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Mold Avoiders Poll Results: Hot Springs
October 4, 2018
This poll was conducted in the Mold Avoiders Facebook group in August 2018. The poll question read:
If you have visited any hot springs that you feel were helpful to your health, please mark which ones those were. If you would like to add a hot springs to the poll, please write the name in the comments. If you have visited a hot springs but found it not helpful or harmful to your health, please write that information in the comments.
A total of 48 Mold Avoiders members participated in the poll, but 17 of these said that they had never been to any hot springs.
Of the 31 members who had been to hot springs, here is the breakdown of the hot springs that they reported as having been helpful to their health.
26% – Desert Hot Springs, California (8 respondents)
23% – Calistoga Hot Springs, California (7 respondents)
23% – Mercey Hot Springs, California (7 respondents)
23% – Ojo Caliente, New Mexico (7 respondents)
23% – Orvis Hot Springs, Colorado (7 respondents)
16% Death Valley (Furnace Creek swimming pools), California (5 respondents)
16% – Tecopa Hot Springs (any of the parks), California (5 respondents)
16% – Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (5 respondents)
13% – Glenwood Springs, Colorado (4 respondents)
13% – Hot Springs, Arkansas (4 respondents)
10% – Ouray Hot Springs, Colorado (3 respondents)
6% – Harbin Hot Springs, California (2 respondents)
6% – Nat Soo Pah Hot Springs, Idaho (2 respondents)
6% – Orr Hot Springs, California (2 respondents)
6% – Ten Thousand Waves, New Mexico (2 respondents)
3% – Avalanche Ranch Hot Springs, Colorado (1 respondent)
3% – Fairmont Hot Springs, Montana (1 respondent)
3% – Glen Ivy Hot Springs, California (1 respondent)
3% – Grover Hot Springs, California (1 respondent)
3% – Jackson Wellsprings, Oregon (1 respondent)
3% – Kirkham Hot Springs, Idaho (1 respondent)
3% – Lussier Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada (1 respondent)
3% – Norris Hot Springs, Montana (1 respondent)
3% – Orient Land Trust Hot Springs, Colorado (1 respondent)
3% – Penny Hot Springs, Colorado (1 respondent)
3% – Sol Duc Hot Springs (Washington)
3% – Sonoma Mission Inn Pool, California (1 respondent)
3% – Spanish Fork Canyon, Utah (1 respondent)
3% – Strawberry Park Hot Springs, Colorado (1 respondent)
3% – Stewart Mineral Springs, California (1 respondent)
3% – Termas de São Pedro do Sul, Portugal (1 respondent)
3% – Thermopolis, Wyoming (1 respondent)
3% – Trimble Natural Hot Springs, Colorado (1 respondent)
Hot Springs Comments
Following are some comments that group members made about hot springs they had visited:
Death Valley (California):
"I spent a lot of time swimming in the Death Valley swimming pool near the store and motel and it felt really good to me. Actually my favorite swimming pool anywhere."
"The Death Valley area in general felt really bad to me. Big surprise."
Desert Hot Springs (California):
"The last time I was in DHS, a few months ago, it helped. But initially when I was on sabbatical, it crashed me. The same spot."
"1. My favorite place in DHS was The Spring, which is pretty pricey ($50) for a day pass. But I went there occasionally and had body treatments or a colonic, and then they let you stay there pretty much all day. It feels very Japanese to me and has a pool as well as soaking tubs. 2. I went to Two Bunch Palms a couple of times. It was in the movie 'The Player' and I thought it was okay, but it's not really luxury any more. 3. I went to the Desert Hot Springs Spa Hotel a number of times. It is quite inexpensive and I didn't think it was too bad. But the Yelp reviews suggest it may have declined in the subsequent years. 4. I went to Sam's a few times, because someone I knew was staying there, but I never felt entirely comfortable with that whole property and so wouldn't be inclined to go on my own. 5. The problem with DHS is that they have a law that the tubs cannot be heated very hot. Especially in the evening hours in the winter, I don't think that those temperatures are nearly hot enough."
"We stayed at Desert Hot Springs Inn. Not so great. The multiple pools were nice for a day visit, but the hotel is old and musty. Not recommended to stay there. $14 day pass."
"Desert Hot Springs Resort used to be okay, but the last time I was there, it was not well-maintained. Living Waters was clean and well-maintained but it is clothing-optional and fairly close quarters so it can be uncomfortable."
Dunton Hot Springs (Colorado):
"Rumor has it that Dunton Hot Springs (near Telluride) is extraordinary, but it is also $1000-2000 per night. So I have not had a chance to try that yet."
Fairmont Hot Springs (Montana):
"The problem with Fairmont Hot Springs, when I was there, was that you had to walk through a building to get to the hot springs, and the building was sort of moldy. That did not keep me from going to the hot springs, since I could get right into the pool and decontaminate, but another person said it was a problem for her."
Glen Ivy Hot Springs (California):
"Glen Ivy has springs that are very sulphuric smelling. The grounds are beautiful with several pools different temps, mud baths and saunas. It's kind of a expensive for a day pass. What was interesting is the day after being there I felt terrible, but the following day all my pain in my hands and feet was totally gone. It only lasted for a day, but it was weird because I have had pain in my feet and hands every day for five years. Other symptoms fluctuate but that one. The other thing that was weird was the first day after I had this really weird super irritable-ness. It must have been a reaction to the sulphur. But then second day out, all pain was gone! I want to go back to see if that happens again."
Glenwood Springs Hot Springs (Colorado):
"This is one of the few hot springs that I have been to that is run like a public pool, including lots and lots of kids and a broad mix of people. It's always been pretty crowded when I have been here. I think that it's clean enough to be tolerable, but it certainly would not win any awards for having any sort of calming or relaxing atmosphere. And the pool itself is just enormous. I come here every time I drive through Glenwood Springs, though, because the water (which smells pretty strongly of sulphur) is so amazing. I always feel much better physically and emotionally after I spend some time in the pools, and pretty much everyone that I see in the pools looks relaxed and happy."
Grover Hot Springs (California):
"Grover Hot Springs is an amazing place. It's a campground also. I feel great there!"
Kirkham Hot Springs (Idaho):
"Kirkham Hot Springs was very healing for me."
Lussier Hot Springs (British Columbia):
"Lussier Hot Springs just south of Fairmont are superb. They are completely natural and the rocks are rearranged to form 'tubs' that become cooler the closer you sit to the river. If I remember correctly, it is an average of 44 C and the plunge in the river is 4 C, which is just above freezing. Locals will go there and sit all night. It is really an amazing spot because you often see mountain sheep and other wildlife while you bathe."
Mercey Hot Springs:
"Mercey Hot Springs remains my respite."
"I loved the feel of this place, and the staff were really warm and welcoming. It was a great starting point for my sabbatical. For a newbie starting out on a longer foray into the desert, this was perfect. Pinnacles National Park was a great place to visit and hike once I felt well enough to do so, and it took only a few days at Mercey before I felt well enough to do this!"
"This is one of my favorite places on earth. It is very calm and peaceful, and the water is wonderful, and the air quality is spectacular (hard to believe considering that it is so close to the agricultural farming on I-5, but true), and it has an amazing history to it."
"I am an outlier, I feel I did not do well at Mercey Hot Springs."
Orr Hot Springs (California):
"I liked Orr Hot Springs a lot. It's a heavy tick area so I probably wouldn't camp there, though."
Orvis Hot Springs & Orient Land Trust (Colorado):
"I've stayed at the on-site lodgings at Orvis and Orient Land Trust and would not recommend them – definitely moldy! But the springs themselves felt good. They offer camping sites at both, which tend to fill up quickly."
"The Orvis building is probably decently moldy. There's probably about a hundred people or more taking showers indoors every day, releasing steam into the air and then walking around all wet and getting the building wet. And it's definitely an older building. But we tolerate it and can go inside to use the restroom and facilities."
"I'm kind of addicted to going back and forth between the super hot to super cold pool at Orvis Hot Springs. It's super invigorating to me. And also the most extreme of temperatures I've found at any hot springs I've been to."
"I'm staying near Orvis at the moment. It felt good to me. I felt great after being in the water. I love the hot/cold too! I feel that the main building has some mold, but not any super toxins. I felt, over multiple visits, that the positive effect of the water is far greater than the potential exposure to a small amount of mold. If I were at the very start of avoiding mold, I might start by avoiding spending too much time inside. The sauna felt fine to me."
Pagosa Springs Hot Springs (Colorado):
"The water quality here is really wonderful. It has a lot of lithium and a lot of sulfur in it, and I always feel really good after soaking it. In terms of just the water quality, it may very well be my favorite hot springs, actually. The pools are kept very clean and are attractive, The views are lovely. I also really like that there is a wide selection of pools, with different water temperatures. I paid extra on one or two occasions for the VIP pass, but I don't really think that is necessary. In general, at least when I was there, none of the pools was all that crowded and everything was pretty quiet. I once stayed in a motel room, which has the main advantage of allowing you to use the pools in the middle of the night. That actually was kind of nice. It was just a basic motel room and not in the greatest condition. However, even though I am really sensitive to building mold, I didn't have any problems at all with the room or the rest of the buildings."
Sierra Hot Springs (California):
