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The National Park Producers Council has called the African swine fever (ASF) crisis in Asia the greatest opportunity for U.S. producers in history. Now, a Chinese government release claims ASF has been contained and that blockade orders in some 24 provinces have been lifted. Regardless of that, the world's largest hog herd has a long road to recovery.
Pork production in the U.S. has been on an incredible run. USDA's latest hog inventory counted 75.5 million hogs. That's the most since USDA began the June survey in 1964. The president of the National Pork Producers Council, David Herring, recently spoke before a House Agriculture Committee hearing. Herring said, "We've gone from 1987 as a net importer of pork to today, where we export 25% of all the product grown here."
While the numbers are up, sales have been a challenge. Herring said, "China is the largest producer, consumer, and importer of pork in the world, but at a 62% tariff rate, U.S. producers are losing $8 per animal or $1 billion dollars on an annualized basis."
China is also dealing with an unprecedented challenge in its own herd. Dan Basse of AgResource Company said, "We know that Chinese food inflation in the last month was up 8%. That's the highest in roughly four years, so we know there's a need on China's part to have more protein imports."
According to China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China's pig herd shrank by 25.8% in June compared to June of last year. The sow herd, which is what impacts future production, is down 26.7%.
AgDay's Clinton Griffiths spoke with Dr. Andres Perez. He's a veterinarian at the University of Minnesota. He's an expert in diseases like African swine fever and says biosecurity is important. "We have never seen a situation like this with this particular disease, said Dr. Perez. "African swine fever is extremely difficult to control because the virus survives under very extreme conditions, so the virus will survive extreme heat, extreme cold, it will survive in contaminated clothes over extended period of times."
Biosecurity is tightening in China at farms, feed mills and in transportation, as evidenced by increasing sales of disinfectants and truck washes.
"The Chinese will just have to live with ASF," said Dan Basse. "We don't think a vaccine or anything will be readily available to stop their problems. We think this is something that will prevail for the next five to 10 years."
Which is also a reason to keep ASF from ever finding a way to the U.S. "Any given day we have one million pigs on the road, so if we get an introduction in the right place it will be very difficult to contain African swine fever," said David Herring.
For now, it's an opportunity and many see it as a chance to step in and fill the freezers of countries dealing with the disease. Dan Basse told AgDay, "If we see the Chinese stepping forward and making U.S. purchases it will be a shot in the arm and we'll be right back at the old highs again."
Even though previous reports have said a vaccine could take up to eight years to develop, Dr. Perez says progress is being made on multiple fronts.
* A previous version of this article identified Dan Basse instead of David Herring as the source of this quote: "China is the largest producer, consumer, and importer of pork in the world, but at a 62% tariff rate, U.S. producers are losing $8 per animal or $1 billion dollars on an annualized basis." It also identified the number as $1 trillion instead of $1 billion. We regret the error.


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All in good Thyme
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Today (June 5) marks the first day of the Port Elgin BIA run Farmers Market in Coulter Parkette in downtown Port Elgin.
The popular market which closes down Green Street from Goderich to Waterloo will again see vendors like of Smith's Apple Farm, Grass Roots Wood Fired Pizza and Big Mama gourmet sauce.
The weekly Farmers Market is free and will be held every Wednesday throughout the summer months until September 4th.


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Generals get big win against Fulton-Montgomery, 57-47
Herkimer, NY - Markia Peak (Rochester, NY) scored 19 points to lead the Herkimer Generals Women's Basketball team to a 57-47 win over Mountain Valley Conference Rival Fulton-Montgomery on Saturday afternoon in Herkimer, NY. The win lifts the Generals record to 5-11 overall and 3-3 in conference play.
The turning point was in the second quarter as Herkimer outscored the Raiders 22-7 to turn a 5 point deficit at the end of the first quarter to a 10 point half time lead at 32-22. FMCC made multiple runs in the second half, once cutting the deficit to 3 before the Generals went a big run to start the 4th quarter to secure the win. Lexi DeBeatham (Albany, NY) scored 13 points for Herkimer, with 2 3-pointers, and Myjoi Adams (Pomona, CA) chipped in with 12. Gabby Howard (Frankort, NY), Clinique Robinson (Catskill, NY) and Brittani Campbell (Rochester, NY) combined for 13 points and keyed a tremendous defensive effort that held the Raiders to just 32 points over the final 3 quarters of play.
The Generals now get 5 days off before traveling to Johnstown, NY on Friday night, February 15th for a rematch with the Raiders on their home court. Game time for Friday night is set for 7:00 PM.


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If you've been a reader of this blog for a while, you may not have noticed a new feature there in the right column: The YFNCG Newsletter.
Even if you did notice it, you may not have felt compelled to sign-up. You may already have signed up to receive blog updates via email or RSS. However, those are simply ways to syndicate existing blog posts. The YFNCG Newsletter is different. It's a way for me to connect with you more directly and more personally.
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artMOB will be spookifying City Hall again this year and needs your help!
Prizes will be awarded in three categories: best traditional or contemporary, group/organization, and character.
The scarecrows will be displayed in front of City Hall between October 19th and 31st.
Those wishing to participate must return an entry form by Friday October 14th and drop off their entry on Wednesday October 19th at City Hall—10722 SE Main St—between 6:00pm and 7:00pm.
See the artMOB website for photos from last year's contest here: http://www.artmob.net/scarecrow.html
A Neighborhood District Association (NDA) links the neighborhood together to create a vibrant local democracy and a stronger community. Every person who lives in the City of Milwaukie belongs to one of the seven NDAs. They are powerful resources for all of us. They are the officially recognized voice of the neighborhood and the basic building blocks of democracy in Milwaukie.
The Hectorcampbell NDA meets the second Monday of every month at 6:30pm in the Community Room of the Public Safety Building: 3200 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, OR
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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|Rep. Amanda Stuck announces Marinette Listening Session
|Elections, Elected Officials, Political Parties
|Written by Amanda Stuck Press
|Saturday, 14 September 2019 10:19
Will be at Wisconsin Maritime Center of Excellence--WMCOE, 1320 Main St, Marinette, on Monday September 16th, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM.
APPLETON - Rep. Amanda Stuck announced on Friday the seventh listening session of her campaign for the 8th Congressional District. Rep. Stuck will be in Marinette to hear from residents about the issues affecting northern Wisconsin.
As I continue my listening tour of the 8th Congressional District, it is clear the residents want someone who will listen to their concerns. We have heard a lot about the struggles of the working class, making healthcare not only more affordable but also accessible and other kitchen table issues not being addressed in Washington. The 8th deserves a Representative willing to listen and act on their behalf," said Rep. Stuck.
