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A Massage Therapy treatment involves the manipulation of soft tissue (muscle, skin, tendons, fascia, and ligaments) to eliminate pain, restrictions, and tension in the body. Our Massage Therapists are science and rehab focused. We provide targeted therapeutic massage with deep tissue techniques.
Modalities Used by Our RMT's: Clinical Deep Tissue Massage, Active Release Technique (ART), Fascial Stretch Therapy (FST), Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD), Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy, Scar Tissue treatment (Graston), Cupping Techniques (fascial release, lymph stimulation, detoxification).
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The Essential is a combo of deep tissue massage and a series of 8 science-based essential oils layered in a specific order to heal the body and mind. It will calm the nerves, cleanse the body, and reduce muscle tension while bringing the body back to homeostasis.
*areas treated; low back, shoulders, neck, and feet.
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This cupping and massage combo offers a push and pull experience with silicone cups. The "push" from the pressure within the massage alleviates muscle tension and encourages repair. The "pull" from the cupping pulls fascial restrictions out of the tissue allowing space for more movement within the body. Helps to improve flexibility and increase range of motion while increasing circulation and promoting detoxification.
*cupping marks may last up to 4-10 days.
*you may feel tired after cupping so it's recommended to stay hydrated and drink lots of water post treatment.
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This ultra detoxing cupping treatment uses Biomagnetic Field Therapy to neutralize the entire body while pulling out toxic elements, helping to restore normal cellular vibration and creating a deeply rejuvenating body-mind experience. This treatment also includes a deep tissue massage on the back of the body while the cups stay on the mid back and shoulders to draw out stagnation.
*cupping marks will gradually fade but can last 4-10 days.
*you may feel tired after this treatment or experience detox symptoms. Stay hydrated and drink lots of water.
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Fire Cupping is a technique rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine used to optimize health, reduce pain, and quickly bring the body back into it's natural state of balance. Fire cupping can be used to treat many ailments such as migraines, coughs, chronic respiratory problems, menstrual cramps, skin issues, and also aids in stress reduction. Ultimately, by warming the body with deep tissue penetration our vital energy/life force, better known as Qi, can flow freely again leading both the body and mind back to optimal health. Treatment includes a deep tissue massage on the back of the body.
*cupping marks may last 4-10 days
*you may experience detox symptoms after treatment. Drink lots of water to reduce dehydration.
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This ultra-beautifying cupping treatment provides drainage, stimulates circulation, breaks up fat cells, and loosens the connective tissue which reduces the "orange peel" appearance of cellulite in the glutes and thighs.
*for best results, 1-2 treatments per week are recommended until desired outcome is achieved.
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This premium, naturally beautifying facial cupping treatment uses small cups to vacuum and lift the facial tissue, promoting the flow of lymphatic drainage. It helps reduce bloating and fine lines and wrinkles, while adding fullness to the face. Replicating the effects of equipment used at most high-end aesthetic establishments, the results are profound.
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The country's biggest home landlord Irish Household Properties Reit – or I-Res – is looking to broaden its portfolio nationwide with €70m accessible to it for acquisition functions.
The firm agreed its first assets acquire exterior of the capital – a 50-property improvement at Harty's Quay on Cork's Rochestown Highway – in June. That was portion of a greater €285m offer also including 815 homes in Dublin.
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This year's E3 was quite the show for both fans and all the staff here at Niche Gamer – however one thing that was definitely noticeable was the fact that Sony had no booth or presence at the long-running gaming convention – so much so that Xbox took notice.
Executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, noted the annual event wasn't as good of a show without Sony making an appearance.
"I wish Sony was here. E3 is not as good when they're not here," Spencer said in an interview with Giant Bomb. Microsoft had quite the showing this year – the company showed off over 60 games during their E3 press conference.
Spencer talked up the industry at large, and suggested that major players in the gaming biz should coming together.
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Bear Mountain Bridge
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George Washington Bridge
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Cherries And Cream - Poem by Jon Butter
God kisses angels from sleep like
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If I only had my own help, my career would be in a very different place. I know that's the case for everyone, but moments like this really remind you. I started my career through MAIP after a professor introduced me to it. I found my way to BBDO Atlanta for my first full-time job after mentors coached me through the process. I've since made a move to Austin as a senior planner at McGarrah Jessee. The amount of people who influenced that happening are too many to name.
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Visitor numbers up at the Rossland Museum and Discovery Centre
2018 was a good year for the Rossland Musuem and Discovery Centre.
Libby Martin is the President of the Rossland Historical Museum and Archives Society.
She says local visits were up 30 percent, and visitor attendance surpassed 10-thousand.
Their initial goal was just to pass the 2008 numbers of 73-hundred visitors and that's when they still had a mine tour.
She says they've increased their winter programming and events which helped.
Phase 1 of their renewal project also increased space in the Rossland Museum and Discovery Centre.
Meanwhile they're hoping to have Phase 2 complete by 2021.
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Whether it's a Victorian charm unearthed at a market in a faraway destination, a cuff passed down through generations, or a pair of earrings on permanent loan from her mother and aunt, for Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, Vogue's Style Editor at Large, jewelry has always been the mark of a special moment.
In fact, the 31-year-old German-born princess, whose personal taste in jewels has evolved from gypsy silver as a 22-year-old to a more refined and contemporary aesthetic with a little less jingle, rarely takes her most prized pieces off. "I box in it, I go riding in it, I shower in it. I'm definitely the kind of person to keep my stuff on," she told Latest Revival, adding that her favorite gold accessories often carry her from a morning work-out with her personal trainer to lunch with friends and then to an art opening, or high profile fashion dinner.
For the London-based writer, who is just as excited browsing for jewelry at The Antiques Garage, New York's Chelsea flea market on 25th Street, as she is from the catalogs of Sotheby's, many of her pieces are expressly purchased to enliven her classic-with-a-twist style. She has a natural eye for whimsy, and under-the-radar labels that approach metalwork with utilitarian chic that are increasingly becoming part of her jewelry repertoire. "I have to say, as I get older I'm looking at jewelry more from the standpoint of artist creation," she explained.
It comes as no surprise then to find Delfina Delettrez, Eddie Borgo, Rodarte and Noor Fares at the top of Elisabeth's Essential Edit; a curated selection of her favorite and most wanted pieces from Latest Revival.
What items from your Essential Edit did you find under the Christmas tree this year?
My family isn't very good at picking good jewelry for me, actually. I never ask for jewelry because my mum doesn't get it. I would have loved to get any of the Delfina pieces!
Is that because you are hard to buy for?
