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Soutik Biswas India correspondent Gauri Lankesh inherited a newspaper from her father "What are we going to fight over today?" a journalist friend of Gauri Lankesh would usually ask her whenever she made an early morning call to him. "What's your grudge?"In her breathless, high-pitched voice, Lankesh would usually ask her editor friend why his newspaper hadn't taken a stronger stand on an issue close to her heart. "If you big guys can't take a more robust stand, how are we going to do it?" In the southern Indian city of Bangalore where she lived, Lankesh edited an eponymous weekly tabloid she inherited from her father in the local Kannada language. Financed entirely by subscriptions - part of an activist tabloid culture in the state of Karnataka, which shunned adverts - Gauri Lankesh Patrike was known for its feisty leftist views. It also reflected the editor's view and ideology.Lankesh was a trenchant critic of the Hindu right-wing. She believed religious and majoritarian politics would tear India apart. When Malleshappa Kalburgi, a leading Indian scholar and a well-known rationalist thinker, was shot dead at his home in Dharwad following death threats from right-wing Hindu groups two years ago, she told a friend: "I don't care what happens to me, they even called me a slut. But I really worry for the country. These guys will break it up." She had other causes too. Lankesh was openly sympathetic to Maoist rebels who have long waged war against the Indian government and she fought hard to bring them into the mainstream. She also campaigned for the rights of Dalits, formerly known as untouchables. She made no bones about her dislike for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Hindu nationalist BJP either. Her Facebook posts often contained unflattering memes of the prime minister. In a recent post she lauded India's stand-up comics for "successfully doing more than most to destroy the Modi myth". Typically, she lent her support to them, saying "We are all with you together and we shall reclaim our secular India." Lankesh was a feisty social activist (Kashif Masood)Discarding impartiality, Lankesh's newspaper was often shrill and bristling with rhetoric. Sometimes the stories would give short shrift to facts, discomforting many of her friends. To be fair, Lankesh never concealed her choices: she introduced herself as "journalist-activist" in her Twitter profile.Not surprisingly, her paper attracted a raft of defamation cases. Last year she was convicted of defamation for a report she published on local BJP leaders. The chief of the BJP's information technology cell then sent out an ominous-sounding tweet hoping "other journalists take note" of her conviction, prompting accusations of dog-whistle politics. This had not daunted Lankesh. Despite falling circulation and revenues, her tabloid continued to take on formidable adversaries.'Uncompromising'Along with the tabloid, Lankesh possibly inherited her grit from her father P Lankesh, a versatile cultural icon from Karnataka. He ran a lively, high-circulation tabloid, wrote award-winning novels and made films, all infused with a vibrant cosmopolitan favour. He was also a fearless activist. Gauri Lankesh, the oldest of three siblings, had decided on a career in journalism early on. She went to a journalism school in Delhi, where a classmate found her "tough, uncompromising and radical". She worked with a leading newspaper, a now-defunct magazine and a fledgling English news channel.When her father died in 2000, she was initially reluctant to take over his 20-year-old newspaper. Kannada, her friends said, was not her strongest point. But when she finally decided to take it over, she turned completely political and began taking radical political positions.
Lankesh 'adopted' student leader Kanaiya Kumar last year Friends found Lankesh at once a belligerent and loving personality. She fought and made up easily. She "adopted" two student leaders - one who belonged to the Dalit community, the other charged with sedition - and invited them home. When she wanted to gift them T-shirts, she called a male friend and asked: "What colours would they like, you think?"In recent months, Lankesh wrote on rising attacks on the freedom of press, local politics and how her city and India's info-tech capital had become unsafe for women. She wrote she was appalled by rising domestic violence, dowry murders and acid attacks on women in what was once a genteel pensioners paradise. "What can women of Bangalore do to reclaim their rights to live the way they used to?" she wrote in January. In a way, it was a chillingly prescient thought. The motorcycle-borne gunmen who shot Lankesh outside her home on Monday night probably killed her for her work. ~~~~~~~~~ Thursday September 7 2017Editorial:
Until the identity and motive of the killers of journalist Gauri Lankesh is established, it would be premature to hold any party or grouping responsible. Social media warriors are entitled to draw conclusions that suit them but the unfortunate death of the fiercely independent and outspoken journalist is certainly a calculated attack on the constitutional freedom of speech and expression. And it is but natural for all those who value the right to dissent to recall in this context the assassination of rationalist MM Kalburgi two years ago. Gauri was known to hold far left views and build peace bridges between the Maoists and the State. She treated the likes of Kanhaiya Kumar, Shehla Rashid and Jignesh Mewani as her "children". Gauri Lankesh had the option to play the conformist. She, however, chose to work for the cause she felt was right. Individuals like her, maybe small in number, cannot keep silent when faced with any wrong or injustice. The countrywide outrage that her killing has evoked shows how fiercely so many from so diverse cultures and regions have stood up for her right to express her opinion. That is a sign of a vibrant democracy. By sticking to her views in the face of death threats and paying the ultimate price, Gauri Lankesh has set an inspirational example for other upholders of just causes. Her message is clear: stand up for what you believe in, regardless of the consequences. Her death has brought to the national centre stage issues she had lived to fight religious fundamentalism, caste discrimination and communal politics. There is a choice everyone is called upon to make at some point of time: to honestly speak out what one really feels agitated about or play safe and keep one's opinion to oneself. We as a society have to decide whether we have to allow a free run to exchange of ideas or to extremists and gun-wielding thugs. There is a growing culture of intolerance and hate. Politics of division on the basis of identity, ideology, religion and caste should not be allowed to come in the way of liberal values and individual rights and freedoms. ~~~~~~~~~ Monday September 11, 2017
BY Nataraj Huliyar Perhaps Gauri believed Karnataka still had a democratic space where the criticism would be met with criticism, and not violence.
January 26, 2000. Prof K. Ramdas, the well-known rationalist, was among the many who attended Lankesh's funeral. He described Lankesh Patrike as a unique social movement in the history of Karnataka, and lamented the time had come to give it a burial with its mentor.I was part of Lankesh's team then. If Lankesh Patrike was a movement, I argued, it had to be kept alive through collective effort. Gauri was nowhere in the picture. I expected Ravindra Reshme or T K Tyagaraj, fearless reporters who had taken on corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, to step into Lankesh's shoes. Gauri had not written anything in her father's paper till then, and was a novice to Kannada journalism. Yet, within a few minutes of the staff meeting that week, Gauri had become editor.Not a good choice, I thought like many others. Yet, as a Lohiaite, I supported her for ideological reasons. Lankesh had instilled in me a pro-Dalit, pro-Muslim, pro-women attitude. I still remember the Sunday Gauri wrote and rewrote her first editorial note. It was an issue to pay tribute to Lankesh. Articles, poems, letters were pouring in. When the issue came out, it sold well. The movement was alive and the paper's well-wishers were relieved.I had been a staunch 'Lankeshite' since my college days. Lankesh Patrike had introduced a new idiom to Kannada journalism. For those tired of the impersonal, dull style of the dailies, here was an eight-page tabloid for 60 paise. No ads. No space-filling stories. From politics to cinema, everything was covered in a lively style. The headlines were fresh and unpredictable. We read it again and again till the next issue came out! For my friends in theatre, journalism and literature, Lankesh Patrike was an addiction. We learnt about political analysis, book reviewing, column writing, and reporting through the paper. When some of us started writing, the influence was apparent. The tabloid shaped the sensibility of at least two generations and taught them to think and be anti-establishment. For two decades, Lankesh Patrike was a true university for me as a reader and later contributor and a columnist.Three months after Gauri took over, I got a call from the paper. I was told my column would be stopped. I said, 'Fine!' I stopped following the paper, but was aware Gauri continued the anti-establishment positions of her father. Gauri did not have her father's finesse or creative genius. She had to discover her own strengths. She became an activist. She became a product of the times, when the progressive forces of Karnataka were trying to come together. After launching her own weekly, she was in search of a distinct identity and hence became a willing voice of several activist forums. She made brief, matter-of-fact and hard-hitting speeches. She was clearly anti-RSS, anti-BJP and pro-minorities. By then tabloid journalism in Karnataka was in a crisis, with 24x7 news channels becoming more tabloid than tabloids. Gauri had inherited a paper without ads, and had to continue to run it that way. After some years, she started a magazine for those taking competitive exams to cross-subsidise Gauri Lankesh Patrike. The new magazine, coupled with the sale of her father's books, helped her keep Gauri Lankesh Patrike going.Lankesh had also seen many ups and downs. But he had a network of faithful news agents who were his admirers. Though leading Kannada writers were hurt by his acid comments, younger writers would avidly follow him. When he criticised the leaders of the Dalit and the farmers' movements, they would stop reading Lankesh Patrike, but would still be curious about Lankesh's take on some crisis. This was true of politicians too. Even the BJP leaders stung by him felt they were educated by his criticism. Lankesh would say, 'As long as I am around, the BJP can't come to power in Karnataka.' And he was proved right.Gauri shared most of her father's concerns except Lankesh's rediscovery of Gandhi which made his writing introspective and meditative. He was truly progressive but would never spout the movement's jargon. It is unfair to expect all of this from his daughter, who grew up in a different atmosphere. But she fought. and bravely. Gauri had to jump into the fray, and fought with conviction.But the Karnataka of her father's time had changed. The obscene letters he used to get had turned into vicious social media posts. Perhaps Gauri believed Karnataka still had a democratic space where the criticism would be met with criticism, and not violence. But she was too visible and became the target of a larger conspiracy. The ploy is to shoot one and silence thousands. But history tells us not everyone can be silenced for ever.The author is a well-known Kannada writer and culture critic.~~~~~~~~~~ Friday September 08, 2017
