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'Sweet, sweet Connie' in Grand Funk Railroad hit dies at 66
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Connie Hamzy, a rock 'n' roll groupie from Arkansas who was immortalized as "sweet, sweet Connie" in the 1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit "We're an American Band," has died. She was 66.
"I was determined to become a famous groupie," Hamzy, who lived in Little Rock, told KTHV in 2019. "I really was."
An obituary posted by Griffin Leggett Healey & Roth Funeral Home in Little Rock said she died Saturday. The Pulaski County Coroner had a report on her death but did not immediately release any details.
Hamzy told KTHV that she was finishing her senior year of high school when the manager of Grand Funk Railroad called to tell her that her name would be in one of the band's new songs. "I said, 'Yeah I'll have to see it to believe it,"' she said.
But that summer while she was at the lake with friends she heard an announcer on her transistor radio introduce the new song, and note that a local girl was in the first few lines, she said.
The song that's about the band touring and partying along the way begins: "Out on the road for forty days. Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze. Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act. She had the whole show and that's a natural fact."
Grand Funk Railroad's Don Brewer, who wrote and sang lead vocals on "We're An American Band," told The Associated Press: "So sorry to hear of Connie's death. My memory of her is of a very outgoing 'sweet' girl that wanted to be famous. That was her goal in life. May she rest in peace!"
Hamzy told the television station that she first got backstage at the age of 15 after her mother, who didn't want to deal with traffic, dropped her off early to see Steppenwolf at Barton Coliseum.
"We'd go out there and then we'd wander around the backstage area, and one thing would lead to another," she told KTHV.
Hamzy, who worked for a time as a substitute teacher, hung out with groups that included Queen, the Eagles and Kiss, KTHV reported. Hamzy told the television station though that Van Halen was a particular favorite.
Michael Hibblen, the news director at KUAR, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that he used to run into her sometimes at a Little Rock bar.
"She would sit there at the bar at The Town Pump and openly share her escapades with rock stars," said Hibblen.
"She still had fun telling those stories," he said. KARK-TV, which first reported Hamzy's death, reported that in June she signed autographs and posed for pictures at a reception for an exhibit titled "Play It Loud: Concerts at Barton Coliseum" at the Old State House.
Hamzy's cousin, Rita Lawrence, said Hamzy, an only child, never married.
"She was just a wild child, and she was really of that era, of the bands and all of that, that was her life, and she loved it," Lawrence told the AP.
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Japan Gold Announces Grant of Stock Options
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 14, 2018) - Japan Gold Corp. (TSXV: JG) ("Japan Gold" or the "Company") announced that the board of directors of the Company has approved the re-pricing of 4,549,950 existing stock options to $0.16 per share and the granting of 1,525,050 new incentive stock options at an exercise price of $0.16 per share (the "Options") to certain directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company. The Options are exercisable at a price of $0.16 per share for a period of ten years from the date of grant.
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Moment #1 – In the tool chest!
I've been so busy in the studio of late that I haven't had much of a chance to write here. So I thought I would start a series of daily photos of what catches my eye – in the studio, around Bayarea and further afield. They might stand alone or act as a seed for a brief thought. Enjoy!
When handmade meets digital, sparks fly – The Boston Globe.
At: Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, through Feb. 6.


Lansdown Park Academy is part of the Learn@ Multi Academy Trust.
Lansdown Park Academy caters for pupils from KS2 to KS4 across 2 sites in Stockwood, Bristol and Rushhill, Bath. We provide a supportive and inclusive learning environment where young people learn to accept responsibility for their actions, make positive decisions and display pro-social behaviour.
We are committed to raising achievement and enabling pupils to recognise their potential and support them through an engaging curriculum to support them to make a manageable and smooth transition to their next educational steps.
We are seeking an experienced and skilled Teacher of MATHS and an experienced and skilled Teacher of English, who focuses on outcomes for our young people and will take the responsibility for helping their quality of learning. No two days are the same at Lansdown Park Academy so we are seeking people who can work at pace to turn the 'can't do' into 'want to' and are motivated by working with young people with a range of needs.
You will be motivated by your belief that every child can achieve and reach their potential. The ideal candidate will enjoy working with children in a calm and engaging demeanour, whilst being resilient using innovative styles of teaching.
This post is working with pupils at KS3 and KS4 based in Rushhill, Bath.
Visits are encouraged and can be arranged by contacting Avtar Phull at Lansdown Stockwood by telephone on 0117-903-8071 (Ext 2021).
Interviews: 10th May 2019 at Lansdown Rushhill, Bath.


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Alejandro Chaskielberg
Alejandro Chaskielberg (Buenos Aires, 1977) began his career as a photojournalist, working in local newspapers and magazines. His vibrant use of colour and dramatic worldview are influenced by his time spent as a photojournalist and Director of photography.
With The High Tide project Chaskielberg documented the Paraná River Delta near Buenos Aires and the community of islanders who live there. The Paraná is one of the major rivers in South America, running through three countries: Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, and supplies water for more than one hundred million people. He has lived on the islands of the Delta for two years, sharing with the islanders their daily life to get closer to the way they live and work.
Shooting only at night, his use of long exposure allows the full moon to play a key role in composition and lighting, while the islanders remained still for up to ten minutes. Combining natural and artificial light he is able to compose images of detailed landscapes that encompass his sitters as well as the surrounding vegetation, water and sky, despite being shot at night.
Chaskielberg is a graduate of Argentina's National Film and Audiovisual Art Institute and since first exhibiting his photographs in 2006 he has won numerous awards and grants, the Magnum Foundation's Emerging Photographer Grant and the 2011 L'Iris D'or - Sony World Photographer of the year award to name a couple. In 2008 he was named as one of PDN magazine's 30 New and emerging photographers to watch and was invited to participate in the National Geographic All Roads photography program. In 2010 he was invited to exhibit his project, 'The High Tide' at the Brighton Photo Biennial in the UK, curated by the photographer Martin Parr.
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By Sebastian Vazquez
A black metal band from the pits of San Diego, Ruines Ov Abaddon is a six-piece group that has an extensive history dating back to late 2008. With their recent studio release 'Chaos Reborn', the band has recently announced a tour in promotion that will trek across seven states. A group that has dealt with several lineup changes over the last 8 to 9 years, the band has solidified a lineup capable of creating powerful blackened metal music, with all the frills of blast drumming and fast strumming, but still capable of retaining a gravitating pull of originality.
I was able to sit down with three core members of the group, founder and original member Chris Bourne (vocalist), Rory Packard (drums), and Ben Cockerham (guitar) to chat and discuss their recent release, upcoming tour, and band life in general.
So, there is definitely a long history of this band. Would you care to elaborate more on the history of Ruines Ov Abaddon?
Chris: We played our first show in August of 2008. It was me (vocalist), Aleev, and Pat doing original guitars. It was just us three for a bit. We then linked up with Kyle (drums) and then our bassist Danny. Back then it was very difficult keeping a core group of guys together since we all started off so young and we had to deal with people going off to college and getting into different interests.
As of now, how long has this current lineup been together? How long has the core group of you three (Chris, Rory and Ben) been together?
