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Click Here to read a great article from The Catholic Messenger, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Davenport, on the Iowa Knights of Columbus' plan for a stronger Culture of Life.
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The 2015 Iowa Knights of Columbus Softball Tournament will be held in Cascade on July 18th-19th. Watch this space for more information as it becomes available.
UPDATE May 6, 2015: Chairman is Fred Fischer and can be contacted via phone 563-852-3917.
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Budget bills are starting to move in the Iowa legislature. The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider the Department of Education budget bill later today (Monday). It includes status quo funding of about $650,000 to pay for textbook purchases by nonpublic schools. The bill also allows both public and nonpublic schools additional flexibility in how they spend state funds on preschool. This bill does not provide the state aid for public schools - that comes later in the…Continue
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Theresa Schlueter, wife of PSD, FDM, FVSM, and current State Treasurer Francis Schlueter, had successful hip replacement surgery 22 April 2015 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Well wishes can be sent via Theresa's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/theresa.schlueter.9) or via mail (452 NW 70th Pl | Ankeny, IA 50023-9536).
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It looks like the Democrats, who hold the majority in the Iowa Senate, will begin work on budget bills this week. Their proposal would allow for spending from the state's general fund of about $7.3 billion, the same number as the governor's budget. The Republican leaders in the House want the state budget to spend no more than about $7.2 billion.
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"(Our research shows) the best way to influence children, teenagers and emerging adults is through their parents; to educate them; to turn them into agents of evangelization," said Smith. "If parents aren't involved and on board, it's just really hard to get through to children."--Dr. Christian Smith, sociologist at Notre Dame University.
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Congratulations to Ben Schafer from Council #14987, (UNI), for being chosen the Iowa Knight of the Month for March. Ben has…Continue
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Council 2073 Grand Knight John Zweibahmer was selected by the delegates to the Iowa Knights of Columbus State Convention (Coralville, Iowa, 11 April 2015) to represent the State of Iowa at the summer Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to acting as Council 2078 Grand Knight, Zweibahmer also serves as the Warden for District 8 (northeast Iowa), and Zweibahmer is also an active member and officer in …Continue
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Council 8269 April Meeting was held on April 16th from &:00 to 9:00 at the Sacred Heart School. The following reports were presented. The 1015 Dues report, a report on sponsoring a local seminarian, and the status of our Columbian Award application. There was a discussion regarding the State Convention that was held last weekend. It was also mentioned that the 2017 Iowa K of C State Convention will be held in Dubuque.
It was decided to have our Roses For Life campaign at the…Continue
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The Iowa Knights of Columbus State convention was held in Coralville Iowa on April 10th, 11th, and 12th. Local members that attended were: Dennis Ihrig (Grand Knight), Bernie Nie (Financial Secretary), Dick Kemp (District Deputy). Dick Kemp was installed as our District 33 Deputy.
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Decorah Knights 3rd Annual Bowlathon yielded $130 for Council 4208
Thanks to everyone who participated. A good time was had by all. Click here for photos.
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Field Agent Lee Iben earns "March 2015 Agent of the Month"
Williamsburg, IA – The Still Agency, serving nearly 10,000 members of the Knights of Columbus in Central and Southeast Iowa, is proud to announce that Field Agent Lee Iben was Agent of the…Continue
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The Waukon Council Grand Knight attended the Iowa State Knights of Columbus convention on 11 April 2015.
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State legislators have not been able to come to an agreement on public school funding levels. This has drastically slowed work on the state budget. Typically, a target date for the end of the session is when the reimbursement of daily expenses for legislators ends - this year on May 1. It seems unlikely that the legislature will be finished by May 1 this year.
On Wednesday the Iowa House passed SF 448 and sent the bill to the governor. The Iowa Catholic Conference had opposed a…Continue
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State legislators have not been able to come to an agreement on public school funding levels. This has drastically slowed work on the state budget. Typically, a target date for the end of the session is when the reimbursement of daily expenses for legislators ends - this year on May 1. It seems unlikely that the legislature will be finished by May 1 this year.
On Wednesday the Iowa House passed SF 448 and sent the bill to the governor. The Iowa Catholic Conference had opposed a…Continue
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A very successful Omelet Breakfast was held on Sunday January 25th by the Knights of Columbus and S.H.A.F.F. (Sacred Heart Association of Family and…Continue
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Council 8269 invited boys and girls ages 9 to 14 to participate in the local level of competition for the Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship. The local competition was held on January 20th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Maquoketa High School West (old)…Continue
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Grice Pays Price in 1500m Finale
Charlie Grice of Sussex Athletic club Brighton Phoenix showed great fight in the 1500m final at the Rio Olympics on Sunday morning (21 August). Grice ran in a time of 3:51:73, which is way off his personal best of 3:33:60 which he managed just over a month ago in Monaco. By his own admission he was a little disappointed with his performance. It was an unbelievable effort for Grice to push the leaders for so long especially as the man from Brighton had qualified for the final by finishing fifth in his semi final.
There was however much to build upon as the man who once attended Brighton state school: Cardinal Newman, only faded in the final lap. The race which proved to be slow but mentally difficult had seen Grice level with the race leaders going into the last lap but this proved a little too far for the young man from the South Coast who visibly faltered in the final 100m.
Grice, just 22, finished in 12th in what turned out to be one of the most competitive fields in recent Olympic history with two former 1500m gold medallists – and the 800m Silver Medalist Taoufik Makhloufi from Algeria.
American Matt Centrowitz became Olympic champion in a time of 3:50:00, whilst Makhloufi replicated his 800m performance with the bronze. It was a bit of a disappointment for the Algerian who had taken gold in London four years ago.
33-year-old veteran Nick Willis, from New Zealand saw his efforts rewarded with bronze which he can add to his silver from the same event in Beijing in 2008. Abel Kiprop who claimed gold in Beijing only finished 6th which was still an improvement upon his 12th place finish at the 2012 Games in London.
There is of course the hope that Grice will go on to replicate fellow Brighton middle distance Olympian Steve Ovett who founded Grice's current Athletics Club Pheonix. Ovett faired worse than Grice at his first Olympics in Montreal in 1976 failing to even make the final of the 1500m but he did manage a fifth place finish in his first 800m at the same Olympics.
