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Judy Vizzari visits the garden of Vicky Shukuroglou, from Eltham.
Today is a special day. Not because the temperature gauge is measuring high 30s – we've had lots of heat lately – or because Eltham has become frighteningly tinder dry, but because I'm meeting Vicky Shukuroglou, a young woman I've been hoping to visit for some time now. Vicky is busy – she's an artist on the move so I'm feeling lucky to finally catch up with her.
I approach her home along a dusty, winding road. She lives in south Eltham on a 10 acre property close to Warrandyte State Park. As I navigate each turn, I have a real sense of departure from the township I've left behind.
Access to the house is via a rough road which leads to a parking area and it's there that I meet her, a slender young woman sensibly attired in a straw hat and loose white shirt over shorts. I note that she wears far more practical shoes than me. Her eyes are steady and her smile welcoming. She's accompanied by another important member of this greeting committee – Queenie, her friendly black dog. Queenie also seems to be keen to explore Vicky's garden.
After a quick glass of water, we stand on a little plateau which is shaded by high eucalypts – it forms a versatile space at the back of the house for both leisure and gardening and is packed with beds and pots containing an interesting blend of indigenous edible plants and decorative species. I'm impressed by a thriving native hibiscus which stands head high. Its fine foliage creates a vivid-green mist punctuated by delicate mauve blooms – Vicky tells me that it was her grandmother's favourite plant.
Vicky is a gardener with an obvious love of plants and expertise in food production but this garden isn't just about produce or pretty spaces – it's clear that Vicky has a deep love of her environment.
"For me, gardening is about biodiversity – my number one priority is to maintain habitat."
Hers is a holistic approach – it's evidenced in the way that she cares for land and its inhabitants, in the work that she devotes to returning her land to its natural state and in her efforts to maintain, not only its vegetation, but also the life it supports. She discusses how, during the 30 years that her family has lived there, she has slowly and carefully removed blackberries, thistles and a multitude of other introduced weeds and then sourced, cultivated and planted indigenous species to re-vegetate the area.
"To look at it now you wouldn't know, but so much time has gone into eradicating weeds", she says. She's particularly proud of a patch of native orchids that have recently emerged and of the lush growth which now exists around the Laughing Waters Creek at the far end of their property.
I gaze out at an area of tranquil, forested bushland and mentally tick off an absence of obviously introduced plants.
The flow-on effect, Vicky continues, of tending the land is supporting wildlife – indigenous animals (kangaroos, wallabies, phascogales, gliders, wombats, echidnas, rodents, snakes and birds) all share this space, as well as the introduced species (foxes, rabbits and deer) and then there are the subterranean dwellers (frogs and worms and a multitude of spiders, ants, moths, butterflies and other insects).
She tells me that at times the "trees are buzzing with wrens, thornbills and pardalotes" and, as we walk amongst the garden beds, she warns me that she has seen brown, tiger and copper head snakes near her well-watered vegetable beds and that I should watch out, especially around the logs which have been left as habitats for the frogs. She adds that those snakes have never been threatening.
So Vicky is trying to balance natural bushland with cultivation but her convictions come at a cost. Her cropping plants are constantly in demand from the many appetites primed to consume them. It seems that Vicky maintains a generous will to share her environment with all living creatures, even when she finds her fruiting trees bare, her herbs ravaged and her zucchini and tomatoes dented by sharp teeth.
Vicky's objectives sound similar to those of nearby Yarra Valley Parklands, which extend along the Yarra River: "[Yarra Valley Parklands] form a significant 'backbone' of interconnecting trails, linear parks, wetlands and waterways throughout the metropolitan area. The ongoing effort revegetating the parklands, mostly with the aid of valued community groups planting about 30,000 trees per year, has seen the return of a number of significant wildlife species." Parks Victoria
The produce garden
This house is set in bushland and the ground appears hard and dry, but there is a wealth of plants thriving below this plateau. Vicky has had to cope with competition from climate, fauna and flora (especially eucalypt roots) and, despite her challenges, she has achieved impressive results.
We make our way down to a terraced area sporting a tent-like structure – a raised vegetable garden perhaps eight metres long and three wide, with a central pathway down its length. It's enclosed with low metal walls from an old shed and the entire garden is covered by netting stretched over pipe arches. Its two long beds are filled with compost enriched soil and, owing to the importance of keeping nutrients on site, all weeds and pruned plants are included in that compost. The tent's interior is watered through hoses which lead comes from a nearby swimming pool which has been converted into a rainwater reservoir and which is home to many frogs and aquatic plants.
Inside the 'tent', there are many thriving vegetables including tromboncino, Warragul greens, amaranth, turmeric, ginger, all sorts of leafy greens, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes and eggplants.
Murnongs (yam daisies)
A highlight of the collection is a fascinating plant called 'murnong.' It's an indigenous perennial tuber which is also called a yam daisy. Vicky tells me that there are several varieties and that she is cultivating three of them. The one we're examining presents a fine and delicate matt of twisted stems which occasionally end with hook-like ends bearing pointed oval shaped buds. When in flower, Vicky says, these plants display a mass of yellow blooms similar to dandelions – very pretty – and the native bees love them.
Murnongs (yam daisy)
I learn that murnongs have edible, tuberous roots which were once an important food source for Indigenous communities. However, the introduction of sheep and cattle had a very negative effect on their survival and they were almost completely eradicated – only now is an effort being made to re-grow these nutritious and attractive plants. Vicky's batch are thriving and, whilst some are destined for culinary use, others will be returned to the natural bushland.
From here, we wander down to another level where we find more zucchini and greens, and another variety of murnongs – these are larger, with heavier stems and stronger habit. These plants are also watered from Vicky's swimming pool reservoir and the soil is always moist – it's become a favourite camping ground for reservoir frogs where Vicky provides temporary accommodation – the fallen timber which lays close by.
Finger limes
Back up the slope, we see an array of fruiting plants including midgen berry (Austromyrtus), appleberry (Billardiera scandens), blueberries, nectarines, peaches, plums, figs, pomegranates and an apricot. Also, finger limes, Monstera deliciosa and kafir limes. Plus herbs which are grown from seed and grow in a narrow space on the northern side of the house.
Nillumbik Environment Action Group
I ask Vicky about NEAG – Nillumbik Environment Action Group – of which she is a leading member. I've visited their Facebook page and learnt that it is "a group that started life in 2015 as a response to bipartisan government inaction on the environment and climate change". They have a small core membership, with a newsletter distribution of several hundred, and aim to raise awareness of climate change, to support people in caring for their environment, and to actively address local, state and federal environmental issues. NEAG promotes their organisation by providing film nights and via festival stalls, and they offer reciprocal gardening sessions to community members. This is just one of several local groups which are committed to preserving and nurturing our local environment.
The afternoon sun is telling and it's time for me to return home. Queenie has come out from inside the house to say goodbye and I take the opportunity to photograph the pair together against a backdrop of trees and the reservoir. I've enjoyed this wander through blended bushland and food producing space and will remember it as a place for all seasons and a haven for all creatures.
Baby finger limes whose parents are now 8 years old
8 Responses to "Vicky Shukuroglou"
Bruce FISHER says:
G'day to all fellow humans with a love of mother nature, and our sole planet Earth! especially also to Judi Vizzari for her beaut interview with our newly found earthy friend Vicky Shukuroglou. My wife of 60+ years (Patricia) and I (Bruce Fisher) of Forest Hill are both now in our 80's, Trish is a passionate gardener, and myself, a lover of 'art', a former self employed 'signwriter', then for 26 years to the rank of sergeant a member of Victoria Police. I also support the original humans of this country – our indigenous brothers and sisters. I have communicated in the past with Bruce Pascoe and have a number of his books, including the latest that my bride got me for Christmas 'Loving Country' which I believe should be in every home in Australia!
I truly appreciate the opportunity to comment about this publication. Love to all! xxxx Pat/Bruce.
Franco Smargiassi says:
Carissima, Vicky.
Is Danos your Papa`? He sent me the link … wonderful work that you do with Mother nature and creativity … pity I am so far away (Perth, WA) otherwise you would see a lot more of me … 🙂
Franco Smargiassi
Ritsa Demetriades says:
Reading Vicky's interview by Judi Vizzari, I felt I was with them and followed their steps one by one. Vicky combines art with gardening and environment. Vicky is an artist full of kind sentiments. Into her garden live harmoniously plants, indigenous animals, birds, frogs, butterflies, insects, snakes and other! As Judy says "It is a heaven for all creatures". Thank you Vicky and all the best in the future!
paul petzierides says:
I admire you. Bravo.
Georgia Demetriades says:
Well done, Vicky! Keep it up and inspire others! Very interesting interview!
Panos Ioannides says:
BRAVO to Vicky Shukuroglou for the achievement and BRAVO to Judy Vizzari for the professional interview.
Keep well.
Panos Ioannides
Mohamad El Shataly says:
We need more people like Vicky who care and take care of our environment. Well done, Vicky.
Fay Bridge says:
What a fabulous story and achievement. It would be wonderful if life was more like that for more Eltham folks and the whole locality would prosper.


