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Entering his ninth year as the head men's and women's tennis coach at Nebraska-Kearney in the fall of 2017, Jake Saulsbury has continued the program's long string of success.
Over his first eight years, he has compiled a 137-56 record on the men's side while leading the women to a 144-64 mark. He is the winningest coach in school history (men's, women's and combined wins). image 3
In Saulsbury's tenure, both teams have made seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament, each reaching the Sweet 16 twice.
He has guided the women to three RMAC (Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference) regular season titles as the Lopers went unbeaten over a two-year period. The UNK women also won the 2010 RMAC Tournament.
Individually, 35 players (15 men and 20 women) have earned all-conference honors in singles while 30 doubles teams (16 men's pairs and 17 women's pairs) have been
Winning with a mix of American an International players, Saulsbury has also seen many of his Loper earn conference and ITA (Intercollegiate Tennis Association) honors.
Vanessa Gunawan, a native of Indonesia, was tabbed the 2012 RMAC Player of the Year as well as the league's Academic Player of the Year.
Next, Kearney native Kristen Messbarger was chosen as the RMAC Freshman of the Year in 2007 and, as a senior, was named P.O.Y. Finally, Australian Katie-Mary Outhwaite was a two-time RMAC Academic Player of the Year.
On the men's side, Jack Nicholson, from England, was selected as the 2012 RMAC Freshman of the Year.
In the fall of 2012, UNK qualified men's and women's players for the ITA National Small College Championships in Alabama with Josh Raymond and Yeswanth Nadella finishing as national runners up.
Two years later, Joey Richards and Lucas Garces finished second in the same tournament, this time held in South Carolina.
2014 SeniorsThe Lexington native has been named the RMAC Women's Coach of the Year three times, the MIAA Women's C.O.Y. once and the ITA Central Region Women's Coach of the Year once.
During Saulsbury's first season, he guided the Loper women to an undefeated mark in league play en route to the RMAC crown. Messbarger led UNK to the RMAC tourney title while advancing to the Sweet Sixteen for the second time.
The following year, the women repeated as RMAC regular season champs and finished second in the league tourney, ending a three-year title run. UNK also made a third straight NCAA trip.
On the men's side, the Lopers advanced to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in five years. This also marked their third straight NCAA trip.
Nadella led the Lopers while being a first-team All-RMAC selection and being named the ITA Central Region Rookie of the Year.
The 2011-12 academic year marked Kearney's final year in the RMAC. The women went 6-0 to win the regular season title for a third consecutive year. They then won the Central Regional to advance to the Sweet 16 in Louisville.
The men also made it to Kentucky, beating longtime rival Metro State to record the program's fourth Sweet 16 trip. UNK won 18 duals and finished as RMAC Tourney runners up.
The Lopers made their MIAA (Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association) debut with the 2012-13 season. Both teams qualified for the league tournament with the men recording 17 dual wins and the women posting 19.
Nine UNK players (five men and four women) earned All-MIAA honors with 12 Lopers qualifying for the MIAA Academic Honor Roll.
In the spring of 2014, the both Loper squads returned to the NCAA's posting 20 (women) and 18 (men) dual wins. Both teams were regionally ranked throughout the season, knocking off several nationally-ranked teams along the way
Showing the strength of the team, 12 Lopers made the All-MIAA squad with two earning Central Region honors from the ITA.
In 2015, the Lopers combined for 42 dual wins as each squad returned to the NCAA's and were once again a factor in the MIAA regular season and tournament title races. Eleven different UNK players earned some type of all-league honors with Richards tabbed as the Central Region Rookie of the Year.
Before coming to UNK, Saulsbury spent the 2008-09 season as a graduate assistant coach at his alma mater, NW Missouri State.
As a Northwest player, he was a two-time first-team All-MIAA singles player. As a junior, he advanced to the ITA National Small College Championships in doubles and earned a national ranking.
He also won a Class B state title at Lexington High School
In his role as a Northwest GA coach, he was involved in all aspects of the program while helping the men's and women's teams advance to the NCAA's. Saulsbury also worked extensively with the Bearcat Tennis Camp.
Saulsbury resides in Kearney with his wife, Ashley, who teaches first grade for Kearney Public Schools, and their children Jack, Charlotte and Adelyn.


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Happy hours are one of the things that make the world go round, and it's something that Red Door believe in. Join them every week as they boast a roaring selection of cocktails and drinks at cut-prices that make your wallet a little heavier at the end of the day.
Happy Hours in Liverpool
Discover the best places for happy hour in Liverpool with our hand-picked guide to the city's best venues! Fancy a drink but keeping to a budget right now? Don't stay in - get out there and take advantage of these boozy discounts at a selection of bars, pubs and clubs across town. Whether you want 2-4-1 cocktails or discounts on your pint; you want to read up on the best cheap drinks Liverpool has to offer.
It's no exaggeration to talk of Be At One as a cocktail institution. Renowned throughout the UK for their unrivalled party atmosphere and bartenders that greet you as if you've been pals since childhood, there's a comprehensive cocktail menu and a pumping playlist of complete bangers 'til late to enjoy here. Sneak away from work early and take advantage of those cut-price drinks; Happy Hour starts daily from 4.30pm.
Steinfuls of German beer served up by a team decked out in traditional Bavarian dress; "it doesn't get much better than this" claim the Bierkeller, and we'd be tempted to agree. The best time to check out this lederhosen-clad drinking hall is of course during happy hour, which offers 2-4-1 on Haus Steins, £2.50 spirit & mixers and 2 bottles of beer for just a fiver between 5 and 8pm, Sunday to Thursday. A great place for cheap drinks in Liverpool if you're also after something a bit different.
Despite always being a fiesta at Revolucion de Cuba, they've sweetened the deal even more with a happy hour running from Monday to Friday. Expect 2-4-1 cocktails and other drink deals to get you through, before the true night kicks off and you can experience a Latin party like no other with live music and good vibes.
The middle of the week is hard enough to get through, so let Revolution Liverpool help you out with some amazing drink deals. Get there between 5pm and 7pm and enjoy discounts on their iconic cocktails – and while you're there, why not have a bite or two of some of their great fresh food?
Most people head to Mathew Street to pose for pictures and grab a drink from the iconic Cavern Club - not us though. You'll find us getting seriously groovy on the Flares dance floor, where you can get 2-4-1 Thursday cocktails alongside your playlist of classic 70s jams. Can't make it down on Thursday? That's not a huge loss; pints and cocktails start from just £2.39 a pop throughout the week, as well.
You know your usual Happy Hour logic? Yeah, that goes completely out of the window at Modo. Rather than limit themselves to a specific hour or so here and there, you can get 2-4-1 cocktails at all times (except after 10pm on Friday and Saturday) when you're getting the drinks in at this popular party haunt on Concert Square. There are classic cocktails and Liverpool-themed specials to choose between, as well as pitchers of beer and cider for just a tenner.
Granted, this swish drinking pad nestled inside the boutique Malmaison hotel isn't a bar you'd typically think of for cheap drinks in Liverpool. There's actually some pretty sweet happy hour deals to take advantage of though, especially when Thank Mal it's Friday rolls around. Pull up a plum-coloured chair and relax in these elegant surroundings; you can get £5 cocktails, £3 beers and £6 glasses of champers between 5pm and 8pm to get your weekend off to a refined (and wallet-friendly) start.
How do you like those cocktail deals served on the side of amazing views of the city? Hannah's is the place for just that, offering both signature cocktails and all the classics in a fun and vibrant atmosphere from their glass roof terrace overlooking St. Luke's. Come between 3pm and midnight, Sunday to Thursday (3pm - 8pm on Friday) and get any two cocktails for just £8.
One of the best Irish bars in Liverpool offer some serious happy hour deals, which run every weekday from midday. Ideal if you're starting a session nice and early, a pint comes your way from as little as £2.30 and the pocket-friendly cocktails are just £5.25 a pop. Eat, drink and be merry without spending all your pennies; McCooley's is a top choice thanks to its live sports and party atmosphere on Concert Square.

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February 18-20, 2020
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"DeliOps is the Masters Class on prepared foods systems, the state of the industry and real world practices. It speaks to staff on the whole spectrum of experience, from a new supervisor to a veteran General Manager.
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La Montañita Co-op Food Market, NM
DeliOps was incredible, and a game changer. The content was invaluable. I've run Prepared Foods departments in large co-ops as well as Fortune 50 companies for 22 years. The ROI on this training will be paid back in months, not years."
