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OKLAHOMA - An Oklahoma woman is on a mission inspired by a message at church and her own child's birthday.
"She does this every lunch break," Stephanie Smith said. " Every time off work."
Stephanie Smith and other coworkers of Natalie Kinsey take notice.
"Every minute of every day is trying to help others," Smith said. "Then she found out about these kids who are in the shelter not by their choice or their mother's choice. They're in a rough situation."
It is a situation Natalie has never been in herself.
For her, seeing what some women and children go through is eye opening, and it has opened her heart, as well.
"She felt the need that these kids needed some kind of normalcy in their life," Smith said.
Often women and children are ripped from their homes, fleeing abuse and sometimes hiding for their lives in women's shelters.
The locations of shelters are confidential. Victims are isolated for their own safety and from even the most basic of things like birthdays.
So, with the help of her church family and friends, Natalie throws parties for those children, giving them a brief escape from a reality no child should have to endure.
"She bought their presents and would do all these parties," Smith said. "That's why I nominated her."
Along with First Fidelity Bank and NewsChannel 4, Smith paid it 4Ward to Natalie.
"Natalie, NewsChannel Four has a program called Pay It Forward, and I've been watching everything that you've been doing for all the kids at the shelter, and I'm so proud of you. And so on behalf of NewsChannel Four and First Fidelity Bank here's four hundred dollars," Smith said.
"We have a party for a little boy who's turning eight, and there are actually two moms who are celebrating a birthday, and we've never done birthdays for the moms and included them so this will be really nice. I'm going today at lunch to actually pick up food for the party," Natalie said. "It started a little over a year ago. I was in church and our pastor talked to us about ways we could reach out into the community. It just kind of came to me. When I was doing my daughter's birthday there are probably kids who don't have birthdays."
Natalie searched for women's shelters and stumbled upon the Women's Resource Center for Domestic Violence in Cleveland County. She's been volunteering ever since.
"I just googled women's shelter, because I thought moms are going to be the ones who have the kids," she said. "I reached out and they said they'd been looking for someone for three years."
It is a need that is finally met, and now Natalie is helping meet needs that many of us might even give a second thought, not only for children but now for their mothers, too.
"One needed a curling iron. I mean something as simple as a straightener for your hair she didn't have," Natalie said. "It's just so rewarding."
Click here if you'd like to help.
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Before anyone gets all excited about signalling to space I suggest that we pause for a moment and examine the signal we are unintentionally sending… as our world and the state of its atmosphere and remaining ecologies. This signal belies warm welcome and the self-esteem apparent in our other signals, which are, indeed, effectively lies. We are not friendly to other intelligences. We are not friendly to our own. We are not even friendly to our world. At all. We despise life and are xenophobic. By all accounts of action and history, we prefer dead terrain and machines. Almost invariably. As a species. 24/7/365. We are sending this signal harder and in new ways — with each 60 seconds that pass. And ramifying… relationally and ecologically… like mad.
The resulting message which is about as clear as lightning, is something like this: we will slaughter you for sport and luxury — and value little chunks of object-garbage more than oceans, (our own lives, societies, intelligence, and so on)… life on earth, liberty, truth, sentience, or… anything… actually.
Until everything is either dead, war, little dolls and info-tchotchkes… or all machines.
Right now. Total obliteration masquerading as… what? Sentience? Intelligence? Engineering disease?
To whom do you suppose that this incredible signal is invisible? Seriously? Who? A space-faring species? Really!?
Now let me propose a second vector of analysis. Suppose that there are alien intelligences observing or interested in Earth. Do you think they would listen to the signals we send from and with machines into space or the signals our minds, cultures, lives, and activities directly comprise?
I mean, don't you think that they can read worlds like you read this message?
Which signal would you prefer?
Which signal is true?
Which one can you trust?
Which one cannot hide anything no matter what the purported intention is stated to be?
The signal they listen to is the True Signal. The ways the atmosphere interacts with forces like light and… others of which we are not even formally aware.
The real signal of every sentient species is its relationship with life (other intelligences) and its own developmental potential. As a species becomes technological, this signal grows to include the nature of its interactions with the atmospheric envelope of their world (in our case, Earth). This is, effectively, something like the organs of a cell interacting with its membrane, and this activity is 'transmissible' by light.
This is the fundamental and only necessary signalling medium for every intelligent species in all of space:|:time. There is, unfortunately, another kind of species. These destroy living worlds. And, invariably, will be found signalling about peace and intelligence… with machines.
Welcome to the method with which one contacts alien intelligence: our relationship with living symmetries. And that would be: Nature on Earth. Or the shreds that remain.
That is the 'medium' that is the source and future of our own, should we care to develop any.


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The cross trainer is the staple cardio equipment of most gyms along with the treadmill but it differs from the treadmill on one key aspect- it is low impact and therefore great for your knees and joints. Here are a few ways to make your cross-trainer workout more efficient in terms of calories burned.
Use HIIT training
High intensity Interval Training or HIIT has been a rage with fitness professionals and users as it enables you to burn more calories in a quick span of time. And its very ease to incorporate into your routine. Work for one minute at a normal speed and the sprint for the next minute. You can make this even more challenging by reducing the duration of your active recovery or the period where you are working at your normal speed. You can also do this by simply varying the resistance that you are working at between a high resistance and a low one. Auro trainer Jane Wake has developed some great interval based classes for all levels.
Add variety by reversing your movement or using just your legs
Most people use the cross trainer the same way every-time they workout which is forward and using their hands. Try mixing up your workouts by reversing your motion with your legs or by letting go off your hands which will work your quads, glutes and legs even more. You can also alternate between forward and backward like in the Work those Glutes workout from Jane Wake on Auro.
Play around with your resistance
If you don't fancy HIIT or adding variety through changing your motion, you can simply get a more intense workout by just increasing the resistance you train at. Increasing the incline will make your legs and glutes work harder and therefor help you burn more calories.
Don't forget to use your upper body
One of the great things about the cross trainer is that you can use pushing and pulling hand movements in your workout to get a more fully body workout than just working out your lower body. You can do intervals of 30 or 60 seconds where you alternate between pushing and pulling hand movements to work those shoulders and arms and lateral muscle groups.


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Many people snore, but because they feel as if they cannot do anything about it; they live with the problem. If you or your partner have had enough of snoring, keep reading. This article is packed with useful tips and ideas for putting an end to snoring.
If you are a smoker and you snore, you may want to consider quitting smoking. Smoking irritates the tissues of your throat, which leads to swelling. Swelling in the throat is one of the major causes of snoring.
Making "fish faces" can help to eliminate snoring. While it sounds odd, positioning your face like this can improve the muscle tone in your face and throat. Simply suck in your cheeks with your mouth closed. Pucker up like a fish! Do this exercise several times every day.
To prevent snoring, make sure your nasal passages are open. A clogged nose, or one that is otherwise constricted, may contribute to snoring. Increase the humidity of the air entering your nose by using a humidifier or a steam shower to humidify the environment, or vapor rub to help your body, when your nose is plugged. Nasal strips are another good option. These lift your nose open and let more air in.
If allergies or other conditions are causing congestion, you are more prone to snoring. Congestion constricts the airways, which in turn, causes snoring. One way to fight this is, to take decongestant medicine before going to bed so you can get more of a relaxing night of sleep.
