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As a pure defense of the well-being of my lobes, I tend to interact with fellow feminists more than I do with UnFeminist people under the (misguided) assumption that at least, Ze feminists won't make me want to puncture my own eyeballs on an alarmingly regular basis. I can be such a half-turnip sometimes! This doesn't mean any feminists haven't been accused of endorsing harmful tropes like classicism, trans-phobia, racism, ableism etc — from Margaret Sanger to Mary Daly. Even today we will find someone who will insist theirs is the "right" kind of feminism and anyone who deigns to disagree with zie needs brain transplant right away. All said and done, when I actually meet one of these Self-Proclaimed-Dispatchers-Of-Feminist-Privilege, I'm always shocked, then outraged and ultimately undergo too much chafing of my BrainCells.
This week at a conference on the Renaissance Women of Maharashtra, I came across these revolting lines — There has never been a 'real' feminist movement in India. They further explained this conclusion because there have never been any "Waves", just tiny "ripples" in the stream of women's rights. While their facts seem to be correct, the conclusion they drew was hasty and contrived. If I were to put it delicately, they were WRONG. When I contradicted their statements, they managed to drown more in quicksand of their own doing. Apparently the reason it's not a real movement because it's "nothing like the Radical Wave of the 60's in the U.S" — the doctrine of gag reflexes? It fits in right here. Then the speakers said something else too along the lines of "the wave in Europe and U.S. can only be called a movement; as there is a collective desire and agenda of change". I confess, I didn't bother to listen to anything after that but it can't have been anything good judging from my fellow speaker's disgusted looks. Once again, in a conference — the most academic of its kind– we forget the contribution of the so-called "lower caste" women as they don't represent "the normal demographic". I invoke the omnipresent gag reflex again.
It's not unusual to see such conscious erasure of Dalit women's involvement in academic discourse. Unless, of course one of them comes to represent their own clan, we pretty much ignore them. We proclaim loudly on LegalPaper that "untouchability" is a crime and is now completely absent from our culture while we continue to practice it, blatantly and ostentatiously (albeit craftily). People think Dalit feminists are being melodramatic when they claim triple oppression on grounds of Class, Caste and Gender. Many people rob them of speech because whenever they speak out, they highlight the suppression they face at the hands of the upper castes (read: who wants to read just how big arseholes they are being?). Many can't stand "Dalit writing" because of how unaesthetic it is — considering how Dalit writing often closely mirrors their lived reality — or some just think they should just shut the hell up now that they have "reservations" or "protective discrimination". Some have a problem with the way masculinity is constructed in Dalit writing, an almost hyper-masculine ideal, which again is a little too close to home. But the problem most people have with is the organic, cohesive bond Dalit women depict. There were many critics at this conference that suggested that these Dalit feminists shouldn't give so much importance to women, as "after a point, this whole pro-woman diatribe seems forced". Never mind that Dalit women were the pioneers of the Ambedkarite movement, bore the brunt of educating their children and themselves by themselves, took unmitigated violence from their spouses and the society for simply being women. Never mind that their bodies bear the harshest wounds of oppression, as till date, they are seen as bodies literally to be possessed — by their own men and men of the upper castes. Let's completely disregard their entry and sacrifice into the Nationalist movement; they have reserved seats in public transport now. IF they are ever mentioned with academic discourse, then their husband's contribution gets special mention for being benevolent and kind while women are silenced again. People don't even want to consider that Dalit women led and sustained a "movement" that would satisfy even Western standards (though questions why should our movement match up to other cultures are met with heavy silences) of the "feminist wave".
Such is the precarious nature of Dalit feminism, their struggle becomes more immediate than most, as living life from the lowest and meanest position of the Subaltern makes them "outsiders"; chromatically so. Most people don't regard their movement as feminist at all because they aren't concerned with mainstream 'feminist' problems. Their struggle is "basic" as a large demographic of Dalits live below the poverty scale (to the sadist pleasure of the Landed Gentry). I don't see how can these women ever worry over reproductive rights or sexual freedom if they don't even have food to eat, aren't educated, fighting sexism in the most personal way possible. But of course, because they don't mimic Simone de Beauvoir's tongue or her qualms, they can't possibly be feminist, can they? Instead of judging the world with a Western lens, I'd prefer it if we saw how these RemarkableWomen — collectively, as they are, many hearts and bodies pulsating as one — negotiate their manufactured invisibility.
To think we celebrate each passing year of independence with pomp and pride but are dedicated to never divorcing this collective colonised persona is hilarious. Tragically hilarious, rather.
P.S. Another brilliant post on 'Whiteness' by Wallamazoo that I'm just too damn tired to cross-post. Read it here.


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Tune In Tuesday: Sing Pray Love Vol. 1: Sing-Kelly Price
We are not sure how this slipped under our radar but Kelly "I'm Booked" Price released a new album today titled, Sing Pray Love Vol. 1: Sing.
If this album is anything like her last one then we are in for a treat. We are currently listening and we will review it very soon! Until then go support Kelly.

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Category Archives: Transportation
First snowfall in Kyiv
Ryanair to fly from Boryspil starting Sept 1: Deal reached
Ryanair to fly from Boryspil starting Sept 1: Deal reached
Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/economics/1895656-ryanair-to-fly-from-boryspil-starting-sept-1-deal-reached.html
Comparing airports
In whose airports more likely to find long lines,unresponsive bureaucrats,petty rent seeking (pay for wifi) — NYC's or post-Soviet Kyiv's?
European vs Ukrainian Drunk Driving
OMG. Train ticket tech support works . . . . WELL. Tears of happiness fill my eyes.
OMG. I'm dizzy with Ukrainian pride. Just for the hell of it, I called tech support for the website that sells train tickets. It was after 9pm.
Not only did someone answer, the lady was perfectly polite and competent!
Just two years ago, buying train tickets was the bane of my existence: http://romaninukraine.com/train-stations-and-supermarkets-in-ukraine/
Train Station Clerk Pauses for Cleaning Lady. Ugh
Train Stations are the worst. My life has gotten measurably better since I learned how to buy tickets online. Nevertheless, sometimes I still have to go to the station. Picture this:
Crowded. Long lines. Everyone is cranky. The cleaning lady pushes aside the clerk with her mop. The clerk first slides her chair back to accommodate the cleaning, then leaves her booth altogether and so the stone-faced hag with the mop can fishing moistening the floor with her dirty rag on a stick.
A great way to book train tickets in Ukraine.
My quality of life has just measurably improved: http://booking.uz.gov.ua/en/
Now if I could only overcome the security measures of my own credit card companies.
Can it be? A plan to privitize the Kyiv-Chop road?
The Case of the Missing Cufflink
Did the TSA steal my cufflink? Had a notice that they searched my bag. Only one was missing. The plastic stone might have looked valuable. I will never know.
Seems that Lviv is getting some new trams.
