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We asked Stanford students what they really think about the Band's suspension
'The Band represents what I love most about Stanford'
Nearly a month ago, members of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB), a group distinguished by its free-spiritedness and controversy, were notified by the university administration that they were suspended from all activities. The Band has been under investigation since May 2015 for violating various University policies regarding alcohol, controlled substances, sexual harassment, and hazing, and have therefore been facing restrictions on travel and alcohol use.
Accused of even further disobeying the administration by defying the travel ban and alcohol probation placed on them, the Band is now facing not only suspension, but the administration's intent to restructure the formerly student-run group.
"Stanford Band banned" was the tagline that rapidly spread across campus, forcing students to examine the Band, the University administration, and the culture of Stanford itself. Interested to know how students are perceiving this administrative decision, I asked various undergraduates for their thoughts regarding this emotionally-charged issue. These are their responses.
David Delgado, 20, Chemical Engineering Major
"I want to start off by saying that I am not very well informed regarding the violations that the University claims that the Band has broken, so I will avoid commenting on that issue. As the ex-roommate of the former tree mascot and a friend to many other people in the Band, I can only comment on the positive effects that the group has on its members.
"The moments I have seen my friends the happiest and liveliest are when they are wearing that red jacket and pinned white hat and playing 'All Right Now.' When they were going through difficult times – be it academically or personally – they have relied on the energy and openness of LSJUMB to feel better about themselves. Right now, I just hope that the new band continues to be unique and receive its members with the same friendliness it has in the past."
Laura Anderson, 20, Biology Major
"Joining the LSJUMB this year was one of the best choices I've made at Stanford. Being part of such a welcoming community helped me settle into freshman year and find a place to be excited about life and the people around me. The Stanford Band is so much more than bucket hats and crazy dance moves; and to be honest, I never really figured out how to play a saxophone properly, but it didn't matter.
"Instead, the Band represents what I love most about Stanford – an enthusiasm for life and an ability to spread joy throughout the community. I hope that they will continue to bring a sense of positivity to the campus even while going through this difficult process."
Ben Jin, 21, Biology Major
"The thing is, Stanford's actions always 'make sense' and are highly conscious. Stanford is too smart to do anything that isn't justifiable from a certain angle – such as pass an ineffectual alcohol ban or shut down the Stanford Band of all entities because of cultural issues. Whether or not the Band actually has committed these Title IX violations is something I don't know enough about. However, based off my general knowledge of the campus, there are glaring hypocrisies with what Stanford says and what they do.""For example, fraternities, both Greek and cultural, are known to possess misogynistic streaks, but are protected because they not only symbolize importance towards those that contribute the most short-term money to Stanford, but there also hasn't been enough 'certifiable,' non-student generated uproar about them.
"The Band does not fulfill these conditions, nor does it bring in money. Rather, the Band is something that probably pisses off older generations that believe that sources of sexual assault and misogynistic culture are substances (such as alcohol) and the Band's lack of strict 'organization.'
"There is also the news of Stanford literally paying off sexual assault victims, so if the university's intentions were actually to improve misogynistic cultures, there are many other places on campus to focus on. What these actions say to me are that Stanford cares more about what financial contributors believe than what their actual students are saying about the university's culture. As wonderful and facilitating as Stanford is, it is still a brand with an image they wish to maintain that does not entirely agree with the image students wish for them to emote. I think it is important as students for us to continue to publicize what is important and therefore bring us closer to having a real discussion on how to improve campus climate. "
Karen Kurosawa, 18, Political Science Major
"I think that the LSJUMB is truly an icon of the university, and to lose it for any amount of time would be a profound loss to university life and culture. However, the Band's famous laissez-faire, student-run system will only be functional if all members agree to act as responsible adults.
"I also think that the Stanford administration should exercise its powers to influence the Band's current image. I have only heard this by word of mouth, but the infractions were committed by former members of the Band, not current members. If that is the case, it would be most reasonable to give them another chance as a student-run organization, under the conditions that current members will behave responsibly."
Julian Bava, 20, Political Science Major
" 'I never joined the Band, but I always knew I could.' These words, spoken during a community gathering in support of the LSJUMB, ring true to any Stanford student who has ever felt that they have been treading water for a little too long. Instead of preserving the institution in which so many have found a home, the University has instead opted to blame the doctor for the disease.
"Sexual assault survivors have already recounted how they viewed the Shak as a healing space, but now its doors are locked while Scary Path remains unlit and rape victims are bribed to shut up. I am ashamed of my university."
Diana Le, 22, Computer Science Major
"My immediate reaction to the news was sadness and bittersweet pangs of nostalgia; the Band has always been an exuberant and necessary part of school functions and victories, and it seems a shame that a bit of noise and irreverence will be missing for the rest of the year.
"It's unclear to me whether or not this ban will be effective in getting the Band to continue to re-evaluate their culture or if it will cause students to see the Band, now under the direction of a formal music director, as an extension of the 'big, bad evil administration'. Personally, I'm not a fan of having a music director for the organization, and I'm totally here for a completely student-run Stanford Band."
Akshay Dinakar, 20, Product Design Major
"During my time at Stanford, the Band has always been an intrinsic part of campus life that perpetually seems to spread good humor and pro-Stanford spirit, whether it's rallying for Big Game, welcoming freshmen to the Farm during Band Run, or giving some students a starter community of fun-loving friends. I applaud the band members for the mature and organized way they have responded to hearing the news of the Band's suspension, and I am sad for those who are negatively affected by the administration's decision.
"My personal outlook is to approach every setback as an opportunity, and I hope that at the least, band members will look for other ways to continue spreading the Stanford pride and contagious musical energy and spirit that they did through band, whether it's through temporarily joining other campus musical groups or getting involved in other ways – I for one can say that my ensemble, Stanford Flashmob Orchestra (SFmO), will welcome band members with open arms! Long live the Tree!"
If nothing else, hopefully this campus-wide controversy starts a conversation. Hopefully it improves communication between the administration and student body, it clarifies University expectations and policies, and it helps to identify the real issues with Stanford's on-campus culture. Hopefully even in this time of change, the spirit of Stanford will live on.


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An Eckville Area author will see her debut book in stores at the end of the month.
Lillian White's Barbie Band-Aid features a collection of short stories based on her time as an oil field medic.
The stories share White's own experience working in the patch as well as events she has witnessed and stories she has been told over the years.
"There's some cutesy kind of stories like a naked medic tanning on her roof out in a drill rig location," said White in a phone interview, "but then there's the serious side of it and I guess I tried to come up with a more humorous approach to the seriousness of what is going on out here."
White spent many years on an ambulance before heading out to the oil fields for eight years, where she found the standards of care were not up to the level she was used to.
White says the oil companies don't care who is sitting on location as long as a "warm body" is there the companies feel as though they are doing their due diligence of having first aid available.
"I started seeing all these events unfold and I tried for a long time to change it, raise that standard, because it was being set so low so long ago and [had] never been raised," said White, adding "pretty blondes" don't have any issues getting a job as a medic.
With Barbie Band-Aid, White hopes to raise awareness around what really goes on out in the oil patch and change it.
