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GW2.rb is a Ruby gem that wraps the GW2 API in a Ruby-flavored way. It is currently under development and is not ready for production yet.

## Table of Contents
* [Installation](#installation)
* [Usage](#usage)
  * [Standard Methods](#standard-methods)
    * [Achievements](#achievements)
    * [Dailies](#dailies)
    * [Legends](#legends)
    * [Professions](#professions)
    * [Skills](#skills)
    * [Specializations](#specializations)
    * [Traits](#traits)
  * [Authenticated Methods](#authenticated-methods)
* [Development](#development)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [License](#license)

## Installation
_Please note this is not hosted on RubyGems yet! This is merely placeholder information!_
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'gw2rb'
```

And then execute:

    $ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

    $ gem install gw2rb

## Usage
To initialize a client, you can call `GW2.client` with or without an API key:

```ruby
authenticated_client = GW2.client("BEST-API-KEY-EVER")
client = GW2.client
```

An API key is necessary to access many of the GW2 API endpoints and is highly recommended.

Methods return arrays or hashes with JSON-formatted key/value pairs.

### Standard Methods
The following methods can all be called without an API key.

#### Achievements
##### #all_achievements
Returns an array of all achievement IDs.

##### #achievement_info(id)
Returns a hash of information for the achievement IDs specified with the keys: `:id`, `:name`, `:description`, `:requirement`, `:locked_text`, `:type`, `:flags`, and `:tiers`.

The required `id` parameter takes:
* an Integer => `achievement_info(1)`
* a String of ID number(s) =>  `achievement_info("1,2,3")` or `achievement_info("1")`
* an Array of ID numbers => `achievement_info([1,2,3])` or `achievement_info(["1", "2", "3"])`

```ruby
achievement = @client.achievement_info(1)
achievement[:name]
# returns "Centaur Slayer"
```

##### #achievement_categories(id)
Returns an array of all achievement categories when not passed an ID.

When an ID is provided, returns a hash of information for the achievement category ID with the keys: `:id`, `:name`, `:description`, `:order`, `:icon`, and `:achievements`.

The optional `id` parameter takes:
* an Integer => `achievement_categories(1)`
* a String of ID number(s) =>  `achievement_categories("1,2,3")` or `achievement_categories("1")`
* an Array of ID numbers => `achievement_categories([1,2,3])` or `achievement_categories(["1", "2", "3"])`

```ruby
category = @client.achievement_categories(1)
category[:name]
# Returns "Slayer"
```

##### #achievement_groups(optional_id)
Returns an array of all achievement groups when not passed an ID.

When an ID is passed, returns a hash of information for the achievement category ID with the keys: `:id`, `:name`, `:description`, `:order`, and `:categories`.

The optional `id` parameter takes:
* a String of ID(s) =>  `achievement_groups('"45410F60-AB66-4146-A0F7-CE99250C4CB0",
  "A4ED8379-5B6B-4ECC-B6E1-70C350C902D2"')` or `achievement_groups("A4ED8379-5B6B-4ECC-B6E1-70C350C902D2")`
* an Array of IDs => `achievement_groups(["45410F60-AB66-4146-A0F7-CE99250C4CB0",
  "A4ED8379-5B6B-4ECC-B6E1-70C350C902D2"])`

```ruby
group = @client.achievement_groups("56A82BB9-6B07-4AB0-89EE-E4A6D68F5C47")
group[:name]
# Returns "General"
```

#### Dailies
##### #dailies
Returns a hash of information for today's daily achievements with the keys: `:pve`, `:pvp`, `:wvw`, and `:special`.

```ruby
dailies = @client.dailies
dailies[:pve]
# Returns an array of hashes where each item (hash) in the array represents a daily pve achievement
```

##### #dailies_tomorrow
Returns a hash of information for tomorrow's daily achievements with the keys: `:pve`, `:pvp`, `:wvw`, and `:special`.

```ruby
dailies_tomorrow = @client.dailies_tomorrow
dailies_tomorrow[:wvw]
# Returns an array of hashes where each item (hash) in the array represents a daily wvw achievement for tomorrow.
```

#### Legends
##### #all_legends
Returns an array of all legend IDs.

##### #legend_info(id)
Returns a hash of information for specified profession(s) with the keys: `:id`, `:swap`, `:heal`, `:elite`, and `:utilities`.

The optional `id` parameter takes:
* a String of ID(s) => `legend_info("Legend2, Legend4")` or `legend_info("Legend2")`
* an Array of IDs => `legend_info(["Legend2", "Legend4"])`

```ruby
legendary_assassin = @client.legend_info("Legend2")
legendary_assassin[:elite]
# Returns the skill ID (28406) to be resolved using #skill_info
```

#### Professions
##### #all_professions
Returns an array of all profession IDs (which are strings).

##### #profession_info
Returns a hash of information for specified profession(s) with the keys: `:id`, `:name`, `:icon`, `:icon_big`, `:specializations`, `:weapons`, and `:training`.

The required `id` parameter takes:
* a String of ID(s)=>  `profession_info("Mesmer, Thief")` or `profession_info("Mesmer")`
* an Array of IDs => `profession_info(["Mesmer", "Thief"])`

```ruby
mesmer_info = @client.profession_info("Mesmer")
mesmer_info[:weapons][:Focus][:skills]
# Returns an array of hashes where each item (hash) in the array represents a weapon skill
```

#### Skills
##### #all_skills
Returns an array of all skill IDs.

