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Founders of the pro-family movement are reacting skeptically to an article published this week at Politico that claims their movement was founded on racism.
University professor Randall Balmer insists the social conservative movement failed to coalesce over abortion, prayer in school, the Equal Rights Amendment, and every other hot-button issue of those days, many of which percolate even today, but rather over an obscure Supreme Court case called Green v. Connally.
Balmer, who teaches at Dartmouth, calls it a "durable myth" that "evangelicals and fundamentalists" became politically active only after Roe V. Wade gave the US abortion on demand.
"In fact," he says, "it wasn't until 1979 – a full six years after Roe – that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion cause was more palatable than the religious right's real motive: protecting segregated schools."
According to Balmer, from the mid-sixties onward, as a response to Brown v. Board of Education, scores of private Christian schools began popping up, created expressly to keep out blacks. Black families in Holmes County, Mississippi, brought suit to remove the tax-exempt status of some of these schools. The IRS determined that any school created within a certain radius and within five years of a desegregation order would prima facie be considered a "segregation academy" and lose tax exemption.
According to Balmer this was the catalyst for the entire pro-family movement. It was what brought evangelicals out of the political wilderness, since they did not believe the Bible wanted them in politics, and into the political fray. And the man supposed to be behind it was Paul Weyrich, founder of many influential political organizations in Washington, D.C., including the Heritage Foundation, the Free Congress Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (called ALEC).
According to Balmer the new "moral majority," the phrase first used by Weyrich, needed a catalyst to move the evangelicals into the activist camp. According to Balmer, nothing worked, not pornography, not prayer in schools, not the Equal Rights Amendment. What worked was the protection of racist admissions policies.
There is no question that IRS meddling in private schools was on the radar of social conservatives at that time. The Bob Jones University case was well known. Bob Jones expressly forbade blacks from admission and eventually lost its IRS status because of it.
Was this the catalyst for a whole movement? Balmer offers scant evidence. In fact, Balmer offers only one piece of evidence. He quotes a man named Elmer L. Rumminger, who worked at Bob Jones University: "That was really the major issue that got us all involved." That is all the evidence that Balmer offers that the foundation of the moral majority was the protection of segregated schools. It is unclear whom Rumminger meant by "us all" or even if the founders of the movement knew Rumminger's name.
Then, going against his own thesis, Balmer says what really got the movement going was the thing he said didn't get the movement going: abortion. Balmer writes, "But [Jerry] Fallwell and Weyrich, having tapped into the ire of evangelical leaders, were also savvy enough to recognize that organizing grassroots evangelicals to defend racial discrimination would be a challenge. It had worked to rally the leaders, but they needed a different issue if they wanted to mobilize evangelical voters on a large scale."
He describes how the abortion issue was used quite effectively to elect pro-life conservatives to the US Senate in the 1978 elections. For instance, pro-life Republicans won both Senate seats in Minnesota (one for the unexpired term of Hubert Humphrey) and the governorship.
Balmer does get one thing right, and that is the abortion issue was not on the radar screen of Protestants at that time, and if it was they were in support of it and Roe v. Wade. In the beginning opposition to abortion was largely from Catholics, which also explains the resistance to the issue at least for some Protestants.
Evangelical Mike Farris, founder of the Moral Majority in Washington State and now head of the Home School Legal Defense Fund, told Breitbart News he came late to the pro-life cause. Not until a Lamaze class did he begin to see the humanity of the unborn child. Farris now has ten children. He also says Green v. Kennedy or the defense of racial discrimination played no part in the founding of the Moral Majority or the Christian right.
Connie Marshner, who was Paul Weyrich's right hand for many years, told Breitbart News that "Balmer has the wrong end of a stick – just what a secular liberal would read into history. In fact, a multitude of factors all came together at the right time."
Marshner, who was chairman of President Reagan's Family Policy Advisory Board, explained, "Abortion was not initially opposed by Protestants because the mainstream denominations are squishy, and others thought it was a Catholic issue." At the same time noted evangelicals Francis Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop began traveling the country talking about the issue, and the conservatives had begun the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.
"Then," she says, "in 1978, Jimmy Carter's IRS published in the Federal Register a proposed regulation which would have automatically denied tax exemption to any private school that was founded within five years of a de-segregation order within a certain number of miles." Christian moms had prevailed on pastors to open schools as a reaction to the increasing failure of public schools – remember the Why Can't Johnny Read meme from those days? – and now they were being charged with racism and threatened with legal action. She said this woke up the pastors who became increasingly active.
One of the best short histories of the birth of the pro-family movement is Allan Carlson's 1980 essay published in the American Spectator. In his piece the only mention of private schools was praise for the 1980 GOP platform that opposed federal meddling in private schools.
Carlson's piece is overwhelmingly about the denigration of the family by radical feminists who called marriage "a wretched institution" that was "constrictive, corrosive, grinding, and destructive."
Carlson, founder and head of the Howard Center and the World Congress of Families, says one of the galvanizing moments was the 1970 White House Conference on Children that defined the family as "a group of individuals in interaction." The American Home Economics Association defined the family as "a unit of two or more persons who share resources, share responsibilities for decisions, share values and have a commitment to one another over time." Carlson wrote that such definitions would include "a pair of winos sharing a boxcar and a bottle."
Then there was the 1979 White House Conference on Families – note the use of the plural. This was a huge issue at the time and still is. It signals that someone is messing with the definition of the family, and this helped grow the nascent social conservative movement.
Even if Balmer is right, and he has offered no convincing evidence, that it was efforts by the IRS to remove tax-exempt status from private schools that are the "real origins of the religious right", he still has offered no evidence that the creation of such schools were racially motivated or anything other than what Marshner says they were: an effort to provide an alternative to failing government schools.
It is likely that any social conservative leader from those days reading Balmer's piece would see something totally foreign to them. It is a puzzle that Politico published it without talking to any of the players from those days.

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Star ratings? Give 'em two big thumbs down
James M. Berklan, Editor
Oh, there were curious observers. Some even wondered aloud what was going on. Some said things simply were not they way they should be.
But the underlying feeling was that, well, there just wasn't much feeling to the inquiries and protests. The feds, after all, not only had both hands in the game, they owned the marbles and call the tunes. Right? Wrong.
And that's just what came screaming out of one of long-term care's most gentlemanly keyboards. The night before the federal government's new "five-star" rating system of facilities was supposed to be made public, the roof blew off the house.
It was William L. "Larry" Minnix, the nursing home association leader with the soft Georgia twang who started shouting louder than all others that the Emperor's new suit of clothes was short more than a few strands of thread.
Already irked by the fact that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services was rushing a new facility rating system into place before presidential administrations would change, Minnix was outraged at the way it was being rolled out. Just four days after CMS' survey and certification director had told a national audience that nursing homes would get the first look at their individual star ratings, it was apparent that such wasn't the case.
Members of the national media and state survey agencies were sent the entire national database first. Meanwhile, providers hadn't received even their own rating, as promised just a few days earlier, provider advocates howled.
To make matters worse, CMS said it was unable to give providers the list it had already sent to the media and regulators. This came during a conference call CMS hastily held to enlist providers' help with the already botched rollout, Minnix noted. One bright state exec, Dana Petrowsky of Iowa, simply went to a local reporter and had HIM to send the list to her.
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- Body wash: I used the same basic recipe as last time but added about 2 teaspoons of salt (which made the soap thicker) and about 1 tablespoon of magnesium oil (I boiled 1/2 cup of Ancient Minerals Magnesium Bath Salt and 1/2 cup of distilled water)
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This post is a general whine about an excellent documentary shown on Channel 4 earlier this week – 'Britain's Greatest Codebreaker' on the life of Alan Turing. If you would like to see it (hopefully with less adverts) have a look at http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tags/documentaries/4od .