She is also looking to share what being an oil field medic really means.
"I think it's important for young girls that have heard about coming out to work in the oil patch," explained White. "I'd like to reach out to them and let them know they don't have to comply with the consultants and what the other guys are saying."
"I think a lot of naive girls that don't really understand what's really going on can get caught up in that and I just want them to know that they don't have to be alone."
The book took four years to write and about a year to get published.
White says her biggest concern with the book was her family reading it because the stories are "quite disturbing"
The first time published author describes the book as a look at the abuse of power and influence throughout the oil and gas industry and the medics who go out there without fully knowing what they are getting into.
"People are going to read that and they're going to know, or start realizing, what really goes on out there in that oil patch," said White of the awareness she hopes to spread through the book.
She also hopes young girls start to learn and understand the importance of being a medic.
"It should make no difference whether you're sitting in an ambulance or you're sitting on location, we should all be proud that we worked hard for our license, we worked hard to get where we're at and be proud of the fact that you're emergency medicine," said White.
Amongst the bad, she said, there are good, hard-working medics as well as good consultants who care deeply about their jobs.
"This book's not about them," said White. "I applaud those who stick to their standards of medical care and do their best job possible."
Barbie Band-Aid is available for purchase at major book stores and online July 31.

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Editor's Note: This is the eighth in a series of articles published by The Apopka Voice in 2018 that were the most noteworthy events of the year. The Apopka Voice will publish them starting today and running until Sunday, December 30th. On December 31st and January 1st, we will publish a poll and let the readers decide on which story is the most impactful of the year.
Originally published on September 20th, 2018.
The Apopka budget process came to an official close last night when the City Council voted unanimously to set the millage rate for the fiscal year 2018-2019 at 4.0376 (a quarter-mill increase) and adopt the annual budget for the fiscal year 2018-2019.
The budget totals $114,579,804 for all funds, which is a decrease of $10,092,905 or 8.1% over the 2018 budget. The General Fund Budget of $47,820,702 decreased by $158,000 or .3% compared to last year's budget.
Among the highlights of this budget outlined in the proposal were:
- No reserves or borrowing used to balance the General Fund budget.
- $600,000 additional debt service for public safety equipment purchased in FY18.
- Red light camera program eliminated as of December 31, 2018.
- School Resource Officers funded all schools located in the city limits.
- Orange County Station 29 inter-local agreement.
- Splash Pad operations funded.
- Public safety vehicles (6 police vehicles-$194K and an ambulance-$182K), claw truck for grounds ($170K), a new chiller for City Hall ($100K), and improvements to the police gun range ($46K).
- Four net additional employees were included in the General Fund Budget – 2 communications technicians for Dispatch, 1 plan examiner and 1 permit clerk for Building Safety, and 1 part-time accounting clerk reclassified to full-time and 1 eliminated public information officer position.
- Water meter change-out program funded at $1.5M.
- Bear-Cart grant program.
- City Center Hilton Garden Inn, road improvements, restaurant, and retail establishments.
- Health Insurance Costs remained flat.
- Property and Casualty insurance increased 9%.
According to Apopka City Administrator Edward Bass, an estimated $5-6 million was cut from original requests by department heads in this budget, which represents approximately 10% of what was in the first draft, and only four out of 50 requests for new hires were granted.


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Expressive Art Therapies use a wide range of modalities in the service of human growth, development, and healing. Examples include: art (visual/digital arts), music, movement, dance, poetry, bibliotherapy, play, sand tray, drama, role-playing and storytelling. These therapeutic approaches are often used with individuals, couples, families, groups, and in community-based programs.
The Expressive Arts Special Interest Group provides a dynamic community for LA-CAMFT Members and Friends who identify as expressive art therapists. Our monthly meetings are a joyful laboratory of artistic expression in a safe space. We engage in hands-on experiences and open dialogue about the arts and the creative process in our personal journey and professional path. For scheduled events as well as cultural and social gatherings, please contact our chairs below.
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Gina Balit, LMFT, ATR, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Art Therapist. She works in a private practice setting in the San Fernando Valley. Gina has a deep and life-long love for children and art. She works solely with young children and specializes in children of divorce and abuse. She is bilingual in Armenian (western and eastern dialects). She has extensive experience in school-based settings. She has Domestic Violence certification and has worked with women and children individually and in groups in agency, shelter, and transitional home settings. She has also worked with autistic children and has provided home-based Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA).Gina is also a graphic designer and a "techie" who is passionate about providing freelance marketing/advertising and bookkeeping services. She values being a leadership position — she also serves on the board of SFV-CAMFT and Armenian American Mental Health Association (AAMHA). She holds a Bachelors degree from Cal State Northridge in Child and Adolescent Development with a minor in Graphic Design and a Masters degree in Psychology: Marriage and Family Therapy/Art Therapy. She is a forever coffee, blue, and Disney lover. Website: theartofmft.com.
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And yes I failed this test... What lessons I learned form this...? There are few things:
- I need a rest before test,
- Try to be optimist not pessimist,
- The most important thing is that I need practice writing code, just like John Resig writes in his blog post "Write Code Every Day".., I just can't have so many days without writing code....
Oh and here is the test question I have got (yes I know it is simple):
Implement function check(text) which checks whether brackets within text are correctly nested. You need to consider brackets of three kinds: (). {}, {}.Examples:
console.log( check("a(b)") );// = > true
console.log( check("[{}]") );// = >true
console.log( check("[(]") );// = > false
console.log( check("}{") );// => false
console.log( check("z([{}-()]{a})"));// => true
console.log( check("") );// = >true
And below I put my answer from today, when I just sit to this task relaxed...


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By LAMECH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
A JUDGE yesterday ordered the removal of the electronic monitoring device of a man whose acquittal on human trafficking charges is being challenged by the Crown.
Terrance Williams appeared before Justice Bernard Turner for a variation of the bail conditions that had been imposed last year while he awaited the conclusion of trial concerning the alleged trafficking and harbouring of five women for sexual exploitation in January 2015.
Williams, Michael Parilla, and Mariska Williams were cleared of nearly a dozen human trafficking related charges in Magistrate's Court in May when Magistrate Constance Delancy read the decision of then trial magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.
The prosecution had asked for a stay of the decision pending an appeal to the Court of Appeal.
Williams had filed an application to the Supreme Court for a variation of his bail conditions that would make it easier for him to travel.
In yesterday's hearing, prosecutor Viola Barnett had no objection to the removal of the electronic monitoring device but asked that the other conditions remain in place.
Justice Turner granted the application to remove the ankle bracelet and told Williams that if he wished to travel, he would have to seek the court's permission.
At trial, the five complainants did not appear to give evidence concerning the allegations against the three accused. However, their statements to police were allowed into the record through Section 66 of the Evidence Act, which gives the court the discretion to allow the statements of witnesses who are dead, cannot be found, or are too sick to testify into evidence.
The statements revealed that the five women knowingly came to the Bahamas to engage in exotic dancing but were not brought to the capital by the accused.
Though they claimed that they were not allowed to leave the apartment where they stayed unaccompanied, there were no claims of their passports being taken from them or being forced to have sex with anyone against their will.
