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Regarding our CAIS Visit: Thank You and Congratulations GNS
Visit Summary:
Having spent time Sunday, November 20 on a call with Bill Jones, the leader of our CAIS Visiting Committee (VC), I can tell you that the GNS community did a wonderful job this past week showing CAIS what we do and how we do it. The VC was impressed with all the work the school did to make this visit truly effective. Thank you to everyone who took time to talk with members of the VC. Your openness, constructive critique offered and your affection for the school was noted and appreciated. The creation of the internal document that guided the VC during its visit was the work of all faculty and staff members. It received a great deal of praise from the committee. Leading up to the visit, this report was created with input and support from members of faculty, staff, committees, the Boards and the PAUX. I am proud to say that everyone involved took advantage of the process to create the internal document as an opportunity to enhance what we do and improve the school in many areas. Thank you all!
Special thanks to Mrs. Jean Bigelow and Mr. Jake Burnett for their highly capable leadership and 'can do' attitude in coordinating the assembly of the internal document and the enormous collection of accompanying evidence that clearly showed the VC how seriously the GNS team goes about its work. Ultimately, the internal report clearly showed how we all work together to enable each student to be prepared as outstanding young men or women of character who will contribute to the world through their leadership, their commitment to service and their understanding that we are all responsible for the future of our communities.
In a conference call with Rory Paul, the CAIS representative on our VC, Bill Jones, the VC Chair and Chris Denford, the Chair of the GNS Society Board, I was pleased to be informed that GNS will retain our accreditation. Of course, knowing how wonderful GNS is, I had expected no less. We all may celebrate this as a positive reflection of the work of everyone at GNS to make it a good school. Some of the key strengths of the school that were highlighted during the call included:
- Creating an environment where students generally seem happy, engaged and well cared for. A sense of belonging.
- Being a strong and caring place due to faculty and staff which is further enhanced by the engagement of our students and parents.
- The work we do supporting individual learner's needs recognizing that one size does not fit all.
- Our success in engaging students in opportunities to be leaders and encouraging them to take initiative and start activities.
- Providing extensive co-curricular offerings in all areas: academic, artistic, athletic and citizenship and realizing a high uptake in terms of student participation.
- Having strong governances processes in place to ensure good decision making and informed long term planning.
A Commitment to Ongoing Improvement:
One of the most powerful features of a CAIS accreditation is the manner in which it fuels ongoing improvement in a school. As part of this, we received verbal kudos from the visiting committee with regard to the areas of focus that have been identified by the management team and board and are currently being worked on. Some of the current efforts highlighted included:
- Continuing the good work underway to develop a seamless path through the three schools to better support the success and enjoyment of each student from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 and beyond in university, career and life.
- Persisting in the efforts to design and deliver our own highly refined GNS version of IB that is very beneficial and a great experience at all levels: PYP, MYP and DP for each student.
- Further developing the school's ability to execute our important plans to transform the Beach Drive and Pemberton Woods campuses.
Leading to a New Strategic Plan for GNS:
We will receive the full CAIS report in early 2017 and combine its recommendations with information gleaned from the GNS family surveys, the GNS faculty and staff surveys, various focus groups over the last year and a bit, exit interviews, and a scan of the local, national and global educational landscape to ensure we are well informed as we continue our professionally facilitated strategic planning process. We expect to have completed and shared the new plan by the spring of 2017. This will be followed by a carefully monitored implementation scheme. We will measure our progress annually to ensure we maintain all that is great about GNS, while continuing to develop the school to be even more capable of assisting each student to do his or her best and to enjoy university, career and life. Overall, we are committed to ensuring GNS continues to be even better.
by Glenn Zederayko, Head of School


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Full Cup
"But we receive nourishment from everyone we meet. The body
and the personality form a cup.
You meet someone, and something is poured in."
– Rumi
Three years ago, on the afternoon before school started, my wife and I (before we were married, before we were anything but same-aged colleagues to each other) happened to visit a prominent temple. It almost didn't happen. We'd made plans to go to the new mall, but when we met at the end of the day, the mall was the last place either of us wanted to go. I don't remember who suggested Kapaleeswarar Temple, but we agreed quickly and hopped in a tuk-tuk together. We had a lovely time that night. Each of us was struck by the unfamiliar appeal of the temple and the people in it. We didn't get together as a couple for another seven months, and once we did that evening at the temple suddenly held much more meaning. At the end of the school year we went again, and I remember feeling compelled to propose to her there. We have come back to this place at the start of each year — tonight marks the fourth school-eve trip. While the temple itself is not a mystery to us in the same way, I found myself thinking on the way there tonight how strange it is that a visit here three years ago, that was not planned and nearly did not happen, could take on such meaning.
It's a day full of meaning on other levels, too. It's my brother's birthday. I have not lived near my brother for more than 15 years now, but I've usually been around for his birthday. I typically timed my trips home to coincide with his celebrations. This year, I'm feeling especially nostalgic. I remember the day he was born quite vividly, and a couple days later when I met him for the first time. Except for his wife, I consider myself his biggest fan (and there are a lot of his fans). I know that my sentimentality is intensified by the fact that less than a month ago he and his wife had a baby — my first nephew on my side of my family. Luckily, I was there for that birthday, and I spent some quality time holding that little guy, getting my baby whispering in before I had to return to India. When I left I felt, for the first time, that I would certainly be missing something while I was gone. So I'm wrapped up in a lot tonight — remembering my brother and his new family, cherishing the newness in my own life that already feels so familiar that it is difficult to remember when it wasn't here. These are blessed times.
Additionally, I start a new job tomorrow. Technically, I have been working for nearly three weeks in the new position, but tomorrow is my first day of school with real-live students everywhere. It's actually two new positions — an entry-level leadership position and a teaching role that is new to me. These are the third and fourth different positions that I've had in the three years I have been here. In the context of my life back in the U.S., that sounds withering and untenable, but here, in a world so full of extremes, it just feels right.
It just feels right . . . the first visit to the temple, my connection to my wife, holding my baby nephew as he slept through his first days of life, sitting in presence with my little brother who is now a dad, moving into new roles at my school — so much, so fast, and it all just feels right. Living so far away from my familiar places is a challenge, but since I have moved here my cup has been filled with nourishment.