By Yogendra Yadav
What killed Gauri Lankesh? This is not the same question as "who killed Gauri Lankesh?" This is deeper and a more rewarding question. In any case, this is the only question we can meaningfully answer in the public domain.A murder involves four categories of culpability: those who carry out assassination, those who conspire, those who encourage or benefit from it, and those who are involved in its acquiescence. We must leave the first two for the police to determine. Instead of rushing to conclusions about the assassins and conspirators, let us focus on the larger context that encouraged and acquiesced to, indeed celebrated, her murder.This is particularly relevant in the case of Gauri. She was not just a person. She represented an idea. It is reasonable to assume that her assassination is an attempt to shut down that idea. It is also meant to convey a signal to everyone else to shut up, or else. Since these signals are in the public domain, we can and must decode these in order to understand the context that led to her assassination.A word about the 'whodunnit'. So far, we know only a few relevant facts. Gauri Lankesh was a journalist, a fearless editor of an extraordinary paper called Gauri Lankesh Patrike. She had been carrying out a crusade against the Hindutva politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies through the paper she edited, and organisations like Komu Souharda Vedike. Last year she lost a defamation suit by a BJP leader; her appeal against it was pending. She had received several threats from Sangh Parivar affiliates. As far as we know, there was no personal enmity angle to this murder.The killing of ideasThis information is good to draw a reasonable inference: she was killed because of her ideas and her determination to speak her mind. But this information is not adequate to reach a definite conclusion about the identity of the killers and the conspirators. It is only fair that the criminal investigation must not be carried out in TV studios. This is not to say that we must trust the police. Indeed, police investigations in similar cases, whether under the Congress or the BJP regime, have been perfunctory. Still we cannot pre-empt the investigation, even if we scrutinise it later.While we do not have evidence of who planned her murder, we have lots of evidence concerning those who celebrated and justified her murder. Social media was abuzz with comments that mocked, abused and blamed a woman who had been killed a few hours ago. Most of them were well-established BJP trolls. Some of them were followed by none other than the Prime Minister. In this context, it was vital for the ruling party to dissociate itself from this campaign. But except Ravi Shankar Prasad, no senior BJP leader spoke unequivocally against such comments. The PM is yet to 'unfollow' any of these trolls.We also know the eerie pattern that was replicated in three murders prior to hers. The murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2013, that of Govind Pansare, another campaigner against superstition, in 2015, and academic M.M. Kalburgi in 2015 followed identical patterns. In each of these cases, unidentified killers shot down intellectual crusaders inimical to the ideology of the Sangh Parivar. These were not murders to avenge any other act of violence. Nor were these attempts to eliminate a political rival. These were aimed at silencing an idea. Let us not forget that these three 'rationalists' were not promoting some idiosyncratic idea: cultivation of 'scientific temper' is very much our constitutional ideal. They were killed by an ideology inimical to our Constitution. Prima facie, Gauri's killing fits into this pattern.From a rooted traditionHer ideas were, of course, not the same as the other three. Everyone, supporter as well as detractor, has assumed that she was a 'leftist'. There has been some loose talk of her being Naxalite. This is not true. Gauri represented an illustrious intellectual tradition of Karnataka that does not fit into any of these categories. As the editor of Gauri Lankesh Patrike, she carried forward the legacy of her father P. Lankesh, the founder o fLankesh Patrikeand one of the three iconic writers of the 'Navya' school of Kannada literature. Inspired by Ram Manohar Lohia, these writers from Shimoga P. Lankesh, Poornachandra Tejaswi and U.R. Ananthamurthy combined a strident anti-caste stance with the socialist brand of egalitarian politics and culturally rooted secularism. They mentored the next generation of Kannada intellectuals like Devanur Mahadeva, Siddalingaiah and D.R. Nagaraj whose writings have inspired 'progressive' activists in Karnataka.This socialist tradition is 'left' in the sense of being pro-people and egalitarian, but very different from the communist 'left' in terms of its cultural orientation. This tradition is rooted in Kannada egalitarian thought that goes back to Basavanna. Although on some issues Gauri was closer to the orthodox left than her father, her secularism was a continuity of this tradition. Like her father, she chose to write in Kannada and in a popular idiom. This form of culturally rooted secularism is in line with the secularism of our freedom struggle. The Sangh Parivar fears this most, as this form of secularism cannot be brushed aside as deracinated, westernised intellectualism.Her very name carried a challenge to what is now being presented as Hindutva. This is the time of the year to welcome the arrival of 'Gauri' also known as Durga, Parvathi, Bhavani or Shakti in many regions of the country. 'Lankesh' is, of course, Ravana, the ultimate devotee of Lord Shiva. Her name invokes the tradition of Ravana worship among Shaivites, a practice that upsets the project of homogenous Hindutva.Gauri lived a life of ideas. It is unsurprising that she was killed by an ideology one that stands in opposition to our Constitution, denies the values of our freedom struggle, fears our intellectual traditions and is threatened by the multiple strands of Hinduism. She was killed by the ruling ideology of our times.Yogendra Yadav is President of Swaraj India~~~~~~~ Wednesday September 13 2017
Writers, students and Left wing supporters take out a rally against journalist Gauri Lankesh's killing in Bengaluru on Tuesday. PTI
Bengaluru: Thousands of social activists, journalists, people's forums and political party workers from across the country today organised a protest rally here, condemning the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh a week ago. The protesters gathered at the city's railway station before taking to the streets.Members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Karnataka Janashakthi, Aam Aadmi Party and several student groups were also part of the rally. The 55-year-old editor of Kannada weekly "Gauri Lankesh Patrike" was gunned down outside her home in a city suburb on September 5.Those marching were seen singing protest songs, raising slogans such as "Gauri Lankesh Amar Rahe" and demanding that Lankesh's assailants be brought to book. Wearing black head bands that read "I am Gauri", the protesters took out the march from the city railway station to the Central College Grounds. Among the participants were CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury, social activist Medha Patkar, journalists P Sainath and Sagarika Ghose, Swaraj India leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, documentary producers Anand Patwardhan and Rakesh Sharma and civil rights activists Teesta Setalvad, Kavitha Krishnan and Jignesh Mevani, besides film producer Prakash Rai."The forum of progressive thinkers, writers, social activists, artistes and intellectuals was formed on Friday to fight against Lankesh killing and decided to hold the national-level 'resistance convention'," the forum convenor K Leela had said. IANS


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by Brian Thomas
Media Manager – Sri Lanka Cricket
Day 1 at the sardar patel stadium was a typical Dravid show. Rahul is called the " Wall". He proved this far beyond doubt when he ended the day unbeaten on 177 to help India pile up their highest first innings Score on day one amassing of 385 six Wickets with four wickets still in hand. Skipper MS Dhoni too, joined the party stroking a brilliant 114 consisting of 10 boundaries and big six dising out to the Sri Lankans a leather hunt on day one of the first test.
The day started well for the Sri Lankan's with India winning the toss electing to bat, on an excellent batting pitch. The Indian top order was in disarray loosing Gautham Gambir, Virendra Sehwag,Satchin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman all back in the pavilion with the score on 37.Play got underway at 9.30 this Morning, the early morning moisture helped the Sri Lankan seamers Welegedara and Prasad to swing the ball both ways with Welegedara accounting for three scalps namely Gambir, Sechwag and Tendulkar, while Dhamika Prasad, accounted for the prize wicket of VVS Laxman.
Dravid who came into bat with India on 14 for one wicket bided his time and showed how to build, approach and concentrate when batting at Test level. Dravid played with ease…He had plenty of time to play the ball and never looked troubled by what was happening round him. His 177 not out consisted of 26 boundaries and 1 Six. Dravid was better than his best today. His cover drove cut, pulled and played his wristy flicks to the on side in copy book style. Rahul Dravid will sleep tight tonight scoring his 27th century and further, reaching a mile stone by reaching 11000 test runs mark.
Yuvraj Sing who made a valuable 68, was instrumental in re building India's innings a long side Dravid With India struggling on 37 for 4 wickets.
So at the end of day one it's team India in command on 385 for 6 wickets with Dravid at the wickets On an unbeaten 177.
For Sri Lanka Welegedera 3 wickets for 75, and Prasad 2 for 90 with Muralidharan 1 for 90 will have their work cut out if they are to ensure that India don't reach 500.
