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Monday Confessions, 5 things to stop doing in order to produce more Joy!
I don't know about you friends, but January usually finds me trying to slow down and take stock a bit about what's important. It's sometimes a forced change in pace. The winter weather keeps us in, the hustle of the holidays are over and things are just generally slower for me in business. I need this "reset" so badly but I also find myself resisting it. So, instead of resolutions of things I need to start, I've actually been thinking about some things that I know I need to stop doing in order to allow for more joy in my days!
Listen friends, I am taking this advice as much as I am giving it. I've been wrestling with chronic stress and insomnia (see also "Mommy Burnout" by Dr. Sheryl Ziegler) so these are things I need to stop as much as anyone to gain fresh joy and perspective in my life, as well as my health.
1. Stop over scheduling: This seems self explanatory but we all need to take a good look at our schedules, especially as we head into spring and a new season. Don't try to jam in too many things for yourself or your family. Kids need margin too. They need free play and even, boredom. I know how much it causes me to get frazzled when I am rushing everyone around and nothing puts disappointment on a kids face like telling him he has to rush off somewhere instead of getting to play outside with friends/siblings.
"Busyness is a byproduct of our culture. It is the sacrifice we make for our religion of more, for our perfectionist tendencies, for our temptation to over schedule, over inform, overprovide." - Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow
2. Stop Comparing: We all know the saying that "comparison is the thief of joy" and yet so many of us live constantly trying to see how we measure up. I think this affects each of us differently, but it can be everything from body image, to clothing style to our home or kids…It is any area of life that we find ourselves comparing and lacking. Don't do this to yourself. If you find yourself comparing, take a step back and ask yourself why?
"There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." -G. K. Chesterton
3. Stop wasting too much time on internet: See above about the comparing issue….so much of this springs from our internet culture. We don't all need to know what the housewife in Wisconsin is baking or decorating or wearing today. It's not that all these things are bad things, but it's just that it takes up time and mental space that you could devote to other things in your days. Set a timer if you need to or remove apps from your phone. A big help is turning off notifications so that you aren't getting dinged constantly and beckoned to come look at your phone. I promise more days with less internet will bring your heart joy.
"Deep breath. Are we all inhaling intoxicating Pinterest fumes? An oxygenated reality? And if so, can we call it true inspiration? The definition of inspiration is the drawing of breath, an inhalation, a gasp. A filling-up that offers an abundance of energy for your day, for the task, for that project, for this life."
- Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow
4. Stop acting like you don't have power to change: I heard a podcast the other day talking about maintaining a family's schedule and the interviewer said, "it feels more like the family schedule controls me than I control it." I do understand this feeling for sure, but a question arose while I listened. Are we not in control of what we choose to fill our lives with? We truly do have the power to change things if they aren't working for our lives or families. If nothing else, America is certainly the land of choice. We have options about schools, jobs, foods, etc. We can change things that aren't working. Does that mean it's easy? No, it most likely won't be easy. I can revisit a lot of feelings from early last year when we contemplated moving…it was by FAR not easy and 2018 was the year that tried to kill me, but now sitting on the other side of that journey in our new home, I can see it was worth the huge change. This idea of the power to change can apply to all kinds of habits, from our health to our housework, so don't be afraid and start small! One small change can lead to big differences over time.
5. Stop with the frantic: I know all these suggestions here are like a spiderweb that all connects at this point, which they do. This frantic part though, it's not just a pace but the frantic part is a mind set. Frantic has you thinking, "when your mind has to work seven steps ahead instead of just being where you are, because this deadline's coming, and the laundry has to get done before that trip, because you can't forget to pack snowpants for school, and you need to beg for more time on this project. Again…Good things like efficiency and multi-tasking go off the rails so far that sometimes I find myself running in my own house, shuttling things from room to room like my life is a timed obstacle course. This is insane." (excerpt from Shauna Niequist, Stop Hustling and Get Your Life Back).
I find myself getting like this all the time, worrying about everything from big decisions like education all the way down to what is for dinner. It's not like we can escape a lot of these parts of life, but we can make room for more slow time and quiet. It's the opposite of what culture teaches us constantly, which is to dominate, to hustle, and to succeed at all costs. Sometimes "success" needs to just being to slow down and play with our preschooler on the floor. Our souls need a lot more of that type of interaction than the constant hustle. As I am exploring my serious need for rest and a change of pace, this is not only a preference issue but an absolute necessity for me. I need to change out of the frantic if I am going to find health again.
I hope you hear my heart on this Monday morning, we are in it tougher. What are some things you need to STOP doing in order to create more joy in your days?


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For this night of karaoke, Annie Dorsen has put together a selection of numbers like no other. There's no Gloria Gaynor, no Queen or Taylor Swift. In their place are some other greats—artists who have gone down in history for their passion, their eloquence, their words. Spokaoke features Socrates, Muammar Gaddafi, Ronald Reagan and more. Their speeches have helped make the world as we know it, and on this occasion audiences do their own covers of them.
Participants choose from a selection of over 90 classics: Socrates' address to the court, Gaddafi's UN tirade, Reagan's exhortation to "tear down this wall." To recite these golden oldies is to recognize them for what they are: pieces of popular art. Here's a chance to pay tribute to some of the greatest hitmakers of all time; who needs Neil Diamond when you've got Sarah Palin?
About the PuSh Festival
In a spirit of innovation, the PuSh Festival engages and enriches audiences with adventurous contemporary performance, while promoting cultural exchange and development.
The Festival showcases contemporary work that is visionary, genre-bending, startling and original. Outreach activities promote a sense of shared curiosity and renewed appreciation for the role of contemporary art in everyday life, while the Assembly networking event provides practitioners unique opportunities for skills enhancement, increased profile and touring in Canada and abroad.

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Specials (music, physical education, art, and technology/life skills) and special services are provided in English.
Direct daily reading and writing instruction in English begins in the third grade.
Approximately 80% of the school day is taught in the target language for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
Transfer students must meet target language grade level requirements to enter DLS after the beginning of 1st grade.
After two or three years in an immersion program, students will demonstrate proficiency and comprehension skills that are comparable to those of native speakers the same age. However, continued participation in an immersion program through middle school is necessary to allow the student to achieve the same grammatical accuracy, variety and complexity produced by native speakers.
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text: WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- The U.S. and its trading partners are taking appropriate and necessary steps to reduce the U.S. current account by increasing U.S. savings and global economic growth, said U.S. Treasury Undersecretary John Taylor in a speech Thursday. "The beneficial impact of these positive measures may take time to materialize, but there is no reason to expect that financing and adjusting will not be adequate and smooth," he said. Taylor welcomed moves by the Chinese central bank to raise interest rates, calling them "significant steps in support of China's move to a flexible and market based exchange rate."


