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Special Locutions on Iraq
Events in Iraq (A Special Locution)
Friday, June 13th, 2014
I can only use the word "magnitude" because the terrorists will bring about the collapse of an existing government. World leaders do not grasp the hearts of the..
The Coming Synod
Saturday, June 14th, 2014
The Catholic Church has existed for 2000 years only because I have held her in my heart. This happened from the very beginning because I was with the disciples on..
A New Role for the Pope
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
After Pentecost, as the apostles set out, I went with them. This was a gift given to me by the Holy Spirit. For all these centuries, I have been the Mother of the..
Satan's Worldwide Plan
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
I must speak out. I can no longer hold the words in because the world and its leaders do not understand all the events that are taking place in Iraq and Syria. These..
Oil on the Lamptstand
Monday, June 16th, 2014
The future of the Church will not be an easy path. First, the Church has suffered from so many sides. Its critics rejoice because their voices are so strident and..
Prevailing over Hell
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
All see the Church's organizations and its institutions. However, what really is the Catholic Church? Why is it so important at this moment? We must go back to..
Leading to the Ultimate Fire (A Special Locution)
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Keep your eyes focused on the Middle East. I told you a long time ago that the war in Syria would not end quickly and because it would continue that many structures..
The Voice of Light
Friday, June 20th, 2014
In the middle of this darkness are many voices of light, but so many of these voices are tiny. They are voices of lay people, of children, even of religious women who..
Mankind is over the Brink
Saturday, June 21st, 2014
Formerly, mankind was on the brink. Now it has gone over the brink. The previous century was filled with many evils and mankind was advancing into the darkness. ..
The Human Person
Call from God
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Every human person has a call from God, a word placed in the deepest part of their person. God places this call at the moment of their conception, when he directly..
Deprived of Divine Light
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
I want to bring you into the deepest mystery. The human person, has God's plan stamped forever on the soul. This is man's hidden identity, unique to each individual..
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The editor of these locutions, Msgr. John Esseff, is a diocesan priest of Scranton, PA, ordained in 1953. In 1959, Padre Pio became his spiritual director. For many years Msgr. Esseff was the spiritual director of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Some years ago, Jesus and Mary began to speak through the gift of locutions to a special soul under his direction. Beginning on December 10, 2010, locutions were received that are meant to be told to the whole world. Msgr. Esseff has discerned the validity of these locutions.
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Christmas has the market sewn up when it comes to holiday songs.
But there are enough New Year's songs around to fill up a mixtape, if indeed people still fill out mixtapes.
One or two songs stand out historically among the rest, but let's face it "Auld Lang Syne" is getting a little auld!
The 18th century Scottish toast to nostalgia written by Robert Burns himself never mentions the holiday, and yet has been tied to it tightly through the years. That was especially true in the U.S. in the 20th century when it became theme Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians — broadcasting's face of the calendar change from 1926 at least until Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve got into the act (Lombardo died in 1977).
It's still a very pervasive purveyor of the season and current favorite and varied versions of the song come from Andrew Bird, Colbie Cailla, James Taylor, Sufjan Stevens, The Beach Boys, Esquivel, The Reducers, Los Straightjackets and even Keyboard Cat. There are some lovely variants as well, as Susan McKeown's weaves in a Celtic counter melody and Bobby Darin swings it into the rest of Yuletide in "Christmas Auld Lang Syne."
The second most popular song for the end of the year has to do with planning. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?," written by Frank Loesser, is the kind of ballad that is usually sung in a melancholy tone because the singer instinctively knows the answer (you're probably busy).
The Orioles were the first group to make it a hit in 1949. It has since been performed by all manner of people from Ella Fitzgerald, Lou Rawls and Ramsey Lewis to The Carpenters, King Curtis and last year, the group The Head and the Heart.
After those two classics, it's really a grabbag of also-ran New Years numbers, unknown gems and occasional ringers.
The one that stands out, of course, is U2's 1983 anthem from their second album "War," "New Year's Day," which is sort of a vague drawing of battle lines mixed with a love song. It remains a bracing antidote to gooey nostalgia.
