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Four Worst Places to be an Endangered Species
Poached ivory being burned in Namibia.
Photo: Jonathan and Angela
The hard truth is there are no international rules set in stone telling a country how it should treat its wildlife. There are 194 recognized countries in the world (not including Antarctica) of various sizes and climates, and each has a different view on wildlife protection. Some of these countries destroyed the brunt of their wildlife population decades or even centuries ago, while others had less of a wildlife population to begin with. We've got jungle, tundra, desert, countries the size of other continents, countries a person can walk across in a day, and even a country that is a continent (hi, Australia)--attempting to decide which five nations are doing the worst job protecting endangered species is an impossible and ultimately unproductive task.
But of the five countries listed below, four are in need of a serious wake-up call.
4. China
Finless porpoise at the Tongling Freshwater Dolphin Nature Reserve in Tongling of Anhui Province, China.
Photo: China Photos
Pollution in the Yangtze River
Maybe you've heard of the world's most populous country, the one with 20 of the 30 most polluted cities in the world? Yes, we're talking about China. The third longest river on Earth, the Yangtze, once one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet, has become so polluted that the endangered species list has grown as crowded as the river traffic that's helped drop the numbers of the Chinese alligator, finless porpoise, Yangtze giant salamander, and others. Sadly the Baiji, a freshwater dolphin, may in fact be extinct.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a Major Culprit
In 1993, China imposed a ban on the domestic trade of tiger bones, and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) removed tiger bone from its official pharmacopoeia. Chinese communities in North America, however, continue to sell products with tiger bone as an ingredient.
Other endangered animals, specifically the rhinoceros, have not been so lucky and continue to be used in TCM.
A lot of poachers would find themselves out of jobs if their top destination, China, did more to stop the source of the problem, the promotion, advertising, and production of traditional medicines claiming to contain parts of these animals. Ivory, saiga horns, rare reptiles, bear paws, macaques, owls, and so on are constantly being seized at Chinese airports, but as demand continues, so does supply. Even captive tigers are not safe. Two tigers have been killed in the last 12 months at the Yichang Zoo in Hubei for their parts.
3. Brazil
A golden lion tamarin in the Poco das Antes Biological Reserve, Brazil.
Photo: Kevin Schafer
A Reuters article this summer on Brazil's nature reserves reported that, of
"299 protected areas, 57 percent have no permanent law enforcement officials, 76 percent have no management plan, and nearly one-third have no manager."While the article also mentions things Brazil is doing to try to combat the ranchers, miners, loggers, and poachers who are decimating the Amazon, park guards continue to be too few and too poorly supplied to protect the millions of acres at stake. The current environment minister Carlos Minc, who recently replaced rubber tapper Marina Silva, admitted that in some years, the deforestation rates in so-called protected areas of the Amazon were actually higher than in the unprotected areas. While Minc and the Brazilian government have made a very public stand against deforestation, INCRA (the Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform), a government department, is responsible for much of the present deforestation. With the highest biodiversity rate in the world, Brazil's Amazonian rainforests can't get help fast enough.


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Ep. 333 Erin Garossino – Meat Smuggler
Erin Garissino – Meat Smuggler
This episode of the Quik & Slow Comedy Show features Erin Garossino. Erin is a health and fitness coach, banker, and all around entrepreneur. Also, she is married to Nick. Nick interviews Erin about their daily lives and what it's like to be newly married. In addition to talking about eating and living a healthy life (physically and socially), Erin shares what it's like living with a comedian. This is a refreshing episode and listeners will love it. Thanks for tuning in. Enjoy!
Look for Nick on the new game show, Nick Needs Jokes coming up March 8th.
Tom's new album can be found at YouTube or on Bandcamp
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Next time you walk in a park on a sunny Sunday afternoon, whilst at a leisurely pace, take note of the amount of people holding hands. Naturally when anyone is with their loved ones, in a certain place and feeling a certain way they do want to show affection, Its human nature, yet we often don't register when we witness heterosexual couples holding hands, as its a common sight.
However being lgbt and living in a more acceptable society, even England you can feel at the very least 'apprehensive'. You can even feel more aware, even with our laws sometimes we are up against attitudes too. Especially when you hear stories of pubs and shops ejecting customers for public display of affections. We need to be aware that it was not long ago when we could have been prosecuted in the UK. A law was bought in enforcing previous ones in 1986 in conjunction with the 1967 sexual Offences act, that decriminalised homosexuality but you couldn't legally share a hotel bed with your partner or kissing your partner in public. Moving away from this mind set is difficult.
This weeks scruples I asked two questions. First was…….
As a member of the #lgbt family do you feel comfortable holding hands in public?
172 people answered
52% No
48% Yes
Of cause we need to look at this as a thought provoking exercise, rather than an exact science and think about who took part and their location. Not just in countries that have anti gay legislation but we know through studies there is a vast difference between rural and urban hate crime towards the lgbt family in countries such as England, Scotland and America .
Here is what some of you said……
whats sad is theres such a high percent of people who are scared to hold hands in public. Hell I'll grab her bum dont judge!
I replied
Where are you, do you think your loc affects this? As an example living in a city or smaller town & the obviously diff countries
Her reply was…
I'm in Wichita Kansas. People are pretty mean but I don't let it bother me. I have 1 thing they don't and that's fine with me.
and she went on to say…
It's hard for people to understand but it shouldn't stop ya from being true to who you are.
How you feel also depends on your generation too as @QBaited pointed out…….
I am a victim of my generation, because even though I could probably hold hands in public, I'm conditioned not to.
So I asked @ProudlyCody what she would say to someone who feels they can't do something simple as hold hands, she replied……
I'd tell them it's okay to hold hands in public – that it's not a crime, it's love. If straight couples can, so can they.
I had many replies similar to this and support from Heterosexuals too. Odd this week I got no homophobic abuse.
Homophobia is something I fear is making us feel that we can't show affection this way, which brought me to my second question.
Have you ever witnessed any hate crime towards our #lgbt family in public brought on by visibility?
285 answered
54% Yes
46% No
Clearly and probably no surprised to none of us most of us that have experienced hate crime. This is probably one of the biggest reasons why we often feel we can not hold hands in public.
With time this will change, we can already see changes happening, but we need to ask if we don't show visibility then are we allowing the homophobes to win and not helping in changing attitudes?
We also need to constantly ask the authorities why more isn't happening to protect the lgbt community in our areas. This is what happened last year in my area and now the police as set up groups to liaise and cut down the issue. Including the local colleges are involved, as this is where the biggest issue is in our area.
Even if we don't want to be visible ourselves, perhaps we can support others when they do so and give them words of encouragement?
What a wonderful couple you are or its good to see these days will suffice, after all if you have doubts in doing so they will too.
This doesn't just stop at holding hands, some of us are more visible than others, like the Transgender community. We need to ask ourselves if we become more visible, holding hands, who else are we supporting in reference to changing of attitudes?
Of cause we need to be concerned with safety as @TheJohnSinopoli pointed out
I travel the World with my hubby and rarely feel safe holding hands.
But when it is possible will it slowly change attitudes of others, playing a part locally then further a field, showing people it is normal, simply not as common as a straight couple holding hands ?
On a final note…..
@DanReeveland pointed out
People are becoming more open though. The futures bright.
Perhaps when its safe to do so I will reach out for my partners hand in the park next time and show the normality to the world!
Take a look at too
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I am absolutely devouring this e-book: The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life
I just can't stop reading this book from Leo at one of my favorite blogs – Zen Habits!
Click here to view more details and to buy your copy!
*I love that it's online and that I can open in on my phone, too, any time I want.