The Bus from Przemysl
Note: The author is an American of Ukrainian descent currently living in L'viv Ukraine. His ancestors had fled that country to escape the Bolsheviks. Przemysl is a city just on the other side of the Ukrainian-Polish border.
The Bus from Przemysl
Yogurt. Juice. Mandarins. A bicycle chain repair machine. Coffee creamer. Goods tightly bound in plastic bags, or placed individually in the overhead compartment.
Constant, frantic noise of middle-aged women, like walking into a chicken coop. rows full of boxes. seats piled high. windows blocked. boxes and bags.
The business of clearing seats, of ladies reminding each other what belongs to whom.
The doors close. The driver climbs over some bags to find his seat. A woman calls for the man sitting in front. He pulls a roll of packing tape from his coat pocket, steps over bags. he seals a torn-open box, returns to his seat, resigned to the duty of his labor, completely silent, unlike the women. A woman hands him a bag of vacuum sealed sausages. Some tumble to the floor. He kneels to retrieve them from under a seat. He will hold them in his lap for the rest of the trip. Another bag of sausages goes to the lady across the aisle from him.
The driver insisting the under compartment is full, unpacking a bag of thermoses — each is boxed, ready to be shelved in some store — and placing them individually in the overhead.
Boxes of powdered milk under the seats.
Slowly, things settle to private conversations. There are big snowy fields and villages in the distant forested hills.
What a vulgar, vile idea it was to reduce all this to the brutality and ignorance of a post office.
I see the traffic before I see the border. Three lanes of vans and cars. All still. People stand among in their coats. So many. Later, I'm told they will mostly be crossing on foot.
I'm happy to see the bus steer into the lane for opposing traffic. We skip almost the entire line, then the driver stops and cuts the engine. We wait. There's a 100 zloty note prominent on the dashboard.
One of the women speaks to the driver. 150 zloty. A quiet conversation. Another 40 zloty. I am a bystander to this world. (my ticket cost only 25.) A shuffling of documents.
We wait beside a flatbed trailer with two cars chained in place. I think they have no tires, but then see the tires laid flat. The frames rest upon the tires. Perhaps these aren't cars at all. Perhaps in this moment they are merely scrap metal. A different thing entirely.
I watch my travel companions. Fascinated by their world. They know this trip well. I imagine their lives, look into their bags: Kiwi. Mushrooms. Butter. Seeds.
The Polish guard collects passports, looks, each of us carefully in the face. No smiling. Soon they're returned.
More waiting.
The Ukrainian guard does the same and then (rejoice!) we are through! Breathe again.
At a gas station, the flurry of activity, the frantic clucking crescendos. One woman can't find her bag. Two men carry crates of juice to the gas station. A woman exits the bus and six bags are unloaded onto the curb beside her. The two come running back from the gas station, arms swinging. The driver yells hurry. Boxes go into the trunk of a waiting car.
Such intricate chaos. God bless it, I think. God bless these people, this system.
At the next stop, numbers — forty yogurts, no sixty. Counting. Such hustle and precision! Nothing like US Army logistics. Ha.
A box of yogurt and a box of butter become two boxes, half-full of each.
Now, there are hryvni on the dashboard.
A lady unloading the overhead places a large box of chocolate snacks in my lap without asking permission or speaking to me. She clears a space on the seat across the aisle and moves the box there. I feel . . . accepted.
Boots, crackers. Someone needs something from beneath the seat adjacent to me. I begin to help. The boxes of butter are heavy.
Men await our arrival beside one grocery. The women hand them boxes through the door. They stack them in the alley in the spots where snow had melted away.
Now, the hryvni are gone.
A microwave gets passed from the from to the back of the bus. They yell at the driver to open the rear door. They call him by his first name.
Four bags go beside the traffic circle where a taxi waits.
The stops get quieter, less frantic now with fewer people and fewer goods. It is dark when we finally reach L'viv. I am one of only three passengers when the bus parks beside the train station. I exist with my suitcase and walk home.
Snow is falling lightly. Everything is calm. Freshly returned from the west, L'viv's poverty is clear. I carry the suitcase because its little wheels can't handle the disastrous sidewalks, the snow and slush, the trolley tracks buckling the cobblestone streets. Yes, Ukraine is poorer that the west — run down in many ways. The roads and sidewalks, a disaster. But still, it's very beautiful. Everywhere, under dustings of snow, in the shadows cast by electric lights, there are hidden treasures of architecture, history, religion, faith.
A programmer, two central bankers, and I were on a train . . .
Not kidding. I was on the Kyiv-Lviv train today. Happened to be sitting in the wagon's one booth arrangement of seats. There's exactly one in each wagon of the new Hundai trains. My companions are two young women who work at Ukraine's central bank and an 8-year computer programmer, back-end specialist.
He spoke English pretty well. The two women were attending some central bank conference in L'viv. They mentioned that there'd be discussion of an audit.
Great conversation. Yes, Bitcoin came up. It came up a lot. :-)
I love my life.
Oh, and during the trip, a fantastic rainbow appeared over half the horizon.
The Ternopil-Lviv Road
I've actually driven through almost all of Ukraine's 24 Oblasts. For major roads, this is about as bad as it get. In other words, it's bad, but not quite this bad.
Ukraine's New Hundai Trains
So, I recently took a trip on them, Kyiv to Lviv. Five hours instead of over-night.
I like that you're not forced in a strange union, sitting on bunk beds with strangers in a private cabin. I love the free electricity, the comfort, the modernity — sliding class doors, nice seats that face forward, windows that you can look through without having to lean awkwardly.
These new trains are over staffed compared to European ones. Of course, it's impossible to tell who is doing it correctly without a more competitive free market for transportation, but I suspect that like most of Ukraine's government endeavors, the trains have way too many employees. There's someone assigned to each car. There are two people taking a cart of snacks through the train (which I love). There's another lady whose only job seems to be passing through and collecting garbage twice during the five hour trip.
In other rail news, they've been requiring identification both for purchase of tickets and for boarding which slows things down a lot and increases the level of stupidity. Sadly, most Ukrainians aren't very good at standing in line, and government institutions will never, ever think to invest in any sort of crowd control. So boarding a train is even more of a mob scene than usual because the gate keeper has to check everybody's id.
Days like today make me miss America
So for the past couple weeks, a friend of mine who works in a municipal level gov't position has been telling me that everything's fine, that he'll call tomorrow and tell me when I can pick up documents I've been waiting for. His help has been completely selfless. I'm grateful, and want to be polite, even when he never calls. I kept waiting TWO days, giving him a chance to live up to his promise, and then calling him, and receiving the same reassurance.
When I called him yesterday, he finally said everything was ready. "Travel to the regional office and pick up your stuff."
Public transportation in Ukraine kicks my ass. I've written about train stations before. Same goes for bus stations: the only way I'm able to figure out when a bus is going somewhere is to travel to the station, stand in line, and then ask the clerk.
Yesterday evening, I enlisted the help of a native Ukrainian. She made an inquiry online. She said there was a bus from L'viv to the regional office at 15:00. That didn't sound right and I decided to take a marshutka first thing in the morning to find out when the buses travel.