Nasal strips can help limit snoring. These strips resemble a Band-Aid. However, they function much differently than a Band-Aid. These strips are specially designed to open nasal passages. You will be better able to breath with your nose and it can greatly decrease your snoring.
Obese people are much more likely to snore, especially if they have a lot of extra fat around their neck. The snoring is worse due to the extra fat around their windpipes. If you're overweight, try to lose a few pounds. You will not only feel and look better, but you will sleep better too.
A decrease in snoring is just one more reason to quit smoking. If you find it difficult to give up smoking, you can enjoy some benefits by avoiding tobacco for the few hours before bed. Smoking causes inflammation and swelling in your throat, which narrows your airway. Narrow airways create more snoring; therefore, by eliminating smoking you will not snore.
A great way to keep yourself from snoring is to ask your pharmacist for an over-the-counter anti-snoring remedy. You could get prescription medication for snoring but if you find one that works at your local pharmacy, it will be less expensive. Many of these medications will reduce swelling, and therefore help with your snoring problem.
Sliding your tongue behind your upper front teeth can be a good exercise to try to cut your snoring to a minimum. Slide your tongue toward the back of your mouth and bring it back to the front for about three minutes. Exercising your tongue muscles keeps your airways open and cuts the chance of snoring.
If you are overweight, losing weight will likely make a difference in your snoring. Extra body fat in the neck increases the pressure on your throat and windpipe. This causes your airways to partially collapse during the night. The loss of even a few pounds of this extra pressure could make a huge difference.
Certain kinds of exercise can help to reduce or prevent snoring. Up to a half hour per day spent exercising your throat muscles can protect these muscles from collapsing while you sleep. Throat exercises may include repeating vowel sounds, as well as curling the tongue. The strength you gain in the upper respiratory system can lessen weakness that can be a cause of snoring.
Consider whether or not internal nasal dilators might help your snoring. Although not many people use their noses to snore, it does happen. Nasal dilators are designed and manufactured for nasal passage insertion, so they can maintain open space. This can help those who snore.
If you have a partner who snores, consider going to sleep earlier than your partner. That way, you raise your chance of being asleep, and staying asleep, by the time they begin their noises. If you sleep lightly, this still may not work, but it's worth trying.
One way to minimize your snoring is to not consume any dairy products in the hours before you sleep. Eating dairy products can produce mucus, which in turn, causes you to snore. Drink a tall glass of water or enjoy an apple instead.
A problem many snorers often ignore is the toll it takes on their relationship with a partner or spouse. If left unchecked, your snoring may drive your partner from your bed! This sort of stress on a relationship is unhealthy; consider your significant other's feelings as well as your own health and consult a physician about getting your snoring under control.
Now that you've learned what you can do to get rid of some of the snoring you commit during sleep, you should start to feel like you can truly change the way you sleep. Go ahead and use all the information you learned from this article, and see what you can change about the way you sleep.


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Last September 6, New York hosts the awards ceremony of the Pentawards Awards 2018. Created in January 2007, the Pentawards are recognised as the most prestigious worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design. The awards measures worldwide packaging design for more than a decade.
This year, ELISAVA has been once again recognized by Pentawards. On this occasion, with the Projects of the Master's Degree in Packaging Design 'El bosque de la Vall', by Pablo Berges, Endika Gómez and Sofia Cuba; and 'Listerine', by Irina Altuna, Camila Robayo and Alejandra Amusquívar. Both projects have received a Bronze Pentawards.


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It was my second time meeting with Allan and it was a blast, we've had some laughs and introduced some structure thanks to his initiative. I'm definitely improving my Danish with Allan and I'm very glad to be helping him with Polish. Swapping is a rewarding experience, especially if repeated :)
had a great time with Allan, good mix of educational and fun!
Agnieszka has been my Swapper for a long time now, and every time is a pleasure! Her Danish has really improved during our Swaps!
We met at the library, and it was super nice to practice my self-studied Polish. Jedrek is very laid back and easy to get along with. He's very patient and good at correcting my many mistakes! And his Danish is superb!
The meeting with Allan was both fun and very useful. You can never really practice a lenguage until you talk with a native speaker...
Ankita is attentive and well prepared. She is also a very varm person which makes the course very cozy.
Benjamin is probably the most positive teacher you'll ever have. I'm a total beginner and thanks tp his patience and structured teaching I'm slowly easing into the Danish language :) 100 recommend!
Danish could be a tricky language, but learning it with Nichlas was a completely different experience. His way of teaching is engaging and immersive. By the end of my first lesson I was confident that if I chose to hitchhike across Denmark, I would have no problems whatsoever. Thanks, Nichlas!
Lluís is a great teacher! He thought me all the vocabulary that people really use and not just the formal forms of verbs and phrases. We also had a small role-playing game during which I could feel like I was really checking in for a flight in Madrid. Lluís is also good at explaining grammar - he answered all my tricky questions and doubts.


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I needed to connect with another TeamViewer user and we couldn't make the connection from either site. I have version 11 and she has version 12.Are these two versions truly incompatible with each other? We've connected in the past and I don't think either of us has updated out TeamViewer version since then.
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Finding information about the backgrounds of parliamentary candidates is not the simplest of tasks. Luckily, research on this sort of rare data has already been made. In this text, Veera Voutilainen returns to the theme of the Institute's discussion event of 9 April in the Finnish Parliament, and draws together work comparing socio-demographic data of MPs from the UK and Finland.
Only a couple of weeks apart from the UK's upcoming election of 7 May, Finland held general elections, too. On Sunday 19 April Finns made their way to the polling stations, and voted the Centre Party – known for its conservative values – to victory. The eurosceptic, anti-immigration Finns Party – formerly known as the True Finns – got placed second.
This Spring really makes us think about whether we should all be interested in knowing more about people who represent us – and why. Dr Jennifer Hudson, researcher in political behaviour, points out that the question brings us back to some of our very fundamental rights.
"I think it's a basic question of democracy that you know who the people standing for parliamentary representatives might be", she says.
Hudson is currently working on an ambitious joint project between Birkbeck, University of London and University College London, along with her colleague Dr Rosie Campbell. Their team has investigated biographical, socio-demographic and electoral data on candidates and MPs over an extensive period of time: from 1945 to 2015. The aim of the project is to open a wide amount of data for anyone to explore.
Sadly, there's nothing new about the growth in lack of trust and disengagement among citizens around politics: according to Hudson, a feeling of alienation of an average person from the political class has overshadowed British politics for the last 25 years. But what if people knew more about the ones who wish to represent them?
Increasing diversity
"I think what's important is having increased diversity – in terms of what it signals to the electors", Hudson says. Indeed, the collected socio-demographic data exploring age, gender and ethnic background does show increasing diversity among the candidates in the British general elections.
"We're starting from a much higher base in terms of the candidates available that come from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds," she says. "There's some real differences across the parties: Conservatives have selected 14 percent candidates from BME backgrounds. That's a real effort from the party to widen its diversity in terms of the candidates."
What comes to diversity in terms of gender equality, 2015 gives women better chances to find candidates they can relate to.
