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I should clarify some points of this debate. During 2014 I requested from TSV, Inc. via email, a formal written policy regarding uphill access at Taos Ski Valley. They responded with a generic, no name email that uphill access is not allowed during the ski season (which I respect), and listed reasons such as dangers associated with snowmaking operations, unmarked obstacles, skier collisions and avalanches.
Here are some points worth considering;
1. Taos Ski Valley, Inc. has not adhered to the legal clause (24-15-7. E.) set forth in the New Mexico Skier Safety Act which requires visible notice to be posted at specific locations stating if and which runs within their permit boundary are not currently open to access. I have brought this to their attention several times during the past eight years and they have chosen to ignore that fact. During the stupid instagram thing their social media employee stated that they had a sign posted at the entrance to the parking lot, however that is not a "subject trail or slope" where a closure notice must be posted as dictated by the NMSSA, and said sign was either fallen over or covered in snow and was not visible anyways. He also said there was a sign at the bottom of Lift 4, which I did not see while we were there and it is not visible in any pictures I'd taken of most of that area surrounding the Bavarian parking lot, and all the other skiers I asked who had been up there that day did not see a sign. Upon inquiry the US Forest Service told me that their interpretation of this specific NMSSA clause includes the post season when a ski area is not open, and that ski areas in New Mexico must have a legitimate notice posted at the bottom of each base area lift and any other area which may be accessed from an existing road or trail that enters the ski area boundary from public lands, if they wish to keep an area closed. Trees and other natural geologic boundaries are considered to be like a fence or gate - the excuse of "I went through the trees" is not valid.
2. TSV, Inc. uses their lifts to access the Wheeler Peak Wilderness for private recreational skiing while the ski area is closed, without providing the same opportunities for the public and passholders. During May of this year, 2016, TSV's owner along with their COO and two ski patrollers acting as guides (I will omit using names on here, because of my personal respect for the owner and one of the ski patrollers) used Lifts 4 and 12 (12 is the Kachina Peak Lift) to access the wilderness area and ski on Lake Fork. According to the COO in an actual conversation the previous year, ski areas are permitted to use their lifts for anything related to resort operations, however as of July this year the Forest Service has said they have not received any formal request from TSV, Inc. to pursue backcountry access via gates or open boundaries. Whether or not TSV's use of their lifts for certain individuals to enjoy recreational skiing in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness could be interpreted as a scouting trip for potential future endeavors is questionable.
3. A bit more personal - I was told by a veteran TSV employee, in conversation at a local cantina last May that "if we catch you hiking up there again we'll ban you from the mountain and arrest you for trespassing." I asked the employee "what about the fact that I was up there along with a bunch of your friends and co-workers, and several Forest Service employees were up there skiing as well and didn't seem to have any issues?" his response was "they work here and have earned the right to hike Kachina whenever they want to". This is in line with TSV's well-known way of biasing against specific individuals whom they simply do not like, I believe they don't like me because during my four years working the lifts here I reported several safety issues to my supervisors and to TSV's lift maintenance employees, as I had been thoroughly trained to do while working with lift ops and maintenance at Copper Mountain (5 years, I learned from some of the best in the industry here), and also a year at Keystone, 2 seasons at Angel Fire, and a Summer at Purgatory. For example during the 2008-09 season I reported a fraying haul rope wire, bent and worn sheaves, misaligned or bent sheave crossarms, possible cracks in welds on chairs, missing bolts on chairs, bolts found beneath lift towers, chairs that had migrated several feet more than the majority, the misalignment on Lift 7A between towers 5, 5A and 6, chairs parked in the bullwheel at night (a hazard any experienced lift mechanic should be aware of), faulty tower switches that would not reset during daily stop tests, 3-8 foot rollbacks on Lift 1 during normal stops, unsafe e-stop distances, clunky sounds coming from the gearbox, corrosion on Lift 5's counterweight line, rust on motor parts, and lots more minor issues that should be addressed but would not actually prevent the lifts from running. I was told by the lift maintenance supervisor at the time "you need to just shut up and swing chairs." During the 2010-11 season I reported a broken seat pan (the metal pan between the chair frame and pad) on a chair on Lift 1, and was told by the lift mechanic who responded "just don't load any fat people on that chair", then he got on his snowmobile and left - I sh*t you not. During 2013 I blew the whistle on the bent and possibly broken bullwheel at the top of Lift 1 directly to the Forest Service's top guy in the western states (via a connection within the Colorado Department of Tramway Safety Board), the FS sent and inspector who generally agreed with my sentiment, they checked with Poma who told them the bend on the spoke occurred during shipping when the lift was built, I didn't ask about any specifics about how it happened.


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Trump takes another swipe at Sessions, urges Clinton-Russia probe
President Trump took another swipe at Jeff Sessions on Monday morning, even after the fallout from his comments last week criticizing the attorney general's decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe.
The president was storming Twitter on the same morning his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner was speaking with Senate investigators on Capitol Hill. Ahead of that private testimony, Kushner released a statement denying any collusion with Russia.
But the president soon took a shot at congressional committees, as well as Sessions, for not looking into "Crooked Hillarys" supposed crimes.
"So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?" he said.
The White House for days has suggested scrutiny be applied to speechmaking money former President Bill Clinton made in Moscow and other connections.
Trump's tweet went a step further by invoking Sessions. It comes after Trump leveled harsh criticisms in a New York Times interview, calling Sessions' recusal "very unfair to the president" and adding that he never would have appointed him attorney general had he known he would do so.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later told reporters that the president was "disappointed" but that he "clearly has confidence in him or he would not be the attorney general."
When asked if the president would request Sessions' resignation, Sanders said: "I think you know this president well enough to know that if he wanted somebody to take an action, he would make that quite clear."
Sessions responded to the president's criticisms during a press conference last Thursday and said: "I have the honor of serving as attorney general. It's something that goes beyond any thought that I've ever had for myself."
Sessions added: "We love this job, and we love this department and I plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate."

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In her shows, Lady Xara of Avalon, a studied classical singer, not only impresses with visually stunning productions that seem borrowed from the world of myths and legends, but also with her powerful and changeable voice. She sings live and seduces live and knows how to enchant and captivate the audience on different stages with this unique combination for years internationally successful.
In this year's show at the Venus Berlin impressive images of flying rope art are combined with modern BDSM techniques and accompanied by a comprehensive vocal-musical repertoire of various genres – from the classic aria to Progressive House. As a counterpart presents Lady Xara this year, the sugar sweet, innocent slave Usagi, who passionately devoted to the perfidious varieties of the mistress
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A Maine man was stabbed to death Saturday night at his home in Pittston.
Police say Dale Clifford was involved in a confrontation with a tenant of the boarding house he and his wife, Debra, run on East Pittston Road.
Clifford died in the ambulance while he was being transported to Maine General Hospital in Augusta.
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The Exilim brand is fast becoming a watchword for compact camera quality, and the Casio Exilim EX-Z200 is no exception. From the moment we caught a glimpse of the Z200 alongside the stunning EX-F1 at CES 2008 to the moment it wafted into Crave Towers this week, it's been fairly clear that this 10-megapixel snapper is class in a glass.
The metal frame, sleek silver accents and range of colours take care of the looks, but there's all sorts of lens-y goodness going on inside the Z200 as well. For starters, it has a wide-angle 35mm film camera-equivalent of 28mm, which is plenty wide for fitting more in at the sides of your pictures. If you'd prefer to hone in on something, a 4x optical zoom takes care of things further away.
The 1/2.3-inch CCD sensor is shifted infinitesimally to compensate for shaky hands. The sensor's sensitivity can be adjusted from ISO 50 all the way up to ISO 1,600, if you really want to ruin your pictures with grain. How the Z200 deals with image noise will be one of the things we test in our in-depth review.
Face recognition is here, of course, and allows you to record and prioritise family and friends' faces to pick them out in the frame. Other features include a soft flash to maintain that cosy look in lower light, a long 4-second night shutter for turning moving lights into fancy patterns or capturing the stars, and a triple self-timer. This counts down from 10 seconds, complete with on-screen countdown -- handy if you're using the timer to avoid camera shake, not so much if you're scampering down the beach to join the fixed-grinning family -- and captures three images a second apart, to save on constant to-ing and fro-ing.