"I stayed here for three days and was fine, but on the third night I got badly hit with Mystery Toxin and got really badly sick. Not recommended."
"Sierra Hot Springs is not well-maintained. I was there a month ago. Also a lot of shenanigans if you know what I mean."
Sol Duc Hot Springs (Washington):
"My family and I just returned from a one-day trip to Sol Duc Hot Springs. The area felt really good and we were way more active than normal. This was even prior to entering the hot springs. My son, who has ME/CFS, was jogging with our dog, clambering up steep hills and happy! I also walked over a mile at a time. Our cabin felt good and I could feel the inflammation start to melt away. We went into the hot springs late in the day and we slept really well! Sol Duc is at 2,100 feet in elevation, in a pristine area. When we got back onto highway 101, I could feel the achiness return and the heaviness in my chest. Now we're at home and I feel like the usual crap – achy neck, body and more. But the experiment was successful!"
Strawberry Park Hot Springs (Colorado):
" I visited Strawberry Park Hot Springs in May 2018 for an afternoon. Lots of pool options (including a super cold stream), and all can be accessed without walking through any buildings. I did not stay in any of the cabins or camping areas. The bathrooms are newer and weren't problematic for me. I got some muscle and joint pain relief and slept well that night."
Tecopa Hot Springs (California):
"The Tecopa natural hot springs felt good until the locals recommended rubbing the mud on my body. A little mud on my chest and arms caused a full body rash."
Ten Thousand Waves (New Mexico):
"Ten Thousand Waves is just heated water."
Termas de São Pedro do Sul (Portugal):
"I have been to a hot spring in my country that has water rich in sulfur and is radioactive – it made me significantly better. Another hot spring with different properties made me worse. The water can be massively different between different springs. The one that was helpful to me is called Termas de São Pedro do Sul and is well-known for helping with chronic illness and it is used for that purpose. People come from all over the world for it. You need a doctor to see you before they allow you into the spa centre. I couldn't afford the spa treatment, but I collected some water from a spout and used it to soak my feet and hands at home and it was enough to have a significant effect."
Tsurunoyu Onsen (Japan):
"Once I did a hot springs oriented vacation in northern Japan, where we visited several different hot springs. That was just amazing. Tsurunoyu Onsen was my favorite place. But that is in the area somewhat near Fukushima, and so I wonder if it has been ruined now."
Wiesbaden Hot Springs (Colorado):
"I checked out Wiesbaden. I don't recommend it. Stick with Orvis! The cave itself actually felt okay, though we aren't terribly skilled at avoidance so YMMV. But to get inside the cave, you have to go into the basement which is terrible! It's just a regular carpeted unventilated basement that is not at all designed to have a steam cave inside it. Water damage visible throughout. The outdoor pool is fine. It is just like a regular swimming pool, the size of a typical backyard pool. The pool is a little warmer than the main pond at Orvis. It's just that when you compare it to 5-6 different temperature ponds, plus the cold plunge and sauna at Orvis, the only reason I think I would go back to Wiesbaden is if Orvis wasn't an option."
Wilbur Hot Springs (California):
"Wilbur Hot Springs is really terrible."
A collection of additional poll results can be found on the Living Clean in a Dirty World blog.
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In my previous post An introduction to Activity Based Costing I discussed the ideas behind activity-based costing (ABC), and introduced the principles behind ABC, namely:
- Activities consume resources
- Customers, products and channels consume activities.
Here, I'm going to run through a simple example to illustrate how an accurate understanding of activities is important to fully and fairly understand profitability by customer.
For simplicity's sake, the example deals with a business that has just two customers. They know their cost of sales for each customer, and the revenue of course. So that gives them an accurate figure for the contribution.
They also have a known amount of overhead costs – £6,500 – that need to be allocated to the two customers to get a complete view of customer profitability. Without any better method, suppose they choose to allocate it in the same proportion that the Cost-of-Sales is already divided.
This suggests that Customer B is more profitable than Customer A.
The problem is that we allocated the overheads in a pretty arbitrary way, and gave no consideration to what's causing those overhead costs.
So how could we allocate the overhead costs more fairly?
We should be thinking about what would make one customer more costly to deal with than another. And it would be because the way we interact with them, and they interact with us, causes us to do different amounts of work. If it takes half as many sales calls to get Customer A's business as it does to get Customer B's, then we ought to reflect that, and we ought to assign proportionately more of the cost of making those calls to Customer B. Similarly, if Customer B places an order with us weekly and Customer A places their orders monthly, then Customer B ought to be taking the lion's share of the cost of processing orders.
So let's suppose that the activities that we carry out in order to serve our customers are as follows:
- Make sales calls
- Process orders
- Pick and pack
- Ship
- Make credit control calls
First, we need to evaluate the cost of each Activity. In order to do that, we have to reintroduce our first ABC principle - Activities consume resources.
So let's think about our resources. In this example, we're going to make it really simple and assume that the only resources that we have are staff and buildings. Let's suppose that we've paid £2,500 in terms of staff costs, and £4,000 in terms of building costs. Because, according to our principle above, activities consume resources, we can apportion our resources to our activities, and we're going to do this by using measures called "resource drivers", which are measures of the resource that we want to apportion.
We pick a resource driver according to data that is available or measurable in our organisation. In this example, we're going to apportion staff costs using the resource driver "FTE", and building costs using the resource driver "Floor Area".
Let's summarise this in Table 3.
We'll deal with staff costs and building costs separately: staff costs first.
We're using FTE to allocate the £2,500 cost of staff to activities, so we need to collect the number of FTEs dedicated to each activity. We won't go into how we extract this data, we'll just assume that it's available in the organisation somewhere, or we can undertake a survey or other exercise to get it. Either way, the FTE data is shown in the second column of Table 4. The £2,500 is then allocated to the same activities in the same proportion, giving the results in the third column of Table 4.
So we now know what each activity costs in terms of the staff resource, and we can do something similar for the building costs. Building costs have to be allocated to activities too, but in this case we're using a different resource driver – floor area.
Table 5 shows the allocation of £4,000 of building costs to the same activities, but this time in different proportions, the proportions being determined by the floor area dedicated to each activity. (The "Pick and Pack" activity gets a larger share of the building costs than it did of the staff costs, for example.)
Finally, we can summarise the activity costs from Table 4 and the activity cost from Table 5 to give us a total activity costs for each activity, as shown below in Table 6.
Now that we know the cost of each activity, we can calculate the cost of each product, customer or channel, based on the second principle of activity-based costing - Customers, products and channels consume activities.
If you remember, we have two customers, named "Customer A" and "Customer B". We need to decide the basis on which we're going to split these activity costs between the customers. Let's say that we'll split "Make Sales Calls" according to the number of sales calls, and "Make Credit Control Calls" based on the number of credit control calls. The other three activities we will split according to the number of orders. These measures that we use to split activities to cost objects are known as "Activity Drivers".
In Table 7, we reproduce the activity costs from Table 6, and for each activity we also show the name of driver that we're going to use to allocate the activity's costs, and the values of that driver for each customer.
In Table 8, we can see how each activity's costs are allocated to customers, based on the activity drivers from Table 7. The costs allocated to Customer B are significantly more than those allocated to Customer A, because Customer B is placing a significantly larger numbers of orders, and because all our credit control checks are to Customer B.
So finally we can calculate the profitability of each customer by combining the total activity costs by customer from Table 8 with the contribution costs from Table 1. This is shown below in Table 9.
Contrary to what Table 2 told us, Table 9 is showing not only that Customer B is less profitable for us, but that it's actually loss-making. The difference is that Table 9 has applied an activity-based approach, whereas in Table2 we apportioned the overheads in the same proportion as the cost of sales.
It's easy to make the assumption that our "best" customers are the ones that we sell most to, like "Customer B" in the examples above. But this can be very misleading if we don't take into account what we have to do to serve our customers, and if we don't have a sensible way to quantify the cost of what we have to do.
Besides customer and product profitability, the activity-based approach to costing generates results that are useful in many other areas of management. In subsequent blogs in this series, I'll discuss some of the use cases, as well as using SAP's Profitability and Cost Management software to bring the theory into reality.


