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In spite of Storm Brendan bringing high winds and torrential rain, 41 members managed to attend the ACA's annual AGM at Donisthorpe Woodlands Centre starting at 7:30 pm. Chairman Peter Oakden reviewed the year's events and gave an update on the pending transfer of the Transport & Works Act Order from Leicestershire County Council to the Ashby Canal Association. Treasurer Bob Taylor presented an overview of the healthy state of the accounts, and Secretary Cyril Blackford presided over the re-selection of three committee members.
The formal meeting finished at 8:30 pm. It was followed by the premiere of a short film in which founding member, Brian Goodwin, reminisced with the late Tom Henshaw about coal carrying on the Ashby Canal, the early days of the ACA, and the royal opening of the restored Stratford Canal in 1964. The film was made in 2016 by Tom's daughter, Lesley, who was also in the audience.
Unfortunately technical gremlins that evening led to the audience having to initially watch a film with no sound, and soon after listen to an audio with no visuals. In the end we listened, rather than watched, an interesting and witty conversation between two long-standing friends.
Amongst other anecdotes, Tom and Brian recalled the construction of a concrete platform at Gopsall Wharf, which enabled lorries to offload coal into barges, without the danger of the lorry reversing into the canal. "Who built the concrete platform?" asked Brian. "It was the local boy scouts!" replied Tom. A member of the audience then mentioned that he had been one of those boys scouts involved in its construction. There was further interaction from the audience as another attendee recounted some technical problems with offloading the coal at Gopsall Wharf.
The entertaining evening finished at 9:45. Once the film has been uploaded to the internet, this website will include a link to the video, so that other members can enjoy their memories.
The ACA returned to The Miller's Hotel at Sibson for an illustrated talk by Tim Coghlan (of Braunston Marina fame) on the shipwright Aubrey John Berriman, who spent much of his working life in Braunston, and who died in March 2019 at the grand old age of 94.
Aubrey was born in the coastal town of Bideford, Devon, which had a long tradition of wooden ship building. In 1940, at the age of 14, Aubrey learnt the craft of boatbuilding, working at Blackmores. However, by the 1950s, trade had dried up, and layoffs began.
When Samuel Barlow Coal Carrying Company Ltd. of Braunston Marina put an advertisement in the Western Morning News for a shipwright, Aubrey applied and was offered the job. He and his young family moved to Braunston.
Aubrey was instrumental in building Raymond. It was launched in 1958 and proved to be the last wooden narrowboat built for the canals. When Barlows ceased trading in 1962, the yard was acquired by Blue Line Cruisers. Aubrey was made their foreman and he diversified into building leisure craft. He retired at the age of 63 and continued to live in Braunston until his death.
He is commemorated in a plaque on the so-called Braunston Wall of Fame at the marina.
Over 70 people attended the annual quiz night at Stoke Golding Club, which for the first time was held on a Friday night.
Fourteen teams took part in the contest to answer 8 rounds of questions and 2 picture rounds. Aided by a new sound system and a new method of collecting scores after two rounds instead of one round as previously, the quizzing took place at a fast pace. The fish and chip suppers arrived promptly at 9 pm as planned, at which point the second picture round was handed out.
There were 10 questions on each topic: film and TV, transport, science, sports, food and drink, general knowledge, geography, and pot luck. Each team was allowed to play their joker once (but not on the picture round), which doubled their score.
The questions were somewhat more achievable than in previous years, which was reflected in the final scores. The winning team was "Splinters" with 89 points, followed closely by 6 teams whose scores ranged from 88 to 84 points.
Thanks to your support, the quiz night raised £397.42 for the restoration.
Put next year's quiz in your diaries – Saturday 14th November 2020!
Our work parties usually take place on the third Sunday of the month, and the usual starting location is Snarestone Wharf, Quarry Lane, Snarestone (sat nav postcode DE12 7DD), or Ilott Wharf, Bosworth Road (Google map ref. 52.696407-1.484737) from around 10:00 a.m.
The next work party will take place on Sunday 19th January 2020. We We intend to erect a new fence between the land where the wooden chalets are being built (the offside bend in the canal just north of Snarestone slipway) and the land owned by the ACA. We will be inserting wooden posts into the ground and then attaching the timbers to create a secure fence.
Meet at 10 am at Snarestone Wharf DE12 7DD. Please bring your own lunch and wear appropriate clothing and sturdy footwear.
There are some ongoing projects, which also require volunteers:
Benches –We have a number of benches, seats or picnic tables spaced along the canal between Snarestone and The Lime Kilns pub. A small number of volunteers have been assigned to various locations along the canal corridor and good progress is being made in repainting these.
If you can help, or would like to know more, please get in touch with Clive Walker on 01827 282298 or David Watts on 01455 846007, or e mail: info@ashbycanal.org.uk
Working Wednesdays
We hold informal work parties most Wednesdays at Snarestone Wharf, from approx 10.15 am to early afternoon. There are usually plenty of jobs to be done – including grass cutting, weeding, keeping the site tidy, sorting bric-a-brac, putting up notices, maintaining our sheds, etc. Very informal but rewarding. If you would like to join us – you would be most welcome.
Please call Rod Smith on 01530 833307 or David Watts 01455 846007 for details
Report from the work party on Saturday 21st September 2019
The hedge was trimmed and the middle of the offside nature reserve was strimmed. A large amount of orange balsam was also removed. Work also continued on the canopy over the shop front.
Report from the work party on Sunday 28th April 2019
Essential maintenance was carried out on a birch tree at Snarestone Wharf that is in danger of becoming uprooted following recent stormy weather.
Report from the work party on Sunday 24th March 2019
At Ilott Wharf a number of volunteers repaired a fence that had been damaged by a fallen willow, whilst others made the most of the good weather and burnt scrub. The day finished with some reed cutting in the nature reserve at Snarestone Wharf.
Report from the work party on Sunday 18th February 2019
Eight volunteers continued to trim the towpath hedge, whilst two other volunteers removed the planks from two damaged benches opposite Hinckley Marina. The benches will eventually be re-fitted with fresh, treated planks..
Report from the work party on Sunday 20th January 2019
Six volunteers helped trim the towpath hedge between Snarestone Wharf and bridge 62.
Report from the work party on Sunday 16th December 2018
Twelve volunteers helped trim the towpath hedge between Snarestone Wharf and bridge 62.
Report from the work party on Sunday 21st October 2018
Fourteen volunteers cleared scrub at the entrance to the car park at Ilott Wharf, thus improving the visibility of the noticeboard from the Bosworth Road. In addition, grass and brambles were cut around the bases of the saplings that line the wooden fencing. This will improve their chances of further growth.
Report from the work party on Sunday 3rd June 2018
Six volunteers cleared rubbish, cut down saplings and burned scrub in preparation for the visit of the University of Leicester between 5th and 7th June 2018. In order to improve accessibility, and to make the terrain more visible, it has been decided to contract a local farmer to mow the grass before the start of the archaeological dig. This may also help to reduce the prevalence of ruts which make the ground very uneven and difficult to walk or work on.
Twelve volunteers cleared scrub at Ilott Wharf, and repaired the wire fence that borders the site of the car boot sale. Afterwards the volunteers enjoyed a BBQ at the new purpose-built site at Snarestone Wharf.
Twenty two volunteers, including several new faces, cleared scrub, broke up large hay bales, painted gates and tidied the hard standing area at Ilott Wharf.
Sixteen volunteers worked either side of the Gilwiskaw Brook clearing and burning further scrub and brambles.
Report from the work party on Sunday 12th November 2017
Fifteen volunteers, five of whom turned up for the first time, helped clear scrub and brambles from both sides of the Gilwiskaw Brook, The yellow and red engineering posts, that mark the location of the pending aqueduct are now clearly visible and more easily accessible.
Make a note in your diary that the 2020 Festival will take place on 16th and 17th May 2020. More details will follow in due course.
For further information please visit their website:
http://www.moiracanalfestival.co.uk
or their Facebook page:
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If you have been to Snarestone Wharf recently, you may have noticed a few changes and additions:
There is a sturdy noticeboard supported by iron posts, welcoming visitors to the Ashby Canal Restoration. It is situated alongside the winding hole, for all to see.
At this time of year, many of the shop's contents are brought outside. Their display has been enhanced by a colourful painting created by Emma's Crafty Kids at this year's Moira Festival.
Hot drinks are now available to purchase from the shop at £1.25 a cup.
The shop front will shortly be adorned by an awning enabling sale items to remain outside in all weathers..
Contractors dug some exploratory trenches between bridge 62 and Ilott Wharf on 22nd August 2019. They located puddle clay underneath the infill, which is still suitable for use as lining of a re-watered canal.
The Shackerstone Festival celebrated 25 years on the weekend of 31st August and 1st September 2019. It has since been decided that there will be no further Shackerstone Festivals and so this anniversary marked the culmination of the event: http://www.shackerstonefestival.co.uk/
As usual, there was a wide variety of stalls, entertainment and working boats. The ACA too was present with a marquee, meeting members of the public. selling merchandise and drumming up membership.
The ACA has planned a series of social events for the forthcoming months, between October 2019 and March 2020. The variety of dates and venues should appeal to a broad range of members:
Wednesday 9th October 2019 7.30 pm at Millers Hotel, (A444) Twycross Road, Sibson, CV13 6LB
Roger Butler will present an illustrated talk entitled Canal Holidays 50 years ago. Roger is a well-known speaker on waterways subjects, and his talk will include some atmospheric photos of canal holidays in the 1960s. We hope to see a good attendance at what promises to be a very entertaining evening at a new venue. Free admission, all welcome.
Friday 15th November 2019 7.15 pm at Stoke Golding Club, 42 Hinckley Road, Stoke Golding CV13 6DZ
Our popular annual light-hearted Quiz Night, with a Fish & Chip supper. Not canal-related so it will appeal to everyone. Advance Bookings only. Tickets £9.00 (+ £1.50 postage, unless collected on door) – for card payments please phone 07805 602618. See separate advert for further details.
Wednesday 4th December 2019 7.30 pm at Millers Hotel, Twycross Road , Sibson CV13 6LB
A fascinating talk by Tim Coghlan, from Braunston Marina, about Aubrey Berriman, the shipwright to the 'Raymond'.
Monday 13th January 2020 7.30 pm at Donisthorpe Woodlands Centre (DM's) Church Road, Donisthorpe DE12 7PY
Annual General Meeting – followed by waterways films and talk based on the extensive archive of the late Tom Henshaw. Bar available and plenty of parking.
Monday 10th February 2020 7.30 pm at Donisthorpe Woodlands Centre, Church Road, Donisthorpe DE12 7PY
Mike Kelly will present a talk about the Sleeping Beauty -The Cromford Canal. Bar available and plenty of parking.
Thursday 5th March 2020 7.30 pm at Dadlington Village Hall, The Green, Dadlington CV13 6JB
Film Night – "The Bargee" This will be a ticket only event. Bring your own drinks. More details in the next issue of "Spout"
The Ilott Wharf Project
For the last 2 years the ACA has been working on the Archaeology and Social History of Ilott Wharf which is on the line of the Ashby Canal, just west of where the Gilwiskaw Aqueduct once stood.
Through the generosity of Lottery players we were given a grant of £10,000, to which we added £1000 of our own money. We have also put in many hours of voluntary work.
The purpose of the project was to find out what state the underground remains of the structures at the Wharf are in, with a view to possible future archaeology excavations before the canal is restored through the site. We also did a social history investigation: who lived there, what their lives were like, and what did they do on this industrial canal site.
What did we find? Basically, because of repeated destruction and vandalism on the site, there were no remains underground which would justify excavations. We used state of the art geophysics investigations: LIDAR, magnetometry and ground radar. Whilst disappointing, this result means that we can now go ahead with restoration.
In fact, there was one small corner of the site near the level crossing on Bosworth Road where we found some remains of walls and a street lamp, so ACA members and others were able to do some supervised archaeology.
The social history investigation was also successful. We traced several people who lived on the site in both the houses there. Amazingly, we managed to identify two people from the same family who lived there 60 years ago and had completely lost touch after the site was demolished in the 1960s after which the occupants went their different ways. Just like "This is your life"!
We have a film of some of the findings on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OtQJVfg2d_g
These are some of the photos which show what we did:
This is a map of the site a few years before the closure of Ilott wharf. You can see that the left arm of the canal had already been dewatered in the 1950s when Measham town lost its stretch of canal.
The lads putting up the sign at the car park at Ilott wharf. They had previously scrapped the car park so it could be used again.
The chute at Ilott wharf in about 1965, just before demolition and dewatering of the canal back to Snarestone Wharf. The trains from Measham Mine were backed up on the siding, and men shovelled the coal into narrowboats moored on the canal.
The engine used to pull the coal wagons crossing Bosworth Road just west of the old coaching inn.
Referring to the previous steam engine photo, Peter Oakden is seen here having excavated the base of the street lamp, with even the electricity cable sticking out of it.
Trains crossing the fields coming from Measham Mine (on the horizon), heading towards Ilott Wharf.
In 1965 the canal was dewatered. Just before it happened the Ashby Canal Association was formed in order to try to stop the closure. Sadly, the ACA failed, but one of the protests was by "Prince" seen here at Ilott Wharf, having just passed the gauging station.
This house, one of two at Ilott Wharf, had been a coaching inn on the Measham to Bosworth route. It was demolished in 1965. It belonged to the Coal Board and the last occupant was a manager from the mine.
The house in the background was the Ilott House which belonged to the Midland Railway Company, which also owned the canal. The little black shed in front of it was the tally shed where canal records were kept. Also shown are the loaded wagons on the raised siding and boats waiting to be filled.
This is a view from the east side of the aqueduct looking towards the gauging station. This was around 1965 and Ilott House had already been knocked down. Margaret Goodwin, the last tenant, remembers, that whilst they liked living there, the house had no electricity or running water. It was condemned as unfit.
Another view taken at around the same time. Ilott House has been demolished. The dilapidated tally hut is still there, as is the greenhouse seen in front of the tree.
Life on the Wharf
Although life was hard, there was fun to be had for children. In the background, there is a train on the siding, and the coal shute can be seen on the far left.
Margaret and Brian Goodwin outside Ilott House 60 years ago.
The Goodwins at Ilott wharf. The gauging station is in the background. They borrowed the canoe from Bill Bradford, the local carpenter and undertaker, who lived at Bosworth Grange just east of the aqueduct.


