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A Big Thank You Birchwood United!
Birchwood United is a very apt phrase at the moment, as there are so many staff helping out in different service areas supporting staff teams that are short staffed either through sickness, expansion of a service, or in the case of Caithness, the start of a brand new service.
I have been delighted and amazed at the extent of the positive response of staff across the Company, particularly in our Inverness based services who have been so keen to help and work in other service areas; sharing their knowledge, experience and insight into Birchwood Highland and I am so grateful for others, who despite going through a difficult time at the moment, have stuck in there and continue to do everything they can to ensure that the support to service users is not compromised.
This readiness of staff to help was reinforced to me today, when Annabel, visiting Head office, advised me that she had a very heavy box in her car that she would need help with. I would not be able to do it she told me, suggesting that perhaps we could enlist the help of some other strong person. Okay I thought, I'm not so young or fit as I used to be, although, I'm still pretty strong, but perhaps I should just accept that statement, it has been a very busy few weeks after all. So, as we headed downstairs and towards the front door, I asked members of the Inverness team, who had just finished or were in the process of finishing their team meeting if any strong person would be able to help us get something out of Annabel's car.
Well, every single one of the team of 7 who were sitting there, stood up and headed out to the car park, whereupon Marlene, yes, those of you who know the Inverness team will know Marlene, picked the box out of the car and said, "You call this heavy?" whilst the rest of them said "Is that all?" clearly expecting a huge load to help carry in. The box was escorted in by a different member of the team, whilst I advised them all that it was good to be outside; fresh air was good for them, and under healthy working lives it was good to see them all standing as sitting down too much is not good for you!.
What else could I do? The show of good will and willingness to help amongst every single person there was almost too much for me, but then again why was I so surprised on the back of everything else I have seen these past few weeks? And, I reminded myself, we are not the winners of the Highland Business Women's best third sector organisation and team of the year award for nothing!
I felt so proud holding the trophies on behalf of everyone in Birchwood Highland last month at the Highland Business Women's Awards.
It felt at that point that Birchwood Highland was on top of the world, with two awards, being the charity of the year and just having shown a fabulous film about our work and who we are, with people all around us saying how great the company is! Naturally, sods law would have it that that kind of euphoria cannot last forever, and other things have since taken over, but every time I look at the trophies in the Board room, I remember the feeling I had that night and the ongoing pride I feel for Birchwood Highland staff, volunteers and service users.
I have also learnt from receiving feedback from the judges comments that we won by a significant majority of points in both our awards categories. I would just like to emphasise once more that in our team award application we made it clear that our application was based on every single member of staff, volunteer and service user being part of our overall team and working together to achieve what we do. In accepting our team award, I made it clear that I was accepting this great award on this basis.
Well done everyone, a fabulous achievement and a great end to last year!
I have always been aware that we have a fabulous lot of staff throughout Birchwood Highland, but in the past few weeks I have seen like no other time in my 12 years with Birchwood Highland just how united everyone stands when there are workload or other challenges needing people to work that bit harder together to achieve that bit more. So, thank you one and all in Birchwood Highland, you continue to amaze and inspire me. Have a good Easter!
- Emily Stokes
Social Enterprise
The Board of Directors have been discussing the possibility of developing (a) social enterprise(s) within Birchwood Highland recently. For over a year now, we have been discussing the idea of a cafe with a community group, with much work still to be done on that to progress, but in the meantime, we are keen to hear from service users and staff about any ideas or thoughts they have that might work in their local areas. As such, before the summer, a couple of the Directors, David, our new Business Support Officer at Head Office and me (Emily) will be making arrangements to come and see everyone to gather your views and thoughts on this to see if there are any ideas we can start looking at further.
What's Been Happening
Two Major Wins at this Year's Highland Business Women's Awards
We are celebrating our 30th Anniversary in style with not one but two major wins at this year's Highland Business Women awards this year, winning not only Third Sector Organisation of the Year for the second year in a row, but also scooping the coveted Team of the Year gong. This meant beating off stiff competition from fabulous charities such as Contact The Elderly, Creativity In Care, Children 1st and Gateway. The team award was hotly contested by last year's winners Macleod & MacCallum and Dolphin Spirit. What great company to keep in both categories!
We are proud to be celebrating our 30th year delivering support to people across the region, and hugely grateful to Highland Business Women's organisers and judges for choosing us as winners in this our special year. Obviously we are chuffed to bits with both awards, but Team of the Year is particularly special as the entry focused on exactly who makes up our team: the staff, volunteers and people who use our service. All are equally important in believing that recovery from mental illness is possible and all make up the Team of the Year.
On the night £4,000 was raised from Highland Business Women's fabulous raffle and the hugely raucous 'Hit or Miss' game supported by the lovely people at Belladrum. All of the cash raised on the night will go to fund Birchwood Highland's mental health awareness sessions in schools.
Birchwood Runners
A huge thank you and well done to Amy Barclay, James Proctor, Martin Chisholm, and Laurey Bell who ran the Half Marathon in Inverness in March, raising a fantastic £1,767.16! Here they are pictured before and after. If you'd like to support Birchwood Highland by running for us, take a look at our upcoming events.
Jamie Ross from Invergordon is currently raising money for Birchwood Highland Easter Ross. Jamie will be running the Stirling marathon on the 21st of May. You can support Jamie's fundraising efforts through Just Giving.
Caithness Service
We are now running a service in Caithness which includes supporting individuals with mental health issues, dementia, autism and drug and alcohol. Keep an eye on our website for future updates. you can also view our leaflet on Housing Support in Caithness.
Here's Audrey in the new Caithness office which will be furnished soon.
Let's Walk a Mile
Click here to visit the event page for Let's Walk a Mile. There is also a monthly walk led by Stephen Wiseman from Scottish Waterways Trust. Follow us on Facebook for updates on these events.
Black Isle Bike Ride
Join us for the annual Black Isle Bike Ride starting and finishing at the Free church in North Kessock. Come along from 11.30am for a 12pm start. This is a family friendly event, not a race!
If you'd like to take part please email firstname.lastname@example.com
Ascot Adventures
Fancy a day at the races? Birchwood Highland, Marie Curie and Highland Business Women would like to invite you to Ascot Adventures at the Kingsmills Hotel, a fantastic day of racing and fundraising. Visit the event page here.
30th Anniversary Celebration
Please accept this as an invitation to all staff and volunteers to our 30th birthday party. Please collect numbers of those who can attend at team level.
As everyone is aware, this is our 30th year, a big one for us and as such we have been asking the service user groups how they would like to mark the occasion. Each has chosen a slightly different way, but the party idea definitely features in every plan.
The first party to kick off our special year is being held in Inverness on Monday 29th May in Whin Park, where there will be a party in the park by the boating lake with music and food. Service users are currently busy making their costumes, including hats for this party and they are using the old Poundstretchers shop in Inverness as their base for these workshops.