"Historically parties would select women candidates and minority ethnic candidates, but they wouldn't be given any kind of possibility of being won. What we see this year is that Labour Party has put more than half of their women on winnable seats," Hudson tells.
Winnable seat means an electoral district, where a certain party knows it will win. In the British electoral system, the parliament consists of 650 electoral districts. From every district, only one candidate who gets the highest amount of votes can reach the parliament. Therefore, the parties tend to nominate their top candidates in such electoral districts, where it's known they will get voted.
How electoral systems treat women differently
Hudson's and Campbell's project shows just under 30 % of all the candidates in British general elections this Spring are female. Differences between parties, however, are significant: While 37 % of the Green party's candidates are female, the real outlier is the euro-sceptic Independence party Ukip with a narrow 13 % share of female candidates. Although, these numbers do not tell everything:
"The party that is really streets ahead is the Labour Party, if you look at the seats that are likely to be won," Rosie Campbell points out.
She refers to the all women shortlists (AWS) that Labour has used since 1990s. "A controversial but effective way to improve women's representation in politics," as Campbell puts it. The majority of British people consider all women shortlists anti-democratic. Of course, it would be nice if they weren't needed. But by far the gender quota does seem to work.
Overall, women have a more realistic chances to access parliament than before. Hudson refers to a significant increase in winnable seats for women this year – considering the very low baseline.
"On the other side, even if we do come away with 30 % women MPs, a lot of the talk in the UK will be about how that is a significant achievement – how we've made quite a lot of progress. The danger is how women are 53 % of the population, and so we're still some way off really getting to kind of gender balance in the parliament. "
In comparison to Finland, female candidates in the UK have had less possibilities to access the parliament, as they do not have the same kind of an open party list system as Finland does. According to Dr Erkka Railo, researcher with the Centre for Parliamentary Studies in Turku, the electoral system has a significant impact on what kind of candidates become elected.
"In the UK the electoral system influences in how women become clearly under-represented", he says. "But then in Finland, the candidate's personal election budget seems to have more impact: the wealthiest candidates tend to become elected, which influences the overall formation of the parliament."
Significant changes overtime
Railo points out that the educational level of the Finnish candidates has risen significantly since the Second World War – as well as the share of women. Nevertheless, the MP's do not look very much like the people they represent: the share of members representing the age group between 40-60 is clearly over-represented. In addition to that, a Finnish MP is usually about four times wealthier than an average Finn.
As in the UK, parliamentary groups in Finland differ from each other in terms of gender structure, education as well as income level. Railo compresses some of the major differences:
"The Green Party has the most highly educated MPs, the Finns party the lowest. The Finns party had the lowest female representation – while Social Democrats and Swedish People's Party had most women. The income level was lowest at the Finns party, Left Alliance, Green Party and Christian Democrats. The wealthiest candidates came from the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party.
In the UK, things are getting exciting. Maybe 7 May will bring more people chances to find someone from the parliament who they could actually have more in common with.
Rosie Campbell, Jennifer Hudson and Erkka Railo met in Helsinki in an open discussion event organized by the Institute on 9 April. The event was part of the Finnish Institute's Society programme, directed by Antti Halonen.
Follow Jennifer Hudson's and Rosie Campbell's UK Parliamentary Candidates project here.
The writer of this text is the Institute's new communications intern.


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It's... Beautiful. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Fluttershy have never looked so good. This particular piece of deliciousness can be found at Zellers in Halifax, Nova Scotia for $8.99. You can probably get them at other stores in Canada, but this is the first confirmed one.
No telling when it will reach the states or other countries. Zellers is pretty well known for having completely off the wall pony merch before everyone else. Those crazy Canadians must have a direct line to Equestria or something!
Thanks to Midnight Aperture for the images!Saturday, February 18, 2012 op 4:17 PM
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Pony Chocolate Sculpture!


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Check the video out below (you won't regret it, the song sounds awesome live).
"Meet Me In The Shade" appears on Chris's debut self titled solo album, which was released on May 16th through Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape's One Week Records. You can purchase it right here.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored legislation to ensure federal workers that are deemed "essential" and continue to work are paid despite the partial government shutdown. The Shutdown Fairness Act authorizes federal agencies affected by the current government shutdown to pay the dedicated personnel that are still working every day to serve thepeople of the United States.
"Federal workers who are expected to continue working through a government shutdown should be paid, plain and simple," said Senator Thom Tillis. "The Shutdown Fairness Act will authorize federal agencies to pay their personnel that are still working, the very least we can do while we continue to work towards ending this government shutdown."
The legislation was introduced by Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) and is also cosponsored by Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Todd Young (R-IN), Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND).
Background on the Shutdown Fairness Act
Provides pay to an estimated 420,000 personnel currently working without pay, including personnel from: Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, State, Transportation, Treasury, Forest Service, NASA, and SEC.
Authorizes the use of unappropriated funds to pay personnel previously designated as "excepted" in accordance with section 124 of OMB Circular No. A-11. This is similar to the 2013 Pay Our Military Act, passed by the 113th Congress.
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Inspired by the Scriptural commandments of love, at St Mary's we encourage children to grow in the spirit of compassion, wisdom and thankfulness. These, and other qualities, are shared throughout the life of the school. Daily Collective Worship offers particular opportunities for children, and all members of the school community, to reflect upon the importance of these values in our lives.
In Collective Worship, prayers are offered for our school, our local community and the wider world. Through lighting the candle, using images, songs and silence, we celebrate and commemorate key moments of the liturgical year and what has meaning and value for us as a school. We use traditional Christian prayers such as the Lord's Prayer, our own St Mary's school creed and prayers written by the children themselves.
The Lord's Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
St Mary's School Creed
This is St Mary's School,
Let peace dwell here,
Let rooms be full of harmony
Let love abide here,
Love of one another,
Love of humankind,
Love of life itself,
And love of God.
Let us remember,
That as many hands build a home
As many hearts make a school.


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That, along stretch of the East Coast Greenway that winds its way from Pelham Bay, near City Island, to Pelham Manor in Westchester County. I was maybe half a kilometer from Pelham Manor--astride Arielle, my Mercian Audax.
I didn't get on the road until well after noon. I didn't regret it, though: The early morning was the coldest we had since, probably, April. And I still rode to Connecticut and back, just beating darkness home.
So...I pedaled into blazing shades of orange, red and yellow scattered on the ground on my way up to the Nutmeg State. And, by the time I reached Randall's Island--with only the RFK Memorial Bridge between me and home--I was riding into those same--or, at least, similar--hues spread against the sky, as the sun set behind me.
Marlee was not impressed. But she was happy to see me.


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(Continuation of Glimpses into the life of Rafiq A. Tschannen, your Associate Chief Editor of The Muslim Times)
After 6 years of Primary School and 2 years of Secondary School and at the age of 15 I felt somehow 'itchy' on my soles and could not see myself staying in one place for the next three years and consequently did not apply for any apprenticeship position, as all my brothers did before me. In the olden days adolescents in Switzerland would move over to the French-speaking side to learn French, when they could not secure an apprenticeship or did not know what to do at the moment. As 1960 was already 'modern days' my parents decided to send me to England instead to learn English.
Looking back even now to those days my respect for my parents grows even now how they managed to get me those 'internship' positions in England. It seems very difficult now-a-days.