The presiding trial magistrate had found that the Crown had not made out a sufficient case to warrant a conviction.
The three accused were represented by Tonique Lewis and Keith Seymour.
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One Nevada Credit Union (ONCU), formerly the Nevada Federal Credit Union, is a not-for-profit and member-owned financial organization committed to providing a comprehensive suite of financial services with an emphasis on environmental friendliness.
Historic Background:
What today stands as ONCU is, in fact, the child of two financial cooperatives begun in about a year apart in the early 1950s. The first, Vegas Air Base Federal Credit Union, began when nine civilians put $5 in to create a system for lending that quickly grew by leaps and bounds & there were 77 members by the end of the first year.
In downtown Las Vegas, at City Hall, seven workers created a similar financial cooperative that quickly grew to include 66 people. For more than three decades, the two organizations grew independently and added more services to meet the needs of their membership.
In 1983, the grown-up organizations that were born thirty years before & now named the Nellis Southern Nevada and Las Vegas City Employees Credit Unions, respectively & merged to form Nevada Federal Credit Union.
This combined membership meant many workers from the local hotels and employees from other state agencies were all banking under the same roof and, eventually, locations as far away as Reno could be served.
As a result of this dramatic expansion, the group changed its name to One Nevada Credit Union in 2011 to better reflect the wide range of people it services.
Products and Services:
The following products and services are being offered by the credit union:
Deposit Accounts
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With more than 80,000 members spread across 21 branches throughout the state of Nevada, you might imagine it's pretty important to keep tabs on all the goings-on, but ONCU does it in a unique way. Day-to-day operations are, as you would expect, overseen by a President that connects with employees at all levels.
What makes ONCU different is the fact the Board of Directors is completely volunteer-based. The executives who run each location are only permitted to advise the committee and are unable to serve on it. Each year, new board members are elected, bringing fresh ideas to the organization and helping it to continue to flourish.
Contact Details:
If you�d like to know more about ONCU, inquire by mail or phone at:
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I had so much fun playing around with the May kit! Now there are only bits and pieces left. So I decided to make a few cards. Here is the first one. Very simple, I just like the color combination.
This was based on CPS 215.
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"What drama? This is just me." -Hannah
"Exactly." -Adam
Things had been going so well for Hannah over the last few episodes that an inevitable fall was coming. Because we know how this show works, and how its main character operates, it was only a matter of time before Hannah would find a way to screw things up. As a result, much of "Role-Play" felt like watching an accident-prone cartoon character stumble through a minefield, holding our breath until the moment she blew everything up.
The episode was littered with deadly Hannah Horvath traps. Would she sleep with Joe from advertorial? Even if she didn't, would Adam be unhappy about her spending the night in some guy's apartment? Would Hannah in some way embarrass Adam by showing up at rehearsal?
Instead, nothing really went wrong – and this is the problem. Hannah needs drama in her life, or at least thinks she does, and when things are so perfect with Adam – both have jobs that make them happy, both have been conflict-free since Caroline left – it feels like a bad thing to her. And so (with counseling from Elijah, which is never a good idea) she sets about trying to "fix" something that isn't broke(*), and in the process breaks it very badly indeed.
(*) Of course, we learn near the end of the episode that Adam had already spoken to Ray about staying with him, so Hannah isn't entirely wrong to feel something is off in their relationship. She's still the one who chases Adam out the door, but Adam's the one who was already putting his "Major Barbara" coat on to leave.
Hannah's attempt at role-playing isn't as uncomfortable as some of the series' earliest Hannah/Adam sex scenes, or Adam's brief relationship with Natalia last year. Those were when Adam was in a bad place emotionally, and we've seen that he can be a very cruel sexual partner under those circumstances. Here, it's played more for laughs, as Hannah overdoes everything – even getting Adam punched by a good Samaritan – while Adam is mostly confused by what's happening, and briefly turns into a "Girls"-ified parody of "Nine 1/2 Weeks," but there's always a level of tension because it's clearly the activity that will prove Hannah's undoing, even if we don't know exactly when or how the back-breaking straw will come. (Ironically, it's when Hannah finally doesn't commit enough to the bit, changing characters in mid-stream to the understandable frustration of Serious Actor Adam Sackler.)
HBO isn't making the last two episodes available in advance, which means all sorts of crazy stuff could be happening, from a bad break-up to a death to Elijah turning out to be the Yellow King from "True Detective"(**). This could just be a bump in the road for these two, and Hannah doesn't explode the rest of her life along the way, but this could also be just the beginning of a downward spiral that will make last year's Q-tip misadventures feel hilarious and upbeat in comparison.
(**) A joke that will almost certainly be badly dated by the time this review (which I wrote on Friday) runs after the "True Detective" finale has aired.
Some other thoughts:
* Because the show is so Hannah-focused – and this season primarily dealing with her relationship with Adam – it can be difficult at times to do big character arcs for the other Girls. Marnie's journey to rock bottom, and attempt to climb back out – taking a job with Soo-Jin that she feels wildly overqualified for, and continuing to flirt with the extremely unavailable Desi – has gotten enough play to mostly work, but Jessa's been such an infrequent presence on the show since she left rehab that her fall off the wagon hasn't really worked as anything but a place to hang the occasional effective joke from Richard E. Grant or Jemima Kirke. And Shoshana continues to just barely hang onto the edge of the narrative, largely because Zosia Mamet is so funny when given almost anything to play, like Shosh's emotionally overwhelmed reaction to the mini-intervention she has orchestrated between Jasper and his daughter.
* That said, the most interesting thing about the intervention is on a Shoshana level, not a Jessa one. Does she set up an intervention only for Jasper because she thinks getting the old creep away from Jessa is the best thing for her, or does she care so little about Jessa at this point (for understandable reasons) that she's more invested in what happens to a friend she made online while dealing with Jessa's drama?
* There is nothing inherently wrong with a beanie for either warmth or fashion, and yet Marnie wearing one somehow made her seem more irritating than ever. A neat trick, that.
Finally, because I won't be seeing the last two episodes in advance, it may be a while before I'm able to review each of them, whether the next day or later in the week.
What did everybody else think?
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Suffolk: New Campaign To Keep Teens Safe in Relationships
7 March 2012, 15:04 | Updated: 7 March 2012, 15:08
Suffolk Police are backing a new campaign aimed at teenagers to keep them safe in relationships...
A hard-hitting campaign to prevent teenagers from becoming victims or perpetrators of rape is launched nationally today.
TV ads raising awareness of rape and sexual violence in teenage relationships will run on youth channels throughout March, followed by adverts on web and mobile channels.
The campaign is supported by a dedicated website www.direct.gov.uk/thisisabuse where teens can go to get advice and find information about organisations that can provide specialist help and advice.
Suffolk Constabulary is supporting the This Is Abuse campaign, with plans to work with schools across the county to drive home messages about abusive relationships.
Detective Superintendent Stuart Sedgwick, County Policing Command said: "There are many myths around rape and sexual violence in relationships and this campaign will help young people understand which is normal behaviour.
"If you have sex with someone who hasn't consented, or is incapable of consenting through drink or drugs, then this is rape - and young men need to be aware of the consequences."