The Casio Exilim EX-Z200 is in the shops and online now for around £195. To find out more, and to see how Casio is continuing the good ideas on the video front, click for the next page. -Rich Trenholm
Update: Read our full Casio Exilim EX-Z200 review.
The Casio Exilim EX-Z200 sports a gigantic 69mm (2.7-inch) LCD screen. Controls include two buttons for switching between playback and shooting -- why, Casio, why?! -- and a best shot, or scene mode button. Also included is a dedicated movie button, which is an idea so simple that we wonder why no one thought of it sooner. Another great idea that's turning up more and more is prerecord video mode, which records video constantly and when you press the shutter, saves the previous 5 seconds of video.
The Z200 records H.264 video, with 30 frames per second at 640x480 pixels. These can be uploaded to YouTube or watched in 16:9 on your television.


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IMPHAL, Feb 23: Complaining that villagers have not received the benefit even after an amount of Rs 145 lakhs for laying the pipeline under the Renovation of Old Water Supply Scheme at Tadubi had been sanctioned six years ago, the Joint Action Committee for Renovation of Old Tadubi Water Supply Scheme has decided to restrict transportation of materials related to renovation of the said water supply scheme if necessary remedial measures were not taken up within 40 days.
Talking to The Sangai Express in this connection, convener of the JAC Athili pointed out that the Government of Manipur had sanctioned Rs 145 lakhs for the renovation of the Supply scheme at Tadubi in 2006 for ensuring water supply to the people of various villages under Tadubi, Mao-Maram sub-division of Senapati district including Makhel, Keibi, Shajouba (Upper & Lower), Tobufii and MPDA areas.
The sanctioned order was signed by then Commissioner of PHED Henry K Heni on September 27, 2006 following a memorandum of agreement arrived at during a joint meeting of representatives of beneficiary villages and officials of PHED including Commissioner Henry K Heni, Chief Engineer GA Joychandra Sharma, SE HS Verypam and EE PHE Division, Senapati L Dhaballo Singh on March 6, 2006, he said.
The convener explained that renovation of the old water supply at Tadubi had been approved after due consideration of the fact that the earlier system of supplying water to the villages was not sufficient.
Consequently, the work order for renovation of the old water supply scheme had been issued in favor of one contractor identified as K Lamchao Pao of Paomei Colony, Imphal who subsequently made even necessary preparation for laying the pipeline. Unfortunately, there has been no progress in the renovation work since then, the convener lamented.
The JAC had also earlier approached PHE Minister TN Haokip in this regard. But the assurance given by the Minister has not been translated into action so far, he added. Leaving no other options and as a last resort, the JAC has on February 21 given an ultimatum to Chief Secretary DS Poonia for providing the required pipeline within 40 days. The JAC has also decided to impose restriction on movement of vehicles related to PHE Department including transportation of construction materials if the Government fails meet the demand within the set deadline, the convener warned.
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BEIJING: Thirty people were killed due to burst into flames after crashing into the side of the road on Sunday.
The bus was filled with 56 people who wounded due to bus accident in Hunan province.
Twenty-one people have been transfer to the hospital immediately, and state police arrested the bus driver.
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The police team investigate and finding the reason of the fire. However, initial finding that ensuring oil leak may have ignited the flame of fire.
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MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
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Tuesday, 06 September 2016 03:19 PM
The FBI has been "sullied" by Director Jim Comey's decision Friday to release a comprehensive report concerning the agency's questioning of Hillary Clinton on Friday, and the Democratic presidential nominee was never going to be indicted on charges concerning her use of a private email server, anyway, an exasperated Joe Scarborough said on his MSNBC program Tuesday morning.
"The FBI got it wrong going both ways," the former congressman said on his "Morning Joe" program. "I think the FBI was shoddy in their process. I think they left too many things up in the air. It was political. They were never going to indict Hillary Clinton."
And if she wasn't going to face indictment, Comey should "treat Hillary Clinton like every other American and shut your mouth," but he didn't do that, said Scarborough.
"You know why?" he continued. "Because he wasn't going to do it in an election year. He made his bed. He should sleep in it instead of continuing to leak this out."
As a result, "the FBI is sullied by this," said Scarborough. "Anybody who reads these pages, they are sullied by a shoddy, shoddy [investigation.] What are they going to do? Keep dribbling it out because Jim Comey feels bad about himself?"
The interview itself was "pathetic," said Scarborough.
"They interviewed Hillary on the Saturday of Fourth of July weekend to kill that story," he said. "They released these FBI notes on Labor Day weekend. The interview was so pathetic, they had Cheryl Mills, they had her lawyers in, who were also the principals in destroying the documents, in deciding what documents to shred and destroy. It is unbelievable."
By having Mills and other potential principals there, he continued, "if they found something in Hillary Clinton's interview that makes it possible for them to indict her or other people on her staff, they have the key players sitting there listening to the system while she is being interviewed? It never happens ... find a prosecutor, find a prosecutor anywhere in America that will come on television today and tell you that they will allow principals to an investigation to sit in on another principal's investigation."
The FBI also failed to follow up on many facts that were uncovered during the questioning, including about missing laptops and BlackBerrys that had been destroyed with a hammer," he said.
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Have you ever given your phone to someone, only to find them swiping through your apps? What about your emails? Perhaps you want to block text notifications from popping up when someone else has your phone, or you want to prevent people from scrolling through your photos.
Whatever the reason, people snooping around on your phone is a common thing — but what people don't know is that there's a little-known feature on Android or iOS that will prevent it.
The "Guided Access" shortcut is a feature that locks people into a single app, or even freezes your phone on a single screen. Guided Access — a.k.a "Screen Pinning" on Android devices — will prevent a user from moving from one app to another. If they try, the fingerprint or passcode screen will appear. It is ideal when giving your phone to:
- Kids
- Parents
- Strangers taking photos
- Friends you don't trust, like those who are supposed to help you navigate with Google Maps but instead start browsing your emails or posting silly pics to your Facebook
How does Guided Access work?
To stop people from snooping around your phone, first, you have to enable a shortcut.
On iOS devices, you must enable Guided Access:
- First, open your settings. Click on General, and then Accessibility, and scroll all the way to the bottom until you see Guided Access. Turn Guided Access on, and then toggle the Accessibility Shortcut to the "on" position.
On Android devices, you must enable Screen Pinning:
- First, open up Settings, and then scroll to Fingerprints & Security. Turn the Screen Pinning function on.
Once the setting is on, you can click the home button either two times (for Android) or three times (for iOS). The app you're on will then be locked in place until your passcode or fingerprint is entered. This allows you to discreetly lock the device before giving it to someone else. The only way the other person would know it's locked is if they try to snoop around.
More Guided Access features for iOS
When you use Guided Access on iOS, you will get even more features. For example, it always blocks notifications (like text messages or social media), but you can also control other things on your device, such as:
- Locking the phone in a vertical display
- Disabling parts of the phone's screen
- Setting a time limit
- Disabling touch
- Disabling volume control, keyboards, and other features
Disabling touch, for example, will lock the phone. This is perfect when showing a photo or video to a child…or a rude adult.
You can also use it to lock yourself into an app. For instance, if you're studying and need to read an important paper on your device, and you don't want to get distracted, this feature will force you to input your passcode before checking things like your Facebook page. That extra step can help cut down on the temptation to check social media instead of studying.
So if you're sick of people snooping around your phone, or simply want to prevent your kids from messing with your email account, try out the Guided Access feature. And if you're looking for ways to stay anonymous online and protect your privacy, make sure you download Hotspot Shield for free today.


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When Dr. Hope Sze flies to Los Angeles to reunite with her soul mate, she expects Botoxed blondes with Brazilian wax jobs, not terror at 35,000 feet in the air.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
You Write the Caption, Episode 24
Last week, I offered a picture with Frank (and me) sporting a look of disgust. I decided to offer a picture of Frank with a slightly different expression for this week. Enjoy!