Easter Ross have opted for a circus theme to their celebrations, with a parade through the High street onto the Natal Gardens where they are planning a family fun day with a fair, music and other shennanigans. Workshops for their banners, costumes etc start on the 29th April.
And finally, Lochaber are planning a carnival theme, with big costumes planned (I have already had my wings measured!) and I look forward to the carnival on Tuesday 20th June.
Service users and any staff accompanying are welcome to attend any of the parties and are actively encouraged to join in in other areas.
Finally, staff and volunteers get their turn on Saturday 24th June, with our 80's themed disco at the Chieftain Hotel in Inverness.
Note that there are sessions for making celebration items like hats, wings, headdresses, bunting and mosaic art pieces throughout April and May at Pound-Stretchers by Creativity in Care open to all at Birchwood Highland! See the dates and more information here.
Here are some photos of a recent workshop with Sarah and Veronica from Head Office getting measured for their costumes!
Ness Vegas
Fancy a bit of mid-summer fun? Ness Vegas is a brand new event for Inverness, bringing casino fun and great entertainment to the Inverness Highland Games! Visit the event page here.
Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival
Amidst all the different and exciting preparations for our anniversary celebrations we are also getting ready to present our work at this year's edition of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. This year Birchwood Highland are leading the festival preparations on behalf of all SMHAFF Highland partners and we will want to make sure that the festival is more colourful and successful than ever.
A number of SMHAFF events are planned to take place throughout October, with the Opening Night planned for 5th October at the Bike Shed and a SMHAFF Highland Great Gathering Event at One Touch Theatre at Eden Court on 24th October.
Eden Court will make wall space available to us to present our artwork throughout October. This will include the commemorative mosaic the services will be working on directed by a professional mosaic artist. I will be in touch with the service managers soon with more information about this.
The exhibition will also include some of the carnival artefacts now being made at workshops with Karrie Marshall and Creativity in Care. As some of these items are going to be quite big, we might need to present photographs instead. After being exhibited at Eden Court, the artwork will then be moved to the Highland Council Chamber corridors.
As every year, also this year SHMAFF Highland will include a photography and a writing competition. This year participants will be invited to submit work linking in with the quote from Ned Vizzinni's novel It's Kind of a Funny Story: "Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real." You might remember that the film based on this novel was selected by Birchwood Highland for our SMHAFF film night at Eden Court last year. It proved to be a real hit and apart from this year photo and writing competition being based on the novel, the book has also been chosen by Highland reading clubs as the book to be read and discussed in October as part of the festival.
We will be hosting a film night at Eden Court again this year and if you have any ideas of a film to choose for the night, please get in touch with me.
Rachael and Pauline are also working on our very own film to be shown at different festival events so please don't be surprised if you are approached with a request to be part of it. Say 'yes' and be part of our great festival success this year too!
If you have any questions or ideas, get in touch with me on my email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Paulina Duncan
Your Views Matter!
Birchwood Highland Young People Forum met once again in February this year. The Forum is an advisory group of staff and volunteers working with Birchwood Highland aged 28 and younger. The forum looks at different aspects of our organisation and thinks what we could do more to attract and retain young people. From the organisation's point of view, it's important that we attract young talent with new ideas and new ways of looking at things. It is also important that young people stay with us and grow and progress within the organisation contributing to its success. Our commitment to young people in the organisation has been additionally strengthened by the Investors in Young People accreditation we achieved in March last year.
Some of the issues the Forum has looked at so far include the way we advertise our vacancies, our job application form as well as other elements of recruitment. We also discussed our presence in social media and progression planning. All ideas and suggestions brought up at our biannual meetings are compiled into a report and presented to the management team for discussion. Many of the suggestions of the Young People Forum have been already implemented and some are being discussed to find the best way of their implementation.
The next forum meeting will take place in August and will look at the Investors in People Heat Map to think how to get us prepared for our next Investors in People assessment. The IIP framework has changed this year and we will be trying to get a higher level of accreditation this time, so putting our heads together will be really important to make sure we achieve it.
Ensuring the organisation is a good, healthy and friendly place to work is the responsibility not only of the managers but of all of us. Therefore it's key that everyone contributes by communicating their views on how to make things better. The Young People Forum is one of a number of different communication channels we have in the organisation. There are many other ways of sharing your thoughts and ideas, in your supervision sessions, team meetings, at other forums you or a representative from your team may attend, such as the support worker's forum, health & safety committee, healthy working lives committee, medication management meetings etc. or through talking to any of the managers in Birchwood Highland. Your ideas and your views are important and welcomed.
Oscar's New Friend
Oscar with Lauren Bell's little boy, Angus. He's also been taking part in some creative writing skills!
Social Enterprise Inverness High School
The "Growing Your Skills, Widening Your Horizons" programme was run in conjunction with Inverness High School and Social Enterprise Academy. Young people completed written and practical exercises to achieve the award. All the young people stayed the course, attending and participating over six weeks to complete their portfolio. Young people talked about having gained confidence, team work skills, and gaining skills that would directly help with employment interviews. Teachers and the tutor confirmed this and referred to seeing improved social and communication skills, and increased confidence with the group gelling well. The young people have indicated that they wish to continue their involvement with Birchwood Highland and we will be meeting up again after the holidays to talk about specifics. Inverness High School and Social Enterprise Academy are also happy to work with us again next academic year and we will be looking at opportunities for this.
Entertaining Guests at the Recovery Centre
We had a few students visiting the Recovery Centre all the way from Belgium recently. Here they are enjoying some healthy foods and trying a little Irn Bru as a treat.
A Trip to Wick
Naomi and I went to Wick on 31st March to help with staff inductions. It was great to meet Sophie, Rachelle and Audrey, some of our new staff in Caithness.
This was my first time driving to Wick and now I know why everyone was warning me about the notorious Berriedale Braes! This picture does not do them justice, they are very steep and Naomi got a bit of a fright!
- Veronica Macleman
Rehearsals Underway
Back in March, the Head Office team managed to take a lunch break one week to start their rehearsals for the 'performance' at Birchwood Highland's 30th anniversary staff party on Saturday 24th June. As we've mentioned before, we are hoping that teams might be able to do a performance around the 80's theme as we used to for the old staff awards ceremonies.
Things have been a bit busy since and we've not managed a further rehearsal, but we'll get back to it, I am sure... In the meantime, it will be going in our Healthy Working Lives portfolio.
Winter Photography
Lloyd Mclean has built up a good collection of photographs during his support sessions at Birchwood Highland. Lloyd has great skills in photography, here are some pictures that Lloyd took over the winter months. In February the Easter Ross service users have started back at the Football Buddies going to watch the Ross County home matches. Lloyd Mclean and John Mcmillan had both missed going to the games over the winter as Football buddies stops for the winter months. They are both delighted to be going back to the football games again.
