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A contributor to OPERA NEWS for more than sixty years, Horst Koegler published his first report, an assessment of "Opera in Berlin," in the issue of March 31, 1952. The twenty-five-year-old critic's essay held several of the pithy, eye-catching statements that were to become typical of his work during the six decades during which OPERA NEWS carried Horst's byline: his review of a Rigoletto at Städtische Oper cited its Gilda and Rigoletto, Rita Streich and Josef Metternich, as "two voices of marvelous beauty [but] two singers of curious impersonality, lacking the passion that Verdi's music demands." Horst's reports — and his correspondence — were charged with enthusiasm and integrity; nothing pleased him more than discovering a good performance that had almost slipped under his radar. In 2009, he wrote an e-mail to me that ran as follows: "Dear F.P.D., Surprise, surprise! Last night: second performance of a new Stuttgart Lucia. Expectation and hopes: Nil! Result: TERRIFIC!" Although Horst had been attending opera as a professional critic for more than a half-century — his first Lucia was the 1955 Berlin Festival performance with Karajan pacing Callas — he was still capable of being completely captivated by a performance. Horst pronounced some of the shows that he reviewed during the present season — among them the Zurich Opera staging of The Nose and an Ariadne auf Naxos in Baden-Baden — as being among the best experiences of his operagoing career. A man of truly catholic taste, Horst remembered with joy a 1964 sojourn in Manhattan, during which he saw the Beatles at Carnegie Hall and Leontyne Price's first Met Eugene Onegin during the same week. Horst embraced radical regie interpretations of the standard repertory as well as more traditional productions, unafraid to acknowledge the intelligence and psychological insight of Calixto Bieito, a stage director whose productions often inspire controversy; Horst called Bieito's 2008 staging of Der Fliegende Holländer "the most thrilling evening I have spent in the Stuttgart Opera House for many a month." Although Horst had few preconceived prejudices when it came to opera staging, one of his pet peeves was the device of inserting a "Demon" into an opera's cast of characters; he grumbled, "This Demon happens to appear in so many productions in Stuttgart that he should be the company mascot."
Born in the Prussian city of Neuruppin, Horst studied philology, art history, dramaturgy, theatrical production and drama in Kiel and at the Theater School in Halle/Saale before beginning his professional career with a three-year term as an assistant director and dramaturg at the Gerhard-Hauptmann-Theater in Görlitz. He moved to what was then West Berlin in 1951, to begin work as a freelance journalist and critic for European publications as well as English-language magazines. Koegler worked as a critic for Die Welt in Berlin (1957–58) and as music editor and dance critic for Stuttgarter Zeitung (1977–92) in Stuttgart, which was his home and the base of his freelance professional operations for the last thirty-five years of his life. He covered dance and opera performances throughout Europe, with especially frequent reports filed from Stuttgart, Zurich, Baden-Baden, Bregenz and Karlsruhe. He was editor and author of several books on ballet and dance, including The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet (1977), John Neumeier — Pictures of a Life (2010) and Heinz Spoerli: Weltbürger des Balletts (2011), and he contributed to numerous reference works and journals, among them The Encyclopedia Britannica and the International Encyclopedia of Dance.
In 2001, Koegler launched a blog, koeglerjournal, for the internet platform tanznetz, where he posted nearly 1,000 articles. Despite failing health in recent years, he continued to travel, filing OPERA NEWS reports from Baden-Baden, Zurich and Stuttgart during the present season, but he admitted that retirement was inevitable. After mulling over the matter for a few months, in August 2011 Horst wrote to me that the present season would be his last as an OPERA NEWS correspondent, citing his sixtieth anniversary as "a good time to go" and mentioning the change of regimes in the opera houses of Zurich, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart as a sign that a new perspective was needed. "Do let me know whether you want me to recommend a successor for Stuttgart and/or Zurich for the 2012–13 season," he wrote, "or whether you have already a queue of people just waiting for me to quit!" Nevertheless, Horst prepared a full list of all the 2011–12 productions that he thought would be of interest to our readers — marking the especially exciting ones, as always, with an exclamation point. He cheerfully accepted assignments through June of this year — with the black-humored caveat "if I am still alive at that time!" — and continued to file copy as scheduled until March, when he submitted what was to be his last OPERA NEWS piece, a review of a Stuttgart double-bill of Schoenberg's Die Glückliche Hand and Janáček's Osud, staged by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito.
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I was thinking about the Brown Trout spawn here in western North Carolina the other day which generally starts sometime in October in our local Wild Water streams as well as the Speckled and Brook Trout spawns that generally start in November here in the same streams and this led me to consider appropriate fly patterns for these spawning periods. Thus, according to the research that I have done, a Trout's egg has a gestation period of approximately one to two months depending on the water temperature (the colder the water is, the longer the eggs require to develop). Then, once the eggs hatch, the Alevin take approximately one to one and one half months to consume their yolk sack (again dependent upon water temperature).
Therefore, it seems to me that during the months of October and November respectively, Brown Trout, Speckled Trout, and Brook Trout are likely to be very aggressive to what I like to think of as "predator streamers" such as the Black Nosed Dace and the Muddler Minnow (which imitates both a Sculpin and Chub) because this is the one time of year that these little fish (that are normally the Trout's prey) get to turn the tables by sealing and eating Trout eggs from the Redd. In addition, both adult Trout (those who are sexually mature) and especially juvenile Trout (those who are not sexually mature) are not above gulping down the occasional stray egg that has been washed away from the Redd and is drifting in the current or is rolling along the stream bed.
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Australia and Olympic Ice Hockey
Australia has qualified for ice hockey at the Winter Olympic Games - competing at Squaw Valley in 1960. The team scored 10 goals and finished ninth, conceding 87 goals in six games. The valiant Australian team did their best for Australia: Ben Acton (Capt), Ron Arness, David Cunningham, Noel Derrick, Alfred Dewhurst, Vic Ekberg, Basil Hansen, Clive Hitch, Russell Jones, Noel McLoughlin, John Nicholas, Peter Parrott, Ken Pawsey, Robert Reid, John Thomas, Steve Tikal, Ivo Vesely, Ken Wellman and William McEachern as coach.
Although the national league is developing in Australia it may be another few Games before the local stars realise their Olympic dreams.
Olympic History
The first Olympic Games to include ice hockey for men were the Antwerp Summer Games in 1920. Four years later it was part of the first Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix and has remained on the program ever since.
Women's ice hockey made its debut at the Winter Olympics at Nagano 1998. In another first for the sport, professional players from the world's premier competition, the National Hockey League of North America, played in the Nagano Games.
The Canadian men's and women's teams are defending champions after delighting the home crowd in Vancouver in 2010. Surprisingly, the United States have not won the men's tournament since Lake Placid 1980.
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Men's teams compete with a squad of 23 players (20 players and three goal keepers), while women's teams have 20 players (18 players and two goal keepers). At the Olympic Winter Games, women compete in an eight-team tournament whereas men compete in a 12-team tournament. Most notably, body checking is not allowed in women's ice hockey.
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I so appreciated your time at Calvary this last weekend. The truths of the Holy Spirit are awesome! You fill a great place in the body of Christ.
If you have a mailing list, please put me on.
Thank you, Del Critchley
Thank you for praying with my husband, Robert Van Houdt, on the phone at Lighthouse Worship Center, Gloucester, VA 23061 while at the Holy Spirit Conference. I will never forget that moment. My husband passed away on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 11PM. I will be forever grateful! ~ Joy
thank you and your family for coming to ft. myers and so deeply touching my wife and me in the spirit of the lord. we did not yet receive the baptism in the holy spirit but you moved our spiritual journey so much further ahead of where it was. what a true divine inspiration you and your whole family are to my wife and me. i look forward to worshipping with you again.
