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The Simpsons Turns 30 – Looking Back On The Years
BY Meghan Hale December 18, 2019February 19, 2021
The Simpsons has found a way to be a part of the lives of so many people, regardless of age. I was born at a time where there was already a handful of seasons out, so I grew up watching box sets of The Simpsons in the back of the car on long road trips with my sister. And as we grew, so too did the series. Other people can remember the premiere of the first episode, and the immediate impact that it had on the culture of television. And now, as we get ready to end the decade, 2019 celebrates The Simpsons turning 30. So, let's look back on some of the ways that the show changed the world, and take a peak at what's to come for our favorite family.
Looking Back on The Simpsons at 30
Matt Groening created the animated sitcom for Fox, which first released on December 17th, 1989. It was immediately a hit, with the first season having an average 27.8 million viewers. The first episode was timeless and simple. "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" followed Bart as he gets a tattoo, while Marge must deal with the cleanup. Meanwhile, Homer struggles when he learns that he won't be getting a Christmas bonus. Instead of typical presents, he buys the family dog – Santa's Little Helper. The first episode focusing on Christmas and the importance of family was the perfect start to a series that looks at the intricacies of family life and growing up in a dysfunctional society.
There has been hundreds upon hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons across its 30 years. And because there are so many, it's impossible to think of them all in a general sense. So, it's become common to refer to the episodes in their different eras. Let's look back on the eras that the show has been through to talk about all of the success that the show has had.
As with any new show, it's important to keep things straightforward at the beginning so that people can learn what to expect. Sure, sometimes it's more fun to have things wacky right away. But for the first few seasons, The Simpsons was pretty simple. It focused on family life and the hardships (and wins) that they faced together. Bart's swearing was a bit of a controversy to some more conservative viewers, but that became a part of the appeal. What was almost a raunchy comedy still had heartfelt and important stories going on. Slowly through these first 3 seasons, Homer became the dumb but lovable father of television, and we all knew that they were a family worth watching.
The Golden Years
The start of the Golden Years is up for debate, but it's somewhere around season 3. One of the most memorable episodes, "Stark Raving Dad", is often considered the beginning of the greatest string of seasons. You probably remember this episode as the Michael Jackson episode. The late celebrity made a voice appearance as a man who claimed to be the pop star, and helped right the "Happy Birthday Lisa" song that will always find a way back into our heads. Unfortunately, this episode is not available for streaming on Disney+ due to Jackson's controversies.
The "New" Renaissance
From seasons 9 through 13, the series went through a mix of new writing staff. So, this is where the show had to take some time to figure itself out and decide its future, and how it wanted to proceed with its characters and story lines. There are plenty of not-so-great episodes from this period, but there are also a few gems, like the musical episode "All Singing All Dancing".
The Postmodern Period
For a few seasons, notably 14 to 17, was such a pop culture hit that you could feel how much it had been through. Remember South Park's infamous "Simpsons Did It" episode long before China had a problem with them? It seemed as if The Simpsons was far too self aware that they had, in fact, done everything. Though, the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" arc is one of the most memorable of the entire show. So, while this may be where people think the show started falling off of the rails, it's still seen as a success in our hearts.
The Simpsons Movie
Remember how The Simpsons made a movie, and literally just called it The Simpsons Movie? We do. The 2007 film seems so a part of the story that it's easy to forget that it wasn't just a string of episodes. The film was a pretty big hit, bringing in over 500 million USD. Plus, we got "Spider Pig" out of it. He's got nothing on Spider-Ham.
Post-Movie "Slump" and Simpsons Road to 30 Years On the Air
Everything after the movie has felt like a blur of episodes. It's easy to forget when these post-movie episodes came out, and where they fit into the general arc of the show. Though, the series has been trying with plenty of effort to stay modern and on top of cultural pieces. Unfortunately, after so many seasons, it's pretty hard to keep up with the magic of what made the series special. Though, they're still trying, and we're still watching. So, it's clear they're getting some things right.
The Future of The Simpsons Past Just 30 Years
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Now that The Simpsons and everything from the past 30 years if available for streaming on Disney+, we're sure to see a new interest in the show. And perhaps a new generation will be more inclined to watch it, considering how few families watch cable nowadays. In addition to the new streaming addition, the series has been renewed through to a 32nd season. And it's hard to imagine it getting cancelled when these ones are through with. We won't be surprised to watch as the show continues to dominate records for how long it's been on the air.
So, readers, what role has The Simpsons played in your life through the past 30 years? Do you have a favorite episode, season, or moment from the show? And also, are you still watching? Let us know!
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Dorothy Day's Life of Heroic Virtue
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Jessie McCartney
It can be hard to think of the term "saint" in a contemporary context. We think of saints as the greats that lived centuries ago. Saints are the inspired theologians and courageous martyrs, the ones who relentlessly and gracefully paved the way for our faith. Saints are from another time, another world.
Of course, there are exceptions — Mother Teresa, known now as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and Pope Saint John Paul II, for example. However, a successor of Saint Peter and a sister who received global recognition for her work doubtless still seem very far removed from the lives we live.
Religious life is not a condition for sainthood, nor is a life free of flaws or doubts or regrettable mistakes. One does not become a saint because of the mistakes they've made. They are elected to sainthood because of the way in which they've made a difference despite their human imperfections.
In 2016, Cardinal Dolan, archbishop of New York, initiated the next step in the canonization process of a woman who was both far from perfect and an incredible witness of God's love, Dorothy Day.
Who was Dorothy Day?
Day was born in Brooklyn in 1897 to a Protestant family. Though she grew up in Chicago, she moved back to New York with her family when she was eighteen, and it was there she began her work as a journalist. Driven by pacifist ideals and a firm sense of solidarity with the poor, Day wrote primarily for socialist newspapers. She actively participated in protest movements and even faced multiple arrests as a result of her involvement.
In the midst of her social activism, Day was also actively wrestling with her faith. Her family did not regularly practice their faith, so Day's experience with religion primarily came from the example of others.
For a while, she rejected organized religion. Day felt that not enough work was being done by the churches to help the poor, and that the two, religion and the oppressed, were in conflict with one another. Day identified with the masses, and in her eyes, the masses were out in the streets, not in the pews of a grand cathedral.
However, through her questioning and doubting, she continued to seek God out again and again. She eventually became engrossed with Scripture, and through various experiences (one of them being the birth of her daughter), Day ultimately found the fulfillment she had been searching for in the Catholic faith.
Converting to Catholicism was a loaded decision for Day, in a large part due to her common-law marriage with the man she loved, who was a staunch atheist. However, shortly after having her daughter baptized, Day made the decision to follow suit and converted, resulting in her separation from Tamar's father.
Her baptism into the Church did not offer a simple solution to her struggles. On the contrary, once she was a Catholic, she questioned even more how her faith fit into the social movements she was so passionate about. It was through Day's encounter and eventual life-long friendship with a French immigrant named Peter Maurin that she found answers.
The Catholic Worker movement
Day credits Maurin with the idea behind the Catholic Worker movement, but it was through their combined efforts that the movement came alive.
By studying the social teachings of the Church with Maurin, Day discovered the intersection between faith and social activism that she had been searching for. The more she and Maurin worked together, the more Day saw the Catholic Church as a beacon for the impoverished. The call of Catholicism was to reach out to and take care of the masses, the very people Day devoted her life to advocating for.
The movement that Day and Maurin created was essentially a form of grassroots level activism, with a focus on voluntary poverty and pacifism. Together, they laid out a "program of action" that included four parts, one of which was the Catholic Worker newspaper (that continues to sell for a penny a copy today) and another was the houses of hospitality.
Today, there are over 200 Catholic Worker houses across the nation, with a few scattered in other countries, which is fairly remarkable considering they receive no public funding and rely primarily on donations. These houses are open to everyone and anyone in need. They offer food, clothing, shelter, and most importantly, a community to all who walk through the door.
These houses were, and continue to be, an essential aspect of the program Day co-founded, because they practice the very message she believed the Gospel preached. Day looked to Scripture not just for inspiration and comfort, but for instructions and guidelines on how to live.
A legacy that lives on
Dorothy Day was not perfect, but she was passionate. And that genuine desire to love and care for others is exactly what our world so desperately needs now.
In speaking on Day at an event in New York this January, Cardinal Dolan shared that "her very life is a sense of journey…it was a constant conversion of heart that she was never finished with."
We are called to that same constant conversion of heart today. Day is a saint for our time, because the causes that she rallied for, poverty and war and the rampant influence of ignorance and hate, continue to prevail in our world.
We must take notice of what is going on around us and react to it. By looking to the example Day set, we can face the suffering in our world armed with the tools by which to heal it. We can each be a testament to the truth that saints are as much alive today as they were in the past.
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Complete plastid genomes of South Caucasian, European and Mediterranean Basin wild grapevines (Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris)
Pipia, I., Kunelauri, N., Gogniashvili, M., Kotaria, N., Kotorashvili, A., Lacombe, T., Tabidze, V.
Acta horticulturae 2017 no.1188 pp. 351-356
Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris, ancestry, chloroplast DNA, domestication, genetic variation, grapes, phylogeny, plastid genome, Caucasus region, Europe, Mediterranean region
The South Caucasus region is widely believed to be the area in which grape domestication began, therefore the study of genetic diversity of wild grape samples in this region is viewed as a key to understanding grape domestication in general. The main goal of the presented research was assessment of genetic diversity of wild grape samples from different places of Europe and Mediterranean basin by using complete chloroplast DNA Illumina sequencing. The analyzed sequences were compared with the plastid genomes of Georgian wild grape samples from our previous research. The presented work is a first attempt of studying a wide range of the genus Vitis L., in particular wild grape samples from Europe and Mediterranean basin with next-generation technologies and adopting this application for the tracing of grape ancestry. The obtained results will help to understand the genetic relationships between wild and cultivated grapes from different geographical locations and explain the molecular bases of grape origin and evolution. Phylogenetic trees representing evolutionary relationship between analyzed grape samples are presented.
http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1188.47
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For 18-year-old Wang Qianlin, the excitement of being accepted as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States ended abruptly when she learned that she could only study at her dream school via online courses at her home in Beijing.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the university has moved its courses for the 2020 fall semester online, and she has spent the last several months attending an online university.
Taking a gap year was not a good choice because she said she could not find a good part-time job in Beijing as she had just graduated from high school, so she began to take online courses in late August.
"I had great difficulty adjusting to the new learning mode and there was little interaction between teachers and students as the courses are prerecorded."
Moreover, although the school has arranged live weekly discussions to improve teacher-student interaction, these were from 2 am to 4 am Beijing time.
"I needed to set the alarm clock for these, and one time I just did not wake up."
Not being able to go to the university also meant she could not enjoy the campus life she had dreamed about in high school, she said.
"Moreover, my parents believe the $22,000 annual tuition fees are a waste of money. They did not understand what I was doing over the past few months and think I have wasted the time."
Though the pandemic has disrupted plans for many prospective international students, research published by London-based higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds in June showed that very few Chinese students thought of giving up their plans to study overseas.
The research showed that although a large number of international students are choosing to either defer or delay their entry, only 4 percent of students in China said that they're no longer willing to study overseas, and 66 percent said the pandemic had impacted their overseas study plans.
A total of 703,500 Chinese students went abroad to study last year, up 6.25 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Education.
Sun Tao, president of overseas study consultancy New Oriental Vision Overseas Consulting Co, said while 14 percent of its clients have given up their plans to study in the United Kingdom, only 1 percent had given up their applications for undergraduate courses in the US, while the dropout rate for postgraduate courses in the US was 2 percent.
Chen Yuan, a 21-year-old student from Shanghai, said her efforts to continue her studies at the University of Sydney had been particularly difficult.
As Australia has banned direct travel from the Chinese mainland since January, she took a flight to Thailand on Feb 28 and after she was quarantined for 14 days, she took another flight from Thailand to Australia on March 13.
However, as the pandemic started to became more serious in Australia in March, the school was closed and she returned home to Shanghai in late March.
"I could not get used to taking online courses for a long time because I was basically learning by myself as all of the courses were prerecorded," the sophomore said.
"Rather than instant feedback in face-to-face courses, we can only communicate with the teachers via e-mail or the discussion board at the website," she said. "The live sessions on Zoom were often interrupted by poor internet connections or hampered by unfamiliarity with the software."
For 24-year-old Guo Kaidong, however, taking online courses at his home in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, did not bother him much.
Guo, a first-year PhD candidate at University College London, said that although the university had arranged chartered flights to bring Chinese students to the school before the fall semester, he did not want to go because the pandemic had not been contained in the UK.
Moreover, all courses had moved online and the school library was closed.
As a PhD candidate in social sciences, he does not need to take many courses, and he could read related literature and write his paper at home, he said.
Staying at home was also much more economical, as rent and other expenses in London would be much higher, he said, adding that he was also glad to be accompanied by his parents and friends.
However, the immense academic pressure he was under also forced him to spend most of his time in the past few months glued to his computer, he said.
Due to the time difference, his academic day ended around midnight and sometimes went into the early hours of the next day, he said, adding that he did not leave his house for the most of November as he was busy finishing a paper.
To help Chinese students deal with the difficulties in studying abroad during the pandemic, the Ministry of Education announced in September that it would allow Chinese-foreign joint learning institutions and programs to enroll students who have been admitted to foreign universities but cannot study abroad due to the pandemic.
Liu Jin, director of the ministry's department of international cooperation and exchanges, said recently that institutions and programs at 94 domestic universities had enrolled 3,031 Chinese students in this category.
Cheng Jiacai, director of the ministry's Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, said for students pursuing full-time degrees abroad but forced to take online courses, the time they spend in China taking the courses also counts when they get their overseas degrees accredited by the center.
Wang, Chen and Guo's universities have all announced that the 2021 spring semester would also be moved online, so they have to continue online learning in China.
"We are all waiting for the signal that everything is all right again and that we will be able to return to our university," Wang said. "We cannot wait to end the online courses."
Chinese students adjust to changed overseas realities