At first I went to a family in Solihull, outside of Birmingham. I am not sure whose 'friend of a friend' he was. I think the family had visited Switzerland before and my parents met them, probably in some Christian circle. My new host owned a factory in Birmingham town and a farm in Solihull. This farm contained a nice 'Manor House', where the family resided. The farm itself was surrounded by three sides by the Solihull Golf Club.
The story goes that my 'host' (let's not name names, you will see why later) was a pilot in the Second World War. In early days he was shot down and captured and passed the whole war as a prisoner of war in Germany. He was 'slave labor' and was attached to some farmer. He therefore noticed that during the war it was better to be near a farm or on a farm, as at least food was available. Consequently when he came back to Great Britain he bought a farm.
The family prepared a room for me inside the Manor House. I was received as a member of the family, as I was a friend of a friend. All smiles and welcome. I was to attend English language classes whenever they were available and help a bit around the farm when I was not thus occupied.
In the farm there were just two workers, one farm manager and his deputy. In the house there was one maid. The family had one daughter. On Saturdays the maid used to polish the silver. The farm assistant would also come and 'feed' the open fires at the Manor (including in my specially prepared room upon arrival).
And then I went to school. English as a foreign language was taught in the Technical College in Solihull.
Well, that all sounded great. Apparently however I must have got on the nerve of my host somehow, mainly because I did not speak a word of English in the beginning. When for instance he would say to me 'pass the broom' I would just look at him. Actually I suspect that my host did speak German, after years as prisoner-of-war in Germany, but obviously he did not want to speak that language.Well, the 'charm' ended and I was 'passed on' to the guest room of the farm manager's house, on the other side of the golf course.
Well, when you think things cannot get worse, they can. One day at 3 pm, I was just 'dressed up' to go to school, when my boss comes home from his factory and enters the house and exclaims: "Where are the cows?" The farm had about 30 cows. It was too much hard work to milk them, so they were kept for either breeding or for the meat. We had left the cows in the field near the Manor House that day. They were contained by an electric fence. The gates of the individual fields were kept open, so that it was easier to drive through with the tractor and other farm machinery. The grass grew well, well fertilized. Consequently the grass touched the electric fence and the electricity was short-circuited. The cows being clever creatures noticed and pushed down the fence and went out of the allocated field.
We found them in the last corner of the farm. We 'pushed' them back and re-established the electric fence. We trampled the grass below the electric fence so that it should not short-circuit again. When we finished our work (it appears that on that day the farm manager and his assistant had left early or somehow were not around at the time) the boss thought it wise to close the gates as well. The British farm gates were rather old-fashioned. There were long sticks which secured the gates. After the boss closed and secured the gate very well he noticed that he was on the wrong side of the gate. I was on the correct side, towards the house. He thought for a moment and then decided that instead of opening the gate again he would climb over it. So he did, but he fell down and broke his arm.
Really, nothing of this was my fault. And I am rather sure that I did not grin (or did I?) Anyway, as a result of this incident my boss wrote to my father saying that he regretted that he could not keep me any longer and whether he should send me back to Switzerland or whether my father had any other options. Well, what a start of my International Careers! Two months into my first assignment and I am being 'packed off'!
My father managed it once more! My parent's friend Sister Anna Pflueger in Zurich was a Quaker. She was going to London to a Quaker conference and so my father told her to ask around at the meeting whether someone could 'take in' this troublesome son of his aged around 15 ½. The result was that a driver with a limousine better than my Solihull host's came with a letter to kindly 'hand over the boy'. (My 'old boss' did have a nice car, but without a driver). He was surprised and impressed I did noticed.
And in this way I came to Wollaston, near Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. There a British / Swiss businessman was living in a Lord's Manor, having converted most of it into offices and having kept one floor only as his apartment. From there he managed the Scott Bader Co. Ltd. and the Scott Bader Commonwealth. This was a Chemical factory producing different kinds of plastics. The form of the company was very special. Mr. Bader had handed over 90% of his shares to a foundation for the workers. The workers could decide how to use the profits, but they had to give 50% of the profits to charity. The workers could decide the charities, as per Quaker's peaceful policies the only limitation was that it should not be for any military purposes. Consequently this was a very interesting place and a very interesting new boss. I got a room this time right from the beginning in the house of an employee.
When I arrived Mr. Bader first of all invited me for dinner at his apartment. After dinner he invited me to play a game of chess. It was the first and last game I ever won. I suppose Mr. Bader did not pay full attention. I just kept eating all his figures. At the end of the game he said "As you came from a farm I thought you could work in the gardens (he had three full time gardeners for the grounds of the Manor-cum-Office-cum Laboratories), but I think you better come and see me in the office in the morning. I then got the job of 'entry clerk' in the stock keeping department and 'internal mail distributor'. At the same time I went to attend English classes for foreign students at the Technical College in Kettering. My salary was one Pound per week, plus free food and lodging. (after some time I asked for a rise, but Mr. Bader said "I have to check", so I told him 'that's ok', because in my passport there was actually a stamp 'not permitted to work, paid or unpaid').
The 'work' as 'internal mail distributor' was in fact a good job for practicing English. I could 'chat' all over the place.
On Saturdays I used to join my hosts in doing the weekly shopping in Wellingborough. After shopping we used to buy fish and chips, which in those days were served in a newspaper. Even in those days I would have preferred to eat them immediately warm and fresh, but the host used to take it home to Wollaston and by the time we reached home the chips were usually cold.
Another thing I recall was that my host used to serve fresh tea every morning on the bed. This was the way to wake us up. I would have preferred to have my tea after rinsing my mouth, but it seemed that this was the way the British wanted to wake up.
The host was a veteran of the First World War. Whenever on TV a documentary would come about the First World War, which naturally would have interested me, he would get up and switch off the TV.
The menu with my host was constant. Roast Beef on Sunday, cold roast beef on Monday. Sorry, I do not recall the details of the rest of the days, except of course the fish and chips on Saturdays. One day we had Yorkshire pudding with peas, I don't recall on which day.
My hostess was kind and very, very pale. She used to have a large box of aspirins on the table and would eat them like I would eat Lindt chocolates. (if no one stops me).
There were interesting staff meetings at the office, when they discussed how to use their share of the profits and vote how much to which charity should be given. The atmosphere in the company was nice, although nothing is perfect. Heaven is in the next world, hopefully.
I kept in touch with Mr. Bader. I 'popped' into him in Lahore, Pakistan, later on also. He was definitely an interesting personality. He believed in 'democracy in capitalism' and thought that his version of capitalism, to let the workers share in the share-holding and wealth, would be the ideal counter point to communism. (Remember: these were the days of the cold war when the West was scared of communism taking over).
Otherwise not much special happened during this my first stay in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
While in England during this time I did take my German translation of the Qur'an with me and kept reading it regularly. I had as yet however never met a Muslim. I sort of felt that Islam was the right religion for me, but I did not yet perform the five daily prayers.
(If anyone would like to know more about this very interesting company please refer to: http://www.scottbader.com/about-us/11/our-history
After returning to Switzerland, now aged 16 ½, I first of all hitch-hiked around Europe. I had one hundred Swiss Francs from my mother in my pocket and wanted to collect another couple of hundred from my brother in Zurich. He had borrowed my bicycle and it got stolen while with him and he offered to pay for it. However, he was not at home so I decided to go ahead with the trip anyway.
