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One of the bloggers I follow has a category called "Beauty" on her "Something Ivory" blogsite, and if you click on that title you can read all the posts she's written that focus on that particular subject: posts about beautiful fashions, beautiful stationery, beautiful home decorating ideas, etc. Things just seem to stop her in her tracks, simply because they are beautiful. Today she wrote a post describing a tree in front of her house, and it made me want to go outside and look at our trees!
Seeing the beauty in everyday life--and appreciating the beauty of God's glorious creation--is something we all need to do more often. We need to "stop and smell the roses," as they say. There is so much beauty around us, everywhere we look; but sometimes we're too busy and preoccupied to even notice it.
My dear late mother-in-law was the queen of appreciating beauty. She had impeccable taste and her desire to surround herself with things of grace and loveliness, items expertly crafted with an artist's hand--like Colonial reproduction furnishings in cherry and mahogany, sumptuous linens adorned with cut-work and lace, delicately painted china, sparkling crystal goblets, gleaming brass candlesticks, colorful needlepoint pillows, hand-thrown pottery pieces, lush green plants and colorful blooms, the list goes on and on--was unmatched by anyone I've ever known. And don't even get me started on her desire to surround herself with the most fabulous Christmas greens and ornaments, Santa and angel figurines, and you-name-it-she-had-it during the holiday season! That house in which my husband grew up was always a true Christmas wonderland when she was alive.
We all find beauty in different things. Some of you out there might think that a rustic, farmhouse-type decorating style is more beautiful than the traditional and elegant Colonial-inspired decor favored by my mother-in-law. I think I fall somewhere in the middle, but the main thing with me is that I'm usually the most taken with beautiful things that are very old. For instance, I think this transferware pitcher (the surviving half of an antique bowl and pitcher set that I bought at an antiques/gift shop downtown) is so beautiful.
I also like to use antique dolls as a decorating element in my home--make that antique-looking dolls. (The real thing would be prohibitively expensive, I'm afraid.) Years ago, I took a weekly porcelain doll-making class, and I created some beauties that inhabit the built-in shelves in my living room--like this reproduction of a 19thth century French "Bru."
And speaking of beauty...and staring eyes...
Sometimes all the ugliness, hate, and suffering in the world can really bring you down. But when it does, look around you at the things--and people!--in your life that are beautiful, and take heart. And don't ever take that beauty for granted!
(P.S. My blogging friend, I hope you don't mind that I used your post today as inspiration for this one.)


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Once upon a time I went to a show and it was called The Houdini Box. The Houdini Box is about a ten-year-old boy named Victor (Alex Weisman) who is big fan of Harry Houdini (Derek Hasenstab), and when he is at the train station he meets Harry Houdini himself. This boy is an admirer of Harry Houdini, but all his dreams of being a magician and becoming best friends with Harry Houdini are all discarded because Harry Houdini has been taken away from everybody's life. Even his wife's life. But it ends with an ending that is not heartbreaking. You feel happy that his dream has finally come true in the way that he didn't want but it was still a good way.
One of my favorite scenes was the scene where Victor tried to get out of his grandmother's trunk to be like Harry Houdini. His grandmother's trunk was locked, and he'd never unlocked it before. Houdini got out of a trunk that was dropped into the water—in less that 20 seconds! When Victor got into the box, the box shook and you could hear "Help, help, please. Somebody? I'm in here!" It is funny that he cannot get out and the box is shaking like in cartoons. I like cartoons, so I thought this was funny. It is kind of funny that the box is shaking, but it is not funny that he is failing to get out. He needs to know that he does not have "magical powers" like Houdini. He doesn't have any special picks or anything in there.
I liked the scene where Victor was playing with his Harry Houdini doll and was making it do the water torture cell trick. But all he could do was get a honey pot to do the water torture cell trick. And the Barker (Derek Hasenstab) said, "The ONE! The ONLY! Harry Houdini!" and then Harry Houdini the doll came out and was like "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" This scene tells you that Victor cannot actually have the things that Harry Houdini could have. He couldn't have the real water torture cell or even one that kind of looked like it. It makes you feel sorry for Victor but kind of happy that he likes to pretend that he has things of Harry Houdini's.
Right before they left for the train station, Victor's mother (Sara Sevigny) tied a rope to his hand and she took him outside. I thought that wasn't exactly how moms are, except for the ones in Cinderella. She wasn't a bad mom, she wasn't evil or anything. She didn't make him do all the housework. She did kind of want the best for him, but it wasn't the best for him because he liked magic. Why doesn't she just let him have magic like he wants? There are no villains in this, and she is not a villain, but you kind of feel sorry for Victor that he can't have magic. Sara also got to play Harry Houdini's wife. Bess is Harry Houdini's wife's nickname, but that is what everyone called her. Even Houdini called her this. She was so nice and so truthful to Victor about Houdini's death. And she is giving him a present of Houdini's and he wanted to give it to him, which was a box that had the initials carved into it: E.W. And E.W. stands for Erich Weiss. I know it looks like it is going to be a w sound, but it is actually a v sound--Veiss. I'm not going to give away the ending, but I will tell you that Erich Weiss is the name of a person who I cannot give away his true identity.
I think the puppets were cool. One of them was the bus that would just move along and the puppets of the Mother and Victor getting on the bus and them getting off the bus, and them getting on the train, and them getting off the train, and them getting to Aunt Harriet's house. I liked it because they were not like finger puppets, and they were not like hand puppets, and they were not like marionettes. They were like shadow puppets only they had faces and you could see them. And at Aunt Harriet's house, when the actual actors were playing the parts of Aunt Harriet and Victor and the Mother, they had the dolls that they would talk to Victor with, and I thought that was cool because the dolls were so small and the person was so big that it made them seem like they were Borrowers.
There was one problem with the puppets, which was that there was Victor's son and he was just a hat, and gloves, and a baseball bat. I didn't like this because it seemed like Victor's son was some kind of ghost or something. And if you looked at it, you kind of felt sad for Victor because you kind of felt like his kid was dead. They could have gotten an actor to play it or at least a puppet with a face.