##### #skill_info
Returns a hash of information for specified skill(s) with the keys: `:id`, `:name`, `:icon`, `:chat_link`, `:type`, `:weapon_type`, `:professions`, `:slot`, as well as a large number of optional keys. For the complete list, see the [official API documentation for skills endpoint](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:2/skills#Response).

The required `id` parameter takes:
* an Integer => `skill_info(5490)`
* a String of ID number(s) =>  `skill_info("5490,5491,5492")` or `skill_info("5490")`
* an Array of ID numbers => `skill_info([5490,5491,5492])` or `skill_info(["5490", "5491", "5492"])`

```ruby
warrior_skill_info = @client.skill_info(14375)
warrior_skill_info[:name]
# Returns a string with the name of the skill e.g. "Arcing Slice"
```

#### Specializations
##### #all_specializations
Returns an array of all specialization IDs.

##### #specialization_info
Returns a hash of information for specified specialization(s) with the keys: `:id`, `:name`, `:profession`, `:elite`, `:icon`, `:background`, `:minor_traits`, and `:major_traits`.

The required `id` parameter takes:
* an Integer => `specialization_info(1)`
* a String of ID number(s) =>  `specialization_info("1,2,3")` or `specialization_info("1")`
* an Array of ID numbers => `specialization_info([1,2,3])` or `specialization_info(["1", "2", "3"])`

```ruby
dueling_info = @client.specialization_info(1)
dueling_info[:minor_traits]
# Returns an array of integers where each item (integer) in the array represents a trait ID which can be resolved using #trait_info
```

#### Traits
##### #all_traits
Returns an array of all skill IDs.

##### #trait_info
Returns a hash of information for specified skill(s) with the keys: `:id`, `:name`, `:icon`, `:description` `:specialization`, `:tier`, `:slot`, as well as optional `:facts`, `:traited_facts`, and `:skills`.

The required `id` parameter takes:
* an Integer => `trait_info(2058)`
* a String of ID number(s) =>  `trait_info("2056,2057,2058")` or `trait_info("2058")`
* an Array of ID numbers => `trait_info([2056,2057,2058])` or `trait_info(["2056", "2057", "2058"])`

```ruby
lingering_light = @client.trait_info(2058)
lingering_light[:name]
# Returns a string with the name of the trait e.g. "Lingering Light"
```

TODO: All other standard methods.

### Authenticated Methods

TODO: These :wink:

## Development

After checking out the repo, run `bin/setup` to install dependencies. Then, run `rake spec` to run the tests. You can also run `bin/console` for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run `bundle exec rake install`. To release a new version, update the version number in `version.rb`, and then run `bundle exec rake release`, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the `.gem` file to [rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org).

## Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sinthetix/gw2rb. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the [Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org) code of conduct.

## License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

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The Writing Gourmet
Soulmates with Paws Excerpt Makes Magazine Cover Story (Valentine's Month Issue)
By Cal Orey
Soulmates with Paws' Author's Tie to John Steinbeck (and Fallen Leaf Lake)
As a seasoned author living at South Lake Tahoe, I give credit to author John Steinbeck who lived and wrote here before I did. It was his adventurous lifestyle and love for dogs that paved the road for me…
We both were close to many Golden State regions (including Gilroy, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and the sierras). Enter Gilroy: It is a city in Northern California's Santa Clara County, south of Morgan Hill, and has decades of flashbacks for me.
In the eighties, I took a bus out of San Jose and performed hours of research in the John Steinbeck Library in Salinas; later writing a story about the author and his love for canines, published in Dog World Magazine. And I chose Steinbeck who was born in Salinas and lived in Carmel as one of my three authors to study for the oral exams in graduate school at San Francisco State University.
Not to forget, as a fan of Travels with Charley, inspired, I hitched and hiked with my dog, a black Lab, across the U.S. And these days, I continue to write in my cabin, as I have a loyal canine by my side--like during the epic and surreal California superstorms of 2023. Surrounded by heavy wet snow, road closures, power outages on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe, while SF Bay Area and Central CA was flooded--it was worst of times but I had my dog to comfort me. (Click Title Link and read entire excerpt on page 18-19 of Oracle Visionary.)
Secluded in the Sierras with Two Canines
In 1925, Steinbeck left Stanford without a degree, traveled to New York City, and worked. Soon he returned to California and accepted a job in 1927 as a caretaker for an isolated estate on Fallen Leaf Lake in the high Sierras near Lake Tahoe. In Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, edited by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten, a letter is dated December 5, 1929, and addressed to A. Grove Day, a former classmate: "…Well, I went to the mountains and stayed two years. I was snowed in eight months of the year and saw no one except my two Airedales…"
However, the novelist struggling with his first work exaggerated a bit, because he did indeed have a few visitors, according to his detailed letters to other friends. In fact, one visitor was a game warden who owned "Otto," a six-foot long dog (but not a Dachshund) noted Steinbeck). John's dog Omar, a big, friendly Airedale (later he got two to combat loneliness) had attacked the warden's dog. In a letter to an old girlfriend Steinbeck added some graphic points: "…It was while he was joyfully eating off Otto's right leg that I threw a bucket of water on him." Unfortunately, he forgot to take the fish he illegally caught out of the bucket!
When he was 60 years old, John Steinbeck traveled across the U.S. accompanied by Charley, a Standard Poodle. He drove a truck named for Don Quixote's horse, Rocinate. Steinbeck wrote feelingly about the country that he and Charley met, but frankly, without the dog his book Travels with Charley: In Search of America would have lost much of its gusto and charm.
On December 20, 1968, John Steinbeck died with his dog Angel, a Bull Terrier, at his side. He was 66. Steinbeck researcher Pauline Pearson stated with conviction: "He had always had a dog, always had a garden and always wanted to live by the sea." Indeed, the author had enjoyed a good many dogs throughout most of his lifetime, most of them characters.