My mum is the type of person who buys what she likes, rather than getting what you like. It's sort of hit or miss. She has quite cool taste too, but it will never be something she sees on me and thinks, "Oh, she likes Delfina so I'll get her a piece for Christmas". She'll be in a vintage market or an antiques market and she'll see a cool piece and she'll be like, "This I'm going to get her". It's just never very contemporary or fashion-y. I mean, my mum knows about Delfina because I've shown her the store in Rome, but I could never imagine her going in there to get me something.
Half of your Essential Edit is comprised of rings; do you tend to gravitate towards rings over necklaces, earrings and bracelets?
That's funny, I didn't even notice that. Yea, I love rings. I really, really love rings. I think that also for me they are very easy to wear with any outfit, because sometimes I feel like a statement necklace is more complicated and tied with having the right dress with it. So I feel like rings are quite easy for me to wear.
Most of your jewelry, whether it has been handed down or was given to you as a gift, seems to be loaded with sentimental value. Can you tell me about your most meaningful pieces?
I love Victorian lockets and I have this one particular necklace that I wear on a Jessica McCormack chain — it holds a Virgin Mary medallion from the rue du Bac, which is like a very kind of classical and protective symbol, so I always wear that. Then on safari with my mum I found this hippopotamus tooth, and she had it set it in gold and had my namesake's Saint, which is Saint Elizabeth, engraved on the little setting. So I wear both of those a lot.
So your mum got that one right!
Yea, she did! [Laughs]
What are your top three favorite pieces from your Essential Edit?
Oh! That's tough. I guess the beautiful Delfina cuff with the honeybees, the Noor Fares Madonna ring, and then the Rodarte Barbed Wire necklace.
Why do you think you gravitate towards yellow gold, over say rose gold or silver?
I love yellow gold, I fluctuate to it a lot and I really love layering it on — even to the point that my brother sometimes jokes that I look like a rapper. But I just really like the look. I like rose gold too, but not too much. And silver I used to love as a teenager, all the kind of boho bangles and rings and chains. But I've moved more to gold now; my complexion is olive, I tan really well so it works well with me.
How do you feel about diamonds?
I was always more of a semi-precious kind of girl; I was never even really that into the quality of the stone. Diamonds were definitely something that I wasn't so interested in; I always thought they were a bit overrated in a sense. But as I'm getting older, I'm gaining a huge appreciation for diamonds, particularly for colorful diamonds. That being said, I don't really own any big diamond pieces, I own smaller pave things.
So would you say you prefer delicate diamond pieces over costume jewelry?
Actually I think costume jewelry is something I just find more fun and easier to wear, particularly when traveling a lot. I get quite worried to have really valuable pieces on me. I have stuff that my mum gave me that's not even that big, like these really beautiful diamond and sapphire earrings, and they just sit in my her safe in Germany because I just kind of feel like it's a mission to have them around. So I'm either wearing them or I want them somewhere safe.
Where do you hunt for new and unexpected pieces?
I love flea markets and I always rummage around The Antiques Garage in New York, and also in London sometimes I go to Portobello Road and Broadway Market just to look for the Victorian stuff that I really like. And then I've started looking into Sotheby's sales; I always look at all the catalogs. We have them lying around home in Germany, so when I'm there I have a look at them to school my eye, to see the various periods and to understand the worth of different stones. I really think that's a good place to go. Then for contemporary jewelry I would say Dover Street market in London, and then when I'm on holiday maybe I'll discover a little store in Greece or different places like that.
Do you have one secret bargain piece that people always comment on?
Yes, actually! Recently I got this little Topshop knuckle ring, it's very simple gold and a bit triangle-shaped and I just wore that with this really beautiful vintage pinky finger ring and a couple of smaller diamond pieces. All of the other pieces were so elaborate and beautiful, but people kept asking me about that ring! I'm always really open about it so I was like, "Oh, it's actually from Topshop and cost three pounds." So I often combine. I also do it with chains, sometimes I'll have a couple of gold chains and then I'll have one cheaper or costume piece I found on Portobello Road that I'll put in between. I have a lot of my mum's old Chanel costume pieces that are valuable and expensive now, but they're not real. I don't even think they're plated. But they always get comments.
Can you tell me about your habit of living in your favorite pieces, never taking them of?
That's one of the reasons why I wear gold above all now, because I just go through phases with my jewelry. Recently I found this really beautiful gold plated cuff that belonged to my aunt, I put it on when I went home and now that's going to stay on my wrist! And I have NY Adorned earrings that I always keep in because they have the little chain, and I wouldn't even know how to take it out. Similarly, with my necklaces I'll go through wearing something a lot, like I have this really simple gold body chain from Jessica McCormack that is not even that complicated to take on and off but it's complicated enough for me just to leave it on! I have started taking off some of my rings, but really, I used to wear these crazy Indian bangles up to my elbow, even to bed. I mean, they would jingle and everything. This was a period in my early twenties, in my silver phase. I would have a whole armful of silver and then I had this charm necklace my mum made for me, which had a little gold bell and it was just like, jingle bells walking around when I would arrive. I'm not that extreme any more, but yes, I keep my stuff on for sure.
The Conversion of Gloria TNT
Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis's wild jet-setting ended in 1990, when her husband died, leaving her deep in debt. Today she's head of a rebuilt family business, a V.I.P. at her friend Benedict XVI's Vatican, and in love with an African paradise.
One of the high points of last summer's Venice Biennale was Tino Sehgal's performance-art piece at the German Pavilion, where every 10 minutes actors dressed as security guards would suddenly start hopping around and singing, "This is so contemporary, contemporary, contemporary!" Most onlookers just stood there, unsure of how to react. One slightly frumpy-looking woman in a black cotton jacket and a brown pleated skirt, however, leapt right in, shouting out in glee, "Contemporary!Contemporary!" "Oh, mein Gott," muttered a German tourist. "Das ist die Fürstin von Thurn und Taxis!"
A quarter-century after she married the man who was said to be Germany's richest aristocrat, her distant cousin Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, when she was 20 and he was 53, and became notorious for her wild parties and punk hairdos, Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, now a widow of 46, still knows how to turn heads. I first interviewed her for this magazine in 1985, at Schloss St. Emmeram, the Thurn und Taxises' 500-room palace, in Regensburg, Bavaria, and gave her the nickname that stuck: "Princess TNT, the dynamite socialite." She did her best to live up to it: barking like a dog on the David Letterman show; staying out all night with the rock star Prince; getting busted for possession of hashish—which she claimed had been planted—at the Munich airport.
But her antics were tame compared with the behavior of her husband, who in his bachelorhood was unapologetic about his free-swinging bisexuality. He also relished mocking pomposity. Among the victims of his insults and pranks were Britain's Princess Margaret, Newport hostess Eileen Slocum, and Bolivian tin king Anténor Patiño.