The Home Office campaign, which runs throughout March and April, is targeting girls and boys aged 13 to 18.
Suffolk police aim to build upon this work by raising awareness of rape and sexual violence among young adults in a campaign to run later in the year.


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Kudos to Arun for his excellent posts on the Mumbai terror attacks. (Parts I, II and III here)
The Lok Sabha today passed the bills calling for the setting up of the National Investigative Agency (NIA) and the Amendment to the UAPA calling for tougher laws to tackle terrorism. Ironic how it took a 26/11 to get all this down. The downside to this, can be summed up by lines from Aldai Stevenson's famous speech, "The Nature of Patriotism" given in 1952;
"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to the freedom of mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism."
Aldai Stevenson then stated that the show of patriotism under that cloak is a phony. Then it was communism and today it is terrorism. The recent laws are witness to this.


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12-year-old Christian girl kidnapped and raped in Pakistan
A 12-year-old Christian girl from Sheikhupura in Pakistan was abducted from her homeabducted from her home raped by three men and burnt with cigarettes
The mother of the Mishal, the girl who was attacked, complained to police but no action was taken against the men accused. The police did not follow up the complaint. The mother has now appealed to the Chief Minister of Punjab to take notice of the case.
According to Christians in Pakistan, the phenomenon of girls from religious minorities being kidnapped, raped and even forced into Islamic marriage is endemic in Pakistan. According to some estimates this affects up to 1000 girls every year.


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The Other Custers: Tom, Boston, Nevin and Maggie in the Shadow of George Armstrong Custer, by Bill Yenne, Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2018, $26.99
Most historical figures, particularly those later glamorized in film and celebrated in popular culture, tend to be profiled as robustly independent characters, stand-alone entities distanced from family and other binding relationships that might have otherwise influenced, colored and shaped their personalities and fates. There has always been something romantically appealing about a person fighting adversarial conditions without benefit of support or allies. George Armstrong Custer has invariably been depicted in such a solitary fashion, the tableau of the "Boy General" surrounded by the faceless dead men of the 7th U.S. Cavalry being among the most iconic images of 19th-century Americana. It is the emblematic stuff of great myth and legend, albeit not a very accurate one.
Aside from questionable historical record concerning his Last Stand on June 25, 1876, what is often wrong about the Custer image is this notion of his lone wolf status, for quite the opposite was the case. Custer was in fact the epicenter of a large brood, the members of which largely immersed themselves in his universe, a reality acclaimed historian Bill Yenne explores in this highly entertaining and informative new work that explores his familial connections. Not only was Custer married to someone (Libby) who remained steadfastly at his side through most of his military career, but also Custer had three devoted brothers—Tom (himself a two-time Medal of Honor recipient), Boston and Nevin—the first two sharing his fate on the Little Bighorn, as did a brother-in-law and a nephew.
Yenne, whose earlier books include a 2009 biography of Sitting Bull, became fascinated by the extended Custer clan, noting, for example, how the brothers incongruously shared a strong penchant for practical jokes and were playing tricks on each other almost up until the time fate brought them together with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse on that Montana Territory battleground. He conducted tireless research to document the heretofore little-known personal histories of still other family members, all of whom had either gone unaddressed or been wholly lost beneath the all-encompassing shadow of their martyred relation. Yenne's research and documentation is as impressive as it is thorough.
Yenne also charted out the Custer line to its present and dwindling descendants, including George Armstrong Custer IV, who provides a winning forward. The Other Custers is a rewarding read on many levels, for both the Custer aficionado and anyone interested in how, as a culture, we mold and shape our legends and how, in the process, some people get left out of the mix.
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The December schedule features a few extra flights due to the holiday season. Flights in December will be on the 19, 22, 24, 26, 29, and 31st. The January and February schedule shows twice-weekly nonstop flights on Sundays and Thursdays. The schedule currently goes through early February, 2020, but as the weeks and months pass, they will continue to extend their schedule for booking.
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This is the first meal I had in years that I haven't planned myself. Chris has kindly agreed to take over the organising of our Friday date nights, so I can sit back and unwind a little from the week, before having to head into work for an 8 hour shift the next day. I've completely forgotten the excitement of walking into a restaurant, and having no idea what to expect. Ok well that's not completely true. I may not have planned this visit to 1000£ Bend, but it doesn't mean I haven't read about it plenty in the past.
The claim to this being one of the most unique spaces in Melbourne is justified. At first glance it seems to be a perfectly generic grungy cafe, but upon closer inspection it actually doubles as a bar.
|Warehouse At The Back
And an art gallery. And a warehouse cinema. And a place to hear everything from acoustic guitar to street opera. And there's pilates upstairs every Thursday.
1000£ Bend is popular with both impoverished students and the older crowd thanks to its laid back service and chillaxed atmosphere, where you're almost expected to linger over your coffee. And let's not forget the free Wi-Fi and board games. On a sunny Friday afternoon, the big warehouse space at the back is abandoned, with all the action happening at the front of house. It's loud, it's warm, and it's just a little bit boisterous thanks to the copious amounts of beer downed by the TGIF crowd.
The menu here is short and sweet; half of which are breakfast options, and the other half can be described as bar food with a twist. There are no beef burgers, only kangaroo or saganaki. There are no garden salads, only buckwheat noodles with marinated tofu. But it was the Share Plate for Two ($24) that caught our fancy that night.
|Share Platter for Two ($24)
Uh-huh. How good does it look?
The long rectangular plate was piled high with thick slices of chorizo, squeaky golden slabs of pan-fried saganaki, deli ham and olives and sundried tomatoes and peppers...
... and thin slices of feta, eggplant dip and some hommus, all topped off with a tangle of rocket.
Not to mention a whole bowl of lightly toasted and incredibly moreish fingers of sourdough. The highlights of the platter were definitely the juicy chorizo and the generous serve of salty saganaki. Everything else from the platter was pretty standard, the kind of stuff you could get from the Safeway deli. It was a perfect dinner for a warm Friday night, though towards the end the salt and oil began to get to us, and we longed for some greenery to cut through it all. Or a cold beer. Maybe that was their plan all along, those sneaky, clever people.
I don't know what it is about 1000£ Bend that made the experience so enjoyable. The food was good but not fabulous, the service is friendly but languid, we didn't manage to snag one of the comfortable couches, and by the time we left the music was verging on too loud. But despite all that (or is it because of all that), I had a great time there. It feels like the cool hang-out you've always wished for as a kid but never had.
Rating: 13.5/20 – 1000£ more than the sum of its parts


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a lovely cheap and friendly thai restaurant serving great food.
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Siam Garden is just over a ten minute walk from the very centre of Grantham and is in close proximity to the rail station, The Reel Cinema, Morrisons and Grantham bus station. You will find this authentic Thai restaurant on London Road, alongside establishments such as the Bombay Brasserie and Bindi Indian.
Visitors to Siam Garden embark on an authentic Thai experience from the moment that they arrive at the restaurant. The space has almost been directly imported from Thailand, giving it a relaxing and authentic feel. The walk up to the restaurant is impressive with a pond and a well maintained Oriental garden the sweeps up towards the entrance. Inside, the décor features golden Buddha's and bespoke wooden furniture. The walls are covered in authentic Thai paintings and prints and the dining room itself is packed with ornately folded napkins and cherry blossom.
