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...making Chatteris a more attractive place in which to work and live.
Welcome to our website, here you can find out about what we do, how you can get involved and up coming events and competitions. If you would like to get in touch email [email protected] or call/text 07745 270118.
Recent and Upcoming Events
Judges from Anglia in Bloom will be here in July to check out our town's displays. If you would like to help out see our get involved page.
Ormond Memorial
A planter in the shape of a train has been constructed as a memorial to Ormond, founding member of CiB, with the support of Facet and Metalcraft. You can see it on the Huntingdon Road near the junction with West Street.
Read about Ormond here.
Little Bloomers
- 17 Sep 2017 - Weeding
- 15 Oct 2017 - Winter Planting
- 12 Nov 2017 - Christmas Tree for Chatteris Christmas Lights
- 10 Dec 2017 - Christmas Special
- 7 Jan 2018 - Crafting
- 4 Feb 2018 - Winter Care
- 18 Mar 2018 - Spring Activity
We usually meet on the second Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. If you'd like to come along and see if you would like to join please contact us for details.
Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is in October every year. This meeting is open to anyone who wishes to attend, more details to follow.
Litter pick first Saturday of every month at 10 a.m. at the Town Council Office, 14 Church Lane. Weeding Group meets third Saturday of the month at the Town Council Office 10 am. Various areas of town are covered. Please come and help.


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HERZLIYA – Opposition leader Isaac Herzog slammed the governing coalition on Thursday, referring to the Netanyahu-led government as "Sponge Bob leaders," while stating some in the Arab world are ready to work with Israel.
"Even I thought we were getting a bunch of heroes with super powers – but turns out that we got Sponge Bob leaders," MK Herzog (Zionist Union) said during the Herzliya Conference, attended by this reporter.
"What is the greatest mistake of the right wing government? That there is no real left-wing to blame," he added, and listed all the ministerial positions – including prime minister, defense minister, education minister, and justice minister – currently held by right-wing politicians.
"Now there is no one on the left to litter the agenda!" he quipped.
Herzog criticized the government for not taking advantage of a "golden opportunity" to begin negotiations with the Palestinians. This as the Palestinian Authority has refused Netanyahu's repeated offers to start talks.
Herzog explained that, today, Sunni leaders of Arab nations do not possess the same hostility of their predecessors towards Israel.
"They are bolder, younger, more independent and willing to work with Israel, as long as it serves their national interests. These leaders are willing to engage on issues important for both sides," said Herzog, adding that the time is ripe for collaboration with moderate Arab states.
He urged the United States to take the lead alongside the international community.
"With bold leadership and bold steps, we can realize this opportunity and create a better future for us and for our children. I and my partners in the Zionist camp see this as a window of opportunity that could ultimately bring about a two-state solution," he said.


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Where: Rondo Community Library, 461 Dale Street North, Saint Paul, MN 55104
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Why does the Minnesota Legislature often operate in secret? Recent allegations of sexual harassment by legislators give urgency to the question. The legislature hasn't subjected itself to the open government laws it has passed to create greater transparency in Minnesota's cities, counties, school districts and most government agencies. Now many Minnesotans are asking why we are one of just five states where sunshine laws do not apply to legislatures.
Please join us for a conversation about the ramifications, focusing on the sexual harassment cases to illustrate the cost of secrecy and the pros and cons of opening the legislature to greater public scrutiny.
- Briana Bierschbach, Reporter, Minnesota Public Radio (Moderator)
- Annastacia Belladonna-Carrera, Executive Director, Common Cause Minnesota
- Lisa Stratton, Senior Counsel, Gender Justice
- Stephen Kelley, Senior Fellow, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
This event is sponsored by the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, the League of Women Voters-St. Paul, and Common Cause Minnesota.
Democratic government is possible only if individuals have access to the government information they need in order to hold their government accountable.
Government at all levels has a responsibility to promote public participation by support of open access to all public government information.
Government information, regardless of physical form, must always, to the greatest extent possible, be available to the public. Government information is broadly defined to include all data held by the government including databases, information accumulated from raw data, documents, reports, maps and other publications, and all forms of correspondence.
Creation and preservation of government information that documents governmental operations are fundamental parts of assuring government accountability.
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MNCOGI promotes public knowledge of laws and principles regarding open access to government information by:
- Maintaining and updating a website with links to resources and directions about how to use Minnesota's law;
- Hosting a blog for discussion of issues about access to government information; and,
- Operating a speaker's bureau to provide public presentations on access to government information.
MNCOGI informs individuals and organizations concerned about open access to government information by
- Sponsoring "COGI-tations," a series of presentations by subject matter experts;
- Promoting and supporting research on these topics; and,
- Linking with parallel efforts at the federal level that support Minnesota activities.
MNCOGI collaborates with other organizations to enhance participation in the affairs of government, particularly with regard to public access to government information, by
- Building a coalition of organizations and individuals that promote MNCOGI principles;
- Critiquing legislation, and,
- Evaluating government's compliance with state law and principles of open access.
MNCOGI recognizes a commitment to openness in government and the public right to know through the awarding of the John R. Finnegan Freedom of Information Award on FOI Day, March 16.
MNCOGI seeks grants and conducts other fundraising to increase the visibility of information access issues in the Minnesota community as a whole and in individual communities.
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The mission of FBLA is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs.
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Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, Inc. (FBLA-PBL) is the largest career student business organization in the world. Each year, FBLA-PBL helps over 230,000 members prepare for careers in business.
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Lost& : an archive of future artifacts
A lost-and-found is a place where lost items are kept to await reclaiming. It is a physical location but it is also a state of mind. It is optimistic and utopian, assuming an accidental abandonment and creating the conditions for a possible reunion.
Lost& is a collection for critical optimism. It is an archive of future artifacts from events that have yet to happen. Artists and writers consider what is missing in the political now and imagine what it might mean to encounter those things in the future; they have created future artifacts, and in some cases, actualized the conditions (performances, conversations, and workshops) in which they will be used.
Curated by Melissa Weiss MFA 18 GD and Angela Lorenzo MFA 18 GD.
Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
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Whimsical, Boho, and Vibrantly Understated. 5x7 Save the Date digitally printed with information on one side with preferred ink color and an engagement photo on the back. Floral wreath colors cannot be customized.
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Please Note: This property is no longer available as of 12/16/2017 and the information here has not been updated since then. It is provided here for your convenience only. Please contact us to inquire about the current status of this home.
Youll love this charming home located in beautiful Mill Creek. Once you step inside your eyes are drawn to the beautiful shiny wood laminate flooring and high ceilings. This fantastic home has a separate dining area, sitting area and a split bedroom floor plan. All three bedrooms have hard strand bamboo wood flooring, walk-in closets and new lighted ceiling fans. Walk into the master bathroom and be amazed with the size of the room. The stunning master bathroom has dual walk-in closets with custom shelving, granite bathroom counter tops, dual sinks, walk-in Roman shower and a luxurious garden bathtub, as it will surely take all your stress away. The spacious kitchen has granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances with a gas stove, custom made maple wood cabinets, large pantry closet and kitchen sink with reverse-osmosis water system. Amazing! Enjoy the guest bathroom with its exquisitely remodeled tile shower. Relax with the gorgeous lakeview directly behind the home which is perfect for sitting on the patio for your morning coffee or grilling your favorite Bar-B-Q. This home has it all, including inside washer/dryer hookup, breakfast nook, attached 3-car garage with attic storage, alarm system, tasty Mango fruit trees and is located on a corner 1/2 Acre lot. There is plenty of room to add a swimming pool as the home is already pre-wired for a pool. The homes recent improvements include New interior & exterior paint, irrigation system control, kitchen sink, microwave and water filter shower heads.
