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2015 Impact Stories
Canberra Cite Care, Charnwood
Canberra City Care operates a number of services in the West Belconnen area. It works with Oz Harvest on a food rescue service. It also has an op-shop and makes technology accessible through its tech shed. It also has a debt management service.
Canberra City Care sought funds from Hands Across Canberra to help nance a new community kitchen and garden. These new facilities will help us expand the community outreach services o ered in West Belconnen.
This is not the rst time Hands Across Canberra has helped. Previously their assistance helped us manage the cost of upgrading our important administrative systems.
C3Care, Monash
C3CARES is a fortnightly event that started in May 2016 and includes a message of hope, a free hot lunch and a hamper for people who come.
C3CARES is about providing a place for people within our community who may nd themselves socially isolated. We bring a message of hope followed by several wonderful home made slow-cooked meals with rice. Bread is donated and our team also provides yummy deserts. Our guests always comment on the food and love second helpings whenever possible.
Hampers are available to people who attend and the grant provided by Hands Across Canberra will allow us to make up 145 additional hampers as well as increase our hamper allowance from $10 to $12 per hamper for 330 hampers while also providing $100 towards our Christmas lunch.
We also partner with OzHarvest who provide fruit and vegetables when available. Last week brand new clothes were donated by a department store, which was gratefully accepted by the 23 people who attended our lunch.
Karinya House
Karinya House Home for Mothers & Babies Inc. is a community based, not-for-pro t organisation providing supported accommodation, transitional housing, outreach services and support groups to pregnant and parenting women and their families who are in crisis. Since we established in late 1997, we have provided residential and outreach support to over 5,000 pregnant and parenting women.
In July 2015 Karinya House received a grant from Hands Across Canberra for $10,000. This grant supported the introduction of a designated Caseworker to focus on supporting women who had experienced domestic violence.
In 2014/2015, 63 per cent of women presented to Karinya with life journeys that were impacted by domestic or family violence. Research indicated that the Mothers in Mind Program would be a valuable component to add to our casework management practice, and we are now incorporating these ideas with some great results. Casework plans are made according to each Client's individual needs. The Mothers in Mind concepts help to enhance parenting skills, as well as strengthen parent-child relationships. Karinya is rmly on track with its goal of creating brighter futures for mothers and babies.
Karinya opened its new facility in Belconnen in August 2016.
Beryl Women Inc.
Beryl Women Inc. provides therapeutic support and safe housing to women and children escaping domestic and/or family violence. We welcome all women regardless of age, nancial situation, religion, background or nationality. We are located in the Nation's Capital, Canberra, ACT.
Start-Up Packs
In August 2014, Beryl Women Inc. received a grant of $9,900 from Hands Across Canberra which allowed us to provide Start-Up Packs to women and children that had experienced domestic and or family violence had left their homes and entered crisis refuge accommodation to avoid risks to their safety.
We provided the packs to families as soon as they rst entered the service to ensure that they had adequate resources for the initial crisis period. The packs supported families by providing items such as food, transport, communication and educational supplies for children to attend schooling.
Interpreting costs to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Women
In 2015 Beryl Women Inc. once again was successful in applying for funds from Hands Across Canberra to support the provision of interpreting costs to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Women. The service provides support to them and their children in key areas to address the issues of domestic violence such as safety planning, family law, children's safety and wellbeing, housing and accommodation.
At times where complex discussions are required for client support, interpreting is used to ensure that clients have a full and proper understanding of the content of the discussion and that they have the opportunity to express their voice regarding matters that are of importance and concern to them.
Interpreting was also used for client feedback and for communication of documents relating to the support at Beryl Women Inc. and other services.
Canberra Rape Crisis Centre
The Canberra Rape Crisis Centre (CRCC) is a non- government, not-for-pro t, feminist organisation working to eliminate sexual violence against women, young people, children, families and men.
We provide:
- A 24 hour crisis call out service to police and forensic services every day of the year
- A crisis and counselling telephone support service (1800 123 123) between 7am-11pm (7 days a week)
- Counselling and group work to survivors of sexual assault and their families and supporters
- Education, training and professional consultation to agencies and private practitioners
The Canberra Rape Crisis Centre is the only place in Canberra that provides this service. As such we received a grant from Hands Across Canberra to assist us in implementing a new client management system to ensure that a true and accurate record is kept of the incidents of assault and trauma experienced by residents of Canberra and its surrounding region. By using this new system our objective is to provide accurate statistics, figures and information regarding the impacts that sexual assault is having in the Canberra region to a range of Government agencies. This ensures that the needs of survivors are adequately funded and provided for by Government and other services that are needed, including police, hospitals and other support agencies.
EveryMan Australia
Everyman Australia wishes to acknowledge the generous support provided by ACT philanthropic foundation, Hands Across Canberra, in a joint commitment to address and reduce the incident of Domestic and Family Violence in the Canberra region.