WHEN: Monday September 16th, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WHERE: Wisconsin Maritime Center of Excellence--WMCOE, 1320 Main St, Marinette, WI 54143
Amanda and her husband, David, a union sheet metal journeyman, are raising four children together in Appleton. Rep. Stuck represents the 57th district in Wisconsin's State Assembly.
For more information about Rep. Amanda Stuck's campaign for congress visit www.AmandaStuck.com


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Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal, Varun Sharma, Priya Anand, Richa Chadda, Vishakha Singh, Pankaj Tripathi
Director: Mrighdeep Singh Lamba
Story, Screenplay & Dialogue: Vipul Vig
The year 2013 gave us the blockbuster flick Fukrey and turned our world upside down. The hilarious gang of four fukra boys and Bholi Punjaban are back at it again. Releasing on 8th December 2017, Fukrey Returns will be one hell of a ride. Directed by Mrighdeep Singh Lamba the film is produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani under the banner of Excel Entertainment.
The plot of the sequel starts off with Bholi Punjaban re-entering the lives of the fukra boys. How she makes the boys payback after getting her arrested in the prequel is what the film will be about. With hilarious comedy scenes and dialogues, the Fukrey Returns trailer is simply brilliant. If you haven't still watched the trailer, you can watch it right here.
From the trailer, we can conclude that the film will be nothing short of funny with a perfect dose of comedy. Varun Sharma who plays the role of Choocha is at his best even in the upcoming film. The song Tu Mera Bhai Nahi Hai has become the new bro anthem and showcases the hit bromance between Choocha and Hunny (Pulkit Samrat).
You can also dance to the beats of the song Mehbooba which is turning into one of the top dance numbers.
Get ready to join in on the fukrapanti on the 8th of December with your favorite fukra boys and Bholi Punjaban. What are you waiting for? Book your tickets right away and don't forget to read our review of the film.
Did you know that Fukrey Returns is the first film to be shot in Tihar Jail after the videography ban of 2015! Want some more garma garam facts about Fukrey Returns? Here you go!


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Our Minds are Endangered.
If you are an observer of behaviours like I am, then you would agree with me that OUR HUMANITY HAS TRULY ERODED A LOT MORE THAN WE WERE WHEN WE WERE BORN ABOUT 4 DECADES AGO.
I met a lady who told me that she is not so enthusiastic about the subject of Emotional Intelligence and Neuro-Linguistic Programming because HOW COME THE MORE EMOTIONAL UNDERSTANDING IS SHARED THE MORE EVIL MEN GET?
A thought provoking question I must say. We are so lethal in our day. People dare not make mistakes and we unleash the hate that's resident in our bellies. Persons who are already in the valley are further pushed into the pits by our venoms.
Take a tour of social media. Take a visit to the worship houses. Relate with siblings of the same family. MORE PEOPLE ARE SHARING PAIN EVERYWHERE (literally).
So I am not surprised anymore that I have received a surge of requests from persons whose family members have become very drawn to dangerous vices like friends they don't need, substances they shouldn't need and isolations they cannot handle.
I believe that:
– Every person needs love. We may not like how they do things but 'protective love restores.'
– Every person's story is personal. You really do not know people so well to know their entire story. Some persons say 'I know him very well', 'I know her so much'. There is no bigger fallacy than that.
– Face your own front. If you cannot bring succour and help, just keep shut. Some persons have been privileged to get confidential information about loved ones. In fact, loved ones called you to share their burdens but what have you done with it? You have gone AWOL and become PR with their stories; sampling opinions that further freshens the wounds. *Like seriously?* How do you think these people in pain feel when they read your posts and the comments that emanate from them? Where is our humanity?
I speak to myself and to all of us who will read this post: WHEN IT IS YOUR TURN TO BE HELPED, WHAT WOULD YOU PREFER? *That your answer… is that what you do?*
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I woke up this morning at 4:30 am. Someone, no names, hopped off of our bed and could be heard wandering around the living room. Not an unusual occurrence when one lives with two senior dogs. I always wake up and her restlessness jumpstarts an alertness within me. I got up to go to the bathroom and asked M—— if she was ready to go back to bed. She let me lift her back into bed and for awhile she rolled around on her back. I lay next to her, my head at the foot of the bed, creating a guard in case, in her glee, she rolled right off the bed. (Something else that has happened before.) Eventually she tucked into a curl and rested again but I now was fully awake. I tossed and turned and petted the dogs. Eric murmured sweet nothings to them as well, in his slumber. After 20 minutes that felt like 3 hours, I got up and went into the living room and picked up a book I had been reading. First, Ricky sauntered in and snuggled next to me on the couch. A minute later, Millie— (yes, it was Millie that started this but then you already knew that. It's Millie that starts everything in our home.) Anyway, a minute later, Millie announced herself in the living room. She jumped on the couch and ascended to the throne that is its northeast corner. I read my book and within a few minutes, Eric joined us too. He brought a blanket out for me and the dogs. I told Millie that it would be nice if she made us some coffee. That is how Eric and I ask the other to make coffee. Eric said to Millie that she can't have coffee even though she likes it. (Twice we've caught her slurping out of a forgotten coffee mug.) Anyway, Eric made us coffee. We sat on the couch and drank it. I read, he Instagrammed. Ricky slept, Millie snored. As the sun was coming up, Eric said he was going to try to go back to sleep. Unlike many mornings, neither of us had to be at work particularly early today. Millie followed Eric into the bedroom. A few pages later, my book was done and Ricky and I also returned to bed. As I drifted back into sleep, I thought about what a simple luxury, all of it was. The coffee, the book, the couch, the blanket, the possibility of sleeping in, the dogs and of course, Eric. I live in Los Angeles, filled with some of the wealthiest people in the world and yet, I thought, in that moment anyway, there was no one that had it better than me.
Author: raybarnhart1968
Travelin' Man
One thing that people say to me, fairly frequently, is that it seems like I'm always traveling somewhere. It's an illusion, but one I enjoy. Who doesn't like to be thought of as a person on the go if most evenings that person is at home on his or her couch watching tv with his or her dogs?
I do travel some and I always take pictures and I always post a few of those pictures, so, well, I can freely admit, my Instagram is a somewhat hungry bid to make people I know, and even those I don't, think that I'm out there, really LIVING.
A few weeks ago, I was in San Francisco, visiting friends but also visiting the city itself, a place I once called home. On one day, my friend Kim and I walked from the Embarcadero into Russian Hill then along Polk to Market and then the Castro. If you haven't been to San Francisco, that might seem like chatter, but if you have been there, perhaps my saying Embarcadero or Russian Hill or the Castro stirs memories of your own.
Don't feel bad if you've never been to San Francisco, I'm not writing about a specific destination. I don't want to ignite anyone's FOMO. (Although when it comes to travel, I do have plenty of my own ache for the places I've yet to visit: Paris, Rome, Alaska, New Zealand, to name a few.)
