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Hyun has been dubbed "Korean Schindler" -- after German industrialist Oskar Schindler who saved over 1,000 Jewish lives during the Holocaust -- here for persuading US military officials during the war to evacuate some 104,000 refugees from battlefields in Heungnam, North Korea.
|Lee Gyeong-pil (left) and Son Yang-yang, two who were born on the evacuating ship in 1950, stand before the statue of Hyun Bong-hak. Yonhap
The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs in 2014 designated him as a Korean War hero, making the late physician the first civilian to receive the honors.
"Dr. Hyun's efforts to evacuate the refugees helped save more lives than Schindler himself, while protecting the value of freedom... I hope those who pass by his statue will think about the tragedy of (Korean) people and aspire for the reunification of Koreas," said Kim Yong-hak, the president of Hyun's alma mater Yonsei University.
Born in 1922 during Japan's colonization of Korea, Hyun's crowning achievement came in December of 1950 when the embattled soldiers of South Korea and UN troops were pulling out of Heungnam. While no ships were originally allocated to carry thousands of North Korean civilians, Hyun -- a ROK Marine Corps' interpreter at the time -- pleaded for two weeks to the military officials by saying that leaving them behind would put their lives in peril.
Hyun's plea eventually moved the US officials, including Gen. Almond, the commanding general of the X Corps., US Army and Col. Edward H. Forney of the US Marine Corp. who was the X Corps' evacuation officer.
Hundreds of tons of war supplies were removed from US vessels and civilians were led to new lives in the freedom of South Korea, Moon Jae-in's parents being among them.
Moon Jae-in, an opposition presidential hopeful, said he would not even be born if it were not for Hyun, as his parents were among the refugees who narrowly escaped the communist soldiers at the evacuation.
"I hope the unveiling of the statue would offer a chance for us to learn about the doctor's humanity, love for his country and his people, along with his spirit to pursue reconciliation and cooperation between South and North Korea," he said, expressing regrets about the current inter-Korea tensions.
But Hyun himself was humble about his achievements, even blaming himself for possibly causing a million people to be separated from their families. He devoted his life to practicing medicine and commemorating those who fought Japanese colonialism, until his death in 2007.
While working in China, he helped find and decorate the grave of Korean poet and freedom fighter Yun Dong-ju, which had been left abandoned.
US ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert stressed that Hyun's legacy is lasting through the generations of families he has saved.
"Doctors save lives. But they usually do it one patient at a time. However in Doctor Hyun's exceptional case, he saved thousands and thousands of lives all at once," Lippert said, describing Hyun's feats as "heroic."
Not only was the SS Meredith Victory used to save lives, some literally started aboard the cargo freighter.
Son Yang-yang and Lee Gyeong-pil, two who were born on the ship during the Dec.15-24 evacuation, also witnessed the unveiling of the statue. Son was also an alumni of Yonsei, just like Hyun.
"If I had known before (about Hyun), I would have visited him and offered my gratitude...I will never forget him," Son said.
Esther Hyun, Hyun's daughter, said her father had always believed that "anything was possible."
"One of my father's greatest hopes was that future generations would remember Heungnam Evacuation and the Korean War. His wishes have been largely fulfilled," she said.
On her father's behalf, she received the Certificate of Person of Distinguished Services to the State from the Ministry of Patriots and Veteran Affairs. The ROK Marine Corp presented Order of National Security Merit Tongil Medal and Certificate Core Values of the ROKMC to Hyun.
Ned Forney, the grandson of Col. Edward H. Forney, wrote in his column that the statue will be both a memorial for Hyun's actions and a tribute to refugees who risked their lives to escape the communist North Korea.
"Most importantly, however, it will be a reminder to all Koreans that one man can make a difference," he wrote.
The event was co-hosted by the Yonsei University Health System, Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, and Republic of Korea Marine Corps. It was jointly funded by the state, Yonsei, and donations from citizens.
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Working with FEMA guidelines released three months ago, the Los Angeles Fire Department expects training of paramedics to work with police in "rescue task forces" to begin next month, according to LA Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Ruda.
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Shielded by armed officers, the medical responders would wear body armor and helmets and carry lightweight packs with supplies geared mainly to staunch bleeding and stabilize trauma patients long enough to be moved to a safer area for further care.
The FEMA guidelines are intended for departments nationwide.
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Since the attack at Columbine High School in 1999, more than 250 Americans have been killed in active shooter/mass casualty situations, according to FEMA statistics.
Even as law enforcement has been expected to aggressively pursue active shooters, the traditional protocol has called for medical responders to stage at a safe distance in a so called "cold zone," awaiting word it is safe to approach.
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The new methods were tested last month during a training drill in Anaheim.
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Currently, Los Angeles has a small number of "tactical paramedics" who have been trained to work with LAPD SWAT officers.
Paramedics were present nearly six years ago when SWAT responded to a Winnetka home with an active shooter who had shot family members.
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Paramedics went in with officers to rescue the officers. Officer James Veenstra suffered severed damage to his jaw but survived.
The wounds to Randal Simmons were fatal. Last month, the Los Angeles Fire Department was still operating on the longstanding protocol when gunfire erupted at Los Angeles International Airport inside Terminal Three.
A gunman had opened fire on TSA personnel near the entrance and then the screening area, and had continued deeper into the building.
Paramedics reached the greater terminal area within minutes, but held back from approaching Terminal Three until advised that the shooter was down and under control.
"The LAX incident really was a paradigm shift for us," Fire Dept. Medical Director Mark Eckstein, told the Los Angeles Times.
Some wondered whether it might have been possible to save TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez had paramedics reached him sooner.
However, the autopsy determined his wounds were so severe that death came within two to five minutes, before paramedics would have reached him even if they had gone straight into the terminal.
But belief other lives can be saved is the motivation for the new emergency medical directive.
At the same time, there is a growing trend to provide law enforcement officers with training and portable medical kits to staunch bleeding.
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Calvisson is one of the villages of the Vaunage valley in Languedoc Roussillon. A hill (Roc de Gachone) with the remains of three windmills overlooks the village and offers a beautiful view over the valley and all the way to the sea.
This large village of 5000 inhabitants is situated in the Gard at 17 Km West of Nimes, 38 Km East of Montpellier and just a few kilometres from the little town of Sommieres. You will find all the main facilities in the village such as small local supermarket (and easy access to bigger ones), weekly outdoor market, boulangeries, cafes, doctors, nurses, chemist, hairdresser, bank, post office and garage. The village also has a nursery school (3-5), a primary school (6-10) and a secondary school (11-14). The charm of this old village comes from its typical narrow streets, elegant private homes and its pretty plaza with a fountain.