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Belfast Co-op, Belfast, ME
"All the information provided is relevant to our co-op's current operations. This was an eye-opening experience that many co-ops are working with the same challenges. It was great to work with peers from across the country."
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Monadnock Food Co-op, Keene, NH
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"DeliOps is great for content, and for real life examples and networking. Being new to retail and delis, but not to foodservice, I'm amazed at how much there is to learn. Thanks for closing the gap."
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Seward Co-op, Minneapolis, MN
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Hendersonville Co-op, Hendersonville, NC
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Davis Food Co-op, Davis, CA
"DeliOps was very well done and I highly recommend it to peer professionals. The sessions kept my attention and it helped me focus and organize my goals for the next two years."
Jim Watkins, Food Service Manager
Central Co-op, Seattle, WA
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Seward Co-op, Minneapolis, MN
"Super inspiring to see new ideas and ways to grow sales and revamp programs within a co-op deli. I love having the collaborative time here with my store colleague. Good Earth is top of line and so inspiring!"
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Joe leads a 2-store staff of more than 100, with all-organic kitchens that generate intense sales and loyalty. Joe worked with Bon Appetit for 14 years, including as Executive Chef and General Manager.
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3 Seminar Days
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3 Organic Lunches & Snacks Galore
scrumptious treats for every diet and taste
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Allen Seidner, Principal, Thought For Food Consulting
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Michelle is an organic farmer and chef, customer service expert and deli operations maven. She managed the exploding growth of a fantastic co-op deli for a decade and now shares the wisdom of her experience with consulting clients.
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"This seminar provided exactly what I needed -- training, perspective, peer connection, direction and resources. I now have a better grasp on our strengths and areas that need improvement. Getting coaching from experts in our field in an interactive environment surrounded by our peers is invaluable!"
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Palace Market, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
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12:30 Catered Hot Lunch
Dining al fresco, on the bay.
1:30 Snappy Sandwiches
Strategies and pro tips for developing menus and products for renowned sandwich programs.
3:30 Blazing Hot Foods
From menu planning, plan-o-grams and merchandising, to food prep and production plans, we'll cover the gambit of what it takes to make your hot foods program a destination for your customers.
5:30 Wine & Cheese Reception / Evening Break
6:00 Dinner & Store Tour
Enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour through the bustling prepared foods operation at Good Earth Natural & Organic Foods. This best-in-class operation features a vast array of all-organic prepared foods programs
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9:00 Making Grab & Go, GO!
Explode your sales with a full exploration of this critical and versatile program. We'll dig deep into the nuts, bolts and nuances -- from product category plans and product plan-o-grams to portioning, garnishing, packaging and pricing -- to help you create and keep up with an awesomely successful Grab & Go program.
12:00 Small Group Break-Out Sessions with Catered Lunch
Dining al fresco, on the bay. Choose from any of several conversations, with topics nominated by participants.
1:30 Customer Service, Merchandising, &tc.
Ideas for creating merchandising magic, upgrading your service mojo, and other juicy systems, docs and tidbits.
Easy ideas for incrementally growing and improving any prepared foods operation.
4:00 Plans For Change
Breakthrough strategies to help you identify priorities -- from which you'll develop an agenda, timeline and plans for making the most of your seminar experience.
5:00 Endings & Evaluations
Final thoughts and evaluations.
5:30 Wine & Cheese Reception / Evening Break
6:30 Dinner At Avatar's
Your tastebuds will dance on flavor-packed Indian-Caribbean fusion sensations, made with organic and local ingredients.
Day 1
9:00 Your Power, Potential & Opportunity as a Prepared Foods Leader
You'll engage in a small-group project to assess your department's priorities and get your mind around a fuller vision for your operation's potential and opportunities.
10:00 Structuring For Success: Organizing Your Kitchen Brigade
Using your own department's data, we'll explore a range of options for organizing responsibilities among department leaders and staff to determine your operation's optimal, right-sized structure.
12:00 Catered Hot Lunch
Dining al fresco, on the bay.
1:00 Fresh Product Ideas & Trends
Is your operation ripe for some fresh product ideas? We'll explore a variety of ideas and strategies for inspiring your product development plans to help you quickly make exciting changes. You'll leave inspired and confident of being able to develop new high-margin products that add homemade flair and cross-merchandising pizazz!
2:00 Developing Successful New Products
From that "Eureka!" idea moment to sales of that first perfected batch, recipe costing is just one of 20 steps on this checklist for guiding your new product development process -- and ensuring new items are successful.
3:30 Essential Systems for Production Planning & Analysis
Systems for optimal production planning and analysis, "Margin Master," and many more tools and documents for improving your operation.
5:30 Wine & Cheese Reception / Evening Break
Relax with colleagues at Acqua Hotel's wine and cheese reception. Or, hop on a free bike for a ride along the adjacent waterfront path.
6:00 Dinner & Store Tour
At Whole Foods Market's nearby store, one of the company's oldest and smallest, with a tightly-merchandised and impeccably serviced deli.
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9:00 Recipe Costing & Margin Pricing
Costing "beginners" will explore a variety of recipe costing procedures, discuss tips and tribulations and play a super-fun costing game to ensure everyone leaves clear, confident and capable. Advanced participants will review costing system pro tips and explore variable margin pricing techniques and strategies.
11:00 Foodservice Financials
Working through a prepared foods case study we'll deepen your financial skills and give you tools to better teach your team about sales, margin and labor. Plus, systems for effective margin pricing and improving labor productivity.
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"I attended DeliOps a year ago and came back with tools, plans and valuable ideas for restructuring into a positive, well-balanced and successful operation. Since then we've made many changes and improvements which have grown our sales 20 percent and improved margin by 10 points."
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The Best Gifts for Young Girls in this Digital Age: The Hottest and New Toys Guide for the 2015 Holiday and Christmas Season Guaranteed to Draw their Attention away from Smartphones and Tablets!
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"It's great to be a kid these days." My parents used to say that all the time back in the 90s. Now that I'm a parent (who is also a millennial), I find myself saying the same thing every time I shop for toys online. With Christmas looming ahead and having many nieces and nephews to shop for, I'm scrambling to find the best and hottest new toys for those picky little rugrats.
Toys have to compete with smartphone and tablet apps and games, so it's a challenge to find toys that will hold a child's attention and gain their affection, and not waste your money.
Best Dolls for Young, Pre-tween and Tween girls (and the little girls inside adult women!)
Monster High, Ever After High, and My Little Pony for the win! For my friend's daughter Emi, I bought the Ever After High C.A. Cupid doll. She "enchants in a spellbinding Grecian-inspired look inspired by the winged Pegasus!" The little girl in me fell in love with this dollie's pink hair, the details in her dress, and the fancy accessories! Just look at her gold, knee-high gladiator style sandals!
*You can buy C.A Cupid for under ~$19USD on Amazon and if you're an Amazon Prime member, it'll be shipped to your door (or the lucky child's door) on time for Christmas, with time to spare!
Earlier this year for her birthday, I bought Anika, my husband's niece, the Monster High Boo York, Boo York Gala Ghoulfriends Luna Mothews Doll for under ~$20 USD. I loved her golden butterfly headdress, her pretty wings, and those eyebrows of hers are definitely on fleek. Anika, a super fan of her iPad Mini and the hundreds of games that she had downloaded, turned nine this year and she loved the doll.
I think you also won't go wrong with Disney's Elsa and Anna dolls. Frozen is still pretty big this year. Barbie is still a hit with young girls and adults, as all Disney's Descendant Dolls, though frankly, I'm not in love with that line of dolls.
The Disney Descendants Signature Evie Isle of the Lost Doll is a little under $22USD. Her face reminds me of Barbie's and a Disney Princess, but her head just looks a little out of place, not small enough to be "realistic" and not big enough to be more "cartoony" like the Monster High and Ever After High dolls. I'm sure, however, that fans of Disney Descendants will appreciate this line of dolls. Her tights are pretty cool and she has crowns on her boots, so 'nuff said!
