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Reputations: Matthew Carter
Erik Spiekermann
"Type design had been seen as a brave but arcane business that requires a lifetime's dedication. I'm happy that notion has gone"
Matthew Carter was born in London, England in 1937, son of printing historian Harry Carter. At nineteen, he went to the Netherlands, where he trained at Enschedé as a punch-cutter. From 1963, he worked as a typographic consultant to Crosfield Electronics and in 1965 moved to Mergenthaler Linotype in New York. He stayed with Linotype for the next six years and continued to freelance with the company after his return to London in 1971. Bell Centennial was completed for Linotype in 1978. Galliard, designed by Mike Parker, was finished the same year. Carter was typographic consultant to Her Majesty's Stationery Office from 1980 to 1984. In 1981, with Mike Parker and two other colleagues, he set up Bitstream Inc. – the first American independent digital typefoundry – in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bitstream Charter (1987) was the first new design to be produced. In 1992, Carter started a new venture, Carter & Cone Type Inc., with Cherie Cone. To date, the company has produced four typefaces: Mantinia, Elephant, Sophia (commissioned for a project in Design Quarterly) and a new version of Galliard. Carter's other typefaces include Snell Roundhand, Cascade Script, Olympian, Auriga, Shelley, Video and V&A Titling, as well as Greek, Hebrew, Devanagari and Korean types.
Erik Spiekermann: Do you think there is any benefit these days in knowing how to use metal type?
Matthew Carter: It's nice that some design colleges still have metal type alongside the Macintosh, even if they have nothing in between. I think it's difficult to understand how to measure type and arrange it unless you've had some experience of handling different sizes of type and how they combine more easily if you've put them in a composing stick. Obviously this can be learned in other ways, but I'm certainly pleased to have had the opportunity of handling type myself.
ES: My theory is that it's only technology where you work with the stuff between the letters.
MC: Yes. You understand that there's a fixed amount of space on either side of a letter a little bit at the top and bottom.
ES: And then if you are designing a page in hard metal, that page had to be filled, you can't just plop the type on the printing press.
MC: I think that whether you are talking about the physical properties of a single piece of type and how it relates to its neighbours or about the architecture of the page, it's easier to grasp if it's something physical, something you can pick up and hold in your hand.
ES: One thing you learn with metal type is economy – there is a limited choice of sizes, so you can't set in 17 point, it has to be 18 or 24 or 36 point.
MC: Anything that forces you into a close relationship with letterforms – in may case it was making type, but it could have been calligraphy or stone cutting – gives you a different perspective. It's so easy to change one's mind on the computer, and though that's a great thing – for me, design is about changing your mind until you get it right – I think it's useful if you've had in you past the experience of having to make up your mind once and then do it. If you're cutting lettering in stone, you've got one shot, and if you blow it you've lost a day's or a week's work. So you have to think very hard before you commit yourself. Similarly if you know you've only got 14 point and 24 point in the case, you've got to work with those. Although I tremendously enjoy the luxury of the unlimited choices you get with the computerised medium we have today, I still think it helps if you've learned in a situation where you have fewer choices and only one chance to get it right.
ES: What do you think about the new technology that will enable us to have all the intelligence of handwriting? You're obviously more familiar than I am with TrueType, the automatic substitution of characters and ligatures, digitised handwriting? Erik van Blokland has designed a face for comic books [Kosmic, see page 55] based on three different versions of handwriting with a programme that randomises characters so if you have a double "m", for example, it automatically inserts two different versions. You'll never be able to tell it has been typed.
MC: All that interests me very much. It's one of the curiosities of our script that it needs only one version of each letter, or at least one set of caps and one set of lowercase. This is almost unique –it is certainly not true of the Indian languages or of Arabic. But because the technology of typefounding was developed in the Latin world, the technology we've lived with ever since has been designed for dealing with scripts with a single form for each letter. There were more ligatures in early fonts of type, and we also used to have two lowercase "s"s, long and short. Very little of that survived. It is very difficult for metal or mechanised type to deal with them multiple letterforms of Arabic and Indian scripts.
With today's technology, however, it is possible to deal what typefounders used to call exotics. And out of software manufacturers' efforts to mechanise Hebrew, Arabic and Devanagari with all their scribal refinements has come the possibility of going back and doing the same thing with our Latin script. It's an opportunity to create ligatures we haven't had before, or to do what you describe Erik as having done, that is to put multiple variants of every letter in there. Which variant you use can be determined either by logic – by which letter comes before or after, for example – or randomly.
I think it's one of the few things that might make our type more interesting and considerably more legible. I have experimented with old-fashioned italics, which are closer to handwriting than roman. These italics have large numbers of ligatures, and the interesting thing is that they disappear as you read it, they blend in perfectly. They not only make it livelier, but also make it easier to read. It's a miracle that a lot of things to do with the computer, and with the Macintosh in particular, are as right as they are, and I don't complain about them very much. But the font we have come to accept is too small, so the idea that we can treat a typeface as a database with all the variants, different figures, ornamental characters, contextual forms and so on is exciting. I've been involved with Apple in looking at this.
ES: It's as though type and writing are going to merge.
MC: I think we should remember that we've only have access to formal type for about 500 years. I teach a short type design course at Yale and when the Macintosh came along I noticed that one of the favourite student projects was to design handwriting-based typefaces. This was a thing that for technical and economic reasons was unthinkable in the past. You would have had to have been a millionaire dilettante to conceive of making a typeface that was personal or idiosyncratic, and of course if you knew anything about type you would have read people like Frederic Goudy saying how dangerous it was for amateurs to experiment. But today you can sit at the Macintosh and scan in anything, including handwritten sources, and then do what I suppose Erik has done, which is to select a number of letters and arrange them in your font. I think the arrival of pen-driven computers and this interest in the less formal forms of typography, vernacular typography or whatever you like to call it, is very interesting.
ES: For years we've been talking about the fact that screen-based multimedia needs its own typefaces, but doesn't that mean that the screen will go on imitating paper?
MC: I've been talking recently to people involved in on-line information systems, where you subscribe to information and it comes up in magazine form on your screen. All their metaphors come from filing cabinets, envelopes, business cards, the office environment as it was before there were any computers – it's very low-tech. We haven't got to the point yet where we have ways of looking at documents and information that have only existed on computers without metaphors from paper days. It reminds me of something I heard Alan Kay say a long time ago, which is that we are conscious of using computers. We are still, today, at a stage where everyone is very self-conscious about using computers.
ES: Neville Brody believes that the way we treat the possibilities the computer offers in terms of interface and type design is terribly old-fashioned, that we're going to be communicating on screen with all sorts of digital grunts, more pictograms, logo symbols, Assyrian or Phoenician bushels of corn and so on.
MC: I had a conversation a few weeks ago with the musician Peter Gabriel about the question of a universal sign language. I don't mean highway code or danger signs, but a sort of visual Esperanto that the younger, "post-literate" generation can all understand, even though as far as speaking goes they know only their mother tongues. I guess he was concerned about making music videos and how to express things graphically that people would understand all over the world.
ES: We've just finished work on the latest FontShop catalogue and a lot of new designs are for logos, dingbats, symbols, pictograms – for example, a dingbat for a fax. Is this pointing to the death of the alphabet?
MC: There is a small vocabulary of absolutely universal symbols, but it's not really enough to converse with or to make any abstract point. But I can imagine a sufficiently universal knowledge of certain symbols to enable you to communicate with people non-linguistically. When I'm in Japan surrounded by kanji I can convince myself that the alphabet was an aberration and that in a few centuries we will all be back to pictographic scripts. Much easier.
ES: It seems to me that there is a large market of non-typographic users who buy typefaces like they used to buy golf balls or daisy wheels, and then there is the other market of printers, publishers, and so on who buy the fashionable and sophisticated stuff.
MC: I think the computer has thrown the market open. Ten years ago no one would have questioned the fact that type was an autonomous industry, but today it's part of the software business. I think the people who will have be having an increasingly hard time are the larger font companies, Adobe and Bitstream and Agfa and Monotype, because moving large libraries of type has got a lot more difficult thanks to cheap font packs and the number of fonts resident with hardware and software when you buy it. The big repertory of "type by dead guys" that everyone has to have is going to get harder and harder to make money out of because a lot of people have it and it's not easy to protect it legally.
So I don't think we can expect the sale of large amounts of existing type to continue to fund the development of new faces. New faces will have to fund themselves and they can only so do if we have a two-tier pricing system. I talked to Zuzana Licko about this and she says she wouldn't mind selling fonts for a buck or two if she got a nickel every time one of them was used on television. That would be wonderful, if we had something like the situation of composers and musicians who get performing rights, but it is inconceivable to me that the type industry would have as much muscle.
We've been selling retail fonts for a year now. For a single face we charge about and we've never found anyone who said they'd buy it if it was rather than . I've just been reading about David Carson, who's putting the Ray Gun fonts on sale for 0. He feels they can take it or leave it and I think he may be right. There has to be a price differential between the large existing libraries and the sort of haute couture that otherwise won't survive.
ES: The people who want to use a typeface for professional reasons or to be the first on the block to do so would pay , or 0.
MC: We sell type to graphic designers, but we're always surprised by who some of our other customers are. There are doctors and dentists who are discovering type because they have computers. They're not always very sophisticated at first in how they use it, but they are getting quite interested. At one time they would have sent someone out to buy a golf ball, but now, because these humming beige boxes are so universal, they have to make typographic decisions, including buying a font of type. Sometimes they become good customers, buy anything we make.
ES: So the market is still expanding.
MC: Two or three years ago there was font-feeding frenzy and type was being bought in very large amounts. I think one of the problems the larger companies are facing is that that's blown over, whether because of the general economic situation or because people got bored with having too many fonts. It seems to me that people aren't so silly about fonts as they were.
ES: It used to take five or ten years before a font issued by someone like Adobe got into the mainstream, unless it was hyped like Lithos was by MTV using it. Is that still the case?
MC: Particularly in the case of text faces there is a long delay before a font is assimilated. When we put our version of ITC Galliard on the market a year ago with its expert sets I think we benefited greatly from the fact that the face had been around for 15 years and was already relatively well known. I've been very pleased by how quickly people have adopted Adobe's Lithos and Tekton – the rate at which they have been appearing in print and on television is amazing. And then the Adobe Garamond has done astonishingly well too, so perhaps in today's markets there's less of a distinction between text and display faces.
ES: At one time Adobe used to issue a lot of free type specimens to promote their fonts, but now they seem to have stopped that. Today, no one knows about new faces.
MC: The tactic we have adopted is to print type specimens for new display faces. We produce brochures – the one for Mantinia is 12 pages, the one for Sophia just four. Graphic designers have been complaining for a long time about the lack of type specimens and I sympathise –it's like buying software without a manual. That's particularly so in the case of the two faces I mentioned, which have non-standard character sets so you need a manual to know where the ligatures and so on are on the keyboard. You and I grew up with access to wonderful Monotype specimens and probably learned our trade largely from typefounders' specimen books.
ES: Obviously with a fairly large market and lots of fonts, the cost of printing and mailing a type catalogue becomes prohibitive.
MC: One of the subjects independent type designers – David Berlow and others – talk about more than anything else is the idea of pooling our marketing resources in combined mailings or even some sort of combined catalogue. There used to be very well-produced typographic journals such as Fleuron and Signature which had wonderful type specimens, sometimes tipped in, and these seemed effective ways of getting type in front of the people who want to know about it. I think we may see something like that again in the near future. There was a marvellous exhibition of type specimens at ITC in New York a few months ago. They showed the typefaces in a good deal of detail and also suggested ways in which they could be used, which is a very valid approach for today's developing market.
ES: I know it's almost a trade secret, but how long does it take you to design a text face in just one weight?
MC: It's a hard thing to answer because I never start a new face on Monday morning and work on it without interruption until it's finished. Sometime you have to produce something very quickly to meet deadlines, but in such cases it's usually not very original or innovative. I was at Bitstream for about ten years, during which time I designed only one typeface. Towards the end I was quite frustrated that I couldn't do more work on faces I had on the back burner, but now I've had an opportunity to go hack and work on them properly. I'm please I didn't finish them earlier. I'm sure the work I've done on them more recently has improved them a great deal. So in some ways I'm not sorry when projects get spun out over a period of time because I'm convinced they get better, at least in my eyes.
ES: You still haven't given me a figure.
MC: I find it extraordinarily hard to do so. I mean, you can sit down at the Macintosh and make a typeface in two days, but it's probably not going to be very interesting. Then I like to work on more than one project at a time. Some of the commissions I've been doing recently are very large, multiple master faces with endless weights and widths and axes. It's nice while you are working on one of these huge, complicated projects, which takes months, to alternate it with a one-off thing, a single face in a single weight. Bang, do it! I'm not trying to be evasive but it is difficult to say how long it takes.
ES: My experience is that it takes about 120 hours to do one weight of a new typeface that is started from scratch – about an hour per character. It took me 400 hours to do three weights of Meta, which is the first face I did in the early 1980s, though that was in pre-laser writer days. So if you look at a decent hourly rate, which for guys like us should be about 0 an hour, you should charge ,000 for one weight, which is out of the question. Maybe in ten years time your new version of Galliard or Mantinia will have generated enough revenue to allow you to buy the odd pound of coffee.
MC: My working like has two parts. First there is speculative font design, that is designing new faces for the retail market. You design them, you put them out, and you hope someone buys them. It's going to take a long time for you to recoup your outlay on that, particularly if you print type specimens and try to do it properly. At the same time I also have commissions for new faces from computer companies and publishers and so on. I didn't know this would happen when I started, but it's lucky it has since it is cash on the nail and it's sometime relatively well paid. Although we said earlier that selling large libraries of type will not pay for the development of new faces, I think doing commissions possibly might, particularly since we only sell a period of exclusivity, so once the clients have banged the face about for four or five years and got bored with it the right revert back to us. I'm glad of that because I suspect most type designers don't have an infinite number of ideas.
ES: A lot of people – including, of course, our friend Massimo Vignelli – see all this new work as visual pollution.
MC: I totally disagree. I think that when you look at the face from Emigre Graphics or Ray Gun or any of these young designers, including students at CalArts and Cranbrook, it's not very important whether you like this font or that font. What is exciting is that there is so much going on. For most of my life type design has been seen as a brave but arcane business that requires a lifetime's dedication to produce a single typeface. I'm happy that notion has gone, that type design has been demystified. You can look at some of the stuff and suck your teeth and shake your head, but the fact is that I can't think of any other period in the history of typography when I would rather have been at work. At the moment we have a tremendous pluralism – a lot of people are still buying very classical type designs and using them very well and others are buying very weird type designs and using them. I think that's all wonderful.
ES: Some kids in my studio are turning out music fanzines and they make a font a day. Almost every author creates his or her own typeface for use on that particular page.
MC: We're back to holographic typography, like William Blake and Edward Lear and so on.
ES: Everybody with ten fingers and a computer is a type designer.
MC: I'm often asked whether I think these new fonts coming out of California or Amsterdam or wherever will be assimilated in the same way as the type designs of the past. I try to answer by pointing out that when Baskerville first appeared in 1757, people thought it was so shocking in comparison with Caslon that they said it would make you blind. The strain of reading Baskerville after a lifetime of reading Caslon would do ophthalmological damage. It seems odd nowadays that Baskerville was regarded as an unacceptably revolutionary type – however much Vignelli and others may dislike Emigre, I've never heard anyone suggest that reading it is going to damage your eyes. So things are assimilated despite initial horrified reactions.
ES: Is there any such thing as bad type?
MC: I do think there is bad type, but not all bad is type is type that has been created overnight. There are as many bad typefaces that have taken years to produce and are part of the canon of typography as there are among student work. And more importantly, there are graphic designers who are capable of making any typeface look bad.
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Теперь "врежемся" в метод документа, чтобы перехватить выбор по тэгу:

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Но это я, конечно, намудрил. Можно проще:

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(ou La Vie sauvage au Québec) est le  long-métrage d'animation des studios Disney, sorti en 2006.

Synopsis
Dans le Zoo de Central Park à New York, Ryan, un petit lionceau, se désole de ne pas rugir comme son père Samson. Ce dernier, pour l'encourager, lui raconte les aventures qu'il aurait vécues dans le monde sauvage. Ryan décide de partir sans rien dire vers ce monde sauvage pour devenir un grand lion comme son père. Se rendant compte de la disparition de Ryan, Samson comprend que les histoires qu'il invente mettent en danger son fils. Il décide de partir à sa recherche avec l'aide de ses fidèles amis, Larry l'anaconda, Benny Normal l'écureuil, Bridget la girafe, et d'un koala nommé Nigel, qui sert de modèle aux peluches new-yorkaises. Cette recherche les conduit de la jungle urbaine à celle plus sauvage encore de l'Afrique.

Fiche technique
 Titre original et français :
 Titre québécois : La Vie sauvage
 Réalisation : Steve « Spaz » Williams
 Scénario : Ed Decter, John J. Strauss, Mark Gibson et Philip Halprin
 Direction artistique : Chris Farmer et Michael E. Goldman
 Montage : Scott Balcerek et Steven L. Wagner
 Musique : Alan Silvestri
 Production : Beau Flynn et Clint Goldman
 Sociétés de production : C.O.R.E. Feature Animation/ Walt Disney Pictures
 Société de distribution : Buena Vista International
 Budget : 80 millions USD
 Langue : anglais
 Format : Couleurs - 35 mm - 1,85:1 - Dolby stéréo
 Durée : 82 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
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 Dates de sortie DVD :
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Distribution

Voix originales

 Kiefer Sutherland : Samson
 Greg Cipes : Ryan
 Eddie Izzard Nigel
 James Belushi : Benny Normal
 Janeane Garofalo : Bridget
 Richard Kind : Larry
 William Shatner : Kazar
 Chris Edgerly : Cloak
 Bob Joles : Camo et Monsieur Loyal
 Patrick Warburton : Blag
 Colin Hay : Fergus
 Miles Marsico : Duke
 Jack DeSena : Eze
 Don Cherry : Le commentateur pingouin
 Dominic Scott Kay : Samson jeune
 Kevin Michael Richardson : Le père de Samson
 Lenny Venito : Stan
 Joseph Siravo : Carmine
 Colin Cunningham : L'hyrax
 David Cowgill et Christian Argueta : Hamir
 Jonathan Kimmel : Scab
 Eddie Gossling : Scraw
 Clinton Leupp : La maman hippo
 Nika Futterman : Le premier bousier
 Julianne Buescher : Le second bousier
 Keith Anthony, Greg Berg, Bob Bergen, Jason Connery, Debi Derryberry, Terri Douglas, Jeannie Elias, Pat Fraley, Eddie Frierson, Nicholas Guest, Jess Harnell, Jason Harris Katz, Bridget Hoffman, Emily Johnson, John Kassir, Daniel Kaz, Josh Keaton, Carolyn Lawrence, Danny Mann, Mona Marshall, Laraine Newman, Nolan North, Paul Pape, Peter Pamela Rose, Fred Tatasciore, Audrey Wasilewski, Hannah Williams : voix additionnelles

Voix françaises

 Emmanuel Jacomy : Samson, le lion
 Didier Gustin : Nigel, le koala
 Kelyan Blanc : Ryan, le lionceau
 Jean-Claude Donda : Benny, l'écureuil
 Emmanuèle Bondeville : Bridget, la girafe
 Roland Timsit : Larry, l'anaconda
 Richard Darbois : Kazar, le gnou
 Emmanuel Curtil : Blag, le gnou, assistant de Kazar
 Stéphane Fourreau : Fergus, le flamant rose
 Donald Reignoux : Duke, le petit kangourou
 Emmanuel Garijo : Eze, le petit hippopotame
 Hervé Jolly : Pingouin commentateur
 Mark Lesser : Hamir, le pigeon
 Jean-Jacques Nervest : Stan, un alligator
 François Siener : Carmine, un alligator
 Guillaume Lebon : Colin, le daman des rochers
 Gérard Surugue : Scab, le vautour
 Alain Dorval  : Scraw le vautour
 Valérie Nosrée : La maman hippopotame
 Michel Vigné : Père de Samson
 Paul Nivet : Samson (Jeune)
 Marie Martine : Boursier 1
 Amélie Morin : Boursier 2
 Gerard Lanvin : le Pingouin
 Gérard Hernandez : Cache, un caméléon
 Pierre Baton : Cache, un caméléon
 Yann Pichon : Monsieur Loyal

Voix québécoises

 Patrick Chouinard : Samson
 François-Nicolas Dolan : Ryan
 Patrice Dubois : Nigel
 Anne Dorval : Bridget
 Daniel Lesourd : Benny Normal
 Daniel Picard : Larry
 Mario Desmarais : Kazar
 Benoit Rousseau : Blag
 Jacques Lavallée : Cloak
 Pierre Auger : Camo
 Sébastien Reding : Duke
 Joël Legendre : Eze
 Gilbert Lachance : Rock Hyrax
 Stéphane Rivard : MC Pingouin
 Hubert Gagnon : le père de Samson
 Sophie Faucher : Maman hippopotame
 Catherine Léveillé : Bébé
 François L'Écuyer : Scab
 Sébastien Dhavernas : Scraw
 Antoine Durand : Stan
 Alain Zouvi : Carmine

Chansons du film
 Real Wild Child - Everlife
 Good Enough - Lifehouse
 Big Time Boppin' (Go Man Go) - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
 Really Nice Day ou Quelle belle journée au Québec - Eric Idle et John Du Prez
 Tales From The Wild - Alan Silvestri
 Clocks - Coldplay
 Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
 Real Wild Child - Eric Idle et John Du Prez
 Bolly Boom Boom Boogie - Tony Phillips
 Der Flüschen Fläschen - Joey Miskulin

Distinctions

Autour du film

 The Wild a été mis en production avant le film d'animation DreamWorks, Madagascar, qui exploite les mêmes thèmes. Mais ce dernier étant sorti avant, les spectateurs ont eu l'impression que The Wild n'en était qu'une copie et tentait de profiter de son succès. Il faut aussi noter que les locaux de DreamWorks sont enclavés dans ce que Disney appelle depuis 1999 le Grand Central Creative Campus, un ensemble de locaux de Disney comprenant entre autres Walt Disney Imagineering. Néanmoins, des soupçons de plagiat ont été formulés dans les deux sens. Ce n'est pas la première fois que DreamWorks et Disney sont confrontés à ce genre de problèmes. Cela avait déjà eu lieu en 1998 avec Fourmiz et 1001 pattes, puis en 2003 avec Le Monde de Nemo et Gang de requins.
 The Wild est à beaucoup de niveaux une parodie du Roi lion. Lorsque, arrivé dans la savane, Samson pense avoir repéré son fils grâce à son odorat et tombe sur une marmotte en train de faire ses besoins, celle-ci parle de Simba pour faire référence au fils de Samson. De même, lorsque le lion, la girafe, le serpent et le koala arrivent dans New York et sont pris en chasse par des chiens, ils courent devant un théâtre sur lequel Le Roi lion est à l'affiche.
 Le film a été adapté en jeu vidéo sur Game Boy Advance sous le titre The Wild.

Liens externes

 The Wild sur rsdoublage

Film américain sorti en 2006
Film canadien sorti en 2006
Film d'animation américain
Film d'animation canadien
Film d'aventure américain
Film d'aventure canadien
Comédie américaine
Comédie canadienne
Long métrage d'animation Disney
Film mettant en scène un lion
Film doublé au Québec
Film mettant en scène une girafe

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Another perfect Valentine's Day Gift is Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker. It has been around for a while now, but she recently just came out with a new fragrance called Stash, which is why I am bringing this one up. It is fresh and new again. Get carried away by Lovely Sarah Jessica Parker perfume. The eau de parfum spray is formed from layer upon unexpected layer of fragrance. Look upon loveliness at every turn. Discover beauty in the string of pearls resting on an antique dresser, or the strappy shoe laying in wait on the floor—both prepared for a big evening at the ballet. Experience the allure of the swelling music and movement of the dance as a ballerina floats across the stage. Recall the midnight stroll home, hand in hand on a romantic evening lit by the soft light of each streetlamp. The splendor lies in the memory of a perfect night, brought back to the forefront of the mind by an equally exquisite perfume by Sarah Jessica Parker. Lovely Sarah Jessica Parker perfume blends the innocent with the sultry. Lovely eau de parfum captures top notes of lavender, bergamot and apple martini (shaken, not stirred) with hints of orchid, paper whites and patchouli. The individual aromas come together, mingling with a woody base of cedarwood, amber and musk. Fashioning a fragrance from sweet ingredients and exotic precious oils, a finely sophisticated perfume emerges. An expression of femininity, and timelessness, Sarah Jessica Parker perfume is for the everyday, glamorous or casual.
It is reminiscent of Stash. There is a little bit of it in there. Just a little. I love how powdery of a floral it is. It has those woodsy notes in it from the orchid, paper whites and patchouli. They come together in the base of cedarwood, amber and musk. When you wear it you feel amazing. Old fashioned charming with new aged glamorous.
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Shadow Man: Remastering a Classic
18th January, 2022 by Mat Growcott
Shadow Man Remastered brings back a cult classic – successfully reviving a game that fans have been demanding gets new life for years. I hope they're happy with what they wished for. In some preliminary research for this game, I took a quick look at some of the original reviews, and was blown away by what I saw. I remember the case, of course. It looked cool and edgy, not unlike the Blade film I'd been too young to watch.…
Welcome to Kraken Academy's Demo
17th January, 2022 by Daniel Fugate
Kraken Academy isn't a normal school. Sure there's classes, clubs, a dorm room, a broccoli girl, and a giant kraken but other than that, its pretty different. And if you want to visit the school, you can try out the demo for Kraken Academy right now on the Nintendo Switch. I did and I live to tell the tale. Kraken Academy is coming to the Nintendo Switch on February 24th. There is a demo available now for the game and…
How To Jump Backwards in Shadow Man Remastered
Shadow Man is back, and with him the age old question of how to beat the game's true boss: any ledge from which you have to jump backwards. I'm kidding of course. But it is something you eventually have to do, and it's something that's not especially well explained. And yes, if you go searching, it won't take long to find people who complained about this issue in the original release of this game. The good news is that it's…
17th January, 2022 by Adam Roffel
Headland, and action adventure titles set in a fantasy world, is one of those titles that could easily get lost in the mess of the eShop, and while it's not perfect, I enjoyed my few hours with the game.
In our ongoing series of Gaming on a Budget, we look at relatively inexpensive games that you can sink hours into while saving your money for other things, whether it be more expensive, AAA titles, or just the wants and needs to life! Today, we take a look at Harvest Life, a Story of Seasons / Stardew Valley wanabe that actually does a few things really well. Let's take a look!
Anytime I load up the Nintendo eShop the first place I stop off at is the Deals section. I'm always looking for good games at a good price, but like with the iOS and Google Play App Store, the eShop is FULL of shovelware titles with little to no playability. And it's really unfortunate. So when purchasing games for less than $5.00 Canadian, one must be careful what the purchase. Here is how I came to own Island Farmer.
A Visit to Headland for Nintendo Switch
Are you looking for an action/adventure game for a kid? Headland is a new colorful indie game that might fit the bill! Let's check out Headland for Nintendo Switch! Headland is about a boy who enters the world of imagination to help his toy robot friend. The game's story is, basically, just the starting point for the adventure and isn't the best thing about the game. Its colorful graphics are the games best aspect. Although it isn't great looking, the…
Nintendo stealth dropped another trailer for Kirby and the Forgotten Land and it's looking pretty dang sweet. Built on what we believe is the Super Mario Odyssey engine, the new Kirby is taking the franchise to new places, and is adding a few nice twists in to keep the gameplay accessible for all ages, most notably a central town area that you can explore, expand, and more. But with all the hype around this release, could it top the current best selling Kirby game at roughly 5.5 million units? We believe it could sell more.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land Gets Release Date
Nintendo announced today that Kirby and the Forgotten Land will be coming out in March. Check the newest trailer for the game, more details on it, and some thoughts from us. Kirby and the Forgotten Land will release for the Nintendo Switch on March 25th! According to a press release we received from Nintendo, Kirby will find himself in "an unknown land' where he finds that "Waddle Dees are being kidnapped in droves by the Beast Pack!" Kirby will enlist…
Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection Coming to Nintendo Switch In February
Assassin's Creed has seen a lot of releases on the Nintendo Switch and another one is coming in February! Check out the details below for Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection! Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection is coming to the Nintendo Switch on February 17th. It will be $39.99 and include three games: Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, and Assassin's Creed Revelations. Plus it'll have all the DLC and two short films. Ubisoft has been really good about bringing the…

