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Last week, parents across England found out which secondary school their children would attend in September.
School admissions really is critical to how socially integrated we are in the UK. The segregation of school pupils – by ethnic or socio-economic background - is a barrier to achieving real social integration.
Increasing social integration is currently a major focus of Government policymaking. In a speech last year, the Prime Minister said: "It cannot be right that people can grow up and go to school and hardly ever come into meaningful contact with people from other backgrounds and faiths." Later this year, the Casey Review will be published, suggesting policies to improve the opportunities and integration of Britain's ethnic minorities.
This piece reviews the evidence for how segregated English schools are and what causes the segregation.
How segregated are English schools?
The answer to this question depends on which measure of segregation is used: ethnic or socio-economic background.
Ethnic segregation
A 2015 study found that 61% of ethnic minority pupils in England are in primary and secondary schools where ethnic minority pupils are a majority, while 94% of pupils classified as white British are in primary and secondary schools with a white British majority. Although the study does show that, as English school pupils have become more diverse, ethnic segregation in schools has begun to decline.
This data also showed that the level of ethnic diversity in a town is not necessarily associated with the level of ethnic diversity in schools. For example, towns such as Bradford, Birmingham and Oldham have significant levels of ethnic diversity, yet have some of the highest levels of ethnic segregation in their schools.
Socio-economic segregation
Socio-economic segregation in schools is more difficult to measure than ethnic segregation. Nonetheless, a widely publicised 2012 OECD report found that England had some of the most socio-economic segregated schools in the developed world. In contrast, a second study found England to be a mid-ranking country in terms of socio-economic segregation. Countries with high socio-economic segregation include Austria, Belgium, Germany and Hungary, while countries with low socio-economic segregation include the four Nordic countries and Scotland.
What causes segregation?
There are a number of potential causes of school segregation – both in terms of ethnicity and socio-economic background - in England. These include: self-segregation, residential segregation, and selection bias.
In England, parents apply to a shortlist of schools. Self-segregation occurs when parents, consciously or unconsciously, choose schools which contain pupils of similar backgrounds. There is some evidence that this does in fact occur. For example, usually, pupils attend their nearest school. However, this is much less likely to occur, if the nearest school has a different dominant ethnicity to the pupil. This suggests that some parents are choosing to send their children to schools which contain pupils of a similar ethnicity.
There is also some evidence that the 'choice agenda' – whereby parents are given increased choice in the destination school of their child – has led to increased segregation. A 2006 Equalities and Human Rights Commission report found that there had been a significant increase in segregation as a result of increased parental choice.
Residential segregation
Around two-thirds of English schools prioritise applications from children who live nearest to the school. The schools population is therefore likely to closely mirror its 'catchment area'. If residential areas are themselves segregated, then it is likely to that schools too will be segregated.
While residential segregation is almost certainly one of the primary causes of school segregation, it does not account for all segregation. A 2006 report – in line with many other reports – found that school segregation was "substantially and significantly" greater than residential segregation.
Selection bias
Around 25% of students in England are in schools which give at least some consideration to a child's ability and/or the recommendation of feeder schools. The profile of such schools vary. Grammar schools, of which there are 164 in England, explicitly select students who are academically excellent. Other students in academically selective schools may attend comprehensive schools. Comprehensive schools that specialise in particular subject areas (including languages, arts, sport, and design and technology) are permitted to select up to 10% of their pupils on aptitude for the relevant subject. Selecting by aptitude may lead to increased segregation because parents of white, middle-class pupils are more likely to apply to selective schools and are more likely to prepare their children to pass the entrance requirements or test.
Schools in England may also select for other criteria. For example, faith schools are permitted to prioritise the admission of students who follow the school's religion. Clearly, this is likely to cause significant ethnic segregation since religion is closely associated with ethnicity. There is evidence that selective faith schools also cause socio-economic segregation. For instance, around 12% of pupils at state funded primary faith schools are eligible for free school meals compared to just over 16% of all primaries.
If the Government is to make real progress in boosting social integration, it will need to focus on reducing school segregation. The evidence shows that there is substantial socio-economic and ethnic school segregation in England. Levels of segregation vary by region. The causes of this segregation are diverse, including: self-segregation, residential segregation and selection bias.


