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The Mississippi Mills Grand Prix stage race is one of five races organized by the Ride With Rendall bike club. The format of the weekend's stage race for the M3/Elite4 category of which I was racing included:
- 18.5 km Time Trial on Sat morning
- 30 km Criterium on Sat afternoon
- 84.5 km Road Race on Sun morning
Heading into the weekend, it appeared that the race was going to be all about the rain. The forecast for the weekend was for heavy rain both Saturday and Sunday and judging by the 5 hour drive to the Ottawa area, it was not going to be a pleasant weekend.
My objectives heading into the weekend was 1) help Phil get upgrade points, and 2) finish high enough myself to be able to grab some O-Cup points. I was hopeful of achieving objective 2 as I felt the stage race format which included a time trial favoured my strengths of which time trialing was one. On the other hand, since Phil would be riding the time trial on a road bike, I wasn't too hopeful of him being in a position to challenge for a top 5 position. In truth, I felt he'd lose at least a minute and probably more with the disadvantage of no TT bike.
Stage 1 - 18.5 km Time TrialI woke at 6:00 am with the alarm on Saturday morning with the same creaky body I've been getting accustomed to as the years wear on. The view from our 4th floor window didn't look good with dark, foreboding clouds as far as the eye could see. But my scheduled TT start time was 8:08:30 am so there was no time to ponder the view. By 6:40, we were on the road, driving the 40 km to Clayton where the TT was being held.
The heavens opened during the 40 km drive, dumping buckets of water on my windshield but by the time we arrived in Clayton, the rain had stopped. Registration went quickly and the three of us who were racing M3, Dave, Phil, and I, were were soon at the start of the TT course with plenty of time to get in a quick warm up as well as put our bike through the pre-check.
The UCI regulations regarding bike setup specifies:
The rider's position for time trial on the road and for the pursuit, kilometre and 500 m time trials on the track is defined by two measurements of the bicycle: the position of the tip of the saddle behind the bottom bracket (- 5 cm minimum) and the advanced position using the extension (+ 75 cm maximum)... <snip> measured from the vertical plane passing through the centre of the bottom bracket axle.I had measured my seat setback and aerobar extensions and was confident that my setup was within limits. So it was with some surprise that I received the news from the OCA commissaire that my bike did not meet the specs. He showed me. My seat and aerobar extension were both too far forward. Moving the seat back wasn't a problem and I was able to do that but there was no adjustment for moving the aerobar extensions backward. I went back to the commissaire and, mercifully, he gave me an excemption. But not before wrapping a piece of tape around the end of each extension. "If you grip any part of the extension beyond these pieces of tape," he told me, "you'll be disqualfied." I agreed profusely to adhere to this restriction and happily took my place in the start queue.
|TT course profile showing a climb on the 'out' section and descent on the 'back'.
The18.5 km TT course was an out and back along smooth road and rolling hills. It really was quite a pretty course. The course profile showed the course with a long, but not steep, climb until the turn around with a corresponding descent from the turn around to the finish. I paced my effort over the front half of the course, holding a little something back for the expected climb. But the climb never materialized. Before I knew it, the turn around was just ahead and it was time to put on the brakes and make the return trip. The brakes, the brakes, THE BRAKES... With the turn around appearing at the bottom of a slight hill, the speed I was carrying, and the wet conditions, it took a bit further to slow down than I would have liked. Fortunately, I was provided some saving grace by a run off area between turn around and the road closure barriers and I was soon on the return trip with the rider who left ahead of me just ahead. I passed rider ahead and focused on the next one - three actually as the the rider to leave before the one I had just passed appeared to have caught and passed the two riders ahead of him. But I finished without passing any more riders.
I was pretty happy with my effort, especially considering I had done no training Thursday and Friday. I was afraid this might have left me flat but I actually had felt pretty good. And, indeed, I did have a pretty good TT, especially considering the rolling terrain. But what was surprising to me was Phil's time. While my time was good enough for 5th, Phil came in only 6 seconds behind me for 6th place. I was stunned. I had fully expected Phil to be way down in the standings given he rode the course on a road bike but here he was fully in contention for some upgrade points, possibly even a podium position. In fact, Stan and Andy also had good times with Andy bettering my time by 13 seconds and Stan beating my time by a full minute and 14 seconds, riding my own TT bike. All in all, we had a pretty good TT. Best of all, we didn't get rained on.
Results:Elite 4 & Master 3 Men Results:
5 WESTWOOD, Richard
6 HODGKINSON, Phill
26 BERRY, David
Master 1 Men Results:
11 BLAZEK, Stanislav
25 D`ANGELO, Andy
Full Results:
|Dave starts the TT on his hand-crafted carbon road bike (He even crafted the carbon frame himself).
Stage 2 - 31 km Criterium
The start time for the M3/E4 criterium was scheduled for 2:00 pm. It was 12:30 pm by the time we finished eating lunch in Almonte, giving me just enough time to drive back to Kanata to pickup my road bike for the afternoon Crit. It rained on the drive to the hotel, heavily at times, and also on the way back. I was skeptical of a dry race this afternoon and in fact harboured a certain amount of apprehension about racing the highly technical circuit in the wet. Riding the circuit to warmup prior to the race didn't do much to reassure me.
|Almonte Crit circuit. Start-finish line was more to the right of the green balloon after the dog-leg right.
The Almonte Crit circuit had 8 corners, at least 2 of which were sketchy in the wet. The first of these was corner 4, a tight 70 degree right-hander with several large puddles dominating the riding line going into the corner. The second of the sketchy turns was really a series of turns comprising "corner 8". After corner 7 there was a 300-400 m descent followed by a dog-leg right hander into a parking lot. The trip through the parking lot included a short gravel patch, a bumpy concrete patch, another dog-leg right, another short gravel patch and then the final turn onto the start-finish stretch. It was the two gravel patches I was concerned about which I could see had the potential of being dangerous when taken at speed in a pack.
|Phil, Dave, and me warming up for the Crit.
As Dave, Phil, and I warmed up together the start time came and went. At first we were kept in the dark regarding the delay but it eventually came to light that somebody had stolen the hay bales that were to be used to make the course safe. We were waiting for a new shipment to arrive. We continued doing laps of the Crit circuit to keep warm until it began to rain again. So, back to the Kurzawinski tent to keep dry. By the time the hay bales arrived and been dispersed around the course, the new start time was set for 3:30 pm. Fortuitously, the rain had stopped by the time 3:30 rolled around.
The strategy going into the Crit was fairly straightforward. After the TT, there were 8 riders within a minute and a half of first place on GC. And while time could potentially be gained during the Crit, for certain time could be lost. It was therefore important to not let any breaks get away without both Phil and I being in the break.
1 SNIDER, Derek
2 BUDGELL, Glen 36"
3 WOODLEY, Jj 01' 04"
4 KIIFFNER, Carl 01' 06"
5 WESTWOOD, Richard 01' 07"
6 HODGKINSON, Phil 01' 13"
7 BUSBY, Colin 01' 19"
8 MAROIS, Gilbert 01' 32"
With technical nature of course and wet conditions, it was clearly important to stay near the front. Phil set the tone right from the start, jumping out into a lead and quickly establishing a gap. I quickly bridged up to Phil and for a lap and a half, the two of us worked together to stay ahead of the peleton. We were eventually caught us but in doing so the peleton was split with 10 riders in the front break in which Phil and I found ourselves.
|Phil quickly establishing a gap right from the start.