At the time of his marriage, Prince Johannes, whose family went back to 12th-century Lombardy and made its fortune by securing the postal monopoly of the Holy Roman Empire, was said to be worth $3 billion. The largest landowner in Germany, His Serene Highness also owned a bank, breweries, metallurgical companies, 10 other palaces and castles, and extensive properties in Brazil, inherited from his mother, an infanta of the Portuguese royal family.
In 1986, I covered the 60th-birthday party Gloria gave Johannes at Regensburg. The over-the-top, million-dollar affair was largely boycotted by the German nobility, but Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall were there, along with a full array of 1980s icons including Malcolm Forbes, Ann and Gordon Getty, Sotheby's chairman Alfred Taubman and his wife, Judy, the Brazilian plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy, and the Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, all in 18th-century getups and powdered wigs for the big costume ball. While many guests still giggle about the birthday cake decorated with 60 marzipan phalluses, for me the most unforgettable moment came when Gloria, dressed as Marie Antoinette, descended on a gilded cloud at the end of a scene from Don Giovanni—performed by the Munich Opera—and sang "Happy birthday, Johnny" in the style of Marlene Dietrich.
Four years later the party was over: Prince Johannes died in December 1990, following two unsuccessful heart transplants, and left debts totaling more than $500 million, mostly from unwise investments in North American commercial real estate. When I caught up with Gloria in the summer of 1992, at Schloss Garatshausen, the family's 40-room retreat in southern Bavaria, she was trying to deal with the mess. Nonetheless, she was in high spirits, playing camp counselor to her three children, Princess Maria Theresia, then 11, Princess Elisabeth, 10, and Inheritor Prince Albert, 9, as well as to the three children of her sister, Maya, and brother-in-law, Mick Flick, the Mercedes-Benz heir.
Gloria had just announced that she was selling off a large portion of the family silver and jewelry. The auction, held by Sotheby's in Geneva, brought in $13.7 million. A second auction staged by Sotheby's at Schloss St. Emmeram in 1993 fetched another $19.3 million. Gloria spent the rest of the decade holed up in Regensburg, raising her children and turning their financial situation around. She sold the metallurgical companies and the bank, trimmed the palace staff, and gave up 24 of her 27 cars. She also studied economics and tax law with private tutors. "I didn't see anybody socially, because I was so tired in the evening," she told me when I interviewed her for this story. "But I got to know all the companies, and I got to know the problems, and I could make decisions."
During this time she also became very involved with the Catholic Church. In 1991 she made her first visit to Lourdes, where she worked as a volunteer with the sick and dying who go there in hopes of a miraculous cure. On a trip to Florence six years later, she became enthralled with Monsignor Michael Schmitz, the vicar-general of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, a conservative Catholic organization dedicated to restoring the Latin Mass. She also cultivated a friendship with the Bavarian-born Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican. In 2000 she moved to Rome, enrolled Prince Albert in a private school there, and with her good friend the Italian princess Alessandra Borghese began hosting liturgical concerts in churches, attended by Cardinal Ratzinger. She arranged to have the famous Regensburg boys' choir, which had been directed by Ratzinger's older brother, Georg, who is also a priest, sing for Pope John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence. In April 2005, when the cardinal was elected Pope Benedict XVI, Germans started referring to Princess TNT as the new Pope's best friend. In September of this year, when Benedict officiates at an outdoor Mass for 500,000 in Regensburg, Gloria will be front and center with the city's bishop.
As Dagmar von Taube, a leading journalist for Welt am Sonntag, in Berlin, says, "Here is this wild person who has become very serious about business and religion. But she still spices up every event she goes to. She's still a pop star. And she says what she thinks—she has the courage for controversy." Hugo Boss executive Philipp Wolff adds, "She has managed to go from the Queen of Decadence to the very well-respected manager of a German fortune."
"I was a spoiled brat," Gloria admits. "My only responsibility was to entertain Johannes and his guests and look after my children My biggest challenge was to get close to rock stars. But once I met them, the myth collapsed. With the Church, it was exactly the contrary. When I met Pope John Paul, he was even more than I thought he would be."
Countess Marina Cicogna, a longtime friend, thinks that Gloria's true character is finally emerging: "At a very young age, Gloria found herself married to an extremely overpowering figure. She molded herself for Johannes. She had to be as outrageous as he was, because that was what he liked. He wanted to have children—especially a boy—and she did her job. Another young woman would have been crushed, but she wasn't. She's a much more serious, bright, together person than she appeared to be when Johannes was alive."
In Venice, Princess von Thurn und Taxis and Princess Borghese were the talk of the Biennale, dashing from pavilion to pavilion by day, with Alessandra's Jack Russell terrier, Pucci, scampering after them, and from palazzo to palazzo by night, shouting at friends through a megaphone from their hired speedboat as it zoomed down the Grand Canal.
"This is so much fun" was Gloria's constant refrain, whether bargaining for Thomas Ruff's supersize digital image of the Empire State Building or angling for an invitation to go on theOctopus, Paul Allen's elephantine yacht. When the invitation came through, it turned out to be a disappointment, because the Microsoft co-founder and amateur rock guitarist wouldn't let Gloria sing with his band.
From Venice, I accompanied Gloria back to Schloss St. Emmeram, which sits in the middle of Regensburg and is about the same size as the palace at Versailles, with Gothic, Romanesque, Baroque, and Victorian wings. The changes Gloria has made since Johannes's death were evident from the moment we drove through the front gate. The last time I had been there, the courtyard was filled with 5,000 Regensburgers in full Bavarian regalia hailing their prince on his 60th birthday while Johannes waved from a balcony. Now two red-and-yellow vinyl tents had been set up for a "comedy convention," as Gloria explained, "that I'm doing as a favor to a local politician."
Twenty years ago the Schloss was entirely private, with every room perfectly maintained, down to the crystal ashtrays on every side table, for the exclusive use of the princely family, who regularly gave seated dinners for 80, with a liveried footman behind each place in the white-and-gold Hall of Mirrors. Now the staterooms are open to the public, with daily tours at 10 euros per person; there are strings across the Hall of Mirrors' red velvet chairs; and smoking is verboten.
Most of the family's oldest china, silver, and objets d'art have been donated to Bavaria's Office of Patrimony, in exchange for a reduction of a reported $80 million estate-tax bill; these treasures are now installed in a state-run museum just outside the palace gate. The carriage museum, which has one of the finest collections of antique coaches, sleighs, and sedan chairs in Europe, has always been open to the public, but now so are the medieval cloisters and family crypt. A large part of the palace's west wing has been converted to offices for a law firm, an architectural-design studio, and a financial-research institute, and the main staterooms can be rented for corporate conferences. Some things have not changed: Gloria still personally covers the cost of feeding 400 poor local residents a hot midday meal in a dining hall adjoining the Schloss.