Perhaps too, when columnist and personal friend Ed Sheehan made the following observation in his article "Sensitive Writer in a Man-Shell of Gruffness" he was seeing the true colors of John Steinbeck: "…He saw the nobility in a hobo, felt the sadness of seasons and believed dogs could smile…"
(Excerpt from Soulmates with Paws: A Collection of Tales & Tails by Cal Orey, published by AuthorHouse. Available at online bookstores. Back in stock on Amazon all 3 formats!
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Scent-sational The Healing Powers of Essential Oils for Winter Wellness (Featured in FIRST for Women Magazine)
Scent-sational Essential Oils and Four Seasons
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The Healing Powers of Essential Oils
Did you know? Essential oils—including eucalyptus, peppermint, rose, and tea tree-are nature's ancient medicine, abundant with therapeutic effects. The latest scientific research shows that many popular essential oils and aromatherapy can boost your health and well-being.
Also, specific essential oils are often more popular during each of the four seasons. Here, take a look at how the comfort and calms of scent can help you enjoy Earth's changes year-round. You can use these oils in different forms, including: Air sprays, candles, cleaning products, diffusers, beauty and hygiene items--and even in cooking foods and beverages! Read on--from The Healing Powers of Essential Oils...
It's the Season: Shorter days, longer nights and often chilly temperatures call for hot, comfort food. During the holiday season, festive food, like hearty casseroles, soups, muffins, breads, puddings, and pies are commonplace. Then, when the New Year arrives it's not uncommon to want to eat clean food and get a fresh start. Immune-enhancing, mood-boosting, warming aromas are scents that come with winter-time. They can be found in plant-based salads, vegetarian casseroles, and soups, with lighter desserts.
Healing Winter Recipes: Biscotti, breads, cakes and scones are popular foods to warm you up, and essential oils can give recipes extra flavor, especially when seasonal citrus or herbs are not available.
Winter Culinary Essential Oils: Anise, clove, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and peppermint.
Secret for Staying Healthy
For 5,000 years plants have been nature's amazing healers. When the Egyptians were sick they used the oils from plant resins, bark, and spices to repair their bodies.
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Perhaps the most stunning revelation of the miraculous-like
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As the deadly bubonic plague spread like wildfire, devastating entire towns and cities, wiping out the lives of millions of men, women, and children . . .
One small group of vigilantes appeared strangely immune to the plague. Known as the four French thieves, they plundered and pillaged among the deathly ill day in and day out, robbing people of their bacteria-ridden possessions. Strangely enough, they never got sick.
It was as if the four thieves had an impenetrable invisible shield that made this lethal predator recoil. Their secret? Legend says the thieves stayed healthy and immune using a special blend of oils they applied during their crime sprees.
In just a moment, you'll discover how you can get your hands on the coveted blend the four thieves used. (It could come in handy right now for added protection from flu and viruses!) But before we go any further, you should know that while these stories are anecdotal and handed down through history . . .
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Not only has science shown their aroma alone can stimulate the pleasure center of your brain, but the wondrous healing properties of essential oils like lemon, chamomile, lavender, and many others can:
Bolster the immune system
Relieve the pain and discomfort of arthritis
Ease your body into a sound sleep
Banish blue moods and feelings of depression
Lower the risk of heart disease
Boost energy and stamina
Potentially slow tumor growth
Lull your body into Zen-like relaxation
Researchers have even discovered an essential oil that can act like ibuprofen! These scientists have found sandalwood can suppress cytokine cell production. You may have heard about cytokine cells in the news recently.
They're the cells which can create a "cytokine storm" in the body when powerful novel viruses hit, causing the immune system to go into overload and attack itself.
That's just a fraction of what essential oils can do.
Healing oils from Mother Nature's medicine cabinet can also help you:
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Ease the pain of a mild sprain — speed recovery with eucalyptus. This essential oil penetrates deep to numb pain and ease soreness, swelling, and bruising.
Heal burns, relieve heartburn, settle a queasy tummy, soothe hemorrhoids, ease constipation, and more.
There's just one problem . . .
Essential oils can be so darn confusing.
Which ones do you use for a sore throat . . . aching back . . . colds and flu . . . allergies . . . fever . . . upset stomach . . . insomnia . . . fibromyalgia . . . or to keep your arteries and cells healthy?
Which ones do you use to make your carpet smell fresh . . . clean your windows, oven, or stainless-steel pots and pans . . . or get rid of pesky ants?
How much should you use? Can you blend them together?
Great news! You don't have to figure out
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In her blockbuster NEW book, The Healing Powers of Essential Oils, you get everything you need to unleash the incredible potential of nature's medicine inside one easy-to-read-and-follow book. Here's a quick sneak peek:
Trouble sleeping? That calls for 2 drops of the oil that comes from this beloved bright red flower mixed with 1 drop each of chamomile and lavender. Gently rub it on and get some rest! Page 193
Open your lungs and breathe easier! Need a little extra breathing support with asthma? Apply 2 drops of eucalyptus oil to one cup of this steaming beverage. Inhale and breathe freely. Page 178
Protect against contagious and potentially lethal bouts of the flu or nasty viruses with the herb you use on your Thanksgiving turkey! You can add it to your diet or mix up a spray or lotion you can rub into your skin. Page 122
When indigestion and gut discomfort strike, reach for the essential oil used to calm delicate digestive tracts — it contains more than 100 powerful healing compounds. Page 65
Mosquitoes biting? Try this natural insect repellent — it's also great for releasing congestion and promoting heart health. Pages 40-41
The Healing Powers of Essential Oils shows you:
Which of the top 20 essential oils to use for every health concern or condition (there's a complete chapter on each one and loads of recipes, too!)
