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Sometime this Christmas season, you are sure to hear those rousing words of Handel's Messiah, taken from Revelation 11:15: "The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ" (ESV). Tradition has it that the music so moved King George II that he stood to his feet out of respect for an even greater King. The rest of the audience followed, as have audiences for generations since. The Hallelujah Chorus is the culmination of our Messiah's story, a story that Handel rightly showed was foretold by the Prophets, heralded in the Annunciation, and has at its heart a message about a king and a kingdom.
Sadly, that kingdom message is often missed in our saccharine retelling of the Christmas story. Somehow we glaze over the angel's words to Mary, that she will give birth to a son whose "kingdom will never end" (Luke 1:33). The myopia continues as we read the Gospels. We skim over pages of kingdom references. We miss Christ's inaugural address when he opens the scroll of Isaiah and proclaims that Scripture has been fulfilled in the people's hearing (Luke 4:21). We muddle through the parables that tell us repeatedly, "The kingdom of God is like …." And we glance over the very reason our Savior was crucified, a sign crudely scrawled beneath the cross: "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" (John 19:19).
Along the way, the Good News is truncated. An earth-shaking, kingdom-sized announcement is reduced to a personal self-help story. Our gospel has grown too small.
So what was Jesus talking about when he came announcing a kingdom?
He was talking about the eschatological certainty that in the end, God's reign will be made manifest. ...1
Charles Colson was the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries, an outreach to convicts, victims of crime, and justice officers. Colson, who converted to Christianity before he was indicted on Watergate-related charges, became one of evangelicalism's most influential voices. His books included Born Again and How Now Shall We Live? A Christianity Today columnist since 1985, Colson died in 2012.
Timothy George is the dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University and a member of Christianity Today's Editorial Council. His books include Reading Scripture with the Reformers and Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad? Like Colson, George has been heavily involved in the Evangelicals and Catholics Together discussions. George began cowriting "Contra Mundum" with Colson in 2011.

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When I wake up to a new day, let Jesus lead me.
When I rest my head at night, may I know the Prince of Peace.
When I smile at those I meet, let the Beloved Son give me love.
When I cry with those who hurt, may I have his compassion.
When the sun warms my face, let Jesus warm my soul.
When a breeze chills my skin, may the Spirit of Jesus stir within.
When I want what I don't have, let my Elder Brother show me our inheritance.
When I have what I don't want, let the King of kings's reign assure.
When my heart soars with joy, let me praise Jesus more.
When my spirit cries in pain, may I gaze upon the Crucified.
When I feel confident in my tasks, may I be standing on the Rock.
When I feel insufficient to answer the call, let Jesus be my strength.
When I am too timid to be known, let Jesus' love cast out fear.
When my desires overwhelm, may Jesus be my treasure.
When silence stills my prayers, let the merciful High Priest intercede.
When my thoughts will not be stilled, may the Word speak his peace.
When I fall into self-pity, let Jesus open my eyes.
When I forget my dependence, may I be pruned of all but the True Vine.
When my burdens weigh me down, let me take up Jesus' yoke.
When I have no words to comfort, may the fragrance of Jesus fill the air.
When I stand up, let me feel closer to Jesus.
When I sit down on my couch, may I be sitting at his feet.
When I enter into my office, may Jesus be my Boss.
When I walk my dog at night, let me remember the path of Jesus' will.
When I fill my lungs with air, may Jesus fill my heart.
When I drink a glass of water, let Jesus satisfy my thirst.
When I break bread with my friends, may Jesus fellowship with us.
And when I'm all alone at night, let Jesus remind me,
"I'll never leave you, never forsake you. I am with you always."
More Jesus, always, in all ways.
More Jesus, every day, everywhere.
More love for, more hope of, more joy in Jesus.
More faith, more trust, more assurance, more certainty.
More Jesus. Please, more Jesus.


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"I love it when guys peel out." (American Graffiti)
Borepatch does.
You must be at least 52″ to hack the head of the CIA
Stephen emails to point out this bit of hilarity:
A British teenager is suspected of being a mystery hacker who infiltrated the personal email account of the director of the CIA and posting personal details online.
…It is alleged that Cracka called US Internet provider Verizon posing as a technician and persuaded them to hand over personal details of Mr Brennan's AOL email address.He then allegedly called AOL and convinced a representative to reset the password, using the personal details he obtained from Verizon to get through security.
Yeah, OK, this is an old trick. But the kid was 15 years old at the time.
Note: this was not his government email, it was his personal account on AOL. Why the Director of the CIA is on AOL is perhaps the biggest cause for concern …
Amen, brother!
He probably uses Netscape for a browser, and drives a 1928 Porter. And has a cell phone, like this one:
And why is it these intel guys just don't 'get' the concept of information security? Petraeus, this guy, and some former Secretary of State?
What's up with THAT?


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NO matter how hard a lexicographer tries, he will never be able to define the word 'incompetence' when it comes to categorising the administration of the Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello. Beside the governor the word is diminished and disgraced. In him the word is twisted and rendered impotent. And after him, it will take a special dispensation to restore its true meaning. There is no other way to examine and explain the chaos introduced into the Kogi State system by Mr Bello but to ponder just how inadequately the word captures his flaws. Caesar Nero, who played the fiddle while Rome burnt? Not even close. So, who else in history comes close to the Kogi governor? Analysts will have to think very hard, and still fail to find a parallel.
But meanwhile, consider Mr Bello's definition of generosity and patriotism. At a time when most states were hard up for cash and were battling to pay state and local government workers owed salary backlogs, the fiddling Mr Bello decided it was the best time to offer to host the 37th edition of the annual Federation of Public Service Games (FEPSGA) in Lokoja, the state capital, where thousands of athletes are participating in the games. Mr Bello has not paid public service workers for many months, some even more than a year, and others are paid only fractions, and judicial workers who are owed about five months pay are also on strike. The state civil service, bludgeoned into submission by the most reprehensible trickery ever instigated by any state government, has lost its soul and nerve and has completely given up hope of surviving the Bello government.
Last week, Mr Bello also put pressure on the Speaker of the House of Assembly to engineer the removal of the state's chief judge. He got the Secretary to the State Government, Ayoade Arike, to both notify the legislature of the refusal of the judiciary to participate in the preposterous "ongoing table payment and pay parade in the state", and to investigate what the state has described an impasse. Observers quickly deduced that the steps being taken by the state government formed the prefatory part of a plot to remove the chief judge, Nasir Ajanah. It was not surprising that on Tuesday, the Assembly dutifully obliged the governor by setting up a seven-man ad hoc committee to investigate the complaint.
But the judiciary is not ignorant of the devices of the state government. Its officials knew the objective of the state government. They, therefore, approached the courts to mediate the contrived stalemate. On Thursday, Justice Alaba Omolaye-Ajileye of the High Court of Justice, Koton-Karfe, Kogi State, restrained the governor and the House of Assembly from doing anything injurious to the interests of Justice Ajanah and the Chief Registrar of the High Court of the State, Yahaya Adamu, until the case is determined. What is evident is that though the constitution is clear on the independence of the judiciary, Mr Bello is obviously not interested.