A Belated Pongal Celebration
One of the fun parts of living in Chennai is developing an understanding of the various holidays. Mid-January brings Pongal, the celebration of the sun, a winter harvest festival, and a day of giving thanks for agriculture. There's some ceremony around the year's first rice crop, and the first batch of cooked rice is eaten auspiciously from a special Pongal jar. Sugar cane is also important — kids are seen chewing it all day long, and people are carrying long stalks of it on their motor bikes and cars off to different celebrations. Pongal-eve, called Bhogi, also is a special day of clearing out and cleaning. Typically old possessions are burned in order to create space for new acquisitions in the new year. Two indicators of these important days are the thick smoke throughout the city in the morning on Bhogi — a demonstration of how much is being burned before dawn — and the multitude of kollams, or elaborate chalk drawings, that women create outside their door steps the morning of Pongal.
There are a lot of festive holidays in Tamil Nadu, all of which offer just as many opportunities to reflect and start anew. This is my third year and my third Pongal, but it is perhaps the first time I've understood why we've had the day off school and what's being observed. I've come to enjoy the firecracker-filled days of celebration and observance here (whether canonized or not, firecrackers are definitely a part of every Indian holiday), and feel the natural opportunity to reflect. It's been quite a year.
Last year on Pongol, Susannah & I hosted our first guests as a couple. We were newly married and excited to welcome visitors together. The year was filled with visitors by family and friends alike. All of our parents, save one (we have seven parents and step-parents between us) came to see us in 2015. It's wonderful to have guests visit our lives here. I've learned that a distinct bond develops between me and those who come to see what our lives in Chennai is all about. Visitors develop a visceral comprehension of life here, and the shared experience is so strong that it continues even when the guests return home. The result is a special kind of richness that I feel between me and those who have experienced my life here. It's not something I ever could have anticipated before I arrived in India, but it's something I value most about being here.
This rich connection to family and friends became even more important as the past year was highly challenging. Most recently, the epic rain and flooding of Chennai reached a level of intensity I had not lived through previously. In the end, Susannah and I were fine — the roof of our house leaked in a dozen places and the power was out for several days, but some of our colleagues lost everything they owned, or everything on the first floor of their homes. Some evacuated temporarily until repairs could be made; others can never return to where they called home before the storm. Outside of our school community, the monsoon and the human decisions before, during, and after it were devastating. Hundreds died. Tens of thousands were displaced from their homes. Some of the news reports I saw reminded me very acutely of the incompetent aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We got lucky by virtue of not living directly in a floodplain, and it's not like we had that in mind when we were deciding where we might want to live a year ago. We dodged a flood just by dumb luck. I'm grateful for that everyday.
We've been unlucky, too — the past year brought to our lives the emotional turmoil of two pregnancies and two miscarriages. I've since learned that miscarriage is quite common among couples who want to get pregnant. Fortunately, the friends I have who are part of that club offered counsel and wisdom far beyond my own reasoning just when I needed it most. I also learned that even the most challenging experience a newly-married couple can have was not insurmountable for Susannah & I to cope with — yet more for which to be grateful.
When I look back at my work from the last year — or even the entire time I've been here, which is not that much longer — I'm quieted by the number of different things I've had the chance to work on. In 2.5 years, the range and depth of initiatives and challenges that have come my way might take a decade or longer to experience in the U.S. My learning curve has been steep — perhaps greater than even the first year of my teaching career — as I've tried to keep up with the elusive task of developing new ideas and strategies for teaching such a diverse population of students in a progressive education model. More immediately, I've been neck-deep in the question, 'Why should 8th graders from Korea, Japan, India, and Europe care about American history?' Some days I have a clear answer; others days I'm much less certain.
Happy Pongal, and, what a year. I'll worship the sun, as is the custom, for it rises each day over the Bay of Bengal here, offering the nutrients the crops need to thrive. In writing this I recognize that the western calendar has New Year's as a natural time for reflection. For some reason, I wasn't ready then. We were traveling then, and perhaps being away from India for that holiday distanced my thinking from my life here. So I've taken Pongal's invitation for reflection, and I'm even grateful for that, too. I've accepted a new position at my school that starts in July; part of the deal was I agreed to stay here through 2018. Even though I know we'll be here another 2.5 years, I'm aware that there will be a time when I don't live in India any more. It's strange to think that right now because when you're in India, it consumes you. It's hard for me to imagine not living here most of the time. But today, Pongal, has offered me a chance to savor my life here. It's wonderful. My special Pongal cup is full, not of celebratory rice, but of gratitude.
First Days of School
Social media tells me that back in the U.S. school is starting back up. I just wrapped up the third week of classes here, and for the first time since I have been in India — and, maybe in my career — I was ready for the students to arrive when they walked in the door. At the start of every other year, the time available to get ready and the number of things to do were so great that the first days of school were manic for me.
My Head of School had a lot to do with this: he changed the schedule so we had 40% more days to prep than we did last year, but something else is going on, too. My experience in international education has been synonymous with Great Change — I changed countries, subjects taught (twice), schools (high school to middle school), changed co-teachers three times, and, of course, met my partner, got engaged, and then married. Sheesh . . . that's an entire career for some — that's been 23 months for me.
Almost everything I have to say about India to those who do not live here is about the rapid change that exists in this place, and the extreme contrasts that are so abundant. I came here because I wanted a change, and I knew enough about my new home before I arrived to anticipate the contrasts. I did not have an idea, however, of how vivid and personal that change would be, and I certainly did not anticipate ever feeling — dare I say it — comfortable in this maelstrom.
The change itself is not an easy thing to precisely describe or even identify. I know I do not know all there is to know about the kind of instruction we are doing now, or the material I am charged with presenting to my students. I don't have all the answers to any of the questions that come my way. Despite this, I feel like I know something, yet not everything. The something matters, even if I can't quite articulate it.
There's a Cormac McCarthy novel in which a character says that he didn't realize how heavy one of his burdens was until he finally put it down. I find it difficult precisely to say what it was that I set down, but I know intimately the relief and recognition that the character is describing. Setting something down, feeling the relief of not expending so much energy, and also welcoming in such gratitude at the new-found freedom from that release.
I do know this: this has been a great way to start the new school year.
You can't argue with crazy
You can't argue with crazy, and yet I try to. I try to be right – it's amazing how important that is to me.
I had an interaction with a crazy parent at work last week, and I'm up early processing it this morning. I don't like that I'm up at 3am, but I'm trying not to judge myself. I often process this way, but on this particular topic I feel like crazy is winning.