Despite the wet conditions, with the exception of corner 4 where things tended to slow down, the pace remained fairly high for the next few laps. My anxiety regarding the parking lot section dissipated once we had gone through that section a couple of times. Whereas I was concerned about navigating that tricky section in a pack, in actual fact, all the riders tended to go through that section single file, all following the same line and the pace remained surprisingly high through that section.
Laps 5, 10, and 15 were primes which meant sprint points were up for grabs. I was in a good position going into the final corner of lap 5, just behind Derek Snider. I stayed glued to Derek's wheel while heading towards the finish line and was all set to pass him on the inside of the dog leg heading into the short climb to the start/finish line. I dove to the inside of the dog-leg just as Derek cut the corner and we came together briefly at over 40 kph. I was sure we were both about to hit pavement but we just kind of bounced off each other. I was a bit annoyed at the time but let it go and Derek, to his credit, apologized during the following lap. "No worries," I replied but during the de-brief with Coach following the race, I discovered, much to my chagrine, that I was the one at fault. "Never try to pass on the inside line," Coach admonished me. One more lesson learned but, thankfully, not learned the hard way.
The next few laps passed uneventfully. I alternated between doing strong pulls at the front, and languishing at the back of the break to recover. It was about lap 10 while languishing at the back of the break that a gap opened on the longest stretch of the course, the section between corners 3 and 4. After making the turn at corner 3, I saw there were 5 riders about 100 m ahead with JJ Woodley in between. I came quicly around the 3 stragglers and dug as deep as I could to catch the break ahead which included team mate, Phil Hodgkinson. I passed close by JJ along the way thinking he might be able to grab my wheel but unfortunately for JJ, he did not make the break. Strategically, I should have passed wide of JJ to make it hard for him to grab my wheel but JJ is a good guy and I felt bad for him not making the break. As it turned out, JJ not making the break was good for both Phil and I as it effectively moved us both up in the GC. What made the situation even better is that second place on GC, Glen Budgell who was in the original break of 10, also failed to bridge to the new break which moved both Phil and I up 2 places on GC. All we had to do was stay in the lead group of six. And this turned out to be the turning point of the weekend for mine and Phil's overall standing.
As we approached the end of the race, I had lost count of how many laps were remaining and yelled to Phil asking how many laps remaining. Phil held up 2 fingers indicating 2 laps were remaining so as we finished the lap we were on, I aggressively moved towards the front of the break for what I thought was the last lap. By halfway through the lap, I was at the front and driving hard. I made the turn at corner 6, raced down the hill and through the parking lot leading the break. As I made the turn onto the start-finish straight, I could see the remnants of the peleton just ahead. I sprinted hard up the left side of the peleton while another rider from the break, Carl Kiffner, sprinted up the right side. I thought I had it but Carl out-kicked me at the finish line for the sprint win. As it turned out, though, we had another lap to go. But apparently the second last lap was a prime worth $70 which meant I had just missed out on $70.
|Carl Kiffner (front left) outkicks me (front right) for the prime on lap 19.
I eased up as we crossed the finish line, thinking the race was done. It didn't take long to realize the race was not yet over and now I had to dig deep again just to stay in contact with the break. This left me at the back of the break and there I stayed for the rest of the lap, crossing the finish line last of my breakaway companions, good for 6th place. On the plus side, my team mate, Phil, took second place.
We spent the rest of the afternoon watching the other races, enjoying the festivities, and consuming various baked goods from Baker Bob's. And, we didn't get rained on.
|Coach organizes an impromptu race for the kids as part of the Crit festivities.
|Coach Kryz making blender drinks as part of the Crit festivities.
Elite 4 & Master 3 Men Results:
2 HODGKINSON, Phil
6 WESTWOOD, Richard
26 BERRY, David
Master 1 Men Results:
2 BLAZEK, Stanislav
15 D`ANGELO, Andy
Full Results here:
Stage 3 - 85.5 km Road RaceThe forecast for the Sunday showed rain in the morning and showers in the afternoon. But the skies did not look particularly threatening as we made the drive to Pakenham for the start of the road race. We arrived fairly early for the race which gave Coach time to find and setup the Team Kurzawinski tent. All of the other teams had set up their tents in the baseball field adjacent to the community centre where registration was being handled but Coach wanted something closer to the start-finish line. So we ended up putting up the tent in the driveway of some nice lady's house who Coach befriended, right next to the start-finish line.
Our race started on time and at 8:30 am. about 30 riders from the M3/E4 categories headed South along Hwy 15. From the start, I felt sluggish, as I knew I would. It typically takes me about an hour to get my cycling legs, especially after a hard ride the day before. I tried to hide from the wind as much as I could and spent much of the first 10 km or so near the back. For the most part, this was ok as most of the peleton seemed content with letting the pace develop of its own accord, the exception being when Derek Snider took a turn off the front. Then the pace would pickup dramatically and I'd find myself having to dig deep to compensate from the accordion effect.
After about 10 km, the road became hillier and, as I knew we were approaching the gravel section, I began to work my way towards the front. It was tough slogging I had the recurring thought that, at 55 years of age, maybe I was too old for this cycle racing stuff. But I also knew that as I was suffering, probably most others were similarly suffering and it was shortly after that I over heard Phil telling someone he'd "burnt a few too many matches yesterday" thus confirming that hypothesis.
The gravel section, when we hit it, was looser than I expected. Fortunately, I had moved up closer to the front by the time we hit this section so, when Snider did another monstrous pull off the front to shake things up, I was ready for it. The section through the gravel was hard. We lost at least a couple of riders from the peleton including, unfortunately, our team mate, Dave, so I was somewhat relieved when we hit the pavement at the other end.
Once we hit the pavement, the pace seemed to pick up with the front 10 or so riders forming an echelon and the rest of the peleton just hanging on. After a couple of turns through the echelon, I noticed the distinct absence of Carl Kiffner who I had been marking due to his status of second in GC. I was pretty sure Carl was back there conserving energy for later in the race so I let a gap open up to the rotating echelon ahead and sure enough several riders came around me, including Carl. Thereafter, I kept a closer eye on Carl, leaving gaps a couple more times until he seemed to get tired of having to bridge to the front group and thereafter maintained his place in the rotation.
The pace of the pelton slowed dramatically once we made the turn onto Waba Road and into a headwind. The pace remained slow through town, past the start-finish line, and all the way until the second pass through the gravel section. Paradoxically, it was during this part of the race that I started to feel my racing legs come back and, sensing that something would happen during the gravel section, I went off the front about a km before the start of the gravel section.
My intention ahead of the second pass through the gravel was to pick up the pace ahead of the gravel section but a quick look back following my jump showed I had about a 30 second gap on the peleton. It seemed nobody was interested in giving chase. This suited me fine. I maintained a low threshold effort through this section, enjoying the luxury of having the entire width of the road to negotiate the gravel and also not having to worry about other riders. About 1 km from the pavement, I was joined by Snider who asked how I was feeling. "Pretty good," I replied to which he said "Let's go!" and I hopped on his wheel. Our break didn't last long as some of those in the peleton sensed a threat with both Derek and I working together and a bridge was made just as we hit the pavement. It turned out that our break had caused a split in the pelton with 9 of us in a break away.
An echelon quickly formed with 8 of the 9 riders smoothly moving through a rotation. A quick scan of the riders present showed that this was pretty much the same group who had been part of yesterday's break so I was pretty confident of the break sticking. Indeed, the rotation went very smoothly and it was nice to be part of a group of riders all who knew how to echelon properly. After a few rotations, I motioned for the 9th rider to take his turn in the rotation but he yelled back that he was just hanging on and that he wasn't going for the sprint. This was good enough for me and I resumed my place in the rotation.
