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1/9: Trump's attacks on humanitarian immigration just became a full-blown war
He's trying to force 260,000 immigrants to return to El Salvador after decades in the United States
Dara Linddara Vox.com
On Monday, the Trump administration announced that it was stripping approximately 260,500 Salvadoran immigrants — who've been in the US for at least 17 years, since a 2001 earthquake — of temporary legal status as of July 2019.
It's the latest, and most significant, blow in the administration's fight against Temporary Protected Status, an immigration program that lets the government allow immigrants to stay in the US and work legally after their home countries are struck by natural disasters or war.
El Salvador is the fourth country for which the Trump administration has announced an end to TPS protections over its first year. In total, the administration has set up more than 320,000 immigrants to lose their legal status over the course of late 2018 and 2019 (and possibly as many as 375,000, depending on what it decides to do with 57,000 Honduran immigrants this spring).
The overwhelming majority of those immigrants have deep roots in the US. And Salvadorans might have the deepest roots of all: Approximately 192,700 US-born children have at least one parent who's on track to lose legal status due to the administration's Monday announcement.
The Trump administration argues that the TPS program was never intended to allow immigrants to stay for 17 years, and that it needs to end temporary status to provide a "permanent solution." But it's unclear, at best, that the Trump administration will be interested in pushing Congress to legalize hundreds of thousands of Central American (and Haitian) immigrants. Furthermore, the administration is telling Salvadoran immigrants that they have 18 months to make other arrangements to stay in the US or pack their bags.
After two decades in the US, hundreds of thousands of families will now have to decide whether to return to one of the most violent countries on earth — or remain in the US as unauthorized immigrants and try to slink into the shadows.
No president wanted to end humanitarian immigration. Then came Donald Trump.
El Salvador was on the TPS list in the 1990s during its long and bloody civil war, but was removed in 1992 (though a related program, Deferred Enforced Departure, protected Salvadorans from getting deported through 1995). In 2001, though, after an earthquake struck El Salvador, the government allowed Salvadorans in the US to apply for TPS again. In the intervening 17 years, it's renewed protections 10 times.
To enter the program, nationals of a designated country must clear a number of conditions: They must maintain a relatively clean criminal record and pass a background check, they must pay a 5 processing fee when they first apply for the program and every time their status is renewed, and they must reside in the United States at the time of their country's designation. This usually means that TPS beneficiaries are undocumented immigrants who were already in the US, those who overstayed a visa, or those who hold some other form of temporary immigration status.
TPS beneficiaries are granted authorization to work in the US (and in some cases the ability to travel internationally) and a reprieve from deportation. But outside of that, TPS doesn't grant many other benefits; beneficiaries do not have legal permanent resident status, and while a small number of beneficiaries may be eligible for green cards through the sponsorship of a US citizen family member, the program is not intended to provide a path to citizenship.
In practice, that meant that once a country's TPS was up for review, presidents had two choices: They could renew TPS for that country, kicking the can down the road; or they could terminate it and give thousands of people no way to stay legally in the US.
Unsurprisingly, most presidents chose the former. But equally unsurprisingly, the Trump administration is taking the opposite approach. With six opportunities to extend TPS over its nine months in office, it's fully extended one of them — South Sudan — while terminating three countries' protections on delays and offering six-month punts twice (Honduras and the initial six-month extension for Haiti).
Over its first year in office, the Trump administration has made it clear that it wants to completely overhaul the basis on which the US grants legal status to immigrants. It envisions a "merit-based" immigration system in which individual immigrants are selected based on their high level of education and relevant professional skills — and the government has no obligation to let immigrants come to or stay in the US just because their homes and families are already here.
There are a lot of current US immigration policies that run afoul of the Trump administration's ideas of merit, but TPS might be the biggest affront to their vision. Not only does it extend legal protections to people based almost entirely on what's happened in their home countries, rather than what they can contribute as individuals, but it applies to people who were already living in the US when TPS was granted — instead of allowing the US to select immigrants in advance.
But the fundamental problem, from the Trump administration's point of view, is that TPS is designed to be temporary, and a temporary program shouldn't be leading people to settle in the US.
To that end, the administration has taken nearly every chance it's gotten to wind down TPS protections. In September, it announced that it was giving about 500 Sudanese a final 18 months on TPS. In November, it hit 59,000 Haitian immigrants and 2,500 Nicaraguan immigrants with the same 18-month deadline. (It was unable to come to a decision about the fate of 57,000 Honduran immigrants, forcing an automatic six-month extension, which will expire this spring.) And now it's doing the same for what it estimates to be 260,500 Salvadorans.
The Trump administration thinks El Salvador is too dangerous to take immigrants from, but too safe to qualify for TPS
The statute creating TPS tells the secretary to look at "conditions in the foreign state" when making decisions about TPS. The Trump administration's review, it claims, found that El Salvador has recovered sufficiently from the 2001 earthquake to be a safe place to send hundreds of thousands of immigrants back to. And on a press call Monday, senior administration officials pointed to the "repatriation" of tens of thousands of Salvadorans from the US in recent years as evidence that the Salvadoran government can successfully reintegrate people.
This is not exactly the way the Trump administration tends to describe El Salvador. The country is the home base of MS-13 — the transnational gang Trump has referred to as "monsters," and which he and his top officials use to argue for everything from tightening asylum laws to defunding cities that don't maximize compliance with federal immigration agents. In fact, the administration has bragged about how many MS-13 gang members it has deported to El Salvador — the very same people it's now claiming are proof of the country's ability to absorb returned immigrants.
In 2015 (the most recent year for which data is available from United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime), El Salvador had 108.64 homicides per 100,000 people. That made it the deadliest country in the world by a wide margin — the next most dangerous, Honduras, had 63.75 homicides per 100,000 — and 22 times as dangerous as the United States.
El Salvador is slightly safer than it was in 2015. In January 2017, the country had its first day without a murder in two years. But by fall, violence was spreading again: In September, the country witnessed 435 homicides, or almost 15 per day.
American policy has deeply shaped El Salvador's recent past anyway. The US supported one of the sides in the civil war that led to the country's original TPS grant. In the 1990s, efforts to deport immigrants who had been convicted of crimes played a major role in exporting MS-13 — which started as a Los Angeles prison gang — to El Salvador, where it took root.
More recently, the flow of Salvadorans seeking asylum in the US, usually out of fear of violence from MS-13 or other gangs, is disproportionately made up of unaccompanied children and families — in part because of US laws offering guarantees for standards of treatment (and, in the case of unaccompanied children, options for legal status) that aren't available to single adults. (This has been cited by some Republicans as a reason to change those laws, so as not to "incentivize" children or families fleeing violence to come to the US.)
