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The Clock Tower Accords commit Saint Louis University to actively strengthen diversity, inclusion and equity on our three Saint Louis campuses. In the spirit of the Gospels, the Accords also extend that commitment to our city and suburban neighbors, particularly to underserved families.
The Accords are another very real, very impactful way for us to live our Jesuit mission. They address college readiness and affordability, neighborhood investment and revitalization, and the extraordinary benefits that diversity and inclusion provide to everyday work and family life. And they further our goal to be a national model for diversity and community engagement by an urban academic research institution.
The 13-point Accords concluded six days of peaceful campus demonstrations and teach-ins in October 2014. The protests occurred following the officer-involved shootings of two African American young men in the nearby Shaw neighborhood and in Ferguson, Missouri.
The Accords were neither insisted nor negotiated. They developed organically, the outcome of many hours of conversations by student leaders, neighborhood activists, faculty members and SLU President Dr. Fred Pestello. The pain of racial and economic injustice permeated those discussions, as did the respect and dignity with which all parties treated one another.
No doubt, many watched the moral leadership we collectively exhibited that week and in the months that followed. SLU's Facebook followers more than doubled to 30,000. Faith, neighborhood and government leaders praised us.
And a year later, SLU had enrolled its second-largest — and most gifted — freshman class. New students and their parents said they chose SLU because we live our Jesuit values. First-to-second-year student retention rates also increased. And SLU had its second-best fundraising year ever.
Our progress in addressing the letter and spirit of the 13 Clock Tower Accords follows.
The Accords
The annual budget of the African American Studies Program was increased in 2015. That increase has been carried over in subsequent school years.
Additional funding for African American Studies has permitted more:
- Valuable academic research by program faculty, including supporting the development of Dr. Karla Scott's new book, The Language of Strong Black Womanhood: Myths, Models, Messages, and a New Mandate for Self-Care.
- Collaboration with other academic areas, resulting in expanded, cross-specialty instruction
for SLU students. For example, faculty from African American Studies and the Department
of Communication prepared and taught a training module for students to learn to be
peer facilitators for intergroup dialogues.
And Dr. Olubukola Gbadegesin, an associate professor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, hosted an evening of workshops with local artists who created works inspired by the Ferguson protests of 2014. The workshops were held in 2015 and were attended by students from Metro Academic and Classical High School, Grand Center Arts Academy and Cardinal Ritter College Preparatory High School. SLU students also participated in the workshops.
- Classroom enrichment and support for students.
- Opportunities for inspiring national voices such as activist DeRay Mckesson, documentary filmmaker Sandra Pfeifer and author and filmmaker MK Asante to be heard on campus.
The sustained increase in the African American budget underscores the shared leadership role program faculty play with the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement in advancing racial, gender and economic equity on campus and in the larger community.
This Accord also spurred a move by the Black Student Alliance to a larger, more productive office space in the Busch Student Center. The newly furnished BSA home has helped draw in more students to collaborate on developing engaging programs and events at SLU.
In 2017, more alumni and non-alumni donors than ever before have directed their donations to need-based scholarships at SLU. They recognize that their support of grants or scholarships can help enable life-changing educations for young women and men — particularly young women and men of color — whose families could not otherwise afford tuition, room and board.
With heightened donor support, SLU has boosted the average total of grants awarded to economically disadvantaged students, including eligible African American students, by 17 percent since 2014.
The number of graduating seniors with student loans to repay has been reduced by 6 percent from 2015 to 2017, due to the efforts of SLU's Division of Enrollment and Retention Management. In fact, nearly 45 percent of SLU students who graduated in 2017 had zero educational debt.
For economically disadvantaged students, including some who are African American, financial aid has come through such sources as:
- The Pioneers of Inclusion Scholarship, which supports students of color who are first-generation college students and/or from low- to moderate-income families. Eleven SLU students have benefited from this scholarship since it was established by the Black Alumni Association in 2014.
- The Saint Peter Claver Service Scholarship, which provides grants to students from urban communities.
- The Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship, which is offered to students who have demonstrated leadership as change agents through their school and/or community activities. This scholarship has expanded its eligibility requirements to second-, third- and fourth-year students, including transfer students.
- The ACCESS Academies Scholarship a new scholarship which fully funds tuition, room and board at SLU for graduates of ACCESS Academies programs from five area Catholic schools.
Additionally, these scholarship funds — and all SLU scholarships — benefit from SLU's Go Further scholarship matching program, which matches dollar for dollar all scholarship awards of $100 or more.
Beginning with the 2017–2018 school year, SLU undergraduate students from disadvantaged families are eligible for grants that help prepare them to pursue a Ph.D. The McNair Scholars Program will underwrite work experiences, conferences, research and other scholarly activities. The University plans to award McNair Scholars grants totaling $240,000 annually through the 2021–2022 academic year.
Since 2014, more qualified African American high school graduates have enrolled at SLU. And three in four African American first-year students have returned for their second year at SLU, an increase of 11 percent from 2014 to 2017. Additionally, the graduation rate among SLU's African American students has increased by 13 percent in that same time period.
New and current African American students are seeing concerted efforts to make academic life more affordable at SLU. And the University is much more intentional about actively recruiting high-achieving African American juniors and seniors who attend public and private high schools within 250 miles of St. Louis.
More high-achieving students — who also are from low-income families, and/or the first generation to attend college — are receiving more grant dollars to fund their education at SLU. Grants now account for more than 75 percent of the cost of admission, room, board and books for these students. So-called DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students are recipients of these need-based grants, too.
Staff from the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement and the Office of Enrollment and Retention Management are working together to help remedy the financial challenges that could stress individual African American students and lead to their withdrawal from school.
This collaboration of dedicated student-service professionals is very alert to signs of financial anxiety among students of color and actively intervenes to explore every avenue to ensure money is not a barrier to the next study semester.
Our Go Further scholarships are one such avenue. Through a dollar-for-dollar match, Go Further awards are increasing the financial value of our targeted diversity scholarships, including the Pioneers of Inclusion Scholarship and the Saint Peter Claver Service Scholarship.
With its expanded eligibility requirements for second-, third- and fourth-year students, including transfer students, the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship is benefiting even more students of color.
The Office of Diversity and Community Engagement oversees the African American Male Scholars Initiative (AAMS). AAMS, pronounced "āms," promotes academic success in the classroom and laboratory, and personal success on campus through peer education and mentoring.
And in 2017, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a $1.2 million McNair Scholars Program grant to the University to help more graduates from disadvantaged families continue into doctoral studies. Over the next five academic years, McNair Scholars grants will underwrite internships, conference attendance, research and other scholarly pursuits that will assist in pursuits of a Ph.D.
Saint Louis University is the only institution of higher education in St. Louis with our home city included in the institution's name. So it's important that the University help further the academic success of children and teens right in our own backyard, especially those deterred by poverty.
College workshops are one of the most illuminating ways high school juniors and seniors can see what's required to successfully make that transition to college student — and college graduate.
SLU's college workshops cover everything from the admissions process and financial aid to study skills and dorm life. In the 2016–17 school year, our admission office hosted more than 100 such workshops, including nearly 40 in Missouri's most disadvantaged public school districts.
At least twice a year, admissions staff visit 14 middle and high schools in St. Louis city, where the majority of students receive free or reduced-price lunches, another strong indicator of families living in poverty. Disadvantaged students at those schools talk with our admissions staff about after-school and summer programs to help prepare for their post-secondary education at SLU.
Our Office of Admission and the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement also have partnered with our Pre-College and Access Programs office to boost interest and enthusiasm among high school, middle school and elementary school students of color to pursue STEM and other specialized professional careers. The University's partnerships with Inspire STL and College Bound have been critical to many of these efforts.
In the summers of 2016 and 2017, hundreds of local elementary and high school students — many of whom came from disadvantaged families and school districts — participated in nearly 50 separate academic programs on our campus. Those programs, we believe, exposed students to new discoveries, experiences and role models that we hope will stimulate a commitment to school and studies — and a brighter future.
Little Medical School, Little Nursing School and Little Sports Medicine School programs brought a kid's-eye view of medicine and science to K-5 students — and stimulated aspirations. Introductory programming classes offered hands-on desktop and mobile coding with Java, Scratch, HTML5 and Swift for middle school students. Engineering and aviation academies for high school students provided week-long immersive introductions to those careers.