Thank you for coming to Sandhills Assembly. May God bless your ministry and your wonderful family.
Chris Randolph
Hi Tim and Rochelle,
I very much enjoyed the service last night at Bethel Assembly in Spartanburg. You are a beautiful family with a powerful message and ministry. Thank you for devoting yourselves to taking this message of the Holy Spirit and healing to those who so desperately need it!
Terry Roberts
Tim & Rochelle,
Great experience being at Bethel Assembly of God Holy Spirit conference. Relevant and needed in today's church! God Bless.
It's Larry (hiLARRYous) your favorite protection officer at Emmanuel Christian Center. Just wanted to let you know that we were thinking of you guys. Hope you had a joyful and blessed holiday season.
We hope you will come back sometime soon and visit. May the Lord bless your path, your travel and anoint every encounter you come upon.
Blessings guys.
Larry Johnson
Watchmen Ministries
Have a great day, weekend, month, and year! See you next time(if you come anywhere near Overland Park, kansas)!!!!
Hey Enloes:
This is Maryanna Wazny, from Spartanburg SC. You all came the beg. of Nov. to Bethel Assembly and did a Holy spirit conference. Tremendous time for my husband and I!
Must be honest, haven't prayed for you all much after you came and shared, HOWEVER, my husband picked up a prayer card and I found it in a drawer and THIS AM I was very burdened to pray and intercede for your family.
Hope you all are doing well and cont. to be safe and blessed1
The Wazny's
Tim, I am from Raleigh First Assembly. I so enjoyed your teaching this weekend. Though I have been a Christian, born again, and blessed by the Holy Spirit for many years, I still struggle mightly, especially with depression and physical illness. No amount of praying for healing or miracles has ever provided any fruit for me. So be it. You lifted me out of the dark place I was in and taught me so much about the gifts and God's often mysterious ways. I was reminded again that I am never alone no matter how alone I am physically. I took courage and posted on my FB page about your teaching and have directed people here. I needed real teaching about the gifts of the Holy Spirit with out a bunch of "signs and wonders" and people being slain in the spirit. God doesn't have to work that way. It will drive some people away, and leave others unsure and questioning if it is all real. Thank you for good, solid, clear teaching! Blessings to you and your family!
Hey Tim, this is michelle you know me from the church you grew up in. How is everyone doing? I'm ok. you came home last yr and you blessed me with two cd's. The lady i live with really enjoys them. I also enjoy them our fav though is Worship in Spirit. Her birthday is coming and I would like to buy her a copy. You bless so many people and it is such an encouragement to many of us and we are among them. May God continue to Bless and keep you and your family
Tim and Rochelle I can't wait to meet you ,when you come to Windsor . Park wood gospel temple will be so blessed to have you both. I thank god for the gifts he's poured out to me 30 years ago. I have never stopped praying in the holy spirit . I will be praying for you both and for god to pour out his blessing on my brothers and sisters in the lord. The web site is my friend Melissa's ,but we both work together to help others in healing and forgiveness. Many blessing to you. God bless
June 7, 2013
Thanks for sharing at Lakeview Church last weekend.
I have been a Christian since 1976 and in all that time your teachings on the Holy Spirit were the most balanced approach I've ever heard.
I also appreciate your teaching on "planting, watering, and harvesting". I hadn't been reminded of 1 Corinthians 3:7-9 for a while. I think I've been sort of paralyzed by thinking I had to do the 'entire project' instead of realizing that I only need to do my part.
I've been a Systems Analyst for years, but you reminded me that I don't need to analyze ever situation before proceeding. I need to lean wholly on the Holy Spirit to guide me.
I appreciate your style of teaching and I hope you can return again soon.
Don Grover
"The guy with gray hair who played the acoustic guitar in the Lakeview band"
Will you ever come to Atlanta, Georgia. Would enjoy hearing you speak in person….I am one of those quite people in a Worship setting. Anyway, thanks for your ministry. God Bless. Thanks for the humor and the reflective comments.
Surprise! This is your favorite babysitter! Or so I'm told by your folks. And have no fear: your secrets are safe with me!
Still playing in two different keys and singing in a third. Still as annoying as ever!
Seriously, so glad to see how God is blessing you and Rochelle and the family. Will look forward to connecting with you all on your next trip to Pa.
Take care. Keep encouraged. God is enough.
Carol West
My wife and I are Lead Pastors in the Southern Missouri District A/G. We recently attended the Recalibrate Conf. hosted by James River and it was the most powerful conference we have ever attended in a long time. We so appreciated the wealth of Godly wisdom shared by your speakers along with the sensitivity of letting the Holy Spirit direct the conference as needed, especially during the altar ministry times. Thank you to the two sponsors for letting the need be known. Our church will definitely consider getting involved with one or both of their endeavors. I hope more such conferences are being planned in the near future. Our Fellowship could use more of these types of conferences. God bless you, Abel & Becky Perez
Tim, hope all is well with you and Rochelle. I know God is using you in a mighty way in your anointed ministry. Sharon and I watch the Recalibrate Conference on our iPads , wow what a powerful conference. We love you two and may the Lord bless you in a mighty way..
Thanks for your help !
Brother Tim,
Blessings on you and yours. Rulon Combs – Living Faith Assembly – Cottage Grove, OR.
Thank you for your ministry at Lakewood Park Bible camp. I was truly encouraged by your ministry. Thank you for your service and obedience to the Lord.
Tim, appreciated your Holy Spirit Conference at Carbondale Assembly….I talked to you after the service on 08/26 relating my Disciples of Christ/Baptist background and my speaking in tonges in my sleep…and verification by the spirit….and my not feeling all that anointed…(Satan trying to discourage me)….your teaching/counsel was good…BUT on the way out of the sanctuary a person who has been attending our nursing home services said she had been meaning to tell me how anointed my devotionals were…Talk about God's timing……
Appreciated your ministry at Braeside Camp recently! Your teaching was phenominal! I purchased the book 'Want More' for personal study and for teaching the adult Bible study in our church. If there's a work sheet available could you please forward it to my email address. Thanks so much! Blessings Mark
Hi! We've never had the privilege of attending one of your conferences, but found your website. Wondering when your 2015 schedule will be out. We would love to go sometime. Thank you.
Dear Rev. Enloe,
My name is Cheston and I am a fellow A.G. minister. I hurt my back at work yesterday and I know from CBC that you move in the gifts of the spirit. Please pray for my lower left back to heal. Thanks for your time.
Anything else the spirit may reveal to you about us feel free to email us.
Rev. Cheston Barkell
Hi Tim & Rochelle:
Looking forward to seeing you again at Parkwood .. I met you two years ago when you were with us.. I've been praying for you everyday like I promise I would.. Have a great week see you on Sunday ..
Hi Tim & Rochelle
Looking forward to you being at Parkwood on Sunday . .I met you two years ago when you were there.. I've been praying for you everyday like I promised .. See you on Sunday.
Bill and I are back at CCC Midland for the summer, while he is on break from Univ of Valley Forge. Heard you led a rich spiritual emphasis weekend in Midland in May. Wish we had been in town.
During worship on Sunday 6/14/15, the Holy Spirit put a strong burden on me to pray for both of you and specifically for a powerful healing anointing to be released in your ministry that morning.
We thank the Lord for both of you and your ministry which honors the Holy Spirit as you introduce people to the fullness of who HE is. May His anointing and favor increase and expand through your family.
