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Arro was built in Tacoma in 1922 by the Babare Brothers, They retained part ownership of the yacht, along with a major investor from the Arro Oil Refinery in Lewiston, Montana. The investor was named Herbert A. Hoover -- but he was not the Herbert Hoover who later became President.
In March of 1933 Arro was owned by Mr. Frost Snyder and was moored at the Tacoma Yacht Club when a nearby vessel, Argosy, exploded shortly after taking on nearly 1,000 gallons of gasoline. The blast sunk the Argosy and blew out all the windows in Arro. Argosy's owner, Dr. Edward A. Rich, died in the hospital several days later as a result of burns received from the explosion.
Following the damage from the Argosy explosion, Arro's engine was replaced by an Atlas Imperial 4-cylinder, 60 HP diesel that is still in her today.
Arro was owned by Douglas Stansberry before and after WW II.


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Well, after many months (or years) of work, the preferred bidder for the incinerator project at Javelin Park is Urbaser/Balfour Beatty (UBB).
According to the article and other sources, the energy production capacity from the incinerator will be enough to power 25,000 homes, from 116,000 Megawatt hours of electricity.
What's the equivalent power in terms of wind turbines? Well, 1 x 5MW turbine can produce 15 million KWh per year or 15,000 Megawatt hours. This means that if 116,000 Megawatt hours will be produced by the incinerator, this means it's equivalent to 7.7 x 5MW wind turbines! That's a virtually constant source of power and not just when the wind blows.
(1 KW = 1000 watts, 1 MW = 1 million watts)
The Ecotricity M4 Reading example is a 2MW capacity turbine, so this means the incinerator could be producing enough energy to equate to just over 19 of these turbines! If you've ever driven past this turbine, you'll understand why this is fairly impressive.

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Russia won't intervene in Kyrgyzstan; unrest spreads
MOSCOW -- Russia turned down an appeal for peacekeeping troops from the fragile interim government of Kyrgyzstan on Saturday as deadly ethnic rioting there spread to a second city and prompted a panicked exodus from the former Soviet republic, which hosts a key U.S. air base.
The Kremlin said the violence -- in which at least 77 people have been killed and nearly 1,000 injured -- did not call for Russian military intervention. But the government held emergency consultations with its neighbors about a joint response.
Thousands of frightened ethnic Uzbeks in the nation's south were fleeing toward the border with Uzbekistan as President Roza Otunbayeva acknowledged that her government had lost control of Osh, Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city. Meanwhile, new clashes broke out in the nearby city of Jalalabad.
Witnesses said gangs of young Kyrgyz men armed with guns and metal bars set fire to Uzbek neighborhoods and seized weapons from the security forces as the region braced for a third consecutive night of looting and gun battles.
Local authorities have said the violence was touched off by a brawl in a restaurant over a dinner bill. But Otunbayeva accused supporters of the recently ousted former president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, of fanning unrest to undermine her government before a referendum this month on a new constitution.
The region is a Bakiyev stronghold and a cauldron of ethnic and religious tensions, part of a densely populated, richly fertile valley divided between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan along largely arbitrary Soviet-era borders. In 1990, clashes over land between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz left hundreds dead, and in recent years, the three nations have sought to suppress the rise of radical Islam in the valley.
As many as 1 million Uzbeks live in Kyrgyzstan, many of them recent migrants who have taken over farms abandoned by an equally large number of Kyrgyz who have moved to Russia to find jobs. Tensions in the south have been running high since Bakiyev was ousted in a bloody uprising April 7, with Uzbeks seeking a greater role in the new political order and many Kyrgyz there continuing to back the deposed president.
Local media broadcast images of Uzbek families streaming from burning villages and massing near the border, and the Associated Press reported that several children had been killed in stampeding crowds. There were conflicting reports about whether the refugees were being granted passage into Uzbekistan.
"Fighting and rampages are continuing," Otunbayeva told reporters, warning of a humanitarian crisis as food supplies in the region dwindled. "We need the entry of outside forces to calm the situation. We have appealed to Russia for help, and I have already signed such a letter for President Dmitry Medvedev."
Kremlin spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said Russia was sending humanitarian aid and helping to evacuate the wounded. She added that a decision to send peacekeepers would be made by the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a regional alliance that scheduled an emergency meeting for Monday.
"This is an internal conflict, and for now, Russia does not see the conditions for taking part in its resolution," she told the Interfax news agency.
Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished nation of more than 5 million, is the only country that hosts both American and Russian military bases. If Moscow agrees to send peacekeepers, it is likely to gain greater leverage over the future of the U.S. facility, which is critical to supplying NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Russia's influence in Kyrgyzstan has been on the rise since Bakiyev's ouster. The autocrat fell out of favor with the Kremlin by breaking a promise to close the U.S. base and fled the country after his security forces opened fire on protesters, killing more than 80 people.
A provisional government made up of former opposition figures quickly took power but has struggled to maintain order, especially in the south, where it has repeatedly clashed with Bakiyev loyalists. Critics say the security forces are understaffed and led by corrupt officials with ties to organized crime.
Azimbek Beknazarov, the senior law enforcement official in the interim government, told reporters that the authorities have been forced to rely on volunteers. "We will run out of strength within the next two days if no assistance comes," he said.


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Cacio e Pepe
A simple, yet decadent dish, this creation from Chef Michael Fiorelli combines just eight ingredients (two of which are cheese!) that will blow your palate away.
1 Box, Community Grains Hard Red Winter Wheat Linguine
4 Tablespoons, Unsalted Butter, Cubed
1.5 Tablespoons, Back Pepper, Fresh Cracked
1 Cup, Parmesan Cheese, Grated
1/2 Cup, Pecorino Cheese, Grated
1/4 Cup, Kosher Salt
Two Organic Egg Yolks
Four Slices, Prosciutto, Paper Thin
1. Bring 4 quarts of water to a boil in a six quart pot. Add 1/4 cup of kosher salt.
2. Add the Community Grains Hard Red Winter Wheat Linguine and cook until al dente, 5-7 minutes
3. Strain, making sure to reserve 1 cup of the pasta water.
4. In a large saute pan melt half of the butter and toast the cracked pepper for one minute, swirling the entire time.
5. Add half of the pasta water to the pan and bring to a simmer.
6. Add the parmesan and remaining butter and mix to make a creamy sauce. Reduce until just slightly thickened, about one minute.
7. Add the pasta and coat completely. Toss in the pecorino cheese and season with salt as needed.
8. If the sauce seems too thick adjust as needed with additional pasta water. It should be rich and creamy, clinging tightly to the noodle.
9. Transfer the pasta equally to two plates. Top each with an egg yolk and two slices of proscuitto.


