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Irish Independent on Saturday: a new year
Enjoy your Independent time with the new-look Irish Independent on Saturday.
Ireland's best-selling daily newspaper continues to stay ahead of our competition with innovative developments that also make us Ireland's best-value Saturday newspaper.
To celebrate our new look, we're starting the year with a wonderful free gift for all our readers. The immensely popular Irish Independent 2017 calendar is brought to you in partnership with Creative Ireland and showcases a series of stunning portraits by our photographers. And don't miss our reader promotions.
Inside the newspaper, you will also notice some changes as we focus on providing an insight on events of the week.
Economist David McWilliams joins the Irish Independent on Saturday analysis team, alongside Mary Fitzgerald, Martina Devlin and Mandy Johnston.
In Weekend, Roddy Doyle's Charlie Savage has become a firm favourite of readers, joining Mary Kenny, Darren Kennedy, Ruth Griffin and Indy Power as mainstays of your Saturday reading.
On top of in-depth news analysis, the redesigned Review brings you the cultural zeitgeist on books, movies, theatre and music.
And our Sport analysis team of Brian Kerr, Alan Quinlan, Tomás Ó Sé and Vincent Hogan remain in a league of their own.
Today, we also kick off our Live Well series, where we go Back To Basics on the fundamentals of well-being.
Each Saturday in Weekend magazine, and in health & living magazine every Monday, we will bring you expert advice on how to build on the basics to live a full, happy and healthy life.
In today's Weekend, put your self first with our Back to Basics burn-out recovery guide and Karl Henry's easy to follow fitness guide.
Irish Independent on Saturday: It's your weekend.
Fionnán Sheahan is Editor of the Irish Independent
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Our Performance
Our 2018 position statement and annual performance report illustrates some of the Council's achievements and key data for 2017/18.
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Keeping the beat is like marching with even and steady steps... together. That's what South Side kids are striving to do these days. And having a great time while at it! Classes have been great kids!! Keep up the good work. I have a lot of hopes for a marvelously musical school year!
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Gearing up for the Holidays!!!
I am looking forward to the holidays with all the excitement, joy and sweetness that it brings. With carols in my heart, the coolness of December, beautiful lights, laughter and joy all around, I especially enjoy the sparkle of hope I see in each child. We are looking forward to great times ahead. Our Holiday Sing will take place on Friday, December 21st from 8:30-9:30. Come and join the fun....and sing along!
9 More Days!
We at South Side are getting very excited about our up coming performance on October 30th. Practices have been great. We have just a few left. Monday Kindergarten, 3rd and 4th grade will practice, and on Friday, 1st and 2nd. We will have a walk through of the whole program on Friday and our final rehearsal on Tuesday. Children, be sure to practice and get those lyrics down!! It's almost show time!!
An October Event!
I thought I would write a little something about our plans for Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Joining the South Side family, I learned that the Halloween Parade is a loved tradition; to come together, enjoy fun costumes and sing! This is a whole school event for all students. Come and join the fun! It starts at 6:30 PM. Each grade level will do their own feature song...something especially by them! And at the end, all will join together to perform 3 additional pieces. Parents, please be sure to have your child in costume, ready and raring to go, at 6:15 sharp in the cafeteria!! Thanks!!
I have been involved with Music for as early as I can remember. My parents supported and inspired us in this area by offering praise and encouragement as they invested in instruments, lessons, and their time! Thanks Mom and Dad!
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Chandler Tuten: 1000 Point Club
Chandler Tuten recently became the third player in Tuscarora High School history to score 1,000 career points! Fun fact: Evolution has trained 2 of those 3 players. Chandler started training with Evolution in the 6th grade and was one of our very first clients from Loudoun County. Since there was no Ashburn facility at the time, he trained with us at a gym we rented in Leesburg. At first, Chandler had a reputation as more of a jokester, but that changed pretty quickly. Alex Harris, President of Evolution, told me that "Chandler didn't take his training too serious in the beginning, he was a typical goofy kid, but once it clicked for him and he started taking things more serious it changed everything and transformed his game. He's been one of the hardest workers Evolution has seen over the past 6 years".
All of his hard work has paid dividends in his high school career. As a Freshman, Chandler was a starter and a leading scorer on the JV team at Tuscarora, and he has been a leading scorer of the varsity team since sophomore year. "I'm really happy for all of the success Chandler has had over the past few years especially his 1000-point achievement. Over the years I've seen his work ethic, and no one deserves it more than him. I know he's going to have a bright future on the court and beyond" said Alex Harris. Chandler plans and hopes to play college basketball after he graduates from Tuscarora this year, and we are extremely excited to see where his path leads him.
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There are a lot of variants how to landscape around trees. The most traditional construction is a round one where short-growing flowers are planted, as a rule. Short plants usually grow closer to a trunk. If the basis of the tree can be seen only from one side or the tree grows close to a fence or some other constructions, it is advisable to arrange asymmetrical or semicircular flower bed.
Monochrome landscaping around trees looks very interesting and stylish. In this case only one kind of plants is used. When at a certain time all the flowers are in blossom, it will surely impress your guests. Experienced gardeners can show their skills and arrange flower beds with continuous blooming. No matter what time of the year is now, there will always be flowers around your trees. Supports with plants that creep around the trunk look very original.
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Taking a geriatric cue from The Hangover, Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline, Morgan Freeman and Robert De Niro are throwing one hell of a bachelor party in the first trailer for Last Vegas. These old friends have gathered to throw the last single man in their group a huge shindig to celebrate his lifelong bachelorhood. Watch as these seniors party like its 1959.
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Proverbs 3:5-6
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
This is a favorite verse of mine. Sometimes though, there is a gap between what we expect God to do and what He is actually doing. To trust God with your whole heart is easier than it sounds. Oh it is easy to trust God when things are ship shape but the minute the boat hits troubled water we start thinking that God is not paying attention and doesn't care. Then the test of trust and faith is on us full force.
When I am having trouble hanging onto God's promises it helps me to dig into those promises in a fashion that takes it from the page into my heart.
Verse 5: Trust in the Lord with all your heart. I find that interesting, there are few things in this world that we do with our whole heart, but we are told to trust God with all our heart, not part of it. I guess when it comes down to it, we either trust God or we don't, He either has our whole heart or He doesn't have any of it. Another interesting thing is God pushes us into situations where we have to make that choice. All or none, abandon yourself to God. Does that mean burn your bridges and rely on only His faithfulness. Quite possibly it does. Scary isn't it? But when you burn the bridges you used to rely on and abandon yourself to only God. Live with the belief that God is in charge of your life, He will be faithful.
Lean not on your own understanding. To lean is to prop up or put your whole weight on something. I know that if left to my own devices I do not possess the wisdom to support the weight of the challenges, hardships and decisions in my life. When I take my situation to God in prayer and follow His leading I tap into His wisdom and power. There will be circumstances where the only thing you can conclude is God is unfaithful or indifferent and somehow lost your address. But remember that is only based on the facts as you know them. There is always a side that we can never fully understand. Life is filled with times that are full of "What if's" Whether we think we understand the truth of the situation or not we are not to trust our understanding of the situation. We must trust that He knows what He is doing and He will see us through.
In all your ways acknowledge Him. I am pretty sure that when Solomon says to acknowledge God, he is not talking about the hour on Sunday mornings and where ever else we can"fit" Him in during the week. God isn't interested in a quick wave as we pass by each other, He wants to be involved in every single area of our lives. Are the things that are important to you things that God would be proud of? It means seeking His will and not mine, it means living for Him and not myself……………even when I am following and not sure of where I am going, it is to trust the one leading me. To acknowledge Him in all ways is to acknowledge that He is in control, not me.