Four years later Ovett claimed gold in the 800m in Moscow and bronze in Gricey's favoured 1500m event. Ovett went on to claim several world records but also suffered disappointment at the Los Angeles Games in 1984 when the star was taken ill.
Grice who is known to be a great admirer of Ovett will now hope to build on his experiences in Rio and go about attempting to prime himself for in four years time when he hopefully guns for gold in Tokyo.
The future still looks bright for young Grice especially due to the fact that he has now competed in an Olympic Games at such a young age which sets him apart from many of his competitors at a similar age.

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Today I met up with fellow photographers from the 100 Strangers Project on London's Brick Lane. After an early start and the expected fun and games offered by TFL's weekend upgrade programme, I made it in to enjoy an incredible day shooting street portraits with a fantastic set of people.
Having kicked things off Xtarsy and Bomvu, and after a couple of quick rejections, Julia kindly agreed to become Stranger #6 in my project. She was rocking a pretty bold look, which totally dominated the winter morning. We took a few shots in the middle of the road, with her quickly checking her eyebrows were symmetrical - which they are, on top of being dictionary definition awesome.
I'd intended to shoot everything with eye contact, and there's a neat shot from the session with Julia in the comments, but for the main shot I had to go for this peak across at the other chaps shooting their street portraits.
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Ron Paul is the real Republican candidate in the race for president. Look at his record and then look at the statement below from the Washington Post article.
--A series of essays in the volume "The Future of Conservatism," edited by Charles W. Dunn, examines the strains inside the GOP in the post-Reagan era. The Republican coalition, like all successful major party coalitions, is inherently fractious and potentially unstable.
The scholars who contributed to the volume examine what contributed to the success of the party, particularly under Ronald Reagan, and what its future may hold. Dunn, dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, identifies five wings of the modern conservative movement: neoconservatives, libertarians, midwestern conservatives, traditionalists and religious conservatives.--
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Milica Margeta, Edward Buckley, Mays El-Dairi; CSF protein levels in children with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):5107.
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Prior studies have failed to consistently demonstrate abnormalities of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein level in adults with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). Here we seek to evaluate a clinical observation that prepubertal children with IIH have low CSF protein levels compared to healthy children and pubertal children with IIH.
The study is a retrospective chart review of patients between ages 0 and 21 diagnosed with IIH in the Neuro-ophthalmology clinic using revised modified Dandy criteria. Charts were analyzed with attention to patients' demographic characteristics, clinical presentation, clinical course, ancillary studies (visual fields and OCT) and lumbar puncture results. Control group consisted of children who underwent similar evaluation as above because of suspicion for IIH (because of headaches or anomalous-looking optic nerves) who turned out not to have the disease.
We identified 23 prepubertal children with IIH (age range 0.75 to 13 years), 16 pubertal children with IIH (age range 13-21 years), and 12 controls (age range 3-14 years). CSF analysis revealed that prepubertal children with IIH had significantly lower CSF protein levels (17.3 +/- 5.7 mg/dL) when compared to pubertal children with IIH (23.4 +/- 8.4 mg/dL; p<0.05) or healthy controls (23.5 +/- 6.4 mg/dL; p<0.05). Furthermore, 9 out of 23 (39%) of prepubertal IIH patients had abnormally low CSF proteins (< 15 mg/dL), compared to zero pubertal IIH patients and zero controls (p<0.05). Acetazolamide use increased CSF protein level in 100% of patients who underwent repeat lumbar puncture after starting the medication (average increase 10.3 mg/dL).
Prior studies have suggested that prepubertal pediatric IIH may be a different clinical entity from pubertal IIH or adult IIH based on clinical features of the disease. Our work demonstrates that CSF protein levels are lower in prepubertal children with IIH compared to pubertal children with IIH and controls. We speculate that low CSF protein levels are caused by CSF overproduction leading to increased flow rate across the arachnoid villi, resulting in greater protein resorption from CSF. Suppression of CSF production with acetazolamide conversely leads to an increase in CSF protein levels. Thus, CSF overproduction may be one of the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of prepubertal IIH.
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Older relatives in this country are said by Grandparents Plus, a campaign group, to enjoy fewer benefits and privileges than those on the Continent.
Although a third of working mothers in Britain are thought to rely on their own parents to provide childcare, they cannot transfer maternity leave to them or pay them with tax credits or vouchers as happens elsewhere in the EU. In addition, grandparents cannot request flexible working in order to look after their grandchildren.
A survey published alongside the new analysis of state recognition of grandparents across Europe shows that 70 per cent believe they should be paid for their childcare services.
Sam Smethers, the chief executive of Grandparents Plus, said: "This study reveals that a number of our European neighbours are both recognizing the role that grandparents are playing and giving families control over their lives, supporting the decisions that they make. We need to do that for families in the UK too.
"It is often said that grandparents do it for love not money, and that's true. But our survey shows an overwhelming majority in favour of being paid for childcare. Perhaps granny has had enough?"
Alan Hattan Yeo, chief executive of the Beth Johnson Foundation, which aims to improve life for older people, added: "We have to start prioritizing the contribution that grandparents make to family life, to the economy and to the community. Our ageing population makes this issue all the more pressing."
The study, carried out in conjunction with the Institute of Gerontology at King's College London, found that more and more grandparents are playing a significant role in European families.
Improved health keeps them active long into their grandchildren's lives while the increasing number of mothers returning to the workplace leaves them providing after-school activities for children.
When many children are born to single mothers, grandparents often take the place of the absent father and provide financial as well as practical support.
The report comes as a leading family expert gives warning that the joy of grandparenting is at risk of vanishing for many Britons who are used as a "cheap safety net for childcare".
Dr Katherine Rake OBE, chief executive of the Family and Parenting Institute, will use the Michael Young Family and Kinship Memorial Lecture in London today to draw attention to the childcare burden facing many grandparents.
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Academic studies show that children also do better when grandparents have a strong presence in their lives, and are less likely to be overweight or suffer behavioural problems than if they are only raised by their parents.
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Dune Bashing in a Ford 500
|These camels were probably wondering
what we were doing out there.
