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Why Brendan and Jose's latest face-off could be their most fascinating tactical battle yet
Thore Haugstad weighs up the intriguing prospect of Rodgers' daring 3-4-3 against his old colleague's 4-2-3-1 ahead of their League Cup clash...
Brendan Rodgers has been a tactical improviser over the last 18 months, devising a series of new systems to counteract key absences and maximise the talents of whoever is available. The latest invention off the conveyor belt is a flamboyant 3-4-3 formation and, if it's true that there can be no genius without a touch of madness, this particular scheme seems to have a bit of both.
The strategy has served Rodgers well. Liverpool have won four of their last five league matches despite the devastating loss of Daniel Sturridge to perpetual muscle injuries. Underpinned by a backline usually consisting of Mamadou Sakho, Martin Skrtel and Emre Can – a trio some might find susceptible – the Reds have kept clean sheets in three straight away league matches, an improbable run started after the 3-0 defeat at Old Trafford on December 14.
However, the recent away day bouts with Burnley, Sunderland and Aston Villa shrink in comparison with the challenge of tonight's encounter; the opener in a two-legged semi-final in the League Cup, in which Liverpool host a Chelsea side confident after Saturday's 5-0 win at Swansea. If Rodgers retains the 3-4-3, as seems likely, his system will create a handful of numerical disparities against Jose Mourinho's 4-2-3-1.
That hands us an intriguing match-up and, while parts of the regular personnel might be rotated for the evening, the functions of the two systems should not. Drawing up their tactical blueprints, both managers will have a list of advantages and drawbacks to consider.
The men in the middle
For Rodgers, the installation of the 3-4-3 has recovered elements of the high-tempo style that disappeared with the loss of Sturridge and the exit of Luis Suarez. Liverpool are notably expansive in possession.
The wing-backs hug the touchline in advanced positions; the two central midfielders hold; the two attacking midfielders behind the lone striker alternate between staying between the lines, drifting wide and running in behind the defence. Their central positioning enables Liverpool to play the ball directly to the front trio, who can then combine to cut through the heart of the defence.
The two attacking midfielders might well be Mourinho's main concern. With the wing-backs stretching play, the playmakers – usually Philippe Coutinho (left) and Adam Lallana (right) – can, together with the two holders, achieve a four-versus-three situation in the centre. They will also lurk behind Chelsea's double pivot, particularly in the pockets of space near the wing-backs. Coutinho is lethal here, cutting inside to dribble and slip through incisive passes for reverse runs.
It suits Chelsea less. One of the few criticisms levelled at the Blues this season has been their occasional tendency to get dragged out of position in central midfield, with the defensive awareness of Cesc Fabregas at one point meriting its own video analysis from Gary Neville.
West Londoners may indeed recall Liverpool's opener in Chelsea's 2-1 league win at Anfield in November, when Can struck a deflected 25-yarder without a Blue shirt in sight. Or the second goal conceded in the 5-3 horror show at Tottenham, when Christian Eriksen tiptoed past Nemanja Matic to create the decisive chance.
An additional entry in Mourinho's notebook may plan for the lone striker's lively movement. If Raheem Sterling plays, the fleet-footed makeshift forward might seek out the left-side channel, from where he takes on defenders and sets up team-mates.
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But the traits that make Liverpool dangerous also make them vulnerable. Since their positional play in possession is normally so audacious, Chelsea will eye quick breaks and turnovers. The wing-backs can be particularly daring. Rodgers instructs both to track back and support the back three but, when the ball is lost, they might require too much time to recover.
Few exploit such imbalances as Mourinho. In the transitional phase, the Portuguese will try to get men running at an isolated back three, like Manchester United did for their third goal at Old Trafford in December.
Another aim will be to catch out the wing-backs, either through the full-backs or the wingers, like Arsenal managed in the anarchic 2-2 draw at Anfield before Christmas when Kieran Gibbs motored forward to find Santi Cazorla whose cross set up Olivier Giroud.
There are further incentives in bypassing Liverpool's wing-backs. Should Chelsea get a clear run at the three-man defence, the outside centre-backs could be drawn wide to close down whoever is carrying possession. This is normally Sakho (left) and Can (right) and, while both are reasonably mobile, neither is likely to be untroubled against a classy winger.
Incidentally, Chelsea do have one of those. Eden Hazard is the Premier League's top dribbler by considerable distance, and specialises in taking on defenders down the left.
Squares and triangles
Depending on the defensive setup Rodgers selects, Chelsea might also enjoy numerical superiority in the centre. This appears contradictory to the aforementioned point of Liverpool's midfield 'square', but their shape can change when without possession.
Rodgers often asks his two playmakers to track back in wide positions, so that the wing-backs can focus on the wingers. (Indeed, if he didn't, the opposition full-backs would either go unchecked, or the outside centre-backs would need to mark the wingers.)
This would give Chelsea a three-versus-two situation down the middle. It would not be without risk. If Mourinho fields his strongest line-up, the triumvirate of Oscar, Matic and Fabregas could orchestrate venomous moves, exchanging neat passes between the lines before setting up advanced players. They controlled this zone expertly against Swansea, with chances and goals fashioned through intricate interplay.
These talking points set the scene for a showdown sure to work the brains of tactically-minded observers. The managers will be aware of the formational clashes, and a key aspect will be to shuffle players across to the relevant zones to retain balance and compensate for numerical disadvantages. With so many variations and variables in effect, this could be an occasion where strategy proves particularly crucial.


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Weight loss programs can be broadly categorized as clinical and non-clinical. Understanding the nature of each of these programs will help you a lot in finding a program that suits your requirements.
A clinical weight loss program includes the service provided by health care assistants and hospitals that give guidance to the individuals who wish to reduce their body weight for various reasons. A clinical program involves one or more qualified doctors, dietitians, nursing assistants and psychologists. It need not always be a commercially owned one like a non-clinical weight loss program run by private parties.
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Most of these obesity medications are notorious for the side effects that they bring. Most common side effects of these medicines include the risk of high blood pressure, faster heart rate, palpitations, closed-angle glaucoma, agitation, restlessness, drug addiction and insomnia.
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Once I worked 50-60 hour weeks for an IT vendor. I spent weekend time traveling; I spent 50 or even 100 nights per year away from home; and missed a fair chunk of my sons first four years. My aspirations changed as I got older and had family, and the company changed too. It had ceased to be fun. At times it got downright Dilbertesque.
So I quit. Now I work for my own company (I figured it was the only way I was ever going to be a Managing Director). I still work long hours but I do so mostly at home, at times that suit me. I work on projects only if I think they are a good idea. I am away from home when I want. I took most of January off to go camping with my son, and most of February to play with my hobby (model railroading if you must know).
Changing to a lower paced, lower pressure, simpler lifestyle is known as downshifting. For many people in developed nations, especially those of us in IT, we have sufficient surplus affluence to make it a viable option.