He will make your paths straight. I think I tend to say to God, Here is the path I have chosen, approve it and bless it please. However it is probably a safe bet to say that God blesses His chosen path then invites us to walk with Him there. That does require a strong measure of trust, a close prayer relationship and to choose to accept the unfailing grace that God pours on us.
Do you see how one step leads to another in these two verses? Trust, leads to leaning on God and not myself, leads to acknowledging Him in all I do, leads to walking the straight path to Glory.


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General Motors' self-driving car, Cruise, and the food delivery company DoorDash have joined forces to potentially bring unmanned food and grocery delivery to the masses, according to a report from CNBC. The program is scheduled to begin testing in early 2019 in the San Francisco area.
"Delivery is a significant opportunity for Cruise as we prepare to commercialize our autonomous vehicle technology and transform transportation," Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said in a statement. "Partnering with DoorDash will provide us with critical learnings as we further our mission to deliver technology that makes people's lives better and more convenient."
GM, which was founded in 1908, has been investing heavily in self-driving technology, according to a report in VentureBeat. In 2016, GM bought Cruise Automation – a startup that developed an autopilot system for existing cars – for more than $1 billion. Last year, the company announced it was working on a driverless car with no steering wheel or pedals, with plans to launch the vehicle in 2019.
The car company also invested $100 million into new factories for building driverless cars, and Honda put another $2 billion into Cruise for a 5.7 percent stake.
DoorDash, for its part, launched a delivery system using Marble's autonomous robots last year. The company received $535 million earlier this year from Sequoia, SoftBank and others.
This rapid growth means the food delivery company is experiencing 250 percent year-over-year growth, and it's now the fastest growing logistics platform in the United States. Since last January, the company's geographic footprint has nearly doubled to more than 1,000 cities across the U.S. and Canada.
Also, DoorDash recently announced partnerships with Chipotle, IHOP, Red Lobster and White Castle, and signed an exclusive partnership with The Cheesecake Factory.
"DoorDash is gaining market share faster than anyone in the space," DoorDash CEO and Co-founder Tony Xu said in a press release. "We're thrilled to partner with premier investors to accelerate our vision to empower local economies by being the last-mile logistics layer."
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Our data and analytics team has developed a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark the innovation that's reshaping the payments and commerce ecosystem. In the December 2019 Mobile Card App Adoption Study, PYMNTS surveyed 2,000 U.S. consumers for a reveal of the four most compelling features apps must have to engage users and drive greater adoption.


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A first time visit to Pitlochry Highland Games saw the Isle of Skye Pipe Band achieve success.
For not only did the island's own achieve 2nd place in The Grade 4 RSPBA competition but their overall standard of piping won top place out of the 11 bands competing.
This was the band's second competition in 2016 under the musical direction of Pipe Major Alan MacKenzie.
Earlier in the day Drum Major Peter MacDonald led the Skye band through Pitlichry's Main Street in front of a huge audience of thousands and into the games arena. Seventeen pipe bands took part in the street parade.


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Fire Resistance Test Hall
Fire resistance test The test hall for fire resistance includes two furnaces equipped with gas burners: a vertical furnace and a so-called horizontal combi-furnace.
The fire test laboratory was renovated in 2011 and two new fire resistance furnaces were erected. Our vertical furnace can be used for testing specimen sizes up to 5 m x 4 m (width x height).
The inside dimensions of the horizontal furnace are approximately 3 m x 5 m x 3 m (width x length x height). In addition to testing horizontal structures in the combi-furnace, it is also possible to test e.g. columns, stairs, cable ladders and different kinds of corner or joint structures.
Structures can also be built inside the furnace. Both furnaces can be run even with hydrocarbon curve. Structures can be tested loaded in both furnaces, too.
Test specimens can be safely viewed from the customer stand where measurements can be followed up from the on-line monitors.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Defining Analytics
This should probably be a tweet, except I've so far resisted the temptation to be involved with something that would associate my name with any conjugation of "twit". As noted by Mike Trick and others, "analytics" is catching on as the new buzzword for ... well, something, and likely something strongly related if not identical to operations research. So now we need a definition of "analytics". A recent article by four reasonably senior people at IBM (appropriately, in the Analytics webzine) attempts to give a fairly inclusive definition, incorporating three major categories: description; prediction; and prescription. Hopefully this, or something like it, will catch on, lest "analytics" be equated to statistical data dredging and/or the study of sheep entrails.
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Rossella Biscotti, new work
Her exhibition at Witte de With centers on the artist's most recent research into the forced displacement and exploitation of bodies—human and animal—during the Dutch colonial period in Southeast Asia, and the exportation of plants at the wake of the twentieth century. This, she traces through real and fictional accounts.
Alejandro Cesarco, a solo exhibition
Encapsulating his artistic practice and these core themes is Cesarco's Index series, begun in 2000. The series is exhibited entirely for the first time in the artist's solo-exhibition at Witte de With.
Since last year, this gallery space of Witte de With has been used as a site for displays and events. It also functions as bookshop and classroom. These developments on site developed in connection with an initiative on collective learning, which, among other things, entails a work/study program designed for Rotterdam youth.
An Exhibition of Posters
Inaugurating on 7 April 2019 at Witte de With's ground-floor gallery space is An exhibition of posters by Maja Bekan, Kévin Bray, Chloë Delanghe, Baldwin Einarsson, Priscila Fernandes, Vera Gulikers, An Onghena, Kevin Osepa, Josie Perry, Rory Pilgrim, Tramaine de Senna and Edward Clydesdale Thomson.


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Meet Dr. Rob McVety
Dr. McVety, the newest member of our practice, is a native Mainer who was raised in Otisfield. After graduating from Oxford Hills High School, he completed his undergraduate degree at Bates College, and then received his dental education at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine.
Following dental school, Dr. McVety completed a General Practice Residency in Dentistry at The Veterans Affairs Hospital in Denver, Colorado. The residency provided advanced training in all aspects of general dentistry. He also received additional training in placing and restoring dental implants, and providing comprehensive periodontal disease treatment.
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Renowned actress, Amruta Khanvilkar is all set to play a dark and mysterious character in Damaged, an upcoming original series to be streamed on Hungama Play. Scheduled to release soon, Amruta's character will be the focal point of the show and her performance is expected to be unconventional and path-breaking. While details about the series are supposed to be out in due course of time, it is believed that Amruta's character is suspected of committing multiple murders in the show.
"I am also happy that the show is going to be available on a leading OTT platform. Digital platforms give storytellers the freedom to experiment with bolder narratives and actors to perform without any reservations," she added.
The talented actress recently starred in the critically acclaimed commercial blockbuster, Raazi.
Also Read: EXCLUSIVE: Alia Bhatt's co-star Amruta Khanvilkar REVEALS key character details from Raazi
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For my friends at St. Patrick's who are dropping by for a copy of this weekend's homily you may not have realized that I was preempted by Archbishop Thomas Collins pastoral message on the sexual abuse scandal that has gripped the worldwide media's attention. I was notified of the change early in the week so I did not put the finishing touches on a homily for the 3rd Sunday of Easter. This is either the good news or the bad news depending on your opinion of my homilies.
This week's gospel reading is the post resurrection story of Jesus and the apostles on the beach from John's Gospel. Three times Jesus asks Peter, "Do you Love me?" and three times Peter replies "Yes Lord I love you." Jesus then gives Peter one simple, yet difficult command – "Feed my sheep".