I was bound and determined to get to the Al Dhafra Camel Festival in the Western region, a two-hour drive from Abu Dhabi. The American Women's Network organized a day trip on a bus, but I inadvertently sent the notice to my spam folder so I was unaware. Plus, maybe somewhere in my not-so-subconscious I wanted a little more flexibility and adventure.
The day after the AWN trip Patti, who I met at a coffee and whose husband is also on Mark's project, called to tell me about it. "You might be overwhelmed," she said. "It's huge, and everything is spread out." She told me about how their day was, with pre-planned events and lunch and dinner – she didn't get home till midnight. I took this all in, but it didn't discourage me from going; it had the opposite effect. Yet I knew that I couldn't just go out there by myself but the timing wasn't working out for Mark to be able to go, and Deb was busy with other things.
Enter Terry Mercer and her family. At the last minute I occupied the empty seat in their Ford 500 with Terry, her husband Peter, and their 20-something sons, Christopher and Ty. I had only met Terry a couple of times and had never met the rest of her family. Terry is American, from Florida, a fellow photographer, and I knew the minute I met her and observed her scooting around and focusing her giant lens at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr chocolate event (which I only posted on Facebook, and didn't do a whole blog about) that we could be great friends.
|We followed the flags, our first mistake.
We headed west into the desert and as we neared the town of Madinat Zayed, we began to see signs about the festival. They were all in Arabic; we were not in expat-friendly Abu Dhabi any more. Not really knowing where the festival was, we drove on. Finally we came to the festival area, a desert landscape dotted with tents, flags, and signage in indecipherable Arabic.
We wanted to see camel races. "Which way to the camel races?" we asked anyone who would look at us. All we got was a shrug and shake of the head, an answer in Arabic that we could not comprehend, or a wave down the road. So down the road we went.
|A roundabout! Now we're getting somewhere! Not.
All around us we saw what looked like pavilions surrounded by flags. I think everyone in the car wanted to be the one to spot what we were looking for. Somehow, and I don't know how, we got off the paved road and found ourselves driving on a gravelly, sandy surface. We made our way to a big, important looking roundabout but when we got there, it didn't go anywhere. We chose a direction that looked correct. Soon there were tracks everywhere except where we were actually driving. By this time we were committed, and headed toward one tent, and then another. Every place we got near turned out to be smaller than it had looked; not what we were looking for. Finally we spotted a large pavilion: that must be it! But all that was between it and us was sand. And all that was between us and the last paved road: you guessed it. Sand.
|Nobody is sure how we got off the main road.
You can imagine what the conversation could become with two young adult males and their parents in a small car trying to find a road in the sand. I am still wondering if it only stayed so civil because I (a complete stranger) was in the vehicle.
|How do you say "stuck" in Arabic? You don't need to.
Before long what Terry's husband predicted occurred: we were stuck.
If you have been reading this blog for awhile you might have noticed that sometimes I tend to be lucky. Based on past experience I refused to panic or let myself think that this would turn our badly, even though Mark and I were supposed to leave for Oman early the next day and I was starting to formulate my explanation. I looked to the right, and I could see cars driving by on a road about 100 meters away, toward the giant pavilion that was our new destination. So we were driving on the sand, parallel to the real road. Good news, we are not in the middle of nowhere. Bad news, we can be seen by everyone driving past on their way to the event and we look like . . . well, never mind.
|There was no shortage of opinions.
Why didn't we think of that? Oh yeah, Ty did. Oh well.
Soon a little pickup truck sped up, with one guy in it. After speaking and gesturing he sped off again, presumably to get help. No sooner was he gone than several more vehicles arrived. The young men jumped out, assessed the situation, and told us through words and gestures that we had to let the air out of the tires. Which, by the way, Terry and Peter's younger son Ty had been saying all along; he has worked as a lifeguard on the beach in Florida. And also, in the midst of this, I had gotten a phone call from Mark and he said to do the same thing. Don't worry, Honey, everything us under control!
Young men are the same everywhere, I thought, as I watched our new friends confer and jockey for position; everyone wanted an important role in the rescue. They let the air out of the tires, pushed our Ford 500 sedan out of the depression it was in, and offered to drive us out. Christopher got into a pickup while one of the Arab guys drove our Ford 500. Suddenly our driver started speaking and gesturing, and we thought he was asking for water. No, he was asking if we were thirsty. No, we are good, we have water. Then someone said the magic word, "coffee." We were being invited to partake in the legendary Arab hospitality that I had been reading about: we were invited to their tent!
|These guys love their pickups.
But Christopher, in his pickup, had sped off in the other direction, toward the pavilion. This made Terry worry: "My son is going the other way! Are they coming too?" Even though Christopher is in law school, and is a veteran of Iraq, momma bear Terry was protecting him.
To Terry's relief, we arrived at the tent the same time as Christopher's pickup. We were ushered into a huge tent, with about a hundred red plush upholstered chairs lining the walls. One of the Arabs walked to the center of the back wall, sat, and indicated to us to also sit. In front of us on a low table was a basket of fruit exactly like the ones I have seen for sale many times at the Mina fruit and vegetable market.
|We were treated to delicious beverages,
dates, and fresh fruit . . .
We were treated first to coffee. I think that this was a beverage that I have read about which isn't really coffee but a hot beverage made with cardamom. It's very spicy. The young man who poured it came out next with trays of dates; they were very sugary-sweet. We were encouraged to take a piece of fruit, and then the young man announced that he was bringing "chai." And he brought out a pot of delicious, sweetened chai tea.
The Arabs didn't speak English so we were comfortable comparing notes among us about what was happening and how to act. Soon everyone agreed that they would keep pouring until you shook your cup to indicate that you were finished; that you needed to eat with your right hand only; and that you should not cross your legs and show the bottom of your feet; we had heard that's disrespectful.
|. . . but when things got silly . . .
We asked if it was OK to take photos; oh, yes! We took lots of photos, and our hosts took some photos of us with our cameras. Our head host acted surprisingly informal and soon began clowning for the camera, borrowing sunglasses and placing his ghutra on my head as we posed for pictures. He insisted that I put my arm around his shoulder, which surprised me but I cooperated. As time went on things seemed to get a little bit too frivolous; I began to think that maybe I was about to get a new husband. It's a good thing I was part of an entourage!
|I was glad Pete, Terry and sons were there.
|Seconds later there was a scramble.