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To the Editor:
Re "Moving Ahead With Common Core" (editorial, April 21):
Hope runs high that the new Common Core learning standards will fix American education. A risk is thinking that the standards alone can do the job.
The intention of the standards, the editorial says, "is to help students develop strong reasoning skills earlier than is now common," with students by fifth grade "required to produce essays in which they introduce, support and defend arguments."
These are objectives hard to argue with. But simply adopting the standards will not make it happen. Nor will widespread testing to gauge whether they've been met.
Tellingly, it is "the states and localities" that are charged with the more formidable task of figuring out how to achieve these standards.
How does one develop strong reasoning skills in students, and exactly what do these skills look like across different kinds of content?
Teachers can't be expected to come up with answers to these critical questions on their own. Instead, we need to recognize the standards as only a first step, not a final one. The mission is one that will require significant, sustained investment in research on how children learn, if we are to find out what we need to know to meet such standards.
Bronxville, N.Y., April 22, 2013
The writer, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, is the author of "Education for Thinking."
To the Editor:
You are right to urge us to stay the course with the Common Core learning standards.
We have built an education system where far too many high school graduates find themselves utterly unprepared for reasonably paying jobs or college. But you err doubly when you celebrate the lack of a specific curriculum in the new standards.
First, the standards explicitly require the study of our country's founding documents, 18th-, 19th- and early 20th-century American literature, as well as Shakespeare and ancient mythology.
Second, the applause for a skills-based education is misguided: learning has to be about something in particular, not nothing in general.
As the education theorist E. D. Hirsch Jr. has argued, our most underprivileged students suffer most in skills-based schooling; it will require content-rich, well-sequenced curriculums and matched assessments to make good on the promise of the Common Core.
New York, April 21, 2013
The writer, dean of the Hunter College School of Education, is a former New York State education commissioner.
To the Editor:
It is disappointing to see you echoing state officials who claim that parental alarm over high standards or tough tests accounts for growing resistance to the Common Core. Instead, our objection is that the new standards are not high enough.
They are tied to cookie-cutter assessments in the form of state tests that severely restrict the ability of teachers to innovate in the classroom. We want our children to be challenged as individuals and encouraged to go far beyond anything that a multiple-choice test can possibly measure.
There has been much media attention lately given to the opt-out movement, but the real opt-outers are the country's wealthy, who send their children to private schools that are exempt from state tests and the Common Core.
Separate has never been equal in this country. Imposing a curriculum on public schools alone can only deepen the yawning gulf that separates well-financed, flexible private schools from underfinanced and increasingly test-oriented public schools. We will never achieve universal excellence in education unless we grant all teachers the same intellectual freedom now enjoyed by those educating the children of the elite.
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Pitkäsalo, Eliisa, (born 9th August 1968 in Pietarsaari, Finland) is teaching Finnish language in The Department of Finno-Ugric Studies in BDF College in Szombathely (Hungary). She has graduated from Jyväskylä University (Finland) on 1998 (MA on Literature and Hungarian studies, additional studies: Finnish language on 2000). She is taking part of the PhD Programme of Contemporary Culture Studies (2006–2010) in Jyväskylä University. In her dissertation, she is examining the significations the characters get when transferring them from the Finnish epic Kalevala to a contemporary Finnish novel, Sankarit (The Heroes, 2003) by Johanna Sinisalo.
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Statement from Chanté Coleman, Director of the Choose Clean Water Coalition, on the Chesapeake Bay Program Executive Council Meeting
(Annapolis, MD) – Today, the Chesapeake Executive Council, consisting of the governors of the six watershed states, the mayor of the District of Columbia, the chair of the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, met in Baltimore, Maryland to discuss the current status of the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort. The Council also signed a directive in support of agricultural technical assistance and conservation practice implementation.
In response, the Choose Clean Water Coalition is releasing this statement from Chanté Coleman, director of the Coalition.
"We applaud the Chesapeake Executive Council for signing the directive today that will make technical and program support for agriculture a priority. The recent Environmental Protection Agency report on the state of the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort indicated that while the states have made great progress in certain areas, many are lagging in reducing pollution from agriculture. While elevating this issue is an important step, without additional resources dedicated to actually funding on the ground projects that reduce pollution, this directive is just words. One of the reasons Pennsylvania has found itself behind in meeting their goals, is due to a lack of funding for projects, which is why we are calling on the state legislature to create dedicated funding sources for clean water."
"Pennsylvania is not alone. It should come as no surprise, that areas where states like Maryland and Virginia are behind in meeting their goals are also often the result of a lack of funding. All of the states must make supporting on the ground projects that reduce agricultural, and urban and suburban runoff a priority."
"One way that the governors and the mayor of the District of Columbia can support more funding and resources for on the ground projects, is to voice their support for the provisions of the Senate Farm Bill that are meant to do just that. The bay watershed's Senate delegation worked hard for a greatly improved Regional Conservation Partnership Program that will provide more resources for farmers in Critical Conservation Areas around the nation, and that includes the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Senate Farm Bill also provides more funding for critically needed riparian forest buffers through the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, and also streamlines the process for obtaining these resources, including technical assistance.
The Choose Clean Water Coalition is an organization that harnesses the collective power of more than 240 local, state, regional and national groups to advocate for clean rivers and streams in all communities in the Chesapeake region.


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Last Roses of the Season/
Last Roses of the Season
Over the years whenever I was living somewhere besides at home, I had fresh flowers in my room. Usually they were nothing fancy, maybe a sprig of wildflowers growing nearby or a tiny bouquet from a corner florist. When I was working in Japan, one of the embassy staff shared their one weekly chrysanthemum with me. In that country, they appreciate and celebrate the beauty of one flower.
Now that I am working from home, one of my priorities continues to be to have fresh flowers nearby. They may be growing in a pot, which is my favorite way to have that touch of greenery in my rooms, or they can be something I cut from my hillside garden.
As a cold front moved into Missouri, evening temperatures plunged in the high 40s, cooling daytime temperatures into the delightful 70s. My plants appreciated the reprise from hot and humid conditions and delivered a delightful crop of one of my favorite flowers, roses.
The yellow hybrid tea was munched by a couple of insects but it joins the peach hybrid tea with a lovely fragrance. This long-stemmed rose reminded me of the vintage yellow roses quilt I found a few years ago at an estate sale. The two smaller miniature roses made their second garden appearance since spring. I have them tucked away in garden borders to surprise me when they bloom and all I can say, it worked this fall!
I suspect these are the last roses of the season, a lovely way to end the gardening year and extend the growing season if just for a few more days.


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This one was definitely a more relaxed performance!
And if you want to listen to it or re-listen to it, you can do so here!
|3 amazing keyboards to play with, plus a nice modular mixer to mix them up!
Using no sequencer or looper, I focused on playing the 3 keyboards that made up my setup, the DK Synergy, the Korg Trident and the Rhodes 73 MkII.
The Clavia Nord Modular G2X was used as well but only as a mixer, using the DiginastMixer presented before in this post!
Like always, when you are improvising for a full hour, it is hard to ensure all moments of your improvisation are really interesting, but I think that, overall, this was a pretty nice improvisation!
Each of the 3 keyboards used can sound truly amazing and they definitely complemented each other very well, while the Clavia Nord Modular G2X provides a nice mixer with a nice set of effects.
And as you'd probably expect, the Rhodes 73 MkII is a true joy to play with, a totally inspiring keyboard that allows you to push the limits of your imagination!
The DK Synergy and Korg Trident are also very nice keyboards to play with and definitely made nice contributions to this track, but the Rhodes 73MkII just has something special when it comes to improvise with it...
I also felt it was a nice change in style from what I had been doing so far, and really hope you enjoy to listen or re-listen to this performance ;)


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Information in this article is about real-life people, companies, and objects, and does not relate to the in-universe Sonic series.
Dreams Come True (ドリームズ・カム・トゥルー Dorīmuzu Kamu Turū?) is a music duo from Japan, formed in 1988 that has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. They were also the group responsible for a majority of the music in the games Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Relevant history
Dreams Come True was started by bassist Masato Nakamura, and is fronted by Miwa Yoshida, who is the band's main singer-songwriter. They were originally a three-piece band with Takahiro Nishikawa on keyboards, until he departed in 2002. The band is commonly known as DCT (Dreams Come True) and sometimes referred to as "Dorikamu" (ドリカム?) by their fans. Dreams Come True released their self-titled debut album in 1989, which sold more than one million copies. Their 1992 release, The Swinging Star, was the first Japanese album to sell over three million copies, and for several years held the title of the best-selling Japanese-language album of all time.
Miwa Yoshida started a solo music career in 1995, and the following year appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. She has also appeared in advertisements for various companies (such as Sony, Visa and Coca Cola). Meanwhile Masato was hired to compose the music for television commercials, and around the same time compiled various "Dreams Come True" songs for Konami to be used in their game series Dance Dance Revolution. He had previously been hired to compose the music for the first two Sonic the Hedgehog video games on the Sega Mega Drive.
While Masato created a majority of the music in both Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, financial disagreements caused him to be dropped in lieu of other composers such as Howard Drossin and Jun Senoue as of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Despite this, Masato's classic work still appears in later games (such as Sonic Advance or Sonic Pinball Party). He also seems to be on good terms on Sega, being brought back in to work on the music for Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis as well as contributing a remixed version of the ending theme from Sonic the Hedgehog 2, "Sweet Dreams"/"Sweet Sweet Sweet", for the 2006 video game Sonic the Hedgehog.
External media
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- Dreams Come True at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