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British & Irish Lions Iconic Captains Coin - Findlay Calder (Sco)
by Zenith Coins
Type: Memorabilia
ALL / Gold
British & Irish Lions Iconic Captains Coin - Findlay Calder (Sco) - ALL / Gold is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Finlay Calder holds a unique place in British & Irish Lions history as the only 20th-century captain to lead the team to a series victory after losing the opening Test, doing so in 1989.
Having been defeated 30-12 by Australia in the first Test, Calder – with his steely gaze – was a crucial influence in the subsequent victories in Brisbane and Sydney that ensured a 2-1 series triumph.
The Scottish flanker followed in the footsteps of his brother Jim, who went on the 1983 Tour to New Zealand, making them the only twins to play for the Lions.
The stunning red polygon design is a produced from the latest and most current Lions branding.
Each coin is forged from solid brass with an antique bronze finish. Each coin weighs approx. 35g and measures 44mm in diameter x 3mm thick.
Collect this coin and find out more about Iconic Lions Captain, Bill Beaumont, at ZenithCoins.com.
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Here you go. for all those Gorillaz fans.. heres the place to unload your cool pictures of the animated group, aswell as news on future concerts (rumored to start in october) and whatever else.
I guess this would be "whatever else". I first heard Clint Eastwood back in May, and wasn't very impressed. Del's rhymes weren't very inspired and the chorus was kinda annoying. Cool video, though the Russel creature was kinda weird.
Anyway, then a few months back it started catching on, so I listened to a few more tracks and decided to buy the album to give it a chance (and 'cause I have to buy just about anything with Dan Nakamura). I was surprised, I ended up liking the CD quite a lot. It's probably one of my top 3 CD's this year, and if they come down to Florida I'll definitely have to catch them.
I don't care what anyone says, its the best full chill album to come out this whole year.
I read that they performed at this years Creamfields UK Music Festival behind a white curtain, shadow puppetry like, for their entire set - WTF?!? I be pretty interested in seeing how they are going to play live for their US tour.
Haha, they're supposed to be a cartoon band, after all. Somehow I don't think that would fly for a US tour, though.
I remember seeing Tripping Daisy a few years back where they did the same thing for a couple of songs at the beginning of their show, thankfully, they then dropped the curtain revealing the band and utter chaos ensued - yeah!
I must say also, Client eastwood wasn't the best that gorillaz had to offer, the album is incredable on its other tracks. and the animation for the videos..
tomorrow comes today is a trip aswell.
and for them to have atleast two singles off a Side project band.. might impressive.
maybe i need to check this cd out in the meantime. I liked Clint Eastwood and I am curious about the rest of the cd.


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Maple Garden, a Recreational Park with Function of Flood Detention in the City Center, Taichung, Taiwan
Products:ACEGrid® GG, ACETex® PP
Application: Flood Detention
The Maple Garden project is the first and only recreational park below ground level in Taiwan. It is a local landmark on the busy Taiwan Boulevard in Taichung City. With a land area of 30,000 square meters, it was the proposed site for the Taichung International Expo Center; however, for some reasons the project was ceased and cancelled after excavation. As a result, a huge and dangerous boomerang-shaped ground opening, with a depth of about 20 meters, was left on site.
The opening was seriously affecting the city's appearance, threatening citizen's safety, and limiting the usage of the land, landform-wise and budget-wise. The local government was under the pressure of the general public. Something had to be done in a short time and within the budget.
A creative, exciting, and feasible idea was proposed to solve all concerns with given constraints and conditions. The idea was to make use of such landform to build a multifunctional park below ground level; serving the functions of flood detention, exhibition, recreation, park, and regulation of air quality of the city. Environmentally-friendliness and concrete reduction were the main foci of the landscape engineering concept for the project. This idea was adopted by the government, and hence the land was re-planned accordingly.
Considering the overall project requirements in cost-efficiency, construction convenience, environmental friendliness, and landscape beautification, the applications of geosynthetic products and relevant engineering methods were the most suitable and feasible approach to carry out the work. The project largely adopted the various geosynthetic products such as woven geogrid (ACEGrid®), woven and nonwoven geotextile (ACETex®), soil bag, vegetation mat (ACEMat®), etc. in reinforcing and enhancing the landscape. The Rather than building traditional RC retaining wall, the surrounding wall and slope of the opening were built with wrap-around reinforcing method with ACEGrid® GG geogrid, soil bags, and drainage boards and pipes forming mechanically stabilized earth wall (MSEW) and reinforce soil slope (RSS), to support the loading coming from the road and sidewalk above and around the Maple Garden, and to provide rooms for vegetation on the wall and slope surface. This method took advantage of in-situ soil to cut down the construction time and cost, and greatly reduced the use of concrete.
Moreover, a detention pond of 200,000 cubic meters was to be constructed and connected to the city drainage for regulation of flood. In order to merge with the landscape naturally, geotextile, soil bag, erosion control mat, gabion, gravel were used to construct an ecological detention pond to fulfill this demand. The bottom of the detention area was made of compacted gravels and covered by ACETex® PP woven geotextile as the filter layer. Then the ACEMat® YS erosion control mat and gabion were installed on the geotextiles to serve as a medium for vegetation and erosion control and shape the outline of the landscape. Various trees and shrubs were planted to further beautify and enrich the appearance of the park. A restaurant with a circular design front was built at the inner corner, merging with the reinforced wall and facing the pond; an artistic exhibition center was built at the entrance of the park beside the Taiwan Boulevard; these building structures not only enhanced the function of the park, but also added some elements of civilization and culture to the atmosphere. Walkways were constructed with different methods at different sections in the park. Crushed aggregate, timber, and wood chips were used in permeable pavements beside the pond. The perimeter sidewalk built around the pond was about 388 meters. All these artificial, but natural, settings built up the beauty and spirit of the Maple Garden.
Geosynthetic product applications play a major role in building the park, and significantly contribute to the concrete reduction and environmental friendliness demand of the Maple Garden project; and the use of in-situ materials and geosynthetic products brings convenience to the construction and brings down the cost at the same time. Reshaping by the ecological engineering methods, the project has successfully converted a problematic ground opening to an attractive and environmentally-friendly scenic site. It not only provides a recreational place for the general public, but also serves as an urban drainage regulator in case of flood. Moreover, the vegetation planted throughout the garden has increased the city's green coverage by 28,000 square meters, and contributed to lowering the urban heat island effect. This creative thought and construction of turning a problem into an achievement has gained many awards and recognitions from the construction and geosynthetic industries in Taiwan. And it further wins the 2013 FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Award in the Public Infrastructures/Amenities Category at the 65th FIABCI World Congress (2014), Luxemburg. Started as a remedy and ends up with glory, the Maple Garden project is beyond construction, it is in fact a meaningful and remarkable art.
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La LADE (Lineas Aéreas del Estado) è una compagnia aerea argentina, articolazione della Fuerza Aérea Argentina, l'aeronautica militare della nazione sudamericana.

Ha oggi il compito istituzionale di garantire i collegamenti tra i maggiori centri urbani e le aree di più difficile raggiungibilità di tutto il territorio della Repubblica Argentina; in particolare della Patagonia e della regione andina.