Second, considering the risks facing all retirees who rely on their own capital as a source of lifetime income—sequence of returns, longevity, inflation—it would be foolish not to consider one of their largest stores of wealth, their home, as part of their retirement income plan, even if it was never needed.
The basic structure of a reverse mortgage allows homeowners over the age of 62 to borrow the equity from their home up to a certain limit based on the borrower's age, the interest rate and the amount of equity in the home. The amount borrowed, either through a lump sum or monthly payments, is paid back to the lender when the youngest homeowner sells, dies or leaves the property permanently for any reason. The money received is tax-free, and the accrued interest is tax-deductible (up to applicable deduction limit) upon repayment.
Another way to access the equity is through a reverse mortgage line-of-credit (LOC). As with any LOC, it can be established and accessed anytime funds are needed. Unlike a traditional LOC, the credit limit of a reverse mortgage LOC actually increases each year. The longer it is not used, the more cash becomes available. Adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) loans can be drawn and repaid indefinitely, and any funds repaid can be used in the future and will again have the growth factor applied. For fixed-rate loans, they can be repaid, but no additional funds will be available (closed-end loan). It's these unique properties of the reverse mortgage LOC that offer retirees more planning options that can help protect their assets and improve their quality of life.
One of the biggest risks retirees face when converting their capital into income is the sequence of returns. If there is an expectation that a retiree can withdraw a certain percentage of their capital each year without the risk of outliving their income, a prolonged stock market decline early in retirement could require that percentage to be reduced or selling stocks at a loss to make up the difference. With a reverse mortgage LOC, retirees can tap their equity at a cost of 3% to 5% interest, rather than selling stocks at 10% to 30% loss. When stock prices recover, some can be sold to repay the LOC. In this way, a reverse mortgage LOC can be the best tool to use to ensure the sustainability of a retirement portfolio.
For some retirees, delaying Social Security benefits to age 70 is the recommended course if they want to maximize their benefits. Each year benefits are deferred past age 65, the benefit increases 8%. However, if income is needed before age 70, retirees can use their reverse mortgage LOC, which charges a rate of 4% to 5% (and doesn't have to be repaid), to meet their income needs. If there is money available when Social Security benefits commence, it can be used to replenish the LOC.
For many retirees, receiving taxable income from a 401(k) or a traditional IRA can present problems when it lifts them into a higher tax bracket and subjects a larger portion of their Social Security benefits to taxation. These plans also create potential issues because they are subject to required minimum distributions (RMD) starting at age 70½.
Long-term care insurance is a great way for retirees to shift risk for potential care costs and preserve assets for heirs, but many shy away because the premiums can be high and increase in the future. The reverse mortgage LOC can be a resourceful way to help pay long-term-care insurance premiums without impacting retirement cash flow. Since the credit line is guaranteed to grow over time, it can offset LTC insurance premiums if they rise. For retirees that choose not to insure or don't qualify for insurance, the reverse mortgage LOC can be used to directly cover the costs of home care or a spouse's facility care.