The Trump administration's line on TPS is that it's not about the broader stability of a country, but just about recovery from the initial disaster. But the federal government has the authority to grant or extend TPS based on "ongoing armed conflict" or "other extraordinary temporary conditions." Asked on Monday about those criteria, a senior administration official simply said it did not believe those conditions applied to El Salvador in 2018.
The Trump administration is attempting to deny — or simply ignore — that the people they're stripping of status have deep roots in the US
It's not even that Salvadoran immigrants are now being pushed to return to the same gang violence they fled to come to the US. By definition, every Salvadoran immigrant with TPS has been here for at least 17 years — before the homicide rate skyrocketed. As of January 2017, according to an estimate from the Center for Migration Studies, 51 percent of Salvadorans with TPS had been in the US at least 20 years.
Salvadorans aren't just the biggest population of those with TPS; they're also the best integrated. According to the CMS estimates, 85 percent speak some English, with 48 percent speaking English "well, very well," or exclusively. Their labor force participation rate is 88 percent — above the US average of 63 percent — and their unemployment rate is 5 percent. There are 45,000 mortgages held in the names of Salvadoran TPS holders. TPS holders make up a substantial portion (16 percent) of all Salvadorans in the US.
From the administration's perspective, all of this is a sign that previous presidents screwed up, by allowing TPS protections to continue after the initial disaster that spurred them faded into the past. But its relentlessly narrow focus leaves out a large group of US citizens: the 192,700 children who have been born in the US to at least one parent who is a Salvadoran with TPS.
Most of these children are almost certainly under the age of 21 (the age at which they'd be able to sponsor their parents for green cards, under certain circumstances). Those TPS holders who were eligible for legal status have probably already gotten it — University of Kansas professor Cecilia Menjívar estimates that tens of thousands of Salvadoran immigrants got TPS in 2001 but no longer have it (presumably because they've gotten permanent legal status or left the country).
When a reporter asked on Monday whether the Trump administration was telling parents with TPS to take their US-born, US citizen minor children to El Salvador, the senior administration official said, "We're not getting involved in individual family decisions."
DHS Secretary Kelly Testifies Before Senate Appropriations Committee On Budget
Pushing hundreds of thousands of people back into the shadows in the name of a "permanent" solution
As the Trump administration has ended TPS for country after country, it's started to emphasize that it's up to Congress to find a "permanent solution" to address the fate of the people it's stripping of legal status. Because TPS was never intended to be permanent — and because it doesn't itself provide a pathway for people to become permanent residents — the administration maintains that if Congress decides that these 260,000 Salvadoran immigrants (and the 62,000 other immigrants whom it's stripping of TPS in the next year and a half) should stay in the US, it's up to Congress to let them apply for green cards.
There's a difference between telling Congress to come up with a solution and actually pressuring it to do so. The administration hasn't endorsed any bills to grant permanent status to TPS holders; the only immigration bill it has endorsed, the RAISE Act, would slash legal immigration instead of opening up new pathways for it.
And, of course, the administration has already pulled a move like this before. When it announced in September it was winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Trump claimed he was giving Congress six months to find a "permanent solution" for the 700,000 immigrants protected from deportation under DACA; with less than two months left, negotiations are nearly at a standstill, in large part due to the administration's apparent insistence on getting its entire immigration agenda passed as part of a DACA deal.
If the administration really does think that a "permanent solution" that will allow Salvadorans to stay in the US is forthcoming, it's not telling Salvadorans that. The purpose of delaying the end of TPS by 18 months, the administration says, is to give current TPS holders time to adjust to permanent status if eligible — and to make arrangements to leave the US if not.
Eighteen months may seem like a long time. But for people who've been in the US for 18 years — with children who've never lived anywhere else — that may not be nearly enough.
The immigrants facing the loss of TPS have another option the administration didn't specify (and that it doesn't tend to acknowledge). They can remain in the US after their legal status expires, becoming unauthorized immigrants. They'd join the 11 million current unauthorized immigrants, many of whom were under little risk of deportation in the final years of the Obama administration and now have to deal with the fear of ICE apprehension on a daily basis. They'd join the other tens of thousands of immigrants who will have lost TPS and stayed. And they'll join, unless Congress has come up with a bill in time, the 700,000 US-raised immigrants who are at risk with the end of DACA.The Trump administration says it wants permanent solutions. But in its first year, its immigration legacy has been to move more and more people into contingency and vulnerability.
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2/8: US immigration and customs agency seeks to join Intelligence Community
Joseph Fitsanaks – Intel News
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reportedly seeking to join the Intelligence Community, which includes the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence-focused arms of the federal government. Currently, ICE is a federal law enforcement that operates under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security. It consists of two components: Homeland Security Investigations, which probes cross-border criminal activity, including drugs and weapons trafficking, money laundering and cybercrime; and Enforcement and Removal Operations, whose mission is to find and capture undocumented aliens.
But some senior ICE officials have been exploring the possibility of joining the US Intelligence Community. According to The Daily Beast, which reported the alleged plans, the officials believe that by joining the Intelligence Community, ICE will become privy to intelligence that will assist in its mission. They also claim that membership in the Intelligence Community would afford ICE "greater prestige, credibility and authority" within the federal government. The Daily Beastreports that ICE's effort to join the Intelligence Community began during the administration of US President Barack Obama. However, it has picked up steam following the election of President Donald Trump. Some believe that President Trump would be willing to sign an executive order that would incorporate ICE in the Intelligence Community.
Some civil liberties watchdogs, however, are weary of such plans. They claim that ICE is a domestic law enforcement agency and should not have access to practices and techniques used by spy agencies like the CIA or the National Security Agency. The latter frequently break the laws of foreign countries in pursuit of their mission, which is to steal foreign intelligence. These agencies are characterized by a different culture, say critics, which is not respectful of legal constraints. But supporters of ICE's proposed inclusion into the Intelligence Community argue that there are several law enforcement agencies that are already members of the Intelligence Community. Notably, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration —both law enforcement agencies— belong to the Intelligence Community.The Daily Beast said it contacted ICE but a spokesperson refused to comment on the story. The Department of Homeland Security did not return emails and phone calls about the proposal to include ICE in the Intelligence Community.
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1/25: Trump Exploits Dreamers to Fulfill Stephen Miller's White Supremacist Wish List
Washington, D.C. - CWS strongly condemns the White House's supposed immigration "reform" memo leaked earlier this evening. Stephen Miller's plan reverses President Trump's earlier commitment to sign a legislative solution for Dreamers. It would hold hostage a pathway to citizenship for some Dreamers by stopping U.S. citizens from sponsoring their parents, siblings, and even children; supercharging a deportation force that is already wildly out of control; and spending billion on a wasteful border wall..