The play is based on a book with the exact same name. It is by Brian Selznick. The play did have my favorite part in it, which is a happy part, which is one of my favorite lines. It is not a funny one, just a happy one. And it is "Victor locked himself inside his grandmother's trunk and escaped...in under twenty seconds." In the play, he came out of a door in the room that was not connected to the box. It made you feel more happy for him because you actually got to see him escape and come out from somewhere else.
When you walked into the space, you knew it was going to be a good adaptation because the stage looked a lot like pictures from in the book. I liked how the actors could just bring apart the set, and there was a new set, and bring apart the set, and there was a new set, and so on. If you open a book, there will be another page behind it, so it was kind of like opening a book. Each set was like seeing another page. And I would like to say congratulations to Blair Thomas for making such a great set and directing very well and making the puppets good.
There are usually no songs in a book, but sometimes in comic books. I liked a lot of the songs (by Hannah Kohl and Mark Messing) in the play, but one of my favorites was "A Mother's Day is Never Done" because it kind of showed kids what it would be like if they ever had kids. Victor sings it when he's older, but this time "A Father's Day is Never Done."
In the scene where Victor is saying how "a father's day is never done," there are these things that pop out of the black curtain behind him. One is a work bag, two is a dinner, three is a story, and four is a pillow. And he would say "Work, dinner, story, sleep" over and over again. I liked how he was still straight up but there was a pillow that he would not actually lay down on. They would just bring it up next to his head, and he would close his eyes. He would do things over and over again and never stop; every day was just a regular old day. You feel sorry for him kind of because he never has time to do things that aren't everyday things.
People that like magic, mystery, and puppets would like this show. I think this show should be for ages 3 and up. People should go to this play because it is funny but also suspenseful. It is an awesome adaptation of The Houdini Box, and if anybody is born and misses it, I hope they do a remount.
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There is a very common problem a church faces when they discover their pastor has fallen….fear of what will happen to the church. Because of this fear the church does the worst thing possible…..they hide what has happened hoping no one will discover the truth.
After the first sin a very similar thing happened for Adam and Eve. Here is a portion of the text that describes our universal response to sin,
Genesis 3: 6-10- "When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she'd know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate. Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on"—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves. When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from God. God called to the Man: "Where are you?" He said, "I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid.""
When the sin of a pastor is known to leadership fear is our first emotion. We begin to think, to discuss, "What will happen to the church if they know this? How can we do 'damage control'? They don't really need to know all of this, do they?"
And when fear drives our response we hide what has happened with phrases like, "Our pastor has taken a leave of absence, he is having family issues and needed some time to work them out." or "The pastor has had an inappropriate relationship with another woman so we asked him to step out of the pulpit for a while." I've heard a dozen other ways this is described, but the goal is always to hide from the church family what has really happened.
All hiding the sin does is confuse the church and raise even more questions! When we fear what might happen, like Adam and Eve, we hide. That is the worst choice we can make! The church family needs to know the truth, they need to hear, "Our pastor has had an affair and we have dismissed him so he can rebuild his family and life, but the real pastor of our church, Jesus Christ, is still our leader."
That will send shock and surprise among the church, but then it's done. Everyone knows. Nothing to hide, now let's rebuild, pray for the pastor, our church and what God wants us to do next. Don't let fear make you hide the truth. Trust God. He will take care of the church if only we would trust him.


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When is the last time that you flipped out at your child? He came up to you and said he wouldn't clean his room. You demanded that he clean his room or he wouldn't get to have his friend over so he stomped away yelling "I hate you!" and slammed the door to his bedroom. How do you react?
Emotions can be really big for adults but they are even bigger to kids. They need you to help them learn to handle their emotions in a way that they can understand. It isn't something they can turn off or stop just because you told them to. Check out these 2 strategies to help your child handle those big emotions even when they are in complete meltdown mode.
how to help your child handle their emotions
There is a lot that goes into understanding how to help your child handle their emotions and it takes all the way into adulthood for them to truly be able to have control over themselves. And I am sure that you can think of a recent situation where you aren't proud of how you handled your own emotions too. So you know it isn't always that simple.
I am going o focus mostly on HOW to use this information rather than the science behind it but I need to give you a super quick once over so that we are on the same page. If you want more information please check out The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind. That s where the information I share comes from and I highly recommend it as a resource for parents of children of any age.
The Science of the whole-brain child
As I said, I'm going to try to keep this quick and simple.
The Left and Right Brains
There are 2 hemispheres of the brain and each is responsible for different parts of a personality.
The left brain is logical, literal, and linguistic. It likes order and making lists. The left brain listens to reason and logic above anything else. It is the part of the brain that makes a child ask "Why?" 8000 times per day.
The right brain is holistic and nonverbal. It cares more about the meaning and feelings behind the experience than the facts of the experience. It interprets emotional information such as facial expressions, posture, tone of voice, and eye contact.
When you tell your son not to push his sister and he says "I didn't push her, I shoved her." That is the left brain talking. It latched on to the fact that you didn't say shove and that makes you wrong and what he did right. When you respond "shoving is still wrong" you are bringing in the right brain to apply morality to the situation.
Strategy 1: Connect and Redirect
I think we have all been that parent who tried to tell our child what to do while they are in a full blown tantrum. And then we get mad when they don't stop and do what we say. All we are trying to do is help them get what they want or move on from the situation that upset them but they won't stop screaming.
Here's the thing. It isn't because they enjoy screaming or don't want to do what they are told. If they are truly upset and emotions are running high, they can't stop. Trust me, they don't enjoy screaming and crying either. But it is all they know how to do in the moment when they are drowning in emotions they don't understand.
When your child is upset the first thing you want to do is to connect with them. Get down to their level (or below it if you can) to communicate that you understand they are having a rough time.
Acknowledge their feelings by speaking their truth.
If your daughter is upset because you said she couldn't have a cookie before dinner, say something like "I know you really wanted a cookie and are disappointed I said no."
This lets her know that you see her feelings and that they do matter to you. It allows her to feel heard and to see that you are there with her in the moment. This will help her be able to balance out her brain.
Remember how we talked about the right brain being all about the feelings? When you told her no, she didn't think about the logic behind why she just heard you being mean and not letting her have her way. By acknowledging her feelings you are giving her the ability to activate her left brain and hear your logical response that will follow.
Now that you have calmed the right brain, you need to engage the left brain. So you can bring in your reasoning for saying no to a cookie before dinner.