I'll reveal the winning caption on Monday, here in the Lair. You can check out yesterday's "Ask Uncle Kerouac" to see the winner for last week's caption contest.
And don't miss tomorrow's episode of my comic strip for Wildcat Wednesday.
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Call for papers. Jenny Diski: A Celebration, University of Oxford, 7th April 2020. Keynote Speaker: Blake Morrison.
Life-Writing at the Weston Library
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John Malchair (1730-1812) moved to Oxford in 1760, where he led the Music Room band for 32 years. As a hobby he collected 'old tunes', what we would today call folk music, noting down tunes heard in the street, receiving music via letters, and recording melodies from the singing of friends. His collection as known... Continue Reading →
New creative life-writing collaboration launched by CLHLWR and REFRAME Sussex
Life Writing Projects is is a new collaboration between The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research (CLHLWR) and REFRAME. "Our contributors, who include new and established writers, artists and poets, embrace the concept of life-writing as a project. They work here within a set of self-imposed constraints, in order, as Michael Sheringham puts it,... Continue Reading →
Dirty Little Secrets Of The Caspian
A streak of black for depression, blue for nostalgic memories of home, red for love, I put above all else, yellow for the hatred of injustice, green for the life I chose to not end, white for the peace I desperately seek. Here is a portrait painted with words. It was time. After much encouragement... Continue Reading →
The Private Life of the Diary
My First Diary When I was seven years old my mother sent me abroad, alone. I carried one small canvas bag with a camera and a diary-notebook. My instructions were very clear: 'Take as many pictures as you can and write down everything you see. Switzerland is a very beautiful country and you'll see lots... Continue Reading →
Woven into the Fabric of the Text: Subversive Material Metaphors in Academic Writing
This piece originally appeared on LSE Review of Books. It's rather like a ball of yarn when it gets tangled up. We hold it this way, and carefully wind out the strands on our spindles, now this way, now that way. That's how we'll wind up this war, if we're allowed: unsnarling it by sending embassies,... Continue Reading →
New Beginnings: Creative Women and the Curse of Silence
This post appeared originally on the Writers' HQ blog. Recently, I've been waking up with this feeling in my gut. "I'm done," I say to myself. "I'm done. I'm finished. I'm over it." I get up and write because it's my job and I have to but it's dry. It's bloodless. It hurts, and it... Continue Reading →
Call for papers – Biography and Public History: Constructing Historical Narratives through Life-Writing
20 June 2018 University of Nottingham, Department of Music Keynote: Professor Frances Spalding, CBE, FRSL (University of Cambridge) Deadline: 9 February 2018 Call for Papers From Plutarch's Parallel Lives to Gordon Brown's recent My Life, Our Times, life-writing has long dealt not only with individuals, but also with the times in which they lived. The discipline traverses historical, cultural,... Continue Reading →
Writing Historical Biography: Problems and Challenges
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (University of Münster) and Lyndal Roper Chair: Peter Wilson 10am – 12pm, Tuesday 27 February, Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History The event explores the problems and challenges of writing historical biography, ranging from questions of context and human agency, to issues of interpretation and presentation. As authors of two recent best-selling biographies... Continue Reading →
Dame Hermione Lee talks to Patrick Gale about Edith Wharton, Penelope Fitzgerald, and the writing of biographies
This month the fifth North Cornwall Book Festival welcomed Dame Hermione Lee, OCLW's Advisory Director and Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at Oxford University. Hermione spoke to the festival's artistic director, Patrick Gale, about Edith Wharton and Penelope Fitzgerald, and what they can teach us about the peculiar pressures on women novelists. ... Continue Reading →
Conference "The Self in Verse. Exploring Autobiographical Poetry"
A collaboration between the University of Oxford (St Hilda's College, Oxford Centre for Life Writing, Faculty of English Language and Literature and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) and the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies (FSGS) at the Freie Universität Berlin, the three-day conference brought together some of the leading international literary scholars in the field.
Wilfred Owen and Beyond, call for papers
The Oxford Centre for Life Writing, in partnership with the Western Front Association and the Wilfred Owen Association, is pleased to be hosting a conference to mark the centenary of Wilfred Owen's death. Owen's life was tragically short. Any study of his life is by definition overshadowed by his death and the bitter irony of... Continue Reading →
Oxford DNB research bursary recipients, for 2017-18
Originally posted by Oxford University Press. We are delighted to announce the recipients of the Oxford DNB/OCLW research bursaries for 2017/2018. This time, OUP has awarded two bursaries in association with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing: they go to Dr Katherine Collins, an academic and creative writer working across the disciplines of sociology and life... Continue Reading →
Mademoiselle Mercandotti, Hughes Balls Hughes, and the (scandalous) uses of a Green Room
On 8 March 1823, the Spanish dancer, Mademoiselle Mercandotti was due to dance for a packed house in a performance of Daniel Auber's ballet, Alfred. The audience were expectant: Mercandotti, who had arrived for the 1822-1823 season, had been dubbed 'The Andalusian Venus', and the manager of the King's Theatre, John Ebers (c. 1785-c. 1830),... Continue Reading →
Berto Pasuka: a dancing life of colonialism and diasporic culture
This paper for Dancing Lives looks at the way Berto Pasuka's dancing embodies his life experiences. Pasuka was born in Jamaica in 1910 or 1911 and moved to London in 1939, founding his company Les Ballets Nègres there in 1946. The performances he gave in his ballets with this company exemplify an opposition to colonialism... Continue Reading →
Dancing all night with Aphra Behn: Jeffrey Boys's Almanack for 1667
Mike Webb (Bodleian Libraries) and Jennifer Thorp (New College Oxford) contribute to Dancing Lives. The Bodleian Library has recently acquired a Gallen's Almanack for 1667 which belonged to Jeffery Boyes of Grays Inn, who has been suggested by Janet Todd as a candidate for the 'Amyntas' of Aphra Behn's poems. In the diary section of... Continue Reading →
R1 – An Exploration of Content from the Choreographic Wastebasket
Choreographer Liam Francis is an advocate for rehabilitating discarded creative offerings. Consequently, R1 is a performance piece composed entirely of rejected choreography banished to the choreographic wastebaskets of creative processes. In particular, R1 draws from the wastebaskets of five creative processes that Francis was creatively involved in. R1 is the first in a range of... Continue Reading →
Dr Kate Kennedy wins public engagement award
Dr Kate Kennedy, our Weinrebe Fellow in Life-Writing, has won an Early Career Researcher award in this year's Vice-Chancellor's Public Engagement with Research Awards, which celebrate public engagement work across the University. The announcement was made at an awards ceremony at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on 28 June hosted by Vice-Chancellor... Continue Reading →
Lydia Lopokova – A 20th Century Life
At the peak of her dancing years - between 1916 and 1926 - Lydia Lopokova was one of the world's most popular ballerinas, stamping the signature of her quick, bright technique and irrepressible stage personality onto the repertories of Massine, Fokine and the young Frederick Ashton. She was also closely connected to some of the... Continue Reading →
Tony Gray Visiting Scholarship
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing invites applications for the Tony Gray Visiting Scholarship, tenable for one year. Closing date: 28 July 2017 Start date: 9 October 2017 (or as soon as possible thereafter) The scholarship awards £500 expenses to the recipient, and a further £500 towards the organisation of an event. We are interested in... Continue Reading →
Choreographic Forum – nicht schlafen by Alain Platel / les ballets C de la B
There's been so much interest in OCLW and DANSOX's event Dancing Lives, and here is another brilliant event about dance, happening in Sadler's Wells just a week before ours: Join the Society for Dance Research in a discussion on Alain Platel / les ballets C de la B's nicht schlafen on Monday 3rd July with invited speakers... Continue Reading →
Dancing Lives
The lives of dancers are among the most elusive subjects for life-writing. Not only is the art form itself ephemeral, notoriously difficult to capture in notation and on film as an accurate record. Dancers are often reluctant to talk about themselves – "we are what we do" – is the familiar refrain. Historically, the life... Continue Reading →
Marie Taglioni: The First Female Superstar of Ballet
Marie Taglioni's overwhelming success in ballets such as La Sylphide triggered a cult of the ballerina which was to last for many decades, and which swept away the image of the acclaimed male dancers of the past. This paper for Dancing Lives accompanies Marie Taglioni on her way to celebrity from Stockholm over Vienna and Stuttgart to the Paris Opera, where she created... Continue Reading →
Presence and Absence: Kurt Jooss
My paper for Dancing Lives 2017 considers the dancer/choreographer Kurt Jooss (1901-1979). He is probably best known for his iconic role as 'Death' in his 1932 dance drama The Green Table. During his exile from Nazi Germany, in England, between 1933 and 1949, Jooss embodied his complex life in both dancing and choreography. His dominating... Continue Reading →