"This White House proposal is immoral, and in no way a serious attempt to pass a legislative solution for Dreamers. With this memo, President Trump has demonstrated that he cannot lead but will allow Stephen Miller and other white supremacists to dictate his policies. The administration is continuing to wage its war on immigrants, this time by exploiting dreamers and redefining family. This is part and parcel of a xenophobic and white supremacist agenda. Dreamers are Americans—and it's time for Congress to recognize that fact. 87% of the American public already does," said Rev. John L. McCullough, President and CEO of Church World Service.
"After President Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, he pledged to sign a bipartisan solution for Dreamers. Now, he is going back on that promise and demanding the restrictionist portion of comprehensive immigration reform in exchange for a Dreamer solution for which he has already pledged support. This exploitation of Dreamers' predicament - a plight which President Trump has caused - calls to mind Matthew 18:6, in which Jesus proclaims If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea. There is already broad bipartisan consensus on a solution for Dreamers - Congress must not bow to Stephen Miller's white supremacist agenda that will dismantle the very values upon which this nation was founded."
CWS urges the public to call their Members of Congress and demand that Congress reject this White House proposal and instead pass a clean DREAM Act now.
Link the article:http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=1860
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Concept of Style / 外見と言葉と行動
Style of people, the expression of our characters, include not only preference of outfit or diet but also language and attitude.
Concept of Style is the reason why we
Knowing about the the concept of style is useful for good communications.
Understanding our own characters and others is very basic and first process of communication .
Observing carefully and objectively, guessing subjectively but rationally.
Those are ways to get an insight into the concept behind the style.
Following quotation may be useful in business, replacing winning a battle by taking a itiative in a relationship.
"If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
Sun Tzu, Wikiquote. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu (accessed April 11, 2012).
This quotaion may be applicable to groups, however when it comes to a person, it is difficult to know ourselves.
interpersonal communication,
We can ask others about what we are, but they are not always honest(in a good way).
Even though opnions from others are always more objectve than the one of ourselves,
their words, especially ones of friends or people from work, are complimentary, polite, flattering or just diplomatic.
This is a quotation I always keep in mind.
"Men willingly believe what they wish."
Jurius Caesar, Wikiquote. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar (accessed April 11, 2012).
I am not an exception.
I don't believe anyone can be more objective than others.
We see people, meet people, talk with people.
Communication is the essential part of our life.
We try to make a good impression, to build relationships, to expand personal networks, or to make a situation a favorable one for us in business/workplace.

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by The Necromancer
how Capitalist society continues to promise so much and deliver so little
Today we continue to hold witness to the great lie of modern society. A lie which propagates itself with mass media, with lofty notions of freedom and liberty, and taught to each new generation as the "true" way humanity should live. That lie is that all people living under the "Western Liberal Democracy" model of society are equal. That they are free. But the truth is something far more complex. As I am an American, I will likely use examples within my own nation. For those who read this and wish to provide examples in their own nations, I urge everyone to do so in the comments section.
What is the truth? The truth is that the peoples of supposedly "free nations" may have their rights, but there are a multitude of hidden double standards. The issue of Racism, for example, has been a long-standing one in America. While the official policy of discrimination and hate had been scrapped nearly forty years ago, pervasive elements of Racism still split the masses. What is worse is that many willing feed the fire of hate. It may be illegal in America to not hire someone or treat someone based on their skin, but to the subtle racist there are still many avenues of discrimination. Simply ignoring applicants (but not before you fill your Affirmative Action requirements), for example. While businesses can no longer hang signs stating that "-INSERT MINORITY HERE- need not apply", this has never stopped employers claiming that potential applicants are "not qualified" or even "over qualified". The same plight is faced by those who have physical or mental handicaps (I know "handicap" is no longer the accepted vernacular, but as I am an amputee I feel perfectly within reason to use the older term if I want). Tell me, where is the real equality here?
There is also the double standard of the older generation. Specifically speaking, the Great Recession of the past few years has seen record numbers of career workers, many of whom were very skilled in their professions, unemployed. Due to their age and supposed "over qualification" (that increasingly popular excuse again), many of these older unemployed have gone without new jobs. Legally, yet again, they must be considered. But in reality, that is the only obligation to equality Capitalist society is held to owe these people who have worked hard all their lives.
Another pressing double standard is that of Women's Rights. Most recently highlighted by Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney with his "binders full of women" comment, the plight of real equality for women continues. Statistically, women still make less than their male counterparts in the workplace. And even if they are just as qualified, women are less likely to reach the highest levels of any company. The old term "glass ceiling" comes to mind once more. Even with Romney's example, all he did was highlight the fact that he had files on potential female employees only because he legally had to.
That of course brings us to the lie that is Affirmative Action itself. Now, do not get me wrong. Affirmative Action has been a step in the right direction. Certainly we do not desire to go back to the days of open discrimination. But, as is expected of a New Left policy, it never did go far enough nor does it get to the heart of the problem it tries to address. In some cases, Affirmative Action has, rather then foster a true atmosphere of equality, created further animosity and division. People to this day argue about the social impact of the legislation and how it has created a small, and sometimes vocal, minority that consists of the former oppressors who now claim they are the oppressed.
While a step in the right direction, true equality is not granted with mandates and requirements to have X amount of minorities in one's employ or to have X amount of women in the boardrooms.
Now I shall move on to another part of the great lie. To quote the activist and lawyer Bryan Stevenson: "The opposite of poverty is not wealth, the opposite of poverty is justice." True to my fashion, I shall interpret this observation from the Marxist perspective. Never has wealth been the opposite of poverty. Instead, wealth has been used as the false promise and distraction to keep people in poverty. Western media, especially in America, idolizes the rich, the luxurious, and the bourgeois way of life. Our opponents, especially the disciples of Ayn Rand, proclaim that wealth will solve all of one's problems alone.
We know better. No amount of money can make up for the exploitation and degradation of the masses. While it is a sad fact that people can be bought, and certainly Capitalism loves buying people, no amount of wealth will make up for what wrongs have been committed against entire groups of people. We shall take the experience of Native American tribes as example. The United States Congress allows for reparations payments to the various tribes. One of three forms is through cash payment. This money has hardly ever done anything to improve the chronic poverty of most modern Native American communities.