The CEO of Hands Across Canberra, Peter Gordon and members of the HAC Board are committed to reducing the recidivism rate of men who have been violent to women. "This vital nancial support from Hands Across Canberra, has enabled Everyman Australia to address previously unmet needs within the community, through the introduction of new Domestic Violence prevention programs" said Greg Aldridge, Executive Director of Everyman Australia.
Some recent comments made in the support of the e ective work achieved by Everyman Australia, in the prevention of violence, are as listed below.
Safe Shelter
Opening church buildings for the homeless.
Safe Shelter provides a safe warm place for homeless men to sleep at night throughout Canberra's winter - no meals, no counselling services, no money, just somewhere safe to sleep. The venues are church halls, which participating churches provide at no charge. The "beds" are swags, laid on the oor. The shelters are run by 90 plus volunteers of all ages and backgrounds who, after an initial training course, commit to spending one night per month in a shelter, in teams of two or three, sleeping on the oor with their guests.
After increasing to three nights per week at the initial venue, St Columba's Uniting Church, Braddon, Safe Shelter is expanding to two more venues - St Thomas More Catholic Church in Campbell and All Saints Anglican Church in Ainslie - each for just one night per week initially. It is expected that, having gained experience, those new venues will each open for two nights per week, providing shelter on seven nights per week.
While participating churches are required to provide halls which meet Building Code of Australia Class 9a (community hall) standards, Safe Shelter has to pay for upgrades to permit overnight use - typically hard-wired re protection - as well as initial set up facilities - signs, swags, etc. It is for these purposes that a Hands Across Canberra grant of $5,000 was provided and as a result actioned to improve the safety of our guests.
Sleeping rough in Canberra is difficult, particularly in the colder months where temperatures can reach below zero. But through a grant from Hands Across Canberra, CanFaCs was able to provide Survival Packs to 25 sole father families who were experiencing primary and/or secondary homelessness. This supports those that are sleeping on the street, in cars, couch sur ng at friend's and family's homes or in overcrowded conditions.
Fathers who were experiencing primary homelessness were provided with a Survival Pack, which allowed them to camp in friends' backyards, providing them with an alternative to sleeping on the street. This increased their comfort and safety which had a positive impact on both their physical and emotional wellbeing.
Often fathers who are homeless are unable to a ord basic toiletries such as soap, toothbrush and razors. By providing these items fathers can address their hygiene requirements and Survival Packs we remove some of the stigma around homeless people and improve their opportunities to obtain employment and accommodation.
Often families who are couch surfing are required to move frequently from house to house. By providing Survival Packs (backpacks containing toiletries, sleeping bags and other essential items), the families who were experiencing secondary homelessness became less of an imposition on the households where they were temporarily residing. This prolonged the time they were able to stay and kept them o the street.
In addition to this, the tents provided the opportunity for some fathers to stay in friends' backyards, and to take their children camping when they had access visits.
Paperworks is a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of enabling social inclusion through community art and by bringing people together through recycling, hand print and papermaking.
The reason we exist is to foster social inclusion, greater community engagement and a real alternative of meaningful employment/volunteering as a choice for those that are often relegated to the realm of 'being kept busy with creative activities'. People inherently want to belong, be valued and be recognised as contributing to their community. For this reason it is important to allow people access to a safe space where they can take those rst tentative steps.
In October 2014, Hands Across Canberra provided Paperworks with a grant to establish a new project in collaboration with our partner, the Ted No s Foundation. This grant allowed us to assist young people to reconnect with their families. It is also extremely important for young people to connect with the wider community around them as part of their recovery.
Eight to ten young people are enrolled for three months into the Ted No s Foundation Program for Adolescent Life Management (PALM), with around 110 participants assisted each year.
Papermaking is by nature a slow creative process and as you wait for water to drain from the mold before you can couch (place) the newly formed wet sheet onto a cloth, your mind wanders. Before you know it, you have been caught up in a creative and meditative process. As much as we wanted the young people to have fun, make beautiful paper and write to their families, we also wanted them to continue thinking about the small group discussions they have had before entering our studio. Hence the Paper Bridges project structure of having a counselling session followed by the papermaking session.
Paperworks was the rst ACT charity to bene t from the emerging relationship between The Funding Network and Hands Across Canberra.
Menslink has been supporting young men in the Canberra region for over fteen years through our free counselling, volunteer mentoring and education programs. In that time we have helped thousands of young guys get through tough or lonely times with the least amount of pain or harm to themselves or those around them. We help young guys reach their full potential and become the great adult men they want to be. Because we believe everything is possible for them, their families, their mates and our community. All Menslink services are free to young guys and their families.
In 2013, Menslink successfully applied for a $9,200 Hands Across Canberra grant to help us expand capacity in our mentoring program without increasing ongoing sta costs.