I take the #10 Marshutka to the bus station. I just googled the distance and see that it's about 10.5 kilometers. The fact that a ten kilometer trip takes 45 minutes is one of the miracles of L'viv's public transportation system. It's a little cartel. Marshutky are filty, slow, and even more crowded than the NYC subways I grew up riding. There are never enough.
It turned out my Ukrainian friend was wrong. One bus leaves at 8:30 in the morning. I learned this at 8:45. The next one at 13:00. I waited in a nearby restaurant for almost four hours.
I eventually took the bus to the region where my paperwork was being prepared. During the two-and-a-half hour ride at a snails pace to avoid pot holes, I telephoned a cousin and asked him to meet me. We went together to the office where everything was supposedly ready. Nothing was ready.
I couldn't even pay the 26 uah fee (about $3). I was told the following week not to return there, but to go to the Oblast center to get my documents, and then later to the regional office to pay the three bucks.
It would have been a foolish, rookie mistake to try and figure out why I'd been asked to go there in the first place when apparently I had to first picking up the documents in the Oblast center. The fact that the question didn't even occur to me until much later is a sign of my maturing to the reality of Ukrainian bureaucracy. It has no logic, no center. It is idiocy for the sake of idiocy. It is a cruel joke without a punchline. It just keeps stumbling along, but without ever actually getting anywhere.
I waited another two hours for the bus back to L'viv.
Here's what really made today special:
I had intended to take Marshutka #10 back toward my apartment. I thought I saw a #10, and moved to secure my place in the crush of people. (There are never enough Marshutky.) It turned out that it was #40. I zoned out for what I expected to be a 45 minute, 10 kilometer trip, and didn't realize my mistake until I was in a little town beyond the municipal boundary of the city. My cell phone battery died.
I was able to take a different Marshutka back to the bus station, and arrived just in time to see the last bus departing toward the city center. Of course, I didn't realize it was the last bus until after a good twenty minutes of sitting on the cold bench.
I started walking home, and found a big crowd of people at a different Marshutka stop. I waited with them for quite a while, but felt reassured by their number. Thirty one. I counted. I took that Marshutka. One lady told me it was the last of the evening. After a half-hour ride, it may or may not have gotten me closer to my home. Not sure. I exited and walked across what seemed like half the city, climbing piles of snow and wading through ankle deep slush.
It was after midnight when I returned home.
My day has been as smart and efficient as a bag of hammers.
Public Transportation Bluster in L'viv
Email from my friend Andri this past Sunday:
Today we have an conflict situation in Lviv: owners of carrier-companies require from the city-administration to rise the price from 2 hryvnias to 3. Otherwise they will stop working on 20:30 every day. The city-mayor aswered: this is intimidation, your requirement can't be satisfied till you won't buy more comfortable buses. Carriers promise to start strike on Monday :) Some other details about the situation – owner of the biggest carrier-firm is a deputy from Svoboda. We have three private firms but I don't know if they are subsidised from city or state budget. Private owners shares the carrier-market of city with one municipal firm which started using big second-hand buses from Europe. Major demands from the private carriers to drive the same class buses.
A member of my English club wrote this essay several months ago about public transportation in Lviv:
The case against nationalized urban transport
As far as I can tell, no actual strike took place. Several people told me before the supposed deadline (Monday), that it wouldn't happen. It was just the necessary bluster which the voting public must hear before a last minute solution by hard-working and concerned politicians was found.
Just discovered that L'viv has a new airport
Much better than my earlier experience.
Changing Wheels on the EU-Ukraine Train
We were on the train the whole time the wagons were lifted, etc. After the change, a worker went into the cabin adjacent to mine, lifted the carpet, and inserted what looked like a large steel plug into a hold on the floor.
Here's a video of the process (different location):
Train Stations and Supermarkets in Ukraine
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L'viv-born economist, Ludwig Von Mises made the case that capitalism forces people, even enemies, to cooperate and serve one another. This is so evident, we often fail to see it.
Consider buying something at a store. It is typical for both customer and cashier to say "thank you." This mutual expression of gratitude reflects how both parties benefit. The customer receives his product, and the cashier, on behalf of the owner, the customer's money. They are both happier and the world becomes a better place.
The mutual benefit only occurs for businesses relying on voluntary patronage. It doesn't exist where people profit from tax dollars — for example, at the train station. This brings me to my personal experience buying tickets in Kyiv's "Vokzal."
I was been told you can buy tickets online in Ukraine, but the website looks confusing. You must register. Also, after you buy them online, you go to the train station and cut in front of the many exhausted travelers waiting on long lines just to receive online-purchased train ticket. I can't imagine doing that. So, for my stay in Ukraine, I've resorted to standing on lines at train stations to purchase tickets.
For my non-Ukrainian readers, let me clarify how horrible this experience is: The station is perpetually crowded and smells like body odor. By my estimate, the average wait in Kyiv is thirty minutes. You have to demonstrate your capitulation to the system by stooping to speak through a little portal to the impatient clerk. You have no idea what train tickets are available or how much they cost until you get there. A decision must be made the instant you get the information and there doesn't seem to be any way to get an overview of what's available.
You ask for Thursday night, they tell you, very rapidly what's leaving on Thursday night, which types of cabins, times of travel and cost. It's an awfully large amount of information to process quickly, especially for non-native speakers and especially if you're a nice person sensitive to the impatience of the people behind you.
It gets worse.
On a recent visit to the train station a young man asked to cut in front of me, just as I reached the front of the line. Perhaps he had bought a ticket online. "Thirty seconds," he said. I nodded. Good manners are only a weakness in a bureaucratically managed enterprise.
He was indeed finished in thirty seconds, but a lady sensed her opportunity and asserted her place behind the young man. I told her she couldn't cut, and even posted my arm, but she snuck around my other side as soon as he finished.
She jumped straight into a heated argument with the clerk. The clerk refused something but she wouldn't accept it and kept arguing. Eventually, the clerk put a cardboard sign in the window that read "Technical break," dropped the venetian blinds, and left her booth, switching off the light.
This shouldn't have caught me by surprise.
Various times are printed on the glass of the booth. Though they weren't labeled, I've since learned these were the technical breaks. Each booth has five or six technical breaks during the day and they range from ten to sixty minutes in duration. This one was supposed to be twenty minutes long, and I decided to wait it out rather than move to a different line. She returned on time, but then spent five minutes counting money with another lady. When I finally had her attention, she told me that nothing was available on the day I wanted to travel, or the day after that. I couldn't make an immediate decision about what to do, so I left empty handed.
Most Ukrainians would probably think: "Of course, that it how it works at the train station. That is how it always worked, and that is how it will always be until the end of time. There is no alternative."
One must be able to imagine progress before achieving it. Imagine a supermarket. I shop at the Mega Market near Olympiski Stadium metro station. In fact, I went there just to cheer myself up after my failure at the train station. I like choices. I like polite people.