In addition, SLU community members are helping the Diversity in Action program at five middle schools in the Parkway School District, located in west St. Louis County.
Five Catholic elementary and high schools in St. Louis host an intensive study skills and mentoring program for students from disadvantaged families. Called Access Academies, the program works very intentionally to help ensure children are academically successful in each successive grade. Here at SLU, our Access Academies Scholarships will sustain that individual student investment by providing a full, four-year ride to qualified Access Academies graduates.
Our office and staff from Pre-College Access and Programs are working to create summer and after-school bridge programs that engage and excite elementary and high school students in the Shaw neighborhood and the Normandy school district. These efforts are applying valuable lessons from current SLU programs about how to best secure vigorous student participation and sustained attendance.
Founded by SLU faculty member Dr. Norm White, Shut It Down is one such model. The two-year-old program is helping counteract the school-to-prison pipeline that has long destabilized African American families and neighborhoods in St. Louis — and our society.
Dr. White's Shut It Down team is working with teachers in seven St. Louis public schools to better serve children, so affected by the trauma of poverty that their classroom behavior deters their ability to learn. The schools include the Lyon Academy at Blow, the Mullanphy-Botanical Garden Investigative Learning Center, and the Adams, Ashland, Farragut, Herzog and Monroe elementary schools.
Suspension is not the solution. Teachers are using new skills that help their students better manage stress and other emotions, and return to reading, writing and math.
Another example is the science-discovery initiative for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students from the O'Fallon, Penrose and College Hill neighborhoods. Called The Mad Scientist, this weekly after-school class consistently draws 20 to 30 students to each 90-minute session. Lesson plans and hands-on activities connect basic chemistry theory to real-world chemistry demonstrations. Each class is designed to spark an interest in science, particularly chemistry.
SLU student volunteers, all members of the SLU Chemistry Club, lead The Mad Scientist sessions. They're held at North Campus, a community-centered after-school program.
SLU's partnership in St. Louis City neighborhoods and St. Louis County communities is active and long standing. It includes more than 300 programs working alongside local teachers, nurses, doctors, business people, clergy and activists. Programs such as SLU Legal Clinics, Casa de Salud, and the Girls Academy for Leadership and Engineering have positively affected the lives of our disadvantaged neighbors.
Our professors, staff and students who lead these in-community initiatives, as well as our community partners, are advising SLU as to how we can best establish a more rooted and visible presence in a St. Louis neighborhood outside our midtown and law school campuses.
Currently, we're considering a number of sites to house a core group of beneficial community services, from tutoring elementary school students to helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to the local masses. It's possible we may begin by leasing space from a local non-profit that also is dedicated to making a real difference in the neighborhood where it is located.
In the spring of 2018, a regional artist of color will begin a three-month visit to
SLU as the first Clock Tower Accords artist in residence. This annual residency will
be available to regional artists of color, including poets, novelists, painters, photographers,
videographers, choreographers and musicians. Residents will be expected to work on
site at SLU for at least 10 hours a week, to collaborate with students, faculty and
staff, and to visit classes associated with their discipline. Nominations for the spring 2018 residency will be sought in Winter 2017.
At SLU, we recognize that public art enhances the quality of life across the city, in our neighborhoods and on our three St. Louis campuses. A Public Art Committee will be named soon to begin seeking proposals for distinctive installations by local artists on the public spaces of the local SLU campuses. Installations will range from six weeks to two years in time.
Mindful of the depth and breadth of community engagement initiatives SLU has in the St. Louis region, some believe a very focused, neighborhood-based approach may help us provide a more coordinated and sustained impact on disadvantaged children and families.
We're considering operating from the home of a leading non-profit. We would integrate an economic development component along with core academic, public health and/or social justice initiatives at a single neighborhood site. We hope to have selected a site and specific services by late 2018.
We are re-establishing a Race, Poverty and Inequality Steering Committee. The group will help guide how SLU fulfills both the letter and spirit of the Clock Tower Accords now and in the years to come. Members will include SLU students, faculty and staff, as well as neighborhood leaders. We expect to announce a call for nominations by mid-year of 2018.
"Dr. King and the Social Justice Movement" will be the topic of our spring 2018 racial equality conference. Among the invited speakers are Dr. M. Shawn Copeland; Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr.; Dr. James H. Cone; and Dr. Dwight N. Hopkins. Local clergy and community leaders also are expected to participate during the event, which is being cosponsored by the University's Bicentennial Committee and our Theology Department. More details are expected in early 2018.
This conference will follow several seminars and conferences hosted by SLU, through its Office of Diversity and Community Engagement, that have promoted the advancement of diversity, inclusion, and educational and economic opportunity — on campus and in St. Louis.
In November 2015, faculty from Jesuit academic institutions throughout the country gathered at SLU for a Jesuits and Race symposium. Discussions at the conference have helped Jesuit colleges and universities begin to confront — and seek forgiveness for — their use of slaves and slave labor prior to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. We intend to revisit SLU's connection to slavery at a conference we're planning to hold in 2018 as part of the commemoration of the University's bicentennial.
Our conference on Race, Faith and Justice was held in August 2016. It was attended by more than 100 people representing a spectrum of viewpoints and experiences, including university students, community activists, faith leaders, public officials and educators. The three-day conference was organized with the help of SLU student-members of the Black Student Alliance and Tribe X.
Panel discussions were moderated by Brendan Underwood, then a first-year-student. The conversations made clear that problems of race, poverty and inequality remain complex and difficult to solve. At the same time, participants shone a bright light on the fact that they and many others are committed, in word and action, to making a difference.
In May 2016, we organized the African-Americans in the Nineteenth-Century West symposium and teacher workshop. More than 30 social studies and history instructors from middle and high schools in the St. Louis area attended the sessions. They learned new and innovative ways to incorporate the history, legacy and identity of African-Americans into their classroom curricula — and truly engage their students.
The Office of Diversity and Community Engagement also underwrites travel and registration fees for students and faculty to attend conferences that promote diversity, inclusion and racial justice.
Promoted from special assistant to vice president for diversity and community engagement, Dr. Jonathan Smith plays a lead role on campus and throughout the St. Louis area, helping the University forge stronger bonds of common human purpose and shared values across the distinctions of race, class, gender, sexual identity and faith.
Dr. Pestello first encountered Dr. Smith's leadership style, creative problem solving and dedication to SLU's core mission in October 2014, just three months after Dr. Pestello became SLU's first lay president.
Students and neighborhood residents had initiated a series of campus protests promoting racial equality and social justice. They were showing support for acts of civil disobedience occurring in and around Ferguson, Missouri, following the death of Michael Brown. Protests also took place at many colleges and universities across the country.
But few campus actions achieved the calm and remarkable outcome witnessed at SLU. Dr. Smith, a professor of African-American Studies, was one of several faculty members who supported Dr. Pestello's strategy to live the University's Jesuit values and secure a peaceful and constructive resolution to six days of student protests and teach-ins. The University's reaffirmation of Jesuit values and its formal commitment to inclusion, diversity and community engagement are embodied in the 13-point Clock Tower Accords.
The following summer, Dr. Smith was appointed special assistant to the president for diversity and community engagement and to oversee the University's fulfillment of the Accords, in both letter and spirit. Since then, Dr. Smith has been a key advisor and proxy for Dr. Pestello, as well as a trusted and go-to administrator for students, faculty and staff on issues of diversity, inclusion and economic justice.
Inspirational human rights leaders from across the country have visited SLU to promote inclusion, diversity and equality in our communities — and to inspire our students to challenge social and racial injustice in meaningful ways. In collaboration with numerous deans, faculty and student organizations at SLU, the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement has hosted a wide range of energizing human rights champions at campus events.
Among our partners are: the Black Student Association, Great Issues Committee, Communication Department, Women's and Gender Studies Department, American Studies Department, School of Education, African-American Studies Department, the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis and the Missouri History Museum.
Past Speakers
Dr. Ashon Crawley
October 2017
More than 60 students, faculty and staff welcomed Ashon Crawley, Ph.D., author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility. Dr. Crawley, an assistant professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, took listeners on a personal journey of identity and belonging, alienation and reconciliation from his youth to his time in London pursuing his doctorate, "searching for something that will ground you." Imagination was a key to his personal growth and resilience, he said. "And the practice of imagination is needed if we're going to pursue peace and justice."