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Beveridge Landmark Events
Beveridge Landmark Events building is located in the heart of downtown Medicine Hat on Second Street. The character of this historic building was inspiration for the brand development. You will notice the masthead at the top of the building is now their logo. We created this typeface using the three fonts: Melior, Bodoni 72 Oldstyle and ITC.
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Mimi Kirk
Mimi Kirk is a contributing writer to CityLab covering education, youth, and aging. Her writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Smithsonian.
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When Johns Hopkins University and its nonprofit and government partners opened East Baltimore's Henderson-Hopkins school in 2014, it billed the K-8 facility as a national model for urban education. The $43 million facility—the first new school built on the city's east side in more than two decades—would not only boast a cutting-edge curriculum devised by Hopkins School of Education experts, it would provide a physical space far superior to the city's aging public schools.
In lieu of traditional classrooms, the architecture and urban design firm Rogers Partners built the facility around five separate areas, or "houses," featuring open, airy spaces and generous windows. "Each house has its own central meeting area and adjacent 'servery,' or cafeteria," a university publication reported upon the school's opening. "The communal rooms, with their soaring, wood-lattice ceilings, ceiling fans, and large windows, look more like high-end office building lobbies than something you'd find in a public school." The school's audacious design (which also included a rooftop deck) received awards, including the prestigious American Institute of Architects Institute Honor Award.
Three years later, as the Baltimore Sun reports, the school is struggling: Test scores are low, staff turnover has been high, and the vision of creating an integrated student body drawn both from nearby low-income East Baltimore households and the families of university staff has not yet been achieved. Henderson-Hopkins' physical layout appears to be part of the problem: Teachers have found the open spaces to be distracting and difficult to teach in. The school is now using temporary partitions, and this summer permanent walls will replace them.
So, who thought "open classrooms" were such a great idea in the first place?
The overall idea behind these spaces is that flexible areas without the usual fixed rows of desks provide more opportunities for individualized instruction and help kids learn at their own pace, according to their abilities and needs. Such spaces are also thought to spark creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration—among students as well as teachers.
But that's not always how they work out. Neil Gislason, a Toronto high school teacher who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation and a subsequent book on open classrooms, says Henderson-Hopkins' problems sound typical for those who opt for such designs. For one, teachers and students generally find that these spaces' noise level interferes with their concentration (much as it does for workers in open offices). However, the more fundamental problem, he says, is not the design itself: "It's that there's not enough organizational or financial support to make the spaces work."
Gislason's research shows that contemporary schools in Canada and the United States that are built or remodeled with an open design (usually charter schools in the U.S. and public schools in Canada) tend to experience difficulties because injecting a non-traditional approach to learning and education into a school "has a very high risk of confusion."
Schools often don't train teachers in advance about how to use these spaces, he says. Without adequate preparation, teachers tend to revert to traditional methods of instruction. They divide large areas with bookshelves, filing cabinets, and the like, carving out smaller spaces where they can teach groups as before. "When teachers do this," Gislason says, "it's an effective response to an environment that isn't working well."
We've been here before. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, open classrooms had a minor heyday. Thousands of schools in North America—mainly elementary, but some secondary—were constructed or remodeled as home-like spaces with flexible learning areas.
Larry Cuban, an emeritus professor of education at Stanford University, wrote in Education Next that these paradigm-busting designs appealed to the revolution-minded culture of the time: "Open classrooms…resonated with those who believed that America's formal, teacher-led classrooms were crushing students' creativity. In that sense the open classroom movement mirrored the social, political, and cultural changes of [the era]."
By the late 1970s, a backlash set in, driven in part by the noise and teaching challenges, but also, writes Cuban, by the conservative response to the cultural and political changes of the previous decade.
Today, the architecture firm Fielding Nair International is on a mission to bring back open classrooms—and change education in the process. It has designed these spaces for schools in 47 countries, including the United States, Oman, and China. The open classroom movement is particularly taking off in Australia, where earlier this week Melbourne's Herald Sun reported that "flexible classrooms [are] the way of the future." The trend is also catching on, to a lesser extent, in New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.
Fielding Nair founding president and CEO Prakash Nair says that his open classrooms are "enormously successful," unlike those of the 1960s and 70s. He points out that because the instructors of that time continued to interact with students as teachers, rather than as guides—Nair believes that children are capable of directing their own learning—the first open classroom movement failed. His firm helps to make sure this doesn't happen in the buildings it designs by working with school officials on curricula, scheduling, and teacher development. "If you touch one piece of the puzzle you have to touch everything, or it all falls apart," he says.
That strategy addresses some of Gislason's concerns about teachers, but the issue of resources remains. Can cash-strapped public schools commit to continually providing special training for new hires that open-classroom schools require? In Washington, D.C., school officials don't seem to think so: They're in the process of "modernizing" a mid-1970s public school with an open-space plan. Noise is a particular problem, they say, for children with special needs, such as those on the autism spectrum, who often need quiet.
But noise is only an issue when it interferes with learning—not when it's simply a "healthy buzz," Nair says. He's adamant that his designs can work for all children—after all, that's the whole idea behind the open-classroom movement, which was driven by the desire to accommodate students as individuals. "The biggest obstruction to these spaces is that any change is terrifying for people," he says. "What we're doing is based on research about how children learn best, and how to bring out the best in them."
Los Angeles homeless providers were rebuffed when they asked to use Cesár Pelli's Hawthorne Building, which the White House is eyeing to relocate Skid Row residents.
Using geotagged tweets, researchers found four types of social connectedness in big U.S. cities, exemplified by New York, San Francisco, Detroit, and Miami.
Fears of congestion and a powerful taxi lobby have long kept ride-hailing apps out of transit-friendly Vancouver, British Columbia. That's about to change.
White families quickly recuperated financial losses after the Civil War, and then created a Jim Crow credit system to bring more white families into money.
America's laws against lingering have roots in Medieval and Elizabethan England. Since 1342, the goal has always been to keep anyone "out of place" away.


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Sometimes we as Pentecostals do some strange things too. Have you ever danced (in the Spirit) or run the aisles? I have done both. What about giving a message in tongues, or better yet, given an interpretation of tongues? While I think I once gave a message in tongues, (not too sure about that), I have never given an interpretation of tongues. We do like the spectacular in our services though. But what if the Lord spoke directly to you and told you to witness to a specific individual? What would you do? BTW, He will never give you an illegal command!
In 1973 I with my young family moved to Yankton SD with the intention of starting a church. I found a job at a department store and heard about a fellow employee who had a drinking problem. I had never met him but one day I saw him walk across the aisle in his department's area. The Lord spoke to me (to my heart?) to speak to him about his soul. I looked for an opportunity. Soon after I was in the stock room and he came by. He stopped to introduce himself and tell me that his father had been a Methodist minister and that he had been raised in a parsonage. As I got off the ladder I was on, the Lord spoke to me again and revealed to me that this man, at about age 13 or so, had went to an altar and made a commitment to serve the Lord. I proceeded to repeat to him what the Lord had just revealed to me and told him that God was calling on him to fulfill that commitment. His reaction? His eyes got big and he backed away and said he would like to speak to me some other time. (He later told me that he thought I was just talking preacher's talk) Later on I visited his house. Both he and his wife were alcoholics and partakers in the swinging lifestyle. I witnessed to both of them and to their children of God's love for them and of their need to get right with God. To make a long story short, they came to the church we had in our home and I ended up baptizing his wife, and two or three of his children and finally him, in Jesus name.
Am I telling you this to toot my horn? No! To my knowledge none of them went on to serve the Lord Jesus. I am telling you this to tell you that you need to take the advice of Jesus' mother and "whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." He will never lead you wrong! The Lord Jesus said in Matthew 16:18, "I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The church that Jesus builds will stand! The Apostle Paul said in 1st Corinthians 3:6, "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase." God has called some to plant, others to water, but it takes the Lord to touch the heart and give the increase. We certainly should not sit on our hands while the world around us is perishing but God must give the increase.
The Bible says in Psalm 127:1, "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." But when we do what the Lord has told us to do, and do it with all our might (See Ecclesiastes 9:10) then we can have the assurance that what we do for Christ will last. I love that old chorus we used to sing (and sometimes still sing), "Remember only what you do for Christ will last,
Remember only what you do for Christ will last,
Only what you do for Him, will be counted in the end,
Only what you do for Christ will last."
Let us then then redeem the time (See Galatians 4:5) and do, "whatsoever He saith unto" us. (See Romans 13:11) Let us emulate our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and be about our Father's business. (See Luke 2:49) Let us serve the Lord Jesus, without question.


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We're all about the StoryBrand marketing framework here at The Decorettes- particularly positioning your brand as the guide in your client's story. Because we're not the heroes, our clients are the heroes! And what better movie to showcase this marketing tip than Harry Potter. So are you a Gilderoy Lockhart (please stop!) or are you a Dumbledore? Catch this week's episode of The Decorettes to find out how being more like Dumbledore will grow your business!
Episode 46: The Ultimate Guide to a DIY Personal Brand Photo Shoot
Sometimes small business owners just don't have the funds for a pro brand photo shoot. But that's no excuse for continuing to use your iPhone for all of your brand photography! That's why this week on The Decorettes, Jess and Steph and delivering their ultimate guide to a DIY personal brand photo shoot so you can do the best you can with a small monetary investment. Your business will thank you and your clients will be impressed!
Episode 45: How to Plan Your Personal Branding Photoshoot
Planning a successful personal branding photoshoot doesn't have to be overwhelming! These photos are going to be an important asset for your website and marketing, so making sure you get the most out of your investment is key. Don't go into your brand photoshoot without a plan- watch this week's episode of The Decorettes and download their Personal Brand Photoshoot Planning Checklist and rock your next shoot!
Episode 44: How to Prepare for an Interior Photo Shoot
If you're an interior designer, professional photographs for your brand are a non-negotiable! They make the difference between a potential client landing on your website and bouncing or falling in love and hiring you. They're the difference between being published or an editor saying buh-bye! This week on The Decorettes, Jessica is sharing her abundant wisdom on how to navigate an interior photo shoot so you show up like a pro and get the shots you want!
Episode 43: Tips for Establishing a Relationship with Your Brand Photographer with Mary Costa
A true Decorette hires a professional photographer for both their branding and their interiors! So this week we're interviewing The Decorettes very own brand photographer, Mary Costa, who's going to give you the best tips for working with and finding the perfect photographer for your creative business. Don't drive potential clients and customers away from your website and your social with poor photography. Listen to Mary!
Episode 41: Telling a Memorable Brand Story with Jennifer Deiderich
When creating the vision for your brand, it's so important to create a story that your ideal clients and customers will fall in love with, but one that is also true to you. In steps Jennifer Deiderich, the fashion designer behind Suite, the swankiest brand around! Listen in as we chat with her about her time on Project Runway, how she create content for the Suite girl, and her biggest advice for growing a business that you'll love!
Episode 38: Growing Your Interior Design Business and Influence with Caitlin Murray
Sometimes we may look at other interior designers in our industry and think, "Dang, if I could only have what they have." Well this week on The Decorettes we're giving you the inside scoop on how Caitlin Murray, winner of HGTV's "Faces of Design," grew her interior design business, Black Lacquer Design, and guess what? She started just like the rest of us and now has a thriving interior design studio in Los Angeles and an incredible amount of influence without having to do the social media grind. Tune in to find out how she did it!
Episode 33: Designing an Influential Personal Brand with Angela Mondloch
Designing an influential personal brand isn't always an easy feat, especially in a world full of influencers (or people who think they're influencers!) but it can be done! We're chatting with Angela Mondloch, the creator behind Saffron Avenue, about how she's built an infuencial brand that is not only profitable but built around her life and passions.


