So big things are happening in California…it rained last weekend. I know that I am late to the party considering today is Friday, but we are just going to ride this out.
Take a second and see how depressing it is outside. Boo umbrellas and bokeh.
Also, their wall of vintage car doors? Stop it.
Their decorations were so tacky and bright that I fell in love instantly. Props to their interior designer, every wall was so different but worked so well.
There is always a first time for everything and I loved the pom seeds, I might have to make it this way next time I have friends over.
If there is a food trend in San Francisco right now, it is definitely fried Brussels sprouts (sister, you called it). Every restaurant I have eaten at lately has it on their menu and I always get sucked into ordering them. No regrets, as they are perfect every time.
Funny story, it was a tie between Brussels sprouts or the Mexiterranean Cheese Fondue ($9) w/ oaxaca cheese, tomatoes, cilantro, oregano and organic corn chips.
After a few minutes of deliberation, we realized that we are adults and can order whatever the hell we want for dinner. Both it is!
PS: That is a piece of bread that is holding the fire, putting the literal meaning of working with whatever is in your kitchen.
Grecia is going to be my stand in for this post because I looked horrible (think sick nose, beanie and oversized sweater). Also notice the coats sewed into the chairs, I love it.
After eating the crab salad at Tosca Cafe, I have been craving more of this local crab since it is in-season and was happy to see it on the menu here as well.
Introducing the Dungeness crab croquetas con garlic aioli and mirasol pepper reduction. ($8.5) I love bite sized food when eating tapas, so these were fun to just pop in my mouth.
I am not a huge fan of seafood as you know, but I did try a bite and thought it was a good tasting ceviche (from the few other times I tried). I also wanted to take the spoon home with me.
4.) Not to toot my own horn but my Spanish accent is spot-on…now all I have to do is catch-up on vocab.
I really wish I liked lamb because these looked so amazing in every way. Damn you, gamey meat.
You really cannot go wrong with shrimp and cream sauce.
Last year if you asked me if we should share a desert, I would have been fine either way. Now I feel like my meal is incomplete without finishing on a sweet note.
I do not remember exactly what this is, but I know it is a berry truffle with hints of basil.
PPPS: A reader e-mailed me and asked if I could start including the price of the dishes I order. I thought about it and did not want to be embarrassed (no shame) on how much I spend on food, but we will try this out for a few weeks and see if I like it.
PPPPS: (last one, I promise) Do not forget to enter the Zabada Clean giveaway!
What are your Valentines day plans?
Do you like eating tapas? If so, what is normally your favorite dish? I always get one shrimp dish and chorizo if they have it.


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CSTO PA adopts statement on unacceptability of biological weapons development
MOSCOW. Dec 5 (Interfax) - The Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) adopted a statement on the unacceptability of developing biological and toxin weapons on Monday.
The document, which was endorsed during the 15th CSTO PA plenary session, declares the commitment to "a world free of biological weapons." "We assume that the state bodies of the CSTO countries will unite their efforts in coordinating the work on unconditional implementation of the Convention [the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BTWC)] in the Organization area and on enhancing the legislative framework in this field," the statement reads.
The CSTO PA members also call for using the platforms of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and other international parliamentary organizations to facilitate the implementation of the BTWC provisions, the statement reads.
The CSTO PA members noted in the statement that the non-compliance with the Convention could lead to potential biological threats.
The joint session of the CSTO PA Council and the 15th CSTO PA plenary session is taking place in Moscow on Monday chaired by State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
CSTO Defense Diplomacy Lawmakers Parliament Russia Statement

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DUTY STATION: DAR ES SALAAM.
Effective payment of creditors balances ensuring optimal cash utilization.
Preparing weekly, monthly and quarterly cash flow projections indicating how much will be paid out to assist in cash planning purposes for decision making on optimal utilization of funds in investment and borrowing.
Ensuring compliance with Various Tax Authorities requirements and law on all payments made for both local and international suppliers.
To ensure all the statutory, regulatory, leases and loans are paid by their due dates to avoid defaulting and being charged interest and penalties.
Result Oriented and proper time management.
B.com Accounting option/Advanced Diploma in Accounting or related business degree from a reputable Universities.
Computer skills conversant with MS office applications.
Knowledge in Sun system will be added advantage.
To sell Precision Air products and network to achieve the set sales targets within the area of sale in the assigned territory.
Develop, execute and drive the passenger sales and Marketing plan guaranteeing exposure of Precision Air's product facilitating delivery of the company's sales targets and business objectives.
Build and maintain sales team and network to ensure sustenance of profitable sales revenues and market share for Precision Air.
Anticipate and ensure timely reaction to developing market trends in order to maximize on opportunities that arise and minimize adverse impact on company sales.
Monitor competitor activities, evaluate recommended competitive pricing level to deliver expected yield, margin and revenue targets.
To be the principal administrator for Precision Air in the assigned territory and safeguard PW's interests.
Provide input and participate in the identification and progress of new business opportunities for revenue growth (through special prorate/interline agreements/partnerships etc).
Participate in PW's passenger revenue budget process.
government so as to enhance productivity, efficiency and maximization of revenue.
Develop and monitor expenditure budget vs. actual expenditure and control costs.
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Creating, receiving and keeping relevant records in accordance with correct filing rules.
If you feel you meet the above requirements please send your application and CV to the address below. Only short‐listed applicants will be contacted.


The Neuschwanstein Castle, one of the most popular castles and palaces in Europe, was constructed between 1869 and 1886 under King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It was built on the ruins of "Vorder- und Hinterhohenschwangau" in the style of a medieval "knight's" castle.
The Hohenschwangau Castle was built in neo-Gothic style, commissioned by the Crown Prince Maximilian (later King Maximillian II, Ludwig II's father) after he acquired ruins of the Schwanstein Castle. This is where King Ludwig II spent his childhood.
Closed on 01 January and on 24, 25 and 31 December.
The trip lasts about 2 ½ hours from the Central Station (Hauptbahnhof).
until you reach the Hohenschwangau / Alpseestraße bus stop.
Sa-So and national holidays – 12:00 am to 3:00 am (next day).
~ The tickets cost €2 more if not purchased at a ticket machine or online.
~ The Bayern-Ticket is also valid for U-Bahn, S-Bahn, trams and most busses.
München-Füssen: Trains depart approx. 10 minutes before each hour. Direct trains depart on even hours. Indirect trains (transfer once at Buchloe) depart on odd hours.
Füssen-München: Trains depart approx. 5 minutes after each hour. Direct trains on odd hours, indirect trains (via Buchloe) on even hours.
Because of restoration works, the western and northern façade of Neuschwanstein Castle is covered by a scaffold until the end of 2012.


Vote to pass a bill that additionally facilitates drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and encourages oil companies to drill on already leased land in the United States.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an "expeditious environmentally responsible program" of competitive leasing of oil and gas in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska with no fewer than one lease sale in the Reserve each year during the period 2009 through 2013 (Sec. 2).
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to facilitate the construction of pipelines to transport oil and gas from the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to existing infrastructure on the North Slope of Alaska, and requires the President to facilitate construction of a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to United States markets (Secs. 3 & 4).
Reimposes prohibition on crude oil exports from Alaska (Sec. 6).
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from issuing to a person any new lease that authorizes the exploration for or production of oil or natural gas unless the person is diligently developing the Federal lands that are subject to existing leases or the person has relinquished ownership interest in all Federal oil and gas leases under which oil and gas are not being diligently developed (Sec. 7).