After subjugating the legislature, humiliating and starving the civil service, and depriving the state of any developmental projects, the rampaging and constantly travelling governor is bent on disembowelling the judiciary, perhaps the only arm of government left which can look him in the face and tell him to go to blazes. Such effrontery hurts his ego. There will be no election in the state until 2020. For Kogites, that is a long, long time. They have made up their minds to throw him out when the time comes, but before they do, the governor himself has made up his mind to completely humiliate them. But he is just one man, and he is transient. The state is, as it were, eternal, and legitimacy belongs to the people. They will see his back.
Mr Bello may have castrated the House of Assembly, given the way the lawmakers quiver before him and tremulously oblige his every foolish request. And he may also have starved the civil service into ghostly silence, reducing them to subhuman persons and beggars. He is, however, unlikely to successfully compromise the judiciary. They can still call their souls their own, and they will stand toe-to-toe with him, and look him in the face and call his bluff. They know that he does not know the law and is an incompetent administrator. They will therefore stand their ground.
In the end, Mr Bello will capitulate. He is after all an absentee governor, eternally rubbing shoulders with the top guns in the presidency, and doing everything possible to be the president's zany. And because Aso Villa sets great store by loyalty than by competence, politicians and officials like Mr Bello will always get a welcoming in powerful circles. That is the tragedy of Nigeria, a tragedy underpinned by the country's distorted presidential system, a system that tolerates and promotes fifth-rate politicians.


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Tagged as aesop, art, children's, fables, illustration, paxton, poetry, redux, rhyme, tom
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Tagged as African, American, books, History, military, month
Some books I just can't let go. This one… nope. When I opened this book, as I usually do before I list something interesting, the first poem hit me right in the chest. This beauty is mine for now.
There was a saviour
Rarer than radium,
Commoner than water, crueller than truth;
Children kept from the sun
Assembled at his tongue
To hear the golden note turn in a groove,
Prisoners of wishes locked their eyes
In the jails and studies of his keyless smiles.
The voice of children says
From a lost wilderness
There was calm to be done in his safe unrest,
When hindering man hurt
Man, animal, or bird
We hid our fears in that murdering breath,
Silence, silence to do, when earth grew loud,
In lairs and asylums of the tremendous shout.
There was glory to hear
In the churches of his tears,
Under his downy arm you sighed as he struck,
O you who could not cry
On to the ground when a man died
Put a tear for joy in the unearthly flood
And laid your cheek against a cloud-formed shell:
Now in the dark there is only yourself and myself.
Two proud, blacked brothers cry,
Winter-locked side by side,
To this inhospitable hollow year,
O we who could not stir
One lean sigh when we heard
Greed on man beating near and fire neighbour
But wailed and nested in the sky-blue wall
Now break a giant tear for the little known fall,
For the drooping of homes
That did not nurse our bones,
Brave deaths of only ones but never found,
Now see, alone in us,
Our own true strangers' dust
Ride through the doors of our unentered house.
Exiled in us we arouse the soft,
Unclenched, armless, silk and rough love that breaks all rocks.
I didn't find much in the way of scholarly analysis and that's fine because to me this is very clearly about US, Americans.
We are dead because we are numb and disconnected.
We have attached ourselves to processed substitutes and intermediaries for our joy, our wellness, our communication and connection with others, our society's laws and values.
Not all substitutes and intermediaries are always inherently bad, no more than a piece of art is somehow not as good as the item or concept it was created to reflect. They are just what they are- they do what they do, they offer what they offer. Art, Media, Facebook, and other substitutes and intermediaries allow us to share, express, preserve, learn, coordinate.
Some, though, are death wearing a handy benign mask provided by the greed and fear that we allow to pervade our society from within our own hearts to the highest halls of learning and government. Sometimes they are inherently evil; sometimes they are only killing us because we allow them to because it is easier to find something to numb us than to just connect.
We have been lulled by benign and evil substitutes and intermediaries into letting go of real contact, connection, nourishment, education, competence, and skill.
We are are silent when murder is done and our earth cries out and we ignore the pain of other humans and we cannot cry when we see death. The anger pain and prurient pleasure constantly whipped up by our media, portrayed for 'entertainment' and substituted for news by our journalists, keep us complacent and unquestioning of what is really going on and how we really need to engage.
We keep our children out of the sun, literally. They have no time to play outside, and they must not learn for themselves. They have lost the wilderness of childhood, both literally in the sense that children do not get to play outside and in the sense that we pound their joy out of them in favor of conformity, grades, good behavior, shake it off and suck it up and drive on.
We are lost but never found and there is no redemption and we are fine with that.
I have pretty much ignored John Cale, but he did set it to music if you like that sort of thing. I am sick at heart but thankful for the message. Although, as I read it, I do wonder if, in fact, things truly are all according to plan, all good, all Maya and not worth worrying about because Heaven is always right here, within and all around us, simultaneously with the suffering and evil I, we, choose and prefer to see in every little movement, shadow, difference or change. Is my perception, or lack of it, the real problem here?
In any case, I am off to go really connect with my family in the sunshine.
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Tagged as Dylan Thomas, There was a saviour
This week I photographed a bunch of oldies in preparation for offering them for sale online. Old books, not old people, folks.
Ernest Sevier Cox's Teutonic Unity, an attractive little volume, came across my desk, and I had to take a closer look.
As I learned, I thought, should I dignify this work with a blog post?
'Racial' separatism and the belief that those of 'different races' should be not just separate but often killed off completely still exist in our society, so… yes. Ick.
Cox was born in Knoxville Tennessee, home of my alma mater. A quick search reveals no known connection to the family of Cherokee-killer John Sevier, who homesteaded and populated those mountains, but perhaps Earnest's thoughts were borne from the Indian killing generation to his mind and heart by bloodline. And on the other hand, to be fair, Sevierville Tennessee was anti slavery and anti-secession in the Civil War era. ("Sevierville Tennessee," Wikipedia). Perhaps Earnest's loss of his father at a young age left him emotionally stunted and scrambling for something he could believe in and fight for. Who can't have at least some grain of compassion for that 12 year old boy Cox once was?
And this copy is signed with a gift inscription in the careful, crabbed handwriting of a sick old man. This wouldn't be the first time I have felt some compassion for old men isolated from loved ones and society by their misdeeds or so deeply immersed in their principles that they cannot see the truths of the human condition. The recipient passed away in Virginia in 2008, I believe. I can't find any trace of their association other than this.
I lived in the South most of my life, but the verbiage he chose for his titles somehow still made my jaw drop.
He helped pass the Virginia anti-miscegenation laws that were finally and famously overturned by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Loving v Virginia.