If that sounds like something you would like to do, there are two ways to achieve it. Either (a) make such a bucket-load of money that you need never work again or (b) follow these steps:
1) Find an Inexpensive Living Situation
Plenty of people go out on their own while still paying mortgage or rent, but if you want to relax a little, downshift, and not be a slave to the job, then you need the freedom of a freehold home. You could go live in a cardboard box, or you could make enough money to pay the mortgage off (see (a) above). It is amazing how quickly some people can clear a mortgage if they set their mind to it, especially childless couples. Alternatively, consider downshifting where you live. If you want the bright lights of the big city, it will be hard for you to escape debt. But if you go live somewhere less hectic you can also find lower property prices: moving from a major city to a smaller town or city can give you enough equity to buy for cash we did. This does of course require you to
2) Reduce expectations
People addicted to the high-spend lifestyle that many jobs can buy will remain job-slaves. It is a great help if you can shift to a less materialistic mindset where you value quality family time, peaceful environment, and simple pleasures over dining, travel, fine possessions and inner-city excitement. We can go camping for weeks for the price of one airfare to Bali. Besides, we already have lots of those possessions.
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Most IT people after a decade in the industry have plenty of bankable technical skills. The key skills that many lack are an understanding of business and of consulting. These can be learned. Pursuing this line of personal growth will serve you well whether you stay with your employer (see Strategies for Securing Your IT Career) or go out on your own. (So your employer should be supportive of this direction, and learning consulting skills doesnt commit you to a decision.)
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With so many options in the area, the Cleveland Brew Bus offers visitors an opportunity to learn more about a variety of the region's notable breweries and brews. The Cleveland Brew Bus offers daily multi-hours tours of three area breweries, where guests enjoy numerous tastings of a variety of different styles and flavors of local craft brews. Additionally, the tour guides educate attendees on the intricacies of the brewing process as well as how to look at, smell and taste different styles in order fully experience the full flavor profiles of each type. They offer both formalized, predetermined tours as well as personalized, private tours. While it's certainly not a party bus, the Cleveland Brew Bus creatively combines education with a memorable and enjoyable experience.


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Wearing a flower-print drawstring sundress, America's first Idol Kelly Clarkson stops off at a branch of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in West Hollywood on Saturday to grab her java fix with a gang of girls.
The multi-platinum pop rocker turns a quarter-century old on Tuesday, April 24. Kelly will be performing the day after on American Idol (Gives Back) airing Wednesday, April 25 @ 8PM ET/PT on FOX.
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Leave the city traffic and noise behind and give in to the pleasures of a relaxing evening harbour cruise and some delicious Chinese seafood dinner.
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Central Pier No. 9 (on Hong Kong Island side): 6:00pm
Kowloon Public Pier No. 3 (on Kowloon side): 6:15pm
The tour departs from:
Central Pier No. 9 (on Hong Kong Island side): 6:00pm
Kowloon Public Pier No. 3 (on Kowloon side): 6:15pm
Please report at the meeting point 15 minutes before the start time. This is mandatory to allow time for pre-departure briefing.
The tour returns to the starting point
You have to assemble at the pick-up point notified to you by the local activity operator. You will be taken in an air-conditioned coach to the pier. Here you will board a Chinese tour boat for an exciting night cruise and dinner in the Victoria Harbour. You will be accompanied by an English-speaking guide on this cruise.
Begin the tour with a leisurely cruise in the Victoria Harbour and enjoy unlimited cold drinks served aboard the Chinese pleasure junk. Admire the spectacular sunset over Victoria Harbour and see the shimmering lights of buildings on both sides of the harbour.
Alight from the junk in Aberdeen, famous for its fishing village background and proceed by coach for a fabulous Chinese-style seafood dinner at the Jumbo Floating Restaurant.
Before heading back to your hotel, the tour bus will stop at 268 booths offering diversifying activities in shopping, entertainment and dining. This is an exciting and bustling bazaar in which to spend a memorable evening with a photo stop at Mid-Levels.
The tour returns to the starting point after approximately 5 hours.
Please call the activity operator at least 24 hours prior to start of the tour to reconfirm the departure details.
Tour organised very well.....sit back and enjoy as we did. The harbour cruise was fun, enjoyed a drink or two and enjoyed the view. The bus trip to Aberdeen was great, the guide...Paul Burke, Australia, 30/Jul/2014
The night was very enjoyable and relaxing. The food was very good and the Jumbo floating restaurant was fantastic. It was truly a experience to remember....Jacqueline Deacon, Australia, 25/Apr/2014
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Colder weather means more time spent indoors looking for activities to pass the time. Whether you're a busy mother with children that need to be entertained, or you are looking for decorating your home on a budget, crafting is one of the simplest ways to keep your mind busy while being stuck indoors. Since it's too chilly to lay in the sun, you might as well make your free time productive, right? Painting pine cones and carving pumpkins is a simple solution, but what if you could make crafts that double as trendy autumn decor for your home? Put down the Elmer's glue and glitter; here are three trendy Fall decor DIY's to get your house looking cozy and chic.
1.) Autumn Branch Wall Hanging: A large-scale wall decoration means large-scale money, right? Wrong. Meander into your backyard and grab the nearest stick (and stop at Marshall's for some faux Fall leaves and transparent string) and voila! You have everything you need for a trendy wall hanging. Cut a piece of string (approx. 1 ft.), tie one end to the branch, and the other end to the leaf's stem. Repeat until you've got a branch filled with hanging leaves; when this simple craft is complete, you'll fall in love!
2.) Fall Leaf Lanterns: Let's keep the leafy theme going, shall we? These Fall lanterns will look festive by day and set the stage for a cozy ambiance by night. What's even better, the only materials you need to make the magic happen is a glass vase, a jar of Mod Podge, a foam brush and your leftover leaves from your new branch wall hanging. Paint a layer of Mod Podge onto your vase, stick the leaves onto the case (it's OK if they overlap on top of each other a little bit), and paint one additional layer of Mod Podge on top. Once the vase is dry, the Mod Podge will become transparent; stick a tea-light or a small candle in your vase and your lantern is ready for its rightful spot on your mantel or end table!
3.) Yarn-Wrapped Pine Cones: This is the perfect craft for the not-so-crafty; all you need is some yarn, pine cones, and 5 minutes! It's as simple as it looks: Starting at the bottom, tuck the end of the yarn into the pine cone and begin wrapping it around, overlapping the yarn two or three times until it fills the gaps in between the pine cone's scales. Once you have filled the entire pine cone with yarn, simply cut the strand and tuck the end in as you did at the bottom. Repeat with a few pinecones in various colors of yarn–once you're done, you've got the perfect filler for decorative bowls and vases throughout your home!
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Lord-Chandran Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of EngineeringDr. Fair is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. He has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (1990-1993) and is past Editor-In-Chief of the Proceedings of the IEEE (1993-2000). He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000, and the 2003 Solid State Science and Technology Award from the Electrochemical Society. He has published 150 papers in technical journals, contributed chapters to 10 books, edited eight more books, and given over 115 invited talks.
