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I recently did a drawing of Martin Luther with a quote underneath, "My conscience is captive to the Word of God."
I've started my first Kickstarter to raise funds to have it printed as an 11x14 print.
If you're interested, or if you are willing to share this link with your friends and family on your social media, I would be much appreciative.
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Martin Luther's 95 theses are world famous, but he later became violently anti-semitic. Many feel that this brought a curse upon Germany which was subsequently fulfilled in Adolf Hitler (who quoted Luther a number of times in Mein Kampf).
Are you implying Luther was responsible for the Holocost?
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Martin Luther's 95 theses are world famous, but he later became violently anti-semitic. Many feel that this brought a curse upon Germany which was subsequently fulfilled in Adolf Hitler (who quoted Luther a number of times in Mein Kampf).
Hi Paul, I wish you the very best with your Kickstarter and will pray for its success.
I imply nothing, but have directly shown that Luther was a hater of the Jewish people.
From Wikipedia:
In 1543 Luther published On the Jews and Their Lies in which he says that the Jews are a "base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth."[13] They are full of the "devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine."[14] The synagogue was a "defiled bride, yes, an incorrigible whore and an evil slut ..."[15] He argues that their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness,[16] afforded no legal protection,[17] and these "poisonous envenomed worms" should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time.[18] He also seems to advocate their murder, writing "[w]e are at fault in not slaying them".[19] Luther claims that Jewish history was "assailed by much heresy", and that Christ the logos swept away the Jewish heresy and goes on to do so, "as it still does daily before our eyes." He stigmatizes Jewish Prayer as being "blasphemous" (sic) and a lie, and vilifies Jews in general as being spiritually "blind" and "surely possessed by all devils." Luther has a special spiritual problem with Jewish circumcision.[20][21] The full context in which Martin Luther advocated that Jews be slain in On the Jews and Their Lies is as follows in Luther's own words:
There is no other explanation for this than the one cited earlier from Moses - namely, that God has struck [the Jews] with 'madness and blindness and confusion of mind' [Deuteronomy 28:28]. So we are even at fault in not avenging all this innocent blood of our Lord and of the Christians which they shed for three hundred years after the destruction of Jerusalem, and the blood of the children they have shed since then (which still shines forth from their eyes and their skin). We are at fault in not slaying them.[22]
Full article on Luther's "On the Jews and Their Lies":
I would choose another hero if I were you. A born again follower of Jesus Christ would never do what Luther has done. Luther's quotes are found at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC and at the one in Israel.
Hey Eric,
Martin Luther was a great man of God!
How did your kickstarter go?
Nice! Thanks man, and congratulations!
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Ah, love this illustration! Hope you're able to print this by some other means
Thanks Matt!
I may post it on a site like redbubble or something as a print.
Also, I think I just saw some of your stuff in the Reformed Canvas Facebook group. Awesome stuff!
love it. Wonder how many people get the "goose" in the background? Good stuff.
Thanks Lance, I wonder that too!


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Data were released Yesterday Aug 6th by the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services
In the first week of August 2018, which had three working days, the Brazilian trade balance recorded a surplus of US $ 362 million, resulting from exports of US $ 2,415 billion and imports of US $ 2,052 billion.
The data were released on Monday (6) by Mdic (Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services). The information is from Agência Brasil.
In the year, exports totaled US $ 138.874 billion and imports, US $ 104.476 billion, a positive balance of US $ 34.398 billion.
In the comparison of exports between the first week of August and the same period of last year, there was a fall of 4.9 percent in sales, mainly due to the reduction in trade in manufactured products (-13.9 percent) and in semi manufactured goods (-3,5 percent). Nonetheless, sales of basic products (5.7 percent) increased, driven by crude oil, manganese ore, soybeans, live cattle, leaf tobacco.
In comparison with July (July), there was a 22.6 percent drop, due to the decrease in sales of basic products (-30.1 percent, from US $ 590.0 million to US $ 412.5 million) and (-17.5 percent, from US $ 330.0 million to US $ 272.1 million), while sales of semi manufactured products increased (+ 7.1 percent, from US $ 109.4 million to US $ 117, 2 million).
In imports, the daily average of the first week of August this year (US $ 684.1 million) was 13.4 percent above the August average of last year (US $ 603.4 million), the ministry said. In this comparison, expenditures increased mainly with steelmakers (74.8 percent), organic and inorganic chemicals (39.7 percent), mechanical equipment (23.5 percent), fertilizers and fertilizers (20 percent), motor vehicles and parts (20 percent).
In comparison with July, imports fell by 19.3 percent, due to the decrease in fuels and lubricants (-29.5 percent), pharmaceuticals (-13.6 percent), tanning extracts and dyes (-13.5 percent), optical and precision instruments (-5.8 percent) and motor vehicles and parts (-5.7 percent).


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From the White Guide Nordic 2018:
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- Address: Beckholmsvägen 26, 115 21 Stockholm
- Phone: +46 8 551 531 05
- Web: oaxen.com
- Seats: 76
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Djurgården's beauty with a bit of beast
The team at Oaxen has always been early, if not first, on the ball, and so of course they now offer a selection of handcrafted beverages. A battery of "mixers" – sodas with seasonally driven ingredients – lure you in with flavours like raspberry, mint, ginger and burnt honey cola. Add to the alcohol of your choice to make a "grog" or enjoy as a non-alcoholic alternative. The somewhat thin aperitif bubbles from Chartogne-Taillet are served with well-thought-out snacks like confited, fried hedgehog mushrooms with pure forest flavours; typically rich and salty ham from a Linderöd pig, aged 36 months; and fried Brussels sprouts that are juicy on the inside but crispy on the outside. The relatively short wine list with a focus on the organic and biodynamic still manages to cover most situations. And if you ask nicely you might be allowed to order from the wine bible at Oaxen Krog. The steak tartare is a harmony of textures and flavours: soft silverskin onions, silky mustard dressing, bitter cress, crusty sourdough, tangy cream and topside ground to perfect chewiness. Grilled celeriac baked in whey has a complex, deep richness enlivened by whitefish roe and chives. The forest-like flavours continue in a ragout of venison shank with Jerusalem artichokes and ramson capers, and in the dish with grilled duck breast and funnel mushrooms. Do not miss the sides, so carefully conceived that they constitute dishes in their own right. Round off with bread pudding, brown butter, jam and lightly whipped cream. Or the lighter dessert with fresh, macerated blueberries, sorrel, charred meringue and tarragon. Oaxen manages impressively to satisfy many different palates, but still retain its great personality – a warm bistro where the delicious Nordic flavours are purveyed with elegance and knowledge, against Stockholm's restaurant scene's loveliest backdrop...