Take a breath, see where it goes. Go on now, don't hold back. Does the breath travel down to your belly? Was there a 360-degree expansion around your abdomen? As women, we can have a higher propensity towards anxiety, panic attacks, and migraines. What if I told you how you breathe can affect all of these factors in your life? We breathe more than any other habit in our life: 22,000 to 25,000 times per day just living. Hello! This is not including a more hard-core breath when we exercise. If we are breathing from our chest instead of deep belly breathing, we are putting our bodies into a fight or flight state activating the sympathetic nervous system. This is totally appropriate to do while exercising, but we don't want to continue an exertional breath once we stop and go back to sitting at our desk.
Breathing is a beautiful thing. It is one of the only processes in the body done on an unconscious level, like digesting or circulating blood. But our respiratory system can be controlled, consciously regulated, and improved with focus, so it performs better. We teach breathing exercises to every one of our patients, every single day. We start with breathing drills because most New Yorkers are running around burning the candle at both ends, and their nervous system needs to chill out. Learn how to really BREATHE using the exercises below.
How long has it been since you've REALLY breathed? I mean really taken a long, deep breath until no more air could enter, held it, then fully and consciously exhaled? Are you doing it now?
How do we breathe, you may be asking? The diaphragm (the muscle separating the lungs and organs) pulls downward pushing the organs down. This action changes the pressure in the lungs to pull in oxygen as we take an inhale. As the organs are pushed down, there's an increase in intra-abdominal pressure, pushing the spine out of extension, and creating a downward force on the pelvic floor. The lower ribs expand laterally, the sternum moves forward (but should not be pulled up toward the head). As we exhale, the diaphragm pulls up vertically as CO2 is pushed out of the lungs.
When do we chest breathe? Sucking in and "skinnying up" the waistline as we are often taught as women can lead to anxious chest breathing, using neck muscles such as the scalenes and upper traps to lift the ribs to take a breath. We find in our patients who are excessive chest breathers a higher propensity to having disc herniations, neck pain, headaches, and a weak core. Yikes!
The ideal breath is a diaphragmatic belly breath 'in' with 360-degree expansion down and around into the belly. The exhale is ideally twice as long as the inhale. Try for 4 counts 'in' to 8 counts 'out'. This allows your diaphragm to be in the most vertical position possible, leading to decreased chest breathing, less anterior lower rib flare, and reduced anxiety. By breathing down into the belly and expanding circumferentially, you can avoid sway back and increase core stability, letting you move like when you were a baby. This is the quickest way to get out of a panic attack and calm the nervous system back into its rest-and-digest parasympathetic state.
According to Harvard Health, practicing deep belly breathing, also known as diaphragmatic breathing or abdominal breathing, can decrease stress, lower high blood pressure, improve immune function, and reduce anxiety and depression. As a general rule of thumb, practicing deep belly breathing techniques and exercises signals your body to relax. Often the benefits you reap come from the simple reduction in stress when you take the time to focus on your breath. Even my favorite podcaster and founder of Quest nutrition and Impact Theory, Tom Bilyeu, claims he takes one single diaphragmatic breath to ease his anxiety.
What's the difference between deep belly breathing and, say, any other type of deep breath?
Every breath is a diaphragmatic breath. In fact, if our diaphragm didn't contract we would not be alive. But a good solid "belly breath" is when your diaphragm presses downward on the abdominal cavity and causes your belly to expand. This is different from a shallow chest breath when the diaphragm doesn't contract as much and there is less pushing downward and less belly expansion. The difference? When you breathe from your belly, you are allowing your lungs to fill to their fullest capacity. When breathing into the chest, you only allow the lungs' upper lobes to fill, and only some oxygen is getting into your bloodstream as a result. When exercising, this could be dangerous and often leads to hyperventilation, lightheadedness, and shortness of breath. Deep belly breathing throughout your day can keep oxygen flowing through your veins so you can go longer and be more productive. If you want maximum results, spend a little time each day intentionally practicing just deep belly breathing. If this doesn't convince you, there was a study done in 2012 looking at the position of the diaphragm of 29 subjects under an MRI which found that people with a history of chronic low back pain had an abnormal position of the diaphragm, a steeper slope of the diaphragm, and overall less excursion compared to those without a history of chronic low back pain. Was the cause of the low back pain due to the position of the diaphragm or did the diaphragm position change with the onset of low back pain? Who knows but minds as well control the factor we can change which is our breathing patterns and our day to day diaphragm position with the drill found at the end.
Can I practice deep belly breathing for stress and anxiety?
Yes! Stressed at work? Are the kids fighting, the laundry piling up, and you just received a call from the mechanic with bad news? Breathing exercises may not cause your work, fighting kids, laundry, or car problems to disappear, but it can help you handle these stressors better. Students who practiced deep belly breathing techniques on a regular basis experienced "perceptions of decreased test anxiety, nervousness, self-doubt, and concentration loss," as shown in the Teaching and Learning in Medicine International Journal. Assessments of the effects of deep breathing on anxiety and smoking withdrawal symptoms show positive results. Time and time again, deep belly breathing exercises have been proven an effective way to manage overall stress and benefit the body at the same time.
The funny thing is, yogis have been practicing breathing exercises for centuries. Nadi Shodhan Pranayama is described as a "guidance of breath" creating a "subtle energy clearing." The alternate nostril breathing technique promotes relaxation and helps release accumulated tension and fatigue. You can try it!
Sit comfortably and erect, relaxing your face into a gentle smile.
Place your left hand gently on your left knee, palm upward and relaxed or gently connecting the thumb and index finger.
Using your right hand, place your index and middle fingers in between your eyebrows, your ring and pinky over the left nostril to open and close it, and the thumb over the right nostril to open and close it.
Press your thumb down on your right nostril and breathe out gently through the left.
Breathe in from the left nostril, then alternate, breathing out then in from the right nostril.
Complete nine rounds (an exhale and inhale from both sides equals one round) while keeping your eyes closed and taking deep, relaxed breaths.
Lie face down and make a pillow with your hands to support your forehead.
Place your tongue on the roof of your mouth an inch behind your teeth: this will help guide the breath downward.
Breathe in slowly through your nose. Send your breath down to the fronts of your hip bones as your belly expands, then start to breathe your waistline wide, sending your breath lateral. Lastly, concentrate on sending your breath down into your low back.
There should be a natural, gentle rhythm of the pelvis as you breathe. As you breathe in, the tailbone will tip down towards your heels, into counternutation, or a posterior pelvic tilt, and as you exhale the natural curve of the low back will return.
This kind of concentration on the breath is putting an eccentric load on your transverse abdominus and is giving you the baseline for good core stability.
For maximum benefits, do this for 12–18 breaths (which is about a minute) 2 to 5 times a day.
For an extra challenge, keep the brace on the exhale: keep pushing your belly out by at least 50% on the breath out. This is your weightlifting breath. Bravo, you have just mastered what we teach each patient in the first 10 minutes of their treatment part of their first appointment.


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Stephan Zwierschitz (ur. 17 września 1990 w Mödling) – austriacki piłkarz występujący na pozycji obrońcy. Wychowanek SC Sommerein, obecnie jest zawodnikiem austriackiego klubu Admira Wacker Mödling. Rozegrał trzy mecze w barwach reprezentacji Austrii U-21.

Bibliografia

Austriaccy piłkarze
Urodzeni w 1990
Piłkarze SKN St. Pölten
Piłkarze Admiry Wacker Mödling
Ludzie urodzeni w Mödling