Our research group will continue to be driven by applications for lab-on-a-chip technology. While funding for microfluidics devices and science is non-existent, applications in environmental engineering, biosensing, diagnostics, genomics, etc. continue to appear. Thus, we have created strategic alliances with faculty in ECE, CEE, chemistry, genomics, biochemistry, microsystems engineering, and computer science at Duke, DUHS, Harvard and Stanford as part of our new thrusts into applications-driven research in bio-fluidic systems. We have funding to glue these critical pieces together. We have also aligned with Advanced Liquid Logic for the development of a more stable electrowetting platform on which to develop applications. And we are working on an NSF grant with Nan Jokerst's group and Krish's on an adaptive lab chip to develop on-chip optical sensing and control. Additionally, we have DARPA funding with Stanford, Harvard, and ALL in developing a genomic engineering platform for synthetic biology. Also, we are starting a new NSF grant on airborne particle sensing with Desert Research Institute.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Lord-Chandran Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society
Contact Information
- Office Location: 3519 CIEMAS, Dept. Of Electrical And Computer Engrg., Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: (919) 660-5277
- Websites:
- Ph.D. Duke University, 1969
- M.S.E.E. Pennsylvania State University, 1966
- B.S.E.E. Duke University, 1964
Research Interests
Microfluidic systems for lab-on-a-chip applications based on electrowetting technology. We are primarily focused on applications, such as a chip that extracts, purifies and amplifies the nucleic acid of sparse pathogens in blood for diagnosing sepsis, a chip to perform DNA sequencing by synthesis, a chip for editing the genomes of cells by transfecting synthetic DNA into the cells, and a chip for collecting and analyzing inorganic particles in air.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Life Fellow. IEEE. 2009
- Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology. Electrochemical Society. 2003
- Third Millennium Medal. IEEE. 2000
- Professor James F. Gibbons Achievement Award. 4th International Conference on Advanced Thermal Processing. 1996
- Fellow. Electrochemical Society. 1994
- Fellow. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 1990
Courses Taught
- ECE 331L: Fundamentals of Microelectronic Circuits
- ECE 528: Integrated Circuit Engineering
- ECE 533: Biochip Engineering
- ECE 891: Internship
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
In the News
- The 'Citation Classic' That Redefined Microfluidics (Mar 27, 2017 | Pratt School of Engineering )
- Faculty Research Leads to Jobs and Companies (Sep 16, 2014)
Representative Publications
- Madison, AC; Royal, MW; Fair, RB, Piezo-driven acoustic streaming in an electrowetting-on-dielectric digital microfluidics device, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol 21 no. 12 (2017) [10.1007/s10404-017-2012-6] [abs].
- Madison, AC; Royal, MW; Vigneault, F; Chen, L; Griffin, PB; Horowitz, M; Church, GM; Church, GM; Fair, RB, Scalable Device for Automated Microbial Electroporation in a Digital Microfluidic Platform., Acs Synthetic Biology, vol 6 no. 9 (2017), pp. 1701-1709 [10.1021/acssynbio.7b00007] [abs].
- Fair, RB, Demonstration of Automated Analysis of Multiple Analytes on an Integrated Digital Microfluidic Platform., Clinical Chemistry, vol 63 no. 5 (2017), pp. 1038-1039 [10.1373/clinchem.2016.266585] [abs].
- Moore, JA; Nemat-Gorgani, M; Madison, AC; Sandahl, MA; Punnamaraju, S; Eckhardt, AE; Pollack, MG; Vigneault, F; Church, GM; Fair, RB; Horowitz, MA; Griffin, PB, Automated electrotransformation of Escherichia coli on a digital microfluidic platform using bioactivated magnetic beads., Biomicrofluidics, vol 11 no. 1 (2017) [10.1063/1.4975391] [abs].
- Madison, AC; Royal, MW; Fair, RB, Fluid Transport in Partially Shielded Electrowetting on Dielectric Digital Microfluidic Devices, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol 25 no. 4 (2016), pp. 593-605 [10.1109/JMEMS.2016.2561699] [abs].


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May is the season of graduations and commencements, and education is top-of-mind. But this season of promise is somewhat tempered by cold economic realities. The economic recovery is moving; however, is more sluggish than originally predicted. New jobs are being created but are not as abundant as hoped. And this gives me a little dry feeling in the back of my throat for all of those new graduates who are so filled with aspirations for the future.
We have to ask ourselves: Why do we want what we want? This "why" is at the center of how I've built my business. In my case, the "why" is clear: I'm a skin therapist because I love connecting with people and improving their lives. That is the "why"; the vehicle of skin care is the "what" and the "how."
Why do so many parents want their kids to go to college? An academic degree brings prestige and increases the chances for one's professional success. In America today, parents begin mapping out the educational trajectory of their offspring while the latter are still in diapers. The "right" daycare center in Los Angeles or Manhattan may have a waiting list of a year or more. Then, on to private school and prep school, with an artfully choreographed regimen of after-school activities sculpted to soften the hearts of the admissions departments of the Ivy Leagues, or whatever university is targeted as the ideal.
All good, but the truth is that an academic education, meaning a four-, six- or plus-year university degree, is by no means the only way to go and might not be right for everyone. And while I love the idea of the rigor, competition and accomplishment, I have to question if it's the right path for the majority of young people right now, prestige-factor notwithstanding. Even if the soul of a young person drives her or him to be a doctor, lawyer or professor, there may not be a laurelled corner office or lucrative private practice waiting.
Part of it is pure snob-appeal. People who go to trade-school and work with their hands are often treated as if they are part of an underclass. I know because I am one. "If you are not smart enough for anything else, go to beauty school" -- funny, wrong, but often said (or at least thought!).
I was raised by a no-nonsense, young-widowed British mother who insisted that I, along with my three sisters, learn to "do" something so that we could support ourselves and never be dependent upon a man for bread and butter or bed and board. By "do" something, she meant it literally; she herself was a nurse. It's not that my mother discouraged academic learning or credentials. She just made it clear that whatever we chose, it had to be a real asset in the real world. And put food on the table.
I read recently in the New York Times that two of the "occupations expected to have the most growth," home health aides and dental hygienists, have traditionally been filled by women. Is there any shame in this? It's honest work, and it's much-needed work. And, even more to the point, it's compassionate, service-oriented work.
Graduation time makes those of us who are parents really contemplate what we want for our children, and why we want it. What did my mother want most for me? Prestige? No. She wanted me to be strong, free, independent, and happy. Being productive was the first and defining priority. Should it not still be?
Of course I am happy for the daughters and sons of my friends who are launched into high-profile careers in prestigious professions. I am impressed by all it takes to get there. But I am equally impressed by the women entrepreneurs of joinFITE, the global, nonprofit initiative powered by Kiva, which my company founded in January 2011 to provide microloans to women who want to increase their prosperity. I think of recent recipients Timotea in Peru, who raises cattle; the Sumber Kelapa crafts cooperative in Indonesia, whose members create gift items from wood and coconut shells; and Manuela del Carmen in Nicaragua, beaming from behind the rough-hewn counter of her produce stand, who started her fruit and vegetable business with just a single pallet of lemons. These women are doers. Are they "dreamers"? Only in the sense that Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream. I would call them visionaries with a plan.