Before I get into this, let's set the bar in an appropriate place. I thought it was a brilliant idea, a brilliant thing to commission and wholly right that this programme be shown and at a pretty decent slot too. So, well done Channel 4 for a great gesture that will greatly benefit those who seek to preserve the story of Turing and his amazing works.
Ok. We clear? Good. Let's proceed.
Sadly, although on the the whole a good and informative programme, it was not without it's shortcomings. Of course I am going to show bias towards Bletchley Park as a whole, it's kinda my job, but I do feel that some things went unsaid (and some things were just plain misspoken) that could use addressing in some dark grimy corner of the Internet; like this one in fact.
I very much enjoyed the telling of Turing's life story. Being more interested in the technical side of things, I don't focus as much on the personal stories as some do. Learning about his earlier relationships at school was a fascinating insight into what may have driven him to such acts of genius. I watched as his childhood unfolded, explained through the usual 'talking heads', intersected with a dramatisation of Turing's psychotherapy sessions.
It was these sessions that started to jar. Unfortunately, two very fine actors were given such a flat script that I started to wonder if I could edit together a decent thirty-minute story by simply editing them out. It was a great opportunity to dramatise Turing's inner conflict but it never materialised. He went from seeming a perfectly happy person to looking a bit sad in the last ten minutes. It didn't work for me.
Can I now address the title? It seemed a strange choice. "Britain's Greatest Codebreaker". Why "Codebreaker"? He achieved so much more on a wider scope, like, you know, conceiving the fundamental principles of the entire digital world and his amazing work on morphogenesis. It's more concerning for me that it overshadows and diminishes the work of other code breakers at Bletchley Park. Now I'm sure that many hours would be lost and pints drank as BP enthusiasts and experts debated who was the greatest and like most things of this nature a consensus would never be reached, but I would be surprised if Turing was in the running. Some would say Knox, some Welchman and I would personally opt for John Tiltman, who made the first break into Lorenz. Turing certainly achieved the most over his short life and he had one of the most tragic endings which is maybe why he receives so much focus. Still, we at BP try to see that those who deserve it get recognition and sometimes I feel it's hard for them to be seen.
On a very minor and pedantic note, it's not Station X. Never has been. I help perpetuate this myth via the name of this blog but Bletchley Park was never called Station X. In fact, the MI6 radio station hidden away in the mansion's water tower was the titular station. Bletchley Park was know as Room 47, GC&CS (Government Code & Cipher School) or simply 'Ultra'. Those based there simply knew it as 'BP'.
I get that the programme's purpose was to focus on the personal traumas of Turing. However, a lot of effort went into to explaining the impact of the 'Universal Machine' (i.e. the digital computer), morphogenesis and the 'Turing Test'. Yet no mention was made of ACE, his fully working computer, or the modern impact of Turing's work. You know when you have to copy in a slightly-scrambled word when registering on a web site? That's called a CAPTCHA test. Google it. Yep, the T is for Turing.
Finally, I've now edited my recording and was astonished to find that 22 minutes of adverts were broadcast and the entire show was actually just a blip over one hour long. That's a terrible ratio. It reminded me of watching television in the USA, which is no pleasant experience.
I was going to say that it was great to hear to Gordon Welchman being mentioned. As co-developer of the Bombe he often gets a horrible lack of credit. His work on the 'diagonal board' section of the machine sped it up fivefold over Turing's original design. However, yet again the man actually built the darn things, Harold 'Doc' Keen, gets left out. The Bombe was the work of three men and I believe they all deserve credit.
Right, I've had a good moan and thank you for bearing with me. Let me repeat again that it was on the whole a good programme and I'm glad it's there. I just feel some opportunities were wasted.


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Companion Major
The department offers both a minor and a companion major in ethnic studies: a student must declare a primary major in another discipline and a second companion major in ethnic studies. The companion major is designed to complement a student's primary major by broadening the field of study to include an academic focus on race/ethnicity. It enhances a student's employment opportunities in business, education, law, medicine, social work, and government. The major provides a foundation for graduate studies for students who plan to become university professors and researchers with a specialization in ethnic studies.
Course Requirements
The Major consists of a total of twelve (12) courses or 54-56 quarter units. Students must complete 4 lower-division courses, 7 upper-division courses, and the capstone (ETHN 199) to fulfill the requirements of the Major.
Lower Division requirement:
1. Ethnic Studies 5 - Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
2. Two (2) of the following Ethnic Studies courses:
Ethnic Studies 10 - Introduction to Native American Studies
Ethnic Studies 20 - Introduction to Chicano/a Studies
Ethnic Studies 30 - Introduction to African American Studies
Ethnic Studies 40 - Introduction to Asian American Studies
3. One (1) of the following Breadth Electives:
Anthropology 86 - Native American Cultures
Anthropology 90 - Cross-Cultural Study of Women and Gender
Dance 62 - African American Dance History I
English 35 - African American Literature
English 36 - Chicana/Chicano Literature
English 37 - Native American Literature
English 38 - Asian American Literature
English 39 - Multicultural Literature of the United States
English 69 - Literatures by Women Writers of Color
Ethnic Studies 50 - Introduction to Filipino American Studies
Ethnic Studies 51 - Introduction to South Asian American Studies
Ethnic Studies 55 - Cross-Racial Electoral Politics
Ethnic Studies 60 - Intro to Journalism: focus on American Diversity, Multiracial Identities & Communities
Ethnic Studies 65 - Drama of Diversity
Ethnic Studies 70 - Multicultural Literature of the United States
Ethnic Studies 75 - Iranian American Women Writers
Ethnic Studies 80 - Intro to the Study of Muslim & Arabic Americans in the US
Ethnic Studies 95 - African American Independent Filmmakers
Ethnic Studies 96 - Race, Class, & Culture through Film
Music 20 - Music in American Culture I
Religious Studies 88 - Native Spiritual Traditions
Theatre 14 - Chicana/Chicano Theatre
Theatre 65 - Multicultural Theatre
Upper Division requirement:
1. Four (4) of the following Ethnic Studies courses:
Ethnic Studies 112 - Native Peoples of United States & Mexico
Ethnic Studies 120 - Mexican Immigration to the United States
Ethnic Studies 121 - Chicana/Chicano Families
Ethnic Studies 122 - Chicana/Chicano Community
Ethnic Studies 123 - The Chicana/o Exerience
Ethnic Studies 125 - Latinas/os in the U.S.
Ethnic Studies 126 - Latina/o Immigrant Detention & Incorporation in the Age of Terrorism
Ethnic Studies 127 - Race and Mass Incarceration
Ethnic Studies 133 - Malcolm and Martin
Ethnic Studies 134 - Black Social Movements
Ethnic Studies 135 - African Americans in Postwar Film
Ethnic Studies 141 - Asian American Women
Ethnic Studies 142 - Asian American Communities
Ethnic Studies 144 - Asian Americans in the Media
Ethnic Studies 149 - Civil Rights and Anti-Colonial Movements
Ethnic Studies 152 - Multi-Racial Identities
Ethnic Studies 153 - Minority Politics in the U.S.
Ethnic Studies 154 - Women of Color in the U.S.