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Having a baby in India versus Gloucester; both have their positives and you will probably be surprised by what I am going to say about the whole India experience! I should also add it was first baby as well! So why India?
Well in November 2009 we got back from our honeymoon, and on our first day back at work Martin suggested we go out for dinner to ease ourselves back in. I was pretty shocked as we had eaten our way round South Africa so I was craving some beans on toast to be honest but, I agreed! It soon became clear why he had suggested dinner, he had been offered a job in Delhi and wanted to tell me in a public place! I think my response took him by surprise as I was quite up for it. My main concern was what about my job as I had started my new promotion that day. What was I going to do when we were in India, I would loose my mind without a job and my career!
To cut a long story short I quit my job and 5 months later we moved to India to start our adventure. We were having the most amazing time, with great social lives and travelling. I had got involved in running expat events as I had tried to get a job and was offered one, which on paper sounded great, but the money was so terrible I had to decline! So, I had a pretty easy life but loved the role of a part time event organiser and going round discovering all the new venues and negotiating great deals with them.
The next step we wanted to take was to have children. Amongst our expat friends we were in the minority and one of only a few couples who didn't have children. Loads of them had had their children in India and raved about the experience. So, in summer of 2011 I found out I was pregnant and off I went to meet the recommended consultant at the local BUPA hospital. Manavita was amazing from day one, she had worked for 7 years in Wales and so knew the expectations of a UK mum; obviously I didn't really have a clue other than what all my mummy friends had told me.
There wasn't any antenatal classes so my sister loaded me up with books to read, but in India the appointments are petty regular (every month at the beginning and then weekly for the last 6 weeks!) and they are scan happy (a scan cost about £20 a time), all state of the art. So, I was having very regular check ups and could always call Manavita on her mobile! Yes! I had her personal mobile!
I had the same consultant from my first pre-natal check all the way through to her delivering my baby! All slightly different to the UK. Luckily it all went pretty smoothly and I had an easy pregnancy. I went through a birth plan with her to make it very clear that I did not want an episiotomy, as this is quite common practice in India apparently EEEK. Plus I only wanted drugs when completely necessary. I had hoped for some gas and air but that wasn't possible unless you are in the operating theatre and so I had to do without.
So the birth! It was a Saturday night and we were meant to be going to a party, it was very local and close to the hospital. By this point I was 6 days overdue and had agreed to go in to be induced the following day. So, we saw it as the final party before our new arrival. However, I started to get some twinges during the day, I went straight on to Skype to my sister to ask if this could possibly be the start? She said she thought it was probably happening, so I called Manavita to let her know.
Martin joked that they didn't seem too bad so we should still go to the party as all our friends were going!! In the end we didn't go and by 10pm they were getting much more intense. Manavita called to say she was thinking of going to bed but wanted to see how I was getting on. I explained I was now having 6 minutes between contractions and she was keen for me to go into hospital. I hate hospitals so I decided to go for a walk and then go into hospital.
Wow, that walk got things going and when we got into the hospital I was 6 cm dilated! We had our own room which was basic, clean but fine. The only thing that I didn't like was how traditional the birthing experience was, I had to have a non mobile monitor on at all times for the baby's heart beat and so was limited in how much I could walk around. I had my gym ball, but basically it ended up that for the last 2 hours I was on the bed with stirrups and Harry was delivered at 4am by Manavita and a cheering squad. There were about 5 nurses and the paediatrician in the room, all saying "Push!", it's hilarious when we look back now.
Harry was delivered and handed across to the paediatrician, who my friend pointed out later from a pic we had taken, was dressed in a velvet smoking jacket!! How random. But all was good. I had a drug free birth, which is an achievement in India as they love to hand out the maximum amount of drugs because they are all chargeable!
So you can imagine how gutted I was when I couldn't deliver my placenta! The only option after maxing out on drugs was a general anaesthetic and for it to be removed. Luckily, I was pretty shattered so poor Martin had all the risks explained, which can be quite scary if the placenta had been attached to the uterus wall. But luckily it was a simple procedure. We had to stay in hospital due to the op but came home the next morning, having had friends to visit during the day. So overall it was a great experience and I feel that it was almost easier not knowing what to expect; in some cases ignorance is bliss!
We had just 6 days before all the family started to arrive from the UK, which was all pretty stressful and exhausting considering we were still trying to find our feet and get to know our gorgeous little man. Although, I think Martin was pretty grateful my mum was there at times when I had some emotional moments! Mum took control and often said I was probably tired and sent me off to bed!
One disadvantage of having a baby abroad is that all of the family are desperate to meet the baby; they can all want to come out to visit straight away! For Martin's parents it was their first grandchild so waiting 2 weeks before they could come was hard.
It actually turned out that we headed back to the UK not long after. We would have happily stayed another year but were asked to stay a further two and we felt we wanted to take Harry home. Also, lots of our friends had been offered new jobs in different places and it felt like a lot of good friends were also moving on. So, at four months, after a long saga of getting Harry's passport, we went home. One top tip I have for couples abroad who are thinking of having a baby is researching passports for your (future) baby as waiting for the passport felt like a lifetime for us!
Martin had decided to change companies and so we moved to a rented house in Newbury as going back to London wasn't what we wanted for Harry and our family! It was a bit of a shock as I am a city girl and love London, I couldn't imagine not going back to our house.
Wow repatriation is so hard! I came back to the UK with a baby, having done none of the antenatal and had to throw myself into every baby group and activity going. There was nothing like CheltenhamMaman around, I sure wish there had been! Martin and I found it really hard and much harder than going out to live in India, for lots of reasons.
From our experience when you move abroad you meet expats and locals who are also looking for friends, hence they are prepared to make the effort and friendships are formed quickly! But when back in the UK people already had their circles of friends and weren't always that willing to welcome new people. We had moved to a new place where we literally knew no one, Martin had a new job so had to throw himself in and was working really long hours. Plus no one went out. In India people had child care on tap at very low costs so it was a no brainer, we always went out if invited. It would depress you to know what a very good hourly rate for a babysitter is in India. But in the UK childcare is so expensive and even the cost of a taxi put us off going out!
It was a very tough 6-8 months. We were also looking to buy a house but nothing we liked came onto the market. I was starting to look at what I might be able to do for part time work but really wanted to restart my career as I had had a long break, despite the events work in India. We were both pretty frustrated and we sometimes questioned whether we should have stayed in India a bit longer, but then we would meet with friends and family and not regret our decision!
We eventually moved to Cirencester on a bit of whim after falling in love with a house! 6 weeks after having our offer accepted we moved. It was tough to move again to a new area but definitely easier than the first time and we found friends much more quickly. We now have a great set of friends and everything quickly fell into place, we just love this area. We are more easily connected to all our family even though the nearest ones are 2 hours away. This definitely feels like home and we have a great support network and I have loved exploring the area. There is so much going on if you are prepared to search for it.
I had Olivia in June 2015 and so then experienced the whole having a baby in the UK. The experience was pretty good, I did find the very limited scan and appointments a bit strange after the India experience but I guess everything is different second time round. I also found the fact that I saw quite a few different midwives quite strange, although all of them were very nice.
I was nearly induced again as I had been into Gloucester due to reduced movement and was 3 days overdue. They were fantastic. This time there were no delivery rooms initially so I had to wait a day before they planned to induce me on the ward. But the actually birth in the delivery suite with a midwife and her trainee was good and all went smoothly. The room was probably a bit smaller than the India one but I loved that I could move around and get into whatever position I wanted!! Olivia was born in the early hours of 9th June and I was home by 11am. It was amazing to be home so quickly plus we could have a few days before we had any visitors and they could pop in rather than stay 2 weeks or 10 days! That was amazing!
So having a baby in India was pretty good and the service was amazing. Obviously we did pay for it (well Martin's company did) and so it is hard to compare with the service we got here. I would say, if they had been a bit more advanced with more modern birthing techniques it would have been helpful but otherwise I could hardly fault them. Having said that, having a baby in the UK was also an "enjoyable" experience. I definitely did miss having that one person throughout as I think that added something special to the whole experience.
If you are ever asked to go to another country and are thinking of having a baby whilst there, I hope I have convinced you that despite the differences, they aren't all negative and it can be a very positive experience. The one thing to consider is how precious you or your family are about meeting the baby and how you manage that. For me that was by far the hardest part of the whole pregnancy, including labour!
One final thing. I have mentioned how much I loved doing events in India and how I never shook off the exploring bug! So, I have recently set up a blog and social media campaign called The Cotswold Connection. I have set this up because I have discovered so many unique Cotswold gems over the last few years of exploring the area.
Friends kept asking me for recommendations for different events or celebrations they were having and so I thought I would share and celebrate all the unique venues and events we have on our doorstep. There are already lots of tourist guides but they tend to cover all the beautiful countryside etc. They are definitely not focused on stylish venues and events and perhaps this is something that interests you. If so, I would love to know whether you have any great places that I haven't mentioned yet and hear what you think of the venues and events on the blog so far. Please feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com, suggestions and ideas are always welcome as this is a new venture!
A Guest Blog from Anna Jones
About Anna
Anna is married to Martin and mummy to Harry (5) and Olivia (2). An ex Londoner who moved to Cotswolds nearly four years ago with 2.5 years in India in between. She loves fashion, travelling and exploring and would call herself a city girl at heart. Having worked in fashion retail for most of her career and then in events, she is now a marketing freelancer working with local Cotswolds venues and brands specialising in social media. She has recently launched The Cotswold Connection, which is a curated collection of venues and events that aims to promote and share the very best Cotswold gems! You can follow Anna on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.


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Here are Five Things to Watch heading into Florida State�s second home game against Bethune-Cookman:
Here are Five Things to Watch heading into Florida State�s second home game against Bethune-Cookman:
1. Missing in action: FSU will be without starting defensive ends Mario Edwards Jr. (injury) and Eddie Goldman (suspension). Demonte McAllister will start in Goldman�s place and DeMarcus Walker is likely to make his second start on the other end. FSU hasn�t produced a sack from its linemen this season and McAllister and Walker will be closely scrutinized.
2. Not backing down: Bethune-Cookman isn�t expected to challenge FSU, but that�s clearly from an outsiders� standpoint. The Wildcats are 3-0 and defeated FIU last week for their first win against a Football Bowl Subdivision foe. This is a game where they have nothing to lose and it will test FSU�s mental readiness, if anything.
3. Ready to run: The Seminoles gained 617 total yards and 377 on the ground against Nevada. Karlos Williams made his debut at running back with 110 yards and Devonta Freeman was close behind with 109. Bethune-Cookman will have a tough task of slowing down FSU�s running game and all eyes will be trained on seeing what Williams does for an encore.
4. That Winston guy: Jameis Winston finished with 13 consecutive complete passes against Nevada. Minus an interception on a badly-thrown ball, he has been stellar. The key for him, and all FSU players, is consistency and while he can�t play much better, he�s setting a level that will be expected in the future.
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Our Chiropractor and Reiki Master, Sara, is holding a special hour of meditation every Thursday evening during June. Open to everyone, this relaxed session gives you time for you! Sara will guide you through some easy to follow meditation exercises to help you relax and throw off the pressures of work or home. The sessions are just £3 each (inc. refreshments). You are welcome to turn up on the day, but places are limited, so we recommend you book first.
If you are interested in learning more about Reiki for yourself, Sara is also running a Reiki 1 course here at Vitality on Sunday 12th June. On this full day course you will learn how to heal yourself using the energy to heal and balance our mind, body, and spirit. The cost of the day is £85 (inc lunch and refreshments). For More information go to http://www.body-at-ease.com/Reiki_Courses.html
At the end of the month we are holding a Special Stress and Insomnia Open day. On Saturday 25th June, all our relevant therapists will be available to discuss the different ways to beat stress or help you sleep. The herbalists, psychotherapist, counselor and chiropractor can provide advice on a range of treatments and will be offering some free massage tasters to help you de-stress. Why not pop along and talk to us?
Exercise and walking in particular, is a recognised way of dealing with anxiety and stress - so the next day, Sunday 26th June, our qualified botanist and herbalist Tim, will be leading an Aromatic Herbal Walk. Starting with a train ride to Irwell Vale, Tim will follow the river back to Ramsbottom, seeking out wild plants that have a distinctive aroma. Some of them might even help with stress! The walk is around 3 miles and will take about 1-2 hours. The cost is £5 and the train fare is £3.70. Please come along for a relaxing and informative afternoon.
Finally, if your idea of relaxing is being pampered with natural and luxuriant lotions and creams, then we can help there too. During the whole of June we are offering all our Neal's Yard beauty care products at 20% Off. This is to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Neal's Yard and help you treat yourself to a bit of luxury.


