LightFest 2014 Concert with Pamela Jane Gerrand!
Singer Songwriter Pamela Jane Gerrand joins Diana Beach of 'Your LightQuest' for an evening of Networking, Music, Drumming, & Spiritual Connection. Join us to celebrate this magnificent time of enLightenment and emPowerment as we share our Hearts and Gifts under the Light of the August Blue Moon.
'LightFest' had been dreamed into being by Diana Beach with a vision of connecting 'LightQuest' meditation group members, community lightworkers & energy healers to share Heart, Mind, and Spirit. Recent synchrodestiny resulted in the fantastic addition of Pamela Jane Gerrand's incredible talent and beautiful energy to this event. You may remember Pamela Gerrand from the amazing Goderich concert 'The Remembering'. Held on 11/11/11, this event channeled spiritual healing and funds to Goderich following the August 2011 tornado. Diana and Pam met at a small gathering previous to this concert and their hearts were at once connected. Soul sisters and LIGHT bearers they share the vision of Peace, Love, Healing and Song.
The Journey from the Mind to the Heart is one we are all undertaking, and music and sound offer us direct passage with Grace and Gratitude. Bring your Open Heart and Vibrant Voice as we Connect in this powerful time of Transition and Surrender. Bring a drum if you have one, your open heart and vibrant voice as we connect with others in this powerful time of transition and surrender.
Guests will be notified via e-mail by noon on August 10, 2014 if cancelled.
Rain Date: Friday, August 15, 2014; 7:00 p.m.
End the Evening with Fire Circle Drumming - 'Spirit of the Drum' Healing Circle - Maggie Brennan 'Drum circles have been part of healing rituals in many cultures The music of drums creates a conduit to the Divine. This is an opportunity to experience worship with our bodies as well as our minds'.
Business Cards & Brochures - A table for display will be provided, Lawn chair, Blanket, Water bottle, Bug spray, Drums & rattles, An Open Heart filled with Light ~ Egoless Connection ~ Heartfelt Healing Energy ~ Love, Love, & More Love. No mood altering substances on-site please ~ other than Loving Kindness.
A 'By Invitation ONLY' Event Due to logistics, this event is by invitation only, however each invited Guest is welcome to bring ONE Guest.
RSVP IS REQUIRED. Please confirm NAMES and CONTACT INFORMATION of those attending BY AUGUST 3RD. If you have NOT Confirmed your invitation BY AUGUST 3RD, your invitation will be given to another interested participant.


Bud LEWIS was born in 1853 in Liberty Springs, Van Buren, Arkansas. He died in 1911. Bud married Caroline STROUD.
Caroline STROUD [Parents] was born on 5 Mar 1857 in Liberty Springs, Van Buren, Arkansas. Caroline married Bud LEWIS.
Hardy Young STROUD [Parents] was born on 24 Sep 1899 in , , Arkansas. He died on 15 Sep 1983 in , Hockley, Texas. He was buried in Leveland Municipal Cemetery, Leveland, Hockley, Texas. Hardy married Ova Lee THOMAS.
Ova Lee THOMAS was born on 10 Dec 1902 in Clinton, Van Buren, Arkansas. She died on 19 Aug 1989. She was buried in Leveland Municipal Cemetery, Leveland, Hockley, Texas. Ova married Hardy Young STROUD.
James Matthew STROUD [Parents] was born in Apr 1883 in , Van Buren, Arkansas. He died about 1928. James married Nora A. BOST.
Nora A. BOST was born in Sep 1885 in , , Arkansas. She was christened in Liberty Springs, Van Buren, Arkansas. Nora married James Matthew STROUD.
Bert UNDERHILL was born on 1 Jul 1879 in Jerusalem, Conway, Arkansas. He died on 8 May 1967. He was buried in Cedar Creek Cemetery, Jerusalem, Conway, Arkansas. Bert married Mary Luvenia STROUD.
Mary Luvenia STROUD [Parents] was born in Dec 1884 in , , Arkansas. She died in 1898. Mary married Bert UNDERHILL.
Calloway STROUD [Parents] was born on 5 Mar 1888 in Jerusalem, Conway, Arkansas. He died on 11 Jun 1927 in Ben Wheeler, Van Zandt, Texas. He was buried in Colfax, Van Zandt, Texas. Calloway married Rene Viola REYNOLDS.
Rene Viola REYNOLDS was born in 1893 in Colfax, Van Zandt, Texas. She died on 9 Jul 1938 in Colfax, Van Zandt, Texas. She was buried in Colfax, Van Zandt, Texas. Rene married Calloway STROUD.
William Keltner STROUD [Parents] was born on 28 Dec 1886 in , Van Buren, Arkansas. He died on 15 Jan 1969 in Morrilton, Conway, Arkansas. William married Martha BOST.
Martha BOST was born about 1886 in , Van Buren, Arkansas. Martha married William Keltner STROUD.
William Keltner STROUD [Parents] was born on 28 Dec 1886 in , Van Buren, Arkansas. He died on 15 Jan 1969 in Morrilton, Conway, Arkansas. William married Lera Mae FORNASH.
Lera Mae FORNASH was born about 1886 in , Van Buren, Arkansas. Lera married William Keltner STROUD.
Morgan STROUD [Parents] was born on 25 Jul 1890 in Jerusalem, Conway, Arkansas. He died on 8 Dec 1971 in Morrilton, Conway, Arkansas. Morgan married Grace TILLEY.
Grace TILLEY was born about 1894 in , Conway, Arkansas. Grace married Morgan STROUD.
Morgan STROUD [Parents] was born on 25 Jul 1890 in Jerusalem, Conway, Arkansas. He died on 8 Dec 1971 in Morrilton, Conway, Arkansas. Morgan married Ollie BEAVERS.
Ollie BEAVERS was born in 1897 in , Conway, Arkansas. Ollie married Morgan STROUD.
Elmer STROUD [Parents] was born on 16 May 1896 in , , Arkansas. He died on 12 Aug 1943. Elmer married Ivy Ester THOMAS.
Ivy Ester THOMAS was born on 20 Mar 1998 in , Van Buren, Arkansas. She died on 19 Jun 1973. Ivy married Elmer STROUD.