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From the Mosaic Festival : "We are thrilled to announce that once again, Halifax will have a multicultural event: The Mosaic Festival. Breaking the mould of past festivals, we are creating a unique celebration of our city's diverse cultures – pairing a vibrant parade of music and dance with a waterfront party of concerts and vendors. Join us on August 18th for a fun, family friendly event."
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Page 5: The three-legged stool - the suppliers
A third group of stakeholders, critical to the success of the franchise operation, is the suppliers. As McDonald's considers the quality of its products to be of absolute importance, it sets standards for suppliers that are amongst the highest in the food industry. McDonald's believes in developing close relationships with suppliers - everything is done on an open accounting, handshake trust basis.
The suppliers work closely with McDonald's to develop and improve products and production techniques. This close interdependency is described as a three-legged stool principle, and involves McDonald's, the franchisees and the suppliers. Suppliers that are able to meet the quality standards set down by McDonald's have been able to share in the growth and success of McDonald's.


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ASB gift Black Ferns a lasting memento at historic capping event
ASB as proud partner of the world-champion Black Ferns is delighted to have been part of the inaugural capping event celebrating former players, who created history 20 years ago by coming home victorious from the first official Women's Rugby World Cup.
ASB head of community, sponsorship and events Mark Graham says, "It was an incredible achievement and the team has continued to propel women's rugby to the forefront of the world stage, solidifying themselves as role models for women everywhere."
The capping was part of a Black Ferns Reunion Dinner held at Eden Park last night, and it mirrors the tradition of capping All Blacks, which started in 2009 to mark a player's first test.
To celebrate their dedication and determination, ASB has given a locally designed and handmade sterling silver chevron necklace to the capped players. The forward pointing chevron shape symbolises Progress, and is a testament to the momentous occasion for each of the players who are always moving forward, not only in their careers but to advance women's rugby worldwide.
"They're proof that passion, ambition and incredible work ethic is truly unbeatable, and it can have a lasting inspiring impact on the next generation of girls dreaming of achieving great things whether it is on the sports field, in business, or both," says Graham.
"Embracing diversity is really important to ASB and equally so is helping Kiwis progress and that is why we're proud to be standing alongside these inspirational women. When they pulled on the black jersey creating history in 1998 they truly embodied the indomitable spirit of New Zealand. We're looking forward to joining with New Zealanders and cheering on the current Black Ferns to a successful 2018 season and beyond," Graham says.


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Celebration of Life Campaign Begins Nov. 17
We are excited to announce that our Celebration of Life 2016 will be starting on Thursday, Nov. 17 as part of the national Give to the Max day. It will run through Dec. 31.
The theme of this year's fund raiser focuses on the grief and struggles that follow the death of a child as a result of a miscarriage or stillbirth. This is often a hidden loss that many families don't talk about. But the emotions, pain and grief that follow such a loss are very real.
We'll give more details in a few days, but we wanted to let you know the date of when our fund raiser begins. And YES, we will have a matching fund option again this year. Very exciting. God bless, Pat & Judy