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Purifying the lust filled mind and heart must include good interpretive
principles and skills. The use of proper heart hermeneutics
is the fMRI1 of the pastor. They are the biblical guidelines used in
identifying and interpreting the Christian's inner man as it interacts
with the various adverse situations of life. In this sense, they define
the parameters that help pastors make evaluations and conclusions
about the person who has come to them for help. What is he or
she thinking? How do they rationalize their worldview?2 What are
their true motivations? What do they love and hate the most?
Whom or what do they worship? Just as all Christians must rely on
good interpretive principles in understanding the Bible, sound
hermeneutics of the heart must underlie a pastor's understanding
of the thoughts and motivations of the person to whom he is ministering...
Monday, June 7, 2010
When Sexual Lust Takes Hold - Part 2 "When Do Thoughts about Sex Become Sinful?" - Street, JOFMM Fall 2005
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By Premendra Agrawal
Legal bribery JMM Divide and Rule Congress News Analysis India Soren UPA Caste Religion Sonia Gandhi Minority Sachchar Gujarat Riot 1984 Godhra Vote bank Secular Constitution Reservation Dalit Muslim
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JMM Bribery Scam made Soren a killer. UPA invented legal bribery for Muslim victims in Gujarat riots. It wants voters for few hours every five years. Caste religion based Reservation is secularism.
Divide and rule-British policy is now Congress vote bank politics in independent India.
Government of India is called secular government since independent! We adopted secular constitution. In the name of
secularism every sin is done even after the independence. These caste and religious based secularism is played to abolish the caste and religious discrimination.
Over the last 60 years appeasement policy has grown into every campaign-cycle industry for specified minority groups to buy their votes in whole sole through novoative political philosophies. Now UPA government made it more transparent legal bribe ideology of Secular Congress and the 10 Janpath. No politician in so called secular parties is immune from this legalized form of graft. Every fake secular politician and party
including Congress, SP, RJD, NCP, Muslim league, CPM, PDF of J & K and others goes to the dance with one partner and leaves with another. They may take talaque with in a
minute in the state assembly elections. And the Indian taxpayer is left to sit out the dance, alone, in the corner of the ground, room or hut.
These fake seculars only need the voters for about an hour or so every five or less years to get elected. Once in office the politician doesn't need the voter until the next election. Greed being what it is, even when the fake secular party is independently wealthy, the money he uses to get reelected comes from special interest groups of criminals, separatists, insurgents, infiltrators, corrupt business establishments. They have no hesitation to encourage the terrorists and naxalites also for this.
Politicians notoriously bring one party to the dance and leaves with someone else. It is called shamefully 'Nothing is impossible in politics'. That's why we always become disappointed in those we elect to public office. Samajwadi Party and Left parties support UPA in the centre from outside and fight inside the states election to make fool the people and to kill the soul of democracy in the name of secularism.
For the fulfillment of wonders of secularism Congress created Minority Commission and extended caste based reservation policy. Antuley was forced to resigned as a CM of Maharshtra due to the corruption. Now he is a cabinet minister for making Hindus in the minority. For this he has made grounds for separating Jains and others from Hunduism. Being a minister he is supporting religious reservation for Muslims.
Now leaders are openly says that reservation policy will be continue minimum for three generation. UPA Government now wants to give religious
extension. Sachchar Committee has submitted the report to PM Manmohan a secu-liar head. Sachchar reported that population of Muslims is
reducing in India . It means 'one man more wife' and 'not adopting the family planning' are the reasons for the decrease of Muslim population! Another reason may be more killing of Muslims by terrorists in comparison to non-Muslims.
Reuter reported that Christian's new graves are not finding space in Kolkata. It is also perhaps the indicators of decrease in the population of Christians! But Sachchar Committee has not said a single word for family planning or keeping more wives. Haz pilgrims now get
increase 10,000. It is also for the improvement of the economic condition of Muslims! President of Maharashtra Minority Commission criticized the Maharasthra Police and said that SIMI was not involved in the 7/11 train blasts.
There is no conversion of BSP, Republican and minority votes. These are solid vote banks, no chace of failing. A dalit family was killed unfortunately in Bhandara Dist of Maharashtra . Naturally that should be protested. But there was a violent protest against that. There is daily killing of families as media reported. Are these without caste? Fake secular and their blind followers evoke sentiments to say that was dalit family. But secular media never finds a murder of non dalit family. They will give boldly figure them avoiding the killings of non-dalits. Should murderer be a caste in journalism and in the statements of leaders?
Now on the direction of Italian born and grew up Sonia Gandhi and Minority Commission PM under the super pm decided to give the legal bribery in the name of compensation to the Gujarat riot victims. Manmohan Singh was also the Finance Minister in the Narsimha Rao
Government. Shibu Soren and other JMM leasers were got bribery for giving votes in favor of Rao Govt to save it. So Manmohan and other members of Sonia's kitchen cabinet adopted the same bribery trick. But this time it is more legalized.
Shibu Soren and others could not be punished due to the Article 145 of our Constitution. More than 100 times Congress has amended the Constitution. But it never felt necessity to
amend the 145. This is tragedy for Shibu Soren that that bribery taking make him killer. Due to that now he is in Tihar Jail instead of that Congress Government in which Manmohan was also a minister.
The UPA government decided to give Rs 7 lakh as compensation to 5,000 so-called riot victims in Gujarat , the same amount given by the government to the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage victims. But there was no mention of relief for the Godhra victims. Perhaps it happened because those karsevaks burnt themselves as reported by Lalu and his Banerjee Commission! Perhaps secular government forgot to register the suicide case against those. It is open fact that decision to award compensation to the 2002 rioters has not only exposed the hypocrisy of the UPA government, but also made the Congress vote-bank politics amply clear. Giving similar relief to the victims of terrorist attacks on Akshardham temple and other places might be against secularism and the constitution. So Secular head Manmohan adopted more
transparency to legalize the bribery other wise who will him Oxford University returned scholar. Sonia has genuine love to India so she suggested genuine bribery to Muslim Victims.
Media reported that Centre Government's decision of Rs 7 lakh to each of the Gujarat riot victims as compensation is because the same amount all the 1984 anti-Sikh-riot-victims were paid. But secular media and secular parties not demanded for the
victims of other riots which happened after 1984. Government found only one riot of Gujarat after 1984!! After 1984 , many riots have taken place in Gujarat and all over the country. Why are those people excluded from such benefits? Don't ask this question if you want to live in Mush friendly India . To day Musharraf also becomes the admirer of Sonia Gandhi. MM has already bowed his head through Joint Mechanism.
By Premendra Agrawal


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Why Geithner drives liberals nuts
He also addressed his decision in January 2009 to disregard the talking points a White House aide handed him for an appearance with Obama, in which the president planned to rip Wall Street bankers for taking huge bonuses the same year they crashed the economy.
"There's nothing worse in public life than watching people read talking points they didn't write, didn't understand and have this artificiality to them," Geithner said.
These answers have not satisfied many of his most ardent critics, who still believe he overestimates the negative impact that acting more aggressively toward the banks would have had.
These people say Geithner was too solicitous of bankers' opinions when he was at the New York Fed, leading him to miss the magnitude of dangers building in the system. And they say he later became too quick to heed the constant warnings from bankers that the world would end if Wall Street did not get bailouts with very few stings attached.
"There is a feeling by much of the public that Geithner is out of touch and has been out of touch with all but the financial elites," said Joshua Rosner, an analyst at independent research firm Graham Fisher & Co,. who was among the first to warn of the dangers of contagion in credit markets well before the crisis began, and who issued a stream of tweets with detailed critiques of nearly every page of Geithner's book. "It does seem that influenced his perspective to such a degree that when he was head of the New York Fed, he appeared more interested in instilling confidence than in overseeing institutions."
Other progressives say much of the criticism ignores Geithner's work to push for higher taxes on the wealthy and misses how terrifying the crisis really was.
"I was on the Obama campaign at the time, and a lot of people worried that we were going to be in another Great Depression," said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress. "And when you face that kind of abyss, sometimes the things you have to do that you might not want to do suddenly don't look so bad."
Another complicating issue in the great debate over Geithner and the financial crisis is the painful, halting nature of the economic recovery. Middle-class wages have stagnated, and a political debate has opened within the Democratic Party as well as more broadly about whether the Obama administration should have handled the crisis differently.
That's already complicating Clinton's potential plans to run for president in 2016. The former first lady and secretary of State has taken heat for giving highly paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and other banks and hedge fund groups. Many liberal Democrats also view her as too closely associated with Geithner's mentors in her husband's White House, a group that includes former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Summers.
Clinton is already moving to distance herself from that wing of the party and any association with Wall Street bailout culture — giving big speeches on economic inequality and the need to drive up wages for workers.
"Economists have documented how the share of income and wealth going to those at the very top has risen sharply over the last generation," Clinton said in a strikingly populist speech to the New America Foundation last week that seemed like it could have come at an Occupy Wall Street rally. "Some are calling it a throwback to the Gilded Age of the Robber Barons."
Geithner himself understands that would-be candidates like Clinton will have to separate themselves from some of actions taken during the crisis. And he still doesn't pay much attention to things that are said and written about him.
"Because generally if you do that too much, you'll want to go crawl under a rock, and you won't make any decisions," Geithner said. "Because when you make decisions, you're going to make people unhappy."