Hi, Tim and Rochelle, I met and sat under your ministry two different times at Red Mtn Christian Center, Mesa, AZ with Pastor Jeff & Carla Peterson. I have a question for you, do you have available an accompaniment track for your music, in particular the Trust song. If so, please let me know what I can do to obtain. Thank you. Do you have Arizona as a destination in the future?…Linda
Hey Tim & Rochelle, Loved your message @CLA recently. I always do. You have a unique way of presenting the word & explaining the Holy Spirit. Love ya, Linda
Tim, and Rochelle:
Praise our living Jahovah!!! For He has, will, and is the only True God that gracefully works through the supernatural for us all. I give thanks to the Holy Spirit of God in you for the witnessing, and knowledge you inparted, and that all who wanted could glean from it the Fathers wisdom to be renewed in mind for their future relationship with him. My son and daughter came to hear you Tuesday night. To God be all the glory!!! I just wanted to say Thank you, for chasing after OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. May the Lord bless and keep you both through divers temptations firery darts, sickness and health His perfect joy, and the enemy in Jesus Holy Name Amen.
Hello Tim and Roechelle, you were both recently in Jackson. Praying for God's hand to be mighty on you all and your team as you serve Him in Tanzania.
Thanks for ministering to us. May God bless your efforts.
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Hello Enloe family,
I am very thankful for being able to reconnect my connection with Jesus through you guys. I did not experience physical healing, but the spiritual healing is even better. Can't wait for the next time that you guys are in town.
Bro. Tim, I knew it all along! House cats are demons!
Thank you!
(MStar – Pottsville, PA)
I have a praise report. Last year you came to CLA and in the night service I came forward to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I did not and before I left I prayed that God would help me not be discouraged or give up, but after awhile I did give up. Just yesterday while worshiping in my home while the kids were taking naps, the words came out of my mouth asking our Lord to "awaken the church." As soon as I said that I could feel the Holy Spirit taking over, and remembering your teachings I didn't resist the strange sounds. I finally have been baptized in the Holy Spirit. Then, I felt God telling me the words, "not by works". I realized that before, I had fasted, prayed, went to your service, tried everything. But, it's a gift not achieved by works as Ephesians 2:9 says. The experience I had with you on that night in Camp Hill at CLA and your book prepared me for that moment and I thank you.
Bro. Tim,
You were recently at Orchard Assembly of God and a 10 year old boy named Ethan was seeking the baptism in the Holy Spirit. He was filled this morning at home with me! He wanted me to contact you and let you know because you prayed for him at the alter. I was also healed on the last day! Praise God! Thank God for your ministry.
Brother Tim, I attend Abundant Life Church in Newburgh ,Indiana. I was the big guy who was a retired state trooper. I came forward that night and you prayed for me to receive the power of the Holy Spirit. I did receive a trickle as you put it and after the service you told me to continue praying for God to open the valve wide open. Since your trip to Abundant life I had not received a answer to my prayer and quite honestly had become a little discouraged and impatient. This morning I was praying for God to empower me with the words to say as I was going to the hospital and pray for a lost family member before surgery. I asked for God to give me the words that would touch their heart and plant the seeds of salvation. I felt the power of the Lord surround me and all of a sudden I started praying in a beautiful very new language.
The utterances came so strong and rapid I am amazed I could breathe. The time flew and it just continued to get stronger . It was amazing I was totally drained and joyful. I just wanted to share my story with you and to thank you for allowing God to use you and for your Ministry. I pray for you every night and will always remember your words of encouragement.
Tim thank you so much for your Sunday service at Morningstar Fellowship. Two of my friends were instantly healed. Thank you again Tim for praying!
Sincerly John Lewis.
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How Do You Keep Up on Culture?
I get asked this question quite often: "How do I stay current so I can leverage culture?" It is a great question, and is a struggle, especially for somone coming out of a traditional environment. You just need a place to start, right?
Well, I've always given an answer to this question. But my best answer pales in comparison to the wisdom of Scott Hodge. Here is the answer he gave in a brilliant blog post from a couple days ago...
- Read blogs! Subscribe to a number of blogs that seem in touch with culture (and not just ministry blogs...): Ragamuffin Soul, Eric Bryant, Ethur Blog, Joe Thorn, Steve McCoy, Arts & Letters Daily, Boing Boing, Jordon Cooper, Seth Godin, Tim Stevens, Church Marketing Sucks, Tony Morgan, Dave Ferguson, Kem Meyer, Tallskinnykiwi, Johnny Baker, Catalyst Leader Feeder. (Gosh, there are so many more....but there's a start.)
- Subscribe to some magazines that are in touch with current culture. Here are a few I subscribe to: Fast Company, Wired Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Collide Magazine
- Subscribe to some podcasts. Here are a few of my favorites: This American Life, VH1 Best Week Ever, The Relevant Podcast, TED.
- Get rid of the PC and buy a Mac. :) Ok, I'm sort of kidding. (keyword: sort of...)
- Twitter and Facebook. Everyone's doing it and it's a great way to keep a pulse on a lot of different cultural conversations.
- Read a lot of books. A few recommendations:
Pop Goes the Church by Tim Stevens
The Reason for God by Tim Keller
Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren
A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
Prophetic Untimeliness by Oz Guinness
The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch
unChristian by Gabe Lyons
They Like Jesus, But Not The Church by Dan Kimball
- Browse new and most popular music in iTunes. This is a great way to hear what's happening musically in our culture. The 30-second snippets are great!
- Go to some conferences that will stretch and challenge you. A few recommendations:
Catalyst Conference - it's BIG, but you'll get a good feel for what's happening among young leaders.
Innovate - none will be as good as last year's (that's when I spoke, ha, ha...), but this is a great conference put on by my friends from Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana.
Q - Expensive, but DEFINITELY a unique conference that asks the question, "How can the church begin INFLUENCING culture?"
- Visit some churches who are DOING IT. A few that I have my eye on:
Imago Dei - A beautiful missional church in Portland.
Community Christian Church - Naperville, IL (The best at reproducing I've ever seen)
Granger Community Church - Granger, IN - Using pop culture to their advantage in a HUGE way.
Mosaic Church - LA - Creating culture.
NewSong Church - LA - Love the global thinking at NewSong. The more I learn about Dave Gibbons, the more I want to crawl inside his brain.
Dang, there are so many... I can't even begin to list out all the ones who are making it happen. These are just a few.
- Listen to your son. Like you mentioned, he will keep you up on what's happening. Since teens CRANK at technology and media, they are up on what's going on culturally better than anyone.
- Be yourself. No matter what, be yourself. Don't TRY to be like anybody else. Our culture can sniff that a million miles away. Doesn't mean there won't be room for improvement or opportunity to have a better grasp on culture, but you will be at your best when you are being who God made you to be.
Thanks, Scott Hodge, for your help. I know this wisdom will help hundreds of leaders!


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InterNed in Cambodia: The World, Developing
I hit the street with an uncertain stride, endeavoring earnestly to be both confident and casual, as if I wasn't the same sad wreck of a man who'd been so boldly abused aboard an airliner that day. I believe I'd taken such a beating I'd about blacked out and so I never even knew the names of my attackers. EVA someone? Or maybe Boeing something? No matter now. I could hardly walk, breathe, puke or talk that afternoon; and here I was under cover of darkness, acting as if I was just taking it all in, like some fresh faced truant with twenty-one candles on his cake, young and unblooded, the type who prefers the title of Traveler to tourist. That is a tender sort of terminology that in Cambodia typically translates to "traipsing through on my way to Thailand."