What being up at 3am has helped me see is that I have some old energy that's stuck in situations like this. In my old school, I had a lot of run-ins with this sort of dynamic – so much so that I earned a unenviable nickname from my closest colleagues. "Lighting Rod" is what they called me – for every bolt of craziness I got zapped with was one less they had to potentially encounter from the same source.
The way that I operated was I would choose to interact with this level of craziness, fearing that others would give credit to the crazy side of the argument. I felt that other side might be deemed credible by my unpredictable bosses. In order to protect myself I thought I had to go into the belly of this crazy-go-nuts beast in order to emerge as Right, or justified. I did something different this time, and it was so unfamiliar that even though I'm reassured I did the right thing, I don't believe it. I don't trust the new approach yet.
Engaging with crazy is itself an act of craziness. Someone I think is really wise once told me that in the face of crazy, "No" is a complete sentence. I am not a familiar practitioner of the one-word sentence yet. It might be a while before I get there. You see, I still want to be Right! And, to be honest, I think I also want the craziness to know that I'm Right, too. Man, who do I think I am?
I think I might be crazy.
We're unique. Just like everyone else.
Susannah and I were married two months ago! She wrote about it beautifully here. I've got my own thoughts about the day, that I've tried to figure out how to frame without my story turning into an epic poem. This is one chapter.
My wedding day was unique because I felt like everyone else.
I recognize that this is a strange thing to say, especially coming from the West, where your wedding is "your special day." Traditionally the couple is worshiped through all parts of the production, beginning with the engagement and continuing to the honeymoon. Every moment and experience is a treasure.
As far as unique weddings go, it looked like ours would be the only one of its kind. Even how we got to the wedding was special: Susannah and I met each other as new teachers in our first international school posting. We became fast friends immediately, bonding through our similar experiences in our personal lives and in work back in the U.S.; eventually, we each realized there was more to the other than just a really great friend. Once we figured out there was something more there, things moved quickly. We started dating in March, got engaged in July, and were married in December. India has indeed been magical for us both.
Our wedding planning enhanced the idea that we were truly unique – I was told by someone who knows a thing or two about weddings in Chennai that there is no proof of another expat couple marrying in a Hindu ceremony in the history of this city. (And given the bureaucracy, no one is likely to follow in our footsteps). So, in other words, there's never been, nor will there ever be again, a wedding like ours. Major unique points for us.
We got hitched in a Hindu wedding hall, down the street from Vadapalani Murugan Temple, in Chennai. Our date was chosen for us by the marriage hall officials – which was a surprise to us. They consulted the almanac for auspicious times and dates, and our date, a Saturday, was simply unacceptable to them. But look! – the previous Wednesday was a very auspicious day. So Wednesday it was. We even got the best time according to the almanac: 9:00am. I don't know of anyone who got married on a Wednesday morning, so I thought this was unique, too.
Wednesday morning turned out to be an original thought for a lot of other wedding planners, too. We arrived at the appointed location ahead of time to find waves of happy people flooding down the street, past where the marriage hall was located, towards the big temple at the end of the block. Streets were blocked off, and from every direction small wedding parties slowly made their way to the same destination. I asked what was happening and I was told that the big temple at the end of the street would conduct ceremonies for fifteen hundred couples throughout the day; just in our little wedding hall there were 20 couples signed up to follow us. Everyone on the street, and on the side streets and allies connecting to it, was there for a wedding. All 1500 couples were there for their unique wedding day. Just like us!
1500 couples is a lot of brides and grooms. It's even more unusual to see so many other married couples if you are one of them. I was struck by how many other grooms there were, and that despite the fact that we were obviously very different, and would never see each other again, we had this moment of being the same together. I made eye contact with dozens of these other men, and as I met each one's eyes I felt a moment of recognition. They weren't all in the same emotional space – there were a few guys who looked panicked, and others who were cool as cucumbers – but it was moving to be having an experience so unexpected and unlike anything I'd heard of, and to be sharing that with a lot of other grooms who were going through the same ceremonies as me on this morning. Instinctively, I knew that I was part of something much larger and important than just me, or me and Susannah. We were unique, just like all these other couples.
My special day with Susannah was sanctified by the presence of strangers in multitudes, helping me see that I'm part of a human ritual that's both unique and quite common. India forces you to surrender to its will, and when you want to have things your way it's really frustrating. My understanding of the power of God is similar, and my wedding day has helped me see this relationship more clearly. When I've asserted my own will, I've been alone and frustrated. When I've listened and surrendered, I've received what I needed in great abundance. Seeing all those grooms reminded me of that, and helped me savor a short ceremony at a crowded temple with the woman with whom I stumbled into when I got here, and with whom I'm thrilled to share so much time and love. I may not be the most unique newlywed in Chennai, but I definitely feel like the luckiest.
I recently sat in a beat-up rowboat on the River Ganges, watching the layers of contrasting and connected lives on the shores of Varanasi, thinking of Achilles' Shield. (Yes, I use Homeric poetry to process intense experiences in my life). While Varanasi is not engulfed in war, it is as close to a real-life reproduction of the complete human experience that Achilles carries on his arm to meet Hector.
In Book 18 of The Iliad, the god Hephaestus forges Achilles a new shield before his fate-changing return to battle against the Trojans. Hephaestus creates a shield worthy of the epic, as it contains the human world and all the contradictions that come with it. Hephaestus captures human nature within the confines of a circle of bronze and leather. Homer uses 130 lines of poetry and the fortunes and destitution of two contrasted cities to show us the ebbs and flows of humanity.
Varanasi is a small city with an epic history. It was once one of the greatest cities in the ancient world. Visitors had to arrive by boat, and the 9 miles of city walls with nearly two dozen dramatic gates introduced a grandeur that it still emits in special moments. An ancient foreign emissary to Varanasi once wrote that this city surpassed all the great cities he'd seen – Athens, Sousa, Rome, Jerusalem.
Time did not treat this once great city favorably. It was destroyed several times by foreign invaders so that much of what exists today is not more than a few hundred years old. I found it to feel like a relatively small town with a big challenge: this city is one of the holiest places in the world. For Hindus, Varanasi is perhaps the most sacred place, and so, millions pilgrimage here each year. Bathing in this river during one's life, or being cremated here after is believed to help achieve moksha, release from the painful cycle of human reincarnation. Untold numbers of non-Hindus, like me, come to see what the spectacle is all about.
Early mornings bring most pilgrims to the shoreline, and evening offers ritual ceremonies with bells and fire. As a result, dawn and dusk are prime time for boat tour hours. From my boat, I began to see the great divide that occurs in and around this holy water.