Storia
Il 4 settembre 1940 venne compiuto, a bordo di un Junkers Ju 52, il volo inaugurale della LASO (Lineas Aéreas del Sudoeste), sulla rotta El Palomar-Esquel, con fermate a Santa Rosa, Neuquén e San Carlos de Bariloche. Nel 1944 veniva inoltre costituita la LANE (Líneas Aéreas del Noreste) per coprire la rotta Buenos Aires-Iguazù.
Il 23 ottobre dello stesso anno, a seguito della fusione tra LASO e LANE, nasce la LADE.

Destinazioni
La LADE opera collegamenti aerei tra Comodoro Rivadavia e le principali città delle province meridionali argentine: Bariloche, Trelew, Esquel e El Calafate, il martedì e il giovedì di ogni settimana, nonché Río Gallegos, Rio Grande e Ushuaia, il lunedì e il venerdì.
Tra il 1972 e il 1982 la LADE ha garantito inoltre un volo settimanale con le Isole Falkland/Malvinas sull'aeroporto di Port Stanley (Puerto Argentino per l'Argentina), servizio poi sospeso a seguito dei noti eventi bellici.

Flotta
La flotta di LADE è costituita dai seguenti modelli:
 Saab 340 (nella versione migliorata 340B)
 Fokker F28
 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
 Lockheed C-130 Hercules

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Compagnie aeree argentine
Economia a Buenos Aires


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Q: Japanese book about an infinite loop? My sister sent me a book 15 years ago that she now doesn't remember sending, and I can't recall the title.
It is about a few things. If I remember correctly, there is a female character who lives with some sort of relative or mentor figure, and the two choose not to read or write anything, since they think that committing ideas to paper will neuter their memories. There may or may not also be a chase.
And, most memorably, there is a character who dies, only to find that he's in some sort of endless loop or liminal space that just keeps going. Maybe a village of some sort? It seems to be implied that it's a hallucination of a dying brain right before the lights go out, but that the hallucination just. Keeps. Going.
Anyhow, hopefully someone can help me out with a possible title or two.

A: The novel is called Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (Wikipedia page).
Now I'm looking forward to reading it to see if it's even close to the plot I remembered.


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Adrien de Wignacourt fou Gran Mestre de l'Orde de Malta. D'origen francès, prior de la Llengua d'Alvèrnia, era nebot del Mestre Alof de Wignacourt. Va succeir en el càrrec Gregorio Carafa quan aquest va morir. A la seva mort, el 1697, fou enterrat a la cocatedral de Sant Joan.

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Environment: In heavy sands derived from the contact metamorphic zone between a siliceous marble and ultramafic rock.
Locality: From an unspecified locality in Sichuan Province, China. In the Gavasai ore field, location not further given, USSR. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.
Name Origin: From the Greek "chroma," "color," as all chromium compounds are colored.
Comments: Black metallic chvilevaite in sandstone. Part of a drillcore.
Location: La Serena, Region III, Chile. Scale: Specimen Size 0.8x1.8 cm.
RL Anisotrophism: Strong, from black to white.
RL Color: Orange, changing to rosy purple with time.
RL Pleochroism: Distinct, from light orange to dark gray with a lilac tint.
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LeTourneau University announced today it is partnering with Shepherd's Heart Ministry of Tyler, which seeks to mentor pastors and their families dealing with the stresses of ministry life as well as to train and equip them to minister to others suffering from burnout, depression, grief and other serious issues.
Started by Dr. James and Linda Dill of Tyler, Shepherd's Heart Ministry understands that many in ministry are inadequately trained for the heavy demands of ministry and the public scrutiny that comes with leadership. According to statistics published by George Barna, 1,500 pastors leave the ministry every month in the United States, nearly half of pastors end up in divorce and 70 % report they do not have a close friend or mentor.
Dill served for 26 years as senior pastor of Rose Heights Church of God in Tyler and has planted nearly a dozen churches and pastored eight churches during in his lifetime. He understands the need for mentoring, because as a young pastor in California 50 years ago, he was overwhelmed by the responsibilities of shepherding his fledgling church and meeting the needs of his young family. He was mentored by an elder pastor and has launched Shepherd's Heart Ministry at the age of 71 to help others in ministry leadership, just as his mentor helped him.
"LeTourneau University has chosen to partner with Shepherd's Heart Ministries because we know so many occupational hazards are facing pastors today," said Dr. Tim Watson, who is the Assistant to the President for Outreach at LETU and served as a church pastor for 24 years.
"Our goal in LETU partnering with Shepherd's Heart Ministries is to encourage and help pastors, because we feel if pastors are healthy and fulfilling their God-given potential, they will be better equipped to lead their congregations," Watson said. "A healthy pastor and a vibrant congregation is then poised to advance the Great Commission of Matthew 28:18-20, which, for us at LETU, is articulated in our unique university vision that challenges every Christ-follower to claim, 'Every Work Place in Every Nation' for Jesus."
• Dealing with Grief - Dr. Mike Daniels - former Psychology Department chair at Louisiana Baptist University.
Special counseling sessions will also be made available to ministry leadership, as needs arise, Dill said. Any pastors interested in attending any of the workshops or in learning more about Shepherd's Heart Ministry can call (903) 617-6830 or (903)241-2816 or visit the website at www.theshepherdsheart.org.


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Identifying and addressing weak links in any infection control protocol
- Monday, July 11th, 2016 Print	| Email
It might be helpful for some to think of healthcare-associated infection prevention as an algebraic equation. That's because so many factors tie in to effectively combating HAIs, and each has a variety of complex and moving parts to be managed, monitored and assessed on an ongoing basis.
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There's hand hygiene, antibiotic stewardship, clinical practices, fecal waste management, environmental disinfection — and the list can go on. In a webinar presented by Jim Gauthier, Senior Clinical Advisor, Infection Prevention for Sealed Air Diversey Care, , broke down where lapses in hospital practices occur that may allow opportunistic bacteria to infect patients, and the questions hospitals and health systems should ask themselves when deciding how to improve their HAI rates. A good place to start, Mr. Gauthier said, is understanding why Clostridium difficile (C. diff), in particular, poses such a significant threat in healthcare settings.
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A unique challenge
"C. diff brings a unique challenge, because hand hygiene and disinfectant products may not be effective against the organism itself," Mr. Gauthier says. The bacteria's spores are resistant not only to alcohol-based hand rubs, but to natural UV rays and several of the most commonly used disinfectants. Studies have also shown that C. diff spores are more difficult than other HAI-causing bugs to wash off of the hands.
What's more, research shows that rates of C. diff infection are increasing, and it now rivals Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, as the No. 1 HAI-causing pathogen. Patients are also more frequently entering hospitals with the bacteria already in their systems, as about 75 percent of cases have onset outside of the acute care setting, which increases risk of contaminating already-hospitalized patients when carriers are admitted for care. The infections can significantly impact patient outcomes, including playing a role in death and morbidity, increasing length of stay by more than five days in some instances, and costing the U.S. healthcare system as much as $4.9 billion annually.
Organizations like the Infectious Disease Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control provide guidelines to help hospitals keep the HAI menace at bay, but patients still contract thousands of infections from C. diff and other harmful bacteria every year. That may be, Mr. Gauthier said, because standard infection control practices often aren't what they seem.
Basic practices
All hospitals should use a certain set of baseline practices to ensure infection prevention, Mr. Gauthier said. Before going beyond these to adopt special approaches to fighting specific bacteria, infection preventionists should thoroughly assess the factors that could lead to gaps in their practice.
A good place to start is implementing protocols for disinfecting all equipment on a routine basis. This might require new training and education be put into place, as frontline workers could have misconceptions about which equipment does or doesn't need to be disinfected in which way, or cleaning some equipment might be 'out of practice' for some healthcare providers. Equally important to ensuring staff are aware of the proper techniques for thoroughly cleaning and disinfecting is implementing regular assessments of their ability to do so correctly.
If a hospital has trouble warding off infections from easily killed organisms, such as MRSA, Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci or Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, it is likely that their baseline infection prevention measures need some work. Bugs like these are usually taken care of with proper hand hygiene, thorough cleaning and disinfection and a good understanding of patient isolation and personal protective equipment practices.
The No. 1 way HAI-causing bacteria are transmitted between patients is via healthcare worker's hands . Therefore, it is critical that frontline care workers know what to do and have the right tools in the right place to disinfect their environment and themselves. Communicating those same messages and practices to patients and their visitors can also make the difference between vanquishing potentially deadly bacteria or transmitting another infection.
Is a special approach right for you?
When a hospital is confident its basic practice is strong but it is still having issues with C. diff, which is much harder to kill than bacteria such as MRSA or VRE, it could be time to consider a more serious approach — sporicidal disinfection.
Sporicidal disinfectants are more ruthless about taking out lingering C. diff spores, but there are a number of side effects to consider. Sporicidal disinfectants are powerful and can negatively impact workers and the environment. They can be asthmagens, emit a foul odor, or cause irritation to the eyes, lungs and skin. Surfaces don't always stand up well to sporicidal disinfectants, which can cause discoloration, wear, oxidation and generally shorten the life cycle of hospital equipment.
What's more, the data is a bit shaky on whether inactivating C. diff spores is completely necessary to prevent transmission, which would undermine the primary reason for introducing sporicidal disinfection. While some hospitals that have tried other methods of getting C. diff transmission under control may have good reason to turn to the sporicidal option, infection preventionists should review basic practices before taking it on. Mr. Gauthier reviewed two studies where meticulous cleaning and disinfection were used with an agent that was not 'sporicidal', and the hospitals saw reductions in all infections (MRSA, VRE and C. diff) during the study.
The best offense
"There is no substitute for good hand hygiene," Mr. Gauthier says. Research has shown that even good old elbow grease — usingb moderate force and a wet cloth — can go some ways toward removing C. diff spores from the healthcare environment.
Where many hospitals turn to the big guns, such as sporicidal disinfectants based on the assumption that they are always the best option, a careful review of current practices and consideration of where improvement could be made might make all of the difference in curbing HAI rates and saving money without compromising the health and safety of patients and workers.
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"Mary Jo Mazzarella interview, 09 June 2007"
In this 2007 interview, Mary Jo Mazzarella, a resident of the Detroit Shoreway area of Cleveland and owner/manager of American Limousine Service, talks about her history with the Detroit Shoreway area of Cleveland. Mazzarella spent her early years in the 1960s living on West 112th Street, but remembers visiting her Italian grandparents who lived on West 69th and ran a delicatessen on the corner of 69th and Detroit. She also remembers many stories that her father told her about the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood in which he grew up. Mazzarella moved to Detroit Shoreway in the 1970s and became close to the Italian neighborhood located near Our Lady of Mount Carmel remembering both the sights and the smells of the area. Mazzarella left Cleveland for a decade to live in San Francisco, but returned to Detroit Shoreway in the 1990s and is raising her family in a condo on West 54th Street.
"Mary Jo Mazzarella interview, 09 June 2007" (2007). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 955024_999037.