One of the older blues tunes about the holiday was Mary Harris' "Happy New Year Blues," in which she admits, "I'm still feeling the same old way" despite the calendar change to 1936. With influential bluesman Peetie Wheatstraw backing her on piano, she finally admits, "I'm changing my way of living, that's all I have to say."
Come 1953 Lightning Hopkins was jumpin' with "Happy New Year," the logical flipside to his single "Merry Christmas." "Don't think about Christmas," he sings in it, "cause Christmas just has left."
What makes a classic and what makes a forgotten holiday song? Irving Berlin wrote both "White Christmas" and ""Let's Start the New Year Right" for Bing Crosby to sing in the 1942 movie "Holiday Inn."
The former was a No. 1 song for 11 weeks that became a perennial classic; the other barely hit No. 18 in 1943 and certainly seems forgotten these days. Still, it's a decent mid-tempo number that begins with a countdown: "Five minutes to midnight…"
Likewise, bluesman Charles Brown will forever be linked to his "Merry Christmas Baby" but not so much for his 1961 follow-up, "Bringing in a Brand New Year."
When Spike Jones & His City Slickers had a hit in 1948 with "All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth," they put another novelty song, "Happy New Year," on the flipside. The lively recording features all three of Jones' comedy voices: Earl Bennett (as Sir Frederick Gas), George Rock and Doodles Weaver. The party, with complicated clanking bells and sound effects, was all recorded live in one take, according to Dr. Demento, who anthologized it for his "Holidays in Dementia."
That 1995 collection closed with Los Angeles parodist Scary Gary Alan, "New Year's Resolutions," with the tune of "Auld Lang Syne" that incorporates some rapped gags.
Of the other songs of the season, the Coolbreezers, living up to their name, gave a swingin' greeting on their 1957 "Hello Mr. New Year," backed by Al White and his band.
The Heartbeats, whose "A Thousand Miles Away" was stolen for "Daddy's Home" by Shep & the Limelights, has some of the same vibe in 1957's "After New Year's Eve," a single that asks, "Did you have a ball on New Year's Eve?"
In 1967, Otis Redding and Carla Thomas pledged to "finish what we started" on "New Year's Resolution," which kicked off side two to their "King & Queen" collaboration that also included "Tramp" and "Knock on Wood."
The Eagles concocted the throwaway "Funky New Year" as a B-side to their 1981 holiday single, a cover of "Please Come Home for Christmas," but they did play the song on one of their comeback tours.
Likewise "New Year's Eve Party" was the flipside to George Thorogood's more enduring 1983 single "Rock and Roll Christmas"
The Bottle Rockets called their 1999 album "Brand New Year" and had two versions of the title song on it – metalloid and mandolin-backed; both with the same lament: "Brand new year, same old troubles."
A similarly country-tinged ditty from 2004, Charlie Robison's agreeable "New Year's Day" acknowledged the calendar change but doubted it would affect things much on the border, since "it's always been this way."
Judy Garland, for her well-regarded 1957 album "Alone" recorded the ultimate song about being dateless on New Year's Eve. And yet, in the ironically-titled "Happy New Year" she seems to give an inadvertent shout out to a future audience when she notes, "The gay ones don their silly paper hats/ And blow their stupid little horns."
A number of songs thought to be about the New Year, though, are really not. And I'm not just talking about Europe's ever-recurring "The Final Countdown."
In the rap field, Snoop Dogg's "New Years Eve," for example, uses the day as merely a metaphor for a fine lady. "Every time I see you shine it's like the lights at midnight on New Year's Eve," collaborator Marty James sings.
Van Morrison's "Celtic New Year," from his 2005 "Magic Time" album may qualify as a perfect holiday song until you realize that the Celtic New Year actually falls on Nov. 1.
Great Lake Swimmers' 2011 track "Gonna Make It Through This Year" is not specific about the date either. Singer Tony Dekker could be talking about the fiscal year except for the six feet of snow.
Foo Fighters' "Next Year," the final single from their 2000 album "There is Nothing Left to Lose," talks about vague plans for homecoming in a single chorus lyric: "I'll be coming home next year." No promise that it's Jan. 1 (Indeed, the song was vague enough to serve as theme song to TV's "Ed" for one season).