Correct dosages for everything from relieving anxiety and headaches to cleaning arteries and clearing your bowels
How often to take or reapply healing oils
Secret to combining 2, 3, 4, or more oils for more powerful healing
Creative ways to use the oils — massage, sprays, diffusers, cooking, and more
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Homeward Bound: How Do Wayward Pets Find Their Way Back Home? (Excerpt from Soulmates with PAWS)
(Excerpt from Soulmates with Paws)
One spring day in a small town in Illinois, a black cat named Zephyr disappeared. "I was heartbroken, as was the rest of my family. He was truly my friend at that time," recalls Cassandra Fink. Zephyr's owners spend hours combining their one-and-a-half-acre yard and apple orchard looking for their beloved pet and fearing the worst. "We realized he must have run away."
Then one night the cat's owners heard a soft meow outside and found Zephyr standing at the door looking well-muscled but extremely skinny. "The semi-trucks for the trucking company next door traveled back and forth to the city of Kankakee. We realized then that he had hopped aboard a flatbed semi and ended up there," explains Fink. It had taken the cat two weeks to trek the 30 miles home!
Zephyr is like countless cats worldwide who find their way home—even when home is hundreds of miles away. Many cat owners have tales of incredible journeys, and most have no idea how their cats do it. A number of these cases come to the public's attention when they are reported in newspapers, but many more go unreported and unstudied. Those that are studied teach us a lot about our feline companions but leave us with as many questions as answers.
AN AMAZING HOMING INSTINCT
Researchers really don't know how these extraordinary cats find their way home. But they do have some idea about how some other legendary travelers navigate. Birds and bees seem to navigate by the sun, stars or moon. As for salmon, which swim all the way from the open ocean back to the very stream where they spawned, researchers think they smell their home waters. Other animals can orient themselves with the help of magnetized cells in the brain, which act like tiny compasses, and help them decide which way is north. Marine mammals may even use the sounds that rumble through the seas to get their bearings. "Cats may have similar abilities," says renowned author and animal expert Michael Fox, Ph.D.
In a classic study done more 75 years ago, zoologist F.H. Herrick, of Cleveland, Ohio, took his own cat in a bag from his home to his office five miles away, traveling by streetcar. When he let the cat out of the bag, the cat fled. However, the cat returned home the same night, even though he had been left in an area he was unfamiliar with. Puzzled by this astonishing ability, Herrick put the cat in a closed container, took him various distances from his house—from one to three miles—and released him. The result: The cat came home in a variety of situations and from any point on the compass. How exactly do cats do that? MORE in the
What about the radar that gets pets back home? Animal experts also say the sense cats use most often and that gives them the most information is scent. By sniffing bushes and buildings along their route, cats can use the information they glean to help find their way home.
"Cats have a very sensitive nose that equal dogs, and their eyesight is certainly better," says Ted Cohn, DVM, at University Hills Hospital in Denver CO. "Certainly for short distances visual clues are very important."
Cats also use physical cues from nature, such as the angle of the sun to find their way. "They may be able to use the sun as a compass, as well as sensing a time difference between their own internal circadian clock and the local time. But the father away they are from home base, the greater will be the discrepancy," says Fox. Therefore, visual aids and memory don't completely explain how lost cats find their way over long distances.
That's why many researchers believe cats are sensitive to the earth's magnetic fields. This sensitivity may enable them to find their way back home—even from hundreds of miles away. "A magnetic field can be described as a set of imaginary lines that indicates the direction a compass needle would point to at a particular spot," explains Psychobiologist David Jay Brown of Ben Lomond, CA.
It's also believed that cats possess a homing mechanism that is triggered by brain cells containing magnetized iron particles. As they do with other mammals, these cells act like built in compasses. So, some cats, like a wayward senior striped tabby named Alfie, may have been guided by the influence of earth's magnetic fields.
Early one summer, Alfie's owner, Elaine Hahn, moved to a new home in Palo Alto, CA, about five miles away from her old home. For the first few weeks after the move, Hahn received regular phone calls from her old neighbor, who told her, "Alfie is here. Do you want to come and pick him up?" For two weeks, Hahn got into her car and drove five miles to go pick up Alfie. He had not only hiked five miles each time to get back to his old house, he had crossed six lanes of traffic to do so!
Alluring as it is though, the magnetic field theory doesn't entirely explain the homing instinct, according to Brown. "If you have a compass and you're not in the middle of nowhere, you can't figure out the direction of your destination unless you knew your position in a certain geographical area. So, it's really a big mystery."
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Title: Soulmates with Paws: A Collection of Tales & Tails
Author: Cal Orey
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Genre: Non-Fiction / Pets
Reviewed by: Beth Adams
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One thing is absolutely clear; that is Cal Orey is a pet lover extraordinaire. She sums up the theme of her book in her final sentence, "Soulmates with Paws is a tribute to the four-leggers in my life, past and present, and throughout the nation and around the globe. It's the human-companion animal bond that is universal and one that connects us as whole unity on the planet."
As a renown award-winning author, Cal Orey's reputation of tackling subjects with an abundance of facts and insights proceeds this book in many ways. It was my pleasure to enjoy the vast details of her personal accounts, the array of scientific facts, and surprising spiritual aspects of dog and cat relationships within a diverse style of original writing, published article reprints, blogpost excerpts, and a forward by Stanley Coren, Ph.D., author of The Intelligence of Dogs and How to Speak Dog.