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Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger
John Harris Rogers (1863-1930) served in Texas law enforcement for more than four decades, as a Texas Ranger, Deputy and U.S. Marshal, city police chief, and in the private sector as a security agent. He is recognized in history as one of the legendary "Four Captains" of the Ranger force that helped make the transition from the Frontier Battalion days into the twentieth century, yet no one has fully researched and written about his life. Paul N. Spellman now presents the first full-length biography of this enigmatic man. During his years as a Ranger, Rogers observed and participated in the civilizing of West Texas. As the railroads moved out in the 1880s, towns grew up too quickly, lawlessness was the rule, and the Rangers were soon called in to establish order. Rogers was nearly always there. Likewise he participated in some of the most dramatic and significant events during the closing years of the Frontier Battalion: the Brown County fence cutting wars; the East Texas Conner Fight; the El Paso/Langtry Prizefight; the riots during the Laredo Quarantine; and the hunts for Hill Loftis and Gregorio Cortez. Rogers was the lawman who captured Cortez to close out one of the most infamous chases in Texas history. Unlike the more gregarious Bill McDonald, Captain Rogers had a quiet manner that kept him from the public limelight; nevertheless, he, John Brooks, and John Hughes shared the same experiences as McDonald during the almost two decades they led the Ranger companies. Unique to Rogers' career was his devout Christian faith that was on display on almost all occasions. Rogers was wont to use the Bible as often as his six-gun, both with dramatic effect. That and his constant devotion to his family set him apart from the usual lawmen of that era. He was a man of the law and a man of God, a rare combination at the turn of the century.
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One: The Guadalupe Homestead
The Guadalupe Homestead
Isaac Samuel Rogers stood straight and tall at the center of the small Bolivar Courthouse assembly room. He pulled at his tight starched collar, the twenty-one-year-old Tennessee farmer uncomfortable in suit and tie on this cold March evening. But the occasion of his wedding kept him resolute, somber, uncomplaining. To his left stood his brother William, like Isaac a farmer in the Hatchie River Valley of Hardeman County, Tennessee. Seated just behind him in the straight-backed hickory chairs were several members of the Elkins family—the elder William, his wife and a cousin or two sat ramrod straight at the edge of their seats. On Isaac's right stood eighteen-year-old Mahala Elkins, soon to be his bride. Woodson Vader, justice of the peace for the Bolivar area and a neighbor and friend of the Rogers clan, intoned the civil ceremony then pronounced the couple husband and wife. Isaac was pleased to loosen his collar for the remaining festivities that Tuesday evening. It was March 18, 1834.1
Two: Colorado City Ranger
Colorado City Ranger
John Rogers stared down into the dark Guadalupe County soil, holding his hand where the rattler had just sunk its fangs. Working the field clearing rocks, he never saw the coiled snake until it struck. Now as it slunk away the teenager kicked a chunk of dirt in its general direction, turned and strode calmly but briskly back to the barn. As he walked he pulled the sweaty kerchief from around his neck and wrapped it around his wrist just above the two red marks, pulling it tight with the ends of the cloth in his good hand and clinched between his teeth.
When he reached the vicinity of the corral he made his way deliberately into the throng of chickens that pecked away at their morning feed scattered on the hard ground. His arm throbbed and a slight discoloration had already appeared on the back of his hand. The young man reached down and grabbed the nearest hen and deftly twisted its neck, killing it in one swift motion. John pulled the knife from his pocket and slit the dead chicken at its gullet. Blood spilled out onto the feathers as he untied the tourniquet and tossed it aside. He cut a similar slit across the back of his hand, wiped the knife on his pants and put it back in his pocket. Then he thrust his wounded hand deep inside the warm carcass.
Three: The Fence Cutter Wars
The Fence Cutter Wars
On a cold December morning in 1885, Private John Harris Rogers stood in the middle of Doan's Store; not a building, but a town, of sorts, situated only several thousand yards west of where the Red River turned suddenly south on its wayward journey down from the high plains. Doan's Springs were just to the north, as was Doan's Crossing, a wide flat bank of the river that led Texans into Indian Territory. Not only Texans, but hundreds of thousands of cattle had been driven across the river there over the past seventeen years. For here the Chisholm Trail and a wide northeastern swing of the Western Trail converged. So too converged cowboys and soldiers, reservation Chickasaw and Apache, merchants and whiskey salesmen, rustlers and thieves, and prostitutes and the like. What a place, thought the young Ranger.1
Ranger companies B and C and now F had taken turns trying to tame this northern section of Wilbarger County, to no avail. Beyond the rowdy saloons—there were two - and the drunken brawls that spilled into the dusty streets, the proximity to the Texas border and Indian Territory made Doan's Store a likely spot for crooks to escape the law. In August of 1883 alone there were arrests made of eight cattle thieves in five separate incidents, two whiskey merchants selling liquor to the Indians, a burglar, and two wanted men on the run—all as they headed to cross the border and disappear into the reservations.
Four: The Conner Fight
The Conner Fight
Captain Scott and company F arrived at the camp near Hemphill where they had been the previous autumn. It was the last week of March and a meeting with the local authorities convinced the Rangers that the Conners were on a rampage, intimidating the locals then recoiling back into the safety of the dense forest and bayou country like a deadly snake. Scott retained the "deputized" services of a small-time Sabine County crook who could communicate with the Conners and track them into their lair. Scott also deputized Judge James Polly from Hemphill, and Judge William Wallace Weatherred, a district judge from nearby Milam (and later a deputy marshal), came along as well. Henry Harris and John Toole, local merchants, and Milton Anthony rounded out the posse of deputized citizens.1 These men knew the country, knew the Conners, and were good with a gun.
With Scott on this manhunt was his sergeant John Brooks, and Privates Jim Carmichael, Jim Moore (just transferred from Company C), William "Billy" Treadwell, Bob Crowder, Ed Caldwell, Len Harvey, Bob Fenton, and John Rogers.2 On the morning of March 25 the posse rode south out of Hemphill four miles until they crossed the deep gulch of Housen Bayou. They continued south about ten miles, first along Walnut Creek and then to the county border along Brushy Creek and Big Sandy. Working their way back northward with the help of their guide (who may have been Redden Alford), the Ranger posse searched high and low for the elusive Conners. Five days went by, the men silently complaining about the elements but pressing on in their search of the rugged wilderness that enveloped them. On March 30 they picked up what they thought might be a trail which took them back to Walnut Creek and then east about one mile. They were less than ten miles south of Hemphill.
Five: Captain of the Rangers
Captain of the Rangers
On March 3, 1888, word came to the Ranger camp near San Angelo that horses had been stolen up the river and the thieves identified as Bill Neil and Bill Davis. Private Rogers took half the company and headed northwest, picking up the thieves' trail between the Concho and Colorado valleys until they crossed into Mitchell County on March 6. Rogers met up with Mitchell County deputy sheriff Y. D. McMurry, and the two men went north while the other Rangers headed out along another trail.
The next day as Rogers and McMurry ambled along a dusty trail, two men on horseback crossed from the nearby woods onto the road—it was the horse thieves. Neil grabbed for his pistol and had it out of the holster when Rogers' first shot rang true, striking the man in the arm and forcing the gun to the ground. McMurry nearly made a fatal blunder as he turned to watch the first man fall from his horse, leaving Bill Davis an instant to draw his own weapon. However, a steely look from Rogers, gun pointed at Davis's heart, encouraged the thief to rethink his position and he raised his hands skyward. The two men ended up in the Tom Green County jail.
Six: The El Paso Prizefight
The El Paso Prizefight
Captain Rogers surveyed the ranger camp with a jaundiced eye at the pitiful supplies that lay in front of him. He made several notes that he would later record in his first monthly file as a Ranger commander. "Thirteen men," he wrote in the upper right hand corner of the oversized page, "twelve horses, four mules, and seven worthless tents." He wrote the same equipment notation every month for seven months until he at least had the small satisfaction of recording in August that "two of the tents were blown to pieces and gone." In October he noted that grass was scarce and that he had been forced to procure hay and grain from local Alice merchants. By November he had been amply re-supplied, the adjutant general's office finally acknowledging his appeal.1
Compared to the previous years, 1893 through 1895 were remarkably peaceful for Company E and its new captain. With Cotulla more or less "cleaned up," the work out of Alice seemed as routine as that could be understood in the life of frontier law enforcement. With his work now increasingly administrative in nature, Rogers seldom found himself in the field. In 1893 he only recorded three arrests made by him personally: a horse thief in the county in May, another in July, and yet a third in November. The last of the trio, Mariano Benavides, had been wanted out of Bexar County and Rogers returned him there on November 9.2
Seven: Streets of Laredo
The Streets of Laredo
As Captain Rogers stared down at the infant boy, he marveled at the wonder of new birth and beamed as a proud father. It was January 5, the beginning of the new year 1898, a wonderful beginning at that. His and Hattie's second son was healthy, even though born on this cold wintry day in the Rangers camp home outside of Alice. Four-year-old Lucile and two-and-a-half year old Pleas would enjoy their little brother. His name? Only weeks before the Presbyterian Church had taken up another special offering for Reverend Samuel N. Lapsley, a man of faith who had been called as the first Presbyterian missionary to Africa. The Rogers' had made a significant contribution to his expenses. It was Providential, the captain decided. They would name their new son Lapsley. His middle name, Harris, extended the Rogers kin one more generation.
Yes, all in all a great start to the new year, a sign perhaps that it would be another relatively calm one as 1897 had been. That, however, was not to be.
Eight: Getting Gregorio
Getting Gregorio
Nine: Hill Loftis & the Sand Dunes Incident
Hill Loftis and the Sand Dunes Shootout
John Rogers sat in a stiff-backed wooden chair next to the hospital bed, his head buried in his hands as he prayed. Santa Rosa Hospital, where John had recovered from his Laredo wounds, was sweltering in the desert heat of this July day, and no breeze stirred outside. Hattie stood nearby leaning against the bare wall, wiping tears quietly from her cheeks. The man in the bed breathed unsteadily as if struggling to inhale. The breaths came unevenly and more shallow as the minutes dragged by. Two doctors stopped by intermittently and a nurse stayed in the room as helpless as the others to do anything.
Kid Rogers had become seriously ill while working at Tom Collins' ranch outside of Alice. Having resigned from the Rangers in the fall of 1901 he had spent almost a year working for Collins. They had rushed him to the hospital on July 15 and removed his gall bladder in an operation that had at first seemed to go without complications. The captain and Hattie had been by his side since the day of his surgery, ten days now, hardly ever leaving the hospital. After several days of recovery Curren had taken a turn for the worse, internal bleeding perhaps, or an infection. Now he was at the end.
Ten: "The Lord Giveth; the Lord Taketh Away"
"The Lord Giveth; the Lord Taketh Away"
On an October afternoon in 1905 a young cowboy sat alone in the main house of the Carr Ranch out near Fort Stockton. His boss was away in El Paso on business and the trustworthy young man had been left nominally in charge while he was away. A telephone sat on the desk nearby and the young man picked up to listen casually, not maliciously, to a conversation on the party line. Sheriff Dud Barker was speaking to his former deputy Charlie Witcher about a horse thief who had been spotted near Fort Stockton. Witcher was declining to go on the trail at Baker's request when the young cowboy interrupted the phone call. "I'll go get him, sheriff!" he exclaimed with excitement in his voice.
"Who the hell are you?" asked the sheriff, obviously disturbed that his conversation had been eavesdropped upon.
"I'm Frank Hamer," replied the cowboy.
Getting over his anger the sheriff agreed to let Hamer go on the trail. Within twenty-four hours the thief had been captured by Hamer and turned over to Sheriff Baker. "You did a mighty fine job of catchin' this man, Frank," said Barker, who then added, "How'd you like to be a Texas Ranger?"
Eleven: End of this Trail
End of This Trail
Not only have yourself and your men received the universal commendation of the citizenship of this county, but the entire Ranger service has been greatly raised in the estimation and good will of the public here by the examples furnished by the deportment of yourself and men.
District Judge James Perkins to Captain Rogers, Center, Texas, September 1, 1908 1
But it had not been easy. Company C found that it could hardly get out of east Texas for the trouble that continued to start up there, more and more of it racially motivated. Just a few weeks after the incident in Nacogdoches, Rogers reported that he and members of his company had tracked three men "who were hunting Negroes" after an incident near San Augustine in which a White man had been gunned down. The Rangers captured the three assailants and put them on trial, but a biased jury of their peers and several perjured witnesses ended the proceedings with a hung jury. The men were released.2
Twelve: Deputy U. S. Marshal
Deputy U. S. Marshal
Perform, in conjunction with the military forces stationed along the Mexican border, such patrol duty as may be necessary to prevent violations of the neutrality laws, and in proper cases to arrest persons caught in the act of violating such laws . . . It is proper for your deputies and the military forces to make appropriate inquiry in connection with the arrest of persons engaged in violating the law, or where it is believed that the law is being violated at or near the place where such deputies or military forces are operating.
This February 21, 1911, directive from the U. S. attorney general's office instructed the marshals along the Texas-Mexican border to be pro-active in their watch over the escalating border troubles. It granted them broader powers than they had before, but still the protection of the 2,000-mile line was nearly impossible. Even with the addition of customs inspectors and armed forces, and deputies like former Ranger John H. Rogers who knew the territory so intimately, the challenge was formidable to keep the peace, stop the smuggling, and intervene in the coming revolution.1
Thirteen: U. S. Marshal, Western District
U. S. Marshal, Western District
After giving due credit to all loyal friends who stood by me so nobly and endorsed me so unqualifiedly, I nevertheless attribute my success to Almighty God, whose I am and whom I serve and to whom I solemnly pledged if He would favor me for said position, I would use the office for His glory, which pledge I now ratify, relying upon Him for His help and guidance. It is my desire that what additional influence I might have by reason of my office shall be used for Him.
This, the 3rd day of April, 1913, the day I assumed the responsibilities of the office.
J. H. Rogers, United States Marshal 1
In 1913 the Western District of Texas encompassed a massive amount of land—over 115,000 square miles in a narrow rectangle—and was divided into six subdistricts: Waco as the headquarters, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Del Rio, and the new Pecos office added on February 5. As one of his first duties in office Marshal John H. Rogers assigned Charley Burks as chief deputy, J. T. Thompson, J. D. Platt, and C. S. Rogers as his deputies, and added his former sergeant John Dibrell as well. Burks had a career in law enforcement but was plucked from the state House of Representatives in 1913 where he served as sergeant-at-arms. Fred Peck, James T. Johnson, Early Wilson, and Arley V. Knight would also serve under Rogers in the years that followed.2
Fourteen: The Canales Investigation
The Canales Investigation
Up to the time the Mexican revolution started there was never a more friendly people on earth than the Mexicans on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and the Americans on the American side . . . But since the revolution against Diaz there have been turbulent conditions and complications from a political standpoint.—A Brownsville resident
I think it was German intrigue that they were hoping to keep up strife between the United States and Mexico, hoping to start the war right there. I think it was the Rangers who started it up.—Virginia Yeager, San Diego
It wasn't the Rangers altogether; it was deputy sheriffs and sheriffs and border guards and the immigration agents and the Department of Justice. I don't think the Rangers were any worse than the lawyers.—Kleberg County Sheriff J. B. Scarborough1
In 1917 Frank Cushman Pierce published a book entitled A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. In its closing chapter he catalogued fifty-two incidents of violence in the Valley in a forty-six week period in 1916. There were nearly the same number recorded again in 1917 and once more the following year. These incidents were far and above the ordinary crimes that authorities investigated in any region. The assaults were related to a growing restlessness brought on by a combination of factors, including a migration of Midwest Anglo farmers into the area, after effects of the Mexican revolution, and German intrigue related to World War I.2
Fifteen: Austin Chief of Police
Chief of Police
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or thee xportation there of from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
18th Amendment, U. S. Constitution (1919)
Anxious to activate the Constitutional amendment before its scheduled January, 1920 date, Congress passed the Volstead, or National Prohibition, Act on October 28, 1919, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating beverages over the 0.5 percent of alcohol level, and "regulat[ing] the manufacture, production, use and sale of high-proof spirits," while at the same time "insur[ing] an ample supply of alcohol and promotion of its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye, and other lawful industries."1
Sixteen: End of the Trail
End of the Trail
Aa he approached the house walking along Twelfth Street, Captain Rogers bundled his heavy coat around him a bit tighter, his tall white hat pulled down over his brow. The north wind was blustery that day, whistling down the hill as he reached the intersection and crossed to the front steps of his house. But that was not entirely the reason he kept his coat wrapped around his chest.
Two of his grandchildren met him as he reached the steps with cries of "Grandaddy!" calling the others from inside as well. Soon they had gathered around the gray headed gentleman. A tiny smile grew beneath the white mustache as the captain patted each of the little ones on their head. He stepped back from the wiggling entourage and his eyes widened. The children froze in anticipation; Grandaddy always brought some prize when they visited. The old Ranger reached inside the heavy coat and retrieved the tiny puppy from under his vest. The children squealed in delight and ran inside to tell their parents what a wonderful gift had just arrived.
The Ranger's Prayer
The Ranger's Prayer
O God, whose end is justice, Whose strength is all our stay,
Be near and bless my mission As I go forth today.
Let wisdom guide my actions, Let courage fill me heart
And help me, Lord, in every hour To do a Ranger's part.
Protect when danger threatens, Sustain when trails are rough;
Help me to keep my standard high And smile at each rebuff.
When night comes down upon me, I pray thee, Lord, be nigh,
Whether on lonely scout, or camped, Under the Texas sky.
Keep me, O God, in life And when my days shall end,
Forgive my sins and take me in, For Jesus' sake, Amen.
P. B. Hill, Ranger Chaplain
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Here is a letter you may send to your President, Congresspeople and State Congresspeople, Governor, Attorney General, State or City Inspector General, State Labor Department, HR professionals and Leaders at your job, union leaders, clergypersons, and anyone else you can think of:
There is an epidemic of violations of public safety, fraud, and corruption laws that are directly related to labor law violations in government entities and US corporations. Despite this epidemic – Ethics Commissions, AGs & IGs are unresponsive to labor violation complaints in workplaces and government, even when proof is submitted, tax dollars are misused, and there are rampant ethics, safety, and other compliance violations. The EEOC, OSHA, and State Divisions of Human Rights are underfunded and understaffed, thus their responses to these complaints are almost always delayed and insufficient.
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I had the opportunity to photograph and interview Agnes Obel, one of my favorite recording artists, during her San Francisco appearance at The Independent on March 22. I photographed the show for QRO.com, a music blog I've shot for in the past.
Although I've done some journalistic work, I had never conducted an interview. Nevertheless, I eagerly accepted the challenge. A challenge I was not expecting, however, was the lighting. Despite my experience shooting concerts, I found it difficult to find lighting beautiful enough to match and illuminate Agnes's engaging vocal performance.
The dimly lit atmosphere did provide an intimate, and enjoyable experience for the listener, which of course is the objective. As a fan of Obel's music, I was happy to be able to experience her performance both from an audio as well as a visual perspective.
As a novice interviewer, my main objective was to avoid boring questions. I am familiar with Obel's discography and history. I also have many years of experience as a music producer and engineer, two roles she plays on her own records. This made coming up with some interesting questions easier than I expected.
I related with her personally on several themes she discussed during our interview. Like me, she left school to pursue music production and audio engineering. Another was her difficulty deciding when records are complete. I have engineered and produced countless songs and several full-length albums, and I understand how daunting, yet rewarding the entire process is. Some of this we spoke about briefly off the record.
One of the things that resonated with me was her response when I asked if she ever considered writing for other artists.
"When you start composing or writing for other people you look at songwriting and this form of expression as something much more utilitarian like it has a function. I see that also with friends of mine who've done film commercials and sort of lose their own voice, and I really don't want to lose my own voice," she said.
Ever since I had the good fortune of landing some licensing deals, my objective over time went from from making music, to making money from it. I've found myself writing new material less frequently, unless for a specific purpose – utilitarian – as Obel put it. Perhaps I, too, have lost my voice in a way. I hear my old material—On The Arm, for instance (my '07 debut LP), and I can hardly relate to it. For better or worse, I couldn't make anything like that again. I don't think it's a coincidence that soon after I landed my first commercial spot (and thus narrowed my focus to finding similar opportunities), I began my explorations in photography. 'Losing my musical voice' so to speak, left a creative void that I unknowingly, at first, but consciously later on, began filling with photography.
As far as the show itself, Obel and her band performed flawlessly. She played several of my favorites from her repertoire, which was a nice surprise. I wish the lighting had been better but that's concert photography, and I'm happy enough with the shots I got (my favorite is the first image in the photo essay). The best part of the experience was enjoying a conversation with an artist whom I truly admire (and listen to almost daily)—it was a privilege and I hope to do more multimedia coverage in the future.
Christopher Markisz: Your latest record is titled "Citizen of Glass." Can you tell us a little about why you chose that name?
Agnes Obel: I wanted to make a conceptual album. I wanted to see if I could work with a title and a concept before I wrote the songs. Before I had been just kind of writing songs and I wanted to see if I could do something else. I know modern composers, classical composers and film composers often work with a title and a theme to sort of inform the writing and the production and the arrangements and the instrumentation. I wanted to see if I could work that way of thinking into my little universe, and if it would change things and push them in a new direction. I was looking for a concept.
Meanwhile, I was touring Aventine, my previous album, and I was reading about all this NSA stuff and Edward Snowden. There's been a lot of discussion everywhere but especially in Germany, about surveillance and the rights to privacy, and the rights of an individual to have his or her secrets and keep them. Germany has a very big awareness because of their history. In East Germany, every third citizen was a spy during the GDR. When the wall came down there was a lot of talk of how everybody was spied upon and under surveillance, and how detrimental is was to society and to the trust within all social organizations. So in Germany there's a lot of focus on this compared to Denmark, where I'm from; in Germany people are a lot more freaked out about it.
Then I came across this term for when you've lost all your secrets and all your privacy; in Germany you say that you're made of glass. You're a glass human, a glass citizen, a citizen of glass. I immediately thought it was such a cool way of describing it. I felt like I could describe this feeling of being made of glass in a musical sense, also understanding it in a way broader, personal sense, not just political. When I finished my tour for Aventine which was one and a half years, I had already been researching the subject a lot, trying to find literature; I bought some new instruments, went straight home to my little home studio and started writing for this new album, trying to collect ideas and construct this new universe around my idea of how it is to be made of glass.
Christopher Markisz: Very interesting. Listening to your catalog, one might assume you've been classically trained on several instruments. Is this true?
Agnes Obel: Well, I just played classical piano since I was a kid, but actually, the most training I've had that was formal was when I went to something called the Jazz Academy in Copenhagen, which is something you do before you go to conservatory, then I studied recording sounds in studios. I dropped out of high school to study engineering but I went back again, I studied cultural studies, literature and recording. My parents freaked out. They don't get so happy when you do something like that, but now they're fine! [laughs].
Christopher Markisz: I'm very impressed with the production of your records. How has being your own producer and engineer informed your creative process?
Agnes Obel: It makes the whole process more fluid. I don't have to fragmentize or split up the writing, the recording, the production, the mixing; I can sort of do all that by myself. If I have an idea for a song, I can start immediately to record it and find out if it's a cool song. Very often when I start recording it I start producing it, and then start mixing it…I can sort of go with the flow. Obviously, the danger of it is that everything usually take me longer, because there are no restrictions or time limits.
Christopher Markisz: Do you ever find it difficult to decide when a song is complete?
Agnes Obel: Yes, it's a big problem. It's very hard. When you do it all yourself, you become very critical and it can be very hard to listen to your own music later on, listening for mistakes. I'm trying to embrace the idea that nothing is perfect, and I just have to see it as what is was there and not be so overly critical because then you never enjoy anything. Making an album is a big task; you always forget how much work it is when you do it all yourself. It's not good to be super neurotic; this is a little bit how I always am [laughs]. I have to say I really enjoy the process itself of recording and writing; sort of disappearing into what you're doing is really wonderful. It's my favorite part of all this that I'm doing. It's what makes it all meaningful to me; I think I wouldn't do all this if it wasn't for these periods of intense moments of focus, letting your imagination work and flow within that project.
Christopher Markisz: It sounds like you like the studio more than the stage.
Agnes Obel: Yea, I think I do, though I love to play with my band now. I have such a good band. I love how the songs come alive and change with the personalities of the different musicians; how we improvise, all of it is really fun. I don't like promo so much. We're not doing so much here [in the US] but in Europe during the fall and winter, it was overwhelming. I was dreaming about being able to release music without having to do all that. Going to each country and having 15 interviews a day; they have to take pictures of you…sometimes I feel, I don't know…
Christopher Markisz: Exploited?
Agnes Obel: Yeah, I think sometimes people don't understand how uncomfortable it can be when people take pictures of you all the time. My boyfriend is a photographer and I really love photography but sometimes I really enjoy not having a camera in my face [laughs].
Christopher Markisz: I'm sorry that I'm here to do that!
Agnes Obel: [laughter] It's just that it makes me…
Christopher Markisz: It makes you a Citizen of Glass.
Agnes Obel: Yeah! I guess so. I like much more to be the creator than the object.
Christopher Markisz: Have you ever thought about writing for other people?
Agnes Obel: I have and I've also been doing that and some film stuff, but I enjoy so much making albums because I have my own vision, and I'm really afraid of destroying some of the purity of that. When you start composing or writing for other people you look at songwriting and this form of expression as something much more utilitarian like it has a function. I see that also with friends of mine who've done film commercials and sort of lose their own voice, and I really don't want to lose my own voice. I want to develop my own sound. I'm a little bit wary. I hope in time I won't have to do so much promo as I have had to do with previous albums so I can just keep creating. That's my goal for the future.
Christopher Markisz: Speaking of the future, do you have any other passions or hobbies, or paths you've ever wanted to pursue in the past, or perhaps pursue later in life?
Agnes Obel: Yes. Something with the mind. I love neuroscience. Everything with the brain really fascinates me. I studied literature and cultural science but now I'm really more into biology and understanding the mind. I think it's sort of interesting that we all walk around with these hyper complex brains that we really don't understand. We want to go into space but we don't understand our consciousnesses. Stuff like that I find very very interesting.
Christopher Markisz: What's happening in "It's Happening Again?"
Agnes Obel: That song is about the cyclical nature of the mind; of my mind. I sometimes experience things happening in a loop. This album is called Citizen of Glass, so I wanted to be honest with somethings, with myself. I come from a family where my dad who had been suffering from depression basically most of my life. There was always sort of loops, when he's good, when he's bad, then it's good, then it's bad. I'm always afraid I am the same because it's slightly genetic. I wanted to write about that. Thank God I was never sick like him but that song is about that. It's also inspired by this German concept "eternal recurrence," and idea that history is happening in a loop.
Christopher Markisz: That's my favorite song on the album.
Agnes Obel: It's also my favorite actually.
Christopher Markisz: It's a special song. When you bring in studio musicians such as a cellist to perform on a record, do you allow them room to re-interpret your ideas or is it more strict in nature where they are playing out your melodies note for note?
Agnes Obel: Yea, I do that absolutely. I want to get their personality in there. When I do that I let their ideas come out and they improvise over the theme, and very often then I will edit it a lot. It's not always that they know where to go. For example with "It's Happening Again," I wanted the production to mirror the inner state of my mind, something that's repeating itself over and over again. But I was not completely sure how to do that so I had to experiment. I had a lot of recording sessions with different cellists. I thought I had it and then I threw everything out and I did it again [laughs]. It was a long process with that song. I had to try some things out and see what was working.
Christopher Markisz: Are your albums the soundtrack to your life?
Agnes Obel: It's true when I hear old albums, I really step back in time. I realize, oh I was there. You also realize how much you've changed. A lot of the songs from Philharmonics, I can't really identify with them anymore.
Christopher Markisz: It's a timestamp.
Agnes Obel: Yes. And I think it's like that for everybody.
For more info on tour dates and music, you can visit Agnes Obel's website here.