This area of the Languedoc Roussillon was the setting of constant strife between Catholics and Protestants during the 17th and 18th centuries. As a testimony to this rich history you will find in Calvisson the Protestant Church with its classical architecture and the impressive Roman Catholic Church.
One of the highlights of this active village is its Sunday outdoor market that takes place all year long on a lovely plaza with a typical French fountain in the middle. You can go there to buy fruit, vegetables and meat for your Sunday lunch and then sit at the terrace of one of the cafés for a little refreshment. The market also proposes some retail items such as nice straw baskets and hats.
The old local railway has been transformed into a bike path (voie verte) for cycling, skating, running etc that goes from Sommières to Caveirac (approx. 20 Km of track). You can buy or rent bikes from the shop "Vaunage Passion Velos" which is right on the voie verte (1 av des marchands). The outskirts of the village around the bike path have recently been developed and new shops and services are now available in this area.
The privileged situation of the pretty village of Calvisson and the quality of its facilities mean that it is a popular and dynamic village of the Gard where locals and newcomers to the Region alike are happy to settle.


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Farm Progress Show: My Quest for a 5-Gallon Bucket
This is the second in a 3-part series on the Farm Progress Show written by Hilary Shaw of Moore & Warner, the firm's office manager and a first-time attendee of the Show.
My husband and I started out at the Farm Progress Show carrying nothing. I have a tiny purse, and we like to travel light. Immediately we saw everyone with some sort of reusable bag, each one obviously carrying something. I'd been told about all the free hats, but I never imagined I'd see so many free things in one place. I was one of those kids who liked to go to the State Fair with my parents, get a free plastic bag and fill it with every free thing I could find….mostly stickers and brochures back then. This day was going to take all of my will power to stay with my new minimalist (sorta) ways.
It wasn't until we decided to head out to the field demonstrations that I started to weaken. We headed out to the far north end to see what the field demonstrations were all about. The 1st things we saw were a field sprayer and a tractor that we could actually ride in or drive. After that they gave you a free 3-gallon bucket. I felt like we'd won a prize and needed those buckets to remember this momentous occasion, so we thanked the guy and headed on to the next thing carrying our buckets. Well, when you're carrying buckets, you might as well put stuff in them, right?
We still only collected a few free things compared to everyone else. There were the usual pens, pencils, paper. There were some refreshments, such as ice cream, lemonade, and popcorn (of course!). We managed to get a few cool hats that we'll actually wear. There were some only popular with the students:
Suddenly I saw almost everyone carrying 5 gallon buckets from Morton Buildings, then from Stone Seed. I had to have one. I could use a 5 gallon bucket more than a 3 gallon. We went to the big Morton Building and couldn't find buckets, but we did sign up to win a free Morton building: (make mine Equestrian please!)
Everywhere we went people were carrying multiple 5 gallon buckets. One person had a stack of buckets so high, it was taller than he was. My husband finally said he was tired of hearing about the 5 gallon buckets, so I had to cheer him up:
Finally, we found the Stone Seed tent and got a free 5 gallon bucket! The person handing them out said they had handed out over 3,000 buckets so far. My husband was relieved! My day was complete!….until I saw a cool Pioneer hat on someone. So what did we do? Headed over to Pioneer….and BOUGHT it.
Items we brought home for free: 3 buckets, 2 t-shirts, 3 hats, bags, pens, magnets, neck cooler, fan, screwdriver, yard stick, walking stick, lunch box, sunglasses, toothpicks with holder, bracelet, ruler.


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Willing Hands Needlework Design
Proverbs 31:13
Welcome to my blog! I created this blog to keep you updated on my teaching schedule, designs, new designs, kit availability,
works in progress and other stitching related activities. From time to time I'll also be adding extra info about goings-on in my life.
To see my current teaching schedule, teaching pieces and retired designs, click on "older posts" at the bottom of each page.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
New Design
The photo above is of my newest design, which I did as an experiment using silk threads from the "Society of Soie Surfine". The society is actually a group of stitchers who are trying out a new super-fine silk thread made available through several well known needlework shops in the US and Canada. You can find out more about it by contacting The Attic, Needle in a Haystack, and Traditional Stitches. There are more shops involved in the society but I can't recall them just now.
The threads are being dyed by Gloriana Threads. When you sign up for a 6 month series of threads, you receive one skein of 100 yards in a pre-determined color each month for the first five months and in the sixth month you receive a good sized piece of your choice of 40 or 45 count hand dyed linen. The first series is now complete.
I used all five colors and the 40 count linen to make this design and worked it in cross stitch over one with a single ply of thread in the needle. It is my take-off on a "Berry Pins" container. Berry Pins were commercially made tubular containers of glass head sewing pins which were marketed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . The tube was made of cardboard and filled with padding into which the pins were inserted. Most of the Berry Pins I've seen had black headed pins which, when all of them are inserted in the container, resemble a blackberry sitting on top of the tube. I'm assuming that this is where the item gets its name, but I don't know for certain.
My container is formed around the plastic spool which is found inside a ball of Cordonnet thread. I lined it with silk fabric, attached the stitched linen to the outside, sewed on a bottom panel for the tube and then filled the tube with a rolled up tapered strip of wool felt. Finally, I embellished the container with ribbon lacing up the back seam, ending in a bow. The ribbon is 4mm "Bluegrass" from Gloriana and it is a wonderful match for the threads. The finished design is about 1 3/4 inches high and 1 1/8 inches in diameter.
Since the supplies I used are not readily available, I doubt that I will be marketing this design, unless I come up with a variation of it using more common threads and fabric. It was a little hard on my eyes stitching something so tiny, but I enjoyed doing it - hope that you enjoy the photo!
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It's a lovely design. Maybe you could release it as a chart, so that we could stitch it in our favourite count fabric, then assemble using larger rolls of cardboard from kitchen rolls or toilet rolls.ReplyDelete
Great design -- and love the header too!ReplyDelete
Interesting idea, Sandra, but you'd have to find some really big pins!ReplyDelete
I love that you are recycling the innards of a ball of thread--I know we did that with a toy box accessory too. Great idea!!
Your Berry Pins container is beautiful, and I love the historical "Berry Pins" information too!ReplyDelete
Hi Betsy!ReplyDelete
So lovely things you design!
The little Berry Pins Canister would be wonderful to stitch with the Society Of Surfine silks.Also I have those fantastic silks now as a Society-collector, and am saving them for something really special.
