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716 Squash seeks an experienced squash player with an interest in youth development to be the Middle School Squash & Wellness Coach at Buffalo's squash and education program. 716 Squash provides long-term support and life-changing opportunities through education, mentoring, service, and squash to Buffalo youth with limited access to resources. The Squash & Wellness Coach will be responsible for working with 25-35 middle school students, mostly beginners, in squash programming, fitness activities, tournament planning, and evaluation of athletic progress. This is a unique full-time opportunity for a high-level squash player with an interest in youth programming to expand and improve the services of a unique nonprofit. The successful candidate will bring a desire to enrich and motivate Buffalo youth, using squash as a tool for inspiration and engagement.
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- Create and implement a daily squash and fitness curriculum, including team-building exercises and lessons on sportsmanship and athleticism.
- Recruit, train, and manage squash volunteers, ensuring volunteers at every session.
- Manage squash tournament schedule and entries: U.S. squash entries, tournament entry forms, local matches, squash leagues.
- Document progress on each student: collect data on attendance, skills, fitness, etc.
- Coordinate and chaperone student transportation to and from school for program sessions, including van driving (training provided; standard driver's license and clean driving history required).
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Hi!! All. Cre8tive Mix has signed up for the Goondiwindi Christmas Market 2014. Please come along to buy some wonderful art pieces. If you want a special gift at a special price for the Christmas period, happy to come and have a cuppa to design something special for that special person. Don't wait for Christmas!!! Awesome!! Cre8tive Mix will be exhibiting in the front foyer at the Cultural Centre. See us first!!!!! Christmas is on its way!!

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This past week, we have been using the ipads a great deal in our classroom. We have used them to film each other during read to someone time. After one partner films the other reading, they review the clip. They then identify one thing the reader did well and one thing the reader could improve the next time. I have been blown away at the clarity and insight students are providing to each other from these brief clips. Additionally, we have physical evidence of how much the reader has improved!
Another way we have used the ipads is to practice math vocabulary, specifically with three dimensional shapes. Students choose five 3-D shapes and then record themselves or a partner identifying the shapes and then they create a sculpture with the shapes and photograph their final project.
We have also used the ipads to research different birds for our bird project. Using the IBird app, we are able to look at pictures, facts and even hear the different bird calls! This app has been a big hit, although there are points during the day when the classroom sounds more like a forest full of noisy birds than a first grade classroom!
I am attaching a brief clip of our ipads in action. Students were able to choose to either: film during read to someone and provide feedback or film 3-D sculptures or work on bird research. As you can see from the clip, everyone is actively involved in their chosen activity. Hope you enjoy the brief glimpse of our day!


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Email: michelle at this web address
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Email: michelle at this web address
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Hi Michelle,
I am a high school student currently working on her extended essay (4000 word essay necessary for the iB diploma) and really want to use your hamstrometer to log data for my experiment. (I am logging the number of wheel rotations as my variable to measure the locomotor activity of hamsters). The problem is, I don't know much about techy gadgets or putting them together. Is there a step by step guide I could follow? Something like your instructables tutorial on silencing the hamster wheel would be really helpful.
my note 4 shows the charging battery, then continues to vibrate . i need help .
Hi Michelle,
When your power button was stuck, does that mean you couldn't press it down? The symptoms of my phone seem similar, it won't charge and it'll periodically vibrate when plugged in. Before, when my battery had some power left, I was able to actually power it on, but I think the battery is not completely dead.
I tried both of the methods in your blog, but I'm still unsuccessful :(. I'm debating whether I want to replace the power button or try buying a new battery. Hence, I wanted to see if there was another way to tell that the power button was stuck (e.g., it didn't depress or click when you pressed down, maybe?).
Thank you!
Hello, Michelle
I have run into an issue. I need to get my data back from Samsung galaxy A-3. It has a missing screen and it has been in water for couple of seconds. It also is in constant vibration loop.
What would you suggest? Maybe buying a new A3 and trying to put parts from an old A3 to make it work?
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Former DoJ prosecutor sues Obama, Verizon, DoJ for $3B over PRISM
How to Keep Your Info Private (Even from the NSA)
Also see:
Former DoJ prosecutor sues Obama, Verizon, DoJ for $3B over PRISM
How to Keep Your Info Private (Even from the NSA)
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Every single post of this kind functions as the most effective undercover work to secure the march of the global governors and keep us back from activism against them – even if the post isn't intended as such.
No one on earth is capable of making sense of such amount of data.
These narcissists posing as masters of the earth are lazy scumbags, who would be jobless in a democratic world and in a real competition. They fool you and you buy into it.
If such a "genius" central data mining agency still exists (though I seriously doubt that) and will retrieve the precious knowledge with their precious tools that I fully loath their regime, they are allowed to do me that kind "favour", but only from a distance. If they will manage to make my computer crash, then I will congratulate them, will buy a new computer or a smart phone, and will continue the work through it. It takes a whiny spineless candy-ass to buy into these intimidations, and with reference of them, join the sleepers.
Instead, we should use the remnants of democracy to reclaim it in full, wouldn't you agree?
(PS: The silly girl's computer probably crashed b/c she downloaded the wrong website without an IS – laughable)
PS2: Well, of course if it was meant to be merely a troll-post, then point well taken 🙂
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2018 American Rifleman Article: Link to Article about Friends of NRA.
Thank you Tri-City Gun Club Members and Volunteers!
Your support of Youth Shooting Sports is why I am the Vice President. The Future is with our Youth! Teaching Safe Firearm practices, respect for firearms, and enjoyment of Shooting Sports is the key!
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Craig William Macneill's underpowered Lizzie offers a tedious perspective of the 1892 true-crime story set in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts, in which Lizzie Borden, here impersonated by the capable Chloe Sevigny, was temporarily arrested and tried for the murder of her father and stepmother. 125 years have passed and the case, publicly known as 'the axe murders', remains a mystery. However, any curiosity related to the macabre occurrence remains shallow throughout this dispassionate and often formulaic reconstruction of the events.
Bryce Kass' script pictures Lizzie with a likable frontal personality, resisting as much as she can to the austerity and conservatism of her wealthy father, Andrew (Jamey Sheridan). Socially and intellectually repressed, Lizzie, who is also impelled to fight an avid uncle (Denis O'Hare) in order to protect her inheritance, engenders an evil plan in the company of a newly arrived housemaid, Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart), with whom she lives a lesbian relationship.
There's nothing particularly surprising or even appealing in this fictional account, where the flame of forbidden love is extinguished almost before it starts through an underlying static quality of the characters' actions. This obstacle also narrowed any possibility of thrills.
Moreover, if Sevigny's performance keeps us hoping for better, Stewart is maladjusted and never truly convinces in her role. With such a potential story in hands, Macneill had everything to create greater suspenseful moments with a stronger impact if he hadn't a heavy hand. A thriller that is never unsettling soon becomes a triviality. And that's exactly what Lizzie is.


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As humans we are resilient creatures with limitless potential to create change in our lives and the world. I feel that we have the same ability to heal our bodies. With the right tools and lifestyle transformations, I am a firm believer that our bodies have the capacity to heal themselves. That is why I offer a 6 week journey for others to experience the same change I felt in my own body after I searched high and low for natural ways to deal with my PCOS.