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1. African American communities [2015 - ]
Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK : Adam Matthew, [2015]-
Journal/Periodical — 1 online resource
Database topics
American History; Race and Ethnicity
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this collection presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity. Also featured is a rich selection of visual material, including photographs, maps and ephemera.
www.aac.amdigital.co.uk
Online 2. The African American electorate : a statistical history [2012]
Walton, Hanes, Jr., 1941-2013
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : CQ Press, c2012.
Book — 2 v. (xxxii, 918, 22 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm.
American History; Statistical and Numeric Data; Government Information: United States; Government Information: State and Local
Preface Introduction
Chapter 1. The State of African American Election Data
Chapter 2. The Literature on the African American Electorate
Chapter 3. The African American Electorate in the Colonial Era, 1610-1773
Chapter 4. The African American Electorate in the Revolutionary Era, 1774-1789
Chapter 5. The Electoral Context in Antebellum America, 1788-1861
Chapter 6. The African American Electorate in Antebellum and Civil War America, 1788-1867
Chapter 7. The Reversal of African American Suffrage Rights prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788-1870
Chapter 8. Suffrage Referenda Prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1846-1870
Chapter 9. Voting Behavior of the African American Electorate Prior to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1788-1870
Chapter 10. The First African American Nominees and Public Office Holders, 1776-1870
Chapter 11. The National Equal Rights League
Chapter 12. The Civil War Election and the African American Soldiers' Vote, 1864
Chapter 13. African American Voter Registration and Turnout in 1867 Southern State Elections
Chapter 14. African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections after the Abolition of Slavery in the South, 1868 and 1872
Chapter 15. African American Voting Behavior in the First Presidential and Congressional Elections After the Abolition of Slavery in the Border, Midwest, and Far West States, 1868 and 1872
Chapter 16. African American Voting Behavior in Subsequent Elections Through Disenfranchisement, 1868 to 1920
Chapter 17. African American Voting and Non-Voting Behavior in the Era of Disenfranchisement (1888-1908) and Beyond
Chapter 18. The Lodge Bill and Beyond
Chapter 19. African American Voters and Electoral Empowerment in the North, 1876-1944
Chapter 20. The Enfranchisement of African American Women: 1669-1921
Chapter 21. The Electoral Revolt of the African American Voters in 1920-1921 and Beyond
Chapter 22. African American Registration and Voting in the South, 1920-1944
Chapter 24. Rare African American Registration and Voting Data
Chapter 25. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Expansions and Renewals, 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006
Chapter 26. Felon and Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
Chapter 27. African American Voting Rights in a Historic Presidential Election
Chapter 28. Summary and Conclusions Appendices Cumulative Bibliography Copyright Acknowledgments Index.
This pioneering work brings together for the first time in a single reference work all of the extant, fugitive, and recently discovered registration data on African American voters from Colonial America to the present. It features election returns for African American presidential, senatorial, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates over time. Rich, insightful narrative explains the data and traces the history of the laws dealing with the enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans. Topics covered include: - the contributions of statistical pioneers including Monroe Work, W.E.B. DuBois and Ralph Bunche - African American organizations, like the NAACP and National Equal Rights League (NERL) - pioneering African American officeholders, including the few before the Civil War - four influxes of African American voters: Reconstruction (Southern African American men), the Fifteenth Amendment (African American men across the country), the Nineteenth Amendment (African American female voters in 1920 election), and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - the historical development of disenfranchisement in the South and the statistical impact of the tools of disenfranchisement: literacy clauses, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses. The African-American Electorate features more than 300 tables, 150 figures, and 50 maps, many of which have been created exclusively for this work using demographic, voter registration, election return, and racial precinct data that have never been collected and assembled for the public. An appendix includes popular and electoral voting data for African-American presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates, and a comprehensive bibliography indicates major topic areas and eras concerning the African-American electorate. The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans' voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America's political history.
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3. African American newspapers. Series 2. 1835-1956 [2015 - ]
[New Canaan, CT] : Readex ; [Worcester, Mass.] : American Antiquarian Society, [2015]-
News; American History; Race and Ethnicity
infoweb.newsbank.com
4. African-American newspapers. Series 1. 1827-1998 [2009 - ]
[Naples, Fla.] : Readex, a division of NewsBank
Part of the Readex America's Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States--those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress. Beginning with Freedom's Journal (NY), the first African American newspaper published in the United States, the titles in this resource include The Colored Citizen (OH), Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser, Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN) and hundreds of others from every region of the U.S.
5. Afro-Americana imprints, 1535-1922, from the Library Company of Philadelphia [electronic resource]. [2012]
[Naples, Fla.?] : Readex, [2012?]
American History; American Literary Studies; Race and Ethnicity
"Created from the Library Company of Philadelphia's acclaimed Afro-Americana Collection - an accumulation that begain with Benjamin Franklin and steadily increased throughout its entire history - this unique online resource provides researchers with more than 12,000 printed works. These essential books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, hold an unparalleled record of African American history, literature and culture. This collection spans nearly 400 years, from the early 16th to the early 20th century. Critically important subjects covered include the West's discovery and exploitation of Africa; the rise of slavery in the New World along with the growth and success of abolitionist movements; the development of racial thought, including political protest and resistance to racism; descriptions of African American life -- slave and free -- throughout the Americans; and slavery and race in fiction and drama. Also featured are printed works of African American individuals and organizations."
6. American slavery [electronic resource] : a composite autobiography [2000 - ]
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Publishing Group, c2000-
American History; Sociology
Contains the collection of over 2,000 interviews conducted in seventeen states between 1936 and 1938 under the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Progress Administration, as published in 1972 in The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography edited by George P. Rawick. The site contains a links to the narratives and Rawick's analysis of the collection, From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community. Each entry links to an Adobe PDF version of the narrative as contained in the Rawick print collection, including any handwritten editorial comments made at the time.
gem.greenwood.com
7. Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) [electronic resource]. [1893 - ]
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest
"Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy Sr. when he merged three church publications, The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter (Murphy's daughter) and female sportswriters, the paper's contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports. Through the decades, the newspaper fought for equal employment rights, urged African-American participation in politics, and advocated state-funded higher education for blacks. In the 1930s, The Baltimore Afro-American launched "The Clean Block" campaign, which is still in existence today, to clean up inner-city neighborhoods and fight crime. It stationed correspondents in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, providing first-hand reports to readers. In the 1950s, working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the newspaper's efforts contributed to the outlawing of public school segregation."--Brochure
search.proquest.com
8. Black abolitionist papers [electronic resource]. [2004 - 2004]
[Cambridge, England] : ProQuest, c2004.
Race and Ethnicity; American History
This primary source collection presents the international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. Covering the period 1830-1865, the approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. The digital collection reproduces in full the 17 reels of microfilmed content from the original collection and provides a searchable, easily accessible format for research, teaching, and study.
bap.chadwyck.com
9. Black thought and culture [electronic resource] [2003 - ]
[Alexandria, Va.] : Alexander Street Press, 2003-
"Black Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders form the mainstay of this corpus. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art."--'About the database' page.
solomon.bltc.alexanderstreet.com
10. The Chicago defender [microform]. [1905 - 1966]
Chicago defender (Chicago, Ill. : 1905)
[City edition]. - Chicago : Defender Co.,
Newspaper — v.
American History; Language; News; Race and Ethnicity
Media & Microtext Center
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MFILM N.S. 10887 In-library use
11. Ethnic American newspapers from the Balch collection, 1799-1971 [electronic resource] : selected from America's historical newspapers [2000 - ]
[Naples, Fla.] : Readex, a division of NewsBank [2011]-
American History; News
"More than 130 searchable newspapers published by members of many of the most influential American ethnic groups in 25 U.S. states" --infoweb.newsbank.com
12. The HistoryMakers [2012 - ]
Chicago : The HistoryMakers, 2012-
Video — 1 online resource.
Over 83,205 stories assembled from live oral history interviews with 1,617 historically significant African Americans as of December 2, 2016. Founded in July of 1999, The HistoryMakers has grown into the nation's largest African American video oral history archive. Its collection includes the interviews of President Barack Obama (then an Illinois State Senator), civil rights leader Julian Bond, and children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, to name a few.
stanford.thehistorymakers.org
13. In motion [electronic resource] : the African-American migration experience [2005 - ]
New York : New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
American History; Economics and Business; Race and Ethnicity
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Of the thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic slave trade and the domestic slave trades were coerced, the eleven others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment. Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of the settlement and development of the Americas. Their hopeful journeys changed not only their world and the fabric of the African Diaspora but also the Western Hemisphere. AAME presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps. Browse by migration, geography, timeline, source and education materials. Phrase and keyword searching.
www.inmotionaame.org
14. Los Angeles sentinel [1933 - ]
Los Angeles, Calif. : L.H. Washington, Jr.,
Newspaper — v. : ill. ; 56-58 cm.
Find it Information Center: Newspapers
Current issues retained until microfilm received.
NEWSPAPER 2018/7/3-2020/1/2 In-library use
15. The Martin Luther King, Jr. papers project at Stanford [electronic resource] [1990 - ]
Palo Alto, Calif. : Stanford University, [199-?]-
"Contains secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life."
mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu
16. Oxford African American studies center [electronic resource] : the online authority on the African American experience [2006 - ]
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006-
Comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. Features over 7,500 articles from Oxford's reference works, approximately 100 primary sources with specially written commentaries, over 1,000 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans and over 6,000 biographies. The core content includes: Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes ; the Encyclopedia of African American history ; Black women in America, 2nd ed ; and the African American national biography.
www.oxfordaasc.com
17. Proquest historical newspapers. Cleveland call and post [electronic resource]. [1934 - 1991]
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest LLC.
News; American History
Full text of the Cleveland call post from 1934-1991 under all its title variants.
18. ProQuest historical newspapers. Norfolk journal and guide [electronic resource]. [1921 - 2003]
Contains full text of the newspaper Norfolk journal including its title variants.
19. ProQuest historical newspapers. Philadelphia tribune [electronic resource]. [1912 - 2001]
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest.
"The oldest continuously published black newspaper, is dedicated to the needs and concerns of the fourth largest black community in the U.S. During the 1930s the paper supported the growth of the United Way, rallied against the riots in Chester, PA, and continuously fought against segregation."
20. Proquest historical newspapers Pittsburgh courier [electronic resource]. [1911 - 2002]
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest Information and Learning Co.
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Pittsburgh courier (1911-1950 : City ed.), Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), Pittsburgh courier (1955-1966 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1966-1981 : City ed.), and New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2002). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
21. ProQuest history vault. Black freedom struggle in the 20th century [electronic resource]. [2011 - ]
[Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest
Journal/Periodical — 1 online resource.
American History; Government Information: United States; Race and Ethnicity
Organizational records and personal papers, pt. 1
Federal government records
Primary source material from federal agencies, letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries are among the unique resources available in digital format for the first time. Module one consists of 37 collections of organizational records and personal papers, and the second module is comprised of 36 collections from federal government agencies.
22. ProQuest history vault. NAACP papers [electronic resource]. [2012 - ]
[Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest.
pt. 1. Meetings of the Board of Directors, records of annual conferences, major speeches, and special reports, 1909-1950
pt. 2. Personal correspondence of selected NAACP officials, 1919-1939
pt. 3. The campaign for educational equality.
pt. 4. The voting rights campaign, 1916-1950
pt. 5. The campaign against residential segregation, 1914-1955
pt. 6. The Scottsboro case, 1931-1950
pt. 7. The anti-lynching campaign, 1912-1955.
pt. 8. Discrimination in the criminal justice system.
pt. 9. Discrimination in the U.S. armed forces, 1918-1955. General office files on armed forces' affairs, 1918-1955.
pt. 10. Peonage, labor, and the New Deal, 1913-1939
pt. 11. Special subject files, 1912-1939
pt. 12. Selected branch files, 1913-1939.
pt. 13. NAACP and labor, 1940-1955.
pt. 14. Race relations in the international arena, 1940-1955
pt. 15. Segregation and discrimination, complaints and responses, 1940-1955.
pt. 16. Board of directors, correspondence and committee materials.
pt. 17. National staff files, 1940-1955
pt. 18. Special subjects, 1940-1955.
pt. 19. Youth file.
pt. 20. White resistance and reprisals, 1956-1965
pt. 21. NAACP relations with the modern civil rights movement
pt. 22. Legal department administrative files, 1956-1965
pt. 23. Legal Department case files, 1956-1965
pt. 25. Branch department files.
Nearly 2 million digitized pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP's work and covers issues including: lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination in the military, the criminal justice system, employment, and housing, among others. It provides a comprehensive view of the NAACP's evolution, policies, and achievements from 1909-1970.
23. Slavery and the law [electronic resource]. [2012 - ]
American History; Race and Ethnicity; Law
Includes race, slavery, and free blacks petitions to southern legislatures and southern county courts as well as State slavery statutes.
search.proquest.com Browse collections to access.
24. Southern life and African American history, 1775-1915, plantations records. Part 1 [electronic resource]. [2012 - ]
The far-reaching impact of plantations on both the American South and the nation. It's one of the most fascinating and controversial topics of 19th-century American history. Debates over such questions as the extent of the political dominance of the large planters or the survival of African culture under the plantation regime have engaged historians for decades.
25. W.E.B. Du Bois papers [electronic resource]. [2009 - ]
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Amherst, MA : Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Univ. of Massachusetts
Search and view correspondence, writings, and photographs in the W.E.B. Du Bois papers held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
credo.library.umass.edu