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Jamestown's Incline Railway/
Railroads are fascinating – as many a boy (regardless of his age) can tell you. There is a romance about the era of rail travel when we still packed in large trunks and dressed in milner's plumage.
I was fascinated to read in the "Looking Back" book about an incline railway that was built from Wolf River up to The Basin in East Jamestown, Tennessee. I have never heard about it before and it drove me to research the purpose and history of these railways.
The practical side of rail lines lies in the ability to move heavy loads over rough terrain with minimal power. It is a tool that has been utilized for centuries.
Wikipedia records that the earliest documented inline was used in Austria in 1515 to provide freight access to Hohensalzburg Castle at Salzburg. Most incline railways are industrial tools, often found in mines. Most of the pictures of mines I've seen include a rail line up out of the underground mines and into the tipple for loading. I never thought of these as an "incline railway" although they always consist of rails laid on an incline – so that obviously fits the definition! These inclines do not require the steel rails I always associate with railroads and the earliest versions moved cars over wooden rails.
The Wolf River Incline Railway was always about moving the timber from the Wolf River Valley up to the rail lines for distribution and use across the country. The Tennessee Stave and Lumber Company originally had a mill in Verdun and the logs had to be moved from under the mountain to that mill. It's a tough haul on a stretch of highway the Department of Transportation has struggled for years to keep from falling off the mountain. Laying rails was ingenious in those days before heavy trucks were widely available.
Doyle Jones reports that the mill was moved to the head of Wolf River in 1922, so that accounts for the picture above showing sawn lumber loaded at the bottom of the incline. When the mill was built in the valley, pre-assembled huts for the workers were lowered down on the incline and positioned near Blowing Cave and up Rotten Fork. Steam engines 30, 40 and 50 were also lowered down the incline and the tracks ran into the tract timber about 12 miles.
Building the railroads both the O&W from Oneida to Jamestown as well as the incline and her associated rails was back breaking work. While it supplied jobs to a lot of local men, others were brought into the area.
Inclines can be powered by a wide range of energy sources including manpower, horsepower, steam, or even water-balances. I haven't found any record of the power source for the Jamestown Incline.


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The second time the opportunity was presented to attend OpenStack Summit. Here is few thoughts and observations.
- Venue – In one of the recent podcasts Greg has mentioned – that probably the decision to have the summit in Canada (not US) was based on premises that it is easier for Out-of-North-America OpenStack users to get a Canadian visa. Talking to some of the participants I got impression of opposite – a lot of US citizens decided to pass on the summit because of the passport requirements to go outside of US, but none of the participants was saying that it's difficult for them to get an US visa to attend a conference. My personal excuse to go was I'm based out of Vancouver, BC and it's a 20-minutes' walk from my home to the conference center. The previous conference that I attended was 3-years ago and also was held in Vancouver, BC. One of OpenStack board members is from BC and my impression it's the main factor for the conference city choice, also the views from the Convention center are awesome
- Crowd – comparing to three years ago the conference was much smaller. Previously we had to be in the session room 20 minutes ahead of time to get a seat, this time it wasn't problem at all. Smaller hall has been used for keynotes, the expo was also much smaller. Some participants said it's not because of fading interest in OpenStack, it's more about having qualifying deployments that allow you to go and get value from the conference. In other words – less random people this time.
- Topics (Kata Containers) – The most intriguing to me was Kata containers project – In short – it's still Docker containers, where each container wrapped into a VM mostly for security reasons. VMware has a similar concept VMware Integrated Containers (VIC) – for at least three years. For VMware the primary goal is manageability (you can manage your containers the exact same way as you manage VMs), The problem with this setup – you have to use a proxy to deal with the containers, that causes limitations (i.e. you couldn't use Docker build command with VIC – can be resolved by now). So adoption of Kata containers considering complexity that it introduces seems questionable to me.
- Topics (Istio) – Istio as the next step in building resilient Kubernetes infrastructure. In general OpenStack Summit 2018 in Vancouver seemed to be more Kubernetes convention than OpenStack users and contributors gathering. In short – Istio has great potential and number of use-cases, it seems to be a pretty new technology that means there is lot of things that can be improved. Confusion between Istio and Envoy is the biggest item that requires clarity for an architect. These two can be decoupled and used with other pairing technologies, but the details around such implementation are still not clear
- Working on the expo floor – I had an opportunity to talk to literally mostly everyone attending the conference, a lot of interest around Avi Vantage platform and our OpenStack and Kubernetes integration. We had the following sessions delivered:
– Canary and Blue/Green Continuous Delivery of OpenStack Applications – OpenDev CI/CD with EBSCO
– OpenStack-based NFV Cloud at Swisscom: Challenges and Experiences with Swisscom and HPE (if you want a quick snapshot of Avi – please watch video at 26:45 for 8 minutes exceptional coverage by Avi Networks CTO – Ranga Rajagopalan)
It was a great experience to attend and to meet first time or to re-connect with the engineers who think in similar way and working on making technology better by challenging status quo.


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Phase 1
There are six stages of gentrification. Since working in Bushwick, Brooklyn, only a few blocks from where my mother grew up, I have become very aware of how rapid gentrification can happen. I began this project as a way to explore gentrification's effects on communities of color and what happens to a community culture over time and change. The project has evolved and slowed down, so that I see it now mimicking the stages of gentrification. Phase 1 of the project is about myself and mapping the changes in my home and trying to document how it has affected me personally. I am looking at gentrification in Ridgewood, Queens, specifically, and dissecting it on an individual scale. The project is ongoing and hopes to grow to reflect other New Yorker's experiences with the cities changes.


text: I was in training all day and it was raining at lunch, so I didn't get out much during the day. As soon as I got home, I picked up the rest of the family and went down to Silver Spring. As I was walking around, I noticed some Pennsylvania blue stone -- "Crush and Run" is what I think it is called. . My husband asked if I was taking picture of just some rocks.:) The variations in size, shape, and shades of color caught my eye and yes, I took pictures of just some rocks.


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The Tuesday 7pm session will be going on tour again this month, this time to Beamish woods on 17th June.
Starting from the Shepherd and Shepherdess (just outside the gates of Beamish Museum), at 7pm, it will be an off-road, circular route, of between 6 and 7 miles. Of course we'll finish back at the pub, so bring some pennies for refreshments!
There will be no 7pm run from the sports centre on Tuesday 17th June