I hitch-hiked via Geneva to Lyon, Avignon, Nice, and then up to Venice, Trieste, South Tirol and back home. I stayed in Youth Hostels. For breakfast / lunch I used to purchase some bread and milk in a shop and some apples for dinner as well. Once in a while some 'hitch-hiking-host' would invite me for lunch. I recall the horror of one Italian host who exclaimed 'but water is for washing hands', when I said I would not drink wine but just the water. And somehow I managed with the 100 Swiss Francs. I even bought a train ticket for the last stretch home! (as it was raining and the weather was miserable).
In Venice I had an interesting little experience. Like all tourists I roamed about the town, sometimes getting a bit lost here and there. Once I passed a canal that had been blocked off, probably for cleaning. Some local guy saw a wooden chest down in the canal bed and said to another guy 'let's take it up'. When they opened it there seem to be some meat with the cloth around it. When one bone was found to have an old watch around the wrist he said we better call the police. I stayed around to see what will happen. After a while a policeman came. They carried the box to another canal that was accessible by boat. They waited for the Police Boat to arrive to evacuate the box. As it did not come for a long time the Police Man said 'wait, I will go and look for my colleagues'. While he was gone one guy took off the watch and looked at it and said to the other guy: 'do you mind if I take it? It looks interesting'. The other guy said 'ok with me' and gone was the watch (which I suppose would be 'Nr.1' clue to find the possible murderers.
Upon my return to Switzerland I joined the Dr. Gademann School in Zurich to work towards a Diploma as 'Secretary'. I think during this one year in School I obtained the theoretical knowledge of those that were taking an apprenticeship as 'Office Clerk'. Consequently after gaining some working knowledge I would be equal to all those with the Office Apprenticeship.
Before the school started I got a summer job in a Hotel near Interlaken on the lake. The hotel also had a 'beach swimming pool', which on weekends was very crowded. At first I worked as 'Assistant Waiter', mainly clearing tables. I also delivered food in the room service. Later on on one Sunday our 'Kiosk' lady had a nervous breakdown and I took over the Kiosk.
I suppose I can now tell a secret without getting into trouble: I just could not resist the temptation of the Ragusa chocolate bars. Consequently from time to time a Ragusa would just disappear down my throat. My Director Lady was a bit surprised on the increased 'sale' of Ragusa, as I had to re-order it time and again.
Hotel work was interesting. You can meet different kind of people all the time. Whatever work you do it is after a while the same, but people are always different.
The Dr. Gademann School was in a way special. Tutoring was on an individual basis with very small classes. When one finished an assignment we could go to the teacher to ask for the next one. In this way some students finished the Diploma Course in two years, others in one and a half, about one third of the students, including myself, completed the course in one year.
There was one guy who liked to study so much that he never finished. He was a young farmer who had sold his land and was now a millionaire and did not really know what to do. I suppose he liked the interaction with other students. Consequently he ended up as an Assistant Teacher.
The School was just near the main train station and I commuted every day from home in Schwanden. We needed to take one train to Ziegelbruecke and there change for the fast train to Zurich. There were special student tickets which were not all that expensive. Still the school was a private school and cost something. My mother managed to finance it due to her 'special book' (which I told you about in a previous chapter). My mother used to give me a sandwich for lunch.
During this time in Zurich I now met for the first time the Ahmadiyya Muslim Missionary Sheikh Nasir Ahmad who invited me to join other Swiss Muslims in the performance of the Friday Prayer service in his apartment. There were several Swiss Muslims at the time. Besides the Friday Prayers we would meet once a month in a Café near the main railway station for discussions.
I now became officially Muslim by reciting the words 'La Illaha Illala, Mohammad ur Rasulullah'. There is no God but Allah and Mohammad (peace be on him) is the Prophet of Allah. Sheikh Nasir Ahmad gave me the name 'Rafiq', which in Arabic means 'friend'. I learned more about Islam, such as the daily prayers. I read whatever books I found about Islam. In those days the books available by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, or any other Muslim Community for that matter, in German and even in English were rather limited.
The Swiss Ahmadiyya Muslim Community consisted of quite a few Swiss converts.
There was a farmer in Canton Appenzell, who had to shift from pig farming to sheep farming after his conversion. There was the janitor in my brothers' employer, Siemens. And there were more. Also several Swiss ladies converted to Islam.
I recall that my brother told me that he went to the Christian funeral of the janitor. The priest said during the funeral sermon that 'during the life time he went somewhere else but in death he comes again to us. Well, the funeral was arranged by the Christian wife and was not in accordance to his wishes. (Islamic funeral prayers were held for him in the Mosque). I went to the priest, who happened to be my brother's neighbor, and told him that 'you know quite well that if he would have been consulted he did not wish to have a Christian funeral'. The priest was slightly embarrassed and just said 'yes I know'.
The reason why there were quite a few Swiss Muslim converts at the time was that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission was the only active Muslim organization at that time. Consequently every one interested in Islam came here. (1961)
After graduating with my Diploma as Secretary I phoned to the Hotel Manager of the Hotel I worked with in Interlaken whether he had a job for me. The same Director had taken over Hotel Handeck in the Grimselpass for the Summer. He said that yes we do need waiters all the time. I pointed out that I now had a Diploma and consequently I was made in-charge of the Front Office (with Madame Director in the background). I was now 17.
A hotel 'on the road' is very interesting, because all kinds of guests would arrive, the tramp on foot (or hitch-hiking) and the guy with the Rolls Royce and his secretary. (No, you cannot cheat the rich. Knowing that everyone wants to charge him more when he arrives in his Rolls Royce he stopped at the tourist information office in the village before our hotel, got last year's price list and I had difficulty to charge him this year's new price).
Well, In Hotel Handeck on the Grimsel Pass I also met B., a student from England working for her summer vacation job as room maid in the Hotel. As Muslims should not engage in 'extra-marital-activities' I married her when I was 17 ½.
In Switzerland one needs Government permission to marry before age 18. I applied and gave as a reason 'love, more love and also some practical considerations'. The practical consideration was that without marriage Barbara could only work as 'au pair girl' (domestic worker) while after marriage she would immediately get a Swiss passport and could work anywhere. (Apparently the council members, who had to decide my matter, laughed about it, as I came to know from a newspaper article some time later on).
The permission was declined. Consequently we went and got married in England, where with parent's permission it was possible, and no special permission was needed.
B. had converted to Islam as she loved me very much and wanted to share everything with me.
But, sorry, I am a little bit ahead of my time.
When the summer season finished I walked into Swissair in Zurich and asked for a job. I thought of the free / cheap tickets and a world-wide career. The same evening the Human Resources Director phoned me and told me that I could start tomorrow as Data Entry Clerk in the Central Finance Division, if that was ok with me. It was. Consequently I started work with Swissair.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Zurich got a new Imam, Mushtaq Ahmad Bajwa. He completed the construction of the Zurich mosque, which had been planned under Sheikh Nasir Ahmad. The Mosque in Zurich was completed and Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, President of the UN General Assembly of 1963, came to Zurich to perform the opening ceremony. I therefore had the opportunity to meet the most important member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, after their Khalifa of course. We would keep in touch as long as he lived.