The women funded by joinFITE are women who work with their hands, for the most part. They create crafts, textiles and small objects for sale. They gather eggs, gently wash them, and bring them to market each day to sell. They feed chickens. They embroider. They plant and pick soybeans and sweet potatoes. They hand-paint signs, and the sides of trucks and buses with commercial messages. They braid hair. They give manicures. They prepare and serve food. They run seams on refurbished industrial sewing machines purchased with their microloan money. They cut clothing patterns, and baste by hand late into the night, by the flare of a single bulb or kerosene lamp.
Why do they do it? To expand their businesses. To purchase raw materials and supplies. To purchase a few more rabbits, or chickens, or ducks, or goats that will increase their net worth. They do it to put food on the table. To purchase mosquito nets under which their children will sleep each night. They do it to afford medicine for themselves, for their families. To keep a roof over their heads. Are these educated women? Often they are not, in the Western sense. Because joinFITE extends microloans to women all over the world, there are some exceptions. Some have college degrees. Many do not. Some may not be entirely comfortable in their literacy, and I say this only as a fact.
In every case, too, there is a larger "why" as to the reason they do it. Why they are willing to work so hard, why they sit up night after night, counting and re-counting, planning, worrying? Most of them do it because they are mothers, and because they want something more for their children. They want their children to go to school and to be educated -- perhaps even to be educated somewhere far from their traditional villages.
For all the reasons "why" these women do it, one truth remains. The "how" does not have to be found in a traditional four-year college program, but rather can be fulfilled via a trade skill that gives purpose, meaning, and most of all, economic empowerment.
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, authors of the New York Times best-seller Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, assert that in order for the world economy to right itself, the world's women need to become economically solvent, viable and independent. This assertion includes and, in fact, specifically focuses upon the millions of women living in nearly Stone Age-poverty in the so-called developing world.
Need more answers to the question "Why?" Consider what Nelson Mandela said: "Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings."
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Open Thread: It Happened to You
This is your place to talk about the funny, sad, outrageous things that are happening in your life -- whenever you're ready.
I never wanted to be known as "the rape victim" or the "girl with the sexual abuse story." No one does. There are no perks that come with that. You don't get into VIP clubs with that kind of notoriety. You don't even get the the respect of your peers.
That's part of what is so unfair about sexual violence. You never asked for it, and you definitely never asked for the flack you receive after coming forward with your story. I was raped and now I also have to deal with people calling my horrible nightmare experience a lie? Cool.
Especially being a comedian. I felt like people would be wondering: Is it safe to make a rape joke around her? Especially if she was abused by a fellow performer. Yikes. What if that guy is funny? Now I have to hate him or something just cause he raped a girl? Probs best to ignore the victim's story and keep laughing, right?
I tried to get this story out on local comedy blogs that I admire, but they pulled out after agreeing to publish it. I understand in a way. They don't want to be known for publishing a rape story. Even if it is an important issue affecting the community. Things like that only further illustrate how we deal with rape in our culture and in our small communities: We want the victim to just go away.
I was silent about this for a long time. I didn't go to the police or to friends or family or anyone. Why not? Because I feared the conversation would go like this:
"I was attacked."
"By your boyfriend?"
"But it was a really recent break-up and you both still talked and saw each other?"
"So you used to have sex with him willingly?"
"Yes, but --"
"And you lived together?"
"Yes, but I was moving out --"
"But you hadn't yet?"
"Well, no."
"And you did hug him?"
"So…what's the problem here?"
All of those things were true. We were very young comedy nerds living together while we began our careers. We fought instantly and often. Like any relationship, we had good times; but ultimately we were making each other miserable.
I told him that I wanted to move out. He asked me if moving out meant I didn't want to be with him anymore. I confessed that I didn't know. We broke up that night.
But we still shared a one-bedroom apartment since I couldn't move to my new place for another month. I naively believed this would be okay. He and I could figure out a month of awkwardness in an apartment with a slow, simmering break-up. One morning we actually had a good talk about what was going on. It was so understanding and mature that we punctuated it with a hug.
During the hug, he tightened his grip around me. When I pulled away, he picked me up and took me to the bedroom. He swiftly took off my pants and slid them down my legs.
"No, don't." I said. He continued as if I hadn't said anything.
I started to cry. Why was he unbuttoning his pants even though I didn't want him to? I was shocked realizing what was about to happen. The guy that I trusted and loved was about to rape me.
I started sobbing. Loud, uncontrollable, guttural sobs. I haven't really cried like that before. I felt like a wounded animal. I cried so loud that he stopped. I think he was afraid the neighbors would hear me and knock on the door to see what was going on.
I was at a loss for what to do next. I was too scared to tell anyone. For several reasons:
1. The ex-boyfriend thing. I was convinced people would tell me that because I had dated him and broke his heart very recently, that what he did was not wrong.
2. He didn't finish. I honestly thought that it was not a rape because he didn't finish. Who cares that he grabbed me, picked me up, took off my clothes, and touched me without my consent? He didn't have an orgasm, so it wasn't rape. I honestly don't know why I thought this. So I'm writing it out just in case there are people like me out there. Rape is rape. Sadly, this was rape.
3. People liked him. He was around my friends and they all seemed to like him. Forget that they were my friends first. I was terrified that people would choose to leave me in the dust when I seemed like a victim.
4. We were both in the comedy community, so coming forward might forever tarnish my career. Unfortunately, I still worry about this. I'm afraid of putting my name on this story because I might be remembered for only this.
What was really hard about being in the same community as him is that shortly after this incident he seemed to be totally fine. He was just a guy triumphing over a breakup while I was terrified to tell anyone about what had happened.
I began exhibiting symptoms of PTSD. I would randomly have crying fits or be inexplicably angry and engage in fights. I locked myself in multiple bathrooms that I would not come out of. I had panic attacks that kept me up at night. I thought about suicide a lot.
After a year of this crazy behavior, I finally told close friends of mine who helped me find a therapist to begin the long road to healing. I've learned a lot of amazing things through therapy.
Like that this is far more commonplace than we think. It's unsettling how common sexual violence is in relationships. A statistic provided by RAINN states that ⅘ assaults are committed by someone the victim knows with 47% being a friend. That includes boyfriend, husband, partner, etc.
What is more staggering is the fact that most assaults go unreported. A staggering 98% of rapists never go to jail. Most do not even appear in court. They go about their business while their victims go on trying to cope with what happened to them against their will.
Those statistics can be defeating to victims. To people like me. Why even tell anyone? After this happened, I found myself questioning everything I felt about the attack. Was it really an attack? Am I sure? Am I sure I didn't want it? Did I lead him on though?
I asked myself those questions. It wasn't until I got support that I realized that I was treating myself the way our culture treats victims of sexual violence. I was doing it to myself even though I experienced the attack. How twisted is that?
Everything resurfaced for me when the Bill Cosby story really broke this year. People were outraged, especially my comedian friends. Even people who were friends with my ex-boyfriend/rapist. It pissed me off.
Yes, what Cosby did is horrific, but this is happening in our own backyard. It's happening with people we know. It happened to me.
Someone once asked me what the point of sharing this story would be. Since time has passed and I don't even have medical evidence that would hold up in court against this guy, I probably can't take him to court. I don't even think I would want to. And it's not like I'm calling him and demanding justice. I purposefully block him from my life. So why?