No, just for a moment, I'd like for you to think about a place that you travelled to that you loved. Think about who you were with, what you ate, what you saw, where you stayed. Acknowledge how many times in your memory you return to that trip.
I have an unscientific theory about what makes travel successful. I think the best trips are a fusion of the familiar and the new. I mean, it's just something that occurred to me as I traipsed up and down the hills of San Francisco, looking for familiar, beloved landmarks and also marveling at new towers, or new restaurants. On this trip, for the first time ever, I went into City Hall and took in the majestic staircase and Baroque dome. How had I missed this in all my previous trips? I honestly don't know, but what glee, even giddiness, I experienced on this last trip, when I discovered something old and new.
In the last few years, several times, I've made the journey from Los Angeles to my hometown to visit my parents. I generally take Interstate 40 which runs along Route 66. It is such a familiar drive that there are cities or restaurants or coffee houses or buildings or downtowns I make a point of visiting each time. It seems like there is always a small, dusty town with an old theatre that is in some state of repurposing. There is always the one diner that has more cars in the lot than the rest. These little towns, some of them hanging on for survival, they make me feel alive. I love these small towns, in part, because I am from one.
On these long, but peaceable drives, I listen to music and audiobooks and podcasts. I note that ultimately, all songs, all books, all podcasts are united by a common theme, someone is telling another person their story. This is my love, this is my pain, this is my hope.
There is a Hampton Inn just off the 40 in Albuquerque that I return to often. In my memory, and also in my travels. As hotels go, it's not all that remarkable, but it's clean and modern enough and over the years, I've developed a relationship with it. Time and again, I've driven for hours, until exhaustion, and checked into this Hampton Inn that has welcomed my weary soul. I have a ritual where I stop at the nearby Whole Foods first and get a sandwich and chips (and maybe a bottle of wine) that I bring with me to the room to enjoy like a king. I've stayed at the Hampton Inn when I was happy and I've stayed there when I was grief stricken. I first stayed there on my way to Kansas the year my dad had a surgery we did not know if he would survive. I watched Bunheads and drank Sauvignon Blanc and agonized. Three weeks later, I was headed back to Los Angeles, still unsettled, still worried. My dad's surgery had unexpected complications and he was sent to a rehab facility. I needed to return to my job and also, I longed to be reunited with Eric and the dogs. I felt guilt for leaving my parents, still not out of these particular woods. Again, there was an episode of Bunheads, and a Whole Foods sandwich and a glass or two (or three) of Sauvignon Blanc. And this room, these familiarities they did not bring me joy, exactly, but provided a comfort.
My dad did get better and there were happy years that I stayed at my Hampton Inn and each time, I revisited the darkness of those first visits. It could have stirred up pain, I guess it did, but also, it made me feel grateful. My dad was alive, gardening, golfing, even working. My little Hampton Inn was a reminder of resilience and hope, my father's and even my own.
Of course, you know that my dad did get sick again. I stayed there on my way to Kansas, just a few hours after my mom called to tell me that they had started him on hospice. I needed my Hampton Inn by then. My safe, familiar place.
Four weeks later, I stayed there again after my dad died, still weak from a flu that had ambushed me the day after his funeral. I took two Tylenol and an Ambien and called my mom and cried more than I'd cried on the day he died or the day we buried him added together. I sobbed like a broken child, which I was. My mom told me, over and over, "We will get through this, we will get through this." And my room at the Hampton Inn, the one that had borne witness to so much, in its way, echoed her assurances of hope.
This familiar vs new theory that I so cavalierly introduced a few paragraphs ago, I should have also said, is a spectrum. Some of us lean more toward the new adventure while some of us need more to return to the old haunt. If you know me even a little, you know that I love revisiting the things that have meant something to me in this collection of years I've accrued.
I think about that Hampton Inn, my Hampton Inn at least once a week. I also return to those many drives through western states, in crippling heat or perilous snow or magnificent lighting storms. Just like the songs and books and podcasts that accompanied me, these trips, they are part of my story. I sail into the night, windows down, hair flapping, the smell of summer or winter or fall greeting me. This is life, I think. And it is.
The Little Girl Who Became My Mother
This is my second Father's Day without a father. Actually, that's not accurate, I still have a father, he is simply no longer living. I think of him daily. I knew him, knew that he loved me. I remember all the times I disappointed him, the times I made him angry or sad. I also remember times I made him proud, or made him laugh. I loved making my dad laugh. Who doesn't?
My first Father's Day without my dad, I was in Kansas with my family there. I wanted to make the day as nice as possible for my mom because, well, because my dad wasn't there to make the day nice for her. We had a family cookout. I burned the hamburgers. An uncle had also died a few months earlier and it seemed to me, that we all made the best of a day that had its odds stacked against it.
Today I am in Los Angeles and my mom is at home in Kansas. I talked to her earlier and she sounded sad. Makes sense, of course.
For some reason, this Father's Day, I've been thinking about how painful this holiday must have been for my mother when she was growing up. She was a baby, just a few days old, when her father died. He was never more than a vapor in her life. She was loved, by her mother and older brothers and grandparents and aunts and uncles, but I often think about the little girl who became my mother. The little girl who wanted a daddy. What does it feel like to have that kind of permanent ache?
When my mom was maybe 8 or 9, my grandmother married again. That union was not a long one, but it did produce another child, the little sister my mom always dreamed of having. She doted on her, as one would imagine. To this day, they are close. A few years ago, my mom had had just a teeny bit of wine and she was tipsy. In our living room, filled with family, she joked to my aunt, "Momma always loved you the most." We all laughed, and my mom laughed the most, but then she said, "It's true."
And there it was, this reminder that my mom did not feel as loved as she wanted, needed, in her childhood.
One good thing about the time we live in, I think, is that family can look like a million different things now. We all know that's not how it worked in the 40s and 50s. I have no idea how my grandmother raised 5 children, 5 beautiful children who grew up to look out for each other long after she was gone.
My parents had been married over 50 years when he died. I would not begin to say that their marriage was perfect, but as they aged, their devotion to each other appeared to deepen. I remember being at a mall in the 90s with them. We separated to shop on our own and my mother did not arrive at the designated return time and location that we'd agreed upon. As the minutes passed, my father scanned the mall, looking for her. Always a calm man, his cool was slightly undone. This was before cellphones and we just stood and waited and looked up and down and all around, hoping for her to appear. "I don't know where she is." "This really isn't like her." And finally, we saw her descending the escalator. "There you are. You had us worried." She just laughed and said she was sorry. It wasn't like her to linger but she was trying on some shoes. She could see that he had been a little concerned and I think it quietly thrilled her.
With every passing year, more and more, they became caretakers for each other. She nursed him through several cancer battles. He nursed her through surgeries and struggles of her own. About 20 years ago, her doctors told her she should get her knees replaced. She thought about it, talked about it for years, but ultimately decided against it. She said things like, "Don't worry about it, I have your father to take care of me."