*I love that it's set up so that I can read different parts when they're relevant.
*I love that the small chapters are just long enough to get a little dose of reading at a time, when I can fit in a few minutes in my day.
I can freely admit that I'm not even slightly "minimalist." I have aspirations, though! And we can all dream can't we? It's such great food for thought to read thoughts and ideas on how to minimize our lives to live life more peacefully and with a mind that is more clear. I love inspiration in a simple format that makes me want to challenge myself in many ways and focus on the things that are truly important.
I want to be more content with what I already have.
I want to buy less.
I want to get rid of so many "things" that we don't really need.
I want to really be conscious of needs vs. wants.
I NEED to declutter!!
And so much more that's discussed in the book!
$9.95 very well spent. You can check out a preview and buy it here if you want a copy!
Plus, I love the instant gratification of getting it in my inbox immediately without having to drive to a bookstore:)
September 17, 2009 9:24 pm
Sounds like a great idea for a book. I think I have a few friends that would enjoy taking a look at this as they too are minimalists. No cable tv and no extras around the house.
January 31, 2013 12:54 pm
I'm gone to inform my little brother, that he should also pay a visit this website on regular basis to get updated from hottest information.


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Iraqi MOD Takes Delivery of Russian Warplanes
The Iraqi Ministry of Defence has received Russian military equipment including warplanes. They will be used to fight against the insurgents of Islamic State (IS), formerly Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Five SU-25 aircraft were received by the Iraqi Air Force on Saturday with two more expected on Sunday.
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Stacy Clark knows a thing or two about adversity. Ten years ago, during her senior year of high school, the Buffalo, New York singer was diagnosed with a rare blood platelet disorder that nearly took her life. Clark handled the physical ordeal with grace, and in the end the illness only added to her sense of drive and determination.
In addition to doing open-mic shows while still in high school, Clark was savvy enough to seek an internship at a local recording studio. A pattern of diligence and perseverance was set in motion.
Acoustic guitarist Michael Koppy kept his playing, with its rich, burnished tone and strong melodic backbone, under wraps for a quarter-century. "I've got friends I've known for decades who didn't even know I owned a guitar until I started playing out a few years ago," Koppy says by phone from his L.A. area home.
Welsh songsmith Euros Childs sure has been busy since the dissolution of his longtime psych-pop band, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, in 2006. He's just released his third album in two years—the new The Miracle Inn—and has threatened to be back in the studio before Christmas putting a fourth to tape.
"I thought by now I'd have started running out of ideas," the singer's said, "but it's the opposite."
Childs has always been a fellow of many and varied ideas, and that much hasn't changed as a solo artist—his debut, Chops, was a schizophrenic splash of Gorky's fan-familiar ideas, while follow-up Bore Da was more well-received as a collection of highly approachable, sunny pop melodies delivered via the less universally approachable Welsh language.
This most recent Miracle Inn outing should most directly score with fans of Gorky's 2001 release How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart. As he is on that album, Childs is relatively contained on Miracle Inn, the singer mixing charming power-pop and similarly charming pensive folk, simple (and, often enough, sad) melodies floating underneath the singer's thin, delicate vocal.
Long Time Coming is the heralded comeback album from North Carolina-born Nappy Brown, a veteran roots vocalist whose powerful, gospel-infused 1950s sides for the Savoy label made him a pioneering figure in the R&B realm and helped plant the seeds of the soul music that followed.
Born in 1929, Napoleon Brown Culp started singing in the church choir when he was just nine years old and belonged to a number of gospel groups during his teen years. He got his big break in 1954, waxing a pair of gospel offerings with an outfit called the Heavenly Lights before label boss Herman Lubinsky invited him to jump to the "secular" side, which kicked off a run of R&B successes.
With color-coordinated suits and a skinny chest-pounding singer that goes by the name Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, the Hives, alongside like-minded American counterparts such as the Strokes and White Stripes, helped bring noisy garage rock back into the public consciousness at the outset of the decade. But the Swedes' campaign to turn all hipsters into two-tone, tie-wearing rockabilly devotees seemed to lose some steam after the excitement faded around their breakthrough hit, "Hate To Say I Told You So." By the time they got around to releasing their third album, 2004's Tyrannosaurus Hives, the world had already grown weary of their Monkees-style shenanigans.
So, for the much delayed follow-up the Hives have ordered an impressive overhaul, going so far as to recruit trendy producers like Jacknife Lee (U2, Bloc Party) and Pharrell Williams (Britney Spears, Jay-Z) to freshen things up a bit. They contribute fresh beats (check out "Giddy Up!") and a detectable sheen to The Black and White Album, which is due in stores Nov. 13. But listen long enough and it's the Hives' punk rock credo that once again rules, with burly guitarist Vigilante Carlstroem and his '64 Gibson SG leading the way to cranked-up bliss.
It comes off exceptionally thought-out and measured, the way Iceland's Sigur Ros build and break and settle melodies and rhythms. And that precision is part of their power.
But it isn't the precision so much as the way Sigur Ros' songs can mimic nature's unpredictability that really makes them as affecting as they are―there's an oncoming hurricane implied in most songs on the band's first four LPs, moods of eerie calm swelling into melodic gusts, whipping winds and thunderous explosions, then a graceful, soothing eye.
Guitarist Dave Riley and harpist Bob Corritore find plenty of room to play on Travelin' the Dirt Road, a 10-track collection that's original in composition but very much traditional in both sound and spirit. These two blues veterans aren't out to propel the genre into the 21st century, but that's more than okay: their honed instrumental chops—along with Riley's gritty, powerful vocal presence—recall the best of the acoustic and electric blues traditions, never straying far from the original source and making this album a great place to visit.
Produced by the Phoenix-based Corritore, a prolific, Grammy-nominated producer in addition to club owner and radio host, Travelin' the Dirt Road (Blue Witch Records) features eight original songs by the Gibson 335-wielding Riley, with the other two penned by the late John Weston, Riley's friend and former bandmate.
It's funny how having one of those omnipresent pop hits, like singer/songwriter Dan Wilson had with his band Semisonic's "Closing Time," can become a bit of an albatross—a success you have to live down as you move on.
Fact is, though, while Wilson's only just introducing himself as a solo artist, he's certainly well beyond being a one-hit-wonder; the songsmith wrote a hunk of the Dixie Chicks' massively successful Taking the Long Way, taking a Grammy for writing their leadoff hit "Not Ready to Make Nice."
And even if he hadn't already proven that the insistence of that "Closing Time" chorus hook wasn't a fluke, it would've been hard to go wrong with the team he surrounded himself with to make his debut solo LP Free Life—the disc is executive produced by master producer Rick Rubin, sweetened by Sheryl Crow and Tracy Bonham's voices, Heartbreaker Benmont Tench's piano and Mason Jennings' guitar, for starters.
Have a listen to Dashboard Confessional's "Thick As Thieves."
While he's come to be known as the polar opposite of those cute little characters that adorn mugs, posters, and t-shirts adorned with the phrase "love means never having to say you're sorry," Chris Carrabba is far more than a one-trick pony, as he proves on this emotion-laden—but not pure emo—return to action.
Far more stripped-down than Dusk and Summer, the new disc focuses almost exclusively on Carrabba's expressive voice and increasingly intricate fretwork—the latter of which is showcased vividly on the dramatic "Thick as Thieves," on which he wields his J-45. The singer does tend to push the envelope in terms of intensity, bringing a tinge of bitterness to "Matters of Blood and Urgency" and "Little Bombs," but in contrast to the band's earliest work, he also displays a good sense of when to give the listener the chance to catch his or her breath.