Because I wish someone had told a similar story when this happened to me. Because I didn't think it had happened to anyone else in my community. I hope that I'm giving someone out there the signal that I needed when this happened to me: It's OK. We do not have to be afraid.
We don't owe the men we date or have dated sex. If you break up with a guy -- even if you completely destroy his heart -- he still does not get to have his way with you. Your partner doesn't get to have free reign of your body like it is a literal sex toy. So if your boyfriend abuses you or does anything to you that makes you feel violated, please tell someone. Tell me, even. I'll listen.


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Former Aycock standout has the spirit at ECU
By Rob Craig
Published in Sports on December 1, 2006 1:48 PM
GREENVILLE -- Following her dreams is what brought Tara Sutherland from cheering on the pee-wee football fields to the sidelines of Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium at East Carolina University.
A 2004 honor graduate of Charles B. Aycock, Sutherland began cheering at the age of 6 for the Little Falcons. She remembers it well.
"I tried out, made it and kept on cheering throughout middle school, high school and now in college," she said.
While in high school at Aycock, Sutherland was an all-conference cheerleader and participated on the team which finished first-runner-up at the state cheerleading competition.
"The Charles B. Aycock community has always really supported me with no matter what I've done," Sutherland said. "That's one thing I'm grateful for."
Now at ECU, Sutherland no longer has the comfort of cheering in front of only family and friends -- she now performs in front of thousands of unknown faces, something she has found to be a challenging experience.
"There's always the pressure of not to mess up, especially in the stands since they can see you if you mess up and everyone else is doing something completely different," said Sutherland as she was preparing to cheer in front of 41,372 fans at the ECU-Marshall game. "That's one of the most stressful things, cheering in front of a big crowd."
Sutherland has shown the pressure doesn't affect her as the job she's done on the sidelines earned her the honor of being voted team captain this year.
"I wasn't expecting to get it," Sutherland said of the position. "I was really shocked, but happy."
In addition to the challenges of performing in front of a big crowd, cheerleaders are also among the most susceptible athletes to injuries.
Through her 14 years of cheerleading, Sutherland has been fortunate to escape serious injury.
"When I was in eighth grade, I tore ligaments in the top of my foot while tumbling on the gym floor," she said. "I was in a cast for three months because of that."
Injuries such as Sutherland's are not uncommon. According to a study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, cheerleading accidents accounted for 28,400 trips to the emergency room in 2004.
"I've been pretty lucky," said Sutherland of avoiding other injuries.
Once Sutherland wraps up her career as a cheerleader, the 20-year-old ECU junior hopes to have a career with her mother.
"I'm thinking of going into business with my mom because she works with U.S. Cellular," said the business marketing and management major. "We're talking about opening a store together."
Sutherland, however, said she would eventually like to return to the cheerleading field.
For now, Sutherland is looking forward to the game which she believes will be her most memorable moment on the field.
"All of the games have been the same up to now," she said. "Next year will be the last time I cheer on the field, so it'll probably be a little emotional."
For all the girls who strive to be like Sutherland, cheering on the sidelines in front of thousands of screaming fans, she has one piece of advice.
"Follow your dreams," she said. "That's how I got here."
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Scottish Pancakes – Sweet, fluffy, delicious pancakes served with honey and berries.
Hi-yo! Happy start to the week, friends!! We're welcoming this beautiful Monday with a stack of Scottish (uhh, ha?) Pancakes!
Do you know how many loops, hoops, and whatnot I had to go through to get this recipe? MANY!
Lemme tell you how all this got started.
One word. Pinterest.
Sometime last year I saw this beautiful stack of pancakes in my Pinterest feed and I was drawn in immediately. I was ready to make it, eat it, love it!
As I clicked over, giddy as can be, I was led to a site that had me click over to another site, to then click over to another and then another… arrrrgh. Darn you, internet! Help a girl out! I almost LOST it! But, fortunately, one more click did the trick. Finally, I had the recipe.
Orrrrr did I? muahahaha (<—- I'm doing Dr. Evil's pinky-to-mouth gesture.)
As soon as I started to work on said recipe in my kitchen, I thought, this looks way too familiar… and it was! I had made that recipe once before and it was La Fuji Mama's recipe for Japanese Hotcakes. Delicious hotcakes, by the way, but the pancakes I was looking for were not those. Back to the drawing board.
Are you sick of my story, yet?? Think about how I felt! Just work with me here.
Several hundred google-searches later, I found what I was looking for.
FYI: "very tall fluffy pancakes" = 74,800 google results.
Soon after nailing it down, I called my 1/4-Scotch uncle to ask about these pancakes. The dude gave me the recipe in less than 2 seconds. He knew exactly what I was talking about! He's also a trained chef, so this question worked out in his favor.
However, his recipe was all in grams and he lost me. When I asked about translating all that to cups, he said, "Bakers work with grams".
Okey, dokey, then… Good thing I'm not a trained baker!
Buuut, I had no choice! Everywhere I looked for Scottish Pancakes, it was all in grams. So I whooped out my kitchen scale and got to work. While all that worked out perfectly, and the pancakes came out so deliciously tall, I still was not satisfied with the height.
Therefore, my dear friends, I did the next best thing. I whooped out my biscuit cutter, I then poured the batter inside the cutter and VOILA! The tallest pancakes in all the world are right before your eyes! Thus, if you are not satisfied with the tall pancakes that this batter produces, bring out the biscuit cutter. It works wonders. Obvi.
I hope you enjoyed my forever-long story. Mwah!
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- 200 g (3/4 cup flour plus one tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 300 ml (1-1/4 cups) milk
- butter for pan
- honey or maple syrup
- fresh berries
- In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon; whisk to combine.
- Combine eggs and milk into your mixer's bowl and beat on medium high until eggs are foamy; about 15 seconds.
- Whisk the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients; whisk just until combined.
- Set aside for 15 minutes.
- Add a teaspoon of butter to a frying pan and melt over medium heat.
- Drop about 1/8-cup batter into the pan and cook until it starts to rise up and bubble; flip over and continue to cook until golden brown.
- Remove from pan and keep covered while working on the rest of the batter.
- Reapply butter to the skillet between batches.
- Serve immediately, drizzled with honey or maple syrup and fresh berries
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With little more than two years left in the Obama administration, President Obama seems to have given up on any pretense of abiding by his oath of his office as he seeks to accomplish his leftist goals.
Perhaps the most obvious example is illegal alien amnesty. At first, the administration tried negotiating with Congress. When that failed, Obama simply nullified the law and implemented "deferred action" (amnesty) for young illegal aliens and virtually anyone else who had made it across the border and hadn't gotten caught for doing something else terribly criminal. Congress, including a complicit Republican leadership, watched, complained a little bit, but did little under their constitutional powers to uphold the rule of law. We have seen the results, as tens of thousands of illegals are streaming across the border, bringing crime, chaos, and disease.
As if the situation at the border is not dangerous enough on its own, now the Obama Department of Justice wants to bust through prison walls and release tens of thousands of drug criminals onto the streets. And what's the explanation? Drug laws are "unjust" and "outdated."