Things started to heat up as we approached the town for the second time. The first attack was made with about 1.5 km to go as Derek Snider did another of his monstrous pulls. But it was more of a strong pull than an attack and pretty much everyone in the group was still together as we made the turn towards town. Once in town, I knew from the first lap that the final corner heading into the long start-finish straight would be critical. This corner was quite tricky to negotiate, the way the barriers had been setup, and being at the front would be important. I moved to the front of the group but Phil was already ahead of me along with Colin Busby, the winner of the previous day's Crit. We were 1-2-3, heading toward that final turn when it occurred to me that Kiffner and Snider, the current leaders on GC, were both behind me. I purposely slowed more than I needed to ahead of the corner, hoping to give Phil some breathing room for the final 500 m sprint but Kiffner came around me before we reached the corner. Snider was just behind me and passed me as we exited the corner. It was a long sprint to the finish and, to his credit, Kiffner caught and passed Phil for second place while I crossed the line behind Snider for 5th place but good enough for 3rd place overall on final general classification.
The rest of the day was spent hanging out in front of the Kurzawinski tent, enjoying ice cream from the local ice cream shop, and just enjoying the day in general, made all the more enjoyable by virtue of us not getting rained on... again!
|Hanging out in front of the Kurzawinksi tent. Right to left: Carl Kiffner, Derek Snider, Richard Westwood, JJ Woodley, and Phil Hodgkinson.
All in all, the weekend was a smashing success. Phil needed a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd to get the upgrade points he needed to move up to M2. Though Phil came 4th overall on GC, he was 3rd of the M3's in the race and so earned his upgrade points. This put me second of the M3's giving me 20 O-Cup points. Stan and Andy also had good races with Stan taking 3rd in the M1 race and Andy coming in 10th. Most of all, it didn't rain during any of the races despite it raining, heavily at times, in the surrounding areas.
Elite 4 & Master 3 Men Results:
3 HODGKINSON, Phil
5 WESTWOOD, Richard
Master 1 Men Results:
3 BLAZEK, Stanislav
10 D`ANGELO, Andy
Full Results here:
Final General Classification Results:
Elite 4 & Master 3 Men Results:
3 WESTWOOD, Richard
4 HODGKINSON, Phil
Master 1 Men Results:
10 BLAZEK, Stanislav
17 D`ANGELO, Andy
Full Results here:


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Our precious little Ava is 3 months old now!!! She is growing so fast, seems like yesterday she was coming home from the hospital. I wanted to create a fun page for this sweet little picture so I chose my WeR Memory Keepers Chalkboard collection, the colors were perfect and the patterns are just plain fun!
I added some "faux-stitching" with my Zig markers and added a few buttons and fussy cut some flowers from the paper.
I used foam dots and popped up the cut out flowers for dimension. Added some floral buttons from my stash.
Here you can see some of the embellies and the faux-stitching. I love the fun designs on the papers in this collection.
This page was really fun to create, and is was quick to come together. Sometimes I get so busy creating for my design teams I forget how much fun it is to scrap just for me!!!
Thanks for dropping by, I really appreciate you taking the time to visit!!!
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Watercolor paper
Sketchbook paper
Ombre paper
Chevron paper
Collage paper
Doodlebug Designs alpha stickers
buttons, pearls, ribbon

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Out and about. #Brunchin.
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Chavez government promotes grassroots people's power
By Marcus Pabian
Before representatives of the grassroots communal councils from across Venezuela assembled in Ezequiel Zamora Park in the capital Caracas, President Hugo Chavez enacted the Organic Law on the Federal Government Council on February 20, which he said will "further open the door to advancing in the distribution of power in the hands of the people, and to achieving a more efficient and effective state".
In a February 21 article titled "Onwards towards a Communal State!", Chavez explained the need for the new government council: "By socialism we mean unlimited democracy … our firm conviction [is] that the best and most radically democratic of the options for defeating bureaucracy and corruption is the construction of a communal state … people's power will play a major role; I would say an essential role, in the radical transformation of our country."
The new government council will oversee the extension of greater decision-making authority to institutions of participatory democracy — mainly the communal councils — as it is taken away from the alienating institutions of liberal representative democracy, thus gradually dismantling the civil service bureaucracy that the revolutionary government inherited from the capitalist state. According to reports by the Bolivarian News Agency on February 22, the new council will oversee "transferring the powers and duties of local authorities", such as state governors and city mayors, "to the organised communities through communal councils, who [will] assume responsibilities in the planning and implementation of public policies".
Representatives of the Chavez-led working people's government, the communal councils, as well as governors and mayors, will form the federal council. Strategic development projects initiated by the Chavez government will also involve local communal councils deciding how to best carry them out at a local level.
Formation of communal councils
The communal councils were first formed following the introduction of the Law of Communal Councils in April 2006, which encourages neighbourhoods of poor working families to organise themselves into councils open to the direct participation of all residents above the age of 15. The law called for between 200-400 families living in the same urban area to form a communal council, at least 20 rural-based families to form a rural communal council and a minimum of 10 indigenous (Amerindian) families to create an indigenous-based communal council. Citizen assemblies that include at least 10% of the local population make all major decisions of the communal councils and elect an executive body and other working committees.
In July last year, Roberto Rojas, the president of the Foundation for the Development and Promotion of Communal Power (Fundacomunal), which grants some national funds to communal councils, reported that 30,179 had been created and a further 5000 were in formation. Once established, the communal councils decide on and implement projects to meet social needs within the local community. Funding for specific projects originally came from a plethora of national, state and local government sources; the new government council law removes the power of governors and mayors to grant funding, since some had refused to fund communal council initiatives.
According to Erika Farias, Minister of People's Power for Communes, the Chavez government has transferred the equivalent of US$4.23 billion to communal councils since 2006 to buy materials and tools for anti-poverty projects; the councils have then organised for most of the work to be carried out by local volunteers. Over 30,000 projects have been funded by the Chavez government, leading to the construction of new houses, power lines, drinkable water and sewage systems, and schools and sports facilities.
Over the past four years, a combination of experience and training of community council activists and the forging of multiple councils into comunas (communes) has prepared them for the more complicated work and organisation that will be assigned to them under the new law — over 33,000 people received training in 2009. Angelica Romero, president of the Microfinance Development Fund (Fondemi), another source of national funding for communal councils, commented that the communal councils have gained experience in "the transformation of the concrete reality of their communities, and these levels of organization are necessary in order to move on to a superior level of organization, which is the formation of socialist communes".
Communes, production, distribution
Chavez began encouraging communal councils to form communes in February 2009, establishing a ministry for communes headed by Farias. Communes aim to group at least 10 communal councils together to go beyond construction projects and unite the organs of direct democracy with local production and distribution of goods and services. On February 7, during his weekly TV and radio show Alo, Presidente, Chavez announced that $23 million had been invested in 706 projects led by 184 communes in formation — 93 are rural based, 65 urban. Another 26 linked rural and urban councils.
Expanding on the economic role of communes, Chavez said: "It is important that we get ready in the communes for a communal and socialist trade system, a new way of commerce beyond the micro-trade between families … This new communal trade will be a productive process that will calculate for real the cost of production." To regulate alcohol consumption and environmental and noise pollution within the territory of communes, Chavez suggested a Communal Charter to "give communes the legal authority to legislate within their borders".