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Parliamentary votes (or 'divisions' as they're known in the lingo) aren't always the easiest things to understand; yet, as we know from our email inbox, they're often what our users want to know about most.
Supported by a grant from Open Society Foundations, we're now displaying MPs', Lords' and Scottish Parliament votes on TheyWorkForYou more graphically, making them easier to understand at a glance:
(Click the image to see this vote in situ.)
For a long time TheyWorkForYou would display divisions as a plain list, usually at or near the end of a debate. When a user wrote to ask us how they could see how a specific representative had voted on the issue of the day, we'd point them towards the relevant section of the right page — but of course, it's much better if you can find the information for yourself.
Things improved a little when we created the Recent Votes page, and separated out information for each vote onto their own pages. At that point, though, we were only displaying votes which counted towards the topics we cover on representatives' Voting Record pages: in other words, those which helped us assess MPs' and Lords' stances on issues such as university tuition fees, fox-hunting, etc.
Now, with this new tranche of work, we've been able to make the following improvements:
- All votes are included on the Recent Votes page, not just ones feeding the voting records.
- The voting breakdowns are shown graphically, so you can see straight away what the rough proportions were, and to what extent each party's members made up each side. It should also be easy to see immediately when a representative votes differently to the majority of their party!
- As we blogged recently, we're including information on voting for anyone subscribed to MP alerts.
If you'd really like to understand the full context of each vote, we hope you'll click through from these pages and read the preceding debates.
We hope you'll now find it a lot easier to understand votes — and this certainly feels like a timely addition, given the interesting voting activity of recent days.
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If you subscribe to emails that tell you every time an MP speaks via TheyWorkForYou, then you may have noticed a change in today's mailout.
From today, we're trialing alerts not just when your chosen MP has spoken, but also when and how they voted — and what could be more timely, what with the dramatic votes of last night! As always, you can click the link in the email to see further context.
The alerts also cover votes in the House of Lords, and in the Scottish Parliament.
This is one part of the work we're able to do towards enhancing access to democracy, supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations. It's a feature we've wanted to add for a long time — not to mention something that you've been asking for — and as we hope you'll agree, it certainly adds to our overarching goal of trying to make the goings-on in Parliament more accessible to everyone.
Find out more about votes
Generally speaking, you can check the Recent Votes page on TheyWorkForYou to see whether your MP was present for a division; or if you know what date it was held on, you can go to the calendar, click through to the relevant debate, and find the divisions usually near or at the end of the page.
How to sign up for alerts
Not signed up to follow your MP's activity in Parliament yet? It's very simple: just go to this page and input your postcode.
Enjoy tracking your MP's votes, and watch this space for more voting-related improvements coming soon.
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So proxy voting has been in the news again. For whatever reason, MP Brandon Lewis failed to honour an agreed pairing for Jo Swinson while she was on maternity leave. Those arguing in favour of a more formal system might say that this story — and the ensuing confusion — underlines the point perfectly.
You may remember that we submitted evidence to the Commons Procedure Committee inquiry on just this matter. Back in May, they published their report and recommendations for Parliament (you can see the summary here if you're in a hurry).
While we broadly support measures that will formalise the currently informal system, our main interest is in digital data being available so that our own site TheyWorkForYou, as well as parliamentary sites run by other people, can disseminate the information clearly, aiding transparency and accessibility.
We were glad to see that this point has been acknowledged. Paragraph 59 of the report states:
Where a proxy vote is cast, it must to be recorded in a transparent way. When listing the result of divisions, both online and in its printed edition, the Official Report (Hansard) must note votes which were cast by proxy, by marking a symbol adjacent to the name of the absent Member and identifying the Member who cast the proxy vote. It should be the aim that this record should be treated as an integral part of the digital record of Commons divisions and should be shared as open data in a format compatible with Parliament's Open Data output, both as part of the dataset for each division and as a standalone output.
So what next?
The recommendations were to have been debated in the House of Commons at the beginning of this month, but a lack of time prevented that from happening.
As it's now the summer recess, the report will come back to the table in September. Presumably the recent display of how informal pairing can fail will stand as a rather good argument for these more official arrangements.
As for the mechanics of the matter, the implementation of proxy voting will require a number of changes to be made to Standing Orders (the rules by which each House's proceedings are run), which the committee has suggested should be put to the House for decision at the same time as the report is debated.
If these are agreed to, they've recommended that the scheme should brought into force with immediate effect; there would then be a reassessment after they've run for twelve months to see if any further changes are required.
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A key part of mySociety's research agenda is understanding how Civic Technology is (or isn't) helping under-represented groups in society access government services and their representation. In 2015 we released a report Who Benefits from Civic Technology, that explored variations in usage of Civic Tech in various countries and demographics. You can read or download it here.
In this blog post I'm going to talk a bit about how we've internally tried to apply our data to understanding the under-representation of women in politics and as users of our services, as well as some interesting things that external researchers have found using our data.
Our EveryPolitician dataset contains information on current (and in some cases historical) politicians for a large number of countries around the world. For a large number of representatives, this includes gender information.
However, a key problem of international comparisons of the representation of women is, as Miki Caul points out, that it "overlooks the fact that individual parties vary greatly in the proportion of women MPs within each nation". Similarly, Lena Wängnerud argues "cross-country studies tend to miss variations between parties within a single system. Variations in the proportion of women to men are even greater across parties than across nations".
Fortunately, this is exactly the kind of problem that an international dataset like EveryPolitician is well placed to examine – on Thursday we'll be using a new mini-site to explore the gender and party information contained in EveryPolitician to give a sense of the international picture and the party-level differences within each country. Stay tuned! Or you can download the data yourself (there are APIs for Python, Ruby and R) and try and beat us to it.