At Mega Market, I don't have to ask which products are available. They are advertised with beautiful pictures and sometimes, attractive people hand me leaflets as I wander the aisles at my own leisurely pace. I get free samples. I can touch, hold and even smell things before I buy them. The biggest miracle of all, however, may be the checkout.
There is no glass between me and clerk. I don't have to stoop. They smile and demonstrate good manners. They never take technical breaks. A girl only leaves her station when her replacement arrives. Even if they did take breaks, it wouldn't matter because the lines are always short. Do train station bureaucrats stumble through supermarkets in utter awe? Do they consider the managers there to be super-human geniuses?
Economist Frederick Hayek distinguished between two economies in every society. There is the voluntary economy, where exchanges rely on voluntary patronage, and there is the coercive economy — so called because it runs on taxes which are collected coercively. For the sake of good manners, peace, and making the most of the little time each of has on this Earth, we should remember how we are treated by each.


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Music for Three Stages: Performance Preparation for Opera, Operetta and Recital
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Music for Three Stages: Performance Preparation for Opera, Operetta and Recital began as three stand-alone performances: two operas, Albert Herring and Die Fledermaus, as assigned by my opera program, and a recital of music by composers who wrote operas, art songs and non-operatic large-scale works, which I programmed. Upon starting the process of preparing for these three performances, I hypothesized that each would require unique preparation techniques. What I discovered, however, was that instead of each being unique and isolated in preparation, each performance, along with other performances that I had throughout the year, highly informed my approach to each piece. Through the preparation of program notes, included in this dissertation, as well as the musical preparation of each performance, I concluded that preparing for these performances was a long arc over the course of the year, with much give and take among the styles of music and an integrated style of preparation, instead of the individualized preparations that I expected.


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Four Generations of Service
Today's guest blog comes from Joyce Yamaato in honor of Mother's Day. Joyce currently serves as a vice president with Wells Fargo's Strategic Philanthropy and Partnerships Group. She moved to the United States when she was eleven years old. After college, she became an AmeriCorps English as a Second Language teacher to adult immigrants and refugees with the Literacy AmeriCorps program in New Orleans. Her transformational experience with AmeriCorps has influenced her to pursue a philanthropic career spanning 20 years.
Service starts with family. Family in my culture is basically everyone. I remember growing up and having lots of "aunts and cousins." It wasn't until I got older that I realized that we weren't necessarily related!
As I reflect on Mother's Day weekend, I am reminded of the influence of important women in my family — my mom, Joylyn, and my grandmother, Alice. Both my mom and grandmother were very involved in the community. "Service" to them meant volunteering at church, making meals for those going through hard times and giving charitably. I work to pass on these same community values to my own children.
My mom and grandmother also gave back through teaching. My mom taught English overseas. At the time, she was the only female department head in the late 1960s and early 70s. My grandmother taught sign language here in the United States. She received her Master of Arts in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Alabama in the mid-1960s. I've always thought of her as an adventurous woman. She went back to school to get her master's degree after her six children became adults. Her teaching career spanned 35 years. My grandmother passed away last year at the age of 92. The photo that you see was the last one that I took with her during the holidays. I believe that her time teaching students of diverse abilities was one that she cherished the most. It was also an experience that resonated with me when I decided to serve in AmeriCorps.
I remember how excited my mom and grandmother were when I first got accepted into the Literacy AmeriCorps New Orleans program. I taught English as a Second Language to immigrants and refugees, and they were extremely supportive of me throughout my year of service. I found that they listened and asked questions a lot, mostly about my students and how I responded to their needs. I thought they would have been more prescriptive given their expertise in teaching! Instead, they generously—and gently —guided me as I figured out my own style of teaching and how to surface solutions on my own.
This Sunday is Mother's Day. As a mom, I see my 12-year old daughter growing up to be community-minded. I remember driving her and my son to volunteer at an emergency event simulation. I watched as they learned to set up a tent and how it can quickly become a shelter, an urgent healthcare center, and a place to eat a nutritious meal in the aftermath of a disaster. We talked about what it might be like for displaced children and refugees living in other countries.
Today, I see my daughter continue to develop as a local and global citizen, and a great role model for her younger brother. She's passionate about volunteering to support the rights of children and is also currently participating in a global classroom activity focused on access to clean water.
As my daughter grows up, I think how amazing it is to see the influence and community values of generations of women in my family reflected in her. I'm also inspired as I think about the collective impact we can make together in our communities.
On this Mother's Day weekend, I'm thankful for my mom and grandmother for setting me on a path toward servant-leadership, and AmeriCorps for giving me a chance to keep following it.
Kristin mckay permalinkMay 9, 2015 9:07 am
I have had the privilege of being one of Joyce's chosen family. We have been best friends for over 20 years and she has always inspired me by her generosity and love of knowledge and people. Happy Mothers Day to one of the best moms I know ❤!!
Sandy permalinkMay 25, 2015 7:58 am
Joyce is amazing. It is nice to see her raising her daughter to be giving and socially conscious. Joyce's mom and grandmother have clearly had a loving positive influence on her in many ways. Joyce is generous, caring and inspirational. She's making a difference and helping others and I'm so glad I can call her my friend.
Matthew permalinkMay 30, 2015 9:57 pm
Joyce is truly an inspiration. This was a wonderful story about the power of family and the bonds of service.


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Thepprasit Night MarketThepprasit Market, which is located on Thepprasit Road a little off the Sukhumvit Road junction, is a night market that is open on the weekends, from Friday to Sunday. Some of the shops are also open during the week. Located close to Tesco Lotus and the Pattaya Outlet Mall, this is one of the popular Pattaya markets because it has everything from trendy clothes, bags, shoes and watches to electronics and pets. The electronic stalls are in a separate section where you can bargain for mobile phones, mp3 players and other gadgets. An interesting feature of Thepprasit market is its large food court where you can sample Thai food, desserts and exotic tropical fruits. It is easy to get to the market from Central Pattaya by baht bus or motorcycle taxi.
Soi Buakhao MarketThis is another of the Pattaya markets that are great for bargain shopping. Located in the corner of South Pattaya Road and Soi Buakhao, this market is open on Tuesdays and Fridays. Since many of the locals shop at this market, you can actually get things at 'local' prices minus the tourist mark up, if you bargain well. From clothes to souvenirs and stalls selling food and chilled beer, this market has plenty to offer for a day out.
Floating Market PattayaOf all the local Pattaya markets, the floating market has the most character and charm with its wooden walkways on stilts and boat rides through the waterways. It is the best place to buy souvenirs to take back home as you can get crafts from every region in Thailand. The Pattaya floating market has four sections, each representing a different region of Thailand – North, Northeast, South and Central. There are around 75 stalls selling handicrafts, Thai silks, antiques, pottery and food at this market that is open from 10.00 am to 11.00 pm. With Thai dancing and games for entertainment, this market in Pattaya is a great choice for a family day out. It is located on the Sukhumvit highway, around 5 km from South Pattaya junction.