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Hi All -
I hope that everyone had a good holiday break and is looking forward to a good start to the new year.
I have many events planned for the coming year -- both as cruises and as teaching events around the country. More information on these as details get hammered out...
I'm also excited to announce that we are making some "TWiB by Level" booklets this year. These will have each of the TWiBs in a recommended reading order for each level and help you have things to read and be prepared to play that "Level" system (convention card) with your partner. My hope that partnerships can agree to a level to play and all read the material needed to "be on the same page". I'll give you more information about these booklets as they become ready for publication -- in a digital version on the website and possibly in a print version if there is enough interest.
This month we focus on learning how to listen the auction and understand it: how to think about the opponent's communication and how to visualize the hands and put the information that you take from the auction to good use.
1 (179) Listening to the Opponent's Auction
2 (180) Visualizing Opener's Hand as a Defender
3 (181) Visualzing Responder's Hand as a Defender
4 (182) Playing the Hand During the Auction
We begin with an overview of what is going on in the opponents' auction and how to think about what is going on. We discuss what information is being exchanged and what the opponents are trying to accomplish. I hope that understanding this will allow you to be a better defender.


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Hold On or Let Go
How hard we try to hold on.
We try to hold onto this moment, this belief, this dream, this age.
We try to hold onto this fear, too. We believe it has kept us safe this far so we might as well keep on keepin' on.
We hold onto our friends, our social networks, our romantic partner, our parents, our images of who they are.
We hold onto our shoulds and our "this-I-know"s and our ways of brushing our teeth.
We hold onto books we'll never read and jeans we'll never fit into again.
We hold onto self-labels that we've outgrown more than those jeans.
We hold on even as the social networks disband, the jeans fray-away, this age passes and our parents pass too.
Life flows, things change.
Hold on or let go.
You or death will eventually release your grip.
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The Department of Human Resources maintains personnel records for all employees of the County's General Government. This Department is responsible for monitoring the employment process, initial employee orientation, reviewing time sheets and conducting exit interviews with retiring and terminating employees. Additional personnel functions include workman's compensation and unemployment claims.
Washington County shall provide equal opportunity in employment and advancement and shall administer its employment policies without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, political affiliation, genetics, or disability in accordance with the Governor's Executive Order No. 1 on Equal Opportunity (January 11, 2014) and state and federal laws.


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International Kite Festival
|As you peruse the larger photos, please note the blotches in the sky. Those are hundreds of kites being flown in a nearby field. (The problems with having only an instamatic camera and no zoom lens will be highly evident.)
We heard there was a kite festival in North Toronto. We decided to ride our bikes and take a look.
We ran out of film just as the kite fight was to begin. There were about 9 large hexagonal kites (about 5 feet high?) fighting. We watched in amazement as the fighters maneuvred their kites, cutting strings and causing the big kites to come crashing (undamaged) to the ground below - until there was one victorious kite with a prism design left flying triumphantly in the sky. We had a long ride home so decided not stay for the next round of fights.
As we rode our bikes out of the park, we looked back towards the sky filled with so many different kites and watched as the beautiful prism kite, its strings cut, floated out off over the trees and off into the wild blue yonder....
|The first 3 photos link to the same page
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|The following 2 link to the second page
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In September this year Nike threw down the gauntlet with a dazzling 2-minute piece of storytelling that stars Colin Kaepernick (and his voice over) and highlights the achievements of Serena Williams as the most superb athlete of her time.
It's a video full of inspiring surprising twists.
It also highlights several other people who have made incredible achievements as athletes - with the focus on people who are not just athletes but roles models who've not just pushed the envelope but shredded it.
The surprising twist is a technique that masterful storytellers use to tell superb "change hearts and minds" stories.
Storytelling coach Bobette Buster who's book "Do Story: How to tell your story so the world listens" (which I devoured in one afternoon) shares it like this in her Medium blog "Some advice from Hollywood: The 10 Principals of Storytelling."
"Juxtapose: Take two ideas, images, or thoughts and place them together. Let them collide. Remember German philosopher, Friedrich Hegel, here: That in posing two opposing ideas, a whole new idea is created (thesis + antithesis = synthesis). This tool wakes up your audience, and is the root of all successful stories."
The Nike ad does this brilliantly. Here's my takeaway:
>> Kaepernick may never play professional football again. He might instead become a full-time advocate. Nike's cool with that.
Note: as of December 22, 2018 this video has been seen over 27 million times on Youtube.com.
>> This video has some of the usual suspects of athletic super-stardom but it also focuses youth, people of color, women, people with tough handicaps (like the amazing young wrestling champion), and those who've overcome the incredible hardship of war.
>> The homecoming queen. I'll leave it at that not to ruin the surprise if you haven't seen it. It made me cry. Actually the whole video made me cry. It's that good, that profound.
>> This is a video for the world, not for US major league football fans who are offended by players who take a stand by not standing.
Yes there are those who think Nike is biting the hand that feeds them, but in a fascinating blog by marketing guru Bernadette Jiwa I learned it's estimated that of Nike's $35 billion in annual revenue, $20 billion is generated overseas. Two-thirds of Nike consumers are under 35 years old.
If you're going as a speaker try better connecting with your audience through a juxtapose about yourself, your work, or someone you feature in your talk.
Through surprise you can move them and give them powerful "aha" moments to see the world in new ways.
We need a cadre of brilliant storytellers to get this world choosing biking, walking and public transit. Will you become one of them? How can you bring a surprising twist into your own storytelling?


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I made two anniversary cards the other night. I wanted to use
my foam stamps. So, I started with those and came up with these...
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Factors to Consider When Choosing a Kitchen Remodeling Service Provider
A kitchen is a room where meals are prepared and therefore, it has to be taken care of well. The kitchen should be therefore remodeled from time to time so that it meets the basic hygiene standards for a safe and clean cooking area. The services of a kitchen remodel contractor are therefore essential in cases you want the best outcome. Choosing a reliable kitchen remodeling company is not easy as most of the same service providers in the market are fake. The following are some of the hints that will guide you in choosing a reliable remodeling company.
Asking for referrals is the first thing that you ought to consider when choosing the best kitchen remodeling Potsdam company. You should involve your family as well as friends in the process of searching for a reliable kitchen remodeling services in your local area. Your family members, colleagues and advice from friends will be able to help you in determining the best kitchen remodel company in your local area. The online reviews can also help you in a great way in ascertaining the best company that you should engage in your kitchen remodeling. You will be able to come up with the best kitchen remodel company if you take your time and find out the one with the highest positive reviews. In case there are a few negative complains about the company that you are about to engage, then you should find out how the remodel contractor has been able to handle such complaints.
The second consideration that you ought to make is ascertaining if the kitchen remodel company has what is required in this kind of business. You kitchen remodel company of choice should have the right certification as well as insurance cover to run this type of operations. The remodel company should be registered by the relevant body of kitchen cleaners within your local area. Their staff should insured against any eventuality as they carry out their operations. The certifications are a proof of high expertise in the kitchen remodeling field. If possible, it is important to find out whether the company has ever received any awards in relations to their operations. This factor will guide you in choosing the best kitchen remodeling contractor in your area.
The third tip that is important in choosing the best bathroom remodeling Potsdam company is the level of experience. The best kitchen remodel company should have many years of experience in the industry. You are likely to receive the best services from a kitchen remodeling company that has many years of service in this line of operations. An experienced company in this type of operation will also be able to determine the best equipment for the remodel job.