Currently I am stitching your Tiny Treasures set, and soooo love it!:)
Hi Betsy,ReplyDelete
I bet a good number of ladies who have the first set of threads would love to buy this pattern from you. I know I would and the shops who did the collection would probably love to have it for sale also!
Just a thought!
Connie Poole
Just wonderfull!!!ReplyDelete


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From the photos that I have seen of Francis Bacon's studio, I thought he never threw anything away. But an electrician that did some work for the artist in 1978 was lucky enough to rescue some Bacon junk from a skip.
After keeping the Bacon stuff for thirty years, Mac Robertson has decided to sell them. The things that Robertson collected from Bacon are expected to sell for up to five hundred thousand pounds.
They include slashed paintings with no faces, a canvas with writing and paint spatter by Bacon, letters, journals, photos, and unused checks (cheques).
Here's why he threw the things away..
"Mr Robertson first met Bacon, then 69, in 1978 when he agreed to install a heating system in his studio in Kensington, West London..
Bacon was angry that workmen had been trampling over a pile of junk in his flat. He decided to throw it all out in a fit of petulance.
Mr Robertson managed to calm the painter down and persuaded him to let him take some of the rubbish home." Daily Mail UK
Most stories about rubbish in the art world usually end up with people mistakenly throwing away the junk of artists, so it's nice to see rubbish being kept for a change.


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UNTIL car manufacturers invent a battery system that will provide electric cars with much longer mileage ranges the future of electric propulsion is with hybrid cars such as the Honda Insight I have just been testing that are an ideal petrol electric compromise writes Bryan Longworth.
For the average range of electric cars is only around 100 miles and they are so expensive they only have very limited appeal which is why hybrid cars are now so popular with those motorists interested in this type of power for fuel economy low C02 emissions and green motoring.
I remember attending the launch of the original Insight in 1999 which was a very distinctive two door coupe that is now regarded as a classic but the latest second generation Insight is a five door hatchback with the lowest price in its class that includes the Toyota Prius and which has much wider appeal.
Honda call their system Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) which combines an electric motor with a 1.3-litre petrol engine and controls how they work together which improves fuel economy and brings down CO2 emissions to 99g/km which means there is no road tax to pay.
My test car was the Insight IMA Hybrid CVT HS which at £20,925 is next to the lowest priced model which costs £20,100 and prices rise to £23,190 - all models have the same petrol and electric power units but have different specifications and the test car had as standard CVT automatic transmission, heated front seats, rear parking sensors, climate control, eco mode and 16 inch alloy wheels.
Top speed is 113mph, zero to 62mph takes 12.5 seconds and combined fuel consumption is 65.7 mpg - I noticed that the on board computer showed that fuel consumption was averaging about 10mpg less than this figure which I have found is the usual situation with most cars.
The petrol engine runs all the time unlike some hybrids and despite its size it provided a good power output and it worked well with the smooth CVT automatic transmission which was one of the best CVT systems I have come across.
The interior is roomy and comfortable with an impressive fascia and its futuristic instrument display which also indicates to the driver whether the electric motor is assisting the petrol engine and also when the electric battery is being charged especially during regenerative braking.
There is also Eco Assist which together with the ECON switch enables the driver to achieve high fuel economy and also minimise exhaust gases with the driver being able to see how the system is working.
The hatchback lifts to reveal a large load area of 408 litres with the rear seats up rising to 584 litres with the seats down and the absence of a spare wheel means there is quite a lot of space under the floor for stowing valuables.
My only grumble concerned the split rear window which had restricted visibilility because the larger top section that has a wiper is so sharply angled that the driver can only see through a fairly narrow slot and the divider between both sections also affects visibility which is more noticeable at night - this rear styling looks good on the outside but is not very practical for the driver.
As mentioned earlier until there is a battery invented to provide expensive electric cars with much better mileage ranges their future is very limited which is why hybrid cars such as the Insight are a much better proposition for motorists wanting low emissions and good fuel consumption at an affordable price.
My Verdict: A tempting Honda hybrid.
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Power: 1.3-litre petrol engine plus electric motor.
Combined output: 97bhp @ 5800rpm.
Transmission: CVT automatic.
Top speed: 113mph.
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Fuel consumption: 65.7mpg combined.
CO2 emissions: 99g/km.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Posted by californiadreamin at Monday, March 12, 2012
15 comments:
- Anonymous said...
You go girl! 13.1... At least until it is 26
- March 12, 2012 at 10:51 AM
- Steph@ Living The Young Life said...
well first off congrats!!! thats amazing!!!! your outfit was cute!!! i bet your glad you finished.. alot of ppl say you get runners high ? that true?
- March 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- Lindsey said...
CONGRATS! How did you train for this? I "ran" a 5K Saturday but that entailed walking, running, walking, running, walking, running.
Love your outift, lol!
- March 12, 2012 at 11:17 AM
- Just Jennifer said...
Awesome! Toot your horn because it deserves tooting!
- March 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM
- erin said...
YES! I knew you'd do it. I love the pics and love the outfit! Way to go!
- March 12, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- Breanna said...
Congrats Karli!! Love your outfit! I wish I could run marathons!
- March 12, 2012 at 5:44 PM
- Megan said...
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You are amazing! How awesome that you had with it, too :-)
- March 12, 2012 at 6:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
Congrats!!! Love that you Tebowed. :)
- March 12, 2012 at 11:00 PM
- Amber said...
Loving the Tebow moment:) I am so proud go you! That is so amazing and I am super jelly. Congrats! Love the outfits, too!
- March 13, 2012 at 8:14 AM
- Courtney B said...
Congratulations!! You should definitely be bragging because you are AMAZING! I ran a 10k in October and though I was the shiznit... until I realized that I hurt my knee during the race. Oops! So I'm just now getting back into running. But you've inspired me to get my butt out the door and start training again!
- March 13, 2012 at 10:57 AM
- Running Girl said...
Congratulations! What a huge accomplishment! And, you look wonderful in the pictures. :-)
- March 13, 2012 at 2:01 PM
- Sarah said...
Yay!! Congrats!!
- March 14, 2012 at 12:49 AM
- Jill@babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, Oh My! said...
thats awesome! way to go! your outfit is perfect for the event!
- March 14, 2012 at 8:32 PM
- Sunkissed and Southern said...
yay im so inspired by you!! so how long did you train for? did you use hal's program? and did you always run at that pace you finished in? im trying to determine my pace now....last for 6.7 miles i was 10.75...
- March 16, 2012 at 1:23 PM
- Milady said...