As for spiritual relationships, she writes, "After a cat dies, they have a telepathic reunion with their owner, according to telepathic animal communicator Raphaela Pope of Berkeley, Calif. That means cat owners may have direct communication beyond what's normal with their cats." Here, I thought it was only me that experienced this when my cat died.
Pet owners who understand their furry-friends all have seen remarkable situations of the animal's awareness alerting their owner to some impending threat; whether it be a fire, an earthquake, or even the malintent of other people posing danger. The ability for dogs and cats to "find their way home" after being lost or when traveling tends to hint of high-sensory awareness of sight and smell and beyond, to some perception of the Earth's magnetic fields, as was discovered in bees and birds, plus other mammals, where their brain cells contain magnetized iron particles which cells act like built-in compasses.
Although peppered with extraordinary facts about dogs and cats, Cal Orey's main thrust is in her storytelling. Written in a friendly "fireside" fashion, readers will love each of the many tales throughout this book where she tells of her exploits, her pet loves and losses, and get to know her as a person with a heart, seeking ways to unselfishly help others. A section about homeless people caring for pets points out an interesting observation by Richard Avanzino, president of the San Francisco SPCA. "Because homeless people have this unique bond and special relationship, in many cases, the animals are better cared for than they take care of themselves. And that's because the animal has stood by their side when society and the world and human beings have discarded them."
The book contains a dozen quizzes for readers, each enabling them to determine aspects of their own personality, such as being a dog-person or a cat-person, and which breed of dog best suits their personality. Each chapter has appropriate quotes from famous people. And talking about famous people, a chapter is dedicated to many stories of actors, celebrities and authors with their pets. For example, Doris Day started an animal rescue charity and of course, John Steinbeck's many books referencing his animal companions.
As a whole, Soulmates with Paws: A Collection of Tales & Tails is a book that should be promoted on all fronts, especially in mental and physical well-being practices, as powerfully illustrated through personal experiences and relatable concepts. It is without doubt one of those texts that beg to be read time and again, to dig up the nuances you may have missed during the first reading.
True Story: A Belated Mystery Letter That Surprised Me
I received a USPS notice that a letter from my publisher was en route (we're not getting our mail due to weather and other challenges in the sierras). So, I waited.
I asked my editor and the accountant if the piece of mail was from them? No. The post date was Dec. 7, 2022. I waited. Clueless. I thought the best and worst outcome. My name and address were handwritten. What in the world could it be? I waited.
As a busy author, I continued to market my Healing Powers series, and new non-fiction novel: Soulmates with Paws. Sure, my Australian shepherd and Siamese cat comforted me while my anxiety spun out of control. What ifs played games with my mind. I continued to work and wait... The Letter Arrival day arrived!
The five page letter was post dated June 2021! It was actually address by a corrections facility in Delaware. The five page letter was written by an inmate. I felt like I was morphing into Johnny Cash when he received fan mail from prison folks.
First, her name was Amir. She complimented me on my "wonderful" The Healing Powers of Honey book. But there's more. She wondered why I didn't address the antibacterial and antifungal benefits of honey. Yet I did do just that! I interviewed the late top scientist behind the virtues of manuka honey and how it is used for all types of skin infections.
Fast Forward: This lovely woman's well written letter told me one day the book fell to the floor. And there was the advice she needed to not only help heal her feet but also help heal a wound on her leg.Thanks to her friends inside the minimum security facility, it wasn't too difficult to get the good honey in the institution in the nick of time!
She actually was facing amputation! And yes, Dr. Peter Molan of New Zealand discusses how honey is used for serious wounds for people in hospitals. Evidently, she had gone straight to "Home Cures" -- missed the good doctor's wisdom in Ch. 3. But there was more info on the healing benefits of skin and sores in that section, too.
So, tonight I realize I've always written to make a difference. And this woman named Amir made me feel like I did just that. Note to self: Practice patience and think sometimes waiting is worth the end result.
A Dog Woman Interviewed a Famous Dog Man (Excerpt from the New Non-fiction Novel Soulmates with PAWS)
The Dog Lover Behind Snoopy
A dog woman interviewed a famous dog man
Snoopy debuted in Charles Schulz's cartoon strip "Peanuts" in 1950 (before I was born). The likable canine character from Daisy Hill puppy farm became part of the children's strip (and still is today). In fact, with the help of Snoopy's owner, Charlie Brown, the Beagle's personality blossomed—big time.
Of course, Snoopy can't talk. He thinks. Schulz explained how Snoopy communicates: "Snoopy thinks the sort of things that we believe a dog might think if we knew what they were thinking about. Snoopy's strength is his ability to overcome all of the problems in his life, but he frequently retreats to imagination to solve a lot of his problems." For instance, the imaginative Beagle has a dog house that converts into a fighter plane in which he seeks the elusive Red Baron. And, this resourceful dog is a wanna-be writer. Snoopy is notorious for using those opening passages, "It was a dark and stormy night…" The irony is, he thinks he's great!
Is cartoonist Schulz a genuine dog person? You can count on it.
A native of Minnesota, Schulz recalls his younger years being enriched by a variety of canines: a couple of Beagles, a St. Bernard and several Golden Retrievers.
"Right now I have the best dog I've ever owned in my whole life," mused the 69-year-old "Peanuts" creator. He simply cherishes Andy, his 12-year-old Wire Fox Terrier. And sometimes, Schulz will derive his ideas for Snoopy from Andy's behavior. For instance, Snoopy's sudden cookie fetish is really Andy's thing.
Schulz borrowed another idea from his senior dog. "When Andy could hear better, I used to hesitate about shaving with an electric razor in the morning. I didn't want to wake him up," recalled Schulz...
(Reprinted with permission from Dog World, December 1993 issue.)