Ethnic Studies 155 - Racism in the United States
Ethnic Studies 157 - Race, Gender, Class & the College Experience
Ethnic Studies 161 - Creating Diverse College Going Community
Ethnic Studies 163 - Multiracial Community in Central California
Ethnic Studies 165 - Community Based Research Methods
Ethnic Studies 172 - Whiteness Studies in the 21st Century
Ethnic Studies 178 - Race and World War IIEthnic Studies 194 - Peer Educator in Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies 185 - Senior Seminar in Racial and Ethnic Politics
Ethnic Studies 197 - Special Topics
2. Three (3) courses outside of Ethnic Studies:
Anthropology 146 - Perspectives on the Spanish & Native American Experience
Art History 141 - Native American Art: California and the Pacific Northwest
Communication 107 - Intercultural Communication
Communication 121A - Diversity and the Media
Dance 162 - African American Dance History II
Economics 155 - Economics of Immigration
English 130 - Studies in African American Literature
English 134 - Studies in Contemporary American Literature
English 139 - Dangerous Border Crossers
English 140 - Studies in Chicana/Chicano Literature
English 155 - Studies in Asian American Literature
English 158 - Studies in Native American Literature
English 166 - Pan-African Literature
History 153 - Civil Rights and Anti-Colonial Movements
History 178 - Race and World War II
History 180 - Native Americans of the United States
History 185 - African Americans in Postwar Film
Liberal Studies 106 - Urban Education and Multiculturalism
Music 132 - The History of Hip Hop
Political Science 153 - Minority Politics in the U.S.
Political Science 195 - Senior Seminar in Racial & Ethnic Politics
Psychology 189 - African American Psychology
Religious Studies 139 - Mexican Popular Catholicism & Gender
Religious Studies 164 - Religion, Race and Ethnicity in America
Religious Studies 184 - Race and Religion in the United States
Sociology 132 - Social Stratification
Sociology 150 - Immigrant Businesses in the United States
Sociology 153 - Race, Class and Gender in the United States
Sociology 175 - Race and Inequality
Sociology 180 - Immigrant Communities
Spanish 133 - Mexican American Literature
Theatre 161 - American Theatre from the Black Perspective
Theatre 189 - August Wilson Seminar
Women's and Gender Studies 111 - Asian American Women
3. Ethnic Studies 198/199 - Capstone Seminar in Ethnic Studies
The capstone requirement for Ethnic Studies companion majors involves two courses.
One, the student with an Ethnic Studies companion major must complete successfully a methods requirement in their primary major.
Two, after completing the methods requirement in their primary major, Ethnic Studies companion majors must enroll in the Capstone Seminar in Ethnic Studies (3-5 units): Ethnic Studies 198 (Internship) or Ethnic Studies 199 (Directed Reading/Directed Research). This second requirement, a community internship, creative project, or directed reading/research in which the student simultaneously works on a research paper or project under the direction of an Ethnic Studies core or affiliated faculty, will provide opportunities for students to apply their understanding of methods in their stand-alone major to a project explicitly in Ethnic Studies.


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Church is so much more than a service on the weekend. It's about connecting with other people, growing in your faith, and building a strong foundation for your family. We work hard to provide many ways to get involved. Check out some of the ways you can serve below!
Serve Teams
Baptism: The Baptism Team coordinates the service with candidates and staff. Other responsibilities include: contacting the candidates and scheduling a pre baptism meeting, serving during the Baptism service, assisting candidates getting in/out of the pool, draining/cleaning the baptismal pool and robes/towels, and filling out baptism certificates and Bibles.
Benevolence:: The goal of the Benevolence Team is to help people who are in financial need. The team members prayerfully consider every applicant and try to meet the most urgent needs by providing assistance with household bills, groceries, utilities, and basic necessities of living. Each application is considered on a case-by-case basis.
Creative Communications: The Creative Communications team works with TBC's Creative Communication Director on special events, social media, marketing, writing, photography, and advertising.
Decorating/Events Team: Enhancing the look of the campus during season changes and special events are the primary focus of the Decorating/Events Team.
Finance Counters: What is it? A ministry charged with counting and reporting the total of funds received from any collection received during a service or event held @ TBC. The total funds collected alone with a summary report for an event is then secured for later accounting to be done by TBC staff.
Who comprise the Counters Ministry function? TBC members who serve on the Finance Committee and Counters Committee. On an annual and needed basis, the TBC Nominating Committee selects TBC members to request he/she consider service of a three year term on either or both committees. Any nominee then must pass the majority vote of the TBC congregation.
Who actually counts a given collection? Normally, one member from the Finance Committee and two members from the Counters Committee are included for a counting event.
How are counters scheduled? Depending on the pool of committee members, counters are usually scheduled arbitrarily for 4 to 6 weeks for any services or events that occur during a given time. For example, a counter is scheduled for all Sunday and Wednesday services for the 2nd weeks of the months of May, June, July & August…or for the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th weeks. Also assigned for that given period will be other counters representing either the Finance or Counters Committees.
When is actual counting done? Counting on Sunday mornings is usually done @10:30AM for both the Praise/Worship and Traditional services. Normally it takes about an hour to count both services. On Wednesday night service, counting is done immediately after the collection is made from the congregation. For any other special event, the counting function will be decided depending on the circumstances, that is, the counting will be done either during or immediately after the event.
First Response: First Responders are a group of men and women that serve on Sunday mornings during both services, Sunday Evening, and during special events. (Easter Drama, Vacation Bible School, Fall Festival, Thanksgiving meal, and Christmas Drama)
We are the first to respond to medical issues and security issues. When needed, we summons more advanced medical care on medical issues or render basic first aid. We are the eyes and ears of the Church and are always on watch for any security issues, which need to be addressed. If needed, we will summons the Police for assistance with security issues.
As a First responder you will be assigned to one of the following tasks when you serve. Monitor the Gym lobby, monitor the Kids Street lobby, walk the halls, sit in the service, or work the control room. You will serve and receive basic training with another First Responder prior to serving on your own.
Board members are chosen from the First Responder team, voted on by the Church and serve for a period of three years.
Food & Fellowship: The Food and Fellowship Committee prepares and serves meals for a number of events throughout the year. From small group meetings to church-wide celebrations, we feed the family.
Greeters: There are four primary functions of the guest services/greeting ministry – Greeting, Hospitality Room, Parking Attendants, and Bread Deliveries.
Ladies Event Planning Team: We have 3 events each year that we design, plan and coordinate. Everyone on the team shares the responsibilities and works together. There might be times that you can't participate in every aspect of the event and that is OK. That is why we are TEAM. It takes more than 1 person to put an event together. You might be thinking "I don't have the talent to decorate or to cook." Not a problem! Perhaps you enjoy organizing games and crafts, perhaps you enjoy helping behind the scenes. There are many things to do and you don't have to be qualified or a professional. Just a willing heart and helping hand is all that it takes. We have a FB page that allows us to update everyone quickly on various items such as communication from the church, details such as centerpieces, budget, etc. We meet once a month. Perhaps you are interested but would like more information or you want to go ahead and join. What do you do? Just tell us! There is no obligation. If you'd like to join we will submit your name to the Serve Team.
Lord's Supper: Lord's Supper Ministry meets once a quarter to prepare the bread and wine for communion. We usually meet an hour before the service to allow for the preparation. After the service, we clear the communion table and wash the bread and wine containers. Many hands make light work. Time is minimal and it is a great time of fellowship.
Men's Fellowship: Men's fellowship has breakfast the third Saturday of every month. They also do a dinner during missions conference each year and then they have one or two special events during the summer.