Cox worked with both former Nazi believers in 'racial purity' holed up in Argentina and Northern Europe AND with African Americans like Marcus Garvey who saw repatriation to Africa as the only way to heal and rebuild from the evils and abuses of slavery in America. Some Americans of African descent were also against mixing and wanted the political, geographical and cultural haven from persecution that might be provided by a nation of their own.
Toward the end of his life he self-published this volume and distributed it for free, in service to his ideals.
The thoughts espoused by Cox and his international Nazi and Nordicist buddies are so distasteful, and as we now know in this era of genetic testing to prove ancestry, they are largely fiction. We have many skin colors. We are geographically culturally and perhaps ethnically diverse. But we are One Human Race.
I also believe 'kids today' are eradicating prejudice. They just couldn't care less. Say what ya want about them, and it's probably almost all true, but I believe they are our hope for an end, at least in developed countries, to hate harm or marginalization of people due to traits they were born with and cannot help. Thank God.
And people self identifying as two or more races continues to be the fastest growing group on the US Census. The word self identifying is important though, because if your family has been on this continent for more than a century, you most likely have some fraction, no matter how invisible, of some oppressed group's blood in your veins- indigenous American or African American, Jewish, what have ya.
But while oppression continues- abuse of children, marginalization and ignorance of the culture and voices of women and minority groups, uses of our environment and natural resources that poison those who live nearby and ultimately our entire human family, anywhere a sense that we can somehow silence or overpower another group of humans in some way for our own benefit and peace of mind still exists, it is important to understand this sort of thinking and how these thoughts are 'justified' to keep ourselves off of certain slippery slopes. I worry that in the backlash against 'political correctness' we will forget why it matters.
A useful quick dose of Cox's views and his role on the American and world stage in the White Supremacist or Nordicist movements from the 20's through the 50's can be found on Google Books on the scanned pages of a tome called Science for Segregation by one John P. Jackson. Apparently Cox thought that keeping 'races' separate was part of survival of the fittest. Since I have always understood that a diverse gene pool helps keep recessive dangerous traits at bay- Hapsburg jaw? Haemophilia anyone? I am not sure where he got that. I didn't feel like pursuing it though.
A more personal account of his lonely, angry, wandering life can be found on Encyclopedia Virginia's website- "Earnest Sevier Cox"
Wikipedia is, as always, invaluable for quick, concise, broad strokes on any given matter or person. "Earnest Sevier Cox"
Someone take this book off my hands, preferably to study how to peacefully eradicate thoughts like these for good.
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The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, J.M.W. Turner, held by Cleveland Museum of Art, copied from wikipedia's article on The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
This week I took photos of a big batch of oldies this week, getting ready to offer them for sale.
First to lead me a merry chase was Volume VIII of The Preacher Containing Fifty-Seven Sermons by Eminent Living Divines, July 17 1834 – May 23 1835,
It was printed for John Chidley of London, by Bensley, Printer, Phipps-Bridge Mitcham.
I couldn't find any other copies of this or any volume of this series anywhere on the internet. It is listed in various old library catalogs, though.
In the name Bensley, of Phipps-Bridge Mitcham, I smelled History of Books and Printing. I did find reference to a printer named Bensley, but it appears that if something was printed post 1799 it isn't really that big a deal. I had to let the trail go cold and move on.
A quick glance through The Sermons was a little more gratifying. They are such a mix of faith, hope, encouragement, social justice, and brimstone. I think matters of faith were much more present in the daily life of normal people- those who had the luxury for such thoughts, that is, and I imagine not just present but compulsory. Nonetheless, to an Episcopalian (as in, post Anglican, or Anglican Communion), a believer (loosely) in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of 1835 (5) (along with bits of other world religions and meditative traditions, as it suits me, but Episcopalian is my formal affiliation) it's kinda cute, on its surface.
I can see a gentleman (or -woman) or a country vicar taking his tea and soft boiled egg (or whatever, back then) and enjoying a quiet moment to dwell on the contents of these pages before or after a long day. In the context of what was happening in England in those years, it is both heartwarming and chilling.
In 1834 Slavery was abolished in England; The Poor Law was also amended to state that the able bodied may not receive aid unless they go to the workhouse. (1) But Charles Dickens was soon to be on the scene to plead the cause of the poor. After living with poverty, desperate attempts to get his father out of debtor's prison, and multiple interruptions to his education, his Street Sketches were published in this year. (2)
It was a year of cultural and historic turmoil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge followed Blake and Shelley to the grave, and though Wordsworth still lived, perhaps the era of poetry – idyllic, intense, reclusive, drug-enhanced, oriented toward the heart, philosophy, language and beauty- had ended, giving way to the up and coming rough and tumble of radical social action.
England had four different Prime Ministers (1). Trade unions were gaining membership and power in snowball fashion. (3) The Houses of Parliament, Westminster Palace, burnt on my birthday in this year, the biggest fire since 1666. The fire was accidental, caused by flues overheated with the burning of the outdated Tally Sticks (whatever those are), but accidental or not it was certainly timely and symbolic. (4) In 1835, protection from cruelty was extended to animals, yet the last two people to be executed for conviction of "buggery" were hanged at Newgate. (6) Talk about yer full spectrum from social justice and human decency to the lack thereof.
The sermons themselves are actually really lovely- impressive labors of scholarly and spiritual love. The book is really old, and that is really cool. I loved my unplanned tour of this book's cultural and literary milieu, as I do every time another one sweeps me away.
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The Preacher Containing Fifty-Seven Sermons by Eminent Living Divines Volume 8 VIII Nos 197 Thursday July 17 1834 – 224 Saturday May 23rd 1835
Crossman, RFG. Parsons, J. Beamish, HH. Busfield, W. et al
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Every once in a while a friend will give me a stack of books. 'If these are worth anything, sell them. If not, donate them,' they say.
I work through them. I can say with confidence that popular fiction and mass market paperbacks are almost never worth a thing. I always check, though.
I love getting a window on their past reading lives- or their not-reading lives, as the case may be. The road to overcrowded living room bookshelf hell or unusable garage hell is paved with beautiful brand-new books on child development, art, sex, religion, love, high literature, nutrition. They are throwing it all away, often unread, and it cracks me up.
We meant to inform ourselves, to learn, to mull, to take time to enjoy. We really did.
But Raising Your Child the <insert wise popular child development expert name here> – unopened. We all just muddle on through without Kafka, without a solid grounding in Italian language or the folklore of Ireland. We really meant to have at our mental fingertips those witticisms from the latest acerbic popular progressive- whose wisdom seems to be dated almost the minute we buy the book. And those volumes of classical homeschool curriculum with fresh shiny workbook to match? Not so much. Never even started.
I am grateful for this understanding. I am grateful to have been swamped with approximately two tons of books, one thousand cataloged and offered for sale in the past year and a half, certainly that many left to go through, with more speed I hope. And though I try to 'be good,' more lovely, lovely books are coming in from friends and book sales all the time.