TheyWorkForYou makes it easy to search through the history of what has been said in Parliament, and we make the data (based on the Hansard dataset but more consistently formatted) freely available to download. As essentially a download of a very large amount of text, getting insights from this dataset is a bit more complicated, but potentially very rewarding.
Jack Blumenau has a paper based on TheyWorkForYou data using language to analyse whether appointing female ministers changes how other female MPs participate in debates. Looking at "half a million Commons' speeches between 1997 and 2017, [he demonstrates] that appointing a female minster increases the participation of women MPs in relevant debates by approximately one third over the level of female participation under male ministers" – and that "female MPs also became more influential in debates under the purview of female ministers […] female ministers respond in a systematically different fashion to the speeches of female MPs." In this case, influence is a measure of whether the language an individual used is then taken up by others, and this kind of analysis shows how the TheyWorkForYou dataset can be used to demonstrate not just counts of how many women were in Parliament, but the substantive effects of women holding office on the political process.
As Myf talked about yesterday, TheyWorkForYou's Commons content now extends back to 1918, and so includes every speech by a female MP ever made. We hope this is a useful resource for anyone interested in exploring the history of the representation of women in the UK and have plans for a small project in the upcoming months to show in a simple way how this data can be used (please sign up to our mailing list if you're interested in hearing about this when it's completed).
TheyWorkForYou data can either be accessed through an API, or downloaded as formatted XML files.
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Understanding the under-representation of women is important across our services. Where men and women are experiencing different issues and concerns, imbalances in access (or use of access) potentially lead to differences in resource allocation.
The majority of reports on FixMyStreet.com are reported by men – but to make things more complicated, it's not just that women make fewer reports, but women report substantively different kinds of reports.
Reka Solymosi, Kate Bowers and Taku Fujiyama investigated FixMyStreet reports and found (by determining gender from names of problem reporters) that different kinds of reports are more likely to be reported by men and women – they suggest that at "first glance it appears that men are more likely to report in categories related to driving (potholes and road problems), whereas women report more in categories related to walking (parks, dead animals, dog fouling, litter)".
If different kinds of reports are differently gendered, this complicates thinking about how to improve how women use the website – as potential users are having substantially different experiences of problems in the real world well before they interact with the site. We have to engage with the nuance of this kind of finding to understand how to redress issues of access to services.
We're currently in the process of extending this kind of analysis to our other service. For WriteToThem, we've learned that while the majority of people using the service to write to MPs are male (around 60%), this picture is different depending on the level of government – for instance the gender balance for people writing to councils is pretty close to 50/50.
As part of this, we're investigating whether having the same gender as their representative makes people more likely to make contact. This has some interesting preliminary findings, and we hope to have more to say about this towards the end of the year.
Our research in this area is ongoing, and we're keen to help people use our data to investigate under-representation – especially where you have expertise or knowledge that we don't. If you'd like to discuss potential uses of the data please get in touch, or sign up to our mailing list to hear about future research releases.
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Excuse us while we just finish hanging this bunting…
Yes, wave the flags and toot those vuvuzelas: it's National Democracy Week, a new initiative to celebrate the democratic process and encourage democratic participation.
And thanks to some extra-curricular work by one of the mySociety team, we're now able to celebrate it in a quite exceptional way. Longstanding developer Matthew has used his own free time to import historic House of Commons debates from 1919-1935 into our parliamentary site TheyWorkForYou. With this work, he's extended the site's value as an easy-access archive of parliamentary activity even further.
You can check it out now by visiting TheyWorkForYou, searching for any word or phrase, and then sorting the search results by 'oldest'. Or, pick any MP active during 1919-1935 and search for them to see every speech they made in Parliament.
Please let us know if you find anything of interest! For developers who use TheyWorkForYou data to power their own sites and apps, the extended content will also be available via TheyWorkForYou's API.
"No one sex can govern alone" – Nancy Astor
This is the first National Democracy Week, and it has taken, as its theme, the anniversary of women's suffrage: as you're sure to have heard by now, 2018 is the centenary of (some) women getting the vote* in the UK.
We wanted to celebrate by highlighting some of the big milestones of women's participation in Parliament, but there was just one problem. TheyWorkForYou only contained House of Commons debates as far back as the 1930s — while, for example, the maiden speech of Nancy Astor, the first woman to speak in Parliament, was in 1920.
So it's a big deal that Matthew's imported this early data into TheyWorkForYou, and we're all the more grateful because he did so on his own time. It's something we've wanted to do, but not had the resource for. You can now browse, search or link to Commons debates right back to 1919, and find not just women's contributions, but a whole wealth of historic parliamentary content. Result!
What you can enjoy this week
We're going to take this opportunity to highlight, through a week-long series of posts:
- Today: Milestones in women's parliamentary participation A rundown of when and how women became integrated into the UK Parliament. You can see this, our first post of the week, right now.
- Tomorrow, our researcher Alex will be highlighting some of the ways people have used our data and APIs to explore issues of gender and representation and describe some of our future plans in this area. This also gives us the opportunity to point out where you can access all our lovely, juicy data, should you want to do something similar yourself.
- On Wednesday we'll delve back into history, this time looking at the changes in law which have had bearing on women's lives, with more links to richer background detail on TheyWorkForYou.
- On Thursday Alex is back, exploring what we can learn from EveryPolitician data about representation of women in democracies around the world.
- Friday will give us a chance to show how you can use TheyWorkForYou to research when topics were first mentioned in Parliament, and how that can give a snapshot of the zeitgeist.
- Finally, as a weekend bonus, we'll be blogging on the various organisations which support women within our own sphere of Civic Tech.
We'll add the links in for each day's content as it goes live.
Since our sites TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem in the UK, our activities with the Democratic Commons, and the support we give to partners in other countries are all, at heart, aiming to make democratic participation easier, we are, of course, all over this event. We hope you'll enjoy the week!
*We can have another celebration in 2028 for the remaining women.
We've submitted evidence to the recent inquiry on whether Parliament should introduce a more formal system of voting by proxy. You can read our submission here, and see submissions from other organisations and individuals on Parliament's website.