I recall during the opening ceremony the following incident: I was sitting with the Swiss architect of the Mosque during lunch. Chaudhry Sahib, as Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan was affectionately called, was telling one joke after the other and everyone was in a jolly mood. The architect mentioned to me that before the lunch he thought that it will be a dry affair, with all these Missionaries from all over Europe in attendance. He was pleasantly surprised that the mood was not boring at all.
Sir Zafrullah Khan was very particular with his finances. I recall that he requested his secretary (male) to remind him in London to go and cut his hair because (in those days) it was cheaper than in New York.
Sorry that I do not recall the jokes. Somehow jokes just do not easily remain in ones memory. I am not sure why that is so. Most were in Urdu anyway and only some of them got translated for our benefit. (Not all jokes are 'translatable').
After the opening ceremony of the mosque I was to travel to London to my wedding to B. I managed to fly in the same plane as Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan. He was traveling in the Business Class and I was traveling with a free Swissair ticket in the Economy Class. He requested the Swissair Chief Steward to kindly call this young man and let him sit near him in Business Class. They could not decline his request and I had the chance to sit with him all the way to London.
I cannot recall exactly what we chatted about. I do recall however that he said 'sorry, I need to sleep for twenty minutes'. And he would doze off and wake up exactly twenty minutes later.
In London the baggage handlers were on strike. As Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan was President of the UN General Assembly a representative of the Protocol Department was waiting for him. They asked him for his passport and the baggage tickets, so that they could clear it for him. He gave him my passport and baggage ticket as well. Consequently I also entered the UK 'in style'.
A driver with a limousine of the Embassy of Pakistan was waiting for the honorable guest. He decided to drop me off in Orpington Kent on his way to his Hotel in Central London. Well, you can imagine what good impression it made to my future parents-in-law to be dropped off at their house like this!
My parents came also from Switzerland a few days later. They had to accompany me to the Civil Registrar to give permission for the marriage. The 'Nikah', the Islamic marriage ceremony, was held at the London Mosque, the first mosque in London built by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. My father-in-law had kindly rented some limousines. I recall that the driver commented that this was the first time on the way to a marriage that a father of a groom slept peacefully all the way.
After the marriage my wife Barbara also got a job with Swissair in Zurich. I was in the Central Finance Department while she was in the Department checking the inter-airline-accounting.
Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, invited me to New York for a week later that year. I reached there in November 1963. He was coming towards his final days in his position as President of the United Nations General Assembly. (remember: I had free Swissair tickets). I nearly missed the plane! I was told that the plane is late by more than an hour, so I went to the Coffee Shop at the airport to say good-bye to my dear wife. After a while I felt a sort of unease and went to the departure gate. I was told: The plane is out there and just they are taking in the stairs! I made signs and shouted and run towards the plane and just managed to still catch my flight!
Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan lived near the Central Park. He was also concurrently Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Nations. His predecessor had had a large family and consequently hired two apartments and combined them into one. Sir Zafrullah Khan was alone and consequently he used only one. He gave the other one temporarily to a diplomat from Ethiopia. I was told that the janitor of the building approached him and conveyed the message from other tenants that they did not appreciate that a black man was living in this building. (Asians were considered 'white' generally speaking in USA).
On the way to the office, whenever he managed (depending on who was waiting to meet him at the office I suppose, he would stop his car along Central Park and take a walk, while the driver would drive the limousine slowly behind him.
Of course it was very interesting for this now 19 year old Swiss guy to have an 'insider's look' at the United Nations. I dined at the Delegates' Lounge. I looked all around, including inside the Security Council (ok, which was not in session at the time).
Sir Zafrullah Khan did not have any domestic staff at home, although his Embassy would have provided one if he wanted to. He said that at lunch time I have to eat atthe UN offices and in the evening I am always invited here and there anyway. Usually in more than one place every night.
And I had the occasion to come with him for a week wherever he went. There were many receptions and dinners. Sometime we would have the first dish here, the main dish there and the dessert in the third place.
I specially recall when Sir Zafrullah Khan was invited to deliver a speech organized by The Times. Before the speech there was a small gathering. It appears that in order to be able to speak better Sir Zafrullah Khan had requested a glass of hot milk with honey.
As usual when a 'modern Western lady' meets a 'backward Muslim' , she almost immediately 'attacks'. The wife of the Editor said to Sir Zafrullah Khan that 'we here in the United States have complete equality with men'. Sir Zafrullah Khan listened for a while and then said: 'Madam, do you have any children?' Like any proud mother she would reply, 'yes, I have three children, one in University, one in High School and one already married'. Sir Zafrullah Khan then said: 'And now, please Madam, ask your husband to have the next three children'. There followed of course a shocked silence. Sir Zafrullah Khan then explained: Equality in value, yes, but equality in function just cannot happen. And he documented his point of view from quotations from the Qur'an which state the equality in value of men and women. The wife of the Editor was both embarrassed by her earlier statement and very impressed by the reply!
In the speech Sir Zafrullah Khan stated that 'let's stop pretending'. You give us aid and say that there are no strings attached. You know that there are strings attached and we know that there are strings attached. It would be better to be open and frank about it in order to avoid any misunderstandings in the future. (Sorry, I do not really recall other details of the speech. It is after all more than 50 years ago).
It was Sunday and Sir Zafrullah Khan said that he had to collect a piece of paper from his office at the Pakistan Embassy. The Embassy was closed but a watchman was there. He opened the door. Then the watchman took the lift up to the Second Floor. Sir Zafrullah Khan, now aged about 75, went up the stairs. I of course had to follow him up the stairs also. I think I breathed more deeply than he did!
May I go ahead in time and mention a couple of glimpses of my old friend, although they do not have anything to do with me really.
I am told that he was invited by the Queen of England for a cup of nice British tea (or two). After drinking tea for a while and chatting nicely he said: "Your Majesty, please excuse me but I have an appointment with somebody higher than you". Her Majesty was of course suitably shocked. She never heard that before. Sir Zafrullah Khan then explained that it was time for his prayers. The Chief of Protocol was summoned and he arranged a place for prayer. The next time he met Her Majesty she immediately stated that a place for prayer had been arranged, he should just let her know when it was time.
After his Assignment as President of the UN General Assembly Sir Zafrullah Khan served a Justice and Chief Justice of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. After his retirement from there the Queen of The Netherlands wanted to invite him for a farewell dinner. He requested that 'could we kindly make it lunch'. Sir Zafrullah Khan lived in London at the time and this way he could fly to The Hague in the morning and return to London in the evening and did not need to pack a suitcase.
His nephew Anwar Khalon dropped him to Heathrow airport in the morning and planned to pick him up in the evening. There was some accident on the road to the airport in the evening and Anwar Khalon was late. When he checked the arrival hall no one from the KLM flight was there. All guests had left. There were no mobil phones in those days. Anwar Khalon therefore returned home and was surprised to see Sir Zafrullah Khan sitting there. His explanation was: 'I know that something must have happened that you could not be on time. I thought that may be Allah does not want me to get too proud. I had lunch with a Queen. And now I know that there is a direct bus from the airport to your house. So I took the bus and here I am before you.