Siam Garden obtain the very finest of ingredients direct from Thailand and also employ Thai staff, including highly trained chefs. On the menu you can expect to find many classic Thai dishes as well as a few unique combinations. For starters you can choose from a selection of meat or vegetarian options including Toong Tong; parcels of crispy filo pastry filled with minced chicken and prawns, and Poh Pia Jay; deep fried vegetarian spring rolls served with a sweet chilli sauce. You will, of course, find that the mains feature the delicious Kang Kiew Wannl Thai Green Curry with a choice of chicken, pork or beef, as well as a variety of other vegetarian and meat dishes.
Siam Garden Thai in Grantham is the place to visit if you are looking for an authentic Thai experience from start to finish. By immersing its guests in Thai décor and exquisitely cooked Thai food, Siam Garden are able to transport diners to Thailand for just a few hours and leave them wanting more.


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The tighter group has a patch that's .080 longer than the larger group
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Interesting. I really need to test some lengths on my patches. So far it's been guess and go.
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Where did you put the extra .080? More tail? More ogive?
The only amendment the Democrats support is the 5th.
I made them taller and closer to the ogive.
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I must say, the common wisdom is to patch no farther up the boolit than the ogive but some patched boolits I was given with a mold were patched way past and shot remarkably well.
I wonder if a tiny bit of patch past the ogive makes for a quicker patch release.
ian, can you show me the base of those two bullets in the same order?
Those bullets have been shot buy now but they are similar to this one
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Good Judgment comes from Experience, Experience comes from Bad Judgment !
The reason I asked was, if you raised the patch higher on the ogive that you might have exposed more of the base. But what you show there looks good.
I find keeping the patch right at the transition of the shank and the radius is where I get the best accuracy, but I see a difference in accuracy when the whole base of the bullet is covered, it falls off.
Those small dimples are right at the end of the shank where I hold the patch.
The thing is getting the alloy balanced so the bullet does not have to much obturation that the land cuts cut bare lead ahead of the patch destroying the accuracy.
Here are three bullets with different hardnesses. The first is good the second is almost to soft and the third is to hard and the chance that it will loose rotation.
When I patched up the bullet farther I made the patches longer to make up for it. I still might make them just a tad longer still. I am going to shoot the Shiloh into the pool tomorrow so we will see what happens and go from there
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Ian with the scores you shot at Atterbury, I don't think changing anything would be a good idea.
Long range rules, the rest drool.
Yea your right. I will still shoot it into the pool so that I will know what the bullet looks like when it's working properly at least
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. I will make a new thread this evening with more detailed notes of what all we tested but here are some more boolits that were shot into the pool. The bullet on the right was shot out of my c sharps highwall and the 2 on the left were out of the Shiloh. Like I suspected the Shiloh with its tighter bore was bumping up further than the highwall. We made the patches for the Shiloh another .040 long. Interesting to note before we started shooting the Shiloh I went to clean the oils out of it like usual and good bit of lead came out. So it looks like the .080 longer patches still are not long enough. We shot a few patches that were .040-.050 longer than the long patches that were shot previous and there was absolutely no leading. We also experimented on how much overlap on the base of the bullet was to much and that does seem to make a difference. The less overlap the better the bases seemed to be. I'll up load some more pictures and the results of yesterday's testing this evening.
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Any more testing on your patches ? I wanted to get a bunch of different patch configurations tested but too many obstacles so far. My patches with more overlap seemed to perform better at long range yesterday, but had other issues going on so wasnt a good test.
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This picture and the previous one with the three different alloy harnesses makes me think that nose slump may not be a real thing.
Surely it would show up shooting into a pool!
An optical comparator would sure be nice to look at the pre and post fired boolits.
They were fired into the pool at full load. The nose bump up on the softer bullets is much more pronounced. Maybe instead of calling it nose slump a more correct term would be nose setback
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Man at the variables we have to deal with to make these shoot! It's great to see the results from bullets that haven't been dug out of a berm.
What was your alloy for the "softer bullets"?
|Bronze Point
|Improved Military Rifle
|Bench Rest
|Round Nose
|Boat Tail
|Soft Point
|Compressed Charge
|Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
|Hollow Point
|Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt"
|Cartridge Overall Length
|Pointed Soft Point
|Spitzer Point
|Spitzer Boat Tail
|Lead Round Nose
|Lead Wad Cutter
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Legacy/Storage December 17, 2018 by Mussmann
December 17th, 2018
They all wanted to have a monument built to themselves
but the problem was not so easy to solve.
The monument required a hill—for it is said that
one needs to look up to the one that requires celebration.
Well then —if we could not find a hill what would we do?
Well then—people could get down on their knees.
hmmm? that was possible.
When Walt Disney died he asked to be
frozen—so he is lying around in some freezer
I don''t know.
Mickey Mouse is with him but not with him
the image of the mouse lives on and is making money to this
day—Mickey funds it all and we can't even draw
the mouse without paying some kind of royalty fee.
Yes Mickey is a perpetual cash cow.
It does not seem fair—
"FAIR" is not part our the language now
we are not permitted to say that word
since when?
the emperor declared the word "FAIR" to be
eliminated from the people's dialogue–
at the beginning the the era of Neo-Nero
sometime near the beginning of the 21st century
during the neo-civil war.
You see there was war declared but it was a war
without the usual signs….first skirmish was at the Bank
at the bank???
Yes at the bank.
First they sold people stuff they could not afford.
Then they took them to the cleaners and collected
it back so they could sell stuff again.
Then they took away the cash so every one needed
a card
and if you didn't have a card you could not have stuff
and if you could not get a card that meant you had
no cash and no ID
You were kind of in a state of non-existence
You know this sounds familiar.
No you think you know but this was the Neo-Nero era
kind of deal——sort of the results of
too much shopping first in stores then shopping moved
on the tv then shopping moved on line
then the shopping moved into the neighborhood
and people started to sell stuff like way beyond
Tupper-ware parties—it got so bad this shopping
biz that people became crowded out of their houses
and then they had to rent storage units to store the stuff
Yes stuff in storage
became the rage
People became more full
as time went on and
they had to get more storage
and more locks and keys
and more and more
Until what?
The landscape littered with box cars
Yes box cars everywhere—
even in back yards and any empty spaces
that were possible to put a storage unit and fill it with
people were more interested in acquiring stuff
than voting or reading the paper or watching tv
or talking to their children or or….
We were lost in the land of storage with no
hope and no future…we were full and at the same
time empty.
How did we get here—from legacy to storage?
It is never easy —these transitions.
Yes like magic
If you don't keep your eye on the rabbit and the hat
the sleight of hand can kill you.
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Open Access Bangladesh Celebrating International Open Access Week with full of enthusiasm. To reach Open Access movement to the mass people, OAB arranged an awareness talk-show in countries most popular Television Channel G-tv. It was about an hour long program where OAB President Monirul Islam Kanok and Vice-President MM Asadullah described about Open Access movement, its necessity to the country like Bangladesh and what to do for strengthening the movement.
