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HE'S NOT YOUR PRINCE CHARMING: marriage is lonely
Dear girls, Right now I am sitting in a coffee shop connected to a church in Santa Cruz, California. Phil and I taught our Intentional: raising passionate Jesus followers seminar at Vintage Faith Church this weekend and then Phil preached for their 3 gatherings on Sunday. Tomorrow we'll hop in the car and start the long drive home. I've been away for more than 3 weeks (!) spending time with family and getting refreshed. It's been a wonderful break but now I'm itching to get home and share with you all I've heard in my hours of quiet.
Ally Vesterfelt has graciously agreed to write this week's post. I've known Ally since she was a little girl and have loved watching her grow into a uniquely gifted woman with a message. What she shares here about the reality of loneliness even in marriage is something all of us can relate to. Her honesty allows us once again to realize that He's Not Your Prince Charming, propelling us to purposely cultivate our relationship with the One who is.
I love you girls! Back next week…
From my heart,
When I was twenty and single, the one thing I knew for sure about marriage was that, when I got married, I wouldn't be lonely.
The funny thing was, the older I got, the less lonely being single seemed. I had a dozen friends and an active social life. We were always dreaming and scheming up something — keeping ourselves busy with careers and trips and spontaneous rendezvous for happy hour. We would cry with each other and call each other at two in the morning sometimes and, before we knew it, we became like family.
We weren't husbands and wives, but we were men and women, doing life together, getting in-your-mess and in-your-face and learning to how to love until it hurt.
It was a really beautiful disaster most of the time, but we had built it. It was ours.
Of course, there were moments the loneliness would sink in.
I would be at a friend's wedding, watching her walk down the aisle (or watching him wait for his bride) and I would think about how things would never be the same again. Not that it was a bad thing. This was how it should be. Marriage changed things. I didn't really know how it did, I just knew it did.
In the moments single life seemed lonely, at least I had my family.
My parents didn't always agree with everything I thought or said or did, but by the time I was in my late twenties, I had hit a groove with them — a really lovely groove where we told each other things, and they wouldn't tell me what to do no matter how many times I begged them, but would always listen and hug me and tell me everything was going to be alright.
And my sister and brother, despite being different from me in many ways, shared comforting similarities like a the shape of my nose and color of my eyes, not to mention the inside jokes and a mutual understanding about how and when and how not to push each others buttons.You learn to function together in family. Even when your "function" is rather "dysfunctional" it is comforting.
Because you've built it, together.
Then, I met my husband, and we got married. And something very strange happened.
I lost all of that.
I gained something too, but I couldn't see what I gained without first recognizing what I lost.
I lost my friends.
In part this was the nature of our transition (we moved across the country) and in part it was because it's really difficult to merge two systems together — his system of friends, my system of friends. Each operated differently with its own unique rules and regulations, its own sensibilities about what is important, what is acceptable, and what is not.
And as much as I swore I would never be the kind of friend who stopped being a friend just because I got married — I found myself doing it. Because friendship is built on common ground and I wasn't sure what ground I was on anymore. I was building something new now, and I wasn't sure how it all fit together.
I lost my family.
Not "lost" as in gone forever, but lost as in temporarily lost my footing, lost my sensibilities about what it looked like to be a sister or a daughter or a daughter-in-law now that I was married. Who was I supposed to go to when I had a problem? Who's side was I supposed to take when no one saw eye-to-eye?
It's hard to merge two families when you're trying to build your own.
So the first year of marriage felt lonely to me, not because my husband wasn't my friend, or because he didn't love me, or because I didn't love him, but because building is hard. And because we were starting from the bottom, and because I was building with someone who I had only known, and who had only known me, for a couple of months.
We're learning, more slowly than we'd like sometimes, what it looks like to bring pieces of me, and pieces of him, into this our thing we're building together.
This thing that is all ours.
We're learning that when one of us gets sick, or has a bad day, or gets their feelings hurt, there is only the other, cleaning up the mess or doing the dishes or digging deep or soothing bruised egos. After all, if we don't do it, no one else will.
No one else will build this for us.
We're learning that if we want something that suits us, that's big enough for both of us, for my values, and for his, big enough for both of our separate pasts, our separate friends, our separate families, or separate ideals — we have to build it. If we want a system that is functional and comfortable, and fits us, like a good pair of jeans, we have make it.
We can't get everything we want, all of the time.
But we're building something.
And the longer we're married, the less lonely it gets. We find our footing and invite people in and watch each other weave in and out of old and new seasons. And when I think about it, this isn't that different from before I was married. Anytime we're building, we're making difficult decisions, about what to keep and what to leave behind. And we're all responsible for what we're creating...
And when it seems most difficult is when we're making the most progress.
Are you married or single? Are you lonely?


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"The Queen" - John C. Kirk — LiveJournal
May. 28th, 2007
10:25 pm - "The Queen"
Last weekend I watched The Queen, which I thought was very good. I don't think it would have benefitted from the big screen (at a cinema), but it's worth watching on TV.
In case you're not familiar with the basic premise, this is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the death of Diana (Princess of Wales) in 1997; more specifically, it looks at the way that the royal family reacted to her death, and how this was was perceived by the general public. I think it's very well acted, particularly by James Cromwell (playing Prince Philip): I've seen him in various roles, and each one is quite different, so even though I saw his name in the credits I didn't actually recognise him until I read the cast list at the end.