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Steps away from Union Square, Banana Republic's premier Flagship in the Flatiron district. CMR installed all components of the MEP trades incorporating 25,000 sqft of sales space along with an above ceiling Kindorf system. Additional challenges included new design and layout of the electric room & finding secure & stable ways to support the massive kindorf ceiling system.


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Since the 1800s, travellers have made their way to the White Barn Inn. The restaurant's rustic decor, candlelit white linen tables, and beautiful views from its floor to ceiling picture window create the perfect stage for a romantic retreat or special celebration.
Jonathan M. Cartwright, a native of northern England, began cooking when he was 15 years old. Since then, his mastery of the culinary arts has taken him to some of the world's finest Relais & Chateaux properties including Blantyre in Lenox, Massachusetts, the Horned Dorset Primavera in Puerto Rico and the Hotel Bareiss in the Black Forest region of Germany. "I believe that my menu creations are influenced by a love of European-style cooking acquired from my experiences," says Cartwright. "They emphasize nature's offerings from the New England land and sea, my present home." Enjoy its imaginative New England cuisine.
Thanksgiving for me is a special time as it is an historical celebration with such a great meaning.
"I love all the ingredients that were brought to the table for this celebration and how still today they are such key ingredients to us as New Englanders.
"The traditional Americana of a turkey dinner at Thanksgiving seems to suit perfectly the feeling this year especially at The White Barn Inn. The historic ingredients, like tart local cranberries, a fresh bird and the fragrance of well seasoned bread stuffing help us all remember that being in the company of family and friends, giving thanks for the comforts we enjoy and sharing a meal together is a holiday custom that people from any part of the world can embrace and celebrate."
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After flying eight-hours to Athens, picking up the rental car from the airport and driving three-and-a-half hours to Sparta to see their tiny archaeological museum, driving another hour-and-a-half up and down through the Taygetos mountains and into the Mani and checking into our room, the first thing we did was to walk down a rocky path to a tiny private cove, take off all of our clothes, and jump into the sea.
It felt like a baptism, cleaning our souls of some 12 hours of travel grime.
I chose a small hotel between Stoupa, where some insist Nikos Kazantzakis wrote Zorba the Greek, and Kardamyli, where the writer Patrick Leah Fermor lived, as our home base. (We preferred Kardamyli, which felt a little less manicured.) In the evenings, after dinner at a local taverna–we liked Psaras and Harilaos–we'd settle into our place and from our terrace we could hear the sea, watch the the sun set and the moonlight shimmy on top of waves.
And every morning on the terrace, I could obsess about the weather. It appeared as though our five days in the Mani were going to be five days of clouds and rain with flashes of sun. So I planned accordingly.
The big rainy day saw us drive through the opposite side of the Taygetos mountains to ancient Messene, a city dating to about 370 BC. We'd read that it's one of the best preserved and least-visited ancient sites in Greece but nothing could've prepared us for the sprawl of this place. There were temples and stoas and sanctuaries and baths and a gymnasium, an odeion and a theatre. But when we rounded a corner and caught a glimpse of the stadium, our jaws dropped.
We moved on to Pylos to visit the Palace of Nestor, considered to be the best preserved Mycenaean site in mainland Greece. They discovered 600 Linear B tablets, a huge stash of banqueting supplies, which made it very easy to imagine the scene from The Odyssey when Telemachus is lavishly welcomed and entertained when he visits Nestor, and even a clay tub.
Besides a handful of German tourists, it felt like we had both of these ancient places to ourselves. In fact, it often felt like we were alone. I guess that's what you get when you go to Greece at the end of October. The Beast got so accustomed to swimming with no trunks on that when he had to, he'd complain that he was "living in hell, a virtual prison!"
From there, we fell into a really nice routine. Drives into Kardamyli, where there's a medieval castle and Mycenaean rock cuttings–ancient Kardamyli was one of the seven cities Agamemnon promised to Achilles to calm his wrath–swims when the sun flashed at little beaches–Foneas, which we could walk to, was our favourite–and pulling the car over whenever we saw signage, which was often, for a Byzantine church. They were almost always locked. But when they weren't, at Platsa, Thalames, and Lagada, we saw remains of 10th to 14th-century fresco paintings that vibrated with contemporary life.
A particularly thrilling excursion was our hour-long drive to the Caves of Diros, followed by lunch and a swim in Limeni, one of the most charming towns I've ever been to. We had Alpha beers, squid, and the best fried potatoes at Takis, a beautiful little seaside taverna where we watched two giant sea turtles dancing in the sea. And then we had a swim in electric blue water with a dramatic view of menacing storm clouds moving over the mountains.
The best moments, however, tended to be unplanned, like when we hopped the wall to Patrick Leigh Fermor's house–it's being turned into a museum and writer's retreat and is closed to the public–to inspect the gardens. Was this illegal? Yes. Did we run for our lives when the Beast heard a beeping from a sensor light? Yes. Do we regret it? Not one bit.
Or when the Beast, after I'd just driven two hours up and down winding switch backs on our way back from Pylos, suggested we drive up to Exohori, a little village that Bruce Chatwin used to walk three hours to in order to clear his head when he was writing. Chatwin's friends, including Fermor, buried his ashes at a little chapel high up in the mountains. The Beast wanted to find it. It was not an easy drive. And we'd already clocked in well over 13,000 steps that day. When we finally spotted the chapel a good kilometre away high up on a mountain side, I looked at him and said: "Well, that's good enough. You get the idea." We started to walk back to the car. And then I realized there's a good chance we may never come back and we were so close. So I grabbed his hand and we turned around.
The clouds parted, the wind whipped up our hair, and it felt, for a moment, that we were alone, on top of the world.
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A DPRK ship has arrived at the South Korean port of Mukho carrying 120 North Korean musicians who will provide a cultural entertainment experience for international spectators at the forthcoming Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. The Seoul government of Moon Jae-in and the Pyongyang government of Kim Jong-un have worked cooperatively to make the 2018 Winter Olympic Games a success for bilateral cooperation among the two Korean states and all the Korean people.
This success is owed both to the increased confidence uof a DPRK which is now able to fully defend itself against US aggression and also a South Korean government which under the peace minded moderate Moon Jae-in has taken helpful steps in de-escalating tensions with the North, in spite of Seoul's historic relationship with the US. Furthermore, Moon's government has been developing ever closer ties with the DPRK's superpower neighbours to the north, Russia and China in a sign that Seoul is embracing the prospects of a brighter future with a more multipolar geopolitical alignment.
Moon came to power during a special election in May of 2017. His militaristic predecessor Park Geun-hye was impeached early in 2017 on charges relating to high levels of corruption. It later became known that Park's intelligence service helped to meddle in the 2012 election that would have otherwise been won by Moon had it been free and fair.
Taken in totality, Moon's ascent to the South Korean Presidency has been a triumph of moderation over extremism, just as the DPRK's increased confidence in spite of tremendous odds, has been a triumph for the sovereignty and enthusiasm of the North Korean people and their leader. The positive result for both states is that North and South Korean athletes will march in the Olympics under a unity flag.