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If there is one thing we should learn from its omnipresence in literature, it's that cheating is as common as muck. We can fear it (and what happily monogamous person doesn't?), but we might as well accept it – or at the very least try to understand how it works. Thankfully, we can do this by reading great works of fiction, which might save us the trouble of having to throw ourselves under a train when, invariably, it all goes wrong.Read more at The Globe and Mail
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Teresa Gonzales (Sociology) recently wrote a blog post in Everyday Sociology on a talk she gave to the Knox Chapter of UNICEF on the impacts of global gentrification on the lives of impoverished children.
"Planetary gentrification is closely linked to both global markets and global political arrangements that directly impact people at the local scale. It has therefore become a process that expands unequal power relations and exacerbates social isolation. Gentrification, at the local and the global level, goes hand in hand with poverty."


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Stay Positive In Life's Challenges
Looking for ways to transform your life around?
Many people wish to change the current condition of their life. Some of them as a result of incorrect choices while others just simply intend to transform for the better.
Whatever the factor, making changes to improve your life is required.
Doing things that result in a far better life can cause a good fortune, chances, and so on
Having claimed that, I'm most likely to help you alter your life.
In this post, I'll talk about various ideas on exactly how to live a much Zrii better life.
Just how to Boost the Life You're Living
There are various ways to transform the life you're living. You can alter the means you speak, talk, or the means you dress. These activities can make a massive distinction in your life.
However, making changes in your physical appearance will hardly influence the direction of your life. If you want genuine change, you require to take into consideration doing points that you're refraining from doing before.
It's likewise important for you to make changes psychologically. This is required to help alter your viewpoint in life. To give you an idea about this, here are some tips to totally turn your life around.
Eliminate your Bad Habits
If you want to live a far better life, you need to remove your bad habits.
You need to have a significant commitment to this issue because it's a significant consider the adjustment that you're intending.
Changing your practices and also getting rid of the poor ones will call for a significant quantity of self-control. If you have self-discipline, transforming your life comes to be a tad easier. You'll be more open to adjustments and your mind will find it much easier to adjust to the changes.
Along with that, changing your habits calls for preparation and commitment. It can take months before you can fully remove your bad habits so do not place excessive stress on yourself. Provide yourself time. You can not alter overnight: it's a procedure. The faster you find out to accept this, the much better.
Try eliminating one bad habit each time. This makes it less complicated to make the changes since it will not give your mind a tough time adapting to the adjustments.
With that said claimed, intend your activities. There are a number of mobile applications that can help you take care of or remind you of your tasks. Also, think about getting assistance or support from your buddies or family.
Modification the Method You Talk
Altering the way you speak your mind is very important, especially if you're understood for using vulgar language or profanity.
The method you speak to others determines the way you develop links with them. This can impact your connections with individuals around you.
Bear in mind that not all people can endure foul language. Lots of people get angered easily whenever they hear you swearing or making use of unacceptable words in your discussion.
Swearing a great deal or using swear word likewise attracts negative feelings. Individuals may really feel negative whenever you're around. This can impede any type of success, possibilities, or progression in your life.
Instead of speaking words that may anger other people, concentrate on saying words that will certainly make them feel great. Utilize the proper introductions as well as discover how to give favorable or good praises.
Begin Living Healthy
Healthy living implies you will start eating the appropriate food and also doing the right workout. Doing this might take some time. That's why it's advisable to do it with the help of a health and wellness monitoring firm like Zrii. You could consider making use of Zrii business as a waste of time so I tried to find the best review on them on the Internet. So if you're still anxious Zrii is a scam, visit this site to learn.
Besides that, starting a healthy and balanced living enables your body to have a good cycle. It helps you have actually an enhanced metabolic process as well as better sleeping cycle.
Do Other Relaxing Tasks
It is essential for you to appreciate on your own by doing relaxing tasks. This can aid you to have a different viewpoint on life.
There is a great deal of relaxing tasks that you can do such as paying attention to kicking back songs and meditating.
Listening to slow down and kicking back songs soothes your mind and body. Generally, your body represents the beat of the songs you're listening. For example, you're paying attention to slow down tempo music, your heartbeat additionally decreases and also this can release tension that you're feeling.
Other than that, reflection and paying attention to music can help in clearing the issues that you're believing. It diverts your interest to another thing.
Constantly Love Yourself
Caring yourself is one of the most effective ways to live a far better life. Doing this helps you appreciate your own much more. Likewise, this can stop you from having emotional problems such as anxiety or anxiety.
Concentrate on the facets that you enjoy concerning yourself. Spend even more time to appreciate it because it aids in relaxing your mind. Aside from that, it can also help you have a different perspective on life.
If you feel favorable concerning on your own, it's more likely that individuals around you could really feel the same way. You can illuminate an area if your personality is just filled with positivity.
Last Ideas on Just How to Live a Better Life
Living a much better life is much easier said than done. However, if you're dedicated to it, every little thing will certainly go smoothly.
With that in mind, be dedicated to what you're doing. Dedicate yourself so you can attain the modification that you're really hoping.
Convince yourself that you can have a better life if you select to.
If you have much more questions on exactly how to live a far better life, leave them in the remarks below. Click here!
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Control Vs Out of Control
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- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2013 at 6:20 PM
Good on your for your pizza victory! Give yourself a bow!ReplyDelete
I agree with you on those pictures at the end of your post....it seems like the picture on the left just doesn't work with the text.ReplyDelete
haha & that women eating the pizza...wow.
Nice NSV! Hope Sassy is feeling better soon! :}
GREAT JOB!!! I totally understand about eating the kids leftovers I fight that temptation all the time. Keep it going :)ReplyDelete
Way to go, I think it's a huge nsv.:)ReplyDelete
Thank you for your kind comment on my blog. I love yours. Congratulations on your NSV!ReplyDelete
I totally understand trigger foods. In college, late night munchies was my weakness. My boyfriend and I could literally polish off an entire order of pizza, wings and bread sticks..... Good for you for controlling yourself and knowing your triggers.
Good luck with everything! I think the US is actually being a bit more healthy in terms of what they think is beautiful. Strong and athletic is considered sexy now to whereas in Taiwan, they want people to be bone thin with ZERO muscle tone because it looks "manly." It took me a long time to be at peace with the fact that my bone structure is never going to be stick-thin.
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OMG what a champ to put it in the garbage! I swear I had some many bites like that as a nanny and even now as an aunt. Ugh! Glad you could sufficiently kick that in the ass!ReplyDelete


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Belleville Silo Theatre Review
Belleville from Silo Theatre opened last night to a captivated enthralled audience. Amy Herzog's play is a personal and intrusive look at a relationship in decay. It's a white knuckle ride of theatre with tension that had me holding my breath, and shaking with adrenaline after the dramatic finale.
Feeling a little claustrophobic in the second row of the Herald Theatre, we were thrust into the apartment of American couple Zack and Abby in Belleville, Paris.