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Ludwig Crüwell (Dortmund, 20 de março de 1892 — Essen, 25 de setembro de 1958) foi um general alemão, comandante do Afrika Korps.

Vida
Ludwig Crüwell, filho de um publicitário, entrou para o Exército como um oficial cadete em 1911, servindo na cavalaria. Crüwell encerrou a Primeira Guerra Mundial 1914-18 com a patente de Leutnant na cavalaria. Durante o período de entre-guerras, ele serviu em várias unidades de cavalaria e também um oficial de staff. Promovido à Oberst em 1 de Março de 1936, ele foi colocado no comando do Pz.Rgt. 6 em Fevereiro de 1938.

Com o início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, ele também era oficial de staff. Ele pulou as patentes iniciais, se tornando Generalmajor em 1 de Dezembro de 1939, Generalleutnant em 1 de Setembro de1941 e General der Panzertruppe em 17 de Dezembro de 1941.

Durante este período, comandou a 5ª Divisão Panzer (6 de Junho de 1940) após a 11ª Divisão Panzer (1 de Agosto de 1940). Ele após assumiu o comando da Afrika korps (1 de Setembro de 1941).

Crüwell foi capturado pelos britânicos em 29 de maio de 1942 depois que seu avião foi forçado a aterrissar, sendo libertado em 1947. No pós-guerra ele foi selecionado pelos aliados para comandar a Bundeswehr na Alemanha Ocidental. Faleceu em Essen em 25 de setembro de 1958.

Condecorações
Cruz de ferro de 2ª e 1ª classe
Cruz de Honra
Distintivo Panzer
Cruz de cavaleiro da cruz de ferro com carvalho
Cruz de cavaleiro (14 de maio de 1941)
Folhas de carvalho (1 de setembro de 1941 nº 34)

Bibliografia

 Walther-Peer Fellgiebel (2000), Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945.  Podzun-Pallas.
 Neitzel, Sönke: Abgehört. Deutsche Generäle in britischer Kriegsgefangenschaft 1942-1945; Berlin: Propyläen 2005.
François de Lannoy & Josef Charita Panzertruppen: German armored troops 1935-1945

Generais da Alemanha
Pessoas da Segunda Guerra Mundial (Alemanha)
Recebedores da Cruz de Cavaleiro da Cruz de Ferro

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Hubs and Controllers
Kami Smart Security Starter Kit review: Its low price tag is the one thing it has going for it
Hopelessly convoluted and virtually free of features, this is a lightweight security system to skip.
By Christopher Null
Freelance Contributor, TechHive |
Kami Smart Security Starter Kit
I was immediately intrigued by the pitch for Yi Technology's Kami Home Security product: "You can set it up in five minutes!" Anything that makes smart-home tech simpler is a big win in my book. Alas, a savvy email pitch does not a reality make, and as it turns out, Kami is quite the opposite of what was promised. Not only is setup considerably more involved than expected, the system is only quasi-functional—and doesn't come close to cutting it as a legitimate security option.
Let's start with that setup claim. The Kami Starter Kit (which uses ZigBee to communicate with its component parts) arrives with promise: five small boxes wrapped together in a package, each one carrying a separate piece of the Kami puzzle. The kit includes a small hub, three door/window sensors, and a motion sensor. A security camera is sold separately but wasn't sent for this review (we'll publish stand-alone reviews of the Kami indoor and outdoor cameras down the road.) There are no provisions for controlling other smart-home devices, such as lights, but Yi Technology makes no such promises, either. This is a home secrity system, not a smart-home system.
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Everything in the package at least looks great. The hub is tiny, smaller than a tin of mints, and the sensors are impressively compact and stylish. The immediate problem with all of this, however, is how much packaging is involved. Each box is sealed with tape, and inside each of them you'll find layers and layers of needless additional packaging. Even the tiny user manual (a single slip of paper) is packed inside a tape-sealed cardboard envelope. That user guide (there's one for each component) primarily directs you to download the Kami app and follow the instructions there.
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The Kami hub is impressivvely tiny, about the size of a deck of cards.
In the Kami app, those instructions are largely delivered via a lengthy video: one for each type of Kami component. It's an inefficient way to get this information across, and since Kami has a somewhat unusual set of setup requirements that includes cracking open sensors, installing the coin cell battery, scanning a tiny QR code inside the sensor, and resetting the sensor by pressing a button set inside a tiny hole with the included pin, it bears watching the material in full so you don't goof it up.
The process is far from easy and quick, hampered by a huge number of steps and an even larger amount of packaging to contend with. Here's what it takes just to get to that reset pin I mentioned: Unwrap the plastic from the main package, remove the sensor box, cut open the tape on the sensor box, dig through the various levels of packaging and accessories to find another box within this box, open up that box, remove the bubble-wrapped package inside, find the small plastic baggie inside that package, and then remove the pin from it. (Pro tip: Just use a paperclip.)
Needless to say, I did not get Kami set up in five minutes. After 30 minutes I had the hub and two sensors set up—and not because I ran into any significant trouble along the way. That's just how long it takes. The only hiccup I encountered was in trying to photograph the QR code inside each scanner. This code is so tiny that my phone's camera couldn't focus on it in interior light conditions. I had to take the device outside during broad daylight in order to get the lens to focus on the miniature code.
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The Kami Home Security System hub must be hardwired to your router, but its RJ45 port for that ethernet connection is on its power supply.
Another oddity involves the Kami hub. This is the strangest hub design I've ever seen: It must be wired to your router via an ethernet cable, but there's no RJ45 port on the hub itself. Instead, you'll find the ethernet port at the end of the power cable, where it plugs into the wall. It's a crazy (and, again, inefficient) design that makes you run your network cable to the power outlet, and it's an oddity that has to be seen to be believed.
There isn't much to Kami's app. The hub offers just two modes: Home (everything off) and Away (everything on), with no way to customize any of this, and no "stay" mode that only arms the door/window sensors. The system offers no automations, no hooks into other smart home systems or services—including Alexa—and there's no professional monitoring plan, optional or otherwise. But hey, for 100 bucks, you can't expect much.
Messages like "Base Stations In Sleepy Now" are funny to us as product reviewers, but we don't think anyone who pays for this product will find it humorous.
It's easy (if not intuitive) to turn the Kami system on by sliding the central "Home" icon to the right, putting it in Away mode. Once you do, Kami alerts whenever a sensor is tripped, and by that, I mean a weak siren erupts from the hub—at roughly the volume of a television turned down low—and you receive a push notification on your phone. Within the Kami app, the siren can be easily turned off, at which point the system resets.
Kami keeps a running log of activity, but it mainly amounts to a list of time stamps for each sensor and notices of "Detected someone moving" or when a door was opened or closed. While the motion sensor is quite sensitive, I found Kami's sensors erratic at detecting whether the door was open or closed—and slow to update the app's main display. That said, at least it's amusing to enjoy the pidgin English in which many of the app's messages are written. ("Base Stations In sleepy now.") Other issues are somewhat more alarming, like the Kami app claiming I have three cameras installed and in need of firmware updates—when in fact I had none. Whether this is a strange bug or a security risk, I can't say.
Kami's main—and perhaps only—advantage is that it is extremely cheap. If you have totally non-serious security needs—like a need to protect your favorite cookies in the pantry—it might fit the bill. Those who want a legitimate security system will need to look elsewhere.
This security system is extremely cheap—in every sense of the word.
Crazy inexpensive
Small, stylish hardware
Setup is hopelessly lengthy
Alarm siren is about as intimidating as a sleeping cat
App is slow to update, erratic, and full of bad translations
Christopher Null is a veteran technology and business journalist. He contributes regularly to TechHive, PCWorld, and Wired, and operates the websites Drinkhacker and Film Racket.