The whole point of the film is to speculate about private conversations "behind the scenes", so I don't know how accurate this speculation is, but it all seems plausible to me as a way that it could have happened. I think that Blair and the Queen both came across as sympathetic: they were decent people, trying to handle a difficult situation as best they could.
(Paul O'Brien wrote a review of this film last year, which I'd also recommend.)
I remember where I was when I heard the news; I'd just moved house, and I was chatting to a friend on the phone while I unpacked, and he asked me whether I'd heard the news about Diana. My immediate reaction was: "Oh no, what's she done now?" (Bear in mind that this was after a long period of her being featured prominently in the tabloids.) I felt slightly embarrassed when I heard that she was dead, but it didn't really bother me much either, and I found all of the mass hysteria rather disturbing. (This is related to my recent post about school maps in computer games, where I think that people are completely over-reacting.)
There was something interesting I read at the time, regarding the cards and flowers that people left outside Buckingham Palace. Lots of the cards had messages which were addressed to Diana (e.g. "We miss you!"); this was unusual, because normally people would send cards to the relatives instead, expressing sympathy for their loss. Nowadays, it seems more common to address the dead directly, but I think this was where the trend started.
One of the controversial issues was that Buckingham Palace didn't fly the flag at half-mast. The official reason for this is that the flag has a specific meaning: it's a standard which signifies that the Queen is in residence, so if she's away then it isn't flown at all. I'm not an expert on royal etiquette, but that sounds plausible to me, so I think it's reasonable for them to continue that tradition. (In the film, they say that the flag wasn't flown at half-mast when King George VI died, for exactly the same reason.) However, this decision was unpopular with the general public, who felt that the royal family weren't showing the appropriate amount of remorse.
Turning to speculation (i.e. the fictional dialogue from the film), there was one particular quote from the Queen which impressed me:
"I doubt there is anyone who knows the British people more than I do, Mr Blair, or who has a greater faith in their wisdom and judgement. And I believe they will any moment reject this ... this mood which is being stirred up by the press, in favour of a period of restrained grief and sober, private, mourning. That's the way we do things in this country: quietly, with dignity. That what the rest of the world has always admired us for."
Sadly, this isn't really an accurate view of England nowadays; exercising self-restraint isn't a very popular choice. This is where Tony Blair comes in, since (according to the film) he advised the royal family on how to project their public image. Initially he's irritated by this, saying that he has to save them from themselves, and that he has better things to do with his time. However, I did like his line later on, when he said that "I think there's something ... ugly about the way everyone's started to bully her."
The obvious conclusion to draw from all this is that British society has changed in the last 50 years, and the Queen's views are now out of date. The BBC have recently been discussing the 1950s on their website (contrasting that decade to the present day), which I found interesting.
This is a theme which has also been explored elsewhere. For instance, I read the ambulance blog Random Acts of Reality, and one common theme is that people call ambulances for trivial reasons. (Ditto for NeeNaw, written by a 999 dispatcher.) I don't have a specific citation to hand, but I recall someone saying that this is a generational issue: elderly people who lived through the Blitz tend to say "Oh well, we musn't complain", so they're reluctant to call an ambulance for fairly serious issues, whereas younger people tend to feel that they're entitled to an ambulance if anything minor goes wrong (rather than calling a taxi).
Turning to fiction, I've come across a few recent examples of this contrast. In the Torchwood episode "Out of time", three people travel through time from 1953 to 2006, and they have some difficulty in adjusting. For instance, one of the women from 1953 meets a man in a nightclub and goes off with him, just intending to have "a bit of a cuddle", and she's shocked to hear that he'd be expecting to have sex with her. Someone then shows her a magazine with articles about sex tips, and her immediate reaction is that it's disgusting, since she's not used to the subject being discussed so openly. Given my general reaction to Torchwood as a series ("There must be lots of sex! All the time! That's what makes this a series for grown-ups!"), I'm inclined to think that the 1953 attitude has a lot going for it.
Marvel comics have recently had a big "event" called Civil War. I'm intending to cover that in more detail in a future post, but the relevant point here is that Captain America was frozen in the 1940s (then thawed out in the modern world), so his value system comes from a pre-war society. In one comic, a reporter is interviewing him:
Reporter: "Let me ask you something, sir: do you know what MySpace is?"
Captain America: "I'm not sure I understand the relevance of that question, Sally --"
Reporter: "No, you just don't understand the question, sir. I'm trying to illustrate a point here, so bear with me. Do you know who won the last World Series, or who was the last American Idol? When was the last time you actually attended a Nascar race? When was the last time you watched The Simpsons or logged onto YouTube to watch a stupid video?"
Captain America remains silent.
Reporter: "Exactly. Never. You hold America up as some shining beacon of perfection but you know next to nothing about it."
(Civil War: Frontline #11)
I'd say that Cap and the Queen have quite a lot in common here.
Looking at the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, I think that the way the British navy handled themselves against the zombie pirates is a good example of high moral standards: they showed courage in adversity, followed by restraint and mercy in victory.