While there are several other Pattaya markets, including some street markets with rows of stalls along some of the major roads in the city, most of them sell mainly clothing, accessories and beach essentials. The interesting thing about the markets at Soi Buakhao, Thepprasit and the Pattaya floating market is that they also provide an opportunity to experience some of the local culture. Visiting at least one of them during your stay in Pattaya should be on your itinerary.
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Great news, Gary -- the drinks are on you! ;-)
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It is a a wet, chilly day here in mid-mo. I usually don't care for stormy days, unless I can stay at home all day curled up with a blanket. Instead I am at work, but I did manage to fix myself a cup of hot chocolate. :)
I'm actually kind of excited that the holidays are approaching. I haven't seen my extended family since last christmas! The first part of winter is always the easiest part to get through, the holidays keep us happy. And I'm personally in love with twinkle lights. But then January and February just drag on - I'm not looking forward to those months. I'm pretty sure I have a little bit of SAD, or Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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Seriously, once the holidays are over I am always DONE with winter. Snow and I are not friends.ReplyDelete
I felt like I had SAD living in Michigan - January through March were just the WORST! But I always love holiday-time :DReplyDelete
I am dreading snow days already. Hopefully we won't have another winter like last year!ReplyDelete
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There are a lot of cheerleaders for the nation's natural gas boom — in part because they believe it's a lot cleaner than dirty coal. It's pretty well-known that power plants that burn coal pump out far more greenhouse gases than power plants that run on natural gas.
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Well heads, storage tanks and pipelines all leak methane in sprawling gas fields.
"We need to know a lot about methane itself, which is natural gas, if we're worried about climate change," says energy consultant Sue Tierney, "so that we don't automatically think that gas is so much cleaner than coal."
Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas. It's very effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
"Fifty years from now, are we really going to be wondering if we really screwed up because we went on this big gas boom? You really wouldn't want to be messing that up," Tierney says.
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Tierney was on an Energy Department advisory panel that recommended that gas companies start measuring and reporting their air emissions.
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To really find out how much methane is being leaked, many scientists say you need to take lots of direct measurements: How much methane is coming off a well, or a pipeline, or a whole gas field?
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At the foot of the Rocky Mountains, there's a tall tower that tipped off scientists that estimates are poor substitutes for measuring. Imagine an open metal structure as tall as the Eiffel Tower and in the shape of a Toblerone chocolate box. A tiny elevator runs up the middle.
For the past few years, this tower has been Gaby Petron's muse, spewing out numbers about air pollution. Petron works for the NOAA's lab in Boulder, Colo.
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Four years ago, tubes at the top of the tower started sucking in samples of air every day. Petron noticed that data from the tower showed surprising levels of methane.
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Petron's next step was to try to find out what was creating that methane. She talked a colleague into turning his Prius into a mobile lab for taking air samples.
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She got into the Prius and headed east, in the direction of the tower. She took a good look around for potential sources of all that methane.
"Every time we drive east, the methane would go up. And I'm like, why is that? And then you come here and you see cows," she says, "and you're like, OK, maybe it's the cows."
Cows burp methane — but they weren't a match. They didn't have the right chemical fingerprint. Rotting garbage produces methane, too, but a nearby landfill wasn't a match, either.
Next on her list: the gas and oil fields northeast of the tower. As she drove near, methane levels on her computer screen in the Prius spiked.
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"So that's when you have your moment. You're like, all right, the story is right there. It's really not the landfill, it's really not the cows," she says. "It's really all the oil and gas equipment and activities that are going on in the region. And it's not new. It's always been there. We were just not measuring it."
Petron's measurements show the gas and oil fields in Northern Colorado are probably leaking twice as much methane into the air as the industry says they are.
"I think the atmosphere is a good way to look at things in terms of emissions because it's not lying," she says.
She published her work in the Journal of Geophysical Research a couple of months ago.
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So why don't gas companies measure their methane emissions? Cindy Allen, who heads the environment team for a drilling company called EnCana, says it's not doable. There are a lot of gas fields, and some of them sprawl over hundreds of square miles.
Allen says it would take too much work for companies to maintain air pollution monitors near each well site.
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Howard Feldman of the American Petroleum Institute says companies are trying to improve their estimates. His trade group is working on a new survey of methane emissions from tens of thousands of wells.
But Feldman says more measurements like the ones that came from that NOAA tower are needed, too.
"One in and of itself isn't sufficient. Both are valid, and both add to the information that we have," he says.
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Of all the places he could be – Hawaii, the Bahamas, Miami, Mexico – Gary Forbes has chosen to frequent the one spot many players avoid like the plague this time of year.
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Well, this isn't one you are gonna want to miss! My new friend Leslie is ending 2016 with a bang for Fairy Tale Friday. Thank you so much to all of you who have participated. I have some AMAZING authors lined up for 2017, so stay tuned.
Leslie McKelvey has been writing since she learned to write, and her mother still stores boxes of handwritten stories in the attic. When her high school Creative Writing teacher told her she needed to be a novelist, she decided to give it a try. Finally, at the ripe old age of…forty-something…her debut novel, Accidental Affair, was contracted and published by Black Velvet Seductions Publishing. Two follow-up novels, Right Place, Right Time and Her Sister's Keeper completed the Accidental Encounters series, and Runaway Heart, a standalone book, was released in March of 2016. BVS also published one of Leslie's short stories in…
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It's ANTHOLOGY time!
Sooo…I think it was late November 2015, or early December, my publisher, Richard Savage, owner of Black Velvet Seductions (BVS), e-mailed me and the other BVS authors about an erotic anthology he wanted to put together. The subject matter was first-time experiences with BDSM. He wanted short stories of 5,000 words or less (hello, have we met, I'm the verbose one, remember?), and he wanted drafts submitted by I think the first week of February. The dates are really unimportant.
Anyhoo, being me I put it off until the last possible minute. And I mean last possible minute, as in within hours of the deadline. Why? Well, for one I don't write BDSM. I write romantic suspense, so why he wanted to include me in the first place sort of mystified me (one more thing on a long list of things that mystify me, like why does chocolate have to be fattening?). I asked him, "Why me?" He responded with, "Because you're a good writer and I like the way you tell stories." Boy, flattery will get you EVERYWHERE. Second, I work better under pressure. Whenever the heat is on and I can feel it licking at my neck like Satan himself wants to get busy, my inner genius comes out and produces something worth reading (wish I knew where that bi*** was the REST of the time).
Never in my life did I think I'd have a short-story in a published erotic anthology, especially an anthology regarding this particular subject matter. I guess I forgot that I write not only romantic suspense, but also historical romance, paranormal romance, sci-fi/post apocalyptic romance…. I write romance, and romance transcends the category. All I had to do was adjust the setting and wording and VOILA! A short story about domination/submission was born! It was a first for me.