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Ballintempo Forest: Aghanaglack Walk
7 miles, near Enniskillen
Aghanaglack Walk: Ballintempo Forest - A Dual to the Grave
Ballintoy to Bushmills
12.4 miles, near Bushmills/Ballintoy
A moderate linear walk linking Ballintoy and Bushmills
Bearnagh and Meelmore
6 miles, near Newcastle
A 9km/5.5 mile circuit taking in 2 summits in the Mournes
Carntogher Way - Slí an Chairn
5.6 miles, near Maghera, County Derry
Great walk on hill and mountain with fine views across Ulster
Carrigan Forest: Lough Formal Walk
7 miles, near Derrygonnelly
Lough Formal Walk: Carrigan Forest part of the Marble Arch Caves
Castle Ward Boundary Trail
8.7 miles, near Strangford
A walking & cycling trail around the boundary of Castle Ward Dem
Causeway Hill - from Killeter village
9.5 miles, near Killeter
A walk along minor roads and an old bog causeway
Central Mournes
9.9 miles, near Hilltown
A moderate circular walk in the central Mournes
Clandeboye Way – Helen's Bay to Whitespots Country Park
8 miles, near Helens Bay near Crawfordsburn
A woodland walk on a mix of old lanes and tracks
Comber Greenway
7 miles, near Belfast - Dee Street
A traffic-free walk/cycle path along an old railway line.
Craignamaddy Circuit
12.8 miles, near Plumbridge and Gortin
A scenic walking route in the Sperrins Mountains.
Crockbrack Way
7.2 miles, near Moneyneany
A moderate hill walk with excellent views of the Sperrins
Cuilcagh Boardwalk Trail
4 miles, near Belcoo
Streunous climb to the summit of Cuilcagh Mountain
Cuilcagh Hiker's Trail
5.6 miles, near Swanlinbar
A vigorous and exposed route through expansive blanket bog
Dungonnell Way
9.5 miles, near Cargan
A 9.5 mile circular route passing through Glenariff Forest
Florence Court Forest Park - Red Trail
5.6 miles, near Enniskillen
Strenuous walk with good views
Glen River
9 (total) miles, near Newcastle
This walk follows the Glen River uphill into Mournes Mountains
Glenariff Forest Park, Scenic Trail
5.9 miles, near Cushendall
Steep climb with fine views
Hen, Cock and Pigeon Rock
5.9 miles, near Hilltown
A circular route in the western Mournes
Hudy's Way
5.8 miles, near Moneyneany
A medium distance circular walk in the foothills of the Sperrin
Jenkin Forest and Lakes
7.4 miles, near Fivemiletown
Forest walk with stunning views of six lakes
Lagan Towpath
11 miles, near Stranmillis, Belfast
Scenic riverside walk along tarmac path
Lough Foyle Trail
10.4 miles, near Ballykelly or Limavady
A stunning coastal walk on the banks of Lough Foyle
Lough Navar Forest: Lough Navar Lakes Walk
7 miles, near Derrygonnelly, Enniskillen
A walk through the forest with clear views across Lough Navar
Lough Shannagh
7 miles, near Kilkeel
Hilly walk on well used track
Meelmore and Meelbeg
5.5 miles, near Hilltown
A moderate circular walk in the High Mournes
North Down Coastal Path
16 miles, near Holywood, Co Down
Relatively flat scenic coastline
Port Path
6.5 (one way) miles, near Portstewart
Beautiful coastal walk connecting Portstewart Strand and Portrus
Portballintrae Causeway Loop
5.5 miles, near Portballintrae
A loop walk linking Portballintrae to the Causeway and back
Portrush to Bushmills
6.6 (one way) miles, near Portrush/Bushmills
A linear walk on the North Antrim Coast
Quoile River Walk
5.5 miles, near Downpatrick
A pleasant off road walk along the Quoile River
Reservoir Views
9.3 miles, near Annalong/Newcastle
A strenuous day walk passing through the heart of the Mournes
Robbers Table
8.1 miles, near Omagh / Gortin
A great hill walk with fantastic views
Roe Valley Country Park
2 to 7 miles, near Limavady
Riverside & woodland paths
Slieve Binnian
7 miles, near Annalong Village
Fantastic circular route in the High Mournes
Slieve Donard (via Glen River)
2.9 (one way) miles, near Newcastle
A walk to summit of Slieve Donard, highest mountain in N.Ireland
Slieve Donard from Bloody Bridge
3.2 (one way) miles, near Newcastle
A steep riverside walk leading to the summit of Slieve Donard
Slieve Donard, Commedagh and Bearnagh
15 miles, near Bryansford
Challenging walk in the Mournes, including the two highest peaks
Slieve Gullion
9.5 miles, near Forkhill, Meigh, Drumintee
A mountain walk linked with forest tracks and minor roads
Tollymore Forest Park - Mountain & Drinns Trail
5.5 plus 2.9 miles, near Newcastle
An energetic walk through tranquil mature woodland.
Trassey to Bloody Bridge
7.3 miles, near Bryansford
A moderate linear walk giving a true taste of the Mournes
Vinegar Hill Loop
7 miles, near Gortin
A beautiful circular walk in the western Sperrin Mountains.
Adder's Loanin' (Ballyward Walk)
5.5 (approx), miles, near Leitrim
Green lanes and great views of Co. Down countryside
Ballyroney Lake and Bog Walk
5.9 miles, near Ballyroney/Rathfriland
The walk crosses Lackan Bog via - 'The Green Road'
Banagher Forest
9 miles, near Dungiven or Feeny
Surfaced road and forest track
Belfast Lough
7 miles, near Whiteabbey
Shoreline of Belfast Lough taking in views of historic shipyard.
7 miles, near Dungiven
Open mountain walk
Bessy Bell East
2.8 (One Way) miles, near Omagh / Newtownstewart
Open mountain with views of the Sperrin Mountains
Branny Ramble – Green Route
5 miles, near Ballygawley / Aughnacloy
Beautiful scenic views
Branny Ramble – Red Route
7 miles, near Ballygawley / Aughnacloy
A walk on minor roads through the Tyrone countryside.
Carntogher History Trail-Conair Staire Charn Tóchair
11 miles, near Maghera
Excellent history trail linking the area's best heritage sites
Creggandevesky Archaeological Trail
9 miles, near Carrickmore / Creggan
Incredible heritage
Croaghan Breen Forest Walk
6.5 miles, near Magherahoney Village
Scenic hillwalking route
6 miles, near Castlewellan
Lowland Countryside Paths in the Mourne AONB
Dundrum to Newcastle Walk
8 miles, near Newcastle and Dundrum
Countryside, Coast and Village
Fairy Glen - circular walk
6 miles, near Rostrevor
A circular walk from Rostrevor along the riverside
Glenshane Forest
10 miles, near Dungiven
Forest track & open mountain
Gort Moss Walk
5 miles, near Ardboe
A linear moss walk along old moss roads and leafy hedgerows.
Highway to Health, Newry
6.3 miles, near Newry
A medium length circular walk around Newry
Poets Trail - The Creggan Loop
8 miles, near Crossmaglen
Scenic walk on rural roads
Poets Trail: Ballykeel Loop
8 miles, near Mullaghbane
Cultural history
Poets Trail: Forkill Loop
6 miles, near Forkhill
Cultural history
Poets Trail: O'Neill Loop
8 miles, near Creggan
Cultural history
Silent Valley Ben Crom Dam Walk
6 miles, near Kilkeel
A long route following the trail to Ben Crom Dam
Slieve Croob Pass Loaning
6.5 miles, near Finnis a.k.a. Massford/Dromara
Scenic walk
Wetlands Way - Birches and Maghery (3 walks)
5, 5.5 & 12 miles, near Maghery, Co. Armagh
3 walks on quiet lanes and minor roads
Wetlands Way - The Bann Montaighs Trails (x3)
5, 6.5 & 13 miles, near Derrymacash, Co. Armagh
3 walks on quiet lanes and minor roads
Every care has been taken to ensure accuracy of the information. We cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions but where such are brought to our attention, the information will be amended accordingly.
Whilst all the clubs, associations and activity operators listed on this website generally operate according to which is accepted as current best practice, it is the responsibility of the participant to ensure that they are credible and all appropriate safety standards are adhered to. Outdoor Recreation Northern Ireland have, nor assume, any responsibility for the accuracy or the completeness of the information supplied or the service and level of care afforded by any of the clubs, associations and activity operators listed on this website.