Voting by proxy is the practice of allowing someone else to cast your vote for you. In Parliament, when MPs go on extended leave, for example when they have a baby, there is no formal system in place; rather, arrangements are often made informally and, potentially, inconsistently.
A Member may approach a whip to request that they are paired with an MP from the opposition who will not be voting either, thus effectively cancelling out the votes that would have been cast. Apparently, there is also an informal tradition of allowing infirm or incapacitated (for example, because they are carrying a baby in their arms) representatives to vote from outside the chamber, but only when present within the precincts of the House. We were interested to see a remark in David Lammy MP's own evidence:
I would also hope that the Committee might consider some way to end the practice notorious from the late 1970s of bringing seriously sick Members into Westminster in order to vote. This would carry severe reputational risk if repeated nowadays.
Why are we interested?
The inquiry is a direct result of the recent debate, on International Women's Day, in which Harriet Harman led the call for a more formal system of voting by proxy for members on extended leave (and particularly on 'baby leave').
We agree that it's important Parliament formalises this system, and we fully support any measure that will make life easier for parents, or those on extended leave for other life-changing reasons. And of course, we're very much in favour of any initiative which will make parliamentary arrangements more transparent and accessible to the general public, which after all is the whole reason TheyWorkForYou exists.
But we also have a further interest in this subject. As you may recall, we were called out by MPs (and subsequently members of the public) for misrepresenting representatives on leave, since our site TheyWorkForYou was not displaying this information, leaving potential for members of the public to believe that such MPs were not attending to their duties.
In response to this, we are now able to manually add notes to the profile pages of those MPs who request it. However, as we outlined in our prior posts it's not an ideal solution for a number of reasons, as summarised in our inquiry response.
We're hoping that once the proxy voting system is formalised, the relevant information (that is, who is on extended leave, that a proxy is voting in their place, and the name of the proxy) will be released along with Parliament's existing data outputs. You can read more about that in our response, but in short, this would allow us to display the information consistently and automatically, as we do for virtually all the rest of the information on TheyWorkForYou.
But it won't only be useful for us. It'll allow for the data to be displayed on Parliament's own website, and of course will be of help to any website or tool which deals with Parliamentary activity and makes it easier for everyone to understand.
Image by Jessica Taylor (Parliamentary copyright, reproduced with the permission of Parliament). "Ayes to the right, noes to the left". When there is a vote in the Commons, MPs leave their seats and walk into either the Aye or No lobby.
In June this year, a Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement was appointed. Submissions of written evidence were invited, and of course, this being very much our area, we felt the need to contribute.
Our written evidence is a fairly quick read. Nonetheless we hope that it gets the essential points across, drawing on our experience in what works and what doesn't in technology for civic engagement.
You can view all the submissions the inquiry received on the Parliament website. The committee will report their findings by the end of March next year.
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In case you hadn't heard, yesterday Parliament debated whether Donald Trump should be barred entry to the UK.
This is a bit of an occasion, because the first petition has been signed by more people than any other in this Parliament. It has 573,971 signatures, and its title is "Block Donald J Trump from UK entry". The second petition is titled "Don't ban Trump from the United Kingdom". That petition is curious. It has 42,898 signatures, but 30,000 signatures were removed because they were thought to be suspect and coming from one source.
Now, regular TheyWorkForYou readers know that parliamentary debates are often interesting, sometimes thought-provoking, and occasionally amusing. The Trump debate is a great example of all of those things.
But most people see the goings-on in Parliament as very dull. Today, you might want to do someone a favour, and point them towards this particular debate, which you can see in full here.
As always with TheyWorkForYou content, it's easy to search, share or link to any individual section. And as if that's not enough, this debate contains the only use of the word wazzock yet recorded in Parliament. Now that's got to be worth a share.
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Why we do what we do. No, not the name of a wonderfully named new mySociety product, instead it's an excuse for me to take stock of where we are and where we go next.
Inevitably over the past decade we've tackled lots of issues and projects from lots of different angles. What we're currently focused on is Freedom of Information, Parliaments and Elections, and Local Issue Reporting.
What links all of our work is the creation of civic technology that enables greater access for citizens to the work of government and the democratic process:
Lack of access to elected representatives amongst disadvantaged or underrepresented groups is a key driver of exclusion and inequality, yet governments tend only to become better at serving the needs of citizens when those citizens are capable of demanding better.
Simply put, this is our cause.
Our Theory Of Change
Citizens will only demand better from governments if they have access to a mix of often scarce resources: from education, to wealth, to knowledge about government failings. At mySociety we are highly aware that we can't give people most of these things: we can't boost business in failing economies or bring teachers into schools that have none. These are the tasks of development funders, political leaders and well-regulated markets.
Tremendous human suffering happens when governments fail to serve the needs of their citizens, and human welfare is dramatically increased when governments serve citizens' needs well. Some governments are excellent at meeting some citizen needs, but weak at meeting others, harming a minority, often invisibly. Others make no attempt to meet any of their citizens' needs, robbing, starving and failing them in every possible way.
Our theory of change is based on a reading of political history, and specifically of the history of reform campaigns, such as those that drove the democratisation of nations from the 17th to the 20th century. We believe that governments tend only to get better at serving the needs of citizens when citizens are capable of demanding better, creating a virtuous circle that leads steadily to better government.
Each of our services give citizens the skills, confidence and knowledge they need in order to be capable of demanding better.
Freedom of Information
FOI is a core plank of a healthy, transparent and accountable democracy. Every citizen should have the right to query and understand the workings of government and public bodies on their own terms.
Alaveteli is our platform for FOI request websites. We currently support partners in over 20 countries, from Australia to Hungary, Nicaragua to Ukraine, as well as a pan-European site AskTheEU. Our most successful site is WhatDoTheyKnow in the UK, with almost 300,000 individual FOI requests alone – drawn from over 16,000 UK public bodies.
Over the next year we will continue to refine and develop Alaveteli to better support the expansion and proper use of FOI around the world. At the same time, we'll be actively campaigning to preserve FOI in the UK which is currently under threat from the Government's FOI commission.