At that point they decided to take us outside and show us their camels. First we looked at the sheep in the pen. As we stood there, one of the sheep suddenly, somehow, squeezed through a little gap in the metal and began running away! Ty, who was closest to the sheep, was berated by one of the Arabs; why didn't he do something? They managed to catch the animal and throw it back into the pen.
|These pots are big enough to cook a goat in.
Suddenly a large SUV drove up, and a stately and impressive Arab got out. Our head host melted into the background, and we were ushered toward this new, important person, who spoke good English. We told him what had happened, and how we appreciated the rescue and the hospitality. He told us that the camels, the tent, and everything in the camp belonged to the King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
|You can tell who's important by how they conduct themselves.
Plus, they usually speak English.
It was time to go. We thanked everyone, and as we left we said "B-bye!" to the little boys that had appeared. "B-bye! b-bye!" they called back.
As we drove away, marveling at our cluelessness and how it had landed us in the tent of the King of Saudi Arabia, we knew that we needed to re-inflate our tires.
|Oh, yeah. We can't drive on this one any more.
Then we noticed that one of our tires was making an awful lot of noise. Yes, we were driving on a flat tire and, by the time we got to the paved road, it was shredded. Peter and the boys changed the tire while Terry and I walked down the road to see if we could find out how to get the others re-inflated. As it turned out, the police came by to help and they inflated the tires. Now we had four tires to drive on, but no spare.
Were we ready to call it a day? Heck, no! We hadn't seen the camel race yet!
We headed for the pavilion and as we got near, we marveled at how we had gotten off course. Today's lesson: stay on the paved road.
|We decided not to sit with the sheikhs.
We parked in the lot and approached the arena entrance, not sure whether there was a fee, or how the seating was organized. Would there be special seating for us expats? Nobody spoke to us; they just stood by and indicated for us to pass through.
|But we ended up with great seats anyway.
As we entered, we realized we were in the VIP area. Instead of the bleachers we expected to see, we were surrounded by plush gold armchairs set before gold gilt tea tables, with servers carrying trays of coffee pots and dates. Not an expat or woman was in sight; only men in kanduras and ghutras. There was the stage, and a podium. Even though nobody gave us a second look, we were sure this was not for us, so we went to anther entrance, and sat in the next section. We didn't have tables, but we were served coffee anyway.
|It's a big thrill to win; they put on a satin cloak . . .
Soon we came to realize that we had made it just in time for the announcement of the day's winners of the Camel Beauty Contest. What luck! A number of officials took their places onstage around the podium, and although we couldn't understand a word of what was said, we could hear the cheers and see the ghutras being tossed into the air as the winners were announced.
|. . . and tie their ghutras around
the camel's neck.
Again, we weren't sure whether we would be allowed near the camels. And again, the gates were magically opened for us as Terry and I approached with our cameras. The winning teams placed satin banners on the camel beauties, and they all paraded and celebrated.
The winners danced in celebration
We had just enough time to check out the souk tents, which were in two areas. One area, along the road, sold essential goods and sundries for the camel herders: pots and pans, lamps, fuel, tools and equipment, bedding, generators, jerry cans . . . anything they might need.
|If we were stranded overnight,
we could have bought bedrolls.
In another area craftsmen and women in abayas and face masks were selling baskets, incense, textiles, and other souvenirs. Terry and Peter got into a long conversation with an unmasked woman who spoke very good English; she told us proudly that her son had married an Australian woman. She sold them an incense burner.
Food was available in both places: huge pots containing a mixture of either noodles or rice, mixed with meat and vegetables, flavored with spices and tomato paste. They also had cabbage leaves stuffed with rice and meat called malfoof, and a fried doughy ball called awwameh made with flour, potatoes, and yeast, similar to a doughnut hole, topped with sesame seeds and a not-too-sweet syrup.
It was getting dark, and we were ready to head home, driving with no spare tire. I called Mark to let him know, and warned him that if anything else happened he might have to come and get us. He told us not to drive too fast on the tubeless spare, although he knows how difficult that is: here, cars come roaring up behind you on the highway and, if you don't get out of their way, they are passing you on the shoulder to your left and squeezing you into the next lane, where there is usually a large truck. To avoid this, you have to be constantly mashing on the gas pedal as they come up behind you, and ducking into the right lane.
But that's another blog . . .Stay tuned for the story of the Emirati wedding and day after. How lucky we are to have an opportunity to get to know these interesting people and seeing how they live.
|There were camels everywhere.
|The winner. Isn't she (or he?) gorgeous?


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As Christmas fast approaches, I am still in a house of renovating madness. Every morning I am greeted by the lovely sounds of saws and nail guns. It's a wonderful way to start the day, I highly recommend it (can you hear the sarcasm through the computer?). Well, anyway, the holidays go on. So, I will do what I do on every holiday, bake cookies. Today, I'm talking about shortbread cookies.
I absolutely love shortbread cookies. How could I not, they're basically butter and sugar? Oh well, my philosophy is "I'd rather have a little something delicious than a lot of something diet". These cookies fall into that category. It's true, they're a splurge, but it is Christmastime after all, so splurge away!
1 stick unsalted butter, softened (leave out on the counter til soft)
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract (pure, no imitation stuff here!)
1 cup all purpose flour
2 squares of white almond bark
Christmas sprinkles
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Using a mixer, cream the butter and sugar (that just means mix it on medium-high speed til it's fluffy).
Stir in the vanilla extract.
Next, add the flour and mix on medium low speed until combined. You will see it start to form a dough.
Turn the dough out onto a surface covered with wax paper. I use a cutting board or sometimes just my counter top.
Form the dough (using your very clean hands, aka the best tools you have) into a rectangle that's about a 1/4 inch thick.
Using a pizza cutter (or a knife), cut the dough in half vertically and then horizontally.
You'll have four sections. Cut each section into thirds. This will leave you with 12 rectangular cookies.
Use a fork to poke a few holes into the dough. This is decorative, but it also helps the cookies rise evenly.
Gently place each cookie onto a baking sheet, leaving plenty of space between them (because they will spread while baking).