This investment has paid o for our community. In the subsequent three years, we have expanded our mentoring program by 66 per cent, providing positive male role models to more young men who - for whatever reason - struggle to nd men who can show them how to grow up into adults we can all be proud of. At the same time, we have also reduced program costs by nearly 20 per cent - funds which we have then re-invested into our counselling program to provide direct therapeutic support to young guys in need.
As a result of this grant for our training materials, we've increased the quality of our mentoring matches, with more mentoring relationships lasting for the full two years than ever before.
In 2015, Hands Across Canberra also provided us with $10,000 to develop an advertising campaign targeting (young) male perpetrators of family violence that encourages them to "reach out to help not reach out to hurt." This advertisement, to be aired in 2016, encourages men of all ages to get help from either Menslink (for men under 25) or Everyman Australia (for men over 18).
The Shepherd Centre
The Shepherd Centre is dedicated to ensuring that all children with hearing loss receive the support they need to complete school. Starting school is a challenge for all children but can be even more challenging for those with hearing loss. Children with hearing loss can sometimes struggle to make sense of sounds in the noisy school environment and require extra support with social skills.
The Shepherd Centre The support of Hands Across Canberra has made it possible for The Shepherd Centre to initiate the 'A Sound Start to School' program for hearing impaired children in the ACT.
This new initiative focusses on building the listening, speech and language skills, con dence and self-esteem of deaf children through individual therapy and classroom visits as well as parent education and teacher support.
Through this program, children with hearing loss can have the best chance to integrate into their local schools, make friends and enjoy a full and enriching education.
Hartley lifecare
Hartley Lifecare is a Canberra-based organisation that has provided accommodation support and respite care for children, adults and their families in the ACT and region with physical and complex disabilities for 50 years.
During 2013, Hartley Lifecare was approached by the National Brain Injury Foundation (NBIF) to take over operations. This included establishing an information service for people with a brain injury who reside in the ACT and surrounding areas.
To support the establishment of this service, Hartley Lifecare successfully applied to Hands Across Canberra for a $5000 grant which was received in October 2014. This grant provided us with an opportunity to carry out essential planning, scoping, research and modelling work, along with commencing consultation with key stakeholders and potential users of the service.
Hands Across Canberra has more recently funded Hartley Lifecare to assist with improving its administrative systems.
TADACT designs and makes innovative equipment, which isn't commercially available. Our solutions assist people of any age with any type of disability, temporary or not, to be more independent in their daily lives. This is all made possible by our skilled volunteers. They create the bespoke solutions, applying their expertise and knowledge to nd solutions for the unique needs of an individual, improving their quality of life, along with their family and carers. By enabling independence, individuals are better able to participate in and contribute to the community. This in turn leads to greater community inclusion and actively decreasing the stigma around disabilities.
All the work to make these solutions possible is carried out by our highly skilled volunteers, who donate their time, knowledge and resources to make it possible. Ensuring that our volunteers have access to specialised equipment is often di cult. This is made even more di cult with the limited scope of most philanthropic grants. Hands Across Canberra's Community Grants focus on the value and impact on our community, a novel approach we are grateful for.
Last year they helped TADACT to purchase a tablet, Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and a Three Dimensional (3D) printer for the use of volunteers and sta . This enables our volunteers to design and create solutions in new and exciting ways. It will also create new opportunities for volunteers to create solutions that were previously either impossible or very expensive, as 3D printed designs are almost only limited to the imagination, with the help of CAD software.
The 3D printer has been a long standing request from our volunteers and staff. A very welcome and significant asset to our team. The tablet whilst not as glamorous as the CAD and 3D printer, is practical. It allows us to capture more detail at initial design meetings and then quickly and e ciently distribute this information to our volunteers, clients and therapists. This reduces the time spent on the design phase.
Charity House Project
The Master Builders Association of the ACT (MBA) and the Land Development Agency (LDA) partnered with Renaissance Homes to deliver a new Charity House Project for 2016.
The Deakin Charity House project is a joint project where the LDA is contributing two adjoining separate title in- ll parcels of land in Deakin and MBA members, led by Renaissance Homes, are donating (or providing at low cost) construction materials and labour. The 2015-16 Project will deliver two home and land packages to market for auction in 2016.
The net proceeds from the auctions will be distributed to local charities supporting people with a disability. The three organisations selected to bene t from the proceeds of the Charity Houses are:
Boundless Children's Playground and Hartley Lifecare as well as Hands Across Canberra
MBA has delivered two Charity Houses previously; in 2006 the Jenolan Charity House and in 2013 the Franklin Charity House. Together these projects raised just over $850,000.00 for charity. We expect even greater results from this current project. Based on what we know from previous experience, this act should see over $1,000,000.00 raised to help our community.