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"Thou majestic in thy sadness."
Upon the present occasion there was no violent demonstration of emotion to alarm the Roberts household, for Helen's grief was not of the kind to vent itself in a passionate outburst and pass away. To be sure, she wept a little, but the thoughts which haunted her were not of a kind to be forgotten, and afterwards she was as wretched as ever. What she had done seemed to her so dreadful that even tears were not right, and she felt that she ought only to sit still and think of it, and be frightened; it seemed to her just then as if she would have to do the same thing for the rest of her days. She spent several hours in her room without once moving, and without being disturbed, for her aunt was sufficiently annoyed at her morning's reception not to visit her again. The lunch hour passed, therefore, unthought of by Helen, and it was an hour or two later before she heard her aunt's step in the hall, and her knock upon the door.
Mrs. Roberts entered and stood in the center of the room, gazing at Helen, and at the look of helpless despair which she turned towards her; the woman's own lips were set very tightly.
"Well?" she said abruptly, "have you had your wish, and are you happy?"
Helen did not answer, nor did she half realize the question, so lost was she in her own misery. She sat gazing at her aunt, while the latter went on: "You have had your way in one thing, at any rate, Helen; Mr. Harrison is downstairs to see you."
The girl gave a slight start, but then she answered quietly: "Thank you, Auntie; I shall go down and see him."
"Helen," said Mrs. Roberts, "do you still refuse to tell me anything of what I ask you?"
Helen was quite too much humbled to wish to oppose anyone just then; and she answered mournfully, "What is it that you wish?"
"I wish to know in the first place why you wanted to see Mr. Harrison."
"I wanted to see him to tell him that I could not marry him, Aunt Polly."
And Mrs. Roberts sat down opposite Helen and fixed her gaze upon her. "I knew that was it," she said grimly. "Now, Helen, what in the world has come over you to make you behave in this fashion?"
"Oh, it is so much to tell you," began the girl; "I don't know--"
"What did you find at Hilltown?" went on her aunt persistently. "Did you see Arthur?"
"No, Aunt Polly, that is what is the matter; he has gone."
"Away, Aunt Polly! Nobody saw him go, and he left a note saying that he would never return. And I am so frightened--"
Mrs. Roberts was gazing at her niece with a puzzled look upon her face. She interrupted her by echoing the word "frightened" inquiringly.
"Yes, Auntie!" cried the girl; "for I may never be able to find him again, to undo what I have done!"
And Mrs. Roberts responded with a wondering laugh, and observed, "For my part, I should think you'd be very glad to be rid of him so."
She saw Helen give a start, but she could not read the girl's mind, and did not know how much she had done to estrange her by those words. It was as if Helen's whole soul had shrunk back in horror, and she sat staring at her aunt with open eyes.
"I suppose you think," the other went on grimly, "that I am going to share all this wonderful sentimentality with you about that boy; but I assure you that you don't know me! He may get you to weep over him because he chooses to behave like a fool, but not me."
Helen was still for a moment, and then she said, in an awe-stricken voice: "Aunt Polly, I have wrecked Arthur's life!" Mrs. Roberts responded with a loud guffaw, which was to the other so offensive that it was like a blow in the face.
"Wrecked his life!" the woman cried scornfully. "Helen, you talk like a baby! Can't you know in the first place that Arthur is doing all this high-tragedy acting for nothing in the world but to frighten you? Wrecked his life! And there you were, I suppose, all ready to get down on your knees to him, and beg his pardon for daring to be engaged, and to promise to come to his attic and live off bread and water, if he would only be good and not run away!"
Mrs. Roberts' voice was bitter and mocking, and her words seemed to Helen almost blasphemy; it had never occurred to her that such grief as hers would not be sacred to anyone. Yet there was no thought of anger in her mind just then, for she had been chastened in a fiery furnace, and was too full of penitence and humility for even that much egotism. She only bowed her head, and said, in a trembling voice: "Oh, Aunt Polly, I would stay in an attic and live off bread and water for the rest of my days, if I could only clear my conscience of the dreadful thing I have done."
"A beautiful sentiment indeed!" said Mrs. Roberts, with a sniff of disgust; and she stood surveying her niece in silence for a minute or two. Then smothering her feelings a little, she asked her in a quieter voice, "And so, Helen, you are really going to fling aside the life opportunity that is yours for such nonsense as this? There is no other reason?"
"There is another reason, Aunt Polly," said Helen; "it is so dreadful of you to ask me in that way. How CAN you have expected me to marry a man just because he was rich?"
"Oh," said the other, "so that is it! And pray what put the idea into your head so suddenly?" She paused a moment, and then, as the girl did not raise her head, she went on, sarcastically, "I fancy I know pretty well where you got all of these wonderful new ideas; you have not been talking with Mr. Howard for nothing, I see."
"No, not for nothing," said Helen gently.
"A nice state of affairs!" continued the other angrily; "I knew pretty well that his head was full of nonsense, but when I asked him here I thought at least that he would know enough about good manners to mind his own affairs. So he has been talking to you, has he? And now you cannot possibly marry a rich man!"
Mrs. Roberts stopped, quite too angry to find any more words; but as she sat for a minute or two, gazing at Helen, it must have occurred to her that she would not accomplish anything in that way. She made an effort to swallow her emotions.
"Helen, dear," she said, sitting down near her niece, "why will you worry me in this dreadful way, and make me speak so crossly to you? I cannot tell you, Helen, what a torment it is to me to see you throwing yourself away in this fashion; I implore you to stop and think before you take this step, for as sure as you are alive you will regret it all your days. Just think of it how you will feel, and how I will feel, when you look back at the happiness you might have had, and know that it is too late! And, Helen, it is due to nothing in the world but to your inexperience that you have let yourself be carried away by these sublimities. You MUST know, child, and you can see if you choose, that they have nothing to do with life; they will not butter your bread, Helen, or pay your coachman, and when you get over all this excitement, you will find that what I tell you is true. Look about you in the world, and where can you find anybody who lives according to such ideas?"
"What ideas do you mean, Aunt Polly?" asked Helen, with a puzzled look.
"Oh, don't you suppose," answered the other, "that I know perfectly well what kind of stuff it is that Mr. Howard has talked to you? I used to hear all that kind of thing when I was young, and I believed some of it, too,--about how beautiful it was to marry for love, and to have a fine scorn of wealth and all the rest of it; but it wasn't very long before I found out that such opinions were of no use in the world."
"Then you don't believe in love, Aunt Polly?" asked Helen, fixing her eyes on the other.
"What's the use of asking such an absurd question?" was the answer. "Of course I believe in love; I wanted you to love Mr. Harrison, and you might have, if you had chosen. I learned to love Mr. Roberts; naturally, a couple have to love each other, or how would they ever live happily together? But what has that to do with this ridiculous talk of Mr. Howard's? As if two people had nothing else to do in the world but to love each other! It's all very well, Helen, for a man who chooses to live like Robinson Crusoe to talk such nonsense, but he ought not to put it in the mind of a sentimental girl. He would very soon find, if he came out into life, that the world isn't run by love, and that people need a good many other things to keep them happy in it. You ought to have sense enough to see that you've got to live a different sort of a life, and that Mr. Howard knows nothing in the world about your needs. I don't go alone and live in visions, and make myself imaginary lives, Helen; I look at the world as it is. You will have to learn some day that the real way to find happiness is to take things as you find them, and get the best out of life you can. I never had one-tenth of your advantages, and yet there aren't many people in the world better off than I am; and you could be just as happy, if you would only take my advice about it. What I am talking to you is common sense, Helen, and anybody that you choose to ask will tell you the same thing."
So Mrs. Roberts went on, quite fairly under way in her usual course of argument, and rousing all her faculties for this last struggle. She was as convinced as ever of the completeness of her own views, and of the effect which they must have upon Helen; perhaps it was not her fault that she did not know to what another person she was talking.
In truth, it would not be easy to tell how great a difference there was in the effect of those old arguments upon Helen; while she had been sitting in her room alone and suffering so very keenly, the girl had been, though she did not know it, very near indeed to the sacred truths of life, and now as she listened to her aunt, she was simply holding her breath. The climax came suddenly, for as the other stopped, Helen leaned forward in her chair, and gazing deep into her eyes asked her, "Aunt Polly, can it really be that you do not know that what you have been saying to me is dreadfully _wicked_?"
There was perhaps nothing that the girl could have done to take her complacent relative more by surprise; Mrs. Roberts sat for a moment, echoing the last word, and staring as if not quite able to realize what Helen meant. As the truth came to her she turned quite pale.
"It seems to me," she said with a sneer, "that I remember a time when it didn't seem quite so wicked to you. If I am not mistaken you were quite glad to do all that I told you, and to get as much as ever you could."
"Wicked indeed!" she ejaculated, "and I suppose all that I have been doing for you was wicked too! I suppose it was wicked of me to watch over your education all these years as I have, and to plan your future as if you were my own child, so that you might amount to something in the world; and it was wicked of me to take all the trouble that I have for your happiness, and wicked of Mr. Roberts to go to all the trouble about the trousseau that he has! The only right and virtuous thing about it all is the conduct of our niece who causes us to do it all, and who promises herself to a man and lets him go to all the trouble that he has, and then gets her head full of sanctimonious notions and begins to preach about wickedness to her elders!"
Helen had nothing to reply to those bitter words, for it was only too easy just then to make her accuse herself of anything. She sat meekly suffering, and thinking that the other was quite justified in all her anger. Mrs. Roberts was, of course, quite incapable of appreciating her mood, and continued to pour out her sarcasm, and to grow more and more bitter. To tell the truth, the worthy matron had not been half so unselfish in her hopes about Helen as she liked to pretend, and she showed then that like most people of the world who are perfectly good-natured on the surface, she could display no little ugliness when thwarted in her ambitions and offended in her pride.