Bake for 12-15 minutes or until light golden brown around the edges. Don't over bake these!
Let them cool a few minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer them to a rack to cool completely. If you don't have a rack, don't sweat it. Just take them off the hot baking sheet and put them on a cool one. The rack just lets air circulate around the cookies so they cool faster.
Once the cookies are completely cooled, melt the almond bark. I put it into a coffee mug and microwave it for 30 seconds, then stir. If it's not totally melted, microwave it for another 15 seconds and stir again. You want it to be fully melted and smooth.
Once the almond bark is melted, carefully dip each cookie to coat the end. I say carefully because they are very delicate cookies and will break easily. Just dip the end and then lay it on some wax paper and decorate with sprinkles (do it quickly because the almond bark starts to set up fast).
Let them sit until the almond bark sets, which doesn't take long. If you don't want to dip them, you can drizzle the melted almond bark over the top and then decorate with sprinkles.
This recipe makes 12 cookies. It is very easy to double if you want to make more. Put these in a cellophane bag with a pretty ribbon and you've got a great hostess gift.
These are very festive and delicious! A great Christmas cookie!


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Chapter 1
The Formation Adventure of the Atom
The Formation
Adventure of the Atom
The Signs
of the Qur'an
The Structure
Of The Atom
The Second
Step On The Path To Matter: Molecules
An Interesting
Property of Water
Power Of
The Atom
Atoms That
Come Alive
Feeding And
The universe, whose vast dimension pushes the
limits of the human's comprehension, functions without fail, resting
on sensitive balances and within a great order and has done so since
the first moment of its formation. How this enormous universe has
come into being, where it leads to and how the laws that maintain
the order and balance within it work, have always been matters of
interest to people in all ages, and still are. Scientists made countless
researches into these subjects and produced various arguments and
theories. For scientists who measured the order and design in the
universe by using their reason and conscience, it has not been difficult
at all to explain this perfection. This is because Allah, the Almighty,
Who rules over the entire universe, created this perfect design
and this is obvious and clear to all people who can think and reason.
Allah proclaims this evident truth in the verses of the Qur'an:
In the creation of the heavens and the earth,
and the alternation of night and day, there are Signs for people
with intelligence. (Surat Al 'Imran:
Those scientists who ignore the evidence of creation, however, have
great difficulty in answering these never-ending questions. They
do not hesitate to take recourse to demagoguery, false theories
without any scientific basis, and, if forced into a corner, even
deceptions to defend theories that are entirely opposed to reality.
Yet, all developments that have taken place in science recently,
up until the outset of the 21st century, lead us to a single fact:
the universe was created from nothing by Allah, Who possesses superior
might and infinite wisdom.
The Creation Of The Universe
For centuries, people searched for an answer to the question of
"how the universe came into being". Thousands of models
of the universe have been put forward and thousands of theories
have been produced throughout history. However, a review of these
theories reveals that they all have at their core one of two different
models. The first is the concept of an infinite universe without
beginning, which no longer has any scientific basis. The second
is that the universe was created from nothing, which is currently
recognized by the scientific community as "the standard model".
The first model, which has proven not to be viable,
defended the proposition that the universe has existed for an infinite
time and will exist endlessly in its current state. This idea of
an infinite universe was developed in ancient Greece, and made its
way to the western world as a product of the materialistic philosophy
that was revived with Renaissance. At the core of the Renaissance
lay a re-examination of the works of ancient Greek thinkers. Thus,
materialist philosophy and the concept of an infinite universe defended
by this philosophy were taken off the dusty shelves of history by
philosophical and ideological concerns and presented to people as
if they were scientific facts.
Materialists like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels vigorously embraced
this idea, which prepared an apparently solid ground for their materialist
ideologies, thereby playing an important role in introducing this
model to the 20th century.
According to this "infinite universe" model
which was popular during the first half of the 20th century, the
universe had no beginning or end. The universe had not been created
from nothing, nor would it ever be destroyed. According to this
theory, which also laid the basis for materialist philosophy, the
universe had a static structure. Yet, later scientific findings
revealed that this theory is totally wrong and unscientific. The
universe has not existed without beginning; it had a beginning and
was created from nothing.
The idea that the universe is infinite, that is that
it had no beginning, has always been the starting point of irreligiousness
and ideologies that make the mistake of denying Allah. This is because
in their view, if the universe had no beginning, then there was
no creator either. Yet, science soon revealed with conclusive evidence
that these arguments of the materialists are invalid and that the
universe started with an explosion called the Big Bang. Coming into
being from nothing had only one meaning: "Creation". Allah,
the Almighty created the whole universe.
The renowned British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle was
among those who were disturbed by this fact. With his "steady-state"
theory, Hoyle accepted that the universe was expanding and argued
that the universe was infinite in scale and without beginning or
end. According to this model, as the universe expanded, matter originated
spontaneously and in quantities as large as required. This theory,
which was based on extremely unworkable premises, and advanced by
the sole concern of supporting the idea of an "infinite universe
without beginning or end" was in direct opposition to the Big
Bang theory, which was scientifically proven closer to a great number
of observations. Hoyle and others continued to resist this but all
scientific development worked against them.
The Expansion of the Universe
and the Big Bang
In the 20th century, great strides were made in the
field of astronomy. First, the Russian physicist Alexandre Friedmann
discovered in 1922 that the universe did not have a static structure.
Starting out from Einstein's theory of relativity, Friedmann calculated
that even a tiny impulse might cause the universe to expand or contract.
Georges Lemaître, one of the most famous astronomers
of Belgium, was the first to recognise the importance of this calculation.
These calculations led him to conclude that the universe had a beginning
and that it was continuously expanding right from the outset. There
was another very important point Lemaître raised: according to him,
there should be a radiation surplus left over from the big bang
and this could be traced. Lemaître was confident that his explanations
were true although they initially did not find much support in the
scientific community. Meanwhile, further evidence that the universe
was expanding began to pile up. At that time, observing a number
of stars through his huge telescope, the American astronomer Edwin
Hubble discovered that the stars emitted a red shifted light depending
on their distances. With this discovery, which he made at the California
Mount Wilson Observatory, Hubble challenged all scientists who put
forward and defended the steady state theory, and shook the very
basis of the model of the universe held until then.
Hubble's findings depended on the physical rule that
the spectra of light beams travelling towards the point of observation
tend towards violet while the spectra of light beams moving away
from the point of observation tend towards red. This showed that
the celestial bodies observed from the Californian Mount Wilson
Observatory were moving away from the earth. Further observation
revealed that the stars and galaxies weren't just racing away from
us; they were racing away from each other as well. This movement
of celestial bodies proved once more that the universe is expanding.
In Stephen Hawking's Universe, David Filkin relates an interesting
point about these developments:
Within two years, Lemaître heard the news he had
scarcely dared hope for. Hubble had observed that the light from
galaxies was red shifted, and, according to Doppler effect, this
had to mean the universe was expanding. Now it was only a matter
of time. Einstein was interested in Hubble's work anyway and resolved
to visit him at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Lemaître arranged
to give a lecture at the California Institute of Technology at the
same time, and managed to corner Einstein and Hubble together. He
argued his "primeval atom" theory carefully, step by step,
suggesting that the whole universe had been created "on a day
which had no yesterday." Painstakingly he worked through all
the mathematics. When he had finished he could not believe his ears.
Einstein stood up and announced that what he had just heard was
"the most beautiful and satisfying interpretation I have listened
to" and went on to confess that creating the "cosmological
constant" was "the biggest blunder" of his life.1
The truth that made Einstein, who is considered one
of the most important scientists in history, jump to his feet was
the fact that the universe has a beginning.
Further observations on the expansion of the universe
gave way to new arguments. Starting from this point, scientists
ended up with a model of a universe that became smaller as one went
back in time, eventually contracting and converging at a single
point, as Lemaître had argued. The conclusion to be derived from
this model is that at some point in time, all matter in the universe
was crushed together in a single point-mass that had "zero
volume" because of its immense gravitational force. Our universe
came into being as the result of the explosion of this point-mass
that had zero volume and this explosion has come to be called the
"Big Bang".
The Big Bang pointed to another matter. To say that
something has zero volume is tantamount to saying that it is "nothing".
The whole universe is created from this "nothing". Furthermore,
this universe has a beginning, contrary to the view of materialism,
which holds that "the universe has existed from eternity".
Big Bang with Evidence
Once the fact that the universe started to form after a great
explosion was established, astrophysicists gave a further boost
to their researches. According to George Gamow, if the universe
was formed in a sudden, cataclysmic explosion, there ought to be
a definite amount of radiation left over from that explosion which
should be uniform throughout the universe.
In the years following this hypothesis, scientific findings followed
one another, all confirming the Big Bang. In 1965, two researchers
by the name of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson chanced upon a form
of radiation hitherto unnoticed. Called "cosmic background
radiation", it was unlike anything coming from anywhere else
in the universe for it was extraordinarily uniform. It was neither
localised nor did it have a definite source; instead, it was distributed
equally everywhere. It was soon realised that this radiation is
the relic of the Big Bang, still reverberating since the first moments
of that great explosion. Gamow had been spot-on, for the frequency
of the radiation was nearly the same value that scientists had predicted.
Penzias and Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery.
It took only eight minutes for George Smoot and his NASA team to
confirm the levels of radiation reported by Penzias and Wilson,
thanks to the COBE space satellite. The sensitive sensors on board
the satellite earned a new victory for the Big Bang theory. The
sensors verified the existence of the hot, dense form remaining
from the first moments of the Big Bang. COBE captured evidentiary
remnants of the Big Bang, and the scientific community was compelled
to acknowledge it.
Other evidence had to do with the relative amounts of hydrogen and
helium in the universe. Calculations revealed that the proportion
of hydrogen-helium gasses in the universe is in accord with theoretical
calculations of what should remain after the Big Bang.
The discovery of compelling evidence caused the Big
Bang theory to gain the complete approval of the scientific world.
In an article in its October 1994 issue, Scientific American noted
that "the Big Bang model was the only acknowledged model of
the 20th century"
Confessions were forthcoming one by
one from the names who had defended the "infinite universe"
concept for years. Dennis Sciama, who had defended the Steady-State
theory along with Fred Hoyle, described their predicament in the
face of the evidence for the Big Bang. He said that he had first
taken a stand along with Hoyle but, as evidence began to pile up,
he had to admit that the game was over and that the steady-state
theory had to be dismissed.2
Allah Created the Universe from Nothing
With ample evidence discovered by science, the thesis of an "infinite
universe" was tossed onto the scrap-heap of the history of
scientific ideas. Yet, more important questions were forthcoming:
what existed before the Big Bang? What force could have caused the
great explosion that resulted in a universe that did not exist before?
There is a single answer to be given to the question
of what existed before the Big Bang: Allah, the All-powerful and
the Almighty, Who created the earth and the heavens in great order.
Many scientists, be they believers or not, are obliged to admit
this truth. Although they may decline to admit this fact on scientific
platforms, their confessions in between the lines give them away.
Renowned atheist philosopher Anthony Flew says:
Notoriously, confession is good for
the soul. I will therefore begin by confessing that the Stratonician
atheist has to be embarrassed by the contemporary cosmological consensus.
For it seems that the cosmologists are providing a scientific proof
of what St. Thomas contended could not be proved philosophically;
namely, that the universe had a beginning. So long as the universe
can be comfortably thought of as being not only without end but
also beginning, it remains easy to urge that its brute existence,
and whatever are found to be its most fundamental features, should
be accepted as the explanatory ultimates. Although I believe that
it remains still correct, it certainly is neither easy nor comfortable
to maintain this position in the face of the Big Bang story. 3
Some scientists like the British materialist physicist
H. P. Lipson confess that they have to accept the Big Bang theory
whether they want it or not:
If living matter is not, then, caused
by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation, how has
it come into being?
I think, however, that we must
admit that the
only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema
to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject that
we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it.4
In conclusion, science points to a single reality whether materialist
scientists like it or not. Matter and time have been created by
a Creator, Who is All-Powerful and Who created the heavens, the
earth and all that is in between:
Almighty Allah. It is Allah who created the seven heavens and of
the earth the same number, the Command descending down through all
of them, so that you might know that Allah has power over all things
and that Allah encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Surat
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Daredevil racers are under starter's orders for the
inaugural Milton of Campsie Bogie Race, which takes place next month.