But there's something both specific and very European about Abba's 1980 "Happy New Year," a cut from their "Super Trouper" album, and it may be the yodel-like Alpine trill to the chorus.
Death Cab for Cutie's "The New Year," which kicks off their 2003 album "Transatlanticism," shows some disillusion with the distinction of Jan. 1 immediately after midnight strikes. "I don't feel any different," Ben Gibbard sings.
Former Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson wrote a strong anthem for the holiday with his "What a Year for a New Year," widely heard on the swell 2002 multiple-artist holiday collection "Maybe This Christmas."
And Regina Spektor also revived a nice holiday tune in 2007 with the seemingly overly polite "My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)," a song co-written by Peggy Lee and Paul Horner for her failed 1983 Broadway show "Peg."
Lee's original recording (minus the sirens and gunfire sound effects) can be found on the 2006 compilation "Christmas with Peggy Lee."
Azure Ray's 2002 "The New Year," from their "Burn and Shiver" album has them singing in high notes about the promise of the new year to a tinkly electronic backing.
In "New Year," one of the catchiest songs from the latest album from Beach House, "Bloom," the Baltimore duo talks about hopes and promises and and "a portrait of a young girl waiting for a New Year."
Tori Amos' "Our New Year," capping her 2009 holiday collection "Midwinter Graces" album, the protagonist keeps thinking she is seeing a loved one at a party, though she is wrong. Some assumed it was inspired by the death of her brother in a car accident in 2005, but she's said she'd rather keep the subject of the song private.
There are a few New Year's Eve songs that never mention those words.
Pink's "Raise Your Glass" may be associated with the last day of the year because it was used in the movie "New Year's Eve," and of course involves toasting and drinking (the soundtrack to that movie did include a song called "New Year" by Kate York).
George Harrison's "Ding Dong, Ding Dong," the second single from his 1974 "Dark Horse" album, is all about the New Year without ever saying so, from its opening "Ring out the old, ring in the new," to its wry commentary on time itself: "Yesterday, today was tomorrow/ And tomorrow, today will be yesterday."
The Breeders 1983 "New Year," from their hit album "Last Splash," is unlikely to make it to party mixes. In it, Kim Deal sings, "I am the new year" just as she sings "I am the rain" and "I am the sun." A new video of it, "New Year XX" heralded their 2013 tour marking the 20th anniversary of "Last Splash."
One nice addition to the end of year set of songs was Tom Waits' "New Year's Eve," which closes his 2011 collection "Bad as Me." In it, he describes the end of a raucous evening just before someone dashes it all and moves to Vegas.
And just as he had used the melody to open "A Sight for Sore Eyes" in 1977, this one also ends with the old words of Robert Burns: "Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind…"


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Granite Kitchen Sink Buying Guide
Posted by Ship It Appliances Ltd on 25th Feb 2015
Granite is one of the most durable and hard-wearing materials that you can choose for your kitchen sink. While most kitchen appliance brands boast similar benefits of their granite sinks, each one has spent years perfecting its own granite materials. Here is a quick guide to the different types of granite sinks that you can find:
Franke Granite Sinks
Fragranite is a material exclusive to Franke granite sinks, manufactured from 80% quartz. It offers up a very durable surface, with a wide range of benefits including:
- Germ proof
- Scratch proof
- Impact proof
- Stain proof
- Fade proof
- Heat proof
Schock Granite Sinks
Schock produces granite kitchen sinks with two types of materials that are made from 80% quartz: CRISTADUR® and CRISTALITE® PLUS. This material is known for being particularly resistant to dirt, as it is completely non-porous and leaves no room for bacteria. There are many other benefits to Schock granite sinks, such as:
- Impact resistant
- Stain resistant
- Heat proof
- Food safe
- Prohygenic
- Dirt repellent
- Odour free
Astracast Granite Sinks
Astracast granite sinks are made with the hard-wearing ROK material, which is manufactured from 90% quartz crystaline particles. This material sets itself apart from other granite because it has a high concentration of quartz at the surface – where the durability is needed most. As such, Astracast granite sinks offer up the following benefits:
- Heat resistant
- Scratch resistant
- Stain resistant
- Impact resistant
- Easy to clean
- Antibacterial
How to Clean Granite Sinks
Since granite kitchen sinks are resistant to staining and germs, they are quite easy to clean and care for. After every use, you should do a quick rinse and dry of the surface to prevent any build-up of grease or dirt. If you happen upon any tougher stains, all you need is a gentle cleaner. In many cases, dishwasher soap, a bleach/water solution or vinegar/water solution should be enough.