Melanie here! I enjoyed this piece, please email me--I have a question about your blog. MelanieLBowen[at]gmail[dot]com
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The BBC reports that Gary Locke, the U.S. Ambassador to China and former U.S. Commerce Secretary has demanded that China release Xu Zhiyong, the founder of the movement from custody. Read Locke's statement below:
"I am deeply concerned that the 22 January trial of Chinese legal scholar Xu Zhiyong and the prosecution of other good-governance advocates are retribution for their public campaigns to expose official corruption and for the peaceful expression of their views," Ambassador Mr Locke said in a statement.
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I spent Mother's Day taking a 3 hour drive to drop off flowers at my mother's grave. For those of you who don't know, she died of breast cancer. She didn't have any in her actual breast this time. She did the first time, ten years before her second battle with the deadly disease. The second time around, breast cancer cells had migrated into her brain and lungs. They gave her six months to live and she fought for nearly two years. That was two years ago.
A week after I placed those flowers I'm saddened and angered to find out the school board in Oshawa, Ontario, (the city where we lived) is in essence, banning a breast cancer awareness campaign.
I'm previously from Oshawa, I've dealt with the Durham District School Board's policies as both a student and as the parent of a student. I can't say it surprised me when I read in this article on MSN about their decision to ban the "I Love Boobies" bracelets.
Naturally, as a child who lost a parent to breast cancer, I am disgusted with their decision. The reason behind it? I'm sure they'll give tons of other reasons because that's the kind of responsible educators these administrators are. I'm sure it falls under their rule about inappropriate words on clothing, which is part of their dress code. This same dress code stipulates that all skirts or shorts must reach below fingertips when standing upright when arms and shoulders are relaxed. Try that test out yourself and you'll see how short these skirts and shorts are. I have long arms and if this was my guideline for choosing shorts they would barely cover my buttcheeks while standing, never mind bending over. But the main reason is the word "Boobies". Yeah, BOOBIES. Not TITS, or KNOCKERS, or MILK CANS, or any of the numerous other nicknames for our lovable mammary glands. Boobies. Before I was taught to their were called, BREASTS, I was told they were called BOOBIES.
The bracelets also say BREAST on them as part of the breast cancer awareness campaign's slogan to catch attention and encourage education. Click here to find out more about the campaign. Thanks to The Keep A Breast Foundation, a breast cancer campaign is finally targeting a portion of the populace that is often portrayed as the family of breast cancer victims instead of potential victims themselves. TKABF should be applauded and encouraged instead of stomped on by so-called educators who claim they are looking out for the best interests of their students.
In Canada, supporters of the Public School system often criticize Christian home schoolers for not educating their children on topics of sex and same-sex relationships. Talk about hypocrisy. The I Love Boobies campaign has as much to do with the health of these children as teaching tolerance and understanding of STDs or Homosexuality. Because I'm sure the numbers are nothing like they should be, I want to encourage teens (both female and male) to take part in my polling to find out how many of them are performing self-exams on themselves. Take the poll, click here. The first time my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was 16. I knew nothing about what breast cancer was, how it was treated or what the survival rate was. I was lucky that my mother was a nurse and was capable of answering my questions. The Durham Highschool I was attending at the time was aware of my mother's illness and never once was I asked if I wanted to speak to the school counsellor about it or asked if I had any questions. Nothing. When my grades fell from stress and depression, they didn't ask me why. When I skipped school because I couldn't cope, they didn't ask me why. They gave me detention and threatened suspension. That's how the schools in Durham dealt with these issues a decade ago. I'm not surprised not much has changed.
I'm left wondering, if this campaign existed while I was still in school and my mother had died back then — instead of two years ago — from breast cancer, would they have denied me the right to show my love and support for her, and a campaign aimed at preventing further deaths by wearing at bracelet with the word Boobies on it? Because I'm sure there are teens at Durham high schools who are coping with the recent diagnosis of a loved one and they ARE being denied this right.
I'm sure there are kids wearing these bracelets for negative reasons, but instead of educating them, the Durham Board is punishing children seeking education and showing support for breast cancer sufferers/survivors.
I'm putting out a call to everyone who has been diagnosed with or has a loved one diagnosed with breast cancer, or has lost someone to breast cancer, to contact the Durham Board and protest this decision. I'm posting a template of what I recommend each of you should say in asking them to reverse this decision. Please be polite, respectful but passionate. Don't damage our efforts by being mean or abusive. That kind of attitude is no better than their banning.
You can write to them at
400 Taunton Road East, Whitby, ON, Canada, L1R 2K6
Or call them at (905) 666-5500 or 1-800-265-3968
Fax them at (905) 666-6474
I also encourage residents of Canada, especially the province of Ontario to write their MPs, MPPs and if you live in Durham Region, your municipal representative, to ask them to make a change to this ban put in place by the Durham Board.
Please take a minute to vote in my poll on breast cancer self-screening.
Let your voice be heard! Since when is "Boobies" a bad word?
P.S. Please feel free to add your personal experience with breast cancer to your call or letter to the Durham Board. Let them know why this banning hurts.
Call or Letter template:
Hello, this is (state your name) and I am calling after hearing about the Durham District School Board's decision to ban The Keep A Breast Foundation bracelets. This decision greatly upsets and disturbs me. I believe you are giving the wrong message to kids about educating themselves about breast cancer. I think the Durham Board of Education should be embracing this campaign and its message instead of shunning it. I'm asking that your administration reconsider this decision and instead use this as an opportunity to set aside class time for discussion and education for both female and male students. This is a time for teaching respect for women and awareness about a disease that affects men and women of all ages. If you choose not to reverse this decision, I would consider it a show of disrespect to the students and families in your district who are affected by breast cancer. I hope you will consider what kind of message you are sending to the children who have lost a mother or father to breast cancer. In banning the "I Love Boobies" bracelets, you are stripping them of the right to grieve and cope by doing something positive about it.
Thank you for your time. It is my hope you will apologize for this misguided decision and do the right thing.
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mosaic chamber choir is based in St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
Directed by Nicholas Robinson
mosaic: a design… composed by the piecing together of different things
(Chambers English Dictionary)
– an appropriate name for a group who, in a few short years, have built an enviable reputation for virtuosity, versatility and verve. Mosaic brings together a group of singers, based in and around St Albans, each with a wealth of experience in a wide range of choirs in the UK and abroad.
a bit about us
Mosaic have built a repertoire that covers pretty much everything from renaissance polyphony to contemporary classics: Byrd and Berlin, Victoria and Vaughan Williams, Gesualdo and Gershwin and many, many more.
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"The intonation was impeccable.. the ensemble creates a plethora of sound colours within a broad dynamic range."