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Canned Biscuits: 12+ Recipes for You
Baked Biscuit and Meatballs ...Yum
Make no apologies for using canned biscuits. They have gotten better in taste and texture over the years. And they are still an economical purchase.
Using your imagination and a few extra ingredients you probably have right at home, you can make up a buffet of appetizers or even a full meal using them.
Every Sunday the early birds at church are treated to sausage biscuits... the cooking biscuits and frying sausage are intoxicating.
Give some of these biscuit treats a try....
Since I first posted this Hub, so many more recipes have appeared using this shortcut...canned biscuits are so versatile and for families whose lives are busy, busy..they are a welcome go-to way to feed families.
The photo here is of a recipe that I saw on Facebook. I needed a quick dish to take to a buffet at church so decided to give this a try. It is inexpensive, quick, and tasty.
You need canned biscuits, your favorite jar of marinara, meatballs, cheddar and mozarella cheese.
Cut biscuits into fourths and place in the bottom of a greased 8 x 8 pan. Top with a layer of marinara and add meatballs (four rows of four meatballs works nicely). Top with cheese. Bake at 375 about 20 to 25 minutes till cheese has melted.
Of course you can double this recipe with no problem.
Easy, sweet treat
A Light, Tasty Any-time Dessert
You need to use the 'junior' size canned biscuits for this dessert.
Place biscuits on baking sheet. Drizzle with butter.
Sprinkle coarse sugar on top of each.
Bake as usual.
Let cool for a bit. Slice in half.
Top with your favorite fresh or frozen fruit.
Add a dollop of whipped cream if desired.
Delightful pumpkin and cream cheese filling pastry
A biscuit in a can
Canned biscuits offer a quick alternative to making biscuits from scratch. These are especially nice if you have a hectic schedule but wish to serve hot, appealing dishes.
Let me be the first to tell you that if I were choosing biscuits I would choose to make my Mother's recipe. They are tender and flavor filled and so light I must hold them on the plate.
There are times though when a biscuit is in order and I just don't have the time to make them. When that happens, canned biscuits do work. They are versatile and with little effort a table can be filled with appetizers
One thing I know about them is they are best hot. So if you choose to make any of these, serve them HOT.
Magic in the kitchen
My Momma left a little bit of the magic of how to make biscuits with me as mine are in the same ball park with hers. They are not exactly right but they are enough like them to connect me to those meals when she served them to us years ago.
I can still see the poof of flour as she flipped the dough onto her fabric cloth that she cut them out on each time. I even use the same stainless steel bowl that she used to mix them in; that must be where the magic is.
Choose your favorite biscuit as a foundation
Newest member of the family: Mini biscuits
- Open biscuits and remove from container.
- Roll biscuit to plump it up a bit
- Using a bottle top ( or very small cutter of some sort) that has been dipped in melted unsalted butter mixed with 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt , cut two mini biscuits from the fluffed Momma biscuit
- Place on cookie sheet.
- You should be able to get about 48 from a can of biscuits. If you wish to use a larger lid that is fine.
- With these tiny ones, bake at 400 degrees for about 7 minutes.
- Remove promptly from the baking sheet and top with a dab of reserved butter and garlic salt mixture.
Tray of mini biscuits ready to bake
Maybe your new canned biscuit creation will make you sing like it does this young man ..
Sausage biscuit
Do you have a favorite canned biscuit recipe that is not shown here? If so, I would love to add it to this hub with your permission.
Biscuit and sausage links
Use crescent roll--and link sausages.
- Cook link sausages, drain on paper towel, and let cool.
- Roll one link in each crescent roll.
- Place on baking tray.
- Cook according to package.
- Serve immediately.
12 Ways to Serve Them
- biscuit
- fried bread
- donuts
- pot pie
- 'bizza'
- breadsticks
- egg sandwich
- monkey bread
- toasted cheese
- sliders
- sausage biscuit links (baked together)
- sausage biscuit with patty (patty added after biscuit is baked)
Biscuits with butter, jam,gravey, honey, or just plain
The easiest way to serve them is, of course, to pop open a can, place them on a baking sheet, and bake them. When they are done, slather some butter (or some healthier butter-like alternative) on top and eat.
When they are fresh out of the oven, a little butter or margarine is all of the dressing they need.
However, honey, jelly, jam...any of those are great too.
Toasted Cheese Biscuits
A fried biscuit
- Pour 1/2 cup canola oil in a frying pan. Heat to medium heat.
- Remove biscuits from the can.
- Flatten each of them. Place two or three in the skillet.
- Cook till golden brown, flip, and repeat on side 2.
- Remove to a dish covered with paper towel. Serve with a meal as you would sliced bread.
- You can salt lightly if desired.
- Toss in cinnamon and sugar
- Or, sprinkle with confectioner's sugar
Easy quick delightful breakfast sandwich
Use left over biscuits, pop in your favorite cooked sausage....another quick easy breakfast
Egg biscuit, toasted cheese biscuit, sliders
- Egg biscuit: Easy, quick, and yummy: Cut cooked biscuits in half. Top with fried egg. Ham, sausage, bacon, or cheese may also be added.
- Toasted cheese biscuit: Cut cooked biscuits in half. Top with sliced or grated cheese. Toast.
- Sliders: Cut cooked biscuits in half. Top with cheese, onion, lettuce, tomato, any of your favorite toppings.
This is a cross between a biscuit and a pizza....bizza.
- Cut baked biscuits in half.
- Top with pizza sauce, lightly browned ground beef, and pizza cheese.
- .Broil till cheese is melted.
Biscuit with sausage patty
Biscuit with sausage patty
Easy and quick:
- Bake biscuit of choice
- Slice
- Pop in a sausage patty which has been cooked and drained on paper towel.
A little donut
Heat oil in skillet.
- Flatten uncooked biscuits.
- Cut a hole out of the center.
- Cook in oil till golden on both sides.
- Cook donut holes as well.
- Shake in a brown paper sack with cinnamon and sugar or sprinkle with confectioner's sugar.
A Variety
of Canned Biscuits
possible use
cresent rolls
pigs in a blanket, fruti pie
pizza, burgers, sausage and egg sandwich
Grands Jr
gravy and biscuit, with jelly or honey
donuts, fill with meat and cheese
Pot pie
- Use left over pork, beef, or chicken.
- Make a gravy using chicken or beef broth, flour, milk, and season to taste.
- Add left over veggies or frozen veggies.
- Mix well.
- Place in Pyrex dish for a large casserole or serving size dishes.
- Top with biscuits.
- Bake until the biscuits are done.
Quick, easy cobbler
- Place a can of cherry, apple, peach, or blueberry pie filling in a baking dish.
- Top with biscuits which have been flattened a bit.
- Lightly brush melted butter on biscuits.
- Sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake according to biscuit directions till they are done.
- Divide uncooked biscuits in half.
- Roll out till about 8 inches long. They will shrink some when baking.
- Bake at 400 degrees about 7 or 8 minutes.
- Brush with butter when cooked. Sprinkle with garlic salt.
Monkey bread
- For monkey bread, you need 4 cans of biscuits.
- Cut biscuits into fourths. Dip in butter and cinnamon sugar. Stack on top of each other making a little mountain. You can also bake them in an angel food pan or a bundt cake pan.
- Slather butter and cinnamon sugar over all before baking.
- Bake at 375 for 45-50 minutes.
Unlimited possibilities
These are only a few suggestions. There are so many other ways to serve these little biscuits. Using your imagination and you will quickly add to the ways to serve this convenience food.
© 2012 Patricia Scott
I might just do that.
Thank you. Never thought about doing anything with canned biscuits, except for pigs in a blanket.
Thought I would visit this good article again, you have such great ideas here, AND they're quick and easy. These are recipes even children can do and now with everyone back to school times are probably more hectic and a quick snack like the ones here would be just the thing.
Hope you are having a relaxing and peaceful weekend. I am thinking about you and hoping for the very best for whatever you need the best to happen for. Take care . .
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Hi Patricia,
Now you have me drooling for a good biscuit! You have certainly presented a good many variations of things to do using canned biscuits and many of them sound great. This brought back memories of my mother making homemade donuts and we kids always loved eating the donut holes. Makes me smile just to remember that! Thanks!
Up votes and sharing. Sending good thoughts and blessings your way today!
Can't wait to give some of these a go, my mouth is watering!
What a lot of great ideas! I think I'm going to try the fried biscuits. My mother used to make fried bread from bread dough she made from scratch. They were so delicious just with butter on them.
Several of these different ways of preparing the biscuits so that no one can tell they're out of a can look really yummy and easy and quick (my favorite kind of food).
The little pizzas would make great snacks for a party. Excellent ideas and they look so easy!
Hope your Christmas was peaceful and happy and that the New Year will prove to be a huge improvement for all of us!
Those are great ideas, they look yummy. Thanks for the link, and I will link yours to mine! They go together well!
More Than 12 Recipes You Can Make With Canned Biscuits incredible treats and a well presented hub on this step by step recipe Voted up and ueful
Awesome hubs on what to do with can biscuits. I cut them in pieces for bread dumplings in soup. Voted up. Five stars.
I love monkey bread. I make it every Saturday with my kids. Thanks for the ideas theirs a few i have not tried yet.
Love this I am going to try the doughnut one and the pot pie one sometime in the next few days.
Oh my goodness! These look absolutely wonderful! I'm going to have to link to this hub - I'm publishing a hub on homemade bread rolls and this will fit perfectly. I can't wait to try some of the combos you suggest here.
Canned biscuits can work if we are in a hurry. I have not tried many of these so I will be stocking up on canned biscuits when I go to the store today. These are great suggestions.
OK, I found this just in time for Mother's Day! I will take some of these ideas and use them on the weekend!
I love your recipe. It sound delicious. I can't wait to make it soon. I really enjoy the video as well. Good job, my friend. Rated up and useful!
Good Stuff. We like to do similar things with canned biscuits. They certainly give you many options if you just use your imagination.
Great ideas! My kids would love the fried bread, especially with cinnamon and sugar n it. I am going to surpise them with it for breakfast in the morning! Thanks!