Rory: I have been on… close to about five years until this point.
Ben: Yeah, and I have been in the band for about 3 to four years now.
So you guys have been together longer than some bands in San Diego. Chris, would you consider these two as like, legacy founding members status?
Chris: Yeah definitely, specially the way this EP was released. This basically describes the way this band is now. The way in which the songs were written definitely has everyone's unique musical touch to it. Rory came on as a very progressive drummer, adding stylistically a very different approach to our music. Ben is a very proficient technical death metal guitarist. So we all have varying styles coming in and contributing to our music.
How would you classify yourself?
Chris: Well, I have always been traditionally a black metal musician. That is mostly how I write, including vocals.
Ben: …….and power metal!
Chris: Yeah I listen to a lot of power metal. But mostly in Ruines it has always been black metal. So it has been a pleasure to have Rory and Ben to be able to contribute their styles into traditional black metal music.
Rory: I think with us, we had to learn and really change our writing and playing styles since I can't do all the crazy stuff that I would like to do and I am musically confined in the boundaries of this particular style of music and Ben is definitely in the same boat. We have to write outside of our understanding of what is normally in the traditional style of black metal. But we still like it to be challenging. And I really hate to say it but catchy as well. I think all of us are in the boat in trying to put our minds in this recent release and having a hand in finding something we all really liked.
Ben: It was definitely one of our first times writing for Ruines Ov Abaddon and putting stuff on the CD and it definitely was a process. Rory and I worked a lot together.
Very interesting. So what was your last official studio release?
Rory: That must have come out in…2010 or 2011….or maybe in 2012. It has just been because of the many lineup changes and the coming and going of different people in the band.
Could you elaborate more on how different line up changes has affected this group or just you guys in general? In a good way or in a bad way? Because a lot of artists kind of go through that a lot, especially local artists who are trying to get their name out with a solid core group. Sometimes lineup changes decimate a band or even moreover, take a band into a different musical direction.
Chris: I think mostly it was all good. Sometimes when there is a lineup change and people act too quickly and the band might not be making the right choice. At least in the case for Ruines, I was really excited to get Rory and Ben on board. Originally, Rory was supposed to be on for a tour. However, afterwards when it all ended, he wanted to stay and had more say in the band you know? And Ben wanted to join and add stuff too. It was like adding fans of the band instead of just adding a random person that I did not know. So to answer your question, it has always been good. The fact that fans that are coming to see us might actually not even recognize us having new members, it is easier to transition in and out of a lineup because we all wear paint and no one knows what we look like. I have had people come up to me and be like, "Hey Ben, when do you guys go on" and that has happened like a million times (laughs).
Rory: I have been along and experienced a lot of the lineup changes and can say that it has been a progressive step as far as musicianship as well too. We have been trying to take on people that are better at their craft or taking it a little bit seriously because it really makes a big difference in the end product and what comes out of it.
With lineup changes specifically for Ruines, especially in bringing in new members in Rory and Ben and incorporating their progressive and technical death metal styles respectively, what would you say specifically, for the people out there reading this, is the sound of this new release? What can people expect when they first hear it live?
Chris: It is basically fast and in your face. But there are technical elements in there. There are parts in there that you will be definitely humming the next day. I remember when we were finishing the recording process for it and having some parts stuck in my head for weeks and it really pissed me off. But then again it was a good element because ideally these are the parts that fans or potential new fans will be singing in their heads for weeks.
Rory: I think what also helps is energy. That is the word that comes to mind when I think of this release. The energy that we get and the positive feedback that we get from playing these songs is really great. Just the response from the newer songs is cool. It shows that people are into it. That means a lot because you put out a lot of music and you don't know how people are going to react to it or take it. Some people aren't going to like it and you don't really give a damn because you play music that you really enjoy.
Ben: Well I would say that it is definitely fun. We tried to put together a record that is as fun as possible.
Fun is a good word, definitely. I saw your guys' CD release show at the Merrow back in November. I had never seen you guys live nor had I ever heard your guys' music before. But when I saw you guys take that stage as a group of six musicians dressed in black and covered in paint, you all really had this infectious energy to the performance. Especially since you all look so intimidating and daunting and made a stage like the Merrow look so tiny. Right off the bat the fans were super into it and I saw many people get up from their bar stools and walk on over to see what the fuss was about. I can only imagine what the response is going to be like on the road for you guys. Care to share more about your upcoming tour? Or care to share about your thoughts about promoting your newest record?
Chris: We leave March 3rd and get back into town the 18th. It spans across 7 states and is 14 shows in only 15 days. To me, this band has always been a live band. We want to try to attract people that do not particularly like our genre of metal or do not really have a taste for harsh vocals but can appreciate a great live show. I have always thought that this is what sets us apart from other bands because I really stressed, especially to the other members of the band, in having a high energy, head-banging type of performance. Even while we are on stage, I like to turn around and scream at them and tell them to move or head-bang. We sometimes have people come up to us asking if there was an issue between us but then I tell them that I was just getting into the music and the live performance and wanted the other band members to feel like how I am feeling. I sometimes do not even know that I am doing that consciously. So going on tour for me is awesome because there will always be that one person that went to the show that never really heard about us or does not particularly like our style of music, but their experience with our live performance drew them in. At the end of the day, that is all that really matters when we go on the road. I mean, we have done some stops on the road where there were only four or five people watching us, but by the end of our performance, all of them were right in there with us.
Ben: That is the sense of accomplishment that I really like. Like going on the road and seeing new people come out.
Yeah, you guys definitely have a growing fan base. Your release show had an incredible turnout, especially for a black metal band in San Diego. You pretty much filled up the entire venue area. That is quite the accomplishment.
Rory: Definitely. For a San Diego black metal band, that turnout was great. Ruines have been around for awhile so I am happy to see the large support that we have here.
How is your turnout like in other cities? What do you guys do other than going on tour to promote your music elsewhere?
Chris: We were just in LA for RuinFest and people were packing the place by the time we got on stage. People were telling us after we performed that the venue was packed! As for your other question, I really stress and I really like doing promotion on the ground. The face-to-face interaction is what I think a lot of people and newer fans really appreciate. It might sound overrated or outdated but I think people really like having something in their hands to listen to or to remember an upcoming show date. It shows seriousness as a musician.
I agree. There is nothing more powerful than that face-to-face interaction and having a small conversation with someone about your music.
Chris: Definitely. For this tour specifically, I have been heavily promoting it on the ground. I have been adding people and maintaining contact with people from cities that are at our tour stops and chatting with them almost daily, hyping them up for when we come. I actually like to take the time out and make special requests to friends or people willing to promote our upcoming shows on this tour at places like in San Antonio and El Paso. Talking to people really goes a long way.
That reminds of the old Myspace days when every local band had a street team or something like that and having really young kids like in middle or high school wanting to get out there and help the local bands in promoting stuff. I think that tactic is still viable today.
Rory: I have not heard that term in YEARS!
Yeah, but it is definitely relevant today. It is like you put yourself out there, and talk to fans or random folks over social media or you make posts and videos and spend hours and hours and hours cultivating a fan base just to get them through the door. It is almost like dating you know? Like spending a lot of time over the phone to get someone out to meet you and see where it goes from there.