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Album Review: Fika/ Elysian Fields
Fika/ ElysianFields/ Move Records
Jenny Eriksson and her ensemble Elysian Fields have released Fika (pronounced 'fee-ka'), a 9-track, album with 50+ minutes of music. The title refers to the Swedish tradition of Fika, where friends and colleagues gather over a cup of tea or coffee and a snack. More than just a break for refreshment, Fika is said to be an essential daily ritual, a mind-set and an important part of Swedish culture which makes time for friends and colleagues to relax and catch-up.
The music on Fika is a fusion that transcends jazz, classical and folk idioms, although it really has its own identity, created from the deep Scandinavian roots of Eriksson and her troupe.
Elysian Fields comprises Eriksson on the electric viola da gamba, Susie Bishop doubling up on violin and vocals, pianist Matt McMahon, Siebe Pogson on bass guitar, Dave Goodman on drums and album producer Matt Keegan playing saxophones.
Listening to the tracks, I am aware that this is 'living' music – written by contemporary legends but embracing ideas from the past and developing new ideas from the present. Riffs on the saxophone, punchy drumming, plaintive homophony, dance rhythms and pure-toned singing, pay homage to its many stylistic influences. The centrepiece of the project however, is the viola da gamba whose electrification by Eriksson deflects the penetrative limitations of the original unamplified instrument, creating a distinct sound. As Eriksson observes in her notes: "After all, the viola da gamba is best known as a refined instrument of the French baroque court…". Sensitive electrification has paved the way for the gamba to diversify its style, combining incisively with larger ensembles and newer configurations of instruments.
Norwegian jazz great Jan Gunnar Hoff has two pieces on Fika. He trained in classical piano from the age of 10, moving to a healthy teenage interest in progressive rock, following bands like Pink Floyd and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. He began his jazz career in the 1970's and is now known for his classical style influenced by jazz, folk, funk, and rock.
Opening the album is his piece Living, arranged by Eriksson. Personally supportive of the project, Hoff observes that he wrote Living during December, "the darkest period of the year in Norway," where he lives just above the Arctic Circle. Hoff uses poignant modal melodies and multi-metric rhythms to describe "the northern lights and the spectacular views and landscapes of the north." Hoff's second piece, as suggested by its title, Meditatus is also arranged by Eriksson and is a contemplative piece using the words of the Kyrie from the Latin Mass. Anchored by Matt McMahon's keyboards, Susie Bishops plangent vocals are echoed by Eriksson's gamba, alternating with a free-wheeling improvisatory interlude by Matt Keegan on the saxophone.
Matt McMahon has arranged Frid på jord, a lament by Swedish folk singer Sofia Karlsson, sung with impressive silken tone and control by Bishop. Bishop herself has two folk song arrangements on the disc. Vi ska ställa till en roliger dans is a catchy rustic number which would not be out of place at a country fair or pub. It contrasts with Bishop's other arrangement of När som jag var på mitt adertonde år, a song about unrequited love, its vocal line replete with simple ornamentation and microtones, sung over a drone bass.
Låt till Far (Tune to my Father) was written by the Swedish fiddler Pers Erik Olsson for the birth centenary of his father, Pers Olof Olsson, also a well-known fiddler. It seems that fiddle playing runs in the family as Pers Erik's son, Pers Hans Olsson is also a fiddler. Eriksson notes that this tune would traditionally be played by a small violin ensemble. On Fika, it has been transcribed by Andersson and McMahon for a beautifully blended trio of violin, gamba and piano.
Commissioned by Eriksson, Keegan's Cold Soul paints a landscape of imposing ice-bound mountains melting into a free-spirited improvisation around a two-note theme and a crisply dotted four-note undertow. Siebe Pogson's The Tragedy, the first of a trilogy, commissioned by Eriksson, is set high in the tessitura and pushes Bishop's vocals to the extreme. A soft and gently rhythmic extemporisation thins out to end with sax and gamba playing in unison, over a chordal piano part.
Esbjörn Svensson's Belive Beleft Below is a love-song built on a simple rising arpeggio figure. Like Jan Gunnar Hoff, this late Swedish jazz musician's first experience of music was in the classical style. As a teenager, he too pursued an interest in rock music and started a few garage bands with classmates, before returning to classical music and making his way towards jazz, entering music college aged 16, followed by studies at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. Eriksson has arranged Belive Beleft Below for voice, saxophone and gamba with drums and piano. Susie Bishops' voice is relaxed and stylish in the exposition of the love story, followed by an instrumental interlude and a reprise of the verse.
The album is accompanied by a booklet with evocative images, song texts, their translations and insights from the musicians. The project's aim of unifying Scandinavian and Australian themes goes a step further with the artworks in the booklet by Swedish painter Nils Gunnar Zander and his depictions of the Australian landscape.
It is hard to imagine a more dramatic contrast between the aesthetics of Sweden and those of Australia. With Fika, Eriksson and Elysian Fields have bridged that divide.
A soothing listen, perfect for intimate times with family and friends.
Shamistha de Soysa for SoundsLikeSydney©
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Five Seriously New Fruits for Rosh Hashanah
By Binyamin Kagedan/JNS.org | September 04, 2013
Let's be honest, people—it's 2013, and with rows of bottled pomegranate juice lining every convenience store refrigerator, the sight of those hundreds of little red stains-to-be on Rosh Hashanah night is just all too humdrum. So when you usher in the Jewish New Year with a new fruit this holiday season, why not treat your family to one of these über-exotic natural delicacies? That is, if you can find them (and afford them).
The ackee. Jerome Walker via Wikimedia Commons.
Ackee
The ackee is native to tropical West Africa, and was imported to Jamaica in 1778, where it now holds the rank of national fruit. A relative of the lychee and similar in taste and consistency, the ackee's fruit is soft and white and grows around three large, dark seeds. Ackees are generally cooked and canned before being sold, with good reason: Eating an unripe ackee can result in a bout of the very bluntly named Jamaican vomiting sickness.
The Kiwano. Elke Wetzig via Wikimedia Commons.
Also known as the horned melon, jelly melon, hedged gourd, blowfish fruit, or my personal favorite, the African horned cucumber. The kiwano is native to Africa but now grows in California, Chile, Africa, and New Zealand. Its flesh is bright green and jelly-like, and tastes like a cucumber with a hint of citrus. The peel can also be eaten and is rich in Vitamin C and fiber. Kiwanos can be eaten raw or cooked, juiced and mixed into lemonade, or even turned into gourmet ice cubes!
The mangosteen. Shin via Wikimedia Commons.
If you're like me, the name of this fruit conjures up the image of a family of stubborn and misinformed German-Jewish farmers. Thankfully, the mangosteen is actually a tasty and widely desired fruit that grows almost exclusively in Thailand. Mangosteens are renowned for their delectable flavor and fresh fragrance, which prompted one botanist to say, "The mangosteen only has one fault; it is impossible to eat enough of it," according to Mangosteen.com. Fresh mangosteens can be expensive and hard to find in the U.S., but the canned variety are easier to come by.
The Jabuticaba.
Mateus Hidalgo via Wikimedia Commons.
The jabuticaba tree is very striking, its fruit growing in clusters up and down its trunk rather than hanging from branches. It is native to southeastern Brazil, and is somewhat of a cultural icon for peoples of that region. The jabuticaba fruit is usually eaten fresh, but because it starts to ferment only three or four days after being picked, is also widely used in jams, wines, and liqueurs. Despite being deliciously sweet and chock full of anti-oxidants, the jabuticaba has not gained much popularity outside Brazil, as its very brief shelf life makes it impossible to export efficiently. In other words, good luck finding a fresh one outside Sao Paolo.
The squared watermelon.
Cat via Wikimedia Commons.
Squared watermelon
They really exist, and you can actually grow them in your backyard (see YouTube for the instructional video). Whether they should count as a new fruit is debatable, however. The secret of squared, or cubic, watermelons is that they are really just regular watermelons grown into square-shaped glass boxes. An enterprising farmer on the Japanese island of Shikoku developed this method about 20 years ago to make the large, cumbersome melons easier to store. Today, the product is fashionable among the elite of Tokyo and Osaka and one can be purchased for a mere 10,000 yen (about $83, or the cost 16 round watermelons).
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Kathryn Mewes was born in 1973 in London and lived there for the first seven years of her life. She then moved to Wiltshire and in 1984 a final family move took her to Hampshire, where she completed her education.
In 1992 Kathryn attended Norland College in Hungerford and in 1994 she graduated with a Distinction and The Gifford Hall Award for Excellence. She then began her career as a Norland nanny, staying with families for a period of time and learning and growing alongside the parents. It didn't take long before her fascination with the dynamics of family life became an on-going study.
After nine years as a nanny, Kathryn went to Australia, where she lived for three years. She travelled the country extensively before settling in Melbourne. By this stage, she had made the decision that she wanted to help and guide parents on how to make parenthood both easy and enjoyable, so she began to draw up her business plan.
Kathryn worked with several families in Australia, helping to resolve concerns they had about their children's behaviour. It wasn't long before she realised that she only needed to be in a home for three days in order to bring about long-lasting change.
The Three-day Nanny was born!
Kathryn returned to London in 2007 and launched her business in the UK. She is now based in southwest London but travels the country every week working with different families on their own particular 'family challenges'. She goes by the name of Bespoke Nanny, and will arrive with her little suitcase, live in for up to 72 hours and then continue to guide that family by telephone.
A happy and contented life begins and remains in the family home.
By writing The Three-day Nanny and The Three Day Nanny: Your Toddler Problems Solved, she hopes to share with parents the techniques she uses when visiting homes for a personal consultation. Her three-day plans demonstrate how to help and guide your child to sleep, eat and behave well, and to master potty training.
Kathryn continues to help families throughout the country and can sometimes be seen cycling the streets of London on her vintage bicycle complete with basket and shiny bell!
Kathryn is Ofsted registered and a Parental Consultant at the Westover Clinic in London.
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The X-Files 2.21, The Calusari: Superstition Ain't the Way
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You're telling me this whole thing could have been avoided if this kid had just gotten a balloon?