"…spellbinding from start to finish"
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our patrons
Dr Peter Hurford OBE
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our next concert
St. Peter's Church, St Albans, 7.30pm
Will Todd Songs of Love
Chilcott A Little Jazz Mass
George Shearing Songs & Sonnets
nicholas robinson director/piano
dave ledingham saxophone
jason reeve drums
richard sadler bass


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As per the rates prepared by the corporation, Airtel will have to pay an annual rent of Rs 75 per pole and Rs 7 per metre. Airtel has applied for erecting 392 poles and laying aerial cables at a distance of 16,250 metres.
The Kochi corporation charged Reliance almost eight times the rate prepared by city corporation levying Rs 500 per pole annually for over 1,000 poles. The annual rent for Rs 37,500/km was also fixed for aerial cables, while civic body has just managed to charge Rs 7,000/km annually. Hence, annually the corporation will receive an amount less than Rs 1.5 lakh while its counterpart in Kochi enjoys additional revenue that touches crores in terms of rent, security deposit and restoration charges.
While Kochi corporation had decided to increase restoration charges to Rs 3.48 crore from Rs 2.09 crore, the agenda presented in the previous council meeting was silent on restoration charges to be levied from Airtel. The engineering wing officials are clueless as to how the item figured in the agenda.
The previous council was also plagued by lack of clarity over fixing of rental rates for aerial cables. A dissent had emerged in the ruling council over grant of sanction to RJIL to install poles for aerial cables as part of 4G connectivity. The sanction was accorded without the approval of the corporation council as the file never came up for discussion in any of the council meetings.
Sanction was accorded for installing poles in 35km within corporation limits. Opposition councillors had also raised concerns regarding lack of clarity in restoration charges being levied from the company.
According to officials of Kochi corporation's engineering wing, the rates are fixed by the finance standing committee. The civic bodies follow a standard pattern only in road cutting charges depending upon nature of roads. Kochi corporation had raised the rent for optical fibre cable from Rs 30,000 to Rs 37,500 in 2015. It was even raised to Rs 50,000 in 2014 but was dropped owing to objections.
When pointed out the disparity, deputy mayor Rakhi Ravikumar said that the rates will be assessed again. "The item has been put off for further discussion. We will analyse the rates after deliberations with the officials," said Rakhi. The civic body is yet to chalk out an exact plan on security deposit, annual rental rates and conditions for using the poles for laying aerial OFC.


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PLSJC Director Alan Hall writes a weekly column discussing library and community news, history, and other interesting subjects.
The first phase of the upgrade to our online Digital Shoebox is now complete.
Little did we know two years ago, that the computer upgrade of our online system of digital images of books, documents, photos, and other local history materials would be as complex of a process as it turned out to be!
The first step in the upgrade process was moving the database to Columbus to the OCLC systems where it is constantly backed up in case of a system failure.
The second step was to upgrade the operating software of the system. The good thing was that neither of these steps required any action on the part of local library staff, including me.
The new database and software allows more information to accompany each item, so we did have to then edit and update descriptions some of what dated back 15 years, which is decades in computer software time.
Next came training, and a consultant from Columbus came here for an intense all-day workshop for five of us, to learn the new simpler administrative systems.
I think our Trainer used the word "simpler." I tried to sit quietly so as not to draw attention to myself and what my face was showing as I chugged through the workshop.
In the end, I did really understand the process and I managed to edit our entire database over a six-week time period, working on it an hour-a-day or so.
The end product is a database of nearly 100,000 pages of local history, and a file of more than 1,000 images and photographs available at www.digitalshoebox.org.
The great thing is that they are permanently preserved, and the whole system is the 4th largest online digital library in Ohio's public libraries.
The other great thing is that it is expandable to accommodate up to 160,000 items, and can be further expanded in a simple manner.
Next, we trained the other libraries in the system, including the Belmont County District Library, St. Clairsville Public Library, Washington County Public Library, Caldwell Public Library, Monroe County District Library, Perry County District Library, and the Puskarich Public Library of Cadiz.
Now we have started adding new images and photos to the system, taking photos in our Local History and Genealogy Department and digitizing them into the Shoebox.
We can also digitize photos provided by the public, and return them to the owner.
Some of the new photos in the system include Day's Store in Steubenville, the 1950 Blizzard, the collapse of Court House roof in 1950, Frank Smith's 1930 Chevy, Snellenburg Clothing, and a delightful photo of 600 Market Street about 1939.
I keep looking at the last photo, as I see something new every time I look again.
The photo is taken looking west on Market Street at the railroad crossing. It is Christmastime as garland extends overhead across the street.
Cars are stopped at the railroad gates, which are operated manually by an employee houses in a little building sitting high on steel I-beams. An employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad is standing in the middle of the street with a Stop sign.
There is a Rexall Drug Store near the crossing, and visible up the street is Moore Brothers Car Dealership that carries DeSoto and Plymouth cars.
The streetlights on poles are cantilevered to the side of the pole and have Presidential Globes covering the electric bulb. Signs for US 22 and SR 43 share a light pole.
There is a lot of information from a 75 year old photo, and there is much more to browse, which can be done from your home computer.
There are lots more photos from Mt. Pleasant, Smithfield, Toronto, Richmond, and Bergholz to name only a few area towns.
Check the library website at www.steubenvillelibrary.org and see all the information that can be obtained without even coming to the library itself.
Of course, we miss not seeing our customers and hope you will make a library visit


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Baudelaires of East Broadway
A Little Love in Big Mahattan: Two Yiddish Poets.
by Ruth R. Wisse.
Harvard University Press. 279 pp. $25.00.
The story Ruth R. Wisse tells in her latest book is, like the poem from which she takes her title, ironic and bittersweet. It is the story of a group of young Yiddish-speaking immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York who lived for poetry. Their brief, doomed movement to fashion a purified Yiddish aesthetic, one which was committed not to any political or social ideal but to language itself, began in 1907 and was known as Di Yunge ("The Young").
In the two decades between the first major wave of Jewish immigration in the 1880's and the years when these poets arrived, Yiddish culture in America had already undergone a number of changes. The first Yiddish literature, typified by the "sweatshop school" of poetry, was didactic and blunt; it addressed itself entirely to the requirements of the working-class population, depended on a close alliance with the Yiddish press, and was cut off from the folk traditions of the prose masters—Sholem Aleichem, Men-dele, Peretz—who were then writing their best works in Russia and Poland. The sweatshop poets, responding to a totally unfamiliar tenement and factory existence, engineered a kind of literary expression that suited the needs of their uprooted, bewildered audience. Their poetry was little more than a bald testimony to this community's hard new life.