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Penguin Random House Offers a Lit Mag With Quality and Variety in Content
At only five years old, Hazlitt has the solidness that a magazine needs these days to be modest. Take for example one of their very few self-promoting articles on the site. In May of 2016, Hazlitt announced their 15 nominations for National Magazine awards with the sub-title: "We are pleased." Many a magazine could take a cue from Hazlitton modesty, though not every magazine has the backing of the publishing powerhouse, Penguin Random House Canada.
Neither does every magazine have anywhere near the variety in content. At the unveiling of the website back in 2012, company president, Robert Wheaton told The National Post that Hazlitt was founded on the premise that "good writers and good voices can make any topic interesting." As if this were a challenge, Hazlitt now publishes content under such topic headings as: society, culture, books, music, fiction, essay, film, television, comics, parenting, and mouthful. Yes, that is most certainly a mouthful.
And what's wrong with turning to writers who are tried and true? Nothing, certainly, though it's an interesting contrast to the statement on Hazlitt's About page, which states briefly, that its site is "essential Internet" because it publishes "writers not heard anywhere else." Interesting contrast with the repeat contributors. Turns out, this is only one of the many, many contrasts that come to light on Hazlitt.
Another contrast, and no less interesting, is the magazine's representation of gender. In an infamous 2013 interview for Hazlitt, award-winning writer and literature teacher, David Gilmour said he was "not interested in teaching books by women" because he vowed "to teach only the people that [he] truly, truly loved and unfortunately, none of those happen to be women." Of course the opinion of one interviewee in no way reflects the views of the magazine that publishes it…but it's interesting to note that since this interview, many of Hazlitt's contributors are women.
But that's not the end of the gender story. Consider the two separate podcast series that Hazlitt publishes. The Arcade (mentioned earlier) is hosted and produced by male contributor, Anshuman Iddamsetty, and often features writers, comedians, artists who need no introduction because their names are universally known: Anne Rice, Jim Gaffigan, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chuck Palahniuk. There seems to be a slightly heavier bent toward male guests, though it's difficult to be precise due to the volume of episodes. The Arcade page lists for a description: "the flagship culture podcast."
The second podcast is called Cavern of Secrets, is hosted and produced by female contributor, Lauren Mitchell, and is described as "a show about extraordinary women." To this, I might add a disclaimer: "You may not know their names today, but you will tomorrow." All women featured on this podcast write, speak, or create art in some way about feminism, race, culture, and coping with life. What's also interesting to note, almost all the guests are non-white, and hail from all over Canada to Chile to as far as Ghana. This may be a dangerous statement to make considering the sheer volume of content on Hazlitt, but I dare say that there is more diversity in voice in these two podcasts than in the whole of the magazine.
One thing that is clear, though, is the content: it is quality. But this should come as no surprise considering Hazlitt editor, Christopher Frey, has won five National Magazine awards and contributes to CBC Radio and numerous top Canadian print and electronic publications.
What's also clear is that Hazlitt is interested in reviewing pitches, though one would imagine a competitive acceptance rate considering it pays $250 (Canadian) for 600-800 words. (This pay rate assumes that rate listed in Quill and Quire in 2013 is still accurate.) If you're serious about submitting, take a look at their Submission page, found through a link in the footer. There are tips on what Hazlitt is looking for, not looking for, as well as links to ten pieces that they consider representational.
It can be dizzying to wade through the pages and pages of content on Hazlitt's site, especially because the majority of it is not found through the main tabs at the top menu. Unless you are looking exclusively for poetry, which seems to be one of the only forms of writing not featured, odds are that you will find something you like. But even in this case, poetry is represented indirectly, through interviews with poets.
So, the ultimate lesson with Hazlitt seems to be similar to the ultimate lesson of life: If you find something you like, read it, study it, enjoy it. You may never find your way back to it again.


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Friends and Neighbors: Time to celebrate the women who were our role models
Recently I had lunch with some friends and since we are in the midst of Black History Month, we spent hours reminiscing about our growing up days in Overtown, and how blessed we were to have parents and teachers who shielded us from the perils to come. We didn't know what we were going to have to face once we got out from under their circle of protection.
They never told us directly. It was always, "Go to school and get a good education and nobody can take that from you."
As we grew up, we learned that we lived in a world ruled by Jim Crow laws. And we knew our place — so to speak — in that world. But somehow, we didn't know how severe our lives were touched by those unfair and unjust laws, until we graduated high school and walked out into the real world.
While in school, our teachers never told us just how segregated our world was. But somehow we knew.
Rarely, if ever, did our parents came home from work telling us of some demeaning incident that happened to them. Instead, whether we lived in Overtown's "Good Bread Alley" or in the Liberty Square Housing Project, they made our home a safe haven from the world.
My mom and her friends didn't have telephones when we were growing up. But every mother in the neighborhood looked out for every child on the block. And we knew to respect "Mrs. Houston" and "Mrs. Anne" when they scolded us. Our prayer was that they didn't tell our parents because that would be another scolding or worse.
I'm so thankful for that village of women who served a surrogate moms to me and my brother. They kept us out of trouble and my mom never had to worry about going to visit my brother in jail. It was a system that worked then and it could work now if we would only give it a chance.
We remembered our female teachers, who knew they had hundreds of young girls watching their every move, each day. So, without saying as much, they became our mentors. We wanted to look and act just like them. Our male teachers all wore shirts and ties; their shirts were always tucked in their pants. They were role models in every way as they went about the work of educating us and making sure we had the things we needed to excel. Often that meant our teachers had to use money from their small salaries to buy the necessary school supplies for us.
They taught us manners and morals and how to persevere. That would certainly come in hand for me when I was faced with unfair supervisors in the workplace. I could hear my mom and my teachers saying to me, "Keep your head up and do your job well."
I did. And so did my friends. But while we took in the priceless teaching from our parents and teachers, my heart goes out to the young people of today. Something has gone terribly wrong in the black community. Our children are killing each other and those who aren't dead are packing the jailhouses.
Looking back at how far we have come since we were growing up in the 1940s and '50s, we realize now that our parents and our teachers gave us hope, even when they didn't see hope in the distant future. I am amazed how they held on to their integrity and dignity, when they had to drink from the "Colored" water fountain, and then explain to their children why they couldn't drink from the fountain that had a "White" sign over it. They had a hard time trying to explain to us (especially curious me) that, "No, the water from the white water fountain didn't taste like lemonade."
Now that I am a mother and grandmother, I believe I can feel the pain our parents bore when it was time to shop for a new pair of shoes for us, and had to measure our feet with a piece of string to get our size. In those days, department stores didn't allow blacks to try on shoes and clothes. A lot of us wore ill-fitted shoes for that reason.
So, we've come far enough to have witnessed a black man in the White House. Still, we know that we haven't out run racism. Our president has had to endure some of the worse racism I've seen in many years.
And so, though the struggle continues, we are equipped with something deep within us that tells us to keep on keeping on. We do matter and our hope is alive and strong.
The "Emerging Young Ladies" will have its 2015-16 essay contest and luncheon at noon Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Church of the Open door, 6001 NW Eighth Ave. in Liberty City.
The event is being presented by the board of directors of the Women Involved in Service to Humanity (W.I.S.H.) Foundation along with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Gamma Zeta Omega Chapter.
The event is a Black History Month project and is titled "Faces of Color, Faces of Character: Celebration of History, Culture and Achievement." The essay and display project contest winners will be announced at the event.
Tickets to the program and luncheon are $25 per person. Call Shirley Lewis Archie at 305-696-9989 for tickets and more information.
The Miami Woman's Club will celebrate Black History Month through the arts and culture from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, at Biscayne Bay Marriott, 1600 N. Bayshore Dr. in a private room by the first floor elevator next to Catch Restaurant.
The art exhibit will feature the works of Debra Dancy, courtesy of N'Namdi. Music will be performed by jazz singer Just Cynthia and gospel artist David Smith. Spoken word artist Rebecca "Butterfly" Vaughn will perform. Also on the program are Contemporary Miami and JCarol.
The cost is $15 for members and $20 for guests. Light hors d'oeuvre and will be served . The first drink is included. To RSVP, call Shirley Pardon at 786-525-4621.
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Retired solicitor Richard Oerton reflects on his experience in giving a conference speech, and on the benefits of preparation and a belief in what he was saying.
In 2012 a book of mine appeared called The Nonsense of Free Will. My confident prediction was that it would go nowhere, but it gathered a few nice reviews and it lead to a surprising invitation: to attend a conference organised by the Faculty of Law at the University of Aberdeen and speak for fifty minutes - yes, fifty minutes - on the subject of "Justice without Retribution".
All the other speakers were disbelievers in free will like me, but the resemblance ended there because they all had doctorates or professorships, or both, and I had neither (I had left school at sixteen and then had quite a chequered career as a lawyer) and they were all practised speakers whereas I had never made a speech in my life. And I had a stammer. So I was intimidated and my first impulse was to refuse; but then I convicted myself of cowardice, accepted the invitation, and spent the ensuing months wondering whether my performance would prove to be a humiliating shambles.