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Our country is large, but our Wal-Marts are larger
I just finished driving from Seattle to Washington, DC, which explains my neglect of the blog. I've been more concerned with straightening out last-minute snafus via cell phone, than with posting here. And sadly, I was traveling alone, so I … Continue reading
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But where's the Cephalopod counter?
Every biologist secretly craves seafood counters labeled "Crustacea" in beautiful art deco lettering. Thank you, Harrods.
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Wrong continent.
Portobello Road, London This is not what I usually envision when I think of "Chelsea galleries." But to be fair, their Chelsea did come first.
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Damn you, Tate Gallery!
The Lady of Shalott, 1888 John William Waterhouse I arrived at the Tate Britain (better known by its former name, the Tate Gallery) Monday morning, only to discover that their entire inventory of pre-Raphaelites had been removed from display a … Continue reading
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Good company
Today I visited Darwin and Chaucer in Westminster Abbey. Newton was there too, but he was being all standoffish behind an iron railing (possibly to deter enthusiastic fans of The Da Vinci Code, but more likely for some liturgical reason). … Continue reading
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Gas Works Park
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After a week with Fat Boy the pygmy hippo, zoo keepers at the Dreher Park Zoo know why West Africans bestowed the nickname "river pigs" on members of Fat Boy's species.
"Fat Boy was frolicking around his first day until he walked toward the water and no one has seen him out of the water since," said zoo keeper Frank Griffiths. Fat Boy has spent all his time in the silty, 6-foot-deep pond.
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Ever since winning the Coppa Italia on 26 May, Italian Football Federation member of the board and President of S.S. Lazio, Claudio Lotito, has begun to release statements that have become progressively more offensive, unacceptable and often untrue. He is evidently taking no notice of the trophy victory that earned S.S. Lazio the right to contest the Italian Super Cup, but is instead focusing on the monetary sum he thinks the club entitled to.
Juventus Football Club has always respected the regulations and decisions of the Lega Calcio, as shown most recently by the letter sent on 8 March 2013 which explained that the club would be unable to contest the Italian Super Cup abroad. In the following Assembly meetings, the Super Cup was often one of the main topics on the agenda but it was never discussed, least of all was any decision ever reached on the matter. For months, the Lega Calcio management ignored Juventus' aforementioned stance on the matter and for some days they have been tolerating Lotito's words and behaviour which are both unacceptable to the life of the association and also harmful to Juventus.


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As a SpongeBob SquarePants fan, I find jellyfish rather charming. Japanese fishermen, however, do not. Regions which have traditionally been fishing grounds in Japan have been inundated by jellyfish which are making it difficult to catch fish. They destroy fishing nets, poison fish, and generally make life hard for anglers. Who's to blame? Why, of course, that universal bogeyman for what ails the world, China. From a 2005 Economist article:
The jellyfish spawn along the coasts of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea and some drift towards Japan. It usually takes two months or more for the first to reach the Japanese island of Tsushima, in the middle of the strait between South Korea and Kyushu. This year, however, the jellyfish arrived a month earlier than usual, in August, and in big numbers. In May and June, heavy rains in the basin of the Yangtze river had created an enormous flow of fresh water, and this jet had sluiced the jellyfish towards Japan...[UPDATE: You must see these photos to appreciate the size of these jellyfish.] See? Even Japanese fishermen are going China bashing; it's the global sport of choice. Unfortunately, things have not gotten any better since 2005. Here is more from the accompanying Wall Street Journal article to the clip above. Interestingly, the mega-disastrous Three Gorges Dam even figures its way into the story:
No one knows the exact reason for the rise in the jellyfish population, but there are suspicions. One is the development of ports and harbours along the Chinese coast, which has created many more structures to which echizen larvae can attach themselves. Another is that the seas off China are choked with nutrient-rich run-off from farms and industry. A third is Chinese overfishing in local waters: with fewer fish, there are more of the kinds of plankton on which the jellyfish feed.