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Author(s): Beatrix Potter
This beautiful gift box has been specially produced to celebrate 110 years since the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbitand contains all 23 Original Peter Rabbit Books. What makes this edition even more special is that each of the books has specially designed endpapers and a publisher's note describing how each book came to be.
Loved the world over for a century each little book takes you deep into the English countryside as you become familiar with Beatrix Potter's famous and (mostly!) lovable characters, from naughty Peter Rabbit himself, to tidy Mrs Tittlemouse and unlucky Jeremy Fisher. Each tale with its soft water-colour artwork will delight and charm adults and children alike. Which is your favourite?
Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Tom Kitten. Today Beatrix Potter's original 23 tales are still published by Frederick Warne, alongside a wide range of other formats including baby books, activity books and gift and sound books.


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Lobster season officially opened October 1st.
And local fishermen, divers, kayakers and first-time lobster trappers have been out in full force near the Marina del Rey breakwater and beyond trying to lure the creepy, crawly little critters into their nets.
Or, in the case of the divers, attempting to quietly sneak up on them and throw them in a bag.
On the ocean side of the rocks, the scene is a multicolored spectrum of floating lights or "glow sticks" bobbing on top of the water marking the submerged hoop nets below as an array of idling boats hovers above, monitoring the traps.
On a busy night, there can be more than 40 boats within close proximity, nearly bumping into each other, full of lobster fishermen who hope that the mackerel in their nets will tempt the prized crustaceans more than the mackerel in the other guy's net set just 50 yards away.
The California spiny lobster — or rock lobster, as they are commonly known — lives in and amongst reefs and rocky environments where they can easily hide.
Occasionally, they venture out of their cave-like rock crevice homes to poke around and scavenge for crumbs upon the ocean floor.
They typically move slowly along, searching for mussels, snails, worms and other slow-moving animals to feed upon.
"They love mussels — that's their favorite food," said Steve Blair, senior aquarist at the Long Beach Aquarium. "They're commonly found in these breakwaters because it's a porous habitat with lots of caves and holes to hide in.
"There's also an abundant supply of food with the mussels that live all over the break walls."
Locals explore areas from Malibu all the way down to King Harbor seeking out rock forms, reefs, or any other potential environment where the lobsters might inhabit.
Since lobsters prefer these rocky crevices, the most effective way of catching them is to get as close to their abodes as possible.
Kayaks, inflatables and divers have the most success in accessing these spots.
"I anchor my dinghy about 100 feet from the breakwater and I swim in from there," said Daniel Gleich, who owns Daniel's Underwater Dive Service and hunts these lobsters every season. "I usually go between midnight and three in the morning because they're often feeding at that time. They're walking all around — near and around the rocks."
Gleich is one of many local divers who go out every year to get their limit and treat friends and family to a home-cooked lobster dinner.
"We ate lobster for two weeks straight last year," he said. "We got some really big ones."
Gleich, like many other divers, navigates through the rocky underworld equipped with a bag and a bright light, gliding along the bottom, surveying the floor for a crawling lobster.
Once the light hits a critter, he'll often stop in his tracks.
"The light sort of hypnotizes them," said Gleich. "They just stand still and I grab them from the back, making sure not to touch their antenna because that's how they feel what's around them."
For the non-diver, lobstering is about mastering the hoop net techniques, and like any other real estate game, it's location, location, location. But in addition to the perfect spot, it's about a given night's particular characteristics.
"I've had the best success when there's no moon out and there's a slight swell that stirs up the bottom," said longtime lobsterman David Kirby, who has conducted seminars on the subject.
"A plus or minus tide is something pretty extreme where everything is moving down below."
Once a spot has been chosen, the nets get dropped and checked often.
In intervals as frequent as every 15 minutes, the traps are pulled up and checked, with hopeful fishermen anxious for the sight of a legal-size lobster in the net.
"During prime times, we've gone out and got our limit —seven lobsters per person is the daily legal limit — and been back in by nine o'clock. That's a nice evening." said Kirby.
"But some of those nights you could do 200 pulls, be out until two o'clock in the morning and come home with two. It can be frustrating, especially when your paying $1.75 a mackerel."
The sport is without doubt a hit-or-miss affair.
Gleich recounts a recent experience when he got his limit almost immediately.
"It took me about 30 or 40 minutes to get seven of them," he says. "But that's a really, really good day. It doesn't usually happen that fast."
As the season progresses, the stock gets somewhat wiped out and the opportunity for big lobsters and quantity limits regresses, but the amount of lobstering reduces as the season wears on, so there is a balance.
Once March 22nd arrives, lobster season will be over and the spiny little creatures will again be free to crawl the ocean's floor for another six months without the worry of being scooped up or grabbed from behind.
But until then, they are a readily attainable delicacy available to anyone who wants to take a short boat ride outside the harbor's boundaries and throw out a net.