The poorest of the poor bathe at the steps in front of the great temples, which are called ghats. These ritualized bathing spots are believed to offer the best chance at achieving moksha. Believers are lined up elbow-to-elbow, and in rows three deep to get in the water. Men in their lungees and women in their bathing saris of varying vibrant colors dunk, splash, and scrub themselves. The bathing movements appear so similar to be routines, but they are done in different speeds, so while out of sync with each other there's a near-synchronicity to the human actions on the river's edge. Squeezed in between the bathers is the high-pitched chanting of pilgrims and the heavy brass tones of ringing temple bells. In the end, all the space is filled with movement and the senses are overtaxed with the beautiful chaos.
The worshippers appear to the viewers from the boats against a back drop of the ghats and the walled palaces that belong to the families of the great maharajas of old India. India has only been a single political body for six decades; before that it was a vast land of fiercely competitive kingdoms. The maharajas, or great kings, from across the subcontinent built testaments to their own importance along the shore long ago. Great walls of these mansions jut up vertically from the water line. The walls add to the dramatic flair of the structures, and they serve a critical function. Each monsoon raises the level of the river by about 40 feet or more. The abrupt walls literally keep water out of the palaces, thus keeping a clear distinction between land and water. But there's another clear divide, too: the walls, with turrets atop and viewing plazas in between also delineate the stark contrast between lives of those at the foot of the walls and those who sit atop them. Perhaps the difference is only 50 feet, but the distance may as well be worlds apart, for the people in each location could never imagine existing in the others'.
The caste system is as vibrantly alive in Varanasi as the color variations and patterns of the elaborate saris for sale in the textile shops. As news of the rituals on display on the river bank spread outside of this region, travelers curious about Hindu rites or India in general, have come here in droves, adding a new caste to the ancient social layers. The short term visitors only stay a few days at a time, but rooms in the guest houses are never empty, and our (for I am clearly one of this horde) omnipresent existence is the source of wealth for a caste of denizens in this town that otherwise would have no options for financial gain. I interacted with dozens of people in my four days in Varanasi who called the city home. Every single one wanted me to buy something, rent something, or make a donation to some worthy cause. Each person was just one making a request like a single musical note, but taken together, each day was a movement by a full orchestra.
My favorite experience was around one of the Burning Ghats, which is where bodies are cremated on funeral pyres that burn for around three hours each. It is possible to walk right up to these ghats, as long as you're not pointing your camera anywhere near them. In fact, upon arriving there (each time, for we walked past the ghat several times) we were told repeatedly "No photos!" That makes sense to me – I can see how the family of the deceased would want to preserve some privacy. At the same time – and I mean the exact same time – we were asked to donate to the hospice (that doesn't exist) so many times that by day two I could predict the order of the sales pitch. And in the background, a goat is eating the remnants of a funeral shroud, the water buffaloes are pooping really close to one of the smoldering pyres, and there's a generator running a water pump to power a water hose for spraying the caked mud off the walk-way that is adjacent to the pyre area.
It's hard not to be mesmerized by the spectacle of these abrupt contrasts. It's easy to forget that we are watching people in their most intimate moments. Much of my India is like this – on my morning walk I can see fishermen in the village a mile south of where I live defecating in the morning tide if I want to, and on the same walk I pass a movie-star's housing compound – but in Varanasi there are no margins. I see people sleeping, begging, pooping & peeing, crying, laughing, hustling, and mourning their deceased loved ones as the funeral pyres burn brightly. And all within a few feet of each other.
The power of Achilles' Shield is that it contains the fullness of the human experience within the two cities captured together in bronze and leather. Here, too, is the full range of humanity. The sacred and the ordinary, all smashed together.
It's lovely this time of year. The mornings are cool – today, even, the off-shore breeze gave the water at the beach a glass-textured surface, and the waves broke uncharacteristically beautifully. As I took a break from playing pick-up Ultimate Frisbee yesterday, I noticed the dragonflies, zooming around about twenty feet off the ground. I use to think there were seasons here for dragonflies, and bats. That's not how it works, as it turns out. The reality is that they each occupy different bits of airspace and during different times of the day. The dragonflies, for example, like it within an hour or two of when the sun is either rising or setting. Bats, of course, like the twilight and later. I wonder if the dragonflies and bats ever even see each other.
There are parts of Chennai I never see. The parts I do see I have grown very fond of in a short amount of time. I live in an apartment with a view of the Bay of Bengal that would make real estate developers' Pintrest boards go wild. I get to walk down it every morning, engaging in a daily gratitude practice with the woman to whom I'm engaged. I see the beach life in the early part of the day – the dogs just waking up and chasing each other around with their morning friskiness. There are the regular cast of characters: the men doing calisthenics routines you've seen in grainy black and white filmstrips of PE classes in small town America, circa 1950. There are groups of gray-headed men who sit on the wall at the edge of the road, laughing together about the things that old men at the beach in the morning laugh about. A little ways down are old Indian ladies in their saris, discussing each other's business with energy and gusto. My favorite character is a short, wiry guy who digs for crabs in the wet sand of the early morning low tide.
Last weekend was the end of the Ganapathy festival that I wrote about last year in Be Here Now. I knew what to expect this year, and I had a much easier time being present than before, but the event was just as joyous and cacophonous as ever. Hundreds of trucks lined up with their statues of Ganapathy in the cargo hold, waiting to deliver their patron god to his place in the sea. There are rules that govern this event, but Indian customs, as far as I can tell, often place emphasis on having the last word or the loudest word. And almost no one listens. So when everyone is shouting at everyone else, you're really in India.
Ganapathy season ended last weekend. I imagine there are people who live in this sprawling city who don't know that this even exists; to those who are present for it, there's hardly an experience that rivals it. I think I may leave Chennai with this event chiseled into my top three India experiences: it would top number three, the road trip to the end of the continent that I took last spring with my best friend from high school, but be behind number one: meeting Susannah.
India is chaos sometimes, but it's also lovely. I wonder if the dragonflies and bats feel the epic disorganization and contradictions. I doubt it. They're probably just thinking, 'hey, it's time to eat.' I can relate. There's some butter masala paneer waiting for me in the kitchen.

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How young India can join politics and is there financial security in it?
The latest census data says that 41% of Indian population is below the age of 20. You know what that means? That young India will now decide for India in the coming years. The future will be decided by energetic, innovative and highly tech-driven young people. And since development of the country depends on its politics, more and more young people should be encouraged to enter politics to really bring about a change in the society.