- Heather Nic, Support Worker
Well Done Peter!
Well done to Peter MacDonald who has worked very hard and successfully stopped smoking. Here is his inspirational story;
"Just a wee story about stopping smoking. I stopped after my Dad died on 29th September 2016, this would have been his 81st Birthday. I went to see the Smoking Cessation Nurse to ask for support. I started using patches to help me cope with the withdrawal symptoms. I decided to start a jar to put the money in as I am not good at saving.
Anyway, my Partner Maria, who is from Kenya, asked me if I could get time off work to go to Kenya with her. I asked June for the annual leave and she kindly said OK. Then I thought Mmmmm money to pay for this. I approached my jar with trepidation to see if this could help toward the cost of my holiday. I got the tin opened and hoped there would be enough. WOW! To my surprise there was over £800.00 in it. I went straight to the Travel Agent, cost for flight £442.00, passport £82.00. That left £300.00 change which I am putting toward spending money.
I leave on 10th June for a very special holiday and this is all thanks to a kind Smoking Cessation Nurse, who I see regularly and a wee bit of determination.
Honestly, it's okay after the first four days with the Patches. Go on, give it a bash! I hope elephants and lions like Support Workers! I'll send you a postcard.
God bless
Peter MacDonald"
Happy Birthday Joan
Joan McEwan from Birchwood Highland Easter Ross celebrated her 60th birthday recently. We had a tea party for her which was well attended by all her friends at Birchwood. Happy Birthday, Joan!
Work is well underway in developing a new IT system for Birchwood Highland
Work is well underway in developing a new IT system for Birchwood Highland.
The work is being overseen by David Brookfield, the Business Support Officer based at Inverness Head Office supported by Sarah Smith who many of you will know. David has agreed a new support contract with SFG, an Inverness based company. In future any problems that you have with your computer can be directed to the team of Andy, Shane, Stewart and Rob at SFG on 01463 630300 who will be happy to help sort out your problems. You can of course always speak to David or Sarah at Head Office about any issues relating to your IT.
So far a new broadband line has been installed in the Inverness head office which has improved the internet speeds there. Many of the problems that users were experiencing in Inverness have been either resolved or identified with a view to repairing. A new server has also been purchased which is currently being re-configured and an improved back up system has also been set up in Inverness. David and SFG will be visiting each of the Community teams and the Recovery Centre to establish the current set up and to speak to the teams so that we can establish what structure of files and folders will work best for each of us.
Its hoped that the new system will be a much easier system to use and far more secure.
A draft structure for the files and folders is shown below:
Staff UPDATES
Childcare Vouchers
For those of you that are not aware, Birchwood Highland is a member of the Salary Exchange Childcare Vouchers Scheme. The Childcare Vouchers Scheme is available to all permanent staff members who have successfully completed their probationary period who are the parent or legal guardian of at least one child aged 0 to 16 years. Childcare Vouchers can be used to pay for all types of registered childcare including childminders, nurseries, au pairs, crèches, playgroups, out of school clubs, holiday schemes, qualifying childcare provided by schools, activity clubs and summer clubs. Staff members who are in receipt of Child Tax Credits do not qualify for this scheme. This scheme is third party funded and payments are made in the form of wage deductions.
Any staff member who is interested in joining the scheme can do so by accessing the website: www.salary-extras.co.uk. User Name: birchwood Password: benefits.
For more information please contact Lisa at Head Office.
Birchwood Babes
Congratulations to Lauren Bell, Business Support Officer, Community Services and her partner Scott on the arrival of their little girl, Amber. Also, congratulations to Lorraine Davidson on the arrival of her grandson Charlie a week before and belated congratulations to Jason Carr and his partner for the arrival of their first son!
Welcome Emily!
Emily Murdoch joined the staff team at Easter Ross in November 2016.
Emily worked in childcare before joining the Birchwood Highland team and is really enjoying the change of job.
Welcome to to the team, Emily (pictured right).
Training Dates
Moving and Handling: 21st April at Inshes Church
WRAP: 25th April and 2nd May at Inshes Church
Behaviour that Challenges Refresher: 9th May
Adult Support and Protection: 9th May in Fort William
Adult Support and Protection: 10th May in Invergordon
Adult Support and Protection: 10th May in Inverness
SafeTALK: 15th May in Inverness
Adult Support and Protection: 16th May in Invergordon
Adult Support and Protection: 23rd May in Inverness
If any staff would like to attend any courses, please contact your line manager. For full details, see the training calendar on SharePoint.
HR Updates
We'd like to wish a fond farewell to:
Anne Dickinson – Staff Nurse, Recovery Centre
Andrew Greig – Support Worker, Inverness
Colette Allen – Relief Support Worker, Recovery Centre
Gemma Duncan – Support Worker, Lochaber
Scot Young – Support Worker, Lochaber
Shona MacGillivray – Interim Manager, Head Office
Trevor Colbourne - Director
Yvonne Gilchrist- Support Worker, Recovery Centre
And a warm welcome to:
David Brookfield – Business Support Officer, Head Office
Ann Moffat – Relief Support Worker, Lochaber
Andrea Herrmann – Support Worker, Lochaber
Michael Brown – Support Worker, Lochaber
Jennifer Sorbie – Relief Support Worker, Recovery Centre
Sophie-Lee Martin – Relief Support Worker, Recovery Centre
Caitlin Prentice – Support Worker, Recovery Centre
Cheryl Williams – Team Administrator, Recovery Centre
Melanie Livings – Staff Nurse, Recovery Centre
Helen Mole – Relief Support Worker, Easter Ross
Lorraine Hunter – Support Worker, Inverness
Marie Keenan – Business Support Officer, Inverness
Julie Calder – Team Manager, Caithness
Rachelle Macnab – Senior Practitioner, Caithness
Sophie Ruby – Senior Practitioner, Caithness
Audrey Macnab – Support Worker, Caithness
Chloe Sinclair – Support Worker, Caithness
Updated Policies
Social Media Policy
Remote Support Service Policy
Petty Cash ISF Policy
Research Governance Policy
Display screen equipment policy
Fire safety Policy
Mobile Phone Policy
Driving at Work Policy
Nutritional Guidelines
Substance Misuse Policy
See you in Summer!
In the meantime, feel free to follow along on our social media channels.


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Below is the text of the written answers relating to Prime Minister's Question Time from 24th January 1994.
Mrs. Ann Winterton : To ask the Prime Minister if the letter of 22 December from the Parliamentary Under-
The Prime Minister : My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-
Her Majesty's Government acknowledge the right of individuals to draw up advance directives. People have a right, emphasised in the patients charter, to consent, or withhold consent, to treatment. Advance directives assist patients in the exercise of their legal rights and so ensure their lawful treatment.
The House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics is examining this area, and is due to report soon. The Government will consider the Committee's findings very carefully.