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One hundred years ago to the day, Cycling magazine – the forerunner of Cycling Weekly – was dedicated to bringing its readers news of the latest bicycle technology from the 1913 cycle show in Olympia, London.
Pages of the magazine were given to intricate line drawings and a few photographs of the latest bikes, cycling products and accessories. Much may have happened in the intervening century, but surprisingly little has changed in the general design of bicycles.
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Hub gears, handlebar operated gear levers, cable caliper rim brakes, drop handlebars and non-slip clincher tyres were all shown off as the latest technology – along with suspension forks.
Only the inclusion of oil lamps and a tyre-operated bell really dates the contents of the magazine.


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April 4, 2016
On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 the County Commissioners is meeting in closed session on what to do to fill the County Manager position after Bill Lee leaves in May 2016 to run for the District 3 County Commissioner position.
Here is what I think. Simply appoint an Acting County Manager for the rest of the year. When I become County Manager in August 2011 the County had been on auto-pilot with Acting CM's for 9 months.
In August 2011 we had: Doug at Attorney – Dez as HR Director – Sara Keeler as Finance Director – Theresa Diaz as Head of Purchasing and Procurement – Bernice Martinez – As Head of Grants Management – Mario Gomez as Acting Roads Superintendent – Steve Silversmith Acting Warden of ADC – JDC was under an Acting appointment also – Anthony Dimas over Emergency Management and Bill Woolman over County Fire.
And today, you have Doug, Dez, Sara, and Woolman still there in the same capacities. Dimas is still there with responsibility for OEM and Grants management. You have again Steve Silversmith as Acting Warden and you have Donna Goodrich over Juvenile Detention. You Ron Caivigga over Purchasing - Debra Martinez over DWI Program - Lori Parra over the JSACC - Claudeen Foutz over DWI Compliance and Jeff Irving as Roads Superintendent.
I know all of these people and I would say the County is in good hands. So, my point is the County will do fine with an Acting County Manager – probably with Doug or Dez or Sara in charge or a combination of the three.
If I was the Commission I would not start a selection process until after the election is over and the installation of the new District #3 Commissioner occurs - It's only fair to let the new Commissioner be part of that process.
As a closing thought I don't understand why Bill Lee had to quit anyway to run as long as he doesn't campaign on County time. I would have let him take an "unpaid leave of absence" to run. If he won then let him resign then.
Richard F. Kontz
507 Apache Court, Gallup, NM