Because of this experience, I have firmly resolved, in our own household, that no books shall be stored inside the house except those we are currently reading and a few truly valuable collectibles we choose to keep.
The public library shall be our bookshelf. All books shall be fodder for the book business, or donated posthaste. It is hard to enforce- but I can assure you vigorous purges occur on a very regular basis.
And so, back to work.
Music for a dreary Wine Country Morning
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Thought lost in a flood ten years ago, a sixteen-year-old boy walks out of the woods one day alive. He's not speaking, though, which makes it difficult for police and his family to find out the truth of what happened to him.
I can't say I loved this book, but I definitely enjoyed it. The writing is good. It flows well, and makes you want to keep reading. The story makes you want to keep reading as well, with just enough suspense to hold your interest. For me, though, it was a little predictable. I like to get to the end of a thriller and be shocked but not surprised by the ending – where you didn't see it coming, but it makes sense. With this book, unfortunately, I saw the end coming a mile off. But there were still a few surprises along the way, and like I said, the writing was good enough to keep me interested. I'll try another by this author.


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Saturday 9th March
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Draw That Shop! @ Block 67
Become a security guard for the day and watch (and change) the CCTV footage of Block 67's shopfront! With support, top tips and even some design help from local shop owners, we need your help to design a NEW shop for The Old High Street. Behind the scenes at Head Office you will be able to feed live audio instructions to your co-workers to add to or change the shop design! The CCTV footage is live, so you better watch those employees carefully!
Block 67 workshops are free and open to all ages. Just drop in, no booking required.
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Friday 26th – Sunday 28th October
10am-4pm (Drop in)
Families Welcome
The Big Draw @ The Geffrye Museum of the Home
Celebrating The Big Draw, we have teamed up with the wonderful folk at The Geffrye Museum and their Young Producers to create a super fun, interactive GIANT audio & drawing game!
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Monday 1st – Sunday 28th October
10am-4.30pm (Drop in)
Families Welcome
Sound Sketch Express for The Big Draw
Play at Home Trail. Self-guided, drop-in. Free - suitable for ages 5 - 16
Explore and draw with a special 'play at home' trail in the Geffrye's beautiful leafy gardens. Discover how to create cool audio drawings with your mobile phone. Send in your drawings and artwork to become part of the big audio drawing game at the museum.
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Saturday 11th August
11am - 3pm
All ages welcome
Let's Talk Emoji @ Block 67, Folkestone
Let's Talk Emoji!
Design your own Emoji font & create your own secret language.
Draw a picture representing each letter of the alphabet and communicate with your friends with your new designs via a super hi-tech emoji translation system!
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Thur 10th – Sun 13th May
Quarterhouse Foyer
All ages welcome
The Emoji-Con @ Normal? Festival of the Brain
Normal? Festival of the Brain brings science and art together over four days, to delve into and question the brain.
As part of the festival, we will be working on an interactive triptych inviting participants to experiment with and challenge the concept of the Emoji in the world of modern communication.
Enter the Emoji-Con audio booth and use this space to vent; design your own Emoji and contribute it to the Normal? Emoji translation system; tune into the live Emoji feed, taking the audio signal from the booth and translating it into an ever-evolving language.
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Wednesday 11th April
Ages 5-8
61 Cheltenham Road
Raise the Roof – Space at 61!
We're returning back to Space @ 61 for two jam-packed events! We're inviting you to a 'Raise the Roof' party where you will play all sorts of weird and wonderful audio games – think Oversized Guess Who, learn how to DJ and even take a dip in a punk Sound Bath! So come and raise the roof with us this Easter.
We will also be selling handmade cards and illustrations with a radio twist after the event, so do stick around to browse the selection! (cash only)
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Fri 16th February
1pm - 3pm
Ages 7+
61 Cheltenham Road
Radio Drama Workshop – Space @ 61
We will be running our radio drama challenge at the lovely Space @ 61 on Friday 16th Feb. This radio 'challenge' is suitable for children aged 7+. If you fancy scripting and starring in your own LIVE radio play experimenting with exciting DIY sound effects, grab a ticket or two this Feb half term!
All parents are invited back to listen to the plays live on air so do bring a coat as the listening party will be held outside!
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Thurs 26 – Sat 28th October
Daily from 11am - 3pm
WordPlay @ Folkestone Triennial
On Thursday 26th October, we will bringing our pop-up radio studio to Folkestone Triennial 2017 and inviting you to get behind our snazzy microphones to record a few lines about your stories from Folkestone Triennial. You can act out a funny scene or even experiment with weird and wonderful sound effects! The premiere of the community radio play will take place on Friday 27 October at 1pm in Block 67. The play will also be available to hear again on our website after the event.
On Friday and Saturday (27th & 28th), stop by Block 67 to record important audio advice and messages to your future selves! Over two days, we will be putting together an audio time capsule to be buried in the town but we need your help! Pop in between 11am – 3pm to have your say on the microphones before we bury the recordings once and for all. The burial will take place at Payers Pocket on Saturday 28 October at 2.30pm, so grab your shovel and your overalls!
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Tuesday 24th October (Half Term)
10am - 12 noon
1.30pm - 3.30pm
WordPlay @ The Conservatoire, Blackheath
We will be running two radio drama workshops for children on Tuesday 24th October at The Conservatoire in Blackheath.
Enjoy scripting a radio play with your friends and then perform it live in a special pop-up radio studio, complete with your own DIY sound effects!
If you are aged 9+ and love writing, performing or listening to the radio, join us for a two hour workshop to show Blackheath what you're made of!
Parents and friends can tune in at The Conservatoire and all plays will appear on our website after the event.
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Mon 31st July- Fri 4th August
Daily from 10am - 4pm
WordPlay @ Folkestone Quarterhouse – Summer School
Pop-Up Youth Radio Station! Produce & host your own LIVE radio show in just 5 days!
Calling all young YouTubers! Chicken Connoisseurs! Producers! Actors! Radio Enthusiasts! Anyone who talks too much!
We are building a brand-spanking new Youth Talk Radio Station in Folkestone and we need you and your mates to run the show...
From starring in your own live radio play to producing your own chat show, this Summer School will get you passionate about radio! Over the week you'll get to grips with audio production, build a brand for the station, pre-record show features and book in special guests.
Finally the station goes viral with you broadcasting on Facebook, live from the studio to the world. All the shows will be available to hear back as podcasts on our website.
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Saturday 15th July – Sunday 13th August
Suitable for ages 9+
WordPlay @ Foyles, The Storybox Podcast
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Saturday 15th July
All ages welcome.
WordPlay @ WordFEST, Harris Academy Beckenham
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Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th June
Suitable for all ages
Independent Bookshop Tour!
During this week we will be teaming up with independent bookshops around the country to celebrate Indepedent Bookshop Week in true WordPlay fashion.... through audio! Our pop-up recording studio will be set up on shop floors and in the streets for customers and staff to big up indie bookstores on our microphones! Throughout the celebrations, you'll be able to hear all the recordings online.