The shepherd Centre
'Hands Across Canberra' helps children with hearing loss get ready for school
Story by Claire Foote, Canberra
Our daughter Annabel was just ve weeks old when we were told that she has a bilateral, mainly moderate hearing loss. Annabel is our third child and the only one with hearing loss. The Shepherd Centre was a 'soft' place to fall after the initial shock of diagnosis.
It was very fortunate timing as Annabel was diagnosed a couple of days before The Shepherd Centre's Loud Shirt Day fundraiser in October 2011. I saw a piece on The Shepherd Centre on breakfast TV and was so excited and reassured to see how well Shepherd Centre children were doing at a time when I had so many worries for Annabel's future.
Annabel is a very chatty, social little girl. She loves her weekly dance class and she swims and plays soccer. She turned four, started preschool this year and is thriving - she's at a mainstream preschool and is the only child with hearing loss. It hasn't held her back, as her speech and language are wonderful and she's very con dent with managing her hearing loss. Annabel participates in education, extra-curricular activities and family life just as much as our other kids. I can genuinely say that I don't feel Annabel's hearing loss has held her back.
Annabel is starting school next year and will be the only child in her school with a hearing loss. She will soon start The Shepherd Centre's 'O to School' Program which has been supported by 'Hands Across Canberra'. The program will be incredibly valuable in helping me and Annabel advocate for her. It feels good to know she'll start school equipped with the skills she'll need to succeed - the perfect complement to her great speech and language.
Karinya House
Mother in Mind Program
Alexis was a young, Aboriginal woman referred to Karinya House early in her pregnancy. Many attempts were made to contact her, yet she refused to engage and was verbally abusive to Sta over the phone. When her son Monty was born, Alexis displayed signs of abuse towards hospital Sta . CYPS took emergency action, based on Alexis' history of aggression and unwillingness to engage with services.
She was a single mother with limited support and it was deemed that Monty would be at risk with Alexis as his sole carer. CYPS referred Alexis to Karinya House to undergo a parenting assessment. She was tearful during her rst meeting and declared that she would do whatever it took to have Monty back in her care. Alexis was overjoyed when a room became available at Karinya House. Since Monty's birth she had been having contact four times a week for three hours at a time in Tuggeranong. CYPS approved for this contact to take place at Karinya House, slowly increasing Alexis' time with her son as it led up to full-time care.
Lisa and Alexis worked together over several months during her stay at Karinya House, focusing initially on Alexis' feelings and learning to recognise emotions in her son. Alexis found this challenging and initially was unable to see anything other than negative emotions in Monty. However, as he began to develop and smile at his mother, things took on a positive change. Alexis found bath time particularly stressful as her baby cried uncontrollably. This created physical changes within Alexis' body, such as increased heart rate and shortness of breath. She came to realise that when she experienced anxiety, Monty also became more agitated. This was not only at bath time, but on other occasions like when she argued with her mother over the phone, or was frustrated by other residents in the house.
Alexis became open to working on ways to managing her anxiety. She found colouring-in especially helpful, as it allowed her thoughts to quieten and to focus on positives.
Over time, however, she came to realise that her baby was not a 'mini' version of someone who had been violent towards her, but a delightful personality in his own right. When the time came for Alexis to return to independent living, she was anxious about managing on her own, especially as her ex-partner had been released from custody.
Working with Lisa, she established a safety plan incorporating not only her physical safety, but also her emotional wellbeing. With ongoing outreach support, Alexis blossomed in her home environment and the beautiful bond she had developed with her son continued to grow.
Beryl Women Inc.
1. Case Scenario:
Woman and Three Children
A woman, four months pregnant with two children had escaped domestic violence from her ex-partner and his family that were living in Victoria. They moved to the ACT for safety reasons and family support in June 2014. We provided accommodation and support to the mother and her children for four months which provided the environment for the client to medium term accommodation and independent housing.
In July 2015 the same mother re-engaged with our service. Her ex-partner was attempting to access her three children and family court proceedings were brought against her in Victoria. Despite jurisdictional issues, proceedings commenced and our client had no access to legal representation and faced stark language barriers.
Beryl Women Inc. supported our client with an TIS Arabic interpreter who supported her with an a davit. The a davit was a complex document and needed certi cation by a Justice of the Peace (JP) at each individual time of signing. The interpreter needed to attend the Magistrate Court with the JP. It was di cult to access the JP and it was a major challenge to coordinate the interpreter with the JP's availability. The document was amended multiple times, exacerbated by the di culties in providing accurate translation and language support. It took many hours of commitment to support the translation and to ensure the woman had the support she needed throughout the legal process. We also needed to ensure we met all deadlines as solicitor requirements to lodge documents was critical.
2. Case Scenario:
Woman and Four Children
In this case, we accommodated a family of ve for a period of six months.
The mother and children spoke Arabic and the mother had limited English pro ciency, although the children spoke English. Due to concerns to their safety and fear from involving the community, the family relied on our interpreting services and support. We had to be sensitive to the needs of our client and respect the con dentiality of our client's information.