This reading could be the second act of the scene played out during the Passion of Jesus, where in the courtyard of the high priest's house Peter says three times, in increasingly loud voice, "I do not know the man!" Peter then sees Jesus and begins to weep, as he knows he has failed his friend in his time of need.
This weekend where the Archbishop offers a powerful letter on the failures of some within the Church, failures that have lead to terrible consequences as many innocent children have become victims at the hands of those they should have been able to trust, we are reminded how weak and sinful we can be as individuals and as a community.
As followers of Christ we are all called to love Jesus and then to go and feed his sheep. This means we must love those who have been the victims of sexual abuse and care for them, we must love the sinners who have committed these terrible crimes and care for them, as hard as that might be, and then we must move forward as a family and care for all who are in need.
"Peter do you love me? – Yes Lord you know I do – Then feed my sheep." Simple but in no way an easy teaching especially during these difficult times.
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New Feature:Visiting the Holy Land
I stumbled across a wonderful site on the information highway recently and I wanted to share it with you. BibleWalks.com features short postings and pictures of the places in the Holy Land where many of our stories about Jesus and the early disciples are believed to have taken place. From time to time we will link to them to help us visualize the the places we read about in the New Testament.
Today's story is thought by many to have taken place at a location that goes by several names. Click here to visit: Tabcha (in Hebrew:Ein Sheva) and/or Tabegha.
According to the tradition, Jesus performed here two miracles:
- first feeding of the multitude: feeding 5000 with 5 loaves of bread and two fish (Mathew 14: 13-21; Mark 6: 30-44; John 6: 1-15).
- apparition of Jesus to the Apostles after the resurrection (John 21, 1-17)


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Urban DH over roofs and houses with Brook MacDonald | Red Bull Valparaíso Cerro Abajo 2018
The streets of the Chilean city of Valparaíso were lit up by another thrilling running of the Red Bull Valparaíso Cerro Abajo urban DH race. The 16th edition of Red Bull Valparaíso Cerro Abajo didn't disappoint, with the racing on the street-based urban DH course high octane from start to finish. In a close-run battle Tomáš Slavik took the win, with New Zealand's Matt Walker second and local Chilean rider Matías Núñez rounding off the podium in third.


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The results of survey conducted by Arbor Networks were released today and reveal that advanced threats and DDoS attacks in retail and financial services go undetected for long periods of time (almost eight months in retail and as long as four months in financial services).
Findings specific to the financial services realm reveal that just under half have implemented incident response procedures or established threat sharing to protect against advanced threats, while just over half of those surveyed consider DDoS attacks an advanced threat. Within retail, only one third have implemented incident response procedures, and merely seventeen percent have established threat sharing, though a full half of respondents consider DDoS an advanced threat.
Both sectors allocated around one-third of their budgets, staffing, and managed services toward technology and cyber-security, according to the survey.


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I am such a fan of the Chase Freedom credit card; particularly since I have both the Chase Sapphire Preferred credit card as well as the Chase Ink business card. I say particularly so because rather than getting cash back from the Freedom card I get the points and to me, points are extremely valuable.
What I
like love, about the Chase Freedom card are the different bonus categories that they have each quarter that will give you 5 x points. This quarter is a repeat of first quarter's gas points as well as Kohls.
Before this quarter ends. I'll be sure to purchase some gas gift cards at the gas stations that I go to. This way I'll continue to get 5 X points since the gift cards were purchased during the 3rd quarter bonus period.
Don't forget to activate your Chase Freedom card. Just follow this link and it will take you to the activation page.


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Rodan and Fields Lash Boost Review: Does It Work?
Started by dermatologists and fueled by entrepreneurs, Rodan + Fields is a skincare company also dedicated to giving back to the world. So right from the get go, they separate themselves from the oodles of here-today, gone-tomorrow lash serum companies that populate Amazon.
To add to the company's prestige, their Lash Boost serum gets a lot of good press. But at its current rather expensive price point, is this lash serum worth its steep price tag? Let's dive in.
Does Rodan and Fields Lash Boost Work?
Let's get straight into it and start with the positives. One thing we already like about Rodan + Fields and their lash serum is how detailed they are on their site about the product. From FAQs to application instructions, it seems they care about both their products and their customers.
Let's see what they say: "Rodan + Fields Lash Boost works to condition and enhance lashes, promising improvements in the volume and length of your lashes in four weeks, with best results after eight weeks." This, they claim, is backed by a clinical and consumer study.
According to the study, about half of the participants in the study saw darker lashes, so if you're looking for a lash serum that specifically works to give you dark lashes, this product could be it.
How it works (to darken the lashes) is the main reason why we approve of this product. You see, this lash growth serum is full of lash-nourishing stuff like Keratin and Biotin and peptides – all of which are great for protecting and strengthening the lashes. But let's face it – these natural ingredients aren't going to give you the dramatically longer, thicker and darker lashes you long for.
That's where another little ingredient comes in: Isopropyl Cloprostenate. If you're familiar with eyelash growth serums, you may recognize this ingredient as a lash-growing prostaglandin analogue, like the sort that's usually found in Latisse.
It's listed as the fifth ingredient in Rodan + Fields Lash Boost serum, meaning these tubes contain a potent enough dose of the magic ingredient that makes eyelashes grow like weeds. Another side effect, of course, of prostaglandins like Isopropyl Cloprostenate is that they can darken eye color (and eyelash color). This may be good news for you if you're already a dark-eyed beauty with blonde lashes you'd like to darken but it's not worth the risk if you've got light-colored eyes. So keep that in mind.
So let's get back to the main question: Does Rodan and Fields Lash Boost work?
The answer is that nothing works for everyone but yes, this lash serum is one of the more effective lash serums on the market. It is more likely to improve the volume of your lashes first and the length second, with 90% of the study paticiants seeing fuller lashes and 85% seeing longer lashes.
Overall, we see the volume improvements of Rodan + Fields Lash Boost as a huge plus. Most eyelash serums and enhancers work primarily to add to lash length. While Rodan + Fields Lash Boost can have that effect, the fact that it works primarily to improve lash volume makes it stand out from other products.
Is Rodan and Fields Lash Boost Worth It?
Sure, the product works but is it worth it? After all, there are tons of eyelash growth serums on the market and several of them are just as effective…so why would you choose Rodan + Fields Lash Boost? Here's a few things to consider in making your decision!
Who can wear it? You can use the serum if you wear contacts, have tinted lashes or brows, or if you have tattooed eyeliner. Rodan + Fields says, though, that you cannot use this product if you have lash extensions since it is formulated for use on natural lashes only.
How often? They are very clear that you should only use Rodan + Fields Lash Boost once a day, as multiple applications per day can lead to irritation. According to the FAQ, the serum shouldn't be used on the lower lash line for the same reason. Also keep in mind that one of the side effects of prostaglandin analogues is that it can slightly darken the places where the liquid touches so be very careful about getting it only on your top lash line.
Allergy precautions. The most important thing to know about Rodan + Fields Lash Boost is that it contains almond extract, so if you have an allergy to nuts, you should stay away from this product. Rodan + Fields does list this information on their website, though, so it's clear they aren't trying to hide anything about their product.
The cost. While we do recommend Rodan + Fields Lash Boost, we should mention it isn't for those on a budget. In fact, it ranks as one of the most expensive lash serums. A bottle will last about two months, and Rodan + Fields recommends getting rid of the product three months after opening, which is a pretty good shelf life as far as lash serums are concerned.