At the Young Makers conclave, some of the most influential people from different fields like creators, innovators and ideators came together to motivate the younger generation to unite and join the forces to be the change that they expect to see in the country.
The average age for people to join politics is 65 and the average age of people in India is 25. So how can we bridge that gap and bring energy back to the Indian political scene? "I was a regular computer science engineer from a regular college but when things like lokpal debate started happening, you have to make a choice and take a leap of faith and it does not matter how old or young you are," said Ankit Lal, one of the founding members of Aam Admi Party.
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Agreeing with Ankit was Nupur Sharma from Bhartiya Janta Party who added that she joined politics through BJP's youth party- ABVP. She said, "I contested in my college times in a wiff and won it actually. No one in my family is from political background or has a law background. And when I joined ABVP there were one and a half part of the group were women." What both Ankit and Nupur meant was that it is not difficult for the youth to join politics if they have the passion for it.
Gaurav Pandhi, Head, Social Media Outreach for Indian National Congress claimed, "The difference now is that our views are not restricted to a particular constituency and that has only happened because of social media."
In case you are worried about how financially viable a career in politics is, Nupur shares some of the ways to make a political career financially sustainable. "You can work from home in politics now and get pay-checks. A lot of young political leaders make money by writing articles in magazines. It's all about seeking opportunities."
She added, "In India, we need to regulate political parties in that sense and here it's illegal to lobby work."
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While Gaurav concluded the issue by saying that if you want to work in politics then you need to realise what your needs are rather than your wants. It is the passion that should drive you in the field and not the money it yields in the later years as there are no shortcuts for hard work.


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The Houston Project - Rainer Judd
Rainer Judd, daughter of late artist Donald Judd, co-president of the Judd Foundation and actor/filmmaker has dedicated much of her time since she was 23 years old to upholding her father's legacy and preserving the collections of priceless art that he left behind. Observing the instructions her father outlined in his will, she has memorialized his former studio - and her childhood home - at 101 Spring Street into a museum which opened to the public in June 2013 after 11 years of planning.
Since she was a young girl Judd has been compiling personal journals. Comprising words and pictures, it is an ever-growing project with over 31 books thus far. For the latest installation of the Houston Wall Project, she will post a selection of eight entries from these journals with a new entry going up each week over the next two months.
We caught up with Judd below to get a glimpse into her life and work...
You have been keeping journals since you were a small child. What inspired you to start keeping journals?
What I can speak of is not what's in my head, but it's my heart and my soul because I've lived it.
Though I do have theory—it is from my life experience—and within that experience I can speak to the power and influence of Judgment, Pain, Loss, Transcendence, Mortal & Mundane Simple Joys, Creative Plight, Guides, Messengers, Collaborators, Friends, Bullies, Revelations, Lostness, Stuckness, Flow, Timing, Intuition, Mapping, Money's connection to Mind Holds, Subtle Energies, the influence of Environment, the Mercurial Quality of Moods, The Miracle of Spirits entering a Moment, a story, a scene, a making.
Why did you decide to partake in this project?
The SoHo community has been a tight, extended family to me for most of my life. And for as long as I can remember the people here are genuinely interested in art and ideas and just want to make things happen downtown. It felt natural to do this mural series below 14th St. and it could not have happened without the spirit and generosity of other downtown artists, including the wheatpasting aficionados at JR's studio, graphic designer Javas Lehn, photographer Henry Leutwyler and Proof7 Print House.
What has it been like returning to 101 Spring and viewing it as a place that is open to the public, including your former private living space?
It's great. I think everyone should come take a tour if you are at all interested in the extraordinary historical architecture of SoHo's Cast Iron District. Journaling is a form of preservation, you know. The document. The record. The archive. It's all historical preservation.
Is there a particular piece of your father's art that holds a special place in your heart?
My Judd bed, of course.
You have done an amazing job of carrying on your father's legacy, preserving his art and restoring 101. What other projects are you also working on?
Aside from being a pal, my journals have become a repository of sorts—a deep archive holding inspiration and fodder for things like this mural project, film projects and beyond. I am currently prepping my first feature narrative feature that is a personal interpretation of events of my childhood, with all the wonder that comes from a child's point of view. It was a magical time. There is ongoing production, too, in my Hudson and New York studios, with what we like to call "Special Projects." In the company of three other women, we are making things we like—that we'll very soon be sharing with others. Together we are Archer Trooper & Co.
Stop by the Houston store now to see the first installation.


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A user by the name of Shawn Snyder over on the MOCpages website has created a Lego version of Altair from the Assassin's Creed franchise. His near life-sized statue of "Mentor" is quite impressive, and best of all it even has working version of Altair's infamous wrist blade! I've included some additional images of this Lego assassin below, but to see all of them you can follow the "Via" link below. You've never been able to create anything but towers with Legos…
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The strategy is simple. Let's take a product that will require supplementary additions over time - for example an electric toothbrush. Sell the toothbrush at a low price, knowing that if the consumer wants to avoid gingevitis they will need to splash out on (proportionately more expensive) replacement brush heads.
If you own any of these products you don't need to do the maths to work out how the primary product pays for itself over time. You also probably know where I'm going with this.
While a closely guarded secret, turbine prices appear to be coming down continually. All the while, servicing contracts on those deals seem to be fairly constant. A quick look at this year's turbine deals shows the majority of additional servicing contracts are in the 15-year range.
What is open knowledge is the pledge by the big manufacturers to maximise revenue from O&M. Vestas CEO Anders Runevad has taken a personal interest in overseeing Vestas servicing operations while last year Siemens spent big and built a global O&M centre.
For a brief example of how the importance of servicing is growing, take a look at some of Siemens' latest figures for 2014. Despite a 42% fall in revenue from turbine sales, a strong performance in servicing brought a 21% rise in profit.
Then there is Vestas. Onshore revenue from services went up 7% in 2014, while the value of its servicing pipeline rose from €0.36 billion to €7 billion over the same period.
But in an industry that has long sought to emulate the automotive sector as a means of achieving greater efficiencies, this seems a little at odds. Imagine buying a BMW and only being able to service/ fix it at a BMW garage? Is it protectionism or freebie marketing?
Yes, you can find third party servicing. The US is a fairly good example of this. But in the majority of cases it is a closed shop. Hypothetically, is it a good thing to pay less for a turbine and spread the extra cost on the maintenance cost over the majority lifespan of the machine?