While regional powers have welcomed this positive move for peace, the US remains unmoved by the new openness on the Korean peninsula and continues to put new sanctions on Pyongyang while threatening the DPRK with aggressive war.
The people of South Korea are all too aware that any US led war on the peninsula could lead to the total devastation of all the Korean people. This is why South Koreans have marched in their thousands, protesting against the US militarisation of their country.
In spite of the peace minded attitude of all the Korean people, a small minority of reactionaries in the South have organised an insulting protest which has greeted some of the North Korean musicians who just arrived in Mukho. The protests were organised by the far-right extremist faction Korean Patriots' Party, a party so small that it only has a single seat in South Korea's National Assembly. In spite of its fringe status, the small party seeks to taint the good intentions of their countrymen through protests which included the burning of DPRK flags and the desecration of photos of Kim Jong-un.
Pyongyang has already responded to the protests with the following statement,
"The conservative group of south Korea staged a never-to-be-condoned farce of confrontation with fellow countrymen on Tuesday when the DPRK's art troupe arrived at Mukho Port in south Korean Kangwon Province to give congratulatory performance for the Winter Olympics due in South Korea, according to reports in Seoul.
When the ship "Mangyongbong-92" carrying the art troupe arrived, Jo Won Jin, head of the "Korean Patriotic Party", a stooge party of traitor Park Geun Hye, and other crazy nerds held a "rally against Pyongyang Olympics" and ran around like headless chickens, barking that "the ship of reds came", "go back to your country" and "boost the south Korea-U.S. alliance". Worse still, they made no bones about besmirching the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership and burning the flags of the DPRK and the Korean Peninsula.
Such farce of those conservatives stunned the world as they were crazy with the racket for confrontation before foreign reporters while many inhabitants of various strata gave hearty welcome to the compatriots from the north even in cold weather.
Now all Koreans in the north and the south and abroad and the international community eagerly want to see that the hard-won climate for improved north-south relations and removal of confrontation will be led to national concord and cooperation and detente and reunification of the Korean Peninsula.
However, those conservatives have staged such disgusting farces as "press conference against Pyongyang Olympics" and "demo against the visit of the north's art troupe" almost every day. Not content with it, they put an affront on the mission that came to celebrate an event of the nation, far from presenting bouquets. In fact, they are no more than a group of benighted gangsters inferior to beast, human scum.
They, accustomed to sycophancy toward the U.S. and confrontation with fellow countrymen, barely prolong their remaining days with vituperation and rampage. Their frenzy is getting fiercer after Trump and Abe prattled that "pressure should be maximized without falling to the smiling diplomacy of the north" on Feb. 2.
So, the south Korean people are raising shout of wrath at this group of rabid dogs that block national concord and unity and peace and bring disgrace to the nation, defining the group as "the remaining evil forces stoking national division", "traitors" and "modern-day five traitors in 1905″.
Such mad behaviour of the enemies of the nation running counter to the compatriots' wishes and the trend of the times will only bring earlier the day when the waste of history sink into the grave".
At a time when Donald Trump seeks to ban flag burning in the US in order to protect the feelings of patriotic Americans, it seems unconscionable that during a time of peace and reconciliation, Seoul would allow such a vulgar display to take place, thus tarnishing the spirit of brotherhood and good will upon which the Olympics rests.
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016
It is not uncommon for countries to temporarily ban large, disturbing and offensive public gatherings during prominent international events. While the issue will certainly be a delicate one for Moon who has stood against both the US and the far-right of South Korean politics in opening the door to peace, he must consider the possibility of prohibiting such protests during the duration of cooperative activities surrounding the Winter Olympic Games.
The vast majority of the peace loving Korean people are owed more than to have a golden opportunity for peace spoiled by a vicious minority with close ties to the United States, especially given the importance of the Olympics for both Pyongyang and Seoul.


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StFX Students and Remembrance Day/
What's the situation with young people and November 11?
Remembrance Day is so engrained in Canadian culture that it runs the risk of becoming routine. While the core spirit of the holiday – remembering veterans and reflecting on Canada's involvement in wars – remains, is Remembrance Day more of a symbol than an impactful, solemn event as it is intended to be?
Being in a history class, I decided to ask some of my classmates to write down anything they knew about the poppy – where it came from, what it represents, anything. I was curious to see if StFX students who take history classes at a 200+ level would know more than the basics. Among the 8 students I surveyed, there were a few common things mentioned. Seven of the eight surveyed mentioned the poem In Flanders Fields (with two mentioning the author's name, John McCrae). Special mention of the First and Second World Wars was the second most common thing to mention, with six students referencing it. Besides these two, everything else was pretty scattered. Many answers were unique; referencing the Canadian Legion, the commonwealth, generic "battlefields" and "remembering the past", and only two students had things to say about the history of the poppy itself. This information was exclusively tied to the evolution of the poppy's appearance, and the do's and don'ts of how poppies should be worn.
Honestly, this was about what I expected. In Flanders Fields is such a ubiquitous part of Remembrance Day culture. Not only is it common to memorize the poem in grade school, but it's also used in song form during some Remembrance Day ceremonies. Knowing about the World Wars should also be a given. Besides this, student answers about the poppy varied.
If a class of mostly history students had overwhelmingly basic offhand knowledge about poppies and November 11th in general, does that mean students who aren't engaging with history (especially Canadian history) would be even less aware? It's hard to tell. I'm not sure if spouting 'fun facts' about a holiday based around remembering war is all that important.
Something that makes Canada's Remembrance Day unique is the speed in which it all got started. Founded as a special day in 1921, Canadians were among the first to engage with war in a way that involved living memory. We were rapidly involved in setting up memorials and remembrance ceremonies. Is there a bias against updating anything to do with Remembrance Day today? I'd say that the negative reaction is there. The White Poppy has routinely been a controversial idea; created to be a symbol of pacifism, the White Poppy often incites negative reaction from people who automatically assume that this alternative is meant to replace the Red Poppy. While some people do use this poppy, it looks like it won't become mainstream for a long time, if ever.
Poppies, In Flanders Fields, the Legion, and ceremonies are the common traits of November 11th, but beyond all of this, isn't the emotional reaction you get from this holiday the thing that's the most important? A lot of people have ties to veterans, whether they knew their veteran relatives or not. Taking off the "world war" lens, we have so many other war-related things to be including in our cultural memory. The Korean war, the Gulf war, the Afghanistan War, and Canada's involvement in peacekeeping missions are certainly included in Veteran's Affairs Canada's official Remembrance Day information. I believe that among the general public, the focus is overwhelmingly on WWI/WWII. It's not bad by any means to focus on these catastrophic events in world history, but with more and more veterans from the world wars passing away, maybe a heightened focus on Canada's modern and
ongoing military engagements would be beneficial. Bringing awareness to younger people who might not have any living relative who interacted with "wartime Canada" in the WWI/WWII sense could create further inclusion for those currently serving in the Forces and perhaps revitalize the ceremonies and bring forth the concept of living remembrance.


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Here's a short new Simon's Cat animation called "Fast Food (a Thanksgiving special)". The two moggies team up to steal an entire Thanksgiving dinner! It's curious, though, since Simon lives in the UK and I didn't think they had Thanksgiving there.
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My documentary, Forensic Nurses: Fighting Sex Crimes in South Africa, won the prestigious Steve Harris Award for Best Original Story at the Broadcast Journalism Training Council. It also came with a cool £500 cash prize!