Chris: Yeah, the best thing is really making yourself emotionally invested in the fans. They are more inclined to get through the door and support the local scene.
So, to changes gears a bit, what was the writing process like in particular for this release? Was it a dramatic shift from your previous writing and recording endeavors or was it similar? How did you guys approach it?
Ben: The guitar parts for sure were something that I let sit for a bit. I would dwell on it for hours getting different riffs here and there. Then once I felt that I was able to get a good amount of riffs that would mesh really well and form a definite structure, I would write a very basic drum part to it so that Rory would kind of catch what I am trying to accomplish.
Rory: Once I would get his skeleton ideas I would take it and then program drums over his ideas and try to really capture what he is feeling in certain sections of the song. It probably goes through three or four versions before I am actually happy with it. Then we try to get a structure where all of us are happy with it.
Ben: Yeah, essentially we get all these riffs we like and spend time arranging it, you know? Like deleting riffs or adding them or moving parts here and there.
Rory: If you break down Ruines song structures, they are pretty basic. But the art is how you put them together. Because if you cannot put together the song well or even something cohesive, then your song won't stand at all. So far, I think we put together a solid-standing three songs here.
I agree. Cohesiveness is something really important, especially in the genre of black metal. In black metal, there are the staples of blast beats on the drums or fast strumming on the guitars and complemented with harsh vocals. But I think what really sets apart the best and the worst is the ability to transition between parts in a song and mesh it well.
Ben: That is probably the hardest part in being able to change a song around and making sure it meshes well.
Rory: Yeah, like when are you going to shift gears in a song, but even more specifically why are you making a transition here and there. That is why a lot of people who are fans of black metal, because of the emotions they experience while listening to it. For a lot of people black metal can be a really long droning song but for somebody else it might be this magical black metal journey (laughs). However, that is not what we are looking to do. We are looking to write music that is simple, effective, and something that has energy to it. There is so much music out there today that might be well-written and has its energy too, but comes off as stale.
Ben: I want you to feel like when you are leaving the show that you just had the best sex of your fucking life.
To the point where you are talking about it the next day?
Ben: Yeah. Like texting your friends and sending them photos of your recent score (chuckles). But if I did not see people getting into it or head-banging, I feel like I really did not do my job right.
How do you contribute in the writing process, Chris?
Chris: Basically, during the process where guitars are getting written, I will typically be sitting next to Ben and start writing some ideas down. If I come up with something I will sometimes hum it to him. If I have a song idea, I will try to hum Ben a guitar line until he can play what I am trying to write down. After a structure is put together, then I will sit down with it and starting thinking about where I want to sing on it. Once the structure is made, I will start crafting the lyrics.
Has the writing process always been that way?
Chris: No. When Rory was not in the band, our old drummer needed to write his parts out when we would rehearse, since he was not as articulated in programming the parts out with Guitar Pro or with a MIDI program. But now with Rory in the band, things are a lot more efficient when it comes to rehearsal since we can all bounce things around and learn the parts at home. I can trust each member of the band to be able to learn their parts and then have a solid rehearsal. If Rory says he is going to spend the day to learn the song, I can bet you that he will show up to rehearsal knowing it.
Rory: Yeah, and to throw my two cents in, I do not have a ton of free time. So to me it is a waste of my time to be standing in a room waiting for someone to learn how to play a song that they haven't taken the time to learn yet. I would rather have someone take the time to learn the parts at home or bounce ideas around on our own time and build something cohesive. It makes life easier for all of us in the rehearsal place.
Ben: DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK KIDS!
Rory: As long as you can trust the other guys in the band to learn the stuff that you sent them, then you are already ahead of the game. There is a lot of stupid stuff that comes with being in a band so if you eliminate that stuff then it makes the band life a lot easier.
Ben: Yeah, when Mozart was writing music he didn't hire his clarinet player to not come in and know his parts. It is the same thing being in a band and that also includes the back and forth writing process.
Rory: The black metal genre is very simple in nature. Especially on guitar parts. It is more about playing something …
Ben: Like you have to have a powerful melody, but try not to overthink it too much. It isn't a matter of not enough notes or having too many notes, or being busy enough or having musically interesting stuff in it…
Rory: It is not always about cramming the most stuff you can in a song. We do cram a lot of stuff in our music, but we try to space it out enough to make it feel otherwise and breathe. That is the biggest part in maintaining the same elements of our previous recording and bringing that into what our recent release is. Like our first record had a ton of catchiness into it and that is why we have a ton of fans that like our old stuff. So we tried to incorporate those elements in this EP and being mindful of what I just said is a challenge.
Well I think you guys did a really good job in writing three tunes that really are cohesive together and they really mesh. I would say you accomplished that.
Ben: That is what we really tried to do with all the songs. During the recording process we really tried to keep the songs as fluid as possible as a singular idea, and even toyed with the idea of having each song lead to the next.
Chris: Yeah, we had some guys that helped with the recording process and suggested having like one larger, singular piece separated by the three track listings because they really felt the songs could flow well into each other.
So moving away from the writing aspect, does Ruines have any big plans after the tour?
Chris: During the tour the guys always have their laptops. There are always songs being worked on. One of our most well received songs, 'The Force Seeks Revenge', was written in a Motel 6 parking lot on our first tour. We got two other tour offers this year that we still need to get off the ground and learn the details, but for sure one is on the east coast and one is with a bigger band and would be a West Coast type of thing. On another note, the band right now has about four songs so hopefully between the tours we can finish up some of those and shoot for recording a full-length soon. We have a couple of San Diego shows lined up, but we are mostly looking to tour and keep writing some music. That is the best plan right now. The feedback from this tour announcement has only been the beginning, especially promotion wise. The wave is riding slow right now with the tour announcement and we have feedback coming from all over and we are maintaining contacts and making sure they are going to come out when we come into town. We want to keep the train going.
You know, that is one of the reason why I wanted to interview you guys. You guys seem incredibly professional, and have always had the local buzz following. Even with your response you have years and years of experience under your belt and always found the motivation to keep on going after you guys went through lineup changes and dealt with the larger issues. I do not know many bands in San Diego that have been around for almost a decade. So what is it that you think that separates you from other bands or other musicians that makes you find a reason to keep on going?
Ben: I can see a lot of bands becoming jaded and not trusting the process or seeing the results fast enough for them. Bands might be playing a couple shows a month and still might be getting the crowd draw they want and packing the house. It is hard for people and bands to see the progress that they are making, even when they feel that they are not making progress. Every show fucking counts. But overplaying your scene can also really hurt you. It is better to play every two months or three months. You build more tension that way.
Chris: You want to always keep people wanting more. It is something you have to do. You know, when you first start playing in a band, or when bands first start out, you play shows all the time. When we first started out we were playing shows at SOMA and at the Legion Post all the time. You have to be more selective on doing shows especially since a lot people have other obligations and may or may not be able to catch you guys play if they have to work or something like that. We turn down shows all the time. Why play a show if you are on the opening slot of a larger touring band and nobody is going to be there, if you can instead host a headline show and expect a hundred people?
Are there any wackier moments that people do not really know about? What is something that you may do outside the band and without the paint?
