2016: Group C preview
Niall Clarke
By Niall Clarke
Euro 2016 Group C preview and predictions
Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Northern Ireland
World Champions Germany head into Euro 2016 as one of the favourites for the title, but they have a tough group to get out of first.
The 2014 World Cup winners will be looking to follow in Spain, France and their own footsteps and win the World Cup and European Championships back to back for the second time, but Die Mannschaft do not seem the force they were in Brazil two years ago.
With many of the old guard gone and injury concerns, Joachim Loew has a difficult task in leading Germany in this tournament. Marco Reus is a big loss, but the squad is still packed with talent such as Mesut Ozil, Toni Kroos, Manuel Neuer and others. The main source of goals will likely come from Thomas Muller who always seems to be in a contender for the golden boot.
The lack of out and out full backs could be a problem at the back for Germany as they often use makeshift full backs in matches. Players out of their natural position often leads to them not being able to play to their full capabilities, and that could mean that the German defence could be leaky.
Despite plenty of problems, Germany remain a European powerhouse and should make the latter stages of the tournament . They have enough creativity in midfield to unlock any defence, and if Muller is firing up top then they will have some goals in them too.
Ukraine will have their sights set on the knockout stages as they attempt to pip neighbours Poland and Northern Ireland to qualify from Group C.
Yevhen Konoplyanka and Andriy Yarmolenko are the stars of the Ukraine side and will no doubt be the main threats. However could the team be too reliant on these two to produce a bit of magic? Mykhaylo Fomenko has been accused of being too cautious with his set up, and if Konoplyanka or Yarmolenko get injured or not in form, then they will find goals hard to come by.
Having said that, the cautious approach will make Ukraine a difficult side to beat. They should fancy themselves to make the last 16 at the very least with only Germany being the clear better side in the group.
Much like their neighbours and rivals Ukraine, Poland will have aspirations of making the knockout stages of Euro 2016.
It could be argued that this Polish squad is the strongest in around 30 years. The mood at home is more that of cautious optimism than expectation, which after not really making an impact four years a go, seems like the best way forward.
The squad has good depth but the main player they will look to is Robert Lewandowski. The Bayern Munich striker is a superstar in his native country and is one of the world's best strikers. Lewandowski will be a contender for golden boot, and his goal scoring form will be key to Polish chances.
Northern Ireland will head into Euro 2016 with nothing to lose as they attempt to 'go light up Europe' by making it out of Group C.
It has been 30 years since they qualified for a major tournament, so there's a wave of excitement surrounding the team. Michael O'Neill's side have hit the ascendency and topped their qualifying group. The last 16 seems like a realistic aim, but they will have to perform well and draw on their more experienced players such as Steven Davis.
O'Neill does not like to tinker with his side in order to keep a consistent foundation within the squad. Northern Ireland are a good unit, but if any injuries should occur, especially to key players, then that will undoubtedly have an impact. Keeping everyone fit and keeping that base will be key to qualification as they do not have the technical capabilities of the other sides in Group C.
Presuming Germany top the ground as they should, the race for second will be interesting. If Lewandowski is firing then Poland will have enough goals to sneak through. If the Bayern Munich striker is off kilter, then that may open the door for Ukraine or Northern Ireland.
1st– Germany, 2nd– Poland, 3rd– Ukraine, 4th– Northern Ireland.
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curtis June 6, 2016
Germany won't be following in france or spains footsteps because they were actually the first to hold both European & world titles at the same time.
They won euro 72 and followed it up with the 74 world cup win.
if they win euro 2016 they'd be the first to achieve it twice.
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Thanks for the correction


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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaking at a press conference outside Napa State Hospital, Napa, CA, Mar 24, 2022. (Photo: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock)
Is Gov. Newsom's Latest Emergency Order an Emergency, or Another Opportunity ?
Newsom kept draconian Covid restrictions/mandates in place, then left the country for a Cabo vacation, went on a book tour, and attended the Super Bowl
By Katy Grimes, January 17, 2023 1:50 pm
Governor Gavin Newsom signed another storm recovery and emergency Executive Order on Monday, continuing to add state support as storms continue to batter California all over the state, the Globe reported.