We provided an interpreter to inform the woman about service rules and explain the support Beryl Women Inc. could provide the family. We also arranged safety planning and risk assessments when they engaged our services and throughout the time in which the family were supported by our service.
We also met with the local High School and primary school so that the children could be enrolled in school.
During their stay at Beryl Women Inc. interpreting services were supplied to support the family in:
Family Law /Child Contact and Handover Support
Youth Support and Advocacy with Student Wellbeing within High School Setting
Youth Law and Legal Advocacy re ACT Policing Matters
Care & Protection Advocacy and Support
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"All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who has not changed by standing still.''
The above quotation is for my younger brother Kwabena Agyepong to reflect over. It is in reference to his presence at the just-ended annual conference of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) held last weekend in Cape Coast in the Central Region.
I do not remember accurately the words of the citation, and am unsure whether it was said by the contrived character who played the role of the famous American lawyer, Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee in 1925, or that of the equally famous journalist and satirist whose name I mentioned in the epistle last week, HL Mencken who was present at that famous trial which effectively ended the political career of the unsuccessful, three-time Democratic Party presidential candidate, Willian Jennings Bryan.
Hurricane Harvey
Before I go on to that congress as indicated in my title today, let me say a thing or two about the devastating effects of hurricane Harvey on Texas, and now Louisiana too, and particularly on Houston, the fourth-largest city in the States, and a very modern city by all standards. It would appear that, notwithstanding, the city experiences floods of varying intensity every year.
The one this year was worsened by the hurricane which preceded it and which so far, in its destructive and fatal effects, has inundated the city, killed over 40 citizens, destroyed homes and offices, turned streets into rivers and lakes, and generally rendered this mighty center of the worldwide oil industry a pathetic sight.
The truth of the matter is that no matter how well planned human habitation is, natural disasters are of a different order in their determination to destroy and degrade human ingenuity. Of course, America has had its fair share of the pointless political blame game, with the mayor of Houston coming under fierce attack for failing to predict the destructive severity of the hurricane, and ordering the evacuation of the city before disaster struck.
How anyone can accurately predict the severity of a natural, unplanned, unexpected occurrence is proof of the frailty of human faith in its own protective devices. One can imagine the cruel and utterly senseless things we would have said and demanded of public officials if anything far less severe had occurred in our country.
Dr Bawumia at NPP conference
I note that happenings at the party conference last weekend of the ruling NPP are definitely worth our considered reflection just days after the feel-good, joyous occasion. Perhaps, the speech of Vice-President Dr Bawumia captured the mood of a party which was firmly in opposition just a year ago, and now, after the December elections, firmly in government. As an economist who made his name analysing in the most negative terms, the ability of the management skills of the previous government and the economic team of President John Mahama, it would be worthwhile and instructive to get his sincere views on the news that the NPP government has decided to extend the IMF economic assistance package by another year.
No explanation for this volte-face can make sense to the utterly bewildered like me who whilst dismissing the hoary charge of incompetence, rather believed that the change of government we secured last December, would at the very least, chart a different course and path to economic stability and eventual development of our country in the unique NPP way.
Now with this unexpected announcement, what are we to believe? Was the economic management team of President Mahama as incompetent and benighted as Dr Bawumia repeated in Cape Coast just last weekend? And if the new team chaired by Vice-President Bawumia is continuing the strategies of the incompetent President Mahama, what does that say about the managerial, different and relevant capabilities and capacities of our current government?
SSNIT restructuring?
The party conference also resolved to urge our government to continue with the restructuring efforts at SSNIT. I am completely unaware of any such efforts.
What we are being regaled with is lurid tales of fantastic sums spent on new computer management systems ordered by the previous SSNIT management. This is in tandem with other ministers and public officials appointed by President Akufo-Addo bemoaning the huge debts left behind by the previous government. Are these lamentations supposed to be accepted by the expectant masses who voted for meaningful change as the unlikely obstacles to fulfilling electoral promises which gave the NPP a handsome victory? I don't understand this cry baby approach to the assumption of political responsibilities.
Kwabena Agyepong
The President, however, said something I find interesting yet curious. How does one who alleges prove the allegation? It may seem to the lay to sound perfectly legal, but is in reality, a brazen attempt to silence criticism and stifle free speech. Especially with reference to white collar crime which needs the specialist skills of the police and related security agencies to investigate and prepare the case for the prosecution to proceed. Frankly, I am not impressed.
Finally, my younger brother Kwabena Agyepong was present at the NPP party conference and was copiously covered in the print media and online posts. I am surprised that my brother believes the NPP as at now being led and managed, thinks of his return to his position to party ranks any time soon.
Quite apart from the normal traditional belief that you don't challenge someone your political senior who you have previously championed even as the latter is still interested and in the race, his posture suggests that he sees himself as somebody only within the ranks of the NPP.