Tuk-tuk! Moto! Tuk-tuk, sir! Sir, moto! Motobike! Tuk-tuk! Moto, where you go to? Tuk-tuk! You like smoke? Boom-boom, nice girl yes? The clamorous chatter of Phnom Penh took aim at me and fired away, and I found myself forced to break character, to hesitate, to pause on the sidewalk twenty feet from my hotel, to lapse into confusion … to stop, and in so stopping, I signaled, both individually and severally, to each and every tuk-tuk and tout within eyesight and earshot, that I was really terribly f*cking new in town. A mob of them approached me, eager to see which of their offers it was that had managed to seduce me. Was it tuk-tuk? Or was it moto? Moto? Or tuk-tuk? Could it possibly even have been motobike? Perhaps, one of them had reasoned, I might not understand what "moto" meant without the "bike," thus affording him a crucial advantage. Or did I like some special smoke? Did I want to get a f*ck? No, but suddenly I did need a f*cking drink and I'd only been awake for fifteen minutes.
I compounded my errors by smiling and offering a polite "No, Thank You" to each and every one of them, obliging them by dutifully answering every query within their inquiry. My hotel? Right there. How long I stay? Maybe a year, maybe not, who knows. What I do? Teacher. They knew that though. They had to. I'd been in-country for less than twelve hours and I had already made a gang of new friends, all locals, all wanting to show me a good time. Fortunately, I'm not quite as stupid as I must have appeared to be in that moment and I wasn't inclined to indulge in the illicit delights they had on offer. Before I came to Cambodia I thought I knew a thing or two about poverty, but instantly, it was clear to me, that despite all the sad indignities that in the past I'd seen, there was so much more to see.
I reeled and turned and wheeled and pivoted and power-walked my way down the block, making a clumsy get away. Nothing was familiar. The signs written in English screamed meaningfully at me but the visual babble of the confounding Khmer alphabet provided fierce competition, the familiar fighting for my focus with the foreign. Eight thousand four hundred and sixteen miles away, cozy in a bookcase that was now ensconced within my Mother's much too spacious home, seated upon frozen tundra and in the midst of frosty temperatures that were only held at bay by the heroism of a vigilantly burning furnace, sat a book that purported to explain the Khmer system of writing. I believe it was written in the 1960s by somebody from Yale. It was the only one of its sort that I could locate, but I found the English explanations almost as alien and indecipherable as the Khmer language itself, so it didn't get pride of place inside my luggage. It would have been no more wise to walk around the streets of Phnom Penh with it as wandering about in my winter coat would be, just an unnecessary assumption of a strange and useless burden. Still, in those first few minutes of freedom, I longed for some point of reference, and I briefly regretted abandoning that book no matter how unutterably incomprehensible it had proven to be.
After walking for an entirely epic journey of half a block, still a little stunned by my surroundings, I saw a sign I understood and it said "The Empire." Inside was a quiet little bar with a blue-lit interior, some smiling Khmer, and three white men, one behind the bar and two seated at it. They were the first "Westerners" (a wonderfully vague euphemism) that I had consciously concentrated upon in Cambodia, given my debilitating post-flight fugue state that day.
I sat down next to one of the White Guys at the bar and nodded hello. Small talk was made up of telling our tales in brief as beers were bought and before too long I knew that the guy who sat next to me was a Polish kick-boxer, leaving Cambodia quite soon, just as I was arriving, a matter of hours and we'd never have met at all.
The other White Guy, behind the bar, the proprietor, was a very congenial fellow, he told me all about the movie house soon to be opening just upstairs, but I only vaguely understood the history and pedigree of the project. The third White Guy had slipped over to the sink to help with the dishes, but it was gently suggested that he cease and desist his assistance after the breaking of a third glass, his ambition to render aid thwarted by an evening's worth of alcohol.
My first and so far only Polish pal and I exited The Empire as it was closing, and with the bells at midnight tolling, it seemed that as unlucky as the Ides were for the Imperator, as a day it was nothing more to me than the founding of my haphazard foray into life lived the Khmer way. Off we went, two more White Guys in a city that I'd soon realize was totally awash with them. With us. With outsiders and expats. With heathens and with martyrs. Do-gooders and dead-enders. The old adventurers and the young pioneers.
Every step was now effortless as could be, because I had a guide, however temporary. As we wandered, he confided to me, conspiratorially, about places of some notoriety, that were always open late and would always serve a drink.
"We should go and have a look!"
"What harm's a look?"
More than you think.
Ned Kelly
Ned is on twitter as @NedKelly
Photo used by kind permission of Chris Coles from his photo essay Noir Nights in Phnom Penh


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I love the look of this electric-assist bicycle made by Ford. It's a concept called the MoDe:Flex that is aimed more at car-owners who might want the ability to keep a two-wheeled vehicle at hand. How? Well, this bike folds conveniently to fit inside a car trunk.
With the e-assist at full speed, you can travel at around 16MPH. It has vibrating handlebars to alert you of passing vehicles and a smartphone app to...track your activity.
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Narayana bike ride in Pedana; inspecting drinking water works
Minister Narayana got on to a bike and started inspecting all the lanes and bylane of Pedana municipality of Krishna district. He is visiting the people in their houses and learning from them about the drinking water situation. The minister is not alone in this sudden desire to get social with the people. Many other ministers too are involved in this kind of activity, after they were ranked by their leader.
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Annual Business Plan and Budget 2018-19 (1697 kb)
What your Council Rates do for you
To meet service levels and the infrastructure needs of our community for 2018/19 at a total cost of $152.4m, the City of Charles Sturt needs to raise $106.022m in rates.
This translates to an overall increase in total rates of 1.4% (plus property growth).
For the "typical" residential ratepayer this equates to additional $0.46 cents per week or $23.74 per annum (1.8%)
At Charles Sturt we also have a minimum rate which ensures all ratepayers contribute towards the provision of basic services at a reasonable level. In 2018/19 the minimum will increase from $1,060 to $1,071 for 35% of ratepayers (1.04 % increase or an extra $11 per annum).
Rates are a form of property tax where the amount each ratepayer contributes is based on their relative property valuation, but this valuation has no bearing on the total amount of rates the Council collects. Council only collects the amount of money it requires to provide those services and infrastructure as adopted in its annual budget
As rates levied are a system of taxation (like income tax and GST) the rates paid may not directly related to the services used.
Rates are calculated by multiplying the value of a property (capital value as assessed by the Valuer General), by the 'rate in the dollar.'
The 'rate in the dollar' is calculated by dividing the sum of rates required by the Council's annual budget by the total valuation of properties in the Council area.
There are a range of different 'rates in the dollar'; each is based on the type of land use (eg residential, vacant land, commercial, industrial, primary production land and other).
In 2018/19 the average increase for all land uses is 1.9% as against a CPI (March 2018) of 2.3% and a Local Government Price Index of 3.2%.
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Council collects a regional Natural Resources Management (NRM) Levy on all rateable properties on behalf of your regional NRM Board. The City of Charles Sturt is effectively operating as a revenue collector for the Adelaide & Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board and revenue from this levy is not retained by the Council, nor does the Council determine how the revenue is spent.
In 2018/19 the increase in NRM levy is 7.2% (as compared to the 1.4% total average increase in rates levied by Council).