It is an interesting model but freebie marketing is a short-term solution, for the customer at least.Wind turbines aren't razor blades — they last a long time and the question is whether it will be the supplier who pays as the machines reach the end of their days.


text: January has started off to a much stronger start than December did, and I'm so thankful for the time to read and get back into the swing of things. Today's post will be my list of gift ideas for bookish individuals. I had planned on posting this list closer to the holidays, however, December took an unexpected turn and I didn't get to share my ideas. But bookish gifts are always a great idea, not just for the holidays. They make great birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, thank you gifts, and "just because" gifts. So, here they are…my round-up of bookish gift ideas for yourself or the book lovers in your life.


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(Herbs Wiki) Artichoke
Artichoke Scientific Names and Common Names,Artichoke Biochemical Information,Uses,Warning,Where Found,Parts Usually Used,Artichoke Description of Plant(s) and Culture,Medicinal Properties.
Common Names | Parts Usually Used | Plant(s) & Culture | Where Found | Medicinal Properties
Scientific Names
Cynara scolymus L. Composite family
Common Names
Garden artichoke
Globe artichoke
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Parts Usually Used
Flower heads, leaves, root
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Description of Plant(s) and Culture
Artichoke is a perennial plant; its tuberous root produces a stem from 3-5 feet high, with alternate, thistle-like leaves that are grayish-green above and woolly white underneath. The blue flowers are enveloped in the familiar globular heads of purplish-green, spiny scales which terminate the main branches. The flower heads, picked before maturity, are the dinner table vegetable fare. Flowering time varies from spring to mid-summer, depending on the warmth of the climate.
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Where Found
Grows in the Mediterranean area and the Canary Islands and is widely cultivated elsewhere as a food plant.
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Medicinal Properties
Cholagogue, diuretic, tonic
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Legends, Myths and Stories
The flower or head of the artichoke, commonly known as the heart, is reputed to be an aphrodisiac, although this claim has never been scientifically proven. Through the years, various studies worldwide have shown that people's blood cholesterol levels dropped after eating artichoke. In fact, an anticholesterol drug called cynara is derived from this herb. In 1940, a study is Japan showed that artichoke not only reduced cholesterol but it also increased bile production by the liver and worked as a good diuretic.
Native Americans of the Missouri River Valley region cultivated artichokes along with the squash, beans, corn, etc.
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Extracts of the leaves and root are helpful in arteriosclerosis, jaundice, dyspepsia, liver insufficiency, chronic albuminuria, and postoperative anemia, reduces cholesterol blood levels. In some countries, considered an aphrodisiac.
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Formulas or Dosages
To make a delicious, heart-healthy treat, rub the leaves with olive oil and tuck a few slices of garlic in the leaves. Steam for 30-40 minutes. Remember that the benefits of this vegetable will be lost if you douse it in melted butter, which is high in saturated fat, or in margarine, which is high in calories.
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Nutrient Content
Iron, phosphorus, potassium, niacin and vitamin A & C
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Number can be deceiving. The book of Numbers opens with a count of every person fit to serve during the Israelites' exodus form Egypt. Yet while over six hundred thousand were counted, only two were allowed to enter the Promised Land. The lesson? God values quality over quantity. And as the next generation finally experienced God's promise, we discover that He doesn't just want us counted as believers; He wants us as people He can count on.
Part of Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe's best-selling "BE" commentary series, Be Counted has now been updated with study questions and a new introduction by Ken Baugh. A respected pastor and Bible teacher, Dr. Wiersbe explores how we can make our faith matter. This book will encourage you to trust God's Word, and inspire you to count on God.
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Eddie Pepperell's unusual hole-in-one at the Sky Sports British Masters – his second European Tour title – has been voted the 2018 Shot of the Year by fans.
The Englishman produced the highlight of the day on Thursday with his maiden European Tour ace on the par three ninth hole at Walton Health Golf Club. The 27 year old hit the pin with his tee shot before the ball landed on the green and spun back into the cup to the delight of home crowds.
"This is very cool," Pepperell said. "The British Masters was a massive tournament for me and that shot sparked off the week.
"With the wind, the ninth was a tough hole all week, picking the right club and ball flight was tricky. I hit a really good seven iron and it never left the pin. It obviously got lucky but it nearly went in on the fly. It's one of the craziest aces I think I've seen.
"It's nice to finish the year by winning Shot of the Year. I owe a massive thanks to all the fans who voted."
Over the course of three weeks, Pepperell's hole-in-one received nearly a quarter of all fan votes, narrowly topping Italian Renato Paratore's miracle escape on the 72nd hole of the Porsche European Open, and beating out competition from the likes of Justin Thomas, Justin Rose and Russell Knox.
Pepperell joins Joost Luiten, Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Jamie Donaldson, Henrik Stenson, Louis Oosthuizen and Graeme McDowell as the winners of the award since 2010.


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Yesterday was my Mama and Dad's 28th Anniversary!!!!!!! 😀 They both looked very handsome and beautiful, and so they wanted a photoshoot! 🙂 Here's some pictures of my lovely Ma and Daddy. Happy happy anniversary, y'all!! 😀
We all had a fantastic weekend, and I am so happy they did! 😀 These two people are absolutely amazing, and mean so much to me. ♥ Thank y'all for letting me get such sweet pictures, too! ;D Y'all are sweet.
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Peter has a wealth of experience in taking leading, cutting edge security and networking technologies to market both directly to end customers and through a multi-tier channel model.
He was co-founder and Sales Director of Quadrant Networks, a UK based VAR that specialised in working with innovative security and networking technology companies selling to large financial institutions, e-commerce, online gaming and travel companies to name a few.
Peter was instrumental in building and leading the sales and marketing operation. Quadrant Networks was successfully sold to the SecureData group in 2012, where he became Enterprise Sales Director.
Over the last 25 years Sean has held a number of Technical Director roles in successful UK and EMEA focused security distribution companies (Exclusive Networks, Vadition, and Equip Technology). With responsibilities for product selection and the technical services business units.
Primarily focussing on identifying and bringing new, disruptive and innovative solutions to market, some of the more successful vendors over the years being Netscreen, Neoteris and more recently Palo Alto Networks & FireEye.
Sean is Ignition's Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), and is responsible for shaping the company's technology and service offerings for our partners.
After nearly two decades in the IT security and networking industry, Paul has vast experience in both the technical and commercial aspects of this fast-changing industry.