By the time the future members of the Yunge appeared, conditions were somewhat altered. The daily routine for most of the immigrants was no less strenuous, but in twenty-five years an energetic, multifaceted Yiddish culture had evolved. Under the editorship of Abraham Cahan, the socialist newspaper Forverts ("Forward") had grown into the largest foreign-language daily paper in America. Yiddish theater was a much livelier presence than it had ever been allowed to become in Europe. Literary cafes were buzzing with eager voices; Yiddish-language magazines with sections devoted to literature were starting to spring up regularly, their socialist editors constantly on the watch for new ideological positions. Perhaps the most radical of these magazines was Di yugnt ("Youth"), begun in the winter of 1907-08, which emphasized the importance of having no ideological loyalties at all.
The only allegiance the Yunge claimed for themselves was a duty to literature—Yiddish literature—for its own sake. They shut themselves off from political idealism and directed their firepower toward the Yiddish press, which for them symbolized the mass consciousness they sought to escape. As one of the rebels, Zishe Landau, asserted, up till then Yiddish poetry had been serving merely as "the rhyme department of the Jewish labor movement"; for the Yunge, by contrast, the importance of poetry lay precisely in its autonomous existence, its distance from everyday concerns.
The Yunge wanted the language of their poems to be hard, clear, and concentrated—somewhat like the imagist poems that were starting to emerge in England and America at about this time—but also to incorporate the refinement and subtlety of late 19th-century symbolist verse. Each word ought to resonate, simply but deeply, and the poem as a whole ought to be as musical as possible, with harmonizing meter and rhyme. Purity of language, for them, meant avoiding both newspaper jargon and German and Hebrew expressions which had found their way into everyday Yiddish speech. And if the use of the language was to be pure, the content ought to be purer: it was to contain no sentimentality and no bombast; it was to be understated, sensual, spiritual.
Perhaps the example of Yunge poetry which manages best to incorporate all these high-minded ideals is Mani Leib's "Shtiller, shtiller" ("Hush, hush"), a poem about waiting for the messiah, which opens this way:
Hush and hush—no sound be
Bow in grief but say no word.
Black as pain and white as death,
Hush and hush and hold your
One by one they declared their devotion to this pure, self-contained aesthetic: Mani Leib, Reuben Iceland, Zishe Landau, Moishe Leib Halpern. Barely twenty, fresh from various parts of the Jewish Pale, working endless hours in bootmaking factories or as window washers, they gathered at night in the cafes to discuss the French symbolists and Walt Whitman. They were lucky to steal a few moments alone in a crowded, noisy apartment, these Baudelaires of East Broadway, to write longingly of stillness, quiet, trees, snow. To their heated debates they brought the zeal of the formal religious practices they had all but abandoned. They called themselves "a new kind of minyan"; for them, poetry was like the promise of the Sabbath or of Mani Leib's breathlessly awaited messiah—it brought the redemption of the world into closer view. They saw themselves as dandies, as aesthetes, with "their elegant canes, their long hair and their wide, sweeping hats," but what one notices first about them is how close to the shtetl they still were, and how young, how full of books and spite and cheerfulness and strength.
A less sensitive writer than Mrs. Wisse might have been tempted to sentimentalize this story, but she is scrupulously aware of the danger. Her documentation is careful and steady, her tone reserved; she allows the poignance in the story she tells to express itself through the poetry and through the facts of the poets' lives. Mrs. Wisse had originally planned to write a literary history of the whole Yunge movement, but in the end she has concentrated on two members, Mani Leib and Moishe Leib Halpern, letting the others serve as "voices of the chorus." Because the two poets she chose are on the surface so different, their stories together make a fine natural structure for the book.
Mani Leib grew up in a city called Niezhin in the Ukraine, the birthplace of Gogol. Before he emigrated at the age of twenty, he was apprenticed to a bootmaker and later imprisoned for agitating against the czar. Incarceration in this cause was a point of great pride for him, and he was glad to have the free time to devote to writing poems. When he was arrested a second time, however, he decided to escape to America. Shortly thereafter, employed as a bootmaker in New York, he was able to bring his sweetheart Chasia to America; they married and had five children in ten years, living in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
Most people considered Mani Leib to be the most attractive member of the Yunge. Gentle, dreamy, wistful about his childhood, writing poems noted for their musicality, he was called a Joseph among his brothers. But life was not particularly full of rewards for this sweet-tempered poet. His marriage was almost immediately unhappy, but his wife refused him a divorce. He fell in love with a writer named Rochelle Weprinski, with whom he lived intermittently, and was obliged to support both his own large family and Rochelle's household on his factory salary. One of the happiest periods of his life was spent in a sanatorium where he was treated for tuberculosis; there, as in prison, he at last had the uninterrupted leisure to write his poems.
Moishe Leib Halpern had a nearly opposite personality; if Mani Leib was a Joseph, Halpern was an Esau crouching over his mess of pottage, rough, angry, mocking, suspicious. He came from a relatively wealthy family in the town of Zlochev in the Austro-Hungarian empire and was sent at twelve to Vienna to be apprenticed to a commercial artist. When he returned to his hometown in 1907 he felt himself a stranger, steeped as he was in German literature and culture. But he decided to return to a Jewish way of life and voluntarily chose Yiddish—rather than German, Hebrew, Polish, or Russian—as his literary language.
When Halpern arrived in New York in 1908 he immediately tried to become the most eccentric of all the young individualists in the literary community. He refused to seek steady employment, writing verses for Yiddish humor magazines only when he needed a few dollars. He took pleasure in taunting and outraging potential publishers of his work and showed a reckless contempt for both sides of every ideological battle: he mocked both lapsed Jews and observant ones, those who had lofty goals for Yiddish literature and those who thought it should address the common people; when there was a split among the Yunge in 1914, he took neither side and published parodies of both.
For all his crankiness, Halpern was no crackpot. What made him unable to take a position was his sense of irony, a troublesome gift for seeing all sides of an argument down to the most meticulous details, so that in every point of view he could spot the seeds of its opposite and thereby reject it. In his speaking tours across the country for the Communist newspaper Freiheit—whose views he eventually, and characteristically, came to repudiate—he became a wandering promoter of Yiddish culture, an emblem of its rootlessness and its portability. In one of his poems he called himself a "street drummer," a rhythmic noisemaker, "reckless and free, on alien dirt."
They seem very different, Moishe Leib Halpern and Mani Leib, the lion and the lamb, the street drummer and the wistful balladeer, yet in their poetry they prove themselves more fundamentally alike than one might imagine. In an excellent analysis, Mrs. Wisse explains that Halpern's poetic identity is divided into two parts, the "mocker" and the "mourner":
The mocker is the principle of energy, the mourner of impotence and death. The mocker is protean, vivid, inventive. The mourner is passive, helpless, leaving earth without even a trace of his presence.