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We are delighted to be able to welcome back THE MAGIC GANG to The Horn following their previous sold out show in April 2016!
Since their inception in 2013, the Brighton-based group's chaotic shows have gained them a reputation as one of the country's most incendiary new bands.
Having secured slots with Swim Deep, Courtney Barnett and JAWS and recently selling out their NME Awards show in Feb 2016, this is a band on the road to bigger things.
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Breakfast Cookies
This recipe is a real winner in our home. Served with fresh juice or smoothies, it's a fantastic boost for breakfast. You can use any kind of nuts and dried fruit you like. We've omitted the raisins and even used cashews because that's what we had on hand.
Breakfast Cookies
2 cups sucanat or turbinado
2 1/2 cups rolled oats
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 cup coconut oil
3/4 cup prune puree (baby food)
2 tablespoons water
5 egg whites
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup chopped nuts
1/3 cup chopped dried apricots
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, stir together the oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Make a well in the center and pour in the coconut oil, prune puree, water, egg whites and vanilla. Mix until well- blended. Stir in the raisins, walnuts and apricots. Scoop cookies using an ice cream scoop, or roll into golf ball sized balls. Place cookies 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets and flatten to 1/2 tall with wet hands.
3. In the preheated oven, bake 8 minutes for chewy cookies (they will not get crisp). Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.


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Watchmen Movies Wallpapers. Gallery Picture.Release Date: March 6, 2009 (conventional theaters and IMAX)
Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
Plot Summary: A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, "Watchmen" is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is watching the Watchmen?


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This is a treat that just about anybody can get behind. Everyone enjoys snacking on a good mixed nut variety. But what's even better than mixed nuts? Spicy, glazed mix nuts. This all-natural, non-processed snack is a homegrown classic that is enjoyed many times throughout the year. You won't be able to resist dipping in for more!
- 1/2 Cup pecans
- 1/2 Cup walnuts
- 1/2 Cup almonds
- 1/2 Cup cashews
- 2 Tablespoons honey
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons chili powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon salt
- Dash of cayenne pepper
NOTE: Use raw nuts, not roasted or salted.
- Preheat your oven to 375.
- Line a rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Combine your favorite mixed nuts in a medium mixing bowl.
- Mix in the honey, chili powder, salt and cayenne pepper and stir until thoroughly combined.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared cookie sheet and bake for 5 minutes.
- Stir the nuts to help prevent burning and bake for 3 to 5 minutes more.
- Allow the nuts to harden in clumps as they cool and break them apart with your hands.
And that's it! Enjoy this recipe and feel free to share your results with us!


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Shirley Bassey will perform at a celebrity Aids fundraiser at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
The Welsh showbiz veteran, who performed at this year's Oscar ceremony, will join acts including Ellie Goulding and Duran Duran at the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala at the annual movie industry gathering in the south of France later this month.
The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) has long been a popular cause in Hollywood, with Elizabeth Taylor among its earliest supporters.
It has held a fundraiser at the festival every year since 1993 and among the stars in this year's audience will be charity supporters Sharon Stone, Janet Jackson, Jessica Chastain and Heidi Klum.


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If you've spent anytime reading my book discussions/reviews you'll probably know that I love a novel that has a well developed backstory or universe. There are some stories which can get away with not having it but I do love those which hint that the story line is just one of many other stories happening consecutively within this universe (sort of like real life). To this end I love many novels written by Stephen Hunt.
In my review of Anomalous Thrust the 4th book in his Sliding Void series I mentioned that
'...I left the Sliding Void universe... with a sneaking suspicion that there was more to the ship, The Gravity Rose, than we were being shown in the story. There were also a lot of loose ends concerning the ship, and her captain Lana Fiveworlds, background. A sort of larger backstory lurking in the shadows waiting to emerge.' source
This suspicion was not hard to extrapolate from reading Hunt's novels but it was nice to have it confirmed. Stephen Hunt has confirmed this in a recent interview he had with SFFWORLD where he says:
I normally start with the world-building first. Maybe it's the unreformed gamer in me, but I find that if you start with the ecosystem, it's much easier to come up with realistic creatures & characters to inhabit said environment. It normally takes me about a month to nail everything down. The Far-called is the first series where I was actually anal enough to produce detailed maps for every part of the world – even large swathes that haven't made it into the novels yet. This was a reaction to the second most regular complaint from readers of my six-book Jackelian fantasy series … 'Where's the ^%%&* map?' (And the first complaint? Glad you asked . . . US readers asking, "Where's the e-book?") source
Yeah, a map of the Jackelian world would have been great, anyway there is a lot more in the article so I encourage you to head on over to the SFFWorld website and have a read. Click here to be redirected to the article.
After reading this article I have been motivated to bring my copy of In Dark Service, book one of Far Called Trilogy to the top of my reading list. I also just purchased Foul Tide Turning, book two in anticipation.
After reading this article I have been motivated to bring my copy of In Dark Service, book one of Far Called Trilogy to the top of my reading list. I also just purchased Foul Tide Turning, book two in anticipation.
You can find out more about Stephen's Far-called series on his website or via www.facebook.com/steampunkish/ Stephen also maintains a Facebook page for his SF readers at www.facebook.com/SciFi.Fantasy/
The Far Called Trilogy
The Jackelian World series another fantasy steampunk world from Stephen Hunt whic includes magic in various forms and where steam power, rather than oil, drives the economy.
Stephen Hunt also has some novels in the Sci Fi genre called The Sliding Void Series


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My First Photo Tour to Italy: A Success!
I know it's been awhile since I last posted, which makes sense considering how busy it's been in the "off-season." It's fitting my last post was about Italy, since I just returned home from there again. I led a photo-tour to the big 3: Rome, Florence & Venice for just over a week in March.
I was a bit nervous to have the responsibility to guide first-timers around these places with BlueHour. This tour was the first of its kind, since nearly every tour we do is almost solely focused around landscapes and landscape photography. Italy is very, very different, especially when it comes to tourism sites like Rome. We were able to fit in the very best these cities had to offer in a short amount of time. I was really happy with how it all came together! Though, with some changes, which we will be implementing in the future.
I'm proud of the shots I managed to make on this trip! I was looking forward to visiting Burano most, since I had never been and it was a stop I missed on the first go-round to Venice. Even though it was raining on that day, the rainbow-painted houses are a sight to see!
I also made a timelapse this time of the Colosseum at night:
I think one of the best parts about Italy, and I don't think anyone would disagree, is the food. I was able to revisit some of my favorite restaurants again, with the addition of trying the famous Florentine Steak! We even did a wine-tasting outside of Siena, which are always so much fun. I learned something brand new over the course of that day - all about Balsamic Vinegar. I had no idea how "the real thing" tasted, and I didn't know I would like it. We got to sample 12-year and 20-year aged Balsamic, and I think it might have changed lives!! I'll never look at Balsamic the same way again, and no more cheap stuff for me! I made sure to take plenty of photos of our culinary experiences:
And, the blog wouldn't be complete if I didn't mention our stop at the Florentine leather school, where I bought myself a nice leather trench coat, and our tour-goers made some quality purchases as well. If you're going to buy leather goods anywhere, Florence is the place to do it.
After the conclusion of the tour, Paul and I stayed an extra couple of days to scout out new locations for a new Italy tour. Our next stop will be Southern Italy, where we'll take photographers to locations like Sorrento, Capri, Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast (it will be warmer there too!). It was a nice change of pace to visit the much quieter Amalfi & Positano, compared to the likes of Florence and Rome.
I even made a "cat series" of photographs, since Italy, especially southern Italy, has so many of them scurrying around. They'll make a nice addition to my existing ones!
Interested in our 2019 tour? Send us a message so we can put you on our 'shortlist,' and we'll email you details when we're closer to our tour announcement before anyone else!