The princess herself is hardly suffering. In addition to her residence in Rome, in the last few years she has bought a pied-à-terre in Paris and land in Malindi, Kenya, where she has built a beach house on the Indian Ocean. And through all her troubles, she never stopped buying paintings, sculptures, and photographs by 80s and 90s art stars such as Anselm Kiefer, Donald Baechler, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Andreas Gursky, and Paul McCarthy, which she thought nothing of juxtaposing with the palace's gilded furniture and ancient tapestries. Her sharp eye and adventurous taste paid off last November, when she sold 111 works at the Phillips auction house in New York for $8.4 million. "I will go on collecting," Gloria told me, "but young and up-and-coming artists, such as John Connelly, Paul Morrison, and Lisa Ruyter. I am also collecting medieval sacred art, which I have discovered I really love."
Last year Kerry Taylor Auctions, in London, sold about 100 of Gloria's old couture outfits. The proceeds went to the Relief Organisation of the Order of Malta, under whose auspices Gloria makes her annual visits to Lourdes. Point de Vue ran pictures of her there again last year, standing beside her "inséparable amie," Alessandra Borghese, both princesses clad in the nunlike nurse's uniform of the Dames of Malta. The head of the Knights of Malta in Germany was also staying at Schloss St. Emmeram the weekend I was there, and there was a bottle of Eau de Lourdes in my bathroom.
Princess Gloria, her mother, Beatrix, Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau, and I ate dinner in the new stainless-steel kitchen—not the big family dining room with assorted Wittelsbachs and Fürstenbergs staring down from the boiserie. A framed photograph of a smiling Cardinal Ratzinger visiting with Gloria and the children at the Schloss in 2004 stood on a countertop alongside a bowl of the little plastic fetuses that were being handed out by anti-abortion activists at the German-Catholic conference Gloria was sponsoring that weekend. We were joined for dinner by Abbot Richard von Menshengen, a young Austrian cleric, who said Mass in Latin later in the private chapel.
Gloria's children were not at home. Princess Maria Theresia, now 25, is a documentary-film maker, whose first film, about German doctors who treat burn victims in Nepal, premieres this month in Paris. Princess Elisabeth, 24, works at André Schlechtriem Temporary, a German-owned gallery in New York. Prince Albert, 22, is a student at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. He is surprisingly low-key, given his parents' flamboyance. "Albert was next to us at the funeral of Prince Rainier," says Prince Michael of Greece. "He's charming, intelligent, well brought up—everything you would want your child to be."
I interviewed Gloria in the family drawing room after Mass. She was very much the country hostess in a forest-green pullover, tan suede skirt, and single strand of pearls. On the coffee table were photographs of her and the children with Pope John Paul II and of her with Cardinal Van Thuan of Vietnam, who, she explained, had spent 13 years in a Communist prison. The table itself—a three-ton box of elephant bones under glass—was made in Kenya by Anna Trzebinski and reflects Gloria's infatuation with Africa, which goes back to her childhood, when her father, Count Joachim von Schönburg-Glauchau, worked as a foreign correspondent, in Togo and Somalia. Both her father and her mother, a Hungarian aristocrat, had lost everything in the Communist takeover of Eastern Europe. Between the ages of 6 and 10, Gloria, along with her older sister, Maya, attended an Italian missionary school in Mogadishu; her younger brothers, Carl-Alban and Alexander, were born in Africa.
"Somalia used to be beautiful," Gloria recalled. "But we came back to Germany in 1970 because the Somalians got too friendly with the Russians. Today you can't go there. But three years ago, when I was dreaming about a place on the beach, a Bavarian friend told me about Kenya. So we went to Kenya, the whole family. The windsurfing was great, the beach is wonderful, and there is a little town—Malindi—where many of our Italian friends go. Africa was calling me, in a way."
Gloria bought one of the few pieces of oceanfront property still available in Malindi. "I found an Italian builder there and an architect in Rome," she said. "In August 2004 the house was done. I'd created my little paradise."
She is so in love with her African retreat that she is planning to retire there—"as soon as I bring the palace into the black. And then I will turn it over to Albert. Alfred Taubman always used to say, 'Your Schloss is not an asset, it's a liability.' And that made me think, We're never going to be able to sell this property, but maybe we can turn it into something that supports itself. I'm almost there."
It costs $5 to $10 million a year to maintain the Schloss, according to Gloria. In addition to the cash flow generated by tours, office rentals, and corporate events, a Christmas market that Gloria runs there brings in revenue. This summer she will hold her third annual music festival, which she took over from the city of Regensburg and turned into a moneymaking venture by personally promoting it. This year's headliners run the gamut from Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón to the Swedish pop group Abba.
"I must tell you, I learned a lot from Princess Grace and Prince Rainier," she explained. "I would never want to turn Regensburg into another Monte Carlo—in any case, we are not sovereign rulers, we are normal citizens—but we can all learn from the way they promoted their country. At the end of the day, my green and blue and yellow hair made me interesting and made this place interesting. If I have 150,000 visitors a year, it's not only because they want to see the history of the Thurn und Taxises, but also where Gloria lives."
In the late 1990s, Gloria began venturing out into society again. One of the friendships she renewed was with Alessandra Borghese, who had recently been divorced from Constantine Niarchos, the youngest son of the late Greek shipping tycoon. Gloria's daughters were in English boarding schools, but Albert, even though he had been accepted at Eton, preferred to stay with his mother. "I said, 'O.K., but we shouldn't stay in Regensburg,'" Gloria recalled. "I felt it was time he went somewhere else, where he was not Albert Thurn und Taxis. And Alessandra said, 'Why don't you come to Rome?'"
Gloria bought a small palazzo close to the Palazzo Borghese, the ancestral home of Alessandra's father's noble Roman family, which has included the 17th-century Pope Paul V and St. Catherine of Siena. (Her mother's family fortune came from Citterio salami and San Pellegrino mineral water.) In 2000 the two princesses co-authored Our Etiquette: The World of Good Manners from A to Z, which became a best-seller in Germany and Italy. Four years later, Alessandra published With New Eyes: The Story of My Conversion, a memoir about jettisoning her discotheque lifestyle and re-discovering her Catholic faith. Her new book, Thirst for God, has been on Italian best-seller lists for months.
Alessandra has said she owed her conversion to the late Leonardo Mondadori, the socially prominent publisher who had not long before brought out a book about his own conversion. Mondadori, a sympathizer with Opus Dei, introduced Borghese to the powerful Catholic lay organization and also made her Vatican correspondent for the newsweekly Panorama.