"I am glad you are excited about the cookies, but I just want you to eat dinner first. That way you can enjoy your meal and then we can all eat cookies together afterward."
Just give her some simple logic. You can even ask her some questions to pull the reasoning out of her. "But if you eat a cookie now, what will you do with your dinner? Will you still be hungry for it? What about your brother, he will want a cookie too won't he?" Allow her the chance to use logic for herself by giving her prompts like these.
There may be times when it is not something as harmless as ruining a meal. Maybe your son is throwing blocks across the room at his sister's head because she is playing with his cars. In that situation, you would want to remove him from the room in order to stop the destructive and potentially harmful behavior immediately.
It will probably cause a tantrum, but you can begin to connect after removing him from the situation. Then move into your redirection and include an explanation about why you took him out of the room.
Strategy 2: name it to tame it
This strategy is something that I think can be really effective because it gets you very engaged with your child in a supportive way.
Sometimes a bad experience can cloud future potential experiences and make us want to avoid them. For example, you eat lemon chicken and get food poisoning. So now you can't eat lemon chicken without getting sick. But it wasn't actually the chicken, it was the spoiled milk you drank with dessert immediately after it. But you remember the chicken and that experience and emotion changes the story you tell.
The same thing happens with your kids. And you can easily help them handle their emotions by rewriting the story.
Retell the story together
If your child is having a bad reaction to a situation, ask them why. They may simply say they don't want to or they don't like it. And that's okay.
Take the time to sit down with them and talk about it. It is best to do this in an informal setting. Like while you color together or play a board game. That way there is less pressure and your child is more likely to open up while they are engaged in an activity.
Prompt them to begin telling you the story of the bad experience. And help them to name the emotions they felt, good and bad. As necessary, be sure to add in details that they are missing and logic they don't see due to their emotional overload.
Like for a child who gets upset when you leave him at daycare. He remembers you dropping him off and leaving while he cried. But you know there is more to it than that.
You gave him a hug and told him you would pick him up at 4 pm. Then you said goodbye. His teacher took his hand to comfort him and led him to the table for his snack. You then showed up at 4 pm just like you promised.
By filling in those crucial details, you can show your son that he is safe at daycare with his teacher that cares about him. And that he can count on you to be there when you say you will be.
By using this strategy you will help your child to name and understand emotions. You will also give them the chance to enjoy events that are not as traumatizing as they may have seemed at the time.
A key to this strategy is to allow your child to tell the story but to guide them and step in to make sure they have the details and the order of events correct. That way they will be able to use the left brain and the right brain together to fully process the situation.
Help your child handle their emotions
It can be challenging to help your child with their emotions. It is one of the most exhausting parts of parenting because it takes from the time they are born until into adulthood to really complete that part of the job. But by understanding the basics of the right and left brains, you can use these 2 strategies to help your child handle their emotions more easily.
Also check out:
How To Help Your Child Calm Down
Strong Willed Children: How To Discipline Without Yelling


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And once that pointless scene's over with, the guard dogs surrounding the barn start yowling, so I'm guessing yet another shapeshifter's managed to track down The New And Improved Fresh Infant. Zombie Grandpa agrees with me, and pushes the much-abused child into Dean's arms before propelling them downstairs towards the barn's demon-proof panic room, where Dean's to remain during the battle that follows. Sam, for whatever reason, scampers off to stand guard over his brother and the kid while the aggravating Campbells attempt to ward off the thing that's about to come crashing through their door, and that thing is...Zombie Grandpa? Dun-dun-DUN! Or, you know, not, because that thing is actually the shapeshifter in Zombie Grandpa form. Anyway, Fake Zombie Grandpa batters in the triple-locked barn door and lopes to the center of the room before allowing a devious smirk to cross his face as he announces, "You have something of ours." Is that something a METAL TEETH CHOMP!? Because that's all you're getting, Fake Zombie Grandpa. For the moment, at any rate.
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Let us now discuss the question of geography's scientific status in earnest, adding substance to the sketch provided above. For the term 'science' has not just been a rhetorical weapon used by geographers; it has also described specific ways of investigating reality. It is these ways I want now to explain in this and the next two sections before moving on to an assessment of geography's scientific credentials.
I suggested above that the first substantive attempt to make geography a science was a mid-twentieth-century affair. It was arguably inaugurated by one of Richard Hartshorne's sternest critics, Fredrick Schaefer - at least symbolically. The Nature of Geography defined the discipline as the study of 'areal differentiation'. For Hartshorne, geography was a synthesizing or idiographic discipline. Unlike the 'systematic' subjects (such as chemistry), geography looked at how multiple human and physical phenomena came together at the earth's surface. Hartshorne thus favoured the established idea that geography was the study of regional difference.
However, it was not attractive to all geographers. Schaefer, originally an economist, was a German émigré based in the geography department at the University of Iowa. In Europe he had been heavily influenced by the Vienna Circle, a group of philosophers, linguistic theorists and mathematicians dedicated to spelling out the exact nature of scientific inquiry. In 1953 Schaefer published an essay in a leading professional geography journal (the Annals of the Association of American Geographers) entitled 'Exceptionalism in geography'. The exceptionalism he was critical of was the idea, expressed by Harsthorne, that geography was unlike the specialist sciences because it studied unique phenomena (exceptions to rules). Schaefer insisted that the world is not a mosaic of specific regions with little in common. Rather, he maintained that careful observation would reveal that human and physical phenomena were organized into regular spatial patterns. This meant that geography could be a nomothetic or law-seeking discipline, just like many physical sciences were. Its role would be to discover the 'morphological laws' governing different geographical phenomena (e.g. river systems or people's choice of where to buy a house). Laws are regular associations, modes of behaviour or patterns that are relatively invariant and which apply to all the phenomena they describe. They can be deterministic or probabilistic. They are, in the physical sciences at least, usually valid across time and between places and regions. For Schaefer, where the natural and social sciences discover 'process laws' (like that describing the temperature-pressure relationship), geography's role would be to discover the spatial patterning of the visible phenomena those process laws lay behind (morphological laws). And, because such discovery could only proceed on the basis of meticulous observation of numerous instances of these visible phenomena, it followed that for Schaefer geographers would have to become specialists (geomorphologists, economic geographers, hydrol-ogists, etc.) rather than the generalists that Hartshorne so admired.