Ultimately, my own experience is going to be skewed, since I wasn't alive in the 1940s and 1950s, so I only have second hand evidence from a more limited number of sources; I also don't have to experience the bad points of those decades (such as food rationing). Still, while there may never have been a golden age, I like the idea of the values that these people aspire to, and so I'll try to live up to them in the present day.
I also don't have to experience the bad points of those decades (such as food rationing).
...or sexism, or racism, or homophobia, or the institutionalised bullying that was commonplace in all the better schools, or the various injustices of the class system, etc. One consequence of being expected to stay silent through adversity is that a lot of really horrible stuff goes undetected.
while there may never have been a golden age, I like the idea of the values that these people aspire to
I like several of those values too - I hope that's apparent in the way I live. I think it's important to take the bits we like from the past, but not kid ourselves about the bits we don't like - they can sneak back if we're not at least a little bit careful. Like Austin Powers said: "Right now we've got freedom and responsibility... It's a very groovy time :)"
Have you seen the film Pleasantville? The basic idea is that it starts out with a 1950s sitcom where everything is happy, then digs a bit deeper to show what's being hidden (e.g. domestic violence).
(I thought this was in "Wha-huh?!", which is why I showed you that on Sunday.)

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Good morning,
MPs might have failed to persuade Mark Zuckerberg to add a London date to his 'apology tour' of Europe, but an episode of The Mark Carney Show in parliament yesterday did more than enough to write this morning's headlines.
Speaking at a session of the Treasury select committee, the governor of the Bank of England delivered a series of gloomy economic assessments, for which he laid the blame firmly at Brexit's door.
Growth is lower by almost 2% than the bank forecast in May 2016, amounting to around £40 billion. This is despite eurozone and US economies being stronger than expected and the bank having injected a stimulus in the wake of the vote to leave the EU, including an emergency cut in interest rates. The major headline though was that households were at least £900 a year worse off, "which is a lot of money" Carney told us, incase we weren't sure.
The Canadian economist, who will stand down from his position when his term comes to an end in June 2019, also set out what is likely to be in store for the British economy in the coming months. He told MPs that he expected a "sharp pick-up" in business investment when a Brexit agreement is struck and for the economy to lift this quarter, believing that stagnation in the first three months was caused by "temporary and idiosyncratic" factors, including the unseasonal cold weather. One such consequence of this upturn is that a gradual rise in interest rates is in the offing.
Donald Trump has claimed a change in attitude from Kim Jong Un after he met Xi Jinping is to blame for the possible delay or cancellation of a much-heralded summit on June 12 between the US and North Korean leaders. Some commentators have claimed that Trump's decision to apply pressure to Beijing is a tactic to absolve his own administration of any blame that loose talk has undermined the summit in Singapore. (£)
Sajid Javid will today tell police that he is 'standing with' them, as the new home secretary delivers his first speech to the Police Federation. The federation, which represents rank-and-file officers across England and Wales, are notorious for giving home secretaries a frosty reception. Javid is expected to take a different approach to Theresa May, who was heckled in 2012 after telling officers to stop "crying wolf" about the impact of budget cuts.
New figures by the Office for National Statistics have shown that public sector net borrowing, excluding banks,dropped by £1.6bn year-on-year in April, to £7.8bn, the lowest figure for April since 2008. Economists had anticipated a figure of £8.6bn, according to a poll for Thomson Reuters. (£)
Predictably, the governor's comments were seized on by both camps in the Brexit debate. Open Britain, the grassroots campaign against a hard exit, called his performance a 'must watch', while Brexiteers delivered a fierce rebuttal led by Boris Johnson, with the foreign secretary under no doubt that it was "absolutely not the case that Brexit has damaged the interests of this country". Notably, Philip Hammond did not contest the forecast when speaking in the Commons later in the afternoon.
Judging by the fevered reaction to Carney's performance, it would seem that Michael Gove's prediction in 2016 that "people in this country have had enough of experts" remains more than a tad premature.
Business & Economy
Barclays has been quietly exploring a possible merger with rival banks, including Standard Chartered, in response to pressure from an activist investor, according to two people close to the situation. The possible combination with StanChart, which has a £25bn market capitalisation, is only one of many contingency options being "kicked around" by Barclays directors as it looks to respond 5.4 per cent interest in the bank acquired recently by activist investment fund Sherborne. (£)
Marks and Spencer has suffered a steep fall in annual profits, with pre-tax profits dropping to £66.8m from £176.4m last year. A major factor for this 62% drop was a one-off charge of £321m to cover the cost of its decision to close 100 stores across the UK.
Stacey Cunningham has been appointed the president of the New York Stock Exchange, the first female to hold the role in its 226-year history. Cunningham started at the NYSE as a summer intern in 1994 and has also worked at Nasdaq, the technology-focused stock exchange. NYSE is the world's largest stock exchange, handling about $50 billion trades a day in companies that are collectively worth $19.6 trillion. (£)
What happened yesterday?
The FTSE 100 forged ahead once more yesterday, posting another record close for the index. It closed 18.3 points or 0.23% higher at 7877.5, having reached 7,800 for the first time on Monday. At one point during yesterday's trading it was at 7,903.5, a new all-time intra-day high.