Get in touch to find out where we will be heading!
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Friday 2nd June
2pm - 4pm
Suitable for ages 9-14.
WordPlay @ The Woodville, Gravesend
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Saturday 13th May
11am - 7pm
Suitable for all ages.
WordPlay @ Dulwich Festival
The wonderful team at Dulwich Festival have invited us not only to their events happening over the weekend, but we will also be producing a fantastic short podcast to document the festival, including visiting several artists' studios and houses.
Come along and you may see our microphones roaming the streets!
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2nd March 2017
Storytelling Soundscape with Hollydale Primary School
To celebrate World Book Day in style this year, we're teaming up with the super cool pupils of Hollydale Primary School to create an audio collage of all things books, reading, writing and favourite characters!
Why not add to the conversation?
Send us an audio description of your favourite author, book, character, reading spot etc!
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13th Feb 2017
Monday 6.30pm - 8.30pm
World Radio Day 2017: Anti-Valentines Radio Drama Challenge!
Buck the romantic trends and celebrate Valentine's Day differently at our fun-filled radio drama workshop for adults.
To celebrate World Radio Day 2017 and commemorate Valentine's, we will be teaming up with Foyles to challenge you to script, perform & broadcast your very own live radio drama complete with DIY sound effects.
The theme is Anti Valentine, so if you want to turn your most recent tinder date into a horrifying live Radio Play, or you simply need an excuse to leave the house, this challenge is for you! Bring a friend, partner, your granny – anyone!
All plays are broadcast live and will feature on our website after the event.
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17th – 18th December 2016
Calling Gravesend – Open Weekend Event
Over the past few weeks, we have been working with LV21 and the residents of Gravesend, Kent collating memories, stories and conversations celebrating Gravesham's cultural and diverse heritage. Join us onboard the ship for a festive weekend which showcases our findings alongside many other fantastic artwork and activities!
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3rd-4th December 2016
Calling Gravesend – Through the Ears of Another
We are calling out for young reporters with an interest in sound design to set up a studio in LV21's Radio Room and help us collect interesting stories from the local community, Gravesend's past and present residents, through phone interviews and field recordings to create audio stories.
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28th October 2016
Friday 2pm - 4pm
WordPlay @ SIGNAL Family Support: Autism in Lewisham
We're invited by SIGNAL Family Support in South London for a fab afternoon of radio making. We're challenging small groups of children to script a short story on the theme 'Perfect Day Out' before broadcasting their tale LIVE on the radio!
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23rd August 2016
Tuesday 11am - 1pm (8-11yrs)
2pm - 4pm (12-16yrs)
WordPlay @ The Woodville, Gravesend
We will be running our radio drama workshop in Gravesend's finest Theatre Studio in the depths of The Woodville. If you're aged 8-16 and fancy starring in your own radio play creating special sound effects, grab a ticket for our summer audio workshop on Tuesday 23rd August.
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20th August 2016
Saturday 1pm-4pm
All ages Welcome
Summer Fun @ St Botolphs Church, Northfleet
An afternoon of fun for all the family presented by Northfleet Big Local!
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18th August 2016
Thursday 2pm - 4pm
WordPlay @ Village Books
Due to popular demand, we are heading back to Village Books in Dulwich to get more kids creating radio plays. Yet again, these will all be broadcast LIVE on air for the staff, customers and passers by to hear!
If you are aged between 8-14 and love writing and performing, join us for a two hour workshop at Village Books on Thursday 18th August and show the village what you're made of!
Yummy home-baked goodies included!
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5th August 2016
Friday 11am - 1pm
On the Radio @ Foyles Children's Storybox Summer Festival
The brilliant bookshop Foyles are once again putting on their fun-filled family-friendly festival - Story Box - inviting families to listen, learn, create and play and WordPlay are lucky enough to be involved! We'll be running two of our radio drama workshops on Friday 5th August on the top floor of Foyles flagship store, located on Charing Cross Road, London.
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3rd August 2016
Wed 1pm - 4pm
All ages welcome
We're celebrating Play Day 2016 at South London Gallery
To celebrate Playday - the national day for play in the UK - we will be setting up our pop up recording studio at South London Gallery to create an audio time / sound capsule and recording children's questions, fun facts, songs etc all for their future selves to hear! We will bury the time capsule underground until next year's Playday! Come along, get recording and get digging!
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Tuesday 26th July
11am - 1pm on the following dates:
Tuesday 26th July
Wednesday 27th July
Monday 1st August
Tuesday 2nd August
Summer Podcast Club @ The Ivy House
We are running a four day summer podcast club for children aged 10-16 at The Ivy House and the theme will be 'LOCAL'! So we invite the local kids to interpret this any way they like, and working together as a group, they will produce a podcast episode including all the jingles & idents, conducting their own interviews and reports, and making trails/adverts.
Feel free to come to all four days, or if you're super busy this summer, just take part in one or two sessions.
The complete podcast episode will be posted online for all to hear!
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25th June 2016
Jumble Trail in Upland Road
We will be running an audio taster stall at this Jumble & Vintage event on Upland Road, East Dulwich.
For a small fee, you will be able to record anything of your choice on our mics and get to keep it afterwards!
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24th June 2016
The Home Education Podcast Club
We will be setting up our pop-up recording studio at the East Dulwich Community Centre every 2-3 weeks and with the help of your creative, talkative and inspiring children, we will be producing a regular Home Education Podcast starring 8+ year old future podcast & radio stars!
Tickets for each session costs £5 Pay on the Door, but must be booked in advance. The club will consist of basic audio editing, interviewing each other on set topics, recording sounds to accompany the podcast, and perhaps the odd interview with you, the parents!
The aim of this podcast club is for home educated children to discuss fun topics of relevance and interest and to be informative for parents, so if you would also like to take part, we're looking for parents to share their top tips, discuss resources they use, talk about upcoming events and outings etc. (Parents take part for free)!
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5th June 2016
Sunday Spot at The South London Gallery
To celebrate this year's Southwark poetry festival, WordPlay are bringing their pop up radio station to the Clore Studio at South London Gallery. Drop by to experiment with sounds and record your own poetic reading, phrase or piece. The session will end with a 30 minute live broadcast of discussion around the recordings, hosted by those taking part. This live transmission will be heard around the South London Gallery as well as being streamed online to the world!
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20th May 2016
Free Taster Session for Home EDs
We are visiting East Dulwich Community Centre for a morning of audio experimenting, script writing and performing on the mics.
Calling all home educators and their children, pop along on Friday 20th May from 10am - 12pm and learn how to write for radio and podcasts.
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10th April 2016
WordPlay @ Village Books
The children of Dulwich will club together to create radio plays which will be broadcast LIVE on air for the staff, customers and passers by to hear!
If you are aged between 8-13 and love writing and performing, join us for a two hour workshop at Village Books on Sunday 10th April and show the village what you're made of!