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To buy an adequate Health Insurance is going to prove to be one of the most sensible decisions of your life! A perfect health insurance plan not only secures life, but also provides a corpus of funds needed in case of medical emergencies.
But, the question is, how to reach the perfect health insurance plan?
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As per your medical and health care needs, you must keep a certain amount you want to be assured for. Especially with the city you are living in and the medical costs you may incur in case of Hospitalization for general or critical illnesses. Buy your health cover accordingly.
This is one of the most important points to keep in consideration while buying a health cover. You may not have access to instant cash, as and when you need medical attention for self or family. In such emergent cases, cashless medical cover comes in handy to have immediate treatment without cash. Go for the plan which offers this feature.
Health insurance renewal is easily possible in young years but there are only a few insurance providers who allow renewal in old age. Keeping in view your needs of health cover, go for a plan which covers you or lets you renew your plan in old age.
A sub-limit is a stipulation by insurance providers to the hospitalisation expenses or other medical expenses incurred by you. They will pay only a certain amount as per the sub-limit. Rest has to be paid by you. You must choose your sub-limit with a sincere thought, if you understand your paying power
Waiting period is the period where you have to wait before the medical Policy comes in force and you can get the medical bills reimbursed. It can be of few months to few years, depending upon your insurance provider. You must go for an insurance company that stipulates least waiting period, so that your policy becomes useful at the earliest.
All the medical insurance providers list the pre-existing diseases and critical illnesses that will be covered under the insurance. Go for the insurance plan that accommodates the maximum of those, as you never know, which expense you may have to bear at what stage of life.
In case of health insurance, the early you start, the maximum benefits you reap! Buying a health plan in young years is always advisable, as you get it at lower premiums and with lot of features which may be denied in older age. Also, if you are entitled for a basic medical cover by your employer, even then you must buy one for your customised needs.
These smart tips will help you to reach your almost perfect health insurance, and be covered for all your medical needs.
Keep these points in mind and you will end up buying the best health insurance that will prove to be of great benefit to you and your family. Be careful be wise!