The play opens by showing us that all was not well in this young couples marriage. Abbey returns home from a shopping spree to find her husband, who she expects to be at work, having some alone time with his laptop! This incident in itself only caused a small quarrel, however upon attempting to repair this masturbation misdemeanour the real drama starts to unravel. The plot begins to deepen when landlord Alioune visits to 'smoke a bowl' with Zack, and we realise that Zack is not quite who he says he is.
The tension that builds over the hour and a half play really took me by surprise. The first sighting of a menacing knife makes you shiver with fear, even when you're not quite sure why? Watching this couple gradually slip deeper into lies, secrets and paranoia is a captivating and thrilling experience. The excellent script allows for some extra long silences, and off stage sound affects that all add to the electric atmosphere of emotionally charged theatre.
Tawanda Manyimo and Karima Madut play landlord's Alioune and Amina. Manyimo is ultimately the good guy, who acts as the perfect supporting role to Zacks secrets. The wonderfully awkward scene between Abby and Alioune is perfectly played, and will make you squirm in your seat. Madut's role allows Abbey and Zack to hold a mirror up to their lives. Her disapproving stares intimidate them, but ultimately she conveys sorrow. With their shared dialogue spoken in French, they have to infer more with their performances, and their sadness echoes silently and subtly.
Sophie Henderson and Matt Whelan are outstanding as leads Abbey and Zack. I was totally bewitched by them. In what must be an exhausting play to perform, they both gave five star performances.
Henderson's Abbey is a vulnerable, emotionally volatile 'fish out of water' type, who desperately wants to be happy. This is a challenging role with underlying paranoia and anxiety. Henderson gives a honest and raw portrait of a damaged woman struggling to ignore what's right in front of her. Her drunken scene will leave you wincing but transfixed. A brilliantly brave laid bare performance.
Whelan transforms from a fun loving, pot smoking all round nice guy, to a terrifying 'Jack Nicholson in The Shining' character. His ability to jump between the self he shows Abbey, and the real him, is addictive to watch as he slowly unravels, and ultimately implodes. A powerful and wonderfully frightening portrayal of a man collapsed by his own lies.
The stage direction is excellent, with the actors always on stage they cleverly allow for time lapse and scene changes by only dimming lights and adding moody and sometimes uncomfortable sound.
I loved the set that showed the whole apartment to the audience, this evoked a proper fly on the wall voyeuristic feeling. There were only a few doors blocking the action allowing the actors to go out of sight momentarily. Graffiti painted walls help make the environment slightly grim, dim and creepy.
I was wonderfully unnerved by this intense atmospheric thriller. An exhilarating production that will draw you in, and keep you there long after the curtain call.
Belleville is on at the Herald Theatre until 20 September.
Reviewed by Ingrid Grenar


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15 November 2018
Somewhat unknown to us in Europe, but for the locals of Jumbo glacier and those living in the area, the question of this "resort" no matter what side you are on, is everything. The development plans for this resort for some mean innovation, jobs and expansion and for other it means the destruction of the environment and native land. Thrillism wants to bring the story from both sides to you.
So for those who may be wondering, what is Jumbo Mountain? Jumbo mountain is an area in East Kootenay in southeast British Columbia, Canada. Situated approximately 55 km west of Invermere, close to the Commander Glacier and around the headwaters of Jumbo Creek. Jumbo Mountain is in the Purcell Range of the Columbia Mountains. The area is recognised as a holy place for natives Canadians and land that has brought spiritual fulfilment to those who worship the area and for others, it means the last semblance of the wild.
The story of Jumbo mountain told from the perspective of preservation was told on Netflix by Patagonia and friends in the documentary "Jumbo Wild", this brought the story into the limelight for the rest of the world. It told the story of Tommaso Oberti and the architects at Pheidias Group. Their plans were to build a resort in the area and what a detriment it would be. However, for us to be able to retell this story that holds so much importance for the subjects and the people in involved, we must tell the story from both sides, something the documentary did not.
Every story has two sides which is why we wanted to reach out to the charity spearheading the campaign to protect the area, unweaving in their dedication and passion for nature and the dying concept of "Wild Canada". Equally for Tommaso who recognised potential, innovation and promise in the area by building a resort that brings jobs, tourism and investment to the valley.
Let's dive right in, reserving judgment until hearing from both sides, we spoke to Tommaso Oberti.
Q.1 Introduce yourself a little- Are you a lifetime lover of the mountains and Skiing?
Absolutely! I began skiing when I was 4 years old and I fondly remember family trips to Banff, Lake Louise, Jackson Hole, and to the Italian Alps when I was a child. Even though I was little, I still remember the first time I ascended the Summit Platter at Lake Louise and I remember being struck by the awesome views of the Rockies and the exhilaration of being on top of a mountain. I was fortunate to experience many ski areas around Western Canada, as well as summer training on the glaciers of Passo Stelvio (Italy) and Les Deux Alpes (France). It was there that I marvelled at the experience of summer skiing and wondered why we couldn't do the same in Canada.
Q.2 Why Jumbo Glacier, what motivated you to embark upon a project like this. Did the land inspire you, why in that particular area of BC?
It was my father's discovery. He grew up at the foot of the Alps in Italy and was also a ski racer. He skied for Ski Club Courmayeur Monte Bianco (which originated in 1912) and he has a deep love for the mountains. Once he settled in Canada he became an architect and he was hired as by a Japanese company in the early 1990s to build a resort. His mandate was to find the best location for a resort in North America. Being a lover of mountains and recognizing that there is no lift access in North America where one can access high elevation glaciers for sightseeing and snowsports, his company set out to find the best location for such access on the continent.
The criteria was to find a location with the best climate for snowsports, access to glaciers and beautiful sightseeing, large vertical drops, and reasonable road/logistical access. They narrowed down the search to three locations in British Columbia and chose the upper Jumbo Valley as the ideal place based on the above criteria. These mountains are amongst the best in the world for skiing. They are where heli-skiing was born.
They are at the right latitude, have ideal vertical drops (from 3,500m to 1,200m), impressively abundant snow, many glaciers, and they are not subject to the cold arctic outflow winds of the Rocky Mountains from the North nor the warm Chinook winds from the South. Unlike, for example, Colorado, the valley bottoms are low enough to be comfortable for visitors from low elevations (where the majority of people in the world live) and unlike the mountains that are closer to the Pacific Ocean, their bottom elevations are above the natural snow line and the snow quality is dry and light. Finally, the views of Jumbo Glacier calving into the beautiful Lake of the Hanging Glacier are absolutely spectacular – unlike anything else in North America.
The resort site has a bottom elevation 1,750m and the upper Jumbo Valley is U-shaped and provides access to four large glaciers up to 3,420m in elevation. These glaciers are Glacier Dome, Jumbo Glacier, Commander Glacier and Farnham Glacier. Equally important was that the Jumbo Valley was previously disturbed. It had a large mine operating at its entrance for over 50 years, had been extensively logged, and was a popular heli-skiing, hiking, snowmobiling and back-country skiing destination with good road access. It is an ideal location for a mountain resort.
Q.3 What a project, how, after all the years of contention, did you stay motivated? Surely at some points, with so much controversy, you thought about abolishing plans?