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Earlier this year, it was shortlisted for a One World Media Award.
A written version of the documentary has also been published in the Guardian as part of the international 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, available to read here: 'The nanny realised something was wrong': South Africa's rape crisis.
The South African Association of Forensic Nurses will also be using it as part of their case to get accredited.
The ultimate reward for me, would be the documentary leading to any sort of change in their plight.
For now, a sincere thank you, again, to everyone for the felicitations.
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Opposition supporters took to the streets of their cities and towns today as weeks of anti-regime demonstrations spill into their second month.
The largest opposition demonstrations were in Caracas, where the opposition rallied two separate crowds of supporters with the goal of having one march to the offices of the Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ), the nation's top court, and the other march to the offices of the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), the body in charge of holding elections.
Opposition supporters began meeting at different points of the city starting at around 9:30 AM this morning. As is usually the case when the opposition holds demonstrations in Caracas, the city's subway system experienced extensive station shutdowns today, with 30 stations (65% of the system shut down to hinder protester movement.
The neighbourhoods of Montalban and El Paraiso were the first to experience repression via tear gas and rubber pellets, as overzealous security forces in the area attempted to disperse the spattering of demonstrators that had just begun to gather in those areas.
Below, an image of tear gas near a mall in the El Paraiso neighbourhood:
National Assembly deputy Jose Manuel Olivares was leading a group of demonstrators in the area when he was struck in the head by a tear gas canister, a wound for which he would later receive 12 stitches"
The video below shows state security forces firing tear gas at protests in El Paraiso this morning:
In the Montalban neighbourhood, protesters burned a motorcycle. The tweet accompanying the video claims that the motorcycle belonged to a member of a colectivo armado, a pro-regime militia:
Protests Marked by Repression
As in previous occassions, the regime's official repressive arms–the National Bolivarian Police and the National Guard–were out in full force today to repress the opposition demonstrators.
The video below shows a National Guard armored truck and soldiers advancing on a street in El Paraiso:
The video below shows National Bolivarian Police officers in action in El Paraiso in the mid-afternoon:
The video below shows protesters and state security forces facing off in the La Castellana neighbourhood in the late afternoon. The video also shows Green Cross medical volunteers carrying a protester away who appears to have been injured:
Chaos As Protesters Break Through La Carlota Perimter Fence
At around 5:00 PM, a group of protesters broke through the perimeter fence of the La Carlota military air base, which is located on the Francisco Fajardo highway near Altamira.
Below, a video showing the crowd tearing the fence down:
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The assault on the perimeter fence resulted in an immediate response from security forces, which charged protesters on the highway with armored trucks and high-pressure water cannons:
Below, the National Guard forces withdrawing before overwhelming protester numbers:
The assault on La Carlota resulted in a frenzy of activity inside the air base, as approximately one dozen aircraft–mostly private jets–were hurriedly flown out, presumably to spend the night in a safer location.
Maduro Calls for "Popular" Constituent Assembly
Speaking at a regime rally on the Bolivar avenue in Caracas, Maduro formally called for the formation of a "popular" constituent assembly, which could be tasked with modifying the Constitution in ways that could drastically re-shape the country. Since the constituent assembly described by Maduro does not exist either in the Constitution or in Venezuelan legal history, details on the initiative are scarce.
Maduro suggested that one of the goals of the assembly would be to cement many of the Bolivarian revolution's social programs into the Constitution. Maduro said:
I want to constitutionalize [sic] every social program so that no one can get rid of them later.
The last time that a constituent assembly was formed in Venezuela was in 1999. The assembly drafted the document that would become the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which is the current constitution.
While Maduro said that the members of the constituent assembly would be "elected directly by the people" suggesting a general vote, he later said that different groups would be allotted a set number of representatives. This move would allow the regime to exercise control over the membership of the assembly, since they would be the ones to decide which groups are allotted representatives.
I'm calling for a popular constituent [assembly], not an [assembly] of political parties or elites. An [assembly] of the citizen, the workers, communal, farmer, a feminist [assembly], of youth, of students, an indigenous [assembly]. But above all else, brothers, an [assembly] that is profoundly working class, profoundly communal. I'm calling on the communes and the misiones [social assistance programs].
Calling the National Assembly "rotten", Maduro also said:
Do you want fear? Constituent [assembly]! Do you want peace? Constituent [assembly]! Do you want elections? Constituent [assembly]!… we need to modify the state, and above all else the rotten National Assembly that we have here.
Maduro called on his supporters to "not fail him" at this crucial moment of the Bolivarian revolution:
The day has come, brothers. Do not fail me. Do not fail Chavez. Do not fail the fatherland…
MUD Calls Constituent Assembly"Fraud", Calls for All-Out Rebellion
The president of the National Assembly, Julio Borges, held a press conference at approximately 7:15 PM in which he called for Venezuelans to "lock down" the streets of their cities starting at 6:00 AM tomorrow.
In his most sternly-worded public speech yet, Borges called on regime officials to stop "sinking" alongside Maduro, and to "rebel" against his authoritarian rule.
Speaking on Maduro's "constituent assembly" announcement, Borges said:
What Maduro presented today is much worse than what we had warned about. This is Nicolas Maduro dissolving democracy and the Republic (…) it is a fraud designed to trick people with a mechanism that seeks nothing but to make the crisis in Venezuela worse.
Borges also said that the announcement was yet another sign that an increasingly desperate Maduro was running out of options:
Do not make the mistake of believing that this is a step taking by a president or a government that is strong. Maduro is fleeing towards a cliff, running away from a Venezuelan people who long for liberty.
During the same press conference, Borges said that the National Assembly would meet tomorrow to discuss the ongoing crisis in the country, and that the opposition would announce the details of a "mega street action" scheduled for Wednesday.
Artist Conjures Guernica in Latest Piece
Eduardo Sanabria, a Venezuelan artist known as EDO, revealed a piece called "Venezuela El Horror" [Venezuela the Horror] last week, a digital work à la "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso, re-purposed for the Venezuelan context.
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This morning, a group of people put up a paper version of the work in the in the Altamira and Las Mercedes neighbourhoods in Caracas:
Arguably one of Picasso's most famous images, "Guernica" was painted in 1937 and is a striking rendition of the bombing of Guernica by fascist forces that same year.
EDO's version contains images specific to the Venezuelan context, including a distraught Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan flags, and state security forces brutalizing a mass of citizens.
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Crosstown Rebels has been slowly expanding its remit over the past 12 months, branching out its web of bubbly pop house to include producers like Mathew Jonson. The newest addition to its roster is Toronto-based Amirali, whose "Beautiful World" strikes a perfect median between dance and pop, a full vocal house tune sung by a thickly accented, eyeliner-sporting, brooding male singer. The vocal's almost post-punk qualities are at odds with the track's effervescent disposition, as its bouncy-ball bass line weaves around synths and chords that plot out three different ascending and descending melodies. It's a lesson in spacing and mixing prowess where complex phrases intertwine rather than collide, all pushed along by the track's workmanlike kicks. The vocal — as mournfully tinged as it is — singing about "a beautiful world" is cheesy as all hell, honestly, but thrown in with such an uplifting track it's nothing less than totally effective.