Meanwhile, when Gloria told her old friend Monsignor Schmitz, from the Institute of Christ the King, that she was moving to Rome, he was delighted. He encouraged her, she said, "to create a salon" to help restore the relationship between the Vatican hierarchy and the old Roman aristocracy—families such as the Borgheses, the Corsinis, and the Colonnas—whose titles went back to the Papal States and whose privileges had been curtailed by Pope Paul VI in the 1960s.
"I said, 'That's a difficult task, but I will see what I can do,'" Gloria recounted. "And I was really lucky, because la divina provvidenza saw to it that Alessandra became very interested in doing that. I couldn't push her too much in the beginning, because I didn't want her to feel that I was using her. But she started to get a kick out of me wanting to meet people in the Vatican and to go regularly to the Pope's Masses."
In 1999 the Princesses Borghese and Thurn und Taxis organized a Mass combined with a concert at the Santa Maria in Aracoeli Church. Cardinal Ratzinger delivered the homily, and his brother's choir sang. The following year, they invited Giuseppe Sinopoli to conduct the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra at a requiem Mass in San Paolo Fuori le Mura, one of Rome's four major basilicas. The German ambassador gave a dinner. "It was very Vatican-oriented, with old Roman families, not café society at all," said Marina Cicogna. "There were several cardinals, as I recall, including Ratzinger."
'When I was 23 years old, Cardinal Ratzinger came to Regensburg on Saint Wolfgang's Day—Wolfgang was the bishop who reformed the diocese in the 900s—and I heard him preach," says Gloria. "I came home and told Johannes, 'That's the first time in my life that I heard somebody speak who was lit up by the Holy Spirit.' Johannes said, 'But he's famous. I've known him for years.'"
The 56-year-old prelate had been a theological star in Germany since the late 1950s and was considered a liberal reformer. In 1969, however, in reaction to Marxist-inspired student riots at the University of Tübingen, he asked to be transferred to the much more conservative University of Regensburg. With 360 churches and chapels for 130,000 residents, Regensburg is "a little Rome," in Gloria's words. In March 1977, Ratzinger was named Archbishop of Munich, and three months later he was made a cardinal. In 1981, Pope John Paul II appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office formerly known as the Inquisition, and he moved to Rome. But he still owns the house he bought near Regensburg for him and his brother.
"After I heard him preach that day," Gloria continues, "I knew that this guy was a saint. I said to Johannes, 'We must get to know him better.'" In the ensuing years, she made sure to see the cardinal whenever he came to Germany, and after Johannes died, she asked him to celebrate Mass at the Schloss. "Albert was the altar boy," she recalls. "I was so happy and proud." From then on, Gloria invited Ratzinger to say Mass every year.
"Slowly, a friendship began," says Gloria. "When I moved to Rome, I was already friendly with the cardinal's secretary, Monsignor Josef Clemens. The children and I had made a trip to Israel with him that year at Eastertime." Through Clemens, Gloria had dinner with Ratzinger from time to time. Fortunately, he was "very sympathetic" with Gloria's friends from the Institute of Christ the King. "He understood that the Second Vatican Council had gone too far," she explains, "and that now we had a happy-clappy situation with guitars and drums and people gathering around the altar and yelling. The cardinal felt that people who believed in the old traditions needed to have an existence in the Church, too."
Ratzinger's secretary also enabled Gloria to bring the Regensburg boys' choir to perform at Castel Gandolfo. Two years ago, Clemens was made a bishop, but Ratzinger's new personal secretary, the handsome young Don Georg Ganswein, knew Alessandra because of her Vatican reporting, so the princesses' access to the cardinal continued. One night they were invited to a conference he was holding at the Palazzo Colonna and to dinner afterward with him and Ganswein at the Casa Santa Marta, in the Vatican. "It's a restaurant where the nuns prepare the food," Gloria tells me. "Alessandra and I were totally thrilled. Wow! We've never been to Santa Marta, and we're going, just the four of us!"
The day before John Paul II died, Gloria and Alessandra were invited to the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco, where Cardinal Ratzinger was receiving a prize for his theological works. Gloria says, "I was sure John Paul II was going to die any minute, and I was totally sure that Cardinal Ratzinger would be Pope. But I didn't want to pray for that, because that was up to the Holy Spirit. I thought, This is not a football game. This is serious stuff. So I prayed for a good decision."
Gloria was among the 60,000 people saying the Rosary in St. Peter's Square at the moment of the Pope's death. Two weeks later, wearing a black mantilla, she was among the first laypeople to be received by the new pope, Benedict XVI.
"For her, this was the ultimate triumph, the ne plus ultra," says a titled insider. "No one would have ever dreamt that this man who came from Regensburg, and who would have lunch at the palace every time he came back to see his brother, would become Pope. In a way, the Vatican is the last old-fashioned court, with an absolute ruler on top and a circle of courtiers around him. It's fascinating for snobs like us to be part of this, and to watch someone like Gloria, who has been everywhere and done everything, crack it."
Sitting in her drawing room in the Schloss, I asked Gloria if she was aware of the gossip about her relationship with Alessandra Borghese. "Yes, but I think it's normal. I am alone, and I don't have a man next to me. But I have a best girlfriend. So people figure, She needs to have a sex life, so she must have the sex life with her girlfriend. If you tell people that you live in chastity, they think you're crazy. I don't really care what people think, because I'm going to be Alessandra's best friend anyway. I would be terribly lonely otherwise. We share in the beliefs and joy of the Church. We love the same sports—golf, skiing, and windsurfing. For me it's the best situation."
From Regensburg we flew to Switzerland for the opening of Art Unlimited, the avant-garde sideshow of the annual Basel Art Fair, where Prince Albert joined us at a buffet dinner hosted by the Union Bank of Switzerland. Tall and broad-shouldered like his father, Albert comes across as a hearty, unpretentious college kid who enjoys hanging out with his madcap mother.
As family friends have pointed out, Albert, not Gloria, inherited Johannes's estate. His mother was merely acting as his trustee until he turned 18. According to Forbes magazine's latest list of international billionaires, Albert is worth about $2 billion. He is considered one of the most eligible bachelors in Europe.
When I asked Gloria about the role of titled people in today's society, she said, "In my opinion, they are part of the entertainment world. Aristocrats don't like to hear that. But I think it's good. The entertainment value of the family helps promote my palace. At the same time, we can use this vehicle to set a good example, to show that tradition, family, religion, work, responsibility, arts patronage—all these things—are good. I tell my kids, 'People are always going to look at you, because you have a great name. You must try to turn that attention to something positive. If you lead a scandalous life, then it's really going to be over. Because then we don't have any role anymore.'"