Communal councils are also increasing their role in policing. On February 8, Tareck El Aissami, Minister of People's Power for Interior and Justice, handed over policing equipment to communal councils in the state of Bolivar. Under the Organic Law on Policing, communal councils have the right to oversee police activity.
Creating direct participatory democracy is one of the more difficult tasks confronting any working people's revolution, and the communal councils and communes in Venezuela take a lot of time, effort, education, training and experience to develop. From the communal councils a higher culture of solving problems through solidarity and cooperation is replacing selfish competition.
The progress made in developing the communal councils as a form of institutional grassroots democracy for working people represents a major achievement of the Chavez government, which has consistently encouraged and organised working people to shed the culture inherited from capitalism of political passivity. But Venezuela's advancement toward a participatory socialist democracy has only been possible since the April 2002 revolution.
From Chavez's election to the presidency in 1998 until 2001 the state oil company PDVSA, the largest company in Latin America, had refused to supply Chavez's government with the revenue it required to implement a wide range of social programs to meet the needs of poor working people. Instead, PDVSA's pro-capitalist managers continued to use PDVSA to enrich themselves and the local capitalist oligarchy. In 2001 Chavez moved to bring PDVSA under direct government control. This triggered a period of sharpening mass mobilisation and counter-mobilisation by Chavez's supporters and opponents that culminated in the US-backed business-military coup of April 11, 2002 which overthrew and detained Chavez incommunicado. However, as a result of the prior political work carried out by Chavez loyalists among the poor, both in and out of uniform, the pro-capitalist military coup was defeated within 48 hours by a mass working-class insurrection. Chavez and his ministers were returned to office on April 13, 2002, but now his government was based on a military forces loyal to the interests of the poor.
After purging the armed forces of those who had led the coup, and promoting those who had led the working-class insurrection, the Chavez government and the armed forces, in alliance with the oil production workers, were able to defeat the lockdown and sabotage of the oil industry launched by the pro-capitalist managers in December 2002 and take control of PDVSA, its vast revenues and administrative resources. With control of PDVSA in its hands, the Chavez government had begun a socialist revolution, expropriating large capitalist-owned industries to meet the social needs of the working people. According to Ali Rodriguez, Minister for Finance and Economy, the Chavez government now controls 30% of national production.
Venezuela's socialist revolution has resulted in significant social gains for poor working people. Despite high inflation, a 2.9% drop in GDP as a result of the global recession, and the worst drought in 50 years, measures taken by the Chavez government in 2009 have succeeded in continuing to reduce unemployment, general and extreme poverty in Venezuela. Throughout 2009, general poverty was reduced from 27.5% to 24.2% (it was 50.5% in 1998), extreme poverty declined from 7.6% to 6% (it was 17.1% in 1998).
Unemployment dropped from 7.4% last February to 6.6% in December (it was 12% in 1998). In February, National Institute of Statistics president Elias Eljuri reported that Venezuela now has the lowest level of social inequality in Latin America. Eljuri also noted that Venezuela's Human Development Index, a measure of each country's average lifespan, education and income complied annually by the United Nations Development Program, had moved from the "medium" to the "high" human development ranking between 2003 and 2007.
These social gains, made possible since the Chavez government gained control of logistical support from the armed forces and the revenues of PDVSA, have also been a catalyst for increased participation in the political life of the country by millions of poor Venezuelans. The "social missions" launched by the Chavez government to deliver healthcare, education and other public services have organised millions through study, training, and their help in delivering these services. The country's oil-export revenues have also been directed toward funding not only communal councils, but thousands of agricultural cooperatives, urban cooperatives and nature-conservation committees.
In Chavez's article "Onwards towards a Communal State!", he illustrated the importance of working people's local communities having the right and the ability to organise their own armed self-defence as a part of the new socialist state that is being created: "Since the Land and Agricultural Development Law came into force in 2001, the landowning oligarchy has launched a violent agenda against the rescue of common land and the full exercise of rights enshrined by the Land Law and the Constitution itself. Faced with the backlash against the peasants via an escalation of attacks, sabotage and paid assassinations by the most retrograde forces in our society, the non-delegable duty of the Bolivarian national state and the revolutionary government is to protect the peasantry: to defend it with all means at its disposal. The peasant militia has been created to fulfil that duty, placing emphasis on the protagonism and responsibility of the peasantry as a collective subject in function of their own defence.
"The first exercises of the peasant militia, that we did in El Pao, Cojedes state last Friday, are just an initial indication of developing a popular armed force to safeguard our integrity and our sovereignty in the fields of Venezuela. Who else but the community knows best the dynamics, activities, failures and essential aspects of safety in their locality? This is the same with geographical, spiritual and material issues.
"The peasant militia and the Bolivarian Militia as a whole are not paramilitary forces, as the brainy analysts always try to suggest, even less so if we conceive of such a word within the reactionary Colombian semantics. On the contrary, the Bolivarian Militia (a body absolutely governed by the Law), as well as community councils, are expressions of the new communal state, an integral part of the new structure of the communal power we are building.
"The Bolivarian Militias", Chavez continued, "are a component of the Bolivarian Armed Forces and, therefore, do not undermine it, even less is there any intention to supplant it. What bothers and annoys those who spread such lies is that the Armed Forces have been reunited with their original identity: the people in arms.
"The Peasant Militia today embodies a transcendent principle: defending the homeland, our land. Defence against any outside aggressor, but also against the internal aggressor who has been protected, for too long, in a real state of impunity that has counted with the venality of certain courts of the Republic which safeguard and protect the landowners and criminalise peasants and farmers who want to enforce the Land Law."
As the formation of the peasant militia shows, the Venezuelan revolution is based on a combination of initiative, aimed at serving the needs of poor working people, from the Chavez government working in concert with and encouraging a growing revolution from below of organised workers and peasants. Chavez has even transformed elections to the parliamentary institution inherited from the old capitalist state into opportunities to involve millions of people in political discussion, campaigning and organisation, breaking down the legacy of atomised individual participation in elections that is typical in capitalist countries. Even the selection of candidates for Chavez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) was made through elections involving 2.5 million party members.
The profoundly democratic character of Venezuela's socialist revolution is entirely ignored by the Western corporate media which seeks to portray Chavez as an "autocrat". This is evident in the conclusion drawn by Eric Campbell, a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Foreign Correspondent program, in his August 11 report titled "Total Control": "Just as unbridled greed has undermined capitalism, Chavez's autocratic socialism is jeopardising the benefits of his revolution … the best chance for this divided country may be for its people to work together, but as with everything in Venezuela, that will depend on the whim of just one unpredictable man." In reality, since he began his struggle against neoliberal capitalism and imperialist domination of Venezuela in the 1980s, Chavez has consistently sought to encourage his political supporters to "work together" to take political power into their hands.


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Monday, 16 March 2015
two little cuties ...
Hello my crafty friends ... hope you all had a super mothers day yesterday and got thoroughly spoilt ... it was a little sad for me without my dear Mum this year but we took some daffs over to the crematorium for her ...
and so on to my cards ... just love this little image ... was inspired to use it by my lovely grandson Olly needing glasses for the first time ... boy was he excited ... not like the "olden days" when children wouldn't be seen dead in a pair of glasses ...
glasses are now a fashion statement I guess lol ...
oh sorry btw I could not find a boy in glasses but this could be his sister Gracie coz she has decided she needs an eye test and may need glasses (her words)
the image is from here ... isn't she a cutie ??
have not put any sentiments on them yet ... they will go in my "ready and waiting" box !! lol
dont know if you can see but I have a slice taken out of the right hand side of both cards ... makes them a little different ... saw this on create and craft today ...
and here is my lovely grandson Olly ...
thank you for stopping by ... and if you care to leave a message I will visit you too xx
Posted by sandy's crafty bits at 18:58
7 comments:
- As.I.Do.Rodos. said...