After about 3 years with Swissair in Zurich I asked the Swissair Human Resources Department that I would like to be transferred overseas. The guy laughed at me and said that there was a long waiting list for such transfers.
For more on the life of Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan please visit: https://www.alislam.org/library/zafar1.html
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Folks on a near by beach got a little more fire then they expected. A barge that was filled with fireworks and floating close to a beach exploded. As much as that seems like it would be fun to see it's of course dangerous. No one seemed to have gotten hurt.
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24: Legacy to air in the UK on 14th February 2017
The 24 Jack Bauer-less spin-off 24: Legacy finally has a UK airdate. Fox UK will broadcast the new 12-episodes series from the 14th February 2017. Corey Hawkins will be playing the new lead, former military man Eric Carter.
You can check out the latest trailer below...
Hawkins will be joined by an impressive new cast, including Miranda Otto, Jimmy Smits and Teddy Sears. Carlos Bernard will be reprising his role as Tony Almeida, but there is no news on whether other original 24 cast members, including Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer will be making a return.


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My friend, Suzanne, at The Joyful Chaos, has been posting her family's favorite children's books every Tuesday. I've enjoyed reading and seeing what everyone's favorites are. This week I thought we would join the fun.
One of our favorites is What Are You So Grumpy About? by Tom Lichtenheld. Bear bought this one for Sunshine for her eleventh birthday. She rolled her eyes at him..."You bought me a children's book?" But when I opened it up and started reading, we were both rolling with laughter. It's now one of her favorite books, too.
This confirms in writing what children have long suspected: gravy + peas = poison.
Now here is how this is supposed to work: have your Children's Books post ready including a link back to this post and then leave a comment with your name or website and your specific post URL. Then go check out everyone else's favorite books and leave them comments! Right? Suzanne, correct me if I am wrong.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Children's Book Tuesday
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paula, you're so funny! you did great! other just need to link up at my site and everyone can see what everyone else posted!ReplyDelete
thanks for joining this week.
and tell your girly that i was (and still am!) a picky/grumpy peas can't touch gravy eater! she's in good company.
This looks too funny! I love children's books that can make both my children AND me laugh! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
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Windows 10 build 14965 — another test preview of the Creators Update — rolls out for PC and Mobile devices with a number of improvements, fixes, and a virtual touchpad for tablets to control external monitors.
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The software giant also announced that its Xbox Preview Program has now become "Xbox Insider Program," and soon will no longer require an invitation to participate.
Although Microsoft didn't introduce the Surface Book 2, this week the company begin to ship its Surface Book, 2016 model, which improves battery life and bumps graphics up to 50 percent. If you're looking for the best Windows 10 laptop performance, the refreshed Surface Book is what you're looking for.
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An Unfinished Life
By Jonathan Gould
Illustrated. 533 pp. Crown Archetype. $30
Fifty years ago this month, the rock community held its first large-scale gathering at the Monterey Pop Festival. For several of the performers — Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who — the event marked the moment of their discovery, at least by American listeners. For Otis Redding, though, Monterey represented a transformation of his audience.
Redding had already scored five Top 5 albums and more than a dozen Top 20 singles on the R & B charts, but he had never made a significant dent on the pop (that is, white) side. But closing the second night, dressed in a teal-green suit — in contrast to the tie-dyed or Victorian splendor of the hippies on stage and in the crowd — Redding mesmerized the festivalgoers with the overpowering emotion and astonishing depth of his voice. "Otis seemed to be drawing on a different dimension of feeling and experience than that of any other performer who would be heard at Monterey," Jonathan Gould writes in his impressive biography "Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life."
Later that summer, Redding retreated to a houseboat in Sausalito and, inspired by the brand-new "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" ("You got to listen to this," he said to his wife, Zelma. "This is bad."), began to explore new directions in his songwriting. Six months after Monterey, though, Redding was gone, killed at the age of 26 when his rickety private plane crashed into a frigid lake en route to a show in Madison, Wis. "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay," released a few weeks after his death, would fulfill the promise of Monterey and go all the way to the top of the pop charts.
There have been several previous attempts to tell Redding's story (most recently, Mark Ribowsky's 2015 "Dreams to Remember"), and there has been talk for decades of a biopic about this titan of soul. Gould, author of the insightful Beatles history "Can't Buy Me Love," runs up against the same limitations all these efforts have faced: The singer did only a couple of interviews, and there's a fundamental lack of tension in the life of a person who virtually no one will say a bad word about. ("He wasn't just a magnificent talent," Redding's loyal manager Phil Walden said. "He was a magnificent man.")
Access to Redding's surviving family helps Gould flesh out his upbringing and offstage personality; he comes across as more quick-witted ("nobody ever taught him anything; he just knew everything," his sister Louise says) and cocky (while working as an orderly at a hospital, he slapped one of the doctors) than his usual simple, solid image.
Exhaustive research into Redding's early years as a performer reveals both his dedication and his uncertain musical vision. One fascinating figure is Johnny Jenkins, a local guitar hero in Redding's hometown, Macon, Ga., who takes Redding under his wing — opinions vary widely as to whether Jenkins was an underappreciated genius or an overrated showboat. He plays a key role in the story, though, when he blows his 1962 audition at Stax Records in Memphis and Redding, who had driven Jenkins and his band to the gig, is allowed a turn at the microphone just to fill time at the end of the session.
His solemn, simmering performance of "These Arms of Mine" changed not just his own life, but the sound of pop music to come. "The utter simplicity of 'These Arms of Mine,'" Gould notes perceptively, "recalls such minimalist debuts as James Brown's 'Please, Please, Please' and Sam Cooke's 'You Send Me,' both of which served to highlight the distinctiveness of the singer's voice by giving him nothing but a feeling to work with."
Music historians like Peter Guralnick, Rob Bowman and Robert Gordon have all done essential work on the history of Stax, but Gould takes a contrary and provocative position on the label's relationship to its greatest star. He argues that while the Stax co-founder and head honcho Jim Stewart was scrupulous in paying his artists, creatively he was in way over his head; "his consistent misjudgment of records that proved to be hits" illustrated that he was "content to sit and wait for songs to walk in the door." Gould makes a convincing case that, while Redding's recordings are never less than compelling thanks to his remarkable voice, Stewart's shortcomings — he couldn't fathom the contemplative, almost folk-based "Dock of the Bay" — held Redding back as a songwriter and repeatedly stymied his popular momentum.
Though Redding wrote or co-wrote classics like "Respect" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long," certainly much of his greatest work came as an interpretive singer, often of such seemingly unlikely material as "Satisfaction" (a rare example, Gould writes, of "a black artist soliciting the attention of white listeners by riding roughshod over one of the great pop songs of the day") or his showstopping, sweat-drenched version of "Try a Little Tenderness" ("an act of cultural appropriation, not accommodation").
Famously, Otis Redding couldn't dance worth a damn. And he wasn't flashy — he was happiest at his Big O Ranch in rural Georgia. (When he and Carla Thomas playfully trade insults on 1967's "Tramp," she says to Redding, "you're country" and he replies, "That's good.") But what his voice conveyed to listeners was an immediate, almost unparalleled connection; he could wring inconceivable intensity and complexity out of a minimal phrase and returned, most often, to the basic, raw power of love. He was, Gould writes, "soul music's greatest apostle of devotion."