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Bay Area Bee Fair on Oct. 13: The Place to 'Bee'
Professor Gordon Frankie, native bee authority
It's a fair.
It's a party.
It's a pollinator party.
It's the Bay Area Bee Fair in Berkeley.
And it's the place to be on Sunday, Oct. 13 at the Berkeley Flea Market, located at Ashby BART.
The second annual event, free and family friendly, is set from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It will feature a presentation on "How to Save the Bees" by UC Berkeley professor Gordon Frankie; educational and entertainment opportunities, kids' art activities, pollinator-themed art, and plant, book and bee condo sales, as well as honey and bee products, according to organizers Jackie Dragon and Mary Lynn Morales, who describe themselves as "Bee Fair dreamers."
The Bay Area Bee Fair is a time to "celebrate, educate and motivate the community about bees and other pollinators," they said. "Their health is vital to our health."
10 a.m.: Opening and welcome
11 a.m.: "How to Make a Pollinator-Friendly Garden Presentation" by Andrea Hurd, of Mariposa Gardening
Noon: "How to Save the Bees" by bee scientist Gordon Frankie, UC Berkeley professor and co-author of California Bees and Blooms: A Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists.
2:30 p.m.: Giant Puppets Pollinator Parade
3 p.m.: Closing
For more information, access:
https://www.bayareabeefair.org
https://www.facebook.com/pg/BayAreaBeeFair/about/
Black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, nectaring on nectarine blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring on Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A black-tailed bee, Bombus californicus, nectaring on blanket flower, Gaillardia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, and honey bee, Apis mellifera, sharing a purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Health, Innovation, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden
Tags: Bay Area Bee Fair (1), Farmers'' Market (1), Gordon Frankie (23), Jackie Dragon (1), kids'' activities (1), Mary Ann Morales (1), native bees (26), plants (3)
Just Being Totally Territorial
What was that!
If you grow Mexican sunflowers (Tithonia) in your pollinator garden, you've probably noticed the fast-flying longhorned male bees being totally territorial.
Their job is to target whatever's on the Tithonia. It doesn't matter if it's a bumble bee, a honey bee, or a butterfly--it's fair game.
As the late Robbin Thorp (1933-2019), a global expert on bees and a distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, used to say about the male longhorned bees, Melissodes agilis: "They're trying to save the flowers for their own species, per chance to mate with them."
Watching the territorial behavior is jaw-dropping, but imagine if you're a butterfly trying to sip a little nectar.
"Oh no! What was that heading straight at me?"
"Horrors! Here he comes again! Can't a pollinator get a little peace around here?"
The longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis, is just one of the more than 1600 species of bees found in California. If you want to learn more about them, be sure to read California Bees and Blooms: A Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists (Heyday, 2014), co-authored by scientists from UC Berkeley and UC Davis.
"California Bees and Blooms (co-authored by Gordon Frankie, Robbin Thorp, Barbara Ertter and Rollin Coville) holds a magnifying glass up to the twenty-two most common genera (and six species of cuckoo bees), describing each one's distinctive behaviors, social structures, flight season, preferred flowers, and enemies," according to Heyday.
That it does. And if you try to stop the action with your camera, it helps to set the shutter speed at 1/3000 to 1/4000 of a second. (The two images of the bee and painted lady butterfly captured with a Nikon D500 camera, mounted with a 70-180 mm macro zoom lens, with the aperture set at 5.6 and ISO at 800. Image of the bee and monarch taken with a Nikon D800 mounted with a 105mm lens, and with similar settings.)
A male longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis, targets the back of a painted lady, Vanessa cardui, on a Mexican sunflower in a Vacaville pollinator garden. This is typical territorial behavior. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Heads up! A male longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis, heads straight for the painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch butterfly is interrupted by a male longhorned bee engaging in territorial behavior. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Tags: Barbara Ertter (8), Gordon Frankie (23), Melissodes agilis (17), Mexican sunflower (49), Robbin Thorp (238), Rolllin Coville (1), territorial males (1), Tithonia (58), UC Berkeley (6), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (314)
What's Not to Love About 'Boys' Night Out'?
Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
We look forward to "The Boys' Night Out."
Ah, pillow fights, popcorn, and marathon movies on TV, you ask?
No. "Boys' Night Out" is when the longhorned male bees in our pollinator garden in Vacaville engage in sleepovers on our Mexican sunflowers (Tithonia) and other blossoms.
At night, the girls sleep inside their nests, and the boys cluster on flowers.
Lately, we've been admiring a trio of boys--Melissodes (possibly M. robustior, as identified by Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis)--bunking down on a Tithonia. Every day, around sunset, they head over to the same flower, arrange themselves in comfortable sleeping positions (hey, quit kicking me), and it's nighty-night! When the sun rises, they vacate the bedroom. Sometimes it's earlier than planned, no thanks to buzzing bumble bees, carpenter bees and honey bees foraging around them and disturbing their beauty sleep. The nerve!
Other species of male longhorned bees--including Melissodes agilis and Svastra obliqua--sleep on flowers at night as well.
"Most frequently, the boy bee overnight clusters are single-species clusters," says Thorp, co-author of California Bees and Blooms, a Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists, with UC-affiliated authors Gordon Frankie, Rollin E. Coville, and Barbara Ertter.
Thorp, who holds a doctorate in entomology from UC Berkeley and taught entomology at UC Davis from 1964 to 1994, continues to "bee involved" in research, writings, bee identification and public outreach. He teaches annually at The Bee Course (American Museum of Natural History), at the Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Ariz. The nine-day intensive course is offered for conservation biologists, pollination ecologists and other biologists who want to gain greater knowledge of the systematics and biology of bees.
In a previous Bug Squad blog, Thorp responded to a reader's inquiry about "stings" from the clustering bees. "Boy bees cannot sting," he pointed out. "They lack a stinger which is a modified ovipositor in their wasp ancestors. Occasionally a girl bee may spend the night out if she is caught by sudden drop in temperature. Usually she will not be part of a group sleep over. So don't attempt to handle unless you are confident you can tell boy bees from girl bees or they are too sleepy to defend themselves."
The reader also asked: "Typically how close to the girls' nest(s) do the boys' slumber? I want to try and make sure I don't touch it when planting at end of summer."
"Boy sleeping aggregations are based on a suitable perch and not related to where females are nesting, but probably no more than 100 yards from the nearest female nest," Thorp answered. "Females nest in the ground and have rather distinctive round holes about the diameter of a pencil or slightly smaller, sometimes with small piles of dirt around them looking like mini-volcanos. The holes may be widely separated or clustered together depending on the species, but each female digs her own burrow."
The reader also wondered: "When watching the boys tonight, about ten of them started waking up and kicking each other. They finally settled down and started to nestle back in for the 'night'--it was only 6 p.m.--but I wasn't sure if my presence was getting them riled or they tend to act like kids sharing a bed?"
Said Thorp: "The boys usually settle in as the light dims in the evening. Cool, and drizzly conditions may modify bed time. Each establishes his own spot, so there may be some jostling for position initially."
Longhorned bees are among the more than 1600 species of undomesticated bees that reside in California. In their book, California Bees and Blooms, the authors focus on 22 of the most common genera and the flowers they frequent. Meanwhile, check out Frankie's UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab website to read more about native bees and the exciting research underway.
Longhorned bees--Melissodes (possibly M. robustior) slumbering on a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Is it time to wake up? Two male longhorned bees eye the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male longhorned bee, Melissodes, prepares to leave his "bedroom," a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This male longhorned bee is sleeping alone on a Mexican sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden
Tags: Boys'' Night Out (3), California Bees and Blooms (20), Gordon Frankie (23), Melissodes (4), Mexican sunflower (49), native bees (26), Robbin Thorp (238), sleeping (1), slumbering (1), Tithonia (58)
A Bumble Bee on Mustard in the Golden State
What's better than a yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) on yellow mustard?
Not much. Both are signs of early spring.
Mustard is popping up all over, along with oxalyis and wild radish. The earth is warming. Spring is here. Get ready.
In the University of California book, California Bees and Blooms: Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists, the authors write that B. vosnesenskii and B. melanopygus "are considered spring bees because that is when their population is highest, tailing off in numbers the rest of the year."
The book is the work of Gordon Frankie, UC Berkeley entomology professor; Robbin Thorp, distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis; photographer and entomologist Rollin Coville (he received his doctorate from UC Berkeley), and botanist Barbara Ertter, also affiliated with UC Berkeley.
Be sure to check out their companion pocket guide on the UC ANR website. It's titled Common Bees in California Gardens. It will help you identify 24 of the most common bees found in urban gardens and landscapes. That's 24 out of nearly 1600 species of native bees found in the Golden State.
Yellow-faced bumble bee, yellow mustard, Golden State....Life is good...
A pollen-laded yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, buzzes toward a mustard blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Coming in for a landing! A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, lands on a mustard blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It doesn't get any better than this. Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) lands on a mustard blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Natural Resources
Tags: Barbara Ertter (8), Bombus vosnesenskii (42), California Bees and Blooms (20), Golden State (1), Gordon Frankie (23), Robbin Thorp (238), Rollin Coville (13), UC ANR (16), yellow mustard (1), Yellow-faced bumble bee (28)
Here Come the Carpenter Bees!
It's spring and it's loud in the Spanish lavender patch.
The girls--the honey bees--are buzzing furiously as they forage among the blossoms, but so are the boys, in this case the mountain carpenter bee, Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex. The girls are there for the pollen and nectar to take back to their colonies, and the boys are there for some flight fuel. And to find mates.
Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex is one of three species of California carpenter bees: the others are Xyclocopa varipuncta (the largest one, about the size of a bumble bee), and Xyclocopa californica. All females are mostly black. The male Xyclocopa varipuncta, aka "the teddy bear bee," is a golden with green eyes. The other males often have yellow hair on their head or thorax.
The carpenter bees usually fly from March through October, according to California Bees and Blooms, A Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists, a University of California production featuring the work of Gordon Frankie Robbin Thorp, Rollin Coville, and Barbara Ertter (Thorp is a distinguished emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, Frankie is a professor at UC Berkeley, and Coville and Ertter are also affiliated with UC Berkeley).
A handy identification pocket guide--a companion to California Bees and Blooms--is Common Bees in California Gardens, published by the University of California Agriculture and Nature Resources. It will help you identify 24 bees and you can lean about the distribution, flight season, nesting habits, floral hosts and how each bee species transports pollen. You'll see beautiful images by noted photographer Coville, who holds a Ph.D. in entomology from UC Berkeley.
Excellent publications! The more you know about bees, the more likely you are to protect them and plant for them.
Ah, spring! It's loud in the Spanish lavender patch...
A male mountain carpenter bee, Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex, nectaring on Spanish lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male mountain carpenter bee, Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex, peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Side view of the male mountain carpenter bee, Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex, nectaring on Spanish lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Natural Resources
Tags: Barbara Ertter (8), California Bees and Blooms (20), Gordon Frankie (23), Robbin Thorp (238), Rollin Coville (13), Xyclocopa tabaniformis orpifex (1)