Take a look at the calendar for a moment—it's hard to believe that 30 years have passed since the Clash released their self-titled debut album in America.
An incendiary, jolting collision of punk and reggae, politics and poise, The Clash instantly set the four players in the band apart from the rest of Britain's safety pin pack. At the head of the group dubbed "The Only Band That Matters" was guitarist-singer Mick Jones, who made up for his lack of musical skills in the early days with fearless energy, classic melodies, and a deep love for great rock and roll.
Three decades later, after working with the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite, and producing bands like the Libertines, Jones returns with an album that shows he has lost little of his punch.


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Mildred Jones Married Illinois Man.
Daughter of Vice-President of First National Bank Wedded to R. D. Robertson, of Albion, Ill. Chautauqua Manager, but will enter Army.
The C. I. Jones family on Spencer street received a telegram from their daughter, Mildred, Friday, announcing her marriage. The new member of the family is Mr. Robert Dale Robertson, of Albion, Ill., and the marriage occurred at Peoria, Thursday afternoon at three o'clock. Mr. Robertson is manager of the Mutual Chautauqua, with headquarters at Chicago, and met Miss Jones while acting as supervisor of the children's playground for the same company, last summer. Miss Jones was especially qualified for this position as she graduated from Mrs. Parson's Physical Training School, in 1917, and acted as supervisor of this department in the schools at Oskaloosa, Iowa, for several years. She also is a graduate of Columbia City high school and Earlham college.
It was necessary for Miss Jones to resign a very fine position at Detroit, Mich., in the Y. M. C. A., as physical director, in order to be with Mr. Robertson when he enters an army training camp the first of September. Mr. Robertson attended school at the Illinois State University during the time Rev. Lloyd Douglas, formerly of this city, served as secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and they became the very best of friends as well as fraternity brothers. During Miss Jones' Easter vacation Mr. Robertson spent a few days here as the guest of the C. I. Jones family, but few had the pleasure of making his acquaintance, so are looking forward to the arrival of the bride and groom following the close of the Chautauqua season, and in the meantime we extend our congratulations and very best wishes.
[Note: Mildred Jones was my 2nd Cousin 3 times removed. Her parents were Charles Isaac Jones 1859-1940 and Emma Liggett 1861-1949. According to their obituaries, Mildred Roberson/Robertson was living in Washington, D.C. at the time of their deaths.]


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It was in 2004 when Tom Noel, a young entrepreneur with an extremely active lifestyle, suffered a sports injury that resisted lasting relief from conventional store-bought ice packs.
Home remedies were just as ineffective – ice cubes and even frozen peas melted away while the pain just shrugged it off and worsened.
At that point, Tom realized that it was time for an innovative solution toward pain relief – a high-quality cold therapy product grounded in medical science yet affordable and readily accessible.
Tom began to develop this technology with a clear understanding of his mission: Create a cold therapy solution that lasts longer than the standard 20-30 minutes and uses only safe, non-toxic ingredients; make it flexible to conform to the body part being treated and fit it into a wrap with Velcro straps to provide mobility while preventing condensation and frostbite exposure. His objective was to maximize consumer value by making it reusable, price it competitively – and manufacture it in the USA.
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The SCOTT Addict 30 Disc was designed from the ground up with those longer days in mind. With geometry that is less focused on racing and more on enduring, the Addict 30 Disc will be your go to when you're looking to put the miles in, but at a fraction of the cost.
2020 Scott Addict 30 Disc Red
Frame: Addict Disc HMF Carbon technology Endurance geometry / Replaceable Derailleur Hanger
Fork: Addict Disc HMF 1 1/8"-1 1/4" Carbon steerer Alloy Dropout
Headset: Syncros Integrated
Rear Derailleur: Shimano Tiagra Black RD-4700-GS 20 Speed
Front Derailleur: Shimano Tiagra FD-4700
Shifters: Shimano Tiagra ST-4720 Dual Control 20 Speed
Brakes: Shimano BR-4770 Hyd Disc 160/F and 160/R SM-RT64 CL rotor
Crankset: Shimano Tiagra FC-4700 Compact Hyperdrive 50x34 T
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At the School of Inner Health, the biodynamic paradigm is foundational and underlies our approach to all the courses we teach, including this Neurodynamics (Nervous System Dynamics) course. In this five-day (35-hour) course, you will learn the basics of the biodynamic paradigm and apply the principles in your work with the autonomic nervous system. You will learn to track your own autonomic nervous system states as well as those of your clients. While touch skills are taught in this course, they are not the main focus. Rather, the focus is on deepening your biodynamic skills of embodiment and perception as well as learning to feel fluid dynamics as a way to track the nervous system. You will also learn valuable verbal skills not often taught in other programs. In this course, you will:
- Learn experientially through hand-on work, exercises, and lecture in a relaxed, safe, supportive environment
- Learn how to orient to and track your own nervous system states
- Deepen your skills of embodiment and perception
- Learn how to recognize, access, and amplify resources and resiliency
- Learn to distinguish between blueprint (inherent order) and imprint (conditioned patterns and responses)
- Gain an understanding and experience of the Window of Presence, including understanding the chemical components, recognizing when you are in or out of the window, and learning to recognize this in your clients
- Deepen your perception of the fluid layer to enhance your ability to track nervous system states
- Learn to track the subtleties of activation and settling in yourself and your clients


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A Rising Star finalist for the 18th Annual Women in Technology Leadership Awards, when Priyanka was five, she stepped on her first stage and gave an impromptu speech about an aeroplane. This excitement never left her as she went to become a distinguished speaker. Although she had followed the cultural expectation of getting a Masters to become an engineer and technologist, Priyanka knew she wanted to make a bigger impact. She wanted a seat at the table to help others, so she got her MBA. Priyanka Komala enjoys using technology to drive businesses strategically. Her focus is on leadership to make an impact and inspire trust. At the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, she is responsible for creating and delivering the web strategy and future technological direction for a $30M division. She attributes her project management and leadership skills to her stint as an Intern at IBM where she earned the reputation of a star Intern.
She tries new things weekly like yoga, dancing, and writing. Ask her sometime about how she survives hiking trips. Priyanka enjoys sharing insights on happiness, personal growth, entrepreneurship, women's issues, and the potential of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). Priyanka has been featured on InPower, Toastmasters International Magazine, and HelloGiggles and has been invited to speak at Women in Technology, Girls in Technology, INROADS, YuvaShakthi, DreamScholars, Women of the World festival to name a few. Priyanka enjoys sharing her wisdom and mentoring youth, minorities and women.
Priyanka graduated from Anna University with a degree in Engineering and ranked top 5 among 15,000 students in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. She holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from American University and an M.B.A from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.


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All of our Annual Fund donors help our school remain a jewel in the city of Marlborough. Donations support Chromebooks for the Middle School students, a comprehensive student Computer Lab, Spanish in Preschool through 8th Grade, advanced faculty training, chorus, athletics and many other programs.
With the rising cost of education, your donation helps to keep tuition affordable for our families who want a strong, Catholic education for their children. To participate in the Monthly Giving Program, contact the Advancement Office at 508-481-3910. We will assist you in setting up a giving plan that is best for you.


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FC: One of The 7 Wonders of the World: The Taj Mahal
1: By:Charmie Adajania & Jessica Dam
2: Why was the Taj Mahal Built? Shah Jahan's wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died after giving birth to their 14th child. The Taj Mahal was built as a remembrance & a tomb towards Mumtaz. Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal are both buried under the Taj Mahal.