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Guiding, guarding, warning, comforting and
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Recently, Jude Balthis had a dream. Her cat Satie appeared on her bed, green eyes staring down at her owner. "It was clear that she had a message," Balthis says. "She told me she knew I had done the best that I could to protect her." The large calico had just died a month earlier.
"I felt very guilty about her death," Jude recalls. "In her later years, she wasn't able to defend herself as well as when she was younger. I had secured the porch from other animals by installing gates, but it wasn't enough." One night, while Balthis and her family were away, raccoons broke into the barriers and killed Satie.
Upon awakening from her dream, Balthis felt instantly that Satie had absolved her from blame. "I didn't cry, even though I was on the verge of tears, because the dream allowed me to understand that she was in a safe place."
Companion animals bring us comfort and love, but are they also spiritual messengers who understand more than what seems possible?
"An angel cat would be a messenger who would help you to know that love is all around you and that miracles are possible," explains Linda Anderson, coeditor of Angel Animals, Exploring Our Spiritual Connection with Animals. Bernard Ward says in his book Angels: They're All Around and They're Watching Over Us, "Angels are here to guide us, warn us, comfort us, teach us or just be a friend and companion."
ANGELS AMONG THE LIVING
Years ago, when Stephanie Laland was in her 20s, she was distraught about her life. She remembers sitting on her bed and crying. "Suddenly, my two-year-old calico cat Yoko jumped up on my lap and put her paws on my face and licked the tears away," she says. And while some cats are deeply affectionate, Laland confesses, "this wasn't the sort of action that my cat would normally do. At that moment she was my little angel."
Since then, Laland had turned her life around. She is the author of Peaceful Kingdom: Random Acts of Kindness by Animals and Animal Angels, and teaches workshops for people wishing to boost their bond with animals. She feels she knows firsthand how it feels to be touched by an animal angel.
Many of the stories in her work suggest that the notion of animal angels isn't merely whimsy. Take, for example, the story of Mrs. Sweeney, an elderly woman who had always welcomed animals in need into her home. One winter evening, she became ill and wasn't able to move from her bed. As the fire from the stove went out, the house grew deathly cold. Too feeble and ill to move, she was sure she would freeze before daybreak. In the morning, when her neighbor came to check on her she discovered the freezing temperatures and raced to the old woman's bed, fearing the worst. But Mrs. Sweeney was safe in bed, very much alive—and not cold at all. She was quite comfortable, with seven cats and a dog draped over her warm body like a fur blanket.
Many near-death survivors have reported feeling a sensation of leaving their bodies—or traveling through tunnels of light. Some people report encounters with relatives or even family pets.
During a down-and-out period, reports Anderson, Debi Reimann, a legal secretary from Lacey, Washington, felt herself floating through a gray mist. She recalled seeing light and feeling an overwhelming sense of love. She saw a vision that appeared old and wise. Even though the "being" told Reimann that it wasn't time to die, she didn't want to go back to her painful existence in life. The "being" turned her around, directing her toward the tunnel that would take her back to life. At the other end she saw her cat, Missey Kitten, waiting for her. "The cat was the one being on earth that could touch her heart, and Debi made a decision to come back," recalls Anderson...
(Reprinted with permission from Cats Magazine, December 1999 issue.)
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How Long Can the Government Pretend that the Massive Hunger Strike at Guantánamo Doesn't Exist?
I wrote the following article for the "Close Guantánamo" website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email.
On March 14, 2013, 51 attorneys for prisoners at Guantánamo wrote to defense secretary Chuck Hagel to express "urgent and grave concern" about the mass hunger strike that has been taking place at the prison for the last five weeks, involving over a hundred of the 166 men still held — and to urge him "to address the underlying causes of the strike and bring it to a prompt and acceptable end."
On March 4, some of the attorneys previously wrote to Rear Adm. John W. Smith, Jr., the Commander of Joint Task Force Guantánamo, and Capt. Thomas J. Welsh, the Staff Judge Advocate, reporting "information received from clients about the hunger strike and its effects on the men." Although they requested an answer to their letter, no response was received, and in the meantime, as they explained in their letter to Chuck Hagel, "we have received additional reports from clients that the strike is ongoing and that the health of the men has continued to deteriorate in alarming and potentially irreparable ways."
As the lawyers proceeded to explain, "we understand that the hunger strike was precipitated by widespread searches of detainees' Qur'ans — perceived as religious desecration — as well as searches and confiscation of other personal items, including family letters and photographs, and legal mail, seemingly without provocation or cause. We also understand that these searches occurred against a background of increasingly regressive practices at the prison taking place in recent months, which our clients have described as a return to an older regime at Guantánamo that was widely identified with the mistreatment of detainees. Indeed, the conditions being reported by the men appear to be a significant departure from the way in which the prison has operated over the past several years."
In addition, of course, the majority of the prisoners have lost hope that they will ever be released. Despite promising to close the prison on taking office over four years ago, President Obama gave in to cynical Congressional opposition to the release of prisoners, after releasing just 71 men, and also imposed his own unacceptable ban on releasing any Yemeni prisoners after a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, recruited in Yemen, tried and failed to blow up a plane on Christmas Day 2009.
Of the 166 men still held, 86 were cleared for release at least three years ago by President Obama's inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force — and some were previously cleared for release by President Bush, between 2004 and 2007. Two-thirds of these men are Yemenis, and, by banning their release, President Obama not only consigned them to indefinite detention on the basis of their nationality alone; he also made a mockery of the official process through which they had been approved for transfer.