To get to the bottom of this under-the-radar scandal, on June 23, 2014, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the DOJ to obtain records of communication between the Office of Deputy Attorney General James Cole and a claque of far-Left organizations behind something called "Clemency Project 2014."
The Clemency Project supports an initiative announced by the DOJ in April that would empower President Obama to grant mass clemency to as many as 20,000 convicted felons now serving time for drug-related sentences.
Here's what we're after with our March 10, 2014, FOIA request and subsequent lawsuit:
Any and all records of communications between employees or officials of the Office of Deputy Attorney General James Cole and representatives of the Federal Defenders, the ACLU, FAMM, the ABA, and NACDL related to, or in connection with or regarding the "Clemency Project 2014" from January 1, 2014, to the present date.
On April 23, 2014, Deputy Attorney James Cole announced the Obama clemency initiative, stating it would encourage federal inmates sentenced under what he termed "out-of-date laws" to petition to have their sentences "commuted, or reduced, by the President of the United States." The clemency initiative is part of the Obama administration's effort to end alleged racial discrimination in drug-related sentences.
But the effort actually started back in 2010, with the signing of the Fair Sentencing Act, which for the first time in decades relaxed drug-crime sentences. The measure severely weakened a decades-old law enacted during the crack cocaine epidemic that ravaged urban communities nationwide in the 1980s.
The Fair Sentencing Act is not retroactive, so the President launched his broad plan in April to help those sentenced under the older, stricter law that required mandatory prison time for first-time offenders and a five-year sentence for trafficking offenses involving more than five grams of crack cocaine.
Do you see the pattern? When changing the law does not yield the drastic results sought by Obama – although most would argue gutting drug laws is a very drastic and harmful move – the President simply chooses to ignore the law altogether.
And who benefits from releasing 20,000 drug criminals onto the streets? The American people, who must now deal with a potential tidal wave of resulting crime in their neighborhoods? Certainly not. No, it's the leftist network supporting this President's anti-law and order crusade. These radical outside groups, especially through the Justice Department, have been wagging the dog inside the Obama administration from Day One.
In announcing the administration's clemency initiative, Cole acknowledged the role of "numerous groups and individual attorneys" who had been working with the DOJ to free the convicted drug offenders:
In January, I gave a speech to the New York State Bar Association in which I called upon private attorneys to volunteer to assist potential candidates in assembling commutation petitions – ones which provide a focused presentation of the information the Department and the President will consider – in order to meaningfully evaluate whether a petitioner qualifies under this initiative. Since that time, dedicated and experienced criminal defense and nonprofit lawyers have responded to that call. These numerous groups and individual attorneys, who are calling themselves Clemency Project 2014, will be working with inmates who appear to meet the six criteria and request the assistance of a lawyer.
Among the groups that comprise Clemency Project 2014 are Federal Defenders, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), the American Bar Association (ABA), and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL).
Judicial Watch has now filed suit for DOJ communications with each of the organizations.
Cole's statement also included an announcement that DOJ Pardon Attorney Ron Rodgers had abruptly resigned his position. Though Cole characterized the Rodgers resignation as "in the tradition" of senior executive service attorneys who ask for reassignment, there was some indication that it may have come about as a result of Rodger's disagreement with the Obama clemency initiative.
And here we see yet another Obama administration pattern on display: dissent is not tolerated inside the Obama administration. It's a "get in line or get out of the way" system that will only grow in efficiency as the days tick off towards the end of the Obama administration.
Rodgers, who is known for his opposition to clemency requests, was replaced by Deborah Leff, who worked with the Access to Justice Initiative, a DOJ agency aiding low-income defendants in court. According to the liberal publication The American Prospect, "For those hoping to see a robust clemency push, her background bodes well."
Historically, the power to reduce sentences and grant pardons has been used on a case-by-case basis. During his presidency, George W. Bush granted only 11 sentence commutations, while Bill Clinton granted a total of 61. Both are a far cry from 20,000.
Robert Weisberg, a law professor at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, questions whether the Obama clemency move rightly falls under the legitimate powers of the Executive Branch: "Although it's being done through the pardon power, it really is a kind of administrative action to make some of the newer laws retroactive. … It's almost as if they have to invent their own kind of shadow sentencing guidelines and in effect re-sentence certain people."
Certain members of Congress are also balking at the Obama clemency initiative, with Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) stating, "While the pardon power has been interpreted broadly, the Framers never intended for it to be used in this manner. Rather, they intended for it to be used on a limited, case-by-case basis to correct injustice, not to be a tool for the administration to rewrite or even eliminate laws passed by Congress."
This is an example of the imperial presidency at its worst, and we believe the American people have a right to know who is behind his arrant usurpation of power.
The Obama Department of Justice's outsourcing of its work to left-wing interest groups is yet another abuse that undermines accountability. So it is no surprise that the DOJ is now violating our nation's primary open records law and refusing to divulge basic information about this controversial program.


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Hi and welcome to my blog site.
Well after 3 months in England I am now back in China, I left the UK at 8am Monday the 15th of September and arrived in Beijing at 3.30pm Tuesday the 16th ( with the 7 hour time difference) I was very tired and to make it worse Jun and I missed each other as I came through the arrivals gate, my phone had stopped working as soon as i left the UK so I couldn't call her and just assumed she hadn't been able to get away from work early to meet me, so I stood at the far end of the arrival gate for 1.5 hours. Meanwhile Jun is at the other end of the arrival area ( it is a huge area) trying to contact me and wondering why I hadn't replied to her texts that she sent me when i was on a stopover at Dubai and naturally thinking something had happened and I had either missed the flight from Newcastle or something had happened on route. I didn't dare move from my position in case I missed her and Jun was thinking the same,eventually she made her way to the information desk to check if i had been on the flight when she spotted me stood at the far end looking like in her words " dead on my feet and completely lost" ha-ha. Anyway it was all ok in the end and we got home at 7pm.
Hi everyone,
We had a lovely day out last Friday as it was the May Day holidays so Jun was off Thursday and Friday,but she had to go back to work on Sunday to make up for one of the days ( you don't get to many days from the government) We went to Tianjin which is a large city close to the coast by bullet train which reached a speed of 290 km an hour ( the world zipped by),they are beautiful modern trains very comfortable and smooth. Tianjin is a lovely city and very different to Beijing with a less frenzied feel and a large river running right through it down to the coast and a very large seaport,with ferries running to Japan and Korea. In fact looking up and down the river and at the buildings including their own golden eye,bridges and a Catholic Church you would think you were in London. There is one lovely bridge called Liberation bridge built by the French in 1903,and you can take boat rides from there up and down the river even going as far as the seaport although that one is an 8 hour round trip.
I find it strange though that if you travel by train you have to show your ID if you are Chinese, or in my case as a foreigner my passport in order to purchase a ticket yet i could drive our car there or take a coach without showing anything to anyone.I was talking to a Asian American couple in the queue who had asked me if they could get a ticket with other ID i.e a driving licence as they had not brought their passports with them,which of course they couldn,t so they had to cancel their trip. We asked if we could get tickets on the next train to leave which was at 11.05 but the booking clerk said no it was sold out so the next one was at 1.05. We were sat in the station waiting and watching the busy world go by and happened to check our tickets at about 12 o clock and discovered she had booked us on the 11.05 which of course had long since left so we had to go back cancel those tickets and get the last two seats on the 1.05 (only in China ha-ha).