Yummy home-baked goodies included!
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10th April 2016
WordPlay @ Village Books
The children of Dulwich will club together to create radio plays which will be broadcast LIVE on air for the staff, customers and passers by to hear!
If you are aged between 8-13 and love writing and performing, join us for a two hour workshop at Village Books on Sunday 10th April and show the village what you're made of!
Yummy home-baked goodies included!
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12th March 2016
Board Game Special @ The Field NX
Love board games? Always wanted to star in your own radio play? Come and merge the two in our Radio Drama Making Workshop at The Field. In groups you will script, perform and broadcast your very own live radio drama, complete with sound effects - all influenced by your favourite board game!


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Stump Grinding or Removal In Brooklyn and New York City
In Stump Grinding we use special equipment to reduce the labor, risks, and danger associated with removing leftover stumps. Regular sized stumps can be not only a pain but actually harmful to remove by force in Brooklyn, NYC. When we grind away at your stumps our goal is keep going until the roots are visible. This allows us to then remove the remainder by hand into a wheel barrow so that it can remove safely.
The best time for Stump Grinding
Stump Grinding can be done year round, however, it is much easier during dry conditions when precipitation, winds, or harsh climates won't get in the way of the equipment. Furthermore, dry conditions are much safer for those handling the equipment. Stump grinds can be used as compost and recycled healthily back into the earth to restore nutrients. This means it will have a greater return on your property during the spring or summer. In Brooklyn, NYC there is no time too difficult to remove those old decaying stumps.
Why is Stump Grinding effective?
Removing a stump in Brooklyn, NYC is not an easy task without a stump grinder. You would have to dig around the stump completely until you met the roots of the tree. Additionally, stumps are quite heavy and if attempted to be moved they can result in injury to those who don't know what they're doing. By grinding the stump down and removing the vast majority of its surface area you limit the chances of harm and reduce the labor costs associated.
Why you should use a professional service for Stump Grinding
Stump grinding should not be taken lightly. The proper equipment can be mishandled by those without proper experience and serious injury can follow. Additionally, damage to your property is a common result as well. A professionally Brooklyn, NYC based service will have all of the training necessary to handle your stump grinding needs. That is the benefit of working with a service such as Evergreen Tree and Shrub Care. You get our collective training, experience, and equipment for a much lower rate, and risk than you would if you attempted to do it yourself.
Equipment used for Stump Grinding
The most common tools used in Stump Removal tasks are Grinders, and shovels. In most cases Stump Grinders in Brooklyn, NYC are medium sized wheeled machines that are customizable based on the height and width of the stump at hand. The grinder has an extremely dangerous, sharp blade attached to a motor on the underside of the machine. A proper tree service company in Brooklyn, NYC will be trained in all of the necessary safety measures to operate said machinery.
Expert Stump Grinding Services In Brooklyn and NYC
Our team is highly trained to provide your property with the most efficient stump grinding, and stump removal processes in Brooklyn, NYC. We do this by training our employees until they are deemed fit to handle our stump grinders. They are specifically taught in a manner that reflects safety, efficiency, and integrity. They know exactly how, where, and when to use the stump grinders so that your property receives no damage and everyone is safe.
Advantages of Grinding Stumps prior to Removal
Grinding Stumps down in Brooklyn, NYC isn't just an advantage it's a borderline necessity. Most stumps will be too large to remove by hand, and will run the risk of danger. Grinding your stumps down will provide an affordable solution, to a normally dangerous problem. It is also a very fast method that ensures the best appearance for your landscape after removal of the stump. If you were to remove the stump manually without grinding it could cause damage to the surrounding ground that isn't as easily repaired.
Uses for Dead Stumps
One of the best parts of stump grinding in Brooklyn, NYC is that it yields multiple uses for the remains afterwards. The most common use for grinded stump remains is as mulch, or compost for a garden or the lawn. The nutrients are recycled back into the earth from where it came and has a huge amount of nutritional value to the earth. Others will use the compost to fill holes in their property. One of our favorites in Brooklyn, NYC is that others will use the compost as mulch for a brand new tree that is planted in its place.
Why you should call Evergreen Tree and Shrub Care
Evergreen Tree and Shrub Care is dedicated to the success of your property. Removing stumps is a healthy choice for so many reasons; the safety of your family, increasing the value of your property, offering more curbside appeal, reducing access to your home from insects and infestations, and more than anything returning the tree stump back to the earth. If you are in need of a Stump Removal service all us today.


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How do cats land on their feet?
It's one of a pet's most awesome party tricks: cats have an almost magical ability to land on all four paws, even if they're upside down when they start the jump! But how do they do it?
Scientists found out by filming cats as they fell short distances (no animals were harmed in the busting of this myth), and then watching it in slow motion. What did they find? That cats use four simple steps to pull off the perfect landing every time:
- Step 1: Head first: The cat turns its head to face the ground. It knows where the ground is thanks to a finely tuned organ in its inner ear called the vestibular apparatus. This tiny structure is filled with fluid, which moves when the cat falls (thanks to that good old downward force called gravity), and this movement bends millions of sensitive hairs inside the vestibular apparatus… just like kelp moving with the ocean currents. The brain uses this info to work out which way is down.
- Step 2: Legs up: The cat pulls its front legs close to its face, to protect its head from the impact.
- Step 3: Spine spiral: It then twists its spine so the front half of the body is also facing the ground.
- Step 4: Back legs last: The cat brings its back half in line with the front, bending its back legs and arching its back to absorb the impact of landing.
But it isn't just about good technique. The cat also comes with a few skeletal secrets that help it to twist and turn.
First, it has tiny collarbones that aren't fixed to the rest of the skeleton. Secondly, its shoulder blades are only attached via muscles, which allows them to move in just about any direction without causing physical damage. And thirdly, the bones of a kitty's spine are thickly padded with a substance called fibrocartilage, which is tough but flexible. Now imagine what you could do if you had a skeleton like that…
IMPORTANT NOTE: Just because cats can land on their feet, that does NOT mean they'll survive any better that you would in a fall from something high. Sure, they may land very nicely, but their bodies still won't be able to handle the force of a serious impact. Remember: pets are amazing, living creatures that should always be loved and respected.
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The lovely Sarah & Nick's set is a little different as it's all in black & white – for no reason other than the way black and white compliments a beautiful bride in an elegant dress, a handsome chap in a sharp suit and a monumentally stylish venue such as Great John Street Hotel, Manchester.
After their pre-wedding photoshoot Sarah & Nick knew exactly what they wanted from their portraits. What we didn't anticipate was how accommodating the staff were on the Coronation Street tour, allowing us in for a few photos outside the Rovers Return, huge thanks go out to them for allowing us to make some unforgettable (and soon unrepeatable) photographs there.
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If you followed my other blog this one will seem real familiar but just to put things into perspective for those that didn't here's my "transformation" story? It's still in progress but here goes
I started working out maybe a year after I had my daughter.