Justice, on the other hand, is part of the solution to poverty. When the masses are given justice, their oppressors held accountable rather than penalized, when the law states that serious and lasting consequences are to be handed down on those who continue to exploit people, there is justice. When the people feel justice has been done, there will be satisfaction. When people feel that justice has been done, they will have the motivation to continue. When justice is combined with a stable and secure environment, the masses will thrive.
That brings us to another aspect of the lie of the Western model. Or does it? No, this next aspect is uniquely American. I will at least give some credit to Europe and elsewhere in regards to providing stability for the masses. But in America, even basic requirements of a stable life are seen as commodities, as a means for profit. While the propaganda of American democracy promises the opportunity to thrive, this is conditional and rarely does anyone attain the idolized status. It is because the individual faces several distinct hurdles to their stability. As noted, stability is required for the individual to actually thrive. These hurdles are the cost of healthcare, the cost of education, and the cost of living itself.
In America, healthcare is seen as a business. Something for profit. If one cannot afford medical care when they fall ill, they don't get it. If you are uninsured in America, you are particularly screwed. I won't repeat the horror stories one hears in this nation about what happens to people who cannot afford medical care. The point is that people cannot be stable if they are ill. So long as medical care is seen as a business and not a requirement for the stability and success of human life, nothing will change. The myth will live on that opportunity is out there for wealth. Just don't get sick.
The cost of education hampers many aspiring workers around the world. This situation is further complicated by the myth given to children as they grow up, that they can be whatever they want to be. Well, you can be whatever you want to be, provided that you can afford the education to get there. For those who come to America and are skilled professionals, the lie is even more painful when they realize their credentials or degrees are not recognized by their potential employers. Thus these people, who have likely sacrificed much to move to a new and better country, are suddenly saddled with the choice of finding a way to pay for the proper piece of paper or settle for lesser work. Either way, these immigrants are now in a struggle that will threaten their continued success and stability. Instead, they become further victims of the great lie.
Both of these factors contribute to the cost of living. The cost of living alone is a threat to stability. However, it is the staunch position of our opponents that the government's sole obligation is the security of the people. When it comes to the stability of the individual, they argue that it is a violation of their own rights to use funding to create an atmosphere where people are not just safe, but need not worry about how they will feed themselves or pay for medical expenses. No, when it comes to the cost of living, our opponents solution is to tell the hard working people to "just get another job". As a Marxist, I find this an unethical and immoral response. If we create a society that solves the critical issues of the needs of the people, they will have stability. When the masses have stability, they will feel secure. Add this to the State's obligation to keep it's people safe, and now the masses are even more secure. And if social justice accompanies this development, the people will be unified. When individuals are stable and secure, when truly unified with one another, they will have all the tools necessary to succeed in their lives. Never has wealth alone provided all of these things.
The lie of the modern American model extends to democracy itself. I'm hoping those who comment may add to the nature of democracy in their own nations, as I would like to think it may be slightly more legitimate elsewhere. But in America, democracy isn't really the truth. Our system works yet again on money. Campaign contributions buy airtime and eventually votes for both of the major Parties. The so-called "Third" Parties usually get locked out of the national spotlight. A choice of but two Parties is not democracy.
I will, of course, take a small breather here and admit the irony of a Marxist-Leninist preaching democracy. Traditionally, Marxist-Leninists have not been famous for their democratic spirit. This leads me to the lie that is perpetuated by the West. That if you do not have their definition of "freedom", you are not free. Using the American model as example again, this has been a most voracious accusation due to the continued mentality of the Cold War.
I believe there has been some confusion on what the Marxian definition of democracy is, so it is little wonder that Socialist nations are proclaimed as undemocratic. But in regards to democracy, the great lie of the West is yet again exposed. While their political systems are democratic to varying degrees, the democratic spirit is crushed in almost every other area. In regards to the workplace alone, the Capitalist economy is especially tyrannical. True democracy is not just political, it is social. In the Marxian sense, if the masses cannot execute democratic principles within their workplaces, they have no control, stability, or security over their lives. While workers unions have existed to fight and protect workers rights, until the working masses have a genuinely cooperative environment where each individual has a say and stake in their workplace, they will remain commodities to be exploited. Yet again, without justice the masses will never be free. So long as the old bourgeois model is retained, the working person will never have justice or be recognized for their true worth.
This is the lie. This all is the great lie of the "victorious" Western Liberal Democracy. The deception of these nations Capitalist models. What is so horrid is that many have bought into it. They've been fooled, and even praise their exploiters. Some even argue that things need to be even more laissez-faire, with less assured security from the only entity that is capable of ensuring the stability of the masses. That the State has no place in supporting it's people.
They too further the lie, they too obstruct the progress of human development. And as such, the great lie of our era is continued and renewed. Until the masses realize and become conscious of their exploitation by both their governments and their employers, the deception will live on. It is the duty of the Communist to wake the masses, to arise them from their slumber and show them how we are all being used.


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I've decided it's time for Christmas crafts. You get such a small window to do them, especially now The Boy is at school, but The Girl is still a bit young to be bothered. So obviously, we started with a toilet roll tube craft. As we do! Snowmen are really easy to do, but look great.
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Firstly, paint the tubes white.
While they are drying, if you wanted you could cut eyes, nose, mouth and a hat out of coloured card. We just painted ours on, this is much easier to do when you are working with a white base.
Once they are dry, either stick them on. Or paint some. Remember, the mouth is coal! I painted some coloured hats on the top, then had a large face with the pipe cleaner tied around the bottom for a scarf.
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Alyssa Milano is a sexy star with a pint-sized punch. One thing's for certain—this 5-foot-2 actress is no pushover. Here, Alyssa turns on her charm and tackles our tough questions with her famous last words.
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What was your best encounter with a fan?
Alyssa: With Ryan White when he was sick with AIDS. He was a fan of Who's the Boss?, so I went to a big party for him and sat with him for six hours. I made him friendship bracelets, and we stayed close until he passed away. His mom kept his room exactly the same way after he died—with the friendship bracelets all takced around my poster. That was really incredible.
What do you never leave home without?
Alyssa: Lip balm, my special spinning shoes that lock me to the bike, and favorite CDs.
Tell us about your first kiss
Alyssa: I was 9 years old and the guy put his moouth over mine, stuck his tongue in, and moved it around in circles. I was so repulsed that I went home and showered.
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Alyssa: George Clooney is delicious. He's so obviously a man, but yet there is something so boyish about him—the dimples and the apple cheeks. He's yummy.
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Welcome to our first blog post! I just wanted to give you the heads up we will be talking a lot here about life and music and everything related PLUS unrelated stuff too!