Ntozake Shange
April 2017
St. Louis native Ntozake Shange wrote the Obie Award-winning and groundbreaking play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. In an event co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement, Shange
read poems to musical accompaniment at the Missouri History Museum before a captivated
audience that included members of the SLU community. Shange also authored the novels
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo; Liliane; and Betsey Brown, and a book of essays called Lost in Language & Sound. She co-wrote the children's books Coretta Scott and Ellington Was Not a Street.
Dr. Talitha LeFlouria
March 2017
"Black Women and Girls in the U.S. (In)Justice System: Historical and Contemporary Struggles" was the topic of the 2017 Bridge Lecture featuring Talitha LeFlouria, Ph.D. Dr. LeFlouria is an associate professor of African-American Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Her academic focus is the imprisonment of black women in the post-Civil War South. She is the author of the award-winning history of Georgia's system for incarcerating women, Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Dr. LeFlouria's research and commentary on black women and convict labor was featured in the Sundance award-nominated documentary Slavery by Another Name. She is researching and writing her second book, Doctoring Captivity: Prison Physicians and Incarcerated Patients in the Post-Civil War South.
Janet Mock
March 2017
Writer and transgender activist Janet Mock was a keynote speaker as part of Free to [Be] Week at SLU. She is the founder of #GirlsLikeUs, a social media project that empowers trans women. Her second book, Surpassing Certainty, a memoir about her 20s, was published in June 2017. Mock's first memoir about growing up as a transgender youth in Hawaii, Redefining Realness, was a New York Times bestseller in 2014.
Dr. George C. Fraser
October 2016
Ohio entrepreneur and author Dr. George Fraser was a keynote speaker at the sixth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial tribute. The event was sponsored
by SLU and the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis. The key to racial equality
is economic empowerment, Dr. Fraser told the gathering. Speaking to African-Americans
in attendance, he said, "There is no one to save us, but us." And he urged black Americans to start and build businesses that "employ our people."
Dr. Fraser is chair and CEO of FraserNet, Inc., a company he founded nearly 30 years ago. FraserNet connects black entrepreneurs, professional managers and investors through networking. He is
the author of four books: Success Runs in Our Race: The Complete Guide to Effective Networking in the African-American
Community; Race for Success: The Ten Best Business Opportunities for Blacks in America; Click:
Ten Truths for Building Extraordinary Relationships; and the children's book, Who Would Have Thunk It!
Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
October 2016
In remarks to the SLU community, the Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou recalled the societal
impact of the Ferguson movement and its engagement of SLU students, faculty and staff,
during events honoring the student protests of October 2014. Later his musical group,
The Holy Ghost, performed selections from their just-released album, The Revolution Has Come. A frequent speaker in SLU classrooms and for student organizations, Rev. Sekou also
spoke at SLU's 2016 conference on Race, Faith and Justice. In 2015, Rev. Sekou was named to Ebony magazine's Power 100 list. Four years earlier, the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama,
honored him with its Keeper of the Flame Award.
DeRay Mckesson
May 2016
"Telling the Truth in Public" was the title of activist DeRay Mckesson's address to
the SLU community. The event was cosponsored by the Black Student Alliance. An ardent
champion of America's Black Lives Matter movement, Mckesson harnessed social media
to bring compelling audio, video and images of racial protests of Ferguson, Missouri,
and Baltimore, Maryland, to young people around the world. He also is a cofounder
of Campaign Zero, a policy platform to improve police interactions with people of color and ensure
accountability. He currently hosts the podcast, Pod Save the People.
Alison Harding Buchanan
April 2016
The acclaimed British soprano Alison Harding Buchanan shared songs celebrating diversity, social justice and inclusion at College Church. The performance was part of Atlas Week at SLU. She has performed with opera companies and symphony orchestras, including those in New York, Detroit, Baltimore, Boston, London and Sao Paolo.
Dr. Toniesha L. Taylor
March 2016
Toniesha Taylor, Ph.D., talked to the SLU community about the use of digital media to build and foster social
movements. Dr. Taylor is an assistant professor of communication in the Department
of Languages and Communication at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas.
Dr. Taylor's most recent publication was the essay "Transformative Womanist Rhetorical
Strategies: Contextualizing Discourse and the Performance of Black Bodies of Desire,"
published in Black Being, Black Embodying: Contemporary Arts & The Performance of Identities.
Dr. Ayesha Hardison
March 2016
The guest speaker at the 2016 Bridge Lecture, Ayesha Hardison, Ph.D., shared insights
about the portrayal of black women in novels, magazines and newspapers during the
Jim Crow era, gleaned from her 2014 book, Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature. Dr. Hardison is an associate professor of English, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the
University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, where she teaches African-American literature.
She currently is researching and writing a literary history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Diane Nash
January 2016
An icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Chicago native Diane Nash was a witness to some of the most historic episodes in American history. She helped lead the sit-ins of segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1960 with other Fisk University students. A year later, she helped coordinate the Freedom Rides, a new non-violent tactic by student activists that would trigger segregationist violence and shame the Kennedy administration into action. In 1963, Nash played key roles in the boycott of Birmingham, Alabama, merchants and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. And she helped organize the 54-mile march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. Nash was keynote speaker at the fifth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial tribute, where she was awarded the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Civil Rights Award by SLU and the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis. "Social change," she told the SLU community, "is part of the human condition."
Laverne Cox
November 2015
A packed auditorium greeted activist and actress Laverne Cox at an event cosponsored by the SLU Rainbow Alliance. Costar of the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, Cox talked of her extraordinary journey from Mobile, Alabama, to Hollywood as a black, transgender woman. The Emmy nominee was featured on the cover of the June 9, 2014, issue of Time magazine and in its story "The Transgender Tipping Point: America's Next Civil Rights Frontier."
Dr. Smith is meeting regularly with the executive boards of multicultural chartered student organizations, the vice president of diversity of SGA and members of the president's Diversity Council. Among the topics are the University's sustained efforts to abide by the letter and spirit of the Clock Tower Accords.


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June 24th, 2014 | Julia Braime
Its holiday season here on the blog, and as the editorial team take a break to redesign, review and recharge, we'll be leaving you with a reduced blogging schedule so that you still get your daily dose of wedding lovely.
Usual service will recommence on Monday 7th July 2014, but in the meantime watch out for recaps of our favourite Real Weddings so far this year. Drop in every day for the very prettiest, most unique wedding inspiration and – if you are a Brides Up North bride – to see if your Real Wedding was one of our top picks.
Back in February when I blogged an interview with our wonderful Featured Supplier and ex copper, James Tracey Photography, I led the piece with an image of a beaming bride at a colourful altar and over on Facebook lots of you fell in love with her. Later that week I featured Laura and Nathan's fabulously cool and quirky swimming pool wedding (yes, I've never seen one of those before either!) in all it's glory.
This still has to be one of my favourites to date.
With images by James Tracey Photography.
Laura says: We got engaged in October 2013 in Saint-Cirq Lapopie (in the South of France). We were on our holiday with our six month old baby boy and Nathan got a sudden urge to ask me to marry him. It was a beautiful spot by the river. It wasn't planned so he found a twig and tied it in a knot around my wedding finger.
We have been together for 18 years (we met at school when we were 16!) and finally tied the knot on 27th May 2013 at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
Victoria Baths is part of the restoration project. It was opened in 1906 as a swimming baths and Turkish baths. The restoration of the building begin in 1995. It is a beautiful old building with ornate stain glass windows. One day they hope to restore the swimming pools themselves and open it up again to the public.
We actually got married in the old male swimming pool in the deep end!
We wanted to get married somewhere that was a little different and allowed us to do what we wanted. Victoria Baths allows you to hire out the entire building and you are able to bring your own caterers, music and decorations in.
We wanted the day to be very relaxed with a feel of a street party. No formalities so everyone could relax and have fun! We chose a colour scheme of pale pink and green.
The bridesmaids wore pink dresses and the groom, best man and ushers wore pink ties. The tiles of the swimming baths are green so we hung pink and green paper pom poms from the ceiling along with bunting.