The NRM Board invests this levy in managing and protecting priority water, land, marine and biodiversity assets. For general NRM levy enquiries please contact Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board on 08 8273 9100 or visit their website - Adelaide Mt Lofty Natural Resources Management Board
However Council is conscious that these rising costs must be managed to ensure rates remain affordable by:
Independent data prepared for the LGA by the SA Centre of Economic Studies (SACES) shows Council Rates in Australia have grown the lowest of tax revenues of each sphere of government over the past 45 years;
No, not necessarily. Council rates are a form of property taxation and property values play an important part in determining how much each individual ratepayer contributes relative to another.
As it is a system of taxation the rates paid may not directly relate to the services used by each ratepayer.
Once Council determines its budget, it then divides the amount of money it needs to raise from rates by the total of all individual property values in its area to arrive at what is called "the rate in the dollar" (RID). In this way it can multiply the rate in the dollar by individual properties values to produce the rates bill for each property and know that in total, rates paid will equal the amount set in the budget to be raised from rates.
Valuations do not determine the rates income of a council but are used only to divide the total rates amount among individual ratepayers.
Property values are therefore ONLY one part of the calculation for how much each ratepayer contributes.
Councils must review the rate in the dollar annually to make sure they only raise the budgeted rate revenue required.
For Example: a person with a property value of $450,000 will contribute relatively more than someone with a property value of $400,000. So, although the value of your property may reduce if the rate in the dollar has increased then the amount paid in rates can be more than what you may have paid in a previous year.
Refer graph below for distribution of residential rates.
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As part of our coverage of 2015 local and General elections, we have invited candidates from Northfield and Bromsgrove constituencies (general election) and Kings Norton, Longbridge, Northfield, Weoley, Rubery North and Rubery South wards (local elections) to send in 500 Words describing themselves and their campaign.
This from Birmingham Weoley ward candidate for the Conservative Party, Jayne Freeman.
I have lived on Weoley Ward my entire life, and still live on the same road which I spent my childhood with my younger sister and my parents.
The schools I attended were also local and after leaving Colmers Farm secondary school, I went on to The College of Food and Domestic Arts based in Birmingham, where I studied small and large scale catering and housekeeping. I worked at The Plough and Harrow Hotel on the Hagley Road up until 1988, when I left to have my children.
I then became a housewife and mother, during this time my husband Cllr Eddie Freeman and I decided to set up at run a Neighbourhood Watch and Residents Association to help the local community, which is still running to this day. I believe in keeping the community together and supporting each other. We also run trips for families throughout the year and providing Christmas Hampers for the elderly residents who are alone at that time of year too.
I feel strongly about the local area, making sure that residents who need help and support receive it.
I think by living on Weoley ward, this helps me understand personally what affects people. For example, the crossing patrols, I campaigned to keep the lolly pop men and women's jobs because not only do we need to keep our children safe on roads, Jobs in the area need to be kept safe too.
We also feel it is important to keep local amenities running and after petitioning for the Northfield Swimming baths, we have got them to successfully stay in Northfield and not go anywhere else. I also want to keep our parks and green space clean, tidy and safe for the residents to use.
I volunteer at a lunch club at Shenley Court Hall, providing older residents with not only a cooked meal, but a friendly face and encouraging them to socialise. If I were to become your local Councillor, I would be looking into more services being available for them. So they do not feel isolated or alone.
I sit on the HLB [Housing Liaison Board] and actively help residents with housing and repairs, this is something I have being doing for 18 years.
I am passionate about helping you, the constituents of Weoley ward, I am always willing to help and support you as best as I can. By living on the ward with you I see the things that need to be improved and feel that with your help as a community we can do this together.
This is OUR ward and I want to make YOU proud to live here.
Communities need to stick together vote for Jayne Freeman on May 7th 2015


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By LeaAnne Klentzman
So, we are here to tell ya', there is a dead end around each corner in Sugar Land!
Monday, a man was driving from Houston to Sugar Land on US 59 when he happened to see his STOLEN car. Yep, there, traveling along with him. So, what's a guy to do? He fell in behind his still STOLEN car and called the po-po. Seems the man's car was stolen in Houston on the 1st and here he was… behind it headed to his town on the 8th. The man followed the car providing the po-po with driving directions until they all met up in the First Colony Mall parking lot.
Well, seems the surprise was on the po-po when the car thief wanted to play! He refused to stop, and we all know what follows that….
The parade traveled down Town Center Boulevard, north along Sweetwater Boulevard, under U.S. Highway 59 to First Colony Boulevard then into a residential area, where the driver turned onto a dead-end street. HE bolted from the car and hit a levy ending up in the Telfair area. Anticipating his moves, the po-po was waiting for him with open cuffs. All's well that ends well….the 22 year old Sugar Land man driving the STOLEN car was arrested and charged with stealing the car and evading arrest.
Yes-sir-eee-bob, stealing a car then turning down a dead end street with a parade of po-po behind you…. Now that's more than one dead end!


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Should You Start Off Your Day With an Energy Drink?
How do you start your day? With a jolt of caffeine! Nothing unique, for decades millions of people started their day with a cup of hot coffee. Many college students rely on a pot of coffee to stay awake whole night during exams. Today, instead of drinking cup/cups of coffee, many now adopted a new trend of energy drinks for that morning burst to kick off the day.
Energy Drinks May Cause Extreme Risk to Your Health
I read an article in 'USA Today' about the Food and Drug Administration's investigation of 33 hospitalizations and 13 reported deaths that were found to be linked to the well accepted "5-hour Energy" drink. The report provided base to the last story that linked "Monster Energy" drink and 5 deaths. FDA is concerned because caffeine is not regulated in these energy boosters and many of the natural stimulates are intensifying the caffeine's effects. Caffeine toxicity can be dangerous to your health. Its symptoms could be as simple as nervousness and sleep issues to an extreme risk of cardiac arrhythmia.
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Why People Need Energy Drinks?
We all have little awareness about the health effects of these so called energy drinks, therefore, the question is why people need this energy drink in the first place in the morning to start off the day. The thing that is easy to blame is our hectic lifestyle that demands to exceed and cross all boundaries. You need to wake up early to reach to the work or gym then preparations for the next day keep you awake late till night. To get rid of these jolts all you need to do is to work on the good sleep hygiene. Heading to bed at a reasonable hour, keeping yourself away from laptop, television, mobile phones to calm your mind an hour before sleep, a comfortable environment that is cool and quiet to sleep can make all the difference.
What if Nothing Works?
If however you follow the same routine of going to bed each night and you feel you have given enough eight hours to your sleep, still wake exhausted and have day time sleepiness, chances are you have developed "sleep breathing issues". This can range from simple snoring to a more serious sleep apnea. As our population ages we see upward trends of an overweight society where sleep issues are common. Sleep apnea patients are also increasing ever year, that is alarming, because it's a signal of more severe health conditions like hypertension, heart disease and stroke.
Say 'No' to High Caffeinated Energy Drinks
Temporary solutions like high caffeinated drinks are not the real answer for high energy and overall goodness of life and well being. The real answer is restful of sleep every night. To assure a good night's sleep try simple sleep hygiene to improve the quality of your sleep and see if you still need a energy drink to start your day. If, for any reason you continue to feel exhausted and drained, consider consulting with a sleep expert. Sleep is a vital component and we compromise a lot on that. Please read through other articles on this website to learn how you can combat sleep apnea, snoring and other sleep disorders that is causing your dependence on Energy Drinks.


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May 12.
Our brains are in a constant state of fog. The overpowering fatigue and pain. Imagine living with the worst flu you've ever had and then imagine that it NEVER goes away. Year, after year, after year. How do you think you'd feel given that life sentence? Yes, there are good days but good days mean the edge is off the pain and fatigue. It never really goes away. Your body has limitations and we've learned to listen.