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Halloween is only about a week away, and the 3D Printing Newb is getting ready by 3d printing some pumpkins. This is a very popular design downloaded from thingiverse by a group called Makies. There are also a bunch of remixes to this pumpkin that you can find along with remixes of just the lid. The picture above shows the 3d printed pumpkin in full size and at 50%. The full size pumpkin has a remixed lid that snaps on while the 50% pumpkin has the original lid. If you have created a 3D Printed Pumpkin, let us know by linking to it in the comments.
3D Printed Pumpkin by Makies
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Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture
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Exploring the roots of Canadian consumer culture, Purchasing Power uncovers the meanings that Canadians have attached to consumer goods. Focusing on women during the early twentieth century, it reveals that for thousands of Canadians between the 1890s and World War II, consumption was about not only survival, but also civic expression.
Offering a new perspective on the temperance, conservation, home economics, feminist, and co-operative movements, this book brings women's consumer interests to the fore. Due to their exclusion from formal politics and paid employment, many Canadian women turned their consumer roles into personal and social opportunities. They sought solutions in the consumer sphere to isolation, upward mobility, personal expression, and family survival. They transformed consumer culture into an arena of political engagement.
Yet if Canadian women viewed consumption as a tool of empowerment, so did they wield consumption as a tool of exclusion. As Purchasing Power reveals, Canadian women of privileged race and class status tended to disparage racialized and lower income women's consumer habits. In so doing, they constructed notions of taste that defined who – and who did not – belong in the modern Canadian nation.
Product Details
- Series: Studies in Gender and History
- World Rights
- Page Count: 304 pages
- Illustrations: 14
- Dimensions: 6.0in x 0.9in x 9.0in
"Drawing on rich archival research, Donica Belisle has written a fascinating consumer history of Canada, focusing on women's contributions before World War Two. This well-written study explores the links between citizenship and consumption, detailing the ways that white British practices were normalized as "Canadian" and the role that women played in the formation of white Canadian nationalism in the early twentieth century. Belilse's work offers a more nuanced understanding of the periodization of North American consumer society. Analyzing twentieth-century women's "prosumer" activities such as cooking, sewing, and knitting, as well as diverse Canadian women's efforts on behalf of consumer-oriented social movements, Belisle demonstrates the centrality of consumption to Canada's cultural, economic, and political life. Her book is a welcome addition to recent scholarship that is working toward breaking down the artificial barriers between consumption and production."
Vicki Howard, University of Essex, United Kingdom, author of From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Stores (Penn Press, 2015).
"Today, the term 'pro-sumer' denotes 'a consumer who becomes involved with designing or customizing products for their own needs.' This study of women considers the forms of political consumerism in which they engaged and reveals the political values they held."
Anne Burke
The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literat
Author InformationDonica Belisle is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Regina.
Table of contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Canadian Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective
1. More Money for Mother: Temperance and the Rise of Sober Consumer Culture
2. Shopping for Victory: Consumer Citizenship during the Great War
3. Training the Consumer Citizenry: Postsecondary Home Economics Curricula
4. Rural Consumer Citizens: Consumption in the Canadian Women's Institutes
5. For Whom Do We Dress? Fashion in the Early-Twentieth-Century Women's Press
6. Challenging Capitalism? Co-ops, Housewives' Leagues, and the Limits of Collective Buying
Conclusion: Empowerment and Exclusion: The Meanings of Consumption in the Early Twentieth Century
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Mark Wignall | Control the mind, own the body
A few years before crazed, religious cult leader, Jim Jones, convinced about 900 of his followers to end their lives by drinking cyanide-laced syrup in 1978 in a place called Jonestown in Guyana, 17-year-old Penny was on the verge of giving over her mind and body to the Children of God cult, through a local chapter set up in Jamaica.
It is difficult to know what made Penny such a perfect target. Living with her family in the comforts of Kingston 6, she was attending one of the elite high schools and would be certain to pursue medicine at university. Anyway, she made the decision and, three months in, it was tearing apart her family.
Her brother Tom and I were friends. We were at a bar in Vineyard Town. A day in 1976. 'Wiggi, mi just gwine go dey and grab her the #!*! out of there.'
His mother was not for the 'grab' part although she expressed sympathy for the move. "Let us go and visit her."
The cultists wore flowing white robes and it would be typical to see them operating in small groups in Half-Way Tree. For the women it would be no pants, no standard dress. Just a basic smock. They would hand out tracts and also solicit money. Their leader was someone calling himself Moses David.
We visited her one day at the sprawling uptown compound. It was a huge house on ample land. Fancy tents had been erected for added accommodation. We sat on a gazebo. The place was weirdly magical. Every person seemed to have a smile constantly printed on the face. Some were walking, holding hands. The tranquillity seemed to have been contrived for our consumption.
Penny was caught up in the strange fog of this heavenly illusion on earth. After we left, her mother suggested to the leadership that they allow Penny to visit for a day. She came home but looked distant. Where was that smile of inner peace?
The mother made another request for Penny to visit. She was turned down by a very forceful 'No!'.
In the end, the grab theory was applied. Tom and his big brother wormed their way into the trust of the local leaders, got close to their sister and snatched her one late evening.
Some of Jamaica's newest churches know that simply to control dollars is only to pinch the penny. They sell you religious tokens, a higher plane of existence and misdirected routes to your soul's redemption. But to do this they need more of you.
For many in Jamaica, an uncertain wage at the end of the week cannot make for anything special attained. Some take to the bottle. Others take it out in aggression towards those whom they swear they love.
In politics, the biggest Jamaican cult exists in diehard supporters of the People's National Party and the Jamaica Labour Party. It's a simple recipe. The party is God and God is all-powerful and never wrong.
Many of us too are scared of making decisions on our own. What if I screw up? What if an organisation or a group or a church, or a … could reaffirm me by freeing me of my pain and fears?
Maybe something sinister lurks in the bushes outside the Qahal Yahweh Church in Montego Bay, or it is us who are the duppies. The recent tense standoff between the security forces and the church indicates that the police know little about dealing with cults.
And yes, Penny practises medicine somewhere in Canada.


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Orchard Hills crash survivor Bronco Hoang says it is an insult that the driver who allegedly caused the accident will not face charges over the deaths of his twin boys.
Mr Hoang survived the horror crash on The Northern Road in late September, which killed his heavily pregnant wife Katherine. Their unborn twin boys did not survive. Another family member was also killed in the accident.
"It is an insult to me and my family that my twin boys are not recognised," Mr Hoang told Ray Hadley on Radio 2GB.
"I did not bury my wife and two injuries… I buried my wife and my unborn twin sons."
The driver who allegedly caused the crash, Richard Moananu, is facing a slew of charges over the incident, including manslaughter. But the law does not allow for him to be charged over the deaths of the unborn twins.
The State Government is currently considering changes to the law, but it appears unlikely they will occur before the State Election in March.
Troy Dodds is the Weekender's Managing Editor and Senior Writer. He has more than 15 years experience as a journalist, working with some of Australia's leading media organisations.


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Day 14: Practicing Acceptance, Overcoming Parental AngerReflect & Connect
Welcome to day 14 of the 31 Days of Restoration: Spiritual and Emotional Support for Parents of Children with Special Needs. You can find the main page for this series here.
Anger is one of the first stages of grief. Acceptance is the final.
Does a parent ever fully accept her child's diagnosis? Decades later, even after living this truth day in, day out, there is a tiny part of us that remains angry. That anger rears its ugly head at the oddest times.
We're angry when our child sits in his adapted stroller while other kids pick apples at the orchard. We're angry when our child cannot participate in birthday events at party centers. We are angry when our child struggles to speak the words "I love you" when other kids have been telling their parents since toddlerhood.
I get angry that my son can't walk, or run, or dance, or play soccer like other kids.
I get angry when he can't eat what other kids eat.
I get angry at the number of medical appointments and procedures he has to endure. I am angry that he knows the inside of a hospital at all.
While we focus on his abilities, deep down, I am angry that he is not free in his body like other kids are.
Most days, I fully accept this reality. Some days, it's hard to be so resolved.
The funny thing is, my son is not angry. He is the happiest little guy you'll meet. He has a few things to teach me about acceptance.
Affirmations for Practicing Acceptance and Overcoming Parental Anger
- Even though I am angry about how I see my child's limitations, I accept what is.
- I find peace in my child's smile.
- I find peace in my child's unconditional love.
- I practice peace and acceptance today.
- No matter what, I know I will be OK.
- No matter what, my child will be OK.
- No matter what, it will all be OK.


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SFF Storage Class Driver (sffdisk) Service Defaults in Windows 7
Small Form Factor Disk Driver by Microsoft Corporation.
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SFF Storage Class Driver is a kernel device driver. In Windows 7 it won't be started if the user doesn't start it. If SFF Storage Class Driver fails to start, Windows 7 attempts to write the failure details into Event Log. Then Windows 7 startup should proceed and the user should be notified that the sffdisk service is not running because of the error.
Restore Default Startup Configuration for SFF Storage Class Driver1. Run the Command Prompt as an administrator.
2. Copy the command below, paste it into the command window and press ENTER:
sc config sffdisk start= demand
3. Close the command window and restart the computer.
The sffdisk service is using the sffdisk.sys file that is located in the %WinDir%\system32\DRIVERS folder. If the file is changed, damaged or deleted, you can restore its original version from Windows 7 installation media.