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The heartache in the doggy world continues... Would you please take a moment to think of sweet little Brinley today? Although she had never experienced the love of a forever family, I know there are many of you out there who'll show her love at this sad time.
Brinley was a sweet, but shy little beagle mix who had spent her entire live in a rescue down South. She was finally adopted and arrived on transport July 11. Where the story goes from here makes my blood boil.
Brinley went missing in less than 24 hours after she arrived in NH and her "adoptive parents" refused to go look for her. They couldn't even be bothered to inform the rescue that she was missing. The only way the rescue found out was by doing a check-in call to see how she was doing. They were then told, "oh by the way she bolted on July 12 and has not come back!" Her "adoptive parents" went on to say how Brinely was a little too big for them, they thought she was smaller, she is scared of people (hello? you would be too if you spent your life in a rescue and just left the only life you ever knew behind) and... get this ... they said they didn't have time to look for her! It makes me irrate at how many people "adopt" dogs only to cause them more heartache than they had experienced in their entire life at a shelter.
This infuriates me! Why did they even bother to adopt her? They certainly don't an animal.
Sweet little Brinley will play and romp forever with so many other great pets.
So, so sad! Why did they even adopt her? She's a beautiful little dog and I'm sure she's in doggy heaven now.
Words cannot describe my anger and disgust at hearing this.
That's so sad about Brinley. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to be pet parents.
It's a really sad story. Poor Brinley.
I can't even begin to express how angry that makes me. Seriously...I'm having a hard time forming a coherent sentence. #$!@%!!!!!
What everyone else said. Poor Brinley.