Summary: In Murray, Virginia's Lincoln Park, a boy named Charlie Holvey is admiring a train. His toddler brother, Teddy, loses his balloon, then his ice cream cone. His parents replace the balloon with Charlie's, which is pretty crappy. Charlie demands his balloon back as his mother takes Teddy to get cleaned up. Mr. Holvey angrily says they'll get him a new balloon.
In the restroom, Mrs. Holvey straps the toddler to something while she uses the toilet. He loses the balloon again (sheesh, this kid). When Mrs. Holvey emerges, Teddy's gone. Charlie looks on as Teddy follows his balloon onto the train tracks. Mr. and Mrs. Holvey are helpless as they watch the conductor try and fail to slow down the train. Teddy gets smushed. So…that's disturbing. Charlie's unmoved, but at least he got his balloon back.
Three months after the incident, Mulder and Scully are at a lab at the University of Maryland, looking at a photo taken just seconds before Teddy's death. The medical examiner was disturbed by the case and called Mulder in. He finds it strange that the balloon, which was filled with helium, was moving in a way it shouldn't have. Mulder might not know a lot, but he knows that helium makes a balloon go up, not to the side. "Did you learn about wind in kindergarten?" Scully replies.
Mulder says the balloon moved against the wind, so he called in a man named Chuck Burk, who's an expert at digital imaging. Chuck enhances the photo to show electromagnetic energy under the balloon. Scully thinks the men believe a ghost used the balloon to lure Teddy to the tracks so he would be killed.
Scully asks if the camera used for the photo could have produced a false image, but of course Mulder's not going to entertain that idea. Mulder continues that Teddy escaped the halter his mother used to tie him to the sink. Since the kid was only two and probably not Houdini reincarnated, that's another wrinkle in the situation.
In Arlington, a woman watches from outside as the agents visit the Holveys' home. The parents think their son's death was an accident and nothing more. The fire in the fireplace flares up as Charlie appears in the doorway. Scully follows him, seeing him on a staircase with an older woman who's drawing a symbol on his hand (and since the symbol includes a swastika, this can't be good). Mrs. Holvey explains that her mother came to live with the family after Teddy was born.
The smoke detector goes off, ending the conversation. The lights then go out, and when they come back on, Mrs. Holvey's mother is in the room with Charlie. She says something in Rumanian, insisting that they perform a ritual so the killings don't continue. "You marry a devil, you have devil child," Grandma says. (Yeah, I knew Mr. Holvey was bad news.)
Mulder and Scully head back to the FBI building, where Mulder looks up the symbol Grandma drew on Charlie's hand. They think she's trying to protect him, but probably not from the right thing. Scully believes Teddy was a victim of Munchausen by proxy, as he was hospitalized ten times in the two years he was alive. His illness was never diagnosed. Charlie has also had medical problems since Teddy's birth, so maybe Grandma's responsible, thinking Charlie's evil.
The agents go to the State Department to talk to Mr. Holvey, who admits that things in the house have been strange since Grandma (Golda) moved in. Mr. and Mrs. Holvey met in Romania in the '80s, and Golda forbade the marriage, saying Mr. Holvey was evil. Golda settled down until she moved in with the family and strange things started happening. Golda's very superstitious and is obsessed with protecting the kids. She seems to both fear and dote on Charlie.
Scully brings up Munchausen by proxy, an idea that doesn't seem too crazy to Mr. Holvey. In fact, he kind of wonders if Golda didn't sneak into the bathroom and let Teddy out of his harness the day he died. Scully wants to consult with a social worker, which Mr. Holvey thinks would be fine. Mrs. Holvey, however, objects. Scully catches Golda putting something in the food she's cooking for the family, like, she's probably not going to poison the kid right in front of you, Scully.
Mr. Holvey takes Charlie against his wife's wishes, but he's unable to open the garage door so they can leave the house. As the agents leave, having parked on the street, Mr. Holvey climbs a ladder to fix the garage-door mechanism. His tie gets caught in it just as it starts working. Charlie screams as he watches his father get hung. The agents rush into the garage, and Scully sees Charlie express emotion for the first time in the episode.
Police arrive at the house and show Scully a room full of candles and dead chickens. Festive! Outside, Golda welcomes the woman who was watching the house earlier, plus a trio of older men, telling them they need to move quickly because "it" is getting stronger. Mulder checks out the garage-door mechanism, finding something inside that looks like ash. It's all over the car as well. The motor in the mechanism is working fine. Scully thinks they should have Charlie removed from the house, as she still suspects that Golda is harming him.
Mulder gets a chemical analysis of the ash, which turns up nothing. Literally, the ash is made up of nothing organic or inorganic: "According to the technicians, this ash doesn't exist." The agents take it to Chuck, who recognizes it as vibuti, holy ash from India. It's known as "an apport – something that materializes out of thin air." He compares it to the loaves and fishes Jesus created in the Bible. Chuck himself saw a guru create something out of thin air in the '70s. Scully says he should have taken a picture to run through his imaging system so he could see the Last Supper.
Chuck continues that vibuti can materialize after someone's energy transports from one location to another. Mulder thinks that could have happened when the garage door opened on its own. Scully points out that someone could have used the remote control to open the door, killing Mr. Holvey – someone like Golda.
Back at the Holveys' house, Charlie listens at his grandmother's door as she and her four friends chant in Rumanian and perform some sort of ritual. An apparition of Charlie appears in the smoke their candles produce and yells in Rumanian. The social worker, Karen Kosseff, comes to the house, and Mrs. Holvey reluctantly lets her in. She hears Charlie yelling and finds him lying on the floor outside Golda's room. Mrs. Holvey says he's been sick.
Seeing smoke under the door of Golda's room, Mrs. Holvey bursts in and orders her mother and her friends out of the house. The friends leave, but Golda insists that Charlie's blood needs to be cleansed. She pulls him into the room and locks the door, announcing, "We must finish this." Karen runs off to get help, so it's convenient that the agents arrive right then. As Golda finishes her ritual, the room fills with the sound of wind. She raises a knife to Charlie, telling him it's the only way.
As Mulder tries to get into the room, Charlie stands over his grandmother, holding the dead chickens. But they're no longer dead, and he throws them at Golda. Then I guess she…gets pecked to death. Yikes. Mulder doesn't seem to think Charlie's an innocent victim anymore. But the chickens are dead again, and Charlie claims he doesn't remember anything. Despite having her eyes pecked out, Golda's cause of death has been determined as a heart attack.
Mulder finds more ash in the room and IDs another substance in the room as mugwort. Scully thinks that means Golda's death may have been ceremonial, but Mulder says it was being used in a protective manner. He thinks Golda knew the family was in danger and was trying to help them, with assistance from her four buddies.
Speaking of the buddies, they're back, but Mrs. Holvey doesn't want to talk to them about their superstitions. After she kicks them out, she tells the agents that they're the Calusari, people responsible for making sure that sacred rites are observed correctly. They've warned Mrs. Holvey that there's still evil in her house. GEE, I WONDER WHERE IT COULD BE COMING FROM?
Mulder tries to talk to the Calusari, who aren't that interested in chatting. One of the men says that evil has been around all through history, in various forms (such as Lucifer and Hitler). It doesn't care if it kills one boy or a million people. If Mulder tries to stop the Calusari from stopping the evil, he'll have blood on his own hands.
Mrs. Holvey tells the agents that in Rumanian superstition, someone who has suffered a misfortune will always have bad luck. Now that all of this is happening to her, Mrs. Holvey isn't sure anymore that it's just a superstition. She used to think her mother had cursed the family. Now she knows Golda was trying to get rid of evil in the house – and she thought Charlie was behind the evil. Mrs. Holvey doesn't know how her little boy could be responsible for such horrible things.
Charlie's been taken to a hospital, where Karen tries to get him to tell her what happened in Golda's room. He still claims he doesn't remember. In fact, he says he wasn't even there. He gets worked up, insisting that he wasn't in the room and didn't hurt Golda. He blames someone named Michael. Mrs. Holvey's shocked that he knows the name – Michael was Charlie's stillborn twin.
Mrs. Holvey continues that when Michael died, Golda wanted to perform a ritual of separation to divide their souls. If she didn't, she thought "the world of the dead would follow Charlie." Of course, Mrs. Holvey always thought it was just a superstition. Just then, Charlie has a seizure. Doctors examine him but can't determine the cause. Later, as Charlie's about to get an injection he really doesn't want, Michael appears in the room and attacks his brother's nurse.
Sometime later, Charlie approaches his mother and tells her he's been released. But since I've seen TV before, I'm 99 percent sure this is really Michael. Scully sees mother and son leaving the hospital, which is pretty weird since Charlie's still in his room. His nurse explains that there were two boys, and one attacked her. Mulder quickly figures out that Mrs. Holvey left with a spirit or ghost or whatever it was they saw in the photo.
Mulder sends Scully to rescue Mrs. Holvey while he gets help. At the Holveys' house, Charlie asks if they can go to the park the next day. Can he have a balloon and ride the train? Ohhh, demon child. Mrs. Holvey is on to him and heads to her mother's room to finish her protection ritual. She lights matches and throws them in water, praying that what she's figured out isn't true. As one of the matches disappears, she realizes it is.
Michael appears in the room and asks what his mother's doing. She's armed with a knife and chants in Rumanian. Meanwhile, Mulder calls the Calusari to the hospital so they can perform a ritual. Charlie's not happy about it, so it turns into a sort of exorcism. One of the Calusari tells Mulder to look away so "it" won't recognize him. Mulder sees something seeping out of the walls of the room.
At the Holveys' house, wind blows through the rooms, breaking windows and spooking Scully. She finds Mrs. Holvey almost on the ceiling, still chanting. Mulder thinks Charlie's suffering and almost lets go of him, but a Calusari says he's being tricked. They continue the ritual as Michael goes after Scully with a knife. Fortunately, the Calusari finish up in time for Michael to disappear, leaving Scully and Mrs. Holvey unharmed.
Mrs. Holvey rushes back to the hospital, happy to see that Charlie's okay. One of the Calusari tells Mulder that it's over for now, but he needs to be careful, because now "it" knows him. Mulder's case report says that the case in unsolved (like every other case on this show), and "neither innocence nor vigilance might be protection against the howling heart of evil." Geez, take it down a notch, Fox.
Thoughts: The actress playing Golda also played Joey's grandmother on Friends, so I kept expecting her to say, "Sam Waterston!"
I always knew nothing good could come from balloons.
Imagine being the parents of the triplets playing Teddy. "So we're just going to have him walk around a bunch, and then he gets hit by a train. Is that cool?"