I put on about 40 lbs while I was pregnant and at the start of the pregnancy I was already at my heaviest weight. Which was not a lot; I didn't hate the way I looked in the mirror or anything, I was just starting to get a little soft around the edges you know?
Anyway after having her I got very skinny, mostly, except for the dreaded little pouch that all my mommies know about.
I joined LA Fitness and started working out with a trainer in the beginning of summer 2014. I saw my trainer 1x a week and tried to go on my own 2x a week. I was so motivated, I had my goals and I was working toward them. I stayed with a trainer for 1 year and then decided to go on my own. It's not cheap for one, and I felt I had learned enough and gained enough confidence to do lots of strength and weight lifting exercises.
But of course life happens here and there and I fell off the wagon at some points after that. Buying a house, stress of work, no energy days; they add up and can hold you back sometimes.
But I'm back and my motivation is with me and I won't let it go anywhere this time. Especially because I'm getting older and I know my metabolism will start changing and my love for food hasn't dwindled. 🙂
I have started writing down what I eat, I use pre workout before most of my workouts and have started taking plant based protein powder. I am happy with where I am but still working to get where I want to be.
This was me before a few weeks before I had my princess. Look at my little chubby cheeks !
This is me 1 year after having her. july 2014. Such a skinny Minnie!
Aug 2016.
Side by side you can tell I've been building my legs and I've put a little weight back on but I'm so happy with it 🙂
I know that had I stuck with my gym routine or had I not ate so bad last summer (snacking while working a new position at work), I would have been farther along to where I want to be but like I said I'm back !


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On Wednesdays my son goes to nursery for the morning, (woo hoo) so I woke up all excited to embrace some quiet crafting time. However, it didn't start off well. I sat for a while procrastinating over what to do in the time I had. The list of cards I needed to make in this precious time was long, and I could feel the pressure. I looked at a few cards on Pinterest, and then decided to stop looking around, and just start playing with all the new goodies…. and have FUN!!
I loved the card we made at last week's training, designed and created by my mentor Julie. So I decided to make a male version, as I have a couple of male birthdays coming up in the next month or two. I decided to start with gold balloons, punched out of gold glimmer paper using the new Balloon Bouquet Punch, and then find some neutral paper for background. I love this paper from the new Going Places paper stack, the natural Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla colours work well with the gold balloons. I finished it Linen Thread to create a natural, male friendly birthday card. That's one job crossed off my list, phew!
The above card was created with Sale-A-Bration's Limited Time Hello stamp set. Check it out in the new SAB catalogue online, or request your copy via my Sale-A-Bration blog post
Here are the rest of the supplies used to make this card, find them all at my online shop.


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The Chinese President Xi Jinping's first state visit of 2017 was to Switzerland. It was during this visit that he and the Swiss Federal President Doris Leuthard declared the China-Switzerland Year of Tourism. Now the year passed and we would like to share with you some facts of the Swiss-Chinese cooperation regarding tourism and the events that took place during the year.
Presently China is the fourth-most important foreign market for Swiss tourism, after the USA, the UK and Germany. For Chinese tourists Switzerland is one of the three most popular countries to visit in Europe, along with Italy and France.
The prevalent picture of Chinese tourists is that they come in huge groups and by bus, from which they get offloaded in front of tourist sites and shops, then onloaded again and driven to the next European destination. The statistics of Swiss Tourism show us that it is true that most Chinese come in groups of about 40 people and that they visit up to 15 countries in about 10 days.
However, nowadays a shift is taking place, tourists from the booming mega-cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong) show a tendency of coming in groups of 15 to 25 people or going on individual travels. Swiss Tourism expects that by 2019 40-50% of Chinese tourists will be FITs (Fully Independent Traveller). The younger generation has more travel experience and is more and more interested in local cultures, art and outdoor-activities, not only in shopping and visiting world-famous sites for snapshots.
Until 2004 only Chinese with a specific travel authorisation by the Chinese government were allowed to visit Switzerland. Since Switzerland received the status of an approved destination (ADS – Approved Destination Status), everyone with a Swiss or a Schengen visa can visit Switzerland, on the premiss that they travel in a group of five. The number of Chinese tourists has dramatically increased ever since.
The skiing industry in China is growing as well and will be growing further, especially since China has been chosen as host country for the Winter Olympic Games in 2022. The slogan San Yi Ren Shang Xue 三亿人上雪 (300 Million People in the Snow) has become the motto. Business is booming for travel operators and ski equipment companies.
The series of events for the China-Switzerland Year of Tourism was kicked-off in May with the "Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation" in Beijing. The goal of the forum is to build a more open and efficient international cooperation and to push for a more just, reasonable and balanced international governance system.
This event was followed by the "ECO Forum Global" for sustainable development in June in Guiyang.
The busiest month was September with "Beautiful China", a forum for the promotion of tourism and culture in Geneva, the Chinese-Swiss forum for hotel management in Beijing, the second edition of the "World Winter Sports Expo" in different locations in China and Switzerland as the guest of honour. The expo is the most important trade fair for winter sports in China and was attended by 120'000 visitors.
From the middle to the end of September 100 Swiss tourists climbed the great wall – an event organised by the CNTA.
At the end of October Swiss Tourism took part in the important art fair for contemporary art "Westbund Art & Design" in Shanghai, and presented the rich culture of Switzerland.
One of the highlights was the visit of the two Swiss St Bernard dogs "Apero" and "Bricotine", who travelled to Beijing and Shanghai to meet the public and establish an emotional relationship between Chinese tourists and Switzerland under the motto "狗 to 瑞士" ("go to Switzerland", pun with the word for dog which is read as "gou").
St Bernard dogs are regarded as national symbols of Switzerland, comparable to the Chinese national animal, the panda. The dogs successfully concluded their mission and soon became popular in the media and on social media platforms like weibo, on which they have their own account.
The year was concluded on December 7th with the closing event in Lausanne. During the event a memorandum of understanding was signed between Swiss Tourism and the CNTA for a long-term strengthening of the cooperation of the two countries.


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Watch your nighttime posture. For a restful night, try these strategies:
• Relieve lower-back pressure by putting a pillow under your knees. The pillow comfortably flexes your lower spine.
• Try a pillow made with down instead of a foam pillow. You want a pillow that is low enough to support your head without flexing your neck, to avoid neck and shoulder aches. Orthopedic pillows with a scooped-out hollow for your head help support the neck and can also be helpful, especially if you have chronic neck problems.
• Put enough blankets on your bed to stay warm. You may otherwise unconsciously curl up to keep warm, which can leave you with a sore back.
• Allow yourself enough room to be able to move your arms and legs and roll over during the night. This is a natural way to prevent your joints from getting stiff.
Take special measures when you're on the night shift. You weren't designed to work the night shift, or rotating shifts, but you may have no choice. So, here are some tips for when you must work while everyone else is asleep:
• Use bright lights to mimic daylight, to keep you awake.