Government officials are finally speaking up about the growing epidemic of opioid use. Opioid abuse is more common than people realize. We commonly see patients bring a typed up list of their medications and they're still in pain. Utilizing non-pharmacological treatments first, such as chiropractic care as an alternative to opioids, can have a marked effect on this growing epidemic.
Opioids help with pain: at first. They're easy and most of us just want a quick fix. However they do nothing but mask pain signals that the body is sending for a reason. Continued use becomes less and less effective and more and more dangerous.
Chiropractic care, combined with physical therapy, helps many patients manage or eliminate chronic pain. Using the newest technology, such as computerized adjusting instruments, vibration therapy and regenerative medicine therapies, we are able to help most of our patients reduce or eliminate use of prescription opioids. The problem is that many primary care doctors and patients are not educated on the healing potential of these therapies.
In an attempt to change the current treatments models, the Centers for Disease Control, (CDC) issued new opioid guidelines to physicians in 2017. The very first guideline is recommending alternative therapies first.
Hopefully these new guidelines will encourage physicians and patients alike to investigate alternative treatment options.
Baby boomers are still the largest population segment.Ai?? With more and more either on Medicare or reaching Medicare age, the government is also looking closely at chiropractic care being used as the first line of treatment for low back and neck pain.
Currently the focus in the "Opioid Epidemic" is still on how to treat patients who are currently addicted. Oddly enough, the method is often treating them with other drugs.
The focus should be a two prong approach, with making sure that the medical community does everything and anything they can to prevent patients from becoming addicted in the first place, as well as treating patients who are already in the difficult position of being addicted to prescription medications.