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Dogs are pack animals, so they naturally dislike being alone, so an effective form of discipline for a dog is brief isolation. When your dog bites, isolate him immediately by leaving the room and remaining out of sight. Physical discipline is never the answer with a dog, but isolating him sends a clear message: Bite again, and you won't get any more attention. When practiced consistently, your dog will learn that biting -- even play-biting -- means a swift loss of privileges and social company, and he'll start to think twice.
Warning: When isolating a dog, do not lock him in his crate. The dog's crate should never be associated with punishment -- instead, leave him isolated in a room.
Be consistent and don't give in. Isolating your dog isn't always easy, even after a bite, and he may cry and whine from behind closed doors. Wavering, however, undoes everything you have taught him, and completely disrupts the system of reward and punishment you're attempting to teach. Dogs learn from consistency, so don't be a softie. Leave him alone until he calms down, and repeat as often as necessary.
Finally, remember that when playtime gets out of control and you sustain a bite, your dog isn't necessarily trying to hurt you. Dogs are simply used to being aggressive players with each other. Just practice the above steps to keep the biting behavior in check.


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From 1950 to 2021, Weld County has seen a whopping (after yesterday) 292 tornadoes more than any other county in America.
PHOTOS: 15 Tornadoes Touch Down in Colorado Over the Weekend
In a two-day span, Coloradans spotted at least 15 twisters.
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Monday brought severe storms to Northern Colorado and produced a double-digit number of tornadoes.
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Lunatic Takes Selfie…In Front of Approaching Tornado
Okay -- NOW this selfie craze is out of control.
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import {createStore, combineReducers, applyMiddleware, compose} from 'redux'
import {syncHistory} from 'redux-simple-router'
import thunk from 'redux-thunk'
import {browserHistory as history} from 'react-router'
import rootReducer from '../reducers'