There was a point in 2016 when my mother's eyesight started to fail. When she went to the doctor, she was told that she had macular degeneration, a condition that significantly compromises a person's vision. My parents delivered this news to me at a Panera in Denver, that she was going blind. Again, my mother assured me, "Don't worry about it, I have your father to take care of me."
As the story goes, a few months later, my dad's cancer returned, this time with a new vengeance. They cared for each other as best they could and then, well, you already know this, my dad died.
I know it's a crazy thought, but I sometimes feel that my mom believed, at least on some level, that God would see how much she needed my dad and keep him here with her. That if her dependence was significant enough, he would never die.
Among the 547 items that hospice brought to our house in the days after my dad entered palliative care was a walker. My mother for years had turned up her nose at the thought. "Why would I need that? I HAVE YOUR FATHER!" But she took a liking to the walker during my dad's final days. It's kind of sweet really, but they shared the walker. They would take turns, using it to go to the bathroom or the kitchen or the bedroom and then return it to the living room, where it would sit until one of them needed it again. When my dad passed, and hospice came to pick up the 547 items they had brought, they had to leave the walker for a couple extra days until a new walker, a permanent one, arrived. It is bright pink, has a little storage compartment, as well as a seat. In the 16 months since my dad died, it's been a lifesaver for her. Both literally and figuratively, that vibrant walker gives my mother the opportunity to put one foot in front of the other and keep moving.
I've done very little today. Well, that's not entirely true. I have sat in front of of computer and sifted through memories.
I marvel at all the Father's Days we celebrated when I was growing up, where we gathered as a family, and my dad burned the chicken on the grill, and we bought or made him silly presents and cards. Not once did I think about how it might have been a hard day for my mom, my sensitive, heart on her sleeve mom, who was once a little girl.
Today, when we think of all the fathers, I can't help but think of my mother's dad, who missed out on so much. Maybe like Billy Bigelow in Carousel, from a heavenly view, he was able to keep an eye on his only daughter as she grew into a woman and then a wife and mother and also, a grandmother. Maybe he was able to weep when she hurt and smile with her joys.
In a few hours, I will call my mom again and see how the rest of her day was. Probably, she will see that I've written a blog. She'll see that it was about her, and my dad, and her dad and she will ask me to read it to her.
She will know that I hate reading to her the things that I've written but this time, I will. Probably we will cry, two sensitive souls. And then also, we will laugh. Ridiculous that two people could be so excitable, could feel so much.
And maybe, just maybe, from another universe, my father and her father are together, watching it all. Mourning her pain, but sustaining her too. Maybe her tender heart, and mine also, come from this man. And maybe, with swollen, wet eyes, he looks at my dad and says, "Thank you, Ray, for taking such good care of my little girl."
This Too Shall Pass
Last week, a good friend who truly loves me and only wants the best for me, sent a text to see how things are in my life. I told him that I was currently in a tough spot because I had been hired by a new restaurant that was supposed to open in November and that it had been postponed several times now, every two weeks or so. I told him that the first few postponements unfazed me but this, fifth one, had left me depressed.
"This too shall pass," he texted back. No doubt thinking of something that would make me feel better, hopeful. I started to write something, didn't know what to say, although I was plagued by very dark thoughts like, "Oh, wow, someone should have gotten that message to Anthony Bourdain or Kate Spade. Someone should put that one on a coffee mug and hand a bunch of them out to the people living in tents on skid row. You solved it, the universal dilemma, THIS TOO SHALL FUCKING PASS."
Of course, I didn't respond with that. I don't have a mean bone in my body. (snicker, snicker) I did not, in fact, respond at all. I typed a few words, deleted, typed , deleted, sighed and gave up.
It has been my experience that when you feel like whatever it is you are going through will never pass, it's really challenging to take in and absorb the hope that it can turn out just fine, or maybe even better than you expected or maybe downright fabulous.
Especially if you are in the middle of a losing streak, which I am. Restaurants not opening when they should be. Weather not complying for me on side gigs I pick up from time to time. Even this government shut down has affected me.
I don't want to come across as a guy that uses mojo in his vernacular but, I don't know how else to explain that I have no confidence, no swagger, no game, no MOJO.
Because I am underemployed and because I am hungrily seeking sustenance to partake of to make me feel like a human of worth again, I have been reading more and spending more time at the libraries. Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, LAPL. You already know this, but our libraries are full of complicated, sensitive over thinkers. My people really. I take in the broken spirits who sit at desks, their bodies' scents informing the extending area. The backpacks filled and overflowing with creased, greasy, tattered, unorganized papers and books. They talk to themselves, they laugh or correct themselves. They sometimes shame themselves or others for a wrong turn. Sometimes with a learned patience but other times, with unchecked anger. We have way too much in common and it depresses me. How can I feel hope that my current burden will pass when the folks I am most connected to are Los Angeles's unluckiest inhabitants?
I am not oblivious to the fact that pain that begets pain. That people drink or do drugs to ease the pain of a horrible childhood or a violent attack or a parental betrayal or an adult failure, like staying 20 years at a low level job and then finding out a 20 year old was doing your job and getting paid more.
I am going to divulge something that most of my best friends know. I have been taking Ambien almost every night for the last year. It was a dependency that was building before my dad died and it has only increased. I don't take Ambien when I drink so I drink less. I drink hardly at all. Alcohol impedes my sleep but Ambien blesses it. There is nothing I want more than to have a good night's sleep. To have sweet dreams. Dreams where my dad is still alive and taking care of my mom. Dreams where I am working and enjoying my job. Dreams were I am in New York, discovering a street I never knew was there.
My mother, up until last week, asked me every day, when this training for this new restaurant was going to start. I didn't know what to say. I had hoped for November and then I hoped for early December and then late December and then early January and now, I don't know what to hope for. I asked her to stop asking, that it depressed me even more. That these postponements have made me feel like even more of a failure.
Among my bright spots is Eric who constantly says, "We will make it through." I want to snap at him, but I don't. (Much.) But, some people, some things, just do not make it through. Something bad happens, then something worse, then something worse, maybe a moment of hope, then bad again and then it really ends bad. Granted, I know it does not always go that way, but it can. For some, it has.
My other little bright spots are my Ricky and Millie. Especially Millie who was given a terminal diagnosis nearly a year ago. And knock wood, every day since has attacked life as if she knew she was going to win. Attacked the day, convinced the universe is on her side. Maybe the universe, when Millie flairs her teeth and snarls, reacts to her the same way her brother and fathers do. With an amused respect and not a little bit of terror.
I do not talk of Millie without emphasizing that we are taking this day by day, grateful for every good moment.