It was not possible, however, for her to find a word that could seem to Helen unjust, so much was the girl already humbled. It was only after her aunt had ceased to direct her taunts at her, and turned her spite upon Mr. Howard and his superior ideas, that it seemed to Helen that it was not helping her to hear any more; then she rose and said, very gently, "Aunt Polly, I am sorry that you feel so about me, and I wish that I could explain to you better what I am doing. I know that what I did at first was all wrong, but that is no reason why I should leave it wrong forever. I think now that I ought to go and talk to Mr. Harrison, who is waiting for me, and after that I want you to please send me home, because father will be there to-day, and I want to tell him about how dreadfully I have treated Arthur, and beg him to forgive me."
Then, without waiting for any reply, the girl left the room and went slowly down the steps. The sorrow that possessed her lay so deep upon her heart that everything else seemed trivial in comparison, and she had put aside and forgotten the whole scene with her aunt before she had reached the parlor where Mr. Harrison was waiting; she did not stop to compose herself or to think what to say, but went quickly into the room.
Mr. Harrison, who was standing by the window, turned when he heard her; she answered his greeting kindly, and then sat down and remained very still for a moment or two, gazing at her hands in her lap. At last she raised her eyes to him, and asked: "Mr. Harrison, did you receive the letter I wrote you?"
"Yes," the other answered quickly, "I did. I cannot tell you how much pain it caused me. And, Helen--or must I call you Miss Davis?"
"You may call me Helen," said the girl simply. "I was very sorry to cause you pain," she added, "but there was nothing else that I could do."
"At least," the other responded, "I hope that you will not refuse to explain to me why this step is necessary?"
"No, Mr. Harrison," said Helen, "it is right that I should tell you all, no matter how hard it is to me to do it. It is all because of a great wrong that I have done; I know that when I have told you, you will think very badly of me indeed, but I have no right to do anything except to speak the truth."
She said that in a very low voice, not allowing her eyes to drop, and wearing upon her face the look of sadness which seemed now to belong to it always. Mr. Harrison gazed at her anxiously, and said: "You seem to have been ill, Helen."
"I have been very unhappy, Mr. Harrison," she answered, "and I do not believe I can ever be otherwise again. Did you not notice that I was unhappy?"
"I never thought of it until yesterday," the other replied.
"Until the drive," said Helen; "that was the climax of it. I must tell you the reason why I was so frightened then,--that I have a friend who was as dear to me as if he were my brother, and he loved me very much, very much more than I deserve to be loved by anyone; and when I was engaged to you he was very ill, and because I knew I was doing so wrong I did not dare to go and see him. That was why I was afraid to pass through Hilltown. The reason I was so frightened afterwards is that I caught a glimpse of him, and he was in such a dreadful way. This morning I found that he had left his home and gone away, no one knows where, so that I fear I shall never see him again."
Helen paused, and the other, who had sat down and was leaning forward anxiously, asked her, "Then it is this friend that you love?"
"No," the girl replied, "it is not that; I do not love anybody."
"But then I do not understand," went on Mr. Harrison, with a puzzled look. "You spoke of its having been so wrong; was it not your right to wish to marry me?"
And Helen, punishing herself as she had learned so bravely to do, did not lower her eyes even then; she flushed somewhat, however, as she answered: "Mr. Harrison, do you know WHY I wished to marry you?"
The other started a trifle, and looked very much at a loss indeed. "Why?" he echoed. "No, I do not know--that is--I never thought--"
"It hurts me more than I can tell you to have to say this to you," Helen said, "for you were right and true in your feeling. But did you think that I was that, Mr. Harrison? Did you think that I really loved you?"
Probably the good man had never been more embarrassed in his life than he was just then. The truth to be told, he was perfectly well aware why Helen had wished to marry him, and had been all along, without seeing anything in that for which to dislike her; he was quite without an answer to her present question, and could only cough and stammer, and reach for his handkerchief. The girl went on quickly, without waiting very long for his reply.
"I owe it to you to tell you the truth," she said, "and then it will no longer cause you pain to give me up. For I did not love you at all, Mr. Harrison; but I loved all that you offered me, and I allowed myself to be tempted thus, to promise to marry you. Ever afterwards I was quite wretched, because I knew that I was doing something wicked, and yet I never had the courage to stop. So it went on until my punishment came yesterday. I have suffered fearfully since that."
Helen had said all that there was to be said, and she stopped and took a deep breath of relief. There was a minute or two of silence, after which Mr. Harrison asked: "And you really think that it was so wrong to promise to marry me for the happiness that I could offer you?"
Helen gazed at him in surprise as she echoed, "Was it so wrong?" And at the same moment even while she was speaking, a memory flashed across her mind, the memory of what had occurred at Fairview the last time she had been there with Mr. Harrison. A deep, burning blush mantled her face, and her eyes dropped, and she trembled visibly. It was a better response to the other's question than any words could have been, and because in spite of his contact with the world he was still in his heart a gentleman, he understood and changed color himself and looked away, feeling perhaps more rebuked and humbled than he had ever felt in his life before.
So they sat thus for several minutes without speaking a word, or looking at each other, each doing penance in his own heart. At last, in a very low voice, the man said, "Helen, I do not know just how I can ever apologize to you."
The girl answered quietly: "I could not let you apologize to me, Mr. Harrison, for I never once thought that you had done anything wrong."
"I have done very wrong indeed," he answered, his voice trembling, "for I do not think that I had any right even to ask you to marry me. You make me feel suddenly how very coarse a world I have lived in, and how much lower than yours all my ways of thinking are. You look surprised that I say that," he added, as he saw that the girl was about to interrupt him, "but you do not know much about the world. Do you suppose that there are many women in society who would hesitate to marry me for my money?"
"I do not know," said Helen, slowly; "but, Mr. Harrison, you could certainly never be happy with a woman who would do that."
"I do not think now that I should," the man replied, earnestly, "but I did not feel that way before. I did not have much else to offer, Helen, for money is all that a man like me ever tries to get in the world."
"I know," said Mr. Harrison, "and I used to believe in such things; but one never meets anyone else that does, and it is so easy to live differently. When you spoke to me as you did just now, you made me seem a very poor kind of a person indeed."
The man paused, and Helen sat gazing at him with a worried look upon her face. "It was not that which I meant to do," she began, but then she stopped; and after a long silence, Mr. Harrison took up the conversation again, speaking in a low, earnest voice.
"Helen," he said, "you have made me see that I am quite unworthy to ask for your regard,--that I have really nothing fit to offer you. But I might have one thing that you could appreciate,--for I could worship, really worship, such a woman as you; and I could do everything that I could think of to make myself worthy of you,--even if it meant the changing of all my ways of life. Do you not suppose that you could quite forget that I was a rich man, Helen, and still let me be devoted to you?"
There was a look in Mr. Harrison's eyes as he gazed at her just then which made him seem to her a different sort of a man,--as indeed he was. She answered very gently. "Mr. Harrison," she said, "it would be a great happiness to me to know that anyone felt so about me. But I could never marry you; I do not love you."
"And you do not think," asked the other, "that you could ever come to love me, no matter how long I might wait?"
"I do not think so," Helen said in a low voice. "I wish that you would not ever think of me so."
"It is very easy to say that," the man answered, pleadingly, "but how am I to do it? For everything that I have seems cheap compared with the thought of you. Why should I go on with the life I have been leading, heaping up wealth that I do not know how to use, and that makes me no better and no happier? I thought of you as a new motive for going on, Helen, and you must know that a man cannot so easily change his feelings. For I really loved you, and I do love you still, and I think that I always must love you."
Helen's own suffering had made her alive to other people's feelings, and the tone of voice in which he spoke those words moved her very much. She leaned over and laid her hand upon his,--something which she would not have thought she could ever do.
"Mr. Harrison," she said, "I cannot tell you how much it hurts me to have you speak to me so, for it makes me see more than ever how cruelly unfeeling I have been, and how much I have wronged you. It was for that I wished to beg you to forgive me, to forgive me just out of the goodness of your heart, for I cannot offer any excuse for what I did. It makes me quite wretched to have to say that, and to know that others are suffering because of my selfishness; if I had any thought of the sacredness of the beauty God has given me, I would never have let you think of me as you did, and caused you the pain that I have. But you must forgive me, Mr. Harrison, and help me, for to think of your being unhappy about me also would be really more than I could bear. Sometimes when I think of the one great sorrow that I have already upon my conscience, I feel that I do not know what I am to do; and you must go away and forget about me, for my sake if not for your own. I really cannot love anyone; I do not think that I am fit to love anyone; I only do not want to make anyone else unhappy."
And Helen stopped again, and pressed her hand upon Mr. Harrison's imploringly. He sat gazing at her in silence for a minute, and then he said, slowly: "When you put it so, it is very hard for me to say anything more. If you are only sure that that is your final word--that there is really no chance that you could ever love me,--"
"I am perfectly sure of it," the girl answered; "and because I know how cruel it sounds, it is harder for me to say than for you to hear. But it is really the truth, Mr. Harrison. I do not think that you ought to see me again until you are sure that it will not make you unhappy."
The man sat for a moment after that, with his head bowed, and then he bit his lip very hard and rose from his chair. "You can never know," he said, "how lonely it makes a man feel to hear words like those." But he took Helen's hand in his and held it for an instant, and then added: "I shall do as you ask me. Good-by." And he let her hand fall and went to the door. There he stopped to gaze once again for a moment, and then turned and disappeared, closing the door behind him.
Helen was left seated in the chair, where she remained for several minutes, leaning forward with her head in her hands, and gazing steadily in front of her, thinking very grave thoughts. She rose at last, however, and brushed back the hair from her forehead, and went slowly towards the door. It would have seemed lack of feeling to her, had she thought of it, but even before she had reached the stairs the scene through which she had just passed was gone from her mind entirely, and she was saying to herself, "If I could only know where Arthur is this afternoon!"
