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by Rose Miyonga
Having a female body is exhausting, and today I feel really tired of being a brown woman.
Of being constantly policed, censored, judged, bullied and excluded – and that's just what I do to myself.
I'm not talking about what other people out there in the world and on the internet say and think and do to my body, I'm talking about what I do.
Even though I am aware of the way society controls the images that are sent to me, leaving me with the feeling that I will never be good enough or beautiful enough, I have internalised the messages so deeply that I can't help but believe that my body is somehow wrong as it is.
Even though I grew up with a mother who is very open about bodies and nudity- teaching me to look in the mirror and say out loud what I love about myself, I find it really hard to look at my naked body with anything like joy or kindness.
Even though I practice and preach yoga and meditation and self-love and body positivity, I find it almost impossible to inhabit my body unconditionally, without editing it or wishing parts of it away.
Even though I've always considered myself to be a kind person, I bully my body with my words and actions, punishing it for being only what it is.
Even though I've been lucky and never been diagnosed with an eating disorder, I can't help but see my body as a bulging collection of flaws and imperfections, and food as a way to punish or reward myself based on how near or far I feel from an imagined ideal to which I will never live up.
Even though I am aware that I am privileged and genetically lucky, that I am slender and able-bodied, I struggled not take these things for granted, and treat my body with cruelty and ingratitude.
Even though I want to be valued as writer, a creative and an intellectual, I sometimes place more value on my physical attributes than on the brain my body houses.
Even though I am a vegan for ethical and environmental reasons, I wonder if I would be so enthusiastic about observing a vegan diet if it had lead me to gain instead of lose weight.
Even though I know that everybody is uniquely beautiful and different, I can't help but compare myself (usually unfavourably) to every woman I encounter.
Even though I know am healthy and strong and young and beautiful, my inner monologue treats my body as if it were and inconvenience at best.
Even though years of therapy has given me a range of tools and skills to deal with my emotions, when I felt sad this afternoon, I sliced up a whole loaf of bread, slathered it in jam, and ate and ate until I couldn't feel anything but full.
Even as I write this, I'm thinking that I had a lot to eat at breakfast and maybe I should just have some fruit for lunch and then go for a run instead of working on the essay I have due next week. If go running, it won't be because of the tangible mental and physical benefits it may bring me, it will be to punish myself for eating my fill this morning after a ninety-minute yoga practice. My academic work, therefore, is directly suffering as a consequence of this toxic message that my body is not good enough as it is, and I know that I am not alone.
Or is it just me?
I could go on and on in this way, and I wonder if every woman feels this way, and what they do to resist it. I wonder if men feel this way, too; the ones I have spoken to about it don't seem to understand what I'm on about.
And then, I feel like a hypocrite and a fraud because I truly believe in the practice of self-love and compassion and presence and acceptance and non-judgement, but I spend so much time judging myself and finding myself wanting. And then I start to judge and hate myself for being a hypocrite, and then to judge myself for judging myself, and so on, adding brick upon brick to the wall that stands between me and self-love.
Only occasionally, maybe when I'm practising yoga or meditation or when I am dancing or writing or eating or having sex or sleeping, am I able to drop judgement and just enjoy being me in this body and this moment.
The rest of the time, most of the time, there's a war going on in my mind.
I have been in conflict with my body, and I am done. I'm waving the white flag and hugging it out, and I promise to try to not suck in when I look in the mirror.
I'm not sure how I am going to unpack all of this toxicity that has been built up in and around my body, but to start with, I am not feeding any cruel, untrue, judgemental thoughts about my body. When one comes, I notice it, and allow it to stay as long as it wants, but I try not fuel the fire. It's really hard, but sometimes I can go several hours in a row without any thoughts coming because it turns out if I don't pay them any attention, they don't really come so much. The toxic thoughts are reducing from a constant flood into a trickle.
I have also found myself wanting to wear less revealing clothing, as though I don't need the reassurance of external admiration of my body. At the same time, I have found myself wanting to dress up more and wear more makeup and adorn myself with jewellery, and dance and practice more yoga and meditation and celebrate being alive in my body, and I hope this continues.
It feels like my body and I are healing together, and if I keep at it and try to unlearn the lessons I was tricked into learning, maybe we can save out relationship.
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Featured image by Poppy Miyonga
by Rose Miyonga
The 2017 Golden Globes felt quite special to me.
It felt like the first time in a long while, if not ever, that there was some decent representation, that I could look at the list of people that the establishment had deemed "the best" in television and film, and see a more diverse range of people representing the many stories that touched us this year.
Representation matters! And, I don't just mean one token person who is not straight, white, male and able-bodied on a show written, produced and directed by a white male. What I mean is a plethora of people telling an array of stories in their diverse voices. What I mean is the use of the arts to expand collective consciousness and aid in dispelling the limited idea of normalcy.
I didn't grow up thinking that my family was strange; my gorgeous multi-cultural, multi-racial family was my first understanding of the world. I only became aware that the wider world seemed to have more restrictive views of what constituted the most inclusive values in the world: beauty, love, family, struggle…
At its best, television and film, like all the arts, can be a mirror into your soul, shining light on the deepest truths of human existence with love and compassion, inviting us to
contemplate who we are and where we find ourselves in the world. Television has always seemed especially amazing to me because you bring the stories and characters into your home, sometimes over a period of years or even decades.
It can engender intimacy and belonging, but at its worst, it can also encourage feelings of otherness and lacking, a feeling that people who look like you don't belong in the collective narrative or don't deserve a space to share their stories. I inhabited this realm for a long time, and only obtained self-love through hard-learning against the popularised lack of representation.
Self-love is really hard when you feel like an island; when it feels as though every message society sends is so foreign to yourself. I grew up in a society that didn't encourage my self-love, that subliminally, and sometimes explicitly, taught me that I was not enough and that I certainly would never be "the best".
My society taught me loathsome self-depreciation.
Television used to encourage the most negative feelings for me. But it is gradually becoming a source of delight, a place to go to feel understood and valued.
Some day Viola or Tracee or Thandie will win an award or nominated and it will just be about them.
I hope that day is near, the day when it won't be remarkable that someone who is colourful and unique and universal can be hailed as the best at what they do and that the next woman of colour to win a Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a comedy or musical television series will not have to wait until 2052.
I hope that my children, whatever their colour, gender identity, or ability will be able to hold the television up to their faces like a mirror and proudly see themselves reflected and represented in the most beautiful and honest light.
For now, their wins are still also our wins. They are part of the long-awaited slow-dawning collective realisation that we, too, represent the world.
by Rose Miyonga
Last week, TK was fortunate to have the sparkled voice of Tahmina Beghum of XXY magazine as she shared her experience of dual identity and frustrations with rigid concepts of personhood. This week, we are so excited for Rose Miyonga, one of our contributing editors to share with us her experiences the same subject.
-Oyin Akande
My mother is White British and my father is Black Kenyan.
My sisters, Poppy and Jasmine and I have had to explain what this means to people our whole life, so I have been aware of my racial identities for as long as I can remember.
During my early years, my family lived in Brixton. I don't remember my brown skin or my hair (usually in dreadlocks or cut short) being an issue. Of course, in my immediate family, it didn't matter.
I knew that my parents had different skin colours, just as I knew as they had different eye colours and that they loved my sister and me. It was just one thing that blended in with a whole host of other things that happened to be true about my family.
When I was six years old, our family moved to Kenya, and my sister and I were enrolled in a local school on the outskirts of Nairobi. The cracks in our 'deeply flawed' system of categorisation and classification of 'race' were clearly exposed when our race changed somewhere between Heathrow and Jomo Kenyatta Airport. Suddenly, without warning or consultation, we were white. To my Kenyan classmates, my skin was pale, my hair was soft, and I could see that relatively, I was more white than most of my friends on the school playground… It was a lesson in 'context'.