In actual fact it turned out reasonably well. My speech was due towards the end of the second day of the conference and I slept very badly on the previous night and rather badly on the night before that. I was tired and consumed with anxiety right up to the moment when I started to speak but then, after giving an early warning that I might seize up, I gave the speech with complete fluency; and it seemed to go down reasonably well. This experience prompts one or two reflections.
My stammer, for most of my life, has been a particularly crippling one, but in recent times it has abated to some extent. At least for some of us this can happen in old age – I turned 79 in the month of the conference – but so far as I know there is no generally accepted explanation for it. I myself have a rather tentative idea of what it might be: to put it very simply, I think that stammering often stops people exposing themselves to what they unconsciously perceive as the perils of success, and when life draws towards its close there ceases to be a need for it. I don't expect anyone to agree with this idea and I don't plan to elaborate on it here.
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At all events, I'm sure I couldn't have faced up to giving this speech, still less given it fluently, when I was younger. Mind you, I doubt whether the giving of a prepared speech to an audience is quite the most terrifying ordeal that someone who stammers can face. You do at least know exactly what you're going to say and (heckling apart: fortunately there was none in my case) you know that you will be encouraged to say it. These conditions seldom prevail in ordinary life. I'm reminded here of a man called H.V. Hemery who lectured at Goldsmiths College and claimed many years ago to cure stammering through public speaking. Quite how he managed to procure audiences for his clients to speak to I don't know, and I don't know whether his cure worked, or whether it lasted - perhaps some readers of this article know more about this than I do - but I shouldn't find it all that surprising if the stammerers managed to deliver their actual speeches quite fluently.
I spoke earlier of a prepared speech. I do suggest that preparation is important, particularly for a person who stammers. (I certainly couldn't have made an impromptu speech.) For myself, I laboured long over my wording – Beatrix Potter's advice to "cut, cut, cut" and then "polish, polish, polish" should be taken seriously by anyone trying to write anything, though I haven't always followed it – and I read it aloud to myself several times and then read it to one of my daughters, so that I became familiar, not only with the speech itself, but also with the experience of delivering it.
It also helps a great deal if you believe in what you are saying and in the desirability of saying it. It was these beliefs alone which spurred me into overcoming my own trepidation and reluctance: without them I should certainly have turned down the invitation. I realise, of course, that some who stammer may have jobs which require them to give talks, addresses, speeches or presentations, or find themselves doing so for other reasons, without having any strong desire to share their beliefs about anything. I can only offer them my sympathy.
Actually, my trepidation about the conference turned out to be largely justified, but in a way I had not expected. As my stammer has improved, so my deafness has worsened and in the event my hearing caused far more of a problem than my speaking. Much of the time, I was almost incommunicado for this quite different reason. Google tells me that it was Alexander Graham Bell who said, "When one door closes, another opens". Sadly, the converse is often true.
Richard Oerton, a retired solicitor, has worked in private practice, in legal publishing and at the Law Commission. Details of his book "The Nonsense of Free Will" are on his website: www.richardoerton.co.uk


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TOWN have launched the Blue and White Foundation with the aim of raising £200,000 a year for the club's Academy.
Around 500 fans attended last night's launch event at the McAlpine, when chief executive Andrew Watson revealed details of the fund-raising scheme.
The club hope to attract an exclusive membership of 2,000 fans, each paying £2 per week in return for various McAlpine benefits, and it will get under way on December 4.
Mr Watson told the packed audience: "The Foundation can ensure that we not only keep the Academy going but that it can thrive as we need it to for many years to come.
"It was feared earlier this year that if the club went into administration, the Academy might be one of the first things to go.
"Thanks to help from the Yorkshire Building Society Terriers Account and the Patrons Association, we managed to keep it going, but we now need a major drive to fund it further.
"Despite grants of around £200,000 a year from the Football Foundation and the help we receive from the Patrons and Yorkshire Building Society, we still need to raise around £180,000 a year for the Academy."
The Blue and White Foundation - similar to a scheme which has run successfully at Bolton for the past 20 years - can do that by offering benefits to members and a weekly big-money cash draw.
Each fan gets a letter of acceptance and membership pack containing full details.
Members get a 5% discount on next year's season-tickets, free weekend membership of the McAlpine gym and free junior Town recognition for children and grandchildren.
There's preference for big-match tickets alongside that of the season-ticket holders, a regular newsletter, various social events and a chance, twice a year, to put questions to the board.
Foundation members will also choose a Player of the Month and Player of the Year, while the weekly cash draw will be launched in December
Top prize will be £500, with a £10 consolation prize going to the holders of the five numbers either side of the winner.
And for one week a year, there will be a £10,000 cash prize, with £100 each for the 10 nearest numbers either side.
"We will be giving away a total of £41,000 and, from a membership of 2,000, there will be 572 winners, which can't be bad," said Mr Watson, who received more than 1,000 applications to attend last night's event.
"The hope is that people will pay by direct debit - it's just £8.66 a month - and if we fill up the membership the Foundation will bring in £208,000 a year.
"Over the next decade, that could add up to £2m towards the cost of producing our own homegrown players and we all know how vital that is.
"Just looking at Saturday's win over Bristol Rovers, three of the star performers, Jon Stead, Andy Booth and Paul Scott, were Leeds Road products.
"And the bench was entirely homegrown, with Andy Holdsworth going on and making his League debut on a day when the Academy team themselves beat Chelsea away from home, which is no mean feat.
"Our intention is to bring more and more players through like that and, having watched our Under 10 and 11 teams last weekend, I can tell you we have some smashing prospects in the system."
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Band Review
Motorhead Rocks The Abyss
By Melanie Falina
"I like being called a rock star, I like being a rock star. And I'm entirely gracious, I think," said
Motorhead's Lemmy Kilminster as I teased him a little during our interview. But if anyone has earned
such a title - it's certainly the 60-year-old Motorhead front man. How many men in rock are known
instantly by only their first name? And just how hard could your daddy rock at age 60?
Triumphantly celebrating their 30 th anniversary this year, their first Grammy
award, and last June's release, Inferno - which has been called one of the band's best albums
ever, Lemmy, Mikkey Dee, and Phil Campbell have no intentions of putting out the flame.
Having begun touring abroad in 2004 in support of Inferno, Motorhead
had to postpone the American leg of their tour due to a foot injury suffered by Lemmy. "I got a blister
on my foot. We were flying a lot, you know, in and out of pressure, and also I was wearing these tight,
pointy boots. Not really smart. And I got this big blister on the end of my foot and it went infected.
So I had to get off it, lay down for a bit and be pumped full of antibiotics. It's not very romantic,"
chuckles Lemmy. "But I didn't want to lose the foot. As soon as it gets infected it becomes 100% more
Now with a healthy foot, Lemmy and company kicked' off their tour early this
March with openers, and fellow rock veterans, Corrosion of Conformity. "I'm very pleased to be going
back into America. It's been nearly two years on since we've been on tour in the States, so it's great."
One song Motorhead will not be performing on the tour however is the song that
just recently won them their first Grammy award, their rendition of Metallica's Whiplash.' "It's a
novelty kind of thing. We did it for a tribute album."
Motorhead combined forces with producer extraordinaire Bob Kulick, the reigning
king of tribute projects, on the Metallica cover. "Yeah, the poor devil didn't even get to go [to the
Grammies]," Lemmy says of Kulick. "I would have really liked to have taken him, and you don't get two
tickets. You know, you don't get to take your girlfriend, it's like Nazi Germany."
"We've done a lot of work with Bob, actually. We've done a lot of these tribute
things he's done. We did an AC/DC one. A Queen one, I did Tie Your Mother Down,'which is not a good
idea in retrospect. Tie your mother down not a good idea really," he laughs, "Thought of
that sooner we could have gotten away from home sooner."
Another recent collaboration was during the recording process of Inferno;
Yeah, I was going into the Rainbow and he was coming out. And I said, Hello Steve,' and he said, "Hello
Lem, what are you doing?' And I said we were doing a new album and he said, Well, if you want me to
play a couple tracks
' And like a fool he gave me his number."
"Really nice guy too, super easy to work with," Lemmy comments on Vai. "None of
this pompous shit, you know. I'm going to soak my hands for half an hour,' none of that."
So, now finally in the States, what are Motorhead's plans for this tour? "Well,
Phil's going to have breast implants and Mikkey's going to explode on the encore every night." chuckles
Big booms and big boobs aside, Motorhead fans can expect the solid rock and
roll shows they're used to. "Well, you know, apart from a few songs off the new album I mean we did an
acoustic song, acoustic blues, we do that on stage. Apart from that it's going to be more or less
business as usual except we try to pull out a couple new things for the 30 th anniversary tour,
Did Lemmy have any idea when forming Motorhead that after three decades they'd
be going strong? "Well no, it never crosses your mind, does it? I was 30-years-old when we started so
you say to yourself, two years tops, if we're lucky.' And then you get a real job. It seems like the
day before yesterday that we started."