Her mind was still full of that thought when she entered the room, where she found her aunt seated just as she had left her, and in no more pleasant humor than before.
"You have told him, I suppose?" she inquired.
"Yes," Helen said, "I have told him, Aunt Polly."
"And now you are happy, I suppose!"
"No, indeed, I am very far from that," said Helen, and she went to the window; she stood there, gazing out, but with her thoughts equally far away from the scene outside as from Mrs. Roberts' warnings and sarcasms. The latter had gone on for several minutes before her niece turned suddenly. "Excuse me for interrupting you, Aunt Polly," she said; "but I want to know whether Mr. Howard has gone yet."
"His train goes in an hour or so," said Mrs. Roberts, not very graciously.
"I think I will see if he is downstairs," Helen responded; "I wish to speak to him before he goes." And so she descended and found Mr. Howard seated alone upon the piazza.
Taking a seat beside him, she said, "I did not thank you when I left you in the carriage, Mr. Howard, for having been so kind to me; but I was so wrapped up in my worry--"
"I understood perfectly," put in the other. "I saw that you felt too keenly about your discovery to have anything to say to me."
"I feel no less keenly about it now," said Helen; "but I could not let you go away until I had spoken to you." She gazed very earnestly at him as she continued: "I have to tell you how much you have done for me, and how I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart. I simply cannot say how much all that you have shown me has meant to me; I should have cared for nothing but to have you tell me what it would be right for me to do with my life,--if only it had not been for this dreadful misfortune of Arthur's, which makes it seem as if it would be wicked for me to think about anything."
Mr. Howard sat gazing in front of him for a moment, and then he said gently, "What if the change that you speak of were to be accomplished, Miss Davis, without your ever thinking about it? For what is it that makes the difference between being thoughtless and selfish, and being noble and good, if it be not simply to walk reverently in God's great temple of life, and to think with sorrow of one's own self? Believe me, my dear friend, the best men that have lived on earth have seen no more cause to be pleased with themselves than you."
"That may be true, Mr. Howard," said Helen, sadly, "but it can do me no good to know it. It does not make what happens to Arthur a bit less dreadful to think of."
"It is the most painful fact about all our wrong," the other answered, "that no amount of repentance can ever alter the consequences. But, Miss Davis, that is a guilt which all creation carries on its shoulders; it is what is symbolized in the Fall of Man--that he has to realize that he might have had infinite beauty and joy for his portion, if only the soul within him had never weakened and failed. Let me tell you that he is a lucky man who can look back at all his life and see no more shameful guilt than yours, and no consequence worse than yours can be." As Mr. Howard spoke he saw a startled look cross the girl's face, and he added, "Do not suppose that I am saying that to comfort you, for it is really the truth. It oftens happens too, that the natures that are strongest and most ardent in their search for righteousness have the worst sins to remember."
Helen did not answer for several moments, for the thought was strange to her; then suddenly she gazed at the other very earnestly and said: "Mr. Howard, you are a man who lives for what is beautiful and high,--suppose that YOU had to carry all through your life the burden of such guilt as mine?"
The man's voice was trembling slightly as he answered her: "It is not hard for me to suppose that, Miss Davis; I HAVE such a burden to carry." As he raised his eyes he saw a still more wondering look upon her countenance.
"But the consequences!" she exclaimed. "Surely, Mr. Howard, you could not bear to live if you knew--"
"I have never known the consequences," said the man, as she stopped abruptly; "just as you may never know them; but this I know, that yours could not be so dreadful as mine must be. I know also that I am far more to blame for them than you."
Helen could not have told what caused the emotion which made her shudder so just then as she gazed into Mr. Howard's dark eyes. Her voice was almost a whisper as she said, "And yet you are GOOD!"
"I am good," said the man gently, "with all the goodness that any man can claim, the goodness of trying to be better. You may be that also."
Helen sat for a long time in silence after that, wondering at what was passing in her own mind; it was as if she had caught a sudden glimpse into a great vista of life. She had always before thought of this man's suffering as having been physical; and the deep movement of sympathy and awe which stirred her now was one step farther from her own self-absorption, and one step nearer to the suffering that is the heart of things.
But Helen had to keep that thought and dwell upon it in solitude; there was no chance for her to talk with Mr. Howard any more, for she heard her aunt's step in the hall behind her. She had only time to say, "I am going home myself this afternoon; will you come there to see me, Mr. Howard? I cannot tell you how much pleasure it would give me."
"There is nothing I should like to do more," the man answered; "I hope to keep your friendship. "When would you like me to come?"
"Any time that you can," replied Helen. "Come soon, for I know how unhappy I shall be."
That was practically the last word she said to Mr. Howard, for her aunt joined them, and after that the conversation was formal. It was not very long before the carriage came for him, and Helen pressed his hand gratefully at parting, and stood leaning against a pillar of the porch, shading her eyes from the sun while she watched the carriage depart. Then she sat down to wait for it to return from the depot for her, which it did before long; and so she bid farewell to her aunt.
It was a great relief to Helen; and while we know not what emotions it may cause to the reader, it is perhaps well to say that he may likewise pay his last respects to the worthy matron, who will not take part in the humble events of which the rest of our story must be composed.
For Helen was going home, home to the poor little parsonage of Oakdale! She was going with a feeling of relief in her heart second only to her sorow; the more she had come to feel how shallow and false was the splendor that had allured her, the more she had found herself drawn to her old home, with its memories that were so dear and so beautiful. She felt that there she might at least think of Arthur all that she chose, and meet with nothing to affront her grief; and also she found herself thinking of her father's love with a new kind of hunger.
When she arrived, she found Mr. Davis waiting for her with a very anxious look upon his countenance; he had stopped at Hilltown on his way, and learned about Arthur's disappearance, and then heard from Elizabeth what she knew about Helen's engagement. The girl flung herself into his arms, and afterwards, quite overcome by the emotions that surged up within her, sank down upon her knees before him and sobbed out the whole story, her heart bursting with sorrow and contrition; as he lifted her up and kissed her and whispered his beautiful words of pardon and comfort, Helen found it a real homecoming indeed.
Mr. Davis was also able to calm her worry a little by telling her that he did not think it possible that Arthur would keep his whereabouts secret from him very long. "When I find him, dear child," he said, "it will all be well again, for we will believe in love, you and I, and not care what the great world says about it. I think I could be well content that you should marry our dear Arthur."
"But, father, I do not love him," put in Helen faintly.
"That may come in time," said the other, kissing her tenderly, and smiling. "There is no need to talk of it, for you are too young to marry, anyway. And in the meantime we must find him."
There was a long silence after that. Helen sat down on the sofa beside her father and put her arms about him and leaned her head upon his bosom, drinking in deep drafts of his pardon and love. She told him about Mr. Howard, and of the words of counsel which he had given her, and how he was coming to see her again. Afterwards the conversation came back to Arthur and his love for Helen, and then Mr. Davis went on to add something that caused Helen to open her eyes very wide and gaze at him in wonder.
"There is still another reason for wishing to find him soon," he said, "for something else has happened to-day that he ought to know about."
"I don't know that I ought to tell you about it just now," said the other, "for it is a very sad story. But someone was here to see Arthur this morning--someone whom I never expected to see again in all my life."
"To see Arthur?" echoed the girl in perplexity. "Who could want to see Arthur?" As her father went on she gave a great start.
"It was his mother," said Mr. Davis.
And Helen stared at him, gasping for breath as she echoed the words, "His mother!"
"You may well be astonished," said the clergyman. "But the woman proved beyond doubt that she was really the person who left Arthur with me."
"You did not recognize her?"
"No, Helen; for it has been twenty-one or two years since I saw her, and she has changed very much since then. But she told me that in all that time she has never once lost sight of her boy, and has been watching all that he did."
"She did not tell me," the other answered, "but I fancy in New York. The poor woman has lived a very dreadful life, a life of such wretched wickedness that we cannot even talk about it; I think I never heard of more cruel suffering. I was glad that you were not here to see her, or know about it until after she was gone; she said that she had come to see Arthur once, because she was going away to die."
"To die!" exclaimed the girl, in horror.
"Yes," said Mr. Davis, "to die; she looked as if she could not live many days longer. I begged her to let me see that she was provided for, but she said that she was going to find her way back to her old home, somewhere far off in the country, and she would hear of nothing else. She would not tell the name of the place, nor her own name, but she left a letter for Arthur, and begged me to find him and give it to him, so that he might come and speak to her once if he cared to do so. She begged me to forgive her for the trouble she had caused me, and to pray that God would forgive her too; and then she bade me farewell and dragged herself away."
Mr. Davis stopped, and Helen sat for a long time staring ahead of her, with a very frightened look in her eyes, and thinking, "Oh, we MUST find Arthur!" Then she turned to her father, her lips trembling and her countenance very pale. "Tell me," she said, in a low, awe-stricken voice, "a long time ago someone must have wronged that woman."
"Yes, dear," said Mr. Davis, "when she was not even as old as you are. And the man who wronged her was worth millions of dollars, Helen, and could have saved her from all her suffering with a few of them if he cared to. No one but God knows his name, for the woman would not tell it."
Helen sat for a moment or two staring at him wildly; and then suddenly she buried her head in his bosom and burst into tears, sobbing so cruelly that her father was sorry he had told her what he had. He knew why that story moved her so, and it wrung his heart to think of it,--that this child of his had put upon her own shoulders some of that burden of the guilt of things, and must suffer beneath it, perhaps for the rest of her days.
When Helen gazed up at him again there was the old frightened look upon her face, and all his attempts to comfort her were useless. "No, no!" she whispered. "No, father! I cannot even think of peace again, until we have found Arthur!"