The governor's latest executive order declaring a state of emergency prompted several Globe readers to contact us, wondering if this is really an emergency worthy of the declaration, or if it is just one more opportunity for Gov. Newsom to get his mitts on more emergency funding – but more importantly, more mostly unlimited powers.
As the Globe reported, since late December, record rain and snowfall has besieged the state, responsible for at least 19 deaths, destruction all over California, and entire communities to be evacuated. As a result, in addition to local responses, both the state and federal governments have declared emergency orders, allowing extra funding to flow to the disaster areas.
On the state level, Governor Newsom issued a state of emergency over the storms earlier this month, mobilizing California agencies, including the California National Guard and the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES).
At least the storms are an obvious emergency.
Last February, a GOP effort in the Assembly to end Governor Gavin Newsom's two year COVID-19 state of emergency fell short of votes, with the Assembly voting 48-15 along party lines to keep the order in place until at least the current end date of March 31st, the Globe reported.
California Democrats just voted to continue the State of Emergency even as we host the Super Bowl. pic.twitter.com/egFMTi1TeA
— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) February 10, 2022
That order was extended again, and again, and again. And then in the fall, on October 2022, Gov. Newsom announced he would give up his Covid emergency powers February 28, 2023, touting "California's pandemic response saved tens of thousands of lives, protected the economy, distributed nation-leading financial assistance and built up an unprecedented public health infrastructure."
Throughout the years of Covid, the California Legislature could have and should have ended the governor's emergency powers. It's as if they were afraid to.
Berkeley Law explains the Governor's Emergency Powers when a State of Emergency is Declared:
The Emergency Services Act (ESA) gives California's governor broad emergency authority. Typically, the state constitution requires policy decisions (what we should do going forward) to be made through the deliberative legislative process.[1] But in a crisis, that authority (what we should do right now) may be consolidated and exercised by one executive. After declaring an emergency, a governor may disregard statutory law to direct state resources in responding to the crisis. By granting the governor these powers, the state legislature delegated its power to fix public policy and deploy funds during emergencies. This raises some separation of powers concerns that, while meritorious, have not proved so severe that California risks dictatorship.
The ESA grants the governor several powers, including the power to:
Suspend any regulatory statute, statutes for state business procedures, and any state agency edicts.[6]
Commandeer private property or personnel (except news services).[7]
Make expenditures from any available fund.[8]
"The law says that the Governor shall terminate the state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant," then-Assemblyman Kevin Kiley said in February. "And I do have to add, when you look at the Governors own behavior, when he went to a football game with 70,000 fans this past weekend and declined to wear a mask on many occasions, I'm not really sure what message that sends."
"I don't expect the Legislature to restrict any of the edicts of Newsom," a Globe reader wrote in an email. "I think under the section, Analysis bullet point three, allows for spending from any source. Why would Newsom or any Governor restrict themselves from looting any accounts? In other words the Emergency Services Act allows complete discretionary expenditures from any and all accounts. A perfect excuse for Newsom."
"What could be done is for the opposition to Newsom to point out this very real likely abuse to the public. Also I think Newsom could suspend Envrionmental and Water rules using the ESA. That could mean filling water storage throughout the State – Delta Smelt be dammed, so to speak. I doubt Newsom has so decreed. As I read we are continuing to allow water to flow freely to the sea when we, under the ESA could first replenish our storage capabilities. Newsom should be exposed and questioned."
"As the saying goes, never let a crises go to waste. Some ambitious Democrats might be tempted to prod the Newsom as well. A bunch want DiFi's nest."
He has a point – several points, in fact.
"I wonder if 'the major questions doctrine' might be employed in some ancillary issues. Gas Stoves, Schools, CARB mandates among others," he added.
However, this is Gov. Newsom we are talking about.
Remember, it was California Gov. Gavin Newsom who extended California's COVID State of Emergency in November 2021 into its second year, ordered all students ages 5-11 to receive COVID vaccinations in order to attend in-person school, and kept mask mandates and vaccine requirements in place.
And then he left the country to take a week-long vacation in Cabo San Lucas.
And then Gov. Newsom traveled the country on a book tour. He stopped by a few talk shows on that book tour: "He went on the View, the Daily Show, and the Late Late Show in what might have been called a Tour de Lies," Assemblyman Kevin Kiley said.
Then Gov. Newsom imposed another statewide indoor mask mandate.