I wanted something every simple for my wedding dress. I visited Jane Bourvis in London after a friend recommended her. Jane owns a small shop in Notting Hill and as soon as you walk in you are greeted with antique lace hanging from the ceiling. Jane told me she had just restored some lace the night before. She dressed me in a pale cream slip and placed the lace petticoat over the top. It was stunning and a one off. I bought it within half an hour of walking into the shop. I just felt special. There was a story behind it too as an elderly lady in Scotland had found her mothers veil in the loft and that was what Jane used to create the dress – old Scottish lace.
The bridesmaids each wore a lace dress which I bought from a beach side shop in Cape Town. I just saw them and knew they would match the dress and that each of the bridesmaids would like the style.
Nathan wore a tailored suit from A Suit That Fits. The best man and ushers wore their own suits with a pink tie.
My friend has a beautiful old beetle called Gracie. He came to the hotel to pick me up (complete with a flat cap) and drove me to the baths.
It was a family affair! My cousin is a register so he married us and my other cousin works at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) so he arrange for four different bands to play: a string quartet to walk down the aisle to, an acoustic guitar whist we drank fizz, a two piece acoustic band and a 9 piece disco band. Amazing!
I carried a simple vintage style bouquet made by Manchester Flower Company.
I especially enjoyed the vows and turning around to see everybody we loved.
After the ceremony we arranged for a tour guide to show people around the building as it's so historic with lots of amazing stories behind it.
10 of my closest friends and family made cakes for the deserts. There were some amazing cakes ranging from carrot cake, lemon drizzle and early great tea muffins. Everyone just helped themselves.
We had 45 children at the wedding so we had to provide entertainment. We hired two nanny's to look after the babies and provided lots of toys. We hired a bouncy castle to go in the female pool and we created a cinema with a big screen and lots of popcorn and bean bags so the kids to watch a film. It was nice as the adults could have a rest and enjoy the fizz.
At the end of the day we planned a big surprise for everyone. We didn't know how well it would go down. We hired 150 headsets and held a silent disco in the main hall. At first everyone didn't quite know what to make of it. By the end of the night everyone was dancing their hearts out. We had three different channels with different types of music. There was some crazy dancing going on.
We went to the Lake District for a few days after the wedding and found cosy pubs to relax in. Bliss!
I kept sneaking away for a few minutes every now and again – either with Nathan or own my own to just catch my breath and smile. So my top tip for other Brides Up North would be that it's nice to stop for a few minutes and reflect on things throughout the day itself.
Congratulations Laura & Nathan!
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O'Dowd calls for action on obesity in children
North Tipperary county councillor Virginia O'Dowd addressed the Labour Party's annual in Kerry conference last weekend on a motion dealing with child obesity and the need to tackle the problem.
The motion called on the Government to treat obesity as a top priority, to provide the resources and support to the Department for Children and Youth Affairs in implementing their policy for combating the trend in obesity and lack of exercise in children.
The motion drew on the 2011 Growing up in Ireland report that found that 26 per cent of nine-year-olds had a body mass index outside the healthy range and 19 per cent of those were defined as overweight and 7 per cent as obese.
Cllr O'Dowd, who spoke live on RTE television, said: "I would just like you to reflect on those figures and the implications they have for the future health of the nation and for the future health care services of Ireland.
These figures show we are literally sitting on a health time bomb and if the problem is not tackled now we will face physical and psychological problems that will have a massive impact on health spending, health care and the wellbeing of the nation.
"We will be looking at increases in diabetes and cardio-vascular disease, to name but two of the physical fallouts.
From a psychological point we will be looking at people developing low self-esteem, which in turn can lead to other problems such as mental health issues.
"I know the Department of Health, in conjunction with the Department of Youth Affairs set up the Special Action Group on Obesity in October 2012 and that is looking at recommendations and formulating a policy on combating obesity.
Among the areas they have examined are taxes on sweetened drinks, calorie counts on menus and the impact of leading more sedentary lives on our lives. It has been left to the food industry to voluntarily include calorie counts on menus. Figures show that 96 per cent of the population wants to see that done, with 73 per cent in the food industry in favour of it. I hope we are looking at holding out a very juicy carrot instead of a stick to persuade more in the food industry to accept the idea.
"We now need to see the outcomes of their findings being put in place.
"We need to make sure all our children have access to physical education at primary and secondary school. We also need to encourage more people – and not just students – to walk and cycle to school or work. We need to encourage our children to move away from the PlayStation and concentrate more on the play end of growing up.
"Of course, it is also important to tackle the problem of poor dietary habits, to encourage people to cook healthy food. Some of us can remember being told by our parents to "eat up your greens". Having a balanced diet is important to having a healthy lifestyle. We need to target those groups – age and societal – where obesity may be more common. "There is a link between poverty and poor diet. However, there is also a link between education and poor diet. We have seen how education can change our attitudes to alcohol and tobacco. We can do the same with food and exercise.
"However, we also need to teach people, parents especially, how to recognize the symptoms of over eating and obesity. We need a forum for people to be able to talk about. We need people to know that there is help available.
"As the saying goes, health is wealth. Our children are the health and wealth of this country. If we breed a generation of people with poor health, we will be in danger of breeding a generation that will not be able to realise its full potential.
"That is why I am asking you to support this motion and to ensure that all the necessary resources are in place to implement the recommendations of the Special Action Group on Obesity. We also need to give full support to the National Physical Activity Plan being considered by the Department of Health and the action group."


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Fonta is a website that encourages anyone to digitally write one of the 6941 characters on the site. On the landing page are numerous tiles with characters on them. Some tiles have faint grey outlines as guides for characters yet to be written, others have been written over by different users. Fonta's driving vision is that a complete publicly generated font will eventually be created with the accumulated handwritten characters from different users. The font can be installed on your personal computer and used as a web font, but as of now there are only 1486 of the possible characters written. Also, as the site is in Japanese created by the design studio Kayac, the majority of the characters are of the Japanese alphabets (Hiragana and Katakana) and kanji, adopted Chinese characters. The English alphabet, numbers and some glyphs are also included.
I like how Fonta isn't a website or service that seeks to fill some hole in your life you didn't know you had. In fact, as far as I can tell, Fonta is a Kayac side project—created simply because it's nice to have more non-commercial, intriguing things on the web. To me, Fonta is a social experiment and a collaborative creative opportunity. What makes Fonta successful is the user-generated content, something completely out of the creators' control when launched. It turns out that Fonta's users are quite imaginative and thoughtful, which makes the characters currently visible a compelling scroll through.
Another aspect of Fonta that makes it work so well is that Japanese has such a large variety of complex characters. Contemporary Japanese and Chinese characters evolved from pictographs and occasionally still resemble their definition. My favorite characters are the ones where what's been drawn indicates the meaning of the word. Fonta may be particularly fun for people to whom Japanese is a foreign language because some of the characters' definitions can be guessed. (The words above both mean knife. The word in the image below means cold; the user went for a seasonal feeling.)
The user experience is fairly well thought out and easy to understand without textual comprehension. Click on a tile with a grey outlined character, login with Facebook, and write the character however you please. The login functionality limits each person to writing one character only, so pick your tile wisely. When you've submitted your drawing, it appears in the top left tile on the homepage and does a little jig to congratulate you.
I'd like to see more of the Fonta characters filled in, as the English alphabet isn't complete yet. A solely English version of Fonta could be interesting. I imagine that upon the completion of the standard alphanumeric set, another blank set is made available so that each letter has a few iterations created by different people. Handwritten fonts are a dime a dozen on the internet, but Fonta seems to be the first aiming to be created by thousands of people.


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Friday, June 28, 2013
Bicycling the Greek Cyclades Islands
Seems like I disappeared for the past few weeks and I guess I sort of did. I took off for vacation to the Greek Islands. This was the third time my husband and I took an "Island Hopping" vacation. What is an Island Hopping vacation you ask? Island Hopping is a German company that offers Bike & Boat vacations that are out of this world. The boats are usually wooden sailboats approximately 100 - 150 ft. and accommodate roughly 10 couples. This makes these "cruises" nice and intimate. You share meals with your new friends, lounge deck-side as the boat is underway and then there is, of course, all the biking you do together. This particular trip was sailing and cycling the Greek Cyclades Islands.