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The final day of Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain touched upon one of the less-emphasised aspects of life and humanity. Don't forget history, was the message. And it doesn't matter where in the world the lesson comes from.
Tomoko Kikuchi is Japanese but has lived in India for 21 years. Her interest in India started when she was in high school and soon after she moved out of Japan. After mastering Hindi she now translates Japanese books into Hindi. According to Tomoko, nobody should ignore history.
Today, she laid bare the facts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing on the 6th and the 9th of August 1945 respectively that hastened the end of World War II. The children were shocked to learn the brutality of the episode, which destroyed two cities and maimed the lives of those living there.
Tomoko chose a picture story depiction of the journey of a young girl named Michan. Through the eyes of the young heroine, the kids learnt how the mundane scenery was suddenly disturbed on the morning of the 6th of August at Hiroshima. The struggle to stay alive in those trying times amidst the stench of dead bodies and ailing individuals was the real test. The continuous rain that spread radiation all over had crippled everyone's lives as long as they lived.
Friends and relatives who had later come to inquire after their friends were also affected due to their exposure to radiation. In the story, we learnt about Michan's stunted growth even after seven years and also the abrupt death of her father a year after the bombings. The after-effects were unpredictable and incurable. It wasn't just the Japanese who were killed. There were people from China, Russia, US, Indonesia and Korea among other nationalities.
Tomoko also touched upon the moral dilemmas of being an atom bomb survivor and dealing with the plight of marriage and parenthood. One story was about the protagonist who died on her wedding day. Another story was about a parent's insistence of not agreeing to her child's marriage because the partner was an atom bomb survivor.
Every year, on the 6th of August, prayers are offered in remembrance of the dreadful event. The session ended with a small quiz about the facts discussed in the stories. The children had to answer with either a Yes/No or A/B. The kids thoroughly enjoyed the session. Tomoko skillfully revealed certain cultural preferences and geographical features while retaining the seriousness of the matter. The children took back with them certain invaluable lessons.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
Day 22 of Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain began with Sonali Biswas taking the children on a new flight of imagination. She began the session by narrating two tales. Each of the tales had mesmerizing illustrations. The children were hooked to the world of stories and listened with rapt attention.
The first story was about River Ganga's grievance against the people living in the hills of Kumaon. Ganga refused to step out of a little boy's razai box until the villagers brought her the long tangled hair of Lord Shiva. After much thinking, the villagers found a solution. The roots of the trees resembled the long tangled hair of Lord Shiva.
Ganga was content when she saw the villagers working hard to preserve the trees and keep the soil and dirt from polluting her water. The roots of the trees were brought to her. She went back to her place and the villagers successfully calmed her wrath. The story was beautiful indeed but the illustrations made the episode come alive.
The second story, Tiger on a Tree by Pulak Biswas was about the plight of a tiger caught unaware by strange creatures. The poor tiger was so scared when he saw a goat that he tried climbing a tree. A few villagers saw a tiger up on the tree and wanted to catch him. They ran towards the tree carrying a huge net. The poor animal panicked and jumped down straight into the net.
The villagers, however, decided to leave the tiger in another shore since there was no point of putting him in a cage in a zoo, painting him electric blue or sticking him with glue. After all, he was a poor, harmless creature who hadn't attacked anyone. Here too, there were striking illustrations to explain the intricacies of the plot.
After the storytelling session, Sonali asked the children to grab colours, sketch pens and papers to illustrate whatever they wished to, keeping in mind the stories they had just heard. The kids sat around in groups and ideas were exchanged for the next five minutes. The image of the tiger on the tree captured most kids' imagination. The waterfall was the next favourite. Some were happy to remain in their comfort zones and painted scenery. A few played with colours and came up with bold, prominent illustrations with multiple hues. Overall, it was a fun and euphoric experience for the children as well as Sonali herself.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
Today was day 3 with Muriel. The session began where it left off yesterday – the posters. Each group of children came up and explained what they were trying to depict through the posters.
Group 1's poster was about how the elements of nature – trees, mountains, the sun and animals (specifically bulls and cows) – thrive together. Each of these elements should be preserved and saved. Resources should be conserved and animals should be saved from becoming extinct.
Group 2 came up with a simple message – bulls should be got out of the list of the endangered species. Group 3 also expressed concern about the bulls becoming extinct. Group 4 explained that nature and its animals should be saved. Group 5 explained the matter in details – bulls are being imported from other countries in the hope that more milk would be produced and thus they are only feeding and caring for those imported bulls. The Indian bulls are being neglected. They should be saved. The other groups too explained their posters and gave similar explanations. The harmful effects of crossbreeding were explained to them once more.
Muriel told the children that they have been discussing cows and bulls so that the kids have some understanding of this trend against indigenous animals. Now, if any of them goes to the villages, perhaps they will be able to speak with a few of the farmers. Textbooks do not tell us about these subjects but they are relevant in the long run and an important aspect of lifecycle.
The children were again divided into groups and this time each group had 4-5 members. Every group had to make two masks: an Indian cow and a European cow. Children divided the tasks of sketching, colouring and cutting amongst themselves. They were also asked to do a small skit where two from each group would wear the masks and act out a series of dialogues between the cows from different countries.
Only one group came up with a presentation titled: Molly meets Manju. It was well done where Molly complains to Manju about her plight of adjusting to the Indian climate!
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
The day began with a storytelling session. The twist was that the kids were the spectators as well as the storytellers! They were quite happy to narrate the stories that were put together yesterday. They also showed us the illustrations that they designed for their story. The theme was the same for everyone – Molly, the cow from Jersey Island's visit to Rajasthan and Kerala.
Here are a few glimpses. One group stressed on Molly's inability to navigate the deserts of Rajasthan. Another group talked about the scarcity of water in Rajasthan. They showed how Molly became confused by a mirage each time expecting it to be a source of water. Tired and exhausted, Molly was taken home by an old man who comforted her.
Molly found a friend in Rajasthan, the Gir cow but decided to go to Kerala due to the unbearable climatic conditions in Rajasthan. Another group's story revolved around the cold nights that Molly had to spend in Rajasthan. One of the groups even prepared a neat booklet with their story and illustrations. It was such a delight! One child who had not been present for the session, the previous day, decided to tell us an extempore story.
Muriel had some exciting activity planned for the kids next. There was a slide show about bulls and cows specifically focusing on the differences between the European ones and the Indian ones. This was not only to inform them as to why imported animals cannot execute most of the tasks that the indigenous ones carry out efficiently, but also to point towards the exploitation of the gene pool by crossbreeding.
The children were curious. Was it really possible that the cows and bulls that we often encounter on the streets are not of Indian origin? They could not believe it really. Horns, humps, tails, and colours make all the difference, pointed out Muriel. Cross breeding confuses these demarcations at times. Imported cows produce more than 30 litres of milk unlike the indigenous ones, which produce much less. However, the former cannot produce so much of milk if the climatic conditions are vastly different from what they are used to.
The kids were also shown few game traditions in villages involving the bulls and the cows. The age-old plough cart method was environmentally ideal but modern day tractors have replaced them. Wouldn't it be better to resort to older way? The children could not totally agree with the idea but they were happy to listen and learn nonetheless. A few posters about saving endangered species were shown to them. In the end they were asked to make posters – draw an Indian cow or bull and leave a message about their condition. Each group had 3 members. Each came up with colourful, meaningful and artistic posters.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
Muriel Kakani, today's speaker had a touching story to share – a story that is hardly known and needs to be explored. She structured her talk around the yaks of Ladakh.
The story that surprised the children was how Molly, the European cow from Jersey Island had been brought to Ladakh to replace the wonderful yak. Is it even possible? Aren't they totally different? Yak's milk is important for the inhabitants of Ladakh, not only for drinking but also for making cheese. Its wool is useful for making sweaters and shoes and the dung is necessary for burning. So, how and why did Molly land up here. The only reason was that the yak couldn't produce a lot of milk. And did Molly have a good time?
Unlike the yak, which has short legs and small hooves, making it easier to climb mountains, cows are built differently. The fur of the yaks makes them feel hot which is why they often sit and rest. The cow finds the weather too cold and suffers from altitude sickness. Is it not unfair to presume that animals will perform all those functions that they are gifted with, despite severe climatic changes and physical discomfort?
The cow from Jersey Island can produce lots of milk in normal conditions. So Ladakh definitely is not the place for her. On the other hand, isn't it necessary to be a little patient with the wonderful yaks? Once the children learnt about this partially researched agenda of importing foreign species to manufacture products that are otherwise produced by indigenous animals in India, they were shocked.
Based on this information, the children were given two topics: Molly, the cow from Jersey Island meets the indigenous cow of Rajasthan, Gir cow or Kerala's Vechur cow. Kids were asked to write a letter, speech or story. They were also asked to make illustrations according to the plot of the story. Children were divided into five groups where some worked on writing the story or content and the rest concentrated on illustrations.
The stories are to be read out aloud by each group tomorrow while Muriel takes us through yet another exciting episode! The workshop unlike the other days was primarily in English but with a little help from hidden pockets, kids got involved quite easily and they look forward to more such informative yet fun sessions.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
Imagination. That is what Subir Roy took the children on a tour of on the 18th day of Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain. He decided to take them on a train journey. It is always interesting to look out of a moving train. There is the changing scenery, funny objects and interesting people that one can observe whizzing by. The finer details come out more clearly when the train comes to a halt.
Today, Subir shared Rahul's expedition. Rahul, a small boy of 6-7 years was going to visit his grandmother and grandfather along with his sister. The destination wasn't disclosed in the beginning. The story was narrated through a series of illustration.
Subir started sketching a face followed by a body of Rahul, a young boy on the flipchart. He turned the page and fixed a windowpane made of black chart paper on the following page. Before drawing the next set of characters and objects, he asked the children what they normally see when they look out of the window of a train.
The responses ranged from multiple-tea-sellers, to coolies, to people dressed in various clothes. He started to scribble certain outlines. The children guessed it to be a potbelly of a man, a coolie at his side and so on. He removed the windowpane and finished sketching the rest of the image – the man with the potbelly had his palms tucked inside his trouser pockets, a coolie on the other side, and a flight of stairs leading to another platform. He later explained that when seen from inside the train, only a partial picture is visible. However, when the train stops, one can properly peep outside and have the full view. Rahul did the same.
"What did he see next?" asked Subir. Children answered grass, plants, and buildings perhaps. Subir nodded. He told them that Rahul did see buildings but something else too and hoped that the children would be able to guess that object. After a while, children identified the level crossing and a car and a truck waiting for the train to pass. There were buildings too. The third image was remarkable as he invited one of the kids to draw a bridge and he did a fine job. So this time, outside the window, Rahul saw a bridge, a flowing river, birds flying in the sky and a smiling cloud. Rahul could even imagine the cloud talking to him, asking him where was he off to? To which he replied that he was going to visit his grandparents.
The next set of images that Rahul encountered was not a common sight the city dwellers witnessed everyday. He saw a field of sugarcane, a tractor carrying the crops and a scarecrow in the middle of the field to keep away the birds and other harmful creatures. Birds were flying too.