Maybe I need to actually follow Millie's example. Pee in the bed? Who cares? Has to start wearing a doggie diaper? She's become an exotic, topless (but not bottomless) bathing beauty on the French Riviera. She is the favored focus of all three of us, Eric, Ricky and myself. She is the last we kiss at night, the first we greet in the morning. We do not talk about her diagnosis in front of her, we don't want her to absorb our worry. But it is not unusual for us to stare sadly into her eyes. Oh, how we will miss you, we think. Sometimes Eric's tears melt into her coat. Mine too. And she just stares back. What is she saying? I love you? Maybe. Ricky could take better photos if he just smized more? Likely. Snap out of it? Possible.
Who am I kidding, I know. With a wisdom only the most self-actualized creatures ever understand, she's telling me, "We will make it through," and then, "This too shall pass."
And it's impossible for me to look into those cunning, intuitive eyes and not say, "You're right, Millie. Always."
An Afternoon at LACMA
If you are one of those extremely sensitive types, like me, a visit to an art museum can be a comfort. With a little extra time, I decided to visit Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a museum I belonged to for over 15 years, It was free after 3 so I wanted to take advantage of the deal.
I think museums are supposed to inspire us to reach higher, love more compassionately, live more adventurously. Go back to the canvas or the notebook or the laptop. Be prolific like Hockney. Don't be waylaid by depression or self-doubt.
I walk around museums trying to determine where my art or art plight lands in all of this. I know I am no painter or sculptor or visual artists, but these last few months, I have things I have wanted to say, to espouse, to pontificate, even. I tell myself that the daily pickles I find myself in, others can relate to. I tell myself that if I can share my struggle, a weight might be lifted, a corner turned, and I might begin the walk into an easier period of my life.
There is a graceful irony in that we go to museums to absorb beautiful paintings and drawings and art installations that are mostly rooted in someone's pain. Maybe a lot of people's pains. And artists create in hopes of lessening their own pain. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
When I walk around LACMA, I can't help but notice the benefactors' names on the wall and in the galleries. One woman, figured prominently at LACMA, berated me several months ago because she did not like any of the tables my then restaurant had available for her. It was either raining or unseasonably warm, I can't remember but we had 60% of the normal real estate. He impatience was directed at me and she shamed me loudly in front of other guests. Over a table. Her pain is a pain as much as anyone else's. She left feeling like the restaurant had not acknowledged and responded accordingly to her elevated value as a human.
I know that some people go to museums to see works that we know to be worth several dollars. We go to see famous names like Picasso and Giacometti and Rothko and Warhol.
Most, or at least some, go to the museum to see those pieces that speak to you, maybe they challenge you, or comfort you, or remind you of a time or a person that you loved and went away. Maybe you drink up everything by Mapplethorpe and Cadmus and Eakins because you want to understand more about yourself and your own attractions and point of view.
Today, at LACMA I encountered two really beautiful pieces by an artist I had never heard of, Greer Lankton.
Greer Lankton was born in 1958 and died in 1996 at 38 year old, gender identity was always at the center of her work. She struggled with anorexia and drug addiction her entire prolific, yet short life.
Since I got home tonight, I couldn't stop thinking about Greer as well as two of her muses, Candy Darling and Jackie O. Women of strength who were no strangers to tragedy and misunderstanding. All long gone now and thankfully, and yes, that word again, gracefully, they are still among us, as examples, angels, lights, cautionary tales, glamaristas. These haunting, odd, beautiful dolls keep these women alive and we absorb their pain and they absorb ours.
Paint Supplies Everywhere
A few days ago, on a sunny yet temperate Saturday afternoon I was walking down quaint Mission Street in idyllic San Marino. A perfect moment. And as I passed two women and a man, I caught just a sliver of their conversation. One woman, white, 30s, blond, zaftig, lamented to her friends (also white, also 30s, seemingly a couple), "…and he leaves his paint supplies everywhere!"
Now, I wish I had more for you, but that is all I heard as I passed by this woman, she and I going in separate directions. Was I tempted to follow her into the whimsical card and gift shop she entered? Of course I was, and yet, on this beautiful Saturday afternoon, I concluded I had heard all I needed to. She was talking about a boyfriend or he was roommate that she's secretly (but not so secretly) in love with and she's really at her limit, especially since she pays the rent so he can pursue his "art". She only took one painting class in college but is quite sure that if she put even an ounce of effort, she could be a successful painter. Even if its only those street fairs where he goes to sell his pieces and the only people that buy anything are women and gays in their 40s and 50s who think his scrawny body is sexy because he has a ZZ Top beard and John Denver glasses.
Sometimes my imagination runs away with itself.
Of course, I have no idea how close my imagined scenario is to this woman's reality. Though the bored look on the friend's husband's face led me to think I'm at least 80% on target.
In case you couldn't tell, I wasn't particularly charmed by this woman. With only the smallest piece of evidence, "…and he leaves his paint supplies everywhere," I had judged, juried and convicted her to a lifetime sentence of being a nag, a yawn, a wet blanket. In a handful of words, I was unequivocally on the other guy's side. Poor guy, I thought.
So unfair, this guy could actually be a real asshole but I wouldn't know because his girlfriend or whatever they call themselves annoyed me.
Life is so unfair.
And then I thought about all the times I catch bits of conflicted conversations and I always make an assessment. I almost always side with the one who whines less or the one who listens quietly. We root for the least annoying and indict the loudmouth or the emotional one. I do it all the time and I am a loudmouth and I am emotional. If I had an ounce of intelligence, I would never complain or discuss a conflict in public, ever. It's generally not a good look.
The entire time I was writing my last blog, about my departure from Barneys New York. I had to laugh because I knew that people were going to take pieces of what I wrote and it would be enough to dismiss what I had to say. Trust me, there are people who read my blog and concluded I was shrill or petty and wrote me off. Maybe in response they bought a $5495 pair of Louboutins in solidarity to a company that values youth. And I am not upset about it, I understand. It's like that song Doris Day sang, wait never mind, only old people know Doris Day and only old people know "Que Sera, Sera".
I will say this though. I'll tell you what I did not deserve. I did not deserve all the people who reached out to me and wrote me notes and encouraged my writing and reposted my blog and told me they related and they were glad to see me happy. It's nice, really beautiful. Heartwarming, in fact. Deserved? I don't see it. (But, hey, I'll take it.)
So thank you to all that bolstered my bruised ego when I loudly complained about a business place equivalent to a roommate leaving their paint supplies everywhere. I am not so close to the situation anymore that I don't see a little humor in it.
Several people commented that loyalty in the work place is seemingly a thing of the past, but maybe this encouraging element that we find on social media, that that is a replacement of sorts. Maybe its a way we protect each other when the hard times come. I know social media can bring out the bad in us, but it also brings out and up so much good. Right?