For some reason when I thought of Greece I thought about a "tropical" place. I did not think "mountainous desert" but that was mostly what the islands were. At many times it felt like biking in Utah, and it was just as challenging. I have no idea where I mustered the strength from because I was in no way ready for this ride. Still struggling with neck surgery recovery, with only about 30 miles under my belt this season (and that accounts for three times on a bike), and no cardio training at all, I'm stunned at how I performed. If my leg muscles have such great "muscle memory" then I would really like to know why my neck is suffering from such amnesia! Not sure why it isn't springing back to it's normal strong state, but I'm hopeful that the trip has beaten it into submission and it will behave better from this point forward.
My neck was a big hurdle, that's for sure, but I managed to get through it and for that I'm very proud and grateful. I'm hoping this trip has motivated me more and will make it easier to get back to my normal biking self. If I had experienced the same amount of pain at home I would have quit, but with views like I had in Greece it was easy to just keep on pedaling, keep on pedaling. Yes I sung the Finding Nemo song in my head a lot! This was our third Island Hopping trip and by the second Greek island I deemed it the most spectacular ride. It was worth the pain. I guess the saying is true, "No pain, no gain." The more climbing you do the better the views and the bigger the downhill payoff. There was an awful lot of both.
At least there weren't too many surprises and you got to know what to expect every day. Most days were carbon copies of the previous day . . . the weather was perfect upon rising and you knew you were going to start with a big climb. The boat always docks at sea level and all the towns are perched at the top of the mountains. And so went every day. Grind up the never ending hills, walk the adorable villages, and fly downhill taking in the gorgeous scenery. This never got old. On the good days we would pedal to the top, turn around, and coast back down, but on some days we would pedal up and over the mountain to the seashore on the other side. That meant we had to climb the darn hill twice! Those days required two ice cream breaks instead of one.
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Published on Sep 19, 2016
Published on Sep 19, 2016
By Stephanie Keith/Getty.
Of the two New Yorkers running for president, only Donald Trump's family foundation is being investigated by the state attorney general for potential illegal activity. But it is the Clinton Foundation that is beginning to fall apart amid the nonstop coverage of both charities in the press. While Bill Clinton prepares for what is expected to be an impassioned defense of their philanthropic efforts, which have been at the center of accusations that the Clintons used their foundation to sell access while Hillary Clinton led the State Department, Politico reports that the Clinton Global Initiative is preparing to lay off dozens of staffers.
The staff shake-up is not entirely unexpected. After months of weathering mostly partisan attacks, Bill announced in August a series of imminent changes in leadership to the Clinton Foundation should Hillary make it to the White House, including plans to shutter C.G.I., the conference arm of the charity. The decision to sunset the the high-profile, big-money initiative came as no surprise—but it has reportedly fomented controversy within the Clinton Foundation itself.
Despite assertions that full-time C.G.I. employees will retain their positions and benefits through the end of the year, a number of staffers are either looking for or have already accepted new positions elsewhere, Politico reports. How many people have left, however, is unknown—as are the exact numbers of jobs that will be cut at the end of the year. "We informed CGI staff of this transition more than four months before the end of the year, and have provided information about CGI-related roles that will continue," a spokesperson for the Clinton Foundation told Politico. But many current and former staffers are reportedly frustrated with how the transition has been handled. "It was poorly managed, treated too glibly, patronizingly, completely lacking empathy at the fact that so many young people were going to be laid off," a former C.G.I. official told Politico.
C.G.I. will retain some employees to work on ongoing projects with commitments that extend beyond the end of the year. "Staff will be performing a number of roles, including continuing to provide advice with respect to commitment development and commitment improvement" and "continuing to facilitate introductions and partnerships between members," a spokesperson told Politico. Some Clinton Foundation allies, however, worry that these ongoing relationships could leave the charity open to criticism. One former official referred to the decision to keep some staffers on as a "bad idea" and told Politico, "I really think they should make a clean break, and apparently so do most staff."
The final C.G.I. conference, which began on Tuesday, has already prompted fresh outcry from critics and has left Clinton allies concerned. "The foundation has been a negative this year, with concerns about donors seeking influence and access—why shine light on it right before the debate?" a member of the Democratic National Committee told Politico. And even as Trump faces accusations that his namesake charity participated in illegal acts of "self-dealing," the G.O.P. nominee's campaign has kept its rebukes of the allegations focused on the Clinton Foundation. On Wednesday, following the release of a new Washington Post report that claimed Trump allegedly spent more than a quarter-million dollars of his namesake foundation's money to settle lawsuits, a statement from the Trump campaign used the opportunity to turn the tables on Clinton. "In typical Washington Post fashion, they've gotten their facts wrong. It is the Clinton Foundation that is set up to make sure the Clintons personally enrich themselves by selling access and trading political favors," spokesperson Jason Miller wrote, though he did not refute any of the investigation's findings. "The Post's reporting is peppered with inaccuracies and omissions from a biased reporter who is clearly intent on distracting attention away from the corrupt Clinton Foundation, a vehicle for the Clintons to peddle influence at the expense of the American people."
Just one week before FBI Director James Comey announced the Bureau would not recommend charges be filed against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for storing and transferring top secret, classified information on multiple private, unsecured email servers, Attorney General Loretta Lynch had a private meeting with former President Bill Clinton on her private jet in Phoenix.
After being caught by a local reporter, Lynch claimed the email investigation wasn't discussed and that social topics like grandchildren and golf were the topics of the day. She said the same yesterday during congressional testimony.
But according to a report from the New York Post, FBI agents believe an inside deal was struck on that plane to keep Hillary Clinton free of indictment. Considering the severe retaliation inside the Obama administration against those who speak out, FBI agents are cited anonymously. FBI agents investigating the Clinton email servers were also forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
In an unusual move, FBI agents working the Hillary Clinton e-mail case had to sign a special form reminding them not to blab about the probe to anyone unless called to testify.
Sources said they had never heard of the "Case Briefing Acknowledgment" form being used before, although all agents must initially sign nondisclosure agreements to obtain security clearance.
"This is very, very unusual. I've never signed one, never circulated one to others," said one retired FBI chief.
Meanwhile, FBI agents expressed their "disappointment" over FBI Director James Comey's decision not to recommend charges against Clinton, sources close to the matter told The Post.
"FBI agents believe there was an inside deal put in place after the Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton tarmac meeting," said one source.
Another source from the Justice Department was "furious" with Comey, saying he's "managed to piss off right and left."
Move along, nothing to see here.
By: Devvy
September 19, 2016
The whole world knows Hildebeast Clinton had a serious medical incident on September 11th. There's no question about it as video now watched by millions captured her at the sidewalk in a bad state where she literally went into a header and was then thrown into her medically equipped van.
We know Mrs. Clinton was not taken to a hospital but rather opted to have her van drive right by the nearest hospital to her daughter's $9,250,000 apartment. Does that make any sense to you? A female with well documented medical problems literally drops at the open doors of her medically equipped travel van and instead of taking her to the nearest hospital she goes to her daughter's place of residence?
Much has been made regarding another former tenant in the same building, Metro Home Services, Inc. Lots of claims it is a medical care provider there for Clinton. However, when that company was in business their patients were seen off site at facilities. In 2013 MHS had merged with another and the new owners officially put out notification deluxe apartments would be available in the near future. Besides Chelsea's apartment there are two others plus one deluxe condo. Those are the occupants.
That's not to say some medical equipment might be housed in Chelsea Clinton's apartment to accommodate her mother and her myriad of medical problems. Only those who have ever been inside know the truth.
What doesn't make sense
In January 2000 I took my friend, Bill Benson, to the airport in Sacramento. The airport was absolutely packed. The line for Bill's flight to Illinois was over 200 people. Bill was in a wheel chair so I stood in line with everyone hacking their brains out. Coughing, blowing noses. It was miserable to say the least.
The next morning I woke up I couldn't breathe. I thought I was going to die. My late husband took me to UC Davis Medical Center ER while I waited 5 HOURS to see a doctor suffering the whole time. Incidentally, two Sacramento Kings players came in the ER (John recognized them being a fan). They waited five minutes and were sent in to see a doctor. I was not happy over that.
Anyway, the doc thought I had pneumonia, ordered chest x-rays, etc. Yep, I had it; got the prescription for antibiotics. For the next 10 days I suffered like a dog. Couldn't breathe, just miserable. No way I could go to a big event two days after the ER like Hildebeast did at the 9/11 memorial. I could barely breathe never mind walk around or stand for more than two minutes at a time. I was 51 then and in perfect health (and thankfully still am). She is 68.