Then came the favourite moment for all children, Rahul could see the tunnel – all dark and scary inside and a glimpse of another compartment. As the story progressed, we got to know where Rahul's grandparents lived. It was a hilly area. Naturally, the last set of visuals that Rahul saw from the window of the train was that of set of pretty houses, whose tops were snow-clad. After he got off the train, Rahul and his sister were received by their grandparents who were dressed in warm clothes. More than the story, it was the frame-by-frame unveiling that the children loved. Every oncoming frame was eagerly anticipated.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
This was day 3 of the sessions organised by DK India. By now, the children who were participating regularly had a fair idea that they will be showered with different kinds of gifts alongside immense fun. The session began with warm ups where children had to let Ligi John and her team know that they were here to have a good time. One of the team members told the children about how fish sleep with their eyes open. She also told them that they should steer clear of fish-like tactics.
It was quiz time! Five teams were formed on the spot – Galaxy, Earth, Astronaut, Rocket and Alien. Children had the liberty to choose their group name, which they promptly did. Questions started to flow. It was all on the projector with four options to choose from.
Some examples: What are comets made of? (Dusty ice and rock along with gases), How is the atmosphere close to Venus? (Hot and poisonous), Where is the largest volcano in the Solar System, which is known as Olympus Mons found? (Mars), Where is our Solar System's asteroid belt? (Mars and Jupiter), what is the scientific name of Earth's moon? (Luna). Team Alien emerged winners. All the kids received a certificate for participation.
The next discussion was about the seven continents. Children watched a small video about how continents came into existence. A big mass of land called Pangea broke up because of friction between the tectonic plates and various other climatic changes. The children were then told about the Seven Wonders of the World.
Worksheets, a pen and colours were distributed to the kids. Each child had to join the dots on the given worksheet to find one of the Seven Wonders of the World. After they finished, a small video about the Wonders was shown. A small booklet about the Seven Wonders of the World was circulated amongst the kids after the activity.
The next activity was about getting to know the water animals. Each child was given a crossword puzzle sheet where at first they had to find the animal and then write down its name on the sheet. Then the solutions were screened on the projector with images. Children learnt about sea horses, blue whales, dolphins, sharks, crocodile, clownfish and octopus. At the end of the activity, a small booklet about water animals was circulated amongst the children.
Two videos were shown after this. One was about the octopus and its ability to hide itself in the face of danger. The second was about the helpful nature of dolphins. This was followed by a video on rockets and then one on the importance of conserving water. Overall, the children picked up few important messages. The Earth is an incredibly wonderful place and it is important to protect it and keep it clean. Resources should not be exploited beyond one's necessity. Animals have a great sense of responsibility. Like the latter, children should learn to take care of themselves and also help friends in times of trouble.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
Day 16 started off with a bang. Children were welcomed with a Dinosaur Band by the DK team. Once the participants had settled down, a game called 'Deeksha says' began. Deeksha, one of the team members, randomly started giving instructions like About turn, go left, go right, clap, jump or walk and the children had to keep up with her set of instructions. This warm up was deliberately planned for the children to embark on all the exciting activities lined up for the day.
Today's author, Kingshuk initiated the fascinating discussion about big animals and who according to them was the largest. Was it the elephant, giraffe or the hippopotamus? The next topic was that of monsters. Children excitedly shouted out various types of monsters they were familiar with. They spoke of Ravan, ET, Mummy and Godzilla. Movie clips of King Kong and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – the scene where Buckbeak was being readied to be killed, were shown. The children concluded that dinosaurs were also some kind of monsters. Their fossils are available today but they must have lived in the jungles, or the river areas, maybe the desert too. Some came up with names of the possible places they must have inhabited – Mexico, Africa, and North America.
A film clipping on dinosaurs was shown where, after a while, the dinosaur was seen moving away towards the side. The dinosaur even made a loud sound. First the kids were asked to imitate that sound which they all executed delightfully and perfectly. Then they were asked to look closely and come up with a plausible solution. Initially, the kids said that perhaps he was looking for food, calling out to his friends, shouting, walking and scaring away people, hunting or playing.
After watching it for the second time, one child figured it out. He said that a hardly audible sound came from the side and the dinosaur changed his direction in search of that sound. Therefore, children discovered the supreme hearing capacity of the dinosaur. Later, one of the children told us how some of the preying habits of dinosaurs and even their body structures are similar to certain kinds of birds.
When it came to deciphering the sizes of the dinosaurs, children were confused. One kid intelligently answered that it was impossible to determine the size by looking at the fossils. It is not easy to say how many elephants would make a dinosaur. However, a few of them guessed that it could be somewhere between 5 and 15.
They learnt later that dinosaurs came in various sizes – big and small. Their long necks were attributable to the fact that trees and plants were tall and that the poor creatures had to stretch their necks in pursuit of food. They were also divided into vegetarian and non-vegetarian category. Like birds, dinosaurs always moved in a group. It was their strategy to fight their enemy together and ensure that no harm came upon them. Dinosaurs too had families and homes.
The activities that followed this informative session were very engaging and exciting. The children were divided into groups and each group was given an I-pad. Everyone had to participate to complete the dino maze with the help of the DK team members. The game was about creating the fossil structure of the dinosaur. Just before they began the game, kids learnt how scientists accumulated various parts like bones and skulls, of a single dinosaur by digging the ground. They also learnt how types of soils acted as indicators for the types of skin. Kids learnt about the scary Tyrannosaurus, the leaf-eating Barosaurus, the riverside dinosaur – Triceratops, and other kinds like Allosaurus.
The final activity was making one's own dinosaur with clay. It was a group activity as well. Some groups made many small clay models while others came up with one slightly bigger clay dinosaur model, collectively. A small discussion about their extinction was held. Volcanic eruption, earthquake, and sudden arrival of a meteor from the space – all these factors led to their extinction. Some kids wondered how humans survived this severity. Kingshuk explained that due to their insignificant sizes, perhaps the humans managed to hide somewhere but these poor, huge creatures had no place to hide.
At the end of the session, each child received a small book about dinosaurs and dinosaur-shaped chocolates. They also got books in DK's Wow series – Earth, Space, Animals. There were fun elements like the dinosaur badge and the dinosaur bands to give them the feeling of belonging to a common dinosaur club. The best part was the joy that the children derived by getting their portraits clicked along with the dinosaur poster that was hung on the wall.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain with Bharti Bedi of DK India was truly enjoyable. On the 15th day of the workshop amidst the terrible summer heat, the DK Group had some really interesting games, puzzles and activities that put a spell on the children.
Today's session was about the brain, getting to learn about the nervous system avoiding the mundane textbook approach. There was a brief warm up where the kids were asked to jump and clap. After two minutes, they were told that the brain controls these actions. The next question was how is this important organ protected? Skull and brain fluids help the brain from breaking, Bharti and her team explained.
Children learnt about the parts of brain – Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Spinal Cord and Brain Stem. The kids were divided into four groups. Each group learnt the role of each of these parts. The Cerebrum, they learnt, helps in the process of thinking, moving and feeling. Cerebellum primarily controls the balance and movement. Brain Stem assists in breathing and finally the Spinal cord sends all the signals from the brain to other parts of the body.
It was a fun exercise for the kids. Next, they learnt about the left and right side of the brain. Children discovered that those with a more active left brain (specializing in Mathematics and Reasoning) wrote with their right hand and those with a more active right brain (specializing in Music and Arts) wrote with their left. After this, the children formed neuron chains by holding hands. They were shown how to act out the signals that are passed around though the neuron chain. They also learnt about the five senses – touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste.
Children were given some images with optical illusions to make them aware of the tricks that one's brain plays. They had to decipher whether the lines were straight or parallel in one image, where both were actually correct answers. They also had to catch a moving black dot and decide if a given image was titling or not. Reflex actions were demonstrated by surprising the kids. Closed bottles filled with water were directed at them and naturally each time they thought that water was being thrown at them. This is reflex, explained Bharti and her team.
A simple question 'what did you eat yesterday?' triggered off a flood of replies. 'Bhindi' was a common favorite, it was discovered. The concept of memory, both short term and long term were discussed next. Repeated practice makes a good memory. Children were reminded about VIBJYOR. They were also asked about the oceans and PAISA became the keyword to remember all the names of the ocean. A memory game was played as well. Children soon learnt about the importance of making lists of things they should remember and trying to recall them using the method of association. They even received homework.
Finally, there was a small talk about the importance of sleep and how one's body clock determines one's action. Preparation should always be well organized and rehearsed as tasks get more difficult when deadlines crop up. All the children were showered with a plethora of gifts. Not only did each one receive a writing pad and a pen, they got a Rubik's Cube as prize if they completed the puzzle given at the end of the given writing pad. They also received books on space, animals and science.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.
Today's session, Titli Udi, with Jitendra Thakur was a little bit of everything rolled into one. There was storytelling, artwork and colouring. In the beginning, he formed a huge circle and sat with the children.
Jitendra initiated the session by engaging the kids in small conversations about their school days, vacation plans and so on. One topic led to another and they found themselves discussing gardens, trees, plants, flowers, butterflies, birds and bees. He asked the children, 'why do the butterflies come to the garden?'
Many responses came up. Children told him that butterflies come when the flowers bloom, they also come to drink nectar – for lunch and dinner. While on this topic, one child shared her experience of scaring away a butterfly with badminton racket once. Another child told that not only had she seen butterflies the day before but bats too! Children learnt that butterflies are harmless creatures.
'Why are libraries useful?' he asked. Children told him that libraries are the only places where different kinds of books are available – books about 'bhaloo', 'machhli', 'haathi'. Some children described the kind of butterflies they had seen. After listening to their beautiful narratives, Jitendra opened the book 'Butterfly Butterfly' by Petr Horacek the UK-based illustrator of picture books.
The book had lovely illustrations alongside texts. Jitendra not only read out the story but also took time to point out nuances in the illustration. He kept encouraging the children to observe the little details. The story was a simple one about a girl named Lucy. She had a great day playing with a butterfly one day but the next day she found spiders (weaving nets), beetles, and snails (orange-blue in color), dragonflies and blue colored bees instead. Tired of searching for her pretty friend, she lay down on the cool green grass and suddenly out of nowhere, up sprang the happy butterfly. In the book, the effect of the flying butterfly looked amazing. That was, in fact, the turning point of the workshop.
It was time for children to learn the art of making flying butterflies. Jitendra demonstrated how to fold the papers lightly to discover the centre point. He then instructed them to cut it halfway and asked them to do the same thing with the other half given to them. The interesting point was to show them how to interlock the two papers and then tape them carefully so as get the structure in place.
On the white board, he sketched out the outline of the butterfly and how it was to be done on the given sheets of paper. Jitendra made sure that each child had the process well versed. He was helping them out at every stage. Some parents chose to volunteer as well. Children however, preferred doing it on their own.
After a series of diligent trials, the flying butterflies were ready. But butterflies need to be bright and colourful, they need to be coloured. The children took to colouring their creations enthusiastically. Dots, lines, circles, stripes, and various other patterns donned the white butterflies. They were finally coloured in multiple shades like red, orange, blue, magenta, yellow. The big, bright and beautiful butterflies were now ready to fly.
By Sebanti Chatterjee
Bookaroo-DPL Kitabein Kuch Kehti Hain is supported by mycity4kids and DK India.