Fisherman Ryoichi Yoshida pulled in his nets before dawn one morning, hoping for lots of yellowtail and mackerel. But the fish were overwhelmed by a heaving mass of living pink slime. The creatures, called Nomura jellyfish, can measure six feet across and weigh up to about 450 pounds. They have been drifting en masse to places like Oki, a small island 40 miles off the coast, bobbing beneath the surface of the water like pink mines. They rip holes in fishermen's nets, and they poison fish.
"Normally, we just bring up the nets and it takes about an hour," said the weather-beaten Mr. Yoshida, 61 years old, after his crew had cleared the jellyfish out of the nets using long poles and hooks. "Now it takes two or three hours. And some of the fish escape."
Until 2002, these giant creatures were seen only occasionally in Japanese waters. But for the past five years, they have been swarming every year into the Sea of Japan, the water that separates Japan from mainland Asia. During the biggest invasion so far, in 2005, an estimated 500 million jellyfish -- not yet mature -- drifted in each day.
It's hard to calculate financial damage to fishermen, but the Japanese government last year counted about 50,000 incidents of jellyfish trouble. Fish poisoned by jellyfish tentacles die with their mouths agape. That mars their appearance and reduces their value by as much as 20%. "When their mouths are wide open, it means they've died going, 'I'm in pain! I'm in pain!' " explains Mr. Yoshida.
Scientists have various ideas about what causes the outbreak. One has devised a computer model of ocean currents that suggests the jellyfish are breeding off the Chinese coast near the mouth of the Yangtze River. One theory is that pollution, perhaps linked to industrialization in China, is helping create more algae in the sea. The algae are food for plankton, which is food for jellyfish.
Then, too, there is speculation about a link to the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric-power project under construction in the Yangtze, which could be changing water flows to the sea. A dam in a section of the Danube that runs between Serbia and Romania completed in 1972 changed the river flow, after which the jellyfish population of the Black Sea exploded.
Chinese officials and scientists deny that Chinese pollution has caused the outbreaks [would they say otherwise?] "No research evidence in China supports a connection between pollution and jellyfish," says Li Qi, a dean of the Ocean University of China. "Floating jellyfish are mostly in the Sea of Japan....That's Japan and Korea's problem."
Eager for a solution, slasher squads of fishermen went out last year armed with barbed poles to attack jellyfish that were jamming up nets. If the jellyfish are cut into three or more bits, they usually die and get eaten by other sea creatures. Fishermen have also taken a trawl net and added a wire grill like a large potato masher at the trailing end: When the net is pulled through a swarm of jellyfish, they float through and are sliced up. [So violent...]
The Japanese government is doing what it can. It tracks the progress of jellyfish as they swarm through the Sea of Japan, urging trawlers to steer clear of them. The Japanese harvest some jellyfish to eat. Jellyfish can be boiled and added to salads -- though smaller varieties are said to be more tender and tasty. Trying to win converts, the fisheries ministry has drawn up a manual with tips on cooking with giant jellyfish. Menus include jellyfish-flavored biscuits, jellyfish soaked in rum and a dessert of jellyfish chunks in coconut milk...
One fear among scientists is that the creatures are multiplying in a "jellyfish spiral." Shinichi Uye, a leading jellyfish researcher at Hiroshima University in western Japan, thinks overfishing off China has led to fewer plankton-eating fish, leaving more plankton for the jellyfish to suck up. This growing army of jellyfish then also eats fish eggs, resulting in even fewer fish. Whatever the details, says Prof. Uye, the problem seems to be industrial development. "It's like a harmless living thing has been angered," he says. "The reason for its anger might lie with human activity."