Parliaments and Elections
The activities of Government can often be opaque and difficult to interpret. We improve access to elected representatives, providing clarity, context and understanding to the decisions they make on our behalf.
We tackle the workings of government at a variety of points throughout the electoral cycle; YourNextMP/Rep for candidate information, TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem allow people to query and explain the workings of government at all levels.
Increasingly central to these efforts is EveryPolitician, our crowdsourcing effort to sustainably store and share a structured open data set of every national politician around the world. It currently holds data on more than 60,000 politicians from over 230 territories.
In the next few weeks we'll complete work to integrate all of our existing Parliament services with EveryPolitician and continue to encourage more journalists, developers, and NGOs to create the tools they need in their own countries.
Local Issue Reporting
FixMyStreet gets right to the root of any disconnect between citizens and those who provide their local services. Literally dealing with street-level issues, FixMyStreet can help turn our everyday feelings of frustration into action.
The original and much emulated FixMyStreet.com makes it easy to report street faults like broken street lights or potholes, raising over 650,000 reports in the last 8 years.
We've extended the principle of issue – reporting – resolution, to create a generalised platform catering to a variety of interesting and practical new use cases; with projects as varied as empty home identification, or logging road collisions and near misses for cyclists.
Citizens feel more in control. Local councils can target their efforts more effectively. Together this can contribute to better government.
Scaling Up
For the moment we'll continue to consolidate our offer in these three areas.
There's ample scope for further development, refinement of concepts and of course directly increasing the impact of currently deployed sites.
What gets really interesting is when we start to scale up the delivery of each of these in more countries, delivered to more people, ensuring we see more citizens gain greater influence over those with power.
I'll post again later this week about some of the practical changes that we are making to better encourage the take up of our services and how we're improving the way we work with our partners.
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Note: Not only were these changes outruled, but WhatDoTheyKnow got a nice mention in the process. See more in our follow-up blog post.
Proposed changes, currently under discussion by a cross-party government commission, could make it much harder for you to access information.
This is what the proposed restrictions would mean for you:
- You'd be charged for making a request
- Your request could be turned down on the grounds of cost, even more easily than it can be now
- You'd find it more difficult (or even impossible) to obtain details of public authorities' internal discussions
- The release of government information could be easily blocked by ministers
- The newspapers that you read would be less able to uncover stories of corruption, malpractice or cover-ups.
You have until 20 November if you'd like to voice your opposition to these restraints.
Here are four easy ways you can take action right now—you'll find more details about all of them on the Campaign For Freedom of Information's website.
What you can do
1. If you have 60 seconds: sign a petition
Sign the 38 Degrees petition to Protect FOI laws.
If you're a journalist, you can sign the Hands Off FOI petition, too.
2. If you have 5 minutes, write to your MP
Use WriteToThem.com to tell your MP why Freedom of Information is important and how restrictions would affect you, or society as a whole. Stuck for words? Here are some ideas.
3. If you have 10 minutes, submit an FOI story
SaveFOI are collecting stories of how Freedom of Information has made a difference to individuals and organisations. Here's how to contribute.
4. If you have a little more time, respond directly to the consultation
The call for evidence is here and there is further guidance on the Campaign For Freedom of Information's website. 38 Degrees have also put together this super-easy Plain English version.
Why these restrictions matter
Freedom of Information is for everyone, not just those who can afford it
If you charge for making a Freedom of Information request, you automatically exclude a sector of society from the right to know.
It's not just that a limited income will discourage some people from making requests (though it will, and our research has already shown that engaging with our democratic system is largely the preserve of the well-educated and well-off, a situation which needs to be rectified).
It's also that the added complexity will discourage those who already consider the FOI process daunting—something we've always striven hard to overcome with WhatDoTheyKnow.com.
The right to information should be available to everyone. Not just those with money to spare, and the bureaucratic skills to navigate its complexities.
We've seen the results of restrictions in other countries
Our Alaveteli software helps people run FOI sites all over the world. At our recent conference, we heard of the struggles those people face, from the charging of fees, to bodies' refusal to release information, to complex red tape.
In every case, the result was impeded access to information, a lowering of public's engagement with their right to know, and increased disenfranchisement.
In Ireland, for example, where similar constraints were put in place in 2003, overall usage of the FOI Act fell by over 50%, and requests by the media by over 83%*.
Note that many important UK news stories in recent times have come from FOI requests: the imposition of fees and restrictions will have a stifling effect on journalists.
The current consultation threatens to put the UK in the same boat.
Government ministers could pick and choose what they release
Running WhatDoTheyKnow, we're already aware that many requests are turned down—requests which we'd consider quite reasonable.
If these new restrictions take hold, it will be much easier for ministers to use the power of veto to withhold any information they choose.
The "safe space" argument as in the Commission's call for evidence stresses the importance of collective cabinet responsibility and not revealing private splits within the cabinet.
We believe that such splits are in fact vital for the public to know about, in the interests of democracy. We'd also say it's likely, human nature being what it is, that should a veto be made available, information will also be withheld when it is inconvenient or detrimental to the ministers' party line.
Public authorities are funded by us, the public
If you pay someone to do a job, you're within your rights to examine their work when you need to.
We should never forget that public authorities—the bodies which are subject to the FOI Act—are funded by us, the taxpayer. We should have the right to hold them to account.
If the government is concerned about the costs of FOI, instead of imposing restrictions, it should promote more proactive disclosure of information held by public bodies, which would save everyone time and money.
How will you help?
These are just a few of the reasons we'll be asking you to take action over the next ten days. Please do all you can—and then help spread the word.
*A Review of the Operation of the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 2003: An Investigation into the Effects of the Amendment Act and the Introduction of Fees on Access Requests by Members of the Public. Ireland later reversed the decision to introduce fees "to restore the balance".
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Betty Dawisha
Remember this?
Blunt words from Iraqi voter Betty Dawisha for the Cindy Sheehan Left...Well, Auguste and Grace Nearing have done a little investigative work, and as it turns out, not only is Ms. Dawisha an 'Iraqi voter' who was voting in Detroit, she's also an in-law of University of Miami, Ohio professor and Middle East expert Adeed Dawisha, who has himself made appearances on Fox News.