Having bought something for Anika for her birthday, I also bought something for her five-year-old sister Amanda, so that Amanda didn't feel left out. Amanda is obsessed with My Little Ponies. Her favorite pony is Pinkie Pie. Amanda has all sorts of My Little Pony toys, including the Equestria Girls Singing Pinkie Pie Doll, which is under $15USD on Amazon at the moment. During Anika's birthday, Amanda got the My Little Pony Pop Pinkie Pie Sweet Shoppe Playset which is also under $15USD. Anika had to build this toy for her little sister. After the toy was erected, Amanda refused to share it with her older sister. Tantrums ensued.
Best Building Sets for Girls
I'm a huge Lego fan. We live in a very small condo and have five sets of Lego Creator Modular Buildings in storage. I can't wait to build them all one day in a larger home! But for now, I happily stare at their pristine boxes... In the past year, I had bought Lego Friends Building sets for Amanda and Anika, and for the Hannah and Sara, the daughters of my close friends. All four girls have always loved receiving Lego Friends sets! For Christmas, I bought Anika the LEGO Friends 41097 Heartlake Hot Air Balloon which has dropped in price to be a little under $20USD! I will confess that I wanted to gift this set to myself because it would look perfect next to my Parisian Restaurant (Chez Albert) set!
Sara and Hannah initially received a Lego Disney Princess set from me. They asked their parents to return it so that they could get a Lego Friends set instead. From experience, it appears that young girls would prefer to receive Lego Friends sets versus the Disney Princess sets from Lego, but I do wonder what they think about the Disney Princess Frozen Lego set, given how popular Anna and Elsa are! This set isn't inexpensive, going for a little under $60USD on Amazon. If you're a fan of Lego products, I recommend that you become a Lego VIP. As a member, you earn so many perks from Lego, such as coupons, access to exclusive sets, and awesome freebies!
Best Creative Sets for Girls
For a little under $16USD, you can gift a headband making set to the fashionistas in your life. The set comes with 10 headbands and cute accessories. Your little designers will have a lot of fun designing headbands. Some people do complain that the headbands aren't very comfortable when worn, but hey, this set is a steal for it's price! It will steal the children's attention away from their smartphones and tablets, for hours at least!
Also for a little under $16USD, you can buy an 80-piece Deluxe Art Set on Amazon. This set is also a steal at its price; plus, it has over 3000 reviews on Amazon! I'm positive that creative boys would also appreciate this gift, along with the artistic and creative adults in your life! This set is not intended for children under three years old. Children under three, in my honest opinion, should only play with non-toxic and washable art mediums! Of course, true artists would not admire this set's quality, but as a gift, this will hit a home run!
So what do you think about this gift guide? Is it helpful? Will you get any of these as presents this holiday season for the young girls those who are young-girls-at-heart in your life?
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It was one of my fears to be homeless
Meet Taquaan Peace, turning 20 years old. 16+ years in foster care, group homes and hospitals, never adopted.
"I came into DYFS when I was 2 years old. My mother, she got caught with robbery trying to take care of us. I've been in over 60 places; in foster homes, group homes, hospitals, it's just been hard," Taquaan says.
Taquaan is a solemn young man. He speaks softly and hangs his head low as he recounts his life story. "I remember some foster families to be real nice people and then I remember some of them to be evil, no other words to explain. There was some instances where it was my fault, things that I did wrong but I was young and I didn't know better but I didn't deserve to be beat and not fed.
I was physically abused. I was a young child being beat like a grown man. I was skinny and I was being beat like I was nothing. I told my case worker every time and they eventually took me out of the homes but there were some instances where I wanted to stay in the home so I kinda took the abuse a little bit. Some times the DYFS worker's didn't believe me. They thought I was making it up myself, I was lying, I was inflicting the damage upon myself. I would have bruises, I remember my nose was broken one time and basically marks all over my body," Peace recount.
From home to home, hospital-to-hospital, group home to group home, more than 60 in all Peace remembers, it was always the same. "You have an incident, they talk to you, put you in a van, they find some garbage bags, they pack all your stuff up throw it in a couple of garbage bags, put it in a van, they bring you to a DYFS building office, call some people like a respite home or something like that. They put you in there for the weekend or a week then you find a new family and you go live with them."
I asked him, so how do you feel to have all your belonging put into a garbage bag?
"That was the least of my worries really. My worries were, where am I going now, who are gonna be these people, are they going to treat me like the last?
I wish I was mature and I wish I was more intelligent back then because I would have been able to change things and make thing better by myself but I just didn't know certain things and I was just a little kid so I really was helpless and I hate that I was helpless.
There was an instance I was being abused for two years straight. Abused by the same people. I was scared, I felt like I was gonna die. I sat down with DYFS, with every worker I could possible get and told them, I was scared, I was abused, look I'm being abused, look I have marks on my arm, look my tooth is broken, look, look, look. And they did nothing for me. They never took me out of that place. They sat there and let me get abused for two years straight and I resent them for that, I really do. That's something I will never forget. They never listened to me, they never made a change. I tried everything in my power to tell them, look I'm being beat and I fell like I'm gonna die. I'm lost. Help me, please help me. Crying to them, everything.
Then they wonder why when I move on to my next place I'm so angry, I'm so violent. I was being beat, they weren't doing anything, I was so young."
A long silent and uneasy pause fills the air until I ask him to tell me about his mother.
"The last time I seen my mom was when I was five. It was Halloween night (she visited him at his foster home) and she just told me that she'll be back because I wanted to go trick or treating and she said she'll stay there. When I came back she was gone.
That's my dream is to find my family. I know my mother is in Clinton State Prison, my father just got on parole. They say I have 26 relatives but I don't know where any of them are.
Never in my life, it was actually one of my fears to be homeless like this is not a good feeling at all. It feels bad I feel like I'm at my lowest point. I feel angry, I feel lost, I feel helpless again it's just that, I don't know, I feel really bad. It's not a good feeling at all.
I always try to help people that are less fortunate on me so for it to happen to me, it's like, I really see what they're going through and I'm really glad I helped them.
DYFS plays a role on me being homeless. Most of it is my fault but they play a part. Look at the places I've been to, look at what DYFS did for me. I can count it on my fingers what they've done for me my whole life, my whole eighteen years. "
Peace has been living at the Covenant House Crisis Center for the past few weeks. His future is uncertain.
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12 Comments on "It was one of my fears to be homeless"
September 12, 2008 at 5:56 am
How do I help these children ABUSED by the system that is supposed to help them? My daughter is currently in foster care and I am fighting hard to get her out… but of course money is the root of all evil and they refuse to let her go.
Please contact me. I would like to get involved and help anyway I can for these children…
April 30, 2009 at 5:55 am
Despite all your experiences, you sound like you remained good person. I really hope you can carry that into your life and stay like you are.
Beating a child has no excuse and you were right to be angry. It was nothing you could have done different. I don't know the system, but can't you file complaints against the horrible people? Those people should have their licenses revoked.
If there's any way you could go to school, do that. Your way of thinking says you'd probably be good in school.
I wish you the best.
May 6, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Your story is so sad,, I am thinking of becoming a foster carer here in the UK we are awaiting a Social Worker… I could never treat a child the way that you have been treated, my one fear is what happens when a child leaves and the thought of them ending up in a bad place. You must look to your future you sound so intelligent and caring, keep telling your story study hard and make a difference and yeh if you ever get the chance take the bad so called carers to Court. You did nothing wrong..God Bless you and your future. Be a good parent x JC 39 years old England
May 30, 2010 at 9:14 pm
hi taquuan peace, my name is erin sides. i have been through the same issues with families abusing and neglecting me. i feel and felt how you are feeling for 18yrs.. i have been in the system since my mother got a charge at age 4. i have been in and out of facilities and group homes, foster care. and none of the caseworkers helped. i want to get them for abuse and neglect. please contact me @ 574-302-4545. i want to talk to you reguarding what you been through. we cuold help others not go through it. no child or human being deserves to be put through any harms way. we could really help other foster children from being abused. i don't ever want to see anyone go through the pain and suffering that i and other former foster children went through. so what i amsaying is we should do something. write every detail that we can remember and get these insolant people for hurting us. please contact me as soon as u read this entry
June 7, 2010 at 2:53 am
Am in tears hearing about this,i wonder why one would foster if love wasn`t in their hearts,i wish i could help but am laid off at the moment.It is only God that can heal you and console you t.Continue to be a responsible citizen,go to school and put God first and he will make you a somebody,i grew up rough and am a testmony that God can raise you from the dust and make you a king.Be encouraged.