This is not to say that race and racism do not exist, as the realities that we have to battle with every day make them evidently tangible, but that race and racism were created and constructed as tools to justify slavery and subjugation; to divide and dehumanise.
I didn't fully understand how other people's perception of my skin tone would come to deeply affect me when I was six, but I had learned something important, and something that would repeat itself in various iterations over and over again:
As a teenager in rural England, my Blackness was constantly highlighted by my peers, and I was forced to grapple with it, accept it, and eventually fall in love with it, and when I spent two years at school in the U.S., I remember trying in vain to explain to some (not all) of the people I encountered that I was actually not just black.
I've given up explaining now (well, for the most part). Although my heritage does matter, I don't want my skin colour to define how I live my life. I can't control how I am perceived and treated by others, but I can control how I look at myself, and I choose to look at myself without judgment, to see my beauty without boundaries, and to love myself without limitations
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The Battle of Darcy Lane by Tara Altebrando (received finished copy from publisher at BEA14)
Month: January 2015
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books On My Backlist TBR List That I Totally Plan on Reading in 2015
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. The above photo was taken and altered by me.
Hello Readers!
Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is a freebie. That means that I can pick any topic I want. So I decided that today's topic would be the top ten books on my backlist TBR list that I totally plan on reading in 2015.
Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten
How to Be Bad by E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, & Lauren Myracle
The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June by Robin Benway
Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Looking for Alibrandi by Marlina Marchetta
The Keys to the Golden Firebird by Maureen Johnson
Stealing Heaven
Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten 2014 Releases That I Meant to Read but Didn't
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. The above image was taken and altered by me.
Hello Readers!
It's been quite some time I posted one of these. Seriously, I don't even remember the last Top Ten Tuesday post I posted!
There were a lot of books I planned on reading in 2014. But unfortunately I never got around to reading them. Why? I'm not really certain why I didn't get around to these 2014 releases. Maybe it was because I hit quite a few reading slumps. Maybe it was because I wasn't in the mood to read that specific book. Or maybe it was because I didn't read the book that was released before it.
Whatever the reason is, I'm hoping to read some, if not all, of these books in 2015.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Something Real by Heather Demetrios
Are You Up For The Challenge?!?
Hello Readers!
It's a new year! And you know what that means, right? Not only does it mean new books, but it also means a new reading challenge. Whether it's a challenge you set up for yourself or a challenge hosted by an outside source, a challenge is a challenge.
And this year, there are quite a few challenges floating around. For instance, Goodreads (for those of you who don't know Goodreads is a social networking site dedicated to books and all their readers) allows all users to deem how many books they are going to read and set their own challenge. Besides that, a lot of great bloggers are hosting their own reading challenges that you can join in on.
Beyond Goodreads, like mentioned above, there are blogs aplenty hosting challenges. Sara from What Sarah Read and Kate from Literary Kate are teaming up with Epic Reads and hosting their own challenge called the 365 Days of YA. Basically, Epic Reads created this nifty and very handy graphic detailing 365 great books! The graphic and challenge have been broken down by season, monthly, weekly, and even daily reads. But because of that, it makes this challenge all the more customizable to what you are the person partaking in the challenge wants!
Now if you are into fantasy you may be interested in the challenge that Alexa from Alexa Loves Books and Rachel from Hello, Chelly are hosting called Flights of Fantasy. Again, this is a challenge that is super customizable. It's a year long challenge that dares it's participants as many fantasy novels as you deem fit!
Besides these awesome challenges, there are other challenges out there to help you readers add more diverse reads into your reading world. Dive Into Diversity is a challenge hosted by two blogs – Reading Wishes and Rather Be Reading – which urges participants to, not only read diverse book through the year, but also to talk about these books.
All great challenges right?! So why am I not signing up for any of these?
Well the answer is quite simple. As the new year was rung in I sat back and thought about the last reading year. I read a lot of great books, but I hit a one too many reading bumps. Or rather, slumps. I put a lot of pressure on myself to read faster and to read more. But what I realized while I was trying to read faster and read more was that I was still putting off all the books I've wanted to read for a very long time.
So I set up my own challenge.
I challenged myself to not only put as much reading pressure on myself, but I promised myself I would get to as many backlist TBR books. And because of this, that is why I've committed myself to read four books per month, and with that, an array of books. If you wan to know more about that you can check out my post here.
Believe me readers, I really do want to participate in one of the many challenges out there. But what I want more, is to focus on the challenges I set for myself.
I want to wish all of you who are participating in reading challenges – whether their own or hosted by someone else – much success. With that, I hope you year ahead in books is a great one.
Reading Challenge Update: January Edition
Hello Readers!
At the beginning of the month I shared with you my reading goals for the month of January. To recap I said I was going to read the following:
1. Read one New-ish Book: My True Love Gave to Me Edited by Stephanie Perkins
2. Read one ARC(Advanced Readers Copy): The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
3. Read one Audiobook: The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
4. Read one backlist TBR Title: Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
Now that January is almost halfway over, I figured it was about time I give you guys an update.
Even though I am truly loving the collection of short stories that Stephanie Perkins edited, I have yet to finish it. At this point I have only 2 short stories left! So close, yet so far. You're wondering why I haven't finished this book yet?! I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I don't do well with short story collections. And the reason why I don't do will with them is because I tend to lose steam. Not interest, steam. And I think I lose steam simply because I am not a short story reader, therefore I am not used to them. Even though it's taking some time I will finish My True Love Gave to Me! Not only because I'm determined, but because I'm absolutely loving it. It's extremely difficult for me to tell you which story is my favorite, as they've all been great for different reasons. Even though I haven't finished I can honestly say it's going to be a holiday favorite for years and years to come!
I did start the audiobook edition of Maggie Stiefvater's The Dream Thieves. But to be honest I started this one a few months back. The problem was I started and never finished. I know, that's terrible. I just re-started this audiobook a few days ago, so I'm just a chapter two or so. And this time I fully intend on finishing it.
Going into this month's reading challenge I took a look at my shelves and my Kindle bookshelf and seriously thought. I thought about what book has been lingering on my TBR list for quite a while. I decided that Stealing Heaven written by author Elizabeth Scott was the winner. I read this one on my Kindle, and I read it in only a few short days. I really enjoyed this one – enjoyed it more than I had expected to. It made me wonder exactly why I waited so long to read it. It was extremely readable, the plot, though admittedly a wee bit predictable, was unique and refreshing, and the characters were memorable. But that's all I'm going to say because a review is coming.
So that leaves the ARC of Holly Black's upcoming The Darkest Part of the Forest. I had real intentions to read this book this month. Why? Because Holly Black is doing a few appearances in my area and I fully intend on being in the audience. But I'm not going to get to this one this month. And there's a legit reason why. But I'm not one hundred percent certain I can share that reason here on the blog … just yet (stay tuned). The bottom line is I'm going to have to push this one back…sadly 😦
So that's all I have for you readers. Have you met any of your monthly goals yet? If so, please share! And Happy Reading!
I Mustache You Some Questions: Fun Facts About Me … The BookBandit!
Tag! I'm it!
Yes, fellow blogger and in real life BFF Miss Print tagged me in the I Mustache You Some Questions meme. So before you get to know me, I just want to say THANKS to Miss Print for tagging me. And if you want to check out Emma's post, you can do so by clicking … here!