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Tomato masala sandwich is my mother's recipe. Whenever I ask for toast she used to prepare it for me when I was in school and even my school friends like it. Now my turn for preparing lunch box. Twice I have packed this sandwich and she loves it. She even eat that thokku just like that. We can even mix the thokku with rice also……. So here is my favorite recipe of my school days…..
Bread slices 4 no
Tomato 2no (chopped finely)
Onion 1no (chopped finely)
Green chilli 1no
Red chilli powder 1tsp
Curry powder 1tsp
Turmeric powder 1 tsp
Garam masala ½ tsp
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves few
Jeera ½ tsp
For stuffing
Take a pan, add oil for seasoning. Add jeera fry for few min and now add onion, garam masala and fry till golden brown. Now add tomato saute for some time till it get mashed, add all the spices with salt. Allow the mixture to cook till the oil leaves the whole gravy, add coriander leaves, mix well. It will be like a pickle.
Now take one slice of bread , spread the masala on one side. Then place another slice on top and toast or grill it serve hot….kids will love it…..
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On 11th November 2014 Animal activist Suyash gave a complain to PAWA India President Mr. Salim Charania regarding a person who beat the dog brutally & threw 2 months pup from 1st floor of the building in Dombivali.
Salim went to the spot with the support of, Natasha, Darshak Shah,Chandra singh and Pooja bhandari who are Individual Animal Activist & was willingly joined the case from their side. Meantime, Salim advise Suyash to take the pup to vet for starting the treatment as the pup was in critical condition. After seeing the gang of animal activist including Suyash, Gaurav and Natasha along with Salim, culprit name Nattu came down and then a heated verbal fight took place between Salim and the culprit but finally the culprit was pleaded for guilty but as PAWA India believes in justice , Salim & other activist took the culprit to Dombivali police station.
Eyewitness Gargi and her friend and family were brave enough to come with us to the police station for eyewitness, Pawa India Respect them from the bottom of the heart
The police was stunned to file FIR in animal cruelty as they were themselves not aware of animal laws. PAWA India explained them the laws to which finally police took the FIR with no Part 2 10/2014 under IPC 428 and PCA act. We were successful in filing FIR after a heated arguments with even police officers. In the mid of the procedure, Culprit gave number of calls to Politician for help. These people tried to suppress the case and were trying to culprit go scot-free but Salim and other animal Activists were stubborn and adamant on their decision and animal laws. So finally the culprit got arrested and police started its investigation.
Gaurav took the pup with him and now the pup is under his care, love and attention.
We are shocked that Dombivali being the one of the biggest station of central line lacks NGOs who can create awareness among people, vaccinate and sterilize dogs and file even animal cruelty case in police station.
We request the Indian Government to Start animal centre for proper vaccinations, sterilization and treatments of stray animals as Dombivali have a large population of unsterilised dogs. This was the first case ever in Dombivali for Animal cruelty where FIR was registered through the efforts of PAWA India Salim and other animal activists who joined him to make this case successful.


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Monday, July 20, 2009
Would You Schedule Your Kid's Birth Around Your Favorite Team's Game?
I will admit to being slightly relieved that the birth of my 2nd kid last October went a few days late; we cleared the projected due date: Right in the middle of the Florida-LSU game.
As ridiculous as that sounds, when we first found out my wife was pregnant and we got the due date, we both heard "October 11" and -- well, I'm not going to say the FIRST reaction... but a fast-following reaction was, "Ooh: Let's check the Florida football schedule."
We then saw it was the day of the Florida-LSU game. OK, so on the plus side, there's a chance that she might have been in labor during the game: What could be a better way to take your mind off things?
On the other hand, what if she gave birth DURING the game? Shamelessly, I'd suggest that's why you have a DVR.
What can I say: It was our second go-round, so I think we were a lot more relaxed about things, so we could entertain notions that are ludicrous on their face -- like whether the birth of your child "conflicts" with a huge football game involving your favorite team.
Anyone else have a situation like this?
-- Dan
3 comments:
- Tricia said...
Not quite the same, but my parents had to schedule my older sister's baptism around the Bears home schedule. And this was 1968!!!
My grandfather had season tickets and, let's just say NOTHING got in the way.
Hate to say it, but he was the original varsity dad...indoctrinating his twin daughters (born in 1943 while he was in the Pacific) with a love and a fandom of which his grandchildren are the ultimate beneficiaries.
Passing it on is my goal, and my frustration, as my 4-year old currently list "NASCAR" as his favorite sport. I know they are truly athletes, but it grates a little...
- garettd said...
I joked with my buddy that he timed his second kid to coincide well with golf season. The baby was born in October which meant that by the time golf season rolled around is Spring, his new son wouldn't be such a newborn and it'd be easier to sneak out for some golf.
Timing of the birth date might be a big deal if you're trying to raise a hockey player. You need that early in the year birth.
- Simon said...
My wife and I will always schedule major life events around Gator sports events. We worked to get our due date into January to avoid missing any of the UF home games. Our one mistake was planning our wedding for late March without thinking that the '06 Gators would be making their run at our first basketball National Championship. Luckily the resort that we were staying at in Antigua had satellite TV so we could watch Joakim and the boys bring one home for the good guys. Our due date is December 28th, so we are hoping that the Gators make it to Pasadena so that we can get the baby home and settled well before the game!


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The development of photovoltaic power generation system
"Twelve-Five" new solar PV installed capacity in China in the period of about 10 million-kilowatt, solar thermal electricity generation capacity of 1 million-kilowatt, distributed PV systems about 10 million-kilowatt, photovoltaic power plant investment by calculating averaging 10,000 yuan per kilowatt, distributed by 15,000 yuan per kilowatt of photovoltaic system calculations, total investment of about 250 billion yuan.
Although solar product manufacturing power, but on the solar products only for export. In 2010, the global solar photovoltaic cell production 16 million-kilowatt, China's annual output of 10 million-kilowatt. By 2010, the total global PV installed capacity exceeds 40 million-kilowatt, the main market in Germany, and Spain, and Japan, and Italy, Germany 2010, new installed capacity of 7 million-kilowatt.
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Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I's Bravest Dog by Ann Bausum is about an unlikely hero that I had never heard about until reading this informational text. This orphan dog found himself in good company during basic training on Yale's campus in 1917. Did he want to be a soldier? Maybe, maybe not. But he definitely learned what bugle call was for mealtime and ended up learning much more besides. He could march, salute, and learned how to tell military uniforms apart.
After being smuggled onto a ship headed for France, Stubby not only became a mascot of sorts for the 102nd Infantry, but also saved lives – warning the men before gas attacks, artillery attacks, and capturing at least one German soldier.
The story itself is perfect for a dog lover or lover of history and although stories and accounts of Stubby's life can vary depending on the individual, he was an extremely important member of the 102nd Infantry as well as a best friend to human companion, J. Robert Conroy. Throughout the story, pictures and illustrations show Stubby in action, in uniform, and during relaxation. This is a must-read story (and perfect for the Summer Reading theme this year – Every Hero Has a Story!)
Title: Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of World War I's Bravest Dog
Author: Ann Bausum
Publisher: National Geographic
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Supreme Court declines to review SNF arbitration case
The Supreme Court won't review a Texas court's ruling on a case involving arbitration of a nursing home wrongful death lawsuit, giving a victory to the provider, the court announced Monday.