Trying to understand why the jellyfish have started appearing in such numbers, marine biologist Kohzoh Ohtsu studies their reproductive cycle on another part of Oki. One afternoon he and a colleague -- dressed in rubber clothing to protect against the poison -- cut lumps of tentacle from a 200-pound jellyfish with a knife to make it light enough to bring aboard. One cause of the mass invasions, he says, "could be rising sea temperatures" making it easier for the jellyfish to breed and feed near China. Though he doesn't know details of the sea temperatures there, the peak water temperature in the Sea of Japan has been four or five degrees Fahrenheit higher than normal in a couple of recent years, indicating warmer seas in the region. One fear is that higher temperatures or other environmental changes might one day even allow the giant jellyfish to breed around Japan, adding further to their numbers.


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Advice on What You Need To Know Before Going to College
Setting of to your first year in college can be scary, and you are bound to have questions. These colleges tend to find ways to make the new students feel welcome, but not everything will be included in the orientation package. There are certain factors that you need to find out before you head out to campus, and some of them are provided in the article.
Every college will have different rules on the things that you can take to college. Before you can begin the process of moving into the college, you need to have gone through the list of the things you are allowed and those you are not allowed to have on campus.
It will be vital for you to only go with some of the clothes that you have at home and not the entire closet. One thing that is usually overestimated by the freshmen is the dorm space that is at the college. The best thing for you would be only to carry those things that you will need for surviving and leave the rest behind. You are likely to find that you will need fewer clothes than you think.
The thing that you will find out is that the classes for the first semester are not usually that awesome. Though the classes you get in your first semester are not all that you had hoped to get, but as time goes by, you will get to join a smaller class that is more personalized. You will find that when you have made a choice on the major you will take, you will also be able to take the classes that are major specific.
One thing that you also need to find out are the areas where you can get food from. The food will also play an important role in the entire experience for campus. Most of the colleges will have multiple options for you, and the best thing would be to try all of them on the first semester. The best thing for you to do when looking to find some awesome places to eat is to ask the other students or also find these places on the website of the school. It is also advisable that you try some restaurants that are not on the campus as you can find some great affordable places.
You are likely to have numerous activities you can do in college, and it is easy to find them. The last thing you need to be worried about on campus is being bored. it will be easy for you to find some of the clubs, organizations, and events that are found in plenty of these campuses.


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Spring Class list for 2019
All classes MUST be paid for when registering. Some of the classes will have a supply list available, please ask if there is a list. Minimum of three students per class.
If class is cancelled due to lack of participation your fee will be refunded.
Quilt as You Go Mug Mats
Date: Saturday, March 16, 2019 10:00 – 2:00
Instructor: Elaine Class Fee: $30.00
* 7 Printed statements on 100% cotton fabric.
* 7 Simple mug mat patterns, printed on 80/20 cotton/poly batting.
* Easy piece-by-number construction; automatically quilt as you sew.
* Finished size of each mug mat: 8-1/2 in x 10-1/2 in
Beginning Paper Piecing
Date: Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 Time: 10:00 – 2:00
Instructor: Elaine Class Fee: $30.00
Don't just admire complex quilts with sharp, perfect points — create your own! Create beautiful blocks as Elaine shares easy-to-follow techniques for cutting fabric and getting started with paper foundations. You'll be amazed what you can create! You'll be working on the paper pieced mini, "Dixie Sparkle".
Moonlit Star Table Topper
Date: Friday, March 29, 2019 Time: 10:00 – 2:00
Instructor: Mary Jo Class Fee: $30.00
Think Spring while making this awesome 24″ finished table topper. Pick out your favorite fabric and spruce up your décor for Spring. Fast and Easy! What else can you ask for?
Cuddle Quilt Class
Date: To be determined Time: 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Instructor: Carol Class Fee $40
This is our most popular class! Join Carol as she shows you how easy it is to work with cuddle fabric to create a beautiful quilt. You will learn the quilt-as-you-go method. Students will leave the class with a quilt that is all ready for snuggling!
We have a very large selection of different kits to choose from.
Beginning Quilting Class
Date: Thursday, April18th, 2019 Time: 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Instructor: Mary Kay Class Fee: $50
Mary Kay will teach you the basics of quilt making. How to read a pattern along with the proper way to cut, piece, press, and many techniques. You will be making a lap size quilt and this class will take you from the beginning of picking out fabric to binding. This is a multi isession class. The remaining classes will be determined by the group. This class does not include how to tie, or quilt your top.