October 20, 2010 at 6:31 am
Stay who you are.. and probably you are the one that gets to cut the chain of pain. Learn to notice what people have good intentions for you. you could be a youth advocate at the social services building of your city… start getting busy doing volunteer work.
October 24, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Go to college. You have lived a night mare. You know the system. You can fix it so others don't suffer as you have. How? Educate yourself. God gives each and everyone a mission in life. You need to pray and ask for God's guidence in finding yours. He will help you just as he has in the past. You are strong and smart. Please go to college. You are in my prayers.
Granny Bev
November 22, 2010 at 3:40 am
GAO Seeking Information On Foster Children Receiving Psychotropic Drugs
At the request of Congress, GAO is seeking information regarding cases in which state foster children have been prescribed psychotropic medication outside of federal regulations or accepted medical standards of practice. These may include very young foster children prescribed certain kinds of psychotropic drugs, children prescribed psychotropic drugs in dosages that exceed accepted standards, children prescribed psychotropic drugs for purposes other than a medically accepted indication, or children taking numerous psychotropic drugs concurrently. If you have information about state foster children being prescribed psychotropic medication outside of regulatory and/or medical guidance and are willing to provide details, please e-mail GAO at email@example.com.
December 6, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Taquuan Peace:
God sometimes sends someone like an arrow to bring much needed change. You took the right path by making your story known to others. Once my little girl got lost on 34th st in NYC in Christmastime crowds. I looked at the wall of people and could not see my 5 year old in there. Something, probably God, said to me, scream her name with everything in you. I did. Suddenly, the people slowed, many stopped, the crowd parted and a path formed, and down that path, my confused daughter walked back to me.
When you reach out in the darkness, you will find
so many people who are lost just like you. You will find so much kindness that you did not know existed.
I think also you will find through reaching out,people willing to help you change the horrible system which is still hurting children right now. Teri Tyler
March 12, 2011 at 4:22 am
He should sue the DYFS for ignoring the abuse he endured!
Three girls did that in WA, I think, and they won!
November 14, 2011 at 12:23 am
God can use you in so many ways. Just remember through all life your never alone.
November 23, 2011 at 4:47 pm
I thought i had been in alot of foster homes, but being in sixty (woe) I to know what it was like getting beat for things i didn't do.out of the fourteen i was in there was only one that treated me with any love at all. this gives me the right to speak out. We may hang our heads down when we talk, but as an aged out foster child we allways got each other. You hang in there


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Over the years, vaccinations that help shield youngsters from infectious illnesses comparable to measles and mumps have saved hundreds of 1000's of lives within the U.S. and prevented thousands and thousands of hospitalizations, based on the Facilities for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Some vaccinations for youngsters include substances which will sound worrisome, notably formaldehyde or traces of mercury For instance, sure formulations of vaccines for hepatitis, flu, meningococcal illness, and polio, amongst others, embody formaldehyde.
On a continuum with that, it seems that the FDA and the CDC want to suppress this published research and that they select to conduct research that aren't able to find causality between kids's vaccines and autism and as a substitute fund research that are not able to or should not designed to find causality.
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Since 2007, infants in Australia, for instance, have gotten 5 vaccines at two months of age, identical to in the United States—hepB, DTaP, Hib, IPV, Prevnar 7, and a rotavirus vaccine. In a 2012 survey of pediatricians by researchers in Colorado, practically ninety three percent said that in a typical month, not less than one father or mother of a young little one asked to stretch out the vaccine schedule. This new section incorporates extra up-to-date info that's relevant to the controversial concept that there could also be a link between kids's vaccinations and the dramatic enhance in autism's prevalence. Researchers at the College of Edinburgh found that public well being campaigns within the UK exposing the parable that child vaccinations trigger autism backfired by making mother and father more likely to believe the debunked conspiracy idea. Parents should consult their doctors about which vaccines their children ought to have and when.


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Commercial Property Outlook
Commercial real estate is doing well at the end of the first quarter of 2013. Despite the best efforts of Washington to kill the recovery, existing businesses are expanding while entrepreneurs feel it is the right time to open new ones. After nearly six years of doom and gloom, people seem ready to look to their futures optimistically. While there are still some lagging economic indicators, I believe that we will continue to have steady, if slow, growth for the next several years.In the past manufacturing in the U.S. was declining, but that is no longer the case. The lowering of U.S. wages, energy concerns and our continued productivity compared to the rest of the world make the overall sector on the edge of a growth spurt. Industrial real estate will have to be upgraded since the new plants will have many fewer semi-skilled workers but more robots and highly skilled employees. This knowledge-based manufacturing will be suited to the Northeast, West Coast and Midwest markets. Any new large-scale plants, such as car manufacturing, will be located in the south where there are cheaper land and labor costs.The office sector will continue to improve. New York has shown that it has the resilience to adapt to changing times. Tech companies are coming into the City in increasing numbers. Along with other more traditional office users, the City has rebounded nicely from the depths of the recent recession. Other cities such as Atlanta and Los Angels is have not yet turned around. Chicago is making steady, although unspectacular, progress in the office market. All in all, as long as the office property has modern infrastructure, there should be little problem in renting.However, I do see continued problems for the retail sector. It was over-built at the time of the recession, and the supply is still greater than demand. Absorption of locations will be slow and, in some markets, it will be years before equilibrium has been achieved. Areas such as Manhattan or downtown Chicago have little to fear, but from strip centers to conventional malls, I would urge caution before buying.Finally the multifamily sector has been doing quite well. As more and more people were precluded from buying, renting became their only option. As rents rise and the economy improves, more people will want to own again. However I believe that the under 40 generation will not as eagerly want to tie up so much of their capital in home ownership. While their parents moved to the suburbs to have children, this generation is staying in the cities. As the job market changes from one where employees remained with a company for years, the evolving model means employment is more and more fluid. They may need to move much more rapidly than their parents to take advantage of the changing market. The illiquid nature of owning a house or condo may prevent them taking the next job or assignment.I believe that the commercial market will continue to do modestly well over the next three to five years. If the federal government can get its act together, it may prove to be a very good time for the real estate industry. In fact if the mortgage interest and/or the real estate tax deduction are cut back or eliminated, then owning a home will not be as financially appealing as it is now. This will lead to more people renting rather than buying. At the same time as the economy improves so too will the office and industrial sectors. All in all, it is a good time to be in the commercial market.


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Milestone season highlighted by 25th year with the B.A.A. Boston Marathon, the 15th TD Beach to Beacon and the first year at the helm of the historic New Balance Falmouth Road Race
BOSTON — DMSE Sports is off and running in 2012 with a schedule of more than 30 road races and charity walks that began last weekend with the Spring Training Classic in Jupiter, Fla., and doesn't end until the popular Feaster Five in Andover, Mass., on Thanksgiving Day.
In between, the New England-based national sports event management firm will direct some of the country's most iconic road races, including the B.A.A. Boston Marathon for the 25th time (13 as Technical Director, last 12 as Race Director), the 15th TD Beach to Beacon in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, the famed Bellin Run in Green Bay, Wis., and, for the first time ever, the historic New Balance Falmouth Road Race on Cape Cod in August.
DMSE also recently launched a new website at www.dmsesports.com with a comprehensive calendar of events, a newsroom, and other background and information about the company founded by Dave McGillivray in a Medford, Mass., storefront in 1981.
"We're truly excited about 2012 as our roster of races is growing in size and prestige, and the decision to overhaul our website is a reflection of that growth," said McGillivray, DMSE president. The new website was created by Forte Interactive (www.forteinteractive.com), a web design company that DMSE has enlisted for other race websites, he added.
Now in its 31st year, DMSE, Inc. - Dave McGillivray Sports Enterprises, also known as DMSE Sports - is a leader in sports event management, specializing in creating, marketing and producing mass participatory athletic events throughout the U.S. and abroad. Regarded for technical expertise and attention to every detail, DMSE races are known for being safe, organized and technically advanced. In 2000, McGillivray and his team received the prestigious Race Director of the Year award from Road Race Management.
Other highlights on DMSE's 2012 schedule include the Run for the Dream in Williamsburg, Va.; the Lady Speed Stick® Women's Half Marathon series throughout the U.S., the grueling Mount Washington Road Race in Gorham, N.H., and the Run – Walk to Home Base 9K at Fenway Park in Boston. DMSE also has been tapped to direct the USA Masters 8K Championships.