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Glycerin Tinctures – What are they?
A tincture is a liquid herbal preparation made by soaking herbs in a "menstrum"- which is just a fancy word for liquid. Tinctures are more concentrated medicinally than herbal teas and are popular to use because they are simple to take and easier to use on the go than herbal teas.This is intended to be an introduction to glycerin tinctures; a simple, easy to use guide for the beginner.
Glycerin tinctures made with a variety of herbs- some individual herb tinctures and some custom blends.
There are three liquids typically used to make tinctures- apple cider vinegar, alcohol and glycerin. When herbs are soaked in the liquid, some of the healing constituents of the plants are extracted into the liquid. So, after soaking the plant material for a while and then straining it out, what you are left with is a somewhat potent herbal medicine. Tinctures have more plant extract- more medicine- in them than herbal teas. Of the three liquids, alcohol makes the "strongest" tincture in that it extracts more medicine from the plant material than glycerin or apple cider vinegar. Another way to say this is that alcohol is a better solvent. It is also a better preservative and a well made alcohol based tincture can last for years.
Apple cider vinegar produces "weaker" tinctures, meaning that it extracts less medicine from the plants. Apple cider vinegar tinctures also have a short shelf life- about a year- and are not commonly used by herbalists anymore. There are a few herbs I soak in apple cider vinegar, but I use those for other purposes, for cooking, for example, rather than for internal medicine.
Sitting in between alcohol and apple cider vinegar- a unfortunately receiving somewhat of a bad rap within the herb world- are glycerin tinctures. Glycerin is a sweet, sticky substance. Most commercially available vegetable glycerin is a byproduct of commercial soap making, derived from coconut oils.
Elderberry Syrup. Made with glycerin tincture of Elderberries, as well as glycerin tinctures of Elecampagne (Inula helenium) and Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare).
.Glycerin tinctures have their advantages and disadvantages. I use only glycerin tinctures as we do not keep or use alcohol in our home due to our traditional Anishnabe beliefs and way of living. And, this is one of the advantages of glycerin. Glycerin tinctures are suitable for those who cannot tolerate alcohol for whatever reason and also for those who do not use alcohol because of religious, cultural or spiritual beliefs. Glycerin is sweet tasting and many glycerin tinctures have an appealing taste, blending syrupy sweetness with herb flavours. Although glycerin is sweet, it is not processed in the body the same way that sugar is and so it is suitable for diabetics. It won't raise the blood sugar. Some herbs, particularly those that are highly water soluble take very well to glycerin and an excellent Elderberry Syrup can be made with Elderberries and glycerin.
The downsides to glycerin tinctures? Glycerin is not as strong a solvent as alcohol and some herbs- particularly resinous herbs- will not take well to glycerin. This also means that glycerin tinctures are not as potent as alcohol tinctures, however, the decreased potency of the glycerin tincture can be countered by giving larger doses of the glycerin tinctures. Glycerin also has a shorter shelf life than alcohol. Properly made glycerin tinctures have a shelf life of 2-3 years. I don't really see this as a weakness, however, as I typically use up the tinctures I make within a year or two.
Tinctures are most often packaged in glass bottles with an eye dropper lid and are taken in drop doses, 2-3x daily (or as directed) in a little juice or water.
Tinctures can be used to treat a wide range of ailments and health concerns, as well as for preventative medicine. In my own practice, I have used glycerin tinctures as part of an overall treatment for a wide variety of health issues including fever and teething pain; allergies; cold, flu and other infections; sore stomachs. high blood pressure and cardiovascular health; urinary tract infections; menstrual cramps; muscle, joint and chronic pain; immune support and more.
OK…. So now you know what glycerin tinctures are, how do you make them??? We'll cover that in our next post, which should be posted within the week! There are a couple different methods which can be used which vary from the very simple to the more precise and measured. We will go over how to make tinctures from dried herbs, as well as fresh plants. Stay tuned for the recipes!
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Have you ever had a day when you fell out of love with your business? When it all felt too hard? Maybe a mean customer had a dig because they were in a bad mood. Perhaps things just keep going wrong. Maybe you're just tired and grumpy and need a break.
The thing is, we ALL get those bad days. No matter how long you're in business, it never goes away, it's just a different level of bad day.
It can be really hard to snap out of a bad day; to get your enthusiasm back when you really don't feel like going on but I have something that might help. I recommend all my clients do this as soon as they start trading, even if their first bad day is a long way in the future- just so it's there, in case.
I'm talking about a Book Of Awesome – it's the name I came up with for something you can easily create to help lift your mood and get you back in the business groove.
What's A Book Of Awesome?
A Book Of Awesome is a book of all the lovely things people have said about your business. All the testimonials. All the nice comments on your Facebook page. All the complimentary messages people have sent. All the lovely things people have said to your face, or said to you or about you on the phone.
It's a book dedicated to YOU and YOUR BUSINESS.
And if that sounds a bit weird and self-indulgent, I promise there's a very good business reason for doing this.
If you've been through a bad day in your business you'll know how difficult it can be to snap out of it.
What starts off as a bad day can actually turn into something much worse and I don't just mean a bad week or a bad month, although that often happens and it's horrible. No, I'm talking about the knock-on effects a bad day can have on our business.
Because our energy is all wrong while we are down and fed up and sad or hurt or annoyed, our productivity goes right down. We don't feel like working. We would rather feel sorry for ourselves and have a bit of a business duvet day. Which turns into two days. Then three.
Because we're out of the business having our very own pity party, things start to slip. We get behind on making or creating, on marketing, on admin. So when we finally DO 'snap out of it', we are miles behind and have a huge catch-up job to do.
And then there's the THING – the thing that set off your bad day in the first place. That nasty comment or bad review, that grumpy customer or glimpse of a competitor's stuff that made you feel inferior. THAT doesn't go away. It sits there and festers in your head, or eats away at your brain, consuming your thoughts to the point where you are totally distracted and can't get anything done.
If you get stuck in this horrible place that started off as a bad day (and by the way, it happens so easily because you're working alone and have nobody to talk to about it) then your confidence plummets, everything seems pointless and you wonder why you bother. And THAT is a sure fire way to break a business.
This is where your Book Of Awesome comes in.
This book is more than a book. It's a treasure chest of joy and happiness. It's packed full of wonderful, positive energy.
One glance reminds you why you are doing this. You can see the difference you've made to people's lives. You can see the happiness you have brought to others. You can see what they think about you and your business – the positive things. You can see how AWESOME you are. And it's OK to celebrate this and indulge yourself in it – in fact it's not just OK, it's ESSENTIAL.
Reading your Book Of Awesome is a reminder of why you set up this business. It's a reminder of why you do this, through good days and bad. And it's a gentle but firm shove back into your business, accompanied by warm, fuzzy thoughts.
Well, it's as easy as you might imagine.
First of all you need a beautiful notebook. One that feels too good to use. The one you've had your eye on, that you were going to treat yourself to – or the one you've had stashed away for a special occasion. This notebook has to make you smile. It doesn't need to be expensive, but it does have to be especially gorgeous.
Secondly, you have to set aside an hour. Just an hour out of your life. And in that hour you go through your emails, your Facebook page, your messages, your texts, your reviews and you look for all the lovely & complimentary things that everyone has ever said about your business. All of them.
Then either print them off and stick them into your notebook along with the name and date of the person concerned, or just copy out the words by hand with a particularly gorgeous pen (obviously it has to be a special pen, that makes you smile).
Now take some colouring pens and doodle pretty patterns wherever you like in the notebook. Draw little frames around the lovely words. Make some art out of it. Draw balloons and flowers, draw whatever makes you happy. Get the kids involved if you want. This book has to make you smile.
Then, when you've added all the lovely words about your business you can find, you find a page near the back or inside the front cover where it's easily found and you create your BIG WHY PAGE. You remind yourself why you started this business and what the big dream is. You can write it, or stick photos of the kids in there, or print pictures off and stick them in – there is no wrong way, you just create a page that sums up for you why this business matters to YOU.
When you're feeling fed up or hurt or down or defeated, dig out that book.
Have a break. Grab a cuppa. Raid the kids' chocolate stash and start reading. Read all those lovely comments about your business and think about when you received them. Think about how happy those customers were. Think about how it felt when you did that job, or made that sale. Think about the good times (hmm sounds a bit like a dodgy eighties song from my youth). You get the idea.
Your Book Of Awesome is your antidote to crap. It's your wake up call. It's your gentle shove back into business, to do what you do best for customers who need you. It's a business saver. And you need one.
No business owner should have to tackle a bad day without a Book Of Awesome. It's time to make yours happen.
I needed one of these last week! I'm off notebook shopping now! Thanks for this!