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Protecting lives and structures with engineered systems
Andrew Pass is Global Engineering Manager for Fall Protection Engineered Systems at MSA Safety. MSA is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of industry-leading safety products. A true engineer, Andrew is a specialist in understanding the requirements of high-quality fall protection systems. Here, he talks about engineered systems and the integral role that they play in keeping those that work at height safe.
What is an engineered system?
Fall protection solutions are generally split into two categories: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and engineered systems. PPE covers products such as lanyards, self-retracting lifelines and harnesses, whilst a system is essentially a product that is permanently attached to a structure or a building. It is what operatives attach themselves to, to stay safe while working at height.
What is the role of an engineered system?
In short, it controls energy. And, in doing so, a well-designed system should achieve two things: the protection of people and the integrity of the structures on which they are working. As I'm sure you can imagine, in the unfortunate event of a fall from height, a significant amount of energy is generated with force put on both the person falling and the building. To help mitigate the effect of this force, MSA fall protection systems are designed with smart, integrated energy absorption technology. This technology means that the system itself absorbs the majority of the force from the fall, rather than the building or, importantly, the operative.
What must be considered when specifying a system?
There are some key things that must be considered in order to get the specification of height safety solutions right. First and foremost, think about the Health and Safety Executive's hierarchy of risk control. One, do you have to work at height? If at all possible, working at height should be avoided. Two, if it's unavoidable, can collective protection (guard rails etc) be implemented? And three, if an engineered system is required, make sure that has it has been specified and designed with its specific use in mind and that it has been tested against not only the latest standards, but the application in hand. And finally, as with any work at height, prior to work taking place it is crucial that the end-user has received high-quality training from a reputable provider (such as MSA Safety) specific to the work required.
The fundamental consideration should of course be how and where the system will be used. Transmission towers, industrial buildings and wind turbines, for instance, all have very different requirements and typically systems must be designed to be durable enough to last 25-30 years. Care must be taken to implement an appropriate system for each unique application. MSA believes that there is no such thing as a 'one size fits all' approach when it comes to height safety systems.
Tell us a bit more about testing...?
There are lots of different test methods out there, but there are really two things we focus on at MSA:
representative testing and exceeding standards. EN 795:2012 is an important standard when it comes to fall protection. It relates to the testing of anchor devices and is the minimum requirement for people working at height. I strongly urge anyone choosing fall protection systems to do so in accordance with this standard and supportive representative testing. We as an industry have a responsibility to do our utmost to help ensure people go home safely at the end of each day. Choosing equipment that passes strenuous tests and meets all relevant standards is crucial to doing just that.
as far as possible, representative testing should be carried out, which means testing a system on the actual substrate it's going to be attached to. There is little point testing products bolted to concrete floors if they are intended to be installed on aluminium roof sheet; performance could be completely different. There is also a new standard, EN 17235, being looked at under construction regulation CPR EU 305/2011. It will be an absolute game changer for the industry as it will make this type of testing a requirement. MSA welcomes this move, as we have been conducting representative testing since we first designed the Latchways Constant Force Post (MSA's engineered system) 20 years ago.
Is the industry in general good at testing to the right level?
I think things have changed a lot in the past few years. There is much more education now around fall protection and a lot more awareness of what is important when it comes to testing. I also think that there has been a general move toward each and every link in the fall protection chain realising their individual responsibility toward end-user safety, whether that be architects, specifiers, contractors, or installers. That's really encouraging. High quality equipment can, for instance, count for little if it's incorrectly installed or the end-user hasn't received sufficient training. It's therefore vitally important that each link in the fall protection safety chain does all they can to help mitigate the potential risks associated with working at height.
What's the biggest change you've seen in the industry over the last five years?
Construction capabilities have grown massively so we're seeing a lot of different and sometimes complex structures. Long gone are the days of standard square buildings! With beautiful curves and unique shapes, however, comes differing needs for fall protection. These often-complex structures can put even more of an impetus on the quality of both the height safety system itself and its installation, which is why it's vital to partner with reputable partners, including manufacturers, training providers, and installers.
There are also more systems out there, which is in part a good thing, but is also something to be potentially wary of, and it's important to understand the different offerings. The priority must remain on selecting the proper fit for the unique application, rather than merely choosing the least expensive solution. That said, Europe has and continues to drive full protection in terms of standards and regulations. Generally speaking, the rest of the world looks to Europe as a leading example.
If you could pass one message onto the industry what would it be?
Understand clearly what is required of the engineered system so that the right equipment can be chosen, and accurate system designs implemented. Make sure that the system has been tested to and meets the very latest standards. Principal designers, specifiers, contractors, and others in the fall protection chain should, as far as possible, insist that the very best height safety specification is stuck with and not changed for an option that may not perform as well or be as well suited to the application.
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Posted by Aaron Peck - October 26, 2012
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'Cloud Atlas' is a perplexing construct of a film. It cannot be analyzed merely by describing and dissecting its plot, because its plot is ambiguous at best. Honestly, there might not even be a plot as defined by standard screenwriting terms. Instead, 'Cloud Atlas' feels like a free-flowing stream of consciousness that touches on different human wants, needs, emotions and ideals along the way.
The last time I left a movie theater feeling anxious about what I'd just seen, with an immediate desire to see the movie again in order to piece together everything I may have missed, was Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life'. Like that film, 'Cloud Atlas' is destined to become a very divisive film among moviegoers. It will certainly evolve into a love-it-or-hate-it discussion that is sure to send film fans to movie message boards praising or picking apart its merits or lack thereof.
With that said, I haven't made up my mind just yet. The exact sentence I wrote down when I handed my comment card to the studio rep was: "I think I loved it, but I have no idea why. I need to see it again."
'Cloud Atlas' is a gargantuan epic that spans time periods as seamlessly as other movies fade-out from one scene and fade-in to another. Its collection of stories play like a string of echoes reverberating through the movie's chopped-up storyline. It requires that you be mentally aware of what's going on, of what themes and motives are being discussed, and what it's trying to tell you. This isn't a movie that you can plop down in front of, enjoy for an hour or two, and then walk out. It's a wholly involving narrative that plays with your senses as much as it does your emotions.
It's almost impossible, after only one viewing, to get a handle on what the film is about. I highly doubt that it's about any one thing, which is why multiple viewings seem necessary whether you end up liking it or not.
Based on the novel by David Mitchell, 'Cloud Atlas' tells six different stories spanning completely different time periods. We hop from one time to the next, meeting different characters, yet most of them are played by five or so leads. (Head on over to IMDb to check out the cast list. Each actor is credited with five or six different parts. Just looking at the list is enough to make your head spin.) Are the characters reincarnated? Are they simply descendants of the people that came before? These questions are left up to you to decide.
We ping-pong through time from the Pacific Islands in 1849, to 1963 Cambridge, to 1973 San Francisco, to present day London, to 2144 Neo Seoul, to a distant post-apocalyptic dystopian future. All six stories are populated with intriguing, though-provoking tales about characters who seem to connect to the other time periods through thin threads. These threads run through the narrative, loosely binding it without driving each story together by force.
To discuss what happens in each of these different stories would be futile. They're interconnected and become a sum of their parts once the end approaches. Instead, one could discuss how this narrative and the editing piece the story together with absolute aplomb. Co-directors Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings have been able to piece together this complex narrative with inspired editing. The editing makes the story understandable. Without it, we'd be lost in a sea of information with no direction.
We hop from one story to the next as answers to questions in one timeline are posed in another far-off time period. These stories don't play out in a linear sense. Instead, they seem pancaked on top of one another, like strata of earth and rock, holding each other up with what came before and pressing down with what happens later. Everything is connected. The stories truly act as echoes. What happens in the past affects the present, and what happens in the future is learned from the past.
Some weighty subjects are contemplated in this movie. Wrapping your head around them is a true test. One underlying theme that resonated with me was the idea of change in people. Whether these characters are reincarnated or simply descendants from earlier generations, there's still this idea of the past affecting the future. Hugo Weaving plays a dastardly villain in each story. Obviously, he couldn't overcome his pre-ordained path of villainy. On the other hand, we see evidence that the string of selfish ideals can be broken. It's hard, but truth finds a way.
The movie has its faults, but it's so earnest in its portrayal of life that faults were a necessary evil. The many moments of brilliant lucidity definitely outshine the liabilities (such as some ugly facial prosthetics used on the actors from one story to another).
If this review seems more like a free association of thoughts, 'Cloud Atlas' feels the same way much of the time. It's a movie experience. Whether you love it or hate it, you'll definitely remember it. The film will stick with you.
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HuskerGuy
October 26, 2012 at 6:31 am - Reply
Sort of like your review card, I have a very strong desire to see this, but I'm not entirely sure why. Can't wait to check it out this weekend.
I am extremely pissed off that the stupid theater where I live ISN'T playing this movie, yet they devoted two screens to that new "Silent Hill" movie.
Shannon Nutt
So it's comparable to "Tree of Life"? I'll pass for now then…I thought it was visually stunning, brilliantly directed, and had very little to say. Sounds like "Cloud Atlas" might be more of the same. Should look great on Blu-ray though. 😉
Aaron Peck
It's comparable in as much as it explores things rarely explored in modern cinema. On a storytelling front they're completely dissimilar.
The only reason I brought up 'Tree of Life' is that it and 'Cloud Atlas' feel like epic undertakings that require more than one viewing to take in what they have to offer.
CxDx
October 27, 2012 at 12:40 pm - Reply
it feels like a more expansive, and expensive retelling of "the fountain" to me…
Josh Zyber
October 27, 2012 at 2:36 pm - Reply
There are similarities, certainly. This one's a bit more accessible.
Tom Landy
October 26, 2012 at 11:58 am - Reply
I don't know. Every trailer I've seen for Cloud Atlas looks really, really stupid. It worries me to even think about seeing this.
I'd be really excited about this movie if it were not for the cast. I've gotten really sick of Tom Hanks, somehow just the sight of him is annoying now and I can't look past him to the character anymore. Halle Berry has always been the low point of everything I've ever seen her in. I don't know how big a part she has, but Susan Sarandon irritates me a bit as well, though, not enough to shoot a movie down herself. On the other hand, I like Hugo Weaving, but he can't offset the rest of the cast.
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Two alarmingly emaciated horses that were receiving care at the University of Tennessee Veterinary Hospital are out of ICU and isolation.
As of Thursday night, the horses were sharing a stall and were happy together.
The Horse Haven of Tennessee said the animals were well below the lowest body score used to described emaciated equine. A body score of 10 describes a perfectly healthy horse, while a body score of one is used to describe an extremely underweight animal. Horse Haven of Tennessee said these animals would be listed at a .5 body score if that was an option.
"They looked like walking cadavers," Jocelyn Smith, the equine manager at Horse Haven, said. "They were very thin and needed some help."
Horse Haven officials said in a Facebook post that they were originally alerted about three horses in need in southeast Tennessee. However, when workers arrived, one was described as "too weak to stand" and unable to be saved.
"Driven now to rescue the two remaining, Horse Haven staff hurriedly delivered the two to UT Vet School. The sorrel gelding, Chip and the bay mare, Dale are fighting for their lives," the organization wrote in the post.
Both horses were described as deathly thin, weighing 350 and 370 pounds respectively. One horse, Chip, suffered a broken jaw approximately three weeks ago.
"Their heads were down and they were unsure as to what was next," Smith said.
The organization is asking for donations to help pay for the extensive medical care needed to rehabilitate these animals. They're bracing for a $20,000 vet bill.
If you suspect a horse could be in an abusive situation, Horse Haven recommends calling 911 and asking for animal control to check out the situation.