Amirali gets three different re-interpreters to three equally different results. Daniel Bortz turns the song into exactly the kind of bass-heavy, topsy-turvy groover you might expect from Crosstown Rebels or any of its like-minded brethren, pitching down the vocals in the process, while Hrdvsion steps in to give the track a chintzy makeover that sounds more like plucky Casio electro than anything else, losing track of the song's warm, inviting low-end. But it's fellow Crosstown Rebel Deniz Kurtel who provides the best remix, gutting the song's horizontal plateau and replacing it with a cycling, rough-and-tumble progression that pushes the song higher one upper-cut at a time. It's simultaneously slower but even more vigorous, and when it plateaus with those big-room static chords, it's the kind of intensely satisfying finish that can only come from slow-burn. "Beautiful World" is an intriguing debut from a brand new name, and while it would have been interesting to hear more originals from Amirali, when we've got something as good as Deniz Kurtel's remix, it's hard to complain.


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There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness – and each is a mighty fortress of graft.
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Collection of existing practices and success stories
Zero GPG partners have described 12 examples of Best Practice (two from each partner) by using the same template in order to make them, to a certain extent, comparable. Most examples stem from the partners' countries, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece and Italy – with the exception of three examples, where experiences from Scandinavia and from the Netherlands have been included.
The success stories include Laws, Action Plans and initiatives from public institutions and from private companies. The measures that have been described tackle different fields of action, e.g. income equality in companies, overtime work, maternity and parental leave, reconciliation of private and professional work etc. and intent to answer the question in how far these measures can help to reduce the Gender Pay Gap.
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When you are in your BEST SELF, you are aware, present with peace of mind. You are connected to the honest and compassionate part of you and the best of your conscious mind is in control. You can see both sides of reality and choose which reality you prefer to focus on. Though you know you are far from perfect, you accept yourself and can usually take positive action.
Are you ready to stay aware and make healthy choices and changes that express the best of who you are?
When you are in SHADOW, you are on auto pilot. Your subconscious mind and your past are controlling you and your choices. Often, you are repeating distorted, limiting thoughts, feelings and behaviors that cause you to use strategies that can be life-threatening, or useless at best. These ways of reacting to life helped you get by in the past, but they are undermining you and your relationships in the present. You are disconnected to the best of who you are and at the mercy of your negative subconscious mind.
Are you ready to stop sleepwalking through life, allowing your past and your subconscious mind to hijack you? Do you want to retrain and rewire your brain and body to to live in the light?
LIGHT: In the Light you are honest but kind. You feel grateful, peaceful, hopeful, and satisfied. Feeling this way is meant to be your normal way of life. Stress and problems come around, but in the light you:
manage to stay open and curious, like a kid.
stay balanced, a "giver," not just a "taker.'
refuse to use old strategies to avoid or control people and problems inappropriately.
find creative, honest, and compassionate ways to resolve issues "win-win."
take action to make changes and resolve difficulties "win-win" whenever possible.
SHADOW: It's normal to go into shadow. Things happen. The problem is getting stuck there, in Shadow where you:
feel stressed, confused, frustrated, anxious, or just numb.
avoid confrontation and personal discomfort. Or you do whatever seems necessary to feel in control.
try to control difficult people and situations in ways that feel safe (avoid or control) but fail to resolve the issue "win-win."
are a "people-pleaser" or you are the person who must always stay in control.
swing between reacting a victim, less than,d one down or reacting as a victimizer, better than, one-up.
feel stuck with no options, no way out... living a lot of life on autopilot.


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Mourn the Loss of American Apparel With These 7 Replacement Brands
American Apparel made the sad announcement this week that it was closing all of its stores. And TBH, we're all a little bit in mourning. That's a big RIP to our favorite basic tees and hoodies in every color. If you're also feeling the loss, try and cheer up. There are other stores out there to pick up the #basic slack when it comes to your wardrobe. These seven brands might never measure up to your favorite hipster locale (seriously, who else is going to carry those metallic bodysuits like AA could?), but there's a silver lining: At least you won't be left hanging when you're in need of a new sweatshirt to heart.
1. Uniqlo: If you're in need of some tees, tops, jeans and sweaters, welcome to the Japanese version of American Apparel. Uniqlo has all the basics covered, and the prices are decent. Stock up on the Supima Cotton Crew Neck T-Shirt ($10). It comes in every color FTW.
2. Everlane: TBH, one thing we won't miss about American Apparel was that the clothes weren't the best quality. Hello, shrunken hoodies after a few wash cycles, anyone? Luckily, you won't have that problem with Everlane. They make the softest cashmere sweaters and silk tops you'll want to wear to work every day. The Fisherman Cotton Zip Bomber ($98) looks so cozy. The price tag is a little higher, but consider what you buy here investment pieces.
3. Madewell: If your style is more all-American gal than hipster, you might love the basics you'll find at Madewell. Check out their laid-back casual dresses and denim bar designed so you can find the perfect fit, no matter your body type. We're crushing on the Velvet Bow-Back Top ($98) RN.
4. American Giant: Looking for somewhere new to shop now that your beloved AA is no more? Check out American Giant, where everything is made in the USA. You'll find the tee shirts, long sleeve tops and sweatpants you're after. Layer up the comfy Tri-Blend Raglan ($49) with your usual OOTD.
5. Target: There's a reason your trusty Target store has been around forever. If you're in need of basic tees, jeans and knits, they've always got your back. Plus, new reasons to love Target include fun collabs like the Who What Wear collection. Check out the Layered Raglan Dress ($35) that you'll want to wear to work all the time.
6. ASOS: You probs already love ASOS when you need a dress for a wedding or other formal affair. Consider making this site your go-to when you need day-to-day wear too. They've got everything from tees to PJs to mini skirts in a rainbow of colors, like the cool and laid-back Washed Joggers With Luxe Elastic Waistband ($38).
7. Alternative Apparel: It sounds like American Apparel, but this cool brand actually is called Alternative Apparel. Their focus is on eco-friendly basics, so if you're into the Earth, check them out. You'll want to try on the super soft Adrian Eco-Fleece Zip Hoodie ($54). They have stores in Atlanta, San Francisco and NYC, and ship nationwide.
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Rare Candy had the chance to chat with Katie Bennett, the Philly-based, whimsical lead singer of Free Cake For Every Creature, about her love of journaling, and the challenges of growing up and finding yourself.
Rare Candy: I imagine it must be a little scary to put so much of yourself and your life out into the world through your music. What inspired you to share your thoughts and feelings? How do you manage to be so honest?
Free Cake For Every Creature: Yes, it's true, it's terrifying! When I first started making music, it took me a long time to share it. Equally as scary as sharing my innermost thoughts & feelings was sharing my beginner-status songwriting, music-playing, and production skills. I honestly never thought I'd play a show or share my music at all, but friends encouraged me to make a Bandcamp, and once I did, people started asking me to play shows. From there, I decided to just say yes, remembering that if my musical heroes had never shared their work, my life would be much sadder. I'm so glad I decided to and continue to put myself out there, as scary as it can be sometimes. I've gotten to travel the country and meet the best people and learn important things about myself.
RC: Growing up is a central theme to a lot of your work, and you have mentioned your love of journaling. Do you have any favorite memories from your childhood?