Beechtree Park, in Milton of Campsie, will be the venue for the competition on Sunday, June 21, from noon-5pm.
Racers will take turns to plummet down a hill in their homemade karts, with the fastest to take the chequered flag declared the champion for 2015.
It's being organised by volunteers from the project to rejuvenate the former Milton of Campsie Railway Station.
One of the organisers told the Herald: "The race entry numbers are growing and growing and the great news is that the local Scotmid are sponsoring the race and putting up a hamper and trophy as the prize.
"If anybody would like to find out more about building a bogie please contact the bogie race Facebook page where you can enter your bogie. You can even turn up on the day with your bogie.
"It will be a timed event and bogies will travel down the hill individually – the fastest timed bogie walks away with the prize."
It's all part of a wider event to celebrate the transformation of the station from eyesore to community asset, since an army of volunteers descended onto the station last year for the first in a series of 'improvement days'.
At the station itself there will more attractions as part of the family fun day.
Already confirmed for the event are a free bouncy castle, an ice cream stall (free for the first 200 children) and free rickshaw rides around the park and station provided by Evolution Rickshaws.
There will also be music from Andrew Greig's Band and local musician Stuart Malcolm. For a more active afternoon, the football pitch at Beechtree Park will be the venue for family games - meet up with Sharon and Jackson Taylor at 3pm to take part.
Everybody who comes along is encouraged to bring their own picnic to enjoy on platform one throughout the day.
And plenty of local organisations are getting involved by booking up stands - including Billington's Deli, Kirkintilloch Men's Sheds, Positive Alternatives, Sustrans, the Milton of Campsie Community Gym and Scotmid. Others are expected to follow suit in the coming weeks. For more information about the bogey race, go to www.facebook.com/thebogierace?fref=ts


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Temple Shalom, 5 Ayrmont Lane in Aberdeen, invites the community to celebrate Rosh Hashanah (September 9, 10 and 11) and Yom Kippur (September 18 and 19). Donations for High Holiday tickets that include all services are $118 for one person and $300 for a family of four or more. The purchase of High Holiday tickets includes a complementary year of membership for new members.
Temple Shalom is pleased to offer free High Holiday tickets and a year of free membership for recent college graduates, ages 21 – 30. Active members of the US Military may also request complementary tickets. Tickets are not transferable, and identification will be required for entry to services.
High Holiday children's services will be held starting at 3:00 pm on September 10 and at 2:30 pm on September 19. These services are open to the community. An RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com is requested.
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Birth aboard aircraft and ships
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The subject of birth aboard aircraft and ships is one with a long history in public international law. The law on the subject is complex, because various states apply differing principles of nationality, namely jus soli and jus sanguinis, to varying degrees and with varying qualifications.
Historical background[edit]
Prior to the 1961 Convention, quite a number of states expressly provided, in their laws, that births and deaths aboard an aircraft registered to that state are considered to have occurred on national territory, and thus the nationality laws of that territory apply. One such was § 32(5) of the British Nationality Act 1948.
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Contemporary laws[edit]
Under the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation, articles 17–21, all aircraft have the nationality of the state in which they are registered, and may not have multiple nationalities. The law of the aircraft's nationality is applicable on the aircraft. However, nationality laws of any country already apply everywhere, since it is for each country to determine who are its nationals. So this convention has no effect on nationality laws. The convention does not say that a birth on a country's aircraft is to be treated as a birth in that country for the purposes of nationality.
Under the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, for the purposes of determining the obligations under the Convention, a birth on a ship or aircraft in international waters or airspace shall be treated as a birth in the country of the ship or aircraft's registration. However, the Convention applies only to births where the child would otherwise be stateless. Since in most cases a child would be covered by one or more countries' jus sanguinis at birth (getting the same citizenship as its parents), this Convention rarely comes into play. In addition, there are still very few Member States that are party to the 1961 Convention.
There has however, been another methodology instituted followed by more countries, which dictates that the coordinates of the aircraft at the time of birth are taken into account when determining the child's nationality. There is some amount of argument over what to do when and if the child is born over international waters. The most accepted approach is to use either the depart or arrival destination, depending on which the coordinates are closer to.
United States[edit]
U.S. law holds that natural persons born on foreign ships docked at U.S. ports or born within the limit of U.S. territorial waters are U.S. citizens. An important exception to this rule is that children born to people who (in line with the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution) are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States (e.g., foreign diplomats accredited with the United States Department of State or invading foreign enemy forces) are not automatically U.S. citizens.[1] Despite a common misconception to the contrary, birth on board a U.S.-flagged ship, airliner, or military vessel outside of the 12-nautical mile (22.2 km/ 13-13/16 st. mi.) limit is not considered to be a birth on U.S. territory, and the principle of jus soli thus does not apply.[2]
In addition to the question of a child's citizenship, there is also a question of how to report "Place of Birth" for children born in transit. US State Department guidance instructs that a child born in international waters should have their place of birth listed as "AT SEA", while those born in the territorial waters of any country would list the name of that country.[3] A child born in flight in a region where no country claims sovereignty would list their place of birth as "IN THE AIR".[3]
See also[edit]
- ↑ Jeffrey A. Schoenblum (2006). Multistate and Multinational Estate Planning (Third ed.). CCH. pp. 9–56. ISBN 0-8080-8950-1.
- ↑ Foreign Affairs Manual
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual" (PDF). United States.
Further reading[edit]
- Barbara Reukema (1982). "Birth on board aircraft". Discriminatory Refusal of Carriage in North America. Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers. pp. 117–124. ISBN 90-6544-049-6.
- William Samore (July 1951). "Statelessness as a Consequence of the Conflict of Nationality Laws". The American Journal of International Law. The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 45, No. 3. 45 (3): 476–494. JSTOR 2194545. doi:10.2307/2194545.
- Gerhard Von Glahn (1976). "The Law and the Individual". Law Among Nations: An Introduction to Public International Law. Macmillan. p. 202. ISBN 0-02-423150-9.