The case, Perez v. The Fredericksburg Care Co., was brought against the Fredericksburg Care Co. of San Antonio, TX, by the survivors of Elisa Zapata, who was a resident at a Fredericksburg facility. The plaintiffs claimed Zapata's death came as a result of the staff's negligent care.
Fredericksburg moved to compel arbitration because of a clause in Zapata's admission agreement. Zapata's family argued that agreement was void because it didn't comply with a provision of the Texas Medical Liability Act that requires arbitration agreements to contain "10-point boldface type clearly and conspicuously stating" a consumer warning.
A trial and appeals court sided with Zapata's family in denying a motion to compel arbitration, citing a 1944 law, the McCarran-Ferguson Act, which it said did not allow state arbitration agreements to be preempted by federal law.
But the Texas Supreme Court overturned that decision, ruling that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts both the TMLA and the McCarran-Ferguson Act, and that arbitration could proceed.
While the Texas Supreme Court's ruling wouldn't be relied upon in settling arbitration disputes outside of the state, several other state high courts have followed Texas' lead on arbitration cases in the past, Bloomberg BNA reported.
The Supreme Court's decision not to review the case may deter consumers, and pave the way for more standard arbitration language in resident agreements, according to previous reports.


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- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours
- Servings: 1
This bacon jam goes well on toast for breakfast and makes for a great condiment in sandwiches and burgers of all sorts!
- 1 pound thick smoked bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- 3/4 cup coffee (brewed)
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup bourbon (optional)
- 1-2 chipotle chilis in adobo, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- pepper to taste
- Cook the bacon in a large sauce pan an over medium heat until the fat has rendered and the bacon starts to get crispy and set aside, reserving 1 tablespoon of the grease in the pan.
- Add the onions and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add the garlic and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the vinegar and deglaze the pan.
- Add the coffee, brown sugar, maple syrup, bourbon, bacon, chipotle chilies, cumin and pepper, reduce the heat and simmer until reduced to a syrupy consistency, about 1-2 hours.
- Process the jam in a food processor to smooth it out a bit but not too much as you want to have the texture of the bacon.
- If you do not finish it all in one sitting, store it in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 4 weeks.
Tip: Chipotles chili peppers in adobo can be hot and everyone hase their own preferences for heat. I recommend that you add the chipotles in adobo a bit at a time, taste testing as you go, to bring the heat up to the point where it is a nice undertone without overwhelming.
Tip: I prefer the bacon jam warm so I take out what I need and give it a few seconds in the microwave before using it.
Tip: I prefer the bacon jam warm so I take out what I need and give it a few seconds in the microwave before using it.


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Merrill Taps Another Goldman Pro
Montag Will Head Sales and Trading; A Big Hire for Thain
Merrill Lynch & Co. Chairman and Chief Executive John Thain has tapped Thomas Montag as head of global sales and trading, as expected, giving him responsibility in those areas for debt and stocks.
The appointment of the Wall Street veteran, who worked with Mr. Thain when the two were executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., is arguably the new chief executive's most significant hire yet. Mr. Montag will report to Mr. Thain.


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The non-state-sponsored exhibitionist mind virus
I don't know who/what I loathe more: the grandstander goons hopping about on the nation's paint-chipped bargain patios or the government and health agencies who've pulled much-needed funding for life-sapping human diseases, but either way I've a pain in the proverbial with the ice bucket challenge (IBC). I found the 'no make-up selfie' frenzy aggravating enough [women reassuring other women that they still looked 'pretty' or 'lovely' without the splat while being utterly convinced of their own sincerity] but there's something about this latest on-line delirium that marks the end of autonomy as we know it. What would've been considered ugly chain mail in more saner times is now a marker for cyber success and skewed social acceptance. If you don't comply, you're anti-charity, a spoilsport, uncompassionate, selfish, a schismatic ne'er-do-well.
ALS Association didn't create the hare-brained fundraising idea, but now it wants to own it…
Hysteria began at the digi-site of the ALS Association in America in mid summer. It's the foundation that supports research and care for people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a muscle disease that's also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, or motor neuron disease here. Once the bucket is tipped, a squealing mutton head challenges others to lob iced water on their heads via phasebook/facebook. They usually have 24-hours to take the challenge so as not to donate (though the rules are constantly warping, according to taste). Here donations have been going (mainly) to the Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association (IMNDA) though other charities have also benefited. Most people don't get that the actual premise is anti-funding and errr could be construed as offensive? If you are nominated and don't take up the challenge, you're supposed to suffer a fine of €100 to the charity instead of whatever you were going to fling their way (text MND to 50300). There's no way to monitor who pays and who doesn't and lots of people have both partaken and refused the challenge without donating a cent.
Let's be fair, hundreds of thousands have been raised in Ireland since July (the government slashed funding by €90,000 to the IMNDA this year) and by today it hopes to top the €1 million mark. In America the ALS Association confirmed it raised $94.3 million since July 29, compared to just $2.7 million during the same time period last year. It has also confirmed that only 27% of donations are actually allocated to 'research' – senior staff earn healthy six figure sums – the vast majority of its funds go on administration, education and other expenses. Incidentally it's worth noting that there is NO CURE for ALS. It is a ferocious disease. From the time of diagnosis, most people live only two to five years. Now ALS has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office seeking to trademark the term "ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE" for use in charitable fundraising. If successful, it would allow the ALS Association to stop other outfits from using the phrase for their own fundraising. It's beautiful and strange and greedy and vile, like winter crab flavoured Doritos on a rabid dog's tongue.
In Ireland a total of 25 disability organisations had their funding cut this year. 'Charities providing essential services, which the State declines to offer, should not be expected to rely on viral videos to keep the roofs over their heads,' writes columnist Colette Browne in the Irish Indo. 'At the very least, charities that people with disabilities, and debilitating illnesses, depend on should be able to count on a guaranteed minimum income stream each year without having to bow, beg, scrape, plead and cajole. Instead, the State has outsourced its duty of care to hundreds of thousands of citizens and is happy for social media to pick up the bill.'
Meanwhile supermarkets and off-licences have run out of ice, far-flung charities are bitching about water shortages in the third world, Chen Guangbiao, one of China's leading philanthropists, is accused of faking his IBC video and a rake of urban myth horrific deaths are doing the rounds (broken necks, large buckets falling on children, blah blah) to add a bit of mounded fear to the mix. And of course there have been dozens of dramatic IBC #fails: the Belgium man who was seriously injured after having nearly 400 gallons of water dumped on him by a fire-fighting plane – as part of a catastrophically unsuccessful ice bucket challenge. As you'd expect, there's new mutant more dangerous challenges sluing around all the time, such as The Fire Challenge, where blockheads douse themselves with an accelerant, ignite it, put the fire out, and then post the video on-line challenging like-minded blockheads to do the same. Possibilities = incalculable = never-ending.
According to The New York Times people shared more than 1.2 million videos on Facebook between 1 June and 13 August and mentioned the phenomenon more than 2.2 million times on Twitter (that figure is up to 4.48 million now). The #nomakeupselfie hashtag has only been mentioned 221,488 times on Twitter by comparison, raising £8 million for UK cancer charities. Likewise #Movember received 1,658,950 mentions on Twitter – and one in every eight of these was from the UK. So the IBC could well be the most successful on-line charity campaign of all time (more info @ The Huffington Post). If you watch this you will see where the ALS ice bucket challenge started. Baseball is a clue. Red Socks fan afflicted. Boston College player. Love story. Sport. Celebrity. Inspiration. Feverishness.