US stocks also continue on an upward trajectory as the US and China step back from the brink of a trade war. The Dow Jones opened 34.26 points, or 0.1 per cent higher at 25,047.55, as news broke that the Chinese government would cut import duties on passenger cars as a further concession to the States, with Washington and Beijing nearing a resolution to save Chinese telecoms group ZTE from US sanctions.
On the currency markets, hawkish comments on the outlook for UK rates from Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Gertjan Vlieghe saw sterling rise 0.1% against the dollar at $1.3438 having been up as much as 0.5% over the course of the day.
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In his weekly Financial Times column, Martin Wolf looks at the implications of Italy's new populist leaders for the EU. He concludes that, economically, there is a real danger that the country crashes out of the eurozone and defaults, causing significant damage to the economy. Wolf also summarises that, on a political level, it would be difficult for the other member states to bring Italy to heel in the same way it could with Greece given that Italexit is a genuine prospect. (£)
Writing in the Guardian, Gaby Hinsliff examines the downfall of Ken Livingstone and asks such a shrewd, likable politician become such a liability. Hinsliff concludes that the former London mayor has either lost his once-canny ability to read the mood of the public or is "listening to a Labour party very different from the one he joined half a century ago".
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Terminal Illness (Provision of Palliative Care and Support for Carers) - Bambos Charalambous
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Restoration of devolved institutions in Northern Ireland - Lord Lexden
Additional support for the tourism industry - Lord Foster of Bath
Allegations of genocide by Turkey against Kurds and Yezides of Afrin province in Syria - Lord Hylton
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Some time ago we left a tutorial with tricks when changing the tire, and this time we will see some tips or tricks for the windows of the car, whether windshield window mirrors etc.
In Blog De Caches we want to take care of your car in the best possible way, so below you will see some tips to keep the glasses and glasses of the car in the best possible condition.
We broke the levanter crista, what do we do?
The glass lifts of cars often break or break down, regardless of whether it is electric or manual, the bad thing is that it breaks just opening or closing making the window is half open.
What we can do to solve it momentarily is to look for a flat-blade screwdriver, if we use force with our hands we can raise the glass, when this top we put the screwdriver between the glass and the inner lining of the door, this way you will achieve that the glass get off
Frozen windshield
In case we are in a low temperature site and the windshield is frozen, what we can do is use a CD box or something similar, to get the ice stuck, if you have a spatula it will be much easier, just do it with Be careful not to scratch and damage the windshield.
Cracked the windshield, how do I stop it?
Sometimes, either by the natural wear of the material or by a strong blow, the windshield cracks or slits, it can be a problem if this happens in full travel, to stop the crack or to keep breaking what we can do is, pass nail polish, we put several layers on both sides of the windshield, this covers the crack and prevents momentarily cracking.


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Beware of Cheap Imports!
Recently we have seen what can best be described as "Cheap Import" weapon racks entering the US market. The cheap weapon cabinet distributors all make references to AR190-11 and OPNAV 5530 as reference points to security and quality of manufacturing.
DOD requirements for small arms storage ( AR190-11 and OPNAVINST 5530.13C) are not standards for quality or good design. They simply make reference to minimum performance standards relating to locking bars and hinges. Both were written at a time when the military was storing M16A1s in welded angle iron racks. Today, with the switch to modular weapon storage cabinets, these documents are of little value and in no way should be used to judge cabinet design or quality of construction.
We are now seeing weapon cabinets entering the US market form cheap foreign manufactures.
Example right: I took this picture at Fort Carson. The door had broken off the cabinet. It was sitting outside the arms room. This was a result of the construction style and build quality. The door on the cabinet was held in place with 4 rivets, that's it. You can also see all the components piled up in the bottom because these cabinets and systems are not very well engineered.
It is not always easy to judge quality and performance from a PDF or printed weapon storage system proposal. To avoid products like this, it is important to evaluate not just the proposal, but also the person or company representing it.
See: Evaluating Competence of Your Sales Rep
There are many quality products on the market, however in the push for lower prices and contracting, command needs to be aware that in many cases you get what you pay for and you will end up with a system that must be replaced in just a few years.
Simply reviewing the performance specifications prior to posting a solicitation for bids can eliminate a lot of the risk of receiving a product that is inferior to what was requested or expected.
At a minimum all requests for a quote should require:
- Welded cabinet construction
- Door hinges must be welded, riveted door hinges will not be accepted
- Cabinets must be capable of storing a wide verity of weapons and their attachments without the need to purchase additional components.
Think Long Term
Most weapon storage systems are purchased to address a current specific need. Understand that the useful life of a quality weapon storage cabinet is 15 to 20 years. With that in mind, it is important to evaluate the weapon cabinets, not just for their ability to meet current armory need, but also for their ability to adapt to future changes.
Many foreign produced weapon cabinets were never designed for US military use.
Canadian weapon racks were introduced around 2004 and have historically not been popular in the US. Those manufacturers are now trying to make a push back into the US military market. It appears they have changed their name and are now marketed under the name Sekure, which is in no way associated with SecureIt® Tactical. Sekure's weapon storage cabinets were designed from the ground up to meet a Canadian standard and Canadian way of storing and managing weapons and gear. They are not inferior to US products – they are just different. This difference can cause serious consequences when these systems are applied to a US military armory.