Princess Gloria is—dare I say it?—holy at last.


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How would you distribute cost if one work order is for twenty parts and the other is for fifty parts? Instead of physically issuing each small piece of metal needed for every work order, you can save time by using nesting software and ERP.
What is nesting? In manufacturing, "nesting" groups common processes together to maximize efficiency in the shop, saving time and money.
Nesting software creates a "sheet layout" to maximize the materials used. It automatically and strategically arranges the required quantities of individual parts on sheets, or plates, of material.
Nesting can also be applied to paint lines and powder coating to reduce set-up time and time used for clocking in and out of jobs. For example, when two different jobs need to be powder-coated the same color black, employees can wait to have both jobs run through the paint line at the same time, instead of having to set up the paint line twice.
MIE Trak Pro's nesting module can, then, automatically divide the time spent on the jobs to accurately cost each work order.
This helps allocate both your material cost and labor cost for each work order; it identifies how much material was used, tracks how much time was spent, and calculates how much should be charged to each work order.
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Paul Donald Stoianowski
1939 - 2018
Paul Donald Stoianowski, 78, of Dundee, Mi was called home by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on July 24, 2018, in Toledo Hospital with his loving family at his side. Friends may call at the Capaul Funeral Home, Ida, MI, Friday, July 27, 2018, from 2-8 PM. There will be a service at New life Church, Petersburg, MI, Saturday, July 28, 2018, at 11 AM. Pastor Josh Ellis will officiate. Burial will be in Lulu Cemetery, Ida, MI.
Born in Milan, MI, on October 17, 1939, in Milan, MI. Paul graduated from Dundee High School in 1958 and married the love of his life, Ruth Dentel, on July 25, 1964. Paul was the loving father of their children, Deborah, Dave (Kim) and Aaron (fiancée, (Heather Schmidt). and two grandsons, Rob Walters and David Stoianowski.
Paul is also survived by brothers Steve Stoianowski, James (Laurie) Stoianowski and sister Judy (Don) Delano and by his Aunt Olga Mancik. Also Sisters and brother-in-laws Josephine Dentel, Phyllis (Norbert) Sedelbauer, Janice Simon, Richard (Janet) Dentel, Robert Dentel, James (Sue) Dentel, Jean Rorke, Dean Dentel and many nieces and nephews.
Paul was preceded in death by his parents Nick and Stella Stoianowski, brother-in laws John Dentel, Bernard Simon, Charles Sullins and Larry Rorke, sister-in-laws, Sharon (Dentel) Sullins, Nancy Dentel and Barbara Stoianowski. Also nephews David Sedelbauer, Matt Stoianowski, Mike Simon, niece Denise Simon.
Paul worked as a union carpenter for 25 years and then owned his own construction company, LJ Builders until retiring in 2012. He was known as a master builder, perfectionist carpenter and a man of integrity.
Paul loved spending time with his family, fishing, playing hockey, reading the Word of God and trips to Lake Michigan. He served on several Boards, was active at New Life Church in Petersburg and loved attending the Men's Bible Study Group.
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REYNOLDSVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for a Reynoldsville man accused of raping a teen.
According to court documents, 25-year-old Derrick James McLeod, of Reynoldsville, is scheduled to stand for a preliminary hearing in front of Magisterial District Judge David B. Inzana at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 24, on the following charges:
– Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse Forcible Compulsion, Felony 1
– Unlawful Contact With Minor – Sexual Offenses, Felony 1
– Sexual Assault, Felony 2
– Corruption Of Minors – Defendant Age 18 or Above, Felony 3
– Indecent Assault Forcible Compulsion, Misdemeanor 1
– Indecent Assault-W/O Consent Of Other, Misdemeanor 2
The charges stem from an incident that occurred on Mabel Street, in Reynoldsville Borough, sometime between Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5, involving McLeod.
According to a criminal complaint filed by Tammy Murray, of the Reynoldsville Borough Police Department, on May 15, she received a childline alleging that Derrick McLeod raped a known 16-year-old girl.
The victim reported that on Saturday, May 4, 2019, she was at McLeod's residence in Reynoldsville with his two minor children and other family and friends. The victim stated that she stayed overnight at McLeod's house to help with the children because he had been consuming alcohol most of the day. She stated that McLeod consumed approximately 11 cans of beer during the day, according to the complaint.
The victim reported that during the night McLeod raped her. She gave explicit details regarding the incident. She said that she kept telling McLeod "No," but he would not stop and that he held her down by her wrists, causing bruises, the complaint indicates.
The victim said that she stayed up all night to make sure McLeod did not try to hurt the children, and on the following morning, she texted her parents to come to pick her up. On the evening of May 5, the victim told her mother about the rape, the complaint states.
Sergeant Murray interviewed the victim's mother, and she confirmed there were bruises on the victim's wrists on the night of May 5. The mother reported that she wanted to take the victim to the emergency room right away and call the police, but "the victim refused to go and did not want the police involved because she feared what it would do to the family," according to the complaint.
The sister of the victim also observed the bruises, the complaint states.
On May 26, during an interview with McLeod, McLeod admitted to consuming alcohol throughout the day and taking two Benadryl to help him sleep. Sergeant Murray reported that at first, McLeod said he could not remember what happened after putting the children to bed that evening. After he was told that it was reported he had raped the victim, "(he) was asked if it was possible it happened, and he said he just doesn't remember it. McLeod said obviously anything is possible," according to the complaint.
As the interview continued, McLeod's story changed, according to Sergeant Murray.
Sergeant Murray asked McLeod if "it was safe to say at this point, he does not know what happened."
McLeod said: "Yes, that is safe to say."
Murray asked McLeod again: "Is it possible it could have happened?"
He responded: "Anything could have happened."
Later on, during the same interview, McLeod did admit to having sexual intercourse with the victim but said he woke up to her on top of him, according to the complaint.
The complaint states that McLeod was aware that the victim was 16 years old at the time of the incident.
A preliminary arraignment was held at 5:15 p.m. on June 28 in Magisterial District Judge Douglas Robert Chambers' office.
Unable to post $75,000.00 (10%) monetary bail, McLeod was lodged in the Jefferson County Jail on July 3.
He was released on Tuesday, July 9, on a 10% cash security posted by a private surety.
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Reviewed: The BBC's "Brave New World" Movie
By Tamara Wilhite
The BBC is well known for its science fiction. Doctor Who is simply the most well-known. They have also been making science fiction movies based on classics like "1984" and "Brave New World". The 1980 BBC version of "Brave New World" stands out for both its innovative style and its respect for the source material.
Why Is Disney Making So Many Live Action Remakes?