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"We Want Their Voices to Be Heard"
Advocating for a Brighter Future for Children and Families
In addition to providing services to families that walk through our doors each day, Cope is dedicated to taking action on issues that affect the well-being of families today and for future generations. "We are committed to making sure children and families have the resources they need," said Executive Director Michele Grupe. "So we have really increased our efforts with regards to advocacy, community education and civic engagement."
One of the ways we promote civic engagement is by encouraging the families we work with to get involved. "Whether it's by volunteering, going to a city council meeting or advocating through the voting process, we really want families to have their voices be heard," said Michele. "We invite parents to participate in our Parents Council meetings, help us at voter education outreach events and share their experiences at public meetings."
Secondly, as an organization, we advocate for local, state and federal legislation and policies that impact the economic, physical and emotional wellbeing of families. "The Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC) of Napa County's Report on children highlights many of the challenges families face when raising their children: economic insecurity, immigration status, lack of housing and access to healthcare. The chronic toxic stress these conditions have on children and parents affect them over the course of their lives. Government action can help or hurt the situation. Specific recommendations regarding future actions and legislation are included in the report (include hyperlink for online version). For example, CAPC and Cope support Child Care and Development Services Act (AB2626) which would help counties draw more funding for child care in our community."
Finally, as the lead agency of CAPC, we help create a unified voice for child abuse prevention efforts in Napa County. CAPC provides professional development trainings for partner organizations, oversees education campaigns to engage the larger community in prevention efforts and advocates for public policy that impacts children's safety and healthy development. "CAPC also partners with Child Welfare Services to deliver Mandated Reporter Trainings to agencies employing individuals that work closely with children and families. These trainings inform mandated reporters of their legal obligations to report known and suspected child abuse or neglect, what signs to look for and the process of reporting," Michele explained.
Cope is here to empower families to raise children who thrive. But we also want to help address the root causes of their challenges and create institutional change so the entire community benefits.
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"Treatment for Alcoholism: HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN HE'S SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING HELP?"
by Toby Rice Drews
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You can often tell that a person is serious about an intention to try to get sober if he or she goes to alcoholism treatment and then AA, or goes right to AA and then continues to go to AA.
The two purposes of a treatment center are: first, alcohol education to break through denial; and, second, making the alcoholic understand the importance of going to AA for the rest of his or her life, one day at a time.
Also, when an alcoholic goes to treatment for addiction, the place that is usually more effective is the one that believes in the disease concept of alcoholism rather than believing that alcoholism is a result of other issues. (And if the person also has a psychiatric diagnosis, that the alcoholism is in addition to it, not a result of it.)
And the person may also need some counseling, some serious therapy for some other issues, but these other issues usually cannot be completely addressed if the person isn't sober, and for that, most of the time, the person needs AA, because most people need AA to stay sober. It's the most effective treatment for alcoholism there is.
People who go to only counseling to try to stay sober, or only church, or whatever, or who try to do it by themselves, have a pretty poor prognosis for recovery.
The recovery rate for people who go to AA and stay in AA the rest of their lives is very good. According to AA itself (from a report in the back of the AA "Grapevine" magazine several years ago) the statistics went like this: 50% of the people who go to AA stay sober from day one; out of the remaining 50%, half of them had relapses and then came back and stayed sober, and the other half of them never made it. So, 75% of people stay sober if they go to AA. That's higher, much much higher, than any other form of treatment. So it's sort of playing Russian roulette to try doing it without AA.
Yet, you always hear alcoholics say "I don't need AA. I can get sober anytime I want." Well, that may be true, but it's not a matter of getting sober only, it's a matter of staying sober. A lot of alcoholics can get sober but can't stay sober.
As a matter of fact, as the disease progresses along (and it is a fatal, progressive disease) it gets harder and harder to even GET sober. So there's a very scary (but true) saying in the rooms of recovery: "I know I have another drunk in me, I don't know if I have another recovery in me." The thing is, with this disease, one never knows if one does have another recovery in you. There are people who go out and come back in, and go out and come back in AA all the time, and then one day when they want to come back into AA, they've lost the choice, and they try desperately and they can't get sober. The lucky ones crawl back in years later, and look like they have fought the Vietnam War by themselves; that's how bad they look.
And the crazy thing about this disease is that it progresses whether or not you're drinking. So even in people who are sober many years, this disease is still progressing. Even though their recovery is progressing, the point is if they pick up a drink ten years after they get sober, they are as sick as if they never had stopped drinking in those 10 years.
What If The Alcoholic Keeps Talking About Getting Sober Instead of GOING to AA?
Say it's now June and he says he'll go to AA in September. I hear this from literally hundreds of people who relate how the alcoholic says he'll go to AA later, maybe next month, or next season.
Now I'm not saying it doesn't ever lead to the person actually following through, but I would not hang my hat on it. Most of the time it leads to a lot of disappointment, because there's an old saying in AA that nobody woke up one fine morning, felt great, and decided to go to AA. That might be a bit of an exaggeration to say nobody did, but most of the time getting help is a surrender, it's not a pronouncement, it's not "I'll put a notice in the paper," it's not "I'll call all the cousins and tell them about it," it's not "I'll make 15 promises" and go on and on and on about it. It's usually kind of a desperate, quiet surrender, a screaming "Help!", an "Oh my God I need help!" and they just do it.
I would not say to the alcoholic, "You're not serious." I would just go about my business. I wouldn't argue about it, but I would just not count on it.
This doesn't mean that there aren't some alcoholics who will talk a lot about it before they go because they're scared and they're sort of working their way up to it. But like I said, I would not count on it. One of the changes that family members must do is to start listening to what the alcoholic DOES, not what he says. That's very important -- listen to what he does, not what he says.
Once He Has Actually Started Going To AA, He Needs To Fall In Love With AA
Now what do I mean by that? Falling in love with AA means that you love going. And that's the key that will keep people going back the rest of their lives so that they don't die from alcoholism.
Now, how does a person get from just plain old scared and just going to meetings (or resentment about going) to actually falling in love with going?
One of the ways a person gets to AA is being made to go by the courts or the jobs or by the family. Then, it's "get the body there and the mind will follow." They keep going until eventually it gets into them and they start really liking it and understanding what it's about, and feeling comfortable there, and getting verbal there, and talking, and sharing, and seeing that it really is helping them tremendously.
Now some people, probably a smaller amount of people, fall in love with AA from the beginning and see how much it helps them. For most people, it's a process, it takes time.
Now what do I think is the underlying reason why people really need to go to so many meetings? I think the crux of it is this: A PERSON NEEDS TO BE GOING TO A LOT OF MEETINGS FOR A VERY LONG TIME, BECAUSE FOR SO MANY YEARS, THEIR KNEE-JERK REACTION HAS BEEN, WHENEVER THERE'S BEEN STRESS IN THEIR LIFE -- AND NOBODY CAN BE STRESS-FREE -- TO PICK UP SOME CHEMICAL RELIEF, EITHER ALCOHOL AND/OR OTHER DRUGS, TO DEAL WITH THAT STRESS. THEY HAVE TO GO TO ENOUGH MEETINGS AND SEE ENOUGH STRESS-RELIEF IN THOSE MEETINGS, AND EXPERIENCE ENOUGH STRESS-RELIEF IN THOSE MEETINGS FREQUENTLY ENOUGH, SO THAT THEIR KNEE-JERK REACTION TO PICK UP SOMETHING FOR STRESS IS REPLACED BY A KNEE-JERK REACTION WHEN THEY GET STRESSED TO GO TAKE IT TO A MEETING.
What are the two main keys that I see why people stay in AA for the long haul, and therefore keep living and don't die from alcoholism? The two keys that I see that keep them there is they go to enough meetings and really start seeing how it's really a gift and it helps them tremendously. And the second thing is, they talk a lot in meetings. Verbal people just have an easier time in AA, that's just the way it is; or if they can't talk that much in meetings, they learn to talk to a sponsor or other good friends who are in AA outside the meetings. In other words, they stop stuffing their emotional pain. They talk about whatever is bothering them, no matter how embarrassing it is; they get it out and they share it with people who help them to see how to use the tools of the program to help them recover from it.
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Orlando -- Spirited, talented Irish dancers and musicians create an uplifting, inspiring, downright fun performance with Riverdance. Now this phenomena is turning 20, and Orlandoans have five chances to see the show. It will be at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets start at $34.25.
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The Stuttgart Ricebirds (9-1) came into the CHS Gymnasium and took the Cougars (6-1) from the ranks of the unbeaten as CHS had their worst offensive performance of the year in a 68-55 loss.
The Stuttgart Ricebirds (9-1) came into the CHS Gymnasium and took the Cougars (6-1) from the ranks of the unbeaten as CHS had their worst offensive performance of the year in a 68-55 loss.
Helena-West Helena started slow and did not make a shot from the floor until Quanderius Sanders hit a 3-pointer with 2:55 to go in the opening quarter to pull the Cougars to within 12-6. At the end of the first period, the Ricebirds hit a shot as time expired and led 16-10 at the end of the first period.
The Ricebirds got hot in the second period as the Cougars continued to struggle to score and opened the quarter with a 9-2 run that was capped off with a 3-point shot with 4:30 to go in the first quarter that left the Ricebirds in front 25-12.
After Michael Boone hit three free throws on the ensuing possession to cut the lead to 10, the Ricebirds extended the lead to 14 points at 29-15 with 3:43 to go in the first half. But the Cougars remained within striking distance at the intermission as a 3-point shot by Job Eaton cut the lead to 37-26 at the intermission.
The second half brought more offensive woes for the Cougars as they continued to struggle to score while Stuttgart sprinted out of the locker room on an 11-2 run to go up 46-28 with 4:45 to go in the third period. But the Cougars responded with an 11-2 run of their own and cut the lead to single digits with 1:22 on a basket by Swazell Farmer to make the score 48-39 in favor of Stuttgart.
The Cougars opened the final period with a three by Sanders to cut the lead to 52-45 with 7:24 remaining in the game. Stuttgart responded out of a Cougar timeout with a 7-0 run and held the Cougars without a point for 2:33. The Cougars never recovered and suffered their first loss of the season.
Sanders led the way for the Cougars with 21 points. Farmer added nine for the Cougars.
The Lady Cougars (6-1) also suffered their first loss of the season as Stuttgart broke the game open with a 12-1 run to close out the first half to build a 19 point lead at the intermission with a score of 33-14.
Helena-West Helena tried to mount a rally in the second half. The Lady Cougars opened with a 9-2 run that closed the lead to 35-23 when Alexandria Sanders laid it off the glass and hit a free throw. However, that would be as close as CHS would get. Stuttgart was back up by 18 by the end of the quarter when the Lady Ricebirds hit a three at the buzzer to make the score 43-25.
J'Tyia Thomas led the way for Helena-West Helena with 18 points.
Helena-West Helena returns to action tonight on the road against the Dollarway Cardinals and will return home the rest of the week for the Helena-West Helena Invitational, sponsored by the Helena-West Helena Advertising and Promotion Commission, Wednesday through Friday. There will be six games each day beginning at noon.