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SWEETWATER, Fla. -- Aldo Amenta normally uses a wheelchair, but when it came time for his college graduation, he walked across the stage.
The Florida International University graduate said he practiced "long, long hours, just to be able to take a few steps."
In 2015, Amenta suffered a spinal cord injury in a diving accident at a pool, WPLG reports. He became a quadriplegic, which made going to school very difficult. He considered dropping out of school, but a scholarship allowed him to continue his treatments and his schoolwork.
On Sunday, the electrical engineering student from Venezuela not only graduated, he did it on his feet. As Amenta walked to receive his diploma with the help of a device called an exoskeleton, the crowd cheered him on.
"We've been talking about this for over a year," Guy Romaine, his physical therapist, told WPLG. "This is a big step for him."
Amenta told WPLG he'd been looking forward to the big moment.
"It was an amazing experience," he said. "For me it was a milestone to accomplish. Being able to cross the stage walking is something that's really meaningful."
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* TREATS NOT SWEETS … The grocery store shelves are groaning with bags of candy in orange and black wrappers. The newspapers are filled with articles about the health problems of overweight children. And Halloween is almost here.
Are you wondering what treats to buy for the little ghosts and goblins who will come knock-knock-knocking on your door?
Last Halloween, research scientists at Yale conducted a study among the 284 children between the ages of 3 and 14 years old who trick-or-treated at their homes. The children were offered a choice from two plates. One plate had four types of small toys that are safe for children: Stretch pumpkin men, large glow-in-the-dark insects, Halloween theme stickers and pencils. The other plate had four types of candy: lollipops, fruit-flavored chewy candies, fruit-flavored crunchy wafers and sweet and tart hand candies. Half the children chose toys and half chose candy.
Some people might argue that Halloween comes only once a year, so it is not necessary to worry about unhealthy food choices for one night. But children are offered candy frequently.
So you don't need to wrestle with your conscience about candy versus a small toy. Halloween visitors to your house will be happy with a treat, even if it's not sweet.
* YOUNG AT HEART … As you get older, changes in your body occur that can affect nutrition. Two of the most important changes are less absorption and greater excretion of nutrients and a slower metabolism, which means a diet of nutrient dense foods is needed.
Nutrient dense foods are those that will provide more vitamins and minerals without a lot of calories, like fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads and fortified cereals, low-fat dairy products, lean meats and low-fat meat substitutes such as beans, peas, lentils, fish, eggs and low-fat cheese. These foods should comprise the majority of your diet.
And don't forget hydration. The need for water increases as you age; however, it is easier to become dehydrated because you may not feel as thirsty.
You can obtain your recommended amount of fluids through drinking water, fruit juices, milk and foods such as soups and fruit.
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#ifndef SkPictureStateTree_DEFINED
#define SkPictureStateTree_DEFINED