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The anime adaption of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has received a full-length promotional trailer. The hit Shonen manga will make its anime debut in April 2019. In the trailer you get a little bit of everything. From action to gore and a bunch of questions as to why this is happening to these two children. Enjoy the trailer below.
If you're interested in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and would like to know more about it, here is a brief synopsis from Viz: "Since ancient times, rumors have abounded of man-eating demons lurking in the woods. Because of this, the local townsfolk never venture outside at night. Legend has it that a demon slayer also roams the night, hunting down these bloodthirsty demons. For young Tanjiro, these rumors will soon to become his harsh reality…"
A novel of the manga was also announced and will be available to ship in Japan on February 4th. Take a look at some of the other news that came out of Jump Festa 2019.
Source: Demon Slayer official website, Animenewsnetwork


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Ice cream for breakfast, ice cream as an evening snack, ice cream for dessert, or all at the same time, because is too hot. Why not? These yogurt and raspberries popsicles are a great suit for each of these cases.
These raspberry popsicles are so easy to make and taste really like ice-cream. I'm sure your children will love them, so don't hesitate to replace a high calorie and high sugar treat with a clean option.
All you have to do is mix some yogurt, with fresh raspberries and honey and pour it into popsicles molds. I also add some granola on top for a bit of crunchiness and flavor.
Raspberry and yogurt popsicles
Yield 4 popsicles
- 1 cup yogurt
- 1-2 Tbsp honey or maple syrup
- 1/2 cup fresh raspberries
- Some granola to add at the bottom for extra crunch and flavor
- Oil to brush the popsicle molds
- Brush the interior of the popsicles mold with a little coconut oil or any other oil with mild flavor.
- Mix yogurt with honey and raspberries.
- Pour the mixture into the popsicles molds.
- Add about 1 tsp granola on top of each popsicle.
- Put the sticks and freeze for at least 6 hours.
- Bring out of the fridge.
- Let stand few minutes at room temperature and carefully remove from the molds.
Enjoy immediately.
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Banker's Selection Committee Secretariat announced a job circular on the "daily Ittefaq" to recruit "Assistant Executive Teller" post in Janata Bank Limited under Bangladesh Bank. Most of the people know that very recent "Janata Bank" Published two circular also the post of "Assistant Executive Officer" and "Executive Officer" They are creating panel for 536 vacant post for "Assistant Executive Teller". Interested candidates are able to apply these post form 10th April, 2016. Application will be accepted through BB website only.
Job Type: Bank Job (Janata Bank Limited, Full time)
Positions: "Assistant Executive Teller"
Qualification: See the circular
Salary: See the circular
Last date of application: May 01, 2016
Published Date: Daily Ittefaq on March 25, 2016
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Writing Matters: In Conversation with Vinita Agarwal
By Nalini Priyadarshini
Vinita Agarwal is an award winning poet and translator. She has authored number of books — Words Not Spoken, The Longest Pleasure, The Silk Of Hunger and Two Full Moons,
Recipient of the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award for Literary Excellence, USA, 2015, the second prize at the TallGrass Writers Guild Award, Chicago in 2017, two consecutive prizes in the Hongkong Proverse Poetry Prize for 2017 and 2018, and joint winner of the Tagore literary prize for 2018, her poems have appeared in Asiancha, The Fox Chase Review, Pea River Journal, Open Road Review, Stockholm Literary Review, Poetry Pacific, Mithila Review, The Bombay Review, Mascara Literary Review, The Blue Fifth Review and other journals.
She was on the panel of judges for the Asian Cha contest in 2015 and for RLFPA Awards (International category) 2016. She has conducted workshops in colleges and institutes of Mumbai.
She has read at Kala Ghoda, SAARC, 100 thousand poets for change, Lucknow Literature Festival, U.S. Consulate, Hyderabad and Mumbai, Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Delhi Poetree, Pentasi India Cappuccino and Women Empowerment Readings. She was featured live in the global transatlantic poetry broadcast. She is on the Advisory Board Of The Tagore Literary Prize
Nalini: Your poetry is personal, intense, out there on the pages to shout out loud what is not supposed to be spoken, to change the way people perceive women and the narrative around them. That's what I feel when I read your works. I'm not sure if you agree with my assessment, but, it might still be true if we talk about poems like Where I come From, Bespoken, Woman, Park Street Rape Victim in your latest book Two Full Moons. So, here's the question: Why do you write poetry? What is your goal?
Vinita: I write poetry to vent the thoughts simmering inside me. For me, poetry is the best medium to put across sentiments and emotions. Through poems we build something new on the ground — something that will shine like a sliver of truth when darkness descends and envelops us.
Nalini: When is a poem done?
Vinita: When I can read it without a pause and when I do not need to tweak it or edit it.
Nalini: At some point, we all end up writing poems about writing poetry. You have a couple in your book. Why do you think it becomes pertinent for a poet to write such poems and what purpose do they serve?
Vinita: Writing poems about poetry provides a perspective to this very fine art. The art is validated in the poet's own words. I too have written a few poems about poetry and tried to express the utter necessity of reading and writing poetry. I wish poetry would resonate with more and more people.
Nalini: Your poetry encompasses a wide range of themes as apparent from your latest book and deals with topics as diverse as family, existence, mental health and spirituality. Plath said, "Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise." What is your opinion?
Vinita: I agree with her entirely… I feel that even a passport photograph might be worth writing a poem about if one could make the poem interesting and innovative enough. I guess when we write, we dredge out new thoughts on old emotions. The skill lies in doing it innovatively and differently. Poetry is perhaps old wine in a new bottle every time it is written.
Nalini: Some of your poems come with a tinge of nostalgia such as– My Father made me a Balance, Buttons, Visiting Dust — while some of your poems advocate breaking down old order. What can you tell us about this tension between belonging and charting new paths?
Vinita: Belonging is a terribly taxing emotion. We belong to memories, to a certain span of time and to certain people in a way that cannot be erased. But life is dynamic; change, the only constant. Therefore one gets nostalgic about belonging – while belonging stays, everything else moves on. In my case, when both my parents passed away, they defined an immortal vacuum that I feel in every breath. I tend to write about them over and over again.
Nalini: Do you recall a moment in your upbringing or childhood that, when you revisit, seems to presage for you a life in poetry and writing?
Vinita: Yes I think I do. Actually, the precursor to my writing was reading. I was always with a book. I felt that I belonged to the world of words. Wanting to write became an extension of reading. My mother used to say that I wrote my first poem at the age of five. I wrote in school and college and began to write professionally later.
Nalini: You are a prolific poet, freelance writer of fiction and non-fiction and a researcher. Tell us how you manage it all and what are you working on these days?
Vinita: I don't keep as busy as you make it sound! However, yes, I am always researching about something or the other. Being an independent researcher means the work is slow, but it's also very satisfying. As far as non-fiction is concerned I like to write about culture and spirituality. I hope to write something on the Buddha. Poetry is always a constant friend and companion.
Nalini: We live in age of Twitter and Instagram. There is a deluge of poets writing micro poems and riding on instant fame. It might seem that poetry has become more popular in recent years but is it really so? What do you think of instant/micro/4 line poetry written around popular notions?
Vinita: It's not the brevity of those poems that concerns me, it's the mediocrity and apparent lack of thought behind the lines that convinces me that Instagram poetry cannot take the place of — for lack of a better word — 'real' poetry. I like to think that Instagram and Twitter are little slants and tangents that poetry has taken before it renews itself again.
Nalini: Many believe that 2018 gave impetus to feminism in India with #Metoo movement while others consider it a passing fad or instrument of personal vendetta. What is your take?
Vinita: The #Metoo movement was a serious attempt towards women's solidarity and freedom of expression. Finally women could speak up about their exploitation and abuse. It was really important. However, Germaine Greer, the iconic feminist said in a recent interview that each of the #Metoo cases would fail in court – every single one of them – because our legal systems are just not in place. We need to make systemic changes in order to deliver justice to women who have suffered. We need something more than #MeToo to bring an effective change in society. It's sad that there were a few isolated cases where the movement was weaponised, where women falsely accused individuals just to suit their agenda.
Nalini: Any words for aspiring poets?
Vinita: Keep reading. Keep writing.
Nalini Priyadarshni has been writing, especially poetry, for almost a decade and has been published worldwide in literary magazines and journals. Her recent publications include Better Than Starbucks, Different Truths, Duane's Poe Tree, The Ugly Writers, Counter Currents and more. Her eclectic tastes are reflected in her poems, which have been widely anthologized and collected in Doppleganger in My House and Lines Across Oceans, which she co-authored with the late D. Russel Micnhimer. Nominated for The Best of the Net 2017, she moonlights as a high school teacher and is a mother of two teenagers.