Counterfeits are possible. Be careful where you buy since this serum, in accordance with Rodan + Field's policy, may not be sold through Amazon. They work with independent consultants to sell their products, or you can see Rodan + Fields Lash Boost on their website.
Our Final Verdict on Rodan and Fields Lash Boost
As you already know by now, Rodan + Fields Lash Boost scores pretty well in terms of effectiveness. And if we based the review on effectiveness alone, we'd give it a five star review.
But then again, this lash serum – as effective as it is – comes with a really steep price tag. At its current price per bottle, it's about the same price as prescription-strength Latisse! And of course, that gives this lash serum the dubious distinction of being the most expensive eyelash growth serum on the market.
Expensive enough, in fact, to turn us off and knock off several stars. After all, when it comes to highly effective lash serums – there are a couple out there that work amazingly well and don't cost an arm and a leg.
Like NutraLuxe MD, which has the same highly effective prostaglandin analogue and only costs a third of Rodan + Fields Lash Boost. Even M2 Beaute Eyelash Activating Serum – which is one of the most effective, most high end lash serums on the market – looks reasonable with its hefty price tag, when compared to Rodan + Fields Lash Boost.
The whole price thing matters, after all – not only because some of us are on a budget but also because eyelash growth serums are an ongoing expense. Once you stop using it, your lashes go back to their normal length and nobody needs that. Which is why it's pretty crucial to find a lash growth serum that hits the sweet spot of high effectiveness and affordable enough to purchase every few months.
Rodan + Fields Lash Boost, for all its good points, doesn't fit the bill. Our two cents is to go for one of the most effective lash serums below – they're a fraction of the price and just as effective…
Rodan + Fields Lash Boost Ingredients
Water/Aqua/Eau, Butylene Glycol, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Keratin, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Biotin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Isopropyl Cloprostenate, Octapeptide-2, Allantoin, Panthenol, Copper Tripeptide-1, Pantethine, Polypeptide-23, Cucurbita Pepo (Pumpkin) Seed Extract, Glycerin, Sea Water, Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract, Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Fruit Extract, Backhousia Citriodora Leaf Oil, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Rhizobian Gum, Styrene/Acrylates/Ammonium Methacrylate Copolymer, Xanthan Gum, PVP, Lecithin, PEG-12 Dimethicone, Alcohol Denat., Chlorphenesin, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid, Sodium Hydroxide


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1 killed, child injured in North Fort Myers crash
A Fort Myers man is dead after crashing into a parked car at a North Fort Myers gas station.
A Fort Myers man is dead after crashing into a parked car at a North Fort Myers gas station.
Jeremy Freeman, 30, died late Monday in the crash at North Cleveland Avenue and Evergreen Road. Witnesses pulled his 11-year-old daughter from the car.
Troopers say Freeman lost control of his SUV while changing lanes on Cleveland. The vehicle hit a traffic sign, then drove into a ditch, crashed into a light pole and eventually hit a car parked at the Sunoco gas station.
"I watched a vehicle go southbound into the ditch. When it went into the ditch, it went airborne, smacked a ... light pole. It ended up striking the car behind me, flipped over," said witness Brandon Jenkins.
"I pulled up to the accident, jumped out, seen the little girl screaming, yelling for her dad. I helped one of the guys get the girl out of the car, got her out of the car and I had my girlfriend take her and get her away from the accident scene," Jenkins said.
The little girl was injured, and Freeman was unresponsive. Another man tried to resuscitate him.
"He had a slight pulse, but by the time EMT made it, he was pronounced dead," Jenkins said.
He revealed unsettling information the little girl told him.
"She said he was drunk," he recalled. "It's terrifying to think that there are drivers who are drinking and driving with a kid in the car; someone that's helpless, they can't do anything."
David Rosciola saw the flashing lights at the station as he drove down Cleveland around 9 p.m. He saw the remnants Tuesday in daylight.
"The people surrounding here are very lucky that... like me or you or anyone could have been killed right there. It just goes to show you how quick things can happen," he said.
FHP reports neither Freeman nor his daughter were wearing seat belts. They're still investigating whether Freeman was under the influence at the time.
"People shouldn't drink and drive, that's the bottom line," Rosciola said. "Even if you have a little buzz going on because things can happen so fast."
Freeman's daughter was discharged from the hospital.
FDLE is handling the toxicology report, and it could take more than 30 days to get those results.


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Before Bernie's rise in the 2016 primary, most of capitalism's opponents tried to stake out a "middle ground" between markets and socialism. Their healthcare proposals (like Obamacare) claimed to seek universal coverage in partnership with the private sector. Their tax proposals emphasized rate hikes on the top 1% of earners. They seemed less interested in guaranteeing employment than with extending unemployment benefits.
Today's anti-capitalism critics are a different breed. They openly advocate for single-payer healthcare, large tax increases across the spectrum, and guaranteed government jobs. Most conservatives, libertarians, and other defenders of free enterprise view these proposals as extreme and welcome a 2020 election that pits capitalism versus socialism, reasoning that the economic recovery and "common sense" should be enough to win the broader argument. Candidate personalities aside, winning this argument not be so simple, especially when you consider young Americans.
Recent surveys suggest that millennials and Gen Z are embracing socialism. Here are links to a few of the studies:
Most young Americans were born long after the cold war ended and view ongoing far-left catastrophes like Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela as problems of corrupt leadership rather than a corrupt ideology. They see cronyism as a by-product of capitalism, not statism. They blame doctors and insurance companies, not government intervention, for the high cost of healthcare. They don't see the recent economic turnaround as an argument for free enterprise, but rather as evidence of income inequality.
I don't blame them for misunderstanding the economy. Many recent college graduates—and some who didn't graduate—struggle to see past their college loan and credit card debt. They have been educated to believe that racism and bigotry separate the haves from the have nots. They have been told that capitalism is destroying the natural environment, not cleaning it up. They've been raised on smartphones and instantaneous communication. They want quick answers and socialism provides a lot of them.
Some of my colleagues are frustrated with the current wave of college students, but we must do a better job explaining why liberty and free enterprise are superior to government control. Flawed ideas about government takeovers of the economy should be addressed head-on. For young Americans, simple, clear explanations are the key.


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Malarone tablets contain two active ingredients, proguanil and atovaquone. These are both medicines that are active against the parasite that causes malaria.
Malarone is used:
Malaria is a potentially fatal disease caused by various types of parasites known as plasmodia. Plasmodia are carried by mosquitoes and injected into the bloodstream during a bite from an infected insect. Once inside the body the parasite reproduces, resulting in the disease.
Proguanil hydrochloride works by stopping the parasite from reproducing once it is in the bloodstream. It does this by blocking the action of an enzyme in the Plasmodium parasite that is vital for the production of new DNA material. By blocking the production of DNA, proguanil prevents malarial parasites in the blood from reproducing.
Atovaquone also works by interfering with the production of substances needed by the malarial parasites to reproduce. It works in a slightly different way however, so these two medicines work in combination against the Plasmodium parasite.
Malarone is used to prevent malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. This parasite produces the most serious form of malaria (malignant malaria). It may be particularly useful for preventing malaria in travellers to areas where this parasite is known to be resistant to other antimalarial medicines, such as chloroquine.
Higher doses of Malarone are used to treat uncomplicated malaria caused by infection with the Plasmodium falciparum parasite. However, this combination of medicines has not been evaluated for the treatment of more complicated or severe malaria, affecting the brain, lungs or kidneys.
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The side effects listed above may not include all of the side effects reported by the medicine's manufacturer.