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In Marvel's Latest 'Avengers: Endgame' Trailer, Captain Marvel Arrives
'Avengers: Endgame' hits theaters on April 26.
By Phillip Barnett
Source: Marvel / Disney
On Thursday morning, Marvel dropped the latest trailer for Avengers: Endgame. The trailer follows the heels of Marvel's Captains Marvel, which was released earlier this month—and she's ostensibly here to help save the universe from the wrath of Thanos.
Avengers: Infinity War ended with Thanos acquiring all of the Infinity Stones and eliminating half of the universe's population by turning them into dust particles. Endgame promises to conclude the Marvel Cinematic Universe epic storyline that began with the first Iron Man film back in 2008.
In the trailer, we see flashbacks to the respective journeys of Iron Man, Captain America and Thor—The Avenger's big three heroes—intertwined with clips from what we'll see in Endgame.
Despite failing to reel in Thanos and his thirst for destruction, you can hear Captain America say the team has one more shot and they'll never give up. The Avengers, now joined by Captain Marvel, Ant-Man and Hawkeye, are going to do "whatever it takes" to end things with Thanos.
An interesting tidbit from the trailer that might be tipping the film's hand is that we see "Endgame" forming from what looks like the same particles Thanos turned everyone into when he snapped his fingers. We could be seeing a resurrection of the rest of the gang at some point.
Here's your first look at the new poster for Marvel Studios' #AvengersEndgame. See it in theaters April 26. pic.twitter.com/KJ2AWa6nIz
— Captain Marvel (@captainmarvel) March 14, 2019
While the trailer is fascinating and should have every MCU fan thinking about theories and possible ways in which the crew defeats Thanos (who is not in the trailer), the poster for Avengers: Endgame doesn't list Danai Gurira's name with the rest of the actors who are featured.
It's a pretty glaring omission that fans are already up in arms about. But the trailer is fire and we're sure the movie is going to do numbers at the box office. Avengers: Endgame hits theaters on April 26.
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The Mars Room
By Rachel Kushner
Unabridged Compact Disk
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TIME'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
"Gritty, empathetic, finely rendered, no sugary toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled." —Margaret Atwood via Twitter
"A page turner…one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart." —The New York Times Book Review (cover review)
"Brilliant and devastating…a heartbreaking, true, and nearly flawless novel." —NPR
"With her richly textured third novel, Kushner certifies her place as one of the great American novelists of the twenty-first century." —Entertainment Weekly
From twice National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America.
It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision.
Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner's work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. As James Wood said in The New Yorker, her fiction "succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive."
The trouble with San Francisco was that I could never have a future in that city, only a past.
The city to me was the Sunset District, fog-banked, treeless, and bleak, with endless unvaried houses built on sand dunes that stretched forty-eight blocks to the beach, houses that were occupied by middle- and lower-middle-class Chinese Americans and working-class Irish Catholics.
Fly Lie, we'd say, ordering lunch in middle school. Fried rice, which came in a paper carton. Tasted delicious but was never enough, especially if you were stoned. We called them gooks. We didn't know that meant Vietnamese. The Chinese were our gooks. And the Laotians and Cambodians were FOBs, fresh off the boat. This was the 1980s and just think what these people went through, to arrive in the United States. But we didn't know and didn't know to care. They couldn't speak English and they smelled to us of their alien food.
The Sunset was San Francisco, proudly, and yet an alternate one to what you might know: it was not about rainbow flags or Beat poetry or steep crooked streets but fog and Irish bars and liquor stores all the way to the Great Highway, where a sea of broken glass glittered along the endless parking strip of Ocean Beach. It was us girls in the back of someone's primered Charger or Challenger riding those short, but long, forty-eight blocks to the beach, one boy shotgun with a stolen fire extinguisher, flocking people on street corners, randoms blasted white.
If you were visiting the city, or if you were a resident from the other, more admired parts of the city and you took a trip out to the beach, you might have seen, beyond the sea wall, our bonfires, which made the girls' hair smell of smoke. If you were there in early January, you would see bigger bonfires, ones built of discarded Christmas trees, so dry and flammable they exploded on the high pyres. After each explosion you might have heard us cheer. When I say us I mean us WPODs. We loved life more than the future. "White Punks on Dope" is just some song; we didn't even listen to it. The acronym was something else, not a gang but a grouping. An attitude, a way of dressing, living, being. Some changed our graffiti to White Powder on Donuts, and many of us were not even white, which becomes harder to explain, because the whole world of the Sunset WPODs was about white power, not powder, but these were the beliefs of not powerful kids who might end up passing through rehab centers and jails, unless they were the chosen few, the very few girls and boys, who, respectively, either enrolled in the Deloux School of Beauty, or got hired at John John Roofing on Ninth Avenue between Irving and Lincoln.
When I was little I saw a cover of an old magazine that showed the robes and feet of people who had drunk the Kool-Aid Jim Jones handed out in Guyana. My entire childhood I would think of that image and feel bad. I once told Jimmy Darling and he said it wasn't actually Kool-Aid. It was Hi-C.
What kind of person would want to clarify such a thing?
A smart-ass is who. A person who is safe from that image in a way I was not. I was not likely to join a cult. That was not the danger I felt in glimpsing the feet of the dead, the bucket from which they drank. It was the proven fact, in the photographed feet, that you could drink death and join it.
When I was five or six years old I saw a paperback cover in the supermarket that was a drawing of a woman and her nude body had two knives coming out of it, blood pooling around her. The cover of the book said, "Killed Twice." That was its title. I was away from my mother, who was shopping somewhere in the market. We were at Park and Shop on Irving and I felt I was not just a few aisles away but permanently sucked out to sea, to the engulfing world of Killed Twice. Coming home from the market, I was nauseous. I could not eat the dinner my mother prepared. She didn't really cook. It was probably Top Ramen she prepared for me, and then attended to whichever of the men she was dating at the time.
For years, whenever I thought of that image on the cover of Killed Twice I felt sick. Now I can see that what I experienced was normal. You learn when you're young that evil exists. You absorb the knowledge of it. When this happens for the first time, it does not go down easy. It goes down like a horse pill.
At age ten I fell under the spell of an older girl named Tyra. She had glassy eyes and olive skin and a husky, tough-girl voice. The night I met her I was in someone's car, driving around drinking Löwenbräu lights. Lowie lights, green bottles with a baby-blue label. We picked up Tyra on Noriega, at a house that was an informal foster home for girls. The man who ran it, Russ, forced himself on the girls at night, unpredictably but predictably. If you stayed there, sooner or later you were going to be visited at night by Russ, who was old, and muscular, and mean. The girls complained about being raped by him as if it were a form of strictness, or rent. They were willing to endure it because they didn't have other options. The rest of us did nothing about it because Russ bought us liquor and what were we to do, call the police? One of them was known for taking girls out to Point Lobos instead of to the police station on Taraval.
Tyra called shotgun in a menacing way and got in the front, put her feet on the dash. She was already buzzed, she told us, slur- ring her words in a way I found glamorous. She wore diamond earrings. They flashed from her little-girl ears as she drained a Lowie light and pitched her empty from the window of the car. Maybe Tyra's earrings were fakes. It didn't matter. Their effect was the same. For me she had the magic.
That year I'd had a chance to know a nice girl, with two parents, middle-class. She came to my house for a sleepover. The next week at school she told everyone that at my house we ate Hostess pies for dinner and threw the wrappers under the bed. I have no memory of that. I'm not saying it isn't true. My mom let me eat what I wanted for dinner. She was usually with whatever guy she was seeing, someone who didn't like children, so they'd be shut up in her bedroom with the door locked. We had an account at the corner market and I'd go down there and get goodies, chips, liters of soda, whatever I wanted. I didn't know to pretend to live some other way to make an impression on another kid. It made me sad what this girl said about me and about our house. I was sad even as I stuck a pin in her ass as she got off the 6 Parnassus after school. Stood by the back doors, and as she exited I jabbed her, right through her pants. Everyone did that. We stole the pins from home economics. It was normal, but it made tears roll down your face if someone did it to you.
That diamonds are supposedly forever was something Jimmy Darling joked about. Every mineral here on earth is forever, he said. But they make it seem like diamonds are especially forever, in order to sell them, and it works.
A few days later Tyra called me and we made a plan to go to Golden Gate Park on a Sunday, to the bridge, where people roller-skate and hang out. Tyra came to my house, since I lived a few blocks from the bridge.
She said, "I need to beat this bitch's face in." I said okay and we went to the park.
The girl whose face Tyra had an appointment to beat in was already there, with two older brothers. They were not from the Sunset; later I learned they lived in the Haight. The brothers were adults, both mechanics at a garage on Cole Street. The girl, Tyra's opponent, was tall and delicate-looking with a shiny black pony- tail. She was wearing pink shorts and a shirt that said whatever. Her lips were tinged with the bluish effect of opalescent gloss. Tyra was athletic and tough. Nobody wanted to fight her. She and this leggy girl with the ponytail took off their skates. They fought on the grass, in their socks. The socks softened nothing.
Tyra threw a fierce kick, but the other girl grabbed her foot, and Tyra lost her balance and was on the ground. The girl jumped on top, pinned Tyra's chest with her own knees, and began punching Tyra in the face, alternating fists, left right left, like she was kneading dough, punching it down to size. Punching it and punching it, dough that was a face. Her brothers shouted encouragement. They were rooting for her, but if she were losing, they would not have stepped in, I knew. They were there as believers in the honesty of a fight and the pride of fighting well. She punched and punched. Her arms seemed too skinny to carry any force on contact, fist to face, but eventually they produced their damage. It never occurred to me to jump in. I watched Tyra get pummeled.
When the girl felt she had sufficiently made her point, she let up. She stood, retightening her ponytail, and pulled her shorts out of her ass crack. Tyra sat up, trying to wipe away her tears. I went to help her. Her hair was tangled. She was covered in dead grass clippings.
"I got a good lick in," she said. "Did you see how I kicked that bitch in the chest?"
Both of her eyes were swollen almost closed. Her cheeks had turned to hard shiny lumps. She had an open gash on her chin from the girl's ring. "I got a pretty good lick in," she repeated. It was the best way to look at things, but the truth was she had been brutally beaten up, and by a prissy girl in a whatever T-shirt, an unlikely winner who was not an unlikely winner, it became clear the moment the fight began. The winner was Eva.
I did not become friends with Eva that day, but later. Whenever that later was, a year maybe, the memory of her and her punches was undiminished. I knew something about her. Most girls talk a big game, and then they scratch and pull hair, or don't show up for the fight.
I suppose you could say I traded Tyra for Eva, like I traded Ajax for Jimmy Darling. But in both cases, the first was there to lead me to the second. Life allows for assessments, and reas- sessments. And anyhow, who wants to be stuck with a loser?
Eva was a professional. One of those girls who always had a lighter, bottle opener, graffiti markers, flask, amyl nitrate, Buck knife, even her own sensor remover—the device that department store clerks used to remove theft prevention clips from new clothes. She stole it. The rest of us ripped out the sensors forcibly before leaving the store with our stolen loot. A sensor in a dressing room was a giveaway, so we took them with us, crammed up under our armpits, which muffled the sensor, deadened it to the detection alarm. We were not kleptomaniacs. That's a term for rich people who steal by compulsion. We were finding innovative ways to acquire makeup and perfume and purses and clothes—all the normal things a girl would be expected to have and want, and which we could not afford.
All my clothes had holes in them from where the sensors had been attached. Eva removed them from her stolen clothes properly, with her magic device. Once, she walked right into I. Magnin, clipped the wires from a rabbit fur coat with wire cutters, put it on, and ran for it. The wires fit through the arms of the fur and leather jackets, with large hoops dangling from the ends of the sleeves like giant handcuffs.
Eva went through a tomboy phase and stopped wearing fur jackets. She dressed like one of the Sunset guys, Ben Davis pants with a janitorial key ring dangling from a belt loop. The more keys on the ring, the better. It didn't matter if they opened any- thing, except beer bottles. She wore a black Derby jacket, with the gold paisley padding on the inside, the trademark shoulder- to-shoulder seams. Like the boys, she completed that look with steel-toed boots—for kicking peoples' heads in should the need arise.
One night I encountered a group of guys sitting in the dark drinking 151 in Big Rec, older people I had never seen, from Crocker Amazon, which was something like enemy territory. They wanted to show me Polaroids of Eva. Is this your friend? In the photos, Eva was passed-out drunk and stripped of her tough-kid uniform, with a baseball bat between her naked thighs.
Eva fist-fought guys and won. She one-upped everyone with drugs and drink. These boys with their photos, they knew what it meant to have done that to Eva and they wanted me to see.
I never told her, and even thinking of what happened later, Eva a crack addict in the Tenderloin, the Polaroid photos with the bat was still the worst thing that anyone had done to her. She did plenty to herself, but that is different.
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This reading group guide for The Mars Room includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
From twice National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. Unflinching, electric, and deeply empathetic, The Mars Room is a masterful meditation on what in people is breakable, what is unbreakable, as well as the existential meanings of class, and criminality, and the impossibility of forgiveness in our prison system.
Topics & Questions for Discussion
1. At the beginning of the book, before she is incarcerated, Romy Hall, the central protagonist of The Mars Room, says, "I said everything was fine but nothing was. The life was being sucked out of me. The problem was not moral. It had nothing to do with morality. These men dimmed my glow. Made me numb to touch, and angry" (page 26). What role do morality and virtue play in the telling of Romy's story? Does morality factor into who is judged guilty and who is judged innocent?
2. The San Francisco depicted in this book is perhaps not a classic one of, as Romy puts it, "rainbow flags or Beat poetry or steep crooked streets," but "fog and Irish bars and liquor stores all the way to the Great Highway" (page 33). Was the San Francisco depicted in the novel a surprise to you? What significance do you read into the scene with the "Scummerz" and the young boy making noodles on the stove? Why is everyone from her past and all her memories so remote and vanished? Is this the nature of childhood and the erasure of cities, or something else more complicated and individual to do with Romy?
3. The overwhelming majority of people, and certainly middle-class people, will never spend a single day of their lives in jails and prisons. Should those who don't have that dark destiny worry for those who do? What impression do you have, after reading The Mars Room, about individual agency, and who goes to prison in this country and who doesn't?
4. "Sammy was my big sister and I was Button's, and Conan was something like the dad. We had a family" (page 241). In order to cope with their difficult surroundings the women of Stanville create familial bonds with each other. Do these women nurture one another or is their "family" more of an alliance of protection? What are the benefits of a "family" arrangement? The risks?
5. After recounting an emotional story from childhood, Conan says, "There are some good people out there . . . some really good people" (page 252). Discuss the acts of generosity in this novel. Which ones stand out? These women seem to start at disadvantages. They take wrong turns. The prison system lacks mercy or a shot at redemption. Would many of these characters' lives have been different with more, or greater, acts of generosity?
6. Straining the edges of a reader's compassion perhaps is the character Doc, the "dirty cop" who had been involved with Betty LaFrance and is eventually strangled by his cellmate. Why do you think Kushner included him and his story in the book? Does he achieve a kind of unexpected likability, and if so, how?
7. Romy says, "To stay sane you formed a version of yourself you could believe in" (page 269), and earlier, "Jackson believed in the world" (page 156). Kushner makes a connection between the wide-eyed optimism of youth and the crushing realities of what the world can be for those born without power or wealth, and for those who have made irreversible mistakes. Discuss the role that Jackson serves in the novel. What does he symbolize to Romy?
8. "Part of the intimacy with nature that you acquire is the sharpening of the senses. Not that your hearing and eyesight become more acute, but you notice things more" (page 299). This is presumably the voice of Ted Kaczynski, but its placement suggests a link to Romy's escape into nature. Why does she end up alone in the woods? What does this say about the human need for connection with the outside? In what other ways does Romy seem to be shut off from the outside world? What role could a connection with nature play in rehabilitation?
9. What role does gender play throughout the novel? What differences did you see between the experiences of incarcerated men and incarcerated women? How did gender factor into Romy's trial and sentencing?
10. Serenity Smith is a transgender woman whose presence generates an outsized reaction from the women of Stanville. Discuss the controversy among the prisoners concerning this character. How do their surroundings contribute to their reaction to her? And what does Serenity's predicament say about the structure of prison? What is society to do with people who cannot assimilate into the caged spaces allotted for them?