It's also the first time I've ever used the word "cock" in my writing. 🙂
I haven't read the whole anthology yet, but what I have read was really good (if squirming in your seat while reading erotica is good). If BDSM and hot, nothing-is-off-limits-sex are your thing, you'll LOVE this. Take a peek!
Wow. Who'd have thought that I'd be a multi-published author when I started this journey? NOT ME. I'd given up trying to get published, then one of my university professors had the class do a paper on a professional/charitable organization we were a member of. I couldn't think of anything other than Romance Writers' of America. And I was a member really in name only, but it fit the criteria so I bushi**ed my way through said paper, and I received a note along with my "A" grade.
"I'd be interested in reading your manuscript, if you'd feel comfortable sharing it with me."
That note changed my life.
My professor was actually impressed with my manuscript (she said it was NOT what she'd been expecting), and she referred me to a writing coach. It wasn't a free service, but boy am I glad I skipped a few dinners out and paid for her expertise. A published author herself, her research brought me to Black Velvet Seductions, and the rest is multi-published author history. Oh, did I mention I was multi-published? (Wink, wink!) I think if I keep saying it, I'll FINALLY believe it.
MULTI-PUBLISHED. Nope, still not totally there.
Now, I anxiously await the "birth" of my fourth "child." Runaway Heart was actually written WELL before Accidental Affair or ANY of the others, so much so that I had to update all the tech because what was hip in the late 90s is NOT hip now. But, regardless of the corrected retro aspects, the basics, the romance, the suspense, the sex, are all there. And it's a pretty darn good book, if I do say so myself. And I do, but I'm biased.
Do you want to know what the BEST thing is? Runaway Heart releases on my BIRTHDAY! There is no better present than that, unless of course my husband gets me that .416 Barrett rifle I've been pining for. So, yeah, BEST. BIRTHDAY PRESENT. EVER.
Thank you, Connie Van Guilder (my professor) and Catharine Bramkamp (my writing coach) for believing in me when I had stopped believing in myself.
See, folks? Dreams CAN come true…and sometimes it happens when you LEAST expect it!
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I've been invited by Glenda Horsfall to participate in a "Meet My Character" blog hop. She is a wonderful writer and great supporter, and you should definitely check her out. Enjoy!
Glenda Horsfall was born and brought up in the beautiful city of Edinburgh.
From an early age she was an avid reader. She became engrossed in reading romance novels in her early teens and promised herself that one day she would sit down and write her own.
That dream has now been achieved with the publication of her first novel 'Playing for Keeps'. A tale of Domination and submission, the story is also a romance with a Happy Ever After ending!
Glenda now lives on the Fylde Coast of England with her own hero. She has a grown up son and three beautiful grand-daughters.
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Okay, I'll admit it. I'm jealous. Of what or whom, you ask? AUTHORS. Wait, amend that: SUCCESSFUL authors. Wait, amend the amendment: WILDLY SUCCESSFUL authors.
I keep telling myself I AM a successful author. I've been published. Three times. Number four comes out in the next few weeks and number five is in edits. Sooo…I'm a multi-published author. That's a writer's definition of success, right? Absolutely. You bet. Is that a rhetorical question?
The problem boils down to money, a concept that REALLY irritates me. It shouldn't be about financial gain, but Success and Money seem to go hand-in-hand. Is being published really the measure of a writer's success? Before getting published, getting published was all I wanted. DONE. Yea! Once I had one book out there then I wanted another. DONE again, and again, and again. YIPPEE! Now that I have BOOKS on the market, I spend all my free time promoting them, doing author events, giving away free books in the hope of gaining loyal fans who will buy the others. So far I've spent more on promotion than I've made in royalties. When my husband cocked an eyebrow at me I shrugged and said, "What? It's a marathon, not a sprint. I HAVE to promote." Thank GOD for tax deductions, lol.
I blame this dilemma on e-books. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my Kindle and the fact I can carry a THOUSAND books in a device the size of a single paperback. However, thanks to e-books any person who thinks they can write can publish a story (hands up if you've read one of those).
I read e-books today and reflect on the days of real, PHYSICAL books, remembering when seeing a typo was almost unheard of. Grammar was important, as was plot and character development, emotional depth, and ACTUAL WRITING ABILITY. Now all it takes is an eye-catching cover, a good back blurb, and VOILA! One is an author. With such a cluttered field, how does one distinguish between a GOOD book that has been developed, edited, revised, polished, and painstakingly produced, and a book that someone wrote over a weekend and ran it through one of the e-publishers, typos, stilted dialogue, and bad grammar included?
This makes me wonder if those authors most of us know – John Grisham, Nora Roberts, Stephen King, and the like – would still be as hugely popular if they had to publish in the current market. If Catherine Coulter had to go up against every aspiring novelist who could publish their own work, without "pounding the pavement" first, would she still have become a multi NYT Bestselling Author? The bratty, five-year-old in me wants to plant my fists on my hips, stomp my foot, and pout, "NO!" The other part of me just longs for a small taste of the immense success these "household names" have been blessed with.
Is it childish? Absolutely. Do I begrudge these well-known writers their achievements? Absolutely not. I AM jealous (who DOESN'T want to be world-renowned?), but I have hope that if I keep plugging away, eventually some of that success will shine on me. Regardless, I'll keep writing. I have no choice, because if I don't my head will explode from the characters and all the noise they make. And I have NO idea how to get brains out of a keyboard.
If you haven't yet, you can check out my books here:
And my publisher…: Black Velvet Seductions
I need to get my act TOGETHER.
Sooo, I'm trying to be more "authorly," (yes, I made that up and I can because I'm an author). This means regular blog posts, working harder to market my books (they're listed below if you're unaware, and people seem to like 'em, so check them out!), and spending LESS time on Facebook and more time doing my ACTUAL job. Being an author. Because being an author is cool. And you get to write books. And make up words and stuff. (On a serious note, someone asked me what the best part about being an author was and I replied, "Seriously? Being an author!")
Part of the reason I don't do regular blog posts is because no one reads my blog so I don't really see the point. Then again, if there's nothing to read on my blog, why visit? The other part is I seem to practice "feast or famine" writing. My books are pretty long in comparison to other romance novels, but I believe in telling a full story, which takes me longer than 50,000 words or 87 pages. So, I either write too much, or not at all. Oh, the conundrum!
This quandary has led me to the first decision I've made in my quest to "Get My Act Together," or GMAT: post here on my blog at least once a week. I have some author friends who post almost daily, but those author friends ALSO have personal assistants. My PA is a pair of headphones and a wireless keyboard. Oh, and the remote control so I can turn off that annoying idiot box (who knew that phrase would be prophetic?).
My second decision in my quest to GMAT is…brace yourselves…TURN OFF FACEBOOK. Oh, my goodness, has there EVER, in the history of mankind, been a bigger device of time-suckage? I go on to check my feed and three hours later…still scrolling, responding to comments (yes, I fight with people online because I'm aggressive like that), and making comments. JUST SAY NO. Nancy Reagan had the right idea, but cocaine would probably be an easier habit to break.