4: Location \ The Taj Mahal is located on the bank of the Yamuna River. The canal flowing in front of the Taj Mahal is supplied by the Yamuna, and it also supplies the water for the garden. The Taj Mahal is also one of the 7 wonders of the world. It is in Agra, India.
6: The Majestic Entrance There is a beautiful gate as the entrance. It has parts of the Qur'an written on it and also separates the public area from the sacred area. It is made with red sandstone and white marble which means a lot to Hindus and Muslims. Red means loyalty while white means purity.
8: Flower Carvings The artists used a method called pietra dura. It was when the flowers were carved, then marble slabs were filled in so that no gaps were visible. This method made carvings look beautiful. They use blue lapiz lazuli, green jade, red jasper, yellow marble, striped marble, and brown-red agate.
10: Construction of the Marvelous Taj Mahal Construction began in 1632 when Shah Jahan said to lay out pipes for the canals. Then, workers dug wells and filled them with dirt, rocks, and cement. Afterwards, the bricks were made which were then coated with marble. The building was complete after 22 years. After it was done, the emperor ordered for all the workers' hands to be cut off. The reason was that Shah Jahan didn't want another building that was this magnificent to be made again for someone else.
12: A Never-Ending Love Mumtaz Mahal was finally buried under the Taj Mahal. The emperor visited her and talked to her everyday until his son overthrew him and imprisoned him. Shah Jahan then looked out of the prison window at her tomb everyday until his death in 1666. His son then buried him right beside Mumtaz Mahal so that they could stay together forever.
14: The Taj Mahal Today Today the Taj Mahal stands upright and protected. UNESCO officials have taken up the responsibility to protect and preserve this beautiful and majestic monument. They have found some ways to do this and are hoping to find more so that many more generations will be able to take in the beauty of the Taj Mahal.
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May 2017
Issue 23/2017
Matt Morgan is one of the Sydney Balalaika Orchestra's (SBO) principal prima domra players and the SBO is very lucky to have him. But he has a major problem. He is left-handed. It is easy enough to find lefthanded – or 'lefty' guitars, which is how he first came to play in the orchestra. Finding 'lefty' prima domras was harder.
So the SBO ordered a temporary "lefty" prima domra from Dieter Hauptmann in Adelaide. Dieter is more a balalaika maker than a domra maker, however this temporary "lefty" domra served Matt well.
He took it with him to China and more recently to Russia, when the SBO did its concert tour of the Russian Far East last year. The Russians were amazed to see a 'lefty' prima domra at all – there isn't much of a tradition there of left-handed instruments. They were even more amazed when they heard it had been made in Australia! But Matt's Aussie-made temporary 'lefty' had received quite a hammering, and was rapidly reaching the end of its natural life.
Fortunately by chance, Musical Director Victor Serghie had an email from a famous Russian provider of Russian instruments Anton Tsigankov, offering to supply domras and balalaikas made-to-order by one of Russia's finest luthiers. The SBO decided to 'bite the bullet' and placed an order for a lefthanded domra to be made by Evgeny Vladimirovich Serzhantov, a highly regarded luthier in Moscow. This presented Serzhantov with quite a challenge. The whole instrument had to be designed in a mirror image of a RH domra. Not only did the finger-board in the higher registers have to be tapered the other way, but the scratch-plate or 'pancer' had to be made back-to-front too.
Evgeny Serzhantov is himself the son of a famous Soviet domra and balalaika luthier, Vladimir Filipovich Serzhantov. Evgeny says that his father used only well-seasoned timber some of the best of which was Russian mountain maple. It was also the rarest.Evgeny says : "My father used to teach me how to 'listen to the trees'. By that he meant, you must listen to the ringing sound that well seasoned timber makes when you tap it. If it is 'live' you can hear it, so use it. If it is dead – don't use it", he said. "Most of the timber I use is at least 30 years old. That means it is well seasoned, strong and stable – and of course it has that ring to it" said Evgeny.
Virtuoso Balalaika player Bibs Ekkel said: "I remember once going to see Evgeny at his house on the outskirts of Moscow - a Mecca for Russian folk instrument players. All around the house there were piles of timber, tons of it. He and his father used to scrounge timber from demolition sites" he said.
"Evgeny has made over 1,500 instruments, all of them members of the
Balalaika and Domra family; primas, altos and tenors mostly".
They are much prized in Russia, but they are not cheap" said Bibs.
"His father and he have carried on a tradition that started with some of
the great luthiers from the tsarist period, Nalimov, Passerbsky, Snigeriev and more recently Sotsky from the early Soviet period,
who had a great influence on Vladimir Serzhantov" he said.
So the orchestra is indeed very honoured to have an instrument made
by such a famous Russian luthier in its collection.
We are grateful to Anton Tzigankov for making it all possible.
We are grateful to Evgeny Serzhantov for making such a beautiful
instrument and above all we are very grateful to Matt Morgan for playing it so beautifully
– even if it is a 'lefty'!"
Every two years the SBO has a regular concert in Putty. This year's concert took place on Saturday, March 18 .
"Where's Putty" is the usual question. You might well ask. Putty is 130km North of Parramatta, just off the Windsor to Singleton road which in the 1860's was the original Northern route from Sydney to the Hunter Valley. It is a pleasant two hour drive.
Putty is not even a one-horse town. It has no general store, no post office and no school. But it does have a Community hall and an active community but that's about it. And that is where the SBO gave its concert. The hall makes for a really intimate concert; almost entirely acoustic; only the singer's microphone is amplified.
This is wonderful for audience and players alike, where the real beauty of the Russian instruments can be heard without the
need for electronic enhancement. The locals are very friendly and always make us very welcome with fine food and wine. They are a truly appreciative audience.
So where do all these people come from? That is still a mystery, but the letter boxes out front gives you a clue. They are all lined up along the road-side for those who live in the Putty valley and come to collect their mail. And they all come out of the wood work to hear the SBO give its bi annual concert. There were more people attending the concert than there were players but only just. Indeed there were almost as many letter boxes in Putty on that night as there were players in the SBO.
We extend our thanks to all the Putty community for organising and attending a wonderful concert.
And thanks also to our member, Martha Babineau for organising it!


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Just about everyone we know seems to have asked us how we liked our recent trip to Israel and, on the odd chance that we might have missed someone, I thought that I would attempt to explain it here. Usually, when I have been asked, I just say that it was amazing or fantastic. In a deeper conversation, I admit that I will require some time to fully digest and process what we saw, heard, learned and experienced. This is all true. I think about our trip regularly and every time I open the scriptures to study, or to prepare the next Sunday sermon, I reflect on how what we saw interacts with the passages that I am reading.
On our trip, we visited places that are part and parcel of the Bible almost from beginning to end. Admittedly, the story of Adam and Eve begins in an area that is most likely now a part of Iran and Iraq but by the time of Abraham, most of the story shifts to places in, around, or near what is now the nation of Israel. Indeed, virtually all of the New Testament takes place in Israel (and possibly Jordan) as well as the events of Revelation and the "End of the Age" or, the end of time.
That means that almost every time I share a passage of scripture that talks about simple things like Matthew 4:21 which says, "Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets," or any time people are travelling from one place to another, I now have a mental picture of what that means. I understand better what it means because I've been there and because I understand better, I can communicate the meaning better.