Free Cake: Some of my favorite childhood memories are from the summers I spent playing in my backyard with my sister. We had a little slide and swingset that we'd flip around on all day, pretending we were in the circus, until our parents would call us for a dinner of barbecue on our deck. We'd eat while watching the sky change to a dark blue, the moon poking through and fireflies lighting up around us. Pretty idyllic.
RC: So, how long have you kept a journal? Is journaling something you would recommend to others? Do you ever find yourself looking back on past entries?
Free Cake: I've kept a journal on and off since I was ten, and I would absolutely recommend that anyone keep one. I do go back and read entries occasionally - it's been a helpful way to be honest with myself about my experiences, especially when trying to unpack painful memories. It's also a fun way to observe the progression of my relationships with certain people, particularly my current partner, who I've been dating for almost five years. Sometimes I'll read entries and actually scoff at how off my observations were, or how minimizing of a certain person's personality, but then I remember that at the time, it's all I knew.
RC: In your song "Chubby Cows" you talk about doodling in your journal. Do you take time to enjoy other forms of art beyond just music? Any favorite visual artists?
Free Cake: Yes! I love to write and draw and take pictures and video. Being in a band is especially fun and fulfilling for me because it gives me the opportunity to satisfy my other creative interests through designing merch, taking our own pictures and video, etc. Some of my favorite visual artists at the moment are Regina Schilling, Sally Mann, and Francesca Woodman.
RC: In contrast to your personal narrative approach, would you ever consider something like a concept album and/or focusing on a specific creative theme for an album?
Free Cake: Definitely. I'm actually thinking about that for our next album, which we'll start recording when we get home from tour in two weeks. It will still contain my personal narrative approach, but be loosely focused on a specific aspect of my life, I think, likely my coming-of-age and girlhood, a period of my life that I'm leaving behind as I'm approaching the second half of my twenties. I've been thinking about the next album in the same way that I might the planning of a book or a memoir, with songs being the different chapters of my experience. I've been able to access certain girlhood and teenage memories more clearly now that I've had some distance from them, and there are things I want to communicate about my experiences that I haven't been able to until recently. That concept doesn't deviate too far from the types of songs I've written so far, but I'd also love to write an album of songs about an even more specific theme like the seasons, or fruits & vegetables, etc. I love to explore and experiment, and I'm always open to trying new things.
RC: Since the start of your career, how do you think your music has changed, and how have you changed as a person? What advice would you give your younger self?
Free Cake: The biggest thing that's changed about my music since I first started playing a few years ago is that I've become so much more confident in myself as a performer, musician, and songwriter. I often still struggle with confidence, but I've been doing this long enough to know that in some ways, I do know what I'm doing, and that I can trust myself. With my fairly newfound confidence, I feel like in some ways I'm just getting started. There's still so much I have to say.
In terms of advice to my younger self, I'm lucky in that I was able to give myself the advice I needed at the time. I was able to tell myself to keep going, that as long as I kept at it, kept playing shows and writing songs, that I would improve. And I have.
RC: What are your thoughts on modern mental health culture? What would you recommend to someone who is trying to navigate their own mental health journey?
Free Cake: Well, everyone's path to taking care of their mental health is different. Sometimes when I haven't been feeling well, it's been enough to talk to a friend. Other times, I've realized that I needed to be extremely diligent in unpacking painful experiences, and in those circumstances, have sought out therapy. I try to do what genuinely feels good and comfortable and safe to me, rather than what I think I should be doing.
RC: You're currently on tour with Adult Mom, how has the tour been so far? Any favorite stops or cities?
Free Cake: The tour has been fantastic, my favorite tour I've ever been on. Everyone in Adult Mom is so kind and supportive, and my bandmates and I have been touring together long enough that we know how to communicate well with each other and just really enjoy each others' company. The shows have been well attended, and we've been to beautiful parts of the country. No complaints. And I love all of the Pacific Northwest! The mountains, the water, the cool and comfortable weather…
RC: Just a few quick and fun questions...
Favorite kind of cake?
Free Cake: Vanilla! Dyed blue or something...
RC: Favorite creature (mythical or real)?
Free Cake: Totoro
RC: Anything you'd like to plug? Cool movies to watch, books to read, music to listen to? Anything at all!
Free Cake: Allyson Foster! Just played with her last night in Bellingham and her music is so mesmerizing and beautiful.
Keep up with Free Cake on tour by checking out their website: http://www.freecakeforeverycreature.com/
Listen to them on Bandcamp: https://freecakeforeverycreature.bandcamp.com/


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11 Buy-or-DIY Ways to Bring Spring Plaid into Your Home
As Miranda Priestley once said, "Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking." And it's not that we don't love flower prints, because we really, really do. (Really.) But sometimes you want to bring something just a little more graphic and unexpected into your home. That's where spring plaids come in. And it's easier than ever to embrace the check this season: You'll find it on royalty and in stores, and you can always do it yourself with a few simple DIYs. So ch- ch- ch- check it out and get inspired to find you own perfect plaid.
1. Anthropologie Hilde Plaid Dinner Plate ($24): Fresh citrus and leafy greens were meant to be served on beautiful blue shades. Pair these plates with a matching mug to really drive the pattern home.
2. Wallaby Walls Pink and Purple Plaid Removable Wallpaper ($48): Looking for something a little more dramatic? Try doing over a statement wall using this punchy (but removable) wallpaper.
3. Modcloth Feast Expected Pot Holder Set ($15): Yellow and black are a vibrant combination for tea towels, so use this funny feline set to bring some color and cheer to your kitchen.
4. Draper James Hello Beautiful Trinket Dish ($35): Heart-shaped anything gets our vote, and this little pop of pretty is perfect for shelfie styling, not to mention an oh-so-welcome motivational message every time you steal a glance.
5. Horchow Beaded Blue Plaid Placemat ($74): This beaded work of art is in just–right shades for summer, but the versatile placemat will be a winner all year 'round thanks to its luxe design and understated style.
6. Bauhaus Plaid Napkins: While these are definitely a more modern kind of madras, they're also bold, modern, and completely cool, i.e., the perfect addition to your linens set. (via The House That Lars Built)
7. Painted Plaid Chargers: So what if these are displayed with pumpkins? Their saturated shades mean they're perfect for floral brunches and sunset dinners on your patio. (via PMQ for Two)
8. Target Threshold Plaid Ottoman ($60): An ottoman this cute, at this price, is almost too good to be true — almost. Grab two and add some fun flair to your living room.
9. Painted Gingham Table: Give your picnic table an overhaul with this seasonal design. These are the only ants we want to see anywhere near our picnic. (via Damask Love)
10. Mod Podge Plaid Recipe Box: Haven't found anything with the array of colors you're looking for? Make it yourself! This preppy plaid recipe box is just tissue paper and glue — but we won't tell anyhow how hard you didn't work on it. (via Handmade Charlotte)
11. Wayfair Pickering Hand Woven Wool Black/Ivory Area Rug ($30): A big buffalo check will look on-point at any time during the year, and it goes with almost every kind of design.
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October 20, 1999, Section A, Page 10Buy Reprints
The United States stored 12,000 nuclear weapons and components in at least 23 countries and 5 American territories during the cold war -- including Morocco, Japan, Iceland, Puerto Rico and Cuba -- according to an article based on a recently declassified document.