See: K Armory Mistake? and Should the US Military Use Import Weapon Racks?
Education is the key to make the best decision
Take the time to understand what's available, how it is made and how well it adapts to changes. Weapon storage vaults and armories are dynamic environments and changes happen frequently.
The Three keys to long-term success:
- SimplicityAll things being equal, the simplest solutions are those that will withstand the test of time. Simple solutions require little or no training and anyone can use them. – As a point of reference, the Canadian system referenced above has over 225 different SKUs or parts. A US system like our Tactical Model 84 Weapon rack has about 8 components. See Curse of the Bracket Racks"
- Load CapacityShelf load capacity is critical. Many Import systems on the market use lightweight shelving in an effort to keep cost down. Simply stated: there are many heavy things in armories that end up on shelves. This is not an area to go cheap. We see a lot of system failures due to insufficient cabinet and shelf load capacity
- SustainabilityThe weapon storage solution you choose should provide flexibility to adapt to changes in weapons lists and armory workflow without requiring the user to purchase new, or updated components. This is a big problem with many cheap systems and some not so cheap ones.
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Health research at the University of Hertfordshire spans a wide range of interests and approaches. Some of these are clinical, working with hospitals, while others are more population-based.
Research includes both the understanding of psychological factors that influence health and health behaviours as well as the development of interventions that can address these issues. In particular, we are interested in both the cognitive and emotional factors that influence health, as these have major potential impacts on policy.
Research areas are
We have many collaborative partnerships both within the University of Hertfordshire and with outside organisations including:
Health Grants Include:
In contrast to having a positive body image, body compassion refers to self-kindness rather than critical self-judgment in relation to having a negative body image.
We have been developing and evaluating trait and state measures of body compassion and evaluating the role of body compassion in body shame, eating and physical activity. We have also begun exploring interventions using expressive writing and guided imagery to develop body compassion. In these involved undergraduate and postgraduate students in research and placement activities both at UH and other universities
Projects include:
We have carried out many studies exploring the effect of stress, emotions and emotion regulation on eating behaviour.
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My husband had one word for this book: bleak.
I suppose if you crave happy endings and conflict resolution, this might not be the book for you.
I found this a really interesting perspective of World War 2 that I hadn't thought of before: the ever neutral Switzerland. I appreciated this point of view, and came to see that war was just a (excuse me) bitch to everyone all over the world, no matter how involved or uninvolved they were. Even in Switzerland, trying to stay out of it, people were left destitute and in danger. (Okay, I don't know much about history, so don't criticise my ignorance too much.)
Our main character is Gustav, and the book opens to his life as a young boy living with his single mother in a tiny flat without even a table – only a shelf that they use instead. From the beginning it is evident that Gustav is such a beautiful character. He is kind, patient and just wants to be loved. He takes care of people, and seems unaware of how unfair things are for him. His mother treats him coldly, and even his young friend Anton uses him as a shield against the world, helping him cope with his anxieties and failures.
Interestingly, from here, Tremain jumps back to a few decades before when Gustav's parents first met. This back-track fills in some gaps for us. We see how it was in the beginning of their marriage, and come to see that Gustav's mother (Emilie) isn't bitter and cold because of her memories of a happy marriage. It was far from that, and much more complicated.
Emilie is an interesting character. We despise and we sympathise with her, but even when her story is explained, it turns out that she has a bleak and unrealistic view of the world. She wants more than she can have. She works hard to survive, but fails to find enjoyment in the simplest things, like spending time with her son.
Towards the end of The Gustav Sonata, we see Gustav's life as a man in his fifties-sixties. He has worked hard, saved and bought a hotel. Unfortunately he was unable to repair his relationship with his mother before she died, and we see that Anton is still using Gustav more than he should.
I guess it was a bit of a bleak book. There are some strange bits in there that I can't really explain. Is it worth a read? … Yeah. Sure. Or if you're like me, and enjoy happy stories, maybe give it a miss.


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The World Is Fast: An Ode to Daring Work/
The world is fast.
Fads. Technology. Terrorism. Viral diseases. Natural disasters. Pop-up stores. Food trucks. Trending tweets. Viral videos. Bull markets. Bear markets. Sudden death. Market crashes Medical miracles. ADD. Random collisions. Unexpected introductions. The three a.m. eureka.
We are slow.
Resisting. Doubting. Looking for proof. Seeking certainty. Denying our yearnings. Discrediting our hunches. Waiting for someone else. Hoping for a hero. Worrying about mistakes. Seeing things through a warped lens. Remembering before. Longing for the predictable.
Take one step.
Then another. Skip. Jump. Run. Twirl. Let go. Dive in.
Feel the energy.
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The surprise that you are safe. The surprise that work is different. The relief that you are relevant. Running rather than being dragged.
The world is fast and furiously asking us to take our feet off the brakes.
We are all skidding.
Take your foot off the brake.
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With apologies to ABC, but for some reason each time I've looked at these photos I can't get their 1982 hit out of my mind. I'm not sure why, as lasers as aren't arrows but even so I've enjoyed it running through my head. And have surprised myself with how many lyrics I seem to have remembered. The lasers that prompted the song's revival were the grand finale of our recent visit to the Enchanted Woodland.