But interpreting and explaining the scriptures to my congregation, blog readers, and friends is only a part of the equation. I often read political commentary, news stories, blogs, and Twitter posts about the political situation in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and the nations of the Middle East (and Near East). But having been there, passed through the checkpoints, heard from citizens of Israel and the Palestinian Territories (who are not Israeli citizens, sort of), and shared a meal in Bethlehem with Palestinian Christians, I understand the struggle of both sides better. I'm still no expert, but our experiences there help us to have a better grasp of just how complex the problem really is.
|Baptism at the Jordan River
Yet another layer in this equation grows out of our experiences in other ways. I can't say that some of these experiences necessarily inform my interpretation of scripture or increase my understanding, but they have changed me. Together with a group of believers, I shared worship in the still and quiet of morning, sitting in a boat on the Sea of Galilee, I enjoyed the stillness and quiet of seaside hills overlooking that same body of water, places where Jesus and his friends might well have sat, thought, and taught. We worshipped in Capernaum, Nazareth, Bethlehem, we drank from the well that was first dug by Jacob, we prayed at the Temple Mount, walked on stone sidewalks that were there in the time of Jesus, touched the walls and
stairways that were built by Herod
the Great and were places that Jesus and the Disciples knew and visited, and we
renewed our marriage vows in a church in Cana of Galilee near where Jesus
performed his first miracle. I cannot
begin to describe all the ways that these experiences have changed me but all
of them will undoubtedly change the way that I understand, teach, feel and
communicate. These experiences may not
directly change what I know, but they make enormous changes in the passion that
I have for doing everything that I do.
|The Western Wall
So yes, our trip was amazing.
And yes, I will be digesting and processing what we saw, heard, learned and experienced for some time to come.
But in the end, I think that this experience will, and has already, make me better at communicating the message of scripture.
And so yes, we had a great time.
And yes, it was good for us.
But ultimately, it will be good for all of us.


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UW-Madison alumna Ligia (Licho) López López will be receiving a Recognition Award for her dissertation work from Division B (Curriculum Studies) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
López López earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education's No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and her adviser was Professor Thomas Popkewitz. Her dissertation is titled, "Indígena: A history of curriculum, teacher education, and the making of human kinds."
According to the paper's abstract: "In an era when markers of 'diversity' (race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, language, etc.) are generally common sense, societies ignore the histories of how these markers became possible and the crucial implications these histories have in the present of educational aspirations and people's lives. This dissertation addresses the common sense of 'diversity' by examining the making of 'what is indigenous,' and 'what is indigenous' in the making of teacher preparation curricula to correct historical injustices in Guatemala."
The abstract continues: " 'Indigenous/indígena' refer to people, knowledges, modes of identification, objects, discourses, and performativities. Drawing from a wide range of archives including journals, newspaper clippings, photographs, speeches, and syllabi, as well as interviews, observations of current teacher preparation programs, and ethnographic accounts from protests, exhibits, and schools serving 'indigenous populations,' this dissertation maps the making-up of 'lo indígena.' Through various moments of intensity—from the 1920s when teacher preparation is more noticeable as a schooling practice, to the present (2012) when the largest teacher education reform is protested and debated in Guatemala—this dissertation traces how what is indigenous has been made up and became an object/subject of scientific inquiry by experts, with expert knowledges, in institutions that contribute to the current foundations of diverse education."
López López will be recognized at the Division B Business Meeting scheduled for Friday, April 28, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The 2017 AERA Annual Meeting is being held in San Antonio April 27 to May 1.
To learn much more López López's dissertation, access the complete dissertation via this web page.
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Hawaii Cruises: Know Your Options
You have several options to consider when planning your cruise to Hawaii. First, you need to know that if you want to cruise exclusively around the different islands of Hawaii, you're going to have to resort to Norwegian Cruise Line's (NCL) Pride of America due to the long-standing Jones Act. (While part of the problem is with the act itself, it should be noted that the lack of creation of other American-registered passenger ships plays an important role.) If you sail with NCL, you'll have the option to visit four different Hawaiian ports after sailing out of Honolulu. Of course, you'll want to take advantage of this time to see all the splendors that Hawaii has to offer. The downside of such a trip may be the expensive cost of airfare to Hawaii and back.
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As discussed in the previous section, there are many different cruises to Hawaii, but only one real option for a strictly Hawaiian cruise. What you wish to do may be affected by your budget, so keep that in mind as well. For example, Hawaii cruises are more expensive in December, January, and much of the summer.
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• Orbitz: Orbitz' Hawaii cruise deals apparently aren't fed into Booking Buddy's feed, so I'm also including it here.
• Cruise Critic: Whether you're a first time cruiser looking for more information or a veteran cruiser looking for travel deals on Hawaii cruises, Cruise Critic has been helping travelers for years.
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Let me check in with a report from my trip this week to Latrobe, Pennsylvania—just outside of Pittsburgh.
Now, I learned a number of things about the area.
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2. Latrobe is also the hometown of Arnold Palmer, the golfer. I was very impressed with the Palmer memorabilia I encountered around town and even at my hotel. My one oversight during the trip was my failure to order a half iced tea/half lemonade.
3. Latrobe is home to the training camp for the Pittsburgh Steelers. We walked past the practice fields, where Steelers fans prepare for every season with hope.
4. Latrobe is home to St. Vincent College, my hosts. St. Vincent College was founded by the Benedictine missionary Boniface Wimmer. He founded both a monastery on the site and eventually the college. The monastery is still active, and St. Vincent has been instrumental in encouraging Benedictine spirituality throughout the country.
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Christopher Columbus' First Voyage
1492 CE was the year when Pope Alexander VI ascended to the throne. In addition, the Torah was first printed on a press the same year. Also, although the Castillian language had been around for a while, the first Castillian language grammar book was published this year. Castillian is what Spanish was called before it was called Spanish. The Spanish Inquisition, which began fourteen years before, finally succeeded in converting the Jewish population into Christianity and taking over the Muslim (Moor) city of Granada earlier in the year, allowing King Ferdanan of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile, who married back in 1474, extra capital to spend on exploration. Since the Muslums took over Constantinople, Castille had found themselves competing with Portugal for alternative routes to Asia. At Palos de la Frontera, on the 3rd of August, a Genoan Admiral named Christopher Columbus led a fleet of three ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, off on a voyage headed due west through the Ocean Sea (future Atlantic Ocean). Trusting the work of an astrologer named Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, he had greatly underestimated the size of the Earth and thought he had found an opportunity for riches. He wanted to reach Asia and establish trade there without having to go through the costly routes of the Middle East or around Africa.
After leaving shore, they headed southwest toward the Canary Islands, where Friar and someday Saint Diego of Alcala once spent many years as a missionary. Before arriving though, the rudder to one of Columbus' smaller ships, the Pinta, broke down. They spent the rest of the month repairing the ship. They left again from the Canary Islands on September 6th and headed west. Nine days later, on the 15th, Columbus' journal read:
"…in the early part of the night there fell from heaven into the sea a marvelous flame of fire…"
I can only think of two things they could have seen. It could have been either a lightning bolt, or a meteorite. Being stuck in a hot wooden ship in the middle of the ocean and religious, I'm sure witnessing this marvelous but sudden flame of fire was probably seen by the crew as a bad omen.
Columbus was afraid that if his crew knew the true distance they were traveling, the crew would mutiny, so he did two things to keep them calm. First, he would lie about the distance they had traveled day to day. For example, the next day, on the 16th, Columbus estimated they had traveled 39 leagues. He would record the correct distance in his personal journal, but in a second journal meant for the crew, he recorded the distance traveled that day as 36 leagues. For the 17th, they traveled 50 leagues, but recorded 47. This would continue until they found actual land.
The other thing he would do is highlight almost any sort of activity as signs that they were near land. Clouds, floating weeds, sea life, and birds flying overhead were all signs "of the proximity of land". On the 19th, two birds called "boobies" arrived at the fleet of ships (they were actually Albatross' but after a month at sea, Columbus must have had other things in mind, hehe). These "boobies" excited Columbus who claimed to his crew that these types of birds don't generally travel over 20 leagues away from land.