For more information about any other possible risks associated with Malarone, please read the information provided with the medicine or consult your doctor or pharmacist.
Malarone should be used with caution in:
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If you feel you have experienced an allergic reaction, stop using Malarone and inform your doctor or pharmacist immediately.
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Exactly what is Ketosis?
Ketosis Forces your body to get its energy by burning fat instead of carbs.
When you've reached a state of Ketosis, your body starts immediately burning fat for its energy instead of carbs.
Carbohydrates are not the optimum energy source for your body, so till we reach a state of ketosis, we are typically left sensation exhausted, under tension and low-energy by the end of each day.
Fat Is the body's ideal energy source. So when your body reaches ketosis you'll find your energy boosts, and you'll feel more focused than before, even late into the day.
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Why aren't more people in a state of Ketosis?
The typical western world diet plan today tends to consist of massive quantities of carbohydrates. Additionally, for many years consumers have actually been requiring slim and fat free versions of foods.
Through our diets, our bodies have been conditioned to burn carbs for energy instead of fat. As pointed out previously, this can have severe consequences to our sensation of well being.
So simply begin eating more fat and less carbs?
Regrettably, it's not constantly this basic. Given that your body has actually been set for several years to keep fat and burn carbohydrates, we normally need some assistance to kick-start the procedure of ketosis into high gear.
This help comes in the form of a chemical substance referred to as Beta-hydroxybutyrate (also known as BHB). BHB informs your body to begin the process of progressing into a ketosis state.
How does my body get BHB?
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Install the sound driver.
Your system is VERY old - SiS530 & only 128MB RAM? You shouldn't even be running XP on it. If you don't have the drivers for it, try the mother manufacturer's website. If there are no XP drivers, try Win2000 drivers.
If it's a soundcard an not on-board sound it'll probably be easier to get a new(er) card with XP support. I couldn't find XP drivers for that chipset.


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Hanging Together
Agrand alliance may be a possibility in Uttar Pradesh after all. A day after her drubbing in the UP assembly elections, Mayawati, so far the biggest opponent of a united front, had a change of heart. She dialled Akhilesh Yadav (SP), Ahmed Patel (Congress), Lalu Prasad Yadav (RJD) and Mamata Banerjee (TMC) and is believed to have discussed the possibility of a grand electoral alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
So far, the Congress is willing and Akhilesh has also shown interest in a grand alliance against Modi in the 2019 general elections.
Hyderabad's Indira Park, dubbed 'dharna chowk', was where Telangana CM K. Chandrasekhara Rao staged his statehood protests five years ago. Rao had then declared that once the state was formed, there would be no need for dharnas as no one would need to protest. On March 8, he lived up to his promise.
City police banned all protests at dharna chowk and say the state government is to provide five acres at four locations on the city outskirts for protest rallies. Rao's move has stunned activists by literally taking away the ground beneath their feet.
Uddhav Thackeray's son Tejas is an amateur naturalist who has found interesting ways to perpetuate the family surname. Last year, the young wildlife enthusiast named a species of orange clawed crabs he apparently discovered in the Western Ghats, 'gubernatoriana thackerayi'. The Thackerays' Karjat farmhouse is also home to his experiments in cross-breeding rare white Kadaknath chickens, to deliver a new breed of white poultry. Chicken named Thackeray?
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee chief V.M. Sudheeran shocked party workers by resigning a day before his party's humiliating defeat in UP and Uttarakhand. Sudheeran, 68, cited health grounds for his decision at a media conference in Thiruvananthapuram. His detractors within, though, say he just about preempted an unceremonious exit from the post.
Former CM Oommen Chandy had been plotting his ouster ever since Sudheeran was handpicked by the Rahul brigade to lead the party in 2014. His exit is unlikely to help the party. Factional feuds are already heating up over the next PCC chief.
RJD boss Lalu Prasad Yadav may have helped his two sons win elections in Bihar but his pitching for son-in-law Rahul Yadav did not help in neighbouring UP. Rahul, an SP candidate, finished a distant third in the Sikandrabad seat. Lalu has now declared war. He now supports BSP chief Mayawati's conspiracy theory about doctored EVMs and promises to strap on a dhol and beat it after defeating Narendra Modi in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
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ActorsStarring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Joan Cusack, Blake Clark, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Keanu Reeves, Patricia Arquette, Jordan Peele, Timothy Dalton, Keegan-Michael Key, Kristen Schaal, Laurie Metcalf, Bonnie Hunt, Lori Alan, Jeff Garlin, Tony Hale, Estelle Harris, Bud Luckey, Jeff Pidgeon, Christina Hendricks, Ally Maki, Don Rickles, Bill Hader, Jay Hernandez, Mel Brooks, Betty White, Carl Weathers, Carol Burnett, Carl Reiner, June Squibb, Madeleine McGraw, Alan Oppenheimer, Flea, John Morris, Debi Derryberry, Melissa Villaseñor
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So there I was with a microphone in my hands, practicing music with the Praise Team for Sunday morning service. All of us were parents, and there was no one available to watch the kids, so we let them loose in the sanctuary and tried to keep our practice brief. As the kids screamed and chased each other around the empty pews we began to sing Matt Maher's version of "Lord, I Need You". I don't think those words have ever been truer to me.
Becoming a parent was not easy for me. My husband and I had only been married a few months before we discovered our little one was on the way. I hadn't yet figured out how to be a wife, and now I was expected to also be a mother!
I couldn't understand what God was doing. This was not what I wanted. Did He not understand I had very different plans?
Of course He knew. He knows the deepest desires of my heart. But He also knew that I needed to need Him.
Somewhere along the way I started to believe that my marriage would be successful because of something I did. And that if we stuck with my plan, we would have happy, intelligent children because of something I did. But the truth is, my husband, my daughter, my family and friends are all in my life because of something God did. If I want to be happy in my marriage or as a parent, I need to step back and let God in.
Through the good times--"Lord I need You,"
And the bad--"Oh, I need You,"
When I start to think that I'm not enough--"Every hour I need You,"
When the ones I love do say or do things that hurt me--"You're my One Defense,"
When I have to say "I'm Sorry"--"My Righteousness"
Through all of life's ups and downs--"Oh God how I need You."
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Mary Lynn Eubanks is a Managing Director with GSO Capital Partners. Since joining GSO Capital in 2005, Ms. Eubanks has focused on marketing and client relationships. Prior to that, Ms. Eubanks was an Associate in the investment banking groups at CSFB and Merrill Lynch, focusing on financing and M&A transactions in the Media and Telecom industry. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Ms. Eubanks was an analyst in Wachovia Corporation's investment banking group. Ms. Eubanks received a BS in Management from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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The Evolving Culture of W.Va. River Guides
Just about any search on Google for "best white water rafting" includes West Virginia. Around 150,000 people commercially raft a West Virginia river each year, mostly on the New River and Gauley River, which are near Fayetteville, West Virginia. At one point there were just less than 30 rafting companies in the area. Today, they have consolidated into six adventure businesses.
Taking many of the people down the river is a raft guide – someone who is professionally trained to know water, but also to know people. The concept of a river guide in West Virginia started to form in the late 1960s, creating an entire guiding community culture. It is one that has been passed down for decades and is developing more each year.
Every guided raft trip provides guests with a taste of the culture. Especially with experienced guides like Ray Ray, a senior river guide for Adventures on the Gorge – a river guiding outfit in Fayetteville.
It Is In Your Blood, Or It Is Not
On this day, Ray Ray guides eight guests down the lower New River. The water is warm. The canyon surrounding them is tall and covered in thick green trees. Birds are chirping, there is a slight rain drizzle. The arch of the New River Gorge Bridge glimmers in the distance.