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The Carers' group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 1:30 pm to 3:30pm at Tenbury Wells Library, 24 Teme Street, Tenbury Wells WR15 8AA. The group is for unpaid carers to take time out for themselves. To meet with other carers who understand about caring, make friends and chat. The meetings may have a speaker, activity, an outing or sometimes just meet for a chat over tea and coffee. The group is run by and for carers so they choose what activities, speakers, information sessions they would like to have on the group programme.
A group providing support to carers, through befriending, information, support from health professionals. The group also has disabled access.
We offer:
- Befriending
- Information
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Catchment area:
The group is for unpaid carers who live in and around Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire
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Just come along to our next meeting, or get in touch with us on the details below.
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- Helen Roberts on 0300 012 4272 (Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm)
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Completion Date: August 7, 2018
Each breed has a rescue organization for their breed. Small Paws is the largest breed rescue in the country, with over 800 volunteers and over 6000 members in 27 countries.
Small Paws has rescued over 15,000 Bichons in the past 20 years from across the country.


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Böll Foundation is pleased to present Anne Klein Women's Award. The selection of candidates has already started and the deadline is September 30, 2014. We believe that it will be important to suggest candidates from South Caucasus Region as well. Accordingly, we share the link with relevant information with you. We hope to receive suggestions for the candidates from our partners and supporters.
Candidates nominated for the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Anne Klein Women's Award should be politically active members of civil society – women who, as role models, encourage women and girls to act in gender-democratic ways. Their engagement and commitment to women's and girls' causes should be outstanding, especially towards
- making gender democracy a reality
- abolishing discrimination based on gender or gender identity
- political commitment for women's, human, and civil rights
- the promotion of women and girls in science and research.
Please, send your suggestions (name of the candidate, biography and argumentation) to the following email address: etuna.nogaideli[at]ge.boell.org
Read the additional information about the award on this link.
Short film about Anne Klein, prepared by Böll Foundation:


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More exclusive boxing rights for talkSPORT
talkSPORT has exclusively secured the radio rights for the semi-finals and the final of the World Boxing Super Series.
There will be live ringside coverage on talkSPORT of both super-middleweight fights starting with the clash between Chris Eubank Jr and George Groves, on February 17th.
Former WBC cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew will be talkSPORT's pundit for the clash alongside co-commentator and fellow ex-world champion Glenn McCrory and commentator John Rawling.
The station has also landed the rights for the new Anthony Joshua world unification fight.
Liam Fisher, National Radio controller at talkSPORT, said: "Another day and more mouth-watering exclusive boxing rights for talkSPORT. Our team of pundits will be there for a host of exciting clashes as talkSPORT cements its place as radio's home of boxing."
Coverage via the new deals starts this Saturday at 10pm with the 'British Beef' encounter between Lawrence Okolie and Isaac Chamberlain at London's O2 Arena.


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Exploring the Emotional Experience of Same-sex Parents by Mixing Creatively Multiple Qualitative Methods
AbstractSpecial Issues Submission: Equity In this paper I address some of the main challenges and benefits of doing qualitative research with a specific type of 'informal caregivers', i.e. those who have been thus far excluded from the conceptual category of "normal" caregivers and from normal research on informal care: same-sex parents. The research presented in this paper is an example of a qualitative, inclusive approach to studying the felt and lived experience of 33 same-sex parents. It draws on a wider study on 80 informal caregivers, who were different in terms of gender, type of care, marital status, and sexual orientation. Its aim was to offer a more inclusive interpretation and a more reliable discourse on family care and parenthood. The research objective was to gain insights into the emotional mechanisms through which the dynamics of inclusion or exclusion are interactionally and situationally constructed and/or challenged while doing care. In this paper I illustrate the mix of creative, qualitative methods I employed to explore the experiences of a group of same-sex parents living in Philadelphia (USA).
Special Issue: Articles
LicenseThe Creative Commons‐Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License 4.0 International applies to all works published by the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Copyright for articles published in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods remains with the first author.
It is the responsibility of the author, not the IJQM, to obtain permission to use any previously published and/or copyrighted material.