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Back by Popular Demand-After School Program at Prairie Mountain School
This fall West African Cultural Arts Institute completed a very successful Drum and Dance After School Program for Prairie Mountain School students grades 5-8. Students enjoyed interactive lesson and educational games that taught them about the culture from Guinea, West Africa through drumming, dancing, and singing classes lead by dedicated and dynamic teaching artists Alseny, Andrea, and Papa Yansane. Back by popular demand WACAI will be offering a similar program for 3rd-5th graders on Tuesdays and Thursdays from February 6th-March 22nd directly after school until 3:30 pm. On the evening of the last day of the program kids will show off what they've learned to their families and school community at the Culminating Event that features a student performance followed by a demonstration of WACAI's performance group.
What it looks like: Students join teaching artists in the Caforium directly after school Tuesdays and Thursdays, eat a snack, and then participate in drum and dance lessons provided by WACAI. The instruction is a wonderful balance of learning new music, dance, and performance skills and techniques while having fun and building confidence.
Kids will love this joyful and expressive way to move to the beat of live drumming while playing interactive movement games and learning traditional and contemporary African dance steps. Kids will also learn to play a variety of rhythms on drums and percussion instruments provided, improving their hand eye coordination, listening skills, musicality, and ability to collaborate with a group. It's an excellent way for kids to learn about African culture while getting their squirlies out!
The After School Program will culminate with a performance event for the community that enables students to gain performance experience and share what they've learned with their family and friends. This will happen on Thursday, March 22nd in the Caforium from 6:30-7:30 pm. This performance will also educate audiences about the wealth and beauty of West African culture and demonstrate the transformative power of working together to build community.
A middle school girl shared with me how special it was to get to know her fellow school mates through WACAI's Drum and Dance After School Program. She talks about how she used to see them in the hallways, but really had no idea how profound her connection to them would become through collaborating on creating a dance sequence or overcoming the challenge of learning a tricky drum part by watching classmates' hands "to carry her through".
Because this program is designed as an intensive study, with lessons building upon material covered day to day leading up to the culminating performance students are encouraged to commit to the duration and attend as many of the 14 classes as possible. Keep an eye out for permission slips in the Tuesday folders in the new year and Happy Holidays!


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We have written and produced two albums together. The first one is called "I Could Never Go". Ben and I recorded it when we were just getting out of high-school and still learning what it meant to be "musicians". The second one called, "I'm Lovin' It", was released with an independent record label in 2012. We have had a lot of success with this album selling over 10,000 copies and having the single "Take Me Back To Paradise" played on radio stations around the world!
I have some of our music on the MUSIC page of this site but if you want to see more of what we do you can go to rosaleeandben.com. We are planning on releasing our next album in 2017 so keep a heads up!
For me, music = Life!
It seems like other people liked the idea as well and they were always asking me where I got mine. Sooooooo, here they are for purchase in a multitude of fabrics. I hope you will love them as much as I do!
This passion of mine also came out of necessity. When I started singing, I had to learn very quickly what translated well on stage. Most of my looks were trial and error and with all the great resources available online, I have been able to "perfect" my craft to the best of my ability. I'm always trying to learn and improve and as they say, practice makes perfect"……..kinda!