We will put audio editing and mixing and mastering tips as well as software and music production tips too! We hope you will find our advice useful and our blog entertaining! Recording Studio LA would like to thank all of clients through out the years its is because of you that we can continue doing what we do and what we love which is music!
The first and most important thing about music production is knowing how to use your equipment/software because with today technology you can make professional quality music inside just about any format. However the recording of vocals and acoustic instruments, drums, guitars and pianos etc is a different creature all together. This requires very refined equipment, microphone cables, soundcards and the whole shebang, but simply making beats or musical instrumentals using virtual instruments is far less critical.
There are so many options out there when talking virtual instrument it's hard to choose the best my suggestion is to go with brand name companies that everyone knows. They will almost always be up to par and they have a reason to protect themselves against releasing some half finished sloppy products.
My second suggestion when trying to write a hit record is #1 listen to hit records and ask your self a few simple questions: How does it sound? How does it feel? What is the music itself saying? How do the words and melody work together to capture the listeners attention? Once you can dig deeply into that you will start to understand how music works more clearly and you will find yourself much closer to writing one these masterpieces! As with all things "practice makes perfect" or truth be told "practice refines". So first listen to what others have done, break it down until it makes sense to you and then practice "PRACTICE".
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SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser spoke to Germany's Moshpit Passion about the status of the band's official documentary, "Sepultura Endurance". The film, which received its world premiere in May 2017 at the Regent theater in Los Angeles, shows the journey from SEPULTURA's humble rural beginnings to decades spent on the international stage, giving an in-depth look into how the band continues to thrive in a changing metal landscape. Crammed full of rare archival footage, and featuring interviews with legends like Lars Ulrich (METALLICA) and Scott Ian (ANTHRAX), and younger artists influenced by SEPULTURA, like SLIPKNOT's Corey Taylor, "Sepultura Endurance" is the definitive document of the band's myths, struggles and heart.
"The movie came out last year in Brazil, in many movie theaters," Andreas said. "We had the 'Sepultura Day' — it was June 14th, if I'm not mistaken, last year — and the movie was released in many different movie theaters around Brazil. Which was something unthinkable for a heavy metal documentary to have such an opportunity to take the movie. But still, it was very limited. It stayed in movie theaters for a couple of weeks, and then it was a part of many movie festivals around the world — in Europe, in Asia, in South America, in North America. And now in Brazil, on the last July 13th, it's available on these platforms, like iTunes and whatever we have in Brazil, and we're working to have this format in Europe and the States — maybe Netflix and stuff; we're still talking about [it]. And the next step after that, of course, is to put it in a physical format [so] that people [who] didn't have a chance to see, to watch in all those opportunities can buy the stuff."
Asked if there has been any talk of releasing "Sepultura Endurance" with a companion disc containing SEPULTURA concert footage, Andreas said: "Yeah. We have the show that was recorded in São Paulo in 2015, where we celebrated the 30-year anniversary of SEPULTURA. We played all the eras of the band, songs from all the albums and everything — it was a very complete show, historically speaking. That's a possibility, because it was professionally recorded, and many parts of the show [are] a part of the documentary as well. Yeah, we have this plan to put it out all together, but no specific date yet. We've still gotta see how we're gonna deal with the platforms, and then, when we're ready to put it out, we're gonna know the date better."
Former SEPULTURA members Max and Igor Cavalera denied permission to the makers of "Sepultura Endurance" to use the group's early music in the film. Director Otávio Juliano told Brazil's Folha De S. Paulo that he could not even use footage of early SEPULTURA songs being performed by the current version of the band, which includes singer Derrick Green and drummer Eloy Casagrande alongside two members of SEPULTURA's "classic" lineup, Kisser and Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. (bass).
Juliano said last year that nothing was off limits during the making of the documentary. "The band gave me complete access, every door was open, I was never asked to leave," he explained. He went on to describe the film as "a testament to the endurance required to make a documentary for almost seven years," pointing out that "800 hours of footage" was shot for the movie.
SEPULTURA is continuing to tour in support of its latest album, "Machine Messiah", which was released in January 2017 via Nuclear Blast.
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Peak Climbing in Nepal: Hiunchuli Expedition (6441m)offered by supplier M17093 (read about supplier)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 22 day(s)
Group Size: 2 - 20 people
Destination(s): Nepal
Specialty Categories: Mountain/Rock Climbing Hiking & Trekking
Season: April - November
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 1070 US Dollar (USD)
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South-East Face Route: The route to base camp starts from Hinko Cave on the Annapurna sanctuary trail. After establishing the first camp somewhere above the valley floor a further 2 camps are necessary to make it to the top. Although not technically extreme this route is exposed to rock fall dangers and is a complicated route-finding experience.
North-West Face Route: The ascent by the North-West Face has been attempted only by a very few climbers and not always successfully. The exact route is not well known. The approach is from the Annapurna Base Camp in the Sanctuary and a further 2 camps may be necessary to complete this not so well known ascent.
-Day 1: Arrival in Kathmandu, transfer to hotel, day at leisure. Includes: (D)
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-Day 9: Climb to Machapuchre B.C (3700m). Includes: (B, L, D)
-Day 10: Acclimatize. Trek to Annapurna B.C (4130m). Includes: (B, L, D)
-Day 11: Acclimatize; Trek to Hinko Cave. Includes: (B, L, D)
-Day 12: Trek to base camp (4100m). Includes: (B, L, D)
-Day 13: Climb to high camp (4900m). Includes: (B, L, D)
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-Day 15: Climb to summit (6441m) and back to base camp. Includes: (B, L, D)
-Day 16: Trek to Dovan (2720). Includes: (B, L, D)
-Day 17: Trek to Jhino (1600m). Includes: (B, L, D)
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-Day 19: Trek to Phedi and drive to PKR/Hotel. Includes: (B, L, D)
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It's been a while since my last post. The stock markets have been behaving pretty well the last 2 months. The SPY (S&P500) ETF has been moving up steadily since my Dec 2 post from $124.07 to $137.73 as of today (March 1) for a 11% gain.
From the chart showed below, I still believe the general market is still trending up based on my observation of the relationship between EMA-20 and EMA-40 moving averages. As long as the EMA-20 stays above EMA-40, in my opinion that the trend still holds.


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Lake Mead: Water levels are dropping and only one boat at a time can be launched here. Dirt ramp is closed to vehicles and boats. Wait times last weekend were 20-30 minutes to launch or recover a boat. Fishing for stripers and channel catfish good at night under lights all over the lake. Try in the back of just about any cove in 50 feet of water and use anchovies. Largemouth fishing getting better but spawn is over.