Lisa Witt is the owner of LisaLaw, LLC, a criminal defense law firm in Mesa, Arizona. She handles a wide variety of cases from misdemeanors to criminal appeals. She is a member of Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice where she serves on the Legislative and Amicus Committees. She is admitted to practice in Arizona federal district court (Phoenix) and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.


Newcells Biotech is a private-equity backed biotech company focused on developing a range of cell based pre-clinical assays based on its core induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology. With the completion of a 2nd round £2m funding round in July 2018, the company has the resources to grow its existing kidney transport and nephrotoxicity platform and launch two more assays over the next two years. The company has a key differentiation in developing proprietary human cell 3-D assays for drug safety, DMPK and target validation/discovery.
Newcells is now looking to strengthen its board with NEDs who have expertise in the preclinical drug discovery and development domains with a track-record in growing CRO product and service companies. To complement the existing team they have a preference for candidates with strategic commercial skills.
Recognised in the investment community.
Last (or current position) – senior executive heading up drug discovery/preclinical tox in large pharma, or recent role in contract research organisation.


January… A new year and we have our eyes set on new horizons. But we can't reach our destination unless we know where we've been. So let's look back at the past 12 months and appreciate what we've been able to achieve together. Because without your support we wouldn't have been able to improve as many lives as we did.
ONLINE: We added Instagram to our social media presence – it's a great way to keep in touch with our students. Our Instagram picture contest was a fun way to bring students and supporters together. It's another way the ORT network uses technology to makes the world a village.


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Bunker Boys
How Dalton Camp and Norman Atkins changed Canadian politics forever.
The Big Blue Machine: How Tory Campaign Backrooms Changed Canadian Politics Forever
J. Patrick Boyer
There was a time, not too long ago, when Ontario's Progressive Conservative political strategists liberally used the term "big blue machine" to describe themselves.
Adventures of a political gun-for-hire
Canada's David Axelrod tells tales from his 50-odd campaigns.
The House That Bill Built
The enduring legacy of the Conservative who really wasn't
All Over the Map
In riding politics, the only common factor seems to be idiosyncrasy
Election or Revolution?
It will be some time before we know what really happened in 2011
During the era of Premier Bill Davis, experienced backroom boys such as Dalton Camp and Norman Atkins were skilled political operators with sharp wits and keen minds. They kept their boss high in the polls and popular with the Ontario electorate. (There is a certain irony that left-leaning Red Tories controlled this machine, but I digress.)
Yet, as former federal Progressive Conservative member of Parliament J. Patrick Boyer writes in his intriguing new book, The Big Blue Machine: How Tory Campaign Backrooms Changed Canadian Politics Forever, their influential hand stretched much further. The roots of the Camp/Atkins alliance go back to the 1950s and involve several provincial and federal elections. While distinctly Canadian in outlook and style, there were also dashes of British and American influence.
Camp and Atkins had similar upbringings. Camp was a Canadian who grew up in the United States and then returned to New Brunswick as a young adult. Atkins's parents were American Canadians, both born in the Maritimes. They moved to New Jersey during World War One, where Atkins was born, but the family maintained a close association with Canada, returning to their New Brunswick cottage each summer.
It was during one of those annual excursions that the six-year-old Atkins, trying to pull his wooden toy wagon up a slope, found himself being helped by Camp, then a young Canadian soldier. The meeting turned into a lifelong friendship. As he once described it, Camp would pride himself on the key role he played in turning a "snotty-nosed kid" into a political operator. He went as far to say, "if I'd become a socialist, Norman would have followed me." Ironically, Camp appeared, for all intents and purposes, to make this shift in later years. Atkins did not follow.
Camp started out his political life as a Liberal. His skills as a writer impressed New Brunswick premier John McNair and Frank Bridges, a member of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's cabinet. Camp would become politically active and wrote a column for the party's political journal, Liberal Review. "Apart from giving his ego a solid boost," Boyer points out, it "confirmed for Dalton that the writing he most relished was not reporting news, but instead reflecting on events and commenting on what they forewarned." It was a perfect training ground for Camp's eventual role as a newspaper columnist for publications such as The Toronto Star, not to mention serving as valuable preparation for his more celebrated role as a political strategist.
Over time, he became disenchanted with the Liberals. While he had originally viewed the party as being guided by the twin philosophies of "charity and compassion," he came to believe that it had been corrupted by the expediencies of power. Hence, he reached the dramatic conclusion that "Liberalism had become not a faith but a command."
In 1949 he shifted to the New Brunswick Tories. As a new convert, he quickly became a proponent of an activist line of attack against his former party. "If the [Liberal] machine could intimidate people," he later recalled, "we had to intimidate the machine" and that meant a need to "fight fear with fear." It was this determination that made Camp an important player in John Diefenbaker's rise to political power in 1957. The two men had strikingly similar politics, argues Boyer, and whatever differences there were between them were easily set aside when they were battling their common enemy, the Grits.
It was this same determination that helped Camp go on to build the big blue machine. He was joined on this political journey by Atkins. His younger disciple, who had served in the military, was now connected to Camp by family ties, as Camp had married Atkins's sister, Linda, in 1943. In Boyer's words, the two men "complemented rather than overlapped one another, with Norman increasingly absorbed in operational practicalities that held less interest for Dalton." Together, they created a political institution that became almost completely fused with the Tory party itself—an institution centred within the fabled confines of the Albany Club as well as the office of Camp's advertising agency.
The big blue machine also exhibited an unusual degree of secrecy… using keywords such as "the agency" and "the bunker" to cloak their tactics and actions.
To be sure, there were mixed opinions about them. Camp's mighty struggle against Diefenbaker's leadership did not endear him to a large number of federal and provincial party members, as shown by the fact that Joe Clark opted not to seek his or Atkins's counsel after becoming federal party leader.
Their association with Bill Davis was more complicated. Davis's 1971 Ontario PC leadership campaign did not include either Atkins or Camp because of what was seen as Camp's "enduring toxicity," but Davis and the powerful duo patched things up and formed a highly effective alliance from 1971 to 1985. Atkins would also chair Brian Mulroney's successful 1983 Tory leadership campaign, thanks to Davis's recommendation, and helped guide him to two majority governments.
How did the big blue machine achieve its goals?
Canada's Conservatives traditionally adopted views and practices from their British Tory cousins. In contrast, Camp and Atkins admired American political methods, which they viewed, quite rightly, as being far more applicable in the Canadian context. This orientation was shown by their hiring of an American go-between, Philip Lind, whose job was to build ties with U.S. Republican Party operatives and gain greater insight into their sophisticated polling and communication techniques. It was due to the big blue machine's adoption of these techniques that they found their way to Canada, first in aid of the federal PCs.
The big blue machine also exhibited an unusual degree of secrecy. During the 1967 federal PC party leadership campaign, for example, machine insiders used code names such as "Mother" (Camp) and "Father" (Robert Stanfield), while perfecting a lingo—including key words such as "research," "the agency" and "the bunker"—to cloak their tactics and actions.
Its organizational skills were also second to none. This is primarily due to Atkins. Former colleague Dianne Axmith described him as someone who was "big on organization, structure, and job descriptions," who "lived with flow charts," and picked "the right people for the responsibilities." This allowed him to devise political messaging and polling practices and to conduct opposition research in the war room. It was masterful, brilliant—and, above all, way ahead of the curve in our country.
Boyer notes that the big blue machine was hardly unassailable. Camp and Atkins had successes, but also made their share of mistakes. Still, through it all, they were able to road-test political innovations that often kept them ahead of their rivals. At the same time, their organization maintained an impressive corporate memory—which allowed them to make the most of these innovations as they evolved and became more refined over time.
Even if one does not support the Red Toryism that Camp and Atkins espoused, it is hard not to admire how ground-breaking the big blue machine actually was. In many ways, it was the beginning of the Conservative revolution in Canada.