Leaves of Silk
by Clare Brant, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture and Co-Director, Centre for Life-Writing Research. Cross-posted with permission from the Department of English at King's College London. The Dear Diary exhibition is now open, until 7th July! Promotion got underway well before opening, with various radio features including Radio 2's Jonathan Ross Show on 4th May, and... Continue Reading →
Global Lives and Local Perspectives: New Approaches to Tibetan Life Writing
Global Lives and Local Perspectives was the second largest collaboration between two research clusters of Wolfson College: OCLW (Oxford Centre for Life Writing) and THSC (Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre). In 2012, Wolfson College hosted the conference Beyond Biographies: New Perspectives on Tibetan Life-Writing; convened by Professor Ulrike Roesler and held in collaboration with OCLW,... Continue Reading →
It's in my diary…
Cross-posted with permission from the Department of English at King's College London. 'It's in my diary' is a phrase you still hear. The expression gives no clue as to whether the speaker uses a paper diary or an app, and not needing to make the distinction shows how old and new forms of diary co-exist... Continue Reading →
Clio Barnard: The Selfish Giant
Clio Barnard is one of Britain's foremost directorial talents. She first gained critical acclaim for her film The Arbor (2010), which followed the life of West Yorkshire playwright Andrea Dunbar, and whose formal innovation mixed a documentary soundtrack with fictional reenactment, as actors lip-synched to the words of her interviewees. Barnard gained further acclaim when... Continue Reading →
Lives of Houses: One-Day Colloquium, 27 May
In a letter to his father sent from Florence in September 1826, the 22-year-old Benjamin Disraeli proudly recounts his visit to Tasso's prison cell in Ferrara, where he marvelled at Byron's name – "here scratched with a great nail on the brick wall". In his 1837 novel Venetia, Disraeli's complex biofictional engagement with his Romantic... Continue Reading →
Faith Biography
Spiritual autobiographies, such as those famously composed by Augustine, Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, constitute the earliest forms of life writing...
Pursuer or pursued? Holmes on biography
'If we are to have any hope of making a better world, we must understand it both scientifically and imaginatively.'
Are you a member of Wolfson College? Do you have an object with a story to tell? A life story to share?
The Wolfson Life-Stories Day is back, and this year it will be accompanied by an exhibition: A Day in the Life of a College. Wolfson through its Objects. We are seeking members of College to contribute to either or both events. Please click here for more information.
The Self in Verse. Exploring Autobiographical Poetry
Poetry as a means of self-expression has fascinated writers throughout the ages and cultures. Early cases in point are ancient authors such as Catullus and Ovid, whose Latin poems Carmina and Tristia treat questions of lives faced with controversy and exile.
Life Goes On: How people in northern Rwanda make sense of psychosocial suffering from war and healing
CNR-TCRU Postgraduate Narrative Research Seminars, 2016 - 17 Organised by the Centre for Narrative Research (CNR), University of East London and the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU), UCL Institute of Education Yuko Otake, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Northern Rwanda experienced wars between 1990 and 2000, including the civil war 1990-1994, the genocide against the Tutsi in... Continue Reading →
The Lives of Houses
Saturday, 27 May 2017, 9:30am-5.30pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD A one-day colloquium convened by Oliver Cox & Sandra Mayer, and hosted by OCLW in collaboration with TORCH, will bring together academics, biographers and curators to explore the ways in which the life stories of well-known individuals are preserved and... Continue Reading →
Maps without borders: Stories of civic science in action
This storytelling exhibition at University College London showcases powerful aerial maps created by citizens using kites, balloons, and point-and-shoot cameras. They explore how people around the world are harnessing the power of Do-It-Yourself techniques to address local environmental, social and political matters. Sitting around a proverbial campfire, they will tell four stories of unsung heroes in the U.S. and... Continue Reading →
The Celebrity Interview: History, Aesthetics, Method
Writing in a late 1870s 'confession album', a young Oscar Wilde answered the question 'What is your aim in life?' with a characteristically cocky 'Success, fame or even notoriety'. Intriguingly, the term 'confession album' points towards the darker, more menacing undercurrents of a format often dismissed as idle celebrity gossip, and there is a ring... Continue Reading →
The Weinrebe Lecture series 2017: Writing World Lives
The annual Weinrebe Lectures in Life-Writing will take place over four weeks in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium at Wolfson College beginning on Tuesday, 24 January 2017. The lectures are open to all, free of charge, with no reservation required. You can listen to podcasts of previous years' Weinrebe lectures here. Tuesday 24 January, 5:30-7pm, LWA Patrick... Continue Reading →
The Celebrity Interview: History, Aesthetics, Method
Please join us on Tuesday 17th January at 5:30pm, at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College. The second in a new series of OCLW events focusing on the intersections of life-writing and celebrity, this discussion panel is dedicated to the genre of the celebrity interview. Scholars and practitioners will cast a spotlight on one of the dominant forms... Continue Reading →
War Time: International Society for First World War Studies conference
The 9th conference of the International Society of First World War Studies took place at the University of Oxford between 9th-11th November. The conference welcomed more than 80 academics from 11 different countries, who met at the Maison Française d'Oxford. Held at the midpoint of the First World War formal centenary period, this year's... Continue Reading →
Global Lives and Local Perspectives: New Approaches to Tibetan Life Writing. Call for Papers
We invite papers that explore new approaches to the various forms of Tibetan life writing for a two-day workshop to be held at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, on May 12-13, 2017. The aim of this workshop is to examine Tibet's rich tradition of biographical writing as documented in Tibetan narrative, poetic, legal and religious... Continue Reading →
Life-writing and philosophy: call for papers
Life Writing is calling for submissions to a special themed edition on Philosophy and Life Writing, to be guest edited by Christopher Cowley and D. L. Mahieu. Philosophers have long been interested in the nature of the self and in the meaning and narrative structure of human lives. Many philosophers have themselves written autobiographies. Descartes's... Continue Reading →
Celebrity and Life-Writing in Dialogue
Abounding with buzzwords such as 'myth', 'image', 'authenticity', 'public and private persona', 'iconicity' and 'cultural memory', the links between celebrity and life-writing seem self-evident. There are, for one, the ambivalent motives underlying our fascination with both biography and celebrity, ranging from a desire for emulation and hero-worship to a hunger for gossip, revelation and social... Continue Reading →
Unsteady: reconstructing the life and work of Leila Ann Soltau
Memory, as they say, is a funny thing. The last time I saw Leila, I cannot remember in any detail what we talked about, or what we watched on television after she returned, exhausted, from the chemo. I do remember the day she enjoyed me showing off her wigs though, and then I made her... Continue Reading →
Biographical Borders
In his President's Column in the most recent Modern Language Association Newsletter (Fall 2016), K. Anthony Appiah tells the story of how a few years ago he decided to organize his books. A daunting task. A philosopher, he tried first to sort his philosophy books into metaphysics and epistemology on the one hand and political... Continue Reading →
Oxford's Writing Life
As an undergraduate, I came to Oxford looking for a writing community. Oxford, I thought, was the land of literary Greats — Tolkein, Lewis, Eliot, Shelley, Johnson, Sontag. Almost 100 years ago, a young T.S. Eliot, who was studying at Merton College, wrote feverish letters to his friends, complaining about his experience at Oxford: 'Oxford is very pretty,... Continue Reading →
"Is This How it Really Was?": Exploring Lives Through Private and Public Writing
Four years ago, quite against my better judgement, I began research on the life of American evangelical icon Elisabeth Elliot. I had a special needs son, a baby daughter, and a husband who was embarking on a rigorous professional program. I was two moves into a schedule of moving every six months to two years... Continue Reading →
The Lille Diaries: A Writers' Group Weekend
I slipped this slim, unassuming little volume into my bag, planning to have a look during my daughter's swimming lesson. I pulled it out – pleasantly solid and tactile, with crisp cream pages – while perched on the unyielding plastic of the pull-down seat in the stuffy, chlorine-scented spectator area. The cover is simple and... Continue Reading →


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I am 68 and I survived Postpartum Depression
My baby, Caroline, is 36 years old, and has a baby of her own. She is fine. She is a wonderful mother. She has a happy marriage, a good job, and lives a happy stable life. We all worried throughout her pregnancy, however, that this might not turn out to be the case. We worried, because I had not been quite so lucky.