Other charities are criticising and challenging the ethos behind the IBC, calling it slacktivism, something that's basically easy to do, funny to watch, populist and narcissistically self-promoting. Viral memes shouldn't dictate our charitable offerings (especially when driven by celebrity or gimmicks). They point out that in 2013 ALS killed 6,849 people in the U.S., and attracted $23 million for research (a ratio of $3,382 per death). Heart disease, by contrast, killed 596,577 but only raised $54 million (a paltry sum of $90 per death). That ALS research is not an especially great need in public health compared to other nasty diseases. It's classified as a rare disease and as such, doesn't really need a lotto-load of funding. Charities such as Macmillan [cancer] in the UK have been accused of shamelessly 'hijacking' the ice bucket challenge for financial gain, and there's also enmity regarding ownership of the Twitter #icebucketchallenge hashtag! Another general criticism is that participants of the IBC seem totally disconnected from the bleak reality of the disease, with little or no comment on the work of associations helping those living with it. In their keenness to lop about playing with water, they haven't bothered to find out.
The Ice Bucket Challenge is a stupid idea – a form of moral bullying – and it's working brilliantly. So both the pro and anti camps can get a lot of satisfaction from this PR pathogen and rest easy in the knowledge that it'll mutate into something more substantial and hideous before Halloween. Charity, which traditionally began at home, has abandoned the counter-top buckets and tins of suburbia and is colonising our plug-in selves in typhus time. Those of us with some small trace of self governance left continue to donate sporadically and in serene silence. In the end we all get sick and die.
The Bricks 'n Mortar Muppet Show
I have tried to picture the child estate agent to be: pasty and sulky, selling on satchel-warmed lemon curd sandwiches or a half-eaten Mars bar in the school playground for a stupidly inflated price. Failing English grammar and spelling tests…dreaming of a commission-loaded life with a leatherette clipboard and a Smart car. A life of 'gently urging' people to buy poorly constructed plywood homes without gardens, not far from a motorway, but still managing to share the same sewerage pipe as a once-famous now-dead Irish person of vague literary worth who managed to pen a novella drunk.
Now after a decade of unprecedented smarminess, the grown-up estate agent is no longer nestled in a good place at all. "Rare as hen's teeth!" s/he hollers out about a dormer bungalow for sale in Dublin 15 – one of the capital's slowest selling enclaves. 'Rare' opportunities abound, a chance to snatch up a bungalow, for instance, even though there's 5,570 bungalows for sale nationwide at the moment. In an attempt to ambush the flimsy heartstrings of hapless arty types, there's a deluge of property specs marketed at the budding poet, artist or fisherman 'where you can also enjoy the panoramic views over lush green surrounds', in the middle of nowhere. The desperation is quite staggering. 'One of the last opportunities to purchase a "raw" house on this salubrious road'. What exactly is a 'raw' house? One with its walls removed? If we're not permitted to lie about the contents of food, why is it admissable for a house purchase? In essence, do we need to read such brainless turgid crap three years into bust?
Irish history continues to infect the bijou mind of our more-than-happy-to-help estate agent as well. You can nab a semi-derelict cottage in Leitrim that's handily positioned 'near' Sean McDermott's Cottage, a well-known tourist attraction and the birth place of the 1916 leader, but nothing whatsoever to do with the house for sale. The sales hunger for famine cottages hasn't abated either – perfect for a 'lifestyle change' the estate agent assures us. Or how about Gordwin Swift IV's gaff? Never heard of him? That's OK. Another spec reads: 'Behind its funky facade…the lavish and stylish art deco foyer provides a unique atmosphere that perfectly complements the building's history.' Yeah, how so? It's an apartment refurb in Dublin 3 that's not selling and is being flogged for half price. 'Hurry hurry hurry, before it's too late', the man with the white towelling socks says.
Then there's the almost generically applied *** WOW *** WOW *** WOW *** category which some estate agents are using for every house sale: a 3-bed in the heart of Poppintree Ballymun or a terrace in deep downtown Finglas. 'Wow what a stunner!' the agent says about this Tyrrelstown house in a hideously inglorious part of Dublin no-one wants to live in. Wilson Moore is one such estate agent that uses this 'wow wow wow' insignia on almost all its sales briefs, regardless. Let's not forget too the estate agent's excruciating post-boom rewrites…houses like 19A Long Lane dubbed the perfect bachelor's bolthole at €425,000 in the grip of boom. This week it's eventually 'sale agreed' after being unashamedly flogged as a 'low maintenance home' for €155,000. The reason why it suits a single gent or a sociopath is because the house is only two metres wide (around 7ft), being an old laneway that was filled in to create a uniquely anorexic house that has nose-dived in price by at least 68%. You absolutely could not swing a cat and you'd definitely have trouble energetically shagging your Mrs.
From the peak of the market in 2006, Dublin house prices have fallen in real terms by 45.7%, while nationally, prices are down by 40.2%. This and a whole host of other stats we're already laboriously aware of. But where and how did we lose our minds so utterly? There's an apartment block in Parnell Street with a 'putting green for the golf enthusiast' – directly opposite alleyways where the city's crack cocaine dealers do a roaring trade. Wyckham Point in Dundrum is an apartment complex which offers an 'on-site gym, sauna, steam room, cardiovascular & resistance gym equipment and heated relaxation zone'. Tullyvale in Cabinteely has a resident's swimming pool on site although a lot of the apartments are now being sold at a substantially reduced price. I imagine the swimming pool is fast draining of chlorine and charm. Did they really think the luxurious gimmickery could last forever?
Remnants of boom-based mentalness still exist in some high end properties too. 'Things only happen when we dream' the intro reads, for a multi-million euro apartment overlooking the River Liffey. The 2-bed [plus guest accommodation as extra] apartment is decked out by a 'revolutionary stylist' we're told, to include none other than a three and a half carat andrée putman lacquered oak coffee table, floors custom-made from antique oak cobbles, a "Vous de Jouer" mirror [one of only 20 in the world], 'cupboards concealed behind felt-coated doors whose colour and texture mimic the heather and granite tones of the Irish countryside', a hammam steam room, and a Gien Polka tea set that the designer 'noticed' during an official trip to Soviet Russia…It was on originally for excess of €4 million in April 2007, but later dropped to €3.74m and now it's a straight forward 'price on application', though you might nab it for a bit less if you ask for some of the 45 bespoke designer items to be taken out of the loop.
Perhaps the most annoying aspect of the current estate agent invective is the 'Reduced To Sell' signs flung up in gardens all around Ireland over the last year or more. We're expected to believe prices are reduced only as a favour to us and not as a result of a totally impacted market. An 'exceptional opportunity has arisen to acquire a unique and attractive property'. Except there's nothing exceptional or unique about it at all. Where were the equivalent 'Inflated To Sell' signs during the boom?
This post originally appeared on the Anti Room blog in October 2010. To read comments click here
Get dem money grabbing foreıgners outta Mosney, say Irish racists
As Mosney residents continue to protest against the transfer of 111 people to different hostels across Ireland, an Irish Facebook group is migrating its own brand of racist invective. [Atrocious grammar in the following is not my own]:
Stop scaming the State, GET THEM ALL OUT, And reopen it for the Irish! – Janice Smith, Baldoyle.
There money grabbing foreıgners tat are responsıble for mst of the problems in tis country – Ray Kelly.
A fat arse politıon open the gates gve them houses for FREE money FREE taxis FREE dıd ya see the cars at mosney i dıd my mate lives near it oh and childrens allowance for theır NONE irish brats – Janice Smith (again).