Willow Beach: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service continues to stock 1,000 to 1,500 trout every Friday morning at Jumbo Wash and at the picnic area. Try small spoons and/or spinners. Power bait also works. Willow Beach has a daily fishing log that can be reached by calling (928) 767-4747. Certified scales now located at Willow Beach.
Lake Mohave: Fishing for small stripers around the handicap docks at sunup and sundown is your best bet if you're a shore angler. If you have a boat, the backs of almost any large cove will produce stripers at night. Use floating crappie lights to attract baitfish. Best bait will be anchovies or pieces of frozen squid. Remember, you can keep all the stripers under 20 inches at this lake, so take all the stripers you can use. Largemouth and smallmouth bass fishing good. Try drop-shotting small baits. Call the Cottonwood, Nev., marina at (702) 297-1464 for current lake conditions and up-to-the-minute fishing report.
Colorado River below Davis Dam: Still trout available in the river from the last stocking in March. Anglers who drift fish with worms, small lures and white marshmallows in front of the casinos seem to do the best. Some stripers starting to be caught on anchovies. Water levels are down at this time and fluctuate throughout the day, so be careful if you're in a boat. Call (928) 754-3666 for information on the Davis Dam power generation schedule.
Lake Havasu: Striper fishing was great last weekend and anglers have reported lots of fish being caught all over the lake. Fish early or late in the day for stripers. Redear sunfish being caught around tules and reeds all over the lake. Some weigh over 2 pounds. Largemouth being caught all over the lake. Remember, it is now not legal to snag shad, but you can use a net to catch them as they swarm around lights on the public fishing docks. Largemouth and smallmouth being caught all over the lake.


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Villa over Hull at Villa Park (no U.S. TV). Do it. Here's why.
This is not a terribly interesting weekend in EPL betting-wise or even just in terms of good matches. Regarding the latter, Chelsea at Man City could be a good one to watch (its the only one that looks remotely interesting), but we think Chelsea will choke off City's attack and then dutifully put in a goal or two (or three). But other than this contest, there are no marquee match ups.
Hull at Villa is the best bet of the weekend. Villa at home at -220 earns you just under 50% and its the surest thing you'll find this weekend at decent odds. Remember, look for home teams you think have the best chance of winning and try to stay around a 50% return or better. Villa leads Hull in the Luchametric by over 1.0 StandDevs. Hull's recent form is definitely better than Villa, but Villa is at home looking for a sure three points from a league bottom-feeder. What's more, Villa are one of four finalists in the Carling Cup and have not lost at home since the opening day of the season, winning four of their last six matches in front of their own fans.
OUR PREDICTION: Villa to win.
MONEY LINE: Villa-220 Hull +755 Draw +358
LUCHAMETRIC: Advantage: Villa - The Villans have an advantage of nearly 1.2 Stand Devs in the LM measure of production per game. We consider 1.0 StdDevs as indicative of a significant competitive difference between any two teams.
MOTIVATION: Draw - Villa's recent form and position in the table give them all the incentive in the world to grab three points and stay in the hunt for a top four finish. Hull look to continue their recent form and continue to climb out of relegation and erase the nightmare of the first few weeks of the season.


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Hello readers! I am back today after a bit of a hiatus, which I will be writing about in a new segment on my blog called Life of Lynn! For the next five weeks, I'm going to be writing a post on my summer adventures, where I traveled to four different states and attended five camps! This week, I am here to tell you all about STEP, so hopefully you can get some insight about a new topic and even get some tips that you can apply to any summer camp! Let's get on with the show!
STEP stands for Summer Textile Exploration Program and it is hosted by the North Carolina State University Textile College! I was a residential student at STEP from June 26-July 1, and I have to tell you, I loved every minute! For this post, I'm going to go through what we did each day until Tuesday, then release a second half of this post with Wednesday-Friday's escapades!
On Sunday, we arrived over at Wood Residence Hall and were greeted by the two directors of the Program, Allie and Tim! Allie was who I had been conversing with over email during the weeks leading up to the program, and she actually recognized me and greeted me by name! It made me feel immediately welcome at home in this big State campus. Then, we walked up the (several flights) of stairs to my room to unpack and get acclimated before the program officially began. The rooms housed two people and included a bed, desk, closet, and microwave and fridge. After getting my bed set up and clothes unpacked, my family wished me well for the week and left. Sitting on my bed in my dorm room for the week was so exciting, I could only imagine all the amazing memories I was going to make throughout the week. My roommate Sophia arrived a little while after me, and we hit it off as soon as we made eye contact! (BTW, Sophia if you are reading this HI!!! and I love you, you were amazing :D).
Then, some of the other girls came around and started introducing themselves, and we all formed a big group really fast. By the time we headed down to meet the rest of the group, we were already playing our own icebreakers! For that night, we played a few board games (I'm not good at Catchphrase BTW) and went to Walmart for people to pick up anything they may have forgotten from home. Then it was back to the dorms where we played Uno and went to bed soon after. Admittedly, there wasn't much sleeping, I was much to ecstatic to be at State!
I got up bright and early the next morning at 7:00 AM to shower and get ready for the day ahead of me. We took our first ride over to the College of Textiles where we met some other really great people in the COT and got a tour of the facilities. Guys–these machines and equipment they had were world class and amazing! They had a knitting machine that you could make an entire dress with no seams! What? Yes, this is real. I took so many pictures of all the beautiful clothes and creations that were presented to us, it was amazing to see the creativity of the State students! After that, we had a presentation on diversity in college and played a game called "Step To The Line." If you've ever seen the move Freedom Writers, it is demonstrated in there. Basically, the head of the game calls out different aspects of your life and your past, and if it applies to you, you step to the line. Then everyone claps in appreciation of that part of your identity. We talked about things like heritage, religion, upbringing, and it was really interesting to learn a deeper level of my fellow campers.
Next, we had lunch with our project group leaders. At this camp, there are four project groups to represent a few of the majors of the College of Textiles: Apparel Design, Textile Design, Engineering, and Chemistry. We each completed a different project and presented it at the end of the week. I was in Textile Design, and we were told we would be making a woven jacquard fabric that could be made into a pillow, tapestry, or tote bag. We got a tour of the area of COT that we would be using, and also got lots of information about weave structures, color selection, and illustration programs. Then, we dove headfirst into sketching and brainstorming! Four hours flew by so quickly!
That night, we visited Southpoint, which is a shopping center near Raleigh. We were allowed to go and have dinner anywhere we wanted in the mall, so a group of us went to Maggiano's, an Italian place. It was AMAZING! The food was so good, our waitress was above and beyond accommodating, and some great memories were made (what happens at Maggiano's stays at Maggiano's ;D). After, we traveled to Goodwill where I actually was able to find a dress, sweater, and button up shirt for about $12 in total–I love thrifting! After arriving home and a round of Uno, it was time to hit the hay. Let's just say I slept a little bit more soundly this night because of the big day!