Thirty six years ago, in 1980, I was a happy, well adjusted, stay at home mom living in suburbia. I doted on my six year old Matt and, at age 30, I was expecting our second child. We had the opportunity to determine gender through ultra sound, but chose not to, because my husband and I felt like finding out boy or girl before birth was like opening a present before Christmas. And hearing your doctor say "it's a boy", or "it's a girl", was the best surprise you could ever have.
I went into labor late at night, went to the hospital at dawn and had my baby abruptly, after administration of pitocin, and heard the glorious words, "it's a girl". I felt great, was totally excited and energized, and couldn't have been happier. The first night in the hospital, I didn't' sleep a wink. By the next morning, I started to feel paranoid and thought that the nurses were talking about me. I slept fitfully with a sleeping pill the next night. But the next day I was dragging and feeling depressed. My baby girl was doing well, took to the breast immediately, and seemed peaceful and calm. But her bilirubin was high and she went under the blue lights. I started obsessing about her condition. My blood pressure shot up, and I started to be hypochondriacally obsessed about that, regardless of the fact that the medical staff told me that there was no real need for concern.
My husband came to the hospital with our son to take us home. It was miserable hot in late June in the SE United States. For a week, we were visited by family and friends with gifts, covered casseroles, and cameras. I still couldn't sleep no matter what I tried. And I began to digress deeper and deeper into depression. My little Caroline ate well and slept well, but I continued to obsess with a feeling of impending doom. After a week, my husband went back to work. I was home alone with my son and my new baby. I was sleep walking through each day, and still not sleep at night, and couldn't fall asleep at all during the day when the baby napped. And my thoughts got more and more bizarre. I began to think that the narratives on TV were talking about me and my life. I confided in a close friend who tried to help, but I was out in left field.
At two and a half weeks, my doctor prescribed some estrogen thinking that my mood swings were caused by the drastic drop in the hormone that takes place with the birthing process might be helped with replenishment. No effect I was myriad in panic and anxiety. My physician gave me a business card from the stack he had in his desk drawer. It was for a psychiatrist. I went to see him. He was kind and nurturing, and started standard psychoanalytic therapy. Limited anti-depressant medication. He meant well. But unfortunately, this was a long term solution to an emergency situation that need a more aggressive intervention. He suggested that I take my baby and go stay with my parents to get some help and rest, and I should "feel much better in a week or so".
I moved in to my mom's house. I bound my breasts and put my baby on a bottle thinking that this might help to even out my hormones, and anyway, the anti-depressants were going to cure me, and I couldn't breast feed with them. But I still didn't sleep. There was a piercing ringing in my ears, and the people on TV were still talking about me. I could speak rationally to the people around me, mostly talking about how bad I felt, but nobody understood the severity of what was happening to me. And something awful was happening on the inside.
And the night finally came. The night of the royal wedding. Lady Diana and Prince Charles. I'd been waiting and looking forward to this for months. It aired at 3:00 a.m. Oh yes, of course, I was awake. But I was way too miserable, crazy, and panicky to enjoy it. It was the last straw. Early in the morning, I called my sister in law to come pick me up and take me to the hospital emergency room. I was checked in to the mental health unit at the large suburban facility. By this time, I was totally paranoid, suspicious, and out of my head. I don't remember a lot of this experience, but I remember all too well that I was totally psychotic and over the edge. I didn't feel suicidal, but was panicked by the sight of metal and sharp objects. I was on suicide watch and put on stronger medication. I started to come around to reality after a week. I stayed in the mental health facility unit a total of three weeks. I was released to go home again. I didn't feel great, but for the most part, I was able to take care of my children. And hang on with continued therapy.
But there were no words to describe what this experience had done to me. I was broken. During my psychosis, I had the sense that I was the target of an enormous battle between good and evil. It was super natural. It was the dark night of the soul. When I emerged, I was changed forever. And for the next two years, I constantly teetered on the edge, feeling like somebody was chasing me. That I could be pushed into that black hole at any moment. But I got by. Unfortunately, I was emotionally arid. I felt neither lover, nor hate, nor joy. Only fear and sorrow. And at least I felt reasonably sane. Most of the time.
Until my baby was two years old. And my husband went out of town on a business trip. That same old darkness and fear, and sleeplessness returned. When he finally came back after two days, I was a basket case. He checked me into a residential treatment center. More craziness. Lost time. Waking nightmares. I was there two months. I finally returned home.
I returned to a functioning life, got a part time job, found some happiness in my life. Loved watching my children grow. But my husband could never get over the crazy person I had been, and eventually, we got a divorce. I went on to make a new life for myself. Returned to college. Got a job in healthcare. Ended up as a professor in a medical school. But still had two additional shorter break downs over a 15 year period. But each time it was easier to recover. They came on like a runaway freight train going off the tracks. When they were in progress, I know there was no stopping them. A change in medication and I was good. I've never really been suicidal or homicidal, but I have been in a definite altered, supernatural state.
But the first event, after the birth of my baby girl, where something so joyful was turned into something so terrifying is my real connection with project semicolon. I am now 68 years old, remarried, retired, and at peace. The pause changed my life forever, but it also made me who I am today.
If you enjoyed Mimi's story, send a bit of encouragement in the comments section below or share this story with others.


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So everyone has seen that one anime that has made them cry. And while I love them, sometimes everybody needs a laugh these are a couple anime that are just funny, no catch.
Girls High, a group of six girls in their freshmen year of high school.
Hetalia, history class with hot guys, need I say more?
Seitokai Yakuindomo, a guys begins attending a school that used to be an all girls' school and somehow becomes vice president of the student council
I honestly don't even know...... it's that random
Daily Lives of High School Boys, pretty much what the title says lol
These are a few of super random funny anime that always cheer me up if you have any othera please comment


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The current challenge over at Christmas Challenges with Sketches is to use the sketch on a gift bag. You can follow the link to see the sketch if you'd like; they ask that people don't repost it.
It's a very layered sketch. I like it, but normally I wouldn't attempt it -- lots of layers start looking really silly on a 2-inch-wide bookmark! However, I figured that a bag ought to give me plenty of room.
So I rummaged around in my wrapping supplies and found a bag I'd saved from some gift or other. It was blue, which was perfect: clearly I should do something wintery and snowflakey with the layers of the sketch.
I invested my creativity in making paper designs rather than altering the sketch much -- I decorated all the papers myself (except for the black one with big glittery white dots, which was a scrap). I think the black with silver snowflakes is probably the prettiest one... too bad it's mostly covered up!
Tip: My craft sheet was pretty messy after creating the first three or four papers -- white ink, silver ink, shimmer spritz and even some stray glitter and embossing power were everywhere! Don't waste this lovely mess -- take another piece of paper and rub it all over the craft sheet. Now you have a cleaner craft sheet and a cool piece of paper -- mine's the darker blue piece with the dove in the upper right.