They will be relocated to somewere else with beds, water, cooker, food, clothes. The homeless Irish in Dublin do not have it this good…They should be forced out, Its not their land – Shane Donnelly, Dublin.
The country barely has a pot to piss in yet they are probably spending millions of taxpayers money on this group of people to be shacked up in mosney – John Clarke, Artane.
The Irish Government gave away a great amenity when they gave Mosney Holiday Camp to asylum seekers without any consultation with the Irish people – Anne Donnelly.
What about the normal irish person out of work now with kids that need a summer holiday we should have it back to ourselfs now and let them look after themselfs – Michael Murphy, Limerick.
What started out as a 'happy memories' lament to the traditional Irish holiday of the 1970s/80s, soon turned to racist rants from some of the 5,000-strong Support The Reopening of Mosney group. Since news broke about the Monsey residents last week, a dangerous herd mentality began stomping and tail-swishing in the Irish breeze. Back in 2000, when Mosney's doors shut for good, hardly anyone ranted and raved or protested at all. They were too busy sunning themselves on cheap package holidays in Majorca, Ayia Napa, Turkey and Bundoran. Of course there were the odd few…like Alderman Frank Godfrey, Mayor of Drogheda, who expressed 'concerns' about the local area turning into a 'ghetto', and a couple of letters from locals were published in the Irish press.
No-one questioned Fianna Fail's decision, for instance, to award Mosney owner Phelim McCloskey £15 million [Irish pounds] for leasing the 300 acres and its facilities to the Department of Justice for a five year period. The most pressing concern was where to accommodate the much-loved Community Games that had always been held at Mosney. Bertie came to the rescue and ordered alternative venues in case the housing of 'refugees' meant the holiday camp was not available for the games. Apart from that, the transition to a holding camp for asylum seekers barely lasted the month as a news or feature item.
The dour relationship between recession and racism is not new or even news. Since the recession has cosied down like an evil-smelling blanket over Ireland in the last two years, racist incidents (and attacks) have increased at an alarming rate. Just yesterday a new Racist Incidents Support and Referral Service was announced. One of the founders, Sr Stanislaus Kennedy told the Irish Examiner: "For too long, Ireland has been in denial about the racist incidents occurring in our communities and our collective responsibility to combat racism. We know from our experience working with migrants who have experienced racism that people are subjected to violence and threats of violence, have their property damaged and are subjected to racist taunts and discrimination".
It is the usual yack, that when recession worsens, those who feel most vulnerable look for people to blame and immigrants, foreigners, asylum seekers, basically anyone marginalised, become easy targets. The result is a virulent undercurrent of social unrest and tension, leading to the type of brain-dead rants found on the Mosney Facebook group. Interestingly, there is a total absence of cussed comments towards the real originators of the bust: property developers, banks, politicians. Let's also be fair here: the Facebook group's admin are folk with good intention whose message is quite simple: 'please join this group to share happy memories of the camp and let's hope one day it [Mosney] reopens'.
Recently, through its membership, the Irish section of the European Network against Racism had cause to insist that Facebook remove a similar group that was using the platform to racially abuse members of the Travelling Community. "Eventually Facebook complied and deleted the group," explains Ken McCue, International Officer of Sport against Racism Ireland (SARI). "We've asked the Gardaí to investigate the Mosney group on Facebook but their powers are limited as it's published in the US. However, I have reported this hate attack to the Gardaí and ENAR."
Yesterday after reading the comments on the site I phoned a journalist pal who'd recently been to Mosney to interview some of the residents for a UK paper. He was incensed as I read out some of the malevolent messages splattered all over the group's wall. "While I was at Mosney I met doctors, engineers, all kinds of professionals that would do anything to work and contribute to Irish society but are not being put to good use because the bureaucratic process is a mess," he said.
He also talked about a footballer from Africa who coaches young Irish kids for free, using his own pittance to get out and train them. "I was also hugely impressed at how clean the Mosney flats were, even the stairwells were spotless unlike native Irish ones which are reeking of piss, covered in graffiti and strewn with used needles."
The fact that the Mosney residents are not allowed rent or own property, they are only allowed stay in these hostels…that they live on €19 per week, and cannot work, or that the money to accommodate them stems from EU funds, seems to have alluded most of the ranters on the Mosney site. And let's be clear on this €19 for the plelthora of ignorami out there who've never bothered asking how the payment is chopped up or made. On an asylum seeker's social welfare receipt, there's the full whack of €196 per week allocated that any Irish unemployed person gets…minus €177 that goes direct to the landlord on behalf of the State. And guess who's in bed with the state when it comes to choosing/allocating landlords and accommodation? Very good, you've guessed right: property developers, investors, business folk, etc., the real 'money grabbers' who made handy lucrative deals with government to provide this much needed shelter. Make no mistake, the asylum process here is an enormous business machine and one of the few going concerns in Ireland right now in a constant state of profit.
By contrast to the reams of racist tripe we've been hearing of late, a letter in today's Irish Times mirrors what a lot of ordinary Irish people feel about the plight of the residents: 'It is bad enough that these most vulnerable of people must put their lives on hold for up to seven years while the Department of Justice decides their fate, but to herd them around like cattle from one holding pen to another is an outrage. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern and his officials should hang their heads in shame,' it read.
Mags Treanor, a poet from Galway, who has worked with asylum seekers, has reported the Facebook page to the authorities for incitement to hatred. "To hear that people [on this site] actually think asylum seekers are the cause of the current economic situation and not the greedy Irish business people who creamed money from the state for using it as an accommodation facility is absolutely ridiculous," she said.
Around 96% of refugees in Ireland have their initial asylum applications rejected under a system human rights campaigners have denounced as "inhumane". Only Greece has a lower rate of accepting asylum seekers in the EU, taking in just 1.2% of refugees, according to the European commission body Eurostat. In the UK, 26.9% of asylum applications were accepted upon application last year. On appeal, those numbers rose to an estimated 30% for the UK, but to only 7.8% in Ireland, Eurostat said. [Source: The Guardian]
While the people of Mosney have yet to find out their fate, the racist underclass in Ireland continues to lobby for the return of their holiday camp, which in my memory at least, was famed for its floating turds in the glass-encasaed swimming pool, karaoke (before karaoke machines) and greasy chips in polystyrene cones. In all reality this latest round of Facebook 'comments' is nothing to do with feeling sentimental about a budget holiday destination or about expressing how broke and marginalised, frightened and powerless, people feel during recession. It is about blame and ignorance and stupidity and how the moral impunity of social networking allows hate to thrive.
"The five years given to house asylum seekers is up and that's that," writes Sarah Heavey. Her opinion is fairly typical of many who have left messages so far: "Either re-house them like planned or send them home. I am not racist and I truly sympathise with them, but Ireland is in financial ruin now and reopening Mosney will provide much-needed employment, as well as providing holidays for people."
When the people who made you can't stop pissing
In Ireland in the 1970s, the streets were strewn with rivulets of fresh mustard piss. Firstly, the suburban laneways where men just couldn't make it home from the Bookies on time, to the pathways of public parks, Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium, all around O'Connell Street on St. Patrick's Day and just about anywhere else you can think of. I even recall a man standing pissing at the side of Victories Credit Union when I headed down at the age of 12 to open my first account.
Irish men were such prolific pissers it was almost laminated to the Constitution as an indelible part of their liberty and right to live. So it should come as scant surprise when I moved back to the parental home last October to write and help out for a while…that the old man was pissing all over the house without any due cause to care.