All I know for sure is that I want to gladly, humbly thank all of you who took the time to read my last blog, also took the time to say something nice to me. Yes, there have been glum moments since this all happened, but not yesterday, not today, and I have hope that tomorrow will bring some sunshine too!
19 Years at Barneys New York
"As an industry, we are great at supporting, cultivating and launching new and young designers. Even though we excel at mentoring young talent, we also tend to push them into doing things that may not be the right fit for them at the moment. Such as producing very expensive fashion shows or trying to show their collections around the world right at the start. We need to create a platform that is more sustainable for up-and-coming talent." — Daniella Vitale, chief executive officer, Barneys New York
The above quote appeared in an ad that popped up in my LinkedIn feed recently. I guess the reason ads for Barneys are in my news feed is because I worked for them, on and off for nearly 20 years. In another time in the history of our country, that might have counted for something. Today, at least with the company in question, it means nothing.
In my last blog, written about a month ago, days after my last day at Barneys, I alluded to the possibility that I might write about what transpired to precipitate my exit. I am sharing it now. Sadly, I think a few people around my age have experienced similar situations and I want it to be acknowledged that I know in the eyes of some employers, especially ones that are painfully, sometimes embarrassingly chasing a youth market, I have no currency.
I want to start with the good news. I am doing fine, financially and otherwise. I have work prospects and I am enjoying my downtime. I love spending more time with my dogs and taking long walks and watching Noah Centineo movies on Netflix. I won't lie, there is an aspect of sour grapes in me sharing the following, but that's only part of the story. There was a time when I wished things could have been addressed in a way in which I could have stayed at Barneys, but I don't feel that way anymore.
So, in July, I was talking with one of my fellow hosts about our job. We were both kvetching a bit about how much was asked of us in relation to our compensation. My co-worker, in her early 20s, opined, "I can't believe we have to do all of this for $XX an hour." "I know," I agreed and then it hit me what she was saying, "Wait, you make $XX an hour?" "Yes," she said. "I don't make that, " I told her, in shock. I had worked for the company since 1999 and this very capable, but very young woman was offered a higher pay rate at her date of hire. "I thought you at least made that, I'm sorry Ray." She could hear in my voice just how leveled I was by this piece of information. She also volunteered that our other fellow hostess, another young woman in her twenties was also hired at the same pay rate, $XX an hour, despite have no restaurant experience at all. No Beverly Hills experience, no OpenTable, no restaurant.
I had been told by the general manager of the store, the head of human resources and the general manager of the restaurant at different times within the last two years that the company was trying to pay me more money but they did not have the budget for it.
They were able to find the budget to hire two attractive young women to do the same job as me and pay them more. And yes, I was also imparted with the task of training them both and no, I did not receive extra compensation for those services.
Within 30 minutes of finding out that these young women were paid more than me, I sent an email giving my two weeks notice. Neither the general manager of the restaurant or the general manager of the store made an offer to correct this wage discrimination. They vaguely thanked me for my time and wished me well.
When I spoke to human resources the next day, I asked for someone to tell me why these young women had been paid more than me. In the two weeks I still worked there, not one person gave me an answer to my fairly simple question. In that human resources meeting, I also recounted an incident that transpired in December of 2017, around the time my father was dying. I came to work on a Saturday and the restaurant manager gave me a white envelope with "Ray from WME" written in her handwriting. Enclosed was $150. William Morris Endeavor is a talent agency that is across the street that our restaurant always made it a point to take good care of. If we were booked at 1:00 and a WME assistant called at 12:45 to get their boss a great table, I always found that boss a great table. Anyway, I asked my manager where the original envelope was. She told me she OPENED THE ENVELOPE and redistributed the money because the other hosts didn't get envelopes. I told her that what she did, opening a card that was addressed to me, was illegal. She said she was sorry if I was offended and I said it wasn't a matter of offensiveness, she broke a law. Coldly, she told me that there had been $200 in the envelope and she would give me the other $50. I said, "Thank you."
I went back to work and 15 minutes later, she returned to the host stand, red-faced. "After some thought, I have decided you are in the right and I was in the wrong." (Really? You think?) She told me that the original amount was not $200 but $250 and that she would get the other $100 to me. She apologized and I accepted her apology. One week later, she still had not volunteered the rest of the money so I texted her a reminder. "Oh Thank you, I'll have it for you tomorrow." And she did.
I will never know how much money was in the original envelope. She changed the story, first $200, then $250 so really, it's anyone's guess.
As I said, I shared these events with human resources two weeks before my last day, and not one person I spoke with or emailed seemed even a bit concerned that a manager representing Barneys New York would open an employee's private mail. Not to mention change the story about its contents.
So, that's it. That's my exit story. Or most of it, anyway. I thought some of you might find it interesting. I won't lie, there has been an odd decompression and processing that has occurred in the last month. What do I value about me? What do any of us value about ourselves? We are taught that we are failures unless we have a great job that pays lots of money. Not only was I not paid a great wage, a 21-year-old was paid more than me. And the company was unwilling to match that 21 year old's pay rate. All of my life experiences, my remembering faces and names and favorite tables, my thoughtfulness, my loyalty to the company, meant nothing at the end of the day.
Today, I caught up with an old friend who had not heard the story. "So, what happened?!?!?" she asked. We had not seen each other in months and she only knew that I had quit my job. I told the story, spent some time on the damning aspects, laughed about the lighter details, and I easily moved on to talk about other topics. More important things like family and travels and passion projects and Noah Centineo. Three weeks ago, it would have been all I could talk about. So, you know, baby steps.
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text: Recollections from Gordon Ronald Wardell (Reg) The latest Posthorn brought back loads of memories for myself. I joined Postal at 16 PTS KNIGHTSBRIDGE in January 1950. In March 1950 I was posted (First Posting) to Bad OEYNHAUSEN. I was met there by a L/Cpl Pete White (a national serviceman) from Thetford Norfolk. He asked my name and I said Gordon to which he replied there was already a Gordon and as I would be working in the Registered Letter Enclosure I would be called Reg. After this first posting I served all over the world including North Africa, Jordon, Cyprus, Naples, Rheindahlen, RAF Laarbruch, RAF Eindhoven, and spent my … [Read more...]


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We all are about to take an exit from 2012 and get our way into 2013 in few hours. I just decided before this year ends, I should do a quick recap of all the top posts of 2012 on OddBlogger which were published in 2012. Top posts according to the views or comments or anything else. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't read these posts in 2013.
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I really loved all appreciating, supportive, also disagreeing comments from my fellow bloggers, friends and readers. Here are the posts with the most comments. Thanks for the comments bomb.
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I know, from some feedback, I have helped many out there with the reviews I wrote on my blog. Few of those reviews are listed below:
I will surely come up with some really useful posts in the upcoming year to help and benefit all my readers and audience.
Thank you all my readers for all your support and love. I wish you all a very Happy New Year!