After 108 more leagues and many more spotted "boobies", the captain of the Pinta, called that he had seen land. The crew from the Nina, then climbed the masts of their ship and confirmed what was seen. Everybody celebrated and altered course southwest, but after a day of traveling, they found that what they had seen were only distant or low clouds. They had come to believe that they had passed some islands following the clouds. Realizing that they had been out at sea much longer than anticipated, the crew began to speak of mutiny. They wanted to turn around and either head back to one of these islands, or back to Castile, fearing they would die at sea if they did not. Some of them plotted to throw the Admiral overboard.
Columbus continued with his course, lying about how much they had traveled and declaring everything that floats or flies as a sign of impending land. There was a reward from the Crown for the first person to spot land so the crew was alert. On the morning of October 7th, the Nina rode out ahead and claimed they had seen land. The other ships joined, but because of the haze, waited until the evening to look for what was seen, but I guess there was no land. They kept going for three more days before the Captains of the other ships confronted Columbus, telling their Admiral that they would go on for only three more days. In regards to Columbus' reaction, the journal for October 10th states:
"But the Admiral cheered them up in the best way he could, giving them good hopes of the advantages they might gain from it. He added that, however much they might complain, he had to go to the Indies, and that he would go on until he found them, with the help of our Lord."
This apparently pacified his men for now, but Columbus' time was running out.
On the morning of the 12th, the Moon rose from the east at its third quarter. The crew of the Pinta, sailed ahead to look for land. A crew member named Rodrigo de Triana spotted a sandy island illuminated by the moonlight. A flag was raised and a gun was fired. Cries of "Terra, Terra!" rang. This time it was for real: They had indeed found land. They arrived at the island that morning. The first observation they made was of all the naked people who called the island "Guanahani". The Christians brought out all of their flags and swords, gifts and gods at landing. They went on shore and performed a little ceremony on the beach, where they claimed the island in the name of the Castillian Crown and renamed it "San Salvador".
There is no telling what was going through the minds of the natives of Guanahani, now San Salvador, who witnessed this ceremony. In a letter he later wrote to Luis de Santiangel, Columbus boasts that he took possession of the island in front of witnesses, native and otherwise, "and I was not gainsaid (challenged)", despite the fact that he knew the natives didn't speak Castillian and so had no idea he was usurping their territory for a crown of a distant land. After claiming the land, the Christians and the natives met for the first time and the Christians greeted them with small gifts, such as glass beads. Columbus treats these gifts like throw away items, as he highlighted how cheap they were in his journals. Seemingly relieved, the natives who called themselves the "Taino", came over to the enormous ships, bringing gifts of their own. Still thinking that they had landed in the East Indies, Columbus mistakenly referred to the natives in the region as "Indios". Today the word is "Indian".
In the closest surviving thing to his journal, which is actually a third hand account, Columbus speculated that the Indians of the region would make great servants and could easily be converted into Christians. He saw some wounds on a few natives and asked them how they got them. They told him that they had a battle with people from a nearby island. He noticed a lack of metal weapons, and when he showed them a sword, they grabbed it by the blade end, accidentally cutting their hand in the process. He also noted:
"It appeared to me to be a race of people very poor in everything…They have no iron, their darts being wands without iron… They should be good servants and intelligent, for I observed that they quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, as it appeared to me that they had no religion… I, our Lord being pleased, will take hence, at the time of my departure, six natives for your Highnesses, that they may learn to speak."
It appears he actually took about three that day, and one even had to be carried off by force, though this is not mentioned in the journal until days later. The Christians and their native captives returned to the ship that night with canoes arriving at the ship the next day. According to the log, there was a trading extravaganza at the ship as cotton and skins were traded for caps and beads. However, neither Columbus nor his men were looking for skins. They were looking for gold, and like a detective, he picked up on the clues. He noticed a few small gold nuggets attached to the noses of some of the natives and asked the Taino where they got them. He learned of a king to the south who had cups full of these pieces. He tried to get them to lead him to this king, thinking it might be the Khan in Marco Polo's book, but the natives weren't interested in taking him.
Their arrival well known to the Indians now, the Christians continued to sail on the 14th. All along the shore as they followed the coast, natives would come to the shore, bearing gifts and begging them to come to shore. Some natives believed they had come from heaven, as Columbus and his men understood it. In his journal, the Admiral reiterates the inferiority of the Indians:
"…(T)hese people are very simple as regards the use of arms, as your Highnesses will see from the seven that I caused to be taken, to bring home and learn our language and return; unless your Highness should order them all to be brought to Castile, or to be kept as captives on the same island; for with fifty men they can all be subjugated and made to do what is required of them… The natives make war on each other, although these are very simple-minded and handsomely-formed people."
Just one day before, he was hoping to pick up six natives, unless there is a mistranslation in the journal, now it seems he wants seven. A canoe followed the Nina that night and seeing his chance, one of the native captives jumped ship and swam to the canoe. The canoe then sped away. The next day, Columbus continued on his voyage, landing on another island he named "Santa Maria de la Concepcion".
"For the people I had taken from the island of San Salvador told me that here they wore very large rings of gold on their arms and legs."
On the way, a second canoe pulled up, prompting another Indian to jump ship and escape. When the third canoe arrived with a man wishing to trade cotton, they took no chances and told him to climb aboard. When he didn't, a few men jumped in and seized him and his canoe by force. He was brought to Columbus, where he gave the man some beads, bells, and a cap. Seeing that he was just looking to trade, Columbus then ordered the native's canoe returned to him and for his men to let him go with his gifts and his cotton. Then, he decided to let the remaining native go. It is here when his journal just happened to mention that they had forcefully carried that one away before.
His mercy was for appearances though, because he bragged in his journal about how he got the natives to see them as good people in anticipation that they would be friendly to him when he returned. He had already negotiated the governorship of any land he found before the voyage even started, so all he needed was to find a source of gold and he could become a very rich man. As he hopped from island to island, he picked up more natives.
Next, he headed for a really long island that he called "Fernandina". Here, Columbus' journal notes a native who bartered in dried leaves that he found valuable, possibly tobacco! (You're welcome smokers) The man was taken on board, fed, given gifts and released to win his favor. Columbus continued to circle islands and trading with the natives. Most of his journal entry for October 17th, talks of the interesting wild life and how similar, yet different they are to the wild life in Castile. When he saw a man with an especially large piece of gold on his nose, he mistook it for a form of currency and in his words, "quarreled with these people because they would not exchange or give what was required", whatever that means.
On October 23, he set out for an island that the Indians called "Cuba", which since he thought he was in the West Indies, thought it might be where the island of "Cipango"(Japan) was. He made it there on the 28th and was amazed at the plant life and natural harbors of the island. He would later state that the island was bigger than England and Scotland combined, which was not true at all. He was still looking for this king with cups full of gold, or at least a gold mine but couldn't find it there. He named the island "La Isla Juana".
While on another island on November 12th, Columbus relays the following sadness:
"Yesterday a canoe came alongside the ship, with six youths in it. Five came on board, and I ordered them to be detained. They are here now. I afterwards sent to a house on the western side of the river, and seized seven women, old and young, and three children. I did this because the men would behave better in Spain if they had women of their own land, than without them... The same night, the husband of one of the women came alongside in a canoe, who was father of the three children... He asked me to let him come with them...They are now all consoled at being with one who is a relation of them all."
I thought he only wanted six or seven natives, but I guess sixteen is close enough.