For Otis Redding, the idea was simple, even when the people around him sometimes didn't get it. "Always think different from the next person," he once said. "Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it."


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School News - September 2012
Welcome to Our Redeemer Church and Preschool!!
We are excited to begin a new school year and to partner with parents in their child's first steps into education. Our program has expanded this year to include two 3's classes and an extended day option for the 4 year olds. Angel Thome is teaching a 3's class this year. Angel comes to use with teaching expertise and a heart for nurturing young children. Renae Johnson is a new teacher assistant this year, and we are blessed to have teacher assistant, Anne Symes, returning. Our Redeemer's teaching team will work side-by-side, with parents to love, nurture and teach the children, ensuring a successful start to the school experience.
Sharing the Faith and Love of Jesus Christ is the exciting cornerstone of education at Our Redeemer. We are eager to share this with the children each day as we learn about the unconditional love and forgiveness that Jesus has for each of us.
At Our Redeemer we believe that a strong, positive start to a child's education is essential in developing a life-long love of learning. This school year will be packed full of fun, learning, discovery and growth.
On the Calendar….
Sept 26: Pancake Breakfast for 4's families 8:15am
Sept 27: Pancake Breakfast for 3's families 8:15am
Sept 29: Family Fun Night: 5:30-7:00pm (free)
Oct 4: Parenting Children Course Begins 9-11:30am


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What kind of gifts will bless our kids all through their lives?
Think what you want to plant in your child's heart for life.
As a Christian, what I want most for our children is faith in Jesus Christ.
We can't just hand it over, but we can make sure they hear the Good News and see faith lived out at home.
We can make sure they know that Jesus is forever for us, not forever accusing us.
With that as foundation . . .
My husband and I had a long-term goal, that our children would be able to cope, even when we weren't around.
Emotionally, we wanted them to be able to bounce back from setbacks and disappointments, because life is full of them--even for children.
We knew that wouldn't happen without three essentials:
- The deep-down certainty that our love for them would never waver. Never.
- A stable home life, growing up in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
- Knowing they are valued for who they are, even when they mess up.
That's the lifestyle 24/7, whether we feel like it or not
We aim to show love and act in thoughtful ways, even when we're dead on our feet.
It requires us to forget ourselves and take time for our kids--and each other.
I remember still a devotion I heard as a young mom, which was based on John 15:13:
Greater love has no one than this that he lay down his life for his friends.
We mere human beings "lay down our lives" as we put our child's needs ahead of our own. (And our husband's or wife's, too.)
It's not a meaningless sacrifice
Selfishness eats holes in the fabric of marriage and family love.
The emotional damage to family members can last for life.
All this motivates us and gives meaning to what we do, but it's hard. Being a mom or dad is the hardest job you'll ever love.
I, for one, don't have it in me on my own strength. What got me through then--and still does--is the enabling power of Jesus Christ living within me.
(Jesus said) "...And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." --Matthew 28:20 NIV
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. --Ephesians 4:32 ESV
We're all human. We will fail. Often. Faith and love and mutual forgiveness will carry us through.
Feet firmly planted in grace, next comes resilience
The quality of resilience is not transferable, nor is it speedy. Rather, it's a gradual learning process, with lots of slips along the way.
With it, our kids can handle life, even when we're not present.
Learning starts early as we allow our children:
- To try--even when we know they likely won't be able to succeed.
- To fail--and learn from their failure.
- To try again and again--and succeed, maybe not the first time, but in subsequent tries.
- To feel the pride of having learned--the hard way--how to do what they set out to do.
- To develop internal strength, which increases each time this cycle repeats.
The fallout when Mom and Dad stay over-protective
A recent article in The Sacramento Bee bore this title: "Helicopter parents hurt kids, author laments."
The author cites examples given by Julie Lythcott-Haims, who was dean of freshman at Stanford University for 10 years and noticed a disturbing trend. Brilliant and accomplished incoming students seemed incapable of handling life.
She noted parents changed, too, becoming much more involved, talking with their children several times a day. If a problem occurred, Mom or Dad often intervened, rather than letting their young adult kids work it out.
Lythcott-Haims concluded it's an ongoing pattern. These parents have done this all along, trying their best to spare their children pain or disappointment. They sincerely want to spare their young people any hardship or failure.
So they "overhelp."
Before college they made sure their child's school grades and community service stood out from the crowd. They offered their expertise in preparing stellar resumes for college admissions.
Overhelping can cripple, says Lythcott-Haims. "It can leave young adults without the strengths of skill, will and character that are needed to know themselves and to craft a life."
Another author calls it a national trend
Curious, I Googled the subject and found lots. Peter Gray, Ph.D., wrote an article in Psychology Today about helicopter parents.
College personnel everywhere are struggling with how to handle "students' increased neediness."
The Counseling Dept. of another major university reports in the past 5 years more than doubled. Here are some examples.
- Students seem to be having emotional crises over routine situations like low grades and disagreements with roommates.
- One girl considered it traumatic that her roommate called her an unflattering name.
- Two called because they saw a mouse in their off-campus apartment. (They also called the Police, who came and set a mousetrap for them.)
Faculty members describe today's college students as "emotionally fragile"
Gray says this has become a major problem when handing out grades.
Today's students often beg for adjustments in their grades rather than resolving to study harder or getting more serious about their studies. They tend to blame professors who didn't give clear directions or didn't specify what their tests would cover.
Faculty would like to say, "Buck up, this is college," but they're afraid to, fearing a student might have an emotional breakdown, or even consider suicide.
Resilience is a plus all through life
Nobody scoots through life without hitting a bump here or there.
Resilience is the quality that keeps a person from giving up when the going gets hard.
Parenting to raise bounce-back kids means standing back and giving our kids space to learn from life.
Resilience is inner strength. It's needed by kids and their moms.
Wimps shrink back from life.
Individuals with inner strength bounce back instead of being flattened by life's setbacks.
Oh, yeah. I wrote a book about that. It's not a big book full of techniques, just short conversations about growing kids with inner strength--and enjoying it.
It's the book I hunted for when our girls were growing up, but never found.
I hope you like it.
Love, from just another mom,


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text: St. Peter School will hold two performances of their Christmas Liturgy/Concert on Wednesday, December 20th at St. Peter's Church. The doors of the church will open at 1:30 p.m. for those who would like to attend a matinee performance, while the evening performance will begin at 7:00 p.m. Grade 7 & 8 students will lead those in attendance through a narration of some of the different traditions of Advent and Christmas, while each classroom from Pre-K through Grade 6 will perform a song to compliment the narration. It is a liturgy, not a full mass, and we think it will be very interesting and enjoyable for everyone in our community! To avoid distractions and interruptions, it is expected that all people in attendance will stay for the whole performance. Immediately following the liturgy, all families will be invited downstairs for cookies and warm beverages. We hope to see you there!


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text: Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada brings together the work of 20 contemporary artists from India and artists of Indian heritage living in Canada, the largest exhibition of its kind to be presented in Manitoba. Artists address issues of shifting histories and borders; relationships to the land; as well as the complex themes of migration, immigration, and diaspora. From videos and multi-media to paintings and drawings, experience over 100 pieces by some of today's leading artists.