I had a specific color inspiration, hence the use of black as well as blue and white -- but I can't show it, because it's the present inside the bag, and the recipient reads my blog.
(Hey Anya, I have a present for you...)
I'm entering this bag in the following challenges:
- Christmas Challenges (with Sketches) #53: Sketch with a Twist - Use a Bag
- Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge 125: Tags or Bags (bag, not tag... it would make an awfully large tag!)
- Stamptacular Sunday #193: Anything But a Card
- Divas by Design 64: Let It Snow
- Simon Says Stamp: Snowflakes
- Charisma Cardz #48: Christmas!
- Delightful Challenge: All About Christmas
- Sparkles Monthly #38: Christmas is Coming
- Top Tip Tuesday 91: Christmas (a Christmasy creation and a tip, too!)
- The Cupboard Trilogy #6: Frosty Winter


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Two members of SJVFD received Valor awards for actions in 2018. Firefighter Ian Lauderdale won a Silver Medal for Valor and Firefighter/EMT Carlos Ambrosini received a Merit Award for Valor from the Prince William County Chamber of Commerce for their valorous actions in 2018. Great examples of the dedication of the volunteers at SJVFD! Their citations read as follows:
Firefighter Ian LauderdaleOn December 11, 2018, units were dispatched to a fire at a business on New Market Court. Stonewall Jackson Volunteer Firefighter Ian Lauderdale was off-duty nearby when he was alerted to the fire by PulsePoint, a cell phone application integrated with Prince William County's 911 system to alert citizens to emergencies. Lauderdale proceeded to the scene, arrived ahead of fire units, and observed heavy smoke in the business. He yelled inside the open front door of the business to make sure everyone was out. Receiving no responses, he closed the door in order to slow the growth of the fire.
Observing the spread of smoke and fire into adjoining businesses, and without benefit of protective gear or consideration for his own safety, Firefighter Lauderdale began entering neighboring businesses and evacuating civilians. He encountered a group of special-needs students and their teachers in one business and escorted them out as smoke was entering the area. Returning to the original fire area, he discovered an employee with soot on her face and around her nose and directed her to arriving EMS units. As on-duty crews began to arrive, Ian knelt at the door of the original business and fed hoseline to firefighters inside, speeding their advance.
While off-duty and acting without the benefit of protective equipment or teammates at the scene of a working commercial fire, Firefighter Lauderdale placed himself at great personal risk. His actions removed a number of citizens from danger, enhanced firefighting operations, and reduced property damage.
Firefighter-EMT Carlos AmbrosiniOn February 18, 2018, Stonewall Jackson Volunteer Firefighter-EMT Carlos Ambrosini was tending to personal business at the Fairfax County Courthouse. As he was walking through the courthouse, he heard an alarm sounding from a nearby AED cabinet that had been opened. He then saw some Fairfax County Deputy Sheriffs running toward the front entrance of the courthouse. Because a firefighter is never off-duty, he followed them and found a Sheriff's Deputy beginning hands-only CPR on an unconscious and unresponsive female. As a trained and experienced EMT, Carlos took over the situation. He had the deputy continue compressions while he conducted a rapid assessment of the patient. Carlos then applied the AED pads and delivered a total of three shocks, directing the deputies to continue hands-only CPR in between. He attempted to obtain a pocket mask to commence rescue breathing as well, but one was not available. Following the third shock, the patient regained a pulse and was breathing on her own by the time paramedics from Fairfax County Fire and Rescue arrived. Carlos' training and experience gained in service to Prince William County resulted in a life being saved when he was he was least expecting to be called upon.


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Olajumoke Orisaguna, her husband, Sunday and their two children, Grace and Precious have moved into their luxury Surulere (Lagos) apartment, courtesy of Sujimoto Construction.
The company got her the apartment (rent and furnishing) for five years,
The 27 year-old was discovered in February after photo bombing TY Bello's shoot of Tinie Tempah in Yaba area of Lagos where she was hawking bread. –
Since then seceral goodies have come her way including a deal with Payporte, Shirleys' Confectioneries, Stanbic IBTC, Sujumoto Construction, Divine Eldocuments and Mrs. Abiodun Obakin of Biobak Restaurant, among others.
More photos after the cut...


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Read Stuart's column every week in The Scottish Sun, where he shares his reviews, news and podcasts with the 99.3% of the World's population not fortunate enough to be able to buy a physical copy of the paper. The following appeared originally in The Scottish Sun on Sunday 23rd April 2017.
Styx: Shards of Darkness (Xbox One, PS4 and PC, £34.99)
HEROES are muscle-ripped giants who are great to have beside you in a fight. Heroes are not goblin thieves who jump around in the shadows. But Styx: Shards Of Darkness does not play by normal rules, so your hero is a short, squat, ugly thief. The developing team at Cyanide like coming at things from a different angle, and Shards works.
The tale picks up 20 years after the last game. Styx makes a deal with the humans but is double-crossed by a shape shifter. Now he is out for revenge. He must infiltrate the Dark Elven city of Koranger and find out why he was sold out. It is all very high fantasy — full of elves, dwarves and trolls. If you like that sort of thing then you will love this 20-25 hour fantasy festival. There is loads of lore to get lost in, not to mention the fact that you will actually get to like Styx although you may quickly tire of his mind-numbing put-downs when you get him killed.
The Styx games are built around stealth — you need to take your time and work out how and where to go. Most times, if you end up in a sword fight you'll end up dead, so you need to play smart. The gameplay is an upgrade to Master Of Shadows so if you played that then you will get to grips with this quickly. Each level is huge and it is easy to get lost as you hunt for hidden treasure or discover three entry points to a stage — each with their own outcomes. Add in the fact that most missions have secondary goals and you can see there are many distractions. You can craft weapons from items you find and, as you would expect, a stealth thief has a healthy arsenal of tools to distract enemies or attack people. It is all backed up by Styx's skill tree, which sees you able to unlock abilities like cloning yourself and becoming a lock-picking master.
Graphically, the game carries a great mood. From pirate docks to steampunk-inspired airships everything has a great look and style. The soundtrack adds a mix of orchestral epics while the environmental sounds are outstanding. And let's hear it for Saul Jephcott — he does a outstanding job back as Styx. The game isn't perfect — it isn't the easiest game in the world at times. The new co-op mode is a fun blast, but it does make some of the levels much harder than they really should be. Overall, the controls aren't as tight as you'd like at times. But Styx will float your boat. The game is a sneaky journey through the darker side of fantasy and the gameplay and tone rise above any issues you will find. It is a break from the norm — even if it is a goblin thief.
Score 4.5/5
Race the Sun (Xbox One and multiformat, £7.99)
IT has been a big week for Race the Sun — after a four-year journey the indie title made it on to Xbox One. The Flippfly frenzy is great fun. You have to fly your bird-like solar-powered ship as far as you can before the sun sets. But you must dodge objects and obstacles at breakneck speeds. The game is pseudo-procedurally-generated which means that a run will be the same for a day but will change the next day, but you can still learn the route. It is simple but it is still super-addictive.
You race through regions with different challenges like huge towers with shadows that cause you to lose power. You can also grab power-ups along the way which can save your day. You can unlock new abilities by completing challenges and they spice up the gameplay as you head through 25 levels. The biggest issue is after reaching level 25. You have all the toys so you just chase scores or turn it off. It has a very striking look with bold black and grey shapes and power-ups in bright colours. It makes them easy to spot. Objects are red so you get a warning but it won't help you much.
The soundtrack has a nice and crisp drum and bass-inspired beat as you speed all over the place. It is a fun and challenging title that will drag you in and refuse to let you go. If you love chasing leaderboard scores, you may never play anything else.
Score: 3.5/5
Forza Corner
PORSCHE is back in Forza — and the mega news gets even better. Turn 10 have revealed the deal is a SIX-YEAR partnership. Be still my beating heart. The German manufacturer will feature in a range of Forza franchise. The news was launched with a bang — a new Porsche Car Pack for Forza Horizon 3. You get seven new Porsche rides — from classics like the 1960 718 RS 60 as well as powerhouses like the 2016 911 GT3 RS and everything in-between. It will cost £5.79 and is out now.