It is this ability to hold contradictory identities in his head that makes Halpern a complex and interesting poet. And Mani Leib's verses display similar dichotomies: between the earthbound heart and the upward-reaching soul, isolation and solidarity, doubt and faith. Both poets share that very serious sense of irony, of understanding too well all sides of a situation. No doubt it was this quality that led them both to seek refuge in the intellectually pure atmosphere of the Yunge.
If desire for purity brought the poets together, it was purity that dissolved the group; the atmosphere eventually became too thin for them to continue. World War I signaled the ruin of Jewish life in Europe, a grim milestone marking the end of these writers' innocent youth. Many of them could no longer ignore the political situation erupting around them and were drawn into various socialist and Communist causes. Others were forced to give up poetry as a profession in order to support their growing families. In the wake of the Yunge arose another group known as the Introspectivists, who rebelled against the smoothness and disengagement of the earlier movement's verse.
But Yiddish culture was on the decline even as this new group gathered. Like most immigrants in the interwar years, the Introspectivists were becoming more formally educated than the Yunge, more American, more interested in mainstream culture than in retaining their own cohesion. Yiddish literature was endangered both by the economic poverty of its readers and by their eventual economic success: in poverty nobody could afford to buy volumes of Yiddish verse; in wealth the push to become assimilated meant abandoning mameloshen altogether.
Mrs. Wisse's book is more than a memorial to these most interesting writers; it is an attempt, as she writes, "to return to modern Jews part of their lost inheritance and, more important, to locate for American Yiddish poets their rightful place in the American canon." The first goal she achieves with remarkable judiciousness, economy, and skill. The question of how well she has accomplished the second has much to do with the large issue of how Yiddish has survived as a language without ever having had a permanent geographical home.
Yiddish is by definition an independent tongue, a language of homelessness. While it is true that some of the Yunge wrote verse that owes its existence to the American landscape—Joseph Rolnick's country-life portraits, which bear a resemblance to those of Robert Frost, or I.J. Schwartz's Kentucky, a Whitmanesque quasi-epic—the group's contribution on the whole belongs more to world, and specifically European, literature than to the American canon. Its models were the 19th-century European poets: Pushkin, Blok, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Baudelaire. In later years, when the work of the Yunge was known to most European Jewish poets, they were often invited to participate in transcontinental exchanges. They enthusiastically translated into Yiddish Slavic songs, Scottish ballads, and Shakespeare.
It was only with the Introspectivists that attention began to be paid to American poetry beyond Whitman. But not even the Introspectivists can be said to have become part of the American poetic canon, though they came the closest. Yiddish culture was too self-contained within its own traditions on the one hand, and too engaged in world literature on the other, successfully to assimilate itself into American literature.
The Yunge were expatriates of a kind; indeed, by the time they reached America, expatriation was a point of view that had already been integrated into their consciousness. Theirs was a small, stubborn voice which could be taken anywhere, although (as they themselves predicted) it was not guaranteed to survive anywhere. And yet the literary merits of the Yunge, so brilliantly displayed and explicated by Mrs. Wisse, are undeniable, and their work remains properly of great interest to modern American Jews in search (as she puts it) of "their lost inheritance," to lovers of poetry, and to American literary critics and historians. Mrs. Wisse ends her book with a sad question which is also a challenge to these diverse readers: "Was the new Yiddish psalter imprinted for all time in the stones of East Broadway, or did it sink with the poets into a place as lost as Atlantis?"


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There have already been articles published on the use cases for using IoT with a private Blockchain. The possibilities are really exciting but what if we could run the blockchain ON our IoT network. That sounds like a fun project to me!
With that goal in mind and a bit of research I was led to Hyperledger Fabric. To learn more about it check this out: Hyperledger Overview. Getting Hyperledger Fabric to run on Raspberry Pi presented several major hurdles:
- No one had compiled the project for the ARM architecture before.
- There wasn't any documentation on how to run the Hyperledger on a Docker Swarm.
But hurdles are what make projects fun right? So lets go through the steps so that you can setup your own.
- Setting up a Hyperledger Fabric development environment on a Raspberry Pi
- Building Hyperledger Fabric on Raspberry Pi
- Setting up a Docker Swarm on Raspberry Pi
- Deploying a Hyperledger Fabric network on the Swarm with Docker Stack and testing with BYFN.
Lets get started!


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A couple who gave human medicines to seven cats with flu and tried to treat a kitten's fractured leg using bathing salts have been disqualified from keeping animals for five years.
Susannah Self 26 and Magno Sousa 26 both of Grange Road, Retford, appeared at Mansfield Magistrates' Court today (Tuesday 7 November) to be sentenced.
They were found guilty of three animal welfare offences following a trial in October.
The court heard that the RSPCA received an anonymous phone call in June this year from someone who was concerned about the welfare of seven cats at the property.
This led to RSPCA Inspector Daniel Bradshaw to attend the house, where he found six kittens and their mother, Bandit, suffering from cat flu.
One of the kittens also had a broken leg which Self and Sousa had been treating by bathing him in epsom salts after searching on the Internet for advice on "how to heal a kitten's leg".
Inspector Bradshaw took the cats to a vet to be examined. Sadly, the kitten with the broken leg was put to sleep as the vet did not think that he would survive an operation due to the cat flu.
Self and Sousa had been treating the cats with flu with eye drops and cream commonly used for humans suffering from conjunctivitis.
As a result, one kitten had to have an eye removed.
The surviving kittens have since been rehomed by the RSPCA's Radcliffe branch. Bandit has also made a good recovery and will now be available for rehoming through the branch, after the court ordered her to be signed over to the RSPCA's care.
Inspector Bradshaw said: "The reason why Self and Sousa treated the cats themselves was because they didn't have the money to pay for vet bills, but as a result of the treatment the animals sadly continued to suffer.
"A visit to a vet would have reduced this suffering significantly.
"Sadly we see it all too often, animals suffering because their owner cannot afford vet bills. However, many vets offer payment plans and their are plenty of animal charities, ourselves included, who will offer free advice if contacted.
"We would never advise to follow information from the internet without speaking to a veterinary professional first."
As well as the disqualification order, they were each given a 12-month community order, a six-week curfew and have been ordered to pay costs of £450 each and an £85 victim surcharge.