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Book Review: Emma Brown by Clare Boylan
October 3, 2021 by Lelia T
Emma Brown
A novel from the unfinished manuscript by Charlotte Bronte
Clare Boylan
Viking, April 2004
If you are a fan of Charlotte Brontë, a book inspired by and the first two chapters written by the lady herself, will be right up your alley.
Although the book's main point-of-view character is a Mrs. Chalfont, the story is also told by several other people, including a young girl variously known as Matilda Fitzgibbon, then as Emma Brown—the last being her own selection, taken from a woman who sold her into what miraculously allows the girl to escape becoming a sexual slave. Her real surname remains a mystery until the last, and it takes this lengthy tale to discover it. For one thing, Emma does not remember her name, not even her first name until late in the novel, which, among other things, investigates the role of women and girls of that era.
Beautifully written, the story considers relationships whether familial or romantic. Whether those ties are forged by love or by honor and blood; within the upper class, the lower class and even the dregs of society. Action and danger come in the search for Emma when she disappears while attempting to discover these answers on her own. It seemed almost impossible our investigators would ever discover Emma or from whence she came, but dogged determination, time, and some money prevail in the end.
An intriguing and inspiring story, read it with care to gain all the nuances.
Reviewed by Carol Crigger, September 2021.
http://www.ckcrigger.com
Author of The Woman Who Built A Bridge (Spur Award Winner), Yester's Ride,
Hometown Burning and Six Dancing Damsels: A China Bohannon Mystery
Posted in Full Reviews.	Tagged boarding school, historical, mystery, suspense, Victorian England, Viking
Book Review: Miss Julia Knows a Thing or Two by Ann B. Ross—and a Giveaway! @VikingBooks
April 17, 2020 by Lelia T
Miss Julia Knows a Thing or Two
Miss Julia Series #21
Ann B. Ross
Miss Julia has decided to turn over a new leaf. It's time to stop meddling in other peoples' lives, she thinks–but her hands are full before long! Her neighbor Mildred is sent into a tizzy when a grandchild she's never met shows up on her doorstep. And Mildred's husband keeps forgetting who she is, so she's all on her own. Meanwhile, Etta Mae is worried about losing her job now that the Handy Home Helpers is up for sale. Luckily, Miss Julia has experience dealing with children dropped on doorsteps, and sweeps in to lend a hand. But there's something missing in that child's life, and Miss Julia knows exactly what it is.
Living in small towns such as Abbotsville, NC, tends to make people a little busybody-ish and Miss Julia has recognized in herself an inclination towards being overly critical and obdurate so she's decided to make an effort to be more open to other ideas, more sensitive and less prideful, especially after what's been going on with her friend and next door neighbor, Mildred Allen. Poor Mildred really has a lot on her plate right now.
Mildred is coping, not very well, with her husband, Horace's, growing cognitive impairment while her son, Tony, has recently become estranged, following his transition to daughter, Tonya. Then, out of the blue, a previously unknown grandchild shows up practically on Mildred's doorstep. What is the beleagured woman supposed to do? Well, quite naturally, she seeks out advice from her friend and it doesn't take long for Miss Julia to realize that things are more than a little suspicious and her tendency towards snoopiness aka sleuthing rises to this new challenge.
While Mildred's problems are absorbing much of Miss Julia's time and effort, she's also concerned about Etta Mae Wiggins who may be about to lose her Handy Home Helper job for dubious reasons. Miss Julia's determined to ferret out some truths so her good intentions of becoming more conscious of how she can rub people the wrong way just might have to wait. On top of all this, the Christmas holidays and all that entails are fast approaching and demanding her attention.
The mystery elements are lightweight here but that's not really what the Miss Julia stories are all about—enjoy this for the appealing characters and setting as well as the warm-hearted, enjoyable read.
Reviewed by Lelia Taylor, April 2020.
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Posted in Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews, My Reviews.	Tagged cozy, humor, mystery, North Carolina, small town, Southern fiction, Viking
Book Review: Miss Julia Takes the Wheel by Ann B. Ross
January 3, 2020 by Lelia T
Miss Julia Takes the Wheel
Miss Julia #20
This is the 21st in this popular series but it is the first I've read. So, a bit of background for those who also haven't read others in the series. The series is set in North Carolina and the main character is Miss Julia, a wealthy white southern woman. In this book, Miss Julia is very concerned because her doctor and his wife are taking an extended European vacation, leaving the doctor's practice to a substitute. Although neither Miss Julia nor her husband, Sam, are ill, she worries that they could become ill and have to see a doctor they do not know.
Having been asked to reach out to the substitute doctor (Dr. Don Crawford) and his wife (Lauren), Miss Julia invites them to dinner and introduces them to other couples who are friends of hers. While Miss Julia finds the doctor to be charming, the dinner is strained due, in part, to Lauren's shyness and unwillingness to talk other than to answer direct questions. Later her friends raise some concerns about Don. Nevertheless, Miss Julia and her friend Hazel Marie try, with limited success, to engage Lauren in local activities including play dates with Hazel Marie's and Lauren's children. Meanwhile, Miss Julia is also helping her friend's teenage son with learning to drive.
There is much going on in this book including a mystery, the outcome of which was not hard to deduce, Miss Julia's willingness to help her friends in need, and her often self-sacrificing behavior. While I realize that this series is considered funny and entertaining, this book deals with a serious problem which is neither funny nor entertaining.
Finally, I want to address the conversations between Miss Julia and her African- American maid, Lillian. While Miss Julia turns to Lillian for advice and takes Lillian into her confidence, Lillian's side of their conversations is written in a particular manner that clearly puts her in a lower social class than Miss Julia. To illustrate with just a few examples of which there are many: Lillian's dialogue includes "ast" instead of "asked"; "liberry" instead of "library"; and "growed up" instead of "grown up." This comment is not directed toward any region's way of speaking but rather to the obvious racial overtones in such conversations. Because I did not find the book funny, nor the mystery a challenge, and I was put off by the thinly veiled racism in the narrative, I do not recommend this book.
Reviewed by Melinda Drew, December 2019.
Posted in Full Reviews.	Tagged cozy, mystery, North Carolina, small town, Viking
Book Reviews: A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib and Dark Breaks the Dawn by Sara B. Larson @SaraBLarson @Scholastic @rajiahassib @VikingBooks
September 8, 2019 by Lelia T
A Pure Heart
Rajia Hassib
Viking, August 2019
The Gubran family led a normal, content life in Cairo. Rose and Gigi were, to Rose's thinking, the best friends that sisters are meant to be. There would always be quarrels, but nothing to break their bond. Even as they age, pursue further education, broaden their horizons with new people and ways of life; they would surely stick together.
Thinking back, though, maybe Rose hadn't been so supportive. Or remotely open-minded. As Gigi grew more devout and adopted some Muslim customs that Rose considered outdated; rather than addressing it with Gigi, Rose silently stewed, waiting for her little sis to 'come to her senses'. Perhaps if she'd attempted to understand—sincerely—they may never have agreed, but neither would they have grown apart. Maybe.
Younger siblings seem to live in someone else's shadow, making self-discovery slightly more difficult. Delving deeper into her religion may have been the best way for Gigi to create her own light. She can almost understand why her parents essentially ignore the changes they have to see in her, but Gigi is stunned when her family makes no effort to understand her disappointment and dismay with her elder sister.
First, Rose decides to marry an American. To leave Egypt for the United States. She took his last name. Her sister should be "Dr. Gubran", as she's always dreamed. Proudly bearing the name of the family that supported her throughout, not the surname of some folks from West Virginia.
Did Rose make those allowances for love? That, Gigi can understand. She, too, has chosen the love of a man, but over objections from her parents and friends. Gigi may not have made the best choice, but she doesn't know that yet. Instead, she simply sees similarities between her love-life and Rose's. She was pleased to, once again, have something in common.
Happiness for herself is short-lived. She feels sad for Rose, who doesn't know about this connection. Gigi envisions sharing the secret she's carried alone for years. She must mend her relationship with Rose. She knows the perfect place to start. The American brother-in-law will be staying with her family while he is conducting interviews in Egypt for an upcoming article. Gigi vows to go above and beyond to assist him.
That is the decision that will ultimately change all of their lives.
Reading Rajia Hassib's A Pure Heart is like watching a moonflower unfurl, as dusk darkens, until the almost-iridescent, snowy-white bloom is wide open against the pitch-black night.
Reviewed by jv poore, August 2019.
Dark Breaks the Dawn
Dark Breaks the Dawn #1
Sara B. Larson
Scholastic Press, June 2017
Dark and Light were meant to exist independently, yet harmoniously. This provides and maintains balance for the world. Only, the rulers of Dark want more. They are determined take away the magic of Light and have waged war.
That very war has already taken Princess Evelayn's father, and is currently keeping Queen Ilaria away from home. But (finally) the day of Evelayn's 18th birthday arrives. The "18th" being of upmost importance as the ability to access full power has proven dangerous when wielded by immature beings. Evelayn has been impatiently awaiting this day since the moment she found out that the "more" she craved was not just possible, but promised.