11. Hauser can be seen in different lights. Was he a predator, or was he a man who meant well but could not resist temptation? Discuss the effects of his actions on Romy.
12. The Mars Room comes from the name of the strip club where Romy works before she is incarcerated. What does the phrase "Mars Room" bring to mind? What do these two worlds—a central California women's prison and a San Francisco strip club—share?
13. In the final moments of the book, Romy is in the forest, bathed in light: "I emerged from the tree and turned into the light, not slow. I ran toward them, toward the light" (page 336). There is something both heavenly and hellish in this description. Discuss the dichotomies: Is the scene ultimately despairing or hopeful?
14. In the final paragraph of the book, Romy reflects on giving Jackson life. She calls giving life "everything." Is this a comment on her own life, or some manner of reinterpreting life as extending into other regions beyond the one she's been given and that has been taken away? Is it some way of being part of something in the world that is larger than she is and that goes beyond her? What is the import of the final sentence? Is your sense that the world, at the end, is a human world, a natural world, both, or neither?
Enhance Your Book Club
1. Discuss the works of Henry David Thoreau and how his essays and transcendental ideas might relate to The Mars Room. In a similar fashion, consider the crimes, anger, and solitude of Ted Kaczynski. What does it mean to be a misanthropist? And what does it mean to be a misanthropist with rigid ideas about society and how it should be organized?
2. Watch a classic prison film, such as Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman, or Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law.
3. Kushner is an accomplished author and journalist, with a wide range of interests. Get to know more of her work by taking a look at her previous novels, Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers.
4. Kushner was interviewed by the New Yorker about her novel The Mars Room. Share the article with your group to learn more about Kushner's inspiration, her process, and her views: https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/fiction-this-week-rachel-kushner-2018-02-12.
5. Get involved in helping members of your community who are impacted by incarceration: you can send books to prisoners through numerous organizations, or offer aid to family members of prisoners, such as through Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, or find an individual plan that appeals to you to help others. If you or someone you know has been impacted by incarceration, share your story with your book group. After reading The Mars Room, perhaps they will be primed to listen carefully, without judgments.
Chloe Aftel
Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker- and NBCC Award–shortlisted The Mars Room; The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten book of 2013; and Telex from Cuba, a finalist for the National Book Award. She grew up in San Francisco and lives in Los Angeles.
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"Like Denis Johnson in 'Jesus' Son,' Kushner is on the lookout for bent moments of comic grace…The Mars Room is a major novel."
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"Kushner uses the novel as a place to be flamboyant and funny, and to tell propulsive stories, but mainly as a capacious arena for thinking."
"[Rachel Kushner is] one of the most gifted novelists of her generation—on the same tier as Jennifer Egan and the two Jonathans, Franzen and Lethem…[The Mars Room is] a page turner… blackly comic…It's one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart."
—Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review (Cover Review)
"The Mars Room affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists…her stories slink in the margins, but they have the feel of something iconic."
—Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
"Kushner is a woman with the chops, ambition and killer instinct to rub shoulders with all those big, swinging male egos who routinely get worshipped as geniuses."
—John Powers, Fresh Air
"[A] tough, prismatic and quite gripping novel…wholly authentic…profound…surprisingly luminous."
—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"A disturbing and atmospheric book...Ms Kushner makes the prison, and the world beyond its walls, vivid."
"A searing, tragic look at life in the prison-industrial complex, covering poverty, sex work, mass incarceration, education, trauma, suffering, love, and redemption. Somehow, Kushner's rapid-fire, imaginative prose makes it seems effortless."
"Potent…an incendiary examination of flawed justice and the stacked deck of a system that entraps women who were born into poverty…The Mars Room is more than a novel; it's an investigation, an exercise in empathy, an eyes-wide-open work of art."
—Kelly Luce, Oprah
"[An] electrifying take on the chaos of 1980s San Francisco."
—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair
"Phosphorescently vivid."
—Megan O'Grady, T Magazine
"Superb and gritty… Kushner has an exceptional ability to be in the heads of her character."
—Eve MacSweeney, Vogue
"A powerful undertow pulls the reader through the book. I didn't consume it so much as it consumed me, bite by bite..."
—Laura Miller, Slate
"Kushner's characters are so authentic and vividly drawn that with each new novel, it's easy to assume she's tapped out. Yet in The Mars Room, she brings to life another remarkable heroine."
"Kushner is a masterful world-creator, and her accomplishment here is unparalleled."
"Kushner's writing and thinking are always invigorating, urgent, and painterly precise."
"Stunning… a gorgeously written depiction of survival and the absurd and violent facets of life in prison."
"Gorgeous…The Mars Room sings."
—Sasha Frere-Jones, Bookforum
"A revelatory novel about women on the margins of society…it's a true feat of Kushner's extraordinary writing that such profound ugliness can result in such tumultuous beauty."
—Maris Kreizman, Vulture
"Stunning…Heartbreaking and wholly original."
"A probing portrait of contemporary America."
"Unflinching."
"Kushner's great gift is for the evocation of a scene, a time and place."
"Reading The Mars Room is a profoundly affecting experience, very nearly overwhelming, and yet it absolutely must be read. Kushner's first two novels (Telex from Cuba, The Flamethrowers) were National Book Award finalists. It would be baffling if The Mars Room does not win this year's."
—Cory Oldweiler, amNewYork
"[A] stunning new book… Kushner deploys the masterful storytelling she's known for…an unmistakable voice. "
"Brilliant and devastating…Kushner doesn't make a false move in her third novel; she writes with an intelligence and a ferocity that sets her apart from most others in her cohort. She's a remarkably original and compassionate author, and The Mars Room is a heartbreaking, true and nearly flawless novel."
—Michael Schaub, NPR.org
"An essential novel...Kushner is a bit of a magician, exploring bleak territory with pathos and urgency that makes it nearly impossible to stop reading."
—AM New York
"Kushner is both tough and darkly funny in writing about her characters' situations, and she writes not so much for us to empathize with them, but rather to understand them. The Mars Room is a captivating and beautiful novel."
"Kushner's writing is clipped and sharp, as she tells the story of [Romy's] adjustment to life behind bars — and how she got there."
"An enormously ambitious project profoundly rooted in a particular time and place… Kushner's greatest achievement in this unique work of brilliance and rigor is to urge us all to take responsibility for the unconscionable state of the world in which we operate blithely every single day."
—Jennifer Croft, The Los Angeles Review of Books
"Rachel Kushner cements her place as the most vital and interesting American novelist working today...The Mars Room makes most other contemporary fiction seem timid and predictable."
—Michael Lindgren, The Millions
"Absorbing…The Mars Room is impeccably researched without ever seeming dry or preachy… insightful…authoritative…haunting."
—Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle
"Kushner's got the talent to justify the hype…The Mars Room builds to a redemption that comes from hard truth, sharp and broken and shaped by an author of exceptional power and grace."
—Jeff Baker, The Seattle Times
"The book is beautifully written, without sentimentality or agenda, and at times even [with] a sly and dark humor."
—Holly Silva, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Readers will savor every detail of Ms. Kushner's descriptive passages, which bring ferocious beauty to even the ugliest surroundings."
—Leigh Anne Focareta, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"[Kushner is] an exceptionally talented and philosophically minded writer."
—Jessica Zack, The San Francisco Chronicle
"Heartbreaking and unforgettable… [The Mars Room] deserves to be read with the same level of pathos, love, and humanity with which it clearly was written."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Kushner, an acclaimed writer of exhilarating skills, has created a seductive narrator of tigerish intensity… This is a gorgeously eviscerating novel of incarceration writ large."
"A searing look at life on the margins…This is, fundamentally, a novel about poverty and how our structures of power do not work for the poor, and Kushner does not flinch…gripping."
"Kushner is back with another stunner…without a shred of sentimentality, Kushner makes us see these characters as humans who are survivors, getting through life the only way they are able given their circumstances."
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Bunions are unpleasant growths that slowly seem in your ft. You probably have bunions on exterior of foot, the almost certainly trigger is misfitting sneakers. Because of this, ladies who squeeze into slender excessive heeled sneakers are most in danger. If left unattended, bunions can result in secondary issues resembling corns, tendonitis, blisters, and foot swelling. Surgical procedure is one method to appropriate bunions, however there are additionally pure remedies. If you wish to know the best way to take away bunions with out surgical procedure, then we've acquired you lined. Our house treatments for bunions can sluggish and even reverse the bunions development.
Bunions, medically generally known as hallux abductovalgus, are lumps that seem on the aspect of your foot consisting of bone and gentle tissue. They happen when your large toe factors on the second toe. .
When the large toe pushes towards the toe subsequent to it, this forces the joint to realign. Misfitting sneakers are the commonest purpose why the joint realigns.
Nonetheless, genetically inherited situations resembling a flat foot, versatile foot ligaments or deformed bone construction can all result in bunion development.
As soon as the joint begins to maneuver out of place, this causes a prominence or a bump to seem on the skin of the large toe on the first metatarsal bone.
The signs of bunions embody persistent foot ache, bursitis, callus formation, redness, blistering and restricted toe motion.
Foot bunions remedy shouldn't be ignored. It is because the ache can unfold to the encompassing joints if no remedy is supplied. Bunions are inclined to have an effect on ladies greater than males. .
Can bunions be corrected with out surgical procedure?
It's potential. Surgical procedure is a drastic choice because the bunion surgical procedure restoration course of is lengthy. House treatments to remedy bunions do work however would require extra time and endurance.
One of many pure methods to deal with bunions is by making use of ice to it. Bunions turn into infected and sore after an extended, hectic day. To do away with the ache and swelling, ice remedy is an efficient choice.
Take some ice cubes and crush them to type a paste. Wrap the crushed ice in a small towel and place it on the affected space for ten minutes.
Now, take away the pack and take a break for ten minutes. Repeat the method once more for 2 to 3 instances day-after-day.
Massaging is an effective way to do away with ache related to bunions. This technique will help improve the blood circulation to the affected space.  So, all of the discomforts related to bunions are relieved.
Massaging frequently may even lower the scale of bunions. It could actually additionally make the world much less susceptible to different issues like calluses and corns.
Take some castor oil and warmth it for a while. Now, apply it on the bunion and rub it in a sluggish and gentle method for ten minutes. Repeat the method twice or thrice day-after-day.
You may additionally use coconut oil for this course of. Additionally, search steerage from a therapeutic massage therapist about bunion correction with out surgical procedure.
Typically, exercising the foot can cut back the ingredient of ache resulting from bunions. On the identical time, train might also improve the pliability of toe.
Train also can cut back the development of the bunions. |On this means, it'd function an effective way of bunion correction with out surgical procedure.
Sit comfortably on a chair and put your foot on a tennis ball. Roll the ball beneath the toe mounds after which on any web site that feels tight.
Maintain doing this train for ten minutes day-after-day.
Sit on a chair and cup the only real of your foot with the assistance of your palm. Now, interlace the fingers of your different hand between the toes of the foot.
This train requires you to face up and level the toes within the ahead path for ten minutes. That is adopted by curling them for the following ten seconds. Repeat this train a number of instances.
If arthritis is the reason for your bunions, you'll be able to do away with them by utilizing Epsom salt. The magnesium current in Epsom salt will assist in the regulation of the physique pH.  Because the pH of your physique stabilizes, the ache and irritation will go away.
Soaking in Epsom salt can even be certain that you keep away from calluses and corns.
Take a small tub and pour some heat water in it. Add a handful of Epsom salt and blend it correctly. Now, soak the affected foot on this water till the water turns chilly.
Take the foot out, dry it with a towel and therapeutic massage it with the assistance of coconut oil. Carry out this treatment Three instances each week for helpful results.
If you're questioning the best way to remedy bunions, turmeric is the reply!
To make use of turmeric on the pores and skin, make a paste by mixing half a teaspoon of turmeric powder in just a few drops of olive oil. Apply this on the bunion day-after-day for two to three instances.
You may additionally add one teaspoon of turmeric in a glass of heat milk or water and drink it twice day-after-day.
Moreover, take 400 mg of curcumin capsules thrice a day. It is suggested to seek the advice of a health care provider earlier than you begin consuming dietary supplements.
Chamomile is filled with anti-inflammatory properties that may cut back ache and battle irritation.   It could even assist in shrinkage of bunions.
You should use chamomile in two alternative ways. Brew a cup of chamomile tea by utilizing its tea luggage. Sip the tea whereas it's scorching. You may additionally place the tea bag straight on the bunion.
In its place, use chamomile important oil to therapeutic massage the affected space. You'll want to combine it in a service oil. Do that each evening earlier than going to mattress. It should assist in the advance of toe alignment.
You may additionally seek for any over-the-counter ointment that consists of chamomile. Apply it on the affected space to scale back irritation.
Calendula is an effective way of bunion correction with out surgical procedure. It could actually additionally forestall the formation of every other problems related to bunions.
To make use of calendula, crush a few of its leaves together with your fingers and take out the juice. Apply it on the affected space and let it dry by itself. Repeat this 2 to three instances day-after-day.
You may additionally search for calendula ointment in a natural retailer and apply it thrice day-after-day on the bunions.
Do you know that aspirin is likely one of the pure methods to deal with bunions?
Sure, these drugs not solely deal with complications however are additionally a bunion remedy with out surgical procedure. Aspirin can lower the stinging ache arising from the infected space.  Furthermore, it retains the world gentle and prevents calluses.
Take a small tub and fill it with lukewarm water. Dissolve 2 to three tablets of aspirin in it. Soak the foot on this combination till the water turns chilly. Take out the foot, dry it, and therapeutic massage it with olive oil.
Repeat this course of twice day-after-day to lower ache. Bear in mind to carry out a patch take a look at earlier than making an attempt this treatment. It is because aspirin might induce allergy symptoms or pores and skin irritation in some folks.
Carrying correct footwear is a necessary a part of foot bunions remedy. It could actually minimize down your likelihood of creating it within the first place as nicely. Furthermore, carrying the appropriate footwear also can deal with bunions with out surgical procedure.
At all times search for sneakers which have a large entrance, gentle soles, and broad toes. Get padded shoe inserts as they assist in even distribution of strain as you progress the ft.
You probably have developed a bunion, discover sneakers which have a deep and huge toe space. Sandals are normally a good selection in such circumstances.
Don't put on high-heeled sneakers constantly for greater than Three hours. Attempt to keep away from carrying heels greater than 2¼ inches in size. Take care to decide on footwear in keeping with the form of your ft.
Lastly, preserve eradicating your sneakers after common intervals to offer your ft a break.
No matter the character of the issue, it's all the time necessary to control the kind of eating regimen you devour. That is additionally true for bunions which can get handled merely by eating regimen correction.
Meals which have anti-inflammatory brokers are your reply to the best way to remedy bunions. These meals can battle irritation and do away with the ache.
Which meals do you have to eat for foot bunions remedy?
Embrace olives, turmeric, strawberries, walnuts, and garlic in your eating regimen. Just remember to eat a few of them frequently.
On the identical time, don't eat meals that stimulate irritation. These embody pink meat, refined sugars, corn oil, eggs, and refined salt.
Guarantee to extend your each day consumption of proteins. Eat extra meals wealthy in nutritional vitamins A, B, C, and E.
Laurel leaves are in style for his or her anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. They're additionally part of the anti-convulsant remedy for epileptic sufferers.
Laurel leaves for foot bunions remedy sounds bizarre however it could work. These leaves include a glycoside generally known as Murrayin which is a stimulant. These leaves even have important oils which cut back irritation and assist ease bunions.
Get some dried laurel leaves and grind them to type a powder. Add some coconut oil or every other oil to type a paste and apply it on the bunion.
Let it keep for 10 minutes earlier than washing it off. Repeat this treatment twice day-after-day.
Salt is a good ingredient for physique care. It could actually moisturize the pores and skin, exfoliate it, cut back irritation, and ease the ache.  All these properties make it a necessary a part of the foot bunions remedy.
Take one liter of heat water and dissolve 10 grams of salt in it. Combine the answer and soak your affected foot in it for half an hour. Do that day-after-day for just a few weeks.