Ben: Well I don't fuck whores. I am a pretty laid back guy I guess. I jack off a lot. I may not be that interesting. (laughs)
Rory: I work. A lot. If it isn't work and drums… it's… hanging with my GF and that is pretty much it. I also sometimes like to troll on the internet. I can't control it anymore.
Chris: I watch a lot of hockey.
All of you guys do?
Rory: Well, Chris watches it a lot more than I do. I was a huge fan back when I was younger. Recently, with my new NHL Access, I can catch up on the Penguins of course. That is the only team that matters (laughs).
Chris: Well, my favorite team is the Canucks.
Rory: The greatest sport known to man.
Chris: To answer the other question about wackier stories, we were leaving Houston and headed to New Orleans and right when we left the hotel, Rory decided to reach back and grab a piece of pizza from the night before and we went and stopped at a gas station. Everyone knew we had a five-hour drive ahead of us. So we all got back in the van, got onto the freeway onramp and Rory asked for a bag and said that "it was not going to wait" and takes a shit on the front seat and then chucks out the window. To this day we call it Rory Burgers. And that is not the only poop story. There are plenty.
Rory: Yeah, we pretty much have a lot of poop stories.
Ben: Well, when we were on tour I once wore the same pair of underwear for 11 days.
That is a form of dedication, I would say.
Chris: I got a good one from when we were on tour in Japan. We had a show once and after we finished the show, Rory and the other guitarist were trying to get us into a hotel but then were denied because it was full. So we stayed out all night. A fan from the show took us to the market and grabbed a basket and filled it up with Asahi beers. Ben got so drunk that he fell asleep, on the street. We had nothing better to do, so we stripped him of all his clothes, except his boxers. We grabbed a sharpie and everybody drew on him. But the best part was around 5 o' clock in the morning, some Japanese guy comes walking by in his business suit, going home from a bar or just getting into work, and he stops, and draws on him too.
Rory: Yeah, we tried to get anybody passing by to write on him. I remember laughing so hard that I was actually crying. I do not think I have ever laughed so hard at somebody else's expense.
Chris: Those are the times you look back after you play a show in front of four people and then remember all the reasons why you are in a band in the first place. This is really why we tour, to get some more poop stories (laughs).
So is there anybody that you want to thank? Anybody that helped with the inspiration?
Ben: I definitely would like to thank right here Sky Goodwin, for being our band mom and taking care of us. She is the silent member of the group that always helps with getting the gears turning.
Rory: I am thankful for everything. This band is cool and has a great fan base; it grows every time we play somewhere. We are always getting new fans and that's great; that's the point of being in a band. I also would like to thank Sky, she is great. She takes care of aspects in the band that we can control or handle when we are on stage and it makes a HUGE difference.
Ben: Getting those mutherfucking T-SHIRTS SOLD!
Rory: I would also love to take time in thanking my girlfriend in being supporting of me and being able to put up with the times that I can't see her when I am doing stuff with these guys. She puts up with a lot of my crap. That is pretty difficult in finding someone that actually puts up with my crap. That is pretty cool. But the fans have to definitely be the biggest thing.
Chris: First and foremost the fans. Without them this would not be possible at all. Our secret members (nods at Sky) and the many folks that do what they can in keeping the local scene alive, when they do not have to, is really the backbone to the music in general. But I would also like to thank the band members, because Ruines is my baby and without them I would not be able to keep this going. I thank them everyday for contributing so much and wanting to continue working on this project and making sacrifices to play music.
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Posted on April 29, 2015 by Kim Biddulph
If you are teaching children, or are the parents of children who are learning about the Stone Age to Iron Age topic in primary schools in England, you might want to find a museum to visit to see some objects from these exciting periods on display. We'll update this blog post as we find or hear about museums with great prehistoric collections, so if you find one, let us know in the comments below. You may also be interested in places where you can visit replica Stone Age to Iron Age houses, or in museums with school workshops on offer. In this post we're starting from the south and heading northwards by region.
The British Museum has two galleries (numbers 50 and 51 on the upper floor) dedicated to Britain and the Near-East from 10,000 BC to 800 BC (Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age) and Britain from 800 BC to AD 43 (Iron Age). The earlier gallery focuses on the invention and adoption of agriculture. The later gallery contains objects such as the Mold Gold Cape from Wales, Snettisham torc hoard, and the remains of Lindow Man.
The Museum of London has a gallery called London before London, with a focus on objects from the Thames itself. Highlights include the reconstructed face of a Neolithic woman from Shepperton, a resin copy of the Dagenham Idol (the original is in the Valence House museum in Dagenham itself) and a partial reconstruction of the interior of an Iron Age roundhouse.
The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in London might appear not to be a place to go to find out about human prehistory, but they do have a few animal skeletons on display that early humans would have come across when they first arrived in Europe, like giant deer skulls, as well as the skeletons of early humans (hominins) like Homo erectus.
Similarly London's Natural History Museum also has displays on human evolution as well as those animals that lived in Britain and Europe both in the warm and cold periods of the Ice Ages at the time of hominin and modern human inhabitation.
Reconstruction of the interior of a Bronze Age roundhouse
Dover Museum houses the Dover Bronze Age boat, which is an incredible and near unique survival from this time. It does also have a partial reconstruction of the interior of a Bronze Age roundhouse complete with mannequins in replica costumes based on finds from Denmark.
Tunbridge Wells Museum in Kent has Stone Age to Iron Age artefacts from the High Weald on display in Room 2 of the museum.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has a gallery of prehistoric artefacts, including an intriguing pair of spoons, one with a hole and one engraved with a cross. They have been interpreted as a fortune-teller's kit. Other highlights include carved stone balls from Scotland, Bronze Age gold earrings, an Iron Age coin hoard, and Bronze Age and Iron Age swords and shields.
Some casts of famous Palaeolithic portable art in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Also in Oxford are the Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum (they are attached to each other). The Museum of Natural History has a display on the evolution of humans, as well as a cast of the Red Lady of Paviland (actually the skeleton of a man dated to around 30,000 years ago found in Wales) and a display on how stone tools developed over time, as well as some casts of beautiful Ice Age portable art. Be aware you will have to deal with questions about the Venus of Willendorf's body!
Flint arrowheads on the top floor of the Pitt Rivers Museum – not necessarily all from Britain
The Pitt Rivers Museum has stone, bronze and iron tools and weapons on the top floor and will eventually also have more archaeology displayed there exploring the quest for food from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury has a gallery on the prehistoric and Roman history of the county, including drawers full of Ice Age fossils, like mammoth teeth, and then much later objects such as the Late Iron Age mirror from Dorton and an Iron Age coin hoard.
The Higgins Bedford's collections on display in the Settlement gallery include stone tools discovered by the Victorian collector James Wyatt (1818-1878) in local gravel pits. Two flint hand axes found next to a piece of fossilised mammoth leg bone showed that early humans lived alongside long-extinct animals, showing that humankind was far more ancient than most people at the time believed. A reconstruction of the recently-excavated 3,800 year old burial of a Bronze Age archer from Great Denham shows a high-status young man in his twenties, as revealed by the beaker pottery, bronze dagger and finely crafted stone wrist-guard with which he was buried.