In addition, 46 men were designated for indefinite detention without charge or trial, in a disgraceful executive order issued by President Obama two years ago. This was disgraceful because it saw President Obama — the man who promised to close Guantánamo — instead authorizing indefinite detention without charge or trial, on the basis that these particular men were too dangerous to release, even though insufficient evidence existed to put them on trial. In fact, this so-called evidence is deeply problematical, having been extracted through torture or other forms of abuse, and/or having been produced by deeply unreliable witnesses. The only concession to critics was Obama's promise that there would be periodic reviews of the men's cases. However, it was revealed in December that these reviews have not taken place.
Explaining more about the hunger strike, the attorneys wrote, "We understand that most of the men in Camp 6, which holds the largest number of detainees at Guantánamo, have been on hunger strike since February 6 to protest these practices. We have also received alarming reports of detainees' deteriorating health, including that men have lost over 20 and 30 pounds, and that at least two dozen men have lost consciousness due to low blood glucose levels, which have dropped to life-threatening levels among some. The information we have reported has been corroborated by every attorney who has visited the base or communicated with their client since February."
They added, "According to medical experts, irreversible cognitive impairment and physiological damage such as loss of hearing, blindness, and hemorrhage may begin to occur by the 40th day of a hunger strike, and death follows thereafter. We would think officials charged with the care of detainees would consider these events urgent and gravely concerning; instead, JTF-GTMO officials have yet to offer any response other than to brush aside the reports by detainee counsel as 'falsehoods.'"
This is a disgrace, of course — and especially so because the authorities refuse to accept that it is taking place. As Carol Rosenberg reported for the Miami Herald, March 15 was "the first admission of a protest" acknowledged by the authorities, although it did not go far enough. Navy Capt. Robert Durand, a spokesman for the prison authorities, denied "a widespread phenomenon, as alleged," but he conceded, "for the first time after weeks of denial," as Rosenberg put it, "that the number had surged to 14 from the five or six detainees who had for years been considered hunger strikers among the 166 captives at Guantánamo."
He added that one prisoner was in the hospital on Friday, and, as as Rosenberg put it, that five others "were being fed elsewhere through tubes tethered through their noses into their stomachs." Eight others "had not yet been sufficiently malnourished to merit tube feedings but had shunned enough consecutive meals and lost enough weight to meet the Pentagon's Guantánamo definition of a hunger striker."
The gulf between the prisoners' statements and the government's position is still immense however, and unfortunately the government has a terrible reputation for hiding the truth about Guantánamo — including last September, when Adnan Latif, a Yemeni, and a cleared prisoner with mental health problems, died at the prison in circumstances that have not been adequately explained.
In their letter to Chuck Hagel, the attorneys for the prisoners reminded the new defense secretary that, "As a United States Senator, you took the position that mistreatment of prisoners at Guantánamo could not be tolerated because it was immoral and because it jeopardized the security of the United States." They added, "You also argued that the continued existence of the prison was one of the reasons why the United States was 'losing the image war around the world.'"
Words can mean nothing, of course, as we know from the example provided by President Obama, but the ongoing injustice of Guantánamo does not go away by being ignored.
If men are not to die as a result of the hunger strike, senior officials need to act, and they need to act quickly. Pretending there are not fundamental, deep-seated and unacceptable problems at Guantánamo is not the way to do it. Cleared prisoners need freeing, and they need freeing now.
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Posted in Conditions at Guantanamo, Guantanamo, Guantanamo lawyers, Hunger strikes in Guantanamo Tagged Chuck Hagel, Close Guantanamo, Guantanamo, Hunger strikes, President Obama
Andy Worthington says...
When I posted a link to this article on Facebook after first publishing it on the "Close Guantanamo"website, I wrote:
For "Close Guantanamo," here's my latest article about the massive ongoing hunger strike at Guantanamo, now in its fifth week and involving over 100 prisoners, and the US government's claims that it doesn't exist – and that just 14 men are involved. Instead of lying, and establishing conditions in which men will die, the government needs to recognize the injustice of Guantanamo, and immediately release the 86 cleared prisoners still held.
...on March 18th, 2013 at 12:17 am
Carol Anne Grayson wrote:
As long as it challenges their behaviour…
MadLion Muir wrote:
Sharing this painful situation.
Thanks, Carol and MadLion. Good to hear from you both. Also, my appearance on RT is now available in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW5uTGKOadw
Tonight, after I posted a link to the version above on Facebook, Kaizer Kaizer wrote:
They are praying for the prisoners' death! It's amazing a country that pretends to be so civilized is actually so barbaric!
Mui JS wrote:
I hope the Hagel letter achieves something.
Thanks, Kaizer. Yes, I've been dwelling on that chasm between America's perception of itself and the reality quite a lot lately. And Mui, yes, it seems remarkable to me that nothing is able to shift Obama's complete inertia regarding Guantanamo. Officials need to begin to engage with lawyers and other concerned parties if there's to be any movement. The stonewalling and denials and indifference are ludicrous and deeply insulting.
Well done Andy … great work as always…
...on March 18th, 2013 at 1:30 am
Thanks, Carol. I missed your comment earlier. Good to hear from you.
Curt Wechsler says...
I really think that what we should be focussing on right now is the fact that Obama is willing to let the hunger strikers die, and confront people about letting that happen. I keep visualizing the "I voted" button superimposed on the classic photo of prisoners behind barbed wire, with the words "but NOT for this."
Yes, that's a powerful image, Curt. I'm happy to get involved with a campaign if you go ahead with it.
And good to hear from you, by the way!
Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo This week – Birmingham, London | KonkNaija Media says...
[…] With a huge hunger strike taking place at Guantánamo, the prison is on the mainstream media's radar more than it has been for many, many months, if not years — and, in the UK, it is also time for there to be a renewed focus on the case of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison. […]
arcticredriver says...