Now, Hildebeast supposedly was diagnosed two days prior to the 9/11 remembrance. Given antibiotics. Two days later after less than 40 minutes at the ceremony we see what happened. Is it not totally irresponsible to go into a crowd of people with her coughing problems and pneumonia? Not to mention she went straight to Chelsea's apt after leaving the ceremony with a toddler and baby in residence. Upon decamping from Chelsea's apartment, Hillary makes hay by inviting a little girl over so she can breathe all over that child while waving and telling everyone she was just hunky dorey.
If you haven't seen the clip of 'Hillary' leaving Chelsea's apartment, here it is.
According to her physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack, Hildebeast was diagnosed two days earlier with a newly minted strain of pneumonia that apparently doesn't exist:
Hillary Clinton's Nonexistent Diagnosis – No Such Condition As "Non Contagious Bacterial Pneumonia" in ICD-10
"As you can see from the two-page letter presented today by Hillary Clinton's doctor, she has been diagnosed with "mild non-contagious bacterial pneumonia". However, there's a problem…"The International Classification of Diseases (ICD), an ObamaCare standard, is designed code all medical diagnostics. According to ICD-9 codes, and the more current ICD-10 coding, there's no such diagnosis as "non contagious bacterial pneumonia". Dr. Bardack apparently made it up. Dr. Milton Wolf was the first to notice the issue:" Rest at link
Would Dr. Bardack jeopardize her medical career to lie for Hillary?
When I first started reading and watching videos about Clinton using a body double I wasn't convinced. Yes, we know heavy hitters whether they are banking magnates, dictators like Saddam Hussein who was known to use at least half a dozen look a likes, Osama bid-Ladin did the same which conveniently kept him 'alive' after his death in 2001 because he was worth more political capital and endless cash cow revenues for mega corporations who profit from war to Winston Churchill to LBJ. So, it's not uncommon.
Certainly there appeared to be differences in the Hillary that left the 9/11 remembrance to the person coming out of Chelsea's apartment. Most noticeable were the size of her thighs. Clinton hides her, how shall I say…chunky thighs by wearing pants suits 100% of the time in public and voluminous tents while on vacation in the toney Hampton's. The woman coming out of Chelsea's apartment from several different angles looks very much like her so I wasn't convinced. However, after plowing through everything on the Internet, sigh, the woman coming out of Chelsea's apartment definitely is not only about 25 pounds or so lighter (especially the thighs) but she also looks slightly shorter than Hildebeast.
Clinton is 68 years old. In many photos one can clearly see she has her share of wrinkled skin and what fashion mavens call a 'turkey neck'.
The woman coming out of Chelsea's apartment building has smoother skin and a fairly smooth neck; I used my oversize magnifying glass. As for there not being any secret service around that simply isn't true. There are several videos which show SS but not too close to her. I suppose because Clinton is a frequent visitor to her daughter's and most of the media didn't know where she was going, they didn't feel the need to surround her. You can also see in the clip linked above at the apartment it appears the crowd is being contained a distance from her.
There's a woman named Teresa Barnwell, a Hillary look alike who allegedly makes $10,000 a month impersonating her. Clearly she is not in any of the photos or video clips since the 9/11 incident. Quite honestly I don't see much of a resemblance myself and Ms. Barnwell has responded on-line that she was in California during Hildebeast's medical emergency.
The one thing that changed my mind was a voice comparison. I want you to go listen to this video clip. Allegedly it's Hillary one day following the 9/11 event. The first 1:08 seconds is Clinton spewing provable lies about Donald Trump to CNNs Anderson Cooper. Her voice is the voice we all can recognize. Hildebeast has a slight grading to her voice. It's very distinctive and annoying. Then compare it to the voice, not a visual, which comes next in that short clip. Allegedly the voice belongs to Hillary Clinton but it does not. Clearly, the voice is much deeper, lacks that slight grading noise and simply isn't her in my humble opinion.
There is something wrong here. In order to pull off a body double those closest to Clinton would have to be involved in the cover up. Secret Service agents who have been assigned to her since April 2015 would surely notice if their protectee lost 25 pounds in 90 minutes. They've heard her speak. The same goes for her entourage and staff. One would think the SS agents would speak out and say, what's going on here?
IF Clinton is using a body double (there's no doubt in my mind she used a voice double) then the American people regardless of party affiliation have a RIGHT to know. Here is a photo array you can judge for yourself.
There's no question, despite all the screeching to the contrary, Hillary Clinton is one sick person who absolutely would be unable to function full time as president. It would be the only reason to use a body double. Clinton is desperate to hide the truth about her medical problems and she will go to ANY lengths to fool the American people.
Email Bombshell: Hillary Clinton 'Could Barely Climb The Podium Steps'
"One of the biggest bombshells in the leaked Colin Powell emails is the news that Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse informed a Democratic donor that Hillary's health is so bad that she "could barely climb the podium steps" during an event they both attended.
"Sheldon Whitehouse, who is a huge Clinton supporter, said they were both giving speeches at the same event a few months back and she could barely climb the podium steps," Democratic financier Jeffery Leeds said in an email discussion with George W. Bush's former secretary of state." It goes on to show the emails were dated March 14, 2015. On April 12, 2015 Hildebeast announces she's running.
Actually, Wikileaks just released new documents which prove that Hillary was in a fatal plane crash. She was badly hurt and a navy seal died in that same crash.
According to a report released by Wikileaks, Hillary Clinton was in a C-12 Huron aircraft that made an emergency landing at Ahwaz International Airport on the border of Iran and Iraq, skidding off the runway and crashing, leaving Clinton "unconscious and bleeding profusely" according to the report.
Also, according to the report, Clinton was on a secret mission.
Clinton was traveling with members of Seal team 4 (one of whom was reportedly killed in the crash, Commander Job W. Price, who the government claimed died of a possible "suicide," but listed his death as a non-combat injury").
With Trump Regaining North Carolina Lead, Hillary Unexpectedly Postpones Local Fundraiser "Without Reason"
If there was a time Hillary needed to make a public appearance in the key battleground state of North Carolina to drum up voter support, it was today, if for no other reason than a just released Elon University poll finding Trump now has a modest 44% advantage among likely voters in the Tar Heel State, with 43% going to Clinton.
According to the poll, most voters felt Trump would be better for rich people, white people and men, while most believe Clinton would be better for poor people, women and minorities. "This election is so tight right now, that small swings of a few points should be expected between now and November," said Jason Husser, assistant professor of political science at Elon and director of the Elon University Poll. "North Carolina has been extremely important over the last several election cycles with very tight election outcomes. These numbers suggest that will continue to be the case, and both campaigns would do well to continue to focus on the Old North State."
Feb. 2014:
May 8, 2014: House Benghazi select committee is established. Trey Gowdy is Chairman.
Summer of 2014: The State Dept. notifies Hillary aide/lawyer Cheryl Mills that it will be requesting Hillary's work emails.
? July 22, 2014: Paul Combetta and wife Danielle Dirocco purchase a new home for $290,000 in Narragansett, Rhode Island. (Just an fyi – tax records/deeds)
July 23, 2014: Congressional Benghazi committee reaches agreement with State Dept. on production of records. Then, the very next day…
? July 24, 2014: Platte River Network Paul Combetta (aka "stonetear") appears on Reddit with the following question(s):
FIRST: Hello all- I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP's (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file.Basically, they don't want the VIP's email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out.
I am not sure if something like this is possible with PowerShell, or exporting all of the emails to MSG and doing find/replaces with a batch processing program of some sort.
Does anyone have experience with something like this, and/or suggestions on how this might be accomplished?
SECOND: As a PST file or exported MSG files, this could be done though, yes?The issue is that these emails involve the private email address of someone you'd recognize, and we're trying to replace it with a placeholder address as to not expose it.
THIRD: I think maybe I wasn't clear enough in the original post. I have these emails available in a PST file. Can I rewrite them in the PST? I could also export to MSG and do some sort of batch find/replace. Anyone know of tools that might help with this?
This is also similar when Bernie Sanders bought a 400k house after he dropped out on Hillarys request.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is the proud new owner of a summer home in the Champlain Islands, Seven Days has confirmed.