DMSE also has in recent years has started and manages several of its own races. In addition to the Spring Training Classic in Jupiter, Fla., which ends at home plate inside the stadium where the Marlins and Cardinals train, DMSE also launched the beautiful Run Gloucester! 7 Mile in Gloucester, Mass. and the Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50 5K & 10K, where runners cross the finish line in Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
DMSE is a pioneer in what is now one of the most important aspects of the athletic industry – combining athletics with philanthropy. Nearly every DMSE-led or DMSE-owned event combines fitness and fundraising, giving back to the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital, Lazarus House and many others charities and non-profit organizations in New England and across the country.
Here is a detailed schedule of DMSE's 2012 races:
Sunday, March 18 - SPRING TRAINING CLASSIC 5K and 10K – JUPITER, FL – www.springtrainingclassic.com
Sunday, April 15 - B.A.A. 5K and B.A.A. 1-MILE RACES – BOSTON - www.baa.org
Monday, April 16 - 116TH B.A.A. BOSTON MARATHON – BOSTON - www.baa.org
Friday, April 27 - DAVID SAMSON 50-MILE CHARITY RUN - FLORIDA
Sunday, April 29 - PEDIATRIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION 5K – BOSTON ESPLANADE
Saturday, May 19 - FIT TO RUN, FIT TO DREAM 8K (USA Track & Field Master's 8K Championship) – WILLIAMSBURG, VA - www.runforachievabledream.com
Saturday, May 19 - ETHOS FESTIVAL 8K & MULTISPORT GRAND PRIX – TEMECULA, CA
Sunday, May 20 - RUN TO HOME BASE 9K – FENWAY PARK, BOSTON - www.runtohomebase.org
Sunday, May 20 - RUN FOR THE DREAM HALF MARATHON – WILLIAMSBURG, VA - www.runforachievabledream.com
Sunday, June 3 - RHODY 5K ROAD RACE – LINCOLN, RI www.rhody5k.com
Saturday, June 9 - BELLIN RUN – GREEN BAY, WI www.bellinrun.com
Sunday, June 10 - NSTAR'S WALK FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON – BOSTON www.childrenshospital.org/walk
Saturday, June 16 - MOUNT WASHINGTON ROAD RACE – GORHAM, NH - www.mountwashingtonroadrace.com
Sunday, June 24 - BAA 10K – BOSTON, MA - www.baa.org
Tuesday, July 3 - HARVARD PILGRIM FINISH AT THE FIFTY 5K & 10K – FOXBORO, MA –www.harvardpilgrimfinishatthe50.com
Thursday, July 26 - CAMP HARBOR VIEW CHALLENGE – 5K – QUINCY, MA - www.campharborview5k.com
Saturday, Aug. 4 - TD BEACH TO BEACON 10K ROAD RACE – CAPE ELIZABETH, ME - www.beach2beacon.org
Sunday, Aug. 12 - NEW BALANCE FALMOUTH ROAD RACE – FALMOUTH, MA www.falmouthroadrace.com
Sunday, Aug. 19 - RUN GLOUCESTER! 7 Mile – GLOUCESTER, MA - www.rungloucester.com
Sunday, Aug. 26 – LADY SPEED STICK® WOMEN'S HALF MARATHON – BLOOMINGTON, MN - www.womenshalfmarathon.com
Sunday, Sept. 9 - BOSTON MARATHON JIMMY FUND WALK - BOSTON, MA – www.jimmyfundwalk.org
Saturday, Sept. 22 - LADY SPEED STICK® WOMEN'S HALF MARATHON – NASHVILLE, TN - www.womenshalfmarathon.com
Saturday, Sept. 22-23 - ETHOS SHORT-COURSE TRIATHLON – TEMECULA, CA
Sunday, Sept. 30 - SMUTTY NOSE MARATHON – HAMPTON, NH
Sunday, Sept. 30 - PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH WALK – BOSTON - www.lustgarten.org
Sunday, Oct. 7 - B.A.A. HALF MARATHON – BOSTON - www.baa.org
Sunday, Oct. 14 - HIKE FOR HOPE WALK – MERRIMACK COLLEGE, N. ANDOVER, MA - www.hikeforhope.com
Sunday, Nov. 4 - LADY SPEED STICK® WOMEN'S HALF MARATHON – SCOTTSDALE, AZ - www.womenshalfmarathon.com
Sunday, Nov. 18 - LADY SPEED STICK® WOMEN'S HALF MARATHON – ST. PETERSBURG, FL - www.womenshalfmarathon.com
Thursday, Nov. 22 - FEASTER FIVE ROAD RACE - ANDOVER, MA - www.feasterfive.com


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Bangkok, it's been 20 years and you've come a long way!
The thick pollution is gone.
No more signs "death to drug traffickers" at DonMueng airport.
Easy mass transport system with bus and sky rail from airport. We used to clamber over a fence and cross a dual-carriage way highway to catch the non a/c bus that took forever to get to town.
The hotel we used to stay in was $9 a night – I see it is now in $60s! But we are staying in a lovely hotel Galleria10 for $60 odd.
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Prior to the actual start of Hajj, we spent a few days in Medinatun-Nabi (City of the Prophet).
Along the road we saw many mountains, valleys, grazing camels, small towns, etc. Driving to Medinah from Mecca was about a five-hour drive. Can you imagine making the hijrah (migration) by foot over such a rocky terrain?
Also, there were dhikr (remembrance) signs along the way, which was refreshing. The translation of this sign means "God is Greatest". There were other signs that said "Glorify God", "Praise be to God", "Remember God", "There is no Power or Strength except with God", etc. Imagine looking up to see one of those signs while in a traffic jam, after a car accident, or just after a long and frustrating day at work.
Everyone mentioned that Medinah has such a calming energy and we found this to be very true. The city is clean, beautiful, and serene.
We were located fairly close to Masjid an-Nabawi (The Prophet's Mosque).
The mosque is breath-taking. It has golden doors embellished with calligraphy, marble façade, striped arches that are also characteristic of the mosques from Andalus, Spain, and beautiful golden lanterns. Another cool feature is that the masjid (mosque) has automated sun-roofs that recede to allow natural sunlight to enter. A+ for the use of passive solar lighting and ventilation, Masjid an-Nabawi!
At the periphery of the prayer area, beneath the green dome, lies the mausoleum (grave) of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his two companions Abu Bakr as-Sideeq and Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with them). Not to far from their burial site lies the mimbar (pulpit) of the Prophet (pbuh) and an area known as the Rawdah (The Garden) where the Prophet (pbuh) likened praying there to praying in Heavenly Paradise.
We left Medinah earlier than planned to prepare for Hajj. Though we wanted to stay longer, our travel group did not want to risk being late for the start of Hajj, which was our ultimate purpose to begin with. Though most of us did not feel ready to leave Medinah, I started to realize how much I missed the sight of the Ka'bah and worshipping in its sanctuary.
Our few months of Arabic study in Yemen really bolstered our confidence in speaking Arabic. In Mecca, we had a few opportunities to translate Arabic into English for others. In Medinah, I (eternitysojourner) met a few Mauritanian and Sudanese women that I was able to chat with. Both countries are known for the clear-speaking of Arabic and their preservation of its classical style. For whatever reason, I felt really strongly connected to the sisters I met from Sudan. Their energies were so warm and familiar that I could imagine us hanging out in Khartoum (capital city of Sudan) together.


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Backup Functions
There are two ways to backup your library data in Music 1 . One is automatically done, the other is something you should do manually at least once a week. Manual Backup-Zip File
When you first start Music 1 , before you open your database, click the Backup button you see on the opening screen. This will create a zip file that will include both your library file (the 'station'.m1 file) and your logs files. I recommend you name the file with a date. If your Music 1 database is named: HotStation.m1 then the zip file will be automatically named: HotStation.zip. But before you save it, add the date to the file name. So it will be something like: HotStation-mmddyy.zip
Save the file to the desktop, then move it to some external media; to a flash drive, to a backup folder on your server, etc. You can email it to yourself so the file will be then residing on your email server out there in the cloud. With this backup.zip, you are fully protected. In the event your computer dies, you can easily install Music 1 on another machine, unzip your backup file into the c:\music 1 folder on the new machine and you're back up and running with no loss, no downtime. This is also a good way to move your Music 1 data back and forth from one computer to another. If you want to install Music 1 on your laptop or home computer to do some work over the weekend, zip up the data on the office/station machine and take it with you. Later, re-zip the data on your home computer to bring back to the station computer on Monday morning.