By Tamara Wilhite
Disney has been releasing a series of live action remakes. The "Beauty and the Beast" remake starring Emma Watson is the most notable success to date. The box office total for the live action "Beauty and the Beast" passed a billion dollars at the box office, earning more than the original animated film. It proved that live action remakes – regardless of what you think of them – could be very profitable.
Does Nobody Watch The Classics Anymore?
By Oren Litwin
Setting aside the propriety of casting Mel Gibson in a movie called "Rothchild," which seems to be all anyone is discussing about it, why is it that not a single article I've read so far notices that it's almost certainly a remake of an old classic?
There's Only One Way To Rank Marvel Movies. This Is It.
By Rhonda Robinson
Although you could say, I'm a most unlikely Marvel fan, David's kind invitation to disagree with him is too tempting to pass up. Perhaps its because he dismissed Guardians of the Galaxy. Or maybe it's because he placed Iron Man too far down on the list. Or it could be, I just wanted to defend my favorite superheroes. Whatever subconscious reasons propelled me to my keyboard, I think the Marvel Universe deserves our attention as creators.
An Unplanned Conversion of the Heart
By Alec Ott
Roughly 50% of this country identify as being pro-choice, meaning that members of this group believe that abortion should be legal at least in the early stages of a pregnancy. I have often wondered how many of this group would remain pro-choice if they really knew what was involved with abortion. Rather than agreeing with a lofty concept of letting a woman have a "right to choose," would they maintain the courage of their convictions if they actually spent time in an abortion clinic to witness what happens there?
For I hope obvious reasons, I myself have not gone to an abortion clinic for this purpose, but I have read the testimonies of women who have gotten abortions and people who have worked at such facilities. And just recently I had a great opportunity to witness the story of a former abortion industry worker.
Mary Pickford: The Archetypal (Canadian) Actress
Deconstructing Canadian Culture, Part 21: The Blank Screen
By Josh Lieblein
The history of Canadian actors is unlike the history of Canadians in any other medium. Canadian novelists are celebrated at home and barely noticed abroad. Canadian musicians are oddities and curiosities with hardcore fanbases. Canadian directors are singular visionaries who engage (or refuse to engage) with the meaning of life itself.
But Canadians have been such an integral part of Hollywood that you have to remind people that a famous actor is, or was Canadian. And so, as I introduce the archetypal Canadian actress – Gladys Smith, aka Mary Pickford – I really have to squint to pick out what makes her Canadian.
Why Are So Many Horror Movies an Allegory for Modern Parenting?
By Tamara Wilhite
"Birdbox" and "A Quiet Place" are recent horror movies featuring parents trying to protect children in a world full of monsters. What is interesting to me is how often I've heard both horror movies considered an allegory for modern parenting.
Green Book: The Worst Best Picture Winner I've Ever Seen. My Rankings…
My Oscar Viewing List Isn't Complete, But I Haven't Seen One As Lousy as last Year's Most Blatant Oscar Bait
By David M. Swindle
So Green Book finally became available on Netflix and April and I watched it over the weekend, both in a similar state of annoyance and almost embarrassment that this silly, formulaic, insulting movie had won Best Picture. It was about as bad as predicted, save for a handful of entertaining and redeeming moments from Mahershala Ali. I can see why the family of Dr. Donald Shirley would be so angered by the obvious false scenes inserted into a narrative based on a true story.
Roma should have won. Black Panther was good enough to deserve to win too. (Blockbusters in the past such as Avatar being nominated and the third Lord of the Rings winning so I think Black Panther as the winner would have been legitimate.) BlackkKlansman is much better than Greenbook and one of Spike Lee's rare upper tier films. It's still fairly B-level, mediocre, though (and totally unworthy of a best picture nomination or the screenwriting award Lee won). But that's such an improvement over his usual C or D-level offerings.
Paul Haggis' Superficial Gloss
Deconstructing Canadian Culture, Part 19: Promising More Than He Delivers
By Josh Lieblein
The Oscars are long over, and not a few commentators were of the opinion that the latest Best Picture Winner, Green Book, was the worst film to claim the prize since Crash, way back in 2005. Not a great comparison to be sure, but think about it this way: In our outrage-driven culture, and against ever-more virtue-signaling efforts like The Shape of Water and Moonlight, Crash somehow managed to hold the title of Worst Best Picture Ever for 14 years.
Why Video Game Movies Are So Hit and Miss
By Tamara Wilhite
The TV and movie industry is always looking for inspiration, while already written with a following are seen as the ideal to be put on screen. Sometimes they'll turn to classic stories and modernize them. This includes any work from Shakespeare to epic poems of the Vikings, equally likely to be turned into a gritty Western as a 21st century action/romance. Sometimes they'll just take a book and make that into a movie, with or without adaptation for modern sensibilities and politics. And, every now and then, you'll see them try to adapt a video game.


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- n. main island of Denmark (on which Copenhagen is located); part of the name of the country New Zealand
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
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Zealand — [zē′lənd] largest island of Denmark, between Jutland & Sweden: 2,702 sq mi (6,998 sq km); chief city, Copenhagen: Dan. name Sjælland … English World dictionary
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Zealand — Zealander, n. /zee leuhnd/, n. the largest island of Denmark: Copenhagen is located here. 2,055,040; 2709 sq. mi. (7015 sq. km). Also, Seeland. Danish, Sjaelland. * * * ▪ island, Denmark Danish Sjælland largest and most populous island of… … Universalium
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Zealand — noun a) The largest island of Denmark. b) Zeeland, the southwestern province of the Netherlands … Wiktionary
ZEALAND — 1) the largest island in the Danish Archipelago, situated between the Cattegat and the Baltic, being 81 m. long and 67 m. broad, with COPENHAGEN (q.v.) on the E. coast; the surface is nearly everywhere fiat, and agriculture and cattle rearing… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Zealand — isl. of Denmark betw. the Kattegat and the Baltic Sea; 2,709 sq. mi … Webster's Gazetteer
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But only for 2 weeks, then off to the States again.
Beach dreaming...
It's officially hot here in the desert. Making my escape to NYC this weekend but wishing we were off to la playa. Here are some images from our trip to Tulum last year, enjoy...
L.A. fun...
Back from L.A.(again) and had an amazing time photographing my friend Gyasi Parker Ross for his second album. Love his soulful voice, so super talented and really excited for his Kickstarter funded album to release.
I happend to also be in town during MOPLA and was able to catch the Instagram Jam exhibition. My sis was one of the selected artists:)
It was a quick trip and grateful for it. Hope to be back soon but first, off to NYC....
Wonderful Machine...
Dolce Far Niente...