"Anybody who doesn't appreciate what America has done, and President Bush, let them go to hell!"
Go, Betty.
What do you suppose are the chances that Fox News just happened to catch Ms. Dawisha voting, allowing her to make her off-the-cuff comments?
Good work, guys.


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CARDIFF coach Rudy Joubert admits he's a man under pressure following his side's nightmare start to the season.
Joubert's reign began in the worst possible fashion on Saturday when the Blue & Blacks went down to a shock 6-3 Celtic League defeat at home to Connacht.
Now they face a daunting trip to Neath - many people's tips for the league title - on Friday night.
Reflecting on his position, Joubert said: "There is pressure on all rugby coaches, but especially on the Cardiff coach.
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"It's perceived as the biggest club in Wales - the capital city club - and everybody wants to beat Cardiff.
"It's like their main game for the season.
"That puts a lot of pressure on everybody. But I enjoy that kind of pressure."
What Joubert wouldn't have enjoyed was hearing his side booed off the field at the Arms Park on Saturday.
"The crowd pays a lot of money to come to the game," he said.
"And they want to see Cardiff winning.
"Whether they boo is up to them.
"To be honest, I felt so terrible about the defeat and had so many things on my mind that I almost didn't recognise the booing.
"I was really upset about the loss. I didn't enjoy it all and nor did the players.
"It was terribly disappointing. I never thought that we could have lost the game.
"And after looking at the video, we shouldn't have.
"Obviously we went into the match with a lot of injuries and with a lot of young players in the team.
"There were only four players in the side that played regularly for Cardiff last year which tells you a little bit about the game.
"We didn't have a lot of time to prepare for it either.
"Saying that, we really shouldn't have lost.
"We made some bad mistakes which hopefully we have been setting right in training this week."
Looking ahead to Friday night's game at the Gnoll, Joubert said: "Lyn Jones (Neath coach) has got some nice pressure.
"He's been tipped to win by 70 points and I hope he has heard that story!"
Cardiff supporters have been advised to turn up early for the game because of a reduced capacity at the Gnoll.
The capacity is down from the usual 7,400 because the temporary stand which is normally sited opposite the main stand will not be in place for the game because cricket is still being played on the adjoining field.
Neath's rugby co-ordinator Julie Wicks said: "We would appeal to all supporters coming to the game on Friday to arrive early at the ground.
"We are anticipating a huge turnout and do not want to disappoint fans by delaying kick off or refusing entry.
"Tickets for all games can be purchased in advance from the club office during business hours."


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As anyone who has been following the news knows, UMass Amherst deal to acquire the Mount Ida College campus in Newton is drawing intense political heat.
As I wrote in a statement for the Newton-Needham Chamber, lost in all the noise is the fact that this proposal would be really good for growing jobs, the economy and entrepreneurship in Newton.
But there's an added reason why everyone in Newton should hope the UMass Amherst agreement stands. And that's because of what might happen to Mount Ida's 74-acre, wooded campus in Oak Hill.
The most likely scenario would be that the property goes into receivership. And if that happens the courts would control what happens next. Yes, the property could end up back on the tax rolls. But it also could end up being a housing development, or 40B, far larger than the eight houses at that had folks so up in arms at Carlson Woods.
For anyone who is thinking "We should just build commercial offices and generate buckets of new commercial tax revenue!," I recommend spending some time studying development trends. Employers and employees today don't want their offices located in isolated commercial office parks. They want to be in mixed-use areas with lots of housing, amenities and transit.
Now I'm a big proponent of building more housing. In fact, I think we have a moral imperative to help address our region-wide housing crisis. I also know that many businesses won't locate here unless we create more places for their workers to live.
But I'd rather see us build more housing at Riverside, on the Northland site, along a revitalized Washington Street where there's transportation option and solutions available.
The Mount Ida campus would be a fabulous place for UMass Amherst to train our next generation of entrepreneurs, scientists, teach workers and other innovators. (And I'm excited about their plans to offer continuing ed classes too.)
Doing so, will make the rest of Newton's commercial property more attractive to innovative companies and grow our city's commercial tax base.
And that's why you should hope the UMass Amherst plan moves forward.


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Missouri Naturist Families Coalition
PENDING TBD: Bonfire/Campout
We will be hosting a campout including bonfire soon. When the weather warms up somewhat and we can get everything arrange. Location will be announced to confirmed attendees only, but will be in the Cedar Hill Missouri area.
World Naked Bike Ride St Louis
Date, July 16, 2018 in Downtown St Louis
A fun event for those who enjoy riding as bare as you dare.


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Now this is for you guys that has explored the temple and just want to chill around Siem Reap. Nothing beats interaction with local when it comes to discover a particular destination. This tour is custom-made for those who want to discover the local culture and taste buds. Not too extreme as we won't let you eat bugs. SKIP your hotel breakfast and we will take you to the local restaurant to taste local's breakfast (Khmer Noodle Soup/ Chicken Rice/ Chicken Congee/ Ice Coffee with Milk).
After the breakfast, we will take you to the largest fresh market in Siem Reap called Phsar Leu. Venture around the market that has plenty of items including clothing, foods, fruits and local snacks. We will stop by a fresh fruit stall and pick a fruit of the season (Mangosteen/ Dragon Fruits/ Longan/ Rose Apple).
Proceed 5km out of the town to a tranquil restaurant overlooking the paddy field. We will do a local Cambodian style lunch on a woven mat sitting set up and also hammocks for you to relax. Experience the serenity of your surroundings and enjoy the traditional feasts (Grill Chicken with Honey/ Salt Baked Fish/ Beef Skewers/ Mango Salad). After the meal, time to devour the fresh fruits we bought from the market.
After the sumptuous meal, proceed to the Angkor Cookies, the snack boutiques that has collection of local snacks packed professionally (Optional). Visit the Old Market area for more shopping and souvenir hunting. End the tour with local street food snack, the Banana Pancake and Papaya Salad (spiciness level to be informing to your guide). Back to hotel with full stomach and relaxed all the way in your comfy bed.
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Today is the first day of 2019, and if you're reading this, you're probably considering a few firsts, yourself.