The precise influence of Schaefer's paper on post-war geographers is unclear, but what is certain is that others soon followed his lead knowingly or otherwise. As a division between (and divisions within) human and physical geography began to solidify, geographers pursued the common goal of describing and explaining spatial patterns. Chorley and Haggett (1967: 20) expressed this view succinctly: 'that there is more order in the world than appears at first sight is not apparent until the order is looked for'. But was the search for geographical order via specialization the only thing that made post-war geography more 'scientific' than pre-war geography? I mentioned in the previous section that the post-war 'spatial scientists' (as they became known) were committed to the scientific world-view, the scientific method, and the use of quantitative and statistical methods - a trinity that is sometimes called positivism. So let me now explain each of these. The scientific world-view is a set of precepts or principles that define the general nature of science. It was the French philosopher, Auguste Comte, who first codified this world-view in the early nineteenth century. Comte was writing at a time when dogmatism, superstition, mysticism and royal diktat still governed much of people's worldly knowledge. For Comte, science should possess five characteristics: le réel, le certitude, le précis, l'utile and le relative (Habermas, 1972). The first meant that scientific knowledge was based on direct experience and observation of reality; the second meant that this observation and experience should be replicable so that all scientists could test its accuracy; le précis meant that all scientific statements about reality should be formally testable; l'utile meant that scientific knowledge should be practically useful because it was based on a correct understanding of how the material world functions; finally, le relative meant that scientific knowledge was unfinished, progressing by continual testing and exploration of new topics. In sum, scientific knowledge would be objective (or value-free), universal, exact, useful and ever-expanding. It would dispel illusions and liberate humankind through its commitment to the discovery of truth.
But how was this thing called science to be undertaken in practice? This is where the Vienna Circle of 'logical positivists' came in, whose work had influenced Schaefer. The Vienna Circle was (and still is) famously associated with explaining the 'proper' scientific method. Their understanding of this method was inspired, in part, by their observation of how the 'experimental' or laboratory sciences, like physics, operated. The Vienna Circle wanted the method to be common to all scientists so that different academic disciplines were distinguished not by how they studied but by what they studied. This method was based on the principle that if a statement or proposition about the world cannot be factually tested, it is meaningless and thus unscientific. The Vienna Circle called the method 'deductive-nomological' in order to distinguish it from the inductive or Baconian method (see Figure 4.1). The latter, implausibly, assumes that scientists observe the material world with no preconceptions and then make inferences based on a limited number of observations that are applied to a much wider set of similar but not observed phenomena (so-called 'extended inference'). Against this, the deductive-nomological method takes the following form. Scientists, equipped with a set of hunches, observe the portion of reality that interests them. They then form an impression of both what exists and why and how it comes to be the way it is. The why and how impressions (explanatory concerns) are then codified into an initial law, model or theory. I defined a law earlier. In basic terms, a model is a simplified representation of reality that aims to depict the key causal variables at work (or the 'signals in the noise'). A theory is a more sophisticated and detailed attempt to offer a rational explanation of reality and comprises a set of consistent, logical statements that would account for the existence of the 'what' (a descriptive concern). In time, models can become theories and theories laws, but this is not to imply that laws are somehow the highest form of scientific knowledge. The initial laws, models and theories that scientists devise are then used to generate empirically testable hypotheses. In turn, these hypotheses are tested by using appropriate methods to gather relevant data. These data are then analysed - again, using appropriate methods -in order to determine whether the laws, models and theories initially proposed can logically and consistently explain that data. If, after a good deal of data have been gathered and analysed, the laws, models and theories are found wanting, then they are either rejected or else modified until they are accurate. Eventually, after repeated verification (i.e. a persistent search for data that show the modified laws, models and theories to be true), the Vienna School believed one could arrive at explanations and, indeed, predictions of the following form:
E (Past, present or future event/s)
Here, a set of empirical events can necessarily be described, explained and predicted from a set of well-confirmed laws, theories or models coupled with factual information about the local conditions prevailing at the site where the explanation or prediction applies. For instance, if a hydrologist has a set of general laws about soil porosity and water throughflow, plus information about the local soil type and its antecedent moisture content, s/he might be able to both explain and predict why and whether overland flow occurs during a particular rainstorm as opposed to sub-surface flow. Some years after the Vienna Circle disbanded, the philosopher of science, Karl Popper amended its account of the deductive-nomological approach by arguing that science is more rigorous and efficient if it is based on
Inductive route Deductive-nomological route
falsification rather than verification. That is, he argued that scientists should look for evidence that disproves their laws, theories and models. His logic was that one refutation will lead scientists to reject or amend a proposed explanation whereas even a thousand verifications only tell us that the explanation has not failed as yet. Popper's 'critical rationalism' (as it has been called) was thus a speedier, more exacting route to scientific truths - though perhaps too exacting for most practising scientists.
So much for scientific method. I mentioned above that specific techniques of both data gathering and data analysis were a key part of this method. It would be futile trying to list all the techniques that scientists have used in their research over the years. Suffice to say that many of these techniques rest upon very precise measurement and equally precise analysis. The appeal of quantitative methods (as opposed to qualitative ones) is that they offer this kind of precision. For instance, there's a difference between observing that water boils when it gets hot and knowing that it normally boils at 100 degrees Celsius at normal atmospheric pressure.
Having discussed this scientific trinity - world-view, method and quantification - it would seem logical to examine the kind of research the spatial scientists did in the 1960s and 1970s and see whether the practice matched the ideas laid down by Comte and the Vienna Circle. In fact things are not so simple. No one, not even Schaefer, laid out a detailed template at the start of geography's 'scientific and quantitative revolution' for others to follow (in fact he died before the 1953 paper was in print). For instance, Schaefer's paper said nothing about scientific method, while it took until 1969 for someone (David Harvey) to spell out the deductive-nomological route to explanation and prediction. Meanwhile, none of the leading spatial scientists had much to say about Comte's positivist world-view - it was very much a 'hidden philosophy'. Yet, as we shall see in the next section, critics of spatial science in the 1970s and in more recent text-book treatment have given the impression that things were otherwise - that spatial scientists had a 'grand plan' and a worked-out conception of science from the very start. The reality is that they operated in a more piecemeal fashion with little formal understanding of positivist world-view or method.