But before the lasers I'm sharing some shots of the house lit up, that too went through a colour sequence which highlighted some of its architectural detail and turned it into what was probably the funkiest house in Brentford. Probably.
I'm sure these arches look great in the daytime in natural light but for me the coloured lights really enhance them. I think the number of pictures I took is testament to that, and here I'm only sharing a few. Having prised me away from the arches - it took MOH several attempts - we headed to the exit, or so we thought...
As we turned the corner we stumbled upon the Great Conservatory, which is... well pretty great. And it was lit up too - it looked fantastic, and this is one of the reasons I want to come back here during the day.
The architect - Charles Fowler - specialised in large industrial buildings and at Syon he's used metalwork to create a delicate structure using the new technologies of the 1830s - this was the first to be built of metal and glass on such a scale. It housed exotic plants from all over the world and by the 1880s the palms and giant bamboos reached the top of the Dome. Then like many of the great houses there was a period of decline after the First World War. It was restored though in 1986/7 and is an important historic structure.
We saw people entering a door on the right, so being ever inquisitive and wanting to get a look inside this fabulous structure, we followed them. And we weren't disappointed.
The Dome was hosting a full on laser show, and had a great party atmosphere. You know the sort of party where kids are dancing in front of the disco and the adults are hanging back around the edges and at the bar. Except there was no bar, but the lasers made up for that.
And then looking up you saw the structure of the Dome. Wow. Just wow.
Ok. And wow.
But the lasers weren't done yet. On they went shooting away accompanied by music - I've no idea what, maybe there really was some ABC, but perhaps not.
It was about now that MOH nudged me, reminded me of the time and that we had at least one, maybe two train journeys between us and dinner and a bottle of wine. Having made his point well this time we really did head for the exit and retrace our steps back to the station and catch our train to Waterloo.
The lasers were a really great ending to a fab evening and I'm totally smitten by the Great Conservatory. So who's coming back with me in the daylight sometime next year? ...In the meantime I've found the CD I was looking for and I'm about to spend some time dancing around my kitchen...!


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If there's a single thing that will stay with me from Venice, it is certainly the arrival. Suddently a misty sea in sunrise appears between the tobacco-yellow curtains of the night train from Ljubljana. Small boats speed alongside the train as we approach the city. Only few seem to arrive here by train, in my carriage only two other passengers go all the way to Venice proper. When I step out of the station, it is around 8.30 in the morning.
The invading hordes of tourists are still mostly asleep, and the inhabitants proper are walking to work along the cramped pathways. In a small cafe, two policemen are drinking espressos, having parked their boat in the channel outside. I follow their example, sans boat, then continue walking in a general direction of the attractions.
It is strange to find a city so silent, since the morning rush is all by foot. It is never a crowd, but still the streets are filled with smartly dressed locals walking in complete silence. It seems there is a Venice where people live, working in lawyers' offices, architecture agencies, real estate agencies… and for the tourism industry.
In the morning you also see how the upkeep of the city is arranged. Heavy transporting is done by the waterways, small boats carry supplies for restaurants, building equipment, the like. Heavy things are pushed on small carts along the alleys. Fascinatingly, Venice is something as rare as a city for all practical purposes completely devoid of cars.
Different goods for different customers.
Outside a closed kiosk.
Small head –big nose, big head – small nose.
Venetian laundry.
Some peculiar wooden dolls with felt details. I wonder whether they are undressed or supposed to look like that.
Still life with trophies.
"The Pooh" is still going strong.
The pope has a job to do here.
The skew tower skews the picture.
The common italian "pericolo di morte" skull is quite awesome. Nice type, too.
Someone had been hacking the street signs, although it remained unclear if the purpose is to show alternate routes or to distract tourists. I found my way to the Rialto rather well by wandering at random and following a sign when I felt like it. Venice has a strange circular-labyrinthine structure to it, which surprisingly makes it quite intuitive to orient in.
Clever and pretty.
A massive pidgeon perch.
Morning rush under the Rialto.
Wow, a Real Gondolier. I heard one of these guys make a complete monkey of himself to his american passengers "Wanna a-takea pitture? "Say-a cheese! Fromaggio! Pizza! Pasta!" The americans giggle. What a job, to turn into a ridiculous national stereotype for a living.
I took a break in the shade of the Rialto. The "Union" was a souvenir from Slovenia.
Everyone wants a ride.
Decorations of the season.
I swear, I didn't hit it. Although, the San Marco pidgeons are the most fearless flying rats on the planet.
And another little girl was shouting: "Oma! Ich hat ein Taube auf mein Kopf!"
Some famous house.
There's something growing in the water.
It's Fido Dido!
Fear and Loathing in Venice.
All in all I spent around ten hours strolling about the city. By five in the afternoon I was quite full of it, and found it hard to muster much more interest for crooked channels and picturesque vistas. It being monday, no art museums were open either. Otherwise the local Guggenheim might have been a worthwhile distraction. But apart from the Biennale and the film festival, there isn't that much of cultural interest after the novelty starts to fade, perhaps unless you are packed with money of course. One could imagine that there might be all sorts of fun to be had here with a well-fed bank account.