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Members of Student Council at Treasure Mountain International School will be raising money for the Red Cross on Saturday. Student Council members are selling red plastic bracelets, like the Lance Armstrong Live Strong ones, on behalf for Hurricane Katrina relief. It helps those that are less fortunate than ourselves, said Kevin McIntosh, the Treasure Mountain teacher who advises the Student Council along with Marcie Dart. It does something that gets them out of themselves and the community. And it s the right thing to do. Student body President Dolly Duke came up with the idea, and the council has sold the bracelets during lunch and at Treasure Mountain s dance last week. We still have quite a few more to sell, if we sell all of the ones we have, over $600 will go to the Red Cross relief effort for Hurricane Katrina, McIntosh said. The Student Council will sell the bracelets for $2 in front of the Smith s at Kimball Junction from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Home article YMCA The Spirit of Victory: Robert Baden-Powell and the YMCA
'To do good rather than be good' was how founder of the Scouting Movement, Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell described the First World War work of the Young Men's Christian Association. In a 1916 letter he hailed their active principles, which impressed upon the men of the British Army the same ethics and principles of duty and responsibility which he advocated with the Boy Scouts.
Baden-Powell's involvement with the YMCA dated back to the decade preceding the First World War when he was developing his scouting ideas. After his return from South Africa in 1903, following the Anglo-Boer War that had made him a public hero, he set about developing the manual that would become Scouting for Boys: a guide for young boys on 'good citizenship'.
Prior to its periodical publication in 1908, Baden-Powell worked with the YMCA to test out his ideas through a series of discussions with the Association's secretaries. It can therefore be seen that both parties had very similar motivations and principles, working towards the common goal of promoting moral education and strong citizen values in the young men of Britain. Allen Warren has identified the key original scouting emphasis to be on 'personal character development, individual responsibility and public service', all of which were also encouraged by the YMCA.
The Association went as far as to sponsor Baden-Powell's promotional lecture tour in late 1907 and to support the first experimental camp for boys on Brownsea Island, with joint YMCA Scout Troops being established in the following years.
Sir Robert and Olave Baden-Powell
This fundraising offered to the Scouts would be repaid during the First World War, with Baden-Powell taking an active role in supporting the YMCA's army work. His celebrity status meant that he was perfectly placed to promote the Association, both as a War Hero with connections British High Command, and as Chief Scout, invested in moral education.
At Easter 1915 Baden-Powell first visited the YMCA's huts on the Western Front. He had embarked on the 10 day trip as honorary Colonel of the 13th Hussars, but made plenty of time for the huts, reporting back soon after in an article for The YM British Empire Weekly. He needed no convincing of the value of hutwork and encouraged all support necessary for the hut network 'to get up nearer to the front'. Months later he conveyed the same sentiment in a letter to Lord Edmund Allenby, soon after he was promoted to command Third Army, impressing upon him the 'increasing' demand among soldiers and the pressing need for fundraising.
The first of the huts funded through Baden-Powell was opened on 7th October 1915 at Val-de-Lievre, near Calais. He co-ordinated sponsorship from The Mercers' Company, leading to the premises being given the pub-like name 'The Mercers' Arms', although of course, it did not sell alcohol.
Baden-Powell's commitment didn't just stop at setting up the hut. His wife, Olave, went out to France to run the hut alongside a team of seven others. To do so, she had to leave their young children, Peter aged one and Heather just four months, with her mother yet relished the opportunity 'of doing something real at last towards the war effort'. Her job in The Mercer's Arms was, she recalled in her memoir, as 'a barmaid', 'dispensing chat and sympathy along with cocoa and cigarettes', the latter of which her husband had previously campaigned against. On reflection, she considered that 'maybe the chat was the most acceptable service' she offered to soldiers.
The Etaples Scout Hut (source)
On 1st January 1916 the Baden-Powells opened another hut, this time at Etaples, with Robert appointing his wife to be in charge. Unfortunately, she was unable to stay there long as she contracted the 'flu and was forced to return to England. The Etaples hut was decorated with reminders of the Scouting Movement, including banners and a portrait of its founder. Despite being one of the 33 YMCA huts at the base camp, the Scouts Hut was seen to be popular with soldiers, expanding by the end of the year to include a dedicated concert hut and the following year was greatly improved with the addition of electric lighting.
Later Scout-sponsored huts included a cinema at the Rouen base camp. Young Scouts back in Britain were encouraged to fundraise in hut drives, in turn being taught to "do their bit" for the war effort and in aid of the national cause. Baden-Powell toured the country with the YMCA's General Secretary Sir Arthur Keysall Yapp, appealing for funds.
Throughout the war, he continued to do what he could to support the YMCA, including contributing a short chapter to Told in the Huts, their gift book published in time for Christmas 1916. 'The value of the YMCA huts at the front does not lie merely in their supplying the creature comforts to the soldiers' he explained, although elsewhere he did note that their 'success ... has been largely due in the first instance to their material value'. He considered that 'a greater still value lies behind, since they tend to keep bright in the men that splendid spirit which is just now so conspicuous at the front.' Such a spirit, based on active moral principles demonstrated in the hut environment he believed was 'going to pull us through to victory in the end'.
The argument of Baden-Powell's piece is summarised in his accompanying sketch which was captioned "We are downhearted - I don't think!". This phrase is a twist on Arthur Boyton's 1914 song 'Are we downhearted?' to which every answer was a resounding 'No!'.
As much as morals, the significance of the YMCA's work for Baden-Powell was its immediate impact on morale. It was the comforts of the hut home which could divert men's minds away from the war's 'terrible strain on mind as well as body'. As a man of great military experience, he recognised the importance of this work and its benefit to the army's war aims.
But this support also helped to provide the moral education and guidance to young men that he had campaigned so hard for through the Boy Scouts. The congruent work of both the YMCA and Scouting Movement are indicative of what Olive Anderson and Warren have described as 'Christian militarism'. While scouting was not an overtly religious organisation, it was nonetheless concerned with 'moral and spiritual welfare' in much the same way as the YMCA was through their mission of social religion. Christian morality and lessons of personal duty and responsibility were common to both, working to improve the lives of young men both across the country and throughout the army.
https://archive.org/details/toldinhutsymcagi00londiala/page/18
https://web.archive.org/web/20070418053447/http://pinetreeweb.com/bp-olave-10.htm
http://history.scoutingradio.net/huts.htm
Allen Warren, 'Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the Scout Movement and Citizen Training in Great Britain, 1900-1920', The English Historical Review 101 (1986), pp. 376-398.