Missions Team: Are you interested in being a part of advancing the Gospel both here and abroad? Then the Mission's Team is for you. The Mission Team selects, supports and encourages over forty foreign and domestic missionaries through monthly meetings and our annual World Fest.
Parking: An extension of the Greeter Team, the Parking Ministry is responsible for providing a warm and friendly first welcome to Triad Baptist Church guests and members and golf-cart shuttle transportation to and from the parking lot to the Worship Center doors on Sundays and during church musicals, concerts, and other events hosted by TBC.
Given our role, we're usually the first people guests encounter and an important part of delivering a good first impression and experience – continued by the Greeter Team and others inside the Worship Center and by Kids Street Children's Ministry volunteers at the CheckPoint check-in station.
In addition to the ability to drive golf carts safely and with a smile, parkers also need to be familiar with the campus (including entrances and ministry locations, service times, Sunday School meeting times and other information) to answer guest questions.
Recreation: The recreation ministry is an outreach of Triad Baptist Church to engage members and our community in recreational sports with a goal of pointing people towards Christ. This is done through Upwards sports for our children in flag football, cheerleading, basketball and soccer. For adults there is men's softball, basketball, volleyball, and soccer.
Usher: The purpose of the church usher team is to serve God by providing worshipers a welcome greeting, the ability to ask questions, and to provide seating according to their specific needs or requests. The usher team is also responsible for reverently gathering all offerings that they do not "as unto men, but unto God". They are also watchful over the congregation to facilitate an uninterrupted service for all to Praise and Worship God.
Wedding Team: The Wedding Teams consists of people who enjoy coordinating and directing weddings for members.
Are You Ready to Serve?
Involvement in ministry is a life of service for Jesus, like Jesus, and with Jesus. In fact, it's all about Jesus. Now if that's not a reason to serve, I don't know what is!
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"What is it?"
"Where have you kept my tie. I just can't find it anywhere."
"It's inside the wardrobe."
Suman always expected her to attend to him when he was getting ready for office. When they had got married twelve years back she could do that. But now with their two kids going to school her morning schedule was hectic. Getting up early, preparing breakfast, waking up the kids, serving breakfast….it went on and on until Suman left for his office and she took the kids to the bus stand to catch the school bus.
Mornings were even tougher when the maid didn't turn up. Lakshmi was a nice person and always went out of her way to help Sindhu. She never refused to do anything, quite unlike most of the maids employed by her friends and neighbours. When they had moved into this beautiful bungalow in Salt Lake, in the eastern suburbs of the city, she had felt elated. The apartment blocks would no longer stifle her. No doubt to it, she hated living in apartments.
But then Lakhmi had her own share of problems – her drunkard and abusive husband. He would return home late most of the days just managing to keep himself steady and would beat her up for flimsy reasons. Whenever the thrashing got too hard she had to stay away from work for a day or two. Sindhu pitied Lakshmi. Why did she stay with him? At times she tried to imagine an abusive Suman. If anything like that ever happened she would, surely, walk out. It was not a question of how much it hurt physically; it would be an intolerable insult on self-esteem. Then she would laugh at her idea of an abusive Suman…after all they had been college sweethearts and knew each other so well.
Whenever Sindhu expressed her opinion to Lakshmi, she laughed patiently.
"You don't understand everything." Lakshmi would say, leaving Sindhu wondering.
But, Lakshmi had agreed that next time he repeated it she would bring him over for Sindhu to try to talk him out of this beastly habit. Yesterday when Sindhu learnt from another maid that Lakshimi wont turn up for work for a day or two she had expected them. They hadn't turned up till now.
"Aarati and Vipin, I want you to finish your breakfast within five minutes." She warned. The kids were in their usual habit of messing up with the breakfast. Aarati with ten summers behind her was capable of taking care of herself but her seven year old brother was still the baby of the family.
She looked up at the wall clock. It was eight-thirty.
"Honey, I'm off. Might be late in the evening. Suman stood beside her in the kitchen just long enough to plant a kiss on her cheek. It's one of those gestures that have stayed with them for the last twelve years. She followed him out of the kitchen, yanked the kids out of the table and sent them off to the bedroom to get dressed for school. They managed to do that on their own.
As she started to get dressed standing in front of the wardrobe mirror she mused that there was at least one bright side to her tough schedule. It definitely helped her to stay in shape. She was slim, tall – almost five feet seven and medium complexioned. She knew that even at thirty-six she was attractive.
"You are still a head turner, honey." Suman was always saying that. It was a harmless leg pulling on his part but going by the way people stared at her she knew he wasn't wrong. Having put on her pale blue saree she turned, her side facing the mirror and arranged her shoulder length hair. That's perfect, she decided. No unwanted prominence.
"Mama, we are ready." Their shout brought her back to her senses. It was time she took them to the bus stop for their school bus.
She flopped down on the bed. She felt too tired even to change her clothes. The blast of cool air from the ceiling fan helped her relax. It went just like that on day's Lakshmi didn't turn up. Later, she would get up, change and have her breakfast. A brief flip through the newspaper before she returned to the kitchen to get on with her daily chores. Now the only thing she could think of was to relax under the fan. Everything else could wait. She closed her eyes just to enjoy that stupor of sleep come over her.
The ringing doorbell brought her back to her senses. She looked at her watch. It was almost ten o'clock.
"Who can it be?" She murmured rising from the comfort of the bed. Peeping into the door-eye she could see Lakshmi standing outside. She opened the door to let her in. It was then that she noticed the man standing a couple of yards behind her, right on the driveway.
"Do I need to tell you what happened day before yesterday?" Lakshmi said.
No, she nodded. "I have brought him with me. See whether you can talk him out of this beastly habit. I have my doubts."
Sindhu made way for Lakshmi to get into the house. As Lakshmi went past her she looked at the man standing there.
"Come in and close the door behind you."
She walked into the drawing room and sat down on the sofa. She was in a fix, should she invite them to sit on another sofa or on the floor. Before she could decide, Lakshmi made herself comfortable on the floor. Her husband followed suit.
"What's your name?"
It was for the first time Sindhu had a close look at him. Unshaved, it looked he was having a hangover. That's nothing surprising considering his habits. Otherwise, his hair was neatly combed and the shirt he was wearing was one of those she had given to Lakshmi. He looked fine in it. He must be around forty-five, she decided. He was couple of inches taller than she. Lakshmi had told her that he was a mason.
The next quarter of an hour she talked to them, at length, about the virtues of being a teetotaler. He seemed to understand everything, agreeing with her that he should get rid of this habit.
"Nobody had explained to me the problems of being a drunkard the way you have done." He went on. "You are definitely younger to me in age but you are more matured. I guess, that's what education does to you. Don't worry, from this moment onwards I'll concentrate on earning a decent living rather than wasting our earnings on drinks."
As they left, she could make out the gratitude on Lakshmi's face.
More than an hour had passed by. She was still leafing through the newspaper…not feeling like starting the chores in the kitchen. But first, she had to change. She got up and started towards the bedroom. Just then the doorbell rang.
Must be the postman delivering the registered mail, she thought.
She opened the door to find Bilash with a cloth bag.
"What is it?" She felt irritated, but controlled herself.
"I have put all the bottles that I had back home in this bag. As a tribute to the way you helped me I request you to throw these away yourself."
She agreed reluctantly, taking the bag from his out-stretched hand.
"Can I have a glass of water?"
"Sure." She replied putting down the bag on the floor.