I was happy to get on with the journey towards Antwerpen, with a stop in Bologna, where I had a great pizza and an annoying one-and-a-half hour wait for a delayed night train to Paris. Bologna had these odd arcades covering the sidewalks over a large area in the center. Eventually I got to Paris, had to re-book my ticket to Antwerpen, and finally the excellent Thalys high-speed train. That is in my book by far the best way of travelling. Build that tunnel from Helsinki to Tallin!
The city seemed lived in and rather pleasant, and might warrant a re-visit sometime.
Air raid sirens (?) on a house in Bologna.


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Working to attract more minorities in schools
MELISSA B. TABOADA | 6/11/2018, 8:31 p.m.
Austin American-Statesman
AUSTIN (AP) – When Kettisha Jones launched her career in education more than 20 years ago, she noticed there were few other African American teachers in her cohort.
Now, as an assistant superintendent in the Pflugerville school district, Jones was hoping a new pilot program will help boost minority representation among teacher ranks, as well as increase retention in hard-to-fill positions.
"We're here to serve a diverse group of kids that have different needs," Jones said. "We're seeing that students tend to perform better when they have the opportunity to attend classes with teachers who look like them. That's something we're trying to do here, to diversify.
"It's not going to flip overnight, so what conversations are we going to have to bring that to light?"
Both the Pflugerville and Austin school districts are forming partnerships with Teach For America – a national program that has sent thousands of college graduates to teach in some of the nation's highest-need urban and rural schools – with goals of quelling high teacher turnover in low-income schools and recruiting more teachers of color.
While about 65 percent of the students in each district are Black or Latino, more than 60 percent of the teachers are White.
Growing research points to what Jones, a Teach for America alumna, said: Students benefit from having teachers with similar ethnic and racial backgrounds.
One recent study published by the Institute of Labor Economics and co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University economist shows that Black low-income students who have a Black teacher for a least a year in later elementary school years are 29 percent less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to consider attending college.
One in 3 alumni of Teach for America is a person of color – and the number is growing; about 48 percent of current Teach for America members in their first and second years are teachers of color.
Austin and Pflugerville will get teachers who already spent at least two years working in challenging schools. Those teachers are entering the job with the knowledge, cultural competencies and similar life experience the districts need, said Fernando Medina, the Austin district's chief human capital officer.
"These teachers can help us fill in some gaps in the sense that they naturally bring, and have the potential to bring in, an understanding of the language, the culture, how students learn and how to deepen the connection between their personal lives and the curriculum and the content," he said. "It helps us close an equity gap."
The pilot program in the local districts will start small; with plans to hire 10 to 15 Teach for America teachers, each starting this fall. The teachers will have a minimum of two years' experience with credentials or certifications in high-demand positions, such as bilingual, special education and high-level math and sciences.
Critics of the program have pointed out that high percentages of Teach for America teachers exit the profession as soon as their two-year requirement is fulfilled. The organization says about one-third of its alumni are still teaching.


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Pierce Finney accounted for 33.5 points for the Bryant Freshman Academy Hornets as they[more] finished second at the annual Bryant Junior Invitational track and field meet on Tuesday.
Five points was the difference as the Lake Hamilton Junior High Wolves edged the Hornets in the 18-team field. Lake Hamilton finished with 110 points to Bryant's 105. Cabot South was third with 78 followed by Bauxite with 65.
The Bryant White team of Bryant Middle School picked up points from Cameron Coleman with a seventh-place finish in the 200 meter run. Bryant Blue of Bethel Middle School earned points in the 300 meter hurdles where Jacob Loomis took seventh in 50.11.
Finney finished second in three events and contributed to a second in a fourth event (the 4×100 relay) as well as a winning performance in the 4×400 relay. He also picked up fourth-place points in the triple jump.
Bryant's quartet of Sam Martin, Chandler Reep, Ben Majors and Charlie Terry combined to win the 4×800 relay in a time of 9:19.02. In the 4×400, Finney, Taylor Hecker, Clayton Harvey and Wyatt Heavin won in a time of 3:54.63. The quartet of Finney, Hecker, Drew Alpe and Khaliq Slater combined on a 47.28 clocking in the 4×100 to take second.
Finney was also second in the 100 meter dash with a time of 11.73, the 400 in 53.38 and the long jump with a leap of 19'2.5". His triple jump covered 36'5".
The Hornets scored well in the 800, led by Terry's second place finish in 2:15.76. Martin was fifth (2:21.49). Josh Yenner, running for the BFA B team, was sixth in 2:21.81. (Each team was limited to two entries per event.)
Hecker finished fourth behind Finney in the 400, turning in a 55.20, while Dylan Davis scored in both hurdles races. In the 300, he finished sixth in 49.17.
In the 110, he was seventh in 19.34.
In the throws, Danny Murillo finished fourth (42'2.5") and Ronnie Beard sixth (41'7.25") in the shot put. Justin Karp's throw of 115'11" in the discus earned a sixth place finish.
The Bryant freshman team is scheduled to compete again on Tuesday, March 26, at Hot Springs Lakeside.