For a while my mother said nothing. This has been a kind of ostrich-head + sand tradition going back to when I first tasted Liga. It wasn't until I walked into puddles late at night in the kitchen, or took the stairs barefoot to bed when drunk or made the mistake of whiffing the cushions on the couch in the sitting-room (what crazy instinct was this?) that I realised there was a urinary tract conspiracy in full liquid swing.
"Don't say anything because he gets awful embarrassed about it," the Ma said. This nugget of emotional blackmail worked for a while. He's hitting 80 after all, his legs are gone, he can no longer make it out to the pub and he's lost interest in almost everything apart from whiskey, war documentaries and the lotto. But like everything in an alcoholic home, avoidance strategies and colourful denials are destined to come crashing down at the first foretoken of crisis.
A few months ago my mother got cancer (well she's had it for a good while but it's taken at least a year to get her to own up to the four/half stone weight loss and general body-breaking-down weakness). During the haitus between smashing her denial and getting to a hospital, we started fighting about the old man's pissing habits. One night I caught him pissing in a bucket outside the kitchen door and when I reported back [in a blind rage] to the Ma about "how utterly disgusting" it was, she admitted quite calmly that she laced the Piss Bucket with disinfectant regularly and emptied it once a week. "You mean you've actually known about this!?" I barked.
Up until that point I'd taken an active part in the spare him any hurt household games, taking his piss cushions from his armchair in the dead of night and washing them, drying them on radiators and shoving them back again before he crawled down the stairs for his boiled egg the next morning.
"He just can't make it up the stairs," she explained, again, over breakfast. Well then get in a downstairs toilet for starters, that's what normal people would do. "He doesn't want to lose the cloakroom". But he can't go out anymore, so what's the use in a cloakroom!? "He says he'll deal with it and get to the toilet quicker." Of course he won't! It's just going to get worse…much worse, Jesus! He's going to have to deal with it or I'll contact social services!"
Three weeks ago as I cleaned the house in preparation for her return from hospital I eventually sat the old man down and attempted to talk piss politics openly. "I can't help it!" he whinged, adding that if he had to wear 'padded pants' like I was suggesting, he'd rather kill himself. Another thing about alcoholics is that no matter what is going on in the world around them, it will still always be about them. I resorted to shock tactics telling him that no-one visits the house anymore because of the stench, that my brother home from the UK to visit my mum was knocked back in anger by it all ("smells like a bag of ferrets") and had pledged to write a stern letter on his return…that fire-hose pissing on this scale was a clear and irrefutable health hazard, potentially dangerous…someone could slip and fall, there's a cancer patient returning home with an open wound and serious infection could mean a summer picnic to Glasnevin Crematorium. Nothing but blank bulldog stares.
"I bleed five days a month and I can't help that either," I told him, not so subtley, "but imagine if I didn't stick something in my knickers and deal with it!? Imagine if I just bled on buses and in the GPO when queueing for stamps or in Beshoffs buying chips or all over the floor in Penneys shopping for cheap socks…wouldn't that be completely and utterly INSANE!?"
The crux of the battle came (and not on dry land) when I stormed off to Finglas in search of Tenapads in a terribly hungover state two weeks ago. I left them on the kitchen table on a placemat where he sits for his dinner and just to avoid any further denial, I left a note with them: 'You have to wear one of these when you're drinking and at night-time in bed'.
This was originally published on the ANTI-ROOM blog on June 29th, 2010. Click here to read comments.


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2. It's important to keep hydrated, but sometimes water gets old fast. This Cucumber Lemonade is equally refreshing, and it has enough water to help you stay hydrated. Make a batch in the morning for your family to sip on all day.
3. If the bedrooms in your home are on a higher floor, the heat may make it hard to sleep. It's usually pretty easy to clear some space in a room on a lower level to set up camp for a cooler night. Or better yet, pitch a tent in your backyard for a night or two.
4. Baking or using the oven for anything is off the table. You don't need to add any extra, unnecessary heat to your home. Salads are perfect, light dinners that will refresh you and maybe even cool you down.
5. Go barefoot (at least while you're at home). Nothing feels as great as cold tile touching your feet on a hot day.
Hope these tips, along with some fans and opened windows, help you keep your cool!
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Reserve Bank asked to cut lending rates, boost liquidityOctober 2nd, 2008 - 6:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) In order to pump liquidity into the market, an industry lobby Thursday requested the central Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reduce cash reserve ratio and repo rate by 1 percent.In its recommendation, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has requested RBI to permit banks to borrow against government securities and provide dollars directly to oil companies, rather than routing them through the market for buying crude.
The recommendations submitted to the RBI governor by Assocham president Sajjan Jindal further said several Indian companies are now looking at rupee-funding as dollar-financing has become uncertain and difficult to raise within the RBI approved spreads.
Assocham said the level of credit needed to be redefined taking into account the base effect while planning for the future, instead of squeezing credit, which would seriously impact the survival and sustenance of industry.
Currently, the cost of money at which Indian industry borrows varies between 25-28 percent, which it said "is very high, as a result of which its margins have already shrunk".
The chamber has also sought easing of norms that govern external commercial borrowings to help industry raise funds from abroad.
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By IMRAN GHORI
The Press-Enterprise
Riverside, California
In September 1944, the family of Robert Stinson was notified that the 23-year-old San Bernardino airman was missing in combat after his B-24 bomber was shot down over the South Pacific during World War II.
Two years later, the military declared him dead. But his family never got the chance to lay him to rest.
That will change after his remains -- missing 60 years -- are flown to California on Oct. 28 and interred at Riverside National Cemetery two days later.
The Stinson family had despaired of ever hearing more about the fate of Robert, whom they called Bob. He was a sergeant in the Army Air Forces who joined the service in 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Stinson's tale got an unexpected new ending earlier this year when the family was contacted by the Department of Defense and told that his remains had been positively identified.
"I felt we had just won the Lotto," said Edward Stinson, 74, of San Bernardino, one of two surviving brothers out of six. "After 65 years you don't think you're going to get to bury your brother."
Robert Stinson attended San Bernardino High School for two years but wasn't very interested and played hooky often, Edward Stinson said. He was sent to stay with relatives in Hale, Mo., where he graduated from high school in 1938.
Until her death in 1964, their mother, Vella Stinson, wrote constantly to the military asking whether her son had been found. The B-24J Liberator bomber and its 11-member crew were shot down Sept. 1, 1944. It was on a bombing reconnaissance mission of enemy targets near the town of Koror in Palau, a small nation of islands 500 miles east of the Philippines, a news release from the Department of Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel office said.
Three crewmen parachuted down but were captured by the Japanese and later executed. The other eight, including Stinson, went down with the plane.
The aircraft remained missing until late 2004 when a group of Americans specializing in searching for lost World War II aircraft found it submerged near an island in Palau.
DNA samples were taken from the oldest brother, Dick Stinson, 87, of Yuba City, three years ago. A forensic team started piecing together the wreckage.
The plane's discovery was the culmination of a decade-long search by members of BentProp, a group of adventure-seekers who scuba dive, fly planes and share an interest in military history, said Reid Joyce, a retired research psychologist from Pennsylvania who is the Webmaster for the group's Web site.
Joyce was one of four divers who went into the murky water and found the plane in several pieces 40 feet to 70 feet deep.
As they dove down, they first saw a propeller sticking out of coral. As they went deeper, a fuselage and an entire wing appeared, Joyce said. Still undersea, one diver excitedly wrote one word on a slate near her wrist: "Jack." Jack Arnett had been the pilot of the plane they had found.