- Lauterpacht. "re Delgado de Román". International Law Reports. Cambridge University Press. pp. 371–372. ISBN 0-949009-37-7. — a 1956 case in Argentina exemplifying how both Spanish and Argentinian laws could apply to a birth aboard ship. The decision in the case cites "Birth on Board Ship". Spanish Encyclopedia. 23. p. 328..
- British Institute of International Affairs (1965). "Nationality in Public International Law". The British Year Book of International Law. 39. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 306.


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Recently I changed cell phone providers to a company that focuses more on VOIP than Cell transmissions. I was doing some sniffing and inspecting of my VOIP traffic to see how secure my traffic was since it would be mostly traversing the internet now. (I <3 VOIP BTW) I quickly found myself elbow-deep in Wireshark again and was thinking about The Naughty List ( as I usually do ). I was wondering if there was some sort of GeoIP DB connector in Wireshark that would let me view the geo-location of some of the servers my cellphone was now connecting to. After a few minutes of searching, not only did I find that Wireshark comes with the configuration hook-ins needed for GeoIP DB info, but it can also output a world map with markers and info regarding traffic in the capture destined for the locations found. The html output doesn't look as awesome as The Naughty List here at T3chkommie.com, but it is definitely useful enough! In fact, the same DB resources some of these blogs and Wireshark recommends are the same resources that The Naughty List has been using for a few years now.
If you are interested in setting this up for your own packet capturing frenzies, check out this link for a blog that I found which has some great screen shots and configuration examples. It should get you up and geo-locating your packet IP-DSTs in no time!
I have been known to script some GPS type stuff in the past. The Naughty List uses GEOIP data to keep tabs on who is doing what from where and my motorcycle dashcam project uses a GPS dongle and a RaspberryPi to take Lat and Lon samples to generate a Google Earth KML overlay of a recorded trip. So far they are two projects I am very proud of. I am thinking I might work on another Wireshark Lua script that not only helps out with the GeoIP DB info management, but also makes the Lua script generate a KML overlays for viewing PCAP GEOIP data in Google Earth! If you have ideas or requests, let's here them.


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this looks like a very cute, funny and heart warming movie… and you can post your pooches photo, too… I posted Cici's puppy photo… vote her the cutest… my polka dot princess with the pink belly !
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Bike to Work Day a Big Success
Bike to Work Day 2012 was an unequivocal success. 150 people took time out of their morning to visit us in Gore Park for a snack and prizes. 400 people registered online through Smart Commute and have a chance to win some more great prizes (and if you rode but didn't register, hurry up cause registration is open until Friday!). Overall Hamilton had its biggest Bike to Work Day yet and it couldn't have happened without the support and participation from businesses and organizations in the downtown core and beyond.
Bike for Mike have been a great partner with a wonderful vision for getting a bike in the hands of every child in Hamilton. We hope that our cross-promotional efforts result in greater awareness of Bike for Mike and Bike to Work Day.
Evans Sweeny Bordin LLP were the first downtown office to step up and commit to participating in Bike to Work Day. Michael Bordin did a masterful job motivating his firm and we were thrilled to meet him and his colleagues in Gore Park on Monday.
Evans Philp LLP were a great addition to Bike to Work Day. Eric Nanayakkara went above and beyond by distributing Bike to Work Day information to his co-workers and to other downtown organizations. Thanks to the "Lawyers on Wheels" for coming down and being so enthusiastic!
Kitestring Creative came aboard and became a wonderful social media presence for Bike to Work Day, especially during the Gore Park reception. Josh Gordon has worked with us in the past and we were delighted to have him and his colleagues participate on Monday.
James Beltrame from First Canadian Title stepped up to rally his co-workers for Bike to Work Day. Many thanks to him for his efforts on Monday.
Homegrown Hamilton provided delicious muffins and coffee for all of us to re-fuel. Thanks as well to the YWCA for coming out on Monday morning to promote their upcoming Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, another unbelievable event that is coming up on June 24th (during Open Streets Hamilton). We love spreading the word about great things happening in Hamilton.
We were fortunate to receive prize donations from some fantastic partners: Hamilton Conservation Authority, Phoenix Fitness, Runner's Den, London Tap House, YWCA and Smart Commute Hamilton. Special thanks to Andrew from New Hope Bike Coop for bringing his mobile bike repair stand to Gore Park! Also a big shout out to Jackie Vandinther who was the face of the Hamilton Bike to Work Day poster and was an awesome spokesperson and booster of the day.
Finally, a big thanks to the City of Hamilton, Smart Commute Hamilton and all of their partners for being leaders and ambassadors of active transportation in this city. This year was the most successful Bike to Work Day in history and it wouldn't happen without your ongoing work and dedication.
Make every day Bike to Work Day, and we hope to see you all at the Transportation and Healthy Living Fair coming up on June 21st!


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A Facebook posting by the French president showed a photo of Mr Sarkozy, then a 34-year old MP, standing before graffiti-stained section of the wall.
Mr Sarkozy recounted how he and Alain Juppé, the former prime minister, left Paris on the morning of November 9 after hearing of "major developments" in Berlin.
He added: "We arrived in West Berlin and went to the Brandenburg Gate where a noisy crowd had gathered expecting the announcement the wall would come down."
But Mr Juppé cast doubt on Mr Sarkozy's claims yesterday by writing in his blog that he was probably only in Berlin "several days later". French press archives suggest the pair arrived on November 16.
Gallic commentators also questioned his version of events, saying news of the collapse did not come until late in the day on 9 November, and West Berliners did not begin hacking at the Wall until the following day.
However, François Fillon, the prime minister, insisted he crossed paths with Mr Sarkozy and Mr Juppé that night, as he was in Berlin for a conference.
"The president and my agenda seem almost as important as the fall of the Wall itself," he quipped.
Philippe Martel, another right-winger, said he had hired the private jet Mr Sarkozy took to get there after a tip-off from a friend working in the Berlin municipal council.
Among the sceptical comments from readers of the Le Monde newspaper one read: "And another scoop, N.S. was on the moon with Neil Armstrong in 1969 – he was the one holding the camera filming him."
Another added: "No Sarkozy wasn't doing the filming, it was him who landed the lunar module."


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