When she returned with a glass of water, she found him standing inside. He gulped the water down and returned the glass to her. She took the glass but before she could move it away he caught hold of her hand pulling her to him. It was unexpected and fast…she just couldn't react. All that she managed to do was to turn around so that he was behind her. At that moment panic struck her and the glass slipped out, shattering itself into pieces as it struck the floor. His hands were on her breasts gripping them so hard that it hurt. She bent forward to free herself form his amorous bear hug.
That didn't help. To keep her balance she had to shove her behind at him. He responded immediately, his loins ramming against her behind. He was squeezing her breasts rather painfully.
"Stop or I'll shout." She found her voice at last.
"I know you won't do that. All that you need is a good fuck." He was panting. Recovering from her panic she fought back, her hands catching hold of his hair forcing him forward and her heels kicking at his shin.
He deserved it. Desperately, she clung to his hair. Unexpectedly, his right hand relinquished its hold on her. But it was only a brief respite. She felt his hands on her saree, trying to pull it off. To her horror he succeeded, throwing it away from her reach. It lay in a crumpled heap on the floor.
Suddenly he released her.
She staggered, trying desperately to maintain her balance.
He slapped her hard, the sting ringing in her ears. Tears swelled in her eyes. Then came the second one, sending her reeling onto the floor. She was pinned down to the floor as the blows rained on her. She tried to resist, but most of them got through her defenses. Before long her strength began to wane away and the slaps coming in quick succession became unbearable.
"Please! I beg you…" She wailed.
Instantly it stopped. She started crying, drops of blood trickling down her nose.
"It's nothing. Will be okay in a minute." He sneered as he pulled her petticoat to her waist. She felt his hands on her panties, tearing them off.
She couldn't believe this was happening to her.
"Oh God! Let this be just a nightmare."
He couldn't shift his eyes from what he had unveiled…long legs, firm thighs and neatly trimmed pubic hair just covering her mons.
It was overwhelming. She was just what he had fantasized sitting on the floor in front of her, listening to her crap on drinking.
He buried his head between her thighs inhaling the musk of her sex. Tentatively, he started licking her.
Oh God!" She shuddered clutching his head with her hands and trying to move him away. Suman never did that to her. As his tongue became more insistent increasing it's rhythm and pressure she began to lose control. With a startle she realised that the body was capable of accepting what the mind rejected.
"Aah!" She moaned and moved her hands, putting an end to her feeble attempts to move him away.
Soon her moans became louder as she shuddered under his maneuvers. She was beyond all caring now…her background, education, husband, children…nothing mattered. There is no way out. She will have sex with this man…her maidservant's habitually drunkard husband.
Abruptly, he got to his feet and started undressing. In his hurry he tore of his shirt and trouser. Lying on the floor, she had a fleeting glance of his manhood as he joined her. He is huge…certainly bigger than Suman, she thought. He raised her legs, arranged them on his shoulders and with a swift lunge drove himself all the way into her.
"Oh God!" She sighed as her vagina stretched to accommodate him. She put her hands to her mouth stifling her moans as the tip of his penis drove all the way to her cervix again and again.
It didn't last for more than five minutes. An explosion that left them panting for breath.
She looked at him.
"I told you that's what you needed. You scare me the way you moaned." He was smiling. Embarrassed, she looked away.
When she tried to get up he pulled her back to him.
"Where are you going, my dear? We are not through as yet. Wouldn't you like to fuck again?"
"I need to go to the bathroom." She tried to sound detached.
"But you can't go like this."
He stood up and helped her to her feet. One by one, he removed all that she was still wearing… blouse, bra and petticoat. He turned her around.
"You can go now." He said patting her naked behind.
When she came back into the living room he was sitting in front of the television watching Sun TV.
"Come, sit over here." He was indicating his lap. She hesitated for a moment, acutely conscious of her nudity but then relented.
No sooner she was on his lap his hands started caressing her again.
Half an hour later the smoldering fires began to burn again. But this time he wanted it differently…to come in her mouth. She had never performed fellatio, not even with Suman. It was perverse… something that you can read only in those English paperbacks. Certainly, she can't do it.
"I won't do that." She stood her ground.
Moments of his ecstasy he will not be able to hold onto her. Wanting to get over the whole thing she started to suck him vigorously.
The pressure of his hand on her head increased…she could feel his approaching orgasm. He was hard and huge inside her mouth. She started choking and gasped for air but there was no respite. She knew it was time to pull away…this would be the last time she would suck him in. He moved swiftly catching her unaware. His hands moved to the back of her head and powerfully pulled her to his groin. It was as if he knew from the very beginning what she had in mind. Tightly pressed against his groin, she was suffocating. She struggled to free herself, but he was too strong for her. Then suddenly he relaxed, allowing her to create just enough space to breathe. It was only a brief respite. The next instant she was again forced against his groin. As his penis hit the back of her throat he exploded. She had no other way but to gulp down his secretions to prevent herself from choking. When he released her she fell back, heaving a sigh of relief. Her cheeks and chin were covered with his semen that had escaped her mouth. Almost immediately she started retching and rushed to the bathroom, somehow managing to reach the wash basin, before throwing up. That gave her immediate relief from the nausea. When she looked up she found Bilash standing beside her. She offered no resistance as he took her in his arms and gently ran his fingers through her hair to comfort her.
"Are you comfortable now?" He whispered. She nodded yes.
Bilash helped her to clean up before leading her back to the living room. He helped her onto one of the sofas and then sat opposite her.
"Take it easy." Soon they were engrossed in the television.
"Okay its time." His words startled her bringing her attention back from the television.
"For what?"
"Come here on your knees." He ordered, opening his legs.
"Bilash! Please don't force me to do that again. I have never done that before."
"Okay, Okay." He seemed to understand and walked over to her.
She didn't even get the time to flinch as he slapped her hard. Tears and stars sprang to her eyes.
He went back to the sofa.
"How many times do I have to tell you that your preferences don't count. You don't know your preferences, anyway. Just follow my orders and soon you will start enjoying it. Now crawl over here and you better keep it down this time." He threatened…
This time there was no nausea. When it was over she sat down on the floor, her head on his thigh – only inches away from his now satiated manhood. She felt too embarrassed to even look up at him. He knew how to have his way with a woman, there can be no doubt about it.
Sindhu looked at her watch and jumped. It was time for Aarati and Vipin to return home. Hurriedly she extricated herself from his embrace and got to her feet.
"Bilash you have to go now. It's time my son and daughter returned from school."
"Let me kiss you there one more time." He was looking straight at her naked crotch.
She came over and opened her thighs, allowing him to kiss her sex.
He started getting dressed. She found it surprising that she no longer felt embarrassed to stand before him stark naked.
"I will be back tomorrow, same time. You will open the door wearing nothing."
She nodded trying to get him out of the house as soon as possible.
She bumped into him as he suddenly stopped in front of the door. Turning around he cupped her breasts.
"Tomorrow you will receive a good thrashing first and the you will offer me your last virginity."
He left closing the door behind him leaving her wondering what her last virginity could be. I will get time for that later, she thought as she ran into the bedroom to get dressed.
Standing before the wardrobe mirror in her pink saree she still kept pondering about her last virginity. And then it struck her.
"I am so naïve." She mused. But that might hurt, she thought running her hands over her buttocks, briefly cupping them and then letting go.
That night remorse took away her sleep. She never knew this streak of hideous sensuality hid in her mind. Even now she could recount the whole incident in details. At first she thought that it was out of fear but then every time she recollected the incident it made her adrenalins flow. Definitely the recollections were not horrifying.
Was she a willing victim? It was then that Lakshmi's words had struck her… "You don't understand everything." Now she understood what lay behind the physical abuses that Lakshmi silently suffered.