The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a lakefront camp in North Hero.
Sanders' new crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.
"We've traveled up to the islands many times over the years — almost always on day trips," Sanders' wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, told Seven Days in a written statement. "We've been impressed with the North Hero community, eaten at the North Hero House and Shore Acres and have suggested them to friends who were looking for a beautiful place to stay or have dinner. St. Anne's Shrine in Isle La Motte is my favorite church and it is nearby."
Bernie Sanders Buys $600,000 Summer Home, Prompting Controversy
Senator Sanders' purchase of a $600,000 beachfront summer home generated some controversy, but many details were elided in secondary reporting about it.


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The Motor Vehicles Dealers Act 1973 requires a valid Dealer Licence to be held by all individual/s or a company engaged in the business of buying or selling certain vehicles. A Yard Manager is an individual employed or
engaged by a Dealer to manage or supervise the Dealer's business of buying and/or selling vehicles. To attain your licence you need to complete these simple steps:
Attend the MTA WA Yard Manager/Dealer Licencing Course.Pass the open book test at the end of the course.Apply to the Department of Commerce for your Dealer Licence
MTA WA is the peak industry group for the State's automotive industry. Since 1973 we've been advocating for and developing the sector making us the undisputed experts in all areas of the motor industry. We were key advisors to government in the development of the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act and continue today to advise government in the review of legislation and its practical implementation.
We're the number one choice for WA dealerships, training over 350 sales people, yard managers and dealers a year.
At MTA WA we believe that it's the experience, knowledge and service provided by our training team which ensures that graduates from our Sales and Yard Manager/Dealer Courses are equipped with the knowledge they need to fulfil the
day to day activities of the role.
MTA WA is the only trainer with decades of experience and in-depth knowledge of the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act. We understand that the best way to learn is with a real person, with real experience.
Our licencing course is delivered by industry experienced sales people with real life knowledge of the application of the Dealers Act.We are dedicated to providing you with the skills and regulatory knowledge you need to be successful yard managers and dealers.We provide expert advice on call after the course.We use the latest sales forms and teach attendees how to complete them.Our training material is regularly updated to reflect current application of the Act and policy changes by the Department of Commerce.
It is a prerequisite of this course that the applicant has successfully completed the Sales Person Licensing Course.
Over the one day this course is delivered you will learn:
The legal requirements and responsibilities of motor vehicle yard managers and dealers under the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act 1973
The roles of the Departments of Transport, Commerce and Consumer Protection Division
Licensing requirements for motor vehicle dealersStatutory warranty obligations for motor vehicle dealersApplication of the Australian Consumer Law in relation to motor vehicle retailingThe correct use of regulatory documentation in acquisition and sales of motor vehiclesLaw of contractCreating legally compliant advertisingLegal requirements of consignment selling
"Thanks Sarah and Tony for your fantastic training and accreditation to all of my new team members. The venue, hospitality and course curriculum is first class. All of my staff come back to the dealership richer for the experience as the training provided is detailed, enjoyable and adaptive to all learning styles. An absolute must for the development of effective and responsible frontline staff."
Stephen Couri, General Manager, Fraser Motorcycle Parts.
"I would like to thank you and Tony for helping me to pass my Yard Manager License. I couldn't ask for a more comprehensive and explicit course. Thanks for taking time to answer all my questions."
Shenol Sulejmanoski, Fleet Manager, Prestige Honda Melville.
"Well done on your set up and organisation. Very impressive."
Andrew Arrowsmith, ACVH Pty Ltd
|Event Date
|12 Jul 2018 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm)
|Individual Price
|Motor Trade Association of WA - Balcatta


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Missouri Weekly Hay Summary Week ending 10/28/11
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Few regions of the state have a notable amount of pasture in the good range and only 27 percent statewide is in fair condition. That leaves 62 percent of our state's pasture in the poor and very poor categories. Currently movement within the state is somewhat limited. Hay demand is moderate. Supply is moderate. Prices are steady to firm. Missouri Department of Agriculture has a hay directory available for both buyers and sellers. To be listed, or for a directory, visit http://mda.mo.gov/abd/haydirectory/ or for current listings of hay http://agebb.missouri.edu/haylst/ (All prices f.o.b. and per ton unless specified and on most recent reported sales prices listed as round bales based generally on 5x6 bales with weights of approximately 1200-1500 lbs) Supreme quality Alfalfa (RFV>185) 150.00-195.00 Premium quality Alfalfa (RFV170-180) 130.00-175.00 Fair to Good quality Alfalfa (RFV130-170) 80.00-125.00 Good quality mixed Alfalfa and grass 40.00-85.00 Good to Premium quality Prairie hay 80.00-120.00 Fair to good quality Prairie hay 40.00-80.00 Good to Premium quality Brome 100.00-150.00 Good quality Brome 80.00-120.00 Fair quality Brome mixed with grass 35.00-75.00 Good to Premium Mixed Grass hay 65.00-100.00 Good quality Mixed Grass hay 45.00-70.00 Fair to Good quality Mixed Grass hay 25.00-50.00 per large round bale Good quality Bermuda grass 80.00-120.00 Premium to Supreme Quality Timothy 4.00-8.00 per small square bale Good quality Timothy Hay 3.00-6.00 per small square bale Wheat straw 2.00-5.00 per small square bale Source: MO Dept of Ag-USDA Market News Service, Jefferson City, MO Sarah Wilkinson, Market Reporter, 573-751-5618 24 Hour Recorded Report 1-573-522-9244 www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/JC_GR310.txt 0751cdt sw


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Not ready to step outside? Treadmills offer a safe, convenient way to get your workouts even when it's dark, snowy, or dangerously hot out. And the music, the TVs, and the company of other people can make the miles roll by much easier.
Running on a treadmill isn't exactly like running outside; after all, the belt keeps you on pace even when your energy fades. But it's a lot more similar to outdoor running than sitting on the couch is. Here are some tips so you can make the most out of your time on the 'mill. (And check out RW's new on-demand treadmill workouts, available for streaming straight to your device.)
Time it right. Find a gym with hours that fit your schedule. Before you sign up, learn when the busiest times are. If you can, avoid those peak hours; you'll be more likely to find a free treadmill. (Click here for our latest treadmill reviews.)
Watch your step. While the cushioned surface helps prevent injuries, some people report aches and pains after putting extra time on the 'mill. Be sure to run at a pace you can comfortably sustain. As you tire, lower your speed or the incline.
Just let go. If you can't keep up with the treadmill without grabbing the handrails, you're going too fast. Holding onto the handrails can throw off your stride and create a twisting motion, which can lead to injuries.
Related: Runner's World 10-Minute Cross-Training, gives you five muscle-building routines that take just 10 minutes to get you stronger.
Step outside…carefully. If you've done 100 percent of your workouts on a treadmill, gradually integrate outdoor running into your routine. Too quick a transition can lead to injury. Outside, your calf muscles have to work harder to propel you forward; so do the smaller stabilizer muscles in the joints and ankles. On your first outside run, start with 10 minutes, and add five minutes the next week. Continue to build gradually.
Know your numbers. The "calories burned" readouts on treadmills—and any other exercise machines—are rarely accurate. That's because treadmills estimate total calories burned rather than the net number—i.e., calories burned solely through exercise, above and beyond what we would have used anyway. Plus, keep in mind that most machines don't account for body-fat percentage, gender, age, resting heart rate, or whether you're holding onto the rails. But you don't have to totally ignore the machine's stats. Use the calorie readout as a barometer of your progress. If the calorie readout goes up from one session to the next for the same workout, you know you're getting fitter.
Decipher the pacing info. How fast or slow are you going? Many treadmills show pace as miles-per-hour (MPH). Here's a cheat sheet so you can find your minutes-per-mile pace, more commonly used by runners.
- 4.0 mph = 15:00 minutes per mile
- 4.5 mph = 13:20 minutes per mile
- 5.0 mph = 12:00 minutes per mile
- 5.5 mph = 10:55 minutes per mile
- 6.0 mph = 10:00 minutes per mile
- 6.5 mph = 9:14 minutes per mile
- 7.0 mph = 8:34 minutes per mile
Mix it up. In order to build your overall fitness, it's a good idea to do faster workouts with no incline as well as slower-paced workouts with an incline. The slower uphill workouts build strength, while the faster flat workouts help you develop stamina, endurance, and quick footwork. Adjust both speed and incline during your workout, and you can better simulate the changing terrain of a road run. Want more paces? Use our pace converter.
