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Land trusts in the WP region: An impressive but uneven record/
by Dr. John B. Wright, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Land trusts are non-governmental organizations with a mission to protect key private land from subdivision and development. Nationwide 1,100 trusts safeguard 12.5 million acres, with national groups like The Nature Conservancy and the Conservation Fund protecting even more land at 36 million acres. Trusts operate as a kind of non-governmental planning agency with a more focused agenda than public sector programs. They rely on incentive-based tools such as conservation easements and fee simple purchases instead of police power authority.
Given the statutory and political limits of zoning and subdivision regulations, planners sometimes turn to trusts as silent or active partners in implementing the open space elements of comprehensive plans. Yet, these collaborative efforts remain disbursed and less common than ideal. There are many reasons: ideological conflicts between regulatory and voluntary approaches, lack of land trust experience with planners, political barriers, funding shortfalls, and differences in growth pressures. While planners are often familiar with specific land trust projects in their area, many are less aware of the overall record within the Western Planner (WP) region and disparities from state to state. Land trust success stories, which can serve as models, may not be as well-known to planners as they should be.
Land Trust Record in the WP Region
The record of land trusts in the 13 state region is impressive, but spatially uneven (See Table 1). There are 123 local and statewide trusts present – 11 percent of the national total – yet nearly 60 percent of the region's trusts are found in three states: Washington, Colorado, and Oregon. Collectively, the 123 groups have conserved 31 percent of the U.S. total land trust acreage. Trusts are most successful in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, and New Mexico, which account for 28 percent of all acres protected by local and statewide trusts in the country. Despite diverse cultures and political climates, each place has a robust conservation culture. More than a million acres have been protected in both Colorado and Montana. Only Maine has done better (1.8 million acres, much of it former corporate timberlands purchased by The Nature Conservancy).
The remaining nine states in the WP region have combined to protect only 3 percent of the national tally. The scant record in the Dakotas is easily explained by a lack of development pressure and the recent bust of the fracking boom. But other places are puzzling. More land has been conserved by the five trusts in strongly Mormon Utah than in the 15 trusts in secular "green" Oregon. Despite the fastest population growth rates in the country, Nevada and Arizona lag behind in land trust work. In Nevada this may be due to the high percentage of public land. In Arizona, state land projects are not reflected in the record of trusts.
"Acres conserved" is a crude measure of conservation success. The ecological, scenic, agricultural, and open space merits of properties are vital, but when considering the fate of landscapes, size matters. However, the metric of acres conserved per 100,000 people (shown as "per capita" in Table 1) levels the playing field and gives us a relative sense of engagement. Maine leads in this measure – 135,734 acres per 100,000 people. Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Washington, and New Mexico stand out in the WP region and rank high nationally. Surprisingly, when per capita figures are used, liberal Oregon does little better than conservative Arizona. Wyoming, home to a profoundly Republican population emerges as an environmental leader, at least in this regard. This reminds us that land trusts use tax deductions for conservation easements as incentives for landowners to protect their land. While regulatory planning may face stiff opposition from conservatives, they often support the work of trusts, especially people facing large income and estate tax burdens.
As evidence of this, the stock growers associations in Wyoming, Colorado, and Oregon have all formed land trusts to conserve working lands. The Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust has an active "Ranchland Succession Program." The Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust holds 240 conservation easements protecting 450,000 acres. In Montana, the Montana Stockgrowers Association actively collaborates with the Montana Land Reliance, the most successful statewide trust in the country. However, rancher organizations in the remaining states of the region have not yet followed suit.
The percent of private land in a state also varies tremendously, ranging from a high of 91 percent in the Dakotas to 4 percent in Alaska. But how much of that private land has been conserved? Nationally, Vermont is the leader at 11 percent, followed by Maine (8 percent, New Hampshire (7 percent), and Massachusetts (6 percent). In our region, Colorado trusts protect 3.2 percent of the private land from development in that vast state with Montana, Wyoming, and Washington also tallying impressive records. The preceding statistics outline the record of local and statewide trusts, but they do not really breathe life into the story.
Looking Deeper
Cultural geography and land ethics drive conservation and these matters of the heart defy quantification. However, land trust successes are one tangible measure of people's love of place. In this regard, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, and New Mexico have the strongest "land-saving" cultures. However, people across the WP region care deeply about their landscapes and we may just be seeing "cultural lag" in the acceptance of land trust work. Also missing is the record of national non-governmental organizations.
Colorado's 28 land trusts are spread across the Rocky Mountains from the San Luis Valley to Steamboat Springs and up the Front Range from Pueblo to Fort Collins. Trusts succeed in liberal counties such as Boulder and Larimer and conservative counties like El Paso (Colorado Springs) and Douglas. However, four trusts account for 68 percent of the state's conserved private land: Colorado Cattlemen's Association Land Trust (CCALT) (450,000 acres), Colorado Open Lands (251,375 acres), the Palmer Land Trusts in Colorado Springs (72,193 acres), and the Yampa Valley Land Conservancy (59,390 acres). The Yampa River is the site of a major collaborative conservation effort involving the Yampa trust, CCALT, Colorado Open Lands, Western Rivers Conservancy, and The Nature Conservancy. Impressive open space systems have been assembled cooperatively by trusts and city/county planning programs across the state.
Montana is one of the most mythical places in the West. Driven by homegrown land ethics, a robust literary tradition (such as The Big Sky), legendary trout fishing, and the tax shelter needs of amenity migrants, trusts have protected nearly 1.2 million acres of "The Last Best Place." Yet, the Montana Land Reliance – a statewide trust – has conserved 82 percent of the total (961,000 acres). Montana Land Reliance's success is based on doing one thing very well: receiving donated conservation easements on ranches, often along the state's many rivers. The Blackfoot River conservation program serves as a national model. Montana Land Reliance, The Nature Conservancy, the Five Valley's Land Trust (Missoula), and the Blackfoot Challenge have done immense work in safeguarding much of this hallowed watershed. Vital Ground and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation are also based in Montana. Vital Ground operates from Alaska to Wyoming protecting grizzly bear habitat as a keystone for landscape-level conservation. The Elk Foundation works across the U.S. to conserve and improve wildlife habitat.
Wyoming trusts have accomplished much, but the results are asymmetrical. Vital Ground has conserved 324,500 acres of wildlife habitat (62 percent of the state total). Otherwise only two trusts have strong records. The Green River Valley Land Trust holds conservation easements on 32,000 acres of ranchland, riparian habitat, and wetlands in that drainage. The Jackson Hole Land Trust (22,535 acres) works in Wyoming's liberal outlier where land values are among the highest in the country. Here, tax deductions for donated easements bring wealthy newcomers significant benefits and help shield long-term ranching families from estate taxes. Elsewhere in the Cowboy State, trusts are scarce.
Washington has 29 trusts spread across the Cascades and coastal regions. Forterra is a statewide group that also works on community building and land restoration. They safeguard 234,000 acres of forests, farms, shorelines, and urban green spaces – 76 percent of Washington's total. Several other trusts are also doing excellent work. The San Juan Preservation Trust protects 14, 377 acres in the San Juan archipelago. The Whitcomb Land Trust, Methow Conservancy, Inland Northwest Land Trust (Spokane), and the Skagit Land Trusts all have conserved more than 7,000 acres each. Yet, Washington, like the other top states in the WP region has an uneven pattern of land trust success.
New Mexico is the most cryptic cultural landscape in the WP region. This Indian/Hispanic/Anglo state has a turbulent land tenure history that makes land trust work challenging. Despite that, four distinctly different trusts are doing well. The New Mexico Land Conservancy holds easements on 146,000 acres of working lands, scenic open spaces, and wildlife habitats across the state. They have conservation strategies in place for the Greater Gila Ecosystem and the "Hi-Lo Country" – a vast expanse of ranchlands where the Great Plains meet the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The Malpai Borderlands Group is a rancher land trust that protects 78,000 acres of bio-diverse working lands in New Mexico's "Bootheel" region and adjacent parts of Arizona. Malpai buys conservation easements using funds from donors such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Together, New Mexico Land Conservancy and the Malpai Borderlands Group conserve 76 percent of the state total. The Santa Fe Conservation Trust (32,793 acres) operates in that mystical enclave while the Taos Land Trust (24,264 acres) works with Hispano families with a long-term fidelity to the landscape.
Table 1 reveals a drop-off in land trust work in the region's remaining eight states. However, there are really three classes of success: 1) the top five states described above, 2) middle-ground states such as Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Oregon, Nevada, and Alaska, and, 3) the Dakotas, where trusts are not yet part of the planning landscape. The reasons for this are many - differences in land development pressure, disparities in the amount of private land, political ideology, economic factors, and cultural geography. Detailed analysis is needed, but that is beyond the scope of this article.
Cooperation between Planners and Trusts
I was the Planning Director in two western Montana counties back in the seventies. My frustration with the legal and ethical limits of regulatory planning caused me to move into the land trust arena as a conservation easement consultant with my friend Bruce Bugbee in Missoula. I did this for a simple reason – I wanted to conserve land, not review subdivisions. As a result, I have designed over 120 conservation easements, prepared county conservation strategies, written articles and books on implementation techniques, taught environmental planning classes, and chaired the New Mexico Land Conservancy for a decade. I've seen a staggering increase in the success of trusts in the West, yet more remains to be done. Here are a few suggestions for planners.
- Collaborate with a trust on crafting a county land conservation strategy
- Cooperate with land trusts to implement comprehensive plans, especially the protection of agricultural land, scenic open space, wildlife habitats, watersheds, and hazard areas such as fire-prone urban-wildland interface ecosystems
- Create a city/county open space program with the technical assistance of an experienced land trust
- Write a cluster development ordinance with a density bonus linked to the placement of a conservation easement on a percentage of the land in the subdivision – a partnering land trust would then accept the easement
- Replat "zombie" subdivisions to reduce density and infrastructure costs; work with a land trust to place a conservation easement on the freed-up land
- Integrate conservation options into pre-platting design conferences with landowners and developers; have trusts help in designing alternatives to traditional subdivisions
- Read up on conservation easements and open space measures
- Check out the Land Trust Alliance website (www.lta.org) – Click on the "Find a Land Trust," search by state, and see what trusts are doing in your area
Land trust groups are natural allies to planners dealing with development and landscape change. I continue to do conservation easement projects with the New Mexico Land Conservancy as a Land Advisor (www.nmlandconservancy.org). I often work with city and county planners on collaborative efforts at conserving open space. From that experience, I strongly believe that if we are to create livable, safe, and prosperous communities, cooperation between planners and land trusts is essential. The preceding article provides a sketch of the status of land trusts in the WP region and the following references offer more information on how land trusts work.
Dr. John B. Wright has been a planner and land conservation consultant for over 40 years in the American West. He is the author of numerous articles and books on conservation easements and conservation planning. Dr. Wright is Regents Professor of Geography at New Mexico State University.
- Anthony Anella and John B. Wright. 2004. Saving the Ranch: Conservation Easement Design in the American West. Island Press. San Francisco and London.
- Richard Brewer. 2003. Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America. University Press of New England. Hanover, NH and London.
- Elizabeth Byers and Karin Marchetti Ponte. 2005. The Conservation Easement Handbook. Land Trust Alliance and the Trust for Public Land. Washington, DC.
- John B. Wright. 1993. Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West. University of Texas Press. Austin
- www.landvote.org. Website gives data on open space bonds and other funding measure by state and local jurisdiction since 1988
- www.lta.org. Excellent background source. "Find a Land Trust" prompt gives access to a huge database on the work of land trusts in the United States. Data used in this article comes from the latest LTA national survey taken in 2014 - accessed March 2015.
Published in the December 2015/January 2016 Journal


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ED - Hi Joanne - fab!! so glad you'll be joining us!! feel free to link back to the blog here, folks will be able to get to the forum from here i'll have a direct link!! Thank you!!
Lisa here, popping in to remind you that tomorrow (Saturday, April 17th) is our monthly Blog Waltz! Our Waltz will begin at 7:00 am Pacific, 8:00 am Mountain, 9:00 am Central, 10:00 am Eastern, 3:00 pm GMT! Be sure to list your blog in the thread that we'll start in the Waltzingmouse House forum.
Once again, we'll have a competition for a chance to win a stamp set of choice! There will be a drawing among all those who participate in the Waltz, and another among those who come up with the correct number of hidden flowers in the photos of the cards/projects showcased by the Design Team and Claire during the Blog Waltz. Note that all of the Design Team are participating in the waltz except Lynn Mercurio, who had a scheduling conflict.
Here's a sample of what you'll be looking for, although, of course, it will be a watermark. It's shown here against a black background so that you can see the detail. It also happens to be a wee peek at one of the new May release stamp sets (hee hee).
See you on the Waltz!

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A lot is written today about Japan's media, particularly because of accusations that the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to silence critics. It's fair enough, but media in Japan is much more complex than many give it credit for. And press freedom is still by and large in tact.
As well as traditional media, there's an entire weeklies system that deserves attention. There's also a vibrant social media scene and plenty of online only news sites. All sort of depend on each other. I recently interviewed Kosuke Takahashi of the Huffington Post Japan for the ACCJ Journal on the role that online media plays in Japan. Below is the full interview.
Are you able to cover stories like the Kawasaki murder and compete with more mainstream outlets?
We haven't been to the site of the incident (murder in Kawasaki), but we carried a lot of stories and blogs. We don't have enough people to send a reporter there. But we interviewed professionals and wrote blogs.
How many of you are there?
Including sales and editorial, we have 15 people. Including assistants, there are 11 people in editorial.
You're just operating during the Japanese work day?
We run the site from about 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. If big events happen though, people will work. During, for example, the terrorist attack in Tunisia. So one editor worked overnight.
We run about 50 stories a day. About half of them are original news written by our editorial staffers. The rest of them are blogs and a handful of reprint of wire-service articles written by Reuters and Asahi. Thinking about the number of staff we have, 50 is a lot. We are terribly busy. If you don't put up that many stories every day, you will not get enough traffic.
What's your vision for the Huffington Post Japan?
When I became the editor-in-chief, I put the priority on civic journalism. In Japan traditionally, the government and authorities have been very strong. People tend to trust the government, the emperor, authority figures such as teachers, but civic society is not so strong. Japanese media tends to follow the government's resources, which are sent to the press clubs.
Huffington Post Japan is trying to follow ordinary people to foster democracy, by giving people a chance to hear ordinary people's voices and opinions. We provide a forum for readers, where they can discuss what the government has to do.
You seem more fearless than traditional media. For example, you guys were pretty critical of Ayako Sono and the story ended up getting picked up internationally.
We carried a lot on Ayako Sono. Traditional Japanese media tends to hesitate to criticize rivals. We do not. We do not have strong ties with other media, there's no reason for us to restrain ourselves from criticizing the Sankei.
But that sort of stuff is not enough for you?
The U.S. Huffington Post was established in 2005, 10 years ago. It first reported on the so-called low-brow stories. High-brow stories are on politics, economy and that sort of thing. Low-brow stories are on entertainment, cats and dogs etc. Huffington Post in the U.S. first carried only low-brow stories, but now, they have a Pulitzer Prize. They already shifted to a balance between low-brow and high-brow stories. At HuffPost Japan, we were just established two years ago, so we still need to focus on low-brow stories. We have a limited number of staff, and monetization is important.
Are you profitable?
We are monetizing. We have four salespeople. We are still not in the black yet but we will make it.
How are you making money?
We offer the usual banner advertising and also native advertising. More than half of our readers come from smartphones, the rest come from PCs. The revenue from smartphones is still much lower than for PCs. As you can see, advertising banners are small on smartphones, compared to PCs. Although we get much more people from smartphones, it is difficult to make money, so we do native ads. If Toyota pay us money, we will write them a sponsored article. This doesn't totally rely on traffic, they just trust our brand.
Japan's media is always rumored to be giving in to advertising demands. The massive companies such as Dentsu are said to lean on newspapers to make sure, say, Tepco is treated gently. Do you get pressure from advertisers?
So far we have had no pressure from advertisers. Why? I don't know. Maybe we are still too small for Dentsu or something? Maybe it's because we focus on ordinary people's lives?
Another point for us is that we focus on minorities. We write about LGBT issues, foreigners, women, the handicapped, those that tend to be less represented in Japanese society.
How many hits are you getting?
We focus on unique users. We have 15 million a month. That's a lot right? If you want to just get page hits, you just put up more slide shows. We focus on unique users instead.
That's interesting. It seems a bit different in the U.S. these days. All about hits maybe. You must have seen that Dress article, about the different colors. It got about 80 million hits from Buzzfeed and they seem to be monetizing. But your model is different…
We got lots of hits. But those kind of stories [The Dress] do not help us to get native ads. We need to enhance our brand image to get native ads from big clients. So we have a dilemma. We need traffic, but those stories don't help our brand. People want international news, local issues, environmental issues, stories about how local people are suffering … that's civic journalism. The Dress is less important, but our traffic is very good, that is true.
But you need the cash for the civic journalism…
We are half way there. We had a scoop, but we need more. About a year ago we got one, about the Diary of Anne Frank. One of our reporters, Chika Igaya, had been covering Japanese libraries, and she heard about the damage to the diaries, so she investigated. The report became international news, it was a big scoop.
A libraries correspondent?
Among the 11 editorial staff we have, two came from the Asahi. Maybe they will return there in a few years. They are juniors to me, I am 46, they are fourthsomethings. We have a few people in their 20s, most are in their thirties. They come from Rakuten, the Sankei, some IT media, they have different DNA, come from many quarters of the Japanese media. We are always fighting… well, discussing what to do a lot.
I guess the former Sankei people didn't follow the Sankei line? I had a friend work there and he was… sane.
Haha. I used to work for the Wall Street Journal Japan, and the staff said they didn't like the editorials.
So where does the HuffPo fit into the Japan media landscape?
Our rivals are Toyo Keizai online, Blogos and Yahoo online. But Toyo Keizai online is our main rival, they have almost the same editorial line. It's a friendly rivalry. I am good friends with their editor.
Are you able to grow any further? There has to be a limit to the size a Japanese blog can reach.
We expand by about 3 million unique users a quarter. We still have a long way to go, and can get a lot of new users. Many Japanese do not know the Huffington Post. My staff will call local governments and say who they are. The people at the other end will say 'Huh?! Washington Post?'" Only people active on the net know our name, not ordinary people.
If we expand our social influence by getting scoops and delivering important news then we will attract more ordinary people.
Do you follow the same method as the HuffPost in the U.S.? Grabbing onto stories and firing out as many posts as possible on them to get traffic. Things like the death of Kenji Goto must be good for traffic. I saw that from the traditional media and online media sides, and there's no way the papers can keep up.
We got lots of traffic in January when Goto-san was killed. It happened at 5 a.m. One of my staff was connected to a chatroom on his phone. He woke up because his phone started buzzing a lot. He saw Goto-san was killed and got straight to work. If you wait for traditional media's reporting on this, it can be too late. On the other hand, the traditional way of reporting, hearing rumors, confirming them and publishing stories [can be safer].
So are you trying to outpace traditional media?
We don't focus much on breaking news. If we focus too much on that we would lose because we don't have enough staff. For example, the other day we wrote about "hakko icchu," the wartime government slogan Junko Mihara said in the Diet. Many young people don't know the phrase, so we summarized its meaning and the story proved a megahit. Then three days later, Asahi politics did the same thing. We also did a slideshow of Mihara, because she is very popular… she's beautiful. People from my generation like her, and they just want to see her photos.
Young people don't read newspapers as much as they used to. So if they want explanations, they come to our site. Newspaper circulations are declining a lot. So people lack basic knowledge of the news. So if we can summarize, and explain the background of what is going on, we get people coming to our site.
But you need traditional media then? If they weren't covering Mihara, you couldn't follow that story. But at the same time, traditional media revenue is declining. How can journalism sustain itself?
The media that conquers smartphones in Japan will win. It's happening in other fields too. Look at the Nintendo-DeNA deal. As I said, more than half of our readers come from smartphones. So if you cannot make a smartphone-friendly news site, you cannot win. The U.S. is now redesigning to make a smartphone focused site.
Are you following the U.S. in doing this?
Japan and South Korea have good WiFi systems. In the U.K., people still read free newspapers on the train because they can't get a signal, for example. Arriana Huffington says Japan and South Korea are experimenting in the media world. They are following us, in a way. So we need to focus on mobile video. People are good at PC video, but we are now changing to mobile video. We will launch a service this year, but the details have not been decided yet. But we will launch video in the in May or June.
So you have total independence from the U.S. site?
Since I joined the Huffington Post in September, I have been to company conferences in London and Munich. We have 13 editions, so twice a year, people get together and discuss what we will do globally. This year, we will launch in Australia, Mexico and an Arabic edition. This helps the group. We can use each other's articles.
Do you do the U.S. thing of getting celebs to blog to pick up hits?
We use around 300 bloggers. Maybe Shigeru Ishiba gets the most hits. Or Taro Kono or Takafumi Horie. These people allow us to reprint what they wrote on their blogs. HuffPost Japan is a liberal media platform, but we still need to carry conservative views for readers to create a good opinion forum.
How are your readers? I have a rule to never read comments under stories…
We get a lot of Facebook comments. Some are crazy and some are not. People comment from all corners of Japan.
Most of our readers are in their 30s and 40s. Gunosy targets people in their late teens and early 20s. SmartNews targets early 20s to early 30s. HuffPost and Toyo Keizai online readers are in their late 30s and 40s. HuffPost's selling point is international news, so we get people in their 30s and 40s, company workers.
What about the Japanese news? Does that get translated for the U.S. site?
On the March 11 anniversary, the U.S. site translated two of our stories into English. The Korean site also translated a piece into hangul.
So what's next?
What I want to do here is… Many places have a digital-first policy. We are digital only. We have to be strong on social media, and on smartphones. And we need to target young people. Elementary school students today are shooting their own videos on smartphones. They are our future readers. And we also need to be strong with visual elements … video and slideshows.
There's a lot you can do beyond video. I remember one story on the New York Times that felt like a completely new way of publishing…
We are looking at doing global stories. For example, on environmental issues, we can make a world map, an infographic, and if you click, say, Brazil, you can get information from that country. Each edition can contribute the facts. We have COP21 in November, so we decided to do it. We also decided to do a global story on the rise of the right wing. In developed countries, there are fewer children and more immigrants. And the right wing don't like it. So we will cover this story in each country. At the same time, we will look at good examples of positive immigrant integration.
Sounds like you are going to become a media empire. Totally worldwide.
The Huffington Post Group is trying to establish in China. But the country is sensitive to media, so Arriana Huffington said we will start with a focus on lifestyle and then expand.
How do you perform compared to other Huffington Post sites?
Globally speaking, the U.S. site is the most read, then the U.K.; we are No. 3. We just overtook Canada. We have some bloggers overseas, there's one in Munich. That must mean there are some overseas Japanese reading us.


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The Light in the Piazza
Book by CRAIG LUCAS and Music by ADAM GUETTEL
Produced by arrangement with Turner Entertainment Co.
Owner of the original motion picture, "Light in the Piazza" based on the novel by Elizabeth Spenser
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM
September 23 through October 9
Director - Kristen Bures
Music Director - Ashley O'Brien
Producer - Jeff Kilgore
Costumer Designer - Carol Loysen
Set Designer - Jane Harissis
Stage Manager - Linda Blanchard
Assistant Director, Choreographer - Alison Smith
Assistant Producer - Leslie Anderson
Props - Evelyn Frey
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring the Tuscan countryside with her daughter, Clara. While sightseeing, Clara - a beautiful, surprisingly childish, young woman - loses her hat in a sudden gust. As if guided by an unseen hand, the hat lands at the feet of Fabrizio Naccarelli, a handsome Florentine, who returns it to Clara. This brief episode, charged with coincidence and fate, sparks an immediate and intense romance between Clara and Fabrizio.
Margaret, extremely protective of her daughter, attempts to keep Clara and Fabrizio apart. As THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA unfolds, a secret is revealed: in addition to cultural differences between the young lovers, Clara is not quite all that she appears. Unable to suppress the truth about her daughter, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own as well.
"The Light in the Piazza" is one of those unanticipated theatrical gems that took Broadway by storm in 2005. Winner of seven Tonys including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Actress in a Musical, this show is a "must see." Rich music and luscious composition highlight this beautiful romance between a young American woman and a handsome Florentine. The romance is opposed by her mother, who eventually reveals a secret about her daughter's past to the young man's father. Book by Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, based on the book by Elizabeth Spencer.
- Margaret Johnson - Kristen Bures
Clara Johnson - Victoria Drew/Sarah DeGray
Fabrizio Naccarelli -James Blanchard
Giuseppe Naccarelli -Joseph O. Grabon
- Franca Naccarelli -Dawn Rose Kearn
Signor Naccarelli - Marc Yakubosky
Signora Naccarelli - Pam Toof
Roy Johnson/ Priest/ Tour Guide - Mike Ravey


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Wheels of Atlantis – PT1
We live in a time where it can't be denied that technology has become a danger to our very being. Not only that but a time which The Bible foretold hundreds and hundreds of years ago.
The phrase 'enlightenment' is commonly used in the New Age circles, but it's not new. Ancient cultures have awaited this moment in time but we are the chosen ones to be a witness to it. The philosophy of "Oneness" is not from GOD and the Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy reveal hidden magical treatises of being able to not only transform but also of transmutation. I would have shrugged my shoulders at this a decade ago, but doctrines such as transhumanism is rearing its ugly head and has changed all that. To be able to download your consciousness into a robot sounds like we live in the days of "The Jetsons"…but it's here and now.
The days of Atlantis' cataclysm was long ago but the technology that was said to exist there has been on Earth ever since. It was protected by Poseidon…and the other demigods but if you know the truth then you also know that these myths are real…as real and you and I.
The Bible gives us clues about these civilizations…we just need to ask GOD for the discernment!
Ezekiel was a captive in the land of Babylon. He was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, but we can't forget Daniel, for he was a captive too.
These two prophets had the most grand visions ever described! The technology we see now must have been amazing for them to see in these visions, and describing them must have been crazy!
The situations described in The Bible speak of both the (natural) physical and supernatural. The combination of the two are inclusive of one another and cannot/will not be separated because this is how GOD created everything. Discernment is needed to comprehend the necessary facts. I'm no prophet…but GOD tells us that these things can/will be discerned by HIS children. Only then are we allowed to gain some perspective of the past/present/future events.
The "Burden of Babylon" is a series which was published on this site and it gives us the parallel of Atlantis to Babylon, as spoken of in The Bible. Of course, you must realize everything has a natural and spiritual connotation. So, we must understand that there are two levels of GOD'S Word. Therefore, two levels to the events taking place.
The false religions must be taken into consideration as well, for they play a huge part. The Tower of Babel is a physical location but it also has a spiritual connection. Jacob's Ladder is an example of this. The Tower was a place utilized as a portal to the heavens.
One such parallel would be Atlantis. It was a physical location but also connected to the supernatural heavens.
The false doctrines of the Eastern Religions give us clues as to the machinery of these places. Drawings and symbolism reveal these places once you've learn the meaning of their content.
The Dharma Wheel is a symbolic gesture of a 8-fold path of Buddha or the Universal Law. But when you notice the symbolism within it, it quickly begins to look like a portal. "The Gate of the Gods"…is name which is used. Attached to this is the star sign and the "Shining Ones"…aka…the fallen angels.
I believe the Tower of Babel held architecture designs which was meant to serve as not only symbolic gestures but as a literal one too. Were these "gates" utilized for entry into our dimension? If so, what came through? Even more to the point is WHO and WHAT came through?
King Nebuchadnezzar is probably best known as the builder of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. These gardens were built upon the seven stages of the fantastic ziggurat of Marduk, the well known Tower of Babel, which Nebuchadnezzar restored.
Babel originates from the word Bab-li, which in the Babylonian language meant 'Gate of God '. This is our first tip-off that Nebuchadnezzar attempted to construct a means –perhaps even a stargate — to transcend earth life and travel the cosmos.
The ruins of Babylon are found buried beneath the sands of Iraq about twenty miles from modern-day Baghdad. In its glory the city of Babylon was the greatest city in Mesopotamia –the center of the new world order. It was a veritable playground for the gods. The ziggurat or temple of Marduk which formed its center and the Tower of Babel were awesome structures by any standard. The Marduk temple housed the golden image of Bel and a strange golden table, which combined weighed nearly fifty thousand pounds of solid gold!
Nebuchadnezzar's Hanging Gardens must have been a spectacular, perhaps unbelievable, sight to Daniel and the rest of the Jewish captives, sort of like placing a war-torn Bosnian child in Disneyland today. Growing on a huge seventy-five-foot high artificial mountain, the Hanging Gardens could be seen for fifty miles across the flat desert. The seven terraces held trees, vines and flowers and were watered by a system of wells and fountains. King Nebuchadnezzar had this wonder built for his queen who longed to return to her mountain homeland.
One entered Babylon through the Processional Way, which led to the famed Ishtar Gate. This enormous entrance way was covered with brilliant blue glazed tiles on which were depicted lions, bulls and dragons in bas-relief. These animals represented the gods of the city, Marduk the dragon king was the most potent. Isis was the lion.
As its king, Nebuchadnezzar expanded Babylon's fortifications, paved her streets, and dug canals. Nebuchadnezzar was revered in his homeland as more than just a great temple builder. He was also revered as a wise man who surrounded himself with astrologers, architects, magicians, sorcerers — anyone who could help him decode his dreams and visions, some of which were deeply troubling to him. This made it perfectly natural for Daniel and the wise men from Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem to be mixed in with the sages of Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar's Stargate encounter began when he acknowledged that Daniel had immense prophetic gifts, including the ability to interpret dreams.
The story is told of what happens when Nebuchadnezzar sets-up an image of gold in Babylon.
This isn't some ancient status symbol the king kept on his desk.
The image is a massive three score (60) cubits high and six cubits wide.
A cubit is 18 inches, making the image 540 inches high (three score or thirty times 18 inches high). 540 inches is 45 feet high, about the size of a four and a half story building!
Undoubtedly, this massive structure could be seen from miles around.
In Revelation 13:11-15, the one who speaks like a dragon, "the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."
And he does great wonders. He makes fire come down from heaven. And he tells the people to construct "an image to the beast, which had been wounded by the sword, but did live."
The person who 'speaks like dragon' has the power to give life to this image, in other words to make it speak. Any "who would not worship the image of the beast should be killed," says Revelation.
Nebuchadnezzar, on the other hand, could not make this gleaming Golden Head speak. This was a major failure. Like the tribal leader David, who ruled Jerusalem five hundred years before him, the king had planned to unify his kingdom, the golden image was the unifying force. He tried using music to get it to work. He demanded that when the people heard the music play they were to fall down and worship the golden image (as if this act would impress the lifeless heap). If they didn't they would be tossed into a burning fiery furnace.
Ultimately, as the story goes, along come the three wise Jews from Babylon (friends of Daniel and Abednegor – who worked at the Temple of Solomon).
Unfortunately for Nebuchadnezzar, they refuse to worship the hulking image or the god of the Babylonian king. What is more, the three insult Nebuchadnezzar by betting the king that their god will save them from the fiery furnace.
Clearly, the three wise men from the Temple of Solomon possess crucial knowledge that Nebuchadnezzar needs to make this golden gadget work. Batteries were apparently included for Nebuchadnezzar was successful in firing up the fiery furnace component of the image. But beyond that he was stuck. He needed the 'open sesame'. Osiris is the Serpent-soul who can utter the 'open sesame' to make this gadget work and initiate the opening of a stargate. Osiris' lake of fire: the fiery furnace?
In the story from Daniel the three wise men refuse to spill the beans to Nebuchadnezzar, what is undoubtedly the 'open sesame' to open the gateway. Furious, the king orders that the three be cast into the 'fiery furnace'.
In Daniel 3, it tells us that the three men put on their coats, their hats and their other garments, and were cast in the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
In order to ascend into the heavens one had to undergo a transformation.
Is this likened to the "Coat of Many Colors"?
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Atlantis was also known as Ultima Thule. This is the same name as the Druid homeland, suggesting the Druids may have carried the seed name Skilly to England and planted it in the ground there. Located off the English coast at Land's End, the Isles of Skilly (pronounced silly) are a series of islands which today are known for their charming residents who spend their lives fishing and growing flowers. The gardeners of the Skillys have bred a blue flower that is almost electric in its dark glow.
Joseph's Coat of Many Colors returns us to the robe or cloak worn by Jesus enroute to the Crucifixion. Mark's Gospel says Jesus' robe was purple and Matthew's says it was scarlet. Are both talking about the Scalit or Skilly robe of many colors? The ancients' "royal purple" was not purple but a dark wine red, the color of blood. Royal purple meant the same thing as royal blood. When Jesus put on the robe along with the crown of the hare it seems to have given him the wise blood of the gods and the ability to 'go far into the universe'.
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4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
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So, this is the Merovingians! Oh, and the "Jesus" they speak of is NOT the Son of GOD! It's an Ascended Master…aka…fallen angel.
Everything is a parallel or dual level….remember that. People (human/nonhuman), places and things…everything. Esoteric knowledge…
So, this puts a whole NEW SPIN to what The Bible refers to as "BABYLON, THE PROSTITUTE AND THE BEAST"!
So, remember that we have the duality…
Remember Eschol? This word fossil appears fourteen hundred years before Jesus in the Old Testament book of Numbers 13:21 as the name of the outpost of ("the Tula boys"). The valley of Eschol, Joshua declared, "eateth the people up!"
Might this description equally suggest a pit or stargate of some kind? Given that Joshua was the grandson of Joseph could this people-eating angelic outpost have housed the transformative Pit of Abatton which 'devoured' both Joseph and Jesus and transformed them into a Skilly? Did Joshua son of Nun, the Old Testament Jesus, undergo a similar nuclear experience?
Once 'crushed', the 'grapes or Blue Apples of Eschol ' became the wine of the Eucharist, the blood of Chrestus (which is the Blood of Skill or the Wise Blood), used by Jesus as the Last Supper and caught in the escuele.
But, the attire which the esoteric speak of supposedly was worn by a few. The coat, hat and other garments seem to connect to traveling…the garments of the three in the fire. The garments of Mari when she travels "far into the universe"…and their Jesus.
Rennes-le-Chateau, located in the wine country of Southern France, these grapes of Skill are called the Blue Apples and are the logo for the Grail heresy. They represent the secret of immortality. They are the 'blue stones', or the Druid 'serpents eggs' that turn an ordinary person into a Shining One.
The Knights Templar, who claimed to guard the secrets of Christ, said they possessed, and worshiped, the head or skull of God that they called sophia or 'wisdom', which is the same definition as skill.
Incredibly, there is a pit beneath the Great Pyramid. Up until Vatican II each day the Roman Church called upon Jesus the Father and the Master of the Ages to come:
Jesus pater futuri SAECULI
As we have seen, the key to decoding the esoteric meaning of Jesus as the "door" is found in the Sabala and the Emerald (S)tones of Thoth. The bulk of the myths used to explain this process of climbing the Ladder to Heaven are derived from Sumerian, Egyptian, Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian myth.
You see, as William Henry describes it;
"Can you imagine a seed essence within yourself, a Divine Blue Particle – – also called a Blue Apple, a Blue Stone or a Blue Pearl – that blossoms into a new "(BLUE)" skin or garment and opens gateways in space that allow instant access to galaxies billions of miles away…paths that take us back to the Source (Pleroma)?"
Source: Oracle of the Illuminati – pg 112
He goes on to describe this as the pineal gland that secretes a chemical to allow this transformation. BUT….the problem here is it's not as simple as that. The transformation he describes is possession. He continues on to blasphemy The Bible as try to convince one that the beast coming from the sea is nothing more than an 'awakening'. And these pictures depicting these oval shaped (eye) with "Jesus" in the middle are said to be him riding the "Blue Stone". But you see….where are these? In the Roman Catholic Church! It is the seat of Satan in the church. The RCC will be the one religion which will bring all religions together as Satan wants and needs for his agenda.
Now, the actual "Blue Stones" is an exotic matter which The Bible called "MANNA". GOD used manna for feeding the Israelites, and other supernatural feats. Considering GOD must love the color blue, then we must understand Satan will twist it for his pleasure.
So, we have another depiction:
Sumerian legends and symbolism on stones speak of the half-human/half-serpent or half-human/half-fish were categorized as giants with the leader being called, "The Great Light"…this is obviously Satan and the fallen angels. The people called the place, "The Land There Eateth The People Up".
I'm almost positive that these fallen angels used these portals for traversing the universe, and continue to do so. I also think they educate the elite to be to continue in their efforts to bring about the New World Order and the One World Religion for the Antichrist to have access to the world when he arrives.
Blue dust is said to be in the secret chambers of the Great Pyramid…and the blue water lily (flower of light) was symbolic for the Egyptians. Also referred to as the blue lotus…it's utilized in Tarot cards, and the occult for enlightenment and this is why I believe the Merovingians use the Fleur de Lis as their symbol. And as if that wasn't enough…this is also why the New Age religions recognize the lotus as the flower of Buddah.
Mount Meru has two dimensions….a physical and supernatural location. Mount Meru, in Hindu mythology, is a golden mountain that stands in the center of the universe and is the axis of the world. It is the abode of the gods, and its foothills are the Himalayas, to the south of which extends Bhāratavarṣa ("Land of the Sons of Bharata"), the ancient name for India. I believe this is speaking of the Ascended Masters…aka…fallen angels. The "Cosmic Mountain" is the supernatural aspect of this place. It is said that Meru has its roots in hell, and in heaven. Some believe it to be inside, in the middle of earth, but also the middle part of Atlantis itself. Is this the two aspects? Physical and supernatural?
Mandalas are "read" or memorized for visualization during meditation. They are blueprints of the three-dimensional palace of the deity. The purpose of the mandala is two-fold: to acquaint the student with the symbols of the deity (i.e. Buddha, Christ) and to allow the student to "enter into the mandala"; that is, to enter the frequency or vibration in which the deity lives, i.e. 'Meru'.
Right now, rumors of CERN's involvement with time/space and the result of parallel universes which some suggest are revealing itself. People are giving examples of certain company LOGO, etc, which has been "changed". And naming these changes as the "Mandela Effect".
Exploring it further, I found that the name, coined by Fiona Broome, stems from the absurd number of people who seem to "remember" that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, and not at his home in Johannesburg in 2013.
However, the problem with something like the Mandela Effect is this: just because you hear something or even see something, that doesn't mean it's true.
Then, we have the actual Mandala…which is a spiritual and ritual symbol representing the universe in the religions of India.
The mandala is traditionally depicted with Mount Meru as the axis mundi in the center, surrounded by the continents.
I find it curiously simular to the wheels of Ezekiel as well! It is also simular to Atlantis in that it is shown as a location with rings, as in mountains with walls…small islands within an island?
In the diagram of the base of the Meru pillar we notice it has four sides. The arrangement of the Central (or Whirling) Mountain surrounded by four subsidiary peaks is found in the Navajo sand painted mandalas also corresponds to that of Mt. Meru, flanked by its Four Guardians and their corresponding four subsidiary mountain peaks. In India, as with the Navajos, the Four Guardians are also represented as either gods (Lokapalas), mountains, snakes (Nagas) or birds (Garudas), which are frequent animal shapes assumed by them.
Moreover, each of the Four Hindu Guardians is also associated with a heraldic color, in exact correspondence to the Navajo ones: White, Yellow, Black and Red. These, of course, are the four races of humanity, which originated in Eden or Atlantis, according to legend.
The Four Guardians are sometimes represented by the Four Trees or by Winds, Suns, Moons, Archangels, Bats (Vampires), Thunderbolts, as well as by Coiled or by Standing Serpents resembling zigzag lightning and ball lightning.
Four guardians? How about Jude…they left their first estate? Bloodlines of fallen angels and the prodigy of these angels are Nephilim who mated with humans. We have three levels here…the children of GOD; the halfbreeds…part Nephilim-part human…and the top level is fallen angels. These three levels describe the effects which we live today. Enslavement….puppets….etc.
These descriptions coincides with Helena Blavatsky's root races…with the 2nd as the Hyperborean, Lemuria people as the 3rd, and Atlantean the 4th, and the fifth race as Aryans and a subrace is the Hindu! The sixth subrace in part will be the United States…originating in California, who will "possess certain psychic powers"…and finally….last but not least….
The seventh root race will arise from the seventh subrace of the sixth root race and will ARISE FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN!


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Airfare for 3 people to Nashville: $900
Lodging in Nashville- 1 month for 3 people: $600
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Recording Engineer Fees: $1000
Studio Musician Fees: $4000
Mixdown Engineer Fees: $1200
Mastering Engineer Fees: $900
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Artwork: $250
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Recording Total: $13,300
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One night in May 2015, a group of armed men from the Dinka tribe rampaged a small Nuer village in South Sudan, raping women, thrashing and pillaging homes and executing residents. This attack was one of many violent episodes near the town of Leer at the time. While many hoped that South Sudan's newfound independence in 2011 might be the antidote to years of conflict with Sudan, a fragile power-sharing agreement between South Sudan's president and vice president broke down in December 2013, unleashing a brutal civil war, pitting ethnic Dinka against Nuer.
As the men ransacked the town, a young boy named Chuol and his eight siblings ran and hid in the bushes nearby. Chuol's mother also hid in the bushes, but his father was not as fortunate. The attackers locked him and the family's cattle in a tukul, a straw-thatched hut, and set it on fire, burning them alive. The following morning, while Chuol's father's bones smoldered, his mother, Mary, told me she had made the hardest decision of her life: She sent Chuol away with her eldest daughter, Nyachot, and their grandmother, Angelina. She instructed them to make their way to a refugee camp in Kenya while she stayed behind to care for her other small children. (As Chuol remembers it, he was simply separated from his mother in the chaos of the attack.)
Mary hoped that in the refugee camp Chuol — now considered the man of the family — could go to school, study hard and, at some point in the future, return home. It was a great responsibility for a spindly, preteen boy who loved nothing more than playing soccer. As they parted ways, Mary and Chuol were not sure they would see each other again.
In a country lacking the most basic infrastructure — electricity, phone networks and paved roads — most displaced people have few means of tracing loved ones. If a village was attacked, it often meant that families were separated for years, if not forever.
After Chuol, Angelina and Nyachot fled their village, they spent weeks traveling through crocodile-infested swamps in canoes carved out of logs, surviving by eating grass, lily pads and hand-caught fish. Eventually they arrived on Nyal, an island dense with thousands of other South Sudanese civilians who had been forced to shove their belongings into satchels and flee with them atop their heads.
I met Chuol in September 2015, several months after he arrived in Nyal, when I accompanied a team of journalists to document his story for The New York Times Magazine's virtual reality film "The Displaced." At the time, Chuol was aloof and seemed perpetually distracted by his wish to be anywhere else. "I have been dreaming about being reunited with my mother and living with her again," Chuol told us. "In the dream, I can see the fighters coming to attack, and I am wishing that our side would win. I am wearing the shorts I am wearing now" — black Manchester City shorts with the logo faded and tattered — "and my family is with me. My mother is wearing a long red gown when I see her." As Chuol spoke, I wondered if his mother was still alive.
My last evening in Nyal, when I finished photographing Chuol on the soccer field, he asked me to wait while he ran off into the dust. He returned some 45 minutes later holding a live chicken, smiling sheepishly. "I would like you to have a nice dinner on your last night in Nyal," he said. He walked me back to our compound of tents within the confines of the camp and handed the chicken over to the cook to prepare for dinner. I left the next morning.
A few months later, Chuol and Angelina called me on my cellphone in London to say that they had arrived at Kakuma, the largest refugee camp for South Sudanese in Kenya, and that Chuol was enrolled in school. Since then, I've spoken several times with Angelina and Chuol from their new home in Kenya, and with Chuol's cousin David, who had long before settled at Kakuma, and who spoke some English. They often call to tell me how Chuol is doing, and to ask about my family. In early 2016, roughly six months after I first met Chuol, the violence near their village died down, and the South Sudanese government appointed a governor, installed troops to maintain a tenuous peace and permitted a trickle of aid workers to return to Leer. At that point, I received an assignment from another magazine, Time, to travel to Leer to investigate the humanitarian situation and the atrocities that had supposedly taken place in the area.
When I realized we would be traveling to Leer, I wondered if I might be able to track down Chuol's mother. I emailed Kim Liah, a Unicef child-protection officer who originally introduced me to Chuol, and asked if he had any information about Chuol's mother. He said that she could still be alive, and advised me to speak to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the local Unicef partner, when I arrived in Leer.
Leer was one of the closest things to a ghost town I've ever seen. The once-prosperous area was razed and ransacked, with sheets of corrugated roof strewn amid bullet-ridden trucks. Sleepy armed men who belonged to unidentified militias lounged nearby. Human skeletons littered patches of grass and dirt throughout the town. There was also a mass grave on the outskirts near the United Nations peacekeepers' base. When we arrived, the International Committee of the Red Cross was preparing to register 18,000 people for food distribution, as the fighting had died down in the area. I realized that the distribution site might be the best way to find Chuol's mother: People from all over would come. The healthy would walk for hours while the sick and elderly were pushed in wheelbarrows from miles away.
We set out at sunrise the next morning and crossed the front line between government and opposition territory demarcated by a green plastic chair leaning against a lonely tree. We arrived along with thousands of South Sudanese civilians pouring in from all stretches of the horizon. I had little hope of finding Mary, but amid the chaos of war-torn countries in Africa, there is some inexplicable, often unfathomable order. I had been in Leer less than 24 hours when a young man working with Unido found me as I photographed. "We have found Chuol's mother."
I didn't believe it. How, I wondered? There was no computerized database, no rhyme or reason or pattern to the crowds, and nobody wore a name tag. I walked toward Mary, who was over six feet tall. She wore a long, flowy dress — just as Chuol had dreamed, but not red — and a hardened look on her face. Her body was lithe and sinuous. The man introduced me as a photojournalist from America and offered to translate from English into her local dialect.
I introduced myself and said I was doing a story on the situation in South Sudan. After asking her to describe what happened to her and her family during the fighting in the village, I was persuaded that this was the Mary I was looking for. "I think I met your son Chuol in Nyal when he was making his way to Kenya," I explained.
"I am not aware of whether Chuol made it to Kakuma, because there is no communication, or if he is still in Nyal," Mary replied.
"You can tell her that I spoke to him, and he is in Kakuma, and he is in school, and he is O.K. He is with her nephew," I said to the translator.
Mary's face was blank. She stared down at me, and I thought that perhaps she was skeptical of me, the same way I was of her.
"Does she want me to tell him something?" I offered, "because I will call him when I go." There was no phone service in the area.
She thought for a moment, looked off into the distance and said yes. She waited for me to open my notebook to a fresh page. I could feel my chest tighten with emotion, and the weight of the responsibility.
"When you meet Chuol, or call him on the phone, you will tell him that we have survived with my grandmother and children, but your father has been burned in the house. He was killed."
My eyes welled up, and I fought to compose myself.
"Also you will tell Chuol that all the cows were taken by the government. And here the living situation is very worse. There is no work, and I am not working. And we are suffering with my grandmother and the children. We are depending on the U.N. relief, and what the organizations are giving us."
Tears were streaming down my face. Like countless other South Sudanese men and women I have interviewed over the years, Mary had survived the unspeakable, but did not pity herself, nor betray emotion.
"I will pass the message," I promised.
The next morning, I visited Chuol's mother again. Mary waited for us at the edge of the village and walked us toward the small thatched hut where the family moved after the attack the year before. Inside, Mary's grandmother, Chuol's great-grandmother, sat fanning the flies away. I introduced myself through our translator and immediately presented them with a tattered copy of The Times Magazine with Chuol on the cover that I had brought with me from London; it was an image of him fishing in the swamps near Nyal. The grandmother began to rock back and forth, reaching for the magazine, crying, "My son, my son." Chuol's young siblings filed into the room, one by one, grabbing at the magazine, peering at the images as if they would come to life. Chuol's mother stared, reactionless. Tears finally streamed down her face.
The two women hadn't known their children were alive. I asked Mary if I could interview her on camera about the night their village was attacked, and we talked for close to an hour. At the end of the interview, I wondered if she had another message she wanted to deliver to her son on camera.
She sat up straight, and began:
"Tell him your mother said: 'My son, you study. Study with all your heart. Although we are suffering, when you come back learned, we will be better. Your brothers are here with me, and they have nothing to eat, but when you study, you can help us. I don't want you to come to me, because we have nothing to do here. You study.' You tell that to him, that was what your mother has said."
With that, I said goodbye to Chuol's mother, and promised her I would carry her message to Chuol in Kenya.
In the autumn of 2016, I flew to Kakuma. Sitting in a small, dark tukul surrounded by Angelina, Nyachot and his cousin David, Chuol watched Mary's video message to him. I looked for tears in his eyes, but they never arrived. Instead, he was focused, resolute and more determined than ever to study hard and return home. He was just like his mother.


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The Rationale for Praying for Climbers
by Calvin Landrus, Solid Rock's National Director
- Pray that God will draw climbers to himself. John 6:44
- Pray that God will remove climber's spiritual blindness. 2 Cor. 4:3-4
- Pray that the Holy Spirit will make climber's heart receptive. Jn.16:8-13
- Pray you'll get the opportunity to share a clear witness with climbers. Col.4 3-5
- Pray that God will give you wisdom in what to say to climbers. James 1:5
- Pray the Holy Spirit will use the words you say. 1 Thess. 1:5
- Pray that the attitude of "I can do life myself" that most climbers have can be overcome.
- Pray for the outreaches that are planned.
- Pray Acts 4:24-31 for Solid Rock:
- Sovereign Lord, you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You allowed the birth of Solid Rock's vision and have me be in charge for this season. Now, Lord, consider their threats. Climbers can be an audacious group shutting down their hearts and minds to your Word. Enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant, Jesus. Lord, give us that boldness that can only come from you. Give members and AC's strength to do so. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. Lord, let's see that happen to Solid Rock!!!
As you may have observed, many climbers are escaping broken relationships and running from what they see as insurmountable life problems. Climbing can be an escape that gives them a false sense of controlling their own destiny. Also, the intense feelings of accomplishment that climbing brings can be temporarily stuffed into their hearts' God shaped vacuum. Climbers often have a non-conforming attitude.
For these reasons, Solid Rock's vision of reaching climbers for Christ is a tremendously difficult task. Add the strategic challenges of being a rather small ministry with a rather large national scope, the mission looks almost impossible. However, we serve a great God who wishes all people to come to salvation!
Now, our only hope for us to see these salvations in the climbing community is for us to cry out to God and ask that the Holy Spirit shall move among us in a powerful way. Will you join with me, and set aside a time of prayer and fasting for the climbing community and the salvation of those who are part of it?
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|Bella Lasagne
|Café owner
|Place of work
| Her Café in Pontypandy (previously)
Her Café in Newtown
Bella Lasagne is a café owner originally from Italy. She is the owner of Rosa the cat. She almost always has lunch prepared for Sam.
Personal info
- Hair: Black
- Eyes: Brown
- Friends: Everyone in Pontypandy
- First appearance: The Kite
Bella has minor roles in most episodes, mainly gossiping with Dilys, but in some episodes she is a major character.
In "Lost Cat", a chip pan caught fire in the café and she had to be guided out to safety.
In "Lost Ring", she inherits a diamond ring, but it disappears.
Also, in "Quarry Rescue" she starts making pizzas for Trevor to deliver.
In "Home From Rome", she goes shopping at Bingles Department Store and Rosa stows away in her bag. When Rosa causes mischief, they end up getting trapped in the broken lift after the store closes. The fire brigade soon came to their rescue.
Bella's character in series 5 is the same as in the original series.
In "Pizza Palaver", she gets a new pizza oven, but it ends up catching fire when an old bird's nest falls down the chimney. In this series, she still owns Rosa, as well as a goldfish called Pavarotti, as seen in "Joker Soaker".
In the CGI series, Bella was absent throughout Series 6-9, but her café can still be seen across the road from Dilys' shop.
Bella is a nice person, but sometimes dimwitted and she can also get cross as well.
Bella soon moved to Newtown. It is assumed that she moved during the period between Series 5 and 6.
After a very long abscene, Bella made her return in Pizza Pandemonium to help with food for Gareth's railway gala.
As seen in Fiery Football, she is surprisingly good at scoring goals.
Voice Actors
- John Alderton (Seasons 1 - 4)
- Sarah Hadland (Season 5)
- Harriet Kershaw (UK/US; Season 10 onwards)


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my task bar is in the top side of the screen, I like to put back to the bottom side
Right click on the taskbar and if Lock The Taskbar is checked, uncheck it, then just drag it to the bottom. If you want to keep it there, put a check in front of it again.
thank you, I have another problem: Some times my inbox not open and the email also not open.
That happens to everyone that uses email from an isp. What email program are you using? If you use Outlook Express and the email from your internet provider, you are dependent on a connection from their server. Sometimes they have a problem with the server and the mail is down, or they get an overload at certain times of the day etc.


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There's lots of Kiwis in Brisbane – we're quickly becoming one of the most popular cities to relocate to, for many New Zealanders. Our sunny climate and career choices compared to New Zealand make us a very attractive choice. However, sometimes you want to hang out with some locals from your home country – so where do you recommend as the best places to meet other Kiwis in Brisbane?
If you're working in Australia from New Zealand, perhaps you've already worked out the best places to meet up in Brisbane with other Kiwis. When it comes to rugby league in Brisbane, are there local clubs or events where you can always find a bunch of Kiwis? Perhaps you know of a few bars with a good selection of Kiwi beer on tap – always a sign that it's probably a local hangout for New Zealanders.
Nominate where you think are the best place to meet other Kiwis in Brisbane below.


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It's summer here and while we swim in the pool to get cool and pick wild tomatoes to nibble on with a drink at sunset, all you in the Northern hemisphere are feeling the winter cold and a scarcity of salads. Even in winter a salad is a good side dish to accompany any meal, and full of roughage and nutrients.
When salad vegetables are scares and expensive, use thinly sliced cabbage, red or white; tiny raw cauliflower florets; crisp shredded Brussel sprouts; grated carrots; any nuts; dried fruit, apricots quarted, pears sliced, currents, raisins and sultans soaked in warm water until plum; and citrus fruit to garnish.
Use your imagination. Mix colours and textures to please the eye and pallet.


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I also know many well-educated, professional Thai women active on these sites.
It's not just those looking for a relationship that can benefit from Thai dating sites, either.
You can ring them from 8am – 8pm Monday to Saturday and the number is, 08.
If you're interested in joining us but want to find out a bit more about our exciting service feel free to take some time to click around this site.
If you have more questions about online dating sites, their features, and online safety, check out our informative FAQ.
Things like preforming searches, browsing photos and videos, reading member diaries, and much, much more.
If you do ever encounter any problems with the site our friendly UK support team is always on here to help put your problem right.
It's common sense, but worth reminding yourself all the same, before you get carried away with the thousands of potential partners you're about to be viewing. Engage with the person you're interested in over a good month or two before arranging a meet.
This gives you time to be confident that they are who they say they are. Never send money to someone you have never met, no matter the excuse they give.
Many men travelling on business or coming for a holiday in the region find a date for their visit through this channel.


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"From few days I am trying to open particular ZIPX file in Windows 7 but I didn't succeed. I am not understanding the reason behind it. But I really worried that I will be able to extract that ZIPX file or not. Because it is having some important files in it, so I want to get them back. How to open ZIPX file in Windows 7? I will be grateful if I get a solution for this problem. Please reply if you know the solution."
ZIPX file is an advanced file extension of ZIP file formats. ZIPX file format is also known as an archive which has the capability of managing multiple archives together. To save these files we must use .zipx file format. ZIPX file headers contain information like modification time and date, file name and its length, compressed and uncompressed file size, local file header signatures. Sometimes ZIPX file may not be accessed because of incorrect zipping techniques. There are many reasons due to which one may not be able to open ZIPX file in Windows 7; some of the prominent ones are as follows:
- If any interruption arises while downloading a ZIPX file, then it results to inaccessibility of that file
- ZIPX file may refuse to open in Windows 7 because of improper modification in its header
- If the free space available on Windows 7 hard drive is lesser compared to the size of files stored in ZIPX then, that ZIPX archive may not get open
- Unexpected system shutdown while accessing ZIPX file may lead to such errors
In order to eliminate such errors and make it access again, you must use a suitable ZIPX archive mending application.
Utility to repair ZIPX file:
Yodot ZIP Repair application is an expert in repairing ZIPX file that is not opened on a Windows 7 computer. This application executes deep scanning of ZIPX file which is not opening and helps to extract all the files achieved in it. This tool consists of a simple graphical user interface which is helpful to even non-technical user to repair inaccessible ZIPX file easily. With ZIPX file that is not opening, you can also mend damaged ZIP file efficiency. This can repair errors like file system structure error, invalid entry size errors, CRC errors, access denied error and many more. This tool will scan and read internal structure of damaged ZIPX file help to gain all files by mending it. It is compatible to run on all versions of Windows system such as Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating system. After the repair process it will provide "Preview" option to view the repaired files.
Instructions to use the software:
Download and install Yodot ZIP Repair tool on your Windows 7 computer. Once the installation get completes, launch the application and follow the onscreen instructions in order to fix ZIPX file which is not opening. Next, browse to choose the ZIPX archive which is not getting opened in Windows 7 and allow the software to scan it. The tool will begin to scan and fix unreadable ZIPX file. As the scanning process completes, application will display a list of files or folders of repaired ZIPX file. Finally, browse to select the desired destination location to save fixed ZIPX file on Windows 7 system.


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Publishing with Netscape Composer
- Overview
- This tutorial will guide you step-by-step through configuring Netscape Composer (included with Netscape Communicator software) to exchange files between your computer and your web site. In order to follow along with us, you'll need to have Netscape Composer installed, and you'll need to be connected to the internet via your Internet service provider.
- Create a simple page
- Before you may publish an html file to your web site with Composer, you must either have a page already created, or create a page. To create a page with Composer, follow these simple steps:
- With Composer open, choose File, New, Blank Page.
- Type in "This is a simple test"
- From the menu bar, choose File --> Save As
- Name the html file. (If this file is to be your homepage, be sure to name it index.html)
- Once you have the file saved to your hard drive, you are ready to publish the file.
- Publish Your Web Page
- From the menu bar, choose File --> Publish.
- The Publish Files dialogue box will open, and will look similar to this:
- Enter the following settings:
- HTTP or FTP Location to publish to: ftp://www.yourdomain.com
- Username: Insert your username here.
- Password: Insert your password here.
- If you wish, you may choose to save your password so that you don't have to enter it each time you log in. If you wish to enable this time saving feature, check the box marked "Save Password"
- Enter the Page Title at the top of the window, and also the Filename.
- When you are finished entering these settings, click on the OK button, and you will be connected to your server. The Security Information box may open, if so, just click on continue, and your file will upload.
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Monday, 7 October 2013
"Happy Birthday To Me"
Now, I am sitting in a pile of 'Palmier' crumbs on my bed (courtesy of an early morning mission by the husband to procure my favourite treat from Paul's Patisserie) trying to keep the baby from polishing off the last bite (he's already eaten the bulk of this morning's pastries and screamed bloody murder when his big brother's tried to wrestle a bite off of him).
The husband gave me a very funny/scary card this morning with an elderly naked couple riding tandem on a bike. It made me laugh, but then I looked over to gauge his reaction and saw his eyes take on a wistful expression and realised that it probably is his wet dream. God help me. Along with the card I also got this cool black bracelet that tracks your day's activity, informs you on the quality of your sleep (I could tell you for nothing it's permanently shite), and lets you know how active you are on any given day (is this the husband's way of confirming his deep suspicion that all I do each day while he's at work is sit and eat bon-bons with the fat baby whilst directing minions of elves in their laundry and scrubbing toilets chores??).
At any rate, I can't complain. I'm a lucky girl with a day of babbling ahead of me (currently all the baby knows how to say is 'Happy Birthday to youuuuuuu...' so today of all days this is going to come in extremely handy), and later I intend to stuff myself so full of boozes and pizza (yep, it's still my favourite food) that I babble incoherently as I chuck myself in bed.
Another year I'll do the 'elegant-dress-up-in-Jimmy-Choo's-and-dine-at-a-fine-restaurant' thing.
This year I'm gonna keep it strictly Honey Boo-Boo....but of the brown trash variety.
Posted by "Moaning Mum" at Monday, October 07, 2013
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
This blog will be dedicated to the multi-level / network / team marketing industry. I will also write posts on different social and business networks. I first got in contact with the multi-level marketing business in the early 90's. I tried to sell Golden Products (GNLD) in my spare time. I got back in the network marketing business after our newly started company got inquiries from plenty of people working with MLM. [Editor's note: Full disclosure: I have joined Vitamark and Agel.]
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Sewing Suite Home Chicago Sewing is a learning-by-doing type of activity, and each day of this four part series will build on each other. By the end of this series you will be comfortable using a sewing machine, be able to choose the appropriate techniques and materials for a project, and will know how to manipulate fabric into fun and/or practical wearables for personal use. You can say I made it every day of the week! Session 1: Go Go Gadget Discussion: How to take care of your sewing machine Hands-On Activities: Parts of the machine, various stitches and accompanying pressure and tension Skills Learned: Learn how a sewing machine works; Machine maintenance; Stitches pressure and tension; key machine stitches. Session 2: Razzle, Dazzle with Ruffles, Darts, and more! Discussion: Textile Fiber and Weaves Hands-On Activities: Fabric manipulation through techniques such as Darts, ruffles, seams and seam finishes. Skills Learned: Learn how to sculpt and structure fabric to take the form you want. Session 3: Zipper and Button Battle Discussion: Introduction to Closures Hands-On Activities: Zipper applications, buttons, button holes, snaps Skills Learned: Learn how to use the appropriate closures Session 4: Chi-town Chic! Discussion: Pulling it all together Hands-On Activities: Sew a zippered pillow case
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Summer Activity: Worked All Rochester Award
This summer would be a great time to be one of the first to earn the Worked All Rochester award by completing 100 contacts on 6m-70cm. Phone, CW, and Digital modes count as separate contacts on each band and endorsements are available for multiple modes, multiple bands, and microwave QSOs. Join us during the weekly SSB nets at 9pm on Mondays on 144.260 or Thursdays on 50.200 for an opportunity to add contacts to your log. Also, get on the air for the August UHF Contest on the 1st and 2nd to see who else you can contact. Check out the Awards link on the left hand side of this site for more information.


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