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Red Butte Wilderness
Red Butte Wilderness from the Kolob Reservoir Road
Red Butte Wilderness is a 1,535-acre property against the border of Zion National Park in the Kolob Canyons area. Red Butte Wilderness is bordered on the north by Zion Wilderness. The property is named for the prominent Red Butte, a promontory that rises about 1,800 feet above the surrounding countryside to the north of Kolob Reservoir Road, about 10 miles north of the Virgin River. Access to the unit from the southeast is achieved by using the Lamareau Tank service road from Kolob Reservoir Road. There's also a jeep trail running north from Rock Spring that gives access to the west side of the wilderness.
Red Butte Wilderness is a natural extension of the Kolob Canyons area of Zion National Park: deeply eroded canyons topped with conifer forest. The general vegetation in the middle elevations of the property consists of sagebrush and chaparral mixed with scattered Utah juniper and pinyon pine.
For large mammals you might find mule deer, elk, mountain lion, bobcat and black bear. There are seven species of raptors known to nest in the canyon walls in this area, among them are bald eagles, peregrine falcons, American kestrels, Cooper's hawks and red-tailed hawks.
Red Butte is an obvious landmark as seen from Kolob Reservoir Road and it often attracts technical rock climbers. The rest of the wilderness is handy for hikers and backpackers, although there is a severe shortage of marked or maintained trails.
At the boundary of Zion National Park, Red Butte Wilderness is separated from Blackridge Wilderness by about 1/2 mile of private property.
Red Butte and Blackridge from the end of the Kolob Fingers Road
Map of the Red Butte Wilderness area
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Robert J. Wawrzeniak, 88, of Glassport died Saturday January 19, 2019. He is the son of the late Michael and Blanche (Pokropski) Wawrzeniak. He is survived by his daughter Kelly (Paul) Heatherington, 9 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, son in law Dennis Sobczak and daughter in law Beth Wawrzeniak. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife Mary (Hornyak) Wawrzeniak, daughter Lynn Sobczak, and son Mark Wawrzeniak. Robert was a member of Queen of the Rosary Parish, Polish National Alliance, American Legion, and was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in the Korean War. He was the retired owner of Bob's Bar in Glassport where he spent many years with his patrons collecting monies for the UPMC Children's Hospital Free Care Fund. Friends received WOJCIECHOWSKI FUNERAL HOME, Glassport Tuesday 2-5 and 6-7:30 at which time a blessing will be held. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the free care fund at UPMC children's hospital of Pittsburgh www.givetochildrens.org which was near and dear to Bob's heart.
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Title of Dissertation:
Kindness Virtue in Business Leadership: From Micro- to Mid-Level Implications
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek
University: HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Scholarship: KSG Scholarship
Cohort: 5. Cohort, since 2018
Short Abstract
The PHD project is exploring and tries to understand what implications kindness can have in a business context, from the level of individuals and their behaviour to the level of organizations, their activities, structures, rules, and cultures. Research will focus on leadership, aiming to understand the role of leaders in this process.
In the literature, it is often highlighted that kindness has a boomerang or ripple effect. Therefore, in this research I would like to explore how kindness can be recognized through the organization and thus become a part of a culture. Based on the link between and understanding of the interaction among leaders and employees or colleagues, I aim to validate the impact of kindness within the organization and how it is perceived internally among employees and externally from clients and other stakeholders.
The analysis is based on a case study of a company that has attributes of a kind leader and kindness leadership as a part of its organizational DNA. Furthermore, through qualitative research I would like to explore the benefits, challenges, costs, and profits associated with long-term impact of kindness in leadership and what kind of implications this kind of leadership can have on/for more collaborative organizations.
In my research, I would like to cover the following (theoretical) parts: kindness in leadership, kindness as a virtue, leadership at work, kindness in leadership at work and kindness as ripple effect. The hypothesis of this research is that the implication of kindness at a micro-level can have a stronger impact on overall organizational engagement and employee motivation, following with an effect that can happen on a mid-level and thus, its overall business performance.
My hypothesis indicates that a leader has to be role model himself/herself by putting the value of kindness into practice and setting the rules that everyone can/has to follow. As kindness has been traditionally neglected in organizational life, the role of leadership is to provide a space for it in an institutional culture.
I will explore kindness at the individual micro-level that, that is concerning the behaviour of individuals working within or interacting with business - and how leaders should cultivate kindness as a virtue of character and what kind of consequences that would have on all other levels, mid-level and activities of these entities.
In my research I will ask: how can we make businesses more successful by embracing kindness as one of their core virtues? I will break this question down into the following questions: What is the relationship between the role of kindness as a leadership style in corporate environments? Moreover, what is the influence of kindness on the employees' overall motivation, well-being and performance? Can kindness be an organizational strength?
Research Interests
- 2017, PPOD – Practices and Principles of Organization Development, Executive education program in Change & Consultation, Columbia University, United States
- 2016-2017, Executive Master in Marketing and Sales, ESADE Business School, Spain & SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy
- 2006-2013, BSc in European Studies and International Relations, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2012-2013, Study Abroad: Erasmus Exchange Program, University of Salerno, Italy
Professional and Academic Career
- 2015, Organizational development consultant, Positive Business & Initiator and Co-founder of Positive Business Lab, Ljubljana, Slovenia & Madrid, Spain
- 2013-2015, Head of Projects, People & Operations, LinkedAge StartUp, Ljubljana, Slovenia & Berlin, Germany; *participated in Axel Springer Plug&Play accelerator
- 2008-2012, Minister's Assistant, Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Conference Contributions: Talks
- 2018, Women Economic Forum, The Power of Positive Company, India
- 2017, Yale University, WWN Health Series, Happiness & Wellbeing at Workplace, USA
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by Brad Phillips
Brad Phillip is best known for his paintings which are frequently sourced from his own photographs. This is his first work to present solely original photographs. In a mocking nod to the prevalent imagery of naked women, usually models, in fashion editorials and advertising campaigns, as well as vintage pornography that fell under the rubric of 'studying naturalism', Phillips present a series of female nudes. He follows two tattooed woman as they undress, walk through a west-cost Canadian forest, and then dress. Feeling like the outtakes from a cult photo album, the images play with a notion raised by Elizabeth Barret Browning that the naked human body is sexual only a fraction of the time.