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Tragedian are a multicultural metal band from Hamburg, with a wide range of influences, from Heavy Metal to Speed to Power Metal. In doing so, they adopt their favorite elements from these genres and reinterpret them in their own way. Founded in 2002 by singer, guitarist and songwriter Gabriele Palermo, they have released 3 albums so far. Her latest work "Seven Dimensions" marks the first for the new line-up. It includes nine new Power- Speed anthems and three reworkings of already known tracks. "Para Siempre" is a new Spanish version of the 2003 "Forever". Guest appearances by Wade Black (ex Crimson Glory & Leatherwolf), Zak Stevens (ex Savatage & Circle II Circle) and Dan Palmer (Zebra Head, Death By Stereo). For fans of Gamma Ray, Helloween, Iron Maiden, Savatage.
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1. Rising Rage
2. Aloneness
3. Out of the Dark
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5. Bringer of Dreams
6. Crying in the Rain
7. Enlightened
8. Forevermore
9. Destiny
10. Para Siempre (Forever)
11. The Journey
12. Forces of the Light


When we're on location on behalf of Inntravel we often have to devise new walking routes. When you've only got a short time in a destination you don't know, the pressure is on to research what has most potential and then actually walk and map out the route.
This is where local knowledge is priceless. I don't hold with the oft bandied about notion that the average 'local' randomly picked out in the street or who happens to be sitting next to you in an atmospheric tavern is the font of all secret knowledge that no outsider has ever heard before. Not in big towns and cities at least.
In the country it's different. People know things. They might not be secrets as such, but they know places casual visitors wouldn't normally stumble across.
So when Agustin, one of the owners of the Hotel La Coma in Setcases in the Pyrenees, mentioned a place where there was a waterfall that looked like a Champagne glass (Being Spain he might have said cava, but then Setcases is almost on the French border so maybe not), our ears pricked up like a couple of retrievers who'd heard a rabbit in the undergrowth.
Setcases is biscuit tin pretty; a small village of stone houses with a quasi Alpine appearance. It sits nestled into a valley, surrounded by woodland and craggy mountains. Any walking trail that involves strolling through Setcases, serenaded by the sound of rushing water coursing through water channels running the length of the village, ticks a few 'ideal walk' boxes before you even start.
The first part was on road. Normally that can be a drag, but when it's a country road through the sort of countryside the Pyrenees boasts it's no hardship, especially when you've got a playful river dancing along beside you.
Plus there were quirks to bring on an attack of eyebrow raising. A golden sand riverside beach is strange in itself, the surreal factor raised by the addition of a beach volleyball net and a pointless looking wooden bridge, decorated with window boxes, that connects nowhere with nowhere.
Ahead of us the peaks at Ulldeter looked sullen and threatening. Despite it being mid July, there was still snow in parts and rain seemed never far away. On the upside it meant the river was exuberantly high which in turn bode well for some impressive waterfall action.
Without Agustin's advice we'd probably never have spotted the turning where we left tarmac to join a damp and musty forest trail.
At our side a stream didn't so much gurgle as roar as we ascended through a fresh, green landscape broken up by a smattering of buttercup yellow and soft lilac wild blooms.
Progress was slow as we submitted to the stream's hypnotic powers at any feature that looked slightly waterfall-ish.
"Does that look like a Champagne glass to you?" Was a repeated catchphrase, accompanied by eyes being screwed up and the imagination prodded to see if it would concede there was something flute shaped about the cascade before us.
The route followed a trail used in past times by carboners (charcoal makers) until finally we arrived at a bench, a sure sign there was something to see, at Cossi d'en Batlló – the Champagne flute of a waterfall. There was no mistaking its slender outline this time.
We sat on the bench munching apples, broken up with a bit of photo posing, as we absorbed the frothy falls in the depths of the forest.
It was good, but in all honesty we weren't quite as wowed as we'd expected to be.
We continued onwards and upwards through dense woodland.
Twenty minutes later, after crossing a springy wooden bridge and passing golden pools, for no real reason we veered off the path to explore a grassy clearing beside the stream.
There was no bench nor sign, but there was another beautiful cascade; this time a chalice shaped one. More coupe than flute, it overflowed with sparkling liquid like one of those champagne glass towers.
Despite the break a short time before, we took off our rucksacks and plonked ourselves down on the warm sun-kissed grass, intoxicated by the magical forest scene.
Two Champagne waterfalls for the price of one. Perfect, at least it would have been if we'd brought a bottle of bubbly and a couple of real Champagne glasses.