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We are always told to never look back- always push forward and look to the future for hope and happiness. I disagree with this. I recently read through a journal I wrote over the past couple years. I started journaling when I first moved away from my hometown. The anxiety, the fear, the sadness, the excitement, the change, the love, the beauty…it blows my mind how much has happened in the past couple years. I was so ataken back on how everything in its own way has come together.
One of the first sentences I wrote was "Did I make the right decision to move here, leaving all my best friends and family and familiarity behind?" And throughout the rest of the entries it's proven that yes, I did make the right decision. I have been pushed to the edge of my comfort zone too many times to count. I've gone through the hardest shit I've ever experienced. I've found my niche and humans that I'll be friends with for life. I would've never expected to end up where I am today. Denver? Nope. Fashion blog? Nope. Learning I'm an introvert and so many other insane life realizations? Nooooooope.
I highly recommend everyone to keep a journal. In experiencing moments we don't see everything piecing itself together, but reflection on it all creates this insane complicated beautiful intricate picture. Remembering how we got to where we are today is crucial to staying humble, grateful and aware. I can't get over how everything has happened for a reason to bring me where I am today…and to think, this is the only the beginning.
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Epic day trips from Dubrovnik, Croatia
From mesmerizing waterfalls to blonde beaches and charming old towns, here are some of the best day trips from Dubrovnik…including a couple that will earn you more passport stamps!
From mesmerizing waterfalls to blonde beaches and charming old towns, here are some of the best day trips from Dubrovnik…including a couple that will earn you more passport stamps!
Sarajevo, Bosnia boasts a colourful centre, lively cafe culture, and is just enough off the beaten path that travellers can slip right into the flow of things to catch a glimpse of what life is like in this city where old seamlessly blends with new.
From Dubrovnik's city walls to the cascading waterfalls in Plitvice National Park and island hopping along the Dalmatian Coast, here are must-see spots to add to your Croatia itinerary.
Dubrovnik is a must-do on every Croatia itinerary thanks to its pretty perch along the sparkling Adriatic Sea, hidden laneways that wind through the top of the old town, and ridiculously scenic viewpoints at seemingly every turn.
A roundup of the best spots for photography in Lisbon, Portugal, including panoramic viewpoints, towering monuments, street art and a few hidden gems.
Here's what it's like to stay overnight at La Batelière sur Loire, a boat hotel situated along the banks of the Loire River in France's Loire Valley.
From the incredible Rock Church to the blindingly-white, towering Helsinki Cathedral and a sea fortress, here are some of the top things to do in Helsinki, Finland.
From exquisite gardens to grand architecture and one that you can even canoe under, here are some of the best castles in Loire Valley, France.
Wine tasting, cycling on an eBike, kayaking and sleeping in a chateau are among the fun things to do in France's picturesque Vallée du Loir.
Quiet, colourful St Luke's Mews is tucked away in London's affluent Notting Hill neighbourhood, and is the thing Instagram dreams are made of.