Lovely photo and two gorgeous cards Ginny x
- 17 March 2015 at 07:45
- Craftin Suzie (Susan Flynn) said...
Awwww what a cutie Ollie is and your cards are fab Sandy! Susan x
- 17 March 2015 at 07:53
- Alison59 said...
What a handsome lad is Ollie xx
Super cards :-)
- 17 March 2015 at 16:07
- Jackie Trinder said...
Hi Sandy your cards are gorgeous I love the image you have used. That is a lovely picture of your grandson. I'm so pleased that you had a fab Mother's Day. Hugs Jackie
- 17 March 2015 at 17:55
- coops said...
so gorgeous sandie.really cute images and designs and your grandson is a handsome little chap :D
xx coops xx
- 19 March 2015 at 21:34
- Julieanne..aka pinkjools said...
Hi Sandy...What a pair of sweet cards....cute images....Ollie looks fab in his new glasses....Joolsx
- 20 March 2015 at 22:24
- Lorna said...
Two gorgeous cards love the images.. lovely photo of your grandson very handsome little chap
- 21 March 2015 at 11:42
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J. Cole to Return with Second Album 'Born Sinner' In January
It seems as if J. Cole is embarking on a spiritual journey with second album 'Born Sinner.' The North Carolina rapper unveiled on his Dreamville blog the Jan. 28 release date for his sophomore project along with a teaser video.
In the clip, a well-dressed young man is sitting quietly in a pew when he gets up and walks up to the church alter. He then kneels and prays for a couple of minutes. Afterward, he walks back down the church aisle and stops in front of the camera. The boy picks up several signs consecutively, one reading, "Are We Sinners," followed by, "Aren't We All Saints," then "J. Cole," "Born Sinner," and finally, the release date, "1/28/13."
Jan. 28 is very significant to J. Cole because he will also celebrate his 28th birthday on that day. 'Born Sinner' is the follow-up to his impressive 2011 debut LP 'Cole World: The Sideline Story.' The critically-acclaimed album garnered a few chart-topping hits including 'Work Out' and 'Nobody's Perfect.' J. Cole also received a Best New Artist Grammy nomination for his hard work.
Although details of 'Born Sinner' remain scarce, Hollywood Cole was recently in the studio with Kendrick Lamar. The duo teamed up on the fiery track 'Jig Is Up (Dump'n).'
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I love Instapaper, except for one small thing. I recently built up a hefty backlog of unread articles, and the prospect of reading them all on a laptop or iPhone screen seemed like more of a chore than a pleasure.
Something had obviously gone wrong. I had personally curated a series of articles, blog posts and essays that I was genuinely interested in, but somehow the resulting collection felt like a to-do list, yet another inbox on my computer waiting to be un-bolded. What I really wanted was a nicer user interface to these articles.
So I copy-and-pasted the text of my unread articles from Instapaper into a PDF, uploaded it to Lulu.com, and ordered a single book. Naturally I thought about scripting all of this but Instapaper doesn't provide an API to retrieve articles, and I didn't really want to bother with authentication headers and screen scraping and all of that hackery. I just wanted the book.
I know books are supposed to be old media, but there's something that feels futuristic about holding this one. It's imperfect, disposable, personal. I can scribble on it and dog-ear it, and read it lying down. It cost around $10 and arrived in less than a week.
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The 8th annual Sussex County Harvest, Honey and Garlic Festival will be held at the Sussex County Fairgrounds, 37 Plains Road, Augusta, on October 7th from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
The 8th annual Sussex County Harvest, Honey and Garlic Festival will be held at the Sussex County Fairgrounds, 37 Plains Road, Augusta, on October 7th from 10am - 4pm. This Festival is a celebration of agritourism, ecotourism and arts & heritage tourism. The County of Sussex, the Sussex County Beekeepers Association and the Garden State Garlic Growers are joining with the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show to showcase New Jersey's great northwest.
Event Information:
Date: September 7, 2017
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Sussex County Fairgrounds, 37 Plains Road, Augusta
There will be a farmers market where you can buy fresh, local Sussex County and Jersey Fresh products including fruit, vegetables, flowers and wine. The Sussex County Beekeepers Association will have educational displays and materials along with an array of honey products. For those who are into all things garlic, you'll have plenty to choose from with the Garden State Garlic Growers. The Festival will also include displays and information from environmental, agricultural and heritage organizations highlighting northern New Jersey's great open spaces and history. There will be activities for children and lots of vendors for the adults.
For more information about this upcoming event, please feel free to contact Autumn Sylvester, Coordinator, Office of Conservation and Farmland Preservation of the Sussex County Division of Planning at 973-579-0500, option 1 or email@example.com or check our website at www.sussexfarmvisits.com .
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Woodland themed nurseries are still top notch in our book (and they're still trendy too). The perfect nightlight to go alongside the owls, foxes and tree decals in your decor? Modern Treetop Baby's wooden bird house night lights. They're hand-crafted from natural Japanese Kiri wood and hand-painted using non-toxic paint.
The pretty hand-crafted bird house night lights from Modern Treetop Baby provide plenty of light to allow you to see where you're going when you check on Baby. They're more like a lamp than traditional night lights, which plug directly in the wall, and it has an on/off switch.
While you can choose a natural wooden bird house night light, they also come in colors to add more of an accent to your nursery design. Choose from blue or a bright green, both of which are sure to pop in your woodland nursery. They get their hue thanks to non-toxic paint.
Even though the night light is sold on a European site, it still comes with an American plug so there will be no issues with conversion. A 15-watt, low wattage bulb is included with each lamp.
Beyond the nursery, we're certain little boys and girls will love having one of these whimsical lamps in their bedroom to shed light on any monsters under the bed.
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Make omelets with one whole egg and two whites, and watch cholesterol at other meals. This lack of access to nutritious meals contributes to a poor diet regime and can lead to higher levels of obesity and other diet plan-associated illness, such as diabetes and heart disease.
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Vineman Triathalon
Congratulations to Joe and Scott for completing the Vineman.
Waiting to hear from Scott.
Joe's total time was about 10 hours 50 minutes, for 24th place overall, and 4th in AG. That's the good news. The bad news is that his little brother was 21st overall. Joe claims that he is an athletic demi-god who poses as a human being. Someone has to give Joe some competition.
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ISLAMABAD -- Under attack for imposing a foreign travel ban on a prominent journalist, Pakistan today withdrew the order on the scribe who had reported on a rift between civilian and military leaderships on the powerful ISI's covert support to terrorist groups in the country.
The travel ban on Cyril Almeida of 'Dawn' had sparked a massive criticism of the government and the military from media houses, journalist associations and the civil society.
Almedia's name was put on the Exit Control List this week after he reported about a verbal clash between the military and the government over the spy agency's support to militants.
Th ECL is a border control system maintained by Pakistan government which allows it to bar people whose names appear on the list from leaving the country.
"It has been decided to delete the name of Cyril Almedia...from Exit Control List," the government said in a notification. "All concerned are requested to take immediate action in the matter."
The decision was taken after Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan met media representative bodies -- All Pakistan Newspapers Society and Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors -- in Islamabad as the government had come under intense criticism over its decision to impose the travel ban on Almeida.
"Reiterating full support to freedom of press and independence of media and as a good-will gesture, the interior minister today ordered removal of the name of journalist from Exit Control List who had filed inaccurate and fabricated news item about national security meeting," the ministry said in a statement.
Pakistan Army expressed "serious concern" over the news leak after which Almeida was barred from leaving the country.
"Participants expressed their serious concern over feeding of false and fabricated story of an important security meeting held at the Prime Minister's House and viewed it as breach of national security," according a statement by the army.
But the interior minister reiterated that independent media must play its role not only towards "safeguarding" national interests and security but also to counter negative propaganda of the enemies of state.
Khan, however, told reporters that unverified and speculative news items citing unnamed sources on national security issues must be refrained, that crosses ethical boundaries of responsible journalism.
Minister for Information Pervaiz Rashid, who also attended the meeting with media representative bodies, said the government firmly believes in freedom of press and has proved time and again that it cannot compromise on the matter.
The government has initiated a probe to determine who leaked the details of the meeting between military and civilians leaderships last week. Interior Minister Khan said those responsible for the 'news leak' will be punished.
"Removal of name of the journalist would in no way affect the ongoing inquiry into the matter and the inquiry would continue to its logical conclusion," the statement said.
Dawn has maintained that its story was correct and "duly verified".
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Liberal Voting Pays Off
Posted Under: Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
For those of you who are wondering if you vote makes a difference or if you wonder if it makes a difference who you vote for, these questions have been answered. Yes – it does. In just a few days Nancy Pelosi has accomplished more that the Republican controlled congress did in the last 6 years. The first thing that changed was that Rumsfield is gone. The Congress now works Monday through Friday rather than Tuesday through Thursday. They reformed congressional ethics standards, they raised the minimum wage, cut the interest on student loans in half, and cut tax give aways to big oil. The day before the hearings on domestic spying started Bush announced that he's going to stop breaking the law and get warrants before tapping your phone.
So voting does make a difference and we are seeing the results. The Democrats are trying a new way to hold onto power, do a good job, put the people first, and hope that people will appreciate it by reelecting them for doing a good job. Nancy is also proving that women are qualified to lead and if she does a good job she will be a big help to Hillary's run for president.
It makes me wonder if Republicans will adopt a similar strategy if they see Democrats getting elected by doing a good job. Imagine Republicans and Democrats competing t see who can please the people the most. That could happen as long as the people show up at the polls are reward the good politicians and punish the bad ones. And good government is the reward the voters get by paying attention to what's happening and showing up to vote. Thank you in advance for voting in 2008.


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You have verified your hive is ready to split depending on the hive you are splitting you will have from ten to twenty frames to work with, Almost like a deck of cards you are going to give each side of the split equal amounts of honey frames, brood frames and empty frames. You will need to locate the queen while you splitting the hive the queen-less side gets fresh larva and eggs. The side with the queen still gets brood but the fresh brood needs to be on the queen-less side. The queen-less bee split will rear a new queen or queens this will take about 18 days for the new queen to emerge. It will take her another 4 to 6 days for the new queen to mate or go on nuptial flights before she can start laying eggs at about 24 days after the split.
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names new dean
This week Antioch College President Joan Straumanis announced that, beginning
this summer, Dr. Richard T. Jurasek will become the colleges new
vice president and dean of faculty.
Im very pleased, said Straumanis. He brings with
him a wealth of experience at a college similar enough to Antioch that
we can consider him a pro. He also brings a judicious and patient personality.
Straumanis also expressed appreciation for the search committee, led by
faculty member Jill Yaeger and composed of students, faculty and staff.
They worked hard, were extremely conscientious and came up with
a wonderful dean, said Straumanis.
Jurasek is pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable,
said Straumanis, but hes happy for us to call him Rick.
Currently, Jurasek, 56, serves as dean at Augustana College in Rock Island,
Ill., a position hes held for five years. Previously, he served
22 years on the faculty at Earlham College, where he taught German language
and literature and served as associate dean. While at Augustana, Jurasek
also taught classes in film studies.
Leaving the job is current Dean of Faculty Hassan Nejad, who has held
the post the last several years. A longtime college faculty member who
teaches political science and international relations, Nejad has wanted
for several years to return to full-time teaching, Straumanis said. After
taking next year off on sabbatical, he will return to the department of
social and global studies.
Jurasek, in a telephone interview, stated that hes eager to begin.
Out of the 600 liberal arts colleges in the country, maybe 100 are
really strong and distinctive and a smaller set of only two or three dozen
are truly historically unique, he said. Antioch has always
been in my imagination one of those historically strong, unique institutions.
Familiar with Antioch for more than 25 years, Jurasek was especially attracted
to its tradition of co-op learning.
For more than 50 years, Antioch has been defining quality experiential
learning, both domestic off-campus and overseas, said Jurasek, who
listed experiential learning as one of his professional specialities.
His greatest challenge, Jurasek believes, will be doing his part to help
increase student enrollment by strengthening the colleges academic
program. The college already has a good program, he said.
We need to make sure the quality continues and that we get the good
word out.
A native of the Cleveland area, Jurasek received his bachelors degree
from Ohio University and his masters and doctorate from Ohio State.
He has also studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig in Germany,
and Vienna in Austria. According to Straumanis, he has published numerous
textbooks, articles and presentations, in the areas of German studies,
film studies and educational innovation.
Jurasek will officially begin his duties on August 18. He and his wife,
Barbara, who teaches German at Earlham College, plan to live in Yellow
Springs and are currently house-hunting. The couple has a daughter, who
will be leaving for college this fall.


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Saudamini Das, Arup Mitra and Rajnish Kumar
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
Slum dwellers in developing countries reside in inhuman conditions with meagre access to basic amenities. There is a strong possibility that drinking water becomes contaminated by sewerage or general garbage. Why is it so? Is it because they do not care about living in a clean environment or is it simply because they cannot afford to do so?
We examine these questions in the context of the registered slum clusters of four Indian cities--Mathura, Ujjain, Jaipur, and Ludhiana. Mathura and Ujjain are located in central part of the country and are predominantly religious cities whereas Jaipure and Ludhiana, located in western part of the country are more developed with wide spread business and industrial clusters. Thus, all the four cities witness large scale migration from rural areas in search of livelihood. Most migrants end up residing in slums.
A primary survey was conducted by some of the authors in the year 2006-07 in these cities under a project on urban poverty sponsored jointly by the United Nations Development Programme and the Government of India. The detailed data on demography, income, health, housing, neighborhood, migration, etc. of the slum dwellers were collected. We analyzed the house prices of the owned residential sample units using a reduced form hedonic equation to find out which features determine the prices of residential units in slums, and in particular whether neighborhood cleanliness plays any role or not?
The hedonic price theory is an extension of the theory of attributes. It assumes that commodity prices are functions of the attributes that the commodities possess and thus, by studying the changes in the price of a product with respect to marginal change in the attribute it possesses, one can find out the premium the consumer pays for the attribute. In other words, by differentiating the price function with respect to a characteristic, one can derive the consumer's marginal willingness to pay for that characteristic. Using this logic, house prices are considered to be a function of structural, neighborhood and environmental features of the house, and residents' willingness to pay for each feature is derived from the differential of the estimated hedonic house price equation. We conducted such analysis of slum house prices using a set of structural, neighborhood, environmental and legal features of the respective houses. Slums being illegal structures in many places, features like demolition threat, whether the slum is situated in public or private land, etc. are likely to affect house prices.We categorized these variables as legal features. We included two features – presence of flowing open drain in the neighborhood and presence of chocked open drain in the neighborhood as two neighborhood cleanliness variables. First we estimated the reduced form hedonic equation of house prices and then using the differential of house prices with respect to features having significant effect on house prices, we calculated slum residents' marginal willingness to pay for the specific feature. The significant features reflect the slum dwellers' preferred attributes in house selection.
We find house prices varying consistently with many structural variables – built up area, number of rooms, if having brick wall,concrete roof, separate kitchen, attached bath and toilet, attached balcony and courtyard, piped water connection, etc. Temporary window and doors had strong negative effect on house prices. But only few of the neighborhood features—proximity to central business district, presence of streetlight and house being connected tosewage facility from government showed significant positive effect on house prices. Such results were consistent across cities. Most of the other neighborhood variables like provision of water, garbage collection, presence of healthcare etc including presence of open drain, both chocked and flowing, in the neighborhood showed insignificant effect on house prices. Demolition threat had a significant negative effect on house prices.
These results indicate that house selection by slum dwellers is mostly being guided by features related to house quality, availability of facilities inside the house and some basic amenities like provision of street light or sewage system provided by the local authority. However, they seem to be paying high prices for a good quality house even if it is situated next to an open drain. Such results have strong implication for Indian cities, especially with the Swachh Bharat Campaign of the Government of India. First slum dwellers need to be better informed concerning the importance of cleanliness through campaigns which create awareness.
Slum dwellers expect public provisioning of most of the neighborhood facilities, but they are very willing to pay for features like government supported sewage, street lights, and for being permitted to reside within the city. Thus, cost sharing is possible in order to provide these facilities and the revenue generated can be used for information campaigns to inform residents of the importance of cleanliness.


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|Napoleon Pass
|USGS 7.5' Map:
|Adopted by:
|Managed by:
|Gunnison National Forest,
Gunnison Ranger District
|216 N. Colorado
Gunnison, CO 81230
|History, Mining, Scenery
|Nature - closed by heavy snows.
|Best Time:
| June- Early, upper part may
still be snowed in
July - Best
August - Best
September - Fall colors mid to late September
October - Closed by early snows
|Trail Heads
|Some camping on the north end near Tincup. The center and southern half are steeper and offer less opportunities for camping.
|Base Camp:
|Napoleon Pass would be a day trip from the Taylor Park area to the north or from the Pitkin area to the south.
|Fall Colors:
|Poor - Napoleon Pass is in pine
Tincup, CO head south on County Rd 765
toward County Rd 765P. After 0.3 miles there is a slight left toward
County Rd 765N. Continue straight onto County Rd 765N and go past the
Tincup Cemetary road, a left turn. Continue on FR 953, Napoleon Pass
From Pitkin, CO head northeast on Main Street toward 6th St 0.4 miles. Turn left onto State Street for 0.3 miles. Continue on County Rd 76 for 0.4 miles. Continue on Forest Service Rd 765 for 6.1 miles. Turn right onto Forest Service road 540, Napoleon Pass road.
|At the north end of the 4WD road
near Tin Cup is the cemetary for the
town. It is called "The Cemetary of Four Knolls" with each knoll
representing a different group, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant. The
fourth and most used in the early days was for those with no religion.
Discovered in the early 1880's the Gold Cup mine was a large operation south of Tin Cup which produced $7,000,000 in gold and silver. It kept producing through the mild recession in the mid 1880's and didn't close down until 1917.
The road over Napoleon Pass was used to haul ore down to Pitkin where the railroad ran up and through the Alpine Tunnel and down to St. Elmo then on out to Buena Vista.
|From the north end of Napoleon Pass road out of
Tincup you will pass the Tincup Cemetary and continue along a wide
meadow before entering the forest again. The road will continue to
wind through small openings in the forest as you follow Middle Willow
After about 3 miles you will come to a small meadow with the remains of the Gold Cup Mine. The tailing pile, steam engine, and ore chute are on one side of the meadow with the miners quarters on the other.
Just past the Gold Cup Mine is an intersection. The right is the continuation of FR 953.1 which dead ends in 0.5 miles. To the left is FT 540 that continues to Napoleon Pass and presents the obstacle for this route. You must cross a wide and muddy section of Middle Willow Creek that appears to be very deep. Approach this crossing with care because it is deep as it appears.
Once across the creek you will pass through a section of private property with a gate before climbing into a heavily forested area known as Bone Basin.
After reaching timberline you will have Napoleon Pass in view flanked by Napoleon Mountain on one side and Fitzpatrick Peak on the other. From the top of Napoleon Pass you will have views to the north of the Taylor Park valley surrounded by the Collegiate Peaks.
After dropping over the south side of Napoleon Pass you will travel just less than a mile before coming to an intersection at the bottom of a short switchback. To the right is FT 540.1A that goes one mile up to the tailings of an old mine. The left will continue on FT 540 and come to another intersection after 0.75 miles. To the left is FR 763.3A which only goes a short distance to private property. To the right, or continuing down hill, is FT 540.
You will begin a descent crossing Graphite Creek twice before connecting with FR 765. From here a right will take you back over Cumberland Pass to Tincup, or a left will take you to Pitkin.
|Data updated - December 16, 2015 4WD Road driven - September 5, 2010 and 2014 Copyright 4X4Explore.com - 2000-2016


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Ricardo Tosto has acquired the best law firm in the industry of Latin America. He holds one of the most important ranks of law firms around the world. He is a professional in the Litigation sector, resulting in 91 lawyers and 15 partners. In an edition of Chambers Latin America, Ricardo Tosto's office team was honored for their competence in infrastructure, energy, and banking in litigation types. The edition of publications also mentioned positive actions of construction and engineering. In the 2018 issue, Ricardo Tosto's performances were recognized, a million dollar process from JBS against Banco Safra.
Along with Latin America's best attorney, Ricardo Tosto, Ricardo Tosto de Oliveira Carvalho is a prominent lawyer and market leader of Brazil. Brazil is a litigious country with contradictory environment laws. Ricardo Tosto de Oliveira, a lawyer recommended by LACCA. This includes a research conducted by a partner association of Latin lawyers. There is a great demand for lawyers with more skills in the area. Ricardo Tosto de Oliveira originated the mass litigation area in the office by organizing the excellence of legal services.
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Now the president is trapped in two damaging story lines. Is he too weak and immature to do the job? Or is he too cool and distant to do the job?
The Aloof One has to convince voters that he can connect emotionally. In a way, his relationship with Americans now is analogous to a marriage that's not working. He's the detached husband; we're the neglected wife.
Is he paying attention? Does he understand our needs? Or is he just pretending to listen while he watches SportsCenter?
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Bill, Barry e le donne
Il fascino ormai dissolto del presidente in carica e quello mai svanito del suo predecessore - secondo Maureen Dowd. Tempi duri.
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Golf in Cyprus
Cyprus is an emerging golfer's paradise, a place where you can enjoy the game all the year round in an ideal Mediterranean climate.
Choose between four international golf courses situated in peaceful surroundings amidst landscaped hills and with breathtaking views across the Mediterranean below. Located in the Pafos (Paphos) region, they are far from the hustle and bustle of the main tourist resorts, yet near enough for easy access.
Come and enjoy amateur golf or challenge your handicap by participating in one of the Golf Open Tournaments organised on the island. You will find here everything today's demanding golfer needs, from clubhouses, to practice facilities and individual lessons. Bring along your spouse and family. In Cyprus there is something for everyone.


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Residents of the ancient city of Ibadan have expressed their excitement with the ongoing rehabilitation works at the Agodi Gardens, a major tourist destination in the largest city in West Africa.
Residents who spoke to IBPulse correspondent said when commissioned, the gardens would become a major site in the city; they commended the state government for undertaking the project.
"Agodi Gardens is a historic tourist center which used to be abandoned and was in ruins during previous administrations. But we thank the incumbent administration for embarking on the rehabilitation project which will restore the garden to its lost glory," Mr. Amao Jibola told IBPulse.
Ms Omolara is another resident of the ancient city who said the rejuvenated gardens would be a major source of jobs creation.
"When fully developed, the gardens will provide jobs for many unemployed citizens who would have been recruited as thugs by politicians," she said.
The state's tourism board recently announced that when reopened, Agodi Gardens would create more than 1000 jobs for unemployed Nigerians and would add to the city's growing list of tourist centers.


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Sorry this is so late. I've had this post waiting to be published but hadn't put the final "Hailley touches" on it. So here it is, better late than never! :)
My last weekend on campus was a memorable one. I had planned on spending Friday night catching up on some homework and it started out that way until I got a text from my friend Joe. He wanted to know if I was interested in co-hosting Blindspot (our talent show on campus) with my other friend Reid. Joe usually hosts but was feeling a little under the weather.
I decided I couldn't pass up a chance to host Blindspot so said yes and 30 minutes later, I was standing in the Dows Theater with Reid discussing our intro. It was a lot of fun and I did well! After Blindspot, I hung out with Reid and his friends and we played a version of Apples to Apples. Again, more fun and a great way to celebrate a week of hard work.
Saturday was spent doing homework and prepping for finals. After a full day of school work, it was time for Coe Monologues.
Coe Monologues was a brand new event this year hosted by our chapter of V-Day, an organization trying to end violence against women. Usually V-Day is active in the spring but this year they wanted to do events in the fall as well. In October, you could submit your own personal monologue and then it could be read anonymously in December. The subject was being a woman, sex, sexuality, and relationships specifically on Coe's campus. I wrote a monologue about my mom and the idea of being strong. I decided to read my own monologue on Saturday. Some people knew it was me and other thoughts I was just reading what someone else had submitted.
Of course, Saturday wasn't my first day reading my monologue. There were 14 readers and 21 monologues that were read in a two-act performance. We had four practices and then our performance. People who came on Saturday were asked for a $3 donation to Waypoint which supports children, women, and families in the Cedar Rapids area. We were able to raise over $350 that night!
It was a fantastic performance. The people there were great audience members and the readers definitely fed off of them well. I am so thankful in being able to read my monologue and be a part of something so fantastic. After the show, I got flowers from the wonderful Alison W. and then went out to dinner with Whitney, Chelsea, and Chelsea's mom.
Sunday was more studying, (what's new?), as well as the final Writing Center dinner. It's weekends like these that remind me why I love Coe so much.
Weekend Before Finals Recap
Sorry this is so late. I've had this post waiting to be published but hadn't put the final "Hailley touches" on it. So here it is, better late than never! :)
FINALS. Completed.
Hello readers!
Sorry for the delay in posting. Finals definitely consumed my life and I finished up my last one last Friday. I then spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday packing and cleaning up. My dad, brother, and sister arrived on Sunday and we moved my things out of Coe and back to Wisconsin! Hard to believe I won't be coming back to campus in January but instead, heading to New York City. Can't wait.
So now I'm at home, relaxing after a difficult but rewarding semester and gearing up for my next adventure. I'll post a recap on my last weekend before finals because a lot of great stuff happened as well as a post revealing what my internship will be this spring. Then I'll probably be absent for a while as I enjoy the holidays with my family and friends. Expect a post in early January recapping 2012 and then I'll start back up once I head to NYC and begin my spring semester.
Lots to look forward to. Happy holidays!
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Last Day of Classes!
If you can believe it, yesterday was my last day of classes. Today is Reading Day, a day devoted to students studying before final exams start on Wednesday.
I seriously cannot believe this semester is almost over. I have one clarinet jury, two finals, and one final paper to complete between now and Friday. Then I'll pack up everything and move back to Wisconsin since I'll be in New York this January. So so so crazy.
Even though it's Reading Day, I still have a full plate of things to do. They include:
- Practicing my clarinet for my jury on Wednesday.
- Mail the recently printed The Coe Reviews to poets not on Coe's campus.
- Support my friend Courtney as the play she wrote in her advanced playwriting class is performed.
- Lunch with my friend Alexis.
- Help host the publication release event for The Coe Review.
- Work in the Writing Center.
- And OF COURSE, study for my finals and work on my final paper.
B&F Day: Another One in the Books
So, if you haven't heard, I'm completing my second semester as Student Senate Treasurer. It's one of my favorite club positions to hold on campus because it's a great way for me to interact with clubs and see all the great things they are doing.
One of my responsibilities is to hold Budget and Finance Day, a grand old day where every club on campus that would like money for the next semester presents in front of the committee. The committee has the right to approve or deny aspects of the budget. It's a long day (we start at 8 AM) but it's worth it.
So on snowless December 1st, I woke up and drove to Bruegger's to get bagels for the committee. My committee started showing up around 7:50 AM and we started the budget presentations shortly after 8 AM. We went until lunch and then took a break for Panchero's. Then we went back to budgets.
|L to R: Hailley, Alexis, Peter, and Ashley
Post B&F, I came back to my apartment, did a little homework, and then had a few friends over to unwind after a full day. It was nice to have people over, recapping the day, or just talking about finals, Winter Break plans, and our lives in general. Perfect example of my kohawk family.
|Chocolate gold coins were being thrown at us because we're GOLDEN! :)
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John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world."
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Here are the steps I used to make this card that was cut using Cricut Art Philosophy, page 54, Card, Shift <vase.> I set the size at 5.5" which made the finished width 4.25."
I used 3 thin strips of paper from the CTMH "Jubilee" paper pack. I embossed the red and cut the yellow with a scalloped punch. I wanted to use three colors behind the cut-out design, so I tried something new. First I adhered a small rectangle of the yellow pattern behind the vase. The back side of that paper was green so I decided to paperclip a long strip of the two-sided paper on the opposite inside page that would show through the stems. The back yellow side would look nice in the card.
I held small squares of red cardstock behind the flowers. They already had adhesive on the back. I pressed them down in the right place on the paperclipped green paper one at a time.
Last, I added adhesive along the edges of green patterned paper inside, removed the paperclips, and pressed the front down over it. The final photo shows the finished inside with a lovely strip of paper on the left. The final touches on front were some brown pearls and a small knot of red baker's twine.
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For my graphic design class we designed memorabilia for
the Dewey Cox movie, "Walk Hard", played by John C. Reilly.
So I chose to do bobble head packaging.
And the Bunko.com at the bottom was suppose to be a twist
on the original toy company, Funko.com. But apparently Bunko.com
exists. Haha so disregard that...
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This is my favorite fencing poster. I purchased a copy of it over 20 years ago when I competed in the Midwest Sectionals in Minneapolis in 1977. Somehow, in all my subsequent moves, it became lost. I recently found a copy of it online.
It shows Maestro Okawa in a dramatic shot, having passed his opponent (a Polish fencer I believe) he is remising with a thrust over his head and behind the back.


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