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A Note About Free Local Delivery
We've all been through a lot of challenges these past few years. At the beginning of 2020, we were looking ahead to our first summer open at the bakery and just finding our stride. Then March came along, and so did the necessity to think outside the box in so many ways. For everyone!
Here at Flourist, our team has adapted our way through these past two years by working together, supporting each other, and staying open-minded. We've seen a lot of changes to the way we do business, none of which would be possible without your support! This is why local delivery is free again.
In March 2020, once it was clear we had to temporarily close our doors, we were convinced that the best way to support our growing community was to offer free local delivery of everyone's favourite comfort foods. After all, after months of you coming to us, we figured it was time to return the favour. What we didn't expect was the response we received, and fast forward two years later, we're still delivering, and we love it as much as you do!
During those early months of the pandemic, our team experienced the pressure of milling flour during a time when there was unprecedented interest in sourdough baking. Add to that a global flour shortage and folks facing a frightening level of uncertainty, and our small team found itself with a tall order to provide flour at volumes we had never seen before. We all made it through that scary time, and we're so proud of what our small team and two mills were able to accomplish!
We collectively baked a lot of bread, and with that, created connections based on a tradition rooted in coming together.
We bought a third mill in 2020 to help us meet the growing demand, and began in earnest to look for a larger warehouse space. We were already growing out of our original South Vancouver space, and the purchase of our new, larger mill made it a necessity.
After 2020 came to a close, we looked forward to a new year with new challenges, and hopefully a little less intensity. We found a new space to house our milling operation, and moved in the spring. With our online order service established, we began to make plans to re-open our bakery, while still being able to deliver. It was a big task to fit it all in!
But late in 2021, we opened our second retail location and our team transitioned once again to offer an in person experience at our beautiful Commercial Street space, and at our new Strathcona pickup location.
As we press on into 2022, we are excited to embrace our business now in its fullness. This means a new online experience, including a Rewards Club. You can now earn points for your purchases, return your glass jars for points, and much more. Online pickups are available at both locations, and local delivery is free.
But most importantly, we are excited to return to our roots of building community around flour milling. Our spaces ultimately exist to help us celebrate our traceable food sources, to be transparent about our processes, and come together over our mutual love of fresh flour, good bread, and nurturing human connection.
From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for your support throughout it all. We are eternally grateful for the opportunity to serve you.
~ Janna + Shira
Co-founders, Flourist
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My first digital camera was a 1.2(whoa!)mp Olympus that I took on one of my trips to Hawaii. I woke up every morning at 4 am and waited for the sun to rise and shot it every single day.
My memories of it are better than the shots!
Ooh, but there's all kinds of lemonade to be made from lemons. Push around those mini"not-so-mega"pixels, toss in a sailboat and voilá! This one was done in Photoshop, but there are numerous applications out there that you can use to play with and alter your old shots for some crafty fun.