One month later, while 5 year olds were forced to mask all day in California, Gavin Newsom and the mayors of LA and San Francisco enjoyed the Rams v. 49ers game maskless – in a packed stadium of 80,000. That means children went school in Los Angeles in a mask on Monday morning, while 80,000 Sports fans got to have unmasked fun only the day before, the Globe reported.
The point is, this is how seriously Gov. Gavin Newsom takes his own declared State of Emergency for a "pandemic" – it's a means to an end to him.
How will this latest emergency, and the incoming funding, play out?
Katy Grimes
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8 thoughts on "Is Gov. Newsom's Latest Emergency Order an Emergency, or Another Opportunity ?"
David J Cavalieri says:
He is correct, we are in a state of emergency. We have idiots who only care about power running our state.
The only emergency Californians face is having a petty dictator like Democrat Gov. Newsom in power. He needs to be brought before a tribunal and be held accountable for crimes against humanity for locking healthy Californians and small businesses down (while excluding himself and his cronies) during the COVID-19 scamdemic and for mandating experimental mRNA shots that have injured and killed thousands of innocent Californians. He and his soul have a lot to answer for?
showandtell says:
Gruesome has cried wolf and jerked Californians around so many hundreds of times and for so long we've lost count. We don't know if we're coming or going anymore and apparently neither does he. He has single-handedly made the term "State of Emergency" meaningless. Good job, Gavin! And the people in this state should not be in the eternal position of having to do higher math to try to figure out what kind of trickery this guy might be up to when we actually ARE in a dire situation and we actually DO need an emergency response.
Fed Up says:
"Let them eat cake."
Marie Antoinewsom
No kidding, Fed Up. "Newso-sistic Personality Disorder." Re-named because you-know-who is the prototype.
There are currently three state of emergencies in CA, the scamdemic remains for Newsom's one man rule, drought emergency and flood emergency. Yes a drought and flood at the same time. Just covering all the bases. The only emergency in CA is GAVIN.
CriticalDfence9 says:
Keep in mind – this Narcissist in Chief Governor is one of Klaus Schwab's "Young Global Leaders", similar to Justin Trudeau in Canada and Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand, and he "rules" with the same tyrannical diktats that those two sociopaths do to their populations…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/top-10-creepiest-most-dystopian-things-pushed-world-economic-forum-wef/5782636
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dangerous-thought-control-from-world-economic-forum-globalism-transhumanism-inevitable-destiny-humanity/5805006
Praise Goodness, Ardern is OUT shortly… one down, more to GO….


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Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879-1926
CHRISTINE ARKINSTALL
Series: Toronto Iberic
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt6wrg3p
Arkinstall's study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the central role of women in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century democracy in Spain.
Subjects: Language & Literature, Sociology
In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain, recent memories of the First Republic (1873–4) and aspirations to bring back a second republic were the galvanizing forces that held together an often divided minority group of writers, intellectuals, and political figures critical of Restoration governments. They perceived the restoration in 1875 of a constitutional monarchy, in alliance with the two main political parties, as achieving little to shift established socioeconomic structures and grant the lower classes greater agency. The reforms initiated under the Glorious Revolution (1868) and the short-lived First Republic had only intimated the democratic society that was the...
1 Transcribing the Past, Writing the Future: Spiritism, Feminism, and an Aesthetics of Emancipation in the Writings of Amalia Domingo Soler (1835–1909)
Amalia Domingo Soler, recognized in international bibliographies on spiritism as the most significant female figure in that movement,² played an extremely active part in freethinking circles and anticlerical thought from the end of the 1870s until her death from pneumonia on 29 April 1909. According to María del Carmen Simón Palmer, Domingo Soler began publishing as early as February 1858 in the Sevillan periodicalEl Museo Literario. She also contributed to Madrid'sÁlbum de las Familias(May–July 1866), Madrid'sAmigo de las Damas(1873), and Barcelona'sRevista de Estudios Psicológicos(1876). From 1894 she was editor-in-chief of the spiritist...