"There was no question in our minds it was a B-24," Joyce said. "If it was a B-24 it had to be this one. You could hear everyone shouting just about to Koror when we finally came up from that dive."
The plane was one of four B-24 bombers lost in the region, Joyce said. Members of BentProp, which began searching for boats and planes in 1993, already had located two of them, he said.
But the fate of the crew remained a mystery until the team found a clue while examining military photos. They discovered two frames of film taken by a plane on the same mission showing falling debris. They surmised that was the missing plane, Joyce said.
They projected a position over the sea and began asking locals if they had seen anything unusual. One fisherman told them he had seen something while diving but wasn't sure what it was.
"We went to that location and by golly, there it was," he said.
They notified the Defense Department, which sent a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Team to conduct an underwater investigation. Between 2005 and 2008, the team excavated the site on three six-week missions, the news release said.
They recovered human remains, machine guns with serial numbers matching those associated with the plane and identification for three crewmen. The federal agency began contacting the families earlier this year as they used dental records and DNA testing to identify the remains.
Stinson family members, who hope to tell Robert's story in a book, say they are grateful to have closure.
"We couldn't believe it," Alice Stinson, Edward's wife, said of the discovery. "We held each other and cried."
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The 65 Year Wait
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Gold, Silver Miner Stocks Rise, Outpacing Market
Stocks of gold and silver miners shot up Tuesday as the price of the metals rose, outpacing the broader stock market.
Shares of IAMGOLD Corp. (NYSE:IAG) were up 54 cents, or more than three percent, to $16.85, Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE:ABX) gained $1.35, or 2.7 percent, to $48.38 and Goldcorp Inc. (NYSE:GG) rose $1.24, or 2.6 percent, to $48.28.
Silver miners also saw gains. Hecla Mining Co. (NYSE:HL) was up 64 cents, or 12.55 percent, to $5.66 per share on a big fourth-quarter report. The Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-based company reported net income of $18.6 million, or seven cents a share, compared with a loss of $9.73 million, or five cents a share, a year ago. That fell in line with Wall Street analysts' estimates. Revenue fell 23.5 percent to $102.9 million from the year-ago quarter, but topped analysts' expectation of $98.8 million.
Other silver miners also did well. Silver Standard Resources Inc. (NASDAQ:SSRI) was up 50 cents, or 3.5 percent, to $16.51 and Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. (NYSE:CDE) was up $1.14, or 4.2 percent, to $29.
In afternoon trading, the most actively traded gold contract on the Comex was up 1.65 percent, while the comparable silver price price of silver gained 2.68 percent.
The gains in the companies' shares outpaced the increase in the S&P 500, which was up 0.35 percent to 1,366.


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School District and Renaissance Public Academy continue collaboration
Molalla's school board voted on Jan. 11 to yet again extend the timeline for collaboration with Renaissance Public Academy regarding 16 instances of concern at the school during the 2016-2017 academic year. This comes after the results of a third-party evaluation of the school, which showed that RPA is fulfilling the requirements of the charter agreement.
"We feel that RPA and MRSD have been able to reach common ground on a variety of issues." -RPA Admistrator Michael Gibson
After heated discussion at the June 22, 2017 school board meeting followed by a vote from the board to not move forward with a termination of the charter, the district and the charter school have been working together. At that meeting, the board passed a resolution to form a committee including representatives from the district, the school and a third party (Kristen Miles), with a 45-day timeline. But that timeline has been extended, most recently until the February school board meeting.
In the time since that meeting, communication has improved between the parties, and Superintendent Tony Mann sees that as positive momentum for the charter school.
"The fact that the board unanimously took that action and that we're continuing to make progress in our collaboration with RPA, those are all positive things for the charter school and the young people and families that are served by that charter school," Mann said.
RPA Administrator Michael Gibson boasted positive results of the collaboration.
"We feel that RPA and MRSD have been able to reach common ground on a variety of issues," Gibson said. "We are establishing, what we all hope will be a solid, collegial relationship. Both sides are committed to a positive outcome in the future and will continue and foster a positive dialogue that will bring maximum benefits to all the participants."
Recently, Molalla River School District enlisted Portland State University to conduct a formal evaluation of RPA. The evaluator was Victoria Bianes Chamberlain from PSU's Center for Student Success.
"Vickie Bianes, the director of the Center for Student Success at Portland State University, has done tremendous work along the way, and I believe in the work of her office and the university," Mann said.
"...it is evident that RPA is substantially fulfilling the provisions of its charter with the Molalla River School District and substantially complying with federal and state statutory requirements regarding charter school operations and accountability in Oregon." -Victoria Bianes Chamberlain
The results of that 52-page evaluation were mostly positive for RPA. The school is exceeding standards in executing its mission and implementing key design elements outlined in the charter agreement, they are meeting standards regarding parental involvement and they are exceeding standards when it comes to providing the educational program and instructional practices described in the charter agreement.
In the evaluation's conclusion, Bianes Chamberlain said, "Based on information collected by the CSS evaluator through a comprehensive document review, numerous communication exchanges (in person, over the phone and electronically) with RPA staff, board members, teachers and parents and observations conducted at the school, it is evident that RPA is substantially fulfilling the provisions of its charter with the Molalla River School District and substantially complying with federal and state statutory requirements regarding charter school operations and accountability in Oregon."
"Our faculty is arguably one of the most supportive, engaged faculty I have been associated with. They are passionate about their work and will go out of their way to address the needs of our students." -RPA Administrator Michael Gibson
Gibson said that he was pleased with the evaluation process and results.
"PSU's evaluator was both supportive and thorough as she provided an abundance of feedback and encouragement throughout the process," Gibson said. "She pointed out all the fruits of our labor, what our strengths are and what areas we need to address in the future. We are pleased with her findings."
The original 16 situations that concerned the school district included RPA's handling of a situation with a special education student who attempted suicide over a weekend, failure to follow a student's 504 plan, and safety concerns about a horse that had wandered onto the school's grounds.
The evaluation did reveal some areas of opportunity for the charter school, including in their work with students with disabilities. Chamberlain Bianes determined that the school is "approaching standard" when it comes to protecting the rights of students with disabilities.
"The district has expressed concerns about whether the IEP and 504 plans for identified students have been fully implemented in the past," Chamberlain Bianes writes in the evaluation. "As a result of these concerns, additional language related to the district's expectations for services to students with identified disabilities was added to the latest charter agreement in 2016. The district noted that while it is contractually optional for RPA to contract with MRSD for 504 services, currently those 504 services are being handled exclusively by RPA. During the site visit, the evaluator observed active accommodations being made in one classroom being conducted by a veteran educator. The student was fully engaged with the full class in the clearly adapted activity."
Additionally, the evaluation found the school wanting in academic performance on state assessments. They did not meet expectations for both English Language Arts and Math. RPA's average elementary-age score for English fell below Clarkes's and Mulino's but exceeded Molalla's, Rural Dell's and Molalla River Academy's. In math, RPA's average score was the lowest in the district. According to the evaluation, RPA has been working to address math performance by using a new curriculum and focusing on staff development.
"We have been focusing on strengthening our primary and secondary mathematics and science curriculum by enriching our curricula, hiring both an advanced math and science instructor while at the same time focusing on student engagement and achievement in both disciplines," Gibson said. "It is an exciting opportunity for all of our students to connect, interact and be inspired to discover the possibilities that math and science offer."