For four reasons: first, as architects and professionals, we are obligated to serve our clients. They have invested a significant amount of money in the project and it is not right for us to walk away from them because there are challenges to overcome. Second, the government until now has only ever encouraged the project despite many instances where the bureaucracy attempted to stall it. The project was declared "in the public interest" and the courts have always sided with it. It has won six cases, including an important decision by the Supreme Court of Canada.
We've always believed that in the end justice will prevail as there are many misconceptions and untruths espoused by some project opponents. Third, it has an approved Master Development Agreement with the Province. It was an extremely difficult approval to obtain and took many years of dedicated work. There is tremendous value in that approval, which is very unlikely to be duplicated in the near future so it would be unwise to walk away. Fourth, it is a unique and amazing project – unlike anything else in North America. While some may see my father and our team as stubborn, his (and our) dedication is driven by a passion for these mountains and the desire to provide access to them to the average person.
Q.4 What will be different about this resort? Ie, the sheer scope of the surrounding landscape?
Access to high-elevation glaciers for year-round snowsports combined with absolutely stunning sightseeing and an ideal climate. What is particularly special are the views of the Lake of the Hanging Glacier. There is nothing like it in terms of snowsports or sightseeing presently in North America.
Q.5 Preservation-wise, what benefits will the resort bring to the ecosystem, the environment etc.
The project is subject to the most stringent environmental management obligations of any resort (and most industrial projects) in Canada. They are designed to produce a "no-net-effect" on the environment. This is unique amongst approved resorts in North America. Because of it, a huge conservation area exists around the resort. What many people don't realize is that Grizzly Bear hunting has been permitted until recently (now only indigenous hunters are permitted) and in our estimation about 80-90 Grizzly Bears have been killed for sport in the Central Purcell Grizzly Bear Unit (CPGBU) area (where the resort is located) since the resort was first proposed. In terms of habitat, the resort impacts less than 3% of the Grizzly Bear habitat in the CPGBU. It also provides a unique opportunity for public education not only through its conservation methods but also via interpretive experiences of botany, wildlife and glaciology at high elevations.
Q.6 What will the development bring to the community from build, establishment to opening?
Certainly, there will be significant long-term direct economic benefits to nearby communities in terms of jobs and the need for equipment, materials and services, but less obvious are the indirect economic benefits of having a truly world-class destination in the region. One example is Panorama Resort, located 36km away, which will benefit from increased visitors who will make use of their accommodations and services, especially in the early stages of the project, before such services and accommodations are available at Jumbo Glacier Resort.
Q.7 Finally, how long will the project take? And will we get tickets to opening day?
Heh! I'm sure you will! The plan is for a 20-year build-out. Construction has started but is now stopped due to court proceedings. At this time, it is unknown when construction will resume.
Tommaso has expressed passion and commitment to the project, this dedication is paralleled to that demonstrated by those trying to preserve the area. Let's hear from them. . . .
We spoke to Wildsight, the charity championing the preservation of the area.
Q.1 Introduce yourselves a little- Are you lifetime lovers of the mountains and Skiing?
My name is Robyn Duncan. I grew up in Kimberley and have been a lover of mountains and skiing since an early age. I work for Wildsight, which is a conservation organization based in the Columbia Basin region of British Columbia. We work to protect wildlife, clean water and wilderness and to inspire a love of this place. Mountains are part of what makes this place home, not only to us but for the wildlife species like grizzly bears, wolverines and elk.
Q.2 As fellow mountain lovers, why were the plans for this resort so heartbreaking for those against the plans? How did it all start, why is Jumbo Glacier different to any other areas in that part of BC?
The Jumbo Valley is in the Purcell Mountains, between two stunning wilderness areas, the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy and Bugaboo Provincial Park. The proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort poses a significant risk to the grizzly bear population of the Columbia Mountains - the large footprint of the resort would fragment an international wildlife corridor. The ski resort was proposed 51km from the nearest down up a rough, logging road. The Kootenay region boasts a number of world-renowned ski areas - we do not need another one in the heart of the wilderness.
Q.3 What importance and reverence does the valley hold for the Natives Canadians?
The Ktunaxa, have lived in their territory since time immemorial and have a deep spiritual connection to the animal world and, in particular, to the grizzly bear. Qat'muk is a very special place where the Grizzly Bear Spirit was born, goes to heal itself, and returns to the spirit world. The Grizzly Bear Spirit is an important source of guidance, strength, protection and spirituality for the Ktunaxa. Qat'muk's importance for the Grizzly Bear Spirit is inextricably interlinked with its importance for living grizzly bears now and in the future. The Ktunaxa have a stewardship obligation and duty to the Grizzly Bear Spirit and Qat'muk.
Q.4 Since the supreme court ruling, what does this mean for those against the plans? Has this rallied the troops so to speak so will some regrouping be needed or rather, will the protests cease?
The Supreme Court ruling was very disappointing. But it didn't in any way approve the resort. The Jumbo Glacier Resort's Environmental Certificate was cancelled by the BC government after they failed to substantially commence development in 10 years. Without that environmental assessment, they cannot proceed. They challenged this decision in court - we intervened in the case and it is still being heard in the BC court.
Our communities have been opposing this resort since it was first proposed in 1991 and we remain committed to continuing the fight to keep Jumbo Wild.
Which side do you feel kindred too? Do you see the expectation and excitement for the project or do you worry about the environmental repercussions? Where you stand the story of Jumbo mountain is a story all adventure lovers must know about.
No matter the side you stand with, all adventurers, lovers of mountains and snow, must take time to think about the bigger picture. How our actions, our desires to explore and seek the unknown has a story. How did the resorts and the infrastructure get her, what did that mean for the land? All our actions have a footprint and everything we leave a trail. To be conscientious is to understand how to best benefit those people and environment around- both concepts are open to discussion, subjective in their nature. Be smart, be knowledgeable, be pensive and be kind. . . .
Do you have any thoughts? If you have any questions if you want to know more find all the resources below. Otherwise email us at email@example.com or message us on social media.
WildSight Website
Keep It Wild Website
Jumbo Wild Trailer
Pheidias Website
Oberti Resort
Jumbo Glacier Resort Website
We would like to thank Tommaso Oberti, Vice President of Pheidias Group and Robyn Duncan, Executive Director of Wildsight for taking their time to offer their insight and sharing their story with us.
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STEEL PANTHER Frontman Interviewed On Australia's 'Rock Of Ages' (Audio)
Vocalist Michael Starr of the outrageous and popular '80s-style "hair" band STEEL PANTHER was interviewed on the "Rock Of Ages" show with host Dave Gleeson on Australia's long-running rock station Triple M. You can now listen to the chat below.
Featuring Michael Starr (real name Ralph Saenz; ex-L.A. GUNS), drummer Stix Zadinia, bassist Lexxi Foxxx, and guitarist Satchel (real name Russ Parrish; ex-FIGHT), STEEL PANTHER (formerly known as METAL SKOOL) is a parody heavy metal band from Los Angeles, known for its profane and humorous lyrics. The group's over-the-top live performances have attracted celebrities and fans alike, and in February 2009 the band succeeded in becoming one of the most popular cover bands in California, winning the contest of "Best Tribute Band in the Universe"." The band's first album, entitled "Feel the Steel", was released in 2009.