So, that's a pretty big deal, but there is something that pushes its way past the magic thing. The queen has promised to return for Evelayn's special day. Even though the trip will take her from the frontlines, where she has been battling alongside the kingdom's best soldiers.
And herein lies my first favorite thing: Royal Court receives pampering and protection during normal, every-day activities only. When it is time to fight, no one is expected to be more ferocious and fearless than the leaders.
Having always taken her physical training seriously, Evelayn can more than hold her own in a fight. And, the princess of Light has mastered the mask—the stoic expression that is to reveal nothing of her thoughts or feelings. Albeit not always employed, she is also able to perform her duties with the courtesy and politeness expected by her parents. Yet, she is nowhere near ready to replace her mother; Evelayn can't even shift.
As day breaks, Evelayn awaits the arrival of her full power and her mother, while Dark prepares the grand finale. Step one being to kill Queen Ilaria. Without the conduit, the people of Light will not be able to access individual powers.
The magic may be restored. It's just a small matter of Evelayn becoming Queen, performing the requisite ceremony with her high priestesses, then accessing and redistributing. In three days. If it doesn't go down, exactly right, in that tiny time window, there is an opportunity for Dark to steal the magic for themselves.
Ms. Larson is not afraid to hit the ground running (really) in her magic-filled-fantasy, Dark Breaks the Dawn. I may not have fully understood everything at first, but that couldn't keep me from franticly flipping pages to find out what's next. Just as the big picture was coming into view, I smugly 'figured out' how this tale would end.
I was wrong. Now I'm off to find a copy of Ms. Larson's Bright Burns the Night because I haven't had nearly enough of this world.
Posted in Full Reviews.	Tagged Cairo, cultural heritage, Egyptologist, fantasy, general fiction, magic, Muslims, New York City, romance, Scholastic Press, shapeshifting, sisters, terrorism, Viking, young adult
Book Reviews: A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré and The Trespasser by Tana French
December 4, 2017 by Lelia T
A Legacy of Spies
Viking, September 2017
The Cold War may have ended many years ago in real life, but not for John le Carré, who has now written a fascinating book derived from two of his earlier George Smiley novels, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Smiley merely plays a background role in Legacy. Instead, Peter Guillam, his disciple, who retired from the Circus (the British Secret Service) to the family farmstead in southern France, plays a central part in the story.
Peter receives a letter summoning him to London where he is instructed to review files and interrogated about an operation during the Cold War in which an operative and a source were killed. It would appear that a potential parliamentary inquiry or even a civil action blaming Peter and others for the deaths and seeking monetary damages, brought by the offspring of the two unfortunate victims, is possible.
As Peter reviews the material, le Carré recreates the times and travails of the period, as we relive through the actions of the characters conditions in East Berlin and the spy craft during the Cold War. It is history recreated with all the tensions of the period, excellently written with humor and panache.
Reviewed by Ted Feit, November 2017.
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The Trespasser
Dublin Murder Squad #6
Penguin, August 2017
Antoinette Conway and her partner, Stephen Moran (who she brought on board in the Dublin Murder Squad after working with him in a previous novel) are the newbies in the elite Irish police group, and as such, only receive humdrum domestic dispute assignments. Until one day the gaffer hands them what turns out to be a murder case of a pretty young woman. The case turns out to be anything but a simple lovers quarrel.
Antoinette, the only female on the squad, takes a lot of guff from other members (who want her anywhere else), and her resentment shows throughout the book. While she enjoys her work, she contemplates leaving for an offer in the private sector. Meanwhile, she has a murder to solve as her first lead detective case and goes about it diligently if somewhat misdirected by an experienced detective assigned to work with the partners for reasons not revealed until the end.
One criticism I made in the previous novel by Tana French was that it was tedious and slow reading. The same is true of The Trespasser. One has to plod through a couple of hundred pages of continual repetition before it all begins to make sense. And then, and only then, does the reading become enjoyable and worthwhile and the plot begin to come together. The novel would have been rated at a higher level had it not been for this criticism. Certainly, Ms French writes well and creates clever plots. One could wish she would now turn her attention to some judicious editing. That said, the novel is recommended.
Reviewed by Ted Feit, August 2017.
Posted in Full Reviews.	Tagged British Secret Service, Cold War, domestic violence, Dublin, East Berlin, England, espionage, international, modern vs. historical, mystery, Penguin, police procedural, Viking, workplace harassment
Book Review: Miss Julia Weathers the Storm by Ann B. Ross
Miss Julia Weathers the Storm
Miss Julia, a Southern gentlewoman of a certain age, is happily remarried to a loving and generous retired lawyer, Sam Murdoch. Her husband is certainly a contrast to her late husband Wesley Lloyd Springer, who was quick to criticize and tightfisted to boot. It wasn't until after she buried him that a young woman turned up on her doorstep with a boy in hand—her late husband's son, as it turned out.
But Miss Julia befriended Hazel Marie and young Lloyd, who is now part of her family. Hazel Marie married a private detective, Mr. Pickens, who Miss Julia has never warmed to, and now has twin toddlers.
When her husband suggests renting a beach house on an island and inviting Hazel Marie and her family along, Miss Julia balks. Not because of any dislike of Hazel Marie, but because Miss Julia really doesn't care to travel. But her husband is so excited about the idea, she relents. Who else to invite? There's their lawyer friend, Binkie, and her husband Coleman, a sergeant in the local sheriff's department, and their young daughter Gracie. Then there's the housekeeper Lillian, and her six year old great granddaughter Latisha. Rounding out the group is Miss Julia's friend, LuAnne Conover, who suspects her husband is cheating on her, and Etta Mae Wiggins, a home health aid, who manages a mobile home park, and could use a vacation.
Latisha spends her time at the beach looking for sea shells, but on one of the days a lot more than sand dollars washes up on the shore. Hundred dollar bills, suspected to be dumped overboard by drug smugglers, have vacationers scrambling for the money. Three strangers are overly interested in Latisha's finds, and later show up in Abbotsville, after Miss Julia and her entourage have all returned home. Is the little girl in danger?
An entertaining addition to this long-running series. Fans of "Steel Magnolias" or Fannie Flagg's novels will enjoy this slice of southern life, with characters that will keep you wanting more. It's the nineteenth book in the series.
Reviewed by Susan Belsky, July 2017.
Posted in Full Reviews.	Tagged beach trip, cozy, drug money, humor, hurricane, mystery, North Carolina, Southern fiction, Viking
Book Review: Buffalo Jump Blues by Keith McCafferty
August 25, 2016 by Lelia T
Buffalo Jump Blues
A Sean Stranahan Mystery #5
Keith McCafferty
Viking, June 2016
From the publisher: In the wake of Fourth of July fireworks in Montana's Madison Valley, Deputy Sheriff Harold Little Feather and Hyalite County Sheriff Martha Ettinger investigate a horrific scene at the Palisades cliffs, where a herd of bison [a/k/a buffalo] have fallen to their deaths. Are they victims of blind panic caused by the pyrotechnics, or a ritualistic hunting practice dating back thousands of years? The person who would know is beyond asking, an Indian man found dead among the bison, his leg pierced by an arrow. Farther up the valley, fly fisherman, painter and sometime private detective Sean Stranahan has been hired by the beautiful Ida Evening Star – – a Chippewa Cree woman who moonlights as a mermaid at the Trout Tails Bar & Grill – to find her old flame, John Running Boy. The cases seem unrelated, until Sean's search leads him right to the brink of the buffalo jump.
This is the fifth entry in the series, and to call it eclectic would be an understatement. Both the fishing and wildlife aspects of it, which predominate in the early sections, are entirely foreign to this reader, whose usual preference is for character-driven novels. But the header for Chapter 8, "A Mermaid, an Arrowhead, and True Love," captures the elements of most of the rest of the book. The aforementioned Ida is the first of these, the arrowhead a piece of evidence in the search for the murderer of the Indian Man, and true love is – well, as Sean says: "True love knows not logic nor lust, but the synchronized bearing of hearts."
The bison was the "icon of the West" that only a century ago had stood at the brink of extinction. When Harold comes upon the first body, he puts the dying animal out of its misery. He muses, "The irony of what he had done, killing the first bison to have returned to these ancient hunting grounds in one hundred and fifty years, was not lost on him." But he had done what he had to do, and cannot second-guess himself. Shanahan is a terrific protagonist, of whom Martha says "You're what I call a Montana Renaissance man. You have about five different jobs and still you have to stick a hose down a gas tank to siphon up enough fuel to get to the store." (He guides during the trout season, writes for fishing magazines and paints in the winter (or when he gets a commission). He says of himself "I'm a better artist than I am a detective. Or fishing guide." But he is selling himself short, as he demonstrates during the ensuing investigation, assisting Martha in the search for the man or men behind the events. The geography of Montana is vividly presented. The writing is terrific and filled with humor, e.g., "Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it." The beauty of Montana is vivid, and that and the wonderful writing have pointed me to the fourth novel in the series which I had somehow missed, Crazy Mountain Kiss, next up for this reader.
Reviewed by Gloria Feit, June 2016.
Posted in Full Reviews.	Tagged humor, missing person, Montana, mystery, Native American, private investigator, rural sheriff, Viking