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Event Start Date & Time: May 14, 2018 06:00 PM
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The regularly scheduled City Council meeting for May 14, 2018 has been cancelled. The City Council will hold its next meeting on May 21, 2018. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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Ngaben/Cremation Tour is an exciting tour to visit the unique event of dead body cremation in Bali. The tour will directly see the procession of combustion/obsequies of dead body in Bali with the unique ceremony which bring you to the experience that you never see. Ngaben/Cremation Ceremony is one of the famous Balinese Hindu ceremonies where the dead body soul return to the heaven by processing of cremation. Your tour will more enjoyable with our professional tour guide who is always outstanding offer our best service to explain of each procession. Your trip will comfortable with full air-conditioning car transfer and save driver. It is one of the unique tours in Bali to see different world activities with high philosophy of human life
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This tour is started from picking you up at the hotel lobby and drop direct to the Ngaben/Cremation point. Your will see the Ngaben/Cremation ceremony processionwhere the group of local people (Banjar Society) taken the dead body and put on the 'Wadah' (the place to put the dead body which is decorated with the beautiful ornaments) and carry on the shoulder together to bring it to the funeral. The dead body will be burned or buried (depend on the local society role) to unite the soul to heaven and bring back all element of human being body to nature . From here, you will be transferred back to the hotel to terminate the tour.
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TBA – Pick you up at the hotel lobby
TBA – Transfer to the cremation ceremony point
TBA – Join the procession of ceremony
TBA – Back to hotel
TBA – Arrive at hotel
Note: this tour is subject to available
PRICE: US$ 35 net/person
Single Traveler: US$ 45 net/person
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- Full air-conditioning car transfer
- Speaking Guide (English, Japanese and other language is based on availability)
- 1 bottle of mineral water per person
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Book Review: The Ex by Alafair Burke
Olivia Randall is a criminal defense lawyer who was in a serious relationship with Jack Harris twenty years ago.
Olivia was the one who ended their relationship, and has had a string of uncommitted relationships since.
Jack went on to marry a woman named Molly, who was sadly gunned down in a rampage three years ago.
One day, Olivia receives a phone call from a teenage girl named Buckley, explaining that her dad has been arrested for a triple homicide in relation to a shooting near the Hudson Parkway.
It turns out that Buckley is Jack Harris' daughter..
Olivia decides to represent Jack, but as the evidence starts to piece together, she is doubtful of his innocence, especially as one of the victims had a connection to his wife's murder.
Could the man Olivia once loved and cared about really be capable of murder?
Or has Jack been framed by someone, and if so, who?
The Ex by Alafair Burke is a novel that has many twists to keep you turning the pages. I had an inkling pretty early on as to who the culprit was, so there wasn't as much suspense as I would've liked, but it is still fairly engaging.
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OthaSoul mates
Ahead of the release of a new EP and single, Dozer Carter and Louis VI reveal how rhymes and beats brought them together, and how Camden shapes their work
22 August, 2019 — By Róisín Gadelrab
Kentish Town jazz hip-hop duo OthaSoul – Dozer Carter and Louis VI
IT seems Camden's schools have been a breeding ground for musical talent for some years.
Kentish Town jazz hip-hop duo OthaSoul – aka Dozer Carter and Louis VI – have NW5 running through their veins, referencing the neighbourhood where they grew up in their lyrics, with a dream of one day headlining the Forum.
"We're very passionate about Camden, Kentish Town specifically features a lot in our lyrics. We talk about Gospel Oak as well. It definitely shaped our lyrics," says Dozer.
"Although it's soulful there's also a gritty sound to what we make which definitely paints a picture of Camden, very concrete, heavy sometimes.
"You can be right in the middle of it and then walk 10 minutes to Hampstead Heath and clear your head."
OthaSoul have seen considerable success, touring with US hip-hop hero Talib Kweli, rapper Loyle Carner and more, and gathering a loyal fanbase. They enjoyed a successful independent stint before taking a break for a year while former William Ellis pupil Dozer pursued a masters in urban design and city planning, and Camden School for Girls alumni and former zoology student Louis VI headed to the US to record solo album Sugar Like Salt.
Now back, they will release a six-track EP in October, single Almost Grown in mid-September and this week Dozer released his own solo project, Soon Come.
"It's essentially everything I've wanted to say that doesn't fit with the OthaSoul connection," he said.
"OthaSoul is an identity and unit, so any lyric, beats or anything has to fit that mould and we agree on that. Both our projects are an expression of what we want to say. Almost Grown is a reintroduction to OthaSoul, it explains what we've been doing, where we've been and why we're back, and that's the concept of the EP."
The pair were born on the same day and grew up barely a street apart but only met years later.
Carter, whose father was a drummer with 90s band Two Way Street, began making beats in his early teens.
"I got to 16 or 17, the age where you were showing people your beats, sharing MP3s, just after the time where people were making ringtones," he says.
"I was making jingles on my computer, sending them to friends on MP3, then people were sending them on. It became common to hear my jingles and beats on other people's phones and that was when I realised it was more than just a hobby.
"I enjoyed that people wanted to hear my music on their phone."
At the time Carter didn't have a desire to write lyrics or rap.
"I never wanted to go into the playground and say my lyrics, it was like a war zone," he says.
Not far away, Louis was working on his rhymes. After being introduced by a friend, the two spent months sharing their music on Soundcloud.
"I would turn up with a hard drive of 15 or 20 beats," says Carter.
"One week I turned up and said, 'I've got a verse I want to show you'. I could kind of see his eyes roll, it could ruin it if he has to be honest with me."
Luckily, Carter's verse impressed Louis and he started taking the rap side seriously. Now both write, produce and rap.
"In summer 2013 we started producing some of our most prolific music, the music that made our sound," says Carter. "We knew it was soulful and meant something quite deep to us. The concept is, when it's the two of us making music it's another soul, another person."
Debut EP Real Talks came out in 2013, winning attention from the hip-hop community and later a three-week support slot with Talib Kweli.
"He was super friendly," says Carter.
"He taught us loads, how to carry yourself on tour… We were on tour with him for about three weeks. That was when we started to get recognition around the country."
From there, they began to play big festivals, going on to support Slum Village and Pete Rock and releasing album The Remedy in 2015.
There were talks with labels but they never quite reached the point of signing, instead deciding to release their music themselves, no doubt helped by some industry insider wisdom from Carter's dad:
"He's an avid musician, playing drums for 40 years. I always learn stuff from him, it's interesting to have someone in the family who has gone through the things we've gone through.
"He definitely had some advice, especially around the time we were talking to labels. His best advice was, trust your own instincts with your own music [and] don't let too many non-musicians outside the creative process make decisions for you.
"The most valuable thing is hold on to your product, you make sure when and how it's released and stay true to your own process."
Follow Otha Soul on Instagram for updates on releases and tour dates and find their music on streaming sites.


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Day 230 - Harley Davidson
No, I'm not a Harley Davidson fan. I just think they look cool and gave me something to take a picture of today.
I also found a couple more bizarre beholdings today. Since I am not witty with the titles, maybe you guys would like to pop on over and give it a shot on the first two photos. I'm sure some of you could come up with some funny stuff.
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Awesome shot.
- August 18, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- Jidhu Jose said...
nice shot
- August 18, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- Amy said...
Cool shot!
- August 19, 2011 at 9:43 AM
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