I'm sure I will need to make more decisions before I actually GMAT, but baby steps, people, baby steps.
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1989 Chinese Student Movement (1989)
Being sentenced, I will speak my piece,
saying to the world, "I accuse!"
And although you trod a thousand resisters under foot,
I shall be the one-thousand-and-first.
—Bei Dao
Avoiding the line of march so as not to be branded "a foreign instigator," I accompanied the students and faculty each morning in late May 1989, as they left the gates of Nanjing University to walk to Gu Lou Square at the center of the city. The Bell Tower above the square where they gathered for speeches and, eventually, a fast, was immediately recognizable to anyone in China, though not as well-known to the rest of the world as Tiananmen Square, where protests against government corruption originated several weeks before.
Deeply moved by the students' protest, their discipline and intelligence in explaining the nature of their protest to workers and townspeople, I knew—as they knew—the likely consequences of their nonviolent resistance to a repressive State. Yet even party members, including university officials, joined in the protest and publicly supported the students. Days later, groups of young people left Nanjing on "the long march" to Beijing, 700 miles north, to join their contemporaries and former schoolmates. After the June 4 massacre of students in Beijing, shot down by government troops on the edge of Tiananmen Square, however, faculty members and officials in Nanjing sent buses north to pick up the students and bring them back. Shortly afterward, university officials and Jiangsu provincial officials (governing an area the size of New York State, with 60 million people) closed the universities—a wise move to discourage intervention by the army, stationed on the outskirts of the city.
In the history of nonviolent social change, the Chinese students who initiated the campaign for reform in 1989 claim a special place. Their effort, "one of the largest and best-organized nonviolent political protest movements the world has ever seen," as Orville Schell wrote, will be a subject for study and reflection by anyone seriously committed to constructing peace and to rebuilding the social order. So it is appropriate that the Albert Einstein Institution at Harvard University and peace research centers are engaged in an on-going study of the movement.
Observing those young people at close range, in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Harbin—before and after the June 4 suppression—I was often reminded of similar movements against corruption and oppression throughout the world, particularly those in the Southern United States during the height of the Civil Rights movement and in New England during resistance to the wars in Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf.
Throughout China in the spring of 1989, as in the Southern U.S. in the winter of 1960, students gave meaning to democracy each day, taking their message to the wider community through wall posters, demonstrations, and speeches. As with those involved in voter registration in Mississippi and lunch counter sit-ins in North Carolina, young people gave voice to the hopes and grievances of their elders, many of whom had suffered previously under a repressive political system.
Although Nanjing had been the site of demonstrations in April 1989, university students in that "southern capital" (200 miles west of Shanghai, on the Yangtze River) had little formal organization prior to mid-May. During the initial stages of the protests, before being joined by thousands from other universities throughout the city, students "with their knees knocking" as one observer said, gathered at the Nanjing University gate for the first march to Gu Lou Square.
By mid-May, their contemporaries and close friends in Beijing—calling for an end to nepotism, government corruption, and press censorship—had clearly struck a note that reverberated in the hearts and minds of millions. In giving encouragement and support to students throughout the country, workers and peasants, as well as intellectuals, artists, and teachers, revived a tradition associated with another historic protest seventy years before. In the May 4 Movement, 1919, a previous generation of students had called their elders to account and by their effort had furthered the birth of modern China.
By late May 1989, people in every major city had joined the struggle with demonstrations and hunger strikes. A crowd of 100,000 people poured into the streets of Nanjing, blocking the pedicab carrying my driver, luggage, and me from the train station to the university, as I arrived from Shanghai. Quotations on posters and banners from Chinese poets, ancient and modem, as well as from Lord Acton ("Absolute power corrupts absolutely") and Martin Luther King ("I have a dream...") reflected the students' impatience with the party leadership under Deng Xiaoping and Li Peng.
Like their parents and teachers, students in Nanjing knew well the effects of inflation and wide-scale government corruption that accompanied the previous decade of economic reform. Although some people had profited by a freer market and life generally had improved for many Chinese between 1979 and 1989, people on fixed incomes had to moonlight or to dip into small savings in order to pay the rapidly increasing prices for food and clothing. Public knowledge about party officials getting rich because of their control over the distribution of goods and services had made many people openly cynical about "the old men" ruling the national government.
In earlier student protests, beginning in 1986, student slogans about democratic reform had been rather vague and grandiose. Even the demonstrations in April 1989, after the death of Hu Yaobang, an official popular among university students, were festive rather than political. By May 18, the day of my arrival in Nanjing, the demonstrations focused upon particular grievances, including a party chief's editorial denunciation of the student movement. Perhaps hardly noticed elsewhere in the world, in China, this development suggested a clarification of goals and purposes among young activists and the wider community.
In over 350 cities, as in Beijing, where a young woman, Chai Ling, had assumed leadership of the movement, many journalists working for the government-controlled media supported the students by joining the demonstrations or providing extensive coverage on radio and television—a noteworthy contribution to the nonviolent movement. Student successes in gaining popular support grew, as the young "intellectuals," often resented by workers and townspeople, entered and leafletted factories and workplaces, explaining their campaign to everyone. As did many adults, I admired the students' resourcefulness and restraint and their patriotic spirit. The movement grew.
By late May, faculty, including members of the Communist Party, also signed wall posters and spoke at demonstrations. For a time, the government media transmitted accurate accounts of events at Tiananmen Square and elsewhere, whetting the people's appetite for accurate information and precise details regarding reform. Then, the government imposed martial law; and although wall posters and slogans became increasingly hostile toward Li Peng, the crowds in Nanjing remained purposeful and calm in their requests that the government retract its denunciation of the student movement and initiate reforms. The movement had spread through numerous other cities to Harbin, 700 miles north of Beijing, where I attended an international conference on American literature in early June.
Then, on June 4, came the crackdown, swift and brutal, in the streets of Beijing, with threats of similar reprisals against the students and workers in other major cities. The re-writing of "history" to conform to the party-line began immediately, with government news agencies jumbling dates and scenes of the army's entrance into Beijing. In interviews that appeared rehearsed, "ordinary people" gave their versions of the June 4 massacre and offered flowers and food to "heroic soldiers" who had "defended the nation" against "counter-revolutionary elements," "rascals," and "hoodlums."
Following the killings in Beijing, some people cried out for vengeance against the government, smearing the Chinese character for "blood" across wall posters, drawing caricatures of government officials as Nazis wearing swastikas, particularly after news reached Harbin that four students from the University of Science and Technology had died in Beijing. Such responses were understandable, but in this case, as in most others involving citizens' efforts against the State, the weapons for vengeance, for blood, were all on the government's side.
Faculty everywhere wanted no students walking directly into another senseless slaughter. Then, as now, any direct confrontation with the government seemed not only unwise, but suicidal, though the struggle for freedom of the press and an end to autocratic rule and corruption in high places continued by other means.