It is obvious to me that the undecided constitutional amendment sought by some party memebers to extend suspensions of members to eight to ten years was advanced just to kill the political relevance of Kwabena and Paul Afoko in the NPP. What else explains this thinking which suggests strongly that the NPP is a holy movement of entranced cultists and that the party is a revered ashram or monastery?
1996 NPP election
I clearly remember delegates to the NPP presidential primary election in April 1996 held at the Great Hall at Legon asking themselves, the moral right of Dr Jones Ofori-Atta to seek the candidacy when Professor Adu-Boahen, whom he had introduced to rapturous applause to the same position in 1992 at the same place, was still in the race? It is the same distrust that Dr Spio-Garbrah faces in the opposition NDC to seek to challenge President Mills in 2004 when he was his campaign manager in 2000?
If my brother believes that he has something worthwhile to offer this country and its people, sentiment is the last reason he should cling to in seeking pathetically to be restored to where he is not welcome. There are several examples in this country, and outside this country of successful politicians who changed parties, and still made a difference in their societies. Let me name a few for his enlightenment and future direction.
Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Winston Churchill are the foreigners who readily come to mind who changed parties. Here in Ghana, I cite Kwame Nkrumah, Victor Owusu, and to the point, President Nana Akufo-Addo who was a CPP firebrand before the coup of 1966.
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07/21/18 at 11:56am
didn't like ziva leaving.didn't like tony leaving wit habby leaving you have lost me forever. love ncis la. hate head guy on ncis new orleans, his accent is so sickning. i just can't beleave you guys.
01/19/18 at 03:07am
Love this show. Wish that Percy and Lasalle become a couple.
11/04/17 at 08:06pm
Make a autopsy gremlin a field agent? No qualifications what so ever. How stupid is that? If NCIS is that hard up, I'm going to apply. I was a boy scout at least!
11/04/17 at 08:00pm
This turkey can't possibly be cancelled soon enough! Anybody that watched this weeks didn't see what was going to happen is brain dead. Saying it seemed to be written by a Jr high school student is an insult to students everywhere. Just plain bad!
02/03/17 at 11:22pm
WHY does that newest cast member have to keep her lips pooched out all the time?!! Bring Brodie back!
10/11/16 at 03:02pm
They're losing good cast members and replacing them with (?) replacements. Not too happy about it.
09/28/16 at 08:07pm
I am not happy about Agent Brody leaving the show and even less happy with her replacement - Vanessa Ferlito. I did not like her in Graceland and I don't like her on this show. I am much less likely to continue watching as long as she is part of the show.
09/28/16 at 11:08am
I like the show, needs something else to make it distinct from its sister shows.
btw. Bring back Zoe McLellan as Agent Meredith "Merri" Brody.
Not happy about her leaving.
btw. Bring back Zoe McLellan as Agent Meredith "Merri" Brody.
Not happy about her leaving.
12/03/15 at 02:23pm
This is the only spin off of NCIS that I watch. Sometimes it seems a little outlandish in the plot, but better than NCIS LA.
11/03/15 at 10:10pm
After seeing tonight's episode "Broken Hearted", I honestly believe the script was written by a first year Jr. high school student. Plot holes and improbable plot lines made me shake my head and wonder if this is the way the show is heading and if so, it's going to be DOA fairly soon and won't be missed by me.
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so the fist workshops have been postponed a few days at least, possibly a week?, but i still don't know when i'm going. which is frustrating, but i've been asking and the answer i get is that there are still things being worked out with the schools, and the woman organizing this didn't get back from christmas/new year break until the middle of last week. but i guess this is god because i get some more time to work out what it is i'm doing in more detail.
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Cavers, Team 1: Adam, Duncan, Mark, Phil, Darren, Rueben, Pete, Pauline, Team 2: Barry, Rae. Walkers: Jan, Kingsley, Ann
It was a bit crowded on the grass verge above the lime kilns by the time we got cars for all these people parked up even though people had been very good and shared where possible. We all got changed and because of the large turn out we had to split into two teams. Somehow Barry managed to persuade Rae to go up North West Inlet, a decision she later regretted and not because she got wet. However they first joined the other team as far as the pitch because Barry wanted to see how the new footholds altered the climb. On the way in we noted that NW inlet was accessible. In fact there was quite a bit of air space. Barry climbed the pitch first to set up a lifeline although Darren followed him up before it was ready. Before long Barry was back down and he disappeared with Rae. Darren belayed the rest of us up. Duncan and Mark had resorted to their climbing harnesses for this bit and took them off again at the top. Once Phil was up, he continued into the boulder choke so that he could go at his own speed. Pauline waited for Duncan and Mark before continuing in. Rueben and Pete brought up the rear with Darren. It worked perfectly. Pauline only caught site of Phil's boots as he was psyching himself up for the final squeeze before popping out into a large chamber. Each caver breathed a sigh of relief as they emerged and we had a short rest before continuing. At this point we were at the top of a boulder slope which had to be descended before climbing up a calcited slope on the other side. As we looked back the leaders were struck by how dramatic it looked with the pools of light from the others illuminating the slope. It would have made a good photo! We passed stalactites, stalagmites and huge gour pools which we took time to admire.