You can also win some Porsches through this month's #Forzathon challenges on Horizon 3. That should be enough, but there is more. The Forza Racing Championship is back for a third season. The premier racing eSports program will have Porsche as its title sponsor and Gfinity will be taking the reins. The championship held an invitational event at Microsoft's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York last weekend. Eighteen of the best ForzaRC's players from around the world competed for $25,000 in cash. Taylor "CAR Lightning" Stomski took top spot by a point from Alexandre "BAM ASIX13" Arnou. The new season kicks off later this month. If you fancy it then head to http://forzarc.gfinity.net/ to sign up.
THE guys at PTG have a Charity Cup for MacMillan Cancer. There will be three races — on May 6 and 20 and June 3 — on Forza 6 around Silverstone. Race one is in a Works Minis, race two in a Mercedes Truck then race three in a Maserati GT. The winner will bag a ticket to the British F1 GP in June. Simply donate £5 or more to enter. Watch on Twitch.com/YMYVracing. Go to pendulumtuning.proboards.com/thread/773/fm6-ptg-charity-sign-name for info on the event.
Rally Time
THEe eSports WRC Championship is back — and powered by Hyundai. They aim to find the best player on WRC 6 — the official FIA World Rally Championship WRC game. Take the title and you'll bag a new Hyundai i20.
The firm's Scott Noh said:
"The eSports WRC championship is the perfect way for people around the world to be part of the WRC family by competing in online rallies in parallel to the official ones."
Players will earn points on each round, before making it to the final where the best eight will bid to emulate last year's winner Niklas Krellenberg.
On The Stream
THERE are plenty of layers to Connor McKervey. He is a pinball wizard on Livestream. He also recently started Dressed To Press X — a fortnightly show on gaming apparel and cosplay. Six episodes are available now with more coming to JoypadAndMe.com.
McKervey often records his Livestream sessions and uploads them to YouTube so no worries if you miss the live show. McKervey is a digital pinball addict and hosts Silverball Sunday — Livestreams of Zen Pinball 2 on the last Sunday of each month. He also hosts special pinball streams for the likes of next week's Aliens Day on April 26 and Star Wars day on May 4. Follow @vdjomb on Twitter or search for vdjomb on YouTube.
I'll be back next week with more from North of the Border, catch ye's…
Stuart Cullen
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About Jetstar Airways (JQ)
Jetstar Airways (JQ) is an Australian value-based airline with a primary hub in Melbourne, and a subsidiary of Qantas. It operates an extensive regional and international network throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific, with more than 5,000 flights per week to more than 85 destinations. Jetstar Airways is on a mission to enable air travel for as many people as possible, and their branded carriers make up one of the largest low fare networks in the Asia Pacific region.
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Jetstar Airways's extensive codeshare agreements with other airlines have greatly expanded its reach into Japan, Vietnam, and the Middle East. Generally speaking, wherever you're looking to travel in the Asia Pacific region, Jetstar probably has a cheap flight to your destination — and a car hire connection once you arrive.
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Team up with Jetstar Airways and Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Hertz, Sixt or Thrifty to get the best deals on the widest range of car rentals on the roads today. Choose your airline car rental from a selections of mincars, compact 2-door and economy 4-door sedan, standard, intermediate, and fullsize sedans, plus luxury and premium 4-door vehicles. For all-purpose driving, choose between mid and fullsize SUVs, and for larger groups, a variety of 7-12 seater minivans with options galore.
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Planning is key to saving money on travel, which is why we're here to help. Book your flight and rent a car well in advance to maximize your savings.
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Day 1 – Douala
Arrive in Douala and transfer to your hotel. Overnight Sawa Hotel or similar.
Day 2 – Ekom Falls – Melong
Drive to the west of the country, stopping first at a busy fruit market around Penja. We then head to the impressive Ekom Falls, located in beautiful primary forest, then drive through the coffee plantations to Melong, a small farming town in the Cameroonian Highlands. Overnight Hotel Ban-Bi'Ngoe or similar. (BL)
Day 3 – Bandjoun – Bappit – Koutaba
Drive through the lands of the Bamileke people, great artisans and agriculturalists and one of Cameroon's largest ethnic groups. We stop in the Kingdom of Bandjoun, not far from the regional capital Bafoussam, and visit the palace. From Bandjoun we head to the Noun Valley and the picturesque crater lake of Bappit for great views of the surrounding area. Finally we drive to Koutaba for the night. Overnight Paradise Hotel or similar. (B)
Day 4 – Foumban
Visit Foumban, home of the Bamoun people. We explore the town and visit its art museum as well as 19th century royal palace. We also visit the central market, one of the most colourful in Cameroon, and walk through the artisans' quarter. The Bamoun are great craftsmen, working with wood and bronze, and most of the pieces they create are exported overseas to collectors. Overnight Paradise Hotel or similar. (B)
Day 5 – Yaoundé
Drive to Yaoundé, Cameroon's capital. We visit the excellent African art museum, located in the Benedictine monastery atop Mount Febe and with a superb collection of carvings and artefacts from some of the ethnic groups we have just encountered. Later we head to the train station to take the overnight train to Ngaoundere, the gateway to the north of the country. (B)
Day 6 – Ngaoundere - Poli
Arrive in Ngaoundere, the gateway to the north of the country and the capital of Adamawa Province. The city retains a medieval atmosphere and we make a short visit to the palace of the Lamido (sultan). From here we descend into the Benoue Valley and enter a different world – the modern villages disappear to be replaced by traditional adobe settlements, and we arrive in Poli, the capital of the kingdom of Faro, in the afternoon. Overnight Bukaru Camp. (BD)
Day 7 – Poli
Spend the day delving into the tribal cultures that hold sway here. We visit the Mbororo people, one of West Africa's most traditional groups and with a lifestyle based around cattle. The Mbororo still practice the custom of facial tattooing and live semi-nomadic lives, following their livestock to pasture. We then move on to Kongle, centre of the animistic Dowayo people, who were immortalised by Nigel Barley in his book 'The Innocent Anthropologist'. Return to Poli for the night. (BD)
Day 8 – Alantika Mountains
Continue our journey and head to one of Cameroon's most remote and isolated areas, the Alantika Mountains. We cross the Faro River – either by bridge or boat – and make our way on foot to a small village belonging to the Koma people, where we camp for the night. This is a great way to immerse ourselves in the culture of this fascinating ethnic group. (BLD)
Day 9 – Alantika Mountains
Explore the lands of the Koma, a deeply traditional and animist group who make their living from agriculture and hunting. Many still wear traditional dress – for the men this is a loincloth and for the women, skirts made from leaves – modernity has made few inroads here and this is a unique opportunity to see a culture that has changed little for centuries, if not millennia. The Koma are incredibly hospitable and we can expect to be welcomed into their villages – if we are lucky we may witness a traditional ceremony or celebration. There are no roads in this part of Cameroon and we explore on foot. Overnight camping. (BLD)
Day 10 – Poli
Reluctantly we bid our hosts farewell and return to Poli, hiking back down the mountains to meet our vehicles. On the way we stop in a traditional sultanate where we should be able to meet the sultan and learn about the challenges of life in this area. Overnight Bukaru Camp. (BD)
Day 11 – Mbe – Ngaoundere
We drive back to Ngaoundere. On the way we stop at local villages and markets, meeting the various different ethnic groups that live in this region. Arrive in Ngaoundere and board the overnight train for the journey back south. (B)
Day 12 – Yaoundé – Okan
Arrive in Yaoundé this morning. After breakfast explore the city and then continue to Okan where an eco-lodge has been built in the middle of equatorial jungle. The afternoon is free to explore the forest, with its diverse flora and fauna, as well as nearby villages. Overnight Okan Lodge. (B)
Day 13 – Mfou Primate Sanctuary
Not far from Okan is the Mfou Primate Sanctuary, situated in Mefou National Park. The sanctuary is dedicated to the protection of Cameroon's larger primates including gorilla, chimpanzee, mandrill and drill, which live in large forest enclosures making them comparatively easy to spot. After time spent here we head to Yaoundé and transfer to the airport for departure. (B)
Included in price:
- Airport transfers
- Accommodation – as listed in the dossier. The nature of the destinations that we operate may sometimes mean that we need to change hotels, but we'll always endeavour to keep the same standards. Please be aware that as we operate in many countries where tourism is in its infancy, hotel standards may not be the same as you're used to elsewhere.