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Have you ever driven around the American southwest? I have, but only recently, and it was much overdue. Over the course of a day, I flew into Salt Lake City, Utah, drove the two hours north to see Robert Smithson's The Spiral Jetty firsthand, turned around, went back to the airport where the airline had finally located my luggage, and then hit the road again for Moab, about a four-hour drive southeast. And if I were to summarize that day in one thought, it would have been gratitude for my windshield and its ability to catch all the bugs that would have otherwise ended up in my awestruck, gaping mouth.
Because it's the most beautiful, sky-filled, surreal landscape you've ever seen. It's what I'd imagine it would be to take a rover across Mars, except with more mountains and more McDonald's. And funnily enough, it was actually those highway signs and billboards poking up over the landscape, advertising fast food joints and discount hotels, that particularly struck me. The signs for Howard Johnson's dotting the vista looked so pitifully wee against the mountains in Salt Lake City; you crane your neck to look up so much higher than the fluorescent lights. And it just made it all the more obvious that this topography was just letting us squat for a little while, that it took effort to carve ourselves into it, and might take almost no effort on the landscape's part to shrug us off. And I should explain, I'm from Boston, except for the years that I lived in Toronto; I know nothing about integrating oneself into a natural landscape. I mean, the skyscrapers and apartment buildings and multifamily houses might as well have grown up from the soil. And so when I drove across Utah and saw those red rocks in the distance, and then felt them closing in around me, I had three distinct thoughts: 1) how a Bostonian like me, who has to pull the shades down at night because my next-door neighbor is literally closer to my bedroom than my bedroom is to the bathroom, could, in the very same country, drive off the road and not be found for days; 2) how much these views would be worth in Boston, and 3) nature is completely oblivious to how stunning it is. It doesn't care what we foolish mortals would pay to get close to it. A baby doesn't know it's cute, and a purple mountain has no sense of its own majesty.
This kind of scalability requires a technique to match. In the 1930s, alongside a group of fellow San Francisco landscape photographers which included Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham, all of whom followed in the footsteps of 19th century landscape photographers like Carleton Watkins, Adams formed Group f/64, named for the small aperture setting on a large format camera that creates intense depth of field. The objectives of the collective were to showcase the best contemporary photography coming out of the West – a bit of a nose tweak to the photography coming out of New York and New England – and, more technically, to emphasize what they called "pure photography": hard-edged, sharply-focused, and carefully-framed images that offer a clean, unencumbered view of the thing itself, without a whiff of the photographer intervention or manipulation that had come to define 19th century pictorialism, or a photographic style that privileged artistry by using techniques like soft-focus and chemical processes to create an image, rather than simply record it.
But with all due respect to f/64, it's worth taking a more critical look at what "purity" in photography really means, especially when it holds itself in opposition to the more artistic pictorialism. You can't deny, for example, that there's a powerful sense of artistry in Adams' photographs, pure though they might be. In this photograph, which captures the Teton mountains and the Snake River from Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the snaking curve of the riverbend pulls us into the image with, it would seem, as much clever compositional torque as the foreground tables in Degas' Absinthe Drinker or Cezanne's Mount Saint Victoire – which is to say, with the same deliberateness as a painter can create. It's harder to do that in photography. And there are other moments in this scene that feel inspired by a painter's imagination: the smoothly nubbled texture of the river like a snake skin, illuminated in the center of the image as the water reflects the sky. The clean, organized points of the mountain tops as they shift from bright to dark, contrasted against the sun's cottony glow behind the clouds. The soft, short-haired vegetation that blankets the riverbanks. It's a magnificent image, made all the more striking by its black and white otherworldliness. We know from history photography how far away from us a black and white image can feel, and here, it serves a similar purpose by taking a place that we can get in our cars right now and go to, and transforming it into a work of art. From this artistic perspective, by photographing in black and white – first a technical necessity and then an aesthetic choice – Adams draws us into the more pictorial part of the image: curves, shapes, monochromatic contrasts, composition. The clouds and water and mountains also become shadows and textures and shapes, without all that showy color distracting us from the stark, voluminous contours of the image being captured.
Furthermore, in the case of pure versus pictorial, there's a kind of perceived authenticity to pure photography, this idea that the subject is just out there in its splendor, waiting to be recorded. It validates a sense of point-and-click that lets us all fancy ourselves photographers if we have an iPhone and an Instagram filter, and also the idea that the landscape itself is so stunning that it simply can't take a bad picture. And this doesn't really do Adams justice, nor does it acknowledge just how constructed and technically sophisticated his photographs are. It takes a deft hand and a brilliant eye to point your camera onto the land and come away with a shot like this.
And even more, it takes a photographer's active choices. I've said this before and I'll say it countless more times before I'm through: when it comes to photography, even photography that purports itself to be as pure and unmanipulated as freshly driven Teton mountaintop snow, you're always looking at a constructed image. You're always experiencing the "objective" narrative as seen through the subjective lens of the photographer, whether it's Hiroshi Sugimoto's movie theaters in episode 31 or Henryk Ross's candids of the Lodz Ghetto in episode 20. And in this case, it's almost more blatant for its denial. Adams went out of his way to crop people out of his images, positioning his invisible presence as the omniscient mediator between man and nature. The scene itself is isolated, populated with only its own untouched natural beauty. We easily, and maybe deliberately on Adams' part, forget that a human finger released the shutter. Which makes it a little jarring when we dive into his process and see just how ordinarily human he really was. He wasn't a dyed-in-the-wool mountain man scaling peaks to get these views – there are photographs taken of him standing on his car in the national park parking lot, capturing the same view anyone could have. He talked about photographing these long views to spare himself the mosquito bites. And there's something in this juxtaposition of the authentic and the artificial, the natural and the constructed, that so squarely places Adams as a quintessential American photographer, and a photographer of America.
You'll never hear Adams described as anything but an American photographer. Even his slightly less decorated reputation as the essential dorm room poster photographer speaks to the importance of geography – case in point, I went to a Canadian school and he was nowhere to be found. But the larger point stands: even in dorm rooms, Ansel Adams is America. And to be America is to be a huge, contradictory, and impossible thing. Between the authentic exposure and the artificial cropping, the natural beauty of the Snake River and the constructed style of the New York socialite, what does capturing America even mean?
And this question takes us into the incredibly rich world of mid-century American photographers, and photographers of America, who were trying to answer this exact question through completely different lenses – all of whom are crucial to making up the tapestry, and all of whom are incomplete on their own. Because in looking at these black and white images from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, you come to realize that you can't zoom in and out simultaneously. You can't tell the story of America's landscape without also telling the story of the people who occupy it.
And so, in the 1930s, in another part of the country from f/64, America discovered its embarrassment of riches when it came to documentary photographers and photojournalism. Funded by the Farm Security Administration, or FSA, as a part of the New Deal, photographers started to tighten the focus into the faces of its citizens, specifically rural, working-class farmers. The iconic photographs that came from this period aimed to "introduce American to Americans" – Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," Walker Evans' "Portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs," both from 1936, and both searing, sharply focused examples of the stark, sharp worry lines and hardboiled demeanor forged by the Great Depression. And while the aim here was primarily a state-sponsored attempt to get wealthier Americans on board a social movement by humanizing a rarely-seen socioeconomic class, the artistry and compassion displayed in these images turned them into an art movement of its own, a powerful record of a period in American history that looked honestly in its hardened face and further shaped who we became.
And who we became, as the century progressed, was stratified, glamorous, decidedly unglamorous, and above all, diverse. And one of the viewpoints that most accurately captured this expansive and contradictory self-image came from outside the house, so to speak. In 1955, the Swiss documentary photographer Robert Frank was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to photograph America through a foreigner's eyes. In that way, the photo series he ultimately published in 1958, The Americans, always struck me as the photographic equivalent to U2's album The Joshua Tree: a sprawling attempt by reverent, curious, largely objective outsiders to understand a culture – and here, a racially-heated, class-conscious culture – from its roots on up. Frank shot over 27,000 images on his journeys, ultimately paring the publication down to 83 black-and-white photos that depicted flags, cars, tenements, diners, palm trees, and all manner and race and interaction of people up and down the American chain, but not necessarily living the American dream: factory workers, socialites, rodeo clowns, prostitutes. And while there's a nod to both the FSA styles of documentary as well as the point n' click purity of f/64, Frank employed a significantly grainer, looser style, like he could barely catch America sitting still, and adding a dynamic new layer to this idea of objectivity, this attempt to record the image, rather than create it.
But what zooms in must also zoom back out. And it's there we find Ansel Adams standing, unmoving, on the top of his car, capturing the quiet, solid stillness of America the Beautiful herself. You can practically hear the buzzing cicadas and smell the crushed clover of that magical summer afternoon, as you overlook this vast expanse of supremely photographable manifest destiny from sea to shining sea. We're a spring chicken of a country without a rich architectural history of cathedrals and manmade wonders, but damn if we don't have those mountains. And in Adams' hands, America is her wilderness, her wildness, her national parks, her natural beauty. But even with this objective majesty, we can't act like Adams' viewpoint isn't subjective. We can't ignore also that Adams the photographer is, as I said, Adams the mediator, and moreover the one who positions himself as representative of postwar America: solid, strong, manly, infallible as the mountains. I mean really, it takes a specific kind of mid-century masculine confidence to claim that your viewfinder is even able to objectively capture something so grand, something that stretches so far beyond the frame.
But like America too, there's a fragility below the surface that's being captured as well. Victory in the postwar years doesn't erase vulnerability during the war, or in the Great Depression before that, and from a very concrete perspective, we can't let ourselves get so comfortable as to not think that these mountains, so sturdy and tall and able to shrug us off, don't need our protection. And to that end, it's impossible to talk about the America depicted in the photography of Ansel Adams without considering the same environment concerns that he had. Environmentalism, and the critical importance of being in respectful conversation with the land itself, was fundamental to his work, woven into the fabric of his craft. And he allowed himself to be as political as he needed to be to get his message across. Adams was a staunch opponent of both President Nixon, whose portrait he refused to take, and President Reagan, believing that a president without support for public lands or knowledge of the vast environmental riches under his purview had no business holding the office. He loudly voiced his anxiety over the extraction economy of the west, the unintended, apathetic consequences of extracting resources and leaving the land in worst shape than we found it. And all of this is to say that we need to revisit this idea that the land is just out there in its splendor, waiting to be recorded, so beautiful and so oblivious of its value, and lacking any sustained ability, really, to defend itself against manmade destruction. This is a dangerous lens to see our land through. And while it was in fact this very photography that helped to create the indelible imagery, and therefore awareness, of America's national park system – its wilderness, wildness, and natural beauty – these elements aren't just there for our taking. And these photographs can't end up being all we have left of them.
And look, you don't need me, or an art history podcast, to tell you that these are environmental concerns we still need to have, desperately. We should know by now the cost of our own active impact, our own passive apathy. Park rangers are projecting that the damage to national parks caused by the most recent government shut down will take decades to undo. Think with a longer view; these parks are our cathedrals. Our presence, those McDonald's and Howard Johnsons and billboards and highway signs, it all matters. And you also don't need me to tell you stop what you're doing, put in the request for that vacation time, pack up the kiddos, and just go. Take that drive through the Southwest, hit up those parks, and see these magnificent places for yourself. Go because these photos have inspired you to keep this landscape alive in all its robustness and all its delicacy. Go to repair the damage we've done to the parks, and to America itself, by being apathetic. Go to take pictures, leave footprints, and bask in the wildness, the wilderness, as you and so many subsequent generations after you can crane your neck, mouth agape, and grateful for the windshield.
Special thanks to Jillian Apatow, and the intrepid museum goers at the museum of fine arts, Boston. For more information and past episodes, go to theLonelyPalette.com, or you can follow us on Twitter @lonelypalette, or follow us on Instagram @thelonelypalette, or like us on facebook, and there's nothing better in the world than leaving a rating and review on apple podcasts, except maybe supporting the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/lonelypalette. And check out an upcoming issue of the Bello Collective to read all about why I think supporting independent creators like this is so important in the podcast industry today. And that's at bellocollective.com.
And speaking of Patreon, and of Jillians, today's Patron of the Day is a super fun one, because she herself is exceptionally fun, especially when you put a guitar in her hands. I met Jillian Matundan at my beloved songwriting retreat, and it was love at first B minor. She's been a tireless supporter of the show, and knowing her has been the best time ever. So Jillian, my darling indigo girl, thank you so much.
And here's some exciting news that just came over the transom: I've been nominated by Boston Magazine as one of Boston's Best Podcast Hosts! It's a really small and distinguished short list and I'm so thrilled just to be nominated. But since winning would be even better, here's the website that you can cast your vote on, and unlimited times, I might add. So vote, vote early, and vote once a day, at www.bostonmagazine.com/readers-poll-2019. Or you know, just google Boston Magazine 2019 readers poll.
The Lonely Palette is a proud founding member of Hub & Spoke, a collective of Boston-centric, idea-driven podcasts. And even though spring is sprunging and Thanksgiving is long in the past, it's absolutely worth it to dive into Charles Gustine's Iconography series on The First Thanksgiving and the Mayflower, both of which offer his characteristically insightful views on what this New England lore meant to its time and continues to mean to us, complicated though our relationship might be. Listen at Hub Spoke audio.org, or directly at iconographypodcast.squarespace.com.