On-Board Backup
Music 1 automatically makes a clone of your library file when you start it each day. These clones are kept in the sub-folder named: Dailybak . You'll see this sub-folder in the folder where your (station).m1 library file is kept. Usually this is found inside the c:\music 1 folder, but if you have your library in some folder on a server, that's where the Dailybak folder will be.
Music 1 makes a clone for each day of the week, so you may have up to seven. It overwrites the clone-of-the-day the next time you open it on that day of the week. If you opened Music 1 on a Saturday in April but then didn't open it ever again on a Saturday, that clone from April would remain there. The next time you open it on a Saturday, that one will be overwritten.
This on-board backup is useful in the rare instance that your database gets corrupted. Or, if you made a lot of changes to categories and/or clocks and then decided you didn't like the result. You could then 'jump back' to an earlier time before the changes were made.


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So another month has passed and here I am to tell you what we've been up to. A lot of stuff has happened: we launched our own crowdfunding platform, developed several new game features and finally started designing quests, to name just a few things.
The most important news for us is that we've finally launched our own crowdfunding platform. It really took us a long time due to the whole range of various issues that arise when you want to make a complex system that must have no glitches, in view of the fact that it's about money. The process involved lawyers, negotiations with PayPal and an attempt to use an existing platform, which we later rejected and created our own… Anyway, the outcome is that if you register with the same e-mail that you use on Kickstarter, you will see your existing pledge and you can also raise it. One registration will then do you for access both to the crowdfunding and the forums and it should be possible at any time even for new backers to raise their current pledge.
At this moment not all the tiers from Kickstarter are in the store. Take it for now as a sort of dry run and if everything works as it should, most likely we will even add the majority of the pledges from Kickstarter, apart from the ones that were limited and sold out. That does not mean that we'll never want to make new swords, for example, however when we do, we'd do it in such a way that our Kickstarter backers would still have something exclusive.
So how is the store working out? It's not of course as massive as the Kickstarter campaign itself, but it's not bad. Even despite the relatively quiet launch, we collected more than 17,000 dollars in the first week. If that keeps up we'll be satisfied.
Characters and animations
I mentioned last time that new people have joined our ranks. One of them is Honza Zámečník, who knows how to do almost everything you can think of and exceptionally well too. So Honza and our main character developer Jirka have started thinking about how we will create the characters and how we will animate them. Literally around the corner from our studio is a company that has a top-notch 3D scanner, so our guys of course started experimenting with whether we could manage to create a 3D scanning setup cheaply ourselves, and the results of their attempts with a couple of cameras and a cell phone look really promising. So far, it looks like the characters in our game will be very detailed 3D scans of real people.
Apart from that, we also started dealing with how to get the figures in motion, not only their bodies, but also their faces. That can be a bit of a problem with an RPG, because it contains a huge amount of text and it is practically unthinkable (and especially unaffordable) to use the best possible method – performance capture – for all of them. So for now it looks like we will use performance capture for the cut scenes, and some other solution, that allows batch processing of large amount of data for the branched dialogues and ingame stuff.
Well, since technology is progressing in leaps and bounds, it turns out that motion capture has advanced so far and become so cheap that it might be worth our while buying our own small studio, which would be equal in quality to the existing studios, but cost a fraction of their prices, and might even be cheaper than paying for recording in a big studio abroad.
New features
Every few weeks we have a company-wide presentation of the new stuff that has been created during the previous weeks. Since, due to having to catch up on the whole backlog, I haven't had much time for dealing with the actual development, I was quite surprised how many new things had been created.
In the first place, we have the archery practically done, including most of the RPG stats connected with it and I dare say it's that sophisticated we could put out an archery simulator :-) The scripters then set up shooting of forest game, so you can set out hunting hare with your new bow and I gotta say anyone who manages to hit one of those bunnies is a sharpshooter. It really is awesome.
Our AI has learned to get characters to create queues in front of a door, give right of way to each other and close doors behind them. The horseriding has improved a bit, so for example when the rider now jumps from his mount on a hill, he drops perpendicular to the ground, and on the other hand he can mount the horse even in relatively complicated conditions. The model of the horse itself is being redesigned. The former one was a little short and when galloping sometimes looked a bit funny, so the horses are getting new models and a new skeleton.
Apart from the new castle they've been working on for some time, the graphic designers also created very realistic creeks, the programmers have added digging holes in the ground and shields are gradually working their way into the combat system.
Planning and design
As far as me and design are concerned, this month we still haven't gotten into the working regime I'd like to see. Fortunately we've managed to sort out most of the backlog. We created a long-term roadmap of the tasks for the game. We've finally decided, hopefully, where we will be moving to next month, because we no longer fit into the existing space.
I also gave lots of interviews and we had a visit from our friends at the German magazine PC Games, which published a long, exclusive preview and video on us. Now we can finally take a break from the media for a while.
I had a few lectures at universities and startup clubs, which is a useful activity, because in our country there are not many options for study focused purely on game development and so it is necessary to popularize games so people will have a place to work here in the future. There are never enough good programmers and at these presentations, which were stuffed to bursting, I addressed several thousand. If you're interested in the footage you can find it here (unfortunately most of them in Czech):
- BizIT – Budoucnost herního průmyslu (complete lecture in Czech),
- Imagine Cup Developers Day (short video in Czech),
- Dan Vávra o historickém a výzkumném aspektu RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance (interview in Czech),
- Czech scene teams up for Pioneers Unplugged #4 (reportage in English).
Meanwhile, the designers have been writing diligently. We started from the simplest activities and events in the game to get in sync before getting stuck into some serious quests. The problem is, since I don't have time, I can't even get round to reading the things that are being done. Seven people are capable together of generating more than a hundred pages of text in a week, which I then have to read, comment and usually also target where the changes should be heading.
So we finally came round to designing one quest together so we would all be on the same page and each could apply all the necessary skills. After all, writing even a very trivial quest for an open world game is really a whole thing. You have to constantly bear in mind the player's freedom and deal with "What happens when the player doesn't do something he's supposed to, does something he isn't supposed to, doesn't have something he should have, injures someone who he's going to need etc." Most greenhorns therefore often slip into writing situations in the style of "The player comes to the square, where at that moment...", or "Then the player will follow the soldiers to..." The question of what happens when he comes there at midnight or he doesn't follow the soldiers usually takes them by surprise :-)
Living history
Well, since the biggest living history and re-enactment event here, the Libušín Medieval Battle, has again taken place, I couldn't miss that either. About a thousand warriors met there again and brutally hacked at each other indiscriminately while their better halves and more peace-loving friends presented life in a period camp. My photos are here.
In conclusion I'm adding links to all the various interviews and articles that have appeared about our game in recent days.
- PC Games Hardware: Kickstarter-RPG Kingdom Come: Selbst Schafherden und Objekte haben eine KI (about artificial intelligence of sheep in German),
- Digital Worlds #3: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (video preview in English),
- CDR.cz: O umělé inteligenci v Kingdom Come: Deliverance (inteview in Czech),
- CDR.cz: S Danem Vávrou o Kingdom Come: Deliverance, jak vznikla idea středověku? (video interview in Czech),
- Hype Tank: 5 reasons why to give Warhorse all the money! (video preview in English).
Thanks for your support!
Dan Vávra, Creative Director


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Vincent Rocco Vargas is a decorated Army Ranger, an Army Reserve drill sergeant, a former prison guard, a former member of the Border Patrol, a social-media star, an entrepreneur, a children's book author, an advocate for veterans and an actor who's co-starring in "Mayans M.C." — a spinoff of "Sons of Anarchy."
Oh, and he lives in Herriman and owns a barbershop in Salt Lake City.
"I'm nothing special. I'm just a normal dude with high drive," Vargas said with a laugh.
He may believe that; others disagree.
After his dreams of baseball stardom died because of an injury, Vargas joined the Army and was deployed three times to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 75th Ranger Regiment's 2nd Battalion. After four years, he left to work special operations with the Arizona Department of Corrections and then the U.S. Border Patrol.
And now he's … an actor?
"I didn't jump into the acting thing to chase fame and money. I don't care about that," Vargas said. "I make my own money by working hard developing businesses. …
"I choose to act because I really love the craft of it, and I want to choose roles that I respect. The goal for me is, the bigger my voice can be, the better I can help more veterans transition out of the military. Be that beacon of light for them."