When will researchers try to figure out why the switch was flipped? I feel that this is a neurological disorder. Where others feel a touch, we feel pain. There is too much Substance P (this heightens the awareness to pain) in our spinal fluid. We have abnormally high levels of glutamate (and excitatory neurotransmitter) which means our neurotransmitters are on overdrive. Our internal amplifier is turned up full blast. In other words, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG.
Let's also not forget the sleep disorder that is also one of the lovely symptoms of Fibromyalgia. Alpha wave intrusion. The nice, sweet sounding term for our "awake" brain waves that keep saying hello to us in the middle of the night so that deep, restorative sleep is an impossibility. The fatigue we experience is overpowering, however, we cannot find the sleep that our body so desperately needs. Our brains will not allow it.
There are lists and lists of symptoms. There are the intestinal woes, thyroid and other hormonal issues. Even I look at the list and think it's no wonder people think we're crazy. I haven't even touched on the emotional issues that are inevitable when you live with chronic pain.
It's so difficult to find the acceptance we crave. On one hand we do accept our physical and emotional limitations but one the other we keep fighting. We are the wounded warriors that want to fight the good fight until this illness is defeated.
Sometimes it just hurts too much.
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The Institute's main objective is to promote an understanding of the problems of international politics through studies, research, meetings and publications, with the aim of increasing the opportunities of all countries to move in the direction of supranational organisation, democratic freedom and social justice (IAI Bylaws, Article 1). Research focuses on the following thematic areas:
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Xûr has returned to the Destiny servers, complete with a new set of exotic gear for any guardian with plenty of extra Strange Coins to spend. However, just how many of this week's exotics will actually appeal to the Destiny community?
This time around, Xûr is offering guardians a handful of new armor pieces amongst the exotic collection, The Armamentarium for the titan, Young Ahamkara's Spine for the hunter, the Starfire Protocol for the warlock, and Patience and Time, an exotic sniper rifle. Xûr is also located near the Speaker.
Each exotic gear item costs 13 Strange Coins and the weekly exotic weapon only 17 Strange Coins. This week's Exotic Engram, a chest engram, will cost guardians 23 Motes of Light with Exotic Shards for sale for only 7 Strange Coins each.


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The Values of Cerebrovascular Pressure Reactivity and Brain Tissue Oxygen Pressure Reactivity in Experimental Anhepatic Liver Failure
Authors: Grözinger G, Schenk M, Morgalla MH, Thiel C, Thiel K, Schuhmann MU.
BACKGROUND: We investigated in a porcine model of anhepatic acute liver failure (ALF), the value of two parameters describing cerebrovascular autoregulatory capacity, pressure reactivity index (PRx) and brain tissue oxygen pressure reactivity (ORx), regarding their power to predict the development of intracranial hypertension.
METHODS: In six pigs, hepatectomy was performed. Only one animal was sham operated. All animals received neuromonitoring including arterial blood pressure, intracranial pressure (ICP), and brain tissue partial oxygen pressure (P(br)O(2)). The average time of neuromonitoring was 31.0 h. Cerebral perfusion pressures (CPP), cerebrovascular pressure reactivity index (PRx) and brain tissue oxygen reactivity index (ORx) were calculated.
RESULTS: Perioperative disturbance of AR improved within 4 h after surgery. From 6 to 16 h post hepatectomy, ICP did slowly increase by 4 mmHg from baseline; CPP remained stable around 40 mmHg. PRx and ORx, however, indicated in this period a progressive loss of AR, reflected in a decrease of P(br)O(2) despite unchanged CPP. Beyond 16 h, ICP rose quickly. At CPP levels below 35 mmHg, P(br)O(2) fell to ischemic levels.
CONCLUSIONS: The loss of cerebrovascular autoregulatory capacity, indicated by a rise of PRx and ORx precedes the final crisis of uncontrollable intracranial hypertension in this animal model by hours. During this phase cerebral blood flow, as reflected in tissue oxygenation, deteriorates despite unchanged CPP. Monitoring of AR during ALF therefore seems to carry the power to identify a risk for development of critical CBF and intracranial hypertension.
Neurocrit Care. 2012 May 1.
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The Rochester Americans have a coach. Randy Cunneyworth is back.
Cunneyworth, who coached the team from 2000-01 to 07-08, was named head coach of the Buffalo Sabres' American Hockey League affiliate on Tuesday afternoon.
Cunneyworth replaces Chadd Cassidy, who was fired after the 2014-15 season, in which the Amerks went 29-41-5-1 to rank 27th in the 30-team AHL. Cassidy, who was hired by former Sabres general manager Darcy Regier, had been the Amerks' coach since February 2013 following the elevation of Ron Rolston to head coach of the Sabres.
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The complete Rochester Americans press release:
Buffalo Sabres General Manager Tim Murray announced today that Randy Cunneyworth has been named Head Coach of the Rochester Americans, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Sabres.
"We are happy to have Randy Cunneyworth move into the role of head coach of the Rochester Americans," said Murray. "Randy has already established himself as a valuable member of our hockey department in his previous role as development coach, and his track record for winning in the AHL and developing young players make him the ideal candidate to lead the Amerks."
Cunneyworth returns for his second stint as head coach of the Amerks after guiding the team to a 306-273-61 record, as well as playoff appearances in six of eight seasons, from 2000-01 to 2007-08. His 306 wins are second-most in team history. In 2004-05, Cunneyworth led Rochester to the AHL's best regular-season record, going 51-19-6-4 to capture the MacGregor Kilpatrick Trophy. That season, Cunneyworth also earned the Louis A. R. Pieri Award as the AHL Coach of the Year.
Most recently, Cunneyworth served as Development Coach for the Sabres organization. Before re-joining the team during the 2013-14 season, Cunneyworth served as interim head coach for the NHL's Montreal Canadiens during the 2011-12 campaign. After starting the season as an assistant coach, Cunneyworth was promoted to interim head coach on Dec. 17, 2011 and guided the Canadiens to an 18-23-9 record in 50 games. His tenure in the Montreal organization also featured a one-year stint as head coach of the AHL's Hamilton Bulldogs, whom he guided to a first-place finish in the AHL's North Division followed by a trip to the Western Conference Final during the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs.
In nine seasons as an AHL head coach with Rochester and Hamilton, Cunneyworth has compiled a record of 350-302-68 in 720 games, which ranks him eighth all-time in wins and games coached among AHL head coaches. He also ranks second among active coaches in games coached and third among active coaches in wins.
Prior to his time with the Canadiens organization, Cunneyworth spent two seasons as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Thrashers (2008-09 and 2009-10). He began his coaching career as a player-assistant coach with the Amerks under former head coach Brian McCutcheon during the 1999-00 AHL season and helped the team to an appearance in the Calder Cup Final. Upon his retirement as a player, he was hired by the Amerks to serve as head coach the following season and retained that post for eight seasons, the longest consecutive tenure of any coach in team history.
During the 2006-07 season, Cunneyworth became only the second coach in team history to work 500 career games. He also passed legendary coach Joe Crozier for second place on Rochester's all-time wins list.
Cunneyworth's most successful season at the helm of the Amerks came during the 2004-05 campaign, when he guided Rochester to an AHL-best 51-19-6-4 record (112 points). In addition to earning the Louis A.R. Pieri Award as the AHL's Coach of the Year, the Amerks set several single-season franchise records, including most points (112) and the longest home winning streak which saw Rochester win 17 consecutive home games between Dec. 17 and Mar. 4.