"It's the best job in the world. I actually have two college degrees I've never used a day in my life," Ray Ray says.
Roger Wilson, CEO of Adventures on the Gorge, says all the guides have a deep love for the outdoors.
"There's something that happens when that first wave hits you. White Water rafting is either in your blood or it's not. And when that first wave hit me, I was addicted," Roger says.
He says guiding is not for everyone, as there is a large social aspect. One must be able to read people just as well as one reads the water.
Dave Bassage, who has been guiding since 1984, says there is a close, mutual respect between him and the customer.
"I really love the dynamic of having a crew of different people every day and introducing them to what I think of as the dance with moving water," Dave says. "We're just one of its partners, and we've got all these other partners in the raft."
Being a river guide can be a nomadic lifestyle, as the season goes from March until October. Jay Young, media manager for Adventures on the Gorge, says many of the river guides work at ski resorts in the winter or they continue guiding in South America.
"Those people, everything they own fits in the back of their truck or car and they're off to the next destination to whatever's in season," Jay says.
"Ya'll Ready?"
The guide leading the boat on this day has made a career out of the industry. Ray Ray has guided in West Virginia since 1992, and he has worked on dozens of other rivers across the world.
On this trip, there are four other rafts with guides in the group, but Ray Ray is the trip leader. He consistently checks in with the other guides.
"Ya'll ready? You ready Caveman?" he asks.
All the river guides have nicknames. One man with shoulder-length blonde hair goes by 'Caveman.' He got the name because of where he lived for about eight months — the span of a full rafting season.
"I was looking around through the woods one day and found this cool little rock house overhang and just made it into a house," Caveman says. "I actually had an endangered species of salamander living with me – it was pretty neat."
And Ray Ray's nickname is a bit of a mystery, but Jay has a theory.
"Ray Ray is Ray Ray because he's twice the fun," Jay says.
Ray Ray gives the raft paddling commands.
"Forward and back, forward and back, don't use your arms," he says.
There are long stretches of calm, scenic floating. Ray Ray explains the history of the area, and he tells stories, like how different rapids and obstacles in the river got their names. There is Greyhound, Flea Flicker, Meat Grinder, Old Nasty and Miller's Foley.
"A kayaker named Miller got stuffed up underneath that rock over there. He was trying to run a real gnarly line, but he swam out alive, which was a million to one shot," Ray Ray says. "He needed to go buy himself a lottery ticket."
Ray Ray's skin seems to be permanently tan. The fine lines on his face are of a person who has worked outside all of their life. When he sits on the back of the raft, paddle in hand, he is in his element.
Mostly he jokes in a playful voice with the guests.
"Remember I told you if I don't bring you back they're gonna dock my pay. So, you better make your swim," he says.
But in serious moments, Ray Ray exudes confidence. His voice booms, his commands are clear.
Danger Lurks
In the rapid sections of the river, the raft pushes itself through the raging white water. Everyone gets soaked, but Ray Ray guides the entire time.
"Forward go – go! Keep going guys," he says.
Some of the guests scream from a mix of fear and excitement.
After the rapids, Ray Ray pauses to check on the other rafts in the group.
We're approaching an obstacle called 'Meat Grinder.'
"It's a collection of undercut rocks where water goes under and through it," Ray Ray says. "We say water goes through and bodies do not."
Some people are thrown out of their raft in the rapid above Meat Grinder. They are not part of Ray Ray's group, but he immediately springs into action. The possibility of something catastrophic happening is low, but 'Meat Grinder' is one of the more dangerous areas on the river.
The guides react quickly, and Ray Ray shouts to the people bobbing in the white water, trying to save their raft.
"Leave the boat. Swim – swim!"
Everybody is fine, but it is because Ray Ray and the other guides on the trip are experts on reading the water and reading each other. Something Jay Young, the media manager for Adventures on the Gorge, says is just part of being a professional guide.
"If you were to hang out at the guide camp or even a bar on a Saturday night, you wouldn't think these guys are the professionals that they are," Jay says. "But when the poo hits the fan on a river, there's nobody else I'd want out with me, because they rush into action; they all know exactly what to do, and it gets done fast."
Passing the Paddle Down
Guides have always had their own language, whether it is hand signals on the river, or talking about water depth or names of rapids. Ray Ray says it has evolved over time.
"We're gonna be running one down here called 'Flea Flicker' that a lot of old-timers used to call 'Last Kick in the Pants,'" he says. "For the most part over time, it's evolved and it's just a way for us to communicate, it's our language. It's like speaking river guide or speaking hippy."
And it is the senior guides, like Ray Ray, that teach this new language to the up and coming guides. People who might not have prior rafting experience but are brought together through their love of the outdoors.
Claire Hemme, a former Inside Appalachia intern, is a first-year river guide. She took the job because she wanted to be paid to work outside.
"It's just this wonderful eclectic mix of everyone from everywhere who just want to be outside," she says.
The Glory Days
River guides have always been adventure-seeking people, says Roger Wilson, the Adventures on the Gorge CEO. He started guiding in 1975, and he says the concept of the commercial rafting industry was still new.
"Every rock wasn't named, every route wasn't ran. There was still that point of discovery," Roger says. "We were developing an industry – developing something new that no one had ever done before."
Today, safety is a top priority. Before getting on the river, everyone signs a waiver, and guides ask each person about specific health issues.
But that was not always the case. Charlie Walbridge guided on the Cheat River in northern West Virginia from the late 1970s until the early 1980s. He says there was not a guide in every raft, people did not sign a waiver and guests were often treated like friends rather than a paying customer.
"If somebody fell out of the boat, we'd certainly go help them, but we'd laugh at them," Charlie says. "There were all kinds of slang. When I first started the guests were turkeys, and then carp and then geeks."
These days, guides are almost always in every raft, and there is more respect between the guide and customer. Roger says guiding has become a way to share the love of the sport.
"It evolves to watching these new guests hit these rapids for the first time and watching the smile on their face," Roger says.
Don't Watch Life Go By
Back on the New River, in the raft with Ray Ray, the trip is almost over.
For most of the guests in the boat, it is their first time down the rapids, but Ray Ray has done it thousands of times. He will be out again the next day, likely guiding more guests down the same rapids, but he still has a big grin and excitement for the river.
"Thanks ya'll very much," he says. "Ya'll played super hard today. I told you that was going to be a fun ride today – that was a rowdy ride."
On shore, all the rafts are deflated and loaded on a trailer.
All 32 people in the group load up on a bus, where cold beer and soft drinks are waiting. Ray Ray has one last message.
"Guys, keep getting off your couch and living your life. Don't watch this go by."
This article was originally published by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and is part of a recent Inside Appalachia episode exploring some of Appalachia's most unique destinations, on the water and beneath the water.
Thomas, W.Va.: The Town the Arts (Re) Built
The downtown of this town of 600 sat nearly vacant until a music venue and artists began to create a new economic future for the former coal town. A new guide from the National Association of Governors says arts and culture can be part of rebuilding economies in rural communities.
The city of Thomas, West Virginia, like a lot of municipalities in the Mountain State, owes its initial development to coal.
Today, however, the downtown of the small town in eastern West Virginia has redeveloped in response to another economic sector – arts and culture.
"All over West Virginia the arts and culture economy, coupled with outdoor recreation and tourism, are just growing," said Emily Wilson-Hauger, program director of Woodlands Development Group.