• Try to stay on the same shift, but if you must rotate, do it by the clock: from days to afternoons to nights.
• If you can't sleep when you get home in the morning, don't force it. Wait till early afternoon when you have an energy dip.
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Marouane Fellaini has vowed to 'pay back' Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho's faith on the pitch, after netting his side's last-gasp winner in an otherwise drab match against Young Boys in the Champions League on Tuesday night.
The Belgian's 90th minute finish put United through to the knockout stages of the competition with a game to spare, though there was still very little to cheer about in the preceding 89 minutes at Old Trafford.
Mourinho's style of play came under fire again, as the Red Devils showed next no sense of urgency in front of their own fans against weaker opposition. United fashioned 21 shots on goal, but only four were on target.
Speaking to the press after the game, as quoted by Sky Sports, the 30-year-old Fellaini reiterated his support for the Portuguese tactician.
Fellain said: "I feel comfortable. I'm happy with him. He gives me a lot of confidence and he trusts me. That's important for a player. I try to pay him back on the pitch.
"I always try to give everything for the team. Whether I start or not, everybody knows I'm a team player. The most important thing is to take the points and win the games."
Mourinho believes that De Gea wants to stay at United beyond his contract!— 90min (@90min_Football) November 28, 2018
United fans praying! https://t.co/TZPNMZaGb7
The former Everton man was brought to Manchester by David Moyes in that first post-Sir Alex Ferguson season, and has since played under Louis van Gaal as well as Mourinho.
Fellaini declared: "I've never had a problem with a manager. When a manager comes, I give everything for him."
Next up for United is a trip to lowly Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday, followed the midweek welcoming of Arsenal to Old Trafford.


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Nearly three months have gone by this year and so far I haven't been able to write anything about our startup life. At the very beginning of the year I was so ready for and happy about the year ahead. It looked super bright and exciting. I was all set for it to be incredibly busy, for my husband to be working long hours, lots of solo-parenting and plenty of craziness but I was set for all this feeling positive.
And then things didn't quite go to plan. There were some extremely stressful, horrible times. They weren't expected. They were super tough to deal with and left me feeling really low, sad and exhausted.
Fortunately these tough times are over. Done and dusted. Forgotten. The startup is moving forward, bright, confident and importantly, positive and strong in what they are doing. Fantastic. I couldn't wish for anything else.
But, I am left feeling utterly burnt out by it all. When you work in the startup you are living it all...all the good bits, all the bad bits. When you've been through a bumpy patch, you can all stick together, you can have big team meetings where you cheer each other on, where you reignite all the positivity, passion and drive. But when you are the startup wife (husband/partner) you don't have that part. The positivity doesn't always bounce back so easily. You worry about things because you remember times in the past that were tough and you don't always have the energy to keep on doing this startup life thing. It's a bumpy old ride, it's exhausting and very unpredictable.
Somehow I have to give myself my own pep talk, my own meeting with imaginary cheerleaders on the side, my own action plan. I need to get the positivity back, so I can be 100% behind the startup. I need to do this because startup life is a team effort. This is for us, for our family. Every decision we take together as a startup life team and that is really important to us both. I know that's not the same for all startup people but for us it is and it's a something that we've grown together, mainly as a result of going through some really tough times but it's made us super strong as a couple and a team. And, personally, I think that it is important for successful startups.
I also need to be positive because not only does it help my husband when he comes home but it also helps me. I can be super understanding about him coming home and starting work the minute he gets home, or staying late, or going out networking, or....whatever startup life stuff it may be...but only if I am feeling positive and excited about the startup. If I'm feeling exhausted by it all and burnout by all the stress, I don't have any patience with any of it. It get grouchy about all the work. I get upset that he has no time for me during busy weeks. And I don't want to make compromises.
This week I have really struggled with this and it's been so helpful to sit down and write about it. I really do need to give myself that positivity presentation or something and get back on track!
Feeling down, burnt out and grouchy about it all has made me think about startups and families/partners again. It is something we think about a lot, perhaps because we are determined to prove people wrong and show them that a successful startup plus a (happy) family is possible. If I was working at a startup, I would make sure that partners and families felt included. When tough times were happening or had just been navigated, I would make sure that partners and families were appreciated. I would arrange drinks or a meal to bring back or maintain positivity and excitement not just for the team but for their partners and families.
Yes, I know not everyone in a startup has a partner or a family but lots do. Startup life takes all the drive, energy, passion, positivity and hard work that you can possibly give it. And there are times when there's not really anything left to share with partners and families. That is why it is so important to remember the importance of partners and families. When it really matters, when you have to go all in, when you have to sleep at the office, when you really need them to understand, you need to know they will. So, look after them, communicate with them, invite them to dinner occasionally, say thank-you, say sorry... whatever it is that you do, just remember that if the startup wife burns out, the startup guy probably will soon too.
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Welcome to our new trustee, Kathy Burke!
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Kathy is a scientist with a background in reproductive health and HIV, who has worked in both the non-profit sector and the Federal government in the US, and more recently, as a teacher in the UK.
She has been involved for many years with a number of educational and health-related charities, either as a Trustee, fundraiser or advisor. She holds an MSc in Genetics from George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Her involvement with the Virtual Doctors goes back to early 2017 when she started supporting the Virtual Doctors as an Ambassador Volunteer for Fundraising and Monitoring & Evaluation. She has greatly contributed to the success of our Malawi Appeal Launch at the House of Lords last October and her skillset will be an invaluable addition to the organisation.
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From warrior lodges to completely random worlds.
Crusader Kings 2s largest expansion, Holy Fury, is due out next week, but in the meantime you can wet your whistle on this feature breakdown from Paradox. Theres quite a lot, and while the focus is on Christian and pagan shenanigans, theres also plenty beyond that.
Pagans can join warrior lodges and work their way up the ladder to become top dog, gaining new skills and pals along the way. Pious Catholics, on the other hand, can be given sainthoods, passing along perks to their descendants. There are legendary bloodlines, new crusading events, coronations, new succession laws and dozens of other things, but its the additional modes that Ive got my eye on.
By starting a new game with a shattered world, youll experience a more balanced version of Crusader Kings 2, where all the big kingdoms and empires have been broken apart. Everyone starts out as either a count or a duke. Its customisable, too, so you can choose whether you want to play a more historical version or make balance the priority.
The asymmetry is one of my favourite parts of CK2, but it would be fascinating to start on a world where everyones in a similar, though obviously not identical, footing. It sets up some potentially bizarre alternate histories.
Picking a randomise world feature keeps the geography the same, but changes everything else, transforming the medieval world into a fictional realm that's full of new religions, cultures and characters. Paradox says that these random worlds will still try to emulate history, however, mimicking great empires and the like. The world it creates will be fictional, but hopefully logical.
Crusader Kings 2: Holy Fury is due out on Steam on November 13.