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Pasta making at home seems like a daunting task, but with a minimum of two ingredients, that couldn't be further from the truth. At its simplest, pasta dough is but egg and flour, one binds to the other to create a sticky, dense dough. Some recipes call for olive oil, others for salt, some for both—they affect texture and flavor but are by no means necessary. Start simple, learn what consistency of pasta dough you prefer, then explore, manipulate, and taste from there.
With pasta dough down pat, ravioli are a logical next step. Those small parcels of flavor, can lean delicate or robust. Make them at home and decide for yourself where on that spectrum they fall. Our contributor, Emiko, had this to say about the process: "Don't be daunted by the thought of making your own ravioli. It's really pretty straightforward, if a tad fiddly your first time. If you don't have a pasta machine, just use a rolling pin—you'll need a bit more elbow grease, but it works just fine. Also, enlist the help of someone else—if you've got four hands, then it's much easier to prepare the dough, not to mention quicker and more fun."
Keep her advice in mind as you begin. The beauty of ravioli is that there are three avenues for flavor: the dough, the filling, or the sauce. Bend any, or all three, to your whims. For an extra convenient twist, make a bunch of ravioli and store them well wrapped in your freezer for up to a month. I'd recommend freezing them first spread out on a sheet pan, then combining them in a bag or storage container once they're frozen to avoid sticking. They'll last a while in the confines of your freezer and when you're ready, pop them directly into boiling water for a quick but surprisingly decadent dinner. You'll know they're ready when they float to the top. Here are a few iterations of the pasta bound packages to carry you through the week.
Fold pureed beets into the ravioli dough for a bright and exciting exterior.
These casunsei opt for beets in the filling. The colorful stuffing has a stunning effect. Valentine's Day, anyone?
Bathe your ravioli in broth for a soupy, comforting feel.
Ricotta fillings provide a firm but pillowy texture. Fill these, then freeze them to enjoy later.
Citrus brings an unexpected levity to this inspired take.
What's your ravioli of choice? Let us know your favorites in the comments.
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Secrets at the Banquet by Steve Nicholson 8-12-2018
Secrets at the Banquet by Steve Nicholson
John 2:1-11
Jesus Changes Water Into Wine
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine." "Woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. "My hour has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet." They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now." What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
Four secret messages:
1. Jesus came to initiate the messianic age of the future
2. This new age changes the spiritual order from external to internal
3. This age brings the blessings of God in overwhelming abundance
4. The best will come at the end


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Head of Marketing @ Cricket Australia
Sonia Bijelic is the Head of Marketing at Cricket Australia.
Cricket Australia is the national governing body of the game of cricket in Australia and works to position cricket as Australia's favourite sport, and a sport for all Australians.
In her role, Sonia is responsible for the development and implementation of marketing strategies to drive increased consumer involvement in cricket across attendance, media consumption and participation.
Most recently, she has enjoyed success overseeing the marketing of Australia's domestic cricket competition, the Big Bash League (BBL), which has broken numerous records in the most recent season including record-high attendances, TV viewership and membership sales, and has now become one of the top 10 most attended sports leagues in the world.
Prior to her current role, Sonia has gained significant experience across numerous industries, with leading brands and organizations, and across almost all areas of marketing – from customer research, segmentation and strategy…through to media and promotion… and almost everything in-between.