2 Towards the Republic through (R)evolution: Ángeles López de Ayala (1856–1926)
Of the three women who feature in this project, Ángeles López de Ayala was arguably the most significant in freethinking and feminist circles from the mid-1880s until her death in 1926. In this first of two chapters, I chart her life, her activism, and her sociopolitical thought, drawing this information in part from the few studies that exist but more especially, from freethinking periodicals of the day that allow a more complete picture of this remarkable woman and writer to emerge. The emphasis in my discussion here will be placed on her political and feminist activities and writings, which constantly...
3 Domestic Politics, National Agendas: López de Ayala's Literary Works
The engagement with the tenets of Romanticism that Domingo Soler's and López de Ayala's texts display, as discussed in chapters 1 and 2, is not fortuitous, given that Romanticism, as Labanyi emphasizes, constitutes the "literary expression of liberalism" (1995, 8). That literary and political movement, however, was constructed according to terms that rendered it difficult for women to participate in culture and society as full subjects: the consolidation of the private/public divide, gendered as feminine and masculine and justified by biological theories on sexual difference, the foregrounding of the individual, which clashed with the self-sacrificing ideal of the Angel in...
4 Federal Republicanism, Feminism, and Freethinking in (Trans)national Arenas: The Sociopolitical Poetics of Belén Sárraga (ca. 1873–1950)
Teresa Mañé's (Soledad Gustavo)La Revista Blancais acknowledged as one of the foremost anarchist periodicals in early twentieth-century Spain.² Yet prior to that publication, another periodical, also edited by a female friend of Mañé's, emerged as a beacon for left-wing political ideals harnessed to feminism and working-class objectives. The periodical in question was Belén Sárraga'sLa Conciencia Libre, to which Domingo Soler and especially López de Ayala also contributed. Like her Republican sisters, through her life and creative writing Sárraga played a protagonist role in fashioning the foundations of Spanish democracy. Like them also, she had all but vanished...
Final Reflections
In 1889, the year in which López de Ayala's playDe tal siembra, tal cosechawas first performed and she and Domingo Soler established the Sociedad Autónoma de Mujeres, their contemporary, D. Juan P. Criado y Domínguez, wrote:
Another very great virtue that we observe in Spanish women writers, besides their adherence to the Catholic religion, is their aversion to politics with its unrelenting struggles, consuming agitations, hateful suspicions and distrust, mean and dark intrigues; the exotic breed of woman devoted with overwhelming passion to the pervasive internal conflicts of active politics is, thankfully, unknown in Spain; so if …...


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Dukkha: Hungry Ghosts - A Sam Reeves Martial Arts Thriller
by Loren W. Christensen
The following is an excerpt from Dukkha: Hungry Ghosts. Sam Reeves and his girlfriend Mai are enjoying a morning at Saturday Market, a sprawling weekend bazaar along Portland's waterfront. From the top of a bridge at the market, a crazed man, "Tonto," announces that he will be the crowds designated shooter.
A Quiet Morning. Or is it?
Bruce Lee said there was no such thing as a sixth sense, only a sharpening of the five. All five or six of mine are humming right now. Something isn't right here. I don't carry an off duty gun. In fact, I'm hit and miss when it comes to carrying it on duty.
An arrow bounces off the pavement five feet to my right.
SSSsssst
Another, three feet away. This guy can load fast and he's shooting at me because I'm running against the crowd. I duck behind a snow cone stand and punch in 911 on my phone.
"Detective Sam Reeves here," I say, before the operator can say anything. "You getting calls on a shooter on the Burnside Bridge?"
"The screens are lit up," she says. "You down there?"
The crowd is dispersed around me now but people keep breaking away from hiding spots to run to what they think is a better one. Over to my right, an arrow to the back of the leg brings a heavyset woman down. She stumbles over the curb and lands face first onto the sidewalk. I look back toward the fountain but I don't see Mai.
"Reeves?"
"I'm here. Have the ambulances standby at Second and Ankeny until an officer clears them to come in. There are at least six victims in the market area and at least one up on the bridge."
"There are four on the bridge. Where are you? You armed?"
Damn. "Unarmed. I'm close to the foot of the stairs, the one connecting the bridge to the Saturday Market."
"Aaaaaghh!" A young man reaches feebly for an arrow that has punched through one side of his face and extended out the other. He spirals to the pavement, hitting his head with a sickening thump.
"Check. Our closest car is still a minute out."