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Sweet and spicy maple roasted butternut squash with brussels sprouts and savory, crispy bacon. This filling, veggie-packed dish is perfect for a side dish or a main meal!
I hope your weekend was as relaxing and rejuvenating as mine was. My house is a disaster and we're in recovery mode after our wedding weekend, but oh my goodness did we HAVE FUN! I can't wait to show you all of our amazing photos from our photographer and all the other details.
Before I let you get on with your holiday festivities, I have one last recipe for your Thanksgiving table that's as beautiful as it is delicious.
As Taylor would say… Are you readddyyyy for it?
Gorgeous sweet and spicy brussels and butternut squash are roasted with cayenne pepper, maple syrup and olive oil to golden crispy perfection.
Then in goes crispy bacon (turkey or pork work), dried cranberries (or cherries!) and your absolute favorite crumbled cheese (i vote goat or gorgonzola).
Voila! It's a fancy side dish that everyone is going to gobble up.
In fact, it may be the dish that convinces everyone you know to actually like brussels sprouts.
And I've made a super fun video for you explaining how to make the dish in no time at all.
I hope you love this recipe as much as I do. It's a beautiful addition to your thanksgiving table. If you make this recipe, be sure to leave a comment and rate the recipe below and let me know how you like it. xo!
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- Serves: 6
- Serving size: 1/6 of recipe
- Calories: 295
- Fat: 18.7g
- Saturated fat: 4.1g
- Carbohydrates: 27.2g
- Sugar: 15.1g
- Fiber: 4.8g
- Protein: 8.0g
- 1 pound brussels sprouts, stems and outer leaves removed and halved
- 5 cups cubed butternut squash
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
- Freshly ground salt and pepper
- 4-5 oz uncooked bacon (either pork or turkey bacon will work)
- ⅓ cup dried cranberries
- ½ cup toasted pecans halves, chopped
- ⅓ cup your choice of gorgonzola crumbles, blue cheese crumbles or goat cheese crumbles
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Spread out brussels sprouts and butternut squash. In small bowl mix together the olive oil, maple syrup, garlic, cayenne, cinnamon and cloves until well combined. Pour over the brussels and butternut squash. Season generously with salt and pepper. Use clean hands to toss together then spread out evenly on the baking sheet. Roast in the oven for 15 minutes then flip and roast for an additional 15 minutes until brussels turn a slight golden brown and squash is fork tender.
- While the veggies are roasting, cook your bacon according to the directions on the package. Remember you only need about 5 ounces (or about 4-6 slices). Once done cooking bacon and it's crispy, transfer to a paper towel and pat away the grease as much as possible, then chop the bacon and set aside.
- Once the butternut squash and brussels are done roasting, transfer them to a large serving bowl and gently fold in chopped bacon, dried cranberries and toasted pecans. Garnish with your choice of crumbled cheese.
Stove top method: Place pecans in a small pan over medium heat. Stir pecans until toasted and fragrant, about 3-4 minutes. They are done as soon as they start looking darker and smell toasty. Immediately remove the pecans from the pan to a bowl or paper towel to prevent burning.
Oven method: You can also toast the pecans in the oven on a baking sheet at 350 degrees F for 6-7 minutes.