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Here at Women Like Us Foundation, we believe women and girls are the future. The mantra we stick to is: encourage, empower, engage. Let me repeat: encourage, empower, engage. Sometimes reaching this goal only takes a simple gesture or smile. However, other times it takes hard work, dedication, and faith to not only encourage, empower, and engage young girls, but for them to be able to do it themselves. We are constantly working and striving to change the negative conditions that so many women and girls live in. We do not, however, work alone. In fact, collaboration is an integral part of success. This summer WLU will be working with St. Luke's United Methodist Church to promote the Half the Sky Movement.
On Wednesday June 5, part 3 of Half the Sky Movement will be held at Fellowship Hall from 6-8:30. The evening will focus on the vital importance of education in the lives of girls and women. It's easy to see school as a privileged commodity that is often taken for granted because it's an integral part of so much of our lives. Yet, something as important as an education, something that opens thousands of doors for a better, more enriching life is not a privilege; it's a right. At this dinner event, speakers Ellen Daniels-Howell and Marsha Reynolds will share tales of their personal experiences across the globe and the power of education.
In September, our own Linda Rendleman will be speaking at part 4 of Half the Sky Movement. This event will shed light on the still-present horror of Sex Trafficking. It goes without saying that this atrocity should not exist in any part of history, but especially not in the 21st century. Women Like Us has recently taken a stand against sex trafficking and will continue to work to end it.
There will always be struggles and evils to concur. Sometimes the road is simple, but more often than not the road is a long and treacherous one. Things will rarely go according to plan and we'll have to roll with the punches. However in the end, girls are always worth it.
For more information about Half the Sky Movement check out this website: http://goo.gl/aRQhY


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It's now starting to feel like fall! The weather's changing, the temperature's dropping, and Pumpkin Spice Latte's are back in Starbucks! To celebrate Fall, I thought that I'd do a fall lipsticks wishlist for you! This is shopable, so if you like a color, click on the image! Let's get started!
Let me know down below what colors you're loving for fall, and if there's any in particular I need to check out! Also, don't forget to follow this blog on bloglovin if you aren't already! It's the number one way to stay up to date with this blog :)


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"Lion," which is currently in sixth place to claim the Best Picture Oscar according to our 24 experts, just won the Audience Award for Best Narrative at the Middleburg film festival. While this filmfest based in suburban D.C. is only four years old, the winner of this award can factor into the Oscar race in a big way. Last year's winner, "Spotlight," went on to win Best Picture and the first two films to take home this prize — "Philomena" in 2013 and "The Imitation Game" in 2014 — each got nominated for the top Academy Award.
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"Lion" opened the festival last Thursday at the Salamander Resort. Garth Davis's film tells the real-life tale of an Indian boy separated from his family and adopted by a Tasmanian couple played to a packed house. "Lion" edged out other Oscar favorites including "La La Land," "Manchester by the Sea," "Loving" and "Moonlight."
To date, 17 of the films that unspooled here have gone on to amass a total of 48 Oscar nominations, including additional Best Picture bids for "Nebraska" (2013) and "Brooklyn" (2015). Films that played here have taken home three Oscars in all (Picture and Original Screenplay for "Spotlight"; Adapted Screenplay for "The Imitation Game").
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The festival attracted many stars this year including Emma Stone and writer/director Damien Chazelle from "La La Land." Producers Angie Fielder ("Lion") and Ged Doherty ("Loving") were also on hand to discuss their films. The festival's keynote conversation was with academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs who discussed the organization's efforts to increase diversity and her own journey through the industry as an African-American woman.
Middleburg, Virginia is home to only about 750 people and may not seem like the kind of place that would hold a film festival with many major Oscar contenders. However, it makes more sense when one looks beyond the town boundary. Only an hour from the capital, it's nestled in the southwest corner of Loudoun County, a booming commuter region with the highest median income in the entire country.
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Sheila Johnson launched the festival as a way to showcase the town. She was a co-founder of Black Entertainment Television with her then-husband Robert in 1980, and has gone on to be a co-owner of several capital sports teams. In addition, she started a company that manages several resorts including the Salamander Resort and Spa in Middleburg, which played host to the festival.
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On Saturday a Marvel Bullpen reunion was held at Comic-Con: International in San Diego, hosted by Mark Evanier and featuring Marie Severin, John Buscema, Gene Colan and John Romita Sr.
Most of the time was spent reminiscing about old times, looking at original art created by each of the artists in turn, and sharing stories about working with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
The highlight of the event came when the following exchange took place.
Mark Evanier: John (Buscema), do you have any stories about Stan?
Buscema: Did he work at Marvel? (Laughter)
Evanier: I'm sure you loved Stan's plots.
Buscema: I hated them. (Laughter) I just tried to stay out of the man's way. He told me what to draw and I just did my job.
Romita: No you didn't! You complained every step of the way. "Why does Peter have to have nine Goddamned friends? Why can't he have just two friends? Why can't we draw Spider-Man in the desert? Why does their have to be so many buildings?"
Buscema: That's a lie! I just hate drawing cities and Spider-Man with his nine friends. (Laughter)
Romita: You complained more than anyone else, but then you'd turn around and send in the most subtle, beautiful works of art I'd ever laid eyes on.
Colan: I looked up to John Buscema. He was the best. He could smoke a cigarette, carry on a conversation with someone and finish the most incredible page of artwork all at the same time.
Buscema: That's a lie! Look, I hate kids, I hate puppies. This isn't true! (Laughter)
Romita: John, those issues of The Avengers that you did were the best comic art I'd ever seen. We used to wait around in the Bullpen for your finished pages to come in and then everyone would want their own photostats of the pages.
Marie Severin: Well, I'm tired of talking about John Buscema! (Laughter)
At this point, host Mark Evanier took questions from the floor. The first question was, "Which of you on the panel were responsible for the death of Gwen Stacy?"
Buscema: Who is Gwen Stacy? (Laughter)
Evanier: She was a character in Spider-Man and you don't care.
Buscema: Oh, yeah. (Laughter)
Romita: We wanted there to be a death in the Spider-Man book. At first someone suggested Aunt May and I said that most fans would probably cheer. Then someone suggested Mary Jane and I said she was an airhead and only a few hundred Mary Jane fans would send letters and then it would quiet down with no real impact. Then I suggested that it should be Gwen Stacy. If you want to shake things up, you need to kill Gwen Stacy. So we ran it by our editor and he ran it by Stan, or he told us he had run it by Stan and that Stan had said it was ok. But the issue came out where Gwen Stacy died and Stan had been out of town. He claims to this day that he knew nothing about it. Stan demanded that we bring her back. I argued that we had to show people that characters could die in a book, that no one was safe.
Severin: Stan always had a thing for blondes. (Laughter)


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