Beginning Machine Quilting
Date: Monday, April 1, 2019 Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
and Wednesday, April 10
Instructor: Mary Jo Class Fee: $50
This two session class will introduce you to the ease of completing your small projects. Session one will show you the basics of machine quilting using a variety of stitches. Session two will expose you to free motion quilting. Come and see how much fun you can have.


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loriajuarezParticipantSeptember 20, 2013 at 11:35 pm #39502
I currently live in Moscow and will be visiting Perm next week for work-related reasons. There, a woman lives with whom I have been in correspondence with, on and off, for over a year. While I told her I will be coming, this visit is not like the typical visit I've read about where a man is "visiting" a woman.
We first met in the U.S. in Oct. 2010. She was living there temporarily after having completed a cruise ship contract. About three weeks after we met she returned home. While there was a connection between us, we never escalated physically with each other.
I have seen her once since then (April 2011, in another city when she was working on the cruise ship). Things became a little romantic on this day, but again, there was no physical escalation, as I didn't think it was the proper time to escalate given we were only seeing each other for a short afternoon. This next occasion is obviously the right time to escalate (and it's a must, if I want it to move into something more with her), given the geographic circumstances are now more in our favor (I am in Moscow and she is now working in Perm).
We are both 25. I would like to establish a relationship with this woman and would like to know the best way to utilize my time with her (other than simply having an awesome week with each other). In other words: how should I progress towards something more than just a short week together? We have not talked about the future (but I want to in person, given we have that opportunity), and it's accurate to say one could view this as the very beginning of a relationship, except for the past that's there.
sawceParticipantSeptember 23, 2013 at 9:59 am #39503
Honestly not to sound like a jerk but I do believe women have a greater connection after they have sex w a man. But don't force it to happen, let it happen naturally and that will be the best way. Don't try too hard just be your self and that will make you comfortable and you will really enjoy your entire week with her. When u act like yourself u just feel unrestricted. I hope this helped. Could you or anyone else answer my question?
TFergusonParticipantSeptember 26, 2013 at 2:10 pm #40028
It sounds like that you should have that talk "about the future." It's the only way of knowing where things stand, and whether what she wants is the same as what you want.
The question is, how to bring that up. It's a tough one.
theABQParticipantSeptember 26, 2013 at 2:18 pm #40052
open communication is the solution to everything. especially since you live so far a part there's no time not to say how you feel
sharklasersParticipantSeptember 26, 2013 at 2:21 pm #40059
Privyet comrade!
Just have the awesome week with her. Then she'll be thinking about you as much as you're thinking about her. At the end of the awesome week you'll know if you really want something more long term and then bring it up.
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka have sealed a pre-election coalition deal.
The pact involving the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Wiper Democratic Movement (Wiper) and Ford Kenya led by Trade minister Moses Wetangula was signed at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi Tuesday.
The Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) also brings on board Narc led by Charity Ngilu, who is Mr Musyoka's rival, UDM among other parties.
The signing ceremony was a culmination of lengthy negotiations just a day ahead of the deadline for lodging of coalition agreements with the Registrar of Political Parties seems to set the stage for a bruising two-horse race between the Odinga-Musyoka pairing and the Uhuru-Ruto come the election next March.
The VP, who has in the past week publicly rejected any attempts by his allies to team up with Mr Odinga, eventually gave in on Sunday night, following talks with the ODM leader.
He met the PM, who had flown back from the Tononoka rally in Mombasa, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport's VIP Lounge, where they discussed a coalition document their respective negotiators put together.


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Rick fell back into the couch, greatly enjoying the all-over buzzing and exhausted feeling that comes from a great lay. Being a conscientious renter, he had thrown a towel down on the velour couch before christening it. Afterward, he pulled the bottom of the towel between his legs, forming a hybrid diaper toga. He would get up, but not for a few minutes.
The windows were cracked, just enough to let in a slight breeze that flitted over Rick's naked body. The smell of sand and fried seafood drifted in, along with the sound of a game show from a few doors away. And the sound of the breakers, rhythmic, mechanical, perpetual, