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New York, NY (MMD Newswire) September 13, 2011 - - The number of people living in poverty in the U.S. rose to 46.2 million in 2010, with 15.1 percent of the American public living below the official poverty line. Four straight years of increases in the U.S. poverty rate have put the number of people in poverty at a 52-year high that reflects not only the severity of the last recession and ongoing jobs crisis, but also more than a decade of slow job growth and low wages. The National Employment Law Project noted today that the troubling poverty figures would be even higher in the absence of programs like unemployment insurance and Social Security, which collectively kept 23.5 Americans out of poverty in 2010.
"The unacceptable number of families living in poverty is a result of a painfully weak economic recovery and high unemployment, as well as years of policy decisions that have tilted income and wealth towards the wealthiest individuals at the expense of working and middle class Americans," said National Employment Law Project Executive Director, Christine Owens. "Without essentials like Social Security and unemployment insurance, we would have even more Americans living in poverty - which underscores yet again why these programs must be maintained to rebuild the economy."
Today's release from the Census Bureau shows that in 2010, unemployment insurance kept 3.2 million people out of poverty, including 0.9 million children. Social Security kept 20.3 million people out of poverty, including 13.8 million seniors.
The Census report also reflected the recession's downward pressure on wages for those who are employed. Real median household income in 2010 was $49,445, down 2.3 percent from 2009. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the percentage of hourly-paid workers earning the federal minimum wage or less rose to 6.0 percent in 2010, up from 4.9 percent in 2009.
While the Great Recession and the subsequent unemployment crisis dramatically increased the number of Americans living in poverty, the 2010 increase also reflects a larger trend in which the poverty rate has risen in 8 out of the last 10 years as a result of slow job growth and low wages.
A recent analysis by the National Employment Law Project finds that while the majority of jobs lost during and after the recession were in mid-wage occupations, roughly three-quarters of the jobs added since job growth resumed are in low-wage occupations like cashiers and food preparation. Moreover, workers in lower-wage occupations (with median wages under $13.52) have seen a 2.3 percent decline in real wages.
Data released today shows while the poverty rate among seniors did not differ from last year, the poverty rate among working age people 18-64 increased to 13.7 percent in 2010 from 12.9 percent the year prior. The poverty rate among children rose to 22.0 percent from 20.7 percent.
Federal, state and local governments can take action to help reverse these trends:
Create Good Jobs
The jobs deficit of more than 11.2 million jobs--a figure that combines the nearly 6.9 million jobs lost since the start of the recession in late 2007 with just under 4.4 million jobs needed to account for growth in the working-age population since that time -- underscores the pressing need for job creation.
"The president and the Congress must work together to enact measures that put people back to work quickly, pay family-supporting wages, and lift the burden of recession from millions of hard-hit workers," stated Owens. "We need forward-looking investments in areas like infrastructure and clean energy, as well as in areas that build the skills of tomorrow's workforce, such as early childhood education."
Reauthorize Federal Unemployment Insurance Programs
Federal unemployment insurance programs, which include Emergency Unemployment Compensation and Extended Benefits, are set to expire at the end of this year. More than seven million people currently receive unemployment insurance, which has been critical for families as well as the economy. Unemployment insurance is widely understood to be an important economic stabilizer during economic downturns: Every one dollar of unemployment insurance generates up to $1.90 in economic activity, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Over the past five decades, Congress never allowed emergency unemployment insurance to expire when the unemployment rate was higher than 7.2 percent.
Raise the Minimum Wage
The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 per year for a full-time worker, while the poverty rate for a family of three was $17,374 in 2010. Congress has acted only three times in the past decade to raise wages for the lowest paid workers in our economy, but if the minimum wage had kept up with inflation over the past 40 years, it would be over $10 an hour. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have recognized the federal minimum wage level is insufficient and have raised their state minimum wage rate. More information about the minimum wage can be found at raisetheminimumwage.org.
End Wage Theft
Along with strengthening the minimum wage, wage standards must be enforced. A survey of more than 4,000 low-wage workers conducted by the National Employment Law Project and its partners in 2008 found that a quarter of workers had been paid less than the minimum wage in the preceding week, and three quarters who worked overtime were denied overtime pay. The average losses due to wage theft were about $2,600 from annual earnings of roughly $17,000. In order to stop wage theft, states and cities must strengthen wage laws, and all levels of government must boost enforcement of these laws and penalties for breaking them.
For more information visit www.nelp.org.
The National Employment Law Project is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts research and advocates on issues affecting low-wage and unemployed workers.
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Women's Meditation
Women's Meditation is facilitated by Dean Alison Boden (ORL) and Nathalie Emond (UHS) and is open to all Princeton University women - students, faculty and staff. The group meets one Tuesday per month at 12 noon in Murray-Dodge 104 during the academic year and a healthy lunch is served. The schedule for Fall 2018 is Sep 25, Oct 23, Nov 13 and Dec 11.

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The birthday girl and nutty little Jake
On Saturday afternoon Rob and I went to my sister Kris's house to celebrate her birthday. Kris's daughter, Sophie, who's nine, planned the entire party, baked the cake (with my mom's help), and saw to every detail. It was a summery beach-themed party, and Sophie insisted that we all wear plastic leis. She made her own pink-lemonade popsicles, and there was pink-lemonade punch, too, which she served in fancy glasses with orange slices and little paper umbrellas to garnish. The cake was a masterpiece, shaped and decorated like a pair of large flip-flops. The straps were Fruit by the Foot.
"Who thought of using that?" I asked.
"I thought of it," Sophie said. She was very proud.
The frosting was purple, and the flip-flops were polka-dotted with Sprees. Everyone oohed and ah-ed and snapped pictures.
"Sophie," I said, "you could be the next Martha Stewart!"
Sophie made a sad/mad face.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"You're saying I'm like a person with gray hair?!"
"I was merely comparing your talents," I said. "I was saying your talents are comparable." I rolled my eyes. "Believe me, I know you are way hotter than Martha Stewart."
"That's right," Sophie said. She's always telling us (only half jokingly) that she is "naturally hot."
And she wonders aloud how she ended up hot when nobody else in the family did.
Sophie really was being very Martha Stewart-ish. Kris was getting out chips and some other snacks for the party, and Sophie said, truly concerned, "Mommy, you're not going to put out that weird old pound cake from Walmart, are you?"
"No, Martha," Kris said, rolling her eyes. "I'm not."
There was a ton of food. Mom brought a broccoli salad with sliced almonds, a peach crisp made with fresh peaches, and big trays full of delicious tempeh wraps. My sister Bunny brought a beautiful fruit platter with lots of fat cherries, and watermelon cut into star shapes. I just brought my old black bean salad (yawn yawn).
Sophie was so proud of her cake and her popsicles and her frosty pink punch. She posed for pictures with the cake and soaked up the compliments.
I said, "What flavor is the cake, Sophie?"
"Foot," Matt (Bunny's husband) said.
Sophie said, "It's Funfetti. Be quiet, Matt."
I said, "Sophie, I can't wait until you open your restaurant." This has always been her plan, to open a restaurant—ever since she was five. She always promised she'd open a restaurant and hire all us fork-ups, her family, to work there.
"I'm not going to open a restaurant," Sophie announced. "I changed my mind. I'm going to be a teacher! I want summers off!"
"But wait," I said. "I thought you were going to hire me to work for you. Um, in fact, I was kind of counting on it."
"Sorry," she said, giggling, perhaps a little nervously. And then, as if to cheer me up: ". . . Oh, well, you'll probably be dead by then anyway."
Gee, I sure hope not.
Sophie had picked out a beautiful bouquet of helium balloons for the party, including one shaped like a very cute owl. Jake (Sophie's little brother, age six) asked if he could have a balloon. She said yes, but of course it popped right away. That's just Jake's luck—and the result of his six-year-old clumsiness and spazziness.
The next time I saw him he was walking around with his bottom lip sticking out.
"What's the matter with Jake?" I asked.
"He's mad," Kris said.
"Why?" I asked.
"His balloon popped," Kris said.
And Mom cried, "But Hum will get him another one!" (Two things you should know: The kids call Mom "Hum" and Hum loves to spoil Jake.)
Kris rolled her eyes at Mom/Hum, "Oh, I'm sure you will."
Kris was all dressed up for her party. She looked great! (I hadn't even taken a shower before coming over.) She was wearing a hot pink lei and long dangling earrings and a hot pink maxi dress, very light and breezy and silky. She looked like she was staying at a fancy Hawaiian resort.
Of course she was only able to keep the outfit on for a minute, because this was a pool party and Jake was itching to dive in.
"Leslie, are you getting in the pool?" he kept asking. "Leslie, are you getting in? Are you getting in now? When are you getting in, Leslie?"
Jake is very intense. I love him. He's so enthusiastic. He's so small, only six, and he doesn't want to be ignored, so he's always shouting.
We started the party off with a nice competitive game of volleyball, boys against girls. Emotions generally run high when we divide up this way, and this particular game was no exception. Jake kept swimming under the net in the middle of play, coming over to the girls' side to talk trash. "Girls drool!" he'd shout. "Hey, Sophie, girls drool!"
He looked so cute, so slippery and smooth. It's impossible to take him seriously with his big blue eyes and brand-new teeth.
We kept pushing him back over to the boys' side.
Rob was saying, "Come on, Jake, you've got to keep your head in the game. And anyway, that's poor sportsmanship."
But every time the boys scored, Jake would have to swim under the net and shout, "In your face, Sophie!"
As I said, it was highly competitive game, and examples of poor sportsmanship abounded. "Hit it to Leslie," Matt would say in his deadpan way. "She's terrible."
We girls were screaming and cheering and reveling in the guys' every mistake and failure. We kept accusing them of cheating, even though we had no real basis for our accusations (just a nagging sense of injustice). And they did the same to us.
"That was totally out!"
"It was on the line!"
"It was out!"
"Do over!"
In the end the guys won (because they cheated), and Rob started whooping and cheering in the most obnoxious frat-boy way ("Woo!!!! Yeah!!! We're no. 1!!!!")—just to be funny. Jake seemed so surprised by this whole rowdy display, especially when Rob (still hooting and cheering) scooped him up and bore him aloft in a celebration of victory—then threw him in the water.
When Jake finally came up for air, Phil (his father) said in his soft way, "What happened there,
Buddy? You okay?"
Jake didn't seem to be quite sure about the answer to either question.
"We were celebrating," Rob explained to Jake sheepishly. "It was cool . . . right?"
Jake nodded, gasping (I think he almost drowned). And then about 10 minutes later when he had recovered sufficiently, he said, "Hey, Rob, wanna do that good sportsmanship thing again?"
"You mean when we were celebrating?" Rob said. "Um, that was actually bad sportsmanship, Jake. I think maybe you're a little confused about the whole concept."
But he still scooped Jake up and tossed him into the water again.
Meanwhile, Sophie was preparing for our next game. It was a game she had read about in American Girl magazine and it involved diving for coin-filled plastic Easter eggs.
The guys kept giving her a hard time about the game because it came out of American Girl.
"Okay, you sexist geeks," Kris said, rolling her eyes. "We'll say it came out of American Man magazine. Does that make it better?"
Rob was whooping, "Woo, yeah, American Man!"
Poor Sophie was working so hard, filling the plastic eggs with coins, trying to explain to everybody the game's very complicated rules. And meanwhile all the guys were balking and sassing her, being uncooperative, threatening not to play.
Rob was saying, "We'll just swim while you girls play with your dollies and your tea cozies."
And Jake was copying him, shouting, "Yeah, let the girls play with their dumb tea cups and we will play Marco Polo!"
And still, Sophie soldiered on, preparing her game. And Jake shouted, "Yeah, let the girls play with their dumb Easter baskets! . . . Right, Rob? Right? We will do boy stuff!"
Obviously, he loved to think that he and Rob were on the same page. Even so, he was not afraid to yell at Rob in an effort to be hilarious. (Jake is always trying to be hilarious.) Whenever Rob would give him crap, which was at least every five minutes, Jake would shout, "Why don't you shut it, Rob? Hey Rob, why don't you shut it?"
He also told Matt to shut it a few times. And his own father.
I asked, "Jake, why do you keep telling everyone to shut it?"
"Shut it, Leslie!" Jake shouted. I should have seen that one coming.
Finally everything was ready for Sophie's game. Each team had to dive for eggs, and whichever team collected the most money, won. The boys were cheating and quitting the whole time, and we girls triumphed in the end—because of our superior team spirit. We collected 28 cents.
We played a second time, but this time the game evolved into a sort of relay race that involved swimming and grabbing an egg out of the deep end while wearing a plastic lei, then swimming back and passing off the lei to your teammate. It also involved trash talk galore and half the boys' team quitting.
"Time to sing Happy Birthday!" Mom called.
Mom is so funny. She's always kind of bossy and always kind of directing things. She was busily slicing cake and pouring pink lemonade. She poured too much into one glass and it was overflowing, so she started yelling at Kris, "Sip it! Come on! Get your face down there and sip it good! Don't let it spill on the table!" And Kris was so funny because she obeyed without hesitation.
Everybody had a big slice of the flip-flop cake. As Sophie was eating hers, she giggled, "I think I might have put on a few pounds. The only thing I've eaten for the last three days is cake!"
I had to giggle too. She's very slim and only nine.
Oh, one last funny thing. While we ate, Jake entertained us with a dance he and Sophie had made up to music provided by this stupid little musical baby toy—a dumb little plastic truck, a remnant of their younger years. Jake wound up the truck and started to dance very seriously, pumping his fists in the air to the wimpy, almost undetectable sound. It was so hard not to laugh. Of course, he was dancing in nothing but his superhero underwear.
Sophie's luscious pink lemonade
The awesome flip-flop cake
Happy Jake. Don't you love his funny new teeth?
Jake telling me to "shut it"
Sophie, insulted that I compared her to that hag Martha Stewart
Pretty Sophie, a wonderful hostess


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Life is a curious thing.
We wake up each day
Eat breakfast
Brush our teeth
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Watch TV
Go to bed
On repeat for 5 out of the 7 days of our week
On the weekend we run around doing chores and making sure everything is done before heading back to work on Monday
But do we ever stop to think
Think about what we are doing
If this is the only way
If we are actually happy
We complain a lot
About work
About people
About our situations
But do we ever stop to think
Think what we can do to change things
Do we truly want to change things?
Do you ever wonder-
How can I be more happy?
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The world is full of endless possibilities
It is full of beauty
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And you are the creator of your destiny
You can choose to change whatever it is that is preventing you from finding happiness
It's all a choice
Choose to consciously think about what you want in your life
Choose to listen to your souls desires
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It may be a scary choice but its 100% yours
It can all start with something so small, so simple
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A tinny shift in consciousness, which can result in a huge shift in the direction of your life
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2017 Luncheon Agenda
Friday, September 29
|10:00 a.m.
|Registration Opens at Gate 10
|11:00 a.m.
Renee Murphy, Anchor and Investigative Reporter, WHAS-TV
Presentation - The WAHVE Story and Growing a Start Up
Sharon Emek, WAHVE
Audrey Allsopp, WLI
|12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
|Lunch Buffet
|1:15 p.m.
|Door Prize Drawings
|Until Early Evening
|Networking and Horse Racing
|2:43 p.m.
|Women Leaders in Insurance 15th Anniversary Classic (5th Race)
Sharon Emek is founder and CEO of Work At Home Vintage Experts LLC (WAHVE), an innovative talent solution that engages vintage professionals "phasing" into retirement who work from home for insurance firms. WAHVE's vision is to transform how businesses, workers and society view retirement so that people, businesses and society benefit from longer productivity. Previously, Emek was a partner at CBS Coverage Group, Inc., a regional full service insurance agency. Prior to merging with CBS, she was founder and CEO of The Emek Group, an insurance agency she formed in 1988. Before opening her management and insurance consulting firm in 1984, she was a professor at Rutgers University.
Featured Speaker - Sharon Emek
Emek is considered an insurance industry leader and expert. She has written numerous articles which have been published in insurance industry periodicals, and she is a prolific public speaker on insurance and management issues. She has appeared on CNN, CNBC, CBS, and is often quoted in numerous national insurance and news periodicals.
Emek has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2016 SmartCEO Brava Award honoring top female CEOs and the Vistage Leadership Legacy Award; Insurance Business America's "Elite Women in Insurance" 2014, 2015 and 2016 and the 2015 "Hot 100" list; the first woman to receive the 1882 Fellow Award, the highest honor presented by IIABNY (2014); Outstanding Committee Chairperson Award from IIABNY (2008); the first woman to receive the Sidney O. Smith Government Affairs Award from the IIABA (2007); the Distinguished Service Award from IIABNY (2006); the Helen Garvin Outstanding Achiever Award from the NAIW (1999); and the National Promising Research Award for her doctoral research (1978).
Emek served on numerous boards including the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York, ACT (Agents Council for Technology), the Center for Women's Business Research, NYC Mayor's Small Business Advisory Board, IBM Small Business Research and Technology Advisory Council. Emek received her doctoral degree from Rutgers University (1977). She is the author of Answers for Managers.


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The Beehive – 1/8/16
Molloy to Remember Br. Ron at Annual Dinner
On January 17th alumni and friends will celebrate the life and legacy of the late Br. Ronald Marcellin '52. A graduate of St. Ann's Academy and a lifelong student of the Marist tradition, Br. Ron believed in bringing the best out in each and every student. No matter how confident or how timid they might have been, Br. Ron had an amazing ability to relate to and mentor young people. As a teacher at Christ the King High School, Holy Trinity, St. Helena's in the Bronx, and finally Molloy, he made an impact in the classroom with his inspiring lessons and after school as a guidance counselor. Br. Ron also assisted Br. Leo Richard for over 25 years as a counselor in the SMILE program. SMILE, or Something More in Life's Experience, invites students to speak freely with each other, helping them to navigate the trials and tribulations of teenage life. Who better to moderate such sessions than Br. Ron, one of the most caring and understanding individuals to ever serve the Stanner community?
You can imagine how many friendships Br. Ron nurtured after so many years. Those friendships continue today, as many of the Stanners who benefited from his guidance remain close with each other. In fact, they are the main driving force of the Br. Ron Marcellin Committee, which plans an annual gathering every January at Trinity Restaurant & Bar in Floral Park to honor Br. Ron's legacy. Just as he endeavored to help every student he could, so too do our alumni work toward the same goal. Funds raised through the Br. Ron Marcellin Scholarship Dinner directly benefit students and families in need. Due to their extraordinary situations, these students would not be able to attend Molloy. Your gift to the Ron Fund does and can make a powerful difference in the lives of these wonderful and deserving children. Thanks to your generosity, two outstanding freshmen are current recipients, both whom have both experienced extenuating circumstances in their personal lives. (Pictured: A cartoon honoring Br. Ron by Rich Martinez '96 that was featured in the 1994 yearbook. Click to enlarge.)
Funds raised through this year's event will afford Molloy greater to provide the gift of a Stanner education to deserving students in the future. The event will include a 50/50 raffle drawing, a live auction with many fantastic prizes, dinner and beverages, and an enthusiastic group of alumni ready to help young Stanners in need. This is a great opportunity to join a wonderful tradition, and we hope to have a full house on January 17th. Additional details are provided below.
- When: Sunday, January 17th, 2016 | 8:00pm
- Where: Trinity Restaurant & Bar in Floral Park
- Admission: $40 donation per person
- 50/50 Raffle: $100 Donation (for sale at event or contact email@example.com for advance purchase)
- or Pay at the door
Remembering Mr. Raymond Egan
It is with heavy hearts that we share with our Molloy family the passing of Mr. Raymond Egan on December 25th, 2015 at the age of 79. He was most recently a resident of Valley Stream, New York.
Mr. Egan began teaching at Molloy in the early 1960's. Over the years he taught classes including Contemporary/Modern America, 20th Century Topics, Economics, World History, US Government, and even Elementary Algebra. Mr. Egan would eventually be appointed the very first Chairman of the history department in the early 1970's. He remained in that role for many years. "Ray loved Molloy. I was lucky to be a student and a student-teacher under him, and to be his friend," said Mr. Bill Niklaus '80. "He was a gentleman in all aspects. He cared for his students, his family, and the Marist Brothers. I never heard him say a bad word about anybody." Regarding his class demeanor, Bill shared that Mr. Egan, "worked hard to make sure all of his students learned the material correctly." Bill continued, "He was my Economics teacher, and I can honestly say after I graduated I knew how to navigate a tax form because of his class." Mr. Egan was also a passionate baseball fan and a huge New York Mets fan with an enviable autograph collection.
After school, Mr. Egan made an impact on students through the Marist Mission League club and as moderator of The Stanner newspaper. "As moderator of The Stanner, and because he was a history teacher, Mr. Egan would always encourage us to link news from around Molloy with current events," said President Richard Karsten '81, who served as Editor-In-Chief of the paper under Mr. Egan. "His guidance helped the whole editorial staff understand how to communicate relevent stories in every issue. Beyond the paper, he was a passionate teacher who always kept a sense of humor." (Pictured: Richard Karsten '81 second from left, Mr. Egan far right)
1994 marked Mr. Egan's last year of teaching at Molloy. Over the course of his career he made his mark as an exceptional educator, mentor, and friend to all. As moderator of "The Stanner" for over 20 years, Mr. Egan helped students define the way the stories of the times – now the history of Molloy – were told and how they continue to be told today. Please join us in prayer as we remember Mr. Egan for the great man and great friend that he was.
We welcome our alumni to share their memories of and stories about Mr. Egan with The Beehive by forwarding them to email@example.com.
Prayers for Our Alumni
Over the past week, the Stanner Alumni Center has been made aware of two alumni and families in need of prayers from our community.
Branden Warders '14, a former track and field athlete at Molloy and currently a college sophomore, was involved in a serious automobile accident in Arizona late on New Year's Day. Other members of the Warders family were also involved in the accident. All survived, but left the scene with injuries. Branden has since undergone surgery and will remain in hospital care for several weeks while recuperating. We ask that you please keep Branden and the Warders family in your thoughts and prayers as they work toward a full recovery.
We have also learned that Brian Foley '75, father of Melissa Foley '13 and Jennifer Foley '13, is in intensive care at North Shore LIJ Hospital as the result of a long-term illness. The Foleys are a wonderful Stanner family, and our thoughts and prayers are with them at this time. Please join us in prayer for Brian and the Foley family.
"God Bless All Stanners." – Br. Terence Jones '36
Marist Brothers Celebrate Fourvière Year in Anticipation of Bicentenary Anniversary
On July 23, 2016 the Marist Brothers will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Pledge that was made by twelve young men, some of them newly ordained priests, others still seminarians, in the chapel of Fourvière in Lyon, to consecrate themselves to founding the first congregation of Marists. Leading up to this historic date, the Marist Brothers announced that they would recognize a different theme each year beginning in summer 2014 that would recall essential aspects of our "lives and missions as Marists." Consider how many people in over 75 countries around the world have benefited from nearly 200 years of Marist education, service, and faith, and you begin to realize just how big of a celebration this is and should be.
The multi-year celebration began in July 2014 with "Montagne Year", during which all Marists were called to remember and reflect on the young Jean-Baptist Montagne. A young dying boy who had no faith or religious instruction, Montagne's dilemma and inevitable passing influenced Marcellin Champagnat to found the Marist Brothers in order to share faith and education with disadvantaged youths. July 23, 2015 marked the current celebration of "Fourvière Year", whose theme is: "The Society of Mary – fraternity: associates for the mission (Brothers and Laity)". On July 23, 1816, the day after their ordination, a group of young priests traveled to the shrine of Fourvière in Lyon, France. At the feet of our Lady in the small chapel there, they promised to establish the Society of Mary. Fourvière Year is a celebration of the Pledge made in that chapel. Marists conceived the Society of Mary as a large tree with different branches: priests, brothers, sisters, and lay people. Today, the Marist Brothers acknowledge that the Holy Spirit has made lay Marist vocations flourish. Thousands of lay men and women around the world feel called to live the Gospel like Mary.
In a statement, the four Marist Family Congregational Leaders, Br. Emili Turu, Sr. Georgeanne Donovan, Sr. Grace Ellul, and Fr. John Hannan, shared their hopes for Fourvière Year. "We would like to provoke a sense of curiosity and awe at the significance of the Fourvière Pledge among today's Marists. We would also like to foster an enhanced sense of Marist identity as one 'Marist Family' and to boost a renewal of energy and motivation to the 'work of Mary.'" The Marist leaders encourage all lay Marists to participate in this year of prayerful reflection, and to "ponder its meaning to the founding congregation of Marists who took the Pledge in 1816 and its relevance in our own lives today." They concluded their statement with their belief that "we are all called to be a little of Mary's presence in the world." For more information about Fourvière Year and the Marist Bicentenary please visit http://www.maristbr.com/.
Other Upcoming Events
Badges Event / Molloy Vs. Christ the King HS – TONIGHT!
- When: Friday, January 8th, 2016 | 6:30pm
- Where: Archbishop Molloy High School
- Who: Badges Alumni + All Members of the Molloy Community
- Admission: Adults $30 | Kids $15
- Contact: Joe Sommo '03 or Ed Shannon '84
- Online registration is now closed, but you may pay at the door
Molloy will host a casual event TONIGHT sponsored by its Badges Alumni Network and open to ALL alumni and friends. The evening will include food and beverages as well as a big game between Molloy's Boys Varsity basketball team and rival Christ the King High School. The pregame reception will begin at 6:30pm with tipoff at 7:30pm. Admission is a $30 donation for adults and $15 for kids. Please join us for our first event of the New Year to socialize and connect with other Stanners and cheer on the home team!
2016 Stanner Games
- When: Saturday, January 16th, 2016
- Where: The Armory (216 Fort Washington Ave)
Molloy's Track & Field athletes are getting their last reps in before the 2016 Stanner Games, which will take place Saturday, January 16th at The Armory Track & Field Center in Manhattan. One of the largest meets of the year, Stanner Games invites hundreds of students representing over 170 high schools around the tri-state area to participate. We welcome alumni, parents and friends to come out to the Armory to cheer on Stanner High. Volunteers have already been booked for this year's event, however if you wish to volunteer in 2017 and beyond please express your interest to Coach AJ Power '84 at firstname.lastname@example.com. Good luck to all competitors! (Pictured: Photos from last year's Stanner Games)
Wine Tasting at Molloy
- When: Thursday, February 11th, 2016 | 6:30pm
- Where: Archbishop Molloy High School
- Who: Alumni, Parents & Friends (Limited seating available)
- Admission: $50 per person
- Contact: Joe Sommo '03 | email@example.com
Molloy invites alumni, parents and friends to attend our next wine tasting hosted by in house wine expert Jim Sheehan '75. Participants will experience a professional wine tasting class in a casual and friendly setting. This year's event will feature mostly Spanish wines. Food and other refreshments will be offered as well. Please spread the word and bring a friend out to Molloy on February 11th!
Marine Vet Reflects on Career, Faith
by Ashley Mayer '12, Development Assistant
Colonel Richard H. Esau Jr. '52 is an inspiring, accomplished member of the US Military, as well as an "Original Stanner" having graduated from St. Ann's Academy. Col. Esau was kind enough to speak with me recently about his life as a Marine and the impact St. Ann's has had on his life. (Pictured left: Richard Esau's senior portrait, 1952)
An NYC native and Manhattan College graduate, Col. Esau completed basic training in 1957 and was assigned to the 2d Marine Division. He went on to serve as Platoon Commander, an S –3 Liaison Officer, and a Motor Transport Officer with the 2d Marines. He would also fulfill the role of Executive Officer of Company L, 3d Battalion, 6th Marines.
"St. Ann's played a big part in my life. I was the captain of our baseball team, which was coached by Lou Carnesecca back then," Col. Esau recalls. He continued playing baseball while enlisted in the Marines, utilizing the lessons and skills he learned at St. Ann's as the right fielder for the All Marine Baseball Team. Beyond baseball, Col. Esau lived and breathed the Marist tradition, and he continues to emphasize the importance of his faith then and now. "I am the product of sixteen years of formal Catholic education. My parents were very religious, and I grew up believing in the idea of looking after people. That followed me into the Marines, where I looked after many people."
While in active duty, Col. Esau had many "interesting assignments" as he calls them. "I commanded a couple of platoons, rifle companies, and regiments. I participated in searches for US servicemen missing in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Back home, I was an officer recruiter and had at least fifty college campuses I had to visit." Col. Esau experienced two tours in Vietnam in total, and as a result of his courage and bravery became a decorated Marine. He was awarded two Purple Hearts, five awards for Valor, two Legion of Merit medals, three Bronze Star medals with Combat "V", the Defense Meritorious Service medal, the Joint Service Commendation medal, the Navy Commendation medal with Combat "V", the Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Gold Star, and numerous other accolades. In 1985, Col. Esau retired to the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve.
"An awful lot of people were enlisted with me in the Vietnam War," said Col. Esau. "We all fought to guarantee the American way of life. I was wounded a couple of times, and at the time I wasn't sure if I'd be here speaking today. There must be a reason for me to still be here." Col. Esau currently resides in Virginia Beach, VA. He is happily married, a father to six, and a grandfather to nine. (Photo courtesy of the Marine Corps League and Col. Esau)
Class Updates
Research by Ashley Regazzi '04 has been published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, US National Library of Medicine. During the past year, Ashley co-authored three research papers exploring oncology treatments, side effects, and clinical trial design. The most recent paper was published in Cancer (an official journal of the American Cancer Society) and discusses the incidence of blood clots during treatment with the type of chemotherapy most commonly given for bladder cancer. "We looked at patients treated with three different chemo regimens — the standard combination, a combination considered less toxic to patients with certain health issues, and an experimental combination that some researchers have linked to cardiac disorders — and found higher rates of blood clots in the 'less toxic' group than in the other two," explained Ashley. "Seeing it published means a lot to me because it was the first project I helped design when I was first hired at Memorial Sloan Kettering 7 years ago." | See Ashley's Research
Danny Grzesik '03 and Amanda Fabrizio got engaged on December 23, 2015 in Manhattan. Amanda and Danny met while they both worked at Lehigh University. Danny currently is Associate Dean of Students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Amanda is Director of Development for the College of Engineering at Tennessee Tech University. They live in Chattanooga, Tennessee with their dog Sonic and are planning a wedding for 2017. Congrats to the lovely couple!
Rob Chirico '70 is an artist and the author of the Field Guide to Cocktails (Quirk Books/Random House October 2005), which is in its third printing and has sold over 25,000 copies. It has also been translated into Polish. Rob has also written two books on martinis and cigars (Martini Madness and Up in Smoke), and has published articles in the food journal Gastronomica. His novel, Onward Kitchen Soldiers, which is a humorous take on food media, publishing, and public relations, was published in April 2014 as an e-book with Untreed Reads. His non-fiction book, Damn! A Cultural History of Swearing in America was published by Pitchstone Press in 2005. Rob's cookbook/memoir Escape from an Italian-American Kitchen: How I Learned How Not To Cook Like My Mother will be published in February 2016. In a curious aside, his interest in food prompted him to enter the Sutter Home Build a Better Burger Contest in 1991, where he was flown to the Napa Valley, and competed for and won the grand prize of $10,000. | More on Rob's work
It is with great sorrow that we share the December 25th, 2015 passing of John A. Bailo '78. John is survived by his son Gio, mother Rose, siblings Marie, Carole, Paul '83, brothers-in-law Bill Schroeder '79, Charles Iervolino '80 and his sister-in-law Kathy. John will fondly be remembered for his brilliant mind and generous spirit. Please keep John and the Bailo family in your prayers.
It is with deep regret that we share the passing of James Rhatigan '70. Jim will be remembered among his family and friends for his determination, public service, and good will. Please remember Jim and his family in your prayers.
As published above, please keep Mr. Raymond Egan in your thoughts and prayers.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of the mother of Melanie Duran '09.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Lawrence Wafrock '66.


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Eduardo and Rachel Martinez of Newark announce the birth of a son, Christian Eduardo, on Aug. 29, 2018, at Wise Health System in Decatur.
He weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces and was 18 1/4 inches long.
He has three brothers, John, 5, Luke, 3 and Hunter, 1; and one sister, Lilly, 4.
Grandparents are David and Michele Dahl of Newark and Amerla Martinez of of Westminster.
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Rat Problem
Hello Curators,
I have rats at my house. :( I don't want to use poison because I know that can make predators sick when they eat poisoned animals. What can I do?
Thanks for your help.
Curator Response
Hi Nicole,
Sorry about your rats. Thank you for wanting to do the right thing. The ecologically-friendly way to kill rats is to use snap traps. This isn't very rat-friendly, but that's the point, right? If you aren't prepared to bait, check, and clean up after your own snap traps, you can hire a company to do it for you. Some companies that offer bait traps claim they sell bait traps that rats only go into and don't come out of. Unless they come very frequently to check those traps, I would be cautious about that option. If rats are still in fact coming out of those traps, you can have the problem you want to avoid, with poisoned rats poisoning predators. Another complication is that rats often take bait from traps and carry it away to eat. When they do this, they may leave a little trail of bait that could harm other animals, including small pets. So while snap traps are gruesome, they are the best way to solve your rat problem without causing other problems.
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42.195 - The Marathon Seminar
South Yarra Spine & Sports Medicine
Wednesday, 29 August 2018 from 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm (AEST)
Event Details
The first steps to the finish line start today - Learn and be inspired by some of Australia's leading running practitioners. A must for all coaches, first time runners and those looking to take their running to a new level.
KAREN HOLZER - Sports Physician
Karen is one of Australia's leading Sports Physicians, she has been Team Doctor at numerous international events including Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and World Championships.
RICHARD SQUIRES - Massage Therapist
With over 17 years of clinical experience, Richard is one of Australia's most recognised running massage therapists. He has traveled the world supporting Australia's 2016 Olympic and 2017 World Cross Country Team.
STEPHANIE GASKELL - Dietitian & Nutritionist
Steph has over a decade of experience working with athletes from recreational to elite and Olympic level and has worked with professional sporting teams. She was a competitive ultra trail runner herself and is currently researching in the area of endurance running and sports nutrition. Steph has been an invited speaker both nationally and internationally in the area of sports nutrition and gut health and has written in international clinical sports nutrition text and articles for magazines such as Runners World, Men's Fitness and Australian Triathlete Magazine.
DEAN HUFFER - Physiotherapist
A former NCAA Track & Cross Country athlete at Adams State. Dean holds a Masters in Exercise Science, as well a Doctorate in Physiotherapy. He is clinically recognised by his research publications in plantar fasciitis and achilles tendinopathy.
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Apr 18 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
511 NW Broadway
Portland, OR, 97209 [map]
Members of Portland-based Killjoy Collective with share information about starting and maintaining and art collective.
A group of artists in Portland, OR united by the ideals of intersectional feminism and the need to combat gender inequity in the art world.
Our collective goal is to increase the visibility of women, women-identifying, and gender non-conforming artists in Portland and beyond by curating public visual art exhibitions and events representing a community-minded and interdisciplinary approach. We seek to provide a platform for artists exploring urgent, contemporary issues via our artist-run gallery space in SE Portland.
We view Killjoy as a site of resistance and a space for collaborating voices.
Killjoy Collective celebrates and seeks to engage women - women of color, women of all ages, women of all shapes and sizes, women with visible and invisible disabilities, immigrant women, indigenous women, queer women, trans women, and those who refuse to be put in a box. Our organization is feminist, non-hierarchical, unmotivated by profit, and deeply committed to sustaining relationships with artists and audiences. Our artist-run space strives to connect emerging creatives with intrigued audiences in a fun and intimate environment.
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Geocaching, the modern-day treasure hunt
Western senior Katy Pace discovered the real-world treasure hunt activity geocaching while studying abroad in France and has now brought it back with her to Bellingham.
Pace said she enjoys geocaching so much that she has made an effort to spread the game to the Bellingham community. Pace started a Facebook group on Sept. 4 that aims to connect active geocache members and individuals interested in geocaching in our area.
"I would like the group to develop into something where people take that interest and move forward," Pace said.
Geocaching, an activity claimed to be a contemporary GPS treasure hunt, is enjoyed by over 6 million members all over the planet, according to the national geocaching website.
Pace is an active geocache member in the Bellingham community and said that the game allows its members to seek out a variety of locations and hidden items, known as "caches." Members discover these hidden caches based on a given set of coordinates that lead members to their final destination and, or hidden treasure.
The game provides the opportunity to find items, questions or facts left by the original geocache hider or past geocache members who have found the very same cache. Pace said that the game offers something fun and exciting for almost anyone.
Discovering a cache requires members to accomplish a variety of tasks. Traditional caching is the simplest version of geocaching and the most widely available, active geocacher Vincent Ourthiague said.
Ourthiague resides in France and introduced Pace to geocaching during her study abroad in France this past year.
"What's great about this type of cache is there are many things to discover with them," Ourthiague said. "It can be a great landscape, something interesting to see in a city, or a really clever hiding spot."
Members may have to participate in "multi-caching," where one must travel to multiple locations before finding the true cache's placement. They may even solve clues before being given the cache's true coordinates, which Pace defined as "mystery caching."
A physical cache can look like anything, Pace said. Some caches are so small that only a piece of paper can fit inside, while others are big enough for members to leave larger items that can be traded.
Once a member finds a cache, they have the option to leave a personal belonging or take a keepsake left by a past geocacher, according the national geocache website.
Ourthiague, who has found more than 5,000 caches, said that people usually leave items that they like. He said he personally enjoys leaving foreign coins that he has acquired from around the world.
Ourthiague has geocached in 13 countries and hidden 30 caches himself.
"I always place my caches in locations I want to make people discover because I want to share those places, maybe a historical location or a great point view," Ourthiague said.
For those who are already active members, or are interested in trying the game, join Pace's page by finding Bellingham Geogaching on Facebook.


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Watch| Protestors taking to the streets for "Not My President's Day."
Today marks Presidents' Day in the U.S. But for thousands of protesters, today is also "Not My President's Day."
Thousands of people are expected to take to the streets in rallies and protests against President Trump. Some will call for his impeachment.
As of Monday morning, roughly 14,000 people said on Facebook they would attend a New York rally scheduled for noon.
Donald Trump is literally our President, but figuratively, he has attacked every value New Yorkers embody and does not represent our interests.
Protests are also planned from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside Los Angeles City Hall, and Chicago will host a rally across the Chicago River from the Trump Tower, USA Today reports. Organizers in Atlanta are also planning an "imPEACH Now" march, and a Washington, D.C. rally promises about 900 attendees.
It's a beautiful day to #resist! Join us in DuPont Circle at 2pm for the #NotMyPresidentsDay rally. pic.twitter.com/0xiRn6OIlD— Not My President DC (@NotMyPresDC) February 20, 2017
D.C. protesters lucked out with mild weather.
Protesters will tweet with the #notmypresident and #doyourjob hashtags at noon Eastern.
It's Presidents Day- time to roll out of bed, pour a cup of coffee, and throw on your best "Not My President" shirt.— mug reheater (@findmydolls) February 20, 2017
The timing of the protest was not coincidental.
I'm not celebrating Presidents' Day cause that's not my president— Ana 👾 (@_analiciousss) February 19, 2017
Thousands expected at 'Not My Presidents Day' rallies— kb (@kf_99_64) February 20, 2017
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Earlier this weekend, New York protesters held a mock funeral for the presidency.
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of St. Vibiana Catholic Church
Cathedral Chapel
Stations of the Cross
Here are four of the twelve beautiful Stations of the Cross that we have acquired from St. John Vianney Chapel before it permanently closed down.
Once again, a group of parishioners have generously donated to restore these twelve stations. They are now part of the collection of art within the walls of Cathedral Chapel Church.
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Our Parish is located at
923 S. La Brea Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Our Parish Office and Mailing Address is 926 S. Detroit St.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Call us at [323] 9305976
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Michael Barimo (24 years) New York
Every day of my life, I find inspiration in the voice and persona of Dalida. Elle est mon reve defendu.
Every day of my life, I find inspiration in the voice and persona of Dalida. Elle est mon reve defendu.
dalida a fost si ramine una din cintaretele de prestigiu vocea ei will never die A trait fiecare melodie cintata i live im usa for 30 years dar niciodata nu iam uitat vocea si cintecele cintate cu atita pasiune.nu pot nici acum crede ca sa sinucis e greu de crezut ca nu mai este in viata sa stins o stea stralucitoare
I always listen to Dalida and i am inspired in this amazing artist. Her songs live in me !?! I Love Dalida
People gather outside her house in Montmartre and dream of what it's like inside...But I'll bet Dalida wanted out more than anyone ever wanted in. A walk to the bakery, window shopping, anything; all that we (the anonymous masses) take for granted. Though I've never been one for celebrity, Dalida touches me in a very deep and profound way...She will forevermore be in my heart (as she is with so many others) as I navigate my anonymous life.
hi thank you for giving me the chance to write something about how much i love Dalida and how much i love listening to her music , first of all Dalida used to live in Shubra ,cairo,Egypt and this is where i was born too ,but i live in the U.S.A right now , i listen to Dalida every day she became a part of my day ,and my favorite song for dalida is love in porto fino ,thank you again and dalida will live in our heart's forever because she still here in our heart's and she will be till we die ,best wishes ,sayed.
had the record and took it to a big holiday shindig where they knew Dalida was to be and asked her to sign it. Just this past new years eve-I was cleaning my apartment and found the recording . Of all days !Id like to think that Dalida was sending good wishes.Back at you ,Dalida - andto us all !
bonjour a vous,je suis francais,apres avoir vecu 6 ans en Afrique et maintenant en Floride,je ne peux voyager sans les cd's de Dalida,ils m'apportent reconfort et joie de vivre.Mon reve a toujours ete de renconter mon idole,faute de cela ces cd,s sont un peu,une partie d'elle,dernierement,dans un club a miami,j'ai assiste a un spectacle ou l'on imitait,Celine Dion,Cher,et a ma plus grande surprise Dalida,ce n'etait pas perfait, mais de voir qu'elle faisait partie du recital de ces artistes,ma fait un pincement au coeur."Dalida For Ever"il n'y a aucun doute. Merci,pour ce site,et pour ces fabuleuses compilations.Continuez a nous faire vivre de telles emotions.A tres bientot Frederic.
In May of 1997, I traveled to Paris, and while shopping in a local receord store, I heard the beautiful vocie of Dalida. She just reached in and touched my heart. I just to get to purchase one of her CD's, since then, I have every CD (over 20) and I an now collecting her old albums, 45's and magazines appearances. She has cast her magic spell on me. Dalida was a true artist, she felt what she sang and always gives of herself to her fans. She truly is a legend, gone but certainly not forgotten. Her music will live forever, as it is timeless. Every time I play a Dalida song, it can make me happy, sad, sing along or just feel like dancing. Thank you Dalida for all the joy you've given me and the world.


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Hey Everyone!
Welcome to #MicroMondays Edition 3!
I co-host this with Varad@LERT and this week we have a 61-word micro-fiction challenge. The excerpt is taken from "Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch. I have been reading this book for a long time but have never finished it. Not that it is not interesting, it definitely is. But as they say "When the student is ready, the teacher appears". I just think I am not yet ready, spiritually! Anyway, without further ado, this week's prompt is
Drum roll!
"GOOD AND BAD DO EXIST" to be used Verbatim.
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The Initiation
"Good and bad do exist, even in this world."
Really? I thought I was done with sin and punishment and all that.
"Sin? Punishment? Haha! Here it only matters how good or bad you are at being scary."
Hmmm… I think I might like this place after all!
"Sure will. First stop: Ghost fashion 101. Then off to scare some humans. C'mon!"
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RCom revives plan to sell shares in tower unit Reliance Infratel3 min read . Updated: 23 Sep 2009, 12:50 AM IST
RCom revives plan to sell shares in tower unit Reliance Infratel
RCom revives plan to sell shares in tower unit Reliance Infratel
Mumbai: Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-Adag) chairman Anil Ambani on Tuesday told shareholders of Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom) that the company is reviving a plan to sell shares in its telecom tower subsidiary, a move driven by the "need to be asset-light" and "improve return on equity."
The initial public offer (IPO) will seek to sell a 10% stake in Reliance Infratel Ltd, Ambani said at RCom's annual general meeting in a packed south Mumbai convention hall, but stopped short of specifying a time line for the listing or the expected valuation.
RCom joins firms such as JSW Energy Ltd and DB Corp. Ltd that have showed renewed interest in share sales in the resurgent IPO market.
JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group Ltd, HSBC Ltd, UBS, JM Financial Ltd , ICICI Securities Ltd and Enam Financial Consultants Pvt. Ltd are among those expected to arrange the stake sale, which could raise as much as $900 million, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the proposed IPO.
Harit Shah, analyst with Mumbai-based brokerage Angel Broking Ltd, arrived at a valuation in a 3 September note to clients.
"RCom has given an indicative enterprise value of Rs82,000 crore, based on global and domestic tower company valuations, which implies an equity value of Rs67,000 crore after reducing debt," Shah wrote.
RCom's shares rose by 0.28% to close at ₹ 307.45 on the Bombay Stock Exchange, trailing the benchmark Sensex, which gained 0.87% to end at 16,886.43 points.
India's second largest mobile phone company by users, with 85 million subscribers, RCom also said its capital expenditure cycle had peaked and is now looking forward to "substantial revenues and free cash flows" in the coming years. "Despite substantial capex commitments of around Rs40,000 crore in just two years...we maintain a conservative net debt-equity ratio of 0.53. Our capex intensity peaked over FY 2008 and FY 2009. That phase of mega capital expenditure is now behind us," Ambani said.
The IPO will further add to resources available with the RCom management, which will continue to have 85% control over the subsidiary after the IPO and a small strategic 5% stake sale that took place in 2007. It had divested that stake for around Rs1,400 crore, generating capital gains of at least Rs1,200 crore for shareholders and implying a valuation of around Rs27,000 crore.
The group had planned an IPO for Reliance Infratel soon after it came out with its blockbuster Reliance Power IPO in early 2008, but the global financial meltdown put the public offer on the backburner.
A spate of agreements the firm has signed recently seem to have revived the plan.
"We have come a long way since then and made substantial progress in our telecom infrastructure business," Ambani said. Towers have more than tripled from 15,000 to 48,000 and tenancy slots grown to 75,000 from 20,000 with the hosting of a slew of new and expanding telecom operators.
In the last few months, the tower unit has clinched tenancy deals with "Etisalat DB, S Tel, Aircel, Tata Teleservices, MTS and others," Ambani said. A Mumbai-based sector analyst with a foreign brokerage said these deals will lend a higher profile and certainty to revenue while bolstering valuations at the time of listing—an observation that Angel's Shah seconds.
"With these deals, visibility improves significantly for the tower company and the company (RCom) expects its tenancy ratio to rise," Shah said. "This is a key factor that is likely to significantly boost valuations for Reliance Infratel, as and when the tower co lists," wrote Shah, adding that the firm was also in talks with other operators such as Vodafone-Essar and Idea Cellular and "any wins on this front are likely to further boost its revenue visibility."
In 2007-08, the tower subsidiary had a revenue of Rs1,500 crore which more than tripled to Rs5,000 crore in 2008-09. In the same period, the net profit has risen fivefold to touch Rs1,700 crore, shareholders were informed on Tuesday.


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Took me a while, but I've managed to compile a list of a few decent gyms in the Haeundae area, near the Jangsan subway station.
If you'd like to skip ahead, the list is further below.
I found these gyms the old-fashioned way. By… walking around! That's right, young'un. Prepare to have your mind blown! They're old school up in here, baby.
Maybe they're listed on Naver.com (a local search engine popular with Koreans), but it's a bit hard to navigate unless you know the language.
So before the Littlest Dictator realises I'm not playing with her and drags me off to get busy with Playdoh, I better get to it!
This isn't a complete list of course, and I didn't take detailed pictures of each one I came across.
I take more of a bodybuilding approach (though it doesn't exactly show!), and so here are my requirements for a gym:
- Heavy free weights, dumbbells especially.
- Adequate benches and equipment, including cardio machines (I am so not running in the cold right after lifting!)
- Shower facilities
- Reasonable pricing (I'll elaborate further below)
- Not more than a 20-min walk from where I'm staying, near Jangsan station.
For just lifting weights without attending classes or getting personal training sessions, you should expect to pay around 200k won to 250k won for three months, probably more if you go by a monthly rate.
Apparently the cost per entry can be quite expensive, but I didn't check with any of the ones below.
Quite a few quoted me 400K won which is waaaay overpriced.
Oh yea and you should expect a language barrier but it won't be significant. There's usually someone who can at least speak basic English.
1. E-Fit Studio
Contact: 702-332. Street: Yangun-ro. Jangsan Metro exit 11. Quoted price: 100K won per month (can't recall if it's for a three-month period).
Heaviest dumbbell: I think up to around 25kg (or 55lbs). It's a weird adjustable type and there's only one pair like it. The rest of the dumbbells are pretty light.
This one's more of a specialised gym for certain types of sports (according to the manager), and crossfit-like workouts.
Definitely not for powerlifting and I guess you could make it work for bodybuilding but it won't be ideal.
2. Haeundae Leisure Fitness
Contact: 701-0391. Street: Sesil-to. Jangsan Metro exit 3. Building name: Sejongworld. Price quoted: 400K won total for three months.
This one's more of a decent gym in a large spa (where you can stay overnight) with saunas and restaurants and even a little playground for kids.
The gym itself is pretty large and it's got a decent selection of machines and weights.
3. The X Gym – under construction, should be ready soon.
Contact: 704-8263. In the same building as no. 2.
4. Sessions Gym
Also on the same street as the first two above, except the building is located inside the carpark area, where there's a cluster of buildings. Price: Only for personal training sessions, so I didn't check.
This one's not too bad either, but they only offer private training sessions.
5. Total Fitness Centre
Contact: 701-2552. Street: Sesil-ro. Building name: BYC. Jangsan Metro exit 4. Bit farther away from the Metro exit, but only about 5-7 minutes away on foot. Price quoted: 400k won for three months (not too sure if I recalled properly though).
Overall a decent gym. Was seriously considering this one before I saw the others below. Large and spacious with enough equipment. The price though I'm not sure now what it was, was definitely way too high.
6. The Blue Fitness and Spa
Contact: 702 8101. Street: Jwadong-ro. Jangsan Metro exit 4. I'd say about a 15-min walk from the subway station. Price quoted: 400k won for 3 months.
Heaviest dumbbell: 30kg (I think).
Located not too far from the previous gym, this one also happens to be a spa as well. The gym is pretty large, with relatively new machines and a decent free weight section.
Price-wise though, it's way too much for what's on offer.
Oh yea and the building has one of those revolving barbershop poles, so you might occasionally see a few middle-aged men in the lobby area with guilty-looking faces 😂.
If you're not familiar with them, single or double babershop poles signal that a place offers certain… services. And they are EVERYWHERE.
7. Dallas Gym (Recommended!)
Contact: 701-5060. Street: Jwadong-ro, almost opposite the Haeundae Cultural Centre, on the other side of the junction. Jangsan Metro exit 10. About a 5-7 min walk away. Price quoted: 69k per month over a three-month period.
Heaviest dumbbell: Beyond 50kg.
Hands down the best bang for your buck. Huge gym with an equally huge number of free weights and machines. Not only that, but their prices are amongst the lowest in the area.
I definitely would've gone with this gym if there weren't a gym that was closer to my place. Took me a while to make the decision too!
8. Triaina Gym (my choice)
Contact: 746-4802. Street: Haeund-daero 774 beon-gil. Price quoted: 230k for three months.
Just realised I only had the crumpled-up flyer, and not actual pictures. I'll update soon after my next workout tomorrow morning.
Update: Finally got to add the pictures for Trainia Gym.
So this is my pick. It's the only gym where I've seen mainly legit bodybuilders work out, though I've only gone in the morning.
Decent selection of free weights. And there's enough equipment for whatever your objective is.
Minor gripes: Lack of equipment. For the example, there's no benchpress rack, so you'll have to use one of the two squat racks available.
The hours are also not too great. On weekdays they open from 9am to 10pm. Again, these are minor gripes, and what won me over eventually was how close they were to my place. Otherwise I would definitely have gone with Dallas Gym.
So there's my list. There are a few others around here, including one that's not too bad near the big E Mart, but I didn't take pictures of it though I might in the future if I can find the time (I mean holy crap it took me like 4 days to get to the end of this post!)
Hope this helps you. Shoot me any questions in the comments below and I'll try to respond as soon as I can.


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Memoirs from Inside the Psychiatric Ward Part one: The Push
I think I was born bipolar. The depression of duality. My mother said that I gave two short cries at birth (one for each personality, as she terms it) and then fell silent.
My zodiac sign too, Gemini, is the sign of duality: The Twins
My mum took unbridled pleasure in reminding me throughout my childhood, that there was two of me. The 'good twin' and the 'evil one'.
It was the latter whom she would goad with fists and a maternal rage so intense that I contemplated suicide at the ripe, old age of 14.
To be fair, it wasn't just her. It was also the terrible thing that had happened to my sister, trebled with my father's deplorable reaction to it.
I think that for each person who walks the line of a mood disorder, there is that one pivotal moment. That, one cardinal event, that pushes their minds into the security and haven of just slipping away.
That permutation of the unfolding of my life, was my cardinal, centripetal event.
I remember my mother's tears and my father's rage. Their raised voices and spiteful words. I remember too, my sister's silent sobs.
After that, my mother became even more hateful, my father an even bigger drunk, and I, I became even more preoccupied with thoughts of death.
At 19, I visited my first shrink. I use the word visit, loosely. As it wasn't a visit, but more of a crying session. I blubbered for the entire hour and a half that I was there. Like Alice in Wonderland, I cried an ocean of tears. And then after that, I stopped crying altogether.
I remember too, being depressed at my wedding. Well, not entirely, but more as if in a fugue. My mind heavy and lidded.
At 29, my husband unceremoniously dragged me to a psychiatric ward. It was my first time: a rookie. Nothing could have prepared me.
The admitting nurse and butch female security guard (at least I think she was female) took me into an 'interview room'. A clinical room, bone-white, with only a colourful box of tissues tossed upon the table, for added hue.
I remember the misty, papery feeling of being there. As if I was peering through the picture of some novel, at someone else, rather than my own body. I remember seeing the colourful flowers brightly embellished on the tissue-box, and focused on that rather than the nurse's and my husband's hushed voices.
The butch security-guard searched my haphazardly packed bag. Giving back my husband all of my (self-prescribed) sleeping tablets, headache pills, dental floss and compact blushers-with the tiny mirrors glued on at the back. Strictly no mirrors allowed or anything else that could be used to inflict (self) harm. That made me sit up – pay attention! What no make-up?!
I remember too, signing the hospital waiver. A humourless letter which read that in the event of suicide, the hospital would not be held accountable. Son's of bitches! Short-change me?! Happy to snag my money, but reluctant to accept blame, should anything go wrong under THEIR watch, in a lock-up facility, surrounded by a claustrophobic number of orderlies and hospital staff.
I hate fucking institutions! They're all alike. Banks, governments, religions, (marriage?)… Each has its own agenda, their way of screwing you, and there's always a catch.
The added tidbit was the nurse telling me, just before I was chaperoned to my room, that sex was strictly not allowed in this facility.
Stuff you, Bitch!! I have post-natal depression, panic attacks and rampant insomnia. I'm not horny like Charlie Sheen!
I said a reluctant goodbye to my husband, knowing that he was going home, and that I was going to the psychiatric ward. I didn't want to be there. I just wanted to go back to my bed: my mausoleum.
And so began my several night 'vacation' at a top-class medical hospital in the D-ward, with a bunch of strangers and weirdos. It was a mixed facility. Which meant that the men's quarters were on the same floor as the female's. However, there was an invisible line drawn at the threshold of each four-sleeper room. No man should traverse the line into the domain of the female, and vice-versa. Messed up and dazed as most might have been, everyone seemed to comprehend this rule. And everyone behaved.
Except for the butterfly, or Danny-Fly, as Daniel liked to be known. He would stand there gazing at the threshold to the room I shared with 3 other women until, with concentration and determination, he 'found' the invisible line. Then he would make a show of standing firmly upon it and then just danced. Danced like a butterfly, spread his wings and fluttered.
Most of the times we would just ignore him; or Kimmy, the more volatile of us four, would tell him to fuck off and then push him – literally shove him, from our doorway.
From the way her wrists were bandaged and her familiarity with the place, I knew that she had been there before. She was no rookie.
I watched silent and bewildered. Quickly learning the inner-workings of a sanatorium. An insider's knowledge that no book, or movie, or psychology degree could ever impart.
My first night was my most distressing. There I was exhausted, anxious, terrified even. I stayed up, despite the evening's tranquilizer, worrying in the shadows, that one of the strangers with whom I shared a room, would snap, and strangle me with the dental floss she secreted in a condom courtesy of one of her cavities! After a fitful sleep, I awoke unstrangled and alive.
After that, the nights became easier. Each of us drugged to the hilt. On some nights, I would awake, my mind foggy and dulled, to the silent sobs and whisperings of the demented (or where they my own?) and then slip back into a dreamless sleep again.
It was the days that were hard. We had work to do. Mental work.
We would meet in groups with our assigned the-rapist (Thank you Angelina Jolie, for that classic term!!) My roommates thought he was dishy, but I just thought he was preening and de trop. A show-boater. You know the kind? The one who thinks he's smart and proficient!! The type who's not really good at his craft, but just in it for the money and the title… and maybe even the chicks!
We each had group sessions to attend. The schizophrenics and histrionics to Group A, please. The bipolars and depressives to Group B. The substance abusers and alcoholics to Group C; and the otherwise, still unclassified, to Group D. I'm not sure which scared me more: having a label. Being classified as clinically depressed! Or being unclassified like the ones in Group D who were lost and uncategorized in the land of the mad!
The-raping was just that, an unrelenting desire to pick what's left of our minds. Like buzzards, our 'dishy-consummate' psychiatrist and counsellors hovered, waiting to chew on the carcasses of our pasts. Monopolizing our Freudian-like slips or key phrases: like mommy didn't love me, or uncle so-and-so 'loved me inappropriately'.
What a bunch of whiners. Not us the patients, but them! Those institutionalized know-it-alls. The one's who assumed control over your medication, your highs, your lows, your fate and when you could leave.
Everything was 'optional': even the 'group' sessions. There were craft classes, gym, and even board-games in the stylish lounge which tried to emulate a relaxed, casual atmosphere. But everyone knew that we were lab rats, being watched and scrutinised. The more you smiled and greeted the staff and partook of the 'optional' activities, the quicker they released you. Excessive crying, tantrums, and lethargy meant more time in there.
For most of us, that was our ultimate goal: to get out! So we behaved and said the things they wanted to hear.
I know I earned an extra night when I flung the thermometer at the nurse who was trying to do her usual rounds (of checking my temperature and BP) while I was under a deliciously-drug induced nap. They were dishing out happy-pills like they were Halloween candy.
I took the gym class, I said what my shrink wanted to me say, I ate (the food was crap!), I socialized. That wasn't really too bad though. I got to know a few of the others. They weren't all like Danny-fly or the pretty 18 year old who blow-waved her hair every 5 minutes and who talked to the mirror and her reflection in the reinforced windows.
Most were normal, high-functioning people. People with degrees and careers – who, like me, were feeling disjointed and surreal in an out of sync world. Inside there are no distinctions. Race, gender, sexual orientation or clinical diagnoses all meant very little. I realized one incontrovertible truth: that all of us, including the crazies in Group A, had some common thread weaving us all together in the tapestry of that D-ward for that moment and time. We were all scared. We were all lonely, and looking to be understood. The camaraderie and comfort we lent each other simply by our solidarity and presence were infinitely more healing than the one-on-one sessions with the shrinks and the fistfuls of pills.
In hindsight now, I am not bitter about being strong-armed into the psychiatric ward. It gave me a welcome break from the clouded reality and depressive thoughts that were feeding upon me from the inside.
Would I want to go back there again? Hell no!
But given the nature of my illness, that question will always seem a little bit too ajar…


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I was very excited to meet Emma Carlow.
Since moving to Lewes many people have asked me "have you met Emma Carlow?" after saying that, well actually no I haven't, a typical response would be "oh, you would really like her" or "really? She is great, you should meet her" or "how have you not met her? Everyone knows Emma, she's brilliant!" Needless to say when I started The Lewes Home and a friend recommended that I contact the legend that is Emma Carlow for a blog feature, there was absolutely no hesitation on my part!
Before I met Emma I knew of her brand Wallplayper, which she describes as an "interiors brand that specialises in fun narrative wallpapers, cushions and lamp shades to suit adult and children's spaces alike". Firstly, the café in Lewes's mini-department store Wickle is beautifully decorated with her paper and lightshades, as well as stocking most of her range in their shop. I had also been following her beautiful Instagram page and had spent lots of time browsing the Wallplayper website. I was intrigued to meet the person behind the brand and we quickly arranged a date and time to meet at her house.
Whilst it may be true that Emma Carlow is (practically) a living local legend…
When I knock on the door the person who greeted me was a warm, smiling, and down-to-earth woman with a twinkle in her eye, I liked her immediately.
Emma has lived in Lewes for eight years with her husband Graham, their son Finn and two black cats. She lives in the Pells area of Lewes and after once hoping (but failing) to buy a house across the road from her I was curious to see how she had made the house into her home.
Emma's house suits her perfectly.
Interesting and quirky objects are displayed carefully and immaculately around the house. There is so much to look at and yet it does not feel cluttered in any way. It is beautiful but homely and cosy. She has managed to balance all of these things so well. Emma takes me straight into her light and open living, dining and kitchen room, the kitchen being situated in an extension.
The first thing that catches my eye is a fantastic, built-in yellow storage unit
Emma sings the praises of Lindsay who built it for her and I must say it is beautiful and that yellow is just so perfectly bold. Opposite is an awesome monochrome kitchen and sitting perfectly between the two is a dreamy kitchen island of dark blue cupboards and plywood work top with a formica coating (also built by Lindsay). A large 70s table extends from the island creating a perfect dining and homework space!Emma has an eclectic but harmonious style of mixing mid-century furniture with industrial lighting, colourful artwork and artefacts. A storage unit perfectly displays little objects she has collected, each one attached to a fond memory. A familiar looking shop 'open' sign made from Lego sits on one shelf. Emma tells me that she had made it for the Pleasant Stores cafe – now the vegetarian burger and coffee joint Bun and Bean.
There is a clear playfulness in Emma's collection of artefacts and artwork
She has a beautiful vintage Lundby dolls house on display and I love the rabbit mask hanging up on the opposite wall alongside a mixture of colourful postcards, prints, photographs and shadow puppets that are all child-friendly but equally adult-friendly. I can see how Wallplayper is an authentic brand reflecting Emma's own philosophy and tastes. She is excellent at finding that sweet-spot in images and objects that appeals to all people, no matter what their age.A striking blue Marmoleum floor spans from the kitchen through to the living room, where Emma balances out more bright colourful prints and objects on display with white walls, I also notice that she has built bookshelves framing the would-be partition between the living and dining rooms which really helps to define the space. This room is so cosy, a log burner sits in the fireplace and colour pops from textiles around the room; upholstery, rugs and cushions – all with bright colours and patterns working so well together to create an inviting and homely space.
There has been so much to see downstairs that time becomes short and so we whizz upstairs for a a quick look around. I am very happy to see that, in the bathroom, a wall is covered in one of Emma's very own wallpapers. The fact that she wants to have Wallplayper in her own home just shows how much she loves her brand and believes in its appeal. I have to say, I do too.Alongside the bathroom is a spare guest room which has an ingenious storage system and out on the landing are stairs up to the loft – Finn's room. As Finn is a young teenage boy both Emma and I decide not to venture up there (!) however she does show me her absolutely show-stopping bedroom. The dark grey panelled wall with built in bookcases is just gorgeous. The room has an atmosphere of its own, both absorbing and relaxing. The perfect place to retreat to with a good book.
Of course I can't leave without hearing from Emma herself. She gave some time to the Lewes home to answer a few questions.
How would you describe your home style?
I live in a small Victorian terraced house and space is tight so storage plays an important part in the style of our house. I was very fortunate to find a wonderful G-Plan style wall storage system on ebay and this and our 70s dining room table and chairs mean that our house has a mid-Century modern feel to it (when its tidy).
What/who/where inspires your style?
Charles and Ray Eames inspire me, along with Herman Miller, Alexander Calder, and the Magic Roundabout. I love the Eames' use of primary colours mixed with the natural tones of wood and stone.
What do you most look forward to when coming home?
It being magically tidy. My family and my cats. We redesigned our small garden a few years ago and in the spring and summer we spend a lot of time out there.
What is your favourite room in the home? Why?
The downstairs is an open plan room which we all share and this is my favourite room because it reflects us all. However I do like our spare room which is a guest room and garage combined. It has large cupboards along both long walls with a bunk sunk in amongst them.
Are there any interior design 'rules' you stick to when choosing things for your home?
Because our house is small I always consider whether I want the item or the space that it would fill. I like utilitarian design, nothing fancy, colour is also important.
What interior decor is a big turn off for you?
I don't like interiors that make you feel in awe or uncomfortable because they are too perfect.
What makes Lewes special for you?
The people, Lewes is home to young and old people alike and I like that.
Apart from your own home can you tell us about another Lewes house that always catches your eye. What do you love about it?
There's a 60s house on Park Road that is my dream house. It came on the market a few years ago and from the estate agent's details you could see that it had its original kitchen, internal glass walls and lots of beautiful plain wooden cupboards and shelves. I couldn't afford it! Sob!
Tell us a bit about Wallplayper, what spurred you on to start your own business?
I have always designed children's products for large companies and I suppose I got fed up with the fact that girls and boys products were so stereotypical. Pink for girls, blue for boys. As a child I was a tom-boy and I found a lot of girl's products to be rather condescending. I knew I could design things that could apply to both boys and girls. Also, so many children's wallpapers are aimed at very young children, I wanted to design patterns that would not only stand the test of time, but would work in adult spaces as well.
Before I leave her house, Emma shows me a rug that is special to her as her father had made it himself using a sun-dyed print Emma had made and given him. He took the print, converted it into a pattern and set to work creating the rug. I love this story, but even more I love listening to Emma tell me it. The process that a simple image she made went through to create a beautiful thing for her home and made by someone she loves clearly moves her, she communicates this with genuine warmth, deep sincerity and joy.
I leave her house thinking of that story, I was so engaged with her in that moment that I think I will always remember it. It has been a treat to (finally) meet Emma Carlow, she is engaging and charismatic, talented and kind, fun and creative. What a legend.