I force myself to look away from the young man. "Uh, hold on." I peer around the corner of the stand to see the shooter aiming down in the direction of the street separating the Saturday Market from the Tom McCall Waterfront Park. I sprint about twenty feet to a stand selling incense. A bearded man sits behind the displays, an arrow protruding from his chest. His eyes are closed but he's breathing.
I hear sirens wailing from every direction. I take a deep breath, hold it in, and ease it out. "I … oh man. No no no."
"Reeves? Are you okay?"
About ten yards from my one o'clock … I think it's the young mother who tried to sell us weed. I'm sure of it. She's crumpled next to a helium tank and a huge bouquet of balloon animals bobbing in the slight breeze. An arrow protrudes from the back of her neck. "Where is the baby?"
"What baby, Reeves?"
Didn't know I said it out loud. I take another deep breath, try to hold it but I can't.
"I'm going up the stairs after him," I say. "Tell the responding cars I'm in the area. I'm wearing blue jeans and a black polo shirt. I'm going to pocket my cell right now but I'll keep it on."
"Check. Keep me updated."
"What are you going to do, Sam?"
I jerk around. "Mai, what the hell?" She's bent forward, breathing hard, her hands on her knees. "I told you to wait—"
"And you thought I would?"
"Damn-it, Mai. You …" What's the point? Never has she stayed behind when I've asked. Her nursing instincts kick in and she starts to move toward the man in the booth with the arrow in his chest. "No, no," I say grabbing her arm. "He's in the open. He got shot because he's in the open."
I quick-peek around the wall. Actually, the wall is nothing more than several colorful hanging scarves. An arrow would pass through it as easy as it cuts through the air. The shooter is facing this way now and he's loading an arrow into his bow. I pull my head back. I think he saw me.
I pull Mai around so she's squatting on my far side. "Follow me. I start duck walking toward the back of the booth.
An arrow rips through the scarves right where we had been standing and strikes the counter of a booth behind us, one selling Native American pottery.
"Keep moving," I say, still duck walking and keeping myself between Mai and the shooter. We stop at the back corner behind three trashcans, each with a metal lid and a ring handle in the center. The lids are only about thirty inches across but there is no time to be picky. I hand one to Mai. "Keep it in front of you like this, like a shield." She nods. "Come on. We need to move." We duck walk until we're near the front corner of the booth.
"Are we going up on top of the bridge, Sam?" No trace of fear in her voice.
I quick-peek around the wall. The shooter's back is to the railing and he's firing toward someone on the bridge. He extracts another arrow from the quiver, loads, and fires. He does it under five seconds. And now he is doing it again.
"Yes," I say. "Keep your shield in front of your head and chest," I lead the way in an all-out sprint toward the steps. I point toward the stairs. "Stop at the bottom."
Thump! Loud, metallic sounding.
"SHIT!" Mai shouts.
I crouch lower and look back. Mai has slowed and is staring at an arrow protruding through her lid where the pointy end has punched through about three inches, missing her face by no more than two.
"Don't stop, Mai," I shout, as another arrow bounces off the pavement to my left. "Run directly behind me and hold your shield out and away from your face."
SSSsssst. Another arrow rips through the air where Mai had been running next to me two seconds ago.
It's another fifteen yards to the base of the stairs, too far under the bridge for the shooter to see us.
SSSsssst Bam! Glass shatters behind us.
What the …
"He has a gun now!" Mai shouts.
Five yards.
SSSsssst Bam!
"Oooow! Sam! I think—"
"I know. I got hit too. Keep going. It's pieces of pavement—the bullet hit off to our right."
We're at the landing. I look straight up and see the top of the shooter's compound bow. He must be leaning out to look for us. I extract my wallet, longish and made of black leather, and lean out so the man can see me. I thrust the wallet upward as if taking aim with a gun. He snaps his head back. Hopefully, he thinks I'm armed and will stay away from the stairs.
Mai looks at me. Are her eyes asking me why I don't have my weapon? She knows why but it's hard to have empathy when people are dying all around us. Looks to be at least fifty steps to the top with two turns and two landings. I can't see the top entryway to the bridge sidewalk. Not good.
I take Mai's shield and whack the arrow against the railing. The feather side breaks off and I wiggle the rest out. Nasty looking point, big and triangular shaped. "You okay?" I ask, handing the lid back. "I really want you to stay right here. This is police business."