In light of this, what we can say about the spatial scientists? We can't say that they all adopted every last detail of the scientific trinity outlined above. We can say, though, that these geographers tried vigorously to describe and explain a variety of spatial patterns at different scales; that they did so using formal laws, theories and models (the titles of Bunge's book and of Haggett and Chorley's second volume openly advertised the fact); that they thought of themselves as relatively objective seekers after geographical truths; and that they enthusiastically employed quantification in their research. In human geography, for example, the 1960s were the era when Christaller's central place theory, Weber's industrial location theory, Alonso and Muth's urban land use theories and Von
Thunen's agricultural land use theory (among many others) were tested and refined. Human geographers hunted for static and dynamic geographical patterns (such as urban hierarchies and the spatial diffusion of innovations respectively). And they did so using statistics (descriptive and inferential), as well as a number of other numerical measures and procedures. The question is, was this kind of research scientific? And if it wasn't, why not?
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How Bengal Burned in the Name of Ram
April 13, 2018
As I was entering Asansol, I was saw a signboard that says, "Welcome to Asansol: The City of Brotherhood". The city had erupted in communal violence last month, and the irony of this greeting was not lost to me.
At least six persons have lost their lives and around 120 people have been injured in the latest incident of communal violence between the RSS-led Sangh Parivar and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal. More than a hundred homes and shops have been reduced to rubble and ash in this political game of death and destruction. On March 26, a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)-backed Ram Navami rally, with the crowd bearing arms, moved through a Muslim-dominated locality in Raniganj, leading to clashes between the two communities. In the following days, related incidents were reported from other parts of the state. The worst hit was the Asansol-Ranigunj industrial belt in West Bardhaman district. The area is close to Jharkhand where at least four persons died during the clashes between Hindus and Muslims; one person was also killed in neighbouring Purulia; and another in Kankinara in North 24 Parganas district, close to Kolkata. For now, the fire has been doused, but the embers are still glowing in the riot-ravaged areas.
These repeated communal flare-ups in the last couple of years — mainly in industrial areas with a mixed population and in rural Bengal bordering Bangladesh — have been on the rise ever since the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) actively started trying to wrest West Bengal from its friend-turned foe TMC. One of its key strategies is polarising Hindus and Muslims, primarily by inciting the Hindi-speaking poor with a daily dose of militant Hinduism in areas that had, up until now, been strongholds of left labour unions. In areas close to the border, the BJP has been milking the bitterness of the Hindu refugees from Bangladesh in order to consolidate their own vote-bank. Bengali and Hindi-speaking dalit and OBC Hindus are being mobilised by the Sangh's anti-Muslims campaigns to counter Mamata Banerjee's support base among Muslims and Matuas, the most organised group of Namashudras and south Bengal's largest dalit community.
The latest spate of violence during the Ram Navami celebrations is symptomatic of a new phase of politics where the BJP and TMC have been unapologetically communal in their bid to consolidate their vote-banks. It has become more vicious since 2017, after Banerjee pressed her party to organise their own Ram Navami rallies, or take leadership of the old Ram Navami rallies, with more gusto and grandeur. Her decision to challenge the Sangh Parivar's monopoly over the political use of Ram was prompted by her need to flaunt her liberal Hindu credentials. This checkmates BJP's rise as the principal opposition party in the state.
The saffron party has gained ground among the majority community, mainly by accusing the TMC government of passing policies that appease the Muslim population. The TMC has been empowering conservative religious Muslim leaders, claiming to be the sole "protector" of Muslims, an influential minority community which constitutes more than 27% of the state's population. It is another matter that her government has hardly done anything substantial to uplift this influential minority community socio-economically, i.e., in terms of employment and human development indices. Nevertheless, Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee knows well that public perception goes a long way in politics. This is why TMC has actively taken part in this year's Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti celebrations.
The BJP and rest of the Sangh Parivar have been openly celebrating their successful communalisation of politics in Bengal. They have succeeded in setting the agenda for Bengal politics which had, up until now, banished religious polarisation from the mainstream political discourse. The horrors of the Partition were subsumed under post-independence mass movements for land and food during the Congress rule. This was followed by a period of Left hegemony. The TMC government initially prohibited armed Ram Navami rallies from being carried out. However, it was soon accused of being biased for allowing Muslims to hold similar armed rallies during Muharram procession. In the wake of this accusation, coupled with the Sangh Parivar's threats of defying the orders, the Banerjee government gave in and allowed the group to carry out armed rallies in West Bengal. Not only did this further embolden leaders from Hindu right-wing organisations like the Rashtra Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the VHP, and the BJP, the TMC government's move also opened the doors for closet Hindutva forces within the TMC camp, especially those from Hindi-speaking areas with mixed populations. These TMC supporters even participated in the armed processions during Ram Navami.
Nonetheless, the TMC supremo's attempts at co-opting their icon, Lord Ram, has alarmed the saffron camp. She is trying to weaken the latter's support base through what has been called "soft Hindutva" tactics. BJP is not the only one trying to use religion to their advantage. In Asansol, an area with a sizeable Hindi-speaking population, TMC has supported the Hindi-speaking mayor, Jitendra Tiwari. In North 24 Parganas' industrial area, they have fielded Arjun Singh. These leaders wear their Hindu identity on their sleeves, quite obviously using it for political purposes. Meanwhile, the TMC government has also taken steps to keep its Muslim support base intact. They are mainly from the Urdu-speaking communities in these industrial towns. This is clear from the way TMC has publicly denounced the armed Ram Navami processions.
It was in response to such tactics that the Sangh Parivar, which seems to be adept at engineering riots for political ends, decided to break the remaining social bonds between lower caste Hindus and Muslims who live side by side in dingy slums in Asansol's sprawling Rail Par neighborhood (labelled "Mini Pakistan" by the Hindutva forces), Rajbhandh in Raniganj, and Hill Basti near Raniganj. The subaltern non bhadralok Hindus, who are mostly Hindi-speaking, constitute more than 30% of the constituency. The Hindus in these areas are a significant community if BJP wants to consolidate its Hindu vote bank.