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Home BOAT TESTS Wellcraft Fisherman 202
October 12, 2018 Camelot Montgomery-Swan 0
Wellcraft Fisherman 202
October 12, 2018 Camelot Montgomery-Swan
… it's a great-looking open boat with long-range cruising ability, an easy helming experience and lots of space.
… the 202 could become one of the most distinctive and desirable compact crossover boats the market has to offer.
Alex Smith investigates a high-spec family fisher that looks well set to make its mark on the UK market.
Built in Cadillac, northern Michigan, Wellcraft is a very big name in tough, seagoing sports fishers. But while this famous American brand has been catering for fishing enthusiasts for nearly 60 years, its modern Fisherman line is about much more than just fishing. Yes, it retains the very distinctive 'reverse hook' hull styling that helps mark it out as a Wellcraft, and on the face of it, the 202 continues to exhibit all the hallmarks of a serious fishing platform, but these latest models are also now about cruising comfort, about water sports, and about mixed recreation and helming fun. They're designed not just to give the fisherman his sport, but to furnish his family with their own entertainment when the rods get put away.
Now plainly, the creation of a convincing crossover boat is not altogether that difficult on the larger boats in the fleet, like the 262 and the 302. And with talk of a new cabin-equipped 35ft flagship with the option of triple engines and a second helm on the horizon, the top end of the line looks well set to offer the keen cruiser just as much as the keen angler. However, at little over 20 feet in length, the 202 is the second-smallest boat in the Fisherman line, so it needs to be much more ingenious in its execution of the fishing-cruising crossover trick.
Big, bright and beamy
As I step from the pontoon onto the broad forepeak of the Wellcraft Fisherman 202, it is immediately striking how spacious the bow feels. It makes excellent use of the beam-forward design with deep, angular, U-shaped seating tucked securely within the elevated freeboards. There's a large under-deck storage space, an impressive bait well beneath the forward seat and easy access to the heads compartment inside the leading edge of the helm console. There's no storage in the bow's two side seats, but given how much the bow is being asked to do, it makes sense that these should be reserved for buoyancy rather than weighed down with the baggage of a day trip.
In fact, when you think about the core purpose of these boats, that bow buoyancy makes even more sense. After all, while these Fisherman craft are being styled and marketed as multi-purpose family platforms, their reputation has been built on the basis of their fishing credentials. This boat needs to be capable of crawling along off the plane at trolling speeds, through lively offshore swells, without plunging into the troughs or shipping water, and with its combination of space, depth, bow flair and recreational comfort, everything about the boat's forward quarters feels tailor-made for the job.
Head aft around the centrally positioned T-top and the space is again striking. The walkways on both sides are vast, and as you emerge into the cockpit it feels like a continuation of the blueprint laid down by the bow. The two-man leaning post at the helm uses a simple reversible seat back, so you can face aft to watch your lines or chat with the other cockpit occupants. And on each side of the transom there is a hinged seat, which can be folded flush or opened up to generate a four-man seating area in addition to the six-man capacity of the bow. In truth, this boat is only rated to carry eight people, but with a beam that is in fact slightly greater than that of the larger 222 model, and a design approach that continues to give the fisherman the working room he needs, the deck space feels fantastically generous.
Step up to the helm and you will find that the dash is equally accommodating. The big steel wheel, with its classical fisherman's knob, sits over to port, leaving a handy expanse of flat dash for the inclusion of multiple plotters and fish finders. The elevated screen promises plenty of protection and the T-top itself is a beautifully robust piece of work, yielding plenty of grabbing points, as well as useful protection for the skipper and glare protection for the dials.
But however effective this is for the dedicated fisherman, does it really cater as well as it could for the family cruiser? Certainly, the forward bait well makes a great spot for some cold beers, there's some useful space for a toilet in the console and there's plenty of seating on offer, but I would like to see that supplemented with some seat back cushions and infills in the bow, plus a forward boarding ladder, a table fitting both fore and aft, and overhead canvases that attach to the T-top so you can shelter each of the boat's potential dining areas from the sun. Secure and deep-set though the accommodation feels, the only dedicated grabbing points as you move around the boat come in the form of the T-top tubes and the seat-top rails, so I would also investigate the possibility of additional high-level grab handles. With these minor tweaks to the equipment list, this big, robust and beautifully arranged 20ft sports fisher really would make an outstanding platform for large families in pursuit of mixed recreation.
The Offshore model
From 2019 onwards, the Scarab name, made famous by the glamorous, high-performance Miami Vice heritage of the 1980s, is to be dropped from the Fisherman line on the basis that it causes confusion. Instead, the six Wellcraft Fisherman models will be available as 'Offshore' variants, encompassing a set of aesthetic tweaks that make each boat in the line look and feel just a bit fresher, more dynamic and more masculine.
Heavyweight performance
Given the relatively modest power of the test boat's Mercury 150, the behaviour of the 202 comes as quite a surprise. From a standstill, we're on the plane in just 3.5 seconds, with 28 knots already ticking past on the speedo. Up ahead, the big bow is sliding neatly over the crests and the exaggerated bow flare is flinging all but the worst of the spray well wide of the cockpit. It immediately feels like a very well-sorted powerboat and that sense is substantiated in the turn. Even with a few wakes and swells moving through on the beam, you can heel her over, take your hands off the wheel and throttle, and watch as she settles, steady as a rock, and powers through without fuss. There's not the slightest hint of tetchiness, and as the engine loads up, we see only a moderate amount of pace washed off. In truth, the engine is a bit noisy underway, to the point where you have to raise your voice to chat to the man next to you at the helm. That might well be a combined consequence of the screen and T-top trapping the sound, but in all other regards, the 202 feels like a very solid and grown-up sea boat with the kind of novice-friendly dynamics that will appeal to the family boater.
The optimum cruising band is equally useful. From a gentle 16-knot plane right through to 25 knots, the range from the big 212-litre fuel tank (keeping 10% in reserve) sits at around 190 nautical miles. Efficiency of around a litre per nautical mile on a boat like this is very respectable – and while you could spec a 115 instead, the benefits of that are pretty negligible. According to Glastron's own figures, Mercury's 115 delivers a near identical 22-knot cruise at around 23 litres per hour while chopping the top end down from 37 to around 33 knots.
If, on the other hand, you wanted to explore the higher power bands and spec a 200hp motor, you could easily push the performance well beyond the 40-knot mark, safe in the knowledge that this tough, solid and composed boat would handle it. But for me, having helmed the 150hp test boat to a supremely relaxed 37.2-knot top end, I would suggest that a modern, lightweight 175 is likely to offer the best all-round compromise.
While I'm tempted to describe this boat as a Boston Whaler with better looks and a lower price tag, there's actually more to be said than that. For fishermen, this is a very capable, solidly built and well-mannered platform, and for the family user, it's a great-looking open boat with long-range cruising ability, an easy helming experience and lots of space. The options list doesn't look especially well judged for those in pursuit of true multi-purpose recreation, but with a few carefully chosen aftermarket extras to tailor its breadth of application (and the inclusion of the optional Offshore package to maximise stylistic impact), the 202 could become one of the most distinctive and desirable compact crossover boats the market has to offer.
Impressive quality of build
Composed, mature, heavyweight handling
Extraordinary internal space
Dry ride
No seat backs in the bow
No fore and aft table fittings
RPM Speed (kn) Fuel flow (l/h) Range (nm @ 90%)
1000 3.6 3.4 202.0
2500 8.6 12.0 136.7
3000 16.2 16.2 190.8
LOA: 6.2m
Beam: 2.6m
Fuel capacity: 212 litres
People capacity: 8
Power: 115−200 hp
Test engine: Mercury 150
www.sea-ventures.co.uk / www.wellcraft.com
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[NURSING ACTION BEFORE THE TERMINAL PATIENT PHYSICAL CARE].
Palliative care is a group of actions performed by nurses in order to increase the comfort and well-being of patients with terminal illnesses. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines this term as: An approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual . Cicely Mary Strode Saunders is considered as the precursor of the palliative care, who explained the need to change the Palliative Care Units in order to improve the quality of life of patients with terminal illnesses. Palliative care is necessary for patients with a terminal illness. In such cases, the life expectancy is less than six months. Human being is considered a biopsychosocial model. For this reason, the nurse must take into account all the requirements arising from these three dimensions of the human being. In this essay, we deal with palliative care in patients with terminal illnesses, considering the role of the nurse as an important reference when teaching palliative care to the main carer.