Prior to Motorhead's birth, back in1967 Lemmy worked briefly as a roadie to
Jimi Hendrix. I asked Lemmy what he remembered the most about Hendrix from his personal experiences.
"How much acid he could stand without actually exploding," he laughs. "Because that was when everyone
was doing acid, right? And he certainly was, and I certainly was. The first time I ever did it was when
I was working for him. And it was an enlightening experience. Not like the experiences now, I think this
generation must have a really bad time, generally, because it's not that optimistic of an outlook. Not
like it was then, we were certain we were the best generation ever, and we were going to just cure all
known diseases, et cetera."
"[Now a days] they're trying to be cool, what the matter with you? Jump up and
down! Although, I have to say the new generation these 15 year olds who are coming to our gigs are
really jumping up and down, it's great. Our music is really young music. If you didn't know who it was
and you heard it, you'd think it was a new band, as old as we are. I think it was the generation right
after mine that got stuck with that nose in the air stuff."
At one point, I said to the funny, down-to-earth rock legend, "Ok, I have a
weird question for you "
"I'll give you a weird answer," he replied.
wondered if that ever hurt his neck, and why he liked having it up so high.
"It's just a personal comfort thing. It's more comfortable for me, and it's
easier for me to hit the high notes. It's just that, personal, you know. And also, I don't have to look
at the audience. I wasn't uncomfortable from the audience; I was uncomfortable from the lack of it in
the beginning. There were just two guys in the dark, you know," he chuckles.
So what has over 30 years in the music business taught Lemmy Kilminster about
life? "The most important thing I've learned is that people all over the world are exactly the same,
they're just trying to get along without getting fucking killed or arrested. And if everyone could
realize that we can stop fighting. We're just fucking murderers disguised as military leaders - I just
don't get it. We should have gotten past that by now." Lemmy continues: "It would have been a hell of a
population explosion without World War II, I suppose, so it goes both ways."
"And [religion's] a problem we don't seem able to shake. I still don't believe
that people go for that fucking patched together, cobbled story. It's not even a good plot, really. It's
a very unhappy ending," he laughs. "And the Virgin gets pregnant by a ghost, and then she goes back and
says, I'm still a virgin, darling, but I'm pregnant,' and he says, Ok.' Brilliant! All holy books say
thou shalt not kill,' but it's all open to interpretation and so ambiguous."
Another tender topic of conversation with Kilminster is the recent death of Pantera and Damageplan founder and uitarist, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. "I knew him quite well. I sold him a bass guitar once. He's been a friend of ours for years ever since Pantera came out with us. I've know him and got to know Vinnie as well. Fucking terrible thing, you know. As long as you don't have a decent gun law here, it's going to happen. It's only because he's a rock star that it came to our attention, but people are getting shot like that every day. I really miss him, it's a shame. As long as you can buy a gun under the counter in a pawnshop hen you're in the shit, because that means any looney can get one. That guy that shot Dime was a ooney; fucking idiot. And because his mind's all fucked up this guy has to die? If he couldn't have otten a gun, what would he have done, thrown rocks at him?"
Motorhead has had their own share of fanatics, but thankfully not on such a
cataclysmic level. "We do get obsessive ones who are a bit strange, yeah. There's one that dresses
exactly like me, head to toe, mustache the same. And I'm sure if he could have moles grafted onto his
face he would have. That's kind of a compliment, and then you start to think, Wait a minute '"
Before signing off, I asked Lemmy what his favorite song is to play right now. "I like playing most of them. There are only a couple we do that we have to do that I don't like. That goes in and out, you go around again, you start to like them again. I'm really enjoying playing Ace of Spades' again. It's a good song we got lucky. It could have been a turkey, we could have been stuck doing a fucking turkey for the rest of our lives," he laughs.
"It's been a long time since 1980. It's a long time since we did the
original. When Brian Robertson was with us he wouldn't play it anyway, so we got a break there. Apart
from that we've always played it since. I'll tell you one I never get sick of is, Killed By Death.'
It's a great song because there are so many bits in it. If you don't like this bit you go into the next
bit and enjoy that."
Motorhead will be playing Chicago's House of Blues on March 19 and March 21, 2005.
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New Game, New Campaign Setting (Some Early Thoughts)1
February 6, 2013 by deadorcs
As DnDNext continues to develop, I continue to like what I'm seeing from the playtest. I'm almost certain I'll be starting a campaign once the rules are finalized. The release date is likely a year (probably more) away, but it's not too soon to start thinking of a home-brew campaign setting I'd like to use.
This is my normal process when running DnD games. I'll often create my own elaborate world, and then drop pre-written adventures into it. I give myself plenty of lead time for the campaign setting that way, and I don't have to spend a lot of time writing adventures.
One of the big changes I'll be making this time around, is to get a lot more player input into how the campaign setting takes shape. I'll come up with some fundamentals, and then I'll either narrow the choices down, or just flat-out ask the players what kind of world they would like to adventure in. In the past, I've had trouble with getting my players really interested in the world they are adventuring in. I'm hoping that by including them in the process, it will increase their immersion.
One of the first things I want to consider is pretty fundamental – what does the land look like? This seems like an odd question, but a unique land surface can really shape how a campaign feels. Think Skyrim. While part of a huge world (Tamriel), the whole game takes place in a cold mountainous region. Many of the events that occur in the game involve mountains, winter environments, and cold. Always the cold.
Anyway, I want my own campaign setting to have a similar feel. Not Skyrim, necessarily, but unique and identifying. I want the landscape interesting, varied, and without strange physics to govern its existence (like floating continents, for example). In addition, I want the landscape to include a form of transportation that's reasonably quick (for a fantasy setting) but without resorting to ubiquitous teleporters (which stretches credulity for me). I asked my Twitter following about this very topic yesterday, and there were several great ideas. At this point, I think I've narrowed it down to a few:
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM – This campaign setting would feature an entire continent's worth of space, but broken up into islands no larger than real world Ireland. Shipping would be a common form of travel for just about everyone, and perhaps even underwater travel (submarines) would be entertained.
TAKING FLIGHT – This campaign would use a typical varied fantasy landscape, but the way to travel long distances is by flying mounts. Their operation would function unabashedly like the mounts used to travel in World of Warcraft. There's probably a whole guild that does nothing but maintain the various flight lines.
SHADOW TRAIN – I'm leaning towards this one, but again, I'm going to let my players decide what they want to do. In this campaign setting, I use a unique landscape (maybe the islands or a vast water-crossed wetlands) and combine it with an ancient rail system left behind by a mysterious culture. At the terminals of these obsidian rail lines, a mysterious cult summons a Shadow Train out of the very ether. The train solidifies, takes passengers, freight, etc. and moves under its own mysterious power. When the train gets to its destination, and everything is unloaded, the train dissolves back in to the ether. I might use a shadow stagecoach idea with this one instead. We'll see. I like the idea of these mysterious dark glass rails crisscrossing a difficult landscape.
That's all I have so far. As I get my players, I'll be asking them for input, and I think the final form of the campaign setting will have one or more of the features listed above. We'll see what happens!
Until next time…
Game excellently with one another.


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I hear from and meet a lot of travelers who pass through Siem Reap in my role as the founder and lead moderator of the Siem Reap-Angkor group on CouchSurfing. Many are here only for a few days, while others stay slightly longer.
It's only a few who actually choose to stay in Cambodia for at least a month. Many of these folks often look for places to volunteer. And most of these volunteer-seekers think the only alternative is going to an "orphanage" to play with or teach children. They have no idea about where to begin and often look for recommendations of places to contact.
My first recommendation for these volunteer-seekers is to visit the ConCERT Cambodia website. ConCERT describes itself in the following way on its homepage:
ConCERT – "Connecting Communities, Environment & Responsible Tourism" - is a non profit organisation based in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Our aim is to reduce poverty, and we do this by bringing together people who want to help, and local organisations that need the kind of support they can give.What I really LOVE about ConCERT is that its founder, Michael, has made a huge effort in checking out numerous local organizations and charities within Siem Reap.
At ConCERT we have information on a range of organisations that are engaged in humanitarian activities, all of whom need your support. They are wellmanaged and financially transparent, and work in partnership with local people.
We also have a wealth of information on the causes and effects of poverty in Cambodia; this information explains why there is such an urgent need for your support.
At the ConCERT office in the centre of Siem Reap we have information on a range of organisations engaged in community development and support activities, and which supplement the work of the government.
All our member organisations need your support and are well managed, financially transparent, and work in partnership with local people. Every organisation is different and requires different types of help. All our member organisations need your support and are well managed, financially transparent, and work in partnership with local people. Every organisation is different and requires different types of help.Being a teacher for a hotel and tourism school, I feel it is even more important to be "in the know" so that I can be a responsible teacher. After all, it's these same tourists who they will depend on for their jobs once they finish their training.
I've also been reading posts from Daniela Papi on her Lessons I Learned blog, and have been both empowered and dismayed. There is a lot of dialog going on, but the key point I keep hearing repeated is that there is a need for more transparency and willingness to share. Sharing can take the form of ideas, lessons learned or even just simply talking things out in the open.