On Tuesday, we were able to screen print our own College of Textiles t-shirts! The process was super interesting! Basically, you lay down a shirt between a screen thats on a lever. Under the screen is a layer of screen printing ink. Then, you take a squeegee looking spreader and spread the ink over your shirt. Finally, you lift it up an viola! You have a shirt. Then you send it through a heating machine twice to dry the ink! I love my shirt so much, especially the fact that I was able to have a hand in creating it!
Next, we had a session on college success with two admissions counselors from NC State University. I took a lot of good notes in this session! If you have the opportunity to go to any sessions about admissions or tour colleges (especially you juniors and seniors), please go! They answered questions about class selection, extracurricular activities, GPAs, ACTs, SATs, essays, and more. It was eye opening, informative, and extremely exciting! After that there was a student panel with a few students from the College of Textiles. Let's just say, it made me so ecstatic for college! Then we went to lunch at the Clark Dining Hall and walked over to the library where I had some amazing ice cream!
At our project groups this day, we started really focusing on our designs. After several iterations, sketches, and some critiques, I was able to start fully forming my idea! Also, I want to give a shout out to Port City Java downstairs for making the best apricot tea ever! I got it ever single day of camp and I miss it!
And that's it for this weeks Life Of Lynn! I am going to be putting up a part two to this post in the coming days since this post is almost 1200 words at this point! After that, this will be a weekly column on my blog. I hope you guys enjoyed; thank you for reading!


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We strive to provide you, the client, with the best quality hand-reared pet parrot available. We do this by providing the parent birds with the best environment possible to live in, the best fresh foods and pellets to eat and the most stress free life possible. All our baby birds are raised with their siblings, fully socialised with adults, children and animals. We stay in touch with clients for as long as they deem fit. We offer 24/7, lifetime support by email and telephone, as well as our exclusive web based forum. All our babies are bred by us, raised by us, and sold by us. We do not supply pet shops or other hand rearers
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In early 2003, myself and my wife began to despair at the number of parrots ending up in rescue centres, and the lack of accurate, up to date information for people considering entering into parrot ownership for the first time. As breeders of birds for around 20 years, we considered setting up a website to offer advice and information, but we soon realised that it would only benefit those lucky enough to have internet access. What we really needed, was to be able to provide the advice at the point of sale. As we had only bred birds for our own enjoyment, and a very few for family and friends, the prospect of selling to the public was very daunting. During the next few months we visited trade shows, pet shops and other retail outlets. These also included several so called "hobby breeders", who were really just in it to make a fast buck. We joined several internet groups and forums, and even subscribed to monthly magazines, all to research what we were planning on doing. Would there be a market for truly hand reared birds? Would we be able to compete with the pet shops and parrot farms? Things looked bleak. Then two things happened that changed our lives.
When things just "click"
One of the internet groups we were on, had a couple of day trips organised. Nothing too big, a trip to Tropical Bird Park, and a BBQ at one of the group members house. We were invited, and we went along expecting just a nice couple of trips out. What we didn't expect, was that we would meet some people who had been thinking just like us. In fact, they had gone one better. They had already been breeding and selling parrots, but making sure the prospective buyers were totally aware of the commitment the parrots would demand. When they told us about their own dismay at the way parrots were being raised and sold in shops, we knew we had found like minded folk. Over the next few months, we were introduced to more people who thought along the same lines. We were given lots and lots of valuable advice on what to specialise in and how our previous experience could help us in choosing species to add to our own collection. The group of friends widened, as did the geographical area we all covered. Now we could be expected to meet up anywhere between Lancashire and Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Sussex! Things had started to come together, but something was missing...A final push.
Words make a difference
During one of our many meetings with our parrot breeding friends, someone mentioned a phrase that stuck with us. "the right bird, for the right person". It said it all. A simple phrase, but one that could save a parrot from a horrendous life, an owner from losing a lot of money, and lot of work saved away from rescue staff. A lot of saving for just seven words! It was all we needed. We decided to sell to the public. Every bird we have sold since 2003 has been taken away only after we have made sure that this phrase has been stuck to 100%. Its a fact that we are very proud of.
In 2004 we registered a website. www.cag-tag-and-sennie.co.uk was a great success, we put as much information as we could on the site, but the emails produced by it became overwhelming. They took up more and more of our time. Meanwhile, our parrots were happily going about their business. Sometimes they bred, sometimes they didn't. It was never our intention to rely on the birds producing chicks, and it remains the same today. Demand always outstrips supply. We do not, and will not, ever force our birds into breeding. The birds did produce enough for us to lose our way a little with the website though. It badly needed updating and new photos. We had always wanted to be able to add video and, eventually, live nest box cameras. We needed to spend some time on the website. Getting information out to people had always been our prime objective, and giving advice by email was becoming a major part of our day. We had to get our act together.2004 was beyond us now, but 2005 beckoned, and changes needed to be made.
The phoenix rises. This time its "United"
During all this time, and now into 2005, our breeder friends had all been going through similar experiences to our own. Baby parrots need feeding every 4 hours. They do not stop being hungry when its time to go to work, neither do the parents decide not to lay eggs just because you have booked your summer holidays! Weekend breaks disappear for good, and even trips out usually involve taking mobile brooders, food, hygiene equipment, and of course babies. Sometime you need a break from it all. This is when friends, good friends, come into their own. We all started "swapping" clutches of babies. Sometimes it would be while we holidayed, sometimes for just a weekend, sometimes for the whole hand rearing period. Usually the swap involved a clutch of babies, occasionally it involved moving into another house 60 miles away! We trusted each other 100% with our baby parrots, even with each others houses. So why couldn't we all share a website? Another idea developed. Why not run the website, the emails, the hand rearing, the sale of the babies, between us all? A type of co-operative. A mutual breeding, rearing and selling mini community. We spent most weekends at each other houses, we were all on the internet. It seemed so obvious!! A meeting of minds over a lovely dinner, a new approach was agreed. As was the splitting of email traffic to the people who bred and reared the specific species being enquired about, thus speeding up replies. We needed a name. Something that would convey what we do, but also that we all have the same thing driving us. Over dinner one night it was agreed, we would become "unitedparrotbreeders". It was also agreed we would supply videos for the site. Babies feeding and learning to fly. Nest cameras were installed. A live link to the site provided video from 2 nest boxes 24 hours a day.. We went live in April 2005
United we stand
So, here we are. Whether you have found a link from the breeders listings on many websites, via a link from another site, from a search engine, from a recommendation from an owner of one of our babies, you HAVE found us. We are still as strong and as dedicated as ever. We still travel all over the place visiting and helping each other. We are closer friends than ever. We still let our parents birds live and breed as they wish. We rarely have enough babies to supply the demand, but most folk are willing to wait for one of our babies. They are all hand reared in the old fashioned way. Socialised, used to family noises, fully weaned and fed on the best pellet diet available. There are other breeders who offer one, two, maybe all of the previous things, but you have to ask yourself.....do they provide the ultimate service?