Downing Street Dinner
Mr. Mackinlay : To ask the Prime Minister if the invitations extended to political journalists to attend dinner at 10 Downing Street on 13 January stated that the proceedings would be on lobby terms.
The Prime Minister : It is not my practice to discuss the nature of invitations to private events.
Mr. Pendry : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his engagements for Wednesday 19 January; and if he will name the individuals he met.
The Prime Minister : I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others.
Jetstream Aircraft Ltd.
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Prime Minister what representations he has received personally on the future of Jetstream Aircraft Ltd.; what action he has taken; and if he will now agree to meet hon. Members with Ayrshire constituencies to discuss the aircraft.
The Prime Minister [holding answer 19 January 1994] : I have received representations from several hon. Members about Jetstream. The points raised are being pursued by the Departments responsible. Ministers at the DTI and I have discussed such matters with right hon. and hon. Members on a number of occasions. My right hon. Friend the Minister for Industry met a group of hon. Members to discuss Jetstream in November. I am generally willing to consider requests for meetings from hon. Members on departmental issues if and when they have exhausted contacts with the responsible Ministers.


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I want to report/Inform of a case of fraud
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I have responded on a advertised South African registered car (2005 ford fiesta) on Auto Trader.co.za that an individual that was selling, Govender Martin with e-mail address[firstname.lastname@example.com] he is from
South Africa and move to London UK ,he mentioned that that taxes are too
high to register this car in the UK and that he need to sell it as he
explained to me for R37000,and he will pay all shipping fees ,he said
that because of fraud and all we need to do this transaction via a
company that do the importing and exporting and shipping of cars they
call them self's Car Sales Network . firstname.lastname@example.com the
company registration Company No. 03089194
I recieved a tracking number after I payed 30% of the full amount, I was suppose to pay the full amount when i received the car, but they claim that the item will be blocked in their warehouse from WesternCape. They have some problems because they can not obtain the transport documents from the Western Cape authorities. I was intending to pay the full amount when i saw a reported crime, i realised that i am going through the same thing.
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Gents, I'm in negotiations for a similar deal involving a chap claiming he is based in the UK with a similar story and he wants to ship the bike using Car Sales Network. Luckily I searched around because the deal seemed too good to be true. I'm quite happy to offer my assistance if I can in any way help you nail these bastards since I have them interested and unaware that I know of their dealings. Please email me on email@example.com if you need my help.
hi I already sent a mail to wetern union i am waiting for their response
Hi Robert Yes its the same guy the street adress used is the same I think if we contact wetrn union and ask them at wich branch of them was the money been claimed from it will also help to narrow down the area this people operates from we have usa ,uk,australia and ther is a possibality of SA Thanks for the feed back and ask him the VIN no of the car


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Chloe Moretz poses on the Red Carpet for the MTV Movie awards this past weekend. She wore a Louis Vuitton patchwork denim dress with heels.
I really like this dress on Chloe! I think it is very age appropriate and fun on her. I also like the contrasting of the different colors of denim patches; normally, I'm not the biggest fan of logo prints, but I think the LV print is subtle enough and adds a nice detail to the dress. What do you think of this dress?


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Better than e-Bay, Freecycling is fun, and its free
Villager photos by Jefferson Siegel
Books, above, and clothes, below, are some of the many items available for the taking at Freecycle Freemeets.
By Jefferson Siegel
Its several weeks after the holidays and youre still stepping over piles of unwanted, unopened gifts. Youre wondering, who thought youd look good in a Hawaiian shirt in the middle of winter? And why would someone give you a VCR when you dont even have a TV? Its all perfectly good merchandise, too good to throw out, but your blood type isnt e-Bay. On a recent Saturday you would have found a sensible solution at the Freecycle Re-Gifting Freemeet.
Freecycle New York City is one of over 2,000 groups nationwide that match up people who want to get rid of their unwanted-but-useful possessions with others who are looking for that specific item.
Like many creative movements of the past decade, freecycling had its genesis on the Internet specifically in virtual meeting rooms, akin to chat rooms, on Yahoo Groups. Christina Salvi, the New York City group moderator, explained how, in 2003, someone in Tucson, Az., started an online group, allowing members to post lists of useful items they wanted to give away instead of discarding. The groups are all set up locally, Salvi explained, and the moderators are situated locally. Anyone who lives or works in New York City can join. In order to make transfers easier, smaller borough groups choose to limit members to their own area. People can join by logging on (locally, the URL is: http://groups. yahoo.com/group/ freecyclenewyorkcity/) and then scan the postings of items requested or offered.
N.Y.C. Freecycle also branched out from an existing organization, Recycle This! which itself formed several years ago to protest the Bloomberg administrations drastic reductions in curbside recycling pickups.
The Freecycle was held in the Sixth Street Community Center near Avenue C. Inside the large ground-floor room, one long table was filled with piles of clothing. Opposite were smaller tables holding toys, electronics, kitchen utensils, videos, CDs and even a champagne flute. Against the back wall lay piles of shoes, from Adidas sneakers to Nine West dress shoes. One man knelt by a box of computer parts, sorting through cables, while another reached past him to retrieve a keyboard. Another man stood by a table, sorting through CDs. On the floor was an eclectic selection of books; Russell Bakers Growing Up, Nadine Gordimers The Conservationist and a phone-book-sized tome, Bacons Radio Directory.
The rules were simple: just about anything could be freecycled, as long as it was only gently used, in working order and legal. There were no limits on what could be brought in or taken out as long as one could carry it. Over the course of the afternoon, people were seen sorting through the piles and leaving, only to return an hour or two later to check out new arrivals. Ada, a neighborhood child, happily held a multicolored slinky and a pad of reflective paper. Nearby, a woman found a pair of silver sneakers that matched the color of her hooded sweatshirt.
A fascinating osmosis took place, as Salvi observed, People come in with armloads and they leave with armloads. Several volunteers stood by, reassuring newcomers that everything was free and there was no limit to what could be taken.
Madeline Nelson came from the West Village to volunteer and spent some time folding clothes. An early adopter of a pre-Freecyclers group, the vegetarian-oriented Freegans, she was bullish on the days trading.
Here in America were wasting and throwing away so much that, in principle, you could live outside the money economy entirely. She continued piling clothes on a table as she spoke. In terms of consumer goods, people can live by gifting and scavenging. What you dont need, you re-gift.
The late afternoon light dimmed outside the rear windows but some tables remained sagging with donations. Melissa Meece, a co-organizer of the Freecycle, reassured a reporter that nothing would go to waste. The event was open to anyone, she explained, even a charity. And at the end of the day, she had made arrangements with several local charities to pick up or have delivered any and all leftovers. Piles of books and magazines were going to Books Through Bars, a Rivington St. group that provides printed media to jails. Clothing would go to the Catholic Workers Mens Shelter on E. First St. and the Catholic Workers Womens Shelter on E. Third Street, both near Second Ave. The Bowery Mission would take mens clothing. Odds and ends would be going to the Womens Prison Association on Second Ave. at Sixth St.