Luton's Stockwood Discovery Centre has a great gallery showing finds from around Luton, some of which come from Waulud's Bank in North Luton, an unusual 'D' shaped Neolithic enclosure at the source of the River Lea.
Haslemere Museum in Surrey has a collection of flint tools on display from Blackdown, West Sussex.
Guildford Museum has a permanent exhibition of some of the prehistoric artefacts found locally, including bronze spear-heads.
On the south coast is Bexhill Museum in East Sussex which has some local prehistoric artefacts in the Sargent Gallery.
Although The Novium in Chichester was built to house the Roman bath-house and displays mainly Roman collections, it also currently has Bronze Age Racton Man, killed in two fatal blows and buried with his bronze dagger, in a temporary exhibition.
The Redoubt Fortress and Military Museum in Eastbourne has a year-long exhibition on called Treasure which includes some Stone Age artefacts.
The Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro has an impressive collection of prehistoric artefacts, especially Bronze Age objects including three gold lunulae which are the subject of a beautiful poem by Penelope Shuttle. They also have Iron Age objects including a slate knife from Harlyn Bay and a decorated mirror.
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter has an important collection of prehistoric archaeology from Devon, including 350,000 stone tools from gravel pits near Axminster and finds from Neolithic and Bronze Age burials. It is also the current home of the Kingsteignton Idol.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery has a gallery called Uncovered which spans from the Bronze Age to the medieval period and has examples of Bronze Age tools and weapons among other things. With any luck some of the objects from the amazing Whitehorse Hill cist burial that were temporarily on display there in 2014 will come back to the museum permanently. If you look carefully, you'll also be able to see some remains of Ice Age animals in the Explore Nature gallery.
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery has a temporary exhibition on until June 2017 on Stone Age to Iron Age Bristol including Bronze Age swords and Iron Age jewellery.
Gloucester City Museum has prehistoric objects on display.
Salisbury Museum is an essential accompaniment to a visit to Stonehenge itself (which also has a fantastic museum). The Stonehenge Archer and the Amesbury Archer are both here, the former was a man buried in the ditch of Stonehenge with arrowheads that would have been embedded in his flesh and bones. The Amesbury Archer had come from the Alps and brought with him the earliest dated metal objects in the country.
Wiltshire Museum in Devizes has a great deal of the artefacts from barrows around Stonehenge in its Gold at the Time of Stonehenge gallery, including collections from the Bush Barrow, the Golden Barrow and a possible shaman's burial. These are important evidence of the role of Stonehenge as a religious monument and focus of high status burials in the early Bronze Age.
The Alexander Keiller Museum is within the henge of Avebury itself and houses the collection of Alexander Keiller who dug at Avebury and nearby Windmill Hill causewayed enclosure (Neolithic meeting places). The remains of burials from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age are on display here.
Dorset County Museum in Dorchester houses many of the objects found in excavations at the nearby Iron Age hillfort Maiden Castle and currently has an appeal to raise enough money to buy a lovely late Iron Age mirror found in a burial in the Chesil area.
Remains of hunter-gathering and farming communities have been found on land and under water in the Solent and some are housed at Southampton Seacity Museum.
Poole Museum houses the very handsome remains of the Poole Logboat, which is 2300 years old. At 10m long, it is the longest logboat ever found in southern Britain and was found in Poole harbour during dredging.
City Museum in Winchester has displays about the history of the area from the Iron Age.
Andover Museum of the Iron Age is a small community museum, but the Iron Age section has a wonderful collection of artefacts and reconstructions/dioramas, with lots of information on Danebury Hillfort. There is also information on the occupation of the Test Valley from Neolithic to modern times.
Including Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of Cambridge University (MAA) has some great collections of prehistoric artefacts, including tools made by early humans from Olduvai Gorge in east Africa, collections from the Mesolithic site at Star Carr in Yorkshire and an Iron Age mirror from Great Chesterford in Essex.
Flag Fen near Peterborough not only has reconstructed Bronze Age houses but also a museum containing some of the huge number of bronze weapons thrown into the fen from the wooden platform that was revealed in a groundbreaking excavation in the 1980s. Recent excavations nearby at Must Farm uncovered the remains of eight logboats, which are also being conserved at Flag Fen and are regularly on display there.
Peterborough Museum has an archaeology gallery including a prehistoric murder victim and one of the finest Iron Age swords ever found.
Chatteris Museum is nearby to Peterborough and currently has an exhibition of the Ancient Human Occupation of Chatteris including 500,000 year old flint axes and many replica objects that can be handled, including a Bronze Age sword and shield.
Wisbech and Fenland Museum has an archaeology collection including an Iron Age decorated scabbard dating to about 300 BC among many other locally found objects.
Ancient House Museum in Thetford, well-known as a Tudor manor house, also has some objects from nearby Grimes Graves (a Neolithic flint mine that can also be visited) including a polished stone axe and bat bones.
Lynn Museum in King's Lynn has the wonderful Seahenge on display. You can appreciate the size of this timber circle that was found on the coast of north Norfolk with an upturned oak tree in the centre. Other exhibits include a hoard of Iron Age coins hidden in a cow bone at Sedgeford in Norfolk, a find our director Kim Biddulph saw first hand as it came out of the ground!
Photo courtesy of Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse
Gressenhall Museum near Dereham in Norfolk has a display on the first farmers in the Neolithic. Norwich Castle, in contrast, has a gallery on the Iron Age. Both of these are part of Norfolk Museums.
Colchester Castle in Essex has a great collection of objects relating to the Iron Age oppidum (a type of early town) of Camulodunon, a fore-runner of Roman Camulodunum. Finds from the Lexden burial include a medallion depicting the Emperor Augustus and were given as a gift to a client king in Essex, possibly Cunobelin, whose coins can also be found in the museum. There are earlier objects too, including a beautiful bronze cauldron from Sheepen that attests to a late Bronze Age feasting culture.
Ipswich Museum houses some Iron Age collections as well as a gallery of the wildlife of Britain from 10,000 BC to today – which animals would our prehistoric ancestors have known? Which animals that we are familiar with today are invasive?
Mildenhall Museum near Thetford hosts some impressive Roman and Anglo-Saxon finds, but it also has a gallery of prehistoric artefacts.
Creswell Crags is on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border and is a gorge in which many caves were inhabited, first by Neanderthals about 50,000 years ago and then by modern humans about 10,000 years ago. The only figurative piece of Ice Age portable art in Britain has been found here, and engraved drawings can also be seen inside the caves.
Buxton Museum in Derbyshire is currently closed fgor refurbishment, but has teeth and bones of Ice Age animals from various caves in the county, as well as some human-made artefacts from prehistory.
Jewry Wall in Leicester has extensive archaeology collections including stone tools.
Prehistoric pottery vessels in Charnwood Museum. Photograph courtesy of Leicestershire County Council.
Charnwood Museum in Loughborough includes local objects dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age such as tools, jewellery, pottery vessels and a chariot fitting. A rare Bronze Age axe mould is a recent addition to the displays. Objects buried with the 4000 year old Cossington Boy are included alongside a reconstruction of his burial.