Antwerp has a Grote Martk that looks very similar to Brugge, rows of really neat old buildings and a nearby church.
We visited the MAS museum.
The museum had great views of the whole city. To bad it was a rainy day because the views should have been fabulous.
The exhibits were really interesting.
We came across a large farmers market. Everything looked good. Sure hope we find a lot of these when we are in the Sprinter. I love buying fresh local food rather then shopping in a grocery store.
Bicycles are everywhere. You have to watch to be sure you don't walk in the bike lanes on the sidewalks.
There are lots of bikes to rent on the street also.
We came across a vintage car rally. The cars were registering for the rally that started in a few days and ended in Italy.
Every since we saw locks of love in Cinque Terre, we seem to see them everywhere. Here is Antwerp's version.
Blankenberge was a surprise to us. This is a popular seaside town with a great beach.
The beach front walkway is lined with high rises and sidewalk cafes on one side and concessions on the beach.
or areas for the whole family to enjoy themselves.
There were tons of individual cabanas too. Looked pretty good, no lugging all your chairs, toys, etc every time you go to the beach.
We took a long walk from Blankenberge to Zeebrugge to see where we need to be to pick up the Sprinter tomorrow. The van was offloaded yesterday from one of these ships. Can't wait to get on the road.
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Racism Accusations - UN rebuke Germany because Sarrazin
by Fatina Keilani
Der Taggesspiegel
http://www.legal-project.org/4155/racism-accusations-un-rebuke-germany-because
[Translated from German]
Turks and Arabs infiltrate us by a high birth rate and are largely useless - this Thilo Sarrazin's views, which he expressed in 2009, mutatis mutandis, the state had to go through as expression. Wrongly, now is the Anti-Racism Committee of the UN - and sets an ultimatum to Germany.
Germany has been criticized by the Anti-Racism Committee of the United Nations because it Thilo Sarrazin 's controversial remarks about the Turks and Arabs have let it go. What had been considered by the local prosecutor's office as an expression of free speech, has been classified on the international level as racism. The failure of criminal investigations constitutes a breach of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination represents the Committee.
When Turkish Association of Berlin-Brandenburg (TBB), on whose initiative this was happening, were pleased on Wednesday although the success, but will only say officially on Thursday at a specially appointed date something.
What conclusions can be drawn from this complaint and what laws may need to be changed, which will be shown now, said a TBB employees.
The UN anti-racism committee (CERD), Germany has given 90 days to comment on the issue, which measures the decision should be implemented. In addition, the opinion of the Committee must be made public.
The Committee noted, it is not sufficient to explain racial discrimination in the paper illegal. The state must also effectively enforce this. He was obliged to protect the population against incitement to racial hatred. Who makes use of the right to freedom of expression, standing in the obligation not to disseminate racist ideas. The federal government responded initially reluctant. "The opinion of the Committee is before the Federal Ministry of Justice and will be checked," it said so.
The history began in 2009. At that time, Sarrazin had made derogatory remarks about Turks and Arabs in an interview with the magazine "Lettre International" and gave rise to a lively debate. Also, in his book "Germany abolishes itself" , which was released in August 2010 and became a bestseller, the SPD politician took his theses. At this time he had already resigned from the post of Berlin finance senator and had joined the board of the Bundesbank, from which he resigned in late September 2010.
Sarrazin was accordingly expressed in the interview, Turks and Arabs would undermine Germany by many children they would get, they are dumber than a majority German and professional without promising perspective. For this purpose they would have no ambition, because the welfare system is to make them comfortable and give them abverlange too little.
Sarrazin was harvested from parts of society applause from other outrage. The TBB presented a criminal complaint, the prosecutor terminated the procedure. A complaint of TBB rejected the Attorney General's Office. Then put the TBB in July 2010 when a complaint CERD. The Committee, for three weeks each meets twice a year in Geneva, made his decision on 26 February 2013. It was on the 4th April published. Sarrazin was not to reach by phone on Wednesday.
The UN Anti-Discrimination Committee monitors compliance with the Convention. Its 18 members must be demonstrably independent and impartial. There are no Germans in the committee.
The decision in the English text:Communication no. 48/2010
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But really this post is about applauding last week's Oprah show, entitled "Oprah Goes Vegan".
This wasn't just another one of the talk queen's attempts to share her unhealthy relationship with food diet and lifestyle advice. In this episode, her reporters managed to score a tour of a meat packing plant, following a herd of cattle from the feed lot to the grinder.
Such graphic television exposure is something to which higher-ups in the meat industry rarely consent, and according to Oprah, producers contacted twenty companies before they found one that would agree to have its facilities filmed. Even guest Michael Pollan remarked that persuading Cargill's Fort Morgan meat processing plant to open their doors to the cameras was quite a coup, stressing that watching the disturbing footage is something everyone who eats beef should have an opportunity to do (although he was quick to add that Cargill is one of the cleanest and most humane of the major American meat-processors).
The footage, which showed every step of the process with the exception of the moment the bolt was driven through the cows' skulls, was extremely graphic. Yes, I cried.
Indeed my own decision to stop eating birds and mammals came years ago, shortly after I saw similar television footage in an episode of 60 Minutes exposing the inner-workings of a meat packing plant. It just so happens that my aunt had been scheduled to be on the program that same evening, in another segment that unfortunately never aired, focusing on the much tamer subject of occupational therapy. Our family watched for an hour, patiently waiting for my dear aunt and her therapy practice and their proverbial fifteen minutes of fame, but all we were shown was dismembered cows and fat people eating tri-tip.
Something in my head clicked during that episode of 60 Minutes, a connection was made between my longtime dormant discomfort about the practice of meat-eating, and the stark, unflappable reality that we all have been trained (both by ourselves, as well as by the food industry and society in general) to deny—denial that is aided tremendously by the industry's tightly closed doors and securely drawn blinds.
Click. No more burgers, steaks, or chops for me.
However, as I watched Oprah last week, as I wiped the tears from my big emo eyes, I also, strangely enough, got a tinge of nostalgia when I saw Oprah reporter Lisa Ling walking amongst the scores of hanging carcasses.
That's because my grandfather was indeed himself a butcher and meat packer.
He gave up the profession relatively early in life, but I still can remember, as a small child, pit-pattering through his industrial meat cooler, bits of cold sawdust sticking to my button-clasped mary-janes as I'd slap a side of beef here and there, trying to exert enough force to swing it like a punching bag. And the smell—I can remember it decades later—the sweetest, cleanest smell of death you could conjure. Sanitized, pasteurized death.
While the idea of meat coming from animals bothered me from an early age, I don't remember being repulsed or frightened by the huge, partial animal corpses in real life. Again, my introduction to those carcasses began in the packing room, not in the feed lot, and thus rendered them things rather than beings in my eyes. Even as a child, I possessed that supremely Darwinian coping mechanism that allowed me to disassociate from reality those things in the physical that in actuality deeply troubled me in the psychological. The meat was just another part of the store, like the white coats hanging on the wall or the cold, steely grinder.
Incidentally, the one thing in my grandfather's store that did fascinate me on an intense level had little to do with meat at all. It was in the cheese case.
Oh, did I forgot to mention, my grandfather's butcher store also carried a small selection of cheeses? Well it did, and that case was of great delight for me. I didn't really care about the banal bries and mundane muensters that I'd seen so many times in my parents' fridge. No, I was obsessed with that psychedelic star of the 70s hors d'oeuvre scene: port wine cheese.
For a five year-old girl, love and light befall all things pink, and of course, it goes without saying that cheese exists in the universe to make everything better. The fact that my parents vehemently refused to bring home this extraordinary foodstuff only served to persuade me that they were evil villains set forth to bring misery and longing to my existence. We don't eat dreck—my mother's succinct reply to each of my pleas for port wine cheese— served as no consolation in this regard.
But back to Oprah going vegan; so far she successfully persuaded (read: forced) her staff to join her in giving up all animal products for an entire week. In addition, she's vowed to institute "Meatless Mondays" at Harpo studios. I have no doubt that this on-camera tour from the feed lot to the slaughterhouse will change the way many viewers think about meat. Will it change lives? Probably a few, just as my viewing of similar footage changed my own life many years ago. Plus, she's the omnipotent Oprah; if she could pick our president for us, she can definitely coax a girthy Tofurky sausage down America's throat.
Regardless, this little episode was way better than Oprah's last effort to get our nation eating right (see below).
Port wine cheese? I never heard of such a thing.
I don't agree with veganism, but I think people need to drastically reduce the amount of meat they eat. It's bad for the environment and bad for everyone's health to eat too much. And if we reduce that number it's more feasible for everyone to get their meat from a local butcher or farm.
Tsaritsa--I think you have to have grown up in the 70s to remember port wine cheese, although I've heard it's been making a comeback in certain circles.
And I'm totally with you on the less meat/small farm thing. There is no reason why a pound of beef should cost less than a bunch of organic greens. It's crazy. The mass production of cheap meat is the crux of the problem IMO (and in the opinion of Michael Pollan), and what is most at fault for the suffering of animals as well as the deterioration of the public's health.
Back in the day, meat was a splurge and a delicacy. It still is in countries that don't have a meat industry like ours. My bf's mom came to visit from Africa a few years ago and wouldn't even eat the meat she saw in the stores here. She was repulsed by the color, the quantity, and the quality of the product, as well as how it was handled in the stores. In Ethiopia, the livestock are raised and slaughtered humanely on small farms, and eaten in extreme moderation, with an emphasis on grains and legumes and vegetables. What does that tell us when people from 3rd world countries are disgusted by the food we consume?
Even my grandpa, may he rest in peace, was very critical of the quality and production of the meat sold in grocery stores in this country.