My name is Christie and I am a type 2 diabetic. I first discovered the Keto lifestyle just 6 short months ago. It started with a Tedx Talk at Purdue University by Dr Sarah Hallberg. I'll link it below. Dr. Hallberg is board certified in both obesity medicine and internal medicine and is the Medical Director of the Medically Supervised Weight Loss Program at IU Health Arnett – a program she created. She knows her stuff. She probably knows more than your local GP. And that is why I listened to her.
Science and education is important, ya'll.
So I watched her Tedx Talk and I told my life penguin, Paul, that I wanted to try this low carb, high fat thing for just 2 weeks and I explained why. He came on board and we committed to 2 weeks of no carbs starting June 26, 2018.
Everyone tells you to clean out your kitchen before you start. We didn't. We sort of needed that security blanket, at first, knowing that if it didn't pan out, we could easily transition back to our old ways. You know, the ones that weren't working. It felt safer this way.
I was immediately able to stop taking insulin. After the 2 week trial, we DID clean out our kitchen. Paul lost somewhere around 50 pounds over the next 4 months. I lost around 16 (being metabolically deranged takes some time to correct).
In October, we decided to take a trip back to our hometown. We also decided that it would be ok to go off keto for the trip, to eat some of the delicious food that we grew up with (the only thing to do in Huntington, WV is eat.) That was a giant mistake of epic proportions. We struggled to get back on track, but only the carbohydrate flood gates open, we couldn't shove them closed again. We also have a small business, mostly making Christmas ornaments, so October started the busiest time of the year for us.
Epic fail.
I decided that after Christmas, I would firmly recommit the way I committed back in June. I also decided that I would start a blog and a Facebook group and page to help keep me on track, while hopefully helping others.
I may occasionally recommend items that work for me, but I will NEVER try to sell you something. If you want to support my attempts to share information, click one of the ads that you see on this blog. It costs nothing, but it'll send a penny or two my way.
My next post will be a lot of background on me, because it's important to know who you're trusting. After that, I'll start with the most basic of basics: reading a nutrition label and what – exactly – are those macro things.
This was a lot words and no pictures. I'll do better next time. 🙂
Dr. Sarah Hallberg's Tedx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ


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Peerless Battle Spirit - Chapter 582
Chapter 582 - Battling the Tiger at the Dragon Abyss, A Great Crisis
The whole Emperor's Audience Hall was immersed in a dead silence.
It was as if Di Fengyun was unaware of the significance of the fact that the Skyhowl White Tiger had made a personal appearance at the Dragon Abyss Mystical Ground, as he burst out laughing instead, "Everyone, you are not mistaken, that is Master Skyhowl White Tiger! Well, not exactly, it's only his clone! Yao Ji happened to have a Tiger Martial Spirit, thus he could establish an altar using the Martial Spirit resonance, allowing him to summon the Skyhowl White Tiger's clone there!"
The words allowed the crowd of ministers to collect their thoughts, but the astonishment in their eyes showed no sign of dissipating.
Even if it was only a clone, it was more than enough!
Most importantly, this was only a duel between the royal kin. Was it even necessary to use such a tremendous method to summon the clone of the Skyhowl White Tiger?
Just to help the Second Prince acquire the title of the crown prince?
That was insane!
Di Fengyun's eyes flickered coldly.
Helping the Second Prince to become the crown prince was not the only reason he had come up with such a conspiracy. Most importantly, he was planning to murder Duan Qing, to get rid of Zhou Bihua's successor!
...Meanwhile, in the Dragon Abyss Mystical Ground, Heartbroken Cliff...
A giant white tiger stepped out from a rift in mid-air. Its bloody eyes were the size of water tanks, accompanied by a ferocious aura. Its fur was white as snow, and golden runes could be seen intertwining on his forehead, forming the character "王[1]".
Its appearance alone was incredibly imperious.
"That's the Skyhowl White Tiger! Hang on, that's its clone!"
Jiang Bilan wore a surprised look, a sign that she had not expected this to happen.
Qin Nan and the others were startled.
The Skyhowl White Tiger!
A presence that existed in the legends. Why was Yao Ji able to summon its clone here?
The cultivation of its clone was on par with the half-Martial Sacred Realm. As a matter of fact, its strength was even stronger than the half-Martial Sacred Realm!
Was it purposely sending its clone here to help the Second Prince acquire the title of crown prince?
"Master Skyhowl White Tiger, why did you send your clone here?"
The Dragon Abyss Tree soon recovered from the shock. As the protector of the Dragon Abyss Mystical Ground, it too had a formidable status, thus it was familiar with the presence of the Skyhowl White Tiger.
That being said, the location of the Dragon Abyss Mystical Ground was well hidden. Even an expert like the Skyhowl White Tiger would not be able to discover it, thus the Dragon Abyss Tree had never had any interactions with the Skyhowl White Tiger, the Blood-Winged Vermilion Bird, etc. It only obeyed the orders of the Sky-Scorching Emperor!
Soon after asking the question, the Dragon Abyss Tree realized something and yelled out, "Master Skyhowl White Tiger, your status is highly respected and your cultivation is outstanding, but it doesn't mean that you can break the rules! The trial of the Dragon Abyss Mystical Ground is a competition between the royal kin, you are not allowed to to interfere!"
"Is that so?"
The Skyhowl White Tiger in opened its mouth in the air, revealing its icy fangs.
The beasts residing in the lake surrounding the cliff uttered cries of terror after sensing the suppression.
Suddenly, the Skyhowl White Tiger made its move.
It raised its claw and slashed downward ferociously, which emitted a terrifying beam aiming at the peak of the Heartbroken Cliff.
Its sudden move took everyone by surprise!
"Master White Tiger, you're crossing the line!"
The Dragon Abyss Tree let out a roar as its branches interlaced, forming a giant purple barrier that emitted a mystical glow. It managed to nullify the attack, but the barrier was shattered into pieces by the attack as well.
The Skyhowl White Tiger landed a few hundred meters away from the Heartbroken Cliff.
Its eyes were glaring in Qin Nan's direction.
"White Tiger Blow!"