The Freecycles venue is itself an interesting story of recycling. A former synagogue that became vacant in 1978, it was reclaimed by a block association of single
mothers who were looking for a home. Using funding from several charitable foundations, they bought the building and created the Sixth Street Community Center. Historical preservation of the building is visible in the two narrow staircases inside the entrance, now painted in bright colors. Large marble slabs inscribed in Hebrew with the names of past congregants hang on the walls inside the entry room. Current programs at the center include twice-weekly yoga classes, education and discussion classes on food and health and a neighborhood co-op that offers members locally produced organic fruits and vegetables.
Near the end of a successful day, with future Freecycles already in mind, a tired but still-enthusiastic Salvi observed, Everyone left excited about something they found.
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This series consists of talks in the area of Quantum Gravity.
We calculate analytically the highly damped quasinormal mode spectra of generic single-horizon black holes using the rigorous WKB techniques of Andersson and Howls. We thereby provide a firm foundation for previous analysis, and point out some of their possible limitations. The numerical coefficient in the real part of the highly damped frequency is generically determined by the behavior of coupling of the perturbation to the gravitational field near the origin, as expressed in tortoise coordinates.
The phenomenology of quantum gravity can be examined even though the underlying theory is not yet fully understood. Effective extensions of the standard model allow us to study specific features, such as the existence of extra dimensions or a minimal length scale. I will talk about some applications of this approach which can be used to make predictions for particle- and astrophysics, and fill in some blanks in the puzzle of quantum gravity. A central point of this investigations is the physics of black holes.
Observers agree that a citizen of Ohio had much larger voting power than a citizen of Texas or California in the recent US presidential election. Why is it so? A brief introduction to the theory of voting will be provided. We analyze the voting power of a member of a voting body, or of a person which elects his representative, who will take part in the voting on her behalf. The notion of voting power is illustrated by examples of the systems of voting in the European Council. We propose a representative voting system based on the square root law of Penrose.
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Sun, 2 March 2014
This episode has more than its fair share of swans, clowns and unicorns. There is a quick catchup of news and a brief intro to my new abde in Fife. A large section is dedicated to PodRetreat and there is a giveaway associated with this. Finally, the pattern pick this week focuses on Unicorns.
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Let's Fight Ghost: Fourteenth Match
A bit late, but I've come to give you all the recap for episode 14 of Let's Fight Ghost. It is a rollercoaster so get ready for the ride ahead, my friends.
Bong Pal does his best to comfort Hyun Ji, telling her the story how Monk Myung Chul came to him when he was a kid, offering him a hand and support so he wouldn't be scared. And just like the Monk did to him, Bong Pal holds up his hand for Hyun Ji who takes it with a smile and allows him to protect her.
Still alone at home, Hyun Ji is scared so she's on the phone with Bong Pal. He says to be home but in reality he's outside her house, making sure she's okay and when she can't fall asleep, guess what he does? He sings to her. I know it's a super cliché move but it melted my heart.
And they continue being overly sweet to each other, with their texting and all that. Bong Pal tries to help her defend herself against ghosts and calls the Sundae Soup friends. Chun Sang ends up getting kicked in the nuts and then later comes up with "better ways" of training both mentally and physically: Karaoke.
Have I said I love those two before? Because I do. Enormously. I have a full gif-set of the scene where the sing Heartbeat by 2PM on my tumblr.
Monk Myung Chul gets called because someone found a body and they suspect it to be Bong Pal's father so he needs to confirm it. As expected, the police is right and it's not only that, the man died in the exact same way the student did. The monk is advised to take the body for a full autopsy to Seoul, and there the detectives are alerted. As Bong Pal's father fought his attacker, there should be DNA under his nails that can be used but for that, for the full autopsy, they need the family consent.
Monk Myung Chul is left no other option than to take Bong Pal to see his father and the poor boy did not expect a visit to the morgue. The guilt and horror are clear in his expression and it seems something broke in our poor Bong Pal who looks like an empty shell now. He sigs the consent but it's not like he's thinking, he's just there, unresponsive yet moving.
Hyun Ji has no clue why he doesn't answer and gets a bit annoyed, it's thanks to the monk who picks up the phone that she finds out. Perfect timing because at that time she had run into Professor Creepy and he was clearly taking her somewhere he could kill her. So now Hyun Ji runs to Bong Pal and struggles trying to find a way to comfort him.
When Hyun Ji sees Bong Pal's father's face she is reminded of meeting him before. When she went to pray to the temple to do well on her SAT, she ran into the man who without explanation, asked her to take something to his son: Bong Pal. It was the bracelet, the weapon against the evil spirit. Yes, that was what Professor Creepy wanted when he tried to kill her. The monk asks her if she remembers where she put that object but she doesn't, and he doesn't push her for it can be dangerous for her remembering the professor.
Professor Creepy shows up to show his respects and Monk Myung Chul threatens him but the professor shoots back, throwing the monk against a windshield and being more persuasive, threatening Bong Pal's life so now the monk remains quiet and away, for the boy's sake. We learn that the professor and evil spirt are one and if this leaves, the human will die. We also learn how the spirit came to Hye Sung, when he was bullied after his father's death and what happened. After the spirit possessed him, saying he saved the human from the hell he was living in, the kid killed another kid.
With the autopsy done, the detectives just need a warrant to get the professor's DNA. And with that done, Bong Pal can proceed with the funeral preparations and say goodbye to his father. Hyun Ji is with him but she does not what to say or do to make him feel better. She tries making him eat but he is still spacing out and rejects her offer. Instead, he just goes home to drown in his own misery, reading the letters he never opened and watching the old tapes.
Guilt is eating him alive, the poor baby.
When Hyun Ji gets home she finds out the house has been sold so they are leaving the next day. She refuses because of Bong Pal but her mother doesn't support that, saying she needs to study if she wants to meet him later. Hyun Ji rans out of home, to Bong Pal, trying to see him before she leaves but the boy doesn't open the door. She cries outside for him, he cries inside because of his guilt. I cry for both of them.
After that, Hyun Ji walks back home but Professor Creepy sees her and invites her to come in. At the same time, the detective comes to ask Bong Pal for information about the professor and how he might've known his father. And like that, the seed of doubt is planted. Bong Pal asks Monk Myung Chul about it and this confesses how the evil spirit who was once inside him is in the professor and he's after Hyun Ji.
With the truth revealed he is running to Hyun Ji to make sure she is okay.
But she is not, Professor Creepy has drugged her and has the psycho look in his eyes that means murder.
My poor heart. The first third of the episode was so cute and funny and then all went downhill and I'm still screaming. I don't want anyone to die but I'm so scared. Next week this K-drama ends and I'm not ready for that. How do you think things will end up for our friends? Share your theories on the comments.