As a player, Cunneyworth had an NHL career that spanned parts of 16 seasons, including three as team captain of the Ottawa Senators. He began his NHL career with the Sabres in 1980-81 after the team selected him in the eighth round of the 1980 NHL Entry Draft and returned to Buffalo in the 1998-99 season for what would be his final NHL season. In 866 career NHL games with Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Winnipeg, Hartford, Chicago and Ottawa, the Etobicoke, Ontario, native registered 414 points on 189 goals and 225 assists along with 1,280 penalty minutes.
Aside from two games with the Springfield Indians, Cunneyworth spent his entire American Hockey League career in Rochester. He began his career with the Amerks as a rookie in 1980-81 and went on to record 239 points (101+138) in 377 games over parts of seven seasons, highlighted by a Calder Cup championship in 1982-83. Cunneyworth would spend two more seasons with the Amerks before departing for the NHL in 1985-86, where he would remain for the next 13 seasons. He would ultimately find his way back to the Sabres in 1998-99, helping Buffalo to the 1999 Stanley Cup Final while also taking the Amerks to the Calder Cup Final that same year and again in 2000 as a player-coach for Rochester.
Cunneyworth retired from hockey following the 1999-00 season, ending his career in Rochester ranked 13th on the franchise's all-time games played list (377) and 19th in goals (101) while finishing 22nd among all-time forwards in points (239).


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On the first day of our Utah adventure, we drove about 350 miles. There is no easy way to travel to our Utah national parks. No matter which airport you choose, there is a long, long drive ahead of you.
We chose to fly into Denver so we could visit with my cousins on our last day. My familly lives all over the country, so whenever we can get together it's a treat. From Denver International Airport we drove our rental car through the beautiful Rocky Mountains. We stopped in Vail for lunch, taking a few minutes to walk around and stretch our legs.
As we got closer to the Colorado/Utah state line, we stopped for gas and to get some beverages. It turns out our stop was also a good safety measure.
The first sign we saw as we drove into Utah said, "No services for 160 miles." I read it and didn't think anything more about it. As we drove and drove and drove, we saw a lot of town name signs with the words "no services" at the bottom. It turns out that no services meant there was nothing. I mean not a single sign of life between the Colorado state line and our destination, Moab, Utah.
It was a good lesson for our trip. Whenever we left the hotel we made sure we had a full tank of gas and lots of water. Utah was beautiful, but we had no doubts it could have been dangerous to be stranded in the desert heat.


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The Fort Bend Medical Society Alliance (FBMSA) and physicians of Fort Bend County want to help ensure the safety of area children by giving away free bicycle helmets on Saturday, March 2, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm at the WATCH your Wellness Health Fair at Sugar Land Town Square.
The FBMSA bicycle helmet giveaway is part of a statewide effort — Hard Hats for Little Heads — launched by the Texas Medical Association in 1994. The program promotes fun exercise and teaches parents and children about the importance of wearing a helmet. The event is sponsored by the Fort Bend Medical Society Alliance, in conjunction with the Texas Medical Association.
Texas physicians encourage wearing a helmet for all sports on wheels — biking, skateboarding, inline skating, and riding a scooter. And doctors want you to wear the correct helmet for your sport and make sure it fits properly.
"Wearing a bicycle helmet is such a simple way to help ensure a child's health and safety," said Nomita Bajwa, Pharm.D. President of the Fort Bend Medical Society Alliance. "We want to start summer right and celebrate WATCH Week in FBISD Schools in March by putting a helmet on children's heads."
Any child can receive a free helmet. Members of FBMSA along with local physicians will be on hand to properly fit the helmets. Safety presentations will occur every half hour with raffles for the bike helmets.
Head injury is the most common cause of death and serious disability from bike crashes. A helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by as much as 85 percent, yet less than half of cyclists wear one when they ride.


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The New Moon is in Capricorn and there are a lot of opportunities this 28-day cycle if you're prepared to do the work. Remember if you're feeling trapped and you're not. Just remember in the words of Robert Tepper. "There's no Easy Way Out." You have to put in the work.
Remember though if you are willing to do the work you can make it through this and so much more. Have a good New Moon Cycle and watch the video below for more on the reading.
Hang in There and embrace your opportunities and challenges.
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Ballet IV Students are taught to hone the skills they have learned from the previous levels. Their knowledge of the ballet vocabulary is increased, along with their ability to execute more complicated steps in center. Students continue taking longer classes three times a week, and are offered the opportunity to participate in modern classes to diversity their training.
Have more than one that loves dance? Siblings receive a 10% tuition discount.


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The Mini Flora Pendant
The Mini Flora Pendant
Metal: Sterling Silver & 14K Gold
Chain: 14K Gold / 16" Long
Stone: Mine Cut Diamond
What You Should Know: Pendant is a converted from an antique brooch.
In Ancient Greek there is the somewhat sad story of Hyakinthos, but hear us out- it has a beautiful ending. Hyakinthos was a young Greek hero who had the heart of none other than the god Apollo. Hyakinthos and Apollo would often throw the discus, as young lovers do. Unfortunately, Zephyros, the god who controlled the wind, was also intrigued by young Hyakinthos, and sabotaged their relationship. During a friendly game of throwing the discus, he used his powers of the wind to push it off course and in result, our beloved Hyakinthos died. When Apollo realized that Hyakinthos died, he refused to let Hades, the god of the underworld, claim him, and instead turned his body into a flower. Apollo's tears stained the flowers petals an array of beautiful colors.
When we learned of this story, we were reminded that the Ancient Greeks also believed that diamonds were made from their gods' tears. So the flower that Apollo turned Hyakinthos had petals made out of diamonds. That was our inspiration when converting a component of a Georgian piece into this pretty pendant. A diamond flower twinkling in the light, fit for a god or goddess.


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Gatehouse Veterinary group is an independent veterinary practice providing a complete range of services for dogs, cats and other small animals, in the Bradford area.
The practice was set up by Simon Thomas in 1983, and Terry Croud joined the practice as a partner in 1994. Gatehouse Vets has three branches in West Yorkshire, Bradford – Allerton Bradford, Bingley and Haworth.
We strive to provide a high-quality personal veterinary service for our clients, and each of our patients is important to us. All the vets at Gatehouse are very well qualified general practioners, who have a great deal of experience across the small animal spectrum. So, irrespective of whether you arrive with a dog , cat, rabbit or a frog, we can confidently treat it! Each of the vets also has a personal interest and speciality.
Gatehouse Vets is a Tier 3 Hospital and Veterinary Nurse Training Practice. Only a small number of practices in the UK are registered to the standard to train nurses. Our Veterinary Nurses work alongside the Veterinary Surgeons and provide a high standard of care for your pets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All Qualified Veterinary Nurses help mentor the trainee nurses throughout their training. We can also provide work placements for trainee nurses enrolled on full time Veterinary Nurses courses.
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There are a number of workshops here, each employing several dozen men in (usually piecework) activities that further the (profit) aims of G4S. It seems to be the run of things that upon induction, we select (in order of preference) where we would like to work – gardens, kitchens, various 'orderly' positions, cleaning, etc. – and this is then carefully ignored so that all those of able body and sound mind (and some of neither) are sent to the workshops anyway. A couple of weeks ago I was therefore unsurprised to be called to an electrical wiring test at the enigmatically titled 'Industries 2'.