Four names that people call me (other than my real name:
1. Coley
2. Nic
3. Miss Nicole
4. Key (don't ask)
Four jobs I have had:
1. Sales associate at Duane Read
2. Member Service Representative at a financial institution.
3. Librarian
4. I wasn't paid for this … but I ran my own indie/diy music zine! It was a job I took very seriously … seriously.
Four Movies I Would/Have watched more than once:
1. You've Got Mail
2. Alice In Wonderland
3. The Sound of Music
4. Forest Gump
Four Books I'd Recommend:
1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Dreamland Social Club by Tara Altebrando
3. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
4. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Four places I have lived:
1. New Jersey
2. Virginia
3. New Jersey
4. New Jersey
Four places I have been:
1. London
2. Arizona
3. California
4. Louisiana
Four places I would rather be right now:
I'm content exactly where I am.
Four things I don't eat:
1. Red Meat
2. Brussel Sprouts
3. Cherry Pie
4. Raw Fish (I'm not even that fond of cooked fish)
Four of my favorite foods:
1. Potatoes (of any kind)
2. Chicken Noodle Soup
3. Pasta
4. My grandma's chocolate cake
Four TV shows I watch:
1. Big Bang Theory
2. Modern Family
3. Chopped
4. Repeats of The Golden Girls
Four things I am looking forward to this year:
1. My birthday in March
3. My friends wedding(!!!)
4. Trip to Italy
Four things I'm always saying:
1. You get what you get, and you don't get upset.
2. Is there any mail for me?
3. Awesome
4. Really?!
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It's Fleet Week in New York and, like most New Yorkers, I love seeing scores of sailors in bright white exploring the city, and not just because this blog takes its name from "On the Town," the underrated musical about three U.S. Navy sailors who find love and excitement while on the loose in New York.
My favorite staples of Fleet Week, in no particular order:
- The requisite photos in the local papers of sailors in full uniform with Times Square mainstays like the Naked Cowboy (yesterday The New York Times had some guys with the Naked Cowgirl on their front page).
- The Fleet Week sailors on the morning shows. (Friday morning they were on pretty much every channel, and on Saturday The Today Show will feature Navy vs. Marines tug of war.)
- The large group of uniformed sailors at the Mets game (or Yankees game). I love the big applause they always get from the rest of crowd almost as much as I love the chants and cheers they do when one of their own throws out the first pitch, or gets shown on the big screen. It's too bad they can't do it this year, because the Mets were out of town and the Yankees are just too damned expensive.
- The jokes about Fleet Week on late night television. Highlights of Letterman's "Top Ten Things I've Learned During Fleet Week In New York City" last night include "Katz's Deli has knishes that'll make you plotz" and "I spent a month's pay on Yankee tickets."


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It looks like other systems are solving the issue of fake clicks, specifically ones that come occur because SPAM filters click every link to make sure none are malicious.
There is already an idea asking for this functionality: https://nation.marketo.com/ideas/7095#comment-35229
There are a few discussions that can help you identify if a click is real or fake: Bot or Not? – Are you suffering from 'bot clicks'? Fake clicks followed by fake web visits Spam filters registering clicks?
This discussion is to generate ideas for how we (or engineers!!) can identify fake clicks to remove them from reporting. Things like...if you get an open or a click (or multiple clicks) before the email is delivered...it implies something!
Amy Goldfine recommended all links clicked in the same minute be excluded - no human does that. Or excluding certain links like the header. (Christina here - why do we link the header if no one clicks it?!)
Brooke Bartos pointed out that clicking every social link never happens IRL. Too true.
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An email from Anne Duncan in Australia came with a whole bunch of vintage photos that will always be treasured, especially by me. Why? They were photos of me! I would never have seen these pictures if not for this blog. Thank you Anne.
Here they are:-
|Picture taken outside PEES gate beside the school fence.
L-R: (front) June Moss, Stephenie Tann, Anne Moss, Betty Lee
(back) Me, Junior Moss, Ian Hogan
|This photo would have been taken around 1960.
L-R: Me, Ian Hogan, Gerrard Moss (Junior)
Ian was younger than me but I was always bullied by him!
|The 4 Princesses - Anne, Betty, Steph & June
|The Kindergarten at the old Community Centre. (Blk 16 shophouse)
|On the left, Ian Moss & Glen Hogan.
(If you recognise any of these children, do email me.)
|Anne & June in front of my house (#126, right)
They lived at the unit above me (#126A).
In the background, PEE School and the hill where Bamboo Grove Park
and Popular Estates would later be built.
|PEES Sports Day 1960 at the school field.
Sportsmaster Mr Venugoplan standing on the left (in white).
Anne waiting for her turn in the relay race standing beside Miss Pat Ortega.
This is the group photo of parents and teachers taken at Princess Elizabeth Estate School with Mr M. Ponnusamy, the 1st Principal of PEES (centre, in white).
There's a bunch of other photos as well and I will be using these in some articles that I will be writing soon. Check back again soon for these!


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We no longer approve credit proposals to finance development of new oil palm plantations in peat lands."Pekanbaru (ANTARA News) - The countrys largest lender PT Bank Mandiri has decided not to extend new credits for investors to open oil palm plantation in peat lands.
"We no longer approve credit proposals to finance development of new oil palm plantations in peat lands," head of the Pekanbaru branch of the state bank, Agus Sanjaya, said at a palm oil discussion here on Tuesday.
The bank will also be strict in providing credit only for oil palm plantations over land which already has the status of right to cultivation land use (HGU), Agus said.
The policy is in response to negative environmental issue against oil palm companies and falling prices of the commodity lately, he said.
Agus did not rule out the possibility that the state bank would lose big clients in Riau as peat lands make up most of the lands in that province.
Riau is one of the largest provinces having the widest oil palm plantations in the country, which is the worlds largest palm oil producer and exporter.
Bank Mandiri will turn to a number of other sectors for credit expansion, he said, adding the people of Riau should not concentrate too much on palm oil related business.
"We will turn to health, educational, construction, infrastructure, downstream oil and gas , communications and trade sectors for credit expansion," he said.
However, the bank still considers the palm oil sector as the most potential for credit expansion, he said.
Oil palm plantations accounted for 10.5 percent of the banks credit target of around Rp700 trillion in 2015. In Riau alone 60=70 percent of the banks total credits were for palm oil sector.
"We still see significant profit in that sector despite the tightened credit policy," he said.
He said the shrinking price of palm oil caused only slight decline in the credit quality of the bank in Riau, "only around 1 percent of the total credit extended in 2015."
He said the level is still considered safe as it is still within the coverage of the provision fund paid by borrowers before disbursement.
"The provision fund was still larger than non performing loans," he said.
Falling price of palm oil was not the main contributor to the NPL, but it is attributable mainly to mismanagement of the loan fund by the borrowers, he said.
"Our worries are caused more by debtors miss management," he said, citing "credit , which was proposed for the purchase of fresh fruit bunches of oil palms, was used for other purposes."
Meanwhile, chief researcher from a research institute of the University of Riau Prof. Dr. Almasdi Syahza, said it is time for Bank Mandiri to provide credits to encourage development of downstream palm oil industry.
Development of downstream palm oil industry is almost stagnant in Riau which has 3 million hectares of oil palm plantations, the professor said.
"Bank Mandiri should give priority to financing downstream sector of the palm oil industry . The business potential in that sector is high," he said.


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Keeping Up To Date With UK Health And Safety
Following news and events in your industry will help you keep your health and safety policies and risk assessments up to date. You can access HSE news in the way that suits you best.
- RSS news feeds to your computer or mobile.
Where can you go for help?
We've organised our website by industry and topic to help you find what's relevant to you.
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Keaumoku Louis was born on January 14, 1888.
We lost him at the age of 95, in March of 1983.
He has been known as Albert Ke'eaumoku Louis, and Louis Ke'eaumoku Amoy.
In any event, when he reached the mainland, he changed his name from Ke'eaumoku to Keaumoku by dropping an 'E' to make it easier for mainlanders to pronounce.