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WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is expelling Syria's charge d'affaires in Washington following a wave of deadly attacks on civilians in Syria over the weekend, a U.S. official said.
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May 02,2016
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2016 iHeartCountry Festival
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Last weekend Brooklyn hosted the 2016 iHeartCountry Festival in Austin, TX. We added pictures of Brooklyn at the event to our gallery.
Mar 16,2016
COOL EFFECT's #LetsSave Mobile Event, SXSW festival
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2016 Sundance Film Festival
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Brooklyn is currently at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with the cast of her newest project Lovesong! She attended different events and tonight (January 26th) she was at the premiere for the movie.
These are Brooklyn's first events since giving birth to her son last year and she looks absolutely beautiful. We sure did miss her on the red carpet.
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Grace & Frankie Season 2 Premiere Date
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Netflix has announced the premiere date from Brooklyn's show Grace & Frankie! All the episodes will be available on May 6th!
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New project "Lovesong"
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Brooklyn has a new movie project! It's called Lovesong and it's a film directed by So Yong Kim! The movie is about two friends Mindy (Jena Malone) and Sarah (Riley Keough) who take on an unexpected road trip together. Brooklyn plays Lily and she is joined in the cast by Ryan Eggold, Rosanna Arquette and more! The film will be presented at this year's Sundace Film Festival.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
random friday facts
1. I'm afraid of most of the popular healthy-living-blogger foods. Grill me up a cheese sandwich and get the hell outta here with your strange little seeds and stinky plants. I eat tofu, that should be enough.
2. I will plant a flag in the ground and firmly declare that I will NEVER wear a running skirt.
3. I like the idea of farmer's markets a lot but can never get my act together enough to actually go to one while they are open.
4. The Puppy Cupcake Palace is at capacity for the next few months. I'm pretty excited.
5. I am a semi-mature (snort) responsible organized competent woman. Whenever anything goes wrong with my car, I immediately call my dad.
6. I've basically been sitting on my couch reading trashy historical fiction (I'm looking at you, Diana Gabaldon) and eating bonbons for the past 2 weeks, with a side of lots of easy miles. I don't see a problem with that.
7. I really hate touch-typing. I miss my little flip phone.
8. I absolutely refuse to turn on the heat in the same month the air conditioning is running.
9. Statues made of giant body parts creep me out. Ditto on phones, coasters, pillows, etc. I don't want to talk on the phone with a giant lip.
10. I've replaced my nightly ice cream with nightly hot tea.
11. I would really like to learn how to properly: fire a gun, hem curtains, use my borrowed-fancy-camera.
12. I have never lost a toenail due to running.
13. On Halloween, I pull the shades and turn off all the lights. I know, I'm so cranky. YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN.
I know this was a short one, but I ran over 14 miles this morning and now my redheads are starting to roll in, so I'm off to the weekend races! If you RFF'd, drop me a comment and let me know so I can link you since I probably won't touch my reader until Monday. Good luck to everyone racing this weekend!
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Funny. I'm the same way on Halloween but feel guilty about it so I buy the candy (maybe that's an excuse to eat it all myself), turn on the light for 5 min. turn it off. Feel bad, turn the light on... It's such an exhausting night for me! :)ReplyDelete
Flip phones! If I could read email on mine I'd never get rid of it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 28, 2011 at 11:38 AM
I've ran ONE half marathon and lost TWO toenails! Jealous.ReplyDelete
I RFF'd at myDC. http://dcforme.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/random-friday-facts-3/
I still have a keyboard on my phone, I can't really use the touch screen too good.ReplyDelete
I RFF'd today :)
I love Diana Gabaldon's writing. If your reading her books, I'm impressed you're getting any training in. :)ReplyDelete
I done did my RFF. Have a fun girls' weekend!ReplyDelete
Yes to the no running skirts. I guess if others really want to wear them they can, but I just don't get it.ReplyDelete
I don't wear skirts or dresses when I'm NOT running. Why would I wear them while running?
I'm all about the nightly hot tea lately! I also don't participate for Halloween but last year I was forced to because that is my husbands birthday! Have fun!ReplyDelete
"strange little seeds and stinky plants". YOU TELL 'EM! Somebody should.ReplyDelete
#3 - Happens all the time. When I do go, I am all kinds of excited (mostly because there are delicious samples and the food is very photogenic and cute - don't hate), and always find something worth buying.
They still make Bon-Bons?!
- AnonymousOctober 28, 2011 at 12:14 PM
Same on 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 12, except sci-fi tv instead of historical fiction, and I do have one suspect toenail that isn't looking so good these days....ReplyDelete
i shall plant my flag right next to yours because I will never wear a running skirt. The only thing worse then a running skirt is a BIKING skirt! woof.ReplyDelete
I know a farmers market in Bloomington that is open for the next few weekends... Just sayin'.ReplyDelete
Also, "Like" Diana Gabaldon on facebook and get quotations from her upcoming stories in your feed. UH MAZING.
I will never wear a running skirt either. Promise.ReplyDelete
Oh, and I did my first ever RFF today! And what do I get for it? You bail to go hang out with cooler people all weekend. Where's the love?? haha! Have fun (and try to be relatively safe).
I have never lost a toenail either.... (*knock on wood* don't want to jinx MCM).ReplyDelete
I bought candy to pass out this year so the plan is to turn the light on but we'll see how that goes.
No more ice cream? :(ReplyDelete
haha i miss my old phone SO much, but i finally made the switch, and im not going back. wish i could be there this weekend, have so much fun!!ReplyDelete
wait, per Lauren's comment -- biking skirts EXIST?!? what is wrong with people?ReplyDelete
also, puppy cupcake palace, here i come :)
call your dad about your car AND shooting a gun. :)ReplyDelete
have so much fun this weekend. and get Jen to put some eyeshadow on you. just for shiggles.
I am all over the nightly hot tea and yelling at the kids to get off my damn lawn. little buggers.ReplyDelete
as for the skirt i will never say never b/c I have no clue what may happen one day for a charity. hey you never know. whoops there I said never.....
enjoy the weekend as I'm slightly jealous of y'all.