I am empowered to provide the most accurate information about volunteering and speak out as much as possible about making well thought out choices for how to support the work happening in Cambodia. I do this by posting as much information I can and directing people that I meet to places like ConCERT.
At the same time, it is disheartening to encounter the numerous well-intentioned people who are seeking "easy" ways to volunteer and "help" the poor in Cambodia, while ignoring what would and should be good practices in their home countries simply because "this is Cambodia."
Somehow, these seemingly well-educated people think it is OK to disregard safe and responsible practices. They leave their logic at the door because to them, any help is better than no help in a developing country like Cambodia.
Why should it be acceptable to just walk in to any village, school or children's center and just start "volunteering"?
When I read articles like this one, "UNICEF Concern Prompts Cambodian Investigation of Orphanages," it makes me wonder what it's going to take to get tourists to change their perception of volunteering. Part of the responsibility lays in the hands of the tour agents and operators. While the other half is tourists themselves who need to start re-adjusting their thoughts as to the wider impacts of such short-term volunteering on the local population who must put up with the revolving door of volunteers.
It's going to take a paradigm shift for both tourists and tour operations in order to adjust their view of "voluntourism," which has become the de facto model for "helping" the poor and less fortunate, particularly in Cambodia.
Daniela Papi has provided some excellent links that I have found extremely useful in framing my position on this issue.
Where do we draw then line when good intentions for the sake of doing good is not enough?
How to evaluate an orphanage, by Saundra Schimmelpfennig
Before you pay to volunteer abroad, think of the harm you might do, by Ian Birrell (despite this article, tourist STILL think it's perfectly OK to walk into orphanages for dance shows, buy for child sellers, or give money handouts to beggars.)
Cambodian Orphanage Tourism, on Aljezeera
Orphanage Tourism: The Catch-22 of Orphanage Funding, by Eric Lewis
Orphanage Tourism in Cambodia: Good Intentions are Not Enough, by Saundra Schimmelpfennig
A Protest Against Orphanage Tourism, and other orphanage tourism related posts on this blog
Sasha Dichter of Acumen Fund reminds us to be generous and use our heart, but to "ask the tough questions"
Here's my own useful link for some really useful ways for giving back and helping back without mucking about in the lives of people where the author provides 8 rules for "econ-travel." Is There a Right Way to Spend Money When Traveling?


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yes its the last call for the giveaway to celebrate my 407th post !!
i will choose the winner just after lunchtime so come on get your name down don't be shy !!
The list is going well and my stock boxes are filling up nicely
another days sewing and i should be ready which is good as i only have one day left !!
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Sit down to a powerhouse of goodness with this fresh salad!
|1 Pkg
|300gr Maple Leaf Prime® Naturallly Turkey Sausage
|1 cup
|(250 mL) feta cheese, crumbled
|1 Pkg
|6 oz (175 g) blueberries
|1 cup
|(250 mL) whole walnuts
|1/2 cup
|(125 mL) white beans, rinsed and drained
|small red onion, thinly sliced
|1 cup
|(250 mL) sprouts
|5 cups
|(1250 mL) kale, trimmed, washed and chopped
|1/2 cup
|(125 mL) balsamic salad dressing
PREHEAT grill to medium high heat.
COOK sausages 4 to 5 minutes per side or until an internal temperature of 165 degrees is reached.
SET aside and keep warm.
PLACE kale in a large bowl and toss with salad dressing.
SPRINKLE cheese, blueberries, walnuts, beans and red onion over top.
GARNISH with sprouts.
SLICE each sausage into 6 rounds on the bias and serve alongside salad.
DRIZZLE with extra dressing is desired.
Try serving with gluten free grilled toasted points drizzled with olive oil.
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Statement of Purpose: The Capacity Building Project helps to identify and aggregate training needs and best practices from institutions in RLS and share this information among benefiting institutions..
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Wig and robe to polka-dot bikini
Thursday 31 March 2011
From New Zealand's Sunday Star Times:
Wig and robe to polka-dot bikini
Age doesn't matter when you do something you love, says surfer mum Marguerite Vujcich. At 51, the former South African is the oldest competitor on the national women's surfing circuit – by about 30 years.
She shows up to competitions with her signature blonde hair trailing behind her, and often in a bright pink bikini. Even at twice the age of her rivals, she is the seventh-ranked woman nationally.
The achievement is all the more impressive given the battle the former lawyer has fought to get there.
Brought up in Durban, she taught herself how to surf at 16. "I was the only girl surfing. The boys gave me a hard time, but then they realised I was serious."
She came to New Zealand about 20 years ago, setting up as a barrister in Auckland. Vujcich says she was so committed to her work that she didn't even take maternity leave after giving birth to any of her three children.
"I remember being in court and having contractions and I would drive to the hospital and continue to take calls while working through the contractions. I had one of my babies on a Friday morning and by Monday, I was back at work.
"I apologised to a client that I couldn't see them on Friday, but I was having a baby."
But six years ago, it all caught up with her. "I loved my work. I'd work till two or three most mornings and think nothing of it. But I had a trial in Auckland and, on my way home, I collapsed. I got home and put all my ski gear on and went to bed, I was that cold."
She discovered she was very ill.
"I was signing off, shutting down. I couldn't even lift a hand." She was diagnosed with chronic fatigue. "I pictured myself as 80 or 90, with long grey hair and a walking stick, going to court."
After the diagnosis, the family moved to Napier. "The specialist said to go somewhere quiet." She told her husband, Alan, if she couldn't practise law, she was going surfing.
A year ago she began competing, after initial reservations about being too old. "When you are out in the waves, you sort of forget about age and just concentrate on the waves and wanting to win. I thought everyone would laugh at me, but you have just got to give everything a go in life. If you want to do something, you do it."
Now she has people tell her she's inspirational. "It doesn't matter what your age is. Challenging yourself is how you stay young."
Vujcich said no one could tell her if and when she would fully recover, and she has days where she looks with sadness at the wig and robe hanging in her wardrobe. But she has got a coach to take her through winter and wants to make the top four this summer.
"My coach says he'll get me to number one."
- Sunday Star Times
The above originally appeared here.
Another article about Marguerite, also written by Sarah Harvey, appeared in New Zealand's Sunday News:
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Ear, Nose and Throat Medical Practice in Muslim Heritage
Muslim medicine is characterised by a high level of experience and critical clinical observation setting aside mythologies and legends. The ear, nose and throat exemplify the participation of Muslim medicine and the contribution of the great Arab physicians to the study of anatomy, physiology and diseases of these organs.
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A monthly summary of what has washed onto the shore or beach through the winds, tides, waves or human action. Marine debris, flora and fauna, dead or alive:
Thick layers of Bluebottles/ Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia physalis) along the beach and many in the surf with very long tentacles. There was a very large unusual medusa, an approximately 18 cm transluscent bell with short mauve tentacles, arranged in pairs. An impressive creature. (Image)
People fishing, wagging dead fish heads in the water seem to want to attract sharks to the beach which is full of people. Crested Terns still mingling with Gulls. Some real driftwood, large logs of native trees.
An increasing diversity of jelly fish, bluebottles, round 'buttons' and transluscent blobs. Many dead fish, a headless Weedy Seadragon. Nice shells and kelp species along the Manly end. Extreme rugby between the flags. Smoking carers with newly borns on the beach. Towards Nrth Steyne., kelp and thick in bluebottles. Olfactory mystery and building noises. Huge logs of driftwood.
Endless plastic 'party' balloons, full of gas and deflated with fancy looong ribbons, entangling anything in sight, released to share with wildlife and future generations. Family or PR 'fun'. 020309
Serious (commercial?) spearfishing took place at the Queenscliff end of the beach. At the time when life-savers knocked off, the professionally armed diver killed a lot of marine life and dragged it to the beach. Many children were in the water and also gathered around his loot. The very large weapon in a public space seemed most inappropriate. The proximity of an armed hunter in the ocean and on a crowded beach appeared against all beach safety. Apparently it is legal. After the beaching, the heavy and rich 'harvest' was brought to the caves of Queenscliff, where more 'goodies' were bunkered. If it was within the 'bag limit' and what species the heavy bags contained will never be known. 050309
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Three Crested Terns diving. Ravens cleaning up a dead Seagull. Some dead fish, a couple of transluscent blobs (jelly-fish).
Junkspace: Countless plastic 'throw-away' bottles, chucked after a 'convienent' drink. Along the entire length of the beach. Fishing Junk: Long strong plastic ropes/gear and styropore sinkers. 060309
A wild ocean last night blew thick layers of blue bottles onto the beach - the jelly fish variety and the plastic variety. A few tiny Nudibranches were still alive at the beach. They had a black and bright blue colour. Crested Terns were diving. A coconut with many bi-valves with orange edges. A not unpleasant fish smell.
Fishing people trying their best to entangle beach users and marine life. A lot of nylon string and plastic toys were left behind.