Eventually the passage started turning. There was a passage to the right which we ignored for now. We continued as the path turned to the left and opened out into a huge chamber, the Hall of the Mountain King. Again we stopped to admire the calcite that cascades from the roof to the floor. It is really hard to appreciate it all as caving lights only illuminate small parts of it.
Darren and Rueben decided t have a firtle in the 3rd boulder choke while the rest of us went to explore the right hand passage. That had a sandy floor and several water worn tubes disappearing off in different directions. Pauline and Phil went straight on, Pete went left, Duncan and Mark vanished round a corner to the right. Eventually we all regrouped and started our journey back. Darren and Rueben caught up with us at the pitch. Pauline and Darren swapped over at the pitch head which resulted in confusion over the ropes and the wrong one was brought out. Hey-ho! When we got to the book, we could see that Barry and Rae were out. As we emerged into the cold sunlight it became apparent that all was not well. Pauline asked if they had been waiting long. Barry replied 'no only 15 minutes' but Rae added 'and the other hour!' She explained to me on the way back to the car that Barry had started repeating phrases, asking where the rest of us were and had not remembered things they had passed on the way in as they were coming out. He was caving fine and knew where they were and where they had to go, just nothing about that particular trip. Talking to Barry outside, it became apparent that he didn't remember any of the trip. It didn't make me too happy when we realised that we had to go back in to swap the ropes and Barry insisted that he would go. Luckily it didn't take us long. His state of confusions became even more apparent in the car on the way back (Jan was driving) as he kept asking the same questions over and over again. In the end we didn't stop home long enough at home for a cup of tea or a shower before I decided that perhaps we should go to A&E. 6 hours later I was heading home with a probable diagnosis of Transient Global Amnesia brought on by sudden change in temperature! Barry was kept in over night to have a scan the next day just to make sure. It was all clear. So this is why there is not a write up of the North-west inlet trip. Barry can't remember it and it wasn't fair to ask Rae. Barry still can't remember the pitch even though he went up it twice so he will have to go again! We'll just have to keep him out of the water in future.


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Damien Walters Showreel
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2011 Epic Wins!
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Just some great snow porn
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Chris Korbulic (Slippery When Wet)
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Shon Bollock and the Shasta Boys (2011)
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Few realize the exacting toll that the recent mayhem and killings in Kenya will have on an entire continent. Nearly all the news that comes out of Africa these days is based on the notion that "if it bleeds, it leads" -- thus the front-page attention. The events in Kenya are a tragic example of democracy gone amok, with elections hijacked and literally fought over. The violence stokes many people's preconceived stigma of Africa as a continent of tribal warfare and wanton killing.
And the angels weep. As the African saying goes: "When the elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers."
Democracy is a difficult transition for inexperienced nations. The winners do not know how to win and the losers do not know how to lose, making transitions extremely difficult and prone to violent recourse.
Add corruption and rigged elections, and for the countless poor and disenfranchised in the horrific slums in Kenya you have the perfect recipe for revolutionary chaos.
The real problem is not tribal, although lines have certainly been drawn by tribal affiliation. The real problem is greed and avarice among leaders who act in their own interests rather than as patriots building a future for Kenya.
The "cure" for Kenya, and indeed for all of Africa, is to democratically elect leaders with good hearts. There are wonderful bastions of both hope and promise in Africa. Rwanda, Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania and many other nations have tasted democracy and now have elected leaders who put the interests of their nations and those citizens ahead of personal gain and power. Recent history in these countries demonstrates that it doesn't take generations or even decades to transform nations but rather a few years. Good governance and stability of servant leadership have allowed these nations to go from wastelands of war and poverty to examples of remarkable financial and societal transformation.
My heart breaks with sadness and frustration over the opportunity lost in Kenya as well as the stigmatic impact it will have all across Africa. But the sorrow is greatest for those among the poorest of the poor, who will ultimately pay the largest price for the failings of the leadership of their nation.
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I'm an artist at heart. I don't talk much about it, really, but I love to draw (in high school I was especially into drawing manga like Sailor Moon, Fushigi Yuugi, Peach Girl and Tenchi!), and one of my favorite mediums is charcoal, especially white and gray on black paper. Of course, now I spend more time cultivating my artistry in jewelry for my shop, so that I can help support my family.
|Rough sketch, HBK, 2002
I have no degrees and just a little bit of college under my belt, but I am a former member of the United States Air Force.
|I once put a crazy chick out with a choke-hold I learned in the USAF. Bitch took out a chunk of my hair!