"The way he dealt with me was no different." Sindhu thought. And like Lakshmi she had endured his physical abuse to satisfy her hideous animal passion.
The stillness of the night was unbearable. She got out of bed and tiptoed to the terrace. The cool southern breeze brought comfort.
How could she betray Suman with a moments passion, she wondered. They loved each other dearly, didn't they? And is this what he expects in return? His beloved wife fucking and illiterate drunkard. What a shock it will be for him if he ever came to know of it. Didn't her culture, education and children mean anything to her? She fought to control her tears. There's no way she would allow Bilash to have his way with her again.
"I am sorry Suman. I beg you to forgive me. I promise never to do that again." She murmured to herself. She resolved to straighten things out with Bilash tomorrow. She will shut the door on his face…to let him know that whatever they did today meant nothing to her. She felt the burden lift from her heart.
"I love you Suman." She cried out into the stillness of the night. Thrashing began…
He was hard and huge as he drove himself through her sphincter resistance. She had cried out as the pain shot through her. Scared that people might hear her, she grabbed a pillow and stuffed her face in it. But her muffled howls seemed to excite him even more as he drove himself mercilessly through her sphincter resistance.
"Just relax. Just relax. If you resist it will hurt you more. " He kept on whispering in her ears.
Gradually the pain began subsiding. He sensed that and immediately his loins started slamming against her buttocks.
Later, she lay in his arms…his hands gently caressing her tear stained face. It had been even more painful than when Aarati was born.
"What will happen if Lakshmi comes to know of this?" She looked at him expecting some sort of assurance.
He broke into laughter. "If you want you can go ahead and tell her. In fact, I was planning to have both of you together in bed someday soon."
"What do you mean? Are you crazy?" Startled, she sat up.
"I can assure you that nobody other than the three of us will ever come to know of this." She reasoned.
"I just don't care. There's no way I will do something like that. You are making me sick, Bilash." She shot back.
"Don't you try to act smart." He threatened. "In the end you have to agree to my wishes so why create a fuss now."
"Bilash, you are exceeding your limits. Don't forget that I can still go the police with a forceful charge that will put you behind bars for at least a couple of years." Sindhu retorted.
She half expected it but it still made her see stars. He pulled her down to the floor and started slapping her hard.
"Bitch, don't you dare to defy me." She could hear him as she tried desperately to dodge his blows.
But most of the blows got through her defenses. He was merciless against defiance and soon she had to give up.
"Stop it. Please stop it." She sobbed.
"The next time you defy me I will break your teeth." He warned.
She had to find a way out of this crazy idea. She had to get away from him. But knowing Bilash and his ways that might be difficult…


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Norway Killer Names 'Dogville' His Favorite Film, Director Lars von Trier Responds
Morrissey is not the only one attracting attention over the attacks in Norway.
LONDON -- Morrissey's not the only one attracting attention over the attacks in Norway. It seems Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who killed 77 people recently, listed von Lars Von Trier's Dogville as one of his favorite films.
Norway Massacre: Morrissey Explains Why He Compared Shootings to McDonald's
Danish director Trier recently called himself a Nazi and said that he sympathizes with Hitler. But it turns out that he's not in favor of slaughtering large numbers of people.
After finding out that Breivik listed Dogville as one of his favorite films, von Trier said: "I feel badly about thinking that Dogville, which in my eyes is one of my most successful films, should have been a kind of script for him." The statement was made in an interview with the Danish paper Politiken, according to New York Magazine.
"It's horrific. My intention with Dogville was totally opposite. Namely, to ask whether we can accept a protagonist who takes revenge on the entire village. And here I take the absolute distance from revenge. It's a way to nuance the protagonist and our feelings and perhaps even uncover it, so it just is not black and white."
"The last scene of Dogville bears painful similarities with Utoeya," the director added.
Utoeya is the island where Breivik opened fire on a summer camp, killing 69 people. And at the end of Dogville, the inhabitants of the town are all gunned down.
"You're asking me if I'm sad for having made this film? Yes, if it has proved to have inspired him, I'm sorry for having made it," said von Trier, adding that the film's intention was to educate the public, not inspire violence.


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Detail of the eastern wall
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Palace with a square floorplan and four towers, and a mosque nearby. Built on the site of a former Roman fort. Greek inscriptions on 160 basalt blocks.
Recommendations for cultural travellers: Contemporary art, art history, architecture, design, cultural heritage
A project in progress. Recent additions:
Amman | Desert Castles Tour |
Petra in 15 chapters | Art events |
Iraq al-Amir, Qasr al-Abd
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Iraqi MPs approve journalists' rights law
The Iraqi parliament on Tuesday approved a law aimed at strengthening journalists' rights in a country that tops the list of unsolved killings of members of the media.
The law "aims to promote the rights of journalists and protect them in the Republic of Iraq," according to the second article, the text of which was posted on parliament's website after its adoption.
"Journalists shall not be questioned or investigated for a crime attributed to them linked to the practice of journalism, except by judicial decision," according to the law.
It also says newspapers cannot be prevented from publishing or be confiscated except by judicial decision.
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ESPN's voting panel ranked each team post free agency. The Patriots, Falcons and Packers emerged victorious. | By Yvonne Hew
The official start of the new NFL year began on March 9, and as always, there was a whole lot of commotion as teams throughout the league raced to secure the best free agents money could buy. ESPN's voting panel of 80 writers, editors and TV personalities ranked each team according to their activity during free agency. A combination of the panel's analysis and ESPN Stats and Information resulted in the Green Bay Packers, Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots, emerging victorious. Let's count down the top 16 teams post free agency.
16. Arizona Cardinals
Their defense took a real beating when they lost four of their six best defensive snap leaders. The biggest loss was defensive end Calais Campbell when he signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Cards have lost the consistency he brought to the field, and his sacking ability. Without Campbell, will they get as many turnovers as they did last season?
15. Miami Dolphins
It was an uncharacteristically quiet offseason for Miami, but quality is better than quantity. Two veterans -- safety Nate Allen and linebacker Lawrence Timmons may be a huge help to a unit that only ranked 29th in yards and 18th in points last season.
14. Tennessee Titans
The Titans' secondary (that allowed the fifth-most completions in 2016) will receive a major boost with the additions of safety Johnathan Cyprien and cornerback Logan Ryan. They're probably counting on some further worthy additions with they select fifth and 18th in the draft next month.
13. Houston Texans
The Texans unloaded themselves of Brock Osweiler, which most think is about the smartest move they could've made. Aside from re-signing tight end Ryan Griffin, that was the only move they made. Tony Romos may become their ninth starting quarterback, or Tom Savage may take the reigns, but will that really be enough for the Texans?
12. Detroit Lions
Last season, the Lions averaged only 3.4 yards on rushes to the right. That was second-worst in the league. The franchise's answer to that was to significantly upgrade the right side of their offensive line, securing offensive tackle Rick Wagner and offensive guard T.J. Lang, who they wanted desperately enough to make a huge counter-offer against the Seattle Seahawks.
11. Baltimore Ravens
Their secondary has undergone a major overhaul after they allowed a massive 28 passing touchdowns last season, second-highest in franchise history. Tony Jefferson is a welcome addition – he's forced six fumbles in his career. He'll form one of the best safety duos in the league with Eric Weddle. Talented veteran Brandon Carr signed a five-year deal with the Ravens.
10. Denver Broncos
As expected, the Broncos have made moves revolving around the offensive line. They saved money by not picking up Russell Okung's four-year option. Signing guard Ronald Leary may boost their rushing yards this coming season. Now, we shall wait and see if Romo will be the next veteran quarterback the franchise signs (after Peyton Manning).
