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German bank HRE gets total bailout of $68 bn2 min read . Updated: 06 Oct 2008, 02:22 PM IST
German bank HRE gets total bailout of $68 bn
German bank HRE gets total bailout of $68 bn
Frankfurt: The troubled German bank Hypo Real Estate got its second bailout in as many weeks, raising the total to $68 billion as shock waves from the US-bred international financial crisis rattled deep fault lines in Europe's banking sector.
German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said Monday he would not rule out an increase in a state-backed guarantee for the country's fourth biggest bank, in what is already the biggest financial bailout in the country's history.
It appeared that private banks and insurance companies would shoulder the burden of the latest rescue package, but asked if he could rule out the state raising its initial guarantee for HRE, Steinbrueck told public Deutschlandfunk radio: "I cannot."
The government agreed a week ago to guarantee almost $36.7 billion in credit to HRE, which specialises in property financing.
On Sunday, intense talks between German banks and insurance companies resulted in a second euro15 billion guarantee for the bank, which had received guaranteed credits worth euro35 billion one week earlier.
German financial institutions are struggling to keep the bank afloat as problems triggered by the international financial crisis hit banks from Iceland to Greece, with governments buying stakes in Belgian, British and Dutch banks.
HRE hailed on Monday the second public-private bailout, which it said would allow it to keep functioning amidst the ongoing financial crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned however that "those who managed their company in an irresponsible way will have to answer for it," and Steinbrueck said it was "inconceivable to be able to continue working with the present management" of HRE.
On Sunday, a turbulent day in Europe's biggest economy, the government had also extended a blanket guarantee for all personal bank deposits to avert panic withdrawals.
The move aimed to shore up confidence amid a spreading global financial crisis, in a country in which failing banks bring up particularly bitter memories of the 1930s Great Depression, which helped the Nazis rise to power.
In a bid to head off a run on banks, Steinbrueck assured German account holders they need not worry about losing a "single euro" in the crisis.
Finance ministry spokesman Torsten Albig told the business daily Handelsblatt that the estimated value of the guaranteed accounts would total euro568 billion.
The total euro50 billion lifeline for stricken HRE was agreed in crisis talks between the government, the Bundesbank central bank, market regulators and the banking sector.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government had scrambled to reach an accord before Asian markets opened Monday, fearing the ultimate collapse of HRE and heavy selling pressure on all German banking shares.
But in morning trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange, HRE shares shed a massive 33.69% of their value to euro4.98, while the Dax index of leading shares had dropped by 4.22% overall.
Berlin's daily Tagesspiegel said the government had had no choice but to cobble together a plan for HRE and ensure bank deposits.


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Endless Nameless, Benny's Pit Stop Lounge? 2800 Indiana AvePosted: April 1, 2010 in Dive Bar, STL: Fox Park
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wow. i lived right down the street at the corner of indiana and pestalozzi for two years and never saw a soul enter or exit that place. i just assumed it was empty or used for storage or something. creepy indeed.
I can tell you, for sure, this place is open for business and there are people inside.
I've driven past that place, but under no circumstances would I go in.
Well, I do not recommend the place. My wife couldn't believe we went in there after I showed her the picture. Her jaw was just on the floor!
good read! for some reason, i'm still intrigued and want to go in … but it'll have to be in daylight and my boyfriend will have to come with me 🙂
You do that. 🙂 The people for the most part seemed tame…just unfriendly and unwelcoming.
We lived down the street from this joint prior to moving out to AZ. I went in once. Never again. I still chuckle when I see the Grade A sticker on the window
Grade A sign? What's grade A about a bar?! Oh well. It was definitely an experience that I don't think I want to repeat.
I love Benny's bar. RIP Benny. The first time I went there a few years back it was like I had known everyone all my life. Everyone introduced themselves, kept buying me drinks, and then when Benny came down for his shift(usually around 8) he would tell stories of seeing Babe Ruth at the old Sportsmans Pk. Alot of Saturdays in the summer they would bbq or bring in a spread of food, free to anyone. I always take visitors from out of town and they love it. Hope they can stay afloat after Bennys death.
I live down the street from Benny's and go there from time to time. To be honest, I love the place. It's got a wonderful simplicity and folks there have always been very nice to me. Also, at Benny's I have struck up many more conversations with strangers than I have at other bars. Unfortunately and sadly, Benny just passed away. There is a sign on the bar window stating that his memorial service will be on April 10th. I am keeping my fingers crossed, hoping that my neighborhood bar can stay open! As of now, it has been closed since Benny's death.
There's nothing wrong with loving your local bar. That's what makes it yours. Maybe we just stuck out too much. I know I look people up and down at my bars.I'm really sorry to hear about Benny. My deepest condolences for Benny and his family.
I loved Benny's. RIP Benny.
i have know benny since i was a kid. i went to school with his dauther. Benny was a great guy,i ,m going to miss him.
Tell me more about Benny. Did he just have the one child?
he had a few kids. like i said he was a good man.
I just met a woman that ran another corner bar down the street (it closed in 1994). She told me Benny only had one child, a daughter, and that she had died in a car accident right before he died. Is there any truth to that?
I think he only had a daughter who died in a car accident – it had been some time ago, though. I'm thinking 10-15 years ago? I also know he had a grandson, "Little Benny".
Thanks Alex!
Just want to say what a great blog you got here!
I've been around for quite a lot of time, but finally decided to show my appreciation of your work!
Thumbs up, and keep it going!
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I just bought this place, formerly known as "Benny's Pit Stop". I look forward to hearing more stories about this place we have grown to become very fond of in the short time we have been associated with it. If you have any more information to share, please do so!
Good to hear that you bought Benny's. Some the regulars from there can be found on the end of the bar at The Filling Station just down the street on Pestalozzi.
Good to know! 🙂
so it is good to hear you bought it i would love to stop in and see it. hoping to be in St.Louis soon.and good luck
I live on Indy just down the street. All the neighbors have been wondering what the future holds for the property. What are you plans!?
Our original plan was to make it a "private lounge", for friends and such and not sell liquor. However, we have had a few neighbors stop in hoping to patronize the place again. We're currently contemplating the possibilty of a neighborhood lounge. 🙂
Please open this as a lounge! I live right behind you on Missouri and have closely been watching the construction vans come and go over the past few weeks.
Ahhh.. Gotcha… Are you familiar with Russ and Jimmys? It's a neighborhood speakeasy on Missouri (between Lynch and Pestalozzi) that is usually open in the summer…
Are you planning on living in the building as well? Are you gutting all 3 floors? We're just a few houses down on Indy…
Thanks for the info!
Is that by Pointer's Market? Yes, we will eventually live in the building on the 2nd and 3rd floors, but not in a rush to finish those yet. Those floors have not been lived in for decades. The 2nd floor is actually well-preserved. The 3rd floor, not so much.
Russ and Jimmys is on Missouri, between Lynch and Pesty. Russ passed a few years ago, but from time to time Jimmy opens back up in the summer time. It's quite a scene – mostly neighborhood folks. They don't charge for liquor, but you have to sign up to become a "member" of the club. Then there is a donation jar at the bar, where you pay what you like. I think most of the neighborhood hoosiers took advantage of Jimmy by cheaping out on the tip jar….
If you had a way to email, i could send some pics….
How are things going!? I walked by on the way down to the parade last weekend, hoping to catch you guys there. Just popping in on the blog to get a quick update – hope all is well.
Hi Alex,
I forgot you had asked for my email to send pics. It is firstname.lastname@example.com. The clean-up had to slow down for a couple of weeks due to a health issue. But it is back in full swing!
Very exciting. As a resident of Indiana Ave I would love to see Benny's reopen again.
That's great to hear Shane. I'm so glad I found this blog. We had virtually no information on the place.
I worked for Benny for almost two years before he passed.Glad to hear someone bought the place and is thinking about re-opening it.would be interested in hearing more about how things are going with the place. Alot of my customers ask me from time to time whats ever going to happen to Bennys.
For anyone that is interested, we are having a sale at the bar, formerly known as Benny's, on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. We are selling a lot of items from the bar such as barstools, tables, chairs, bar signs, lights, jukebox, etc. Grab your piece of history! 🙂
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It is my parents from whom I got this nature, I believe. My dad is completely foodie. In a bite he can decide to continue eating more or drop it. He has an eye for detailing and a perfect taste for great food. This has helped my mom to bring out her best since it is difficult to please my dad with anything less than the best. With that upbringing, I am blessed with friends who also were passionate about great taste. There was a time when we use to go out for dinner every 3rd day, in search of taste that could satisfy our taste buds.
It was Samosas, kachoris,Poha with tarri as a pass time outside food. Dal-baati-churmaat home. Mouth watering Italian, Punjabi and Indian continental food with friends. Two years of stay at Hyderabad for my higher studies gave me opportunity to explore almost all big-small famously, infamous restaurants and hotels. I was introduced to some fine dining there with authenticate Hyderabadi dishes. The Hyderabad Biryanis, the lemon rice, Mirchi ka Salan, the list goes on… Not to forget the all time famous Karachi biscuits! I struggled to get good pani-puri, though. The taste buds were pushed to next level of experience in Mumbai. Some of the awesomest cuisines and presentations I witnessed in Mumbai. Be it Vada pav, Bombay Sandwitch or the Pav-Bhajiat Choupaati! Customized pizza at Jazz by the Bay, interactive kitchen counter at Masala Kraft to the revolving deck overlooking the bay…
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Now again in a new city, exploring the authentic local food and restaurants that could make me happy. The other day we went out to explore some Punjabi food. Overall the food was good. The daal makhani was 10 on 10. I never tasted that authentic dilli ki daal makhani ever apart from, in Delhi itself. The flip side is, it becomes difficult for me to appreciate food even if it good but not 'that good'.
Different cuisine helps to understand the local culture of that city. The food habit has influence of the rulers who ruled the city. Hyderabad food is influenced a lot by the Nizams. It also gets influenced by people residing, location, culture, climatic conditions and lifestyle. Mumbai is heavily influenced by Gujrati food. Due to its fast paced life, you would find eating joints at every nook and corner – serving fast with high turnover per table.
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November 20th, 2005, 3:05 - 3:30 UT, seeing fair (4, on a scale of 0-10 with 10 being best, or IV on Antoniadi's scale) with high clouds that occasionally obscured the view, transparency 4.2. Central Meridian 87.52° degrees, Declination of Earth: -17.74. P.A. of axis: 321.31, Diameter: 18.58", Phase: 0.9904%, magnitude: -1.98.
TMB 7" f/8 refractor on Astro-Physics 800 mount. Magnification 170x to 298x with Baader binocular viewer. Filters used: none, Baader red, yellow, Neodymium Moon & Skyglow. The Moon & Skyglow filter is similar to a Magenta (W30, W32) filter in that it enhances both the surface and atmospheric detail.
In this sketch south is at the top, north at the bottom, following on the right (east), preceding on the left (west), with the planet rotating from right to left.
The fair seeing and high clouds limited the amount of fine detail visible during this observation. Also surface features in the Southern Hemisphere did not seem as prominent as during my last observing session. Sky & Telescope reported that this is do to a thin haze of dust in the Martian atmosphere seems to have reduced contrast somewhat.
In the southern polar region the South Polar Cap (SPC) was very small. Mare Australe and Bosporos Gemmatus were visible to the north of the SPC, while Mare Sirenum was on the following limb. Further north Solis Lacus appeared elongated with Coprates and Aurorae Sinus visible, while Mare Erythraeum and Protei Regio were visible on the preceding limb and appeared somewhat mottled.
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My sisters and brothers of the IATL,
When Carol Ann and I were afforded the privilege of becoming the First Lady and President of the Academy in Austin, it was – and will always remain – one of the greatest honors we have ever received. Thank you for the confidence that you have placed in me. I am encouraged and inspired by all that is to come.
The year ahead is full of great opportunities for you and your family to experience the Academy in some great places: The Mid-Year Meeting in Colorado Springs, CO at The Broadmoor, July 18 – 22, 2018, the International Meeting Danube Cruise, September 22 – 30, 2018, the Annual Meeting in London at The Dorchester, April 10 – 14, 2019, and the Mid-Year Meeting in Whitefish, MT, July 24-28, 2019. We look forward to sharing these experiences with each of you. Mid-Year Meeting registration will be available online at the end of next week but please reach out to our Academy staff if you need additional assistance. New Fellows, jump in and make the most of these travel experiences. I think you'll find, as so many of us have, that you'll make some of the best friends you can imagine through the Academy.
When you read the history of this organization, you see common threads that run from its creation in 1954 through today. Character, integrity, professionalism, and excellence, woven together, form the very fabric of this Academy.
In my remarks in Austin, I mentioned the challenges we face as a profession and an Academy, and the criticisms we must necessarily confront as we address those challenges. One only needs to refer to Aaron Podhurst's 1987 Dean's Address to find sage guidance on dealing with criticism:
"Criticism to the legal system is like fuel to the engine, milk to the newborn baby, and sunshine to the budding rose petal. We, as trial lawyers, cannot shy away from criticism; nor can we afford to ignore the winds of change."
As a body, we must turn towards the winds of change. Working together, this Academy can handle any and all challenges it faces.
Our Academy and its members are wildly fortunate. We are fortunate the Academy selected a great Executive Committee. I am honored to serve as your President this year alongside President-Elect Cliff Edwards, Vice-President Roman Silberfeld, Dean Paul Sreenan, Secretary-Treasurer Karen Burgess, and Secretary of International Relations Howard Scher. They will be serving along with Admissions Chair Kathleen Flynn Peterson, State, Country and Province Committee Chair Bobby Jones, Budget and Finance Committee Chair Sandy Dibble, and Past Presidents Richard Burbidge and Joseph Matthews.
We are fortunate to have a Board of Directors that is committed to the Academy's goals and purposes.
We are fortunate to have the finest Executive Director and Executive Office team to support and lead our efforts.
We are fortunate to have undertaken unselfish international initiatives in Ireland and Africa that will advance the Rule of Law throughout the world.
We are fortunate to be taking on human trafficking with the Human Trafficking Coalition and the youth restorative justice initiative to keep kids in school, out of the justice system, and on track for success. These will truly serve those with the least opportunities but who deserve the most opportunities.
What I hope you will do in appreciation for your great fortune to be a Fellow in the Academy is to nominate others to be considered for membership by the Admissions Committee. You know only too well what we seek in our members - character, integrity, professionalism, and excellence. Perhaps the most important way you can contribute to the continued well-being of our Academy is to sponsor qualified individuals for membership.
Thank you for the honor and privilege of service. We look forward to the year ahead.
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There will not be training on February 12 and indoor training will end on March 19th.
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The first indoor game for the Under 14 Team is at 9:45am at the Bo Jackson Dome in Lockport. Directions can be found on their website at www.mysoccerdome.com. Please have your player on site 30 minutes before game time.
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Left Behind Part 1: Heathcare
Who's providing healthcare for the poor and uninsured?
by DUWAYNE ESCOBEDO
Rosalynda Blackburn shuffles slowly to the exam room at the Escambia Community Clinics. Two back operations on her spine and degenerative discs have gnarled up the feisty woman like an old oak tree.
The 55-year-old twice suffered ruptured discs in 1984 and 1986 working on draw twisters, which made nylon for clothing and other products at the former Monsanto plant. The job required her to lift up to 30 pounds of nylon from near the floor to above her head.
An orthopedic physician told her back then she'd be stuck in a wheelchair by now. Not easy news to hear for a woman who raised three boys by herself and often worked two or more jobs to support her family.
"I tell 'em now, they gotta catch me first," she says. "I don't even walk fast anymore but they gotta catch me to get in it. As long as God allows me to walk, I'm going to do that."
Pain from her back injuries that affects the use of her arms and legs made her stop working at a nursing home in 1996. She also suffers from high-blood pressure and clinical depression.
But because her injuries made her unable to hold down a job, she lost health insurance coverage. Social Security refused to give her benefits claiming she had "no documentation" of her debilitating health problems.
For five years, she suffered back pain and depression without visiting any doctors and surviving from help from family, friends and her church.
Finally, she heard about Escambia Community Clinics in 2001, which provides healthcare to the poor and uninsured. She learned she might qualify for free healthcare. Her blood pressure was so high when she finally arrived that doctors told her she was close to suffering a deadly stroke, she recalls.
"This place has been a life saver to me," she says, tearing up at the memory. "I didn't see doctors for years and years. I didn't have money to go to a doctor. I thought I could handle it myself. I couldn't."
Today, Blackburn regularly visits the clinic in Pensacola on the corner of Palafox and Maxwell streets, which is packed with about 50 people on a recent Monday morning.
She receives—free of charge—medication for blood pressure and other ailments from Escambia Community Clinics and medication for her depression from Lakeview Center, a mental healthcare clinic. Still, her sons chip in every month and buy about $300 worth of medications she can't get and needs, she says.
Blackburn remains without health insurance but the clinic and an attorney are now trying to help her qualify for federal assistance again.
You might think, Blackburn is a unique case. Well, she's not, according to the Comprehensive Assessment for Tracking Health 2005 study. The 600-page assessment, which was released July 27, reports that health problems in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties are continuing to get worse and worse in many areas since 1995, especially among minorities and the poor.
Meanwhile, it's estimated 1 in every 5 residents are uninsured, or about 61,400. That's up 14 percent, since 2003. And by 2015, 1 in every 4 residents, or about 90,600, are expected to lack health coverage.
"Without health insurance, you have people who don't want to handle you," Blackburn says. "I have no income whatsoever. I had no one to turn to. Without this clinic, I wouldn't have lived another six months back in 2001."
Jim Mills, the Partnership for a Healthy Community president, admits the problem is complex and troubling.
"The picture is not entirely bleak," he says. "We have four community hospitals where the quality of care is outstanding. But the assessment doesn't answer some tough questions. Why are some health problems so severe? What's the solution? These are questions that as a community we have to answer in the days and months ahead."
Assessment 2005's troubling results for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, which show health problems worse than similar counties and the state average, include:
• Smoking-related cancers and lung cancer in both counties;
• Cardiovascular and heart disease in both counties;
• Patients suffering from depressive disorders and elderly abuse in both counties;
• Repeat births to teen-agers in Escambia County;
• Proliferation of diabetes in Escambia County; and
• Health-risk behaviors in Escambia County.
In addition, the comprehensive study, which is conducted every five years and focuses on 430 specific health indicators, reveals that "poor health outcomes tend to be more prevalent in areas where there are large numbers of minority and/or lower income residents."
Don Turner, Escambia Community Clinic administrator, says the clinic will treat about 34,000 visits this year and provide about $3 million in charity care, or healthcare that is provided free of charge or isn't paid for at its location, which is open seven days a week. Sacred Heart Health System and Baptist Health Care, which help fund the clinic, provide an estimated $20 million each year in charity care.
"It's always busy," he says. "We have more people seeking treatment than we have time, money or resources. We do the best we can to meet the need at a fraction of the cost."
It costs Escambia Community Clinic on average about $86 to treat each patient it sees, which is estimated to be about four times less than the roughly $350 it costs to provide care to similar patients in emergency rooms at local hospitals.
Visits by the uninsured to the more expensive ERs drives up healthcare costs, costing those locally, who do have health insurance, about $31.6 million a year in expenses that are passed on.
Healthcare leaders say, as a result of the worsening health problems revealed by the Assessment 2005 study, they plan to call on residents, doctors, business leaders and local government officials to begin looking at solutions.
Some solutions they mention, include grassroots partnerships among local agencies to provide care and education. A ½-cent sales tax to provide about $14 million a year in healthcare to the poor is also being considered, and may go before voters in March 2007 for approval.
Although Turner says the root causes of the high rates of diabetes, for instance, need to be examined, he's convinced a big reason for the health problems being seen among the poor is the simple lack of access to care.
"I hope this will be a call to action for our leadership in the community," he says.
David Sjoberg, a Baptist Health Care executive and the Partnership for a Healthy Community treasurer, agrees with Turner about providing more care to the poor and uninsured.
"When we do this assessment again in five years, we'll see all these health problems again and they'll be worse, unless we really address the issues," he says. "It's pretty evident something needs to be done."
Mills adds: "I don't believe Washington or Tallahassee is going to come up with solutions for the problems we have in Escambia and Santa Rosa. Our hospitals are overwhelmed. Our community clinics are overwhelmed. We'd all like to see these indicators going in different directions than they are going."
So would Susan Croft, who doesn't make enough money at her job as a cleaning lady to afford insurance. She says she'd pay in blood or plasma donations, if there was such a thing. She suffers from insomnia from severe headaches she receives, she says, as she awaits medication at the Escambia Community Clinics. Croft admits she splits her pills in half to make her prescriptions last longer.
"If we didn't have some place like this, there would be nowhere to go," she says. "I need care. I am uninsured and one of the working poor. I have no choice."
Todd Cissell says he, too, has no choice currently. The 38-year-old construction worker recently got out of jail and is unemployed. But he admits as a construction worker, he rarely had health benefits.
"This is the first time, I have ever been to a clinic in my life," says Cissell, who came in for relief from migraines he's suffering. "I've always worked and am kind of embarrassed by the whole situation. But I'm down on my luck and medicine is so high you can't hardly afford it."
Mike Ziehl and his wife, Edna, didn't believe either that they would ever lack health insurance or go without healthcare. But they did.
A former store president for a national pizza chain, he was in a car accident, resulting in two shoulder surgeries and elbow surgery. He then developed staph infections in his spine that "felt like a belt of spikes around me." His medical bills quickly climbed into the tens of thousands of dollars and his health problems cost him his job, he says.
Without health insurance, he sat in his recliner for nine months and was in pain 23 hours a day, hoping he would get better, he says. Before his accident, he used to walk four miles a day with his wife around Cordova Mall.
Ziehl says a local hospital refused to give him the treatment he needed. So, finally tired of suffering, he walked into the Escambia Community Clinic and it placed him in Baptist Hospital for treatment. The 57-year-old Ziehl also suffers from diabetes and high cholesterol.
"The only reason I'm alive is because the clinic and Baptist Hospital helped me out," he says. "This can happen to anyone. You lose your job and you lose your benefits and all of a sudden you're not covered. I was scared to death. I can't believe I'm still here."
Healthcare crisis of the poor and uninsured
• More than 61,400 of the 313,000 residents of Escambia County have no health insurance coverage and are not eligible for any publicly-funded program.
• In 2006, 1 out of every 5 residents of the county will be uninsured.
• The percentage of Escambia County residents without health coverage is nearly 20 percent and exceeds the national average of 16 percent.
• The number of uninsured and medically poor in Escambia County is expected to grow to more than 90,600 by the year 2015, or more than 1 out of every 4 residents.
• Over the same period of time, the total number of residents with health coverage is expected to decline (from about 162,000 to 151,000).
• Nearly 4 out of 5 residents with no health insurance are employed.
• In 1999, according to the Florida Chamber of Commerce, 91 percent of Florida employers provided health coverage benefits to employees. In 2003, that figure declined to 73 percent.
• During the same period, costs for health insurance rose 58.6 percent.
• The majority of employers, who do not offer coverage, cite high cost or limited access to group health insurance as the reason.
• Escambia County is the 15th most populous county in the state of Florida, but ranks 28th among 67 counties in per capita income and 66th among the 67 Florida counties in spending for health and human services.
• More than 17 percent of Escambia County's population lives in households with total incomes less than $15,000 per year.
• Uninsured and medically poor residents forego medical treatment that they cannot afford and ultimately seek care in emergency rooms.
• For this population, chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease are not managed appropriately and prescription medications are not taken as needed, causing conditions to worsen and become increasingly expensive to treat.
• Emergency rooms at hospitals in Escambia County consistently operate above capacity and experienced more than 170,000 visits during 2005.
• In 2004 and 2005 the effects of the hurricanes which struck the area exacerbated the problem.
Source: AccessEscambia
NOTE To Reader: More healthcare statistics compiled for the area were also provided with the story.
Left Behind Part 2: Housing
Where is low-income housing?
by DUWAYNE ESCOBEDO
Charles Luckey heard from his neighbors that his home in Morris Court is being demolished and he and his bedridden wife, Alvener, must find some place else to live.
The elderly couple, who are both 74-years-old, have lived in the modest, low-income house since 1976. But Luckey swears he has yet to receive any written notice or to speak with someone from the Area Housing Commission, which oversees the public housing at Morris Court.
He has just returned from another afternoon looking at apartments with his daughter, Sharon Richardson, with no success. Currently, they pay about $325 a month in rent at Morris Court. He reports being unable to find anything under $700 a month at apartments around town.
Luckey worries that on their fixed income they will end up living somewhere rundown and unsafe for an elderly couple, or worse, homeless. He worries about his neighbors, too.
"They are putting us out. It's hard, real hard," says Luckey, who worked at the Medical Center Clinic for 30 years. "Day to day we wonder what we're going to do and what's going to be our next move. We don't want to be run out onto the streets. But we're going to ride it out as long as we can."
Richardson, Luckey's 48-year-old daughter, is livid with the Area Housing Commission's decision to demolish Morris Court's 35 low-income units and replace them with 75 more expensive affordable housing units in a $12 million project headed by Carlisle Development Group.
"To me, it looks like a plan to make money at poor people's expense," she says. "They know there's no other place to go. Any way you look at it, they're getting kicked to the curb."
Scared, discouraged and frustrated the Luckey family admittedly has little hope left that their situation will get any better or that Morris Court, which was built in the 1940s near M and Gonzalez streets, will avoid being leveled.
"I doubt it very seriously. They've done made up their minds and that's it," Luckey says. Adds Richarson: "I think all the i's are dotted and all the t's are crossed and they're going to boot everybody out."
John Rand shares the same worries about his family's uncertain future. He filled out an AHC application for public housing but he has not heard back from the office in two weeks. The 61-year-old, who worked at Florida Drum Company for 17 years, lives with his wife and two children at Morris Court on his social security disability check.
"I'm not too good with words, but I don't like the situation the way it's going," he says. "We're used to being around here and it's on my mind we could end up in a worse area. I wish they would do like they did on another project and move us out, rebuild and we would be able to move back in."
Mattie Phelps, an 89-year-old widow, is being moved across the street temporarily until it's also torn down for the new AHC complex. She moved to Morris Court a few years ago, after living at the low-income Escambia Arms apartment complex.
She's hoping a daughter will be able to get vacation time and make it from Virginia to help her pack and move. Four cardboard boxes sit next to her sofa table that's dominated by a thick, black, 8-by-12-inch Holy Bible in her cluttered living room, which lacks air conditioning but has a fan blowing.
"They are not helping me move," says Phelps, a former office worker who volunteered at the Escambia Council on Aging for years and keeps a framed "Certification of Appreciation" as a top volunteer in her living room. "They said we got to be on our own. But I'm not scared. I've never been a big complainer. I just give it to the Lord."
Phelps' conversations with God just might be answered.
Greater Pensacola Community Organization's Board President Rev. Willie Williams and Executive Director Richard Papantonio heard about the plight of 35 families in Morris Court.
Through their efforts, they've enlisted the help of the Interfaith Housing Coalition, Catholic Charities and plan to talk to a group of Baptist ministers.
They hope to stop the $12 million project, until more low-income housing becomes available or is built. They're also checking into whether because the U.S. Housing and Urban Development turned over the Morris Court site to AHC in 1983, only low-income housing can be developed there.
Williams points to the severe shortage of low-income housing in the area and scoffs at AHC Executive Director Mike Rogers' assurances that the Morris Court residents will be given preference for openings at one of the housing commission's six other complexes.
Williams says, even though housing authorities began planning the redevelopment three years ago, it failed to adequately inform the Morris Court residents until a few months ago.
"There is no affordable places for these people to go," he says. "This isn't being handled professionally at all. These people are not being taken care of. They're being pushed aside. What's being done to them is heartless. These are the people we have to fight extra hard for because they're so humble, trusting and good hearted."
The city does report helping relocate 10 of 11 Morris Court families on federal rental assistance. Rogers could not be reached for comment by the Independent News for this story.
Williams willingly takes people on a tour around Pensacola to public housing projects or apartment complexes that accept low-income tenants.
For example, demolition is ongoing at Dogwood Apartments near the Kmart on Mobile Highway; the Forest Creek Apartments off Navy Boulevard still has one complex that was burnt down about three months ago; and Twin Oaks Villas Apartments near Navy Boulevard and New Warrington Road still has two complexes to rebuild from 2004 hurricane damages.
Others have been completely wiped out or reduced by Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis, revitalization, Superfund sites and other reasons. Some examples include Aragon Court, Escambia Arms, Maison de Ville and Lexington Court.
Besides the storms leaving an estimated 2,000 families homeless in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, local housing experts also report a "severe" shortage because of FEMA pressure to move families out of trailers and cuts in federal rental assistance to the poor under the Bush administration.
The Pensacola Housing Department says it currently has about 100 unutilized federal rental assistance grants, or Section 8 vouchers, because the families cannot find program eligible housing. It has a waiting list of about 800 people. Currently, it assists about 1,600 people with its $8 million a year rent assistance program, which the Bush administration cut by more than $1 million in 2004.
More factoids to consider in the housing crisis: 17,514 families in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, who rent homes, pay more than they can afford for their housing, which is considered more than 50 percent of their income. That's 38 percent of the total renting population.
Sandra King, Catholic Charities program coordinator of emergency assistance, says about 150 people come to her office every day and a majority are looking for rental assistance.
"We need to have programs attacking the housing situation very aggressively here," says King, a local social caseworker for 29 years. "We need more housing. We were facing a shortage even before the hurricanes. They just magnified the problem."
Pensacola officials began attacking the problem during the past year by identifying properties that can be redeveloped for low-income or affordable housing and changing its zoning and building codes.
And the Florida Legislature, recognizing the problem arising from the storms and the state's booming real estate market, passed a measure this year encouraging public-private partnerships to develop workforce housing. It also provided $50 million for the program considered one of the first of its kind in the country.
Locally, one group that is tackling the problem is the Interfaith Housing Coalition, which Pensacola-Tallahassee Bishop John Ricard, along with other prominent religious leaders in the community, created shortly after Hurricane Ivan in 2004 to address affordable housing.
The coalition is planning to redevelop 26 acres near Catholic High School into a blend of affordable and low-income housing for the area.
Bill Compton, IHC director of housing and a veteran community planner, says he's surprised at the lack of response and innovative ideas to the problem when he took over in September.
"The market has made a lot of places unaffordable with the low incomes of this area," he says. "It's tough. We don't need to create another ghetto for 200 poor people. We do need more areas with mixed income and mixed use. I don't like the design model where you just have $125,000 homes, $200,000 homes or half a million dollar homes. You need to put affordable units in the mix."
The Area Housing Commission's $12 million plans to rebuild Morris Court will not include low-income housing, Papantonio points out.
"How can they get away with it?" the GPCO director asks. "We're going to rebuild and drive out the impoverished?"
Before leaving their homes on a recent visit to Morris Court, Williams promises the Luckeys, Rands and Phelps that help is on the way.
"We're going to fight this," he says. "It's not right to keep stamping out low-income places. You can't keep pushing these people around, when there's no place to go."
Affordable Housing in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties: From Problem to Crisis
In Escambia and Santa Rosa counties 33,537 families pay more than they can afford for their housing—that's nearly a quarter of the population. Almost half of these families pay more than 50 percent of their income to keep a roof over their heads.
If you are a renter, the news is even worse. 17,514 families renting homes pay more than they can afford for their housing—that's 38 percent of the total renting population. Again, almost half of these families pay more than 50 percent of their income to keep a roof over their heads.
Here's the really bad news: These statistics are from 2002, pre-dating the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005. The situation has only gotten worse.
Prior to the hurricanes there was a need for safe, decent housing that could be afforded by the workforce—teachers, policemen, nurses, firemen, public servants, young couples just starting their families. The hurricanes have only exacerbated an already growing problem.
As the gap between incomes and housing costs widened year by year, suddenly the Pensacola area and the greater Gulf Coast were hit by successive hurricanes, tropical storms and extraordinary Spring rains causing flooding and hampering the rebuilding process.
As the loss of housing from storm damage placed unusual demands on the housing market rents went up 12 percent, median home prices went up 60 percent and median incomes went up 19 percent from 2000 to 2005.
The affordability gap became a chasm. Add to the mix the families remaining in FEMA group shelter sites, who must find permanent housing soon, and there is an affordable housing crisis that is brewing in the Northwest Florida region.
Source: Interfaith Housing Coalition
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Left Behind Part 3: Education
How are children being taught?
by DUWAYNE ESCOBEDO
Stacked high on the shelves and stuffed in the cabinets in a room in the Hallmark Elementary School's library are packs of unopened T-shirts, socks and underwear. There are also shoes, jackets and other clothes.
When class begins in the morning, teachers make sure everyone ate breakfast, especially children who show up late. If not, they're provided fruit cups, Pop Tarts or other food. On Fridays, school officials plan to begin sending home food with some of its students, who otherwise might go without eating much, or anything, on the weekend.
Lessons include ones on self-esteem, self-respect and responsibility.
Yes, before it can began teaching its students the three R's, Hallmark teachers must first attend to the other basics—food, clothes and behavior.
The inner-city Pensacola school is one of the poorest in the Escambia County School District. Of the school's 250 students, 93 percent qualify for the free or reduced-price lunch program and 97 percent are minority.
It has the distinction of being one of the oldest schools, too, with students being taught at the school near the corner of E and Garden streets for more than 100 years.
Last year, it was a D school, according to Florida's statewide standardized test. That was an improvement from an F.
When national education experts talk about the achievement gap and when federal lawmakers talk about the No Child Left Behind Act, which was passed in 2001 to close that gap, schools like Hallmark Elementary are on their mind—high poverty, minority and low achieving.
But you wouldn't guess that by talking to Elizabeth Zachry. The tall 11-year-old with pig tails in her hair can't wait to begin classes in the new makeshift science lab the school is starting.
"It's exciting," the 5th grader says. "I like science. I want to be an archaeologist and travel the world and learn about what happened in the past."
Her enthusiasm for school is matched by classmate Mitchell Maxwell. The 10-year-old wants to become an athletic trainer or doctor, if a career in the NBA doesn't become a reality.
"School is fantastic," he says. "I work real hard. I'm trying to stay on the A-B honor roll, so I can grow up and be whatever I want to be."
Neither one of them mentioned any plans to be left behind.
And their teachers and principal, Sharee Cagle, expect them to succeed, too.
Cagle began her education career more than 20 years ago as a 5th grade teacher at Spencer Bibbs Elementary School, one much like Hallmark in its makeup. She's writing her dissertation for her doctorate degree from the University of West Florida on how to turn around a failing school.
That first day as a teacher at Spencer Bibbs was one of her hardest, she recalls. None of her students were at the 5th grade level.
"Nobody is prepared as a teacher for that," she says. "I don't care what college you've graduated from. Nobody is prepared that first day when you have challenges like we do in our inner-city schools. Teaching here is a lot more difficult."
But talking to Cagle, whose energy is infectious, it becomes clear she doesn't make excuses and not much stands in her way.
When she took over at Hallmark last year, she had her staff give her all the reasons the school was failing. Reasons ranged from lack of parental involvement to poverty.
"I told them those were all excuses and our duty is to fix them," she says.
So, when teachers noticed Hallmark students in shoes too big, too small or wearing their mother's slippers or saw their students lacked jackets or sweatshirts in the cold weather, they turned to Perdido Bay United Methodist Church, which donated the shoes and clothing.
When children acted up, they traced it to many of them going without breakfast. The church helps feed them, too. And Hallmark's discipline referrals dropped from 580 to 70.
Cagle had to replace 17 of the 26 teachers when she came to Hallmark, because they so disliked the environment. Because it's a low achieving school, teachers there have the first shot at jobs at other schools.
She lost seven teachers last year and says only one wanted to leave. To try to retain her teachers, Cagle got State Farm to donate 27 laptop computers. If a teacher stays at Hallmark for three years, they get to keep the laptop.
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test begins testing on science this year. Only 3 percent of Hallmark's students passed the practice science test last year. If the score had counted, Hallmark would have become a failing school.
So, Cagle is starting a science lab, thanks to Perdido Bay United Methodist, State Farm and Sacred Heart Health System doctors donating money for a demonstration table, microscopes, lab coats and other material for her 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. The University of West Florida is planning to help teach the science class once a week at the school.
To help get parents involved, again, she requires them to come to the school to pick up their children's report cards. If they don't show up, Cagle goes to their house.
The Methodist church is also helping Cagle implement a program to send Hallmark's most needy students home for the weekend with a backpack full of food that doesn't have to be cooked.
Jacci Shumaker, a physical education teacher for 24 years, grew up in the Hallmark neighborhood and plans to run for Pensacola City Council in District 7 in 2008. She's always bought into Cagle's school slogan, "Success is the only option!"
"This is where I'm needed most, not N.B. Cook or Cordova Park," Shumaker says. "I know everyone here is on a mission. We have a purpose. We're getting there. We'll do what we have to do."
For Shumaker that includes teaching bicycle and swimming safety, taking students, some of who have never been to the beach or the zoo, on field trips, recruiting mentors, going out into the community and talking to parents face-to-face and teaching pride.
"Some of the children will not look you in the eye, they look down," she says. "We have to teach self esteem and self respect. We're raising citizens, not just students. We want them to learn good habits that will stay with them after they leave Hallmark. If we don't do it, who will?"
Lynnette Edwards is a rarity. She's taught for 23 years at Hallmark. It's her mission, one motivated by May Avery, who was her family's housekeeper and like a mother to her, and who Edwards discovered as she grew up couldn't read very well.
She drills the importance of vocabulary and reading into her students.
"Most of my students are from one-parent families and many of them are holding down two jobs," she says. "Most of the parents do care if their children get a good education. I try to get the children to see they can go as far as they want to go; they're as smart as everyone else."
Still, the statistics are stacked against Cagle's, Shumaker's and Edwards' students.
In Escambia County, more than 85 percent of whites have graduated from high school compared with 72 percent of blacks. About 24 percent of white Escambia County residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher compared with about 10 percent of black county residents.
In Escambia County, 13,538 of its 15,800 (86 percent) black students qualified for the free or reduced lunch program. In Santa Rosa County, 809 of 1,322 (61 percent) of its black students did. Meanwhile, graduation rates were lower and dropout rates were higher among blacks in both counties' school systems.
Those numbers come as no surprise to Elvin McCorvey, the NAACP Pensacola chapter president and an educator for 38 years. He calls the older inner city schools "a crime," says teachers lack incentive and training to teach in high poverty and minority schools and that local governments and organizations are ignoring poverty in the community.
"Yes, we want to help improve the achievement of our kids," McCorvey, a teacher for 12 years, says. "But we're fooling our kids into thinking there's a pie in the sky. It's not there, until we deal with these grassroots issues that are quality of life issues. We as a community haven't done anything to correct the poverty that these kids are living in. At the same time, our school districts have to get real and put programs in place that address poverty in those communities, otherwise we will never solve all these issues."
They are issues that are being faced and tackled across Florida and the country.
Harvard University Civil Rights Project researcher Gary Orfield concludes in a recent in-depth report that the No Child Left Behind Act is failing. The President Bush initiative put in place in 2001 has resulted in neither a significant rise in achievement or closure of the achievement gap for minority and poor children, the study found.
"In Shakesperean terms, we've been experiencing a massive process 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,'" Orfield says. "The best research suggests that school reform takes time, that investments must be made in curriculum and instruction and that sustaining educational improvement in high poverty schools is difficult at best."
Orfield says the No Child Left Behind Act and such assessment tests also have a negative effect on teachers counted on to raise student achievement.
"Particularly in low-income schools judged as failures, there often is a tendency to move into highly formulaic and rigidly programmed curriculum, boring to both students and teachers, and, worse yet, to spend time not on teaching their subjects but on drilling on test-taking strategies," he says. "Teachers have long tended to transfer out of low-income, minority schools as they gain experience. Excessive test pressure tends to accelerate this process, compounding the schools' problems, since experienced teachers are a precious resource for schools."
Tom Gallagher, a Republican candidate for governor, helped implement Gov. Jeb Bush's education reforms as the state's Department of Education secretary. He handed out the vouchers, called "Opportunity Scholarships" to 57 Spencer Bibbs and A.A. Dixon students a few years ago that allowed them to attend private schools, since those schools failed the FCAT. But the Florida Supreme Court struck down the voucher program.
He sees the FCAT school grades, vouchers, charter schools and higher principal and teacher pay all as ways to improve low-income and minority students' education.
"No one is happy with a D or F school," he says. "Poverty is just one of many excuses. I've seen a Dade County school where poverty was 90 percent and 30 different languages were spoken. Yet the principal and his teachers went in there and turned it around."
Gallagher says he hopes in 2008 vouchers will go on the ballot as an amendment to the Florida Constitution.
"The Spencer Bibbs and Dixon parents had a choice for the first time," he says. "They know there's one ticket out of there and that ticket is education. I'll never forget how excited they all were."
Meanwhile, Cagle promises to do whatever it takes to make sure Hallmark students are not left behind, whether that's marching in a cheerleading outfit around the school in a parade that celebrates the honor roll students or filling in as a substitute teacher.
"I have children who have never been to the beach or seen an escalator," she says. "They haven't been exposed to things that a lot of other children have been exposed to. Their parents are barely making ends meat. It's not that they can't learn. They can. We expect them to keep making big gains, we expect them to finish middle school and high school and we expect them to finish college."
What Causes The Gaps?
The National Education Association gathered 150 education leaders from 38 states in November for a working meeting to address closing achievement gaps. They concluded there is "no simple explanation," and report various factors contribute to or underlie the gaps:
● The multiple effects of poverty
● Poor home and community learning opportunities
● Discrimination
● Inadequate healthcare
● Substandard housing and high rates of mobility
Source: National Education Association
No Child Left Behind?
The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University recently released an in-depth report on achievement gaps and the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act implemented in 2001 by President George Bush's administration. The report, "Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps: An in-depth look into national and state reading and math outcome trends," can be viewed on the Internet at http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu. Here are the key findings:
1. NCLB did not have a significant impact on improving reading and math achievement across the nation and states. Based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress results, the national average achievement remains flat in reading and grows at the same pace in math after NCLB than before. In grade 4 math, there was a temporary improvement right after NCLB, but it was followed by a return to the pre-reform growth rate. Consequently, continuation of the current trend will leave the nation far behind the NCLB target of 100 percent proficiency by 2014. Only 24 to 34 percent of students will meet the NAEP proficiency target in reading and 29 to 64 percent meeting math proficiency by 2014.
2. NCLB has not helped the nation and states significantly narrow the achievement gap. The racial and socioeconomic achievement gap in the NAEP reading and math achievement persists after NCLB. Despite some improvement in reducing the gap in math right after NCLB, the progress was not sustained. If the current trend continues, the proficiency gap between advantaged White and disadvantaged minority students will hardly close by 2014. The study predicts that by 2014, less than 25 percent of Poor and Black students will achieve NAEP proficiency in reading, and less than 50 percent will achieve proficiency in math.
3. NCLB's attempt to scale up the alleged success of states that adopted test-driven accountability policy prior to NCLB, so-called first generation accountability states (e.g., Florida, North Carolina, Texas) did not work. It neither enhanced the first generation states' earlier academic improvement nor transferred the effects of a test-driven accountability system to states that adopted test-based accountability under NCLB, the second generation accountability states. Moreover, both first and second generation states failed to narrow NAEP reading and math achievement gaps after NCLB.
4. NCLB's reliance on state assessment as the basis of school accountability is misleading since state-administered tests tend to significantly inflate proficiency levels and proficiency gains as well as deflate racial and social achievement gaps in the states. The higher the stakes of state assessments, the greater the discrepancies between NAEP and state assessment results. These discrepancies were particularly large for Poor, Black and Hispanic students.


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Stoffel has a new nickname when he's on the boat: Black Cat. Lucky for him.
Here is the timeline of a nickname from Saartjie:
- Teasing the self-important "skip".
- Teasing morphs into calling him "Skippy"
- Yippee for Skippy… the peanut butter tagline and Stoffel are united.
- A series of cheeky, but not terribly useful remarks lead Saartjie to demand that there be silence from the pea(nut butter) gallery.
- AND if we're going to call him peanut butter, it might as well be the most deliciousandcool p.b. ever made: Black Cat peanut butter.
- Nick-named.
"Black belt, huh?" "Nah, Black Cat."*
* My apologies to my dear non-Saffa readers who may think I've lost the plot. I will return with a less cryptic post tomorrow.


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I've only ever been referred to as 'fat' a handful of times in my life, but it usually came in the form of another word, like 'curvy' or 'voluptuous' or some other sugar coated way of being called fat.
Once I had a gathering at my house where all my friends and their kids had joined together for a game night. With a large audience, one of my friends sweet little children blurted out "Auntie Em, are you crazy or just really fat?!".
I recall the atmosphere in the room quieting very rapidly as people anticipated my reaction. The little girl, who was about 5 at the time and cute as a button, clearly had no ill intentions in her question. I simply replied "hm, a little of both I think!". And the party went on, as did life. (Spoiler alert: I'm still a bit crazy…)
The shame I felt for being overweight was almost suffocating. The never-ending task of finding things and people to hide behind was exhausting. The constant effort involved with trying to convince others that I wasn't fat was pretty ridiculous now that I look back on it. My husband often reminds me of how I would never let him take my picture let alone post it publicly on a social media platform.
I used to think that if I never allowed anyone to see that I was fat, then no one would ever really know and I could just sort of pretend to be something else.
With years of reflection under my belt, I can tell you that I only felt shame for the way I thought other people wanted me to look. It wasn't necessarily the way that I felt about my appearance that bothered me; it was how I assumed other people felt about my appearance. Isn't that nuts?
We've all been there. We've all wasted days pulling down our shirts or adjusting our waist band in clothing that we fear is going to reveal our belly rolls to the world. But think about it realistically – do you spend your day observing other people and assessing their body types? No! And very likely, no one else does either.
The way you feel about how light or heavy you are is entirely personal for you. It is exclusive to you and your mind, and often it can hurt your heart and leave you feeling inadequate or unworthy.
It's always been interesting to me that we can easily identify the "fake news" when we see it – those sensationalized media stories being pumped into the public, but women haven't been very good at identifying when those fashion and beauty campaigns encourage self-loathing for certain body types and frankly, give women and men bullshit aspirations.
As strange as this sounds, it took weight loss for me to realize that being fat is okay. I know, I know… What sense does that make?
What I really mean is that somewhere along the way I stopped fighting with myself over what my label read to other people. Yes, I was fat. So what? Did that ever make me any less of a person at the time? Heck no.
The truth is that stepping out from behind all the shadows where I purposely kept myself hidden, to embark on losing weight, gave me perfect clarity of my worth. When I chose to lose weight to better my health, it required that I come clean about where I was starting. It meant that I had to take a big risk and reach out to others to help me along the way. It meant being vulnerable and putting myself on a platform that would force other people to notice that I was changing. And inevitably, people would make note. As soon as I took that step out, I almost instantly realized that no one around me was judging me on my dress size. No one cared about my size – they cared about me.
Fat does not equal laziness; just as skinny does not equal athleticism. The spectrum of fat reaches so far from end to end, it's hard to know anymore if you are or are not, and who cares? Are you healthy? Are you happy? Do you love who you are? If yes to all of those, then find a way to accept the fact that being overweight, or any shape in particular, does not define the person you are.
Have you ever said a word so frequently that it sort of lost it's meaning along the way? Take the word fat, and repeat it. Allow the power of the word to melt away and accept that fat isn't really a bad word – it's how you feel about it that determines it's value. Fat is a molecule; not a definition.
So, if fat isn't bad, then why did I choose to lose weight?
I chose to embrace other words that hold power – like, health, and strength. For me, weight loss was necessary because my physical health was less than ideal. I suffered from various weight-related ailments, including severe sleep apnea.
Did you know that 22 million Americans have sleep apnea with over 80% left undiagnosed and untreated. Sleep apnea is connected to diabetes, stroke, heart disease, and premature cardiovascular death.
Since I was already pre-diabetic and had heart palpitations in my twenties, it wasn't the label of 'fat' that lit a fire under my glutes to get to work; it was wanting to experience life.
I desired to truly live within a healthy body that would sustain me through as many days as possible, and that means first accepting that being fat is fine, and being skinny is fine. Being somewhere in between is also a-okay, but you must embrace health – for a better quality of life, and for a much longer life. Perhaps at the end of it all you want to look at the scale beneath your feet and see a lower number, but what do you want to see when you look at you?
Weight loss is not just the process of becoming less fat – it is truly a journey to multiple destinations – Acceptance; understanding; self-empowerment.
So often we allow words to harness a power that holds us down and commits us to a label we never wanted in the first place. But I'll let you in on a secret: you hold the power, and you can strip it from any word you like.


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At a conference on women's rights, activists from ten Arab countries agree the focus must be on enshrining women's rights in Arab constitutions. "After Tahrir, [. . .] "there is no turning back." Even though they may use "sexual violence against women, virginity tests and sexual harassment when ...Read
The Arab world faces the challenge of building inclusive economies, the President of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, has said, stressing that this can only be achieved by ensuring that governments are accountable and responsive to the aspirations of their people.Read
The Lebanese president and the Catholic Church in Lebanon have announced that Benedict XVI will visit the Land of Cedars 14 to 16 September next. The occasion is the presentation of the Apostolic Exhortation following the Synod on the Middle East, held in October 2010. AsiaNews asked Fr. Samir ...Read
Xue Mingkai, already a year in prison, was convicted of "subversion of state power". The movement began in 2011, but stamped out by the violence of the communist regime, which is still hunting activists to throw them in jail.Read
Jordan: Middle East: From Amman, a "Charter" for the rights and protection of Christians in Arab countries
In Jordan, two days of meetings and discussions to shape the future of Christians in the Middle East. The event was attended by religious and secular scholars, Christian and Muslim from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Iran and Jordan itself. The goal: to preserve the Christian ...Read
Terrified of the protests in the Arab world last year, the Communist leaders sentenced to prison between 3,833 activists and dissidents. Of these, 159 were tortured and rendered disabled. Moreover, thanks to a new law, 86% of these arrests have no legal basis. Religious repression and data of the ...Read
The Arab world has a "generational opportunity" to create a future it deserves, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today during a visit to Jordan, voicing his support for ongoing reforms in the country and the region.Read
Demonstrations are held in many cities and universities. Tensions are rising with the Muslim Brotherhoods, which sought to hijack the event. Young people demand justice for those killed and their families, power transferred to a secular government, and a return of the armed forces to their only ...Read
The U.S.-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) says fears that pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world might spread to Central Asia fueled a crackdown on dissent in that region last year.Read
The Syrian opposition wants the United Nations to help Arab League monitors on the ground in Syria who are trying to bring an end to ten months of violence.Read
The coming year has the international community watching the Arab world closely, with analysts focused on Egypt, a historically a powerful force in the region, for signs of things to come.Read
The Arab uprising spread like wildfire and every Arab country felt its effects. However, the changes must be seen against the backdrop of the Islamist rise to power. Christians are afraid but must cooperate with Muslims. Syria's case and the bishops' reaction are a case in point. The West is ...Read
The top Republican lawmaker on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the protests taking place in Russia against the ruling power in the Kremlin have been influenced by the Arab Spring and online social-media networks.Read
The journey to the center of the violence and horror of the Lebanese people, with its trauma and suffering. The civil war is a wound still open for the Lebanese. Restorative justice and Christian forgiveness, with the aim of creating a country marked by peaceful coexistence between races and faiths.Read
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today urged countries in the Arab region to steer their economies towards sustainable development that leads to the creation of more jobs for youth, while ensuring that the transition is anchored in good governance and respect of human rights.Read
More than a million Indians live in the Gulf region. Often, employers take away their papers, including residency permits, forcing them to live as illegal aliens. Each year, thousands of migrants go missing. A Kerala TV station airs their cases and helps families find their loved ones.Read
Clinton listed the key criteria any party must meet in a democracy, including the rejection of violence, adherence to the rule of law, and respect for the rights of women and minorities.Read
After years as an architect working for the Communist regime, North Korean defects in Egypt and disappears. After two years on the run, he applied for political asylum in South Korea. Cairo demonstrators helped him realise "how absurd the regime in Pyongyang is, where man and his dignity mean ...Read
Amnesty International says many of the countries now backing this year's protests in the Middle East also supplied some of the weapons used against demonstrators.Read
The United Nations women's fund for gender equality on Sunday invited organizations and government agencies to apply for grants, adding that first phase of its 2011 funding cycle will give priority to proposals that seek to empower women and their communities in Arab countries.Read


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05. 'In the Buchat' 2
Further pictures from the 2008 exhibition
14 Posties Retiement Retirement of George Tait and death of Robert Murdoch
19 Paddle Wheel Can anyone identify this pictire, the purpose of the wheel and is that a figure behind it!
20 Toldaquhill Cottage Can anyone confrim the identity of this cottage. After help from Ken Cruickshank this cottage has...
21 Haymaking Jock Davidson
23 Woodcutters Note on back "Eliza's uncle George Stewart (Left). Grandad bult The Old Mill" Does anyone know wh...
24 Wheel Wrights Note on back of photo "John Callum millwright, joiner, Newton" Can anyone identify who is who?


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text: Personally, I prefer the Juniper area. I think it's because the terrain and vegatation is more varied. From Juniper Springs rec area to FS 10 makes a nice hike of about 8 miles with camping at Hidden Pond (about the only water available right now). You can extend the hike by doing the Yearling Trail up near the north end and see some evidence of 1900 homesteads and the sinkhole. Cricket > > I'd like to take a St. Johns County (FL) Boy Scout troop to the Ocala > National Forest the weekend of January 18 - 20, 2003. > > Some questions: > > Do you recommend the Alexander Springs area or the Juniper Springs area? > > What condition are the boardwalks between Clearwater Lake and Alexander > Springs in? > > Is an FTA Trail builder available, interested in joining us for dinner and > campfire, and tell the scouts about the Florida Trail? > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark Nickerson > Scoutmaster, Troop 288 > North Florida Council > > _______________________________________________ > FT-L mailing list > email@example.com > http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/ft-l >


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St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Broadstairs went Jurassic last week when the School opened its doors to a Tyrannosaurus Rex mother and baby in a fearsomely realistic trip back to the Dinosaur Age.
The 3 dimensional puppet mother and baby spent the day with Key Stage 1 infants who also explored the world of fossils in a series of excavations designed to introduce the children to a hands on understanding of how the dinosaurs lived and died. The budding palaeontologists located and identified replica fossils from some of the most iconic dinosaurs from the cretaceous age learning about habitat, diet, location and fate.
A perennially favourite topic with all ages, dinosaurs never fail to catch the imagination with the children delighting in coming face to face with the most fearsome meat eater of all time!