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	local sb = util.StringBuffer:new()
	sb:append("v=0\r\n")
	sb:append("o=- 1453439395764824 1 IN IP4 0.0.0.0\r\n")
	sb:append("s=MPEG Transport Stream, streamed by the Vision.lua Media Server\r\n")
	sb:append("i=hd.ts\r\n")
	sb:append("t=0 0\r\n")
	sb:append("a=type:broadcast\r\n")
	sb:append("a=control:*\r\n")
	sb:append("a=range:npt=0-\r\n")
	sb:append("m=video 0 RTP/AVP 33\r\n")
	sb:append("c=IN IP4 0.0.0.0\r\n")
	sb:append("b=AS:5000\r\n")
	sb:append("a=control:track1\r\n")
	return sb:toString()
end

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    console.log('readStart', sendPacket, ...)

    local message = string.rep('n', 1500)
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        sendPacket(message)
    end)
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	console.log('readStop', ...)
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	local url = 'rtsp://' .. address .. ':' .. port .. '/live.mp4'
    local rtspPusher = push.openURL(url)

	rtspPusher.username = 'admin'
    rtspPusher.password = '12345'
    rtspPusher.mediaSession = mediaSession

    console.log('open', url)

	rtspPusher:on('state', function(state)
		print('state', state, rtspPusher:getRtspStateString(state))

		if (state == push.STATE_READY) then
			console.log('RtspClient', rtspPusher.mediaTracks)
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    rtspPusher:on('close', function(state)
        console.log('close', state)
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Fun with Non-Fiction is an inspiring collection of tailor-made model texts and teaching tips for every primary school year group. In these pages, we discover what really goes on in schools during the summer holidays, exactly how tooth fairies go about their tooth-collecting activities and how best to win a general election! Designed to be funny, informative and engaging, with each text containing age-appropriate vocabulary, punctuation and grammar (based on the latest National Curriculum requirements), this book with put the fun back into non-fiction lessons.


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The signing ceremony for IP cooperation between The Magic Castle and NOVAEX GROUP was held on May 25 in Beijing.
After the castle was built over a century, this is the first time that the world famous Magic Castle licensing its IP to any country outside the USA.
The Hollywood Magic Castle was built in 1908 and is located on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, L.A.
This is a place where world top magicians and the most miraculous "magic" gather, it is also called the realistic version of "Hogwarts."
It is a supreme honor to perform at the Magic Castle for magicians from all over the world.
The NOVAEX GROUP that is partnering with The Magic Castle is an emerging innovative group enterprise newly established and focusing on cultural industry development.
With the halo of the top IP of the magic, NOVAEX GROUP will establish a world-class magic team to extend magic to deeper value exploration and broader innovations.
In addition to applying a large number of magical techniques to "The Circle" offline Internet resort, allowing visitors to gain a 'magic world' experience.
NOVAEX is going to build "The Magic School."
World top magician teams and Chinese professional education teams are jointly researching and developing the education system for children and teenagers.
In "The Magic School," magic can be applied to direct attention to physics, mathematics, chemistry and other subjects; attract children to love knowledge, learn to create; and inspire children`s intelligence and gifts.
Children can learn to observe every detail of the life and become more confident.
This is a creative education form different from any education system of the world.
After signing with The Magic Castle, it is believed that more possibilities will be created for the integration of Chinese and Western magic and the innovative application of magic methods.


It is essential to note that millions of Americans are planning to get away from employment by the year 2020 so that they can start their own businesses. Keep in mind that even though working for yourself brings contentment and lots of freedom, handling the monetary aspect is not very easy check it out. It could be that you need a loan but you don't have proof of income since you quit your job. Note that you can pay yourself as a worker and also make employment slips. The following are instructions on how to show proof of income view here for more.
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Remember that there are very many ways of documenting your income. Keep in mind that you can use profit and loss reports, bank statements, annual tax returns and many others read more here. Be advised that lenders do not ask for the same things. Don't forget there are advantages and disadvantages of giving these types of documents to the lenders. Don't forget that producing expert pay slips is proof that you have steady cash flow. It is essential to note that providing the documents will help you not to give out all the info concerning your business.
It could be that you are fearing about the money you will spend but an online pay stub generator will help you solve the problem. Note that the paystub generator is user friendly and it is not expensive. You just need to do a few things and you will be good to go. Note that they look good and the lenders will take them seriously. It is essential to note that organizing the payroll stubs is the best thing that you can do. Now that you know how to show proof of income as a self-employed individual, you need to know that you are well on your way to taking better control of your monies.


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Patient Dies After Attending 'COVID Party' in Texas — 'I Think I Made a Mistake'
by Kaitlin Hurtado July 13, 2020
written by Kaitlin Hurtado July 13, 2020
After attending a "COVID party," a 30-year-old patient in San Antonio, Texas died from coronavirus. At first, this person believed the virus was "a hoax."
A "COVID" party" is a gathering hosted by someone diagnosed with COVID-19. The host invites people with the intention to see if the virus is real and if anyone could get infected.
Dr. Jane Appleby, the Chief Medical Officer of Methodist Healthcare, told NEWS4, "Just before the patient died, they looked at their nurse and said, 'I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it's not."
Appleby hopes that hearing the patient's story could help people know that coronavirus could affect anyone.
Mass Gatherings & Spikes in COVID Cases
Several parties and gatherings in Texas have made headlines for sparking possible infections among attendees. A "Pong Fest" of 100-300 young people defied stay-at-home orders. Multiple people who attended the party tested positive for coronavirus.
On a smaller scale, a surprise party ended with 18 members of a single family testing positive for coronavirus. While they weren't entirely sure that the infections came from the celebration, the timeline of symptoms suggests they were infected then. However, Texas isn't the only state to see coronavirus cases stem from large gatherings.
Last month, a teen died from coronavirus complications after attending a church gathering of about 100 young people in Florida. She and others in attendance are believed to have contracted COVID-19.
"It doesn't discriminate and none of us are invincible," Appleby said. "I don't want to be an alarmist, and we're just trying to share some real-world examples to help our community realize that this virus is very serious and can spread easily."
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The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, gained 1.23 percent to 49.46 as ethanol equities recovered. For the day, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) soared 12.22 percent to $3.49, while Gevo (GEVO) rebounded 12.27 percebt to $0.48. Among other equities, Metabolix (MBLX) dumped 12.03 percent to $0.86. Overall, advances led declines by a 4 to 1 ratio for the day.