9. New York Giants
As if having Odell Beckham Jr. and Sterling Shepard weren't good enough, the Giants' addition of Brandon Marshall could take them to the next level. That's only if Marshall gets back to his Pro Bowl form. He caught just 47.2 percent of his targets last season, second-lowest amongst receivers.
8. Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs will feel the loss of all-time leading rusher Jamaal Charles. Their running backs ranked 25th in rushing yards last season, and if 2017 is anything like 2016, their biggest rushing contributions may come from receiver Tyreek Hill and quarterback Alex Smith.
7. Oakland Raiders
Tight end Jared Cook is hotly regarded as the ideal red zone target for quarterback Derek Carr, who didn't have the luxury last season. Carr only completed 48.9 percent of his red zone passes, 22nd in the NFL, so the team will be looking at Cook to be the weapon they need to improve their passing game.
6. Seattle Seahawks
The Seahawks may have the next Marshawn Lynch in running back Eddie Lacy. He has averaged 2.15 yards per rush after contact since he started his NFL career in 2013. The team also addressed their shortcomings in the linebacker position by signing Terence Garvin and re-signing Dewey McDonald. These two will have a lot of work to do this offseason.
5. Pittsburgh Steelers
If you talk to Steelers fans, you'll discover they emphatically approve of the richest wide receiver in the league Antonio Brown signing an extension, and Le'Veon Bell being franchise tagged. Per Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, coach Mike Tomlin said he"would never trade [Brown] for anyone." Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger may be playing in 2017 despite considering retirement.
4. Dallas Cowboys
They can breathe a sigh of relief at Tony Romo's impending departure, but it looks like cornerback Nolan Carroll II will have a huge weight on his shoulders. He'll single-handedly replace a large chunk of their secondary after Brandon Carr, J.J. Wilcox, Barry Church and Morris Claiborne took their talents elsewhere.
3. Green Bay Packers
The Packers aren't known for being overly active in free agency, but this offseason is remarkable. They did something very uncharacteristic by signing two players in the same position -- high-performing tight ends Martellus Bennett and Lance Kendricks. Have the Packers learnt from their mistakes last season, when they utilized tight ends on the second-fewest plays? Seems so.
2. Atlanta Falcons
Last season, they allowed 4.5 yards per rush between tackles, fifth-worse in the league. Making matters worse, 46 percent of their sacks came from one player. Signing nose tackle Dontari Poe is a very clever move -- he should be a big boost on both fronts, considering he only missed two games in five seasons with the Chiefs. That means both his health and commitment don't need questioning.
1. New England Patriots
Cornerback Stephon Gilmore's toughness, and receiver Brandin Cooks' big-play ability will impact positively on the Patriots. Despite the Patriots' Super Bowl LI victory, these two players have attributes that are desperately needed. Cook has seven 40-plus yard touchdowns to his name, while the Patriots have nine total in that time. And Gilmore's aggressive man coverage make him extra valuable. Need more be said?
Most decisions were intelligently made by each franchise, while others may have been made out of desperation. We will soon be able to see just how, if at all, these moves for each team will impact on overall performance.


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Canford Cliffs (Tagula) was in good form at Richard Hannon's Herridge yard in Wiltshire last Tuesday morning and it is all systems go for his battle with the unbeaten three-yearold Frankel (Galileo) in the Gr.1 Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood this week.
The world's top milers meet next Wednesday, 27th July, the second day of Glorious Goodwood, in a clash described as the "Duel on the Downs". Hannon said: "It is going to be a hell of a race, no doubt about it, but remember that Canford Cliffs and Frankel are not the only horses in the race. Unfortunately, one of them will be beaten. I don't know who is going to win. It will be
very interesting to see what happens. Frankel is the best horse in the world and if Canford Cliffs beats him then he takes that position. If there are any weaknesses in Canford Cliffs, I haven't found them. Once Richard [Hughes] had Canford Cliffs settled as a three-year-old, it all happened from there. He is probably at his peak now. He is a strong horse and going well. "In a small field, you just wonder where the pace will come from but whatever Richard does in the race is OK with me – he is a top-class jockey. Richard knows the horse better than anybody else. "Canford Cliffs was never a tearaway, but you take a horse from being a two-year-old to a three-year-old and from six furlongs to a mile. You have taught him to do one thing as a two-year-old and then you have to teach him something else, wanting him to settle as a three-year-old. We taught him to go quick as a two-year-old and so, early on as a three-year-old, he thought he was doing
everything right. Richard has done a hell of a job on him, teaching him to settle. The only thing that would worry me is that last year he did not like coming down the hill at Goodwood particularly well, but he is a year older now and a more mature horse, so I don't think it will be a problem." Hughes, Hannon's son-in-law and stable jockey, has been very careful not to incur a suspension, which would cause him to miss the ride next week. He commented: "All my life I have looked for a horse like Canford Cliffs and I was not going to miss the ride on him – I won't get another chance. I cannot wait for the Sussex Stakes. I am looking forward to it just as much as the race against Goldikova at Royal Ascot – we got that job done. Canford Cliffs is the best I have ever ridden – I
have ridden some good horses in my career but the first time I sat on this lad, I had never ridden anything like him. "I think Frankel is a brilliant three-year-old – no doubt. I don't think the three-year-olds are brilliant as a whole but he is probably one of the best three-year-olds we have seen for a long time, which is why he has stood out. The good thing is my lad is easy and I imagine, with only a few runners, there won't be much pace at Goodwood, which means Frankel will run free. I would not be surprised if Tom made the running on Frankel with only four or so runners – if he drops in, we won't go fast. The start is downhill as well. "Frankel settled very well at Ascot when we were going a million up the hill – I was on Dubawi Gold, sitting second, and I could not have gone an inch faster, off the bridle. That is why Frankel settled so well at Ascot but, if he was going slow, then he would be keen. If we go slow, he will be free. Canford Cliffs looks better than ever. I think he is a little bit like Sea The Stars – he will just do what he has to do. He will go by whatever is in front of him. No matter what you follow, he will go by it – you feel he will go by anything. He travelled so easy at Royal Ascot. "He won a maiden on soft ground – I think he would cope with that ground – most champions do. You would like to think that both horses are healthy on the day and there are no excuses – head to head at the furlong pole would be nice to see and then the best horse will win."
Canford Cliffs is going for a Sussex Stakes double,having won the Gr.1 race last year when Hannon and Hughes combined to have nine winners each during Glorious Goodwood, a record number for a trainer and a jockey. Hughes added: "I love the track at Goodwood but I doubt I can get nine again this year – the boss told me last year it should have been ten – I was beat a head in a maiden. We have a few nice ones lined up but the domination of the two-year-old races last year will probably never happen again; I think we won them all, but you never know.
We like to keep a few nice maidens for Goodwood – if you send an ordinary horse, they are not
going to win at Glorious Goodwood. It is good prize money at Goodwood and the owners love it."
Before the racing media descended on Richard Hannon's stable last Tuesday, Qipco Sussex Stakes favourite Frankel had pleased his trainer and jockey in his final serious workout before the big race.
Guineas winner Frankel just shades Canford Cliffs at the head of the market, with the majority of firms offering evens or 11-10 about Khalid Abdullah's superstar, although Coral and Stan James are odds-on at 4-5 and 5-6. Frankel, who will tackle older horses and Goodwood for the first time next week, worked with stablemate Bullet Train over a mile on the Limekilns round gallop in Newmarket at 6.15am. He stretched ten lengths clear and looked in top form.