The trend is national, according to a National Governor's Association "action guide" that describes how rural communities can build on culture and art to renew distressed economies.
In Thomas, the downtown was nearly lifeless before artists started establishing businesses, Wilson-Hauger said. The effort to rebuild picked up in the early 2000s with the launch of a local music venue, The Purple Fiddle, whose founders saw opportunity instead of decline.
"There was the Fiddle, an antique shop and a bar. That's it. The rest of the buildings were empty," Wilson-Hauger said.
"Then a few artists started to trickle in after the music scene developed, young artists that were getting priced out of Pittsburgh and D.C. and wherever else," she said. "A couple of these artists moved in and rented downtown space really cheap, they lived upstairs."
Wilson-Hauger, whose organization has helped the downtown to plan and find funding, said there's a new enthusiasm in the town.
"More and more artists started moving in and we ended with the crazy, amazing mix of people in town. Artists and friends of artists. They could rent or buy these buildings really cheaply, and many are still process of fixing them up."
Thomas isn't the only town in the region that has improved a local economy with arts and cultural development.
"I've seen this happening in other parts of our region (Appalachia) heavily focused on the arts and economic opportunity through the arts and revitalization," Wilson-Hauger said. "These artists are shaping the communities they'd like to see, really revitalizing community around the arts. And it's important to say that there was already a great arts tradition, a great music tradition here to build on. This gives it a little boost."
The sector is a significant economic engine in many rural communities, according to the National Governors Association's new guide on rural development and the arts. Economically "struggling rural communities have found new life through smart public policies that boost the creative sector," the guide says.
Among other examples, the guide reports on Montana's Artrepreneur Program, which includes 10 months of entrepreneurial training for rural visual artists, and southwestern Virginia's "Crooked Road," a heritage music trail with venues for traditional gospel, bluegrass and mountain music. The guide says these programs have injected millions of dollars into their state's rural economies.
In Thomas, local leadership combined with technical assistance and access to capital helped ramp things up, said Wilson-Hauger.
"The artists formed a volunteer non-profit organization focused on downtown revitalization, so we help with their planning efforts, provide technical assistance to the group and still are really helping them implement some of their bigger projects," Wilson-Hauger said, explaining her organization's role.
"In more recent years, we've been able to provide direct technical assistance to some of those building owners to help with their pre-development costs, architectural services, etc. to get them up over the hump and get the buildings up to par," she said. "Then we come in with the CDFI (community development financial institutions) and provide lending. We've lent to a number of galleries and some of the artists themselves."
Rural CDFIs provide loans, capital and financial products to rural communities that are underserved by traditional banks. Woodlands Community Lenders (WCL) works in Barbour, Randolph and Tucker counties in North Central West Virginia. Since 2012, the nonprofit lender has provided more than $1.4 million in loans to the region, helping to launch 20 news businesses and provide working capital for 50 established entrepreneurs.
"We found our spot in this mix in a very organic way, and that's with lending, technical assistance and planning help," Wilson-Hauger said.
Though the organization got involved through affordable housing development, Wilson-Hauger said that Woodlands Development Group decided to help support the arts because of the sector's role in leading downtown revitalization. "We've focused on a three-county area and kept our organization small on purpose. We have good and effective local relationships with county governments, city governments, volunteer groups, non-profit groups and other institutions."
The local efforts have also been spurred with funding from U. S. Department of Treasury's CDFI Fund, Housing and Urban Development money, Trans-federal Highway Administration money that comes through the West Virginia Division of Highways for trail building, EPA money for brownfields projects that clean-up vacant lots for parks with a lot of arts components, Department of Agriculture Rural Development programs, the Economic Development Administration and the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Recreational infrastructure is also part of the plan. The decommissioned railroad that runs past downtown Thomas has been converted into a biking and walking trail.
This article was originally published by the Daily Yonder.
Telling the Story of Small-town America, without Donald Trump
When two Minnesota writers busted a star reporter for German magazine Der Spiegel for skewering their town with fabrications, it affirmed the worst stereotypes about condescending city journalists wading into the heartland.
But you don't have to make stuff up to worry about how your reporting on small-town America is going to be received. Since the 2016 election, the tension on main street between storyteller and subject has polluted public discourse and trust during a difficult and vulnerable time. Getting the story exactly right is always hard.
That's why I was so nervous a few Fridays ago, when filmmaker Dave Bernabo and I drove 75 minutes southwest of Pittsburgh, to Moundsville, W.Va., for the premiere of our feature documentary about the town.
The movie, which is available online, will debut in New York on Jan. 14 and in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Museum of Art on Jan. 17. But the Moundsville performance was the one I was nervous about. For the first time in my two-decade career in journalism, on publication day, I would be facing my sources.
Small town
Dave and I were two city intellectuals, blue dots floating into a red town, and we'd committed to answering questions from the audience after the movie.
Our goal with "Moundsville" was to tell the economic biography of a classic American small town— a place out of a Jimmy Stewart movie — and show how it had changed and how it was coping, in a way that illustrated this moment in American history.
Moundsville, pop. 8,494, was the perfect fit. Its industrial boom included dozens of factories, including the Marx toy plant, which made the Rock'em Sock'em robots. Now it enjoyed a typical service economy, anchored around a Walmart, a hospital and a prison. And in the middle was the Grave Creek Mound, a prehistoric burial site left behind by hunter-gatherers who roamed Appalachia thousands of years ago, and a sure mark of time's insistence on change.
Moundsville is the seat of a county that had voted 73.1 percent for Donald Trump in 2016, compared to 22.1 percent for Hillary Clinton, so, yes, maybe we'd reveal something deeper about the Trump phenomenon, but that wasn't the primary goal.
Instead, we wanted mainly to tell the truth about the past, present and future of an iconic small town in a way that avoided nationalist nostalgia or liberal condescension. By focusing on shared history, without getting distracted by Washington politics, we'd show that Americans can still have common reality-based narratives that lay the groundwork for healthier debate.
We spent almost a year reporting, filming and editing. The approach we developed was to select the most thoughtful residents we could find, and let them tell the story. Our characters included a waiter, an archeologist, a paranormal collector, a toy historian and the poet laureate of West Virginia.
When we asked about politics, the answers were almost always clichés, copied and pasted from cable news. We made a decision: No Trump.
When we finished in November, we got an offer from Phil Remke, one of the main characters in the movie, and now the mayor of Moundsville: How about premiering at the Strand, that boxy red-brick theatre at the end of Moundsville's main street, Jefferson Avenue?
The Strand opened in 1920 and seats 400. When Moundsville flourished, it hosted traveling plays and vaudeville acts. These days, it welcomes everything from bluegrass concerts and musicals for kids to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and stand-up comedy. It also hosts birthday parties and dance recitals.
We booked a Friday night and set ticket prices at $5, and then worried if anybody would show up.
Fulfilling the code
Media coverage of post-industrial towns tends to focus on economic poverty. This plant closed. This number of jobs were lost. Less discussed is the loss of culture. Factories with good jobs attract educated people with disposable income. An economy based on service jobs at the Walmart, the prison and the hospital offers less of a base to support theaters, museums and bookstores. "People have less money to spend, and it's mostly older people," Sadie Crowe, the young part-time general manager of the Strand, told me.
As soon as I got to the Strand on opening night, an hour before the show, I knew we'd be OK. There was a line.
We sold 146 tickets, mostly to people in their 50s and older. The box office tally "blows any other movie we've had this year out of the water," Ms. Crowe told me later.
The audience went quiet with concentration when the movie started. We got some laughs.