Rain washed all of suburbia clean. All the toxic fertilised lawn transplants, the foamy car-wash, the untreated dog and cat poo, etc (known as "stormwater", pdf) ends up in one of these holding pools. (eutrophication image) Seagulls bathe in it and then it seaps into Manly Beach and the wider blue Pacific. From marine biodiversity to dead zone.
The sand is a colourful composite of shell bits. Soon shells will not be able to build their hard shells and the 'sand' will disappear. An acid ocean, full of carbon dioxide does not allow for hard shells being build. But there is no sign of slowing Manly's use of fossil fuels. A degraded world will be left behind for the many off-spring they are hurling around the place with fossil fuel. 090309
Generous amounts of garden clippings, prickly pear and other weeds. Balloons, balloons and more... Blue Bottles and the blue 'button' jellyfish. Many cuttlefish bone/sepia. At the Queenscliff end, the smelly problem of 'kelp' stuck in engineering wonders, was 'solved' with the aid of a lot of diesel and heavy machinery.
Usually there are many plastic bags on the beach, but this dumped bait packaging seemed unusual. The contents had been pilchards from W.A. Forgotten seems to be the mass mortality of pilchards (Sardinops sagax) during 1995 due to "a novel Herpesvirus". "The deaths occurred along 5000 km of the Australian coastline and 500 km of the New Zealand coastline." It is believed that " the virus was introduced to a naive population. It appears to have a point source and correlates though it is not proven, to an area where a large population of blue fin tuna are kept in pens. They have to be fed on pilchards, which are imported from overseas and dumped into the ocean there." "Bait" has the potential to spread disease, especially with an absence of a 'code of practice'. Australia's 2.89 million "recreational" fishers consume 4000 tonnes of purchased marine fish as bait p.a.
Dumping fishing gear and "bait" at the beach or ocean endangers marine life and has the potential for huge economic damage. 100309
A washed up Yellow-bellied Sea Snake (Pelamis platurus, images ) +30cm long, headless. A beautiful black skin and a very bright yellow underside. Many dead Pufferfish and large Porcupinefish. Crested Terns with hungry offspring. A great variety of kelp and jelly fish. A large coconut full of living bi-vales, 4-edged dark seeds, also alive.
An unusual number of (recession plagued?) anglers with very large buckets. More plastic bait bags blowing in the wind. Freshly cut large fish heads stinking on the beach. Chucked fruit and veg from some boat?. Unusual in today's junkspace, apart from the usual boring 'party balloons' with long strings, was a full condom.
Extreme sport: surf kites seemed to want to raze the heads of walkers and swimmers with their gear at high speed. For joggers a real challenge to dodge the fishinghooks, racing surf kites or slip on a full condom. 110309
Dead birds: 1 young Crested Tern, + 3 Mutton birds. A dead rat - not the native water rat. A few dead fish.
A lot of garbage: A new wave of 'convenient' one-mouth-full portions, "mini" this & that, individually wrapped. Stuff it in, swallow and chuck. So easy.
A real epidemic of plastic balloons with entangle strings, every day. Just spottet a "mum-party" yesterday, each pram had some six balloons tied to it. And then 'party!' they are released - off they go - to entangle the marine offspring.
Fishing junk, floaters with nylon string still attached and plastic bait bags. Strange campaigns to only lobby against plastic bags and have a 'blind spot' for all the other ubiquitous plastic junk. Bottles and bottles... 120309
A thick layer of Soldier beetles (Cantharus Lugubris, images) washed up along the beach. More gardens and parks will have less biological control agents now. Nice shells. Plastic fishing junk, a syringe and a lot of freshly cracked sharp glass.. Another spearfish gun at Queenscliff amongst sun - bathers. 160309
A lot of Crested Terns (pdf) mingling with Seagulls, leaving their offspring with them whilst they go diving. With stunning aerial displays they shoot into the shallow pools and bring fish to their young. Often Seagulls chase them to extract the catch. One adult feeder had a fishing string dangling out of its bill which it was desperately trying to extract to continue feeding. More plastic fishing junk on the beach. It's time to make fishing illegal in dense coastal areas. More large pieces of glass on the beach. 180309
In the morning the row of Norfolk Island Pines is abuzz (audio) with Sulphur Crested Cockatoos. The large white cockatoos overpower even the surf. It is rare to hear the large Black Cockatoos. More Wattlebirds have been busy in the pine rows during the day. Cleaning the garbage bins of spiders. In the late evening the pines come alive with the buzz of thousands of colourful screetching Lorikeets. A large bird of prey flying with heavy wing towards the north.
Council's petrol-fuelled gardening and cleaning cuts through all of nature's sounds and ruins the ambience on the beach and walkway.
On the beach, a Raven investigated a golfball. An 'egg' to crack on the footpath or an intelligent removal of hard missiles from the beach? Maybe a weapon to drop on the dog owners holding three to four dogs each in their reins. The hard golfball ended up high in a pine tree.
Large amorphous 'blobs' of transluscent jelly fish. 250309
Illegal dog paws prints at the North Steyne end of the beach in the very early mornings. The size of a pony. An angler was scaling a large fish alive. The flapping and agony of the tortured creature was severe. A couple of Pelicans flying north/west regularly, seeking a habitat. A large array of nice shells. 260309
Hundreds of dead-ish Porcupinefish from one end to the beach to the other, mostly +/- 10 cm. Many fresh Bluebottles/ Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia physalis) floating in and stinging people. More transluscent jelly blobs. A dead microbat was washed up. Usually they fly along the foreshore.
Advertising in every direction on the beach. Solid state spam in public space.
The blue sky, dimmed by "Aerosols, tiny particles or liquid droplets belched into the air by the burning of fossil fuels" visibly at the horizon, additionally gets marked by jet trails. "Jet engine exhaust contains carbon dioxide, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, unburned fuel, soot and metal particles, as well as water vapor." The pulverised ancient matter, showers back on us through what often appears like a blue sky over the Pacific.280309
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Join fabric artist Zelda Grant for an afternoon of creative crafts on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in Mount Pleasant. Grant will lead a workshop for children, using African fabrics to create personalized bookmarks. The craft workshop is free, but children must be accompanied by an adult.
The Affirmation Bookmark Project allows youngsters to nurture their imagination with a hands-on activity. Zelda Grant has successfully worked through the South Carolina Arts Commission and Georgia Council for the Arts, inspiring hundreds of students to feed their imaginations. She has demonstrated her craft on the Carol Duvall Show, conducted workshops for the Smithsonian Educational Center, participated in juried art festivals around the country and recently presented a solo exhibition at the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston. The self-taught artist lives and maintains her studio in McClellanville, South Carolina, where she is on the board of the McClellanville Arts Council.
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site preserves a 28-acre remnant of Snee Farm, the lowcountry plantation of Charles Pinckney, a founding father and framer of the United States Constitution. Located at 1254 Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant, the park is open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. except for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Days. There is no entrance fee. For more information, call (843) 881-5516.
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Un Deux Trois
Fashion-forward adolescent girls drag their mothers to this well-stocked boutique for tye dye lace party dresses, denim mini skirts, rouched leggings, and a wide selection of fun, party-ready accessories (silver lame bow belts, anyone?). Prices are reasonable, and, with multiple locations dotted around LA, you won't have to drive across town to find what you're looking for.
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There are so many ways to use your time and talents for God, so where do you begin? Sometimes a church has a vacant position that needs to be filled, but those positions don't always match up with your giftedness or desire. So what do you do?
In my opinion, passion almost always outweighs need. It's usually a mistake to get involved in a ministry because there is a need. When people engage in a ministry that they are not passionate about just because "it needs to be done," the following dynamics occur:
- The one doing the ministry becomes frustrated. He or she serves out of guilt or obligation, which are not as powerful motivating factors as love.
- The task is not accomplished well.
- People passionate about that particular ministry who might otherwise lead it are not given the opportunity.
- Changes in ministry cannot occur. Churches occasionally get in the habit of continuing uninteresting and irrelevant ministries because "we've always done it that way." When an opening occurs, the positions are automatically filled with new dispassionate people. Perhaps it's time to ask if a ministry has run its course, or at least if the same purposes can be accomplished in new ways. When the horse is dead, dismount!


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Our tech team manages hundreds of iPads across the district to ensure our staff & students can get online, print, communicate & much more. We ensure that updates, apps & configurations stay up-to-date and keep track of the many Apps that our students use for learning each day.
Should your school require additional licenses for Apps, or wish to request new Apps, please complete the iPad App request form. Purchases for Apps are completed and pushed out over the air out to iPads regularly.
Before submitting an App Request, please double check that your site isn't already assigned an App. Sometimes the Apps get uninstalled accidentally, but we are happy to reinstall them for you over the air.
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The Rabbinic concept of kavanah refers to one's intention, concentration, directing the mind to the meaning of words uttered or acts performed. The question of kavanah is also discussed with regard to prayer and with regard to the performance of mitzvot. In connection with the mitzvot, the Talmud, in a number of places, records a debate among the teachers about whether kavanah is essential. All agree that the ideal is to have the intention of carrying out a mitzvah when one is about to carry it out to demonstrate that the act is not a mechanical one but is carried out in order to do God's will. The debate is with regard to the de facto situation where the mitzvah has been carried out unwittingly.