function configureStore(initState) {

  let finalCreateStore

  // Sync dispatched route actions to the history
  const reduxRouterMiddleware = syncHistory(history)

  if(__DEV__) {
    //const createLogger = require('redux-logger')
    const allDevTools = require('../containers/DevTools')
    finalCreateStore = compose(
      applyMiddleware(
        reduxRouterMiddleware,
        thunk,
        /* createLogger(), */
      ),
      allDevTools.DevTools.instrument(),
      allDevTools.persistState(allDevTools.getDebugSessionKey()),
    )(createStore)

  } else {
    finalCreateStore = compose(
      applyMiddleware(
        reduxRouterMiddleware,
        thunk,
      ),
    )(createStore)
  }

  const store = finalCreateStore(rootReducer, initState)

  if (module.hot) {
    // Enable Webpack hot module replacement for reducers
    module.hot.accept('../reducers', () => {
      window.rootCombineReducer.user = require('../reducers/user')
      const nextReducer = combineReducers(window.rootCombineReducer)
      store.replaceReducer(nextReducer)
    })
  }

  return store
}

export default configureStore

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The expansion of Greater Lancashire Hospital will see the current hospital site double in size to further include state-of-the-art outpatient facilities, 2 new operating theatres, and minor procedures rooms for minimally invasive Outpatient and Day Case surgical procedures.
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Home Culture Staff Pick: A Voyage for Madmen
Staff Pick: A Voyage for Madmen
by Michael Finger
A Voyage for Madmen
By Peter Nichols
(Harper Perennial)
"I will play this game when I choose I will resign the game 11 20 40 There is no reason for harmful."
Those were the last words frantically scribbled in the logbook by Donald Crowhurst — captain, pilot, and sole passenger of a yacht called the Teignmouth Electron . Crowhurst carefully noted the hour, minute, and second when he made his final notation. Then, so obsessed with time in his final weeks at sea that he apparently thought he could take it with him , he carefully unscrewed the brass chronometer from his ship's bulkhead, carried it with him to the railing, and stepped over the side.
Two weeks later his empty ship was found adrift in the North Atlantic and towed home.
Crowhurst was one of nine men from England and France who in 1968 joined an around-the-world sailing race that had some very challenging rules. The journey, which could take a year or more, had to be performed alone. The ships could make no stops for repairs, food, supplies — not even medicine. The pilots of these vessels, which ranged from small single-hulled wooden yachts to 60-foot fiberglass trimarans, weren't even allowed to accept letters from home tossed to them from passing ships. They did carry radios, but in these days before sophisticated weather radar and GPS systems, the Golden Globe Race, sponsored by London's Sunday Times , would be the toughest ever conducted.
And what a motley crew it attracted. Though all the participants had been at sea before, none had ever attempted anything as bold as this. One intrepid Britisher had teamed up with another fellow and actually rowed across the Atlantic the year before. But when he launched his vessel into the English Channel in October, that marked the first time he had ever operated a sailboat.
At least he knew more about sailing terms than me. Quite a few times I had to pause and figure out what "lying abeam in the wind" meant, or "backing the headsail." But Nichols — a former yacht captain, novelist, and creative writing professor — doesn't dwell on too many technical details, because he knows this story isn't really about the boats; it's about the men who sailed them.
More specifically, it's about the type of person who would attempt such a thing: squander their life savings to purchase and stock a vessel, bid farewell to families and friends, and set out into the lonely and dangerous ocean. As Nichols discovered, they did it not for the prize money, a paltry 5,000 pounds, and not even for the fame that would come to the winner, but for something much more elusive.
And the book is called A Voyage for Madmen with good reason. Certainly you have the enduring mystery of Donald Crowhurst, who never left the Atlantic Ocean, but shuttled back and forth between Africa and South America, while broadcasting false reports of his position to the race officials back home. But you also have the quest of Frenchman Bernard Moitessier, who managed to circle the globe and turned his vessel towards England to claim first prize. Then, just a few hundred miles from victory, he realized that the race wasn't about winning at all. So, stunning his wife, not to mention his sponsors, he turned his boat around, and radioed that he would just keep sailing, wherever the wind and currents carried him.
Nichols has done a remarkable job of allowing the reader to become a passenger aboard each of these boats, and A Voyage for Madmen is a classic tale of men against the sea. You may think his book's cover blurb ("Nine men set out to race each other around the world. Only one made it back.") gives away the ending, but that is by no means the whole story.
Memphis Magazine July 2007 Arts Books July-2007
Michael Finger
Michael Finger is executive editor of Memphis magazine. His greatest achievement has been serving on the Safety Patrol at Sea Isle Elementary School. The rest is a blur.
Read more by Michael Finger