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Manuscript Releases, vol. 8 [Nos. 526-663]
MR No. 621—Eschatological Events
John in the Revelation writes of the unity of those living on the earth to make void the law of God: "These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful." (Revelation 17:13, 14.) "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the false prophet." (Revelation 16:13.) 8MR 344.1
All who will exalt and worship the idol Sabbath, a day that God has not blessed, help the devil and his angels with all the power of their God-given ability, which they have perverted to a wrong use. Inspired by another spirit which blinds their discernment, they cannot see that the exaltation of Sunday observance is entirely the institution of the Catholic church.... 8MR 344.2
Satan is making his last and most powerful efforts for the mastery, his last conflict against the principles of God's law. A defiant infidelity abounds. 8MR 344.3
After John's description in Revelation 16 of that miracle working power that was to gather the world to the last great conflict, the symbols are dropped, and the trumpet voice once more gives a certain sound: "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." (Revelation 16:15.)—Manuscript 7a, 1896, pp. 2, 3, 10. (Untitled, February 27, 1896.) 8MR 344.4
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked (without the robe of Christ's righteousness) and they see his shame." (Revelation 16:13-15.)—Letter 141, 1902, p. 6. (To Brother and Sister Haskell, September 10, 1902.) 8MR 345.1
There will be seducing spirits and doctrines of devils in the midst of the church, and these evil influences will increase; but hold fast the beginning of your confidence firm unto the end.—Manuscript 61, 1906, 2. ("Hold Fast the Beginning of Your Confidence," June 29, 1906.) 8MR 345.2
Satan and his angels will appear on this earth as men, and will mingle with those of whom God's Word says, "Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils." (1 Timothy 4:1.)—Letter 147, 1903, p. 3. (To Brother and Sister Farnsworth, July 14, 1903.) 8MR 345.3
When these spiritualistic deceptions are revealed to be what they really are—the secret workings of evil spirits—those who have acted a part in them will become as men who have lost their minds.—Letter 311, 1905, p. 5. (To Brethren Daniells and Prescott, and Their Associates, October 30, 1905.) 8MR 345.4
We are approaching the end of this earth's history, and Satan is working as never before. He is striving to act as director of the Christian world. With an intensity that is marvelous he is working with his lying wonders. Satan is represented as walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. He desires to embrace the whole world in his confederacy. Hiding his deformity under the garb of Christianity, he assumes the attributes of a Christian, and claims to be Christ Himself.—Manuscript 125, 1901, 6. ("The Unchangeable Law of God," December 9, 1901.) 8MR 346.1
Satan himself will personate Christ, declaring that he is the Son of God. One will say, "Christ is here;" another, "He is there;" and still another that He is somewhere else.—Manuscript 110, 1901, 12. ("The Christian Hope," Sermon, October 5, 1901.) 8MR 346.2
Satan will work ... wonders before men to make the world believe him to be Christ, come the second time to our world. He transforms himself into an angel of light, but while he bears the appearance in every particular as far as appearance goes, he is not Christ.—Letter 46, 1889, p. 2. (To "Brethren in Healdsburg," January 10, 1889.) 8MR 346.3
The mighty angel from heaven is to "lighten the earth with His glory" (Revelation 18:1), while he cries mightily with a loud voice, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen" (Verse 2).... 8MR 346.4
We would lose faith and courage in the conflict if we were not sustained by the power of God. 8MR 346.5
Every form of evil is to spring into intense activity. Evil angels unite their powers with evil men, and, as they have been in constant conflict and attained an experience in the best modes of deception and battle, and have been strengthening for centuries, they will not yield the last great final contest without a desperate struggle. All the world will be on one side or the other of the question. The battle of Armageddon will be fought, and that day must find none of us sleeping. Wide awake we must be, as wise virgins having oil in our vessels with our lamps. What is this?—Grace. Grace! 8MR 347.1
The power of the Holy Ghost must be upon us and the Captain of the Lord's host will stand at the head of the angels of heaven to direct the battle.—Letter 112, 1890, pp. 3, 4. (To Edson and Emma, and Willie White, December 22, 1890.) 8MR 347.2
In the day of His [Christ's] coming, the last great trumpet is heard, and there is a terrible shaking of earth and heaven. The whole earth, from the loftiest mountains to the deepest mines, will hear. Everything will be penetrated by fire. The tainted atmosphere will be cleansed by fire. 8MR 347.3
The fire having fulfilled its mission, the dead that have been laid away in the grave will come forth—some to the resurrection of life, to be caught up to meet their Lord in the air; and some to behold the coming of Him whom they have despised, and whom they now recognize as the judge of all the earth. 8MR 347.4
All the righteous are untouched by the flames.... Earthquakes, hurricanes, flame, and flood cannot injure those who are prepared to meet their Saviour in peace. But those who rejected our Saviour, and scourged and crucified Him, will be among those who will be raised from the dead to behold His coming in the clouds of heaven, attended by the heavenly host—ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.—Manuscript 159, 1903, 5. ("A Message to Leading Physicians," September 4, 1903.) 8MR 347.5
The Son of man will come in the clouds of heaven in his own glory and the glory of His Father, and of all the holy angels. There will be no lack of honor and glory. In that day the law of God is to be revealed in its majesty, and man, who has broken that law and stood in defiant rebellion against its holy precepts, will understand that that law which he has despised, discarded and trampled under foot is God's standard of character.—Manuscript 39, 1898, 6. ("The Day of Reckoning," November 22, 1898.) 8MR 348.1
The trump of God will be heard resounding through earth's remotest bounds, and the voice of Jesus will call forth the dead from their graves to immortal life.—Letter 2, 1874, p. 5. (To J. N. Loughborough, August 24, 1874.) 8MR 348.2
The just ... shall come forth from all parts of the earth, from rocky caverns, from dungeons, from caves of the earth, from the waters of the deep—not one is overlooked.—Letter 113, 1886, p. 4. (To Edson and Emma White, July 11, 1886.) 8MR 348.3
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Q: Understanding branch delay slot and branch prediction prefetch in instruction pipelining Let me define:

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*Branch delay slot: Typically assemblers reorder instructions to move some instructions immediately after branch instruction, such that the moved instruction will always be executed, regardless whether branch is taken or not, without leaving the system in inconsistent state.

*Branch prediction prefetch: predicting what will be the outcome of branching condition and then prefetching instructions from the resultant location, so that they will be immediately executed after branch instruction.
Now, lets consider below execution sequence (below, F: instruction Fetch, D: instruction Decode, X: eXecute, M: Memory access, W: Write back):
BRANCH   F   D   X   M   W
INSTR1       F   D   X   M   W
INSTR2           F   D   X   M   W
INSTR3               F   D   X   M   W

Usually branch condition is evaluated and executed in X stage. By this stage, INSTR1 and INSTR2 are already started and these are the instructions which can be affected by out choice of whether to use branch delay slots or branch prediction prefetch or both. I did not find any text to discuss this clearly. SO I tried to guess it as below:

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*When we use both, then instruction sequence would be:
BRANCH: branch-instruction
INSTR1: branch-delay-slot
INSTR2: branch-prediction-prefetch

*When we use only branch prediction, then instruction sequence would be:
BRANCH: branch-instruction
INSTR1: branch-prediction-prefetch-1
INSTR2: branch-prediction-prefetch-2

*When we use only branch delay slots, then instruction sequence would be:
BRANCH: branch-instruction
INSTR1: branch-delay-slot-1
INSTR2: branch-delay-slot-2

Am I correct with this? Is it how this happen actually for different cases? Or there are some more details?

A: Yes, that could be what would happen, although I don't recall any architecture that combined prediction and delay slots: if you have prediction, it can run (lookup in a small memory) in parallel with the execution step, so no delay slots would be needed.

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