We had a long walk through a very large Antique Market before going over to the area known as the Five Avenues which is where all the foreign delegations lived and is full of old preserved colonial buildings.Some are now private houses,restaurants,offices or empty awaiting refurbishment,plus two that have been converted in to visitor attractions with all the walls inside and out covered in porcelain and many other decorative furnishings.
We walked about till about 6 then went for something to eat and then made our way back to the river area near the station with lots of people walking about,taking photographs, selling goods on the pavements,and releasing loads of lanterns.We then caught the last train back at 10 o clock and just made the last bus from Beijing station back home arriving at 11.30 feeling very tired ha-ha.
There is a lot of history attached to Tianjin It was Tianjin port that the Western countries using as an excuse the alleged boarding of a British ship by the Chinese surrounded the area with gunboats and made them sign the treaty of Tianjin of 1856 which gave them access to nine concessionary bases on the mainland from which they could conduct trade and sell opium.This created lots of ill feeling and in 1870 a Chinese mob attacked a French Orphanage killing the Priests and Nuns believing that the orphans were being kidnapped and eaten by the foreigners.As a result 20 Chinese were beheaded and peace restored until the Boxer rebellion of 1900.
Hi Everyone,
I hope the weather has started to improve back in the UK,we as you know had a terrible time recently with the smog it lasted 10 days and apparently the WHO states that the safety limit is 2.5 microns per cubic metre and during those days it was averaging 505 and one day reached 700,you might as well suck on a exhaust pipe ha-ha.But recently we have had some lovely warm,blue sky days and it is so nice to go for a walk in the parks and see Spring arriving.
I went and had a look at that old house the other week which is reputed to be haunted,it was built in 1900 in the colonial style originally to be a church,but became a house instead and was owned by a high ranking official in the Manchurian Government and when the Communists took over in 1949 he fled to Taiwan leaving behind his family and the story goes that one of his concubines was so distraught she hung herself in the house and the legend has it that on stormy nights or full moon nights you can hear her crying. Anyway as i said i had a good look around and took some photos,it is in a bad condition now and they say that at least twice before they tried to demolish it as it is in a prime location,and again legend says the last time it was halted when some workers mysteriously disappeared.So now no one will work on it and the Gov't have gave it a kind of unofficial listed building status.
I had a day out last week with Andy a friend of mine I met over here, he is a photographer and also married to a Chinese woman. We spent the day at the Heaven Temple and Parks,it's a grand place with loads of history where emperors of the past offered Taoist offerings for good harvests for the coming year, it was built in 1420, I think we walked for nearly 5 hours but it was a lovely day, quite warm and it was nice to be taking photos with someone else.I still like visiting old derelict places though,I found a great one the other week it was an abandoned small factory and i got in and wandered around taking some interesting shots,then later thinking if i had a accident in there no one would know,so that was a bit sobering ha-ha.
I have been watching all the news reports on that missing plane from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing I find it incredible that it could just disappear like that,it seems it was deliberately turned around and the transponders were disabled by someone on board ,and what makes it even more personal is that Jun and I were on that same flight last Summer returning from our trip to Indonesia and Malaysia.
I have wrote on other occasions about how many Chinese children seem to be over protected and allowed to have their own way to much creating a kind of me-me culture that gives rise to very self centered competitive people,the Chinese policy of one child probably goes a long way towards explaining it,and I was very much reminded of it again today when one of my young students aged 6 who has two lessons a week with me,was here this morning.At the end of the lesson I usually like to do something different with them just to break up the lesson play a game or something.Today i showed him a small game where a page is covered in dots and the aim is to draw one line each and the one who completes a square takes it with the one with the most squares being the winner.Well I took the first three squares and he burst out crying saying to Jun "billy is winning it's not fair,i feel shame" and after was inconsolable.I said to Jun later that kind of behaviour has to be changed for his own future good.
We will be traveling back to the UK sometime middle of June staying till July then Jun goes back to China and I will stay on for another 2 months or so finishing off decorating and furnishing the house,but we haven't booked the flights yet so its still a bit uncertain on the exact days.
Well it's the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations now most people are back at work tomorrow 10th of Feb as are the school children. Jun had to go back last Friday and work Saturday, as well as working some of the other weekend before the holidays.
We did go out a couple of times to visit areas as well as a few walks in the local parks.. and we got some snow the other day which ended nearly 4 months of dryness, but it is still very cold. The first day we visited the Hutongs and Markets at Liulichang in Beijing, it was very quiet walking through the old alleyways, the houses don't have toilets and the local residents have to use communal toilet blocks scattered around the area. But it was unbelievable when we came out of the almost deserted alleyways in to the market areas and confronted a solid mass of people. Later we went in to a restaurant for lunch and the staff were literally run off their feet, we observed a couple of the young girls becoming very upset as they had not had a break for hours, one was on the verge of tears. Eventually we got a table and we ordered our food and a short time later they brought us some sweet pancakes we told them we hadn't ordered them and it turned out it was the previous people at the table, either they forgot or just didn't want to wait any longer ha-ha.
Later we got off the main market roads back in to some of the alleyways and we came across this old guy with his bike and some small birds tethered to his bike, he released one of them after asking me to hold up a 1yuan note ( 10p),the bird flew onto my hand picked the note out of my fingers and flew to the old guy and gave it to him, he then opened a small box on his bike and put it in the box and the bird promptly flew down opened the box retrieved the note and gave it back to him again.
Another day we went to a large park called Lung Tan Hu as we had found out that there was an abandoned amusement park close to it and I wanted to explore it, we spent an hour or so in Lung Tan which again was very busy but it was a nice holiday atmosphere, we then went to a local kiosk for pancakes then had some local food in a small café for local people which was packed solid. We then went in search of a way in to the amusement park and were lucky to find that an area at the main entrance was being used as a overspill car park so we just walked in and started to walk around the dried up lakeside as the actual park is on an island which had 4 bridges leading in to it.However the bridges were sealed off with steel plates but as the lake was dried up we climbed down and crossed over and just climbed back up the other side. To say that it was eerie would be an understatement, there was a strong wind blowing and the 180 feet big wheel was making loud groaning noises as it slowly turned around, torn sheets were flapping and blowing out of buildings and windows. I found a large building with a roller door partly open so went inside, the first thing I noticed was the shadow of the pods on the big wheel moving down the wall followed by a door banging very loudly. I took some quick shots and left, later we came across a pile of abandoned pleasure boats all with duck heads on the bows with some of them broken off lying on the floor almost like a graveyard a very melancholic feel to it, but a great place to explore and we thoroughly enjoyed it, even bumping in to a young Chinese student as we were leaving who had the same idea as us. You can see some of the images in my website here in the set titled "abandoned things", our next one is a supposedly haunted 19th century house, should be interesting.