Take a close look at the shop where you have seen a good looking parrot for sale. What are the cages like for size, for cleanliness, for condition. Ask if he reared the baby himself, or if not, how long he has had it!
Have a long chat to the guy with a 12 month old African Grey for sale in the local paper. Its usually for sale as the owner is either "emigrating", has "just had a new baby ", or the old chestnut "....has developed an allergy to the bird". Oh, and its always 12 moths old. Just old enough to be beyond the point where you can age them visually!
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Grade 7 sport
The grade 7D team drew and the Grade 7E team won their matches against St Andrew's. The A team played in the Catholic Schools' Festival held at Brescia House School and were undefeated. Well done to all the girls for their school spirit and an excellent end to the season!
Congratulations to Emma Prince who played in the U13 District Hockey Tournament on Saturday and Sunday at Queens High School.
Grades 8-12 sport
Our teams had a very busy week and weekend playing 4 fixtures in total.
Well done to the 2nd and u15B teams on their convincing wins vs St Dominic's, and to the 2nd, u14C and u15C teams on their wins vs St Andrew's!
Our teams won 14 out of the 18 matches played on Saturday vs Assumption Convent and Marist Brother's Linmeyer. Well done to all the teams!
We had some tough Hockey fixtures last week against St. Mary's. Unfortunately, all our teams lost but we kept our heads up and gave our best. Good luck to all the teams playing this week.
The entire team did extremely well in the recent qualifier. A special mention must be made to the following girls who came in the top 3 places in 1 or more of their classes: Alex Cromme, Ashleigh Sova, Isabella Harvey, Tamsin De Castro, Victoria Lavelle, Erin O'Dwyer and Tanith Wise.
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Hello my darlings! This is going to be another short post. I worked a long day today and I have to be up and at it early again tomorrow. My back is feeling much better today and that is a huge blessing. Thank you all for the prayers and love. They worked!
Tonight's J is titled "J97 Unexpected J". Today as I was working I was thinking of all the different places that I see beauty in the world. I was thinking of some of the art I've seen recently and how what made it beautiful to me was the fact that it was unexpected. I remember seeing a pair of shoes recently that were completely covered in buttons. They were high heels and they were lovely to me. I also recently saw some mondo groovy sneakers that had been altered with sharpies. Also beautiful to me. Google sharpie shoes. You will be amazed.
Tonight I just want to remind you to look for the beauty in the unexpected. If something takes your breath away, steal a bit of time just to bathe in that feeling of awe. It's a connection with the Universe I believe. Thank you for being you. You make me smile with your unexpected beauty. 🙂


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What makes a nice piece stand out ? The answer is probably entirely subjective but I sure have enjoyed building and manipulating this little component for the boat.
It will live its life as the mizzen mast step. It'll be buried down into the aft locker, covered in paint and not to be seen again. I've built it out of pieces of mahogany offcuts. I sure like the geometry and the nice grain of the wood.
I thought of dedicating a post to it as ... it won't be seen again after it is integrated to the boat. That makes it in a sense pretty ephemeral.


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|Japanese fans wait in line for the three-day K-pop concert KCON Japan in front of the Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Chiba. The event was held from April 13 to 15 and attracted 68,000 Japanese fans. / Courtesy of CJ E&M
By Kang Hyun-kyung
The latest K-pop concerts held in the greater Tokyo area of Chiba have found a striking trait among hallyu fans _ they are becoming younger, compared to early Korean drama fans.
KCON, a three-day concert organized by CJ E&M and held between April 13 and 15 at Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Chiba, attracted 68,000 fans, an increase of 20,000 from last year's event.
Twenty-eight K-pop groups, including the 11-member boy band Wanna One and girl group TWICE, performed during the three-day concert.
"The majority of K-pop fans who flocked to KCON Japan concerts were Japanese teens or those in their 20s," said Co Young-sic, head of communications at CJ E&M. "These younger Japanese fans are a breath of fresh air into hallyu, in that previous hallyu fans in Japan were drama lovers in their 50s or older."
Unlike the older generation who are believed to be more conservative, Cho said, the younger Japanese fans are open-minded to new culture and care little about politics and diplomatic tension between South Korea and Japan. "The younger Japanese fans appear to enjoy K-pop as a music genre," he said. "One of the characteristics of these new-generation fans is they not only listen to music but also reveal their interest in Korean lifestyle, such as beauty products, food and even Korean culture."
He said events like KCON Japan play a part to sustain the popularity of K-pop in Japan as fans there are able to meet their favorite singers at the concert.
During the three-day event 187 programs on beauty, fashion and food were held on the sidelines of the concert. YouTube beauty creators and social entrepreneurs were part of the programs, interacting with Japanese attendees.
CJ E&M has hosted KCON since 2012 and the Chiba concert was its fourth edition. The first KCON concert in Japan was held in 2015 as a one-day event that attracted 15,000 fans. Since last year CJ E&M has been hosting three-day KCON concerts in Japan. KCON Japan accounts for 26 percent of all KCON concert fans, showing Japan is a key market.
Korean popular culture first took hold in Japan in the early 2000s after the Korean drama "Winter Sonata" starring Bae Yong-jun and Choi Ji-woo aired on broadcaster NHK created a K-drama craze among women in their 50s or older.
Experts characterized the early K-drama boom in Japan as the first Korean wave. K-dramas have since been popular in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
The second Korean wave came in the late 2000s when Korean pop music went viral in Japan and other Asian countries. Girls' Generation, Big Bang, CL and Super Junior are some of the K-pop acts who were very popular in the second Korean wave.
Singer Psy opened a new heyday for K-pop when his "Gangnam Style" music video went viral all around the globe. His popularity, however, was short-lived as his follow-up songs didn't get much attention from overseas fans. Boy band BTS lifted K-pop to the U.S. mainstream, a job no other previous K-pop groups had done before. The boy band enjoys global popularity thanks to YouTube. The third Korean wave is now underway.
Experts say technology plays a key part behind the enduring popularity of K-pop.