In Los Angeles, he was one of the 1st artists to record electronically in 1925 for Victor Records rather than with the previous horn-to-stylus method.
So we'll dive into our 78rpm records archives to hear some of his classic recordings.
Today, almost 90 years later, we'll share this classic music.
This week's playlist:
1- Wai Punalau – Keaumoku Louis
2- Ku'u Home – Keaumoku Louis
3- Na Lei O Hawaii – Keaumoku Louis
4- Good-Bye Honolulu – Keaumoku Louis
5- Lei Awapuhi – Keaumoku Louis
6- Penei No - Keaumoku Louis
7- White Birds – Hawaiian Orchestra
8- Wahine U'i - Keaumoku Louis
9- Ua Like No A Like - Keaumoku Louis & Kathryn Wentz
10- Na Lani Eha - Keaumoku Louis
11- Don't Play Aloha When I Go - Keaumoku Louis
Length: 55:56
Released on: 05-12-2017
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Ke'eaumoku A. Lewis
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Graydancer goes all literate with an interview with author Pablo Greene. His new book "How to Kill a Superhero" is like a cross between Laura Antoniou and Dan Brown, with hair-raising chases, hot man-on-superhero lovin', and BONDAGE! This podcast is cleverly divided into "non-spoiler" and "spoiler" sections, so if you haven't read the book, you'll know when to stop listening.
At the end of the podcast, Gray mistakenly says that you can buy the book via HowToKillASuperHero.com. The link is actually HowToKillASuperHero.net, and you can not only buy the book, you can read the first chapter free, check out Pablo's tumblr, as well accessing other resources like this cosplay guide.
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Pablo also gave ropecast listeners access to a bonus story: "High and Tight." Download it, read it, and spread the SuperHero Kink! Be sure to stop and say hi to Pablo at International Mr. Leather in Chicago as well, where he'll be at an author's book signing!


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At a time when I was struggling with weight gain, I decided to radically change my diet. But I didn't want to eat healthy food just for the sake of it being healthy; I still wanted to experience the full flavours of the meals I prepared. Using quality ingredients and preparing my own meals really changed things for me. I knew what I was eating was healthier because I knew what was used in preparing them, and it took less time to prepare a healthy, delicious meal from scratch than it did to order out or go to a restaurant. I benefitted in more ways than one.
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As you might expect, I'm also passionate about exercising and staying fit. Persevering with a workout regimen, as well as my change in diet, helped me go from a Size 40 to a Size 32 in just six months in 2002. Keeping that weight off now is easy with regular exercise, and I still get to enjoy great tasting meals. I enjoy travelling and am thankful to have had the opportunity to travel extensively with my family so we are rarely apart.
During my free time, I read a great deal and am constantly on the lookout for ways to improve Qualifirst, researching the internet for new trends and technologies. My values are closely concentrated on family, duty, work and ethics and Qualifirst has helped me combine all of those facets together for a truly enjoyable way of living.
I first met Yves Farges during a chance encounter at a Toronto restaurant in 1985. I was working as a busboy during my first year of school at the University of Toronto. A snow storm had attracted the full attention of the other restaurant workers to the window, and Yves noticed that I was the only one who persisted to work. We formed a lasting friendship and in 1987, I began doing weekly deliveries for Qualifirst, then still in its infancy.
After working my way through school as a busboy, paper carrier, line cook, gate guard and entrepreneurial painter, among others, I began working full-time for Qualifirst as a Sales Rep in 1988. I finished my last few credits at U of T during that time by taking night classes and received a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
On the recommendation of Yves, I went to work for Club Med for a season in 1991. There, in Guadeloupe, I met my wife, Brigitte, who was from France and working there for the season as a nurse. I came back to Qualifirst as the Junior Operations Manager in 1992 and married Brigitte in August of 1993 after numerous trips between Montpellier and Toronto. In September of that year, I was promoted to Operations Manager and have served as President of Qualifirst since 2008.
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In this episode, I talk to Joel Glovier. Joel is a user experience designer and front end developer currently working full time for appendTo, where he was recently part of the TIME.com responsive redesign and Zumba.com redesign, among other cool projects. He also does lots of other fun side projects like remotejobs.io, devte.es, and userbase.io. He has been working remotely in some form or fashion since 2007.
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00:39 – Introduction
01:27 – Working Remotely
04:23 – appendTo
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08:53 – Transitioning into Remote Work
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10:39 – Time Structure
12:35 – Joel's Side Projects
14:18 – Remote Jobs
17:17 – Advice for Future Remote Workers
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An outgrowth of the success of Leadership Sumner is the development of the youth program. Sophomore through senior high school students that are potential community and business leaders are selected in a process similar to the adult program.
Participants in the youth program are identified by their high school's faculty and administration and are encouraged to apply in early spring. The students travel the county in a chartered bus and visit many business, civic and historic sites, asking questions, sharing insights and discussing what they are observing. This mini-tour is a first-hand experience for these students and serves as an impetus for their continuing commitment to community service.
Thanks to support of the Adult Program and community sponsors, the participation costs for all selected students are fully covered by scholarships.
Starting this past academic year, we have an agreement with Dr. Del Phillips and the Sumner County Schools to operate with a once a month release from class.
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The 11 to 15-year-old riders of the junior class are no longer beginners. These are future champions fighting for victory, no matter if it is the for a National Championship or a local qualifier. In this scene, the new and improved KTM 85 SX is considered a winner's bike. With the most powerful engine in the field and a super lightweight, stable chassis, it does not need to shy away from a full size bike.
Bodywork and Graphics
BODYWORK & GRAPHICS: The bodywork on the 2019 KTM 85 SX was designed to have the same touch points and overall feeling as the full size SX range. This similarity in bodywork is great preparation for an 85 cc rider's imminent move to the bigger bikes of pro-level motocross, making the transition as seamless as possible. KTM factory riders, KTM R&D and Kiska Design all contributed to achieving the goal of complete harmony between rider and bike. These contact points allow maximum freedom of movement and improved agility. The front and rear fenders have an I-beam structure, which are prime examples of the intelligent design that produces maximum stability with the lowest possible weight. The bodywork is fittingly finished off with aggressive, modern graphics, leaving the competition in no doubt of a rider's race-winning intentions.
DECALS: The 2019 SX models feature the latest in-mold graphics, matching the factory-look orange frames and new bodywork perfectly. They have a fast and aggressive style that screams READY TO RACE, leaving no doubt as to the bikes' high-performance intentions.
CHASSIS: For the 85cc, KTM has successfully developed a chassis that not only handles the hard charging brutality of a 15-year-old, but also effectively accommodates a lightweight newcomer to the class. This is effectively achieved through its lightweight, high-tech steel frame. It has optimized flex characteristics that provide a great feeling for the rider and help to soak up those big hits, while also delivering excellent agility and high-speed stability. Every element is designed to work in perfect harmony and contributes to an intuitive ride like no other.
FRAME: The frame on the KTM 85 SX is a scaled down version of the championship-proven full-size frames. It is professionally crafted using hydro formed Chromium Molybdenum steel tubes that are robot welded, ensuring the highest levels of consistent quality. The flex characteristics have been specifically tailored for easy handling and optimal comfort, while working in perfect harmony with the suspension, to ensure excellent agility and high-speed stability. The frame also features "no-dirt" footpegs which have a simple but effective self-cleaning system that ensures the footpegs return to their original position, providing complete control in all conditions. For 2019, the frames feature the same highly durable orange powder coating as the KTM Factory Machines and come with standard frame protectors.
SUBFRAME: Made from lightweight aluminum, the new subframe features a shorter and more compact profile. It is now 75mm shorter and 0.2kg lighter, which not only contributes to the overall weight reduction but also improves mass centralization.