Feeling dizzy whilst suffering with anxiety is one of the more disruptive symptoms and is often mentioned as being "the one symptom that I can't get a handle on".
Feeling like your on a boat, feeling lightheaded, woozy and off balance. Anxiety and panic can produce these symptoms and sensations and here we'll talk about why.
Here we take an in-depth look at the sensations of dizziness, lightheadedness or feeling off balance, how anxiety can make these occur and how we can reduce the feelings.
Of course, any kind of dizziness can be a sign of something more serious, but we're not even going to go there, we're assuming that you have been told by your GP that you are suffering with anxiety, and the dizziness that is associated with stress and anxiety is not dangerous!


Cobalt Press 2013. Soft cover, 48 pages. 5" x 8.75".
This book of "tartan sketches" was made after a trip to Scotland in fall of 2012. Though inspired by plaids of Scottish clans, the drawings are not copies of the famous fabrics but imagined spontaneous works. They are brush and ink on paper.


After spending countless hours in front of the mirror lamenting over the appearance of your nose, you finally decided to have a nose job. But months, or even years, have passed since your initial operation, and you still are not happy with the way it looks. Whether it's the result of a botched procedure, or your nose job just did not heal properly, you are not stuck with your current nose forever. Through rhinoplasty revision, it is possible to improve your appearance and obtain more desirable results.
Rhinoplasty revision, or secondary rhinoplasty, is a procedure that is performed to correct problems that occur following rhinoplasty and problems that were not correctly addressed during the initial operation. Though most people are happy with the results of their nose job, it is estimated that up to twelve percent require revision at some point. Rhinoplasty revision can be used to correct numerous problems including excess scar tissue and dips and bumps in the nose. Because the original nose is no longer in tact, corrective procedures must be performed by a highly skilled surgeon who knows how to deal with the complex issues involved in rhinoplasty revision.
How is Rhinoplasty Revision Performed?
The exact technique for performing a rhinoplasty revision varies greatly depending on the nature of the problem being corrected. In instances where major repairs are required, the procedure is very similar to, or more complex than, the initial rhinoplasty and may require extensive removal, augmentation or repositioning of the bone and cartilage that make up the nose. In other cases, the operation may be as simple as making a small incision to remove a small amount of scar tissue that is obstructing your breathing.
Am I a Candidate for Rhinoplasty Revision?
Most people who have undergone an initial rhinoplasty procedure are candidates for rhinoplasty revision. Be sure to let your surgeon know if anything relating to your health has changed since your initial surgery.
While it is possible to correct a multitude of problems with revision surgery, it is important to remain realistic about your goals. If a significant portion of the bone and cartilage in your nose has been removed, it will be difficult to drastically alter its shape or size.
Like the procedure itself, the recovery for rhinoplasty revision varies. If major corrections are made, you can expect a recovery period similar to what you experienced following your initial nose job. You may have to avoid strenuous activities with a few months while your nose heals. For minor corrections, healing could take as little as a few weeks. In either case, most patients are happy with the results of rhinoplasty revision.