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Sylvia Hale
"I support the Asylum Seekers Centre because the Australian people, via their taxes, have assisted me at every stage of my life – public school education, scholarship to university, grants to the printing and publishing industries and payment of my salary as an elected member of parliament. In all conscience, when the opportunity presented itself, I could not refuse to return a modicum of what I had received. Whose needs could be greater than those of asylum seekers who risk everything to flee persecution and seek safe haven in a land whose customs and languages may be so different from their own?
If the international conventions Australia signs up to are to mean anything, they must be observed in deeds as well as words."
The Mattick Family
Peter and Pam Mattick with their family
"We found out about the Asylum Seekers Centre through through Monsignor Tony Doherty of St Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, Rose Bay. He told us about the amazing team at the Centre and the work being done to assist asylum seekers. We felt we definitely had the opportunity to be involved in something great.
We are so blessed to be Australian and our family has had opportunities and a life so full. We can't imagine the courage and strength of people fleeing their homeland. As Australians we must welcome and support asylum seekers. Peter and I receive so much more in return than we give as supporters and volunteers."
Mary MacKillop Foundation
Helen Connealy
"The Mary MacKillop Foundation provides relief from poverty, sickness, suffering and helplessness. We assist self-help projects in the Australian community, whilst building self-reliance and human dignity. In particular we help those at highest risk in society, those who are isolated and marginalised.
The Asylum Seekers Centre is a vital contributor to our community by providing such support through shelter and guidance for those who are new to our country and have no support. For those who have chronic illness, they are often debilitated and very ill by the time they seek help. The Foundation is proud to help provide pharmaceutical assistance to those in such need and highly values the wonderful partnership with the Asylum Seekers Centre.
Sister Mary MacKillop responded to the needs of her time in ways that respected the human dignity of all. The Foundation, in memory of our namesake, supports today's needs which include those who have arrived in this country with no support. The tragedy of fleeing your home and often having to leave family behind can leave many without hope and we aim to give solace and empowerment."
Sisters of Charity Foundation
Representatives from the Asylum Seekers Centre and Sisters of Charity Foundation celebrate the signing of the agreement, November 2013.
We are proud to be the beneficiary of the Sisters of Charity Foundation's 175th anniversary project. The Sisters of Charity have a long history of supporting the most marginalised and vulnerable in Australian society since settlement. They continued this tradition by recognising that asylum seekers are the most vulnerable of the homeless and purchasing an accommodation centre for our clients. Homelessness is the most critical issue for asylum seekers and over half of our clients are homeless and have no financial support from the Government when they first arrive. Access to decent housing is fundamental to helping people recover from their past experiences and rebuild their lives to become valuable members of our community. We are extremely grateful for this milestone gift and proud to be working together with the Sisters of Charity.
Bridge for Asylum Seekers Foundation
Bridge for Asylum Seekers Foundation (BASF) supports the Asylum Seekers Centre because it is the first point of call for most asylum seekers in need.
The Centre provides a full-range of front-line services that a home-based volunteer organisation such as BASF cannot provide. It also provides excellent case management services, meeting clients on a regular basis and identifying to BASF those in financial need. In recent times, the relationship has become closer and more effective with the Centre's case management services managing the BASF payments to approved clients.
The Myer Foundation
Leonard Vary, CEO, The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund
"People who have come to Australia seeking refuge from war, violence or persecution in their home countries and whose claims for refugee protection are in train – asylum seekers – are among the most vulnerable and marginalised in our community. With their everyday existence subject to the vicissitudes of government policy which determine what, if any, government assistance they are able to receive, whether or not they may work, and where in the end they may be settled, it is increasingly important that organisations such as the Asylum Seekers Centre are given the means to support them on the long and uncertain journey through Australia's protection system. It has been inspiring for the Sidney Myer Fund to witness and contribute to the Centre's growing capacity as the primary provider of support to those living in the community in NSW while their claims are processed."
Simple Love
Founder of Simple Love, Coco Knight
In 2013, a group of young people, led by Coco Knight, decided to create an innovative solution to address the food and nutritional needs of asylum seekers. They created a campaign entitled 'Simple Love' which saw different churches come together to provide food hampers in the lead-up to Christmas. Their project led to 12 Sydney churches across five denominations donating 1,400 bags of food. Through the creation of this simple giving campaign and managing the collection and delivery of goods, 'Simple Love' helped us meet the nutritional needs of our clients. The project was such a success that it has been expanded into regular and ongoing food donations.
Gelato Messina
Simon Ravindran, Project Manager, Gelato Messina
"This unique partnership affords us access to an amazing set of potential candidates instilled with the right work ethic and a clear determination to lift themselves up!
We are excited to be a part of something that meets our operational needs while providing us with the opportunity to be more socially active in our community!"
Hitoshi Sataka, Volunteer Dentist
"I support the Asylum Seekers Centre because it provides a great environment for the clients. It's welcoming, fun and I believe it is really making a difference in people's lives. The staff and volunteers are great and ultimately, that's what counts in a support service. There's always a bit of banter going around, but under those smiles and laughter, I can sense the determined steely-eyed focus on the need to change the way asylum seekers and refugees are treated. I had a dental practice near the Centre's old home in Surry Hills. If memory serves me right, I simply had a gap in my appointment book one day, and thought I'd give them a call to see if anyone would like to come in for pro-bono work. The rest is history. I've always been passionate about human rights issues. I haven't had any major incidents or events to trigger such interest, but I don't think you need one to realise we all want to be treated with dignity and respect. When I hear stories and compare it to what I'm privileged to have, it puts me in my place."


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We are born from the body of our mother,
we grow steadily, get old and then we die.
This is the natural way for all things in the
material world. This is the nature of all materials
– they appear and they disappear.
Death is a terrifying thought for most of us
because we become so attached to the material
world. We spend all our energy identifying with
everything that is visible,
holding on to it literally for dear life!
We know we are going to age and die
but we desperately struggle against losing
such a precious thing as human life.
This is the modern materialistic life,
addicted to everything visible,
everything possessable;
obsessed with status, reputation and wealth.
We have turned our backs on the universe,
plundering and raping the planet without a care.
We have stopped listening because our eyes have
become so big and greedy and we are deluded that
the visual field is where we can find the only truth!
On the other hand, indigenous peoples,
the true people of the Earth,
listen deeply to the universe and
the Great Mother Nature.
They spend their every moment taking care
of the precious planet and especially of their
totem group which they are born into.
They are the true and only custodians of
the planet; the only ones who really have wisdom
and direct contact with all that is
visible and invisible.
Like us, they also are born and they die,
but they live their lives longing for that death,
longing for the glorious moment when their spirit
is released from the limited suffering physical and
finite body, which is vulnerable to disease
and decay,
sustained only by food and water.
Because of this deep knowing about their
divine origins, they live their lives
without fears or attachments.
They trust entirely in the universe to
provide for all their needs,
just-knowing that they will always
have enough to complete their
particular human mission.
is called the Djang,
portrayed in a native painting above.
It is the glorious culmination of each tribal life
lived as a custodian of the Earth
and it is celebrated by a 12 day lead-up of
burial ceremonies,
feasting and dancing, and esoteric rituals.
Each custodian of the Earth knows that after
their body has lost its usefulness the spirit
held within it will rise into the sky and there
amongst the stars go on traveling to other
dimensions to learn other lessons.
They unconditionally accept that their
appearance in human form
is just one part of their spiritual evolution.
We 'developed' people have so much to learn
from these ancient custodians of
the Great Truth.


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Once you've removed all the tinsel, lights, decorations, and stands from your holiday tree, you can leave the tree next to your green Compost Cart and Recology will pick it up for you between January 1 and January 31 on your regular collection day
Please make sure trees are 8 feet and under. If it's taller than 8 feet, cut the tree into lengths of 8 feet or less before placing next to or inside your green Compost Cart. After January 31st, trees must be cut up and placed inside the green Compost Cart for collection.
Apartment Managers
Please call to arrange for collection of holiday trees. Trees can be collected in piles or in a drop box for no additional charge. For more information, please call Recology San Mateo County at (650) 595-3900.