"We need to get him," she says, her beautiful face tense with determination. "We waste time here."
"Mai, I'm unarmed. I have to go up because … I have to. I can't jeopardize your safety because I'm not carrying—"
"We are wasting time, Sam."
Damn-it! We're going to have to talk about this, but not now. "Okay. Stay behind me and keep your shield up. We'll go up each set of stairs fast, pause on the landing to look, then do the next set fast."
Sirens, approaching. Between the fountain and us, frightened people crouch behind whatever they can find for cover. Squirming bodies lay sprawled here and there, some motionless. What was filled with a moving sea of people is now virtually empty.
"Let's go," I say.
We spring up the first set of steps, about a dozen, and pause to look up. There's the entrance to the bridge. No Tonto aiming an arrow down at us. We sprint up the next set and pause on its landing. Still clear.
"One more," I say. "We'll pause short of the top access." Mai nods and we take off on the last leg. I stop about three steps short of the entrance and lean out far enough to see the bridge sidewalk and street with one eye.
"Oh-My-God," I breathe.
Loren W. Christensen
Loren W. Christensen began his law enforcement career in 1967. He started as a 21-year-old military policeman in the U.S. Army, serving stateside and as a patrolman in Saigon, Vietnam, during the war. At 26, he joined the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau working various jobs to include street patrol, gang enforcement, intelligence, bodyguarding, and academy trainer, retiring after 25 years. In 1997, Loren began a full-time career as a writer, now with nearly 60 books in print with seven publishers … More »


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Fears grow as Bear Grylls spends third week lost in Whitechapel Ikea
Written by Clive Danton
There was growing concern for the safety of survivalist icon, Bear Grylls, last night, following his failure to make contact with his team after spending his third week inside the labyrinth of the Whitechapel branch of furniture retail giant, IKEA.
Despite warnings from close friends and fellow adventurers, Grylls entered the cavernous building on Boxing Day, telling his family that he wanted to get a new sink for the downstairs bathroom while the sale was on.
At the end of his first week inside the building, he made radio contact with his base camp in nearby Aldgate.
He told his team that he had become hopelessly lost in the soft furnishings section on the first floor, and had been spending nights sleeping in a reclining chair.
In his final message, some three hours later, he said that he was hoping to make an attempt to reach bathroom supplies at first light.
Since then, there has been complete radio silence, and there is now growing concern that he may have accidentally wandered into the wall and ceiling fittings section and become confused and disorientated by the flashing chandelier-style lights, or that he may have taken the wrong escalator and become lost in the forbidding depths of the 20,000 square metres-basement.
Fellow survivalist, Ray Mears, expressed his concern for Grylls' safety last night: "I warned Bear not to risk it alone, or to at least take a GPS device so that his movements could be tracked at all times.
"I dread to think what may have happened to him. If he's wandered into the stylish wall prints section, I fear it may well be all up for him."
Grylls' plight mirrors the doomed expedition by legendary British explorer, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who was lost with 7 companions while trying to find a set of matching bean bags in the Shoreditch branch of contemporary furnishings giant, Habitat, in January 1906.
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Lady Gaga: 'Iron Maiden changed my life'
Pop star joins in with crowd for 'high-fiving and fist-pumping' metal show
By Katie Parsons
Lady Gaga has announced that British metal icons Iron Maiden "changed my life".
In an audio interview with Rolling Stone the singer recalled her experience watching the heavy metal band at their concert in Florida on April 17 this year, saying: "It was just awesome."
Gaga headed down into the centre of the crowd to watch Iron Maiden's classic 'The Number Of The Beast' at the show. She explained: "We were dancing and singing and everyone was just so into it. Jumping and dancing… I mean, it was like absolute no judgment, no prejudice, [just] freedom and love for music. It doesn't matter who you are; you don't need to know anything about music to love it. Everybody was hugging me, high-fiving, fistpumps in the air."
She also said she admires what Iron Maiden have achieved in their career and aims to follow in their path. "The devotion of the fans moving in unison, pumping their fists, watching the show, when I see that, I see the paradigm for my future and the relationship I want to have with my fans," she said. "Iron Maiden's never had a hit song, and they tour stadiums around the world, and their fans live, breathe and die for Maiden, and that is my dream. That is my dream."