Trainer Henry Cecil said: "I'm pleased with that. He'll have another easy piece of work on Friday or Saturday, and that'll do him." Jockey Tom Queally was similarly impressed and said: "He gave me a good feel. He settled beautifully and is growing up all the time."


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On Samahita Yoga Retreat, Koh Samui
I can't believe I haven't told you about Samahita Yoga Retreat in Koh Samui yet. We went there earlier this year (much earlier – I really need to update more and I still have a retreat from this summer to write about) on the Thailand trip that also contained the pooing… I used Samahita as a sort of pre cleanse retreat before I had to live of juices and coconuts.
Food and sleep
Samahita was perfect for that. The buffet contained nothing but healthy and nourishing vegan and raw food for brunch and dinner. Beautiful dishes, juices and snacks – and as much as you could eat in a lovely sitting area overlooking the pool and the gorgeous beach. My only gripe with the food was that it wasn't very Asian. In fact if it wasn't for the Thai staff and the traditional Thai prayer houses it was pretty difficult to see that you we're actually in Thailand. The luxurious houses were very European – almost Scandinavian in their minimalist design. They left nothing else to be desired, though: the bed was comfy and the bathroom was large and clean.
Samahita's location is beautiful. I didn't expect to find a secluded beach on Koh Samui where great resorts and English pubs have taken over some of the towns (Hat Chaweng), but we had the beach by Samahita to ourselves. The water was clear and warm and we spent our free time relaxing on the loungers. I loved the secluded location, but it was a bit tricky when you wanted to do day trips. Unlike most other Thai island locations this one wasn't filled with eager tuk-tuk drivers or taxis outside, so we had to book a massive private car from the venue to go look at a mummified monk and a waterfall. As much as I enjoyed the luxury (I'm getting old – you should have seen what my friend and I stayed in travelling Asia when we went at 20) of the place I would have preferred to travel backpacker style haggling over small baht change with a tuk tuk driver. You should go and see the mummified munk, get blessed by a live one and check out the beautiful temple at the end of the beach. I'd give the waterfall a miss. The elephants carrying tourists up and down are depressing.
The Yoga
There was a retreat with Simon Low going on when we were there, which most of the visitors attended. For the non-retreaters (there were probably 10 of us) there was a guided pranayama class in the morning followed by two options: a guided beginners Ashtanga class in the open shala by the beach, or a Mysore class in the small shala. I tried both and was happy to discover that even though I hadn't done a full Primary Series in ages the teacher in the Mysore room could still maneuver my feet behind my head in kurmasana. In the afternoons there was meditation, yoga nidras and a gentler practice. All the teachers were experienced, calm and friendly. I would especially recommend the male Mysore teacher if only I could remember his name… The retreaters looked like they were enjoying themselves too and lovely chants came from their shala.
We had a lovely time doing yoga, eating great food and soaking up the sun on the beach. We could have hoped for a tiny bit more Thai authenticity and a tuk tuk or two but all in all the surroundings, the great practice and the food made up for it. If you're going to Koh Samui check out The Spa too.
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I've decided that I will start a new kind of posts. I will call them Outfit update. In this kind of posts I will show you a few details from my outfit, because I didn't have time and energy to take some proper pictures.
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Past days were a bit intense for me. I'm still tired from the weekend - I was working for 24 hours in two days. So basically I didn't have time to even eat properly and my stomach still hurts a bit. And I've been wondering why we have some people in our hearts, but we can't have them in our lives?! It's so unfair...
Well... enough whining for me. At least the weather is amazing for autumn! A few sun rays and we all have smiles on our faces, no matter how hard life gets. :)
Aren't I chatty today?!
Now, let's talk about my outfit. :)
I wore a bit wide shirt with tartan print with leather pants and boots up to the knee. To my outfit I added minimalistic gold necklace with pearl and on my shirt I put leather jacket. Comfy and chic. :)
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THE SEARCH is on to find descendants of a 19-year-old Rainhill airman who was killed when the plane in which he was a gunner was shot down over France.
This Saturday he and the pilot who died with him will be remembered at a graveside ceremony taking place in France on behalf of Rainhill Civic Society. Members of the society want to find descendants of 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Alfred Jones who died on August 30, 1918, just weeks before the end of the First World War.
Committee member Ann Veronica Howitt said the circumstances of Lt Jones' demise were discovered research into the stories behind the names on the Rainhill war memorial.
"Lt Thomas Alfred Jones was the only child of Alfred and Elizabeth Jones of Rainhill. His father Alfred was the Rainhill Station Master. Thomas joined the Royal Flying Corps, a forerunner of the RAF, and was stationed in Azelot, France," she told the Star. On Aug 30, 1918 he was flying in a daylight bomber of 55 Squadron. His pilot was Lt R I A Hickes from Nottingham.
They completed a successful mission to bomb railways at Thionville but to base the plane was shot down returning to base. Both men died before the plane hit the ground just a few metres short of the church in the tiny hamlet of Latour-en-Woevre in occupied France. Both were just 19," said Ann.
"We discovered the airmen were not buried in a military cemetery but in the tiny village graveyard at Latour-en-Woevre. Villagers had long wondered about the young men who had 'died for France'. When the Mayor and Councillor Edith Vouge were asked if they could take a photo of the graves, a wonderful 'entente cordiale' developed.
"We asked if poppy crosses could be placed on the graves, but the people of the village went much further."
On Saturday, there will be a cross laying ceremony at the cemetery involving the Souvenir Francaise, military veterans, local councillors and residents followed by a reception in the village Hall. Anyone related to either of the two airmen can contact rainhill-civic-society.org.uk.
Details about Lt Jones were unearthed by members researching the impact of the Great War on the village of Rainhill in readiness for a First World War exhibition to be held on September 26 and 27 in St Ann's Church, Rainhill.


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Growing up in the 70's I learned and spent a lot of time camping, hiking, being outdoors and active. Every spring summer and fall, my parents and I would load up the truck, and later the trailer and head out. Typically preparations would start the week before departure, and the loading process would start on Thursday afternoon with my brother and I hauling all the gear into the yard, while my mom packed the vehicles. Friday could not come soon enough and when it did, my dad would come home from work, change is clothes, wrangle up two kids, maybe a dog, adjust the mirrors, and exclaim "We're off" as we drove out of the driveway. For the most part, for my family nothing much has changed much from my dad. It is however the details that matter.
In 1972, I was one year old and to celebrate my dad bought a new truck. Details of the vehicle back then are scare. From my point of view, my dad previously owned a 1964 International Scout. He drive this car for years all over the desert south west in the late 1960s. When my dad married my mom, my mom made him sell the Scout because the breaks were horrible, and at least three times they failed completely. It was a wise decision considering the stakes for the family at the time, but the loss of his beloved Scout was difficult and for decades despite its faults the Scout cast a long shadow in our family.
Returning to 1972, my dad decided to purchase his truck. He chose a Sea Foam Green 1972 Ford F-100 pickup sporting a 302 inch V-8 sporting with a 3.2:1 gear ratio, two fuel tanks, and a four speed manual transmission which included a "Granny Gear". The extra costs of a four wheel drive were not an option for my dad at that time. So, the truck became the "ultimate compromise". He opted for 2 wheel drive, but to offer improved traction he chose a four speed with granny gear. The differential was geared up to offer improve gas mileage, but the little 200 HP V-8 could not pull a grade at any sort of highway speeds. A camper shell, home built bed, pass-through rear window and the "green gopher" was complete for the initial incarnation.