- Guides – In most cases you will be accompanied by one guide from start to finish. However there may be occasions when this is not practical, for example if your trip covers a number of different countries. In these cases it often makes more sense to include different guides for each place, to take advantage of their specific knowledge of the destination.
- Meals – As listed within the itinerary / dossier (B-Breakfast, L-Lunch, D-Dinner).
Entrance fees – Entrance fees are listed for those sites that we mention within the itinerary. If there are any other sites that you'd like to see, these would be at your own expense.
Not included:
- Visas
- Airport taxes
- International flights
- Travel Insurance


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Tina Fung Holder: Cattail Weaving: the Northern Fedora
Date(s) - July 26, 2019 - July 28, 2019
12:00 am
North House Folk School
500 Highway 61 West
Grand Marais
Put a northern twist on a southern hat weaving tradition and make a woven cattail hat to protect yourself from the sun during outdoor activities. Palm fronds are the materials most commonly used for this "strip plaiting" weaving project; however, native cattails work as a northern substitute. Learn how to weave your own hat and get some foundational basketmaking skills along the way. The first evening session will serve as a skill-builder in plaiting so that students will be able to finish their project in the remaining two days of the course. Upon completion of your hat, students can choose to learn additional plaiting designs.
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Beaux Frères
See Decanter experts' rating, tasting notes and drinking window for Beaux Frères 2009.
Raspberry nose, lifted and not too oaky. Full-bodied and spicy, with more force than the Beaux Frères Vineyard bottling, showing freshness as well as depth. Good length and fine potential.
Price: £62–£100.30 (2007) Wine Treasury, Slurp
Drink: 2014–2025
Alc: 14.1%


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Tommy Fleetwood has victory in mind at a lush Sawgrass
Move back to March for The Players Championship has made it a different test
Tommy Fleetwood of England looks on during a practice round for The Players Championship on The Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Photo: Sam Greenwood/Getty Images
It is an indicator of Tommy Fleetwood's rising ambitions on the eve of the Players Championship that a share of third at last weekend's Arnold Palmer Invitational was something of a disappointment. The Englishman shot a 76 on Saturday but recovered to the point where he finished three shy of Francesco Molinari.
"Winning is hard, you have to put it all together over four days in different conditions," said Fleetwood on Wednesday. "Hopefully I can get the knack of it eventually."
The switch of the tournament to this week from its previous position in May may benefit Fleetwood. Sawgrass is noticeably lush, with the random element of fiery greens and fairways now – in theory – removed. Fleetwood is yet to taste victory in the United States, a situation that will inevitably change before long.
"If I drive it like I normally do then it's a big advantage round here because if you are always in play, it's scoreable after that," Fleetwood explained. "A lot of the tee shots are difficult so if I can do that well and be aggressive then hopefully I can do enough other things right to be up there.
"It's different. It is a very different test because it's not firm at all, it's very, very green. In the past it has been so firm and you have to be careful. I think you have a few more misses around the greens because you can chip out of the rough and the greens are softer.
"I feel good. Last week was the most confident I've felt on the golf course. I played some really good stuff. It has been a little bit different: in previous years I started really fast and my confidence was so high. I have built into this year a little bit but the courses are tough. There are a lot of courses out here that make you feel uncomfortable. It's hard if you don't quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board."
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"When you roll out 50 changes, there are going to be some things that work really well and some things that might create debate," said Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour's commissioner. "Lost in some of the discussion is all the things that are working really well – the list is long – and I think it's right that we are two and a half months in and there are some rules that are causing debate and discussion.
"I think what's happened here the last few weeks has just exposed a weakness in our working relationship, which happens when you've got a lot of different organisations. So we're going to tighten that up. We are going to move forward in a way that is going to be good for the game and certainly is going to get us to the right place over time with these new rules."
Monahan shot down any notion the PGA Tour could create its own rulebook. "We have two fantastic professional governing bodies of the game," he said. "We have always played by their rules and we will continue to play by their rules. We are not going to be playing by our own rules."


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I have short-term goals and long-term goals for my health, fitness and weight loss.
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I want to go to the gym today, take a run after work, and lose 5 lbs this month.
These goals are all reasonable and within my capabilities.
Many of these goals I have already reached in the past, but I find myself struggling to achieve them now. I have lost 30 lbs twice before, I have run a marathon and 2 half marathons before.
But these days it is harder for me to sustain the long-term motivation.
Why? Read on:
Last weekend I met a woman in her late 40s who told me she has run 40 marathons and is going to be running the NYC marathon in November.
Forty marathons!!!
That is an amazing achievement which requires tremendous amounts of motivation and commitment.
As I am speaking with her I think to myself:
Maybe she can help me find my motivation again, maybe I can learn something from her.
Shortly after starting the conversation she shares with me that she's having trouble finding the motivation to run, which is something she LOVES doing.
For example: in the morning, she decides to run 12 miles but then while on the run she's not in the mood and stops at 6. Or when her alarm rings for a 5am Sunday run, she turns over and turns it off.
This woman made me realize that I am just being normal, that there isn't something wrong with me or that I am lacking because of this issue that I am having.
Quite the contrary: I share this dilemma with many, many people, and that too is comforting, because if this is a universal issue and is a struggle for most people, but there are people who achieve their fitness and health goals daily regardless, then I also have a chance of succeeding.
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Servant Leadership
Servant leadership is one of Decurion's six core values. The term comes from Robert K. Greenleaf's essay, "The Servant as Leader." When I first encountered this essay, I had the sense that Greenleaf was describing many of Decurion's views and approaches but was doing so much more eloquently than we had yet managed. Many years have passed since that first encounter, and I continue to value not only Greenleaf's ideas but also the way he expresses them. The following sentences (with my underlining) come directly from his essay, collected in Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness.
- "The first order of business is to build a group of people who, under the influence of the institution, grow taller and become healthier, stronger, more autonomous." P. 40
- "It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead." P.7
- Under a servant-leader, an institution "moves from people-using to people-building." P. 40
- "The best test . . . is: Do those served grow as persons?" P. 7
- "The leader always knows what [the direction] is and can articulate it for any who are unsure. By clearly stating and restating the goal the leader gives certainty and purpose to others who may have difficulty in achieving it for themselves." P. 15
- "A true natural servant automatically responds to any problem by listening first." P. 17
- "The servant as leader always empathizes, always accepts the person but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough." P. 20
- The leader "needs to have a sense for the unknowable and be able to foresee the unforeseeable. . . The art of leadership rests, in part, on the ability to bridge that gap by intuition, . . . a feel for patterns." Pp. 21-3
- "The failure (or refusal) of a leader to foresee may be viewed as an ethical failure because a serious ethical compromise today . . . is sometimes the result of a failure to make the effort at an earlier date to foresee today's events and take the right actions when there was freedom for initiative to act." P. 26
- "One is always at two levels of consciousness. One is in the real world. . . One is also detached, riding above it, seeing today's events, and seeing oneself deeply involved in today's events, in the perspective of a long sweep of history and projected into the indefinite future." P. 26
- Leaders are particularly aware. This awareness "permits one to sort out the urgent from the important and perhaps deal with the important." P. 28
- "The servant views any problem in the world as in here, inside oneself, not out there. And if a flaw in the world is to be remedied, to the servant the process of change starts in here, in the servant, not out there." P. 44
- "The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people, and their failure to lead. . . Too many settle for being critics and experts." P. 45
- "It is terribly important that one know, both about oneself and about others, whether the net effect of one's influence on others enriches, is neutral, or diminishes and depletes." P. 43