I once cut off a finger in a fold-out couch bed. I'll let you imagine how I managed that.
|We called it Frankenstein Finger, cause of the pins sticking out.
I have consistently worked since I was 14 years old (is it even legal to work that young anymore?) until I had Afton, and now the thought of going back to work gives me massive anxiety (and gas). When I was 14, I worked the front desk of a hair salon and I got to tan for free, which was pretty freaking awesome.
I get annoyed when people spell words incorrectly and use improper grammar. I'm not perfect, and sometimes I use bad grammar on purpose, but there is a huge difference. Laziness is no excuse for stupidity!
In case you couldn't tell, I get annoyed easily, by pretty lame things.
Some nitty-gritty: I drink, I swear, I've done drugs (in the past), I'm tattooed and formerly pierced to high-Heaven. I don't think it makes me a bad person or a lesser parent. In fact, I think it makes me an overly qualified parent, because I can deal with unique situations (been there, done that, yo!).
|Circa 2004, Socorro, NM. I'm in "soft"-cuffs hanging from the ceiling, by the way.
I once ran into the narrow edge of a door so hard I broke the glasses right off my face and knocked myself onto the floor.
I am terrified of storms. I also wanted to be a storm chaser as a kid, even knowing how scared I was of storms. My best friend can attest to this when one night in the trainee dorms the tornado sirens went off and I flipped out because I hadn't properly unlaced my boots so I could not jump into them as regulation required. What? I liked my shiny, super-polished boots that I slaved over, and untying them would ruin it. Duh.
I have played the violin since I was in 3rd grade. That makes me feel kind of old, but kind of cool.
I am only ever able to be funny by complete accident. So you should get used to super lame jokes and stuff only I laugh at because I crack myself up…CONSTANTLY.
Oh yeah, and for you newbies out there, I guess I should let you know about the ME now:
I'm Karly, 28, a Cancer, with a husband and three daughters who are all less than three years of age.
We live in Arizona, where it's sunny 99% of the time and I absolutely hate it!
I'm a gloom and doom kind of gal.
Or snow. Snow is good.
My daughters are awesome, they are my life. Rudy would like to have a boy someday, but I am fairly certain that scar tissue has destroyed my other fallopian tube now (the first was destroyed sometime after Delaney was born and after I became preggo with Vivi), which makes getting pregnant pretty much impossible.
I spend a lot of time talking about what's on my mind, usually the things that drive me crazy or make me laugh.
But! I do like to share, and so here is a recipe!
Beef Empanadas
I always start with fresh salsa. I never buy salsa because I once got sick off canned salsa. Never got over it.
So throw some tomatoes (2), red onion (1/4), garlic clove (1), shallot (1/2), cilantro (handful), serrano pepper (1), lime juice (1/2), kosher salt and pepper in a food processor and let it rip!
It's pretty.
In a skillet, brown 1lb. ground beef, then drain. Sauce it up with my super awesome Taco Seasoning.
Now this is important. You cannot use store-bought corn tortillas for this. Go buy some Maseca, which is ground corn masa for corn tortillas.
Follow the instructions on the package to make the dough (all you add is water and salt, waaaaay easy), then press out some tortillas with a tortilla press or smash them out between two heavy books with waxed paper.
Load the tortilla up with shredded cheese and some ground beef, then fold and pinch the edges together to make a little meaty pocket of goodness. The tortilla shown above it over-stuffed, so use less, unless you want to piss yourself off. Then go ahead.
Throw the beefy meaty pocket of deliciousness into a pot of hot oil (I recommend heating canola oil to just over medium to prevent burning), and let it fry until it is golden brown and crispy. Then throw it on a plate with whatever goodies you're serving and chow down!
I find that most places serving empanadas serve them with a side of cheese, which is weird because they already have cheese in them. So I serve them with salsa and a puree of black beans with avocado, seasoned with salt and pepper.
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And here we go again. The second D-day has come. I am looking forward to the debate but let me make two predictions. Barring Governor Romney makes some fatal gaffe or President Obama starts strangling his Republican opponent, this debate will not change much. Because you just cannot have two historical debates in one election cycle – that's just pure media hype. Besides didn't the media and pundits tell us the debates don't change much anyway? And, surprise surprise, the last one did. Wavering and independent voters gave Governor Romney the second look and liked what they had seen. The Republican has since become a viable candidate, someone they would feel comfortable with as a replacement in the White House. While President Obama lost his charm of the Prophet walking the water and cooling the oceans. Hope and change has not been delivered not in the high altitude Denver nor in the whole four years while in the office. Don't get me wrong, Governor Romney should deliver another performance of his life, to cement his image but it's largely up to the voters now to decide. And they will follow the instinct now more than what the packs of mainstream media will try to spin in front of them.
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