Learning to "Play Along" in the Role of Dementia-Challenged Caregiving

A poignant look at what may await many of us: The care of an elderly parent afflicted with disease and rampant dementia. The author cares for his father, a former FBI Special Agent whose greatest attributes are an extravagant sense of humor and a highly comedic personality. The relationship the two share during the father's hospice period -- a lengthy 19-month long timeframe -- is colored by the father's "episodic dementia," a series of funny, real and imagined adventures owing to his condition and his "re-living" of former life experiences as well as those of an FBI Agent.

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6 Essential Trampolining Facts

Everyone, from suburban moms to your favourite celebs, is "jumping" on the trampoline bandwagon... and a quick internet search for a "trampoline park near me" will most likely prove it. You'll see that many local trampoline parks and gyms have plenty of great options for grownups, including adults-only fitness classes. Who knows, you might even run into a famous face... if Madonna, Julianne Hough, and Victoria Beckham are fans of hopping their way to health, why shouldn't you be?

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How Embroidery Has Evolved Over the Years

Such has been the importance of embroidery in our world and its culture that its value has only increased over the years. Don't even think for a second that this form of art is the creation of the modern world. It's as early as the 1700s when having embroidered clothes in possession was a clear sign of wealth. Back then, there were no clothes or colourful threads which are why bone, sinew and animal pelts were used to create designs

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Ode to the Coloured Pencil

The coloured pencil, sadly, does not get nearly as much recognition or appreciation as it deserves. Whilst there are hundreds of websites, blogs and galleries dedicated to the popular mediums of oil paints, watercolours and acrylics, the coloured pencil often remains a forgotten tool in the artist's repertoire.

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Hyperinflation of Arts

Recent controversy over "Aspiring Artist" T-shirt. Reflection on contemporary art affairs.

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The Sempiternal World ((Worlds Beyond) (With Dr. G.B. McGee)) 5 In Poetic Prose

Dr. McGee, lost, I mean really misplaced, on this new sphere, rather I should say trapped on what he originally called the Dark Planet, after the Galaxy burped all its guts, and gases up and out of its black hole, to form this new world and tiny galaxy, was at this point not a happy camper, not completely. Now on this sempiternal world for a year, an alien planet without an official name, Earth is becoming a formidable memory. But this day his mind is stirred, shadows in his mind stirred are being formed, he sees, not sees, hears female voices afar, he feels a strange warmth to those voices, per near a fervor develops, he drops his fruit, devouring it no more. The closer the voices come, the more aroused he becomes. He now moves branches in his way, the sun blotched his vision, shaking his head, putting an elephant type leaf over his head for a hat, he recoiled his vision quickly, he waved madly as to be seen by the seven shadows, in the far-off distance. They are females, young and lovely. Without pause, he keeps waving his hands in burning contentment.

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Strange Swing Planet (Nine)

The Louisiana Space Station had discovered the 9th Planet's exact location, tracing its orbit for four-years, on its 15,000-year orbit around Earth's sun. Being ten-times the size of Earth, and a thousand telescopes on Earth searching for the new planet alongside its orbit, and Earth's new outpost on Mars doing likewise, it was ambiguous, but just a matter of time. Compared to the Dark Planet, it was a hop-skip-and-jump, to its forest called the Kuiper Belt, where its orbit centralized, and passed Sedna, a planet nearly the size of Pluto hidden within its channels, and when it did pass Sedna its distinct alignment with the rest of the solar system was mapped out to the least fraction, but only that area of space.

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McGee's Colossal Shockwave ((Worlds Beyond) (With Dr. G.B. McGee 7)) In Poetic Prose

Knowing all explosions fade, even monster explosions billions of light years away, supernovas that is, perhaps at its surface being 100,000 degrees, this mega-supernova with the brightness of 600-billion times that of Earth's sun, 10,000-light years away, Dr. McGee standing on the Black Planet looking up at and into the Spiral Galaxy's far-off darkness, in the constellation 89, knowing it center to be very compact, boosted by a dense highly magnetized, magnate. A sudden shockwave disturbed the space environment around the Black Planet-causing McGee and his family to find shelter underground, thus the atmosphere filling up, and stirring up gas and dust, and blinding the planet from its sun and moon, dropping the temperature to a near freezing level for several months, killing much of the foliage and all the long ear plants that had evolved in the last million or so years.

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Metal Casting Via Sand Molds

Sand is mixed with water glass and reacted with carbon dioxide to form a solid mold which can be used for metal casting. The article also shares some important facts on casting.

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Four Ways to Getting Creative With Picture Framing

Over the years, it is not unusual to amass many photos, mementos, and prints to liven up walls, the ledges, and mantels of the house. Nonetheless, with so some these pictures lying around can be hard to have the knowledge of what all to do with them; picture framing might not be cheap, but when pinned to the wall with thumbtacks, pictures and posters often appear disorganized and cluttered. Luckily, there are boundless possibilities when it comes to showing and framing your keepsakes.

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My First Memory Was My Most Embarrassing Moment

You would think my first memory would be something great. However, as with all things in human existences our expectations are crushed into dust.

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A Review of Art Paper Terms and Types: What's the Best Type of Paper for Artists?