Among the many people I spoke with in China, before and after June 4, no one—neither Chinese nor foreigner—anticipated the brutality of the government's response. Gradually, however, people began to understand the historic, then tragic events within the context of recent history. The year before the struggle, in tracing the course of economic and political reforms since Mao's death, Harry Harding had recognized, for example, that "despite the sometimes dramatic cycles in reform since 1978, the most difficult stage in the course of China's second revolution may still lie ahead."
Although even the most pessimistic observers doubt that the government will repeat the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, executions and arrests indicate that hard-liners within the party are against supporting basic human rights for their own people. Even in the face of a widely supported reform movement, the party was willing to openly betray its disorganization and viciousness.
Following the repression, many people outside China wondered how best to support those who had already taken such risks for political reform out of loyalty to their country and concern for its welfare. Returning from China later that fateful summer, I often remembered a Nanjing friend's response when I asked him what a foreigner might do to keep alive the memory of the students in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere. In a late-night conversation, and again before I left for Shanghai and the long flight home, he focused upon this issue: some means of transmitting information by television to the people of China, some means of reaching the millions who rely for news only on official channels with their lies and propaganda.
During the student demonstrations, rumor had it that some soldiers in Beijing with access to international news decided not to fire on their countrymen and women. According to my Chinese friend, similar incidents in India, where people tapped into Western news sources, had strengthened the public to resist oppression there. In China, anyone listening to foreign broadcasts may retain some perspective on events, in the face of the government's re-writing of history; but the return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule may further reduce peoples' access to these alternate sources of information.
"One of the worst aspects of living in brisk, dictatorial China," as Paul Theroux has said, "is that you seldom have an accurate idea of what is really going on." Where 70 percent live on the land, sources of reliable information are severely restricted. Even though students returning from the universities took word of the pro-democracy movement to their homes and communities, for example, they represent a small fraction of the population. And the nonviolent movement, particularly, depends upon broad dissemination of accurate information about issues and events.
Because of its manipulation of the news, the government won a propaganda war and convinced many people that in Beijing the casualties were few. It even succeeded temporarily in re-writing the history of the movement. But too many people tasted the flavor of free speech to forget their appetite for a more open society. Or so it seems to anyone attentive to the costly victories of the students' movement in speaking truth to power.
Since 1989, the Chinese have had, once again, to face hard choices and personal sacrifices in order to keep alive the spirit of the movement. But the courage and resourcefulness essential to nonviolent social change are evident in the daily struggle of intellectuals and workers, particularly, who supported the movement. Detailed accounts of strategies employed in confrontations with the government, including the army, have already contributed to our knowledge and understanding of nonviolence in that culture. As with Martin Luther King and his associates in the Civil Rights movement, Chinese students learned quickly as they went along, improvising and keeping alert in the face of overwhelming odds. Finally, in desperation and cynicism, people in power resorted to murder, as they have previously in China and elsewhere.
Someday, nonetheless, a space near Tiananmen Square will undoubtedly be set apart as a memorial to these students and workers—a reminder of their gifts to the people of China and, by extension, to citizens everywhere. "The sacrifice of the students at Tiananmen Square, in all its dignity and power," Christopher Kruegler wrote in the New York Times, is rightly compared to that of the people who died at Amritsar in India or in Mississippi and other movements for social justice. In our hearts and memories, those young people deserve a very special place, particularly for anyone committed to nonviolent social change.
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Dak Notestine serves as the Director of Strength & Conditioning within the Ohio University Athletic Department.
Notestine currently oversees the strength and conditioning programs for Ohio football and women's basketball.
In his time at Ohio, Notestine has worked with numerous teams including baseball (2016), cheerleading (2011-2013), golf (2011-2013), soccer (2012-2015), and volleyball (2012-2015).
Dak received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Exercise Physiology at Ohio University in 2010 and was a member of the football team. He started his playing career as a walk-on, and worked his way to a starting position at defensive end and was voted as a team captain in his senior campaign.
He also holds a Masters of Science Degree in Recreation and Sports Sciences with a special emphasis on Coaching Education and Strength Conditioning from Ohio University. He is a Strength and Conditioning Specialist who has been certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Notestine is also a USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach.


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1. In 4-quart Dutch oven, melt butter over medium heat. Cook onions, bell pepper and garlic in butter 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in flour. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until bubbly; remove from heat.
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Thursday, 30 June 2011
GARC's Analysis of Unwelcome Parades Through Greater Ardoyne - 2011
GARC accept that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist community have a legitimate right to express their religion, culture, heritage and allegiance to Britain. We do not wish to hinder those rights, however, parades should take place were they are welcome and this is clearly not the case on this stretch of the Crumlin Road.
When such parades are permitted our entire community is besieged by the full might of the imbalanced, riot-clad PSNI to ensure passage through our area by whatever means necessary. The Parades Commission's ignorance of our community's rights can only be quantified that we are looked upon as the lesser of two evils and as such, second-class citizens in our own country. Therefore, GARC ask where indeed is our rights to live free from sectarian fear and intimidation.
GARC believe that morning parades are equally contentious as the evening parades. A proposal for a possible solution re: restrictions/banning upon all marches and equally any offense caused to the greater Ardoyne could be averted by the development of the alternative route into a Grade A thoroughfare (this project could be financed by the wasted billions of taxpayers money used in past and future Policing operations) which would greatly benefit the working-class of both communities. That link two Loyalist/Unionist areas at Harmony Bridge. Where the Loyal Orders could parade in excess of normal parading dates without any objections from the Catholic/Nationalist and Republican community.
Our Collective call upon all opponents of sectarian parades through Ardoyne to take follow our lead and register their opposition by their presence. However, we stress this MUST be in a calm, dignified and peaceful manner. These unwelcome marches NEED to seen for what they truly are and NOT distracted by acts of violence.
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HEART therapy
28 September 2015 HEART therapy
HEART stands for Humanistic, Existential, Authentic, Relational, Transpersonal therapy. I now feel that this is the answer to which therapy to adopt. It is demanding and thorough, and I have written about it at length in my new book which comes out next year. I shall also be presenting a whole day workshop on it on March 26th in Hampstead. Also in the same book is a full treatment of Dialogical Self theory, which replaces the idea of subpersonalities, and also replaces the old idea of the Unconscious. The book is called 'The Reality Game – 3rd edition'.
To me this is a revelation, and a real step forward in the search for a therapy which will actually do justice to the whole person. After all, it is the whole person who comes in at the door and needs to be seen and appreciated. And if the person is really infinite, as I believe, then they need a therapy which does justice to that, and does not fob them off with anything less.
I think that the person is a bit like the TARDIS – pretty unimpressive on the outside, but practically infinite on the inside, with huge resources and immense untrodden ways. The person is not a poor limited worm on the face of the earth, but a being of great potential and magical connections.
One of the main things missing in most attempts at therapy is a real appreciation of the transpersonal. But if we take account of this amazing potential, we can move into a much higher realm of being, where nothing is impossible.