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Commentary on Children of Men
I just discovered this five minute commentary on Children of Men by Slavoj Žižek, which is also found on the DVD version of the film. Žižek has a wonderfully literate reading of the film, sensitive to the context which shapes and frames the content of the story, which he refers to as an anamorphosis of our culture and society. In short, Žižek examines the film's ability to obliquely capture the social oppression and the despair of an imagined (though no less real) late capitalist society through the constructed barriers of our present day xenophobia to arrive at a remarkably powerful political commentary on the foreign policy of the modern first world psyche.
Looking forward to our discussion of this film on Wednesday, October 3 at 7pm.


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The Human Energy Field: The Vehicle That Carries Your Energy
By: Barbara Ann Brennan, Light Emerging
The human energy field is composed of seven levels. Many people have the erroneous idea that this field is like the layers of an onion. It is not. Each level penetrates through the body and extends outward from the skin. Each successive level is of a "higher frequency" or a "higher octave."
Each extends out from the skin several inches farther than the one within it of lower frequency. The odd-numbered levels are structured fields of standing, scintillating light beams. The first, third, fifth, and seventh levels of this field are structured in a specific form. The even numbered levels– the second, fourth, and sixth–are filled with formless substance/energy. The second level is like gaseous substance, the fourth is fluid like, and the sixth is like the diffuse light around a candle flame. It is the unstructured level of the energy field that has been related to plasma and dubbed bioplasma.
Remember, these are not scientific terms we use here because experimentation has not yet proven what it is. But for lack of a better term, we shall use the word bioplasma. The bioplasma in all three of the unstructured levels is composed of various colors, apparent density, and intensity. This bioplasma flows along the lines of the structured levels. It correlates directly with our emotions.
The combination of a standing light grid with bioplasma flowing through it holds the physical body together in its form, nurtures it with life energy, and serves as a communication and integration system that keeps the body functioning as a single organism. All of these levels of the human energy field act holographically to influence each other. These levels, or energy bodies as many people call them, cannot be considered less real than our physical body. If all of your energy bodies are strong, charged, and healthy, you will have a full life in all areas of human experience. If your energy field is weak at any level, you will have difficulty having experiences that are associated with that level, and your life experience will be limited. The more levels or bodies that you have developed, the fuller and broader your life experience will be.
We have the tendency to assume that all life experience is the same as it is in the physical dimension. It is not. Rather, life exists on many vibrational levels. Each level is different according to the makeup of energy-consciousness in that level. This gives us a wide variety of life experience from which to learn. The seven levels of the auric field correspond to seven different levels of life experience. Each level is different in vibrational frequency range, intensity, and composition of bio-plasma. Each therefore responds to stimuli according to its makeup. It reminds me of how exciting it was, in applied mathematics, to derive equations of fluid motion under different conditions. I was surprised to see that the same equations worked for air in fluid motion as for water.
The difference was that certain factors in the equations were more influential than others as the medium changed. The same was true for the equations that describe the movement of air close to the surface of the earth and the movement of air higher up. Air movement close to the ground is more influenced by the friction of the trees and shrubs than the air mass above it. as you move up away from the ground, it is necessary to decrease the friction factor in the equation that describes air movement. Results show a shift in direction of air flow. This shift of direction is called the wind shear.
I'm sure you have noticed that clouds at one level usually move in a different direction from the clouds at a higher level. Micrometeorology describes short-distance movements of air in small local conditions that were very different from the macro-movements of air across the oceans, where the motion of the earth comes into play through the Coriolis force. Yet the same equations function for all. Different parts of the equations become more influential with different conditions.
I applied the same ideas and general principles when trying to make sense of auric field interactions.
The energy-consciousness of the auric field flows differently and is influenced by different factors on different levels of the field. That is, the composition of the energy-consciousness of each of the field levels is unique, different from all the other levels. Each responds differently to different factors.
Another way to surmise what is going on is to say that the bioplasma of each level of the field probably has its own frequency range, intensity of charge, and composition. So it most naturally responds to stimuli accordingly. Another type of study, used in astrological as well as earth observations, influenced the way I looked at the auric field. It is common practice for science to build instruments that filter out extraneous wavelengths and then to make observations within only a narrow wavelength band.
Observing the sun in this way yields pictures of the solar atmosphere at different heights. That is how we get pictures of sunspots, or of solar flares, which look very different from the energy deeper within the sun or in its outer layer, the corona. The same principles can be very useful in auric field observations.
By changing one's HSP (Higher Sense Perception) to different auric vibrational levels, different levels of the auric field become more clearly defined. Once these levels are clearly defined, it is easy to work directly with them. The following description of the configuration of the levels of the auric field, and the life experience associated with each, arises from my observation, study, and experience during twenty years of healing and thirteen years of teaching. The below figure shows the seven levels of the auric or human energy field.
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Posted by Brandon Copeland
2017 was a big year for me. In July, I took the plunge and started a business I have dreamed about for a long time – Urban East. The move was aided by an already established network in the industry, a bit of funding, and some leads on projects that I managed to line up shortly after launch. I consider my first five months in business to have been a success. Already, Urban East has managed to be involved with a very serious project focused on bringing an innovation hub to the downtown core and has worked on two different municipal heritage projects, Meanwhile I have personally had the opportunity to moderate a panel at a major heritage conference.
All that said, there is still much work to do. With 2018 rolling in, it seems like an appropriate time to evaluate where my business is, where it is going, and what I would like to accomplish this year. I also thought that I might try to analyze what makes a good business goal versus a lousy business goal. In a sense this post acts as a way for everyone else to hold me accountable – while I'm not going to get into ALL of my business resolutions, I do have several that are related to my presence and messaging that we can absolutely follow up on in December to ensure that I've followed through. What better accountability than pressure from others, am I right?
I think that there are three components to a resolution that make it valuable. First, it needs to be measurable and monitorable. This notion very much comes from my background in project management, but it is a pretty standard concept. A measurement provides a way to track progress and determine success. "Make more money" may be a good goal, but it is vague. "Make $20,000 more than last year" allows you to very easily track your success, as well as how close to achieving your goal you are every time you check in.
Secondly, it needs to be actionable. The resolution needs to have a defined way to accomplish it. It can be simple – if your goal is to increase revenue, then the action may be to "sell X number of product". This makes you think about not just how to accomplish the goal, but how realistic it is to achieve it. Following up on the previous example, if you need to triple your capacity in order to sell the number of product required to "make $20,000 more than last year", then perhaps your expectations for productivity improvement need to be reviewed, or you need additional help and need to consider acquiring it ASAP. After all, there is very little sense in setting an impossible goal.
Thirdly, hold yourself accountable – but also have some idea for a small reward if you succeed. Holding yourself accountable can take several forms; for me, I'm posting my goals publicly so other people can call me out if I drop the ball. In terms of rewards though, that just makes sense. Everyone needs a little extra motivation, and if there is a reward at the end of the line… hey, aren't we all more likely to pursue it?
Personally, I have three goals which I am going to share here in this post. I hope to come back in December and check on how I did.
- I need to capture more attention. I need to spread the word about what I'm doing. To date I've had very positive reception when I talk to people, but knowledge of what I am trying to accomplish is very much limited to my own network. To accomplish resolution, I am hoping to write 24 articles and blog posts this year (this counts as #1!). I'm also going to have 100 coffees… or pints… with people. These people can be in my network already, they can be new contacts, or they can be potential clients, but whoever they are I want to share my ideas, and ask them to connect me to someone else who might find some value in chatting with me. Lastly, I want to be involved with speaking at, or moderating, at least three conferences. I had a great experience with the Adapting Heritage conference, and have even had spin-off business inquiries from my minimal involvement. I want to replicate this again.
- In order to continue to grow, I need to be involved with more large-scale projects. Working on Common Ground this year was an amazing experience – so I'm aiming to try and be involved with at least three projects of similar scale. I feel I have the capacity to pursue this, and the financial benefit from this would allow me some room to greatly expand my business.
- I need to improve my productivity. I think this is achievable by being better at starting my day. I am going to start every day by pursuing relevant local news, and reading one motivational article about another entrepreneur. I think this will help me start the day with the right mindset (and gives me something fun to do while I sip my first coffee!) I also think that I would be more productive, and more accountable, if I was working with someone else. With that in mind, my hope is very much that by the end of the year I will have acquired either a partner or an employee, based on where the business is and what it needs at that time.
So there are examples of some of my resolutions, and how I intend to accomplish them. I have other ideas regarding revenue growth, and reworking aspects of my marketing… but those ones are for me. I hope that this quick look at resolutions might help others set some of their own. I also hope it will help you hold me accountable. Check back in December!
Oh, and if you want to help me achieve my 100 coffee goal, please reach out, and let's talk about how to grow business in St. John's through real estate!