In response to the evaluation, Mann noted that he is encouraged by the recent work at RPA and considers the PSU assessment to be "one component of the district's responsiveness and commitment to provide comprehensive feedback and ongoing evaluation of charter schools."
As the process continues, Gibson took the opportunity to praise both his faculty and to thank the school district.
"Our faculty is arguably one of the most supportive, engaged faculty I have been associated with. They are passionate about their work and will go out of their way to address the needs of our students. They are willing to meet with students during their prep periods, at lunch breaks and after school," Gibson said. "MRSD's Superintendent Dr. Tony Mann, along with his administrative team and school board, have been a strong support for us this year and should be acknowledged for that. Relationships with school and district leaders are important. Positive relationships will ultimately extend into the classroom and improve the quality of the learning environment and allow teachers to meet student needs, grow professionally, and thrive."
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All you need to know to vote! Find out how to register and stay current on your registration, what you need to take with you to the polls and get unbiased, nonpartisan info on the upcoming elections.
The League of Women Voters works with organizations throughout the area to inform and engage voters. Some, but not all, include:
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
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You were born under the ascendant of Gemini and constellation of Punarvasu. Your moon sign was Gemini too and moon cosntellation was Ardra. Your birth chart shows you an intelligent, wise talkative and straight forward and blunt person. You can't save the money and love to have the luxurious life. You are a visionary person, you think deep about your aims and then by your hardwork, you make your dreams possible. Now as your concern is soulmate's name's first letter, your future husband will be your soulmate and his name will start with A,M,L or Y!
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Liberian government officials and residents of the New Georgia Community gathered together to celebrate Christ Kingdom Harvest Church's enormous efforts to fight Ebola. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf chose to kick off her "Ebola Must Go!" campaign in the community because the people took proper protocols to defeat the disease.
"I heard someone say to go from hundred to ninety is hard, but to go from ten to zero is even harder," said President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, according to The Liberian Observer. She added:
Through our efforts, the disease has retreated into places that are hard to reach. This is why I'm joining this community that has been such a strong group in fighting Ebola. We are launching it in a place that has made the difference. So the banner says stopping Ebola is everybody's business.
The disease struck in August, but the church's actions brought the community together:
A community taskforce was formed; people began to move from house to house with the message and identifying and getting out the sick, consoling and caring the infected. These things (community residents) did with their own resources and efforts.
The community chairman, J. B. Walker Dennis, said the community was hard hit in August, as twelve people died, though five were actually confirmed Ebola cases. It was for this reason that the community decided to take action to ensure its safety.
He said since the formation of the taskforce and the rigorous exercises of awareness and identifying the sick, when the family of 17 was also quarantined, the infection rate began to decline. Mr. Dennis said presently the community has eight survivors.
New Georgia Community has significantly improved situations on the ground for survivors, as well, who often face stigma upon returning from hospitals. In Guinea, for example, a teacher was fired from her job even though she received a certificate of health. Another survivor lost her boyfriend despite the fact that she recovered.
In New Georgia, residents shunned survivors at first, but it was Pastor John P. Ghartay, the church's leader, who changed the community's mind. The Kaifa family in New Georgia suffered from Ebola after a relative from another town brought the disease; the family was properly quarantined after church officials intervened. The mother passed away and left behind six infected children.
"All of the sick, living children were lying on the porch vomiting, toileting on themselves," said Ophelia Ghartay. "We should not touch anyone that is sick. But we knew we could still do something."
Living relatives refused to take in the now-healthy children. The church took in the children until they could find a home. After two landlords kicked them out, Ghartay finally found a permanent home for the children.
The church's participation in helping quarantine homes made villagers significantly more likely to trust officials. Throughout West Africa, lack of trust in Western medical workers has triggered behaviors that facilitate the spread of Ebola, a reaction to distrust of those who come from outside the community. One village told the medical volunteers they would be "cut into pieces" if they did not leave the communities alone. Liberian town Jene-Wonde is the new epicenter of the country because it refuses to quarantine the ill or bury the dead in the correct bags.


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Scecina Cross Country coach Ryan Keen with Semi-State qualifiers Holden Martin, Jacqueline Kennedy and Henry Egan.
Dear Scecina community,
The year continues to move by quickly. Before we take a look at some upcoming events, I want to congratulate our sports teams for an excellent fall season. Three of our teams – boys soccer, boys cross country and football – won the championships in the Indiana Crossroads Conference. In addition, three of our boys and girls cross country runners advanced to the Semi-State level of the state tournament, as did the boys soccer team.
Congratulations also to our girls volleyball team for advancing to the Sectional final and to our girls golf, girls soccer, and boys tennis teams for positive showings and performance this fall. We will honor all of them at the annual Fall Sports Program next Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in the gymnasium.
Next week is the first senior retreat of the year. If you have older children or relatives who have made this retreat, you know how meaningful it is to them. The students spend three nights away from school and family — sharing, praying and worshipping together. It is a profound experience. Many students consider it the highlight of their four years at Scecina. Please pray for our seniors who are on retreat next week and also for our staff and young alumni who will lead them.
Looking further ahead, I invite you to Father Tom Day Mass on Nov. 9. We set aside a day each year to remember our namesake, Father Thomas Scecina. We also recognize a member of our community for his or her servant leadership through the years, as well as our alumni who have served their country as Father Tom did. The Father Tom Award this year will be presented to Ryan Keen. He's been our boys and girls track and cross country coach for many years and does an excellent job of teaching, motivating, and building esteem among the student athletes. We will gather at 9:30 a.m., and Mass will begin at 9:45.
In two weeks we'll hold our biggest benefit event for tuition assistance, student life and athletics. Club 53: Live and Local features something for everyone: food from local restaurants, locally made beverages, silent and live auctions, a raffle, and live entertainment. Everyone is welcome to join in this Scecina community event.
Finally, thank you to Monsignor Paul Koetter for his thorough and thoughtful explanation of the Catholic Mass at two Explanatory Masses this fall — one at Scecina and the second at Holy Spirit Parish this past week. Several people who attended have told me how meaningful they found the explanations to be.
Come out to the University of Indianapolis tonight at 7:00 p.m. as our Crusader football team hosts the Cardinal Ritter Raiders in Round 2 of IHSAA Sectional play. Our team has had a fantastic season and deserves our support!
Have a great weekend,
Joe TherberPresident
Scecina Memorial High School, established by the Archbishop of Indianapolis, is a co-educational Catholic college and life preparatory school that motivates our diverse and gifted community of students to attain educational excellence, be lifelong learners, and live as servant leaders in the inspiring footsteps of Father Thomas Scecina.
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Our wine list is lovingly curated by Joe, with the support of The Vineyard of Ramsbottom, who supply every single last drop of wine for our bistro.
Our list is ever evolving, to bring seasonal changes to better suit our menu, but also to give our guests something wonderful, new and exciting to choose each and every time they visit us!
We hold regular Wine & Supper evenings in conjunction with The Vineyard of Ramsbottom, where we create a luscious 5 course tasting menu paired carefully with the many wines of that evening. Often, we have the producers themselves on the evening to guide us through the wines. The evenings are extremely popular and are often full many weeks in advance. Further details of our Wine & Supper evenings can be found on our social media pages, or by calling us on 01706550899.
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Mataranka Traditional Owners - Making Our Submission Our Way
A local story with national significance that raises awareness of water planning issues in north Australia.
Mataranka Traditional Owners explain the connection between water, land and people. This is a shortened web version of a DVD that accompanied the Traditional Owners' submission to the NT Governments Draft Water Allocation Plan in May 2012.
For more information go to the Mataranka Water Forum event page.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012