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Rocket Car Drag Racer — No. 18 All-Time Quickest Rocket-Powered Dragster: "Concept 1" 5.200 ET, 300 MPH, in 1986
The first time we had a rocket-powered car run at Bonneville, I stood too close and the propellant gave a long-lasting sting to my eyes. I learned to give them a wide berth. I recall Kitty O'Neil was one who ran at our drag strip. I believe it was about 1977. She had driven a rocket car over 500 MPH in an attempt to break the land speed record. She was totally deaf. She had been told to keep her drag strip run under 300 MPH to conform with our insurance requirements. We blacked out the public speed signs just in case she exceeded the limits. She did. We announced a run of about 297 MPH even though she ran over 300 MPH. Oh well.
Jet Car Drag Racer — No. 59 All-Time Quickest Jet-Powered Dragsters: "Wildfire" 5.878 ET, 270.27 MPH, in 1989
Jet Car Drag Racer — No. 71 All-Time Quickest Jet-Powered Dragsters: "Hot Streak" 6.08 ET, 272.72 MPH, in 2001
That is me sillhouetted in the flame of Jerry Rose's jet dragster, Green Mamba. For about a dozen years I was the designated hose man for jet exhibition cars at Bonneville. The first time I did it, I got too far behind the afterburner and had to take cover behind a 50-gallon water drum. It singed all the hair on my arms, hair, and eyebrows. I kept showering myself with the hose, but 3,000 degrees was just a bit too hot back there. If I didn't hose down the area about twenty feet behind the afterburner, the heat would have peeled up the asphalt. Nothing like it! Bill Carter's car is to the left of me. My wife, Karen, was the track photographer and took this photograph. Sometimes she got a little too close to these jet cars, too. We were contributors to National Dragster for a couple of years: I wrote articles and she took the photos.
Funny Car Drag Racer—NHRA World Champion 1990-91, 1993-98, 2000-2002, 2003 (owner), 2004, 2006
I never thought of it as dangerous when I started. It was just people racing Funny Cars. It was like, we were California kids and street racing was big. Even though I never did any street racing as a kid, I was around race cars. I had polio as a kid and I played football in high school, but when I got to college I didn't have the talent to continue doing that. The race car sort of did the running for me. It was like, "Wow, I can do this, wear a helmet, and still hear the cheer of the crowd."
John Force
I was inside John's trailer when he signed this photo for me. When he was racing at an NHRA divisional meet at our Bonneville drag strip, I was the sole official at the end of our race track during qualifying. I had just helped another funny car driver pull his car out of the sand pit at the end. That driver was crabbing about our "rinky dink" drag strip because he was upset at having ended up in the sand. Force made a run right afterwards and also ended up in the sand. Instead of crabbing, John yelled out at me, "What did I turn? What did I turn?" Thinking he had a really good run, he wanted to know how fast he'd gone. To heck with landing in the sand. He even had sustained some body damage in the sand, but John just said for his crew to hurry back and they'd duct tape the damage in the pits. What an amazing guy! When I was in his trailer in about 1992, I told him about this moment. He said I was just among dozens of track officials around the country who had hauled him out of a sand trap.
Watch a video with some clips from the A&E TV show Driving Force and other footage showing John Force at his ticked off, ever-loving best. Watch a video clip of Force and Cruz Pedregon in a peddle-fest in Dallas in 1992. Watch a video clip of Force firing up his engine in the pits in 2007.
Top Fuel Drag Racer—NHRA World Champion 1975,1985-86 [first Top Fuel driver to surpass 170 (1957), 180 (1958), 190 mph (1963), 200 mph (1964), 240 mph (1973), 250 mph (1975), 270 mph (1986); has won 35 NHRA Top Fuel events, 4 IHRA world titles, 10 AHRA world titles, ranked number 1 on Hot Rod Magazine's list of the top 50 drivers; credited with developing rear engine dragster; Motorsports Hall of Fame of America 1989, International Motorsports Hall of Fame 1997, Hot Rod Magazine Hall of Fame 1997, Automotive Hall of Fame 2004]
I first saw Garlits in about 1959 when he was on a West Coast tour doing match races. It was at Pomona. I remember at the Winternationals when he came to voice his displeasure with Wally Parks's decision to not permit fuel cars to run. We booked him to run match races at Bonneville drag strip in the 1970s and 1980s. My wife, Karen, rode with him in his truck to the race track from an appearance he was making in downtown Salt Lake. She was the race track photographer for a couple of years. In one of his appearances at Bonneville, I had him sign a copy of his autobiography. I had to wait until he had cooled off from chewing out one of the guys on his pit crew.
Watch a video clip of Don Garlits's Swamp Rat XXX going completely airborn in a wheel stand that turns the car completely over and backward--a literal blowover. Watch a video clip of Garlits fire up Swamp Rat VIII the old fashioned way—with a push start—and do a couple of burnouts in Kansas City. Watch a video clip of Garlits firing up one of the Swamp Rat cars in the pits in 2008 in Kansas City. Watch a video clip of Garlits firing up his car on the line at night. Watch a video clip of Garlits firing up his car at night at Bakersfield at the 2008 Cacklefest. Watch a video clip of Garlits and other drag racers in a montage of 1950s drag racing. Watch a video clip of Garlits firing up one of the early front-motor Swamp Rats with the wing over the engine down the return road of the 2009 Gatornationals. Watch a video clip of Garlits and Tommy Ivo bumping into each other during a cacklefest in Columbus, Ohio, in 2007.
Gas/Top Fuel/Jet Car Drag Racer/Actor—"Mickey Mouse Club" Television Series [first driver to break the nine-second barrier in gas-powered dragster, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America 2005]
I saw Howard's "Twin Bear" at Bakersfield in '59 and decided that a side-by-side combination would transfer more of the car's static weight on the rear tires rather than a tandem design. But I did it differently. Howard had simply turned one engine around. I reversed the engine's rotation and ran it backwards. We simply meshed double-wide starter gears on the flywheels together and use a multi-disc clutch to directly drive the car through an offset third member. The engines would torque 'outside-in' so the car would go up and down when I cracked the throttle and not torque steer when I lifted. Better yet, it ran nine-flat the first time out and then became the first gas-burning dragster to run in the eights—and the first to run 170, then 180 on gas. Best of all it handled great and was nearly bulletproof.
Tommy Ivo
Watch a video clip of Tommy Ivo waking up the neighborhood when he fires up his car in 2007. Watch a vidco clip of Ivo and another vintage front-motored dragster do a bit of cackling on the streets of downtown Escondido. Watch a video clip of Ivo firing up his car at the 2008 Cacklefest at Bakersfield. Watch a video clip of Ivo's rear-engined beauty at the 2008 Cacklefest at Bakersfield.
Top Fuel Drag Racer—[Unofficial first over 200 mph in Top Fuel Dragster in Quarter Mile, 8.87/204.54, Alton Dragway, April 1960; International Drag Racing Hall of Fame 1997]
I went off the track at San Gabriel while racing Ivo because of the smoking tires and because the front-engine location blocked my vision. At no time on the run did I feel I was driving over my head. I think the reason that I got known for the wild races back then was that all of the racing press was located in Southern California, and, of course, they loved stuff like that.
Chris Karamesines
The Greek signed this autograph for me when I weighed his car following a run he made at Bonneville at an AHRA meet.
Watch a video clip of Chris Karamesines going up in smoke at the 1984 Springnationals at Columbus, Ohio, against Doug Kerhulas whose parachute doesn't employ and he crashes through the catch fence in a terrible accident. Watch a video clip of Karamesines, age 75, warming up his car in the pits in 2008. Watch a video clip of Karamesines upsetting Joe Amato in the semi-finals at Sanair in Montreal.
Auto Race Driver—National Driving Champion, 1928,1929,1933; Indianapolis 500 winner: 1928 (99.48 mph), 1933 (104.16 mph), 1936 (109.07 mph) [Engineer—partner with Dale Drake in building Offenhauser engines that powered 18 consecutive winning cars at Indy; Automobile Racing Hall of Fame 1974, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame 1963, International Motorsports Hall of Fame 1992, National Sprint Car Hall of Fame 1991, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America 1993]
Lou Meyer autographed this 1936 Art Krenz cartoon. It is one of four Meyer-signed cartoons in my collection. I also have another Krenz cartoon and two by Jack Sords.
See his grave in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.
Top Fuel Drag Racer—National Hot Rod Association World Champion 1977, 1980, 1982; American Hot Rod Association World Champion 1981 [NHRA first licensed woman dragster driver 1965; Motorsports Hall of Fame of America 1990, International Motorsports Hall of Fame 2004]
Now, if you ask who do I have the most respect for, I'd say Shirley Muldowney. She went against all odds. They didn't want her to race Top Fuel, the association, the racers, nobody...Just Shirley.
Don Garlits
We had an AHRA divisional race at our Bonneville drag strip in the early 1980s. I was the lone official at the end of the track for the final run. I undid her safety harness and hitched a ride back to the starting line with she and her crew as they celebrated winning the race. She told her crew to watch their language around me as Utah was Mormon country. I have several of her autographs.
Watch a video clip of Shirley Muldowney in her funny car days going up against the Jackson Brothers. Watch a video clip of Muldowney in 1976 and 1977.
Super Stock/Funny Car/Rocket Car/Jet Car Drag Racer [International Drag Racing Hall of Fame 2009]
In about 1977 or 1978, Proffitt ran his jet dragster at our Bonneville drag strip. I recall him taking his hands off the steering wheel during the run for a bit of showmanship.
Watch a video clip of Hayden Proffitt being inducted into the Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Watch a video clip of Proffitt's old A/FX Mercury.
Jet Car Drag Racer — No. 61 All-Time Quickest Jet-Powered Dragsters: "Green Mamba" 5.895 ET, 258.62 MPH, in 2001; 11-time National Jet Car Champion.
He first drove jet cars for Walt Arfons' Green Monster in 1962 until accident in 1966 caused both of his legs to be amputated. He began driving again in 1968 in the Green Mamba. He was a regular at our Bonneville drag strip. I recall his wife standing well behind the flame to "read" it? Probably just a bit of showmanship. Exhibition cars were all about putting on a good show.
Watch a video clip of Doug Rose profiling his career and jet car. Watch a video clip of Rose telling a funny story about he and jet car driver Doug Brown. Watch a video clip of Rose's jet car obliterating a Lincoln Town Car with his afterburner flame. Watch a video clip of Rose melting an ambulance with his jet car.
Automobile Customizer/Cartoonist
I cultivated a short-lived relationship with Roth just before his death. My wife and I were wandering through a cemetery in Manti, Utah, in the late 1990s and stumbled on Roth's grave marker. It was a bit different than the stone currently marking his grave. He had the marker placed a few years before he died. I had seen Roth at the L.A. County Fair in Pomona doing his T-shirt art and displaying his Outlaw rod (above). I was wowed! But years later, he joined the Mormon Church and moved to Manti. I didn't know this when I stumbled on his grave. I researched his life and found out about his Mormon conversion. Since I worked for the Mormon Church historical library, I thought it would be important for us to document his life. I contacted him to inquire about doing an oral history interview with him. I visited his home to do that, but found he was at a car show in California. I ran into him at a car show in Logan, Utah, and we talked about getting together for an interview. He sent me a couple of books for our library, but before we could do the interview, he died. He signed this autograph for me on the back of his business card when we met in Logan.
See his grave in Manti Cemetery, Manti, Utah.
Top Fuel Drag Racer/Chassis Builder [International Drag Racing Hall of Fame 2007]
Dave Uyehara is driving the Good, Bad, and Ugly T/F dragster in this photo taken by my wife at Bonneville in the mid-1980s. They wanted to take her on tour. She was tempted. We had fun working together there. That's me in the white official outfit standing in the background left.Dave Uyehara has been a drag racer in Northern California since the mid-'60s. Teamed with Frank Martinez, he began his career in a Jr. Fuel dragster. Since then he has driven and built countless dragster and funny car chassis and in the late '80s he was one of the most prominent chassis builders in the sport with a long list of customers including Eddie Hill. Today, his Nostalgia Top Fuel cars are the standard of the sport.
Top Fuel Drag Racer/Engine Tuner [International Drag Racing Hall of Fame 2004]
This is a close-up of the signatures in the Good, Bad, and Ugly dragster photo (above) showing Henry Velasco and Dave Uyehara autographs.
Velasco began his career building welded strokers in the 1950s for dragsters at Reath Automotive in Long Beach. In 1971, he opened Velasco Crankshaft Service in Downey, California. He also served as an engine tuner for various racing teams, including John Force and Gary Densham. One of his early crankshaft designs is on display at the Smithsonian Museum.