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Malaysia with Children
-- A'Famosa Water Park
-- Aquaria (KL Aquaria)
-- Bats Cave Temple
-- Bird Park
-- Black Panther
-- Bukit Merah
-- Butterfly Park
-- Cable Train Penang
-- Crocodile Farm
-- Desa Water Park
-- Elephants Kuala Gandah
-- Elephants Sungei Ketiar
-- Escape Theme Park
-- Genting Theme Park
-- Genting Theme Park Map
-- Hello Kitty Theme Park
-- Langkawi
-- Langkawi Cable Car
-- Lego Land Malaysia
-- Lost World of Tambun
-- Mines Wonderland
-- Perhentian
-- Pulau Payar
-- Pulau Redang
-- Rock Climbing
-- Snake Temple
-- Sunbear
-- Sunway Lagoon
-- Taman Negara
-- Times Square Theme Park
-- Under Water World
-- Wildlife Park Langkawi
-- Zoo Kuala Lumpur
-- Zoo Taiping
Car/Bus/Train/Plane
Golf & Green Fees
Malaysia Cooking
Bats' Cave Temple
"This is the Tua Peh Kong temple at the foot of Penang Hill in Air Itam. Built in the 1900's, this temple has a cave inside it where thousands of bats dwell. They hang upside down and sleep during the day and fly out to feed on insects during the night. A giant statue of Tua Peh Kong, the God of Prosperity stands at the entrance."
The bats cave temple is one of those hidden pearls of the island. It's not worth a day trip, but you have to combine it, when you're planning a trip to Penang Hill. It's located within walking distance from the departure station of the cable car, which takes you to the top of Penang Hill.
Another possibility is, to see the temple, when you're planning to visit the Kek Lok Si. The temple is not touristy, because the road to it is crooked, is steep and there is no parking for buses. The temple is just for the local population. Many residents of Penang, which I spoke, did not know of the existence of the temple.
This small temple is built at the foot of Penang Hill, at Jalan Pokok Ceri. It's dedicated to the god of prosperity Tua Pek Kong. The temple is famous and unique because a few thousand bats make their dwelling place in the cave situated inside the Temple. They fly out to find food which is mainly on insects at night and sleep by hanging themselves during the day.
The average worshipper might not be able to tell you who Tua Pek Kong is, other than he worships the deity for well-being and prosperity. Upon entering the bats' cave temple they ring a bell. You can buy a candle (RM1 - RM5), plug it into fire and place it on the table next to the others.
You notice the candles are burning and you'll smell the incense.
Now you can then explore the temple and the other visitors will show you special points.
If you're inside, you see ar first the statue of Tua Pek Kong, made of granite measuring 2 meter high. At his feet are the gifts, which the devotees have given to the God: oranges, rice, soft drinks and much, much, much Guinness. Cans and bottles!
Tua Peh Kong is regarded as the patron saint of prosperities and good luck.
Behind the statue of Tua Pek Kong is a small cave. You hear the bats sound. Your eyes need to get used to the dark. Then you perceive the shadows of bats. They hang down. Nobody's stopping you, if you need to photograph with a flash in the dark.
Deeper in the cave is a shrine to see. This are also gifts: incense, candles, rice, oranges, etc. There is here no Guinness! Beside the shrine there are two white cranes (see photo below).
It is not uncommon to see that the worship of a deity for material gains borders on gambling. In the case of the Bats' Cave Temple, while the average local Chinese might not know its whereabouts, a good many who do know where it is and turned up to offer prayers are those who came seeking wins, whether on the race track or elsewhere.
It is told, that the expansion of the temple was a result of thanksgiving funds from those who won big.
The temple is very old. A guidebook printed in the 1977, mentions that the temple was built a good sixty years ago, meaning it would have been built in 1917, if not earlier. The guidebook further stated that a hermit once used the bat cave for meditation, and that Buddhist monks guard the bats against human interference.
A different version of the legend tells of a feng shui master who reared a couple of white cranes. He chose to live in the cave with his two cranes. The feng shui master was the one who started the worship of Tua Pek Kong in the cave. Eventually, he passed away and subsequently so did his cranes. After he had died, bats began to take over the cave.
In the temple you will be alerted that there are two large fish housing inside the temple. They are Pirarucu's, in a small, shallow pool swimming in on the leftside of the temple. These are fish belong in the Amazon. A few years ago they were plotted in Southeast Asia.
Outside, on the other side of the road, is a pond with turtles. You cannot get close to the pond and you have to observe them from above.
How to get there by bus.
Take Rapid Penang Bus U204 from the Komtar.
The bus goes to the Penang Hill Railway station. From the bus stop, walk a short distance down the road till you reach a lane to your left with a big arch.
The arch is for the Jade Emperor's Pavilion. Take that lane.
A short distance up that lane, there is a road at your right hand. It has a sign pointing the way to the Bat Cave Temple. Follow that branch and it takes you to the temple, which is about 50 meters from the sign.
How to get there by car.
About 100 meters before you reach Penang Hill Station, you must turn right. That's just for two flats and you drive a beautiful Chinese arch underneath (an "arch"). Take that lane. A short distance up that lane, there is a road at your right hand. It has a sign pointing the way to the Bat Cave Temple. Follow that branch and it takes you to the temple, which is about 50 meters from the sign.