This life is confusing, overwhelming, frustrating, and terrifying majority of the time, but it is all worth it in order to see the few moments or things that are interesting, beautiful, fulfilling, entertaining, and enjoyable. I am still learning to take each day as its own and not get overwhelmed by what can't be completed that moment or figure out a problem that cannot be fixed in a days time, frustrated at people or things and give them time, and to not be terrified of the consequences of my choices. It is an everyday struggle for everyone. It is LIFE. Which it gives me comfort knowing that I am not alone as no one person should feel that way although we do many times throughout our life. That is why we must find the things that ease the pain a little or simply find the "little" things because it is these things that intrigue us most and give us the most pleasure.
Mine? It changes from time to time, but right now it is this. Writing has always been a passion, but I never realized how strong. I kept journals or blogs throughout my childhood, my teenage years, and through college, but I have always thrown them away or deleted them once realizing that at the time they were much needed, but once feeling satisfied I would trash it in order to discard all the burdens that it carried as if I was throwing it away to rid myself of it. This time is different because in those times, no one would be able to see it and it was all mine to carry. Now, I am putting it out there and leaving it out in the open for anyone to read. I am using it to grow rather than relieve myself of something unwanted. I am accepting my struggles and utilizing it to my advantage.


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BENUE NEWS
{Latest News from Benue State}
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF BENUE
EFCC Demands N450m Refund, As N750m Car Fraud Rocks Benue Assembly
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday invited the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Hon. Terkimbi Ikyange, his Deputy, James Okefe, Majority Leader, Benjamin Adanyi and six (6) other members of the House over their alleged involvement in a car fraud scandal.
A source familiar with the development said, the Speaker and other principal officers of the House were invited to Abuja by the anti-graft Commission on Monday and were subsequently detained after hours of interrogation.
According to the source who did not want to be named, the lawmakers were interrogated on matters relating to a lump sum of N750 million which was allegedly expended on the purchase of cars and cash gift bazaar for members of the state House of Assembly.
"Trouble began when the Benue State House of Assembly procured cars selectively, only for APC members of the House of Assembly, ignoring those from the PDP. James Okefe, the Deputy Speaker, handled the contract. After they bought the cars and shared them around the APC house members, they shared the remaining funds among the house leaders. Okefe then went ahead to prepare payment vouchers covering all members including PDP members who were not included in the process. He even used fake chassis numbers of imaginary cars against names of the PDP members who were denied the cars. So someone petitioned the EFCC and they were invited for questioning and then detained after failing to give any convincing explanations on the shady car deal", the source said.
Further checks indicate that the Governor of Benue State Samuel Ortom facilitated the release of the suspects from EFCC custody on Wednesday. "They were detained since Monday by the EFCC. It was until Wednesday that the state governor Ortom went to EFCC to facilitate an administrative bail for them. But they were released on the condition that they would refund the sum of N450 million back to the coffers of government", another informed source who did not want to be named.
EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren declined comments stating that he was yet to be apprised with the details of the case.
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Imagine that you outlined your journey for this lifetime before you were born. Consider the possibility that you pre-programmed the challenges you're now facing in your life—with the intention of mastering these powerful lessons in order to live up to the great potential that lies untapped inside you.
This code vibrates inside you for a purpose. As you journey through your lifetime your birth code vibrates out a message to everyone you interact with. They sense your path not by the words you speak but by the vibrations they feel from you. And because of this code everyone around you is able to feel the intention of your lifetime and help you stay on track (by adding pain or pleasure to your journey).
That's what the ancient mystic and Greek philosopher Pythagoras, father of our modern number system, believed when, in 580 B.C., he designed a theory of numbers based on the digits 1 through 9. Pythagoras saw that everything in the universe operated in predictable cycles, and his basic units of measuring each cycle were these digits.
According to Pythagoras each number has a meaning or vibration, and by adding the numbers within your birth date and reducing them to single digits, you reveal the nature of the work you came here to do.
Today we still use the number system Pythagoras created, but we've disregarded the core meaning that was central to his system—that each number carries a meaning or vibration that goes beyond mere quantity.
In our left-brained world the higher meaning of numbers went out of favour as we embraced the linear, logical, quantitative values of numbers.
Yet numbers are our oldest symbols, and they're fundamentally linked to the abstraction of higher ideas. References to numbers having spiritual or metaphysical meanings can be found in every ancient civilization including those of the Egyptians, Chinese, Hindus, Hebrews (in the kabbalah), and early Christians. Even the Bible gives meanings to numbers in the book of Revelation.
In Pythagoras's system every number has a positive and negative vibration (which show its potential and challenges). Your destiny number, which is derived from your birth date, contains the vibrations of the greatness you came to achieve—along with the potential pitfalls of your path. By understanding this you can make better choices for your future.
1 through 9 by adding the digits of the entire number together. For example, the number 43 equals 7 (4+3=7). And the number 20 equals 2 (2+0=2).
Every letter of the alphabet also corresponds to these numbers 1 through 9. For example, A1, B2, C3, etc.
Numerology reveals how you outlined your direction for this lifetime and chose the players in your drama (family, friends, and lovers) because they would push you past your limitations and help you rise to your potential. Nothing and no one in your life is an accident.
As you look back at your life and its ups and downs, realize that it was all on purpose to get you to this moment. You, your loved ones, even your enemies, are all co-authors of this grandly designed group evolutionary process.
Positive aspects: Creativity, self-awareness, willpower, unique vision, forcefulness, individualism, leadership, independence.
Negative aspects: Loneliness, self-centredness, arrogance, bossiness, lack of self-confidence.
Positive aspects: Intuition, connection, communication, understanding, sharing, mediation, love, patience, diplomacy, consideration, peacemaking, attention to detail.
Negative aspects: Dependency, loss of self, paranoia, hypersensitivity, cowardice, obsession with meaningless details.
Positive aspects: Entertaining, self-expression through writing, movement, or the arts, natural creativity, gifted communicator of ideas, playfulness, fun, beauty, charm, love of limelight, social graces.
Negative aspects: Conceited, cold-hearted, overintellectual, anti-social, verbose, superficial, jealous, lack of focus, accomplishment, or responsibility.
Positive aspects: Self-discipline, physical and emotional strength, determination, practicality, hard physical worker, concentration, order, focus, appreciation of rules, regulations, and routine.
Negative aspects: Lack of self-discipline (or overdisciplined), all work and no play, too practical, too cautious, stingy, stubborn, lost in drudgery, inability to see big picture.
Positive aspects: Expansion, change, sensuality, sexuality, freedom, passion, adventure, high energy, activity, curiosity, new opportunities, open to others, highly charismatic.
Negative aspects: Lack of discipline, overindulgence, addictions, impulsive, restless, fickle, rebellious, off centre, sensual indulgence.
Positive aspects: Social consciousness, family and group responsibility, fairness, creator of group harmony, therapist, healer, clairvoyant, teacher of truth and justice, community, home, and family focused.
Negative aspects: Social irresponsibility, meddling in the affairs of others, slave to others' needs, overanxious about social problems, self-righteous, obstinate in world opinions, super-critical of loved ones.
Positive aspects: Intellectual and spiritual focus, scientific, wise, dignified, refined, sensitive, perfectionist, psychically aware, metaphysical, philosophical, secretive, needs to be alone, studious, bridging gaps between physical and metaphysical, loves mental analysis, acquires by attraction rather than force, is taking a sabbatical from physical world for study.
Negative aspects: Isolated, hypersensitive, withdrawing, skeptical, melancholic, aloof, sarcastic, escapes into drugs or alcohol, seeks perfection in material world rather than in higher knowledge.