Contest over Asansol's Parliamentary Seat
These towns are the worst-hit because of the ongoing tussle for power in the Asansol parliamentary constituency. It is an important constituency as it includes former coal hub Raniganj and the surrounding industrial towns like Kulti and Jamuria, all of which come under same Nagar Nigam. The newly formed police commiserate in the constituency includes the steel town Durgapur under its jurisdiction. BJP's Babul Supriyo, who briefly tried his luck at playback singing in Bollywood before turning to divisive politics, won the parliamentary seat from Asansol in 2014. His win was a result of the division of anti-BJP votes at the height of Modi-wave, as well as infighting within the TMC. Although it was once a Left stronghold, Asansol's current civic administrative body and most of its assembly seats are now held by the TMC. Mamata Banerjee is eager to recover this important constituency from the BJP. West Bengal's ruling party has already succeeded in poaching Opposition leaders, luring away about a dozen BJP, as well as Left and Congress, councilors in the civic body by dangling carrots and sticks. But the Sangh Parivar is equally determined to hold onto Asansol because its mixed population makes BJP's campaign for Hindu-Hindi-Hindustan easy to realise. Supriyp, who had once shared jhal muri, spiced puffed rice, with the TMC supremo, is now a BJP MP from Asansol.
The first-time MP has been given a position in the Narendra Modi government as a cabinet minister. This shows how serious BJP is about making inroads in West Bengal. The rookie politician, who currently serves as the Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, actively participated in the Ram Navami processions this year before riots broke out across the constituency. He contributed to the violence by fanning the already rising hostilities between the two communities through his biased reporting of the issue, slandering the Muslim population on social media. In fact, he was saber-rattling on the ground when parts of the towns were still aflame. The rookie politician has already honed his skills in realpolitik and is now keen on holding his fort at all costs.
On 26th march, after riots broke out in Raniganj, he tweeted, "The Goons from Minority community came, slaughtered and was given a safe haven to escape. The entire nation needs to know how dirty a politics of Appeasement Mamata Govt is playing in Bengal." The message was dutifully retweeted by @BJP4India @narendramodi @AmitShah @BJP4Bengal @KailashOnline @DilipGhoshBJP, the last one being the Bengal BJP chief. For the next four days, he continued to post videos of atrocities committed against Hindus and TV channel clippings of Hindus leaving their areas in desperate search of safety. But he deliberately chose to maintain silence about the atrocities that the Muslims faced. Not once did he appeal to the general public, to people from both the communities, to stop the madness. As an elected representative of the people of Asansol, he should have spoken on behalf of all faiths. However, neither did he bother to call for communal amity, nor did he applaud a local Imam's appeal for peace, an especially commendable gesture seeing as how the Imam lost his teenage son in the riots.
Supriyo's Facebook post from April 1 reveals that the minister, who once sang Tagore's soulful songs and romantic cine melodies, is now perfectly tuned to Hindutva politics of hatred and dehumanisation of the Other. "Victims do not have any religion or party — that's what the rhetoric goes but in the practical world Truth is not based on Academics or Rhetoric. Truth is Truth AND THIS IS the truth…" he wrote, pointing to his one-sided reports of communal violence. Nevertheless, the twitter-savvy minister later claimed to have faced "inner question" and offered to tender his resignation from the ministry to the Prime Minister, apparently in a move to do some damage control, both for his party and himself.
However, he was careful enough to make his inner voice pragmatic and politically correct. He accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of being communal, "uncouth and desperate to win elections with unfair means," while being dutifully deferential to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "'Don't quit- fight.' he told me," Babul said, referring to the Prime Minister's advice. He also claimed that it was the Prime Minister who inspired him to "triumph against all this dirty noise by continuing to fight with a goal in sight that of Development for ALL, something he did in Gujarat."
Be that as it may, the question still remains, why did Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his minister Babul Supriyo, and their party, BJP, fail to call for communal peace and an end to the violence from all sides, even rhetorically?
Inflammatory Slogans
Both the flashpoints in Asansol and Raniganj — Chandmari and Hill Basti, respectively — were considered "sensitive areas" by BJP, VHP, and the Hindu Jagaran Manch, as well as the Trinamool Congress government, since these areas had experienced communal skirmishes even before the Ram Navami processions. Despite this, the Sangh Parivar insisted on taking the procession through the Muslim-dominated or mixed population pockets, and the civic administration allowed it. Soft-spoken but cautious, Shashi Bhusan Yadav, the VHP district secretary who came to a rendezvous with three journalists, including this correspondent, after being on the run following a police lookout for his role in instigating the violence, blamed the police and TMC for the violence. "We had coordinated with police for security bondobasts in the troubled zones the nights before in view of the earlier troubles and got the assurance of safe passage from the top cops this time," he informed us.
Muslims from both the affected neighbourhoods complained that the Ram Navami processions raised deliberately provocative and derogatory slogans and songs, amplified by booming DJ sound boxes, while passing by the mosques during the time of prayers. Locals from both communities told us some of the slogans raised by the saffron marchers:
"Hindustan Me Rahna Hoga, Jai Sri Ram Bolna Parega"
"Ramlala hum ayenge, Mandir oohi Banayenge"
"Ailan Korte hai dank eke chot par, mandir banayenge har more par"
"Deshdrohi Musalman, ya to Jao Pakistan ya kabarsthan"
"Dhudh mangoge to khir denge, Kashmir mangoge to chirr denge"
Seventy-year old Gopal Sharma, a hardcore BJP supporter, whom we met at a tea stall on NS Road in Raniganj market area, said he had participated in the rally in the other part of the city and the marchers there had raised the same slogans. "What's wrong in that? Either Muslims should accept Sri Ram as the deity of all Indians and stop opposing construction of his temple at Ayodhya, or they should go to Pakistan."
However, both Yadav and Madan Trivedi, general secretary of the Raniganj unit of BJP, denied brandishing swords and other sharp weapons, or using bombs. In fact, they gave an altogether different story when asked about the provocative sloganeering. "We did raise slogans demanding a 'stop [to] cow-slaughter' and urging the Hindus to pledge to build a temple at the Ram Janambhoomi. But I have no knowledge of any abusive slogans being raised at Hill Basti." However, he justified his opinion by demanding an end to "Hindu victimhood" in Bengal, making a point to note the difference between "good Muslims and bad Muslims," according to him.