Bronze Age objects on display in Melton Carnegie Museum. Photograph courtesy of Leicestershire County Council.
Melton Carnegie Museum in Melton Mowbray includes prehistoric objects from the local area including flint and stone tools and beautiful Bronze Age pygmy cup which may have been used in rituals. Also features the nationally important Bronze Age Welby Hoard of bronze axes, sword, spear, harness fittings a bowl. The hoard gave its name to a type of axe. Iron Age finds include a gold coin of the local Corieltavi tribe and pottery from the nearby hillfort at Burrough Hill.
Part of the Iron Age Hallaton Treasure to be seen at Harborough Museum. Photograph courtesy of Leicestershire County Council.
Harborough Museum and Market Harborough Library, Market Harborough includes the fantastic Hallaton Treasure (www.leics.gov.uk/treasure) a collection of Late Iron Age and Roman objects buried at a shrine of the local tribe, the Corieltavi, between 50 BC and just after the Roman invasion of AD 43. See 2500 Iron Age and Roman gold and silver coins, jewellery, a unique silver bowl, ingots, pig bones and a beautiful and rare silver gilt Roman cavalry helmet which make up this amazing discovery. Also, see some of the earliest pieces of metalwork from Britain – the Gilmorton Basket Ornaments – a pair of gold earrings or hair ornaments from the Copper Age c.2500 BC. Other prehistoric objects include a rare cannal coal button dating to the Bronze Age and prehistoric pottery.
The Collection in Lincoln has archaeology galleries that cover Stone Age tools, Bronze Age burials and early metals, and Iron Age swords and shield given to the spirits of the River Witham. The Iron Age Fiskerton log boat is also on display there.
The Norris Museum in Huntingdon is a small museum with some lovely prehistoric collections, including Iron Age cart fittings from Arras culture burials.
The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery in Coventry has prehistoric objects on display, including some Iron Age metal-working crucibles from the Post Office sorting depot site.
The Market Hall Museum in Warwick has refurbished displays including some prehistory, especially the giant deer.
The Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent has prehistoric artefacts on display in the archaeology gallery, including prehistoric pottery and early examples of tools and metal-working.
Yorkshire Museum in York has prehistoric objects on display from flint tools to some of the chariot burials from the Arras culture in the East Riding of Yorkshire. There is also a special exhibition on until 2016 of the Mesolithic objects from Star Carr in After the Ice. In the next two years they will run exhibitions on Bronze Age and Iron Age Yorkshire.
Neolithic jadeite axehead. Image copyright Leeds Museums and Galleries. Photograph by Norman Taylor.
Bronze Age necklace made of Whitby jet. Image copyright Leeds Museums and Galleries.
Bronze Age axe head and mould. Image copyright Leeds Museums and Galleries.
A musical pipe made from a sheep's leg bone. It was found when an Iron Age burial site at Malham Moor was excavated. Image copyright Leeds Museums and Galleries. Photograph by Norman Taylor.
Leeds Museum has displays of Mesolithic and Neolithic flint and stone tools, a Bronze Age jet bead necklace (made from Whitby jet) and both bronze moulds and casts. They also have a partially reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse and artefacts from the Iron Age settlement at Dalton Parlours. These are all in the Leeds Story gallery.
Neolithic carved stone found on Fylingdales Moor. Photo by Graham Lee, North York Moors National Park Authority.
Whitby Museum itself has a collection from the nearby Mesolithic site of Star Carr, Neolithic flint tools, Bronze Age bronze weapons and tools and a copy of one of the Neolithic carved stones from Fylingdales Moor.
Weston Park Museum in Sheffield currently has an exhibition until 20th September 2015 on Life on the Edge, all about life at Creswell Crags in various Ice Ages. Prehistoric objects excavated from South Yorkshire and the Peak District are on display here including flint implements from Mesolithic sites such as Deepcar and grinding stones used for flour production in Iron Age Wharncliffe.
Tolson Museum in Huddersfield has prehistoric objects on display.
Copies of the Iron Age Roos Carr figures at Dover Museum. The originals are in Hull and East Riding Museum.
At Hull & East Riding Museum you can walk through a reconstructed Iron Age village complete with chariot and see the enigmatic Roos Carr figures. There is also the Iron Age Hasholme logboat to see on display.
Scarborough Rotunda displays some archaeological artefacts, as well as Gristhorpe Man, a skeleton buried in a hollowed out tree trunk in the Bronze Age – something qoite common in Denmark but not so much in Britain.
Objects in Ryedale Folk Museum. Photo courtesy of Spencer Carter.
Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire, has displays of flint tools and objects from a waterlogged Iron Age sites along with its reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse.
Swaledale Museum in North Yorkshire also has local prehistoric objects.
The Dales Countryside Museum in North Yorkshire has some local prehistoric objects including flint tools from Wensleydale that date back to the end of the last Ice Age around 13,000 years ago.
The Great North Museum: Hancock houses the prehistoric collections from Wearside, including a logboat, cup and ring marked stones, 174 Neolithic stone axes, Bronze Age burials, hoards, tools and weapons.
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens also has prehistoric objects on display.
The Gainford Stone, a slab of rock carved with prehistoric cup and rings patterns, is only one of a number of local prehistoric artefacts to be found in the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle.
Durham University's Museum of Archaeology houses locally found prehistoric including cup and ring marked stones, microliths made by hunter-gatherers around 7000 BC as well as artefacts from the farming era including jet jewellery, cremation urns from Crawley Edge, Stanhope and a bronze sword from Houghall.
Palace Green Library in Durham will have a new exhibition devoted to the last 10,000 years of Durham from 26th July called Living on the Hills in the Wolfson Gallery.
Manchester Museum, part of the university, has objects from Alderley Edge in Cheshire, where there was, among other things, a copper mine in the Bronze Age. Some Palaeolithic objects from Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire are also on show here. There are also bronze hoards from the River Ribble and gold bracelets from Malpas.
The Museum of Liverpool has a gallery called History Detectives which includes some prehistoric objects, including a burial urn from Wavertree that would have contained the burnt bones of someone from the Bronze Age.
Clitheroe Castle Museum has displays about the area's prehistory as well as history, including burial urns from Pinder Hill.
The Harris Museum in Preston has ancient human and animal bones from the Preston Dock excavations that date back 6000 years, Bronze Age burial urns from the Bleasdale timber Circle and a giant elk from the end of the last Ice Age.
Saddleworth Museum in Oldham has local prehistoric objects on display.
Tullie House in Carlisle has important objects from the Langdale axe factory from which many ground stone axes were distributed across the UK and abroad in the Neolithic period. A Bronze Age display is housed in a replica wooden roundhouse in the Border Galleries.
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Condolences to the entire music fraternity on the sudden demise of Prince Rogers Nelson, the iconic American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. A legend and a true performer, he regularly showcased his stunning guitar work, his iconic singing and his abilities as a songwriter and bandleader. May his soul rest in peace.
I was so moved to see the respect shown by the fans and the media in the US. The depth of their tributes was truly heartwarming. I hope that we Indians, too, don't forget our heroes, even if they didn't have powerful mediums to express their genius.