#include "SkTDArray.h"
#include "SkChunkAlloc.h"
#include "SkDeque.h"
#include "SkMatrix.h"
#include "SkRefCnt.h"

class SkCanvas;

/**
 * Provides an interface that, given a sequence of draws into an SkPicture with corresponding
 * offsets, allows for playback of an arbitrary subset of the draws (note that Z-order is only
 * guaranteed if the draws are explicitly sorted).
 */
class SkPictureStateTree : public SkRefCnt {
private:
    struct Node;
public:
    SK_DECLARE_INST_COUNT(SkPictureStateTree)

    /**
     * A draw call, stores offset into command buffer, a pointer to the matrix, and a pointer to
     * the node in the tree that corresponds to its clip/layer state
     */
    struct Draw {
        SkMatrix* fMatrix;
        Node* fNode;
        uint32_t fOffset;
        bool operator<(const Draw& other) const { return fOffset < other.fOffset; }
    };

    class Iterator;

    SkPictureStateTree();
    ~SkPictureStateTree();

    /**
     * Creates and returns a struct representing a draw at the given offset.
     */
    Draw* appendDraw(size_t offset);

    /**
     * Given a list of draws, and a canvas, initialize an iterator that produces the correct
     * sequence of offsets into the command buffer to carry out those calls with correct
     * matrix/clip state. This handles saves/restores, and does all necessary matrix setup.
     */
    void initIterator(SkPictureStateTree::Iterator* iter,
                      const SkTDArray<void*>& draws,
                      SkCanvas* canvas);

    void appendSave();
    void appendSaveLayer(size_t offset);
    void appendRestore();
    void appendTransform(const SkMatrix& trans);
    void appendClip(size_t offset);

    /**
     * Call this immediately after an appendRestore call that is associated
     * a save or saveLayer that was removed from the command stream
     * due to a command pattern optimization in SkPicture.
     */
    void saveCollapsed();

    /**
     * Playback helper
     */
    class Iterator {
    public:
        /** Returns the next op offset needed to create the drawing state
            required by the queued up draw operation or the offset of the queued
            up draw operation itself. In the latter case, the next draw operation
            will move into the queued up slot.
            It retuns kDrawComplete when done.
            TODO: this might be better named nextOp
        */
        uint32_t nextDraw();
        static const uint32_t kDrawComplete = SK_MaxU32;
        Iterator() : fValid(false) { }
        bool isValid() const { return fValid; }

    private:
        void init(const SkTDArray<void*>& draws, SkCanvas* canvas, Node* root);

        void setCurrentMatrix(const SkMatrix*);

        // The draws this iterator is associated with
        const SkTDArray<void*>* fDraws;

        // canvas this is playing into (so we can insert saves/restores as necessary)
        SkCanvas* fCanvas;

        // current state node
        Node* fCurrentNode;

        // List of nodes whose state we need to apply to reach TargetNode
        SkTDArray<Node*> fNodes;

        // The matrix of the canvas we're playing back into
        SkMatrix fPlaybackMatrix;

        // Cache of current matrix, so we can avoid redundantly setting it
        const SkMatrix* fCurrentMatrix;

        // current position in the array of draws
        int fPlaybackIndex;
        // Whether or not we need to do a save next iteration
        bool fSave;

        // Whether or not this is a valid iterator (the default public constructor sets this false)
        bool fValid;

        uint32_t finish();

        friend class SkPictureStateTree;
    };

private:

    void appendNode(size_t offset);

    SkChunkAlloc fAlloc;
    // Needed by saveCollapsed() because nodes do not currently store
    // references to their children.  If they did, we could just retrieve the
    // last added child.
    Node* fLastRestoredNode;

    // The currently active state
    Draw fCurrentState;
    // A stack of states for tracking save/restores
    SkDeque fStateStack;

    // Represents a notable piece of state that requires an offset into the command buffer,
    // corresponding to a clip/saveLayer/etc call, to apply.
    struct Node {
        Node* fParent;
        uint32_t fOffset;
        uint16_t fLevel;
        uint16_t fFlags;
        SkMatrix* fMatrix;
        enum Flags {
            kSave_Flag      = 0x1,
            kSaveLayer_Flag = 0x2
        };
    };

    Node fRoot;
    SkMatrix fRootMatrix;

    typedef SkRefCnt INHERITED;
};

#endif

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A Trollfest norvég folk-metal zenekar.

Története

2003-ban alakultak meg Oslóban. John Espen Sagstad (művésznevén Mr. Seidel) és Jostein Austvik (művésznevén Trollmannen) zenészek alapították. Első nagylemezüket 2005-ben jelentették meg. Ezt egy évvel később, 2006-ban a második stúdióalbumuk követte. Karrierjük elején sosem koncerteztek, első koncertjeiket 2007-ben és 2008-ban tartották, a Ragnarök és Riedfest fesztiválokon. 2012-ben már, a Wintersun-nal, a Korpiklaani-val, a Krampus-szal és a Varggal együtt turnéztak a Heidenfest keretein belül. 2009-ben harmadik nagylemezüket is megjelentették. 2011-ben feliratkoztak a "NoiseArt Records"hoz és új stúdióalbumuk már az ő gondozásában jelent meg. 2012-ben, 2014-ben, 2017-ben és 2019-ben új albumokat is piacra dobtak. Dalaik főleg a kitalált "Trollsprak" ("troll nyelv")en szólnak, amely a norvég és a német nyelv keresztezése. Zenéjükben szaxofonokat és hegedűket is használnak. Szövegeik témái a trollok és az ivás.