There is always a kilt. You could go totally commando. That is very in right now and feels airy and light.ReplyDelete
I tried on a running skirt at the store yesterday just to see what everyone was talking about, looked in the mirror and exclaimed, what are these people thinking?!ReplyDelete
RFF done
I love running skirts - super comfortable which I love. Funny seeing you yesterday. I never see anyone I "know" in Vermont. Good job getting - did you say 14 - miles in.ReplyDelete
i think you have to give running skirts a shot, what could it hurt?ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh! I can identify with so many of those. I have never lost a toenail or had a blister from running. I can't stand Halloween and wish the stupid kids would leave me alone. And I will NEVER wear a running skirt and have never worn running capri tights either.ReplyDelete
When you hear someone banging on your door tonight, screaming, "GIVE ME CANDY, DAMMIT!" That's me. You better open. ;)ReplyDelete
Lol. I am the same about the Farmer's Markets. Love the idea, but can't seem to find the time to figure out how to get there in time. Ditto on calling my Dad to help with my car and thinking crazy super health foods are weird.ReplyDelete
11. I can teach you to hem.ReplyDelete
12. Me neither.
13. We totally hide on Halloween. Yesterday I had the built-in real excuse of being on a plane, so I'm better than you just being a curmudgeon :)
#2 YES. And by yes, I mean NO WAY.ReplyDelete
#11 I can help you with that.


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Wild Swimming: Forget The Pool & Go Wild Instead
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A nip in the air is no reason to forgo the wonders of wild swimming. You can still take a dive into the temperate waters of some of the world's most beautiful and unusual swimming spots, from waterfalls and forest pools to bat caves.
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Vanuatu Volcano Puts On Glittering, Primal Show
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Who says you need meat to make a perfect burger?
Ryan and I didn't really have any doubts as to the merits of a good portobello burger, but after this dinner last week, we think even the most steadfast carnivore could be swayed.
The whole dinner was inspired by a recipe in My Father's Daughter, a new cookbook written by Gwyneth Paltrow (yes, that Gwyneth Paltrow).
First, Paltrow's recipe calls for on-the-vine tomatoes to be halved and slow-roasted in the oven, with just a bit of olive oil and salt, for 3-5 hours. We let our first batch roast for nearly the full five hours before pulling out shriveled, tangy little gems, but they were so good that we ate them up instantly!
We roasted our second batch (the ones you see here) for just over two hours and were rewarded with still plump, juicy tomatoes—perfect for topping a burger.
Next, we let our giant portobellos marinate with some smashed garlic cloves, salt, pepper, olive oil and lemon juice for about 15 minutes. In the meantime, I sliced up a sweet onion and a few slices of smoky fresh mozzarella.
We forewent the fries this dinner in lieu of a healthier option—kale chips. We first made kale chips last year and have since become addicted to their salty bite and bitter green flavor.
After tearing the kale into pieces (removing any thick ribs first), we put them on a baking sheet with salt, red pepper and a bit of olive oil and roasted them at 300 degrees for about 20 minutes. The result: earth-shatteringly crunchy, emerald green chips. Every bit as decadent as your typical salted crisps.
The portobellos were cooked in a sauté pan for about 10 minutes, along with the sliced onion, until they both were lusciously tender and packed full of juice and flavor.
The final, simple step: build your burger however you like! We used sesame brioche buns, which we piled high with our mushrooms, grilled onions and slices of mozzarella cheese. We ran the finished product until the broiler for a minute (who doesn't love warm, gooey mozzarella?) and then topped with aforementioned tangy tomatoes.
Biting into this burger was no different than taking a bite out of a medium-rare beef patty and even just as enjoyable, especially with the company of a crisp Shiner Ruby Red beer (imported from New Jersey).
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
~ Pat Robertson (whose media power, political influence, and global business interests are not a joke)
I have been increasingly dismayed by some of the Witchcraft-focused tripe coming out in recent books, TV, and films. But I've been unable to put my finger on what (besides being personally offended, and the smarmy, adolescent nature of it) was really bothering me.
One of my heroes, Jason Pitzl-Waters, nailed it yesterday in his post from The Wild Hunt. So I am reprinting it in its entirety, adding my own emphasis at the end.
Please consider sharing this with others. I hope it goes viral, because it affects all of us.
The so-called Burning Times are far from over, and our consumer dollars are fuel for dreadful fires that burn and spread even now. ~ Beth
The Reality of Burning Witches
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By Jason Pitzl-Waters — February 7, 2013
I fear that some of us living in the developed "first" world have developed a tendency to romanticize the European witch persecutions of the early modern period, a time where between 35 to 65 thousand men and women were killed for crimes of sorcery and witchcraft.
It was so long ago that we have taken to fictionalizing the witch-hunts in films like "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," "Black Death," and "Season of the Witch." Blurring the line beyond mere romanticization into utter fantasy, a fantasy fed by the very lies used to initially convict those men and women.
This fantasy is problematic not only for the way it warps history in the minds of the uncurious, but because witch-hunting has never stopped. The witch-hunts in Europe may have ended generations ago, but in other parts of the world they are still burning innocents.
Kepari Leniata being burnt to death in Papua New Guinea for the crime of "sorcery."
"A young mother accused of sorcery was stripped naked, doused with petrol and burned alive in front of a crowd including schoolchildren in Papua New Guinea, reports said on Thursday. The woman, named by The National newspaper as Kepari Leniata, 20, was reportedly tortured with a branding iron and tied up, splashed with fuel and set alight on a pile of rubbish topped with car tires. According to the rival Post-Courier newspaper she was torched by villagers who claimed she killed a six-year-old boy through sorcery, with police outnumbered by onlookers and unable to intervene."
The source of that blaze is a woman. A crowd gathered to watch her die, swept up in the hysteria and panic of the accusation. That is what "killing witches" looks like.
In Nigeria, another woman, 70-year-old Rebecca Adewumi, was recently killed for being witch.
"Mrs Adewumi was accused of being responsible for the sickness of a local evangelist. She was dragged to the palace of the monarch, where she was forced to drink local concoctions. The concoctions were given to her to make her confess or die within seven days. But after seven days she did not confess or die. Subsequently local thugs stormed her house. They dragged her under the rain and flogged her. According to a family member, her attackers scrapped her hair with broken bottles and used a big scissors to cut her fingers, then placed her on a tyre and set her ablaze."
The witch-hunts aren't some relic of the past, they are happening now. Nor is it isolated to the "third" world.
"A teenage boy underwent "unimaginable physical torture" before being drowned by his sister and her partner because they believed he was a sorcerer who was practising witchcraft, a court heard on Thursday. […] Over four days Kristy, who was visiting his sister from France, was tortured with metal bars, wooden sticks, a hammer and a pair of pliers in a "prolonged attack of unspeakable savagery and brutality", the court was told."
We live in a strange time.
In America we concoct fantasies about killing "witches," we build thrillers that suppose our own witch-killings were justified, while thousands are killed by mobs in towns and villages across the world. Surely we should be feeling some cognitive dissonance, but we seem to accept "The Witch" as just like any other fantasy creature: zombies, werewolves, vampires, winged fairies.
We make no real connection to how much our fantasy is built on the horror of killing innocents (and the propaganda that fueled it).
Nor do we realize that Hollywood is a global business, and that our fantasies about witch-killing might be seen very differently in lands where witch-hunts have not become a relic of history.