I would like to mention and acknowledge the contribution of the dynamic Aroon Shivdasani, the executive and artistic director of the Indo-American Arts Council, who is committed to the creation and publication of Indian and cross-cultural art forms in North America. The IAAC supports all artistic disciplines that are influenced by the arts of India and has contributed a lot to art and culture in the United States. Aroon has been passionate about Indian artists in the US and has also encouraged emerging artists from the Indian subcontinent. It is wonderful to have likeminded individuals like her who are so committed to what we do.
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Another great lady who has been in the news is maestro Xian Zhang, who has become the first female music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. I was very happy and honoured to have worked with her in Dubai, with the Welsh National Opera, when I presented Samagam, my sarod concerto. She was such a pleasure to work with and had musicality of the highest order. It is so wonderful to see her work with such a prestigious symphony orchestra.
I was also happy to know that India Habitat Centre hosted the launch of Shobha Deepak Singh's coffee table book Musicscapes, which is a rare collection of 250 photographs in which the great Indian music maestros showcase the several emotions of Indian music. I was very fortunate to have interacted with Shobha's mother, Sumitra Charat Ram, from whom I received a lot of love and blessings. It is so wonderful to see Sumitraji's legacy continuing through her dynamic daughter, who is also a gifted sarod player and artist.
In April, the world commemorated the 400th death anniversary of William Shakespeare. This year provides a truly unique opportunity to visit Stratford-upon-Avon in England, his hometown, to celebrate the lasting legacy of the world's greatest playwright. I wish someday we are able to preserve Ghalib and other greats, like England does Shakespeare. In fact, it is so inspiring to see youngsters in the west pursuing music as a career. They are so driven by passion and have no fear of the future. Their sincerity is truly remarkable.
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Thanksgiving is a time when most of us overeat. It's just what we do on this holiday, right? We eat until we're stuffed, and then when a little room opens up again in the old digestive tract, we fill it back up immediately. Hours later, we do it all over again. Snack, overeat, repeat. It's okay–we're giving thanks for the abundance of food on our tables and family and friends in our home. Even if it leaves us a bit uncomfortable.
And then, there are the leftovers. Some of us will continue to eat abundantly for a few more days. The truth is, a few days of overeating isn't going to hurt us or pack on too many pounds. The bigger issue is that often our overeating at Thanksgiving is the start of a pattern for the entire holiday season to come. Whether it kick-starts an old habit of over-indulgence or triggers a compulsive food addiction, you may want to nip your overeating in the bud early this year.
2) Stay conscious. Once you arrive, remind yourself of your plan. If you didn't plan to munch endlessly, don't! Keep reminding yourself of what your food plan is throughout the afternoon or evening. Yes, this means having lots of inner conversations. Try to stay connected to yourself and your goals in this way. Remember how good it feels when you stick to your goals.
3) Don't arrive ravenous. It's always best when heading out to places where there will be an abundance of delectable foods to make sure that you are not super hungry. Your willingness to stick to your plan goes right out the window when your blood sugar plummets. Even just a piece of fruit or a handful of nuts before will tide you over nicely.
4) Stick to one plate. Your stomach is the size of your fist. One level plate, and I don't mean a jumbo, will satisfy your natural hunger. DO NOT GO BACK FOR SECONDS, unless you feel true physical hunger. Pay attention to your fullness signals. Be sure to add lots of nutrient-dense green veggies onto your plate–this will help fill you up and curb wayward cravings.
5) Stick to three bites of rich desserts. When you have just a few bites of a rich dessert, you get all of the mouth pleasure and little of the body imbalance caused by all the sugar, fat and salt. This way, you can still eye a delicious dessert, stick to a total of three bites and feel proud of yourself.
9) Stay mindful of unpleasant emotions surfacing and plan to attend to them later. Unfortunately, not all holiday gatherings are full of good cheer. Sometimes we are around difficult family members. We may be spending holidays with people we don't know well. Whatever the circumstances, give yourself the gift of taking a little time to be mindful of the feelings coming up. I always like to journal when unpleasant emotions are surfacing–it helps me stay connected to myself and gives me the opportunity to access my inner nurturing voice.


A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics has found the rate of deaths linked to dementia has more than doubled over the past two decades.
Based on nationwide death certificate data — which scientists with the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note "underrepresent the true death rate from Alzheimer's and other dementias" — the disease was found as the primary cause of 261,914 deaths in 2017, up from 84,000 deaths in 2000.
For the NCHS report, researchers examined four types of dementia recognized by the International Classification of Diseases, including vascular dementia, unspecified dementia, Alzheimer's disease and others attributed to degenerative diseases of the nervous system.
While there are several kinds of dementia, Alzheimer's disease is the most common.
In fact, of the nearly 262,000 deaths attributed to dementia in 2017, 46 percent were due to Alzheimer's, the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. The death rate from the disease has risen by 55 percent in recent decades and in Georgia, the number of deaths from Alzheimer's has increased by 201 percent since 2000, according to Georgia Health News.
But some of the increases can also be attributed to changes in record-keeping and guidelines for coding. But again, even death certificates understate the numbers, researchers said in the study.
Last year, the CDC revealed the country's burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias will double by the year 2060.
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The agency's research, the first to factor in race and ethnicity in its forecast, suggests Hispanic-Americans will face the largest projected increase, largely due to population growth. Non-Hispanic whites are still expected to have the largest total number of Alzheimer's cases.
"Early diagnosis is key to helping people and their families cope with loss of memory, navigate the health care system, and plan for their care in the future," CDC Director Robert R. Redfield said.
The cause of Alzheimer's is still not thoroughly understood, and the new report highlights the need for continued research, they added.
Emory University School of Medicine assistant professor Chad Hales, who was not involved in the report, told CNN that "diagnosing dementia begins with a good clinical history and exam, brain imaging and lab studies to ensure no other conditions are causing the symptoms." But "the current gold standard," he told the network, "is postmortem diagnosis with neuropathological confirmation," meaning the disease is best diagnosed after death.
Read the new issue of National Vital Statistics Reports at cdc.gov.


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* Pumps inline in gravity flow systems now provide a warning if the solution means they act as a turbine and not a pump.
* Fixed a solver bug that resulted in non-convergence of networks that contained many flow and pressure controller combinations.
* Calculation Settings Options Dialog had a bug which sometimes did not reset default values correctly.
* Prevented a > 100% open value from being accepted as an input in the control valve data editor.
* Fixed a temperature propagation issue across a tee junction with phase change.
* Inconsistencies removed from setting the default properties of PD pumps.
* ISA liquid only correction factor was sometimes incorrectly calculated.
* Spurious non-converged message appeared in the Warnings List, for very large networks.
* Fixed a rare 2-phase bug with over 30 fluids in the mixture. No need to update from 3.35 unless you have 2-phase module and anticipate having more than 30 fluids in your model.
* Results at the outlet of sonically choked relief devices are now consistent with the limiting sonic flow.
* Fixed a bug that showed inconsistency of results when there are many networks on the same flowsheet.
* Improved pressure loss accuracy for Kv components used in gas calculations.
* Applied limits to pipe heat loss calculations for very low flows in order to avoid a math overflow.