WHEELS: Black Excel rims and CNC-machined hubs ensure the strongest base of forward momentum on the KTM 85 SX. Maxxis tires have been fitted to deliver exceptional straight-line stability and excellent traction on a wide variety of terrain, ensuring the power ends up where it is intended – on the ground.
FRONT SUSPENSION: The KTM 85 SX front fork features the same suspension technology found in the full-size motocross range. The WP AER 43 consists of a split fork design with a capsuled air spring in the left leg and the trusted oil damping system in the right leg. It offers a significant improvement in suspension performance with a massive 1.0 kg reduction in weight over conventional spring forks. Importantly, the preload adjustment is extremely simple and can be done by using the single air pressure valve and supplied air pump. The design also allows for easy access to compression and rebound clickers.
REAR SUSPENSION: The KTM 85 SX features a WP Xplor PDS (Progressive Damping System) rear shock absorber. The design offers a high progression rate and excellent response. It provides the wheel with a total of 305 mm of travel and is fully adjustable for preload, compression and rebound.
BRAKES: The Formula braking system with radial calipers – four pistons in front, two in the rear – with lightweight wave brake discs – front 240mm diameter, rear 210mm – are the ultimate in terms of controlled action and braking performance.
AIRBOX: What is good for the bigger KTM off-road bikes cannot be bad for the 85 SX: an air filter change can be done within seconds without tools.
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ENGINE & EXHAUST: It took the highest levels of ingenuity to fit the race-winning formula of KTM's bigger 2-strokes into a compact 85 cc engine. A special manufacturing process is used and provides impressive weight savings without sacrificing strength or durability. The super compact power plant is fitted with a 6-speed gear box and delivers class-leading power and rideability throughout the entire rev range. The power valve plays a key role in tailoring power delivery to suit track conditions and rider ability, making sure the only rider surprised by the incredible performance is the competition.
CYLINDER: The cylinder on the 2019 model has a bore and stroke of 47/48.95 mm. It features a sophisticated power valve system, which controls both the exhaust valve and the sub exhaust ports, giving the bike excellent torque, power and power delivery. This translates to significant midrange performance, reducing the need to overwork the clutch in loamy or sandy conditions. An adjuster screw allows the opening time of the power valve to be adjusted to suit rider preference and track conditions. Further refinement can be made by changing between different power valve springs (available in the KTM PowerParts catalogue), which adjusts the rate at which the power valve opens, making the power hit harder or smoother, depending on preference.
CRANKCASES AND ENGINE COVERS: The crankcases are manufactured using a high pressure die-cast production process, keeping wall thickness to a minimum while retaining strength and durability. The design of the cases is very compact and aims at positioning the shaft arrangements as close as possible to the center of gravity, contributing to better handling.
TRANSMISSION: The 85 SX features a light and robust 6-speed gearbox. The gear ratios have been developed to perfectly match the characteristics of the engine, while easy and precise shifting allows the rider to select the next gear quickly and confidently. Another highlight of the 85 SX transmission is the no dirt gear shifter. Similar to the footpeg design, it prevents the build-up of dirt and ensures the next gear is always available, no matter what the conditions.
IGNITION: All 2-stroke models feature a new CDI control unit with an advanced hardware which improves the starting behavior of the engine. The ignition curves remain unchanged.
CLUTCH: The hydraulic clutch mechanism by Formula ensures an easy clutch action and well-defined modulation on the KTM 85 SX. Replacing the previous coil spring design, the KTM 85 SX features a new diaphragm spring clutch. The new design is 0.4kg lighter, more compact and also benefits from added durability.
CRANKSHAFT: The KTM 85 SX features a lightweight crankshaft with optimized balancing for reduced vibration and oscillating mass. As light as the crankshaft is, the rotational inertia has not been compromised, ensuring maximum torque and revs, as well as easy ride-ability.
COOLING: A constant temperature balance for consistent, high performance is ensured by an intelligent cooling circuit with integrated crankcase cooling and two radiators. It routes the coolant from the cylinder head through the frame triangle, directly to aluminum radiators made by WP. Thanks to flow optimized internal circulation and CFD-calculated ventilation, the system is superbly efficient. In addition, new radiator protections improve heat dissipation. Especially in the mud. They are also integrated into the front part of the shrouds to protect the radiators in a crash.
EXHAUST: The exhaust system has been designed to perfectly match the engine's power characteristics and contributes to the outstanding all-round performance and ride-ability. The header pipe is using a 3-dimensional stamping process. Once the components have been shaped, they are robot welded to ensure the highest level of quality, consistency and durability. The lightweight and compact silencer guarantees that sweet 2-stroke sound and falls safely within the FIM noise limits.
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ERGONOMICS & COMFORT: 85cc riders come in all shapes and sizes and require intelligent motorcycle design to deal with their wide range of dynamics. For optimal high-performance ergonomics, KTM used the proven design of the big bike range on the KTM 85 SX. The goal was to provide a neutral riding position that, together with perfectly shaped bodywork, offers the best rider comfort and maneuverability. A rider's main interaction with the motorcycle comes through the seat, footpegs and handlebars, which is why KTM has used the best quality parts in these areas. The placement of these crucial contact points is also vitally important for balance and control and, through various handlebar position options, can be adjusted to suit a rider's preference. This ensures the optimal riding position for race-winning performance.
HANDLEBAR: The KTM 85 SX has a super strong, tapered handlebar made of high-quality aluminum alloy with a bend that's perfect for motocross requirements. They get a new throttle assembly that allows for easy free play adjustment. ODI lock-on grips on the left side make grip changes easy and do not require any wire or glue to be secured.
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SOFTWARE & ELECTRONICS: Absolute performance purity is the name of the game when it comes to electronics and the new KTM 85 SX. Undiluted 2-stroke simplicity with an hour meter to keep a check on how long you've been shredding and an optional rev counter to assist with perfect setup.
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My background is in development and humanitarian work across the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I currently lead our urban programming globally.
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Andrew Morley became President of World Vision International in early 2019, having been Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Collaboration Office
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Bisi Ezekoye was positioning himself in the blocks for the 55-meter dash finals at the Maryland 3A State Championship. He glanced up for a moment to see every person in the field house on their feet, staring intently in his direction. He knew very well that the spectators were seeing right past him to the runner immediately to his left, Devon Smith of Westlake High School, who was advertised to be making an attempt on the national record. Anticipating that something special was about to happen, he had butterflies in his stomach. A part of him wanted to see Smith take down the record right in front of him, but he had goals of his own and knew what he had to do.
When the gun fired, Smith was immediately three steps ahead of everyone else and went on to win in 6.37, well short of the national record. Ezekoye got out of the blocks poorly and fell to the back. He finished a disappointing fifth in 6.62.
As he slowly walked back to the stands, his teammate Eddie Kamara pulled him aside and told him to hold his head up. Kamara reminded him that it wasn't the end of the road, and that he just finished out the indoor season as the 55-meter county and region champion as a junior. With that in mind, Ezekoye brushed off what he felt was a disappointing performance and turned his attention to the future.
Only a junior, Ezekoye is hoping to start off the outdoor season where he left off the indoor season. That means he will have a target placed on his back by those who want to dethrone him as the fastest man in Montgomery County. But to most local track and field fans, Bisi Ezekoye is just the name of somebody who caught everyone off guard this season. Many may be wondering who he is and where he came from.
Ezekoye is now at his third high school in three years. He originally enrolled at Plum High School in a suburb just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Having played football since he was four years old, he naturally joined the freshman football team at his high school. He was soon moved up to the junior varsity squad.
The high school track coach was a junior high school teacher who knew that Ezekoye was always one of the most athletic kids for his age. The coach suggested he give track a try.