Positive aspects: Material accomplishment, wealth, power, generosity, career accomplishment, business success, high finance, profitable, executive, authoritative, philanthropist.
Negative aspects: Greed, abuse of power, manipulative, selfishness, bully, cruel, braggart, superficial, materialistic, controlling, stingy.
Positive aspects: Humanitarian, selfless service, universal awareness and understanding, compassion for all people, tolerant, generous, accomplished artist or thinker, impersonal, fair, fulfilled, wise, able to let go, highly charismatic.
Negative aspects: Bitterness, sadness, focused on past and loss, sorrowful, selfish, unconcerned about universal conditions such as global warming, extravagant, blames others, wasteful, unable to move forward, uses charisma for wrong purposes.
Positive aspects: Idealistic, refined, visionary, intuitive, artistic, highest plane of intellectual and spiritual advancement, avant-garde; sees both sides, androgynous, humanitarian.
Negative aspects: Fanatic, delusions of grandeur, egocentricity, dishonesty, perverted, too easily wounded by others, sees greatness only in self, not those around him or her.
Positive aspects: Practical idealism, uses inspired vision for everyday problems, practical genius, creator of the future, master of the material to benefit all humanity, philanthropist, attracts power on every level, international accomplishment, highest form of service to humankind.
Negative aspects: Material greed, get-rich-quick, abuse of power, indifference to suffering, lost in hard work.
Here's a step-by-step guide to figuring out your birth-path number and what that means about your career choices. We're focusing only on your career path, which is where you've chosen to express your gifts and talents—to make the world a better place in your unique way.
practical-life challenges. This mission will be the focus of their highest work.
By the way, this is my birthday. Like many on this path, I spent years lost in the drudgery of the hardworking 4, as a mountaineering instructor, journalist and magazine editor, before stepping up to my big work. I went through several career transitions to get ready for the work I do today.
Let's explore exactly what that number means about your career path.
You can't blend in and get lost in the group. Yours is the destiny of the leader; you must imagine new things, introduce new concepts, delegate the details. People will happily line up behind your unique voice. Don't let ego and criticism blind you to the gifts of your loved ones, or you'll end up alone. Nurture the best in others with your powerful leadership.
For example, you'd be fulfilling your destiny as a: cutting-edge designer, editor, consultant, teacher, speaker, author, director, or inventor.
Field, Tom Hanks, Anne Heche, Hulk Hogan, Holly Hunter, Scarlett Johansson, Janis Joplin, Larry King, Martin Luther King, Jr., Carl Sagan, Sting, Barbara Walters, Kate Winslet.
You must work in cooperation with others. You're a great team player or family member who is happy working in government or large corporations. You'll be a tower of compassion and support to those for whom you're responsible. You'll be great with details, known for your kindness and sensitivity. Beware the pitfalls of hypersensitivity; cultivate a thicker skin to be successful; and don't get lost in the details.
Examples: public relations executive, secretary, administrative assistant, band musician, researcher for a pharmaceutical company or publishing house, life coach, counsellor, or hypnotherapist.
Others include: Jennifer Aniston, Orlando Bloom, Meg Ryan, Gene Simmons, Emma Watson, Frank Lloyd Wright.
You have star quality and creative genius and are capable of the highest forms of artistic creation and inspired ideas. You can potentially change the consciousness of humanity with your artistic gifts—when you use them to help others. You'll attract great praise and criticism as you live up to your brilliant path. Be wary of going off on tangents, or being oversensitive, and strive to maintain balance, or you won't accomplish everything you came to do.
Examples: artist, filmmaker, political reformer, diplomat, psychic, mystic, writer, philosopher, musician.
Others include: Prince Charles, Bill Clinton, John Glenn, Katharine Hepburn, Barack Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John McCain, Paul Simon.
of creativity and teaching should provide a fine living.
Examples: actor, singer, talk- show host, freelance journalist, interior designer, dancer, beautician, fashion model, hostess, social director, elementary school teacher, arts therapist.
Others include: Hillary Clinton, Salvador Dalí, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Winona Ryder, Gloria Vanderbilt.
Practicality, self- discipline, strength, and determination are your gifts. No matter what, you'll get it done. You're the work horse who develops efficiency systems with your logical mind and great ability to concentrate; you pare things down to their essential nature. The details of building complex structures come easily to you, so you're needed to help launch every great project. Don't get lost in the details, however, or your hard work won't be as productive.
Examples: accountant, software technician, mathematician, engineer, draftsman, mechanic, ecologist, general contractor, professional athlete, electrician, economist, chiropractor, newspaper journalist.
Others include: Pamela Anderson, Julius Caesar, Leonardo da Vinci, Will Smith, Hilary Swank.
You're destined for unparalleled material power and success from making significant, inspired contributions to the way we think and live our everyday lives through business, politics, art, or the humanities. Your work is to guide the less enlightened into a brighter future and teach the most enlightened new principles of forward thinking. Always think big and seek out leaders who will open their doors to you. Your salvation lies in seeing the big picture, following your inspiration, and not getting lost in details, drudgery, or routine.
Examples: political organizaer, architect, public reformer, benefactor, mass media executive, CEO of innovative corporation, film director, author.
Others include: Clint Eastwood, Henry Ford, Hugh Hefner, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney, Mike Nichols, Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, M. Night Shyamalan, Oprah Winfrey.
purpose to anchor you, or life will get too chaotic.
Examples: sales, advertising, publicist, foodie, wine connoisseur, travel writer, life coach, actor, professional mountaineering guide, international fashion model, travel-show host, international language teacher.
Others include: Marlon Brando, Ron Howard, Angelina Jolie, Rudolf Nureyev, Isabella Rossellini, Uma Thurman, Lana Turner, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
of the group and ignoring your own, which leads to frustration and lack of fulfillment.
Others include: Hank Aaron, Ben Affleck, George Balanchine, Humphrey Bogart, John Denver, John Lennon, Lindsay Lohan, Christopher Reeve, Meryl Streep.
working alone in your highly refined destiny.
Examples: scientist, psychiatrist, psychologist, minister, doctor of divinity, researcher, investigator, science or mystery writer, philosopher, artist, or designer.
Others include: Paula Abdul, Christian Bale, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Depp, Hugh Grant, George Harrison, Al Pacino, Julia Roberts, Andy Warhol.
Financial success, big business, entrepreneurship, or professional athlete are all on your destined path. You won't work for minimum wage very long before you become the CEO of the company. You'll quickly be pulled to the top, where you'll be recognized for your executive leadership. Power and wealth are your destiny and challenge as you learn to use your power for good in the world. Think big, launch your own company, and avoid power-abuse pitfalls. Overcome greediness by developing compassion and generosity of spirit. Use your abundance to fund the causes you care about.
Examples: manufacturer, CEO, banker, entrepreneur, stockbroker, retail owner, financier, professional athlete, supermodel, publisher, political official.
Others include: Muhammad Ali, Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, Matt Damon, Jane Fonda, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Newman, Pablo Picasso, Martha Stewart, Shannon Tweed, Tennessee Williams.
Inspiring others with your compassion for the human condition and deep understanding of universal truths, you'll work with several foundations and schools—as you continually let go of what you've finished and move forward gracefully. Your free spirit, broad knowledge, wisdom, and compassion will make you highly charismatic. Your work will be humanitarian, ser vice oriented, and artistically inclined. Mysticism will intrigue you. Don't get lost in bitterness and disappointment from looking back at the past. Reach out to the unknown future.
Examples: publisher, lecturer, composer, playwright, physician, humanitarian, political leader, international physician, author, philanthropist, found er of nonprofit foundations.
Others include: Jimmy Carter, Harrison Ford, Jimi Hendrix, Whitney Houston, Charles Lindbergh, Shirley MacLaine, Yoko Ono, Elvis Presley, Robert Redford, James Van Pragh.
Career intuitive Sue Frederick's work, described as "a breath of fresh air" and "an enlightened new perspective," has been featured in The New York Times, Yoga Journal, Natural Health, and Fit Yoga magazines. To learn more about her work, visit www.CareerIntuitive.org.
This article was excerpted from Sue Frederick's book I See Your Dream Job. Copyright © 2013 by Sue Frederick. If you liked this excerpt, buy the book!