Industries 2 employs fifty or sixty men in an open-plan warehouse-like environment (which immediately evoked memories of the Industrial Zone in Richard O'Brien's 'Crystal Maze', although without the arbitrary spinning amber lights), dedicated to the manufacture of light fittings of one kind or another. The test with which I was presented comprised some basic questions on electrical wiring – I didn't have any trouble with these, having carried out much domestic wiring in the past – and also a couple of Ishihara plates to act as a colour-blindness test. Regular readers and friends may recall prior mention of my deuteranopia (red-green colour-blindness), the manifestations of which have been considered by those who have had cause to notice, to be significant. I made this clear to the examining officer immediately I spied the dreaded dots, but he wasn't easily deterred.
Somehow, by visibly squinting and tilting the sheet against the light, I managed correctly to identify the alleged digits as 15 and 23. I have a theory that this is down to the poor calibration of colour reproduction in the printer, making the shades more easily discernible. It may also be partly due to one of the surprising abundance of Welshmen on the wing having made a point of telling me the numbers the previous day. At the time I made no special note of them, but perhaps I retained the information just enough to give the additional aid of subliminal suggestion. In any case I still don't fully understand his logic in telling me at all; the assumption was that I'd want to throw the test so I didn't have to work there, but in such a case, telling me the correct answers would be of no help whatsoever: I could either see correctly myself and lie, or not see and not have to lie. If for some reason he ever happens to be with me in a Labyrinth-like situation (The Labyrinth, incidentally, being one of the best films to come out of the 1980s, along with The Breakfast Club), where one guard always tells the truth and the other always lies (or similar), then … let's just say I shan't be heeding any of his advice.
Having passed the test with squinting colours, I was immediately set to work – in a team of seven – on the wiring of ballasts, igniters and capacitors for metal-halide floodlights. Thankfully, I have seldom had trouble distinguishing mains wire colours by shade alone, and from the beginning my Quality Control tests mostly passed without comment: any failures were due to pure incompetence rather than disability. I did once however make the unfortunate slip of referring to a reel of brown wire as red, but our 'QC' (i.e. team leader) seemed more amused than concerned.
This sort of work has a certain pleasure to it – when a team is working well together and everyone pulls their weight, one can fall into a pleasant rhythm, and take satisfaction from each pallet finished, industrial-cling-wrapped, and pump-tracked away to be loaded into a van. I was quickly moved from a training team (on a glorious wage amounting to less than half a pound an hour) to a well-oiled production team on piecework with pay that is rumoured to just about reach three figures (of pence) an hour in a good week. It's physically quite demanding, but not excessively so, and also comes with the chance to use exciting compressed-air-powered tools. Most interesting has been the assembly of some very fine and expensive-looking LED striplights with emergency battery backup. I'm impressed at how this technology has improved in the last few years.
My little 'Built by 106' silver sticker is now in several hundred light fittings of one kind or another that are probably, even as I write this, being distributed to the far corners of the country. This morning I received comments as to how well I had slotted into 'C Team' (obviously I'm jealous of the 'A Team, for their name alone), and that I was fast but accurate, and was never seen to be standing idle (the last being a common gripe where piecework earnings are divided equally in a team regardless of individual input). In all – aside from my mild discomfort at the nickname I had acquired owing to my sharing a name with a certain musician – I had found my place and was occupying it well. So … suddenly, I'm a Library Orderly (the more astute among you may have noticed the past tense that had sneaked into the previous sentence).
This wasn't an entirely unexpected turn of events as I'd spoken with the friendly librarian (Sarah-the-Human) about the possibility, only last week. However, I've become accustomed to believing that things will happen only once they have already happened, so as to avoid perpetual disappointment in broken promises. It's quite a relaxing state of mind – it may sound like pessimism, but it's more of a refusal to get caught up in what might be and hence waste my attention on the future rather than the present. Instead I file away the promises under a list of things that may or may not happen in the future, and occasionally I'm pleasantly surprised when one of them does. This has so far been a win-win approach for me. I'm seldom disappointed, and good things happening as a surprise can make them all the more satisfying.
Anyway, today I awoke from a lunchtime nap (as the door was clunkily unlocked), and Colin handed me a piece of paper that had been tucked under the door sometime during my snooze. Said paper was inviting me to attend the Library for an interview for the position of Orderly this very afternoon (i.e. now), if possible. After a few seconds' thought I decided that it was indeed possible, and my well-oiled machine of an assembly team would just have to manage without me. After a few minutes' more thought, I noticed that the message was signed simply 'The Library', rather than by any individual, suggesting some kind of Borg-like gestalt entity into which I was about to become subsumed. Nonetheless, undeterred, I proceeded to the Library as requested to present myself for assimilation.
The Library itself is separate from the main buildings, and is a long, narrow provisional-looking structure comprising two Portakabins all but gaffer-taped together. Upon entering, the first thing that is often noted is the smell. This is a mixed perfume of old books and damp fire-retardant ceilings that I find strangely alluring. There are two long aisles walled with books, and midway along each there is a bucket to collect the rain that frequently seeps between the units. At the far end is a small office that sits unused, having succumbed completely to the percolations of precipitation and the blossoming of black mould. At the opposing end – nearest the main door – is the desk, behind the rickety sprung saloon doors of which lie such joys as the laminator, the photocopier, and the marvellous machine that is used to cover books in a loving layer of protective plastic. In short, it is a place of wonder.
The interview itself, it seemed, consisted of turning up and starting work. However, I do feel that I may just be on continual interview in an unspecified probational period with potential for release from duties should I not fit in. Initial indications are that I might fit in well. There are currently three and a half other orderlies (one of whom I'm intended to replace as he will likely be leaving soon), and between us and Sarah-the-Human there have already been a few geeky quoting moments (including the likes of Douglas Adams and Monty Python). Indeed, we have many overlapping cultural references, and I was pleased to find they have chosen to overtly celebrate International Talk Like A Pirate Day, including the construction of quite an impressive treasure chest from cardboard, and a special display of pirate-themed books. The Word of the Week is up on the board (with its associated definition and etymology) as 'Avast!'. In all, so far it's looking promising. I just hope they don't make me walk the plank any time soon.
In other news, after my lament for the lack of Marmite in my last post, suddenly, by coincidence, Marmite has magically appeared on the canteen list! It was nine months to the day from my initial incarceration that I was able to break my fast with wholemeal toast, butter (well Lurpak spreadable, which is good enough), and a generous covering of the delicious viscous black gold. I'm also now able to get decent decaffeinated coffee (having quit caffeine altogether several years ago – but that's another story), so my breakfasting can be most pleasant. Now, it would be nice if I could just get some real milk instead of the abomination that is UHT …


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In 2032, Josh's addictive playing of a zombie-killing virtual reality game gets him recruited to do the real thing.
This is an ok fast read. It deals more with the drug aspect of the plot then it does with zombies in my opinion. The characters are ok but not great because you don't Really get to know them.This book is also predictable. I don't know if I would read a second book if one was wrote? Overall not a scary book but not bad if you really can't find anything else.
I found there were too many flaws in this book to enjoy is fully. The writing style is a bit different (third person) and the author had a bad way of setting the scene. I mean you dont even know what josh's age and appearance is! charlie is barely described and such. I enjoyed the overall read but the end was very disappointing, a sequel would be nice but the overall book was not as great as I intended.
I really enjoyed this book! I wish there was a sequel! Is there? O_o
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I made a pretty little printable to add to your enjoyment of this holiday. This beautiful quote by Thornton Wilder, one of America's most revered writers, is sure to speak to your heart.
If you're to be someone's guest for Thanksgiving, wouldn't it be a lovely hostess gift?
Go here, print it out, frame it up, and thoughtfully enjoy!
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