Running track for the first time, he started off running the 200-meter dash indoors and was running on the varsity 4x200-meter relay right away. When outdoor track came around, he ran his first time trial in the 100-meter dash, clocking a hand-timed time of 11.4 in less than ideal conditions. That time trial was eye-opening to him because he knew the time was pretty quick and was surprised he had that in him.
He did not lose to anyone in district-level competition as a freshman and ended the season with a personal best time of 11.37 (FAT) in the 100.
That summer, he and his family decided he should transfer to Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, PA. Central Catholic has a reputation for having the very best academics and athletics around, and they felt that it would be the best place for him to get an education and graduate from. Unfortunately for him, Plum High School contested the transfer, claiming that he was transferring solely for athletic reasons, which is not allowed in Pennsylvania. This argument dragged on for months while he was forced to sit out the football season. In November, there was a hearing which deemed him eligible to participate in sports at Central Catholic.
One of his first experiences competing for Central Catholic was a hand-timed 55-meter dash where he was clocked in at 6.4. It was another eye-opening experience for him. He was beginning to realize his potential as a star track athlete.
He enjoyed his time at Central Catholic, saying that his team was "pretty stacked that year." He contributed to the team by winning several races and ended the outdoor season by placing 11th at the state meet in the 100-meter dash with a personal best time of 11.03.
That next summer, he worked out with the Central Catholic football team, fully intending to play for them in the fall. It was not until early August that he realized that his father would make a career move that would bring him and his family to the Washington D.C. area.
Initially, he attempted to enroll in a DC area Catholic school for the same reasons that he was attracted to Central Catholic in Pittsburgh. He had a desire to go to a school with the best possible academics and athletics, and he would have liked some Catholic influence in his education since his family is devoutly Catholic. Attempting to enroll at Good Counsel and DeMatha proved futile since early August was well past the enrollment deadline for those schools. His family was then attracted to Montgomery County and ultimately Kennedy High School where they felt he would receive a sufficient education.
He joined Kennedy's football team where he says things were pretty bad in the sense that their team had a final record of 2-8, but he still had some fun. At 6-foot, 179 pounds, he was at first the runningback and then was moved to quarterback. He made several big plays including a 99-yard touchdown run and an 84-yard touchdown run.
When track season rolled around, Ezekoye didn't know what to expect from competition in Maryland. He made goals based on time and just jumped right in.
At the Montgomery Invitational in January, he ran 6.67 in the prelims of the 55-meter dash. He was disappointed with the time and was shocked when he learned that he made the finals. In the finals, only three other athletes from Montgomery County were lined up adjacent to him and one was disqualified due to a false start. Avery Graham beat him convincingly, but he finished as the second athlete from Montgomery County in the race and began thinking that just maybe he could go after the individual county title.
He was bothered by a hamstring injury after the prelims of the 55-meter dash at the Montgomery County Championship Meet, but he qualified for the finals, stretched out the hamstring, and lined up to run the finals. He knew who Graham was at that point and knew that everyone in the field house expected Graham to dominate, but he ran his best and ended up winning in a personal best time of 6.53. He thought to himself: "Cool!"
Ezekoye went on to win the 55-meter regional title and place fifth at the state championship.
Outdoor track has now begun and Ezekoye is training to increase his endurance to be a more versatile athlete. In addition to the 100- and 200-meter dashes, he hopes to run some nice 400's and do the long jump. He has never seriously done the long jump or 400, but he believes he may be able to shock some people, particularly in the 400.
He has received some attention from college football recruiters and may soon receive some attention from college track coaches, too. When people ask him which route he is thinking about taking in the future, he responds that he just wants to get an education, and if football or track get him a free education, that will be the path he takes.
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In occasion of the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Zuecca Projects is proud to present "Sundoor at World's End", an exhibition by the American artist Slater B. Bradley. The exhibition will be hosted at La Maddalena (Church of Mary Magdalene) in Venice, from May 11th to November 26th 2017, and is curated by Alessandro Possati and Don Gianmatteo Caputo.
Since 2015, Bradley has created a body of framed abstract paintings he calls "Solar Shields". Using a gold marker, the artist covers each Shield with tens of thousands of marks, line by line, thereby imbuing his energy into the Shield. The paint of the marker forges with the photographic image that forms the ground of each work. The root images function as visual recordings sourced from journeys focusing on the metaphysics of spiritual ascension undertaken by the artist. Hidden completely by the artist's hand or left partially uncovered revealing location fragments and compositional details, the Shields transmute into an etheric gold energy field, evoking electromagnetic waves, spiritual waters and inner auric light.
The "Shield" series link material and spiritual dimensions. For Bradley: "The 'Shields' are sized in the Golden Ratio and playing with numerological codes and patterns. The installation at La Maddalena will specifically relate to planetary movement and align-ments within the Zodiac. The Shields are in harmony with the frequency of Natural Law and Source, and they become a conduit for dimensional energy exchange".
For this new exhibition, the artist will realize an installation of 7 Shields created during the past two years. Six "Solar Shields" will be installed in the chambers and a black "Magnetic Shield" at the south altar of La Maddalena on specially designed easels.
Bradley's work deals with notions of cultural icons, transcendence and the de/reconstruction of symbols. For this project, he focuses his attention on spiritual icons and the figure of Mary Magdalene, "the Apostle to the Apostles", as he embeds the iconography of the Saint and symbolism related to Women, Divine Feminine energy, and the Moon within this exhibition.
The artist will present a new sculptural work directly inspired by the circular architecture, dome and oculus of La Maddalena: "Crystal Labyrinth (La Maddalena)", 2017, is comprised of 888 rose quartz crystals forming a 7-meter in diameter labyrinth whose center aligns directly beneath the oculus. Visitors will be invited to take a spiritual walk - circling to the center - illuminating their inner path and heart-based consciousness. The Rose is a symbol of a new dawn and the resurrection of light and renewal of life.
Bradley will be collaborating with the Academy Award nominated composer Dustin O'Halloran to create a sound installation to sublimate the exhibition.
"Sundoor at World's End" will include a literary component written by John Major Jenkins, an expert in the calendar systems used in Mayan Cosmology. The text will go deeper into the idea of the "Sundoor" and the cultural mythologies surrounding the transformation of consciousness.
Furthermore, Slater B. Bradley will donate a new work to the Venetian Heritage's auction in June of 2017, and the proceeds will be allocated to restoration projects supported by Venetian Heritage.
Thanks to the collaboration with Fondazione Marcianum, an essay about La Maddalena, its history and artistic/architectonic profile will enrich the project and the show's catalogue.
Slater B. Bradley: Sundoor at World's End
Presented by Zuecca Projects
La Maddalena (Church of Mary Magdalene) | Campiello Maddalena, 30121 Venice
Opening: May 11, 2017 | from 11 AM
Hours: May 11 - November 26, 2017 | from 11 AM to 6 PM
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SLATER B. BRADLEY was born on 1/17/75 in San Francisco, California, and he lives and works in Berlin, Germany since 2014. Bradley's work came to international attention through such shows as his solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2005) and his participation in the Whitney Biennial, New York (2004). His work has been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2005), UC Berkeley Contemporary Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California (2005), Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri (2007), De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2009), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (2011), and the Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York (2013). His early 2000's work on Ian Curtis of the post punk band Joy Division is featured in the forthcoming exhibition "True Faith" at the Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (30.6-3.9.2017).


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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The New England Patriots bolstered their special-teams units for Sunday's road game against the Buffalo Bills by promoting returner/receiver Bernard Reedy and defensive end Geneo Grissom from the practice squad, and releasing offensive lineman Jason King and defensive tackle Ricky Jean Francois to make room.