There is a generational gap that has occurred in recent years. Those of us who hide our gray hair and look for bathroom scales that weigh five pounds light also use cable TV. A generation or two below my age stratosphere there are massive sea changes brewing and your local phone company wants to be a part.
These days the iPhone and various Android-based devices have become the de facto traveling cable TV company (without the cable) by using mobile devices to be entertained and informed. Not only has AT&T become a content distribution company, Verizon wants to get in on the mobile action and might buy Yahoo!
Last year Verizon bought once proud and nightly AOL for nearly $4.5-billion, so a $5-billion price tag for Yahoo! seems plausible. What would Verizon get for all that money? A lot of users and plenty of user generated content.
Why does Verizon want to get into the internet content business?
Money, obviously. After spending many tens of billions AT&T has become a massive telecommunications giant that distributes content to a hundred million customers. Verizon needs to play in the same game because, you know, competition.
There's also the need to grow. It's not as if Verizon isn't profitable already, but the stock market rewards companies that take bold risks and grow. Verizon needs to grow even if the company does not know diddly squat about what AOL and Yahoo! actually do (not make much money comes to mind).
From my perspective overlooking Lake Michigan I see a bunch of companies that want to compete and grow and chart their own course to the future. Verizon and AT&T compete, obviously enough, but in a strange way they both compete with Google and Facebook and Google competes with Microsoft and Apple and Amazon.
See? What a mess. All those companies want you and your iPhone (and iPad and Mac; you get the idea, right?) because that's where the growth in content consumption is, and that means a few hundred million customer and user eyeballs, and somewhere, somehow, on a spreadsheet and PowerPoint slideshow somewhere, they make money.
As much as I would like to see Apple get into the internet content distribution business with a cable TV cord cutter service, it may not happen. And as long as I can have my iPhone and iPad connect with everything anywhere, I'm OK with that.


It is shown that spatial structural features based on determining the maximum angle within which each pixel has a neighborhood that is not shadowed by other pixels of the contour provide the best efficiency in detecting man-made areas in satellite images of moderate resolution. A combined method of detection of build-up area expansion on the basis of multispectral data provided by the SPOT-4 satellite is proposed and demonstrated. This method implies the formation (with allowance for chosen features) of spatial masks of man-made objects in the reference (earlier taken) image and natural zones of the tested (later taken) image, searching for spectral-temporal anomalies, and sequential masking of selected pixels with the use of masks being formed.
Computationally efficient HCA and HECA hierarchical clustering algorithms for segmentation of multispectral images have been developed using the grid and ensemble approaches. A special metric is proposed to identify embedded clusters even in the presence of overlapping. The efficiency of the algorithms has been confirmed by the results of experimental studies using model and real data.
A method of nonlinear estimation of the coordinates of the geometric center of objects tracked in two-dimensional optoelectronic images is considered. The dynamics of the object and measurements of the geometric center of objects in optoelectronic images are described by nonlinear difference equations. Nonlinearities can be smooth and nonsmooth functions. The method is based on the normal correlation theorem and the approximation of solutions of the equations by Lagrange interpolation polynomials with adaptive selection of their orders. Modeling has shown that the interpolation method is more accurate than the known nonlinear unscented Kalman filter.
This problem of identifying operators during interaction with a technical system of thermal and visible face imaging is considered. The informativeness of the facial asymmetry feature is estimated. It is concluded that it is preferred to use thermal images to solve the problem. Estimates of the probabilities of correct identification of operators are obtained.
The important problem of land cover dynamics analysis is considered. We propose a multistep approach using methods of land cover change detection and an original method for evaluating the scale of changes is proposed. Applying this approach to a large archive of multi-temporal aerospace monitoring data makes it possible to choose only large-scale changes in land cover that deserve a more careful expert examination, and as a consequence, to perform a more rapid and comprehensive aerospace monitoring. The approach has been tested on problems of analyzing the land cover dynamics in Portugal under the LANDYN international research project. This paper presents some estimates of the scale of changes in the study area and results of long-term modeling of the development of the area, including alternative conditional scenarios.
A new method based on the Cavalieri condition for the Radon transform is developed to solve a problem of ROI tomography. This condition is used to construct a system of linear algebraic equations to estimate unknown projection data. Computational experiment has shown that the proposed method significantly improves the reconstruction accuracy, weakens artifacts, and provides an estimate of the internal structure of the object outside the region of interest.
A nonparametric estimate of the decision function in a two-alternative problem of pattern recognition is considered. The principle of expansion of the learning sample and the analysis of the probabilistic characteristics of the obtained sets of random variables are used to synthesize this estimate. On this basis, a technique of construction of confidence boundaries for the Bayesian equation of the separating surface is derived. The efficiency of this technique is proved by results of computational experiments.
A problem of formation of a three-dimensional image of the Earth surface in an onboard Doppler radar in a low-altitude flight on the basis of multichannel processing and obtaining estimates of spatial coordinates of reflection elements is solved. Algorithms of solving the problem are presented, and their workability is demonstrated by the method of computer modeling.
The most important results of the development and manufacturing of unique optoelectronic measurement and laser technologies and systems for various purposes aimed at solving urgent problems in industry and academic research, which are obtained at the Technological Design Institute of Scientific Instrument Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, are reviewed. Technical characteristics of developed devices and systems and results of their testing at industrial enterprises and research institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences are reported.
Methods of obtaining the maximum likelihood estimates of the Doppler frequency (velocity of examined flows) for laser Doppler anemometry in the multiparticle scattering mode in the presence of additive noise with the use of a finite number of signal samples are presented.
The problem of generalizing the method of analytical construction of aggregated regulators to the case of controlling a poorly formalized object on manifolds under the condition of uncertainty is considered. A comparative overview of the conditions of applicability of two methods for the control on manifolds is given, and the property of robustness of these methods is illustrated. An algorithm for the synthesis of a control system for a multidimensional nonlinear object with incomplete information about the right sides of the description based on the principles of synergetic control theory is given. The results of numerical simulation of the operation of the regulator constructed under off-design conditions (with additive random noise) are obtained.
This paper describes a technique of simulating the cross section of inelastic scattering of electrons in layered structures from the experimental spectra of the cross section of inelastic scattering of reflected electrons of structural components on the basis of the theoretical Yubero - Tougaard model of the cross section of inelastic scattering in a homogeneous medium and its generalization for the case of layered structures. This technique is tested by an example of studying the spectra of the cross section of inelastic scattering in a two-layer SiO2/Si structure.
The multiangle ellipsometry method was used to study phase-structural transformations occurring during thermal annealing of vacuum-deposited SiOx films in air. The analysis of the experimental results carried out with a set of optical models that take into account nonuniformity and anisotropy made it possible to obtain data about the impact of the competitive processes of phase decomposition and oxidation of SiOx films into macro- and microstructures of systems formed in the annealing temperature range from 650 to 1000 °C.