There are many types of papers for artists for drawing, watercolor, acrylics, inks, printmaking and mixed media. This article looks at the many terms used in discussing paper types and what they mean.

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Creation and Destruction - Life Cycle

Artists create passionately. Part I - It all starts with inspiration. Joseph Campbell in his book "An Open Life" talks about inspiration and how it happens: "... it's not so much a search for understanding as it is sudden insight. You walk into the forest, you're not in quest of something. Suddenly you are struck by the wonder of this place. A woodpecker flies past: this tells you something about the wonder of the whole world of the birds, of nature and so forth. And if you are a poet, you will attempt to render to quality of that experience insofar as it pushes right through to the ultimate mystery of being and life itself. That such a creature should be there! That the universe should be here! That's something that excites you to wonder."

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How To Purchase Art Online

You love art and want art - but don't know where to start! As a first time collector, you want to make the right decision. When first starting a collection, it can be pretty intimidating to go into a gallery or speak to a dealer when you don't know what kind of art you like.

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Different Things You Can Do On A Bouncy Castle

Imagination is very important when thinking of ways on how to make a bouncy castle more entertaining. The possibilities are certainly endless.

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McGee's Black Eden ((Worlds Beyond) (With Dr. G.B. McGee))

Like a dreamer in a dream- Dr. G. B. McGee had come upon a space and time portal within the new forming Spiral Galaxy. He had been searching for his mysterious Dark Planet that seemingly got thrown about when the previous Galaxy's black hole burped up all its insides, in forming this smaller and more balanced Galaxy. Thus, this undiscovered world was newly discovered again, but things were different this time. Still at the Louisiana Space Station, 2020 A.D., while in the room with the giant telescope, this so called gateway, opened up expressively to permit his entrance. All he need do was step beyond the mouth of the aurora, into a new dawn. That is to say, allow himself to be swallowed up into its gorge of some monstrous mysterious unknown depths. Perilously he stood up from his chair, figured this ongoing exploration of the Dark Planet had absorbed him night and day, and here it was at his disposal, as if God gave the Universe a mind of its own, and allowed it to share its mysteries, or on the other hand, was this some game some prankish demon was playing?

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How to Choose the Best Festivals for YOU

Explore events around the world, from mega music raves to quirky cultural experiences. Discover how to sort through thousands of celebrations - the biggest, smallest, most popular, least known, or most bizarre festivals on the planet - and find the ones just right for YOU.

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The Dark Planet (Worlds Beyond) (With Dr. G. B. McGee)

"When the Dark Planet that we have recently called Exoplanet, moves it is moved by the neighboring galaxy's gravity and there within its explosions," explained Dr. G.B. McGee, to the committee, at the Louisiana Space Station, adding "in addition to other forces I will explain later. But what I want to say first and foremost is we are reading events that have taken place in space and time by detecting gravitational waves, called warping of time, space produces cataclysm, and now we can read events that have taken place millions of years ago. And what appears to have recently taken place, perhaps has taken place three-million years to get to us, so it is all dead data. Again gentlemen and women, I shall get back to this sooner than later. What I've noticed recently is hot material by that Dark Planet, we call Exoplanet, with the one star. This material I am talking about is 'blow shocks' and as they travel, this material piles up in front of them warms up and glows, normally this is what lights up a so called runaway stars, because it is hard to see them from our telescope, but these blow waves...

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The Hyperborean Mythos - The Night of Dead Ages (A Monstrously Vivid World) (Al-Baghdadi)

From the lost scroll, 'This is an Islamic Testament of the Cadaverous Codex' from Mohammad the Dreadful, the Wizard who givith prophecy, this year of 660-years after Christ, to the 21st Century Founders of the New and perfect Islam,' I am the Wizard of the Dust, so they have called me, and I speak from my grave, I will call in this time one and many to follow him, to bring ultimate corruption to flesh and bone on earth's soil, that do not abide the treading of these words now I write: to all Christians and to all that cling onto the pant of those infidels, and to Islamic betrayers and alike, you will crumble beneath the feet of my grave... ' The cleric's name not being fully known, but was referred as Mustafa, or just plainly Wizard, and his writings have been radiocarbon tested, putting the written date of the Testament Scroll at: 645 to 650 A.D.; Muhammad dying in the year 632 A.D. and the Qur'an being standardized around 656 A. D.

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The How-To's of Proper Mixing

Avoid under mixing or improper mixing of the molding/casting material with these handy tips. The article also shares some of this important tics on casting-molding.

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The History Of Stained Glass Making

This is an article about the history of stained glass and the making of stained glass. As stained glass artists I think its important to know the history of your craft. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I liked writing it.

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Rajdeep Sardesai: Breaking Views

Be it covering the breaking news that covers an attack to the nation or having a strong political debate in the newsroom or be it speaking to an IIT Topper one must admire the passion and pride with Mr. Rajdeep Sardesai (Currently: Consulting Editor, India Today Group) has been doing it brimming with confidence. What I have appreciated in this individual is not only the way he would present us with the news but also create an equal interest over the subject in the minds and hearts of the viewers. One of his biggest strengths I would say is intonation - the rise and fall in the pitch of his voice and his ability to probe questions and then later getting into the heart of the story.

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