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Experts Weigh In On Payment Rails — New And Old
Posted on April 14, 2017 April 14, 2017 6:58 am
Deck: Rails can be rickety, and rails can be gleamingly new, but in payments rails have to make sure the money gets to where it needs to go. At IP 2017, a series of rail specialists, from NACHA to Canada's Interac, delved into what needs to happen to make the complex mechanism of money transfers work 24/7/365.
Technology underpins everything these days. Ever more so this is the case with payments and specifically the conduits that get payments from party A to party B.
In a panel at Innovation Project 2017 moderated by Global Economics Group's Founder and economist David Evans, a trio of payments professionals, including Jan Estep, president and CEO of NACHA, Sandeep Malhotra, SVP of ACH Systems, Mastercard, and Debbie Gamble, head of digital strategy at Canada's Interac, debated what it means to have payment rails in place — and what it means to have modern rails functioning within a country or across the globe.
The big question: Can the existing payment rails support the innovation that is needed? Said NACHA's Estep, "the answer depends on what type of innovation you are talking about, and then what type of a payments system you are talking about." Against that backdrop, "innovation means many different things to different players."
From an ACH networks standpoint, noted Estep, innovation may be "skinny," but operations are ubiquitous, connecting all the bank accounts in the United States. This allows for innovation to be done on top of the ACH rails. "To the extent that a payment rail allows others to innovate, it does support innovation," said Estep. The ACH network also has evolved and is innovative relative to now having settlements in bank accounts" twice daily, which can be seen as an "internal type of innovation."
Broadly speaking, incremental innovation is possible; "innovation in layers is possible, but that is very different than saying that it is a totally new rail," she surmised. Innovation that rides on top of the rails can come from originators and receivers and software companies as well, said Estep.
Mastercard's Malhotra said that as the card networks work, "we actually make these payments process within the blink of an eye." But speed is not enough, he added, as payment rails also need to include better data and widespread availability around the clock and interoperability that can support open use cases.
Safety and security are also key concerns, he added, in order to identify suspicious activity and stop fraud. There's also the need to submit messages asking payors or corporates to pay "with the appropriate associated data," which makes the receivables side of the equation much more efficient, he said. Writ large, the goal is to create "world-class ecosystems" around the "world-class technologies" that allow people to pay with safety and convenience.
But in getting to that world-class status, queried Evans, might there be gaps in the rails that cannot be filled due to the software and architecture that they have been built upon? What if they just can't accommodate the changes that are needed to support innovation?
Interac's Gamble said mobile has been responsible for helping deliver what she called "richer" experiences in peer-to-peer and commercial transactions. Ubiquity and scale and standards, such as ISO 20022, are necessary to move money. Within Canada, she said, data is also crucial, "especially when you start to talk about security challenges," and so users must provide an email address or telephone number.
Also paramount to innovation within the industry, at least within Canada, is collaboration and openness. Allowing third parties and developers to interact with Interac's capabilities will give rise to new ways to deliver funds, stated Gamble.
Evans put before the panel the notion of "past dependency" for rail operators. "We would be foolish to think that the past does not impact the future," said Estep. Change is harder to effect, she noted, when you are dealing with 12,000 financial institutions, as is the case in the United States — "any time there is a change, they also have to do it on exactly … the same day."
That stands in stark contrast to other innovators in payments that are in effect starting with "a blank slate … with a new system or a new capability." Speaking to Malhotra's earlier exploration of a request for payment, Estep noted that the same function exists on the ACH network in the United States but is not ubiquitous, so the question remains of how to make that available to everyone participating in the network. "Technology both hinders and offers paths into the future," she noted.
Said Mastercard's Malhotra, "The system was designed to do the basic job … to move money … whether it is a new system or old system," the functionality in place will move money from point A to point B and move messages between points too.
Even in embracing digital, he said, "you keep the core constant and then you put layers on top." For Mastercard, "we apply value-added services in milliseconds," with innovation brought at the application level.
In an age where Mastercard bought Vocalink, regulators and other stakeholders, he said, are the ones mandating to "convert cash into electronics." This means modernizing the financial system.
To modernize the financial system, there must be 24/7 availability of payments. Within that framework exists instant payments, and he noted that 45 percent of transactions — across bill payments, for example — are "already live" and ready to be done as instant interactions. The remaining transaction types, he continued, will be live within the next three years. Thus, the Vocalink deal gives access for Mastercard to work with those wide sets of payment flows in Singapore "as well as in the U.K. … and soon it will be launched in the U.S."
Opportunities exist on the consumer side of transactions too, he continued, as consumers look for choice and for convenience at the point of interaction — something Mastercard aims to do whether "it is retail payments, transmission payments … and they can choose between a card account and a bank account."
Speaking to changing the way payments rails function, said NACHA's Estep, the questions revolve not around "can you do it … but who needs it and what will they do with [those technology-driven changes] once it is in their hands."
By way of example, she proffered that businesses can attach "voluminous" data — thousands of pieces of information, in fact — along with their payments.
Such a service is not used by every business, but the use cases are growing dramatically. "But it has not replaced checks," she noted, "and that is because you have AR and AP systems, you have internal technologies that need to catch up with that." So even though the rails can adopt to, and adapt to, new technologies, "you do have to realize the impact to all of the players throughout the ecosystem … part of that is calibrating what changes you make and where do you make them and what tangential changes also need to be made."
Information is one of the things that changes with payments, said Estep, and speed is another. Transitions will happen over time, she said, but will vary per use case and even the immediacy of funds themselves.
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By Elisabeth Braw On 02/11/15 at 5:36 AM EST
The new face of Sweden's Naval Warfare Flotilla, Ewa Skoog Haslum, is willing to challenge anyone who undermines Sweden's waters. Mats Roslund
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Should you happen to find yourself in the Swedish archipelago and spot something unusual in the water, it may be wise to make yourself known to Ewa Skoog Haslum. Don't worry if you've never heard of her: few people outside the rarefied world of naval combat have. But as the recently appointed commander of Sweden's 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla, this feisty stalwart of the Swedish Navy is Western Europe's ears and eyes in the cat and mouse contest with Vladimir Putin. That's because 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla, Sweden's naval rapid-response unit, keeps a strict eye along Sweden's long coast, a hugely sensitive and strategic part of the world not just to Sweden but to Nato and Russia as well.
Last October, when a suspected Russian submarine was spotted in the Stockholm archipelago, Skoog Haslum's ships sailed into action, joined by helicopters and specialist soldiers from other regiments. "Looking for submarines is a case of looking for a needle in a haystack, almost impossible if you're only acting on a reported sighting," Skoog Haslum says. "You have to be present all the time. We're doing what we can with our resources, but we need more money. What I'm doing now is focusing on training. We're a good force, I think, but there are not many of us."
The Swedish armed forces are tight-lipped about how many Russian submarines have paid unwelcome visits to the Swedish coast in recent years, but according to Joakim von Braun, a well-connected Swedish intelligence analyst and co-author of a new book about Russian special forces, there have been sightings off Gothenburg and the northern city of Sundsvall as well as the strategic island of Gotland. Submarine traces have also been identified on the Swedish seabed.
The difficulty of the task doesn't deter Skoog Haslum, who has previously commanded a United Nations naval mission catching terrorists and smugglers off the coast of Lebanon. Indeed, the 46-year-old married mother of two young boys, who entered officer training after completing voluntary military service, is a tough commander who dismisses notions of female solidarity. "Ewa is robust, stable and knows what she wants," says retired navy captain Göran Frisk, Sweden's top submarine hunter during the final decade of the Cold War. "She's a knowledgeable and versatile naval officer, and was an excellent ship commander. She's also very compassionate towards her crew and subordinate officer, and is a good leader at sea."
In the past, Skoog Haslum has said that commanding a ship is the best career she could ever imagine. She told the Swedish daily, Svenska Dagbladet, that she "doesn't have a need for female companionship", neither on the ship nor in civilian life, adding that she is "not interested in the female networks [in the [armed forces].''
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During her six-month terrorist-hunting posting in Lebanon, Skoog Haslum only had one break at home, otherwise contending herself with phone calls to her family.
Russia denies having military vessels off the Swedish coast, but the unexplained sighting of Professor Logachev – which specialises in seabed reconnaissance and features a compartment for underwater vehicles – in October raised eyebrows. More witnesses to the October incident have come forward, with one having spotted a radio antenna that, according to the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter is used for communications with individuals on shore.
Unlike Vladimir Putin, who is secretive about his personal life to the extent that the identities of his two daughters remain a mystery, Skoog Haslum happily posts family pictures on Facebook. She's reported to be well-liked by her fellow officers and sailors alike.
Northern Fleet: Vladimir Putin rides in a submersible vessel in the Baltic Sea as Russia announces the resumption of its presence in the Arctic, a project that had been abandoned by the military after the fall of the USSR. Sasha Mordovets/Getty
During the Cold War, Sweden's submarine-hunters went after intruders with corvettes, minesweepers, patrol crafts, depth charges, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopters, grenades, subsurface sensors and strings of mines placed around naval bases and major ports, thus making their mission harder.
Today the Swedish Navy features impressive combat ships but only has nine of them, down from 34 during the Cold War, and its fleet of 12 attack submarines has been reduced to five. And, like many other countries, Sweden no longer owns any ASW helicopters, the most useful vehicle in submarine hunts. Meanwhile, between 1998 and 2013 Russia more than quadrupled its defence spending.
Indeed, Russian activities in the Baltic Sea region serve to intimidate its neighbours. "The Russians are showing the rest of the world what they're able to do and that they're willing to do it," says rear admiral Nils Wang, commandant of the Royal Danish Defence College.
"That's what they did during the Cold War as well. But now, with Nato right outside their door, they're highly sensitive to Nato activities." But major Carl Bergquist, Sweden's leading military blogger, says "the Russians don't send subs to the Stockholm archipelago for intimidation purposes" because there is only one way in and out and "it would be a disaster if they were caught and bombed there". The October submarine, then, is likely to have been spying.
Norway, a Nato member, has also reported submarine sightings, and Finland is thought to have been visited. In recent months, suspected Russian submarines have also been spotted near Britain's Faslane nuclear submarine base on the Scottish coast. The October incident amounted to a wakeup call for Swedish politicians, who have promised increased defence spending. Previously ordered helicopters will arrive in 2018, but new equipment orders can take up to ten years to be delivered.
For now, Skoog Haslum will most likely increase crucial training and even staff her ships in double shifts. And push for more equipment.
"Yes we have sensors and weapons, but of course I feel that we need more. The waters are so shallow along our coast, from three metres to around 450 metres, and so depth charges, which we have, don't work very well when you're hunting for submarines. Another important thing we need is helicopters."
Thus prepared, and aided by citizen's observations captured by mobile phone cameras, Skoog Haslum has a good chance of sinking intruding U-boats or at least foiling their missions. Whether she can sink Putin is another matter – but the chances are that her work will at least result in the Swedish navy strengthening its capabilities to control its 2,400km coastline.
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