To calm the captives, they were led to believe that they would be released once the Christians found gold. Two youths escaped the Nina five days later. While exploring, Columbus would also have his men cut down trees to make large crosses out of them and leave them on each island.
On December 5th he landed on Hispaniola, which now holds Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He described the landscape as a marvel and spoke about how the rivers and streams carried gold. He left some men behind, but took more natives. He found an island full of turtles and named it "Tortuga"(aww). On December 17th, near the Island of Tortuga, he finally got a real taste of what he was looking for.
"They saw one man... with a piece of gold leaf as large as a hand, and it appears that he wanted to barter with it. He cut the leaf into small pieces, and each time he came out he brought a piece and exchanged it. When he had no more left, he said by signs that he had sent for more, and that he would bring it another day."
Later that day, a group of Indians from Tortuga arrived, but the man with the gold leaf berated the group and sent them away, throwing rocks at their canoe as they left and encouraging the Spaniards to join in. The next day, they met with the king of the Indians that were from the Island of Hispaniola. After referring to their nakedness for about the fiftieth time, Columbus had dinner, exchanged gifts and became quick friends with these Natives. That night, with their help, the Spanish erected a wooden cross on the Island.
They found a large port of another island they dubbed Santo Tomas on December 20th. Columbus was once again awe-struck by it's natural beauty. The next day he and his men went on shore and did their usual gift exchanges. They sent a few Christians to check out their villages and he spent a few pages describing it all. This happens again on the 22nd and by the 23, his ships were surrounded by over a hundred curious canoes.
They spent Christmas day (December 25th) navigating the waters. With the waters calm that night, Columbus went to bed on his flagship, the Santa Maria. With the night so calm, the journal claims that "the sailor who steered the ship thought he would go to sleep, leaving the tiller in (the) charge of a boy". While they slept, the water current took the Santa Maria and gently beached it on a sandbank and the ship began to take in a rush of sea water. Though the beaching was hardly felt, Columbus quickly awoke and went to work trying to save his ship, but to no avail. He had tried to get some of his men to take a boat out to lay an anchor towards the sea, but they instead took a boat and tried to seek refuge on one of the other ships.
Columbus was lucky to have made friends with the Natives of that island, who helped him unload his old ship, for it saved him and his men a lot of time, and staying there gave them great insights in their quest for gold. From then on, Columbus would finish his voyage on the Nina. Finally finding a gold source, he orders a fort to be built with the intention of leaving a few men behind, under the protection of the local king there.
On January 4th, Columbus and his ships departed the island, but it seems as though there was some drama between him and his men which actually delayed their trip back east a few more days. They finally got underway on January 16th and made it back home on March 13, 1493. When Columbus returned to Castile, with the natives and other treasure, he was sure that he had found a new path to the Indies and thus had immortalized himself in history. Columbus returned a hero.
Indeed, he was immortalized, but not for reaching the east coast of Asia. When word had gone out that a western path to the Indies had been established, Pope Alexander VI released the "Discovery Doctrine". It decreed that lands void of Christians was available for discovery. Also, all "discovered" land east of the new lands be given to Portugal, which will give them a sizable chunk of land as well. Either way, the Castillian Crown was given full authority of any lands found west of the islands, including the authority over non-Christians in the hopes of converting them. This opened the door for a new age of "discoverers" called the "Conquistadors".
In the end, Columbus did seem to actually discover something that nobody knew about before. Those were the trade winds that blew him across the expanse of the Ocean Sea and back. It would send many more people across the ocean from here on.
Stay Tuned for Background History, Part three coming October 15, 2015
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Wow! It's been so long since I've posted on here that I had to go through some serious hoops before I could even sign in to this thing!
Anyway, I've been knitting as much as I can - and I survived my first year of law school! Whoo hoo! I'm celebrating by taking summer courses. What? Huh?? Anyway, I've been more than a little homesick. The other day I was looking at my bright orange cotton yarn, and a few hours later - I had this! It isn't perfect, but it really reminds me of home, and that's all that matters.
In case anyone is interested, here's the pattern:
Size 7 (4.5mm) needles
Sugar n' Cream Hot
Sugar n' Cream White
To begin, wind a few bobbles of yarn in both white & orange. It will make life so much easier! I recommend two small ones of orange (for the small spots under the top of the T), two medium ones of orange (for the outer edges), one medium one of white (for the middle), and two smaller ones of white (for the outer edges of the T).
CO 45 with orange
Rows 1-6: Knit 3 garter ridges
Row 7: K5, P35, K5
Row 8: K45
Row 9: K5, P35, K5
Row 10: K45
Row 11: K5, P35, K5
Row 12: K13, (white) K19, (orange) K13
Row 13: K5, P8, (white) P19, (orange) P8, K5
Row 14-17: Repeat rows 12 & 13
Row 18: K15, (white) K15, (orange) K15
Row 19: K5, P12, (white) P11, (orange) P12, K5
Row 20: K19, (white) K7, (orange) K19
Row 21: K5, P14, (white) P7, (orange) P14, K5
Rows 22-38: Repeat rows 20 & 21
Row 39: K8, (white) K3, (orange) K8, (white) K7, (orange) K8, (white) K3, (orange) K8
Row 40: K5, P3, (white) P3, (orange) P8, (white) P7, (orange) P8, (white) P3, (orange) P3, K5
Row 41: K8, (white) K5, (orange) K6, (white) K7, (orange) K6, (white) K5, (orange) K8
Row 42: K5, P3, (white) P7, (orange) P4, (white) P7, (orange) P4, (white) P7, (orange) P3, K5
Row 43: K8, (white) K29, (orange) K8
Row 44: K5, P3, (white) P29, (orange) P3, K5
Row 45-52: Repeat rows 43 & 44
Row 53: K45
Row 54: K5, P35, K5
Row 55-56: Repeat 53-54
Row 57-62: K45
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On March 17, Republican San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer — in the midst of a record money-raising drive to fund his June reelection bid — slipped away from city hall to make an unheralded trip to La Jolla.
The mayor was bound for a sit-down with Qualcomm cofounder Irwin Jacobs about reviving the Democratic billionaire's dormant Balboa Park parking and road makeover plan.
"Mayor Faulconer would like to meet with Dr. Irwin Jacobs regarding Plaza de Panama in the next few weeks," Faulconer's scheduler Michelle Porras had written in a February 29 email to Kaye Burlingame, Jacobs's personal executive assistant.
"Irwin would like to meet here at his home office," wrote Burlingame in a March 1 reply.
Two days later, Faulconer's executive assistant Tanya Lundy emailed Burlingame with final details. "Thank you for providing Dr. Jacobs' availability to meet with Mayor Faulconer regarding Plaza de Panama. We are pleased to confirm Thursday, March 17, 4:00 p.m., at Dr. Jacobs' home office. Accompanying the Mayor will be Katherine Johnston, Director of Infrastructure and Budget Policy."
Thus was born the private summit that has led to the rebooting of Jacobs's controversial effort to bulldoze new roads and build a mammoth parking structure in the heart of the park, taking out an 82-foot swath of the historic Cabrillo Bridge in the process.
According to city campaign disclosure filings, the mayor's agreement to back the giant Jacobs park project did not go unrewarded.
On March 9, six days after the meeting between Faulconer and Jacobs was set up, four Qualcomm executives — Christine Trimble, Christine Thoene, Daniel Torpey, and William Maheu — each wrote checks to the Faulconer campaign, totaling $1300.
On March 13, $1050 flowed into the mayor's coffers from Qualcomm human resources executive vice president Michelle Stirling, who lives in Poway.