The Grissom-for-King swap was expected, as Grissom will help fill a core role with Nate Ebner (knee) on injured reserve and linebacker Trevor Reilly (concussion) unlikely to play. The Patriots might have an interest in keeping King aboard on the practice squad, as he had just been signed on Tuesday to help the Patriots get through the week of practice with some of their offensive linemen banged up.
Meanwhile, the Reedy-for-Jean Francois exchange is more of a mild surprise, even as Jean Francois had only played four defensive snaps in last Sunday's game as a depth option behind Lawrence Guy, Malcom Brown and Alan Branch. But with Brown back to full health after missing time with an ankle injury, perhaps the Patriots didn't feel they needed the depth as much as added insurance in the return game.
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Europe Goes for Telecom Reform - Dynamic Overhaul or Business As Usual?
The European Commission has finally published part of its plans to assess and reform Europe's telecoms rules. Its roadmap is one of the new Commission's most anticipated reforms, contributing to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's €350 billion growth and investment package.
The need to revive Europe's once thriving telecommunications industry is clearly understood and reform has broad political and commercial consensus. Publication of the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy on 6th May and the provisional agreement on net neutrality and roaming at the end of June provides a strong platform to take a constructive agenda forward. The Commission has also repeatedly stated that it has learnt from the bruising process associated with its Telecoms Single Market (TSM) proposals.
Deja-vu or an opportunity to engage in a process that could create real change? Either way real differences exist in what is needed, what should be prioritized and how it should be implemented. What is clear is that any future proposals could have far-reaching consequences for industry, consumers and internet companies operating in the internal market; it could also affect foreign operators and would-be investors who have so far been reluctant to enter or increase their EU presence due to regulatory fragmentation inconsistency.
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The roadmap points towards ambitious reform, responding to persistent calls for change. Traditional telecoms operators have repeatedly voiced the need for new measures in favour of market consolidation, to create a level regulatory playing field, and provide incentives for high-speed broadband investment.
But the roadmap also reflects the Commission's own agenda by re-launching reforms included in the initial TSM proposal, which previously failed to gain approval by EU member states. These proposals include a review of rules for consumer protection in electronic communications, potential changes in the operation of EU regulatory groups such as the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG), as well as the controversial reform of spectrum allocation and assignment.
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People congratulate me when I tell them my story. They are pleased for me. Relieved for me. They feel like I won. And of course, I did. I managed to get through the shit that comes with being forced into a marriage. I managed to get over the fact that they- my entire family who I loved and who loved me- left me in a foreign country with a foreign old man who wanted to do nothing more than get me pregnant as quickly as possible. Yes, I got through all the sexual, physical and emotional abuse that comes with being forced into a marriage. I whored myself to him for my passport. I used my body as currency to negotiate my way out of India and get back to the UK where I was born. A country, which afforded me rights as woman. In India, I was nothing. Just a woman. You could do whatever you wanted to a woman there. She became your property. I became his property. I belonged to him, his family and genuinely feared for my life at times.
The first time was when I answered him back. Why wouldn't I? I was a cocky 15 year old teenager, who had left behind high school (where I was the most popular girl in my year), my jeans and baggy jumpers, my chocolate brown lip liners and hair mousse for a shalwaar kameez, a duppatta, perfumed face powder too light for my skin and deodorant which just did not work in the Indian heat. Answering him back resulted in a smack right across my face, first by him and then by his mother. I realised quickly I had to placate him. To somehow appeal to him, make him feel manly and make him believe I was under his control. After all, he was in quite a quandary himself. He needed to get me in line because he wanted to come to the UK, where he believed money grew on trees and the pavements were made of gold. He wanted a decadent life in the west, a job that paid good money, a government that takes care of its people, a safe place away from the harsh realities of India. He felt he was owed that future. And I was the mule that would be used to fulfil this dream of his. He could only come to the UK if I returned first and submitted a visa application requesting that my husband join me in the UK. He couldn't send me back to the UK still cocky, wild and full of hatred, he had to send me back as a broken woman, too scared to run away, too scared to do anything except what the families demanded.
The best plan was to get me pregnant, there was next to no chance that an Indian Muslim woman would run away from home pregnant at 16. Where would I go? What would I do? I would be shamed forever. The pregnancy would mean that I would have to stay with him. Just like my mum had to stay with dad. Just like my sisters had to stay with their husbands. I heard that excuse often from my sisters in later years. When they were battered again by their husbands their excuse for staying was the children. Their excuse for not starting a new life at 25 years of age was that they already had 4 children by then- who would want them? They really did not know me. They had no idea that I would not have hesitated to have an abortion once I was back in the UK. They did not contemplate that I, at 16 years of age, would be absolutely fine making it alone should the worst happen.
Still, plan A for me was to find a way of not letting the pregnancy happen which was tricky without having any access to contraception. I had to find a way to make him believe that I was happy with him, that he fulfilled me and I could not wait for us to start a new life together in England. And so the acting started. It was horrific, pretending to enjoy the things he did to me, encouraging him and smiling, laughing with him and his family. Pandering to his every need, talking to him at three in the morning about how we could build a life in the UK. Agreeing with him that is was a great idea to call over members of his family once we were settled. Convincing him that I should not get pregnant until we returned to the UK because it would compromise the benefits I was entitled to – a complete lie. Learning to cook so I could serve him his food when he decided to eat.
It worked. I eventually got my passport back and was allowed to return to the UK without becoming pregnant. I enjoyed hugging him at the airport genuinely excited and terrified at the prospect of getting on the plane. Excited because this was it. I had done it! Terrified because I thought this chance would be snatched from me. They would find out it was all a plan and would not let me go. But I did it. I made it home and was greeted by my parents, siblings and cousins at Gatwick airport. The trouble was no one thought they had done anything wrong. My parents genuinely believed this was the right move for me. My sisters, already wed when they were the same age as me, thought it was a normal thing. My cousins, some jealous of the fact that I was now married, also felt nothing was wrong with what had happened. I refused to cooperate with my parents almost immediately. I refused to sign any documents, I refused to find a full time job, something which was necessary if I wanted to call my husband over. I wanted to go onto college and university and experience those freedoms that had been snatched from me. The following 14 months were a rollercoaster. I found myself some white friends – I had never had white friends before! I started to attend college and push the boundaries at home. I managed to placate my parents, I said I would call him over once I had completed college; they took that on board and agreed to it. My husband, unable to do anything from India, also had to agree.
I managed to keep things in some sort of order but the tensions at home grew. They didn't like my new friends, they didn't like the clothes I was wearing, or the makeup and hairstyles. Unbeknown to them, I had boyfriends too. White ones! It was bloody great. Learning how to snog. Drinking alcohol and enjoying the sensation that comes with losing your inhibitions. Dancing like an idiot until the clubs closed, having the freedom to do that and not give a shit about what others thought. It was liberating. Showing my legs, my torso and bare arms. Flirting outrageously and openly with males I liked, having the freedom to do that. Eventually I had to leave home after I was seen by a member of the community leaving a club and staggering to the local kebab shop. Dad was hospitalised after suffering angina attacks because of the shame. No one answered my question which asked what the hell was that particular person also doing out at that time? It all became too much for them and for me.
Dad managed to pay a factory owner for fake wage slips which showed I was able to provide for him. Papers were lodged for a visa application unbeknown to me. I found out about it when one my sisters told me he had been granted his visa and would be arriving within the week. I spent the next few days calling every solicitor I could find in the phone book. This was over a decade ago, and we did not have the services we have now. Not a single one could help me. They just had no idea on what to do. One even said it would have been better if I had not gone through with the marriage. What? Really? And be killed? It was so much safer to go through the marriage, to suffer the abuses and get myself back to the UK.