Then came a scene where a young Latino man talks about "racism in Moundsville." A hush. Later, there was another conspicuous silence when Bill Wnek, a retired teacher, blames plant closures on capitalism. Local factories are bound to close "if you can get it cheaper somewhere else," he says.
I was worried when the lights went up and it was time for the Q&A.
Suzanne Park, the director of the shuttered West Virginia State Penitentiary, now a tourist attraction, took the microphone. "Thank you for not making this political," she said. "We didn't know if we could trust you, because, you know, big-city journalists," she said. "But you were balanced, and we appreciate that." Others raised their hand. They had all liked the movie.
After the premiere, I discovered that we had fulfilled a code developed by some anthropologists. Presenting a finished work to the subject "is about respect, but it's also about interaction, collaboration and growth," University of Pittsburgh anthropologist Loukas Barton told me.
For example, native communities that Mr. Barton has studied in Alaska "have used my work in negotiations with other landowners," he said. "Self-knowledge can give a community political power." There's a long history of outsiders "using and abusing the history of a place for their own purposes, and you'd don't want to do that," he said.
Shared history
I called a handful of locals for more conversation.
Like Ms. Park, others thanked me for not making the movie about Mr. Trump. It didn't bother them that we had presented Moundsville's decline, as well as problems with the gas industry and Walmart. They know things are hard; they just don't like being lectured to, they explained.
"We all have opinions about politics and history will judge," said Rose Hart, founder of a charity called Appalachian Outreach. "But both parties are so dysfunctional it's better to stick to reality."
By offering a shared history, the movie "makes it easier for us to talk about how to improve the town," said Steve Hummel, a collector of haunted objects.
Gene Saunders, the town's first and only African-American mayor, has a key role in the movie, explaining the discrimination he grew up with in the 1950s. "A lot of people here didn't know Moundsville was segregated," he said. "Your movie told them."
Mary Britt moved to Moundsville six years ago to accompany her husband, who got a job at the local hospital. "I just liked learning more about the town," she said. "You told a lot of stories that even people here don't know."
And she, too, thanked us, for avoiding the T word.
"I bet 90 percent percent of the people at the premiere voted for him," said Ms. Britt. "But they don't want an outsider telling them about it."
A few weeks after the premiere, Ms. Crowe, the Strand's manager, emailed to say people in town liked the movie so much that the theater will screen it twice more, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m on Jan. 19.
And on Facebook, one town resident declared she was downloading "Moundsville" — as a Christmas gift.
This story was originally published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Q&A: Music Professor and Geologist Share How Geology Shaped W.Va.
A geology professor and music professor spent four years together traveling through West Virginia thinking about rocks.
Their journey is documented a new book titled "Roadside Geology of West Virginia."
West Virginia Public Broadcasting's energy and environment reporter Brittany Patterson sat down with the authors, West Virginia University music professor emeritus Christopher Wilkinson and geologist Joe Lebold, to learn more about how geology has shaped the Mountain State and why this unlikely duo wanted to write about it.
Listen to their conversation below.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Christopher, I'd like to start with you. You're a professor emeritus of music at WVU. Can you tell us a little bit about why you wanted to help write a book about West Virginia's geology?
Wilkinson: There are several reasons why. One reason is our common interest in the state's geology. I had the opportunity to sit in on Joe Lebold's geology of West Virginia class. [Writing this book together] provided the opportunity to put all of those interests together in the state and the geology, the science and so forth.
And Joe, you're the geologist. Why put together a roadside guide of geology in West Virginia?
Lebold: Well, I find that often some of the more interested folks in geology are actually not geologists, they come from different walks of life. But geology is a fairly accessible science, you can see it everywhere. And it really piques the interest of the general public and people like Chris.
West Virginia is called the Mountain State. And, as you write, we associate West Virginia with coal a lot of the time. But I think one thing I took away from your book is you argue if you widen the lens and look into our past, there's a lot more to the state. Can you talk a little bit about what are some of those major geologic processes that have really formed the West Virginia that we know today.
Lebold: Probably the most significant geologic event to shape West Virginia was the assembly of a large supercontinent called Pangea, about 250 million years ago. And this event deformed, bent and broke the sedimentary layers that were already in place, recording environments that had existed for, you know, some 300 million years prior to that event. And basically produced the pattern that well, I guess, weathering erosion took to create our landscape.
So, this book is meant to be sort of a guide for motorists driving through our state. I'm wondering if you could take me on a little journey. What might be some things that folks might see driving through West Virginia?
Wilkinson: Well, let's start with listeners who might be traveling I-64 between Charleston and Huntington. Either direction, take your pick, you'll find yourself traveling in an unusual valley, unusual for a couple of reasons. First of all, it is a very straight valley and you don't find many of those in West Virginia. Secondly, it's a valley that no longer has the river that created it and to understand how that valley came to be how it lost its river and the resulting topography is one example [you'll find in the book].
I'll give you a second example. You're driving south on I-77, the West Virginia Turnpike, and you've come up south of Beckley. You've climbed flat top mountain, you have paid your tolls at the toll gate, and further east, you're beginning a descent. You can look straight ahead south and you will see on the horizon a ridge running almost at right angles to the route of the highway you're on. All of a sudden, there's the seemingly immovable barrier of this ridge. And what it does is it marks the boundary between two of the major topographical geological provinces that divide the state of West Virginia
One place I wanted to talk about that I think a lot of folks might be familiar with is Seneca Rocks. Can you talk a little bit about what happened there geologically, that led to this formation.
Lebold: Well Seneca Rocks has a very troubled history. It actually started out as a horizontal layer sandstone, just like every other sedentary layer. But during that final assembly of the supercontinent Pangea, that layer, like many others, was folded…but folded to such a degree that the layers were turned vertical. So, when you approach Seneca Rocks, people tend to think of it as a tall cliff, when in reality you're actually looking at the top of the sedintary layers.
Wilkinson: And what is interesting to consider about that is naturally anyone who approaches that formation from the west looks up to the summit. In fact, those rocks are heading down and will descend more than a mile under the ground before they then once again become flat as they head west.
In the years that you guys spent working on this and traveling the state thinking about geology, are there places that you came across that really surprising or really cool?
Lebold: Probably the most surprising were the southern coalfields. You know, we certainly do have hills and hollers up here in the northern part of the state, but down south, the valley walls basically turn the landscape into a maze. Essentially, every time you turn you're confronted with a wall of trees that just rises to the sky, and that's why the folks in those hollers tend to only see the sun for a very short period of time every day as it dips beyond the valley wall.
Wilkinson: For me, one of the most dramatic locations is a lookout point that overlooks the Germany Valley. This is on Route 33 south and east of Seneca Rocks, and you see the area where those rocks were once connected to the layers to the east, all of which has been a hollowed out valley that was originally solid rock. And to understand the forces at work, and the millions of years it took for the for the present topography to be created was very inspiring.
To me, the premise of this book is really to show that West Virginia was shaped by geology, and I'm wondering how you hope that it might affect people who come across it?
Lebold: Well, quite simply the hope is that people will have a greater awareness or appreciation of the long history of this place we call West Virginia that began long, long before people ever set foot here. Probably one of the most interesting things to realize is that the record of that history is still here, and it can be read on every outcrop, every road cut. You can see the … essentially the evidence for all the different places that West Virginia's resembled in the past.
Wilkinson: Well, again, to go back to a point that Joe made earlier. For me the appeal of this science, not being a scientist, is it is something to be appreciated by the naked eye. This book intends to create informed naked eyes so that those who are looking understand what they are seeing.
This story was originally published by West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
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