The Skyhowl White Tiger opened its bloody mouth and fired a white glow. Although it was only the size of a fist, the glow contained a tremendous murderous intent that felt like a meteorite crashing into the ground as it landed from above.
"White Tiger, you've gone too far!"
The Dragon Abyss Tree was infuriated. It had not expected the Skyhowl White Tiger to show itself here just to murder a young cultivator. It immediately exerted its force of the Martial Sacred Realm and fired it leaves, which transformed into a powerful gust that devoured the white glow.
The shockwave from the battle between the two half-Martial Sacred Realm presences was extremely unbelievable!
At that instant, as soon as the Dragon Abyss Tree got rid of the white glow, the Skyhowl White Tiger let out a hideous grin as its eyes fired eyes fired bloody beams.
The Dragon Abyss Tree was startled. It instantly reached out with its branches, but they all shattered after coming into contact with one of the beams.
The other beam was fired straight at Qin Nan at a terrifying pace.
The Dragon Abyss Tree was dumbfounded. It had underestimated the power of the beams!
However, it was too late for it to do anything! The bloody beam was too fast! It could only stare at it with wide open eyes.
"Duan Qing!"
The Third Prince, Longhu, and Jiang Bilan were astounded.
This Skyhowl White Tiger was specifically here for Duan Qing!
It was trying to kill him!
However, their strength was too weak. Facing the beam, it felt like they were a small raft in the midst of a raging ocean. They could be destroyed any second themselves, let alone save Qin Nan!
It was too quick! The beam was too fast!
In less than a breath's time, the beam had arrived above Qin Nan like a horrible calamity!
At that instant, Qin Nan could feel his soul trembling. It felt like the world before him was about to crumble, as he himself had transformed into a tiny little ant, which would be shattered into pieces by the attack!
...Meanwhile, at the Emperor's Audience Hall of the royal palace...
The crowd was stunned witnessing the move from the Skyhowl White Tiger.
The Skyhowl White Tiger was planning to kill Duan Qing!
They all collected their thoughts after seeing the Skyhowl White Tiger firing the bloody beams, which overwhelmed the Dragon Abyss Tree's defenses and arrived above Duan Qing's head.
It had been a conspiracy all along, one in which Di Fengyun which Di Fengyun had planned to eliminate Duan Qing!
Di Fengyun was extremely cruel in his plan, willing to summon the clone of the Skyhowl White Tiger, leaving no chance behind.
The crowd immediately shook their heads upon having this thought.
It did not matter now, as the outcome had been determined!
"Duan Qing is going to die!"
"What a pity, this kid was extraordinary. Who would have thought he would die so soon."
"There's no way he could survive this!"
The ministers took turns to speak, some wore gloating expressions while the others appeared to be sorry or unpleased.
As for Elder Wang, it felt like he had just been struck by lightning after witnessing the scene, causing his face to turn extremely pale.
It had all happened too quick, that Duan Qing was about to die before he could even react!
Duan Qing was dying...
The hope of their Vermilion Bird Platoon was gone!
Only Di Fengyun's grin grew even thicker as time passed by!
The reason he had gathered the crowd here was for them to witness how their White Tiger Platoon was going to kill Duan Qing, the successor of Zhou Bihua!
Once Duan Qing was dead, there was no longer any hope for the Vermilion Bird Platoon!
Once the Vermilion Bird Platoon lost their hope, it was only a matter of time until Di Fengyun wiped out the entire Vermilion Bird Platoon and acquired the Art of the Immortal Vermilion Bird from Zhou Bihua!
Translator: XephiZ
Editor: DOCuinn
[1] TL Note: The word '王' means king or emperor. I've put the Chinese character in just so it's easier to picture.


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(You may travel along on the previous leg of this journey by clicking here.)
I was about half-way back to the highway when I heard the crunching of tires on the gravel behind me. I turned to look. A large black sedan, '49 Buick four-holer, was slowly bearing down on me. I stepped off the lane and the car pulled up beside me. My hostess of a few minutes past rolled down her window and said, "We are going into Craig. Cecil and I have talked it over. We've decided you are okay. So get in." She did not have to ask me twice.
It was probably 130 or so miles to Craig and I slept most of the way. Soon enough, too soon, Cecil said, "Here we are, Laddie. We are dropping you here at the bus station. You need to decide how best to get home from here, and good luck to ya!" I roused myself and got out of the car. I thanked these kind people profusely. As the car pulled away, I was processing what Cecil had said. The car had barely turned the corner at the end of the block before I had made the decision that hitchhiking was going to end right here, right now.
I walked into the bus depot and requested time of departure for the next eastbound bus and bought a ticket to the Springs. I looked at the clock on the wall. It was not yet one-thirty. The bus did not leave until 7:10. I strolled down the street, found a small cafe. I had a burger and a cup of coffee. Afterward, I started to walk around the block, but had only turned the corner when I came to a movie house which was open. I bought a ticket and went inside to enjoy the
A bit after five o'clock I left the theater and went to the station where I sat and watched the people, both of them, until the bus from SLC arrived. I boarded the bus along with one other passenger and we were on our way home! The bus was an "express" bus to St. Louis, which basically meant that the only stop between Craig and Denver would be Steamboat Springs. Soon I was drowsing the miles away. Trailways dropped me at the Denver Terminal just before three in the morning. It would be 6:10 before the bus left for the Springs. I will not ask you to endure the excruciating agony of waiting in a bus depot for three hours, and only eighty miles from home.
The ride from Denver is a blur in my memory, but the arrival in the Springs is not. I hadn't seen Mama and Dad, I hadn't seen the sislings, in six months, and now I was home! Well, except for the walk to the house, which was less than a mile. It was probably quarter past nine when I stepped up onto the porch and rang the doorbell. Presently Mother opened the door, let out a Yelp! and slammed the door. And I was left standing on the outside. About a moment and a half passed, then the door swung open again and a very sheepish looking Mother welcomed me home.
Okay, so I weighed 165 when I left home; I now weighed 194. I had a four-day growth of stubble adorning my face. I probably had the hollow-eyed hangdog look of a bloodhound that had lost the scent. So Mother is excused. It was great to be home!
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