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A much-improved Penn women's basketball team still has a long way to go if it hopes to become an Ivy contender.
In the Ivy opener for both teams, Penn (7-6, 0-1 Ivy) fell to three-time defending Ivy champion Princeton (10-5, 1-0), 77-47, Saturday at Jadwin Gym.
The Tigers, preseason favorites to win yet another Ivy title, have taken nine straight against the Quakers. Penn has not won at Jadwin Gym in nearly eight years.
"It's always tough going on the road, especially the first Ivy game," sophomore Katy Allen said.
The outcome of the game was not in doubt for very long as Princeton stormed out to a 17-2 lead to open the game.
"We got off to a very slow start in the first five minutes that we couldn't get out of," Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said. "Once we settled down we did some pretty good things."
McLaughlin said that Penn's slow start stemmed from excellent execution by Princeton. "We were ready. We were prepared."
"We just didn't come out with enough energy," Allen said.
Junior Alyssa Baron led all scorers with 15 points to go along with six rebounds. Allen added 12 points and four boards.
As the final score showed, Penn had a difficult time stopping the Princeton attack. The Tigers' 77 points tied for the most the Quakers have given up all season.
The Red and Blue held Princeton's leading scorer, senior Niveen Rasheed, to only 10 points. But the Tigers had seven players with at least seven points, including all five starters. Princeton finished the game with an astronomical 28 assists, led by sophomore Blake Dietrick's nine dimes.
"They move the ball very well. They have the ability to score in many different facets," McLaughlin said.
The Tiger bench also outscored the Quakers', 26-9.
Ultimately, the Quakers did not have the firepower to match the Tigers. "The score got a little bit too high," McLaughlin said.
Despite the lopsided final score, Penn can take several positives from the game. After stumbling out of the gate, the Quakers executed much better offensively as the game progressed. They scored 31 second-half points compared to 16 in the first half.
"I'm really proud that we turned it around," Allen said.
The Quakers also felt that they played the Tigers closer than they had been able to in the past. Last season, Penn lost to Princeton by 35 and 37 points.
"We showed a lot of improvement over the past year against them. Especially that second half, we showed we can play with them," Allen said.77-47
"The second half us a confidence boost that we'll be really competitive in our league and we'll be able to do well."
Behind Enemy Lines: Princeton's Courtney Banghart
St. Joseph's handles Penn women's basketball, 66-53
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Watch Full Length Malayalam Movie Sandesham (1991), directed by Sathyan Anthikad, music by Johnson, written by Srinivasan and starring Srinivasan, JayaRam, Mathu, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, K P A C Lalitha, Thilakan, Siddique, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Mala Aravindan, Mammukoya, Sankaradi, Innocent, Bobby Kottarakkara, T P Madhavan, T R Omana.
Story :- After his retirement from Indian Railways, as station master, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family consisting of wife (Kaviyoor Ponnamma), three sons and two daughters gets a blow after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences. Prabhakaran (Sreenivasan), the elder one is a staunch leftist, and an active worker of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (RDP) (Making fun of the CPI (M)) which has just lost the Kerala state Assembly elections and relinquished office. Prakashan (Jayaram), popularly known as KRP, his younger brother is involved with the Indian National Secular Party (INSP) (Making fun of the Indian National Congress) which has now come to power. Though they are both educated, neither has any plans to earn a living on their own and are fully immersed in petty politics, sponging off their parents for their needs. Raghavan Nair becomes deeply worried about their future, and tries to advise his sons, but of his admonitions fall on deaf ears. Anandan (Mala Aravindan), his son-in-law is a police sub-inspector but is now on suspension. When the RDP was in power, he arrested and beat up several of the opposition party workers on instruction from the ruling party officials. Now that the previous opposition is in power, they exact their revenge, first by transferring him repeatedly to stations as far away from civilisation as is possible, and then by suspending him. As part of his retired life, Raghavan Nair decides to focus his attention on his agricultural activities and meets the new young agricultural officer (Siddique) and, with his wife's approval, wants their younger daughter to get married to him, but his elder sons oppose it on flimsy and petty reasons. Prakashan, whose party is in power, pulls strings and get him transferred immediately to a remote location in order to prevent the marriage but Nair gets them married at the registrar's office. In the meantime, Anandan and his wife, Raghavan Nair's eldest daughter, demand partition of the property and their share, which Raghavan Nair objects to. The last straw is when their mother falls ill and is hospitalised for a day or so, and none of her children bother to show up at the hospital - in particular, the two older sons. Raghavan Nair, when he sees all of them milling around his house on returning from the hospital, loses his temper. He throws out all his children and orders them never to enter his house again. But to his surprise he finds both Prakasan and Prabhakaran at the gate, fully repented. He calls them in and they begin a new life. The film ends by showing Prabhakaran going to court as a lawyer and Prakashan for a job interview.
Movie : Sandesam
Cast : Srinivasan, Jayaram, Mathu, Kaviyoor Ponnamma
Director: Sathyan Anthikad
Producer : S. S. T. Subrahmaniam
Music : Johnson
release : 1991
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With more than 15 years of professional human resources experience, the City of Lee's Summit is pleased to announce the appointment of Denise Kelly as the director of the Human Resources Department for the organization.
Kelly will begin her duties at the City on Friday, August 1.
"I am excited about the opportunity to work for the City of Lee's Summit and look forward to contributing to the success of the community, and working with a great team of professionals," said Kelly.
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Thank you for the donors who participated in the community-wide blood drive on July 28th! Another thank you to our partners who made the event a success by advertising the blood drive, providing volunteers, and donating refreshments during the event, including:
After a national search and extensive interviews with staff and community-wide stakeholders, the City of Lee's Summit proudly announces the selection of W. Travis Forbes as the new police chief.
Forbes will join the City on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 after having served in law enforcement for 22 years for the City of Independence, Missouri, most recently as deputy police chief since 2013.
Construction began on July 7, for Phase One of the Pryor Road Shoulders project, which includes shoulder improvements from Hook to Longview Roads in Lee's Summit. This project was voter approved during the 2013 no-tax increase general obligation bond election. The goals of this project are to improve safety, reduce maintenance costs, and provide "complete streets" along this corridor.
The City of Lee's Summit, in partnership with the Lee's Summit Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Lee's Summit Main Street, and the Lee's Summit Human Services Advisory Board, will host a community blood drive July 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of Lee's Summit City Hall, 220 SE Green Street. Visit www.esavealifenow.org and enter the code "cityleessummit" to sign-up for the "CARING … it's in our blood" event.


text: I have 2 functions, 1 which I converted from PHP - VB that uses Regex (Requires System.Text.RegularExpressions). The other which was shared by a member on this site. The problem that I am facing is that neither of the functions allow you to get the string between 2 escaped characters (""). Function 1 (Regex): Code: Public Function GetStringBetween(ByVal Haystack As String, ByVal StartSearch As String, ByVal EndSearch As String) As String Dim rx As New Regex(StartSearch & "(.+?)" & EndSearch) Dim m As Match = rx.Match(Haystack) If m.Success Then Return m.Groups(1).ToString() Else Return False End If End Function Function 2: Code: Public Function GetBetween(ByVal haystack As String, ByVal needle As String, ByVal needle_two As String) As String Dim istart As Integer = InStr(haystack, needle) If istart > 0 Then Dim istop As Integer = InStr(istart, haystack, needle_two) If istop > 0 Then Try Dim value As String = haystack.Substring(istart + Len(needle) - 1, istop - istart - Len(needle)) Return value Catch ex As Exception Return "" End Try End If End If Return "" End Function Example string: Code: Dim Haystack As String = "<input type=""hidden"" name=""testsubmit"" id=""testsubmit"" value=""findme"" />" Dim FindIt As String = GetBetween(Haystack, "id=""testsubmit"" value=""", """ ") MessageBox.Show(FindIt) Neither of the above functions will find the 'findme' that it should be able to pull out whereas both functions will work on a simple string such as, "Hello Find Me World". Also, I don't suppose that anyone here has a function that they wouldn't mind sharing that will find ALL occurences of a string between 2 strings and return in array format?