Having worked for several technology manufacturers, distributors, and resellers he has a unique understanding of the challenges and pressures throughout the whole channel.
After co-founding Quadrant Networks in 2008 as Technical Director, within four years they became widely regarded as the UK specialist in deploying and supporting application delivery and security solutions.
Quadrant Networks was acquired by the SecureData group in November 2012, where Paul took on the role of Chief Technology Officer. He was instrumental in the transformation of the business over the following two years.
Philip is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.
He has worked in IT Distribution and the IT Channel for 19 years and has been responsible for managing the demands of rapid growth businesses as they undertake their journey from start up to flotation or sale.
In the last 15 years Philip has been involved with the development of numerous successful high growth businesses including Equip Technology, Data Integration, Cohort Technology, Pasporte, Corporate Communications Europe and Quadrant Networks. Prior to working in the IT industry Philip was the UK Head of Finance, Treasury and Taxation for a large Pharmaceutical Corporation.
Most recently Philip was the CFO of MTI Technology which is one of EMC's largest European partners. During his time at MTI the business doubled in size and Philip managed the M&A activity along with corporate strategy.
Dave has vast channel experience, understanding the intricacies of the channel landscape and how to create value. He has worked with the full variety of channel partners, from small consultancies through to large integrators and understands what they require from their distributor in order to grow their business.
With over 15 years' experience with resellers and end users, notably running the Major Accounts Sales Team at Exclusive Networks, Dave has been instrumental in building out the Ignition Sales team and strategy.
In his capacity as Business Development Director, Dave works with Ignition's newly on-boarded vendors and helps launch them into the UK market.
Jennie has over 20 years of experience working within the channel, predominately within distribution. She held a number of different marketing roles at Tech Data which required intelligent vendor and partner marketing.
Whilst at Exclusive Networks, Jennie worked with several security vendors such as Fortinet, Palo Alto and Gigamon and specialised in creating marketing programmes to launch and create demand for new, innovative security solutions.
Working with a wide variety of Ignition's resellers, partners and vendors, Jennie aims to create value and drive business growth through targeted, lead generation campaigns.
For more than two decades within the security distribution market, Mikko has held a number of successful management and board member roles in EMEA and the Nordics.
He has worked within a number of value added distributors such as Securesoft, Computerlinks and Exclusive Networks as well as developing a community with his many advisory and board roles within customers and manufacturers alike including Check Point, RSA Security, Juniper, Palo Alto, FireEye and Arbor Networks.
Since being a co-founder of Securesoft Group in 1998, Mikko has been introducing new innovative security and networking technologies to different territories winning many best in EMEA awards together with his teams. With this knowledge he will be running the Northern European team that will have over 18 years of collaborative working experience.
Marko has over 20 years of IT experience, operating at a high level within multiple leading US technology companies in security, cloud, networking and application delivery. In addition to driving sales teams in senior management positions to achieve targets, Marko has had exposure in driving teams in various international environments including Northern and Eastern Europe & Russia.
Having worked across the channel, Marko has amassed invaluable experience working in several manufacturers, distributors, resellers and customers both in large enterprises through to niche service providers. His exposure to high pressure sales roles, reaching VP of North East EMEA at F5 Networks, gives Marko the experience needed to ignite sales growth for Ignition in Northern Europe.
Markus has been working in IT for nearly 20 years, working across the channel including resellers, distributors and vendors. For the last 7 years, he was working for Palo Alto Networks, more recently focusing on major accounts. Markus was one of the first employees operating in the Nordics for Palo, diligently working to build the brand from a stage of obscurity to the top performing firewall vendor in the region.
Bringing products to market has been an area of great interest, driving Markus and his teams. Prior to Palo, Markus worked for distributor Computerlinks for 4 years and was responsible for Checkpoint, Sourcefire, RSA, EMC and VMware. Before that, he worked within resellers Nordic Lan&Wan, as well as Novo Group (now CGI). Markus will now be leading and delivering on the technical capabilities of Ignition in the Nordic region, creating value across the Nordic channel.


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At least, there shouldn't be. We've passed that era. Any business of scale and worthy of going public, as LinkedIn did today in spectacular style, isn't a dotcom. It's a real business, with significant impact in several important markets.
In LinkedIn's case, those markets include publishing, recruitment, and professional services. So what if they are leveraged over a digital platform that has a ".com" address? At this point, that's pretty much the entire US economy, not to mention a significant percentage of the "rest of the world."
I'm tired of the easy comparisons to the dotcom bubble. They simply aren't accurate.
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Great thing is I got a phone call on Good Friday (this is a paid holiday for Philips Respironics). They will be sending me postage paid envelope to send my old mask to Respironics when they return to the office on Monday. In turn, they will be replacing my Wisp at no charge. The interesting thing is this mask had only been in service 77 days.
There may be something to the post JJJ posted in this thread.
Quote:Knowing that the warranty is 90 days I took it to my DME today. I asked if the warranty was from Philips Respironics or from the DME. The nice lady (who recognized me and even remembered my name) said that the warranty was through the DME, and then went into the back room to call Philips Respironics. When she came back she told me that the Philips Respironics folks told her to go ahead and give me a new mask at no charge and to pick up the broken one and return it to them.
Then she said that the Philips Respironics people told her that some of the early Wisp masks went out with bad fabric. The problem has been resolved, so hopefully my replacement will not break.
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Freaks, Fast Food & Frightened Frankie
Season 2 • Episode 8
The bakery heavyweights are challenged to an eating contest after they create a buffet-style cake for Major League Eating. Then one of Frankie's biggest fears is exposed while making a cake for the Coney Island Circus Sideshow.
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text: Rebus Works in Boylan Heights is adding a coffee shop and market! If you're a fan of the Saturday Market that pops up each weekend, this will be a similar concept. You'll be able to buy local goods such as cheeses, breads, produce, milk, and body products, all sourced from local farms and artisans, plus coffees, baked goods, and North Carolina sourced breakfasts. Find it M-F 7–10am.


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text: Making Ourselves Matter Services Society (MOMSS) is empowering at-risk young women who are determined to move out of the vacuum of 'system support' that feeds their cycle of hopelessness, their vulnerability to homelessness. They are women who want more than just housing, more than just life skills, more than just fighting poverty throughout their lives. They want to break through the barriers, and negative cycles that, unless broken, will filter down into their children's lives.


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Rock Hall of Famer Dave Mason in Ridgefield Thursday
In his four decades in the music business, Dave Mason has recorded on some of rock 'n' roll's most treasured songs and albums with some of the genre's biggest names.