Hi Everyone,
Well we are all settled back into our routine here in Beijing our trip back to the UK seems a distant memory now. We had a very quiet Christmas and New Year in fact there was nothing to show it was Christmas or New Year here apart from a few attempts to put up lights or decorations in some buildings, although I did see a nice display they put on at the Great Wall for New Year on the TV. Off course Chinese New Year starts on the 31st of January,quite early this year, and it will be the year of the horse.In fact fireworks are starting already this week which will increase with greater frequency as the day approaches and for a good time afterwards.
Things are about the same here weather wise, very cold but at least some of the days are nice and clear, but we have had some bad days of smog when it's bad it really is bad and then two days later you have beautiful blue skies, we have now had no rain for over 3 months so you can imagine how dry everything is,probably because Europe seems to have got it all ha-ha.
I just heard some news the other day that a village in the south of China was a giant Meth lab with most of the villagers involved as well as local officials and the police, who even used the police cars to transport the drugs, like something out of an Asian "Breaking Bad" ha-ha.The whole place was raided apparently by army and police from another area with over a 100 arrests. Unfortunately no doubt there will be a few executions taking place out of that many.I read an article recently about executions in China along with photographs showing the last days of a woman drug smuggler it's no coincidence that they all appear to be very poor and from deprived areas especially if you contrast it against high ranking politicians and business people who commit murder and/ or huge bribery and corruption crimes and have their death sentences deferred indefinitely,not that I am for executions for anyone.
I was in the hospital last week having some x rays of my knees which incidentally the doctor said although there is some damage it is to early for any surgery and for my age they are in pretty good condition, I said I will try and remind myself of that when I get out of bed in the mornings ha-ha. Anyway while waiting to see the doctor a woman had gone in to see one of the other doctors and of course the doors are always open and people wander in and out. So we could see and hear this doctor shouting at this woman so I said to Jun what's all that about and apparently there was something quite wrong with her that required immediate treatment but she had told him she couldn't as she had to travel to a business meeting down south, and he was shouting "why bother to come and see me then, you are just wasting my time, how many business trips do you think you can go on when you are dead". She left pretty quickly after that.
I started teaching little Ben again last week I have him for 2 hours on a Wednesday 6pm to 8pm and for the first time I collected him from home and took him to our apartment and he kept saying to me in the car " where am I going, where are you taking me?" I said you are coming to my home to stay with me till your mammy comes for you. Anyway he was fine and seemed to enjoy himself so the next day Michelle his mother phoned me and I asked her was he ok and what did he say. She said he had said to her "Mummy have I just been to England with Billy?" Ha-Ha.
We have just been looking at some photographs on the internet of a wedding from one of the Southern Provinces, they were two very rich families as you know some people Chinese included love to have the opportunity to show off their position, wealth and status. The photos showed the procession consisting of 24 Rolls Royces,40 Bentley's, numerous sports cars and 4x4's and the wedding gift to the bride and groom of a Lamborghini each ( just a little private family gathering ha-ha).
I have just put some new photo sets onto my website if any of you get the time to look they are Footprints, Shadows and Power of Pedals.
Well we arrived back in Beijing in the early hours of 4th of December the plane from London to Warsaw left on time and we only had a 40 minute stopover there which was just enough time to get off go through security and board the next one which was a brand new Boeing Dreamliner. It was very comfortable with loads of leg room as i was by the exit door so could really stretch out and Jun had all 3 seats to herself so she made a bed and had a good sleep ha-ha,but it still took me about 10 days to recover from the journey and readjust to the time difference.
We had a very busy but productive time back in the UK we viewed over 30 properties and drove over 2,000 miles covering all the North and the East of England as well as South West Scotland. We looked around some beautiful homes and it was quite difficult making choices,we ended up with four favourites out of which we eventually went for the one in Gainford Village set in Teesdale in County Durham a really lovely little 100 year old house with a nice homely feel to it . Our offer was accepted so it is all in the hands of our solicitors at the moment with a completion date of April,so we will be going back in June both to furnish and decorate our new home and go to our nieces wedding in Liverpool in July.
Connie our campervan served us really well and gave us no trouble at all, we even stayed overnight in a camping site outside Glasgow on our way up to Dunoon it was very cosy.The Dunoon area was very picturesque,with a nice ferry ride across and with stunning views across the Clyde and Holy Loch with some beautiful houses to look at, but we decided it was just to far from friends,family and our Buddhist Monastery.One amusing incident occured as we arrived at the ferry landing as i drove in there were three full lanes of parked vehicles so i just stopped behind the last vehicle in the third lane ( should have moved in to the next lane).After a little while one of the crew came up to me and said "congratulations you have single handly blocked the whole entrance into the ferry landing". When i looked behind me i had blocked the whole road in to the terminal and the traffic was backed up right back to the main road ha-ha.Another one was when we were driving through a town and Jun turned to me and said while pointing at an old victorian type house " look they have free swimming baths there".When i looked it was a big old pub with a sign in the window saying "free pool" I had to explain what pool was and snooker/billiards,Jun had never heard of pool,we both had a great laugh about that one.
We are settled back at home now poor Jun had to return to work the following day which must have been hard for her I only started teaching again last week,and now Christmas has passed as just another day here so we have not celebrated it at all which will also be the case for New Year.Then we will be preparing to box up some of our belongings that are going to be shipped back to the UK,as well as ordering some goods to be delivered for when we get back.Jun has created a great online 3D effect plan of our house and we can decorate it and place various pieces of furniture in it to see how it looks...Amazing!
OK I will finish this short blog and wish all of you a very Peaceful Christmas and hope you all have a great New Year.
Well we have just about finished packing for our trip back to the UK we will be leaving Beijing early Monday morning the 4th of November and flying to Warsaw then catching a connecting flight to London, We plan on staying overnight as we arrive late then travelling up by train the following day. We bought ourselves a Citroen relay campervan which we are looking forward to picking up and travelling about in, as we set of on the mammoth task of viewing 40plus properties in North and East Yorkshire,Durham,Weardale,Northumberland and South West Scotland as well of course visiting family and friends and going up to Throssel Buddhist Abbey to spend some time with the monks.
Local news here is that I have taken on a bit more work teaching two adults conversational English so still keeping busy along with the three children I still work with. The weather has changed quite dramatically these last two weeks now a lot colder and a lot more smog days, I am in the third week of a throat and chest infection so have only gone out on nicer days to the parks and taking some photographs. There was also the terrible attack last Monday when it seems three people in a car drove around the crash barriers outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square drove through the crowds killing two people and injuring over forty before exploding the car killing themselves. The Chinese Authorities at first claimed it was just a car accident but later reported it as a terrorist attack, and will now I am sure tighten up even further their security measures.
Other recent news is that I was contacted by a well known Australian artist who is at present preparing for an exhibition in late 2014 of her paintings/photographs on the theme of nature/flowers in hard environments. She asked me if she could use one of my photographs as a model for one of her paintings which of course I was very happy to agree to. She will credit me with the photograph in the exhibition and catalogue as well as sending me a copy of the painting when it is completed, her website should anyone like to look at is www.rospaton.com
OK I will finish this very short blog off here and write again upon our return.
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