I happen to love gelato but then again, who doesn't. So, when my good friend/owner of Gelato Dolce Far Niente asked me to take some photos, I was pretty stoked. We had a fun shoot and though the gelato was melting quicker than we could shoot, I think we got some good shots. Here are a few of my favorites...
Thank you Alex!!
Mexican proverb...
"La casa no descansa en la tierra sino en la mujer"
"The house does not rest on the earth, but on a woman."
-Mexican proverb
Interview with Latinos Behind the Lens
I'm so excited to share my interview with Latinos Behind the Lens. Ramon Nuez has a great blog and was so kind to invite me to participate. My sister, Natalie Franco, was just recently interviewed as well. Here is the link and hope you enjoy the read! http://www.latinosbehindthelens.com/nicole-franco-touches-on-the-importance-of-family-and-her-photography/
A post for World Water Day
In honor of World Water Day, I'm sharing a preview of my water project I've been working on here in Central Mexico.
In the high desert mountains, in the heart of Mexico, the people thirst. The arid terrain is unforgiving and over 400 communities struggle for accessibility to clean water. Today, both the surface and subterranean water are drying up at an alarming rate and the water that remains is highly contaminated from years of mining, overgrazing and pollution. While also, deforestation, erosion and excessive extraction greatly add to the reduction. Initiatives like harvesting rainwater have greatly attributed to improvements in quality of life but then, rain falls in abundance only once a season. Now, more than ever, education and conservation need to overwhelm the communities.
It's estimated that 780 million people lack access to clean water in the world today.
Sometimes you just gotta climb trees.
Field Notes
Generosity, I've come to understand, binds communities together. The labor, the pain and the strength that each day demands is something quite remarkable to witness. Their work, their lives, move around and through each other for survival. The efforts of the day are palpable. And, there's a sense of gratitude that comes with exhaustion and rest. Everytime I leave the campos, I'm always hopeful for a quick return.
Notes from November
As we phase out of November, just wanted to share some images and thoughts. November was a great month here in Mexico. The seasons finally changed and we got a break from the heat:) It was also Dia De Los Muertos; which was a fantastic cultural and visual experience. I also spent more time out in the campo working on a new portrait series about women and the land, as seen in the pic above. Looking forward to Christmas and all celebrations that come with it here in San Miguel de Allende. Thanks for reading. Nic


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ECO-CENTER – Grab and Do's at the Eco-Center – 2013 – 2016
Grab and Do's is designed for Eco-Center visitors! Here we show several ways we can reuse manmade surplus and renewable resources to create useful items, gifts, works of art, and beautiful wrapping. Thanks to our restaurant partners on Valencia and Mission Streets...read more
ECO-CENTER – Grab and Do's at the Eco-Center – 2013 – 2016
Grab and Do's is designed for Eco-Center visitors! Here we show several ways we can reuse manmade surplus and renewable resources to create useful items, gifts, works of art, and beautiful wrapping. Thanks to our restaurant partners on Valencia and Mission Streets...read more
IN-KIND – Looking Glass – 2011 – 2014
Over 153 million people worldwide suffer from vision problems, limiting their potential to read, learn, and work. Matter of Trust is proud to partner with Dr. Rosa Ten and her medical missions. We collect used eyeglasses for those in need, such as the people she...read more
ECO-CENTER – Music Matters – 2013 – 2016
Combining music education, environmental awareness, and creativity, Music Matters gives students the tools and instruction to build their own playable instruments out of reuse materials. Since instruments can be very expensive and music classes have been victim to...read more
IN-KIND – Music Team SF – 2011–2014
Matter of Trust has partnered with Music Team SF in San Francisco, California. This organization is also seeking gently used instruments of all kinds for the children in their after-school inner city youth orchestra program. Music Team SF is founded on the El Sistema...read more
IN-KIND – Orchards International – 2004
Matter of Trust is the fiscal sponsor for Orchards International Projects, run by Doug Franco (James Franco's Father). Doug coordinates with many logistics partners to get goods such as rice and clothing to children in Kabul. Thanks to Doug and his team, we also...read more
IN-KIND DISASTER RELIEF – Parkas for Pakistan – 2010
Matter of Trust partnered with the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse (EBDCR) to help victims of the October 2010 flooding in Pakistan. Through our program Excess Access and the community collected parkas and sleeping bags to send to those affected. Linda Levitsky (in...read more
IN-KIND DISASTER RELIEF – Katrina Relief with VeggieVan.org – 2005
Matter of Trust is the fiscal sponsor for Veggie Van.org, whose founder, Josh Tickell, is from Louisiana. After the hurricane struck, thanks to the coordinating efforts of Josh and many volunteers, biodiesel providers got fuel to supply boats and diesel trucks when...read more
IN-KIND DISASTER RELIEF – Katrina Benefit for MS and LA – 2005
Matter of Trust was the fiscal sponsor for Anne Galjour's benefit performance for the play "Hurricane," which draws inspiration from the peculiarities of daily life in Louisiana's Cajun community. Shawn Rosenmoss coordinated the grassroots fundraiser and transported...read more
IN-KIND – Music in Schools Today (MUST) – 1999–2000
This program is a joint fundraising project between Music in Schools Today (MuST) and Matter of Trust, using our Excess Access online matching program to match gently used instruments with kids and schools that need them. The fundraising event succeeded in collecting...read more


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SUKKUR: It has been surfaced on Friday that the educational boards are helpless as the papers are continuously being leaked throughout the province in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations.
According to details, the BISE Sukkurs SSC Part-I Chemistry paper and BISE Larkanas SSC Part-II Islamiyat paperwereleaked on Friday. The students used mobile phones and guidebooks to solve the question paper which was available on social media as well.
The question paper was also shared on WhatsApp groups at 09:00 AM.
Earlier, the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Part-II paper of English was leaked in Sukkur and Khairpur and was available on WhatsApp.
It seems like invigilators and externals are all helpless to stop the students from bringing mobile phones in the exam center as it was the prime reason behind the leaking of the papers.


text: LAHORE - Pakistan Wapda thrashed Pakistan Railways 2-0 in Pakistan Football Federation Premier Football League (PPFL) match played here at the Railway Stadium Garhi Shahu here on Monday. Pakistan Railways COPS Mehmoodul Hassan was chief guest on the occasion. Earlier, the chief guest stadium was welcomed by soccer officials and audiences and then was introduced with both the teams' players. A large number of soccer lovers along with Railway Sports Board sports officer Rashid Mehmood Butt, Ghulam Dastagir and Railway team manager Sheikh M Anwar were also present. The chief guest appreciated skill and footwork of both the teams and addressed Railways players that they should give more attention to their expertise so that they could achieve more laurels in competitions.