The light will shine on him more brightly when "Mayans M.C." premieres Tuesday on FX. He's in the supporting cast of the series, which picks up about four years after the end of the "Sons of Anarchy" timeline. The new show is about another motorcycle gang — Mayans M.C. — and centers on Ezekial "EZ" Reyes (JD Pardo), who's a prospect (a novice) with the gang, and who is harboring secret motives.
ON TV • "Mayans M.C." premieres Tuesday on FX — 8 p.m. on DirecTV and Dish; 11 p.m. on Comcast.
The cast includes Clayton Cardenas, Edward James Olmos, Sarah Bolger, Michael Irby, Carla Baratta, Antonio Jaramillo, Raoul Max Trujillo, Richard Cabral and Danny Pino.
Expectations for the show are high, and the first two episodes (screened for critics) are very good. The supporting characters don't get a lot of screen time, but Vargas makes a good first impression.
At first glance, he's an intimidating guy. He's 6 feet tall and 230 pounds, and he has tattoos. A lot of tattoos. But when you talk to him, you discover an affable, energetic, thoroughly likable guy whose enthusiasm is infectious.
Living in Utah • Just over a year ago, Vargas and his wife, Christie, made a decision that confounded his friends and family — they moved to Utah. He was in the state working on another project (which is still under wraps), and they "fell in love with it here."
"Everyone talks about, 'Oh my God! Mormons!'" Vargas said. "And then we get here and it's, like, everyone's really nice! It's really cool! Our neighbors are really sweet! Whether they're LDS or not, they were still very helpful."
Vargas is the father of six who range in age from 5 to 15. The family left El Paso, Texas, where he was working for the Border Patrol.
"We realized we didn't have to live there if we didn't want to, because of what I do for a living — entertainment and social media," Vargas said. "My life is my kids. Trying to give them the best place to hopefully grow and have success. I think this was one of the places that felt the most comfortable."
Vargas operates a number of social-media businesses, and beard.com turned out to be "the first big one." And that, in turn, spawned the Throwbacks Barber Company at 930 S. Main in Salt Lake City, which feels like an old-school barbershop with a cool vibe.
"I've always loved the barber feel — the old-school culture built around it," Vargas said. "You walk in. Community knows your name. They know your story. I did that. I went to the same barber since I was 5 until I was 20 years old. And I miss that feel."
Vargas has been "cutting hair since I was a kid — learning how to do fades when I was 16 years old." He cut hair for his fellow soldiers, for other member of the Border Patrol, for his friends and his kids.
"I was just kind of always around it, but never had the time go to school for it," he said. "So when I started beard.com with a partner of mine, I felt like it would really complement a barbershop."
Not surprisingly, he has big plans for Throwbacks. "We're hoping this thing does so well we can open them up around the United States," he said.
Making it to 'Mayans M.C' • Vargas grew up in the San Fernando Valley, a short drive — depending on traffic — from the center of the entertainment industry. He took a stab at acting in his early 20s. But he's dyslexic, and he struggled to read the script.
"I got so embarrassed, I walked out of the audition. And I never thought of it again," Vargas said — until after he'd joined the Border Patrol and started doing YouTube videos with a friend.
"I was, like, 'I kind of like this. It's fun!'" he said. "And so we built from there."
He acted in the movie "Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves." He produced and starred in "Range 15," which became the first crowd-funded film to hit No. 1 on Amazon.
"So my first big, starring role was in a movie I produced," he said with a laugh. "I don't think anyone else would've given me a option.
"I didn't just put my foot in the door, I kicked it down! And now we're here."
Vargas has big dreams and plenty of confidence, but he sounds a bit surprised that he was cast as Gilberto "Gilly" Vargas on the "Sons of Anarchy" spinoff.
A friend landed him an audition, "and I read off paper. Did the best I could" for the casting director. By the time he flew back to El Paso, he had a message that creator/writer/producer Kurt Sutter wanted to see him.
The second audition seemed to go well, but what clinched it happened afterward. As Vargas exited the building, his firefighter father excitedly pumped him for details and gave him a big hug while, unbeknownst to them, Sutter watched from a window.
"I think he saw the genuineness of the upbringing I had," Vargas said. "I'm just a real, honest family guy and we're all excited about this opportunity."
Vargas' character, Gilly, is a funny guy — he gets laughs in the first couple of episodes — but he's also "kind of a brute."
"He's funny. He's caring. He's really about his boys," Vargas said. "It's the camaraderie that he gets into. Just like the military. It's play hard and work hard.
"And that's a lot of me, so it's not hard to play," he said with a laugh. "And they don't have to cover up the tattoos. That's lucky."
Sutter told the cast of "Mayans" that "he prides himself on having a cast that has more prison time than screen time," Vargas said. "And when he said I thought, 'That's not me.' But everyone looked at me, thinking, 'Yeah!'"
After he got out of the Army, he spent 2½ years as a prison guard in Arizona. Now he's acting alongside Richard Cabral ("American Crime"), who grew up not far from him, was first incarcerated when he was 13, and at 20, served five years for shooting a man — and now the two are tight.
"He always tells us stories from inside the prison — I tell them from the other side of the bars. And we laugh about things," Vargas said. "We've built a close relationship off completely understanding each other's past.
"He's said to me, 'You could have easily been where I was.' And, yeah, I could. I have friends that were. I was lucky enough to have a father to keep me out of that and push me in other directions. And it was just timing and luck — same as getting this part.
"We all had this crazy route, and we all ended up in the same place."
The drill sergeant • For a week in November, about the time "Mayans" will be airing its final first-season episodes, he's scheduled to resume his real-life role as a drill sergeant in the Army Reserve. His military rate helped him fly home to Utah every weekend during production on the 10 episodes of Season 1.
"The drill sergeant thing, for me, is the best thing I've ever done — and I've done some really cool stuff," Vargas said. "To be able to develop a soldier and prepare them for combat — it's a very serious job, and I never want to be the guy that didn't give them enough to get them prepared for combat. So you'll see a whole different side of me."
Vargas speaks to veterans across the country, encouraging them to get whatever help they need to succeed in civilian life — including therapy, if necessary.
"I went to counseling to help me get rid of some of the issues that bothered me for years. I had sleep issues from PTSD," he said. "And what I want to do is tell guys it's OK to get counseling. It doesn't mean you're weak. Get it done. Get it fixed, and let's get moving."
(He's also written two children's books for military kids — "My Military Dad … Does Things a Little Different" and "My Dad Has the Most Important Job in the World.")
And he encourages them to follow their dreams.
"We stand in our own way by doubting ourselves and giving ourselves roadblocks when there's no need," Vargas said. "Who would have ever thought this guy could've been in acting?
"Still, sometimes, I can't believe that I'm even a part of this. I can't. It almost feels like a dream. It's a Hollywood story of that one chance that happened."


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Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: Odyssey of Indenture (USA: University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. 274.
Reprint from South Asia Mail, An Independent Internet Weekly
Review by Cyril Dabydeen/UOttawa
In a riposte to an academic's critique on the quality of scholarship in her book Coolie Woman, author Gaiutra Bahadur–a Guyanese-born US-based journalist-writer–stated that it is "very much a subaltern history, a history from below that strives to recover the voices of people who didn't have the power to write themselves into history"; and, she emphasized: "I analyzed the reports on 77 indenture voyages from Calcutta to the Caribbean, mining them for the stories of the indentured but also grounding this qualitative data in quantitative analysis, generating statistics on the percentage of pregnant women, married couples and returnees aboard ship." Let me say, immediately, that I admire Bahadur's work; it is a book that reflects her prodigious research skills and energy to recreate and reconstruct the past, narratively, and indeed, with intellectual acumen. At best, Coolie Woman straddles memoir in the literary non-fiction genre exploring the origin and legacy of the life of her great grandmother, Sujaria, a "coolie" woman, who was brought to British Guiana around 1903 in almost mysterious circumstances to work in the sugar plantation; she was subsequently moved to the Rose Hall sugar plantation (Canje district) where I was born and lived up to my early manhood; and therein lies the immediacy for this reader because it's also where I taught school for almost a decade, at Rose Hall–the behemoth sugar cane factory located obliquely across the school; I also interacted with sugar plantation workers on a daily basis; and, my own writing draws from this heritage. Ms Bahadur grew up in the Cumberland village, in Canje, but emigrated as a young girl with her family to New York. I'd met Ms Bahadur in Trinidad at the Bocas Literary Festival, where she introduced herself to me.