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Adam P. Gross, CFP® CIMA® has over 20 years of equity investing and commodity trading experience. Prior to his role as a Financial Advisor, he founded and managed a hedge fund focused on value investing from 2003-2009. In addition, he had a successful career trading energy commodities dating back to 1995.
Education: B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Designations: Adam is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and a CIMA® professional.
Personal: Adam lives in West University Place with his family, is active in FARE (Food Allergy Awareness, Research and Education), Hearts for Ezra, and enjoys the Houston theater scene.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. (CFP Board) owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, CFP® (with plaque design), and CFP® (with flame design) in the U.S., which it authorizes use of by individuals who successfully complete CFP Board's initial and ongoing certification requirements.
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Abbas Said to Favor New Election to Break Impasse
A tenuous ceasefire in the Gaza Strip between Palestinians and Israel is holding for the most part now. But Gaza is wracked by inter-Palestinian violence and political paralysis, as tensions between rival Palestinian factions are on the rise.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas hints that he will soon take action to break the long impasse between his Fatah movement and the militant group Hamas, who gained control of the government after last January's elections.
Many Palestinians hoped that a temporary halt in violence with Israel might spur rivals Fatah and Hamas to seize the opportunity to ease their bitter power struggle.
The opposite has happened. Earlier this week three children -- sons of a Fatah leader -- were murdered on their way to school. And Wednesday, a Hamas judge was gunned down in broad daylight outside a courthouse.
In the increasingly murky, violent and lawless culture of Gaza, it's not clear who carried out the killings. No one has claimed responsibility. A few token arrests of suspects have been made. But the killings are widely seen as another grim episode in the Fatah-Hamas power struggle.
For many, the targeted killing of the three boys, ages 3, 6 and 8, has marked a new low in inter-Palestinian turmoil.
The bullet-riddled car in which they were riding when gunmen opened fire is now a makeshift shrine at a traffic circle just outside President Abbas' Gaza office.
A blood-stained child's backpack and bullet-scarred schoolbooks are propped on the car's roof. Every night since the attack, hundreds of Gazans, many of them women, have poured into the square, furious over the children's killing.
To try to end crippling international sanctions linked to Hamas's refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence, President Abbas tried for months to form a unity government with Hamas and push the group toward meeting conditions set by Israel and the West.
With unity talks now in tatters, Abbas aides say he may soon move to end the deadlock with call for new elections -- something which Hamas calls illegal.


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It's hard to believe that 10 years have passed since YOAM first formed. It seems fitting, however, that at the 10-year mark, YOAM would find itself expanding to areas beyond its New Orleans stomping grounds. YOAM is currently making massive strides as its Florida Keys relief trip for Hurricane-Irma-affected areas approaches. Please be in prayer for us as we bring all the loose ends together for this trip.
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Greetings! There has been a lot cooking in the influencer marketing and content space, but no surprise there. I've rounded up the most interesting posts in the last month along with some great case studies to review. I am always amazed at how much more there is to learn. I love it. This will be my last post of the year! So, follow me on Twitter where I share more up-to-the-minute articles.
24 Latinx Beauty Influencers You Should Know (StyleCaster)
Here's an impressive list of some of the biggest, as well as up and coming latina beauty bloggers to know!
'We're in the dark': Asics wades warily into micro-influencer marketing (Digiday)
Asics jumps into the deep end working with micro-influencers to see if they can get more bang for their buck, but they're concerned about the real ROI. If they don't see results fast, they'll have to pivot. This is a riveting read.
"That's what authenticity looks like": How brick-and-mortar businesses can leverage influencer marketing (Glossy)
This notable article demonstrates that when you do your homework on engaging with the right type of influencers you want to work with, it can make a big difference. Pro tip - always, always, always look for the main location of an influencer's audience. The more granular, the better.
Inside the launch of Something Navy, Nordstrom's first influencer-created brand (Glossy)
More and more brands are launching strategic long-term partnerships (as mentioned in my last blog post) in the form of brands and collection collaborations. And I'm here for it! Lane Bryant and Pretty Little Thing are no stranger to these types of partnerships as well.
Be careful with mega influencers. They are effective in helping build brand awareness, but you still need to implement a micro approach, especially if you want real conversions.
Here is a list of case studies and white papers that are worth your time!
Influencer Data Mapping White Paper (CreatorIQ)
2018 State of the Creator Economy Study (IZEA)
10 Interesting Influencer Marketing Case Studies to Get Inspired By (influencerupdate.biz)
Any news you'd like to share? Post in the comments!


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By default, at the top is your next manoeuvre, at the bottom on the left is your current speed and on the right the estimated arrival time. Clicking on the top displays a turn-by-turn list and clicking on the speed icon gives you a complete trip readout. This tells you useful details like average speed, maximum speed, average moving speed, and how long you spent stationary (in traffic jams…).
The right-hand readout can be switched to distance to destination, estimated time to destination, direction of travel and elevation. So there's plenty of information readily accessible, but the overall map view is clean. Menus are also intuitively laid out and easy for the novice to comprehend.
The 765T comes with a speed camera database pre-installed. As with the rest of the interface, alerts pop-up rather aesthetically, with a bar showing whether it's a fixed, mobile, or average speed camera, plus a symbol to the right showing what the current speed limit should be. However, we found the alerts rather overzealous, warning of mobile cameras even on routes where we have never seen one in many years of driving. Safe is better than sorry, but considering that these warnings appear at even 1mph over the limit with an intrusive 'Ping!' and you can only turn them off, not adjust the warning margin, this is a tad wearisome.
The stand design is also very well thought out. With most sat-navs you need to pop them on the stand, then plug in power and traffic modules separately. But Garmin has created a system whereby these both plug into the stand, with contacts routed to the device. So all you need to do is slot the 765T in place and it's ready to go. There's still a standard mini-USB plug available for connecting to a computer, although no management software is included in the box.
You can pair the 765 with a mobile phone via Bluetooth and then use it as a hands-free device. Microphones are situated either side of the screen, so you can pick up calls and use the Garmin as a speakerphone. It's also possible to dial calls via the touchscreen. However, unlike TomTom's Go there is no speech recognition option available for inputting destination addresses verbally.
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This segment originally aired Nov. 7, 2016, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
Voters in California rejected Proposition 60 earlier this month, denying a ballot initiative that would have regulated one of the state's multibillion dollar industries: porn.
Prop. 60 would have mandated the use of condoms on any porn shot in the state of California and made porn producers financially liable if they violated the mandate.
"Pornographers lied when they told me working in their business wouldn't be risky," Prop. 60 advocate and former adult film performer Derek Burts said in one ad. Burts claimed he contracted HIV on an adult set.
Opponents of the ballot initiative said the industry successfully regulates itself, requiring performers to test every 14 days, with results logged in a database.
"They couldn't have got it from another performer, because there is no other performer that they work with that is also HIV positive, or was at the time of having sex with them," Evil Angel Productions CEO John Stagliano told VICE News correspondent Michael Moynihan in Los Angeles.
In 2012, LA county voters passed a ballot initiative called Measure B, requiring the use of condoms on any porn set in the county. Permit applications required to shoot porn dropped by 90% after the vote.
Many Prop. 60 critics said the initiative's true intent is to drive the industry out of the state.
"It's not a question of whether or not we make movies with condoms," Stagliano said. "It's a question of whether or not we make movies at all."
Read next: Porn watchers may soon be tracked in the UK