"Modiji wants Muslims to hold Quran in one hand and a computer in the other. But if they support Pakistan and harbour jihadis, we are not going to tolerate it. This time, they had started the violence, so our boys may have retaliated. Hindus in Bengal have been reduced to the same status as the Pandits in Kashmir. How long we will suffer," the RSS member turned BJP leader added.
The middle-aged VHP leader also denied having any personal knowledge of inflammatory slogans having been raised. "We don't play songs apart from those that are on the VHP's official site. If some people raised slogans or played songs that hurt the other people's faiths, we do not sanction it." Maintaining that the police could have seized the DJ boxes in the rallies if they wanted to, he pointed out that the police, in fact, did not show them any official notification banning the use of weapons, DJ, boom boxes, etc, during its meetings with the organisers before the processions.
The saffron camp admitted that their show of strength on Ram Navami was part of a political campaign to counter the TMC but blamed the ruling state government and Muslim supporters for the violence. "Ram Navami celebration used to be held in temples and mahallahs even before. We did not bring out big processions, nor did we display traditional weapons before 2011, when the Mamata Banerjee government came to power. We decided to oppose her decisions to appease Muslims, like the declaration of a public holiday on Milad-Un Nabi. Our processions gathered strength after the Modi government came to power at the Centre. As the joint processions of akharas have been coordinated mainly by the VHP, the spread of Hindutva messages has definitely helped the BJP," Trivedi, a bookshop owner, said.
"TMC is worried about our growing support base after seeing the high footfall in our rallies. They orchestrated the violence this year in order to ban the Ram Navami rallies in light of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in 2019," he said, pointing out the presence of some TMC leaders at the Sita Ram temple before the rally begun and their "sudden departure" after the violence began.
The Sangh's concerns became clear when Yadav called Mamata Banerjee's move an attempt to "hoodwink Hindus after betraying them." "She is trying to divide Hindu organisations. Apart from VHP, there is the Hindu Jagaran Manch, who also have contacts with the Sangh. Then there is the Hindu Sanghati, which is opposes the attacks on Hindus but supports the TMC," he said, referring to a fanatic fringe group run by a former RSS Pracharak, Tapan Ghosh, an exponent of the Bengali brand of north Indian Hindutva.
The Sangh's Dalit Card
The epicenter of the latest incidents of communal eruptions in Asansol-Raniganj underline the Sangth's strategy to instigate dalit and OBC Hindus, both Bengali and Hindi-speaking, into becoming foot soldiers of its anti-Muslim campaigns, which is now coterminous with anti-Mamata mobilisations. This has become evident from the recent riots in bordering areas like Basirhat and Nakasipara, and industrial areas like Dhulagarh and Hajinagar. Lower class and caste Hindus live side by side with Muslims of the same strata in Asansol's Rail Par and Raniganj's Rajbandh locality. Described as "mini Pakistan" by middle class Hindus in general and Hindu organisations in particular, most Muslims primarily supported the TMC in the last polls, while also helping the Left parties retain some of the civic wards in these former strongholds of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The dalits have gradually switched sides since the rise of the Sangh Parivar in Bengal.
The dalit boys at Dompara in Hill Basti area in Raniganj, who reside in close proximity to poor Muslims, said that they were taught to raise anti-Muslim slogans by some Bajrang Dal and Hindu Jagaran Manch activists. "We have been participating in the Ram Navami rallies for the last three–four years. They say Hindu dharma and samaj are in danger, and we must join the fight to save it as we, too, are Hindus," Krishna Badyakar said. Some of the Dompara boys have been at loggerheads with local TMC leaders like Intikhab Khan alias Billi since the 2014 polls because they had sided with the BJP, explained Jitu Badyokar, one of the Dompara boys.
The Sangh Parivar's focus on dalits and OBC Hindus has become more obvious as both Yadav and Aloke Singh, the district BJP vice-president, have mentioned that "most of the Hindu victims in the latest riots belonged to scheduled castes." "The SCs constitute around 35% of the constituency's population and our support has been growing among them. We are working hard for Hindu unity," added Yadav. "Our MP has been holding regular Sangsad Mela in those areas. He has been facilitating issuing of Aadhar cards, gas connections, Mudra Bank support for women, and distributing solar panels. Next time, we will win Asansol by a bigger margin. Hindus, low and high, know by now who are their real protectors in Bengal," Singh added. It's another matter that dalits elsewhere have become the biggest barrier in the BJP's bid to win the next general elections.
Biswajit Roy is a Calcutta-based retired journalist who had worked with The Telegraph, Times of India, The Statesman as well as Anandabazar Patrika. He served stints in the north-east and north India as well as in his home state, West Bengal.Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the writer's own, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Indian Writers' Forum.
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Derby-born trained at the prestigious Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Once graduating Andy landed a role in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, marking his professional debut. In the same year he travelled Europe playing Brad and Riff Raff to packed audiences in the European tour of the classic cult hit The Rocky Horror Show.
Later he went on to play one of the students in the Oscar winning movie musical version of Les Miserables alongside Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, directed by Tom Hooper. He then joined the West End cast of Les Miserables as Montparnasse and understudied Marius.
Throughout his career Andy has performed in many prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall as part of Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday celebrations. He has performed in special guest slots for West End leading ladies Julie Atherton and Emma Hatton as well as making his solo debut concert at The Pheasantry in London. He performed alongside Broadway star Eden Espinosa in Christmas In New York at London's Palace Theatre and Manchester Opera House. And earlier this year he was a lead soloist in the The Knights of Music, a concert tour which brought UK national treasure Phillip Schofield back to the stage.
Other credits include: Jamie in the Frankfurt premiere of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. American music mogul Tony Visconti in the U.K. Tour of 20th Century Boy: The Marc Bolan Musical. Pablo in the sell-out summer season of Sister Act at Kilworth House Open Air Theatre. For the last few years Andy has been heavily involved in the workshops of new musicals Pieces of String directed by Strictly Come Dancing judge, Craig Revel Horwood, and Defect by Lift composer, Craig Adams.


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I'm heading out to stadiums #20 and 21 for this year. Going to watch the Astros then Rangers. Any "absolute have to do's"? For a family?