Modelled on the puppets from the Walking with Dinosaurs series, the mother T Rex had animatronic features and a realistic roar which provided a dynamic interactive learning platform for the topic to come to life.


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Special family vacation with children - summer
Treat yourself to a wonderful holiday with your family and your children to Malé in Val di Sole!
Many opportunities each summer to enjoy nature, the Dolomites, the beautiful scenery of the Trentino region, which offers its guests always with news and entertainment.
For summer, the family hotel Michela, offers you a special offer valid Family Plan:
- from 01/06 to 28/07
- from 01/09 to 23/09
The package includes:
stay of 2 adults + 2 children pay for 3 pax (children up to 12 years)
And also:
- Room with private bathroom, toiletries, hair dryer, safe, SAT TV, telephone and balcony with clothesline.
- welcome drink (sunday),
- A rich buffet breakfast to start your day
- Lunch and dinner with a choice of menus for every need, vegetables, bread, and dessert buffet, the kitchen personally by the owners
- dinner with tasting products
- Lunch with Polentata in the garden, weather permitting, (for those who benefit from full board)
- cultural and entertainment activities
- Entry into the wellness center, with sauna, turkish bath, whirlpool, experience shower, Scottish shower, relaxation room, tea room and gym
- Mountain bikes available
And among the many comforts for your children:
- evening entertainment, with various proposals
- nutella party
- camping beds, banks for single bed, baby bath, potty, changing mat towel, high chairs and strollers
- menu and dishes for children


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Renal disease is not a single disease, patients can appear some complications with the progression of the disease, such as Heart Problems, Lung problems, etc. Serious complications can be fatal, but kidney disease not directly cause Death, patients will die to complications of kidney disease. No matter which status you are, recovering renal function is a necessary and important thing. Now we continue to learn about the chinese herbal medicines help Kidney function.
Today, Chinese Herbs are commonly used in the clinic to help recover Kidney function. We will not list the exact names of these herbs to help Kidney function. One of the reasons is that these Herbs are specially formulated, we must guarantee their safety, another reason is because they are different individuals. According to patients' specific conditions, the experts choose the appropriate Chinese Herbs And then match them to minimize renal Toxicity and maximize effectiveness.
So as not to stimulate the Gastrointestinal Tract, and to prevent the losing efficacy of Chinese Herbs, the Chinese herbs that help Kidney function is Micronized into very small molecules and placed in two bags. This two bags of Chinese herbal processing is placed under the lower back of patients. With the aid of the device of osmosis, active material arrival to the kidneys directly through the skin and the channels in the back. Foreign patients describe this process as the Chinese Massage, it is very comfortable.
In fact this is what we call the implementation of Chinese herbs to help Kidney function Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. It is commonly used in clinic to help patients with Kidney Disease avoid Dialysis and renal transplantation in the repair of damage to the kidneys and the Recovery of renal function. If you are interested in more information of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy including Treatment time and the cost, we would like to offer you more. Once You choose the way you want to tell us, we will be here to fight the disease together with you.
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Religious Articles
God and Man
- Before you think about leaving the Catholic Church, think about something
- Sainthood and the Moral Horizon
- God is an Embarrassment in Our Lives
- Why Does Evil Happen to the Just?
- Just Wages and the Kingdom of God
- Why do we need to put god as the center of our lives?
- Escriva: Rejoice in Times of Tribulation
- Litany for the Conversion of Pope Francis (no really)
- Arguing God to an Atheist: Or How To Persuade the Other Side
- As Citizens We are Not Obligated to Help. Maybe that's the Problem
- Are Prayers Retroactive?
- Prayer During Disasters
- Prayer In Times of Calamity
- Oratio Imperata: A Prayer for Deliverance from Calamities
- Saint Genevieve, Patron Saint of Calamity and Paris
Love Series (Feb. 2009)
- The Mexican Proverb
- The Universe Tends to Right Itself
- Love in Ground Zero
- In Love with Love
- An Invitation to Love
- The Labors of Love
- Suffer Love
- Happily Ever After
- Finding Our Good Samaritans
- Awakenings
- A Celebration of Love
The EDSA Series
The Arroyo Years (2008-2009)
- The Philippine Autocracy and the Battle for Congress
- How We Are Saved By EDSA
- Gloria Arroyo and the Hitler Complex
- The End of Dynasties
- A Question of Dignity
- Inertia: Sustaining the EDSA Movement
- A Silent Call to the EDSA Generation
- A Line in the Sand: EDSA, Arroyo and the future of Philippine politics
EDSA Theories (2008-2009)
- EDSA, an Analysis (Part 1)
- Anti-Thesis: Why Revolution will not Succeed in the Philippines
- Why the Philippines is not a Democracy
- A Comprehensive Proposal for an EDSA Reform
- The Story of the EDSA Movement
The Revolution Becomes the Establishment (2010-2016)
- Seven Minutes to Midnight: the National Elections of 2010
- Full Text of the Corona Impeachment Complaint
- The Philippine Civil War: Corona, Aquino and the Impeachment
- Impeachment as Excommunication: Corona, del Castillo and Congress
- Aquino agreed to drop Sabah claim in Bangsamoro Agreement
- To President Aquino: An Appeal from a Blogger
- Philippine Elections 2016: An If-Then-Else?
- "Mock" Elections 2016: How Roxas will steal the Presidency
Political Theories
Democracy Series
- The Fatal Flaw of Western Democracies
- Lenin's Democracy
- Why Pure Democracy is Impossible
- Of Peasants Rebellions, and why they fail
- The Life Cycle of a Revolution
- The Case for Moral Government part 1
The Chinese Resurgence
- The South China Sea and China's New World Order
- The Empire of Heaven: Why China's Rise is so Terrifying
- Three Sides to the South China Sea
Then and Now (2008 and 2014)
- The Shape of Things to Come: Russia, China, al Qaeda, the Philippines
- The Shape of the New World Order: ISIS, Russia and China
The US Elections (2008)
The Shape of the World (2008-2009)
- For Better or For Worse: Cuba, Pakistan, Kosovo
- The New (Eastern) Order: Russia's out of it
- Impunity
- Post-Iran afterglow: Protests, crackdowns
The Age of Terror Series (2008-2011)
The Chaotic Present (2015-2016)
- The Fate of the Ancient City of Palmyra at the Hands of ISIS
- The Full Text of the Key Demands of the Communist Party of the Philippines (called CASER)
- Starcraft Tournament Players found to be North Korean Agents
- How Much Have I Visited
- Personality Quiz
- Smartwatch Debate: the Gear S, Moto 360, Apple Watch and the Smartwatch Market
- Four Annoying Things With The LG Sport
- 2017: The State of the Smartwatch and Google's Offensive


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like a prince?
Well, you have come to the right place. Here at Sugar Mummy Connect, we have thousands of older ladies who are looking for fun, friendship, romance and that long term relationship.
Meet a 42years old Sugar Mama in Hawaii, USA who is interested in a man for friendship and possible long-term relationship.
Here is what this Sugar Mama in Hawaii, USA has to say about herself and the kind of man she is looking for.
How would you describe yourself?
Aloha, I'm a single Black female seeking to meet a single male for friendship and possible long term relationship. I enjoy traveling, jazz bands and other types of concerts, dancing, long walks along the beach, theater (Broadway and movies), community events and various other things. I am affectionate, easy going, family oriented and enjoy a night out on the island as well as quiet times at home cuddling.
I am affectionate, easy going, family oriented and enjoy a night out on the island as well as quiet times at home cuddling. I am a non-smoker, non-drinker. I love to travel both international as well as domestically and will travel almost anywhere for a great jazz fest ( a plus if you are a smooth jazz lover). I keep active and enjoy trying new things. I am not an upgraded member on this site so I can only send flirts and cannot respond to you unless you send me an actual message.
I am looking for
I am looking for a single, unattached, mature, independent, affectionate, fun, caring, family oriented man that enjoys traveling and living life to the fullest. Must be a non-smoker and non-drug user. Social drinker ok. Ethnicity/race unimportant. Looking for friendship with the possibility of long term relationship.Call me if you are fit