The document, a secret study written by the Defense Department and titled ''History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons: July 1945 through September 1977,'' is described in the November/December issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Altogether, it says, the United States stored 38 types of nuclear weapons systems at American or allied bases abroad.
While other declassified documents have made it clear that the United States deployed nuclear weapons and materials overseas, the document confirms how widespread the deployments were, and highlights America's overriding dependence at the time on a worldwide network of weapons of mass destruction.
The magazine article emphasizes the extent to which the Pentagon made special nuclear weapons in which the plutonium or uranium could be removed and stored elsewhere. This was in order to evade the issue of whether nuclear weapons or materials were stored in countries where there was intense antinuclear fervor.
''The Pentagon document fundamentally revises some aspects of postwar nuclear history,'' said William M. Arkin, a nuclear weapons analyst and one of the article's three co-authors. It reveals, for instance, that the first American nuclear weapons placed overseas were sent not to Britain, as many historians believed, but to Morocco, the site of several strategic American bases.
But Mr. Arkin and his co-authors concluded that the declassified study and an annex listing the countries where nuclear weapons were placed contains some errors. For instance, the annex fails to list Portugal's Azores Islands or Libya, places where Mr. Arkin says other declassified documents show that the Strategic Air Command stored nuclear weapons in the 1950's and 1960's.
The article says American nuclear weapons or materials were once deployed in such sensitive places as Japan, Iceland, Taiwan and Greenland, a possession of Denmark. All those nations have forsworn nuclear weapons and publicly vowed not to store them on their territory.
They were also to be kept under tight control of American forces, but the article notes that the initial controls were lax.
Most diplomats from the countries on the list that are considered sensitive on the subject declined to comment on the article and the document, or on whether their governments were aware of any nuclear deployments.
But a spokesman at the Icelandic Embassy in Washington said, ''There is no reason to suspect that any nuclear weapons had ever been stored in Iceland.'' Some American officials also questioned whether the United States had deployed nuclear weapons on Icelandic territory.
How the Pentagon document was declassified is a saga in itself. ''It has been a 16-year ordeal,'' said Mr. Arkin, who is co-author of a book he was working on at the time, ''Nuclear Battlefield'' (1985). He requested the document under the Freedom of Information Act in 1983. The study was partly declassified two years later, but most of its annotated charts and country listings were blacked out.
Mr. Arkin, assisted by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Washington-based nonprofit group of scientists, lawyers and environmentalists, appealed the deletions to the Pentagon. In 1992 and earlier this year, the Pentagon declassified much of the censored material, including the names of nine places were bombs had been stored. But it has continued to suppress the names of 18 countries on the list.
Because the list was alphabetical, however, and they could see where the names fell in the listing, Mr. Arkin and his co-authors -- Robert S. Norris, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and William Burr, a senior analyst at the National Security Archives, a Washington-based nonprofit group that collects declassified information -- say they were able to deduce their identities.
The deployment of nuclear weapons domestically and overseas remains among the most closely held military secrets. Mr. Arkin said his research indicated that the United States, the only country known to have placed nuclear weapons abroad, still keeps such weapons in at least seven places -- Belgium, Greenland, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey and Britain.
Kenneth H. Bacon, the Defense Department spokesman, said the Clinton Administration, following a policy long embraced by its Republican and Democratic predecessors, would neither confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons on foreign soil. But he said at least one of the authors' deductions about the countries in which nuclear weapons were stored was not correct.
Leslie H. Gelb, the president of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, who was the State Department's director of political and military affairs between 1977 and 1979, defended the policy of what he called ''don't ask, don't tell'' with respect to nuclear weapons deployments.
''You make a country a target by admitting that you've put nuclear weapons there,'' said Mr. Gelb, who wrote about strategic and foreign affairs for The New York Times after he left the Carter Administration.
Mr. Arkin said the United States Government did not always inform governments that it was sending nuclear weapons to their territory or at their naval bases or storing them there. This ''no-comment policy allowed foreign government officials to say that they did not know,'' Mr. Arkin asserted.
But Mr. Gelb said he doubted that senior foreign officials had not been informed about such nuclear movements. ''I suspect that most of them knew,'' he said. ''Did it go to their Parliaments? No, I doubt it. But responsible officials knew that nuclear weapons were being stored.''
Historians, nuclear weapons experts and former Government officials are divided about the likely impact of the document's declassification. Mr. Arkin predicted that the disclosures could ignite intense political controversy in countries that are ''allergic'' to the presence of nuclear weapons and whose governments have forsworn their storage.
The document and its annex, coupled with other declassified information obtained by the article's authors, show that during the height of the cold war in the 1970's, the United States had more than 7,000 nuclear weapons in NATO countries, and more than 2,000 on land in the Pacific region.
Graham T. Allison, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School and a co-author of ''Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis,'' said he had not known until he read the version of the declassified document's annex on the web that the United States had stored depth charges -- with the nuclear materials removed -- at its base in Guantanamo, Cuba.
The article and the authors' version of the annex can be read on the web, at (http://www.bullatomsci.org).
Donald P. Gregg, president and chairman of the Asia Society, who was the American Ambassador to South Korea between 1989 and 1993, confirmed the article's assertion that America had once sent nuclear weapons there. He had raised the issue of their removal with Korean leaders more than a year before President Bush announced in 1991 that he was withdrawing all tactical nuclear weapons sent overseas.
Mr. Gregg said he had concluded, and the American military had agreed, that the weapons did not enhance American national security and could have become a provocation to North Korea.
''My residence had just been broken into by six students angry about beef quotas,'' he recalled. ''They tried to burn my house down. And I thought, 'God Almighty, if they get this mad about beef, what will they do when they learn we have nuclear weapons here?' ''
After discussions, South Korea's leaders agreed, and Mr. Gregg was able to report back to Washington in a cable that South Korea had no objections to the weapons removal.


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The Royal Oak, Orpington - Vintage Inns
High Street, Green Street Green, Orpington, , Greater London, BR6 6BJ
- Booking
- 01689 852 519
You must mention your Gourmet Society card when booking
- Cuisine
- Modern British
- Website
- Click here to visit restaurant website
Discount applies to food and drinks ordered when dining. Excludes fixed price, set menus and Saturday steak night offer. Excludes bank holidays, special occasion dates and the month of December. Due to licensing laws in Scotland, discount may not be applied to alcoholic drinks in Scottish restaurants.
The Royal Oak in Orpington is a country pub and restaurant oozing rural charm and rustic character. The picturesque surroundings provide the perfect backdrop for savouring the hearty, seasonal pub-food on the menu, and the carefully nurtured cask ales and fine wines gracing the bar.
Enjoy a spot by the roaring log-fire or make the best of the British summertime by eating alfresco in the pretty beer garden.
The location in Orpington makes The Royal Oak an ideal place to stop for a bite to eat... before or after a long journey. When you stop you will enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of our rustic pub restaurant. Formerly home to the Orpington Folk Club, the Club still provides entertainment in Orpington.
Offer and Availability
25% OFF the total bill
Get 25% off your entire bill, including your drinks. Offer applies to the à la carte menu only. Limited to 1 Gourmet Society card per party. Groups cannot be split to use additional Gourmet Society memberships.
- Fridays
- Saturdays
- Sundays
- December
Number of people:
- Up to 6
- Please mention the Gourmet Society
Please Note
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You MUST book in advance unless otherwise stated.
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