Tagok

Trollbank – dobok (2004-)
Mr. Seidel – gitár (2004-)
Trollmannen – éneklés (2004-)
Dr. Leif Kjonnesfleis – gitár, éneklés (2011-)
DrekkaDag – szaxofon (2011-)
Lodd Bolt – basszusgitár (2012-)

Diszkográfiájuk

TrollfesT – Promo 2004
Willkommen Folk Tell Drekka Fest! – nagylemez, 2005
Brakebein – nagylemez, 2006
Villanden – nagylemez, 2009
Uraltes Elemente – EP, 2009
En Kvest For Den Hellige Gral – nagylemez, 2011
Brumblebassen – nagylemez, 2012
A Decade of Drekkadence – válogatáslemez, 2013
Kaptein Kaos – nagylemez, 2014
Live at Alrosa Villa – koncertalbum, 2015
Helluva – nagylemez, 2017
Norwegian Fairytales – nagylemez, 2019
Flamingo Overlord - nagylemez, 2022

Jegyzetek

Források
Encyclopaedia Metallum
Metal Storm
Blabbermouth
Dead Rhetoric
Metal Injection

2003-ban alakult együttesek
Norvég metalegyüttesek

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Fast-forward to 2030: What does the HIV epidemic look like for adolescents?
The world pledged to end AIDS by 2030. Though great strides have been made toward this goal for young children, adolescent girls and boys are being left behind. We used existing trends to project what the future will look like for adolescents, and we found that the outlook depends mostly on the region of the world where they live.
Greater and sustained improvements in HIV prevention, treatment and care for all adolescents will require careful attention to two key trends, both of which vary significantly by region: The projected growth of adolescent populations and the current effectiveness of HIV responses to them.
Between 2018 and 2030, adolescent populations are projected to rise by 37% in West and Central Africa, but by just 4% in East Asia and the Pacific. Within that wide range, increases are expected to be about 17% in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 24% in Middle East and North Africa, and 27% in Eastern and Southern Africa.
One important observation is that the two regions with the greatest adolescent population growth (those in sub-Saharan Africa) are the same two regions that currently account for three-quarters (76%) of new HIV infections among adolescents aged 10–19. However, those two regions' HIV responses to adolescents are on very different trajectories, a situation that could have equally divergent implications for adolescents' risks and vulnerability to HIV.
These trends are why we embarked on an ambitious analysis of projecting the HIV epidemic to 2030. While we can't predict the future, projections can shine a light on promising progress in the fight against AIDS – as well as gaps in the global response.
Although Eastern and Southern Africa has long been the epicenter of the global HIV epidemic – and it continues to be the region where the largest numbers of people are living with HIV – the HIV response in this part of the world has also been impressive. For example, the number of new HIV infections among adolescents in 2017 was 25% lower than in 2010, and coverage of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services reached 93%.
When projecting the HIV epidemic in this region, we found that the increasing adolescent population did not reverse these recent gains. Progress in the last five years has been so great that even with anticipated demographic shifts, new HIV infections are expected to decrease by 44% between 2018 and 2030 (and let's note that although this achievement is worth celebrating, it is still not fast enough to reach Global Goals).
On the other hand, West and Central Africa, the region with the second-highest burden, has observed more limited progress. New HIV infections among adolescents in 2017 (69,000) were about the same as in 2010 (70,000). UNICEF's projections of the HIV epidemic in this region found that this minimal progress, combined with a 37% increase in the adolescent population, will likely result in only a 15% decrease in new HIV infections between 2018 and 2030.
While the numbers of infected individuals are comparatively small, new HIV infections among adolescents are expected to decline by only 14% in Latin America and the Caribbean and possibly even increase in Eastern Europe and Central Asa.
Such diverging trends across regions are why our findings serve as a warning. The evidence shows that promising trends in East and Southern Africa could be offset by increases in HIV risk among adolescents in other regions. West and Central Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and East Asia and the Pacific are, unfortunately, poised to become more prominent contributors to the global HIV epidemic among adolescents.
Although this projected shift signals where more targeted focus is needed, it should not be construed as suggesting that HIV prevention efforts among adolescents should be reduced in Eastern and Southern Africa. That region will still be home to huge numbers of adolescents living with HIV, all of whom will need effective and consistent treatment, care and support to help them stay healthy and minimise their likelihood of transmitting HIV to others (including other adolescents).
Rather, the progress made in Eastern and Southern Africa despite the magnitude of the epidemic, sets an example for other regions in the world to step up the pace in HIV prevention, treatment and care. One initiative that has contributed to this success is All In to End Adolescent AIDS (All In). Other parts of the world can learn from countries that have used All In as a platform to strengthen political will and adolescent participation in HIV programming. Furthermore, the initiative advocates for stronger adolescent-specific data that can be used to both monitor and improve the HIV response.
Children, HIV and AIDS: 2030 projections and 2018 snapshots.
We could not have conducted this analysis without the technical input and expertise of Avenir Health and the Strategic Information and Evaluation Department at the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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Julie Andrews isn't sure what character she plays in 'Aquaman:' 'I play some kind of a sea serpent'
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Julie Andrews said she isn't exactly sure what character she plays in 2018's "Aquaman."
"I play some kind of a sea serpent or something," she said.
In the film, Andrews voiced a mythical creature who ruled the underworld.
Julie Andrews expressed some confusion about the nature of the character she voiced in 2018's "Aquaman" in an interview with Vanity Fair.
In the interview, Andrews was asked about the origins of her pivot to voicing acting over the last decade, to which she responded: "Yes, it sort of started and grew—and it's wonderful. I don't have to get hair and makeup anymore. I just go into the studio and do my voiceovers."
Andrews continued: "It's a whole other kind of moviemaking. You just chuck everything at the wall and they take what they want out of it. So there's a lot of experimentation."
Andrews — who is best known for her work in Hollywood classics like "Mary Poppins" — continued to break down some of her most recent voiceover work, including "Aquaman."
"Apart from 'Despicable Me' and 'Bridgerton,' and, umm … I'm not going to mention 'Aquaman,' where I play some kind of a sea serpent or something. But what interesting things to get one's voice into!" she said.
"Of course, now, 'Minions' is just coming out where I play Gru's mum. I love the Minions. I adore them."
Jason Momoa in "Aquaman."
In "Aquaman," Andrews voices an underwater sea creature called the Karathen, who is the most powerful being on the planet and aids Jason Momoa's titular superhero in his quest to unite the underwater world.
Back when the film was released in 2018, producer Peter Safran also told Vanity Fair that Andrews recorded her scenes for the film at her home with director James Wan dialing in on a conference call to direct her.
"She was fantastic," Safran said. "She really nailed it, gave James everything he wanted, and that was it. You listen to Mary Poppins, and you listen to the Karathen. And if you don't? You do it at your own peril."
It has yet to be announced whether Andrews will reprise her role in the upcoming "Aquaman" sequel. The film is officially titled "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" and is currently slated for a March 2023 release.
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Huckabee's Marathon: From Rotund to Runner
GOP candidate's diabetes, weight struggle shapes health-policy views.
ByKEVIN CHUPKA
Dec. 19, 2007— -- "We need to find a new exit strategy for my life," Mike Huckabee often says in his stump speeches as he criss-crosses Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina.
The former Arkansas governor once carried upward of 280 pounds on his 5-foot 11-inch frame. But after a 2003 diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, Huckabee says his doctor scared him straight.
"If you don't make a lifestyle change, and do it quick, you're entering the last decade of your life," Huckabee recalls the doctor telling him.
Huckabee, who has since traded in his fork for front-runner status in many Iowa polls, joked that "in the Deep South you don't eat until it's deep fried. Everything you eat, breakfast, lunch, dinner, vegetables, meats, dessert, everything is fried."
Last week he told his story to medical students at the University of Des Moines.
"I embarked upon a very aggressive approach to try to make some lifestyle changes, which meant getting rid of fried foods and sugar, and starting to learn how to eat right and then slowly developing an exercise routine that went from zero exercise to eventually running four marathons," he said.
Huckabee has run two Little Rock, Ark., marathons, the Marine Corps Marathon in the Washington, D.C., area and the New York City Marathon. He is currently training -- thanks to his dual press secretary/trainer Alice Stewart -- for the mecca of all marathons -- Boston -- this spring.
What did this all mean for Huckabee? He told the students in Iowa, "I have not had any diabetic symptoms for five years. No medication; the doctor tells me that because we addressed it so aggressively and early that it's as if I have not had diabetes."
Perhaps because he has been through it himself, Huckabee speaks passionately about diabetes. In a broader discussion of health care earlier this month in South Carolina Huckabee points to the fact that "we're seeing things in kids that didn't exist 15 years ago, for example, type 2 diabetes. It used to be we talked about diabetes in chronological terms, juvenile and adult onset … juveniles are now getting adult diabetes.
"That's never happened before. Fifteen years ago, that didn't happen," he said.
He often challenges his audiences to the following experiment: to dig out their third-grade class picture and compare it to any third-grade class in America today.
"I promise you," he says, "if you'll take that little experiment I will never again have to convince you that we have a serious problem in this country with the next generation of children growing up to be the sickest generation that's ever lived."
Huckabee's personal experience not only changed his life but seems to have shaped his policy. "We don't have a health care crisis in this country" he says in his stump speeches."We have a health crisis."
His proposal focuses more on prevention than anything else. He uses the analogy of putting a fence at the top of the cliff instead of an ambulance at the bottom, or killing the snake instead of treating the snake bite.
In a video on his Web site, Huckabee says, "What we do need to get serious about is preventive health care instead of just chasing more and more dollars to treat chronic disease that is often avoidable."
So it seems the only question left is whether or not the once rotund, now reedy Huckabee can survive the political marathon to the White House.