I failed to stop him. He arrived and straight away, everyone agreed that he would divorce me once he had his permanent stay. What could I do? It was decision that haunts me today still. I spoke to individuals in confidence who told me that I should go to the police but that would implicate my father. My whole family was dependant on him. He was old, with a heart problem and we had been conditioned to fear this. It meant that his heart could give way at anytime. It meant we would run the risk of being labelled as the daughters who killed their own father. I was still petrified of this. They would all cry, beg, and wail at me to keep my mouth shut and to go through with this. Eventually I gave up. I did as I was asked.
He gave me what I wanted. A divorce. Weeks later I moved away for university and never returned. So here I am. An escapee from a forced marriage. Living with my most wonderful white partner. In my lovely home and my spoilt cat. And yet I miss them all. I miss my parents, who genuinely thought they were doing the right thing, the same thing, which had been done to them. I miss my sisters, though I talk to them and we meet in secret for coffees. I hear about their lives and I feel a great guilt. I should be living the life they are. But I am not. I should be in the same position they are in. But I am not. They tell me I am so lucky. They smile and gasp in delight when I tell them about our recent holiday or how my partner massages my head when I have headaches. They look at me in shock when I tell them he does not control my money, we have joint and separate accounts.
I have often wondered if I should cut contact with them all. It must hurt them seeing how different my life is. It must hurt them to see that a life such as mine can be achieved and with someone who is not the same race or religion. I miss the type of love that comes with a family. I miss the smell of home, the smell of my mum and dad, the smiles on their faces when I would say something witty. I miss the hustle and bustle of home, the constant cooking, the smell of spices and the flurry of guests. I know they miss me. My sisters tell me that mum cries over me. But still, I am too much of a risk. I would give too many new ideas to others who would do as I did. They will never accept me back. They will never meet nor love the wonderful man I have chosen as my life partner. They will never accept their grandchildren nor have a relationship with them. So much sadness and so many hearts are to be hurt because of this thing called religion, this thing called culture, these teachings and beliefs that are so wrong. I feel utterly lonely sometimes. I have to remind myself of those in this world who have no one, who are living in a war torn country, who will fall asleep with hungry tummies, this helps me keep things in perspective. But still, sometimes, it becomes all too much. And the tears don't stop for the love I have lost out of no fault of my own. And I know that I will never do this to my own children. It is true I guess, to see the change you want, you really have to become that change.
Shackled Sisters
Yes, I finally did it. I published Shackled Sisters – a book containing 8 stories that tell you about the lives of British Muslim women living in the UK today. Its not a fun book to read, I'll be brutally honest about that. But it is important. Really bloody important. People need to know about these women and their existences because only then can we look to address the issues and ensure that we no longer have the need for books like Shackled Sisters ever again.
Do you know many Pakistani Muslim girls? Or Indian Muslim girls? Or Indian Hindu girls? I do. And I started to notice a big difference between my life and theirs. I left behind an oppressive existence. I escaped and took on the estrangement and loneliness which comes with making these sorts of decisions. They were not able to do that. I noticed how as my freedoms grew, how I became more liberated they followed opposite paths. They were married as teenagers and then became baby making machines. I left and started my degree in Sociology whilst getting pissed most weekends and vomiting in toilets whilst friends held my hair back, laughing at me. The friends and family I left behind had their freedoms stripped from them. I had more freedom than I knew what to do with. They started to see emotional, physical and financial abuse as normal traits within a marriage. I started to demand that my partners are my complete equals but only after being ok with not being the main breadwinner- something I ensured I was for years in relationships. We became so different. There were others, friends and cousins who I knew and who broke free, went onto university where they found love. They saw different cultures and they fell in love. Yet, they gave it all up to marry a cousin. I noticed the way some men used women to get what they wanted before dumping them. Dumping them because they could. Because the community allows it to happen and because few people challenge it. Women are still seen as second class citizens, bodies with which a man can do as he pleases.
Nafisa's story is just tragic. I don't know what is more heartbreaking, the way she was snatched away from the love of her life, her life today, the fact she has never been snogged by her husband, has never had an orgasm with him or the fact that she would allow the cycle she experienced, to be repeated on her own daughters? You see Nafisa fell in love at high school. The boy she fell in love with was from a lower caste than her, he had darker skin and was deemed not good enough for her. Her parents found out and took her abroad. She returned married to her first cousin and pregnant. She recounts in detail the events that took place and how she ended up sitting in a café, talking to me about her life. Some of you may have read the stories of some poor girl who was forced into a marriage but who escaped it and survived. We see lots of books like that. What we don't see however, are books which tell us about those women who couldn't run away, those women who accepted the forced marriage as their fate. Women like Nafisa.
Salma and Ameera are sisters who I adore. They are a rarity in the community being Indian Muslim women who are in their 30's with careers and neither are married. Their conversations always make me laugh and cry. They tell you what it was like growing up, how they believed beer was urine, how they were kept in order through mosque classes, how the community told them their worth and how they found a balance between the western freedoms they desired and the culture and religion which opposed those very desires. They discuss the difficulties they have dealing with parents who want them married ASAP. They discuss Islam and what it means for each of them and bicker throughout as though they are still the teenagers I would go to the park with.
These are just two of the women who shared their stories, Shackled sisters also covers the story of Parveen who was brought to the UK by her husband to then 'disappeared' into the system before finally being dumped by her husband who found a white wife, America and a green card. It covers the story of Farzana, sexually abused by her uncle in India as a child, the story of Saira who experienced freedom, college, university and found love in the form of an afro-Caribbean. She ran away with her love only then to choose to leave him, her western life, return home and marry her cousin. What was going through her mind? Why and how did she come to that conclusion? These are just some of the individuals and their stories covered in Shackled Sisters- a book which should have been written a long time ago and a book which, if we all work together to stop the subjugation of women, should have no need to be written again.
You can buy Shackled Sisters here.
- Aisha A Elahi


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Visitors who do not have any dutiable goods or 'high-valued' articles or foreign exchange in excess of US$ 2500 or unaccompanied baggage, all of which need to be declared, can simply walk through the Green Channel. Others must go to the Red Channel for clearance. If you are on a tourist visa with less baggage, it is very unlikely that customs will hassle you, in any case, customs officials are keener to keep a check on citizens than foreigners. Visitors are normally required to give an oral declaration regarding their baggage and foreign currency. They must acquire the Currency Declaration Form from the Customs. They should fill in the Disembarkation Card provided to them during the course of the flight by the airlines. The passengers who do not possess any dutiable articles or unaccompanied baggage can walk in through Green Channel.
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Patrick's Butcher Boy Burgers at Nickel & Dime Diner is the new hidden gem of Downtown Fort Smith. Being shaped as a "traincar," the restaurant is often assumed to be a decorative building to go along with the whimsical vibe of the park. But the family-owned business is now apart of the West End Park, specifically created in order for families to have some old-fashioned burgers while they enjoyed the pleasures of the small park. The entertaining and loving location is family oriented and it's an added bonus to getting your food served hot and fresh.
The burger joint's name originated from the owner's grandfather, Patrick, who happened to be a butcher. Micah Bubbus, the owner, takes pride in serving fresh his food fresh. Upgrading from a food truck Patrick's Butcher Boy Burgers grained their own meat and chopped their own vegetables guaranteeing a fresh and delicious meal. Resulting in being named Best Hamburger in the 2016 Times Record readers poll.
The old Nickel & Dime Diner is the first thing you see when you enter Fort Smith from the Garrison Avenue Bridge. The former diner is located inside the park at West End near the Fort Smith Riverfront at 15 N 2nd Street. Look for the Farris Wheel and D*Face's Unexpected art then you'll see the diner's train car. Also, Patrick's Butcher Boy Burgers is still serving at Green Pointe Shopping Center on Rogers Avenue.