Her search for ancestral links drives much of what we read in this retrospective volume; and Coolie Woman has garnered much praise (it was short listed for key literary awards). But odyssey: going back into one's beginnings, or provenance, is not entirely new. US-based Denise Grollmus's personal journey of Jewish discovery in Poland where three million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and discovering that her grandmother–a Jew–a fact kept hidden for almost 70 years, also came to mind. But perhaps the coolie indentured system is more compelling, for one like myself, a capitalist-cum-colonial nexus, as it was, that brought to the Caribbean three million African slaves and one million Indians as indentured servants–most of the latter to Guyana and Trinidad. Over the years I have interacted with key scholars who have written insightfully on this subject: like Professors Brinsley Samaroo, Clem Seecharran, Frank Birbalsingh, and briefly, with the late UK scholar Hugh Tinker (in 1988 at a York University Conference on indentureship), who famously labelled the coolie indenture system as "another form of slavery." My own imaginative work focusses on this nefarious system, as has David Dabydeen's (poems, stories, and novels, essays): about the tribulation our forbears experienced after coming through the dreadful kala pani ("dark water") of the Indian Ocean, and enduring sugar plantation travail.
Bahadur's book takes a special place due to her subaltern woman's point of view; as she relates: "I relied on official archives but also sought to fill in the many gaps and silences in the archives–they can lead us to the texture of indentured women's lives, but not to the texture of their thoughts–with alternative and personal sources….rather than from the perspectives of British colonial officials" (Letter, Stabroek News). Indeed, she journeyed back to the Caribbean, India, the UK and elsewhere more than to vicariously relive her great grandmother's journey, and through painstaking research and serious reflection resulted her achievement in Coolie Woman. Yet, I bore in mind Sigmund Freud's caveat about the biographer's art's "false colouring"–and of an author perhaps reading too much into events, like the Ramayana (Ram and Sita) trope and allegory and seeing the British plantocracy as Ravan. But this is a minor carp–for beyond anything else this book is soul-searching: about a great grandmother's ordeal (Sujaria was four months pregnant on the ship when she crossed the kala pani); a woman with "eyes like cat's eyes…and skin white like white people," perhaps pointing to her Brahminic caste, added to her coming from the Indian state of Bihar before reaching Calcutta to begin her horrific near four-month sea journey on The Clyde.
Women chosen for indenture might have derived from a "complex mix of victimization and Vaishnavite devotion" (31), Bahadur tells us, and that those like Sujaria were initially ostracized; the recruiters often went to holy sites and found such women, as "family members took widows to pilgrimage sites and abandoned them there. At other times, widows found their own way there, as they fled mistreatment and sexual advances in their in-laws' homes," writes Bahadur (31).
Sujaria's sugar plantation experiences encapsulate the indentured people's struggles (particularly women's), as angst that the author internalizes, calling it her "transformative journey" and her "narrative history" characterizing the egregious labour experience when "one shilling was the value of a human life," as well as the psychic and social trauma that ensued in the British Guiana sugar plantations where there were 64 women to 100 men (the figure varied over the indenture period). The gender imbalance was fraught with sexual exploitation and oppression which Bahadur describes in poignant detail. This is no Rushdiean "imaginary homeland" retelling as Bahadur interweaves Vedas mythology juxtaposed with stereotypes that underpin the relations between Guyanese of African and Indian backgrounds during a large part of the Gladstone-coolie indenture (lasting from 1838 to 1917); slaver Sir John Gladstone was the father of British prime minster Sir William Gladstone.
Compelling situations associated with time and place are unearthed and reflected throughout this book, including angularities tied to rivalries and jealousies between former African slaves and Indian coolies: the dynamics are often worked out in the prevailing gender relationships and the sexual shenanigans and animosities–Bahadur argues–which are tied to violence between men and women (seen, for instance, in the evocative chapter, "Beautiful Woman without a Nose"); and, not surprisingly, sexual goings-on and power relationships between coolie women and white planters and their overseers in the context of the European stereotype of Indians' "possessiveness and promiscuity" juxtaposed with the notion of the "chastity of Indian women"–demonstrate that women were kept in more than a symbolic bondage. In this context Bahadur narratively triangulates Sujaria's story of survival: testament to an extraordinary spirit and will to live, as well as the great- grandmother's practical intelligence and faith (largely Hinduism). The author herself is a devotee of Saraswati (deity of "knowledge and purity"), seen in her feminist drive.
Overall, Bahadur writes insightfully about the legacy of violence and murders that occurred–still a haunting legacy–in her analysis of the indenture system; as she states: "More murders occurred in Guyana than elsewhere, but Trinidad's statistics were only slightly less grim" (109); and "Indenture threw men into the arms of their gods. They were displaced, and Hinduism rooted them…Indenture drove some to religion and others to madness"(125).
Other chapters such as "Gone but not Forgotten," "The Dream of Return," and "Every Ancestor" make for compelling reading; and, for me, what especially resonates in the book are references to Inverness and the Scottish Highlands in the chapter "Surviving History," which combines the anecdotal mixed with fact-based revelations about the linkage between Guyana's Rose Hall sugar plantation and the Highlands' Rose Hall (in a Scotland I myself once visited). Not surprisingly, in the end Bahadur went back to the district in Bihar to meet up with her forebears: relations of her indentured great grandmother, who is still remembered, which I find touching (I have read of other "return" narrations); I had also travelled to India, but not as a "returnee". Importantly, Coolie Woman is very much about the colonized and colonizer and the "dark dramas" that ensued; it is not a polemical work, nor necessarily a shift from Eurocentric to Indo-centric scholarship, but is work "plumbing the depths of origins" (Wilson Harris). It also builds upon precursor texts such as Verene Shepherd's Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean, which Gaiutra Bahadur acknowledges. In context, I was intrigued by scholar Lisa Outar's take: that "Coolie women weren't exactly like Jane Austen heroines, practising love as a form of social mobility, but they seem to have used their scarcity to survive…in an exploitative environment" (Review, Stabroek News) in forming sexual and familial partnerships.
This book's style eschews jargon and pretentiousness seen in much academic discourse, but has a natural rhythm in sentence structure and the cadence of colloquial speech mixed in with the formal and measured; it also has near exquisite descriptions of imagined experiences: all in view of the criss-crossing of genres, from literary non-fiction to scholarship. The black-and-white photographs are also evocative. Significantly, Coolie Woman strives to recover the voices of people who didn't have the power to write themselves into history, as has been said; and, to invoke V.S. Naipaul: "as a people you have to know the past." I believe this book should be read by all in the Caribbean–and elsewhere–and be a central text in post-colonial studies aimed at fostering awareness of Indian women's historical struggles in Guyana, Trinidad, and the rest of the Caribbean, as well as in places like Fiji–where the invidious indentureship system still has echoic repercussions on people's lives. END
Cyril Dabydeen (UOttawa) edited Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today (TSAR, Toronto). God's Spider/poetry (Peepal Tree Press, UK) is his newest book.


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IPRT MEDIA ADVISORY: Report of the Commission of Investigation into the death of Gary Douch. Read more
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text: Share: Comments Print October 17, 2014 at 8:57 PM Updated Percy Harvin story with a few new details Posted by Bob Condotta Here's our updated story on the Percy Harvin trade which includes a few new details. A couple that stand out: — A source told the Times that Harvin and Doug Baldwin got into an altercation the final week of the preseason, before the Seahawks played at Oakland. Harvin then missed two practices and did not travel to the game at Oakland for what the team said was a "personal matter." Both Baldwin and Harvin had what the team said were "excused absences" for a practice on Aug. 26. — Another league source said that what might have been a final straw came Sunday when Harvin apparently balked at being put back in the game in the fourth quarter of a 30-23 loss to Dallas. — Also, there won't be a statement from the team tonight as that will not come until the Jets announce the trade. That apparently won't happen tonight. But it doesn't mean anything other than just that the paperwork has yet to be completed, apparently. Expect everything to be finalized by 1 p.m. Seattle time Saturday. That's the deadline for the move to be made and allow Seattle to add a player in time for Sunday's game at St. Louis. Comments


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