Added by Brooks on July 10, 2017 at 5:12pm — No Comments
I just completed a trip to the Rust Belt with my brother for stadiums #5-#8. We thought the trip was going to be our worst one, but we were pleasantly surprised. Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati are all very nice cities.
We found the best BBQ chicken we've ever had at Red Smoke BBQ in Detroit's Greektown. It was moist, well seasoned, and out of this world when paired with their cherry molasses BBQ sauce.
In Cleveland we stayed at the Drury Inn Downtown. Drury Inns…Continue
Added by Lauren Hyde on July 4, 2017 at 12:02pm — 2 Comments
I was in Dallas for business before the season started and got to take a tour of Globe Life Park.
Here is my photo diary: LINK
Added by John (20 current MLB/11 old MLB) on June 21, 2017 at 8:36am — No Comments
Just joined this site and feel at home.. I'm not crazy for wanting to visit all the parks! Just went to Pittsburgh and Philly for Stadiums 9 and 10 and have an upcoming trip to Texas for 2 more.. Just wanted to say hello to everyone on this site.. only 18 more to go! …Continue
Added by Jose Cano on June 7, 2017 at 7:45pm — 4 Comments
Saw my last 5 MLB ballparks this week on the East Coast. Have now been to all 30 of the current MLB ballparks. Visited 27 of them in the last two seasons. Had a great time and met some great people along the way. Caught two foul balls this season, definitely a highlight. Went to my first Stadium Opener in Atlanta. Now it's time to start tackling the MiLB. Have only seen 6 of those so far so I have a long way to go. Hopefully bump into some more Chasers and Stampeders along the way,
Added by Kevin on May 29, 2017 at 8:34am — 2 Comments
Here are some pictures of my recent trip to see the Beloit Snappers, Single A affiliate of the Oakland A's.
Added by John (20 current MLB/11 old MLB) on May 18, 2017 at 6:29am — No Comments
I went to my first ever Major League Baseball game with my mom. I suppose it is appropriate, then, that for the first game of this trip, I went with my mom. Here we are by the old Home Run Apple from Shea Stadium, which sits out front of the stadium.
The Mets pay homage to the old Shea stadium in a number of places. There are plaques in the parking lot…Continue
Added by Jason S. on May 10, 2017 at 12:00pm — No Comments
I am not sure when I first got the idea. Probably in late high school or early college. It wasn't a sudden realization, more of a slow dawning.
I want to see a baseball game at every Major League Baseball stadium.
Maybe it was because my first game was at Wrigley Field. I walked out into the stands and thought, "What beautiful wonder is this, with pristine green grass and ivy covered walls under wide open blue sky?" (Actually, I was seven or eight;…Continue
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This is a wall in my office that my wife created showing me at all of the current ballparks, plus a couple more (Riverfront Stadium & Candlestick Park). I just replaced Turner Field with Sun Trust Park.
Added by gerry(40) on May 1, 2017 at 11:50am — No Comments
Cold and blustery night. Ridiculous weather delays. Got little sleep. Totally worth it.
Added by John (20 current MLB/11 old MLB) on April 13, 2017 at 12:00pm — No Comments
In 2013 I completed one of my bucket list items of going to all of the MLB ballparks. Fenway Park was the only one I hadn't taken my picture at, so we went back there in 2015, took the tour and had our picture taken.
Now with the Braves opening Sun Trust Park next month, I just got tickets to opening day. Looking forward to seeing another new ballpark!
Added by gerry(40) on March 10, 2017 at 7:28am — 4 Comments
Looking forward to a trip 3 weeks away, heading to Phoenix where a group of 4 buddies are meeting up, and I will be hitting four "firsts":
1) NCAA Final Four! Sorry, not baseball related, but I've been to 7-8 1st/2nd rounds of the NCAA Tourney, but never a Final 4! Was lucky enough to get tickets this year, after many unsuccessful attempts.
2) Spring Training! We will catch 2, possibly 3 games, as follows:
- 3/30 12:10 Rockies @ Padres at Peoria Stadium
Added by Eric Sather (14) on March 9, 2017 at 8:08pm — 2 Comments
My son and I always compete to see how many triple peanuts we can get out of a bag at the games we go to. There was a game I went to without him so I took a photo of my triple to send him in the name of good-natured taunting.
Here is a collection of my triples since that time - hope you enjoy!
Added by John (20 current MLB/11 old MLB) on November 8, 2016 at 11:01am — 2 Comments
Added by Kevan Schaeffer on September 20, 2016 at 6:02am — 2 Comments
45 MLB ballparks under my belt, twice in my life I've been to all current. 4 more makes it 3! Flying out to Minneapolis, New York then Miami to make it to the round number of 49... Looks like I'll have to wait for Atlanta's opening in 2017 to make it to 50. Wave if you see me!
Added by Douglas Nerdahl on September 18, 2016 at 9:00am — No Comments
REDMOND, WA, August 26th, 2016 / PR Newswire/ --
It's a wrap! The official Third Annual Ballpark Chasers Meetup was a huge hit! See the photo highlights here.
The 2016 Chasers Meetup was held August 20th in Baltimore, Maryland. The…Continue
Added by Craig (17) on August 26, 2016 at 3:01pm — No Comments
Yankees 8, Rays 4
Added by Megan (6/30) on August 22, 2016 at 7:09pm — No Comments
Great trip to Denver/Kansas City.
If you fly in to Denver, don't waist your time renting a car.I stayed down in what they call Denver teck center at Hampton Inn. Its right next to there train system that takes you anywhere you really have to go. If your not going to Rockies game. the train also stops right at Bronco's stadium,next stop at pepsi center for hockey and next, union station for coors field.. Great trip, Denver was awesome.!!
Kansas City is always fun.You do need…Continue
Added by John Dougherty on August 7, 2016 at 10:08am — No Comments
Added by Dave Nykanen on July 31, 2016 at 2:55am — No Comments
Chaser places to go would be a little bar at Jack London Square called,"Heinolds First and Last Bar. You can drink your beers outside in the sand patio and the bar itself is one of a kind.. Fun super little place and not all that far from the stadium.
Added by John Dougherty on July 18, 2016 at 3:37pm — No Comments