"You always look forward to the first meet of the year because that is where you get to see how your team stacks up against the competition," commented freshman coach John Orr. "I learned that we are stronger than I expected is some areas and found some that we need to improve on. Overall I was very pleased with our performance today. The kids really gave tremendous effort. It's fun to work with kids that have a lot of heart and take pride in what they do. We really challenged the 4×400 meter relay team tonight at the end of the meet and they stepped up and ran great in winning it. We are very proud of them."
The Bryant White team is set to run at Lakeside on Thursday, March 28, while the Bryant Blue team is scheduled to return to competition on Monday, March 25, at Lake Hamilton.


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Littered with genius
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The collector
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Personnel issues
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Special of the day
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Bad company
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Naxals terrorists: Raman
Two days after Maoists blew up a bus full of people in his state, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh called them the "biggest terrorists", even hinting at links with the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba.india Updated: May 20, 2010 00:00 IST
Two days after Maoists blew up a bus full of people in his state, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh called them the "biggest terrorists", even hinting at links with the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba.
"I have no confirmation but some facts have come to light indicating that Naxals may have some connection with Lashkar militants. The manner in which they are using IEDs (improvised explosive devices), explosives and weapons with 100 per cent technical accuracy shows there are experts giving them training," he said on Wednesday.
The same day, the rebels struck in West Bengal, killing five CRPF men in a landmine blast. In their first lethal attack on the Central Reserve Police Force in Bengal, the Maoists ambushed the securitymen
travelling in an SUV in West Midnapore district.
Addressing a press conference in Delhi, Singh however did not support the use of air power against the ultras.
"Chhattisgarh has huge, dense forest cover and is inhabited by tribals. If any such attack is launched, they will suffer greatly. This is not a war," he said.
But he backed Home Minister P. Chidambaram's plan to use air support for evacuation.
"If there is a (landmine) blast, it will take hours to take the injured to hospital by road. Army helicopters can be used here. And also for supplying emergency rations," he said.
Maoist-affected states are already using four helicopters for rescue operations and the Centre is contemplating providing them with another 20.
Taking a dig at Congress leader Digvijay Singh's view that Maoists need to be brought into the mainstream, Singh said, "He was chief minister of undivided Madhya Pradesh for 10 years. Who stopped him from doing so? Why did he not bring them into the mainstream?"
Digvijay later hit back, saying Singh was "responsible" for the Maoist menace in Chhattisgarh.
"He is squarely responsible for 800 villages being abandoned where Naxalites have moved in and for 70,000 people being forced to live in refugee camps."
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26 Years Later: Valya Still Haunted by the Memories of the Native Artsakh Village Left Behind
Marine Martirosyan
Cold air permeates the long dormitory corridor. There are many locked doors.
We walk down the dimly lit hallway, looking for one of the dorm's residents. We've given up hope of talking to someone. There's one door left. We knock. A voice from inside asks, "Who's there?"
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The room we enter is hard to fathom at first glance. Smoke has enveloped the room like a blanket of fog. A smartly-dressed woman rises from the bed near the stove. She invites us in.
The room resembles a storehouse more than a place to live. Cardboard boxes are stacked behind the stove. Laundry hangs from a clothesline. The diversity of items in the room is immense.
There are two smaller rooms opposite the one we're standing in. Eight people live in those rooms – the woman, her son and his family, and a younger son.
They've been forced to cook and warm up in the storage room for the past three months since the chimney hasn't been working in the other two rooms.
Valya Sargsyan, 77, is a native of Talish, a village in northeastern Artsakh. Her words are punctuated with sobs of pain.
"We fled Talish on June 14, 1992. We trekked through mountains and valleys to reach Stepanakert. A few weeks later, we reached Hrazdan. My sister and brother were living in Abovyan at the time," says Valya, who's been living in the dormitory of the former technical school in Hrazdan.
The woman muffles her cries, placing a hand over her mouth.
"If a person's heart is wounded, that's how they'll leave this world," Valya says.
Her eldest son was killed in Talish. There was no time for a proper funeral. The war had arrived at their front door. They had to leave. A villager who remained buried her son. The memory of what happened still haunts Valya. Every year, in May, she travels to Talish to visit her son's grave.
Two of Valya's remaining for sons are in Russia. "My youngest is a bachelor. The other has four kids. We all live in the other rooms," she tells us.
Twenty- six years on, Valya says she remembers the day she left her native village as if she never left – her house, the meal she was eating, even the weather.
"We worked the land. We purchased our house. We traded. It was all good. It was a rich country. Sure, I remember it all; the house, the food. How can I forget?" says Valya.
She's boiling water on the stove. If it ever heats up, it's enough to bathe one person. But there's not enough wood. She's burning cardboard.
"Had you arrived a few minutes earlier, you wouldn't have seen me. I had just arrived when you knocked," says Valya.
The cardboard is collected from the street; the boxes flattened and tied down. "What else can we do? There are others doing the same thing," says Valya.
She takes us to the other two smaller rooms – a living room and a bedroom. The chimney hole in the wall is covered by a map of the world.
It's quite cold in these rooms. Valya says it's just as cold when they go to sleep. She's concerned about the health of her grandchildren.
"When they remove someone from their native land, it will never be the same, wherever they go," says a teary-eyed Valya.
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