For modern Pagans and Witches living in countries where these witch persecutions happen, they are in a constant struggle to change a culture of misinformation and dangerous propaganda (South African Pagans are currently circulating a petition to their Human Rights Commission).
Yesterday I wrote about a large number of film projects featuring witches and witchcraft that are being released this year, and that those of us who identify as Witches should start discerning our response to them, because what pop-culture does impacts our collective thinking and beliefs.
This is not because these films are about "us," but because the lines are far blurrier than we realize. That it's problematic that we are entertained by fake witches being killed while Christian groups in America fund witch-hunters overseas.
Meanwhile, the unscrupulous have no problem issuing polemics that deliberately try to blur the lines further between modern religious Witchcraft and the witch-persecutions. We seem to forget that we are not immune to moral panics here too.
I'm not saying we can't have fantasy witches riding broomsticks and cackling, I'm simply saying that we can't enjoy them in a vacuum.
When we blur the lines between the fantasy witch and the innocent women and men that were killed in early modern Europe, when we make them the villains while witch-hunts rage and people die in places like Papua New Guinea, we have to start examining what we are saying to ourselves through our art.
The reality of burning witches is not fun, entertaining, or exciting, it is horrifying and tragic, it should gain the world's attention and mobilize us into action.
The figure of the witch, in fantasy and reality, has always been a dangerous and complex idea and we cannot ignore what we invoke in its name.


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"Our failure to beat Uganda is Nii Lante's doing. We shouldnt put any blame on the pitch or anybody, the blame should solely be placed at the door step of him," Kojo Yankah told Happy FM.
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SOURCE: AGE-WELL Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE)
February 08, 2017 09:00 ET
TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - February 08, 2017) - The Impact Centre at the University of Toronto has been named a new AGE-WELL core facility in entrepreneurship.
This is the first new AGE-WELL core facility to be announced since 2015 when AGE-WELL was established with federal funding to support Canadian research and innovation in the area of technology and aging.
AGE-WELL core facilities promote and trigger national and international interactions for AGE-WELL and provide physical and/or virtual venues for researchers to meet, collaborate and exchange ideas. AGE-WELL has two other core facilities (details below).
The Impact Centre is a research institute at the University of Toronto that brings science to society through education, research and entrepreneurship. The Centre has had big success in incubating companies whose products impact the world.
As an AGE-WELL core facility in entrepreneurship, the Impact Centre will provide AGE-WELL researchers and trainees with startup support, one-on-one student mentoring, customized training programs on entrepreneurship, access to labs and equipment, and other services related to innovation and commercialization.
"We enthusiastically welcome the Impact Centre as a new AGE-WELL core facility that will help us to fuel entrepreneurship and nurture startups in the field of technology and aging," says Dr. Alex Mihailidis, AGE-WELL Scientific Director. Dr. Mihailidis is also an associate professor at the University of Toronto and the Barbara G. Stymiest Research Chair in Rehabilitation Technology at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network (UHN).
"AGE-WELL and the Impact Centre share a strong interest in the development of innovative real-world products and services," says Dr. Mihailidis. "This new relationship will provide crucial support for AGE-WELL startups, researchers, trainees and network partners. We see many synergies and successes ahead."
AGE-WELL's other core facilities are the iDAPT (Intelligent Design for Adaptation, Participation and Technology) Research Centre at Toronto Rehab-UHN, and the IRMACS Centre (Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences) at Simon Fraser University. The IRMACS Centre is an AGE-WELL core facility in collaborative research technology. iDAPT provides AGE-WELL researchers with access to its simulation environments. For more, see AGE-WELL Core Facilities.
"I am extremely impressed with what the AGE-WELL team has accomplished to date," says Dr. Richard McAloney, the Impact Centre's Director of Entrepreneurship. "This is a testament to the quality of the management, researchers, trainees and network partners."
"The Impact Centre and AGE-WELL's goals are well aligned and we look forward to combining our complementary expertise," says Dr. McAloney. "Through this effort we will be able to find opportunities to promote healthy aging that would otherwise slip through the cracks and we'll be able to bring those to the world faster."
Mark Elias, a researcher and entrepreneur, says the new partnership will benefit "any health startup" working in the technology and aging space. Mr. Elias is Co-Founder and CEO of Steadiwear Inc., a startup which has developed a "smart glove" to reduce hand tremors. Steadiwear receives support from AGE-WELL and is incubated at the Impact Centre. For more, see https://steadiwear.com.
"The Impact Centre's business and technology acumen combined with AGE-WELL's strength in developing technologies for healthy aging provides a blend that is ideal for any health startup," says Elias. "The Impact Centre and AGE-WELL's support has been a game changer for us. We entered the Impact Centre with an idea and one year later we have a functional unit ready to be tested clinically."
"The Impact Centre has provided me with training in key areas required to be an entrepreneur," says Dr. Pooja Viswanathan, CEO of Braze Mobility Inc, a startup that is commercializing an innovative add-on feature that can transform a regular powered wheelchair into a "smart" wheelchair able to help prevent collisions. Dr. Viswanathan, a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at the University of Toronto and an AGE-WELL trainee, receives support from AGE-WELL through a Strategic Investment Program grant. Braze is incubated at the Impact Centre. For more, see http://brazemobility.com/
"The resources, including personnel, equipment and services, offered by the Impact Centre, AGE-WELL and other core facilities such as iDAPT and Semaphore Lab, have been integral in developing our product in a cost-effective manner helping us get to market faster," says Dr. Viswanathan. "Today's announcement, formalizing the relationship between AGE-WELL and the Impact Centre, is great news for startups that have innovative solutions to support healthy aging."
About AGE-WELL:
AGE-WELL NCE Inc. (http://www.agewell-nce.ca/, @AGEWELL_NCE) is a federally-funded Canadian network of industry, non-profit organizations, government, care providers, end users, and academic partners working together using high-quality research to drive innovation and create technologies and services that benefit older adults and caregivers. Its vision is to harness and build upon the potential of emerging and advanced technologies in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), e-health, information communication technologies (ICTs), and mobile technologies to stimulate technological, social, and policy innovation.
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I'm pretty proud that we've got everything on this list except the bonus Korean film that I haven't heard of. The comments are great to read. Nice to see some love for the non-mainstream films.
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Hoodwinked: I've little opinion on this, beyond that I'm in no rush to watch it.
Rock & Rule: Another film I find more interesting due to its history than the actual film. I probably should watch it again and form an opinion on it in writing. I remember it being okay, but sort of a 5-6/10 or 2.5 star movie, not a bad film, but nothing I'll jump to watch again anytime soon.
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Cat's Don't Dance: Look at me, I'm gonna be the Cat to See. I'm going down in History, just Watch Me.
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Mary and Max: A part of me wants to see this, mostly due to the acclaim it got here. However, I should note that Harvie Krumpet left me a tad cooler than it did others. May have to watch Harvie again.
Aachi and Ssipak: Erm, no comment.
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