This extremely rustic nightstand lamp would make a great DIY project. We spotted it in this cool rustic apartment designed by . Its one of the most creative table lamps we've seen. Just check out that brick wall. It looks like the plaster is literally peeling off. How loft-like and urban is that? And this is the perfect light for that kind of place.
Rustic, yet kind of industrial. It may not be easy to DIY. You need to get the right pipe fittings at your local plumbing supply store. You need to figure out how to attach the bulb socket to the pipe. The pipe ends are perfectly suited to run wires through. But how do you make the light turn on and off when turning the faucet handle?! And pick an unusual bulb to go with it. Voila – a nightstand lamp fit for a high-end design store.
Only you will know the difference!


Only 1% of the UK population are vegan, but it's got the media spins and curious consumers are trying it for the purported health benefits.
Brands have to engage across more platforms than ever before – so brand logos are adapting to work harder.
With Brexit on the horizon we'll be seeing a British come-back. Wetherspoons have already swapped spirits such as Jagermeister for tastier and cheaper British alternatives.
Print isn't dead, but animation is certainly alive and kicking – and it's essential for engaging online and social media!
Millennials aren't drinking alcohol – but this massive new market are still thirsty for great experiences.
Brave colour combinations featured in dynamic gradients.
Food waste is massive, reducing it and keeping food prices down require some clever consumer education.
Big fun fonts talk in buckets.
Supermarkets face criticism for over-packaging. The waste-concious consumer must be appeased.
Unorthodox combinations of bold colour.
People love a bit of nostalgia – it also evokes heritage and trustworthyness.
Our studio has always got one eye on the latest and best food and design trends. If this has got your creative juices going then give us a call about your next project.


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If you like management games, you won't think twice before playing Sheltered, a survival-themed management game where you have to protect your family members after a global apocalypse. While they've succeeded in finding a deserted shelter and taking refuge there, you can't stay inside the shelter forever. You have to eventually go outside to find food, water, and medical supplies. But outside, danger is lurking everywhere. Your main task? To stay alive.
If someone offered you a choice to go or not to go outside, you would probably take the second option. But you have to keep your family alive as they all depend on you. You keep reminding yourself why you stay alive: you do it for you daughter and your wife. They are happy when you come back and bring food or medical supplies, but you never tell them how you got the supplies.
Choices are not always easy and you'll have to face harsh moral decisions. Sometimes, you'll do unthinkable things just to keep your family alive.
Sheltered is a post-apocalyptic disaster management game that gives a whole new meaning to the term "nuclear family". Given a head-start over the billions lost in a nuclear holocaust, you must gather as many supplies as possible en route to the concrete underground shelter that will soon become your family home for the foreseeable dreary future. With all hope lost, how will you cope in this bleak new world?
How you handle the many moral choices you'll encounter on a daily basis could be the difference between your family surviving or dying. Combat claustrophobia, radiation and mental exhaustion as you cling desperately to life in the cramp, cold and scary underground shelter. You'll have to leave the scant protection the shelter offers behind as you're forced to venture outside into the dangerous desolate wasteland to scavenge for vital supplies which could ensure your families survival for just one more day.
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We are pleased to see Danny Stark using our Venom Defender Gloves during his field trip.
Here you can see him with a 3 meter King Cobra.
"Today we found a 300 cm King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah). Special thanks to Shinta Sukma Wati and Adi for the nice trip!


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• implement the new CPZs based on a cashless payment system: Pay-by-Phone and Pay-Point with no on-street ticket machines. (To be reviewed one year post-implementation of the scheme).


Blending these essential oils into a roller ball applicator can help with the sniffles associated with the season change!
Growing up in Minnesota, I never had seasonal sniffles. And I mean never! I was so so lucky. I moved to Georgia for graduate school, and low and behold, not even a month later I had a persistent runny nose and itchy eyes. My car got covered in a yellow-green film as fall slowly moved it's way in. My fall sniffles had struck! Now that I'm in Texas, every spring and fall for about a month, those sniffles come back and plague me for about a month each season. And that's where this fall sniffles relief roller comes in handy. Affiliate links used, full disclosure here.
I think the best thing about this roller is that all the oils in it are extremely popular and versatile. Meaning, you probably have them on hand, and if you don't, you should invest in keeping them stocked because you'll use them for everything. The number of good uses for lavender knows no limits, I swear. I use this oil every single day. Every one!
If you get seasonal congestion like I do, make this roller and keep it in your purse. That way you have it on hand when those sniffles strike! And bonus, it's good to use on children, too. I would start by applying it on the bottoms of their feet to make sure there isn't any adverse reactions. For adults, I like to apply it to the back of my neck, wrists and temples. There's nothing more refreshing than the peppermint oil when you're congested and smelling the lemon is invigorating when you're experiencing seasonal sniffles/head aches.
Pop the roller off the top of the roller ball applicator and add the pinch of salt. Add the oils to the salt and shake it, covering the opening with your finger so it doesn't spill out. This will evenly distribute the essential oils over the salt. This step is important because oils and water don't mix, and this will help keep the oils suspended in the water. Top off with distilled water. Shake well before each use.
Pop the roller off ball off the top of the applicator and add the essential oils. Fill the remainder with your carrier oil of choice . Shake well before each use.
Here's the difference between using water and carrier oils: Carrier oils DILUTE the essential oils, so if you have sensitive skin or are using this blend on children, I recommend a carrier oil. Water STRENGTHENS the oils because the water allows it to penetrate the skin faster, so if you're only going to use this on non-sensitive skin areas of adults, or have particularly bad seasonal sniffles, I'd go this route.
To piggy-back off that last paragraph, if you ever have a reaction to an essential oil or an essential oil based product, don't attempt to wash it off! Add oil to the affected spot. When I first got a blue spruce oil, I rubbed it all over my neck so I'd smell it constantly (that smell reminds me of Minnesota and I'm in love with it. I was also pregnant and not thinking clearly at the time!) After about 30 seconds, I started to break out in a rash from applying so much of the oil neat to my skin. I attempted to wash it off, which only made the rash worse! I should have just started coating myself in coconut oil so that it would have become diluted on my skin. Now I know better, and you do too.
Putting together a fall sniffles relief roller is that easy! The blend smells great and promotes your seasonal wellness. Make several and keep them around your house for easy access.
I have seasonal allergies as well and I love the idea of taking this roller on the go!
That's what happened when I moved to Chicago! I all of a sudden had sniffles I never had before. I will check this out!
I do get the sniffles from time to time. So this would definitely be something I'd love to try!
I have recommended this combo to so many people! It works wonders and is one of my favorites.
Just told a friend about your post! This is a great little remedy - I love it!
I'm actually suffering right now, I have a full blown cold and my nose is not really helping me out. I need to get these oils thank you.
I have empty rollers AND all these oils on hand- Scorsese.
I have all these oils on hand and a runny nose! Perfect timing! Thanks for adding in the tip about using oils, not water, to dilute essential oils. That's something I should (and do) know as well, but in the rush to get something unpleasant off my skin, I'm sure I would first try washing it off with water. Great reminder!
This is brilliant! I never would think to put epsom salt in to help them suspend in water. Why you so smart?
I am so glad you are back doing essential oil posts! You are my go to and you know I am going to get tons of colds from my kids this fall!


Austrian and German federal police moreover aim to assess controls along the Brenner Pass - a mountain pass at the border with Italy and Austria. A review of the initiative will be made in three months.
Especially in border areas, it is important to coordinate measures on both sides of the border, said Thomas Borowik, federal police spokesman in Munich, adding that the officials are keeping a close eye in particular on freight trains.
"We want to prevent dangerous illegal entries on freight trains at an early stage and prevent accidents," said Borowik. "Migrants keep putting their lives at risk."
Migrants usually travel between or on train carriages crossing the Brenner pass. In 2017, nearly 1,000 migrants were discovered on freight trains, according to federal police headquarters in the Bavarian capital.
But the number of illegal entries at the German-Austrian border is likely to decline if the trend shown in recent months continues.
In 2017, some 14,600 people tried to enter the country illegally at the border between the two countries. Around 7,200 of them were refused entry. In the first four months of 2018, there were almost 3,800 unauthorized entries and about 2,100 refusals.