* Fixed a flowsheet bug that occasionally appeared if the user clicked selector icon during pipe connecting.


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Bags under my eyes are a surprisingly common complaint. Bags under your eyes make you appear tired, weary and add years to your face, likely detracting big-time from your overall look and facial beauty. You probably have heard it said many times bags under my eyes are signs of exhaustion, being overly tired or sickness, that make you feel old, look old, unhealthy and tired.
Unfortunately, bags under my eyes (also known as dark circles under eyes) can be real difficult to get rid of, or even make a lot less noticeable.
Contrary to what you have heard, fatigue and lack of sleep are not really a common cause of bags under the eyes.
Just what creates bags under eyes, defined medically as round, uniform areas of pigmentation beneath each eye. Bags under eyes affect women, men and children, although bags under eyes usually start in adulthood.
There are many treatments available for bags under your eyes, ranging from makeup to healing laser therapy and in some cases, facial skin surgery may be needed.
Skin discoloration under the eyes affects just about everybody at some time or another. For some of us, however, these dark circles are a constant bother. While these conditions are occasionally symptomatic of other illnesses, the usual causes include heredity, allergies or tiredness. No matter what the cause, you can still reduce the appearance of bags under eyes, and in some cases, you may be able to get rid of them.
Use thinly sliced cucumbers which is a popular and easy way to cure bags under your eyes.
Allergies may be the most common cause of skin discoloration or bags under the eyes. If allergies are the root of your problem, simply treat the thing to which you are allergic to. Seasonal allergies like hay fever can be effectively treated with prescription or over-the-counter medications. If your dark circles or puffiness are constant, you may need to talk with a dermatologist for help in determining what you may be allergic to.
Occasionally people with allergies also deposed to be deficient in vitamin B6, folic acid and B12. If you don't already take a multivitamin, it could help with your allergies and bags under the eyes. Gluten is a common allergy that causes dark circles under the eyes, which is an allergy to wheat flour. It's important to get tested for gluten disease and allergies.
Bags under my eyes may definitely benefit from getting plenty of sleep. It's not entirely clear why inadequate sleep or overly tired results in bags under the eyes, sleep is the one thing to do. For one thing, lack of sleep tends to cause the skin to become paler (thus increasing the appearance of darkness under the eyes), and it reduces circulation. It's also believed that too little time lying down is a cause in itself. Adequate amount of sleep is usually 7-9 hours per night. Abstain from using alcohol and drugs (only in moderation for best results), which can adversely affect the quality of your sleep.
A lack of sleep, coupled with poor vitamin absorption also tends to reduce adrenal function. The less adrenal function you have the less B6 you tend to absorb, the less B6 you absorb, the less well your adrenal glands work and alas you end-up in a vicious circle.
Sleep, regular vitamins for those that need them, and good calcium/magnesium support in the form of eating a lot of greens - which are higher in calcium and magnesium than dairy products, or good mineral supplement restores adrenal function.
So if you want to break the cycle and the bags under your eyes, you've got to reduce your stress, sleep more and take the proper vitamins and minerals to support the adrenal function in general, which can help bags under under eyes from getting even worse.
Treat your skin while you sleep. There are overnight facial masques available that may help reduce the appearance of puffiness or discoloration, but you can also make your own. Just before you go to bed, take a washcloth and wet with cold water. Then squeeze out excess water and place it over your eyes as you sleep. Treating your skin may help, but the real problem may also be that you have a poor vitamin and mineral absorption problem that must also be corrected. Seeing a naturopathic physician may help for those people who suffer other ailments such as miscellaneous aches and pains that come and go and a general run down feeling.
Apply cool tea bags, an ice cube wrapped in soft cloth, or cucumber slices to your eyes daily. The tannin in tea bags has been shown to reduce swelling and discoloration, and cucumber slices have long been used to reduce puffiness and refresh the appearance of skin around the eyes. Lie down, preferably in the morning, and leave fresh cucumber slices or cool, damp caffeine tea bags (you can refrigerate them overnight so they'll be ready) over your eyes for about 10-15 minutes. Keep your eyes closed.
Try to relax the space. You can do this by wetting a cotton swab and then freezing it for a little while. Then you should gently wipe under your eyes in the areas where the circles are occurring. When wiping, close your eyes and try not to flinch.
Apply an eye cream containing vitamin K and retinol. Dark circles may be caused by a deficiency of vitamin K. Regardless of the cause, however, recent research has shown that skin creams containing these two ingredients reduce puffiness and discoloration significantly in many patients. Long-term daily use seems to have the greatest effect.
A group of women who seem to get dark circles somewhat more often than other women are pregnant wife's which women are more vulnerable to getting dark-circles because of an often occurring feeling of being exceptionally tired due to the pregnancy.
Avoid rubbing your eyes. Usually rubbing of the eyes is brought on by allergies, but not always. Regardless of the reason, stop doing it. The rubbing irritates the skin and can break tiny capillaries beneath the skin, causing both puffiness and discoloration.
Eat a healthy, balanced diet, take vitamins, and drink plenty of water. A whole host of cosmetic problems can be attributed to vitamin deficiencies. Dark circles and puffiness are often attributed to lack of vitamin K or inadequate antioxidants. Also, a deficiency in B12, which is usually anemia-related can result in dark circles. Be sure to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, especially cabbage, spinach, and other leafy green vegetables and take a daily vitamin supplement if necessary. Get adequate fluids to improve circulation.
Quit smoking. Smoking causes vascular (blood vessel) problems that can not only threaten your life, but also make your blood vessels appear more prominent and bluer beneath the skin.
Cover the area up with cosmetics. Try to use an under eye cream. If all else fails, use a concealer which will camouflage the darkness under your eyes. The makeup will help cancel out the under eye circles. Be sure to use a concealer that matches your under tone. After applying, set the concealer with a light dusting of translucent powder.
Establish whether or not this condition runs in your family. Dark circles under your eyes are frequently hereditary. This doesn't mean that you can't do anything about the conditions, but you should be prepared for minimal success actually trying to get rid of them.
Pour a saline solution (water with a bit of salt and/or a half teaspoon of baking soda) in one of your nostrils with your head tilted to the side so that the water comes out the other nostril. They do that at spas in India and it is said to not only reduce the dark circles under your eyes but also enhance the glow of your skin.
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We may ask you (not mandatory but only as an option) to email us digital photos of your troubling bags or dark circles under your eyes for our closer analysis, study and a more personal evaluation.
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Your consulting session starts after you pay, at which time you will also get a personal consultation phone number to call when you are prepared for the consultation session.
Please note: Personal consulting services you receive will not be from a licensed medical professional or MD but will be from a non-licensed person who has good hands-on health experience and is assisted by our knowledge-base research tools.
Before ordering your consultation, we suggest you first see a doctor about dark circles under your eyes and also ask the doctor about advisability of consulting with us for personal counseling.


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I'm Rebecca, pattern designer, wife, Mom of 3 and lover of all things sewing & craft-related. I've been sewing since I was a little girl, but it was after the birth of my first child I decided to publish some of my designs. What started off as just selling one pattern during my maternity leave, quickly grew and became much more!
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