He played acoustic guitar on Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower"; performed on The Rolling Stones' 1968 record "Beggar's Banquet"; and also took part in the sessions for George Harrison's acclaimed "All Things Must Pass" project in 1970.
That doesn't even take into account his work as a founding member of the band Traffic -- where he contributed the classic song "Feelin' Alright" -- or his solo career or his brief stint in the '90s with Fleetwood Mac, which was without Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks at that point.
But one of his many collaborations stands out in light of recent events: Mason's 1980 song, "Save Me," which featured a pre-"Thriller" Michael Jackson adding background vocals.
"Basically, he was just recording in the other studio and I needed somebody to sing some high parts on a song and I went over to the studio and asked him, When you get a break, would you come over and sing something on this track?,' " Mason recalled in a recent phone interview. "He said, Yeah, absolutely, I'll come do it.' "
It turns out that Jackson remembered performing one of Mason's songs on a television special when he was still a child.
"He said that when he was like 8 or 9 years old, he did a special with Diana Ross and the two of them sang Feelin' Alright,' " Mason said, "so he said, I'd love to come over.' "
Mason, a 2004 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with Traffic, has had a few peaks and valleys in his solo career, with a high being his 1977 hit, "We Just Disagree," which reached No. 12 on the Billboard magazine singles chart.
At 63, he remains a popular figure on the concert circuit, leading The Dave Mason Band on about 100 shows each year. He seems to do particularly well in Connecticut and has a gig scheduled for Thursday night at the Ridgefield Playhouse.
Mason fans can expect to hear a few new songs from Mason, who released his latest album, "26 Letters -- 12 Notes," last October. Unfortunately for Mason, 63, concerts seem to be the only way to get his new music out to the public.
"Trying to get it heard is (nearly) impossible," he said. "Radio is just a disaster for artists like me and radio is still (the best way). Everybody's still got one in their car.
"And unless you're specifically looking for Dave Mason, the Internet's not really the thing, either. Satellite radio plays it, but satellite radio is such a small fraction of the U.S. population.
"Radio is really the only thing. The only other thing really is the Leno shows, the Letterman shows, but they don't seem to be interested, either."
In addition to his music, the Worcester, England, native also is passionate about helping veterans of the armed forces as they return from conflict. He has been working with a Connecticut-based charity, Work Vessels for Veterans, in helping returning vets get started on their post-war lives.
"The gentleman that started it" -- John Niekrash -- "has been a good friend of mine for a number of years and decided to take his lobster boat -- because he was getting a new one -- and gave it as a donation to a vet. And it's gone from there and now, it's been like three or four boats, plus trucks, vans, computers.
"We basically try to give returning vets the tools that they need to either get into business, complete their education or, in the case of one recent vet who came back to his wife and three children with a lot of post-traumatic stress, we donated a car to the family so they can get around."
Mason supports many charities that assist veterans, stressing that "it's a completely nonpolitical issue. I just don't think there's enough you can do for people like that.
"I think that the government grossly undervalues the people that put on the uniform and put their lives on the line.
"Anybody that puts on a uniform and puts their life on the line and comes back somewhat disabled or incapacitated should be taken care of for the rest of their life, as far as I'm concerned."


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Ostia Antica's archaeological area is about 30 km away from the centre of Rome...
Our first stage will be the beautiful Villa Adriana.
You'll be dropped off at the entrance and the driver will wait for you outside.
The Castelli Romani area is located 35 km south from Rome and represents one of the favourite destinations of the Romans for out of town trips, because it's ideally situated.
Our first stage will be the ancient Cerveteri archeological site. You'll be dropped off at the entrance and the driver will wait for you outside.
Bolsena is a town and comune of Italy, in the province of Viterbo in northern Lazio on the eastern shore of Lake Bolsena.
San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in Tuscany, Italy, about a 35-minute drive northwest of Siena or southwest of Florence.
This tour is recommended for wine lovers as Brunello di Montalcino is one of Italy's most famous! Montalcino is 2h30 away from Rome
You can then decide to eat in Pompei or to wait until the next stop (Sorrento or Positano).
Our driver will suggest you a typical "trattoria" or restaurant.
Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy.
Florence (Italian: Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany, Italy, and of the province of Florence.
Montepulciano, a town and commune in the province of Siena in southern Tuscany, (Italy), is a medieval and renaissance hill town of exceptional beauty.
Assisi is a town in Italy in province of Perugia, Italy, in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Mt. Subasio.
If you wish to spend an evening buying some typical Italian items, this is good chance to visit one of the most famous shop places of Rome.


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Harlem drama ignites with Cheryl Lynn Bruce at the helm
Writers' Theatre presents:
The Old Settler
by John Henry Redwood
directed by Ron OJ Parsons
through March 28th (more info)
review by Oliver Sava
The title of John Henry Redwood's play refers to a woman past her thirties who has yet to find a husband and has no romantic prospects. Harlem, 1946, and that woman is Elizabeth Borny, pious, dignified, and played with great dimensionality by Cheryl Lynn Bruce. When she finds herself the object of handsome young boarder Husband Witherspoon's (Kelvin Rolston, Jr.) affections, Elizabeth must overcome the great heartbreak of her past, an event she holds her sister Quillie (Wandachristine) responsible for.
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Wandachristine finds a fine balance between sass and anxiety as Quillie, and while her relationship with Elizabeth is a source of drama, more importantly she is able to provide a good dose of humor in the production. Her constant fear of home-invading rapists and general disdain for what Harlem has become lighten the mood of the play, but she is more than able to hold her own when threatened.
Lou Bessie shares a similarly brassy nature, but amplified by her experiences with the seedy figures of the Harlem social scene. When she enters Elizabeth's home it is with a confidence that is hard to resist, and the major conflict of the play becomes whether or not Husband can overcome her influence. Husband, goofy yet charming, is a fish out of water in New York City, and Elizabeth serves as a connection to his southern roots. Rolston, Jr. has a sincerity that makes his relationship with Elizabeth very organic, but his naiveté ultimately proves his undoing.
Directed by Ron OJ Parsons, the ensemble and design team create a vision of 1946 Harlem that feels very authentic.Jack Magaw's set design allows for a wide range of movement, and the details like doilies on the armrests of the couch help make the time period even clearer. The Old Settler is a very solid production that is a great showcase for its leading lady's talents, and Cheryl Lynn Bruce gives a great performance.
Rating: ★★★
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