One of the big mysteries of the Obama administration is how did he go from such a firm opponent of extrajudicial Guantanamo detention, who was going to shut it down within a year, his current defacto position — as intransigent as Bush?
My local educational channel broadcast, commercial free, Oliver Stone's terrific film JFK sometime in 2009, with some expert's commentary afterwards. During that discussion I wondered "Is this why Obama hasn't shut down Guantanamo? Did one of his advisors arrange for him to watch JFK in the White House Theatre — and then warn him if he pushed the military and CIA too far they would assassinate him too?"
Maybe. Maybe not. Missile strikes from UAV [unmanned aerial vehicles, i.e. drones], based on the same kind of unreliable intelligence that would have triggered sending an individual to Guantanamo in the past, are worse than sending individuals to Guantanamo, as some individuals do get sent home from Guantanamo.
I remember Alif Mohammed, veteran of the anti-Soviet struggle, who intelligence analysts decided was the squad leader in an ambush at Lejay, solely based on his prior military experience. He was held for years, but, at least he survived.
Cruelly, after one team arbitrarily rounded up Alif Mohammed and a dozen other men on February 10th, the USA then sent in air elements to smash the village a day later. We learned the day Alif Mohammed was interviewed following his repatriation, that his brother was killed in that February 11th aerial bombarbment.
...on March 20th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
Thanks, arcticredriver. I'm coming round to the feeling that, actually, Obama didn't really care much about Guantanamo when it was shown that the Republicans would make life hell for him if he didn't back down, when Rahm Emanuel told him that independent voters didn't care, and when the Task Force started getting jittery about releasing people who might be dangerous or harbor some grudge against the US – even if only as a result of their abysmal treatment over the previous seven — now eleven — years.
Bit I may be wrong, of course, I do, however, think that what was even more significant was the fear and paranoia he felt when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a plane with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas Day 2009, and that this not only led to him becoming the killer drone President, extrajudicially killing people – including US citizens – in Yemen, but also introducing his ban on releasing Yemenis, and – frankly – no longer caring about releasing prisoners from Guantanamo.
As for the point you make about intelligence, it's hugely important. I've made it myself on occasion, but it should be taken on board much more by those campaigning against drones, who, for the most part, are not concentrating enough on the lessons that can be learned from Guantanamo – primarily, I believe, the question of the so-called intelligence and how untrustworthy it has always been, ever since the "war on terror" began.
Americans like to think their soldiers, sailors and pilots are the world's best. The smartest, the most courageous, the best trained, the best equipped, the most well disciplined, and the most flexible, when flexibility is called for, and a bunch of other qualities.
I think the only notion Americans have about their soldiers being the world's best that could go without challenge is that they are generally the best equipped.
I think the record we have read here shows an enormous deficit in a key kind of courage — intellectual courage. Exceptional officers, like Darrel Vandeveld, showed intellectual courage. But officers who would plunge into the burning depths of the Pentagon, on 2001-9-11, like one Guantanamo commandant, either couldn't conceive of the possibility that some of the captives were telling the truth when they said they were innocent bystanders, or they lacked the courage to pay attention to any doubts they had.
Most were too afraid of risking playing a role in releasing the next hijacker.
Intellectual cowardice, like that displayed by those who didn't seriously examine the possibility that captives could be telling the truth put public safety at risk.
This current hunger strike? We have a perfect storm. We have a stupid and brutal commandant. Those extra security measures he imposed on the captives' communications with their lawyers — their necessity was never explained. I doubt there ever was a meaningful justification. There were hints that his performance was going to trigger him to be reassigned early. But, in the end, the decision was made to let him serve out his term.
Morris Davis exposed Thomas Hartmann's stupidity and incompetence — to anyone who was paying attention. But higher authority foolishly backed the more senior officer, and let him save face, in order to preserve the discipline heirarchy. I presume that is why the current commandant was not replaced.
When Mark Buzby was the commandant he made a point of meeting and trying to talk with every single captive, and he walked the cell blocks once a week. This suggests to me he was the commandant who understood best that the camp could become one huge Milgram experiment, unless the officers set an example, and guards and their NCOs knew they could't get away with unofficial retaliation.
If the warden was a good officer, conditions would not deteriorate to the worst levels, even if the commandant was a brutal and stupid man. He could insist on orders in writing, which would require a paper trail precluding being given informal illegal orders. Like Buzby he could personally monitor his subordinates, and get his officers to do the same, so the guards knew unofficial brutality and excess would not be tolerated.
But a new guard battalion has arrived, and since they are indulging in excess, they must have a weak officer, or one who is brutal and stupid, like the commandant.
Very powerful analysis and commentary, arcticredriver.
And for those wanting to know, the current commander is U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John W. Smith, Jr., who took over last June from U.S. Navy Rear Adm. David B. Woods.
...on March 21st, 2013 at 12:19 am
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[…] I have been reporting for many weeks (see here, here, here, here and here), the hunger strike began two months ago, in response to the renewed ill-treatment […]
...on April 3rd, 2013 at 8:10 am
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Edge-Lit LED
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In some poorer-quality edge-lit LEDs, uniform picture quality can be a problem. Because the LEDs are along the edges of the panel, quality declines as you approach the middle of the screen because a uniform amount of illumination is not reaching the pixels further from the edges. Again, this is more noticeable during scenes of darkness; the black along the sides of the screen is more gray than black (and corners can appear to have a flashlight-like quality of illumination emanating from the edges).
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Full-array LED televisions use a full panel of LEDs to illuminate the pixels. Most of these sets also have local dimming, which means the LEDs can be dimmed in different regions of the panel while other areas are not. It helps improve black levels, which appear closer to black than dark gray.
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