And in the days following the mayor's March 17 meet-up with the billionaire, more Qualcomm money arrived in the form of $250 on March 29 from Monique Richardson of the company's government relations department. On March 31, Paul Jacobs, son of Irwin, and Qualcomm's executive chairman and chairman of the board, gave $1000.
One day later, on April 1, Qualcomm executive vice president and general counsel Donald Rosenberg contributed $1000 and the company's senior director of public affairs Molly Gavin gave $500. In addition, the firm's August 1, 2016, lobbying disclosure filing shows, senior vice president of government affairs William Bold kicked in $1050 on April 28.
Besides their well-timed political spending spree, executives at Qualcomm threw a November 17 fundraiser for the mayor last year, coming up with $9275 for the Faulconer cause, according to a company lobbying disclosure.
Records released by the city following a request under the California Public Records Act show that Faulconer's office has been in discussion with Jacobs regarding Balboa Park since at least November of last year, although the billionaire's revived bulldozing plan was made public only after the mayor was safely reelected this June.
"As a follow up to our November meeting and my previous written correspondence, I am sharing the existing City practices and policies that currently guide donor recognition within Balboa Park," wrote the mayor's director of infrastructure and budget policy Katherine Johnston to Jacobs in a four-page letter dated December 24, 2015.
"Recognition of significant financial or civic contributions at City facilities is valuable in fostering the development of public/private partnerships critical to building a stronger and more vibrant San Diego."
Added the letter, "The most recent example of a City facility being named in honor of an individual was in 2009 when the Park and Recreation Board voted to approve the naming of 'Craig Noel Circle' in the Plaza de Panama area. The proposal was to name the traffic circle within the Plaza de Panama and place a commemorative plaque in the Plaza."
On June 30 of this year, the day of the public announcement of the revived Jacobs plan, mayoral deputy chief of staff Matt Awbrey emailed Jacobs a copy of Faulconer's news release announcing the mayor's revival of the Balboa Park project. "Hello Dr. Jacobs, As promised, below is the final news release. We sincerely appreciate your ongoing support and look forward to the next steps. We will be in touch." According to Faulconer's official calendar, the mayor and Jacobs had met in the mayor's office two days earlier.
No strangers to giving cash and getting political influence, Jacobs and his wife came up with $12,000 for the 2014 reelection campaign of Democratic Lt Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Just two weeks earlier, the Democrat authored a letter blasting then-state historic officer Wayne Donaldson for criticizing the billionaire's Balboa Park makeover, including the called-for "demolition of 82 feet of the Cabrillo Bridge" and earth-filling of "significant parts of Palm Canyon, altering the historic space and land forms irreversibly."
Following the Jacobs contributions and the Newsom dust-up, Donaldson lost his job.
Qualcomm itself has long been the target of critics who have accused the firm of using cash and influence over high-dollar employees to funnel political support to causes it favors, including expanding the controversial H-1B visa program to admit more foreign engineers to this country.
In January 2013, the company was hit with a disclosure lawsuit by New York state comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
"Senior figures associated with Qualcomm, including the Company's current CEO as well as his father, the Company's founder and a Qualcomm director until 2012 are widely reported to be politically active and in recent years have donated more than $2 million of their personal funds in furtherance of political purposes," said DiNapoli's complaint.
"Indeed, Qualcomm's CEO has given the maximum donations permitted under law to his favored political candidates. In addition, the Qualcomm employee PAC, which is required to disclose its own expenditures, receives — and in turn spends — considerable sums from Company personnel for use in the political arena."
Added the lawsuit, "Qualcomm's refusal to provide disclosure and its most recent denial of Plaintiff's request for access to relevant books and records pursuant to Section 220 only enhances the Fund's concerns about the way the company spends shareholder funds in the political arena."
The case was settled in February 2013, when Qualcomm agreed to divulge its previously secret list of payments to influence, in what transparency advocates called a "a landmark development in the battle to force corporations to come clean about their political spending," according to a New York Daily News report.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Matt Potter
- Did Qualcomm use GOP oppo research against Apple? — Nov. 16, 2018
- Will the fall of Jacobs starve Faulconer? — March 9, 2018
- Is Faulconer heading for a Jacobs fail? — Nov. 10, 2016
- Qualcomm V.P. funds wife's House race with $2.1 million — Aug. 11, 2016
- The Jacobs-Faulconer dance — April 20, 2016
And this only tells us about the money that has to be made public. As I pointed out here a few days ago, there's no telling how much more cash was "filtered" as donations through the mayor's delinquent charity, One San Diego.
Too bad our state attorney general is more concerned with getting a new job than doing the work required by her current one. Guess we're going to have to wait for the IRS to get curious.
Thanks for researching and making public this tale of a rich man's ego and a politician's ambitions....and sadly the good of the community and well being of our spectacular park is not part of their considerations. There are two aspects to what these "good old boys" are trying to pull off that need to be addressed.
One is the needless and permanent damage they would bring to our treasure of a park. I have read dozens of comments and been part of many conversations about this concept and it's very hard to find anyone in favor of it. It just is not necessary to either open up the Plaza (that has already happened with Filner's plan) or create parking (there are many many other less destructive ideas to address that, if its really the issue). We can only assume there are other agendas the connected power players of our City have for reviving the plan: a gift to a parking companies? construction companies? various consultants,? or even further commercial development of Balboa Park? Maybe a hotel in the park is part of their long term agenda. Perhaps development similar to Paul Jacobs proposal for Sea Port Village. Its public land, so they must feel it needs to be offered up as a resource for some wealthy donor to make money off of.
The other issue is also now becoming clear, that San Diego only has one political party when it comes to city politics, and its the party of the developers, the land owners and the rich. At times our local politicians call themselves Democrats and other times Republicans, but they are all working for the same folks, and its not the citizens of this city. Could it be the case that the Democrats chose to give Faulconer a free pass to win the June primary? They said since around the first time Faulconer started meeting with Jacobs that it was pointless to run a Democrat in the primary because he was so popular. They almost got away with that until Lori Saldana spoiled their plan by getting in the race, shaming them into nominally supporting Ed Harris. Given their big national donor (Jacobs) was supporting Faulconer their agenda potentially seems to have been to help get him reelected so as to not alienate Jacobs support for other candidates.
We need to have a city government that is working for the people who live and work here, not just the rich and powerful who see this city as their treasure chest to make money from. But that won't happen until we get a political party that isn't controlled by the old guard. But at the moment we also need to save Balboa Park from their terrible plan.


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09th May 2017
Congratulations to Pedro Pinto who is our new squash champion after defeating last years winner, Dom Hamilton, in the final. In a tight affair Pedro came through 3-2 after some exhausting points and excellent stroke play. 7 times winner Hamilton hung on until the end but will have to wait until next year to regain his crown.
In the Ladies draw Gabriella Mawson defeated Sarah Wood in what was a very mature display considering Gabriella is only 17 years old.
Over 35's Final- John Riley beat James Butterworth 13/11- 11/8- 7/11- 11/7
Over 45's Final- Phil Davis beat Randolph Victor 15/8- 15/9- 15/9
Grade A Plate final- Rick Saunders beat John Riley 11/5-11/5-11/9
Grade B final- David Stannard beat Tom Nicholls 15/9- 15/13- 9/15- 15 /5
Grade B Plate final- Gabriella Mawson beat Arvinder Dahele 15/7- 15/6- 15 /12
Grade C final- Matthew Wynne beat Reiss Wood 20/18- 15/6- 12/15- 15/5.
A big thank you to all that took part and to Peter Edwards for organising a great event.
Racketball Exhibition Match- 27th May
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