Kavanah in Performing Mitzvot
An example, referred to in the Mishnah (the first work of Jewish law and legal theory) tractate Rosh Hashanah 3, is where a man passing by outside the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year) at a time when the shofar (the ram's horn) was being sounded, heard the shofar sounds but did not listen to them with the intention of carrying out the mitzvah. Is he obliged to hear the shofar sounds again with full intention to carry out the mitzvah or does it suffice that he has heard the shofar sounds after all, albeit without intention? In other words, is a mitzvah carried out without the intention to carry it out, no mitzvah at all or, de facto at least, is the act counted as a mitzvah since it is the act in itself which ultimately counts?
The Codes (written by medieval authorities) are divided on the question and the usual advice given is that the mitzvah should be carried out again but without the prior berakhah (blessing), "Who has commanded us to . . . ." It would seem, indeed, that the main purpose of the blessings recited before the performance of the mitzvot is to direct the mind to the act by stating beforehand that it is done in obedience to the divine command.
Kavanah in Prayer
Kavanah in prayer involves chiefly proper concentration on the meaning of the words uttered. A saying of Bahya Ibn Pakudah (an 11th century moral philosopher) has often been quoted, "Prayer without kavanah is like a body without a soul." But here too, the ideal is one thing, its realization in practice quite another.
The medieval thinkers were fully aware of how difficult it is, especially since the prayers are in Hebrew, to concentrate adequately all or even most of the time. Although, strictly speaking, where kavanah was absent, the prayers have to be recited again with kavanah, this stringency was relaxed so as to apply only to the first verse of the Shema (the primary biblical reading of a Jewish service) and the first paragraph of the Amidah (the primary prayer of a Jewish service ). A passage from the Zohar (i. 243b-244a) states that when a man is in trouble and unable to concentrate on his prayer, he should not refrain from prayer on that account. Even Maimonides, who is very insistent on the need for kavanah in prayer, can still acknowledge the need for long and arduous training. Maimonides writes (Guide of the Perplexed [3.51]):
The first thing you must do is this: Turn your thoughts away from everything while you read the Shema or during the Prayer [the Amidah], and do not content yourself with being devout when you read the first verse of the Shema or the first paragraph of the Prayer. When you have successfully practiced this for many years, try in reading the Torah or listening to it, to have all your heart and all your thought occupied with understanding what you read or hear. After some time when you have mastered this, accustom yourself to have your mind free from all other thoughts when you read any portion of the other books of the prophets, or when you say any blessing, and to have your attention directed exclusively to the perception and the understanding of what you utter.
Later religious teachers continued to grapple with the problem of kavanah in prayer. Hasidism in particular is much concerned with the techniques of kavanah in prayer and with how to cope with distracting thoughts. A main reason that early Reform Judaism preferred that many of the prayers should be recited in the vernacular, rather than in the traditional Hebrew, was because of the conviction that proper concentration is only possible when prayers are recited in a language with which one is familiar from birth.
The Kabbalists (Mystics) and Kavanah
Among the Kabbalists (Jewish mystics), especially in the Lurianic system, the whole ideal of kavanah in prayer is given a new turn. The Lurianic Kabbalists use the plural kavanot, by which they mean not concentration on the plain meaning of the words, but on the map of the Sefirot (the Kabbalistic concept of the various manifestations of God) and the numerous combinations of these. Every word of the prayers hints at one or another of the details in the unfolding of the worlds on high, and the mystic adept is expected to have these kavanot in mind as each stage of the prayers leads him from higher to ever higher world.
A somewhat different type of mystical "intentions" is found in the very popular manual of devotion called Yesod Ve-Shoresh Ha-Avodah (The Foundation and Root of Divine Worship) by Alexander Süsskind of Grodno (d. 1793). Alexander's "intentions" are directed to the deeper meaning of the prayers in which the liturgy is used, in Alexander's words, "to enflame the heart in the service of God." For instance, in his comment on the quotation in the Prayer Book of Psalm 30:3, Alexander gives this intention:
For example, when a man has suffered some pain or has been sick. God save us, or when, God forbid, such has happened to a member of his family and, with God's help he has been healed, then when he recites the verse: "I cried unto Thee, and Thou didst heal me," he should give thanks and offer praise, with full concentration, to the Creator, blessed be He, who has sent him or his family healing from that pain or illness. God save us.
This type of "intention" is found at the foot of each page in some of the older prayer books.
Reprinted with permission from The Jewish Religion: A Companion, published by Oxford University Press.
Pronounced: MITZ-vuh or meetz-VAH, Origin: Hebrew, commandment, also used to mean good deed.
Rosh Hashanah
Pronounced: roshe hah-SHAH-nah, also roshe ha-shah-NAH, Origin: Hebrew, the Jewish new year.
Pronounced: shuh-MAH or SHMAH, Alternate Spellings: Sh'ma, Shma, Origin: Hebrew, the central prayer of Judaism, proclaiming God is one.
Pronounced: sho-FAR or SHO-far, Origin: Hebrew, a ram's horn that is sounded during the month of Elul, on Rosh Hashanah, and on Yom Kippur. It is mentioned numerous times in the Bible, in reference to its ceremonial use in the Temple and to its function as a signal-horn of war.
Pronunced: TORE-uh, Origin: Hebrew, the Five Books of Moses.


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Do you want to see Clayton Kershaw hit Jimmy Kimmel in his face with a baseball? You're in luck! It's not an actual baseball, and Kershaw isn't exactly laying it in there, because that would all be too gruesome for late night TV. But the sound, and the sight of Kimmel getting it right in the face, are still satisfying.
Let's enjoy this moment over and over again in a GIF:
Technically, Kershaw still knocked the apple off.


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Ever wonder how carpenters and other skilled individuals cut perfectly through a board or a piece of wood without leaving a trace of rough edges? This is because of their experience and knowledge on how to properly saw through an object without compromising its quality and structural integrity in return. Handsaws are pretty much easier to handle as compared to the other cutting tools. However, when in the hands of untrained and inexperience individuals, cutting smoothly through a wooden material can also be quite demanding and challenging.
Cutting with a handsaw requires practice in order to hone your skills as well as add up to your experience in using the cutting tool. Although you can always use a power saw, there are just some time where a handsaw would perfectly do the job as compared to the more convenient tool. Learning how to handle and use this type of manual saw can greatly improve the quality of your work.
- Quality of Saw – regardless of how good you are when it comes to cutting and decorating wooden materials, the result would still end up depending on the quality of your handsaw. Lower qualities of this cutting tool are expected to yield insignificant results as compared to those of higher qualities as they leave smooth, finished projects. It is very important to obtain a handsaw of good quality when you are planning on working in creating and adding up decorations on wooden materials using this type of manual cutting tool.
- Mark Cut Line on the Material – it is very important to mark the cut line in order for you to have a guide while you cut your way from one end to the other. This is very essential to avoid any uneven cuttings on the board which may leave an unpleasant effect to your project. Do not cut without putting up any marking or scribes on the board or any wooden material especially if you are not a skilled worker in using such type of cutting tool.
- Elevation – when cutting wood or any material, make sure that they are elevated in order to avoid any inconvenience on your part. This can greatly affect your cutting skills. Elevating the material creates better posture for you to be able to work properly on the object. This will greatly contribute to the cutting process and in return will result to better cut projects. In addition, it would be impossible to cut an object that is lying flat on the ground. There will be no space for the saw to move back and forth.
- Sharpness of Blade – whether it is a quality or cheap handsaw, the blade should always remain sharp. This can be achieved by changing dull and blunt blades as soon as you notice them. They can greatly affect the outcome of the project. Do not settle with the bluntness of the blades of the handsaw as this will prevent you from accomplishing a quality work. You can always take these to the local shop where they accept the sharpening of the teeth of your handsaw.


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Welcome to the second instalment of UFL Scout, where we look at some of the best players of EURO2016 to help you make your draft picks on UFL. In the first one we looked at Portugal's Andre Gomes. In this one we turn our attention to Hungary's rising defensive midfielder Adam Nagy. Hungary have been one of the surprise packages of the tournament, and Nagy has been key to their success.
EURO2016 Form:
vs Austria - 75 UFL Points
vs Iceland - 70 UFL Points
Next game:
vs Portugal (22/6/2016)
Key Stats (EURO 2016):
Pass - 95 (95 Points)
Tackle - 7 (28 Points)
Interception - 4 (12 Points)
Great Pass - 2 (8 Points)
Great Dribble - 2 (8 Points)
Pass Miss - 12 (-12 Points)
Yellow Card - 1 (-7 Points)
Foul Conceded - 2 (-2 Points)
Loses Ball - 2 (-2 Points)
Best Power-up: Defensive Rock
Verdict: Rising Star - He might not be your first choice draft, but Nagy could be a great second pick. He very rarely misplaces a pass and is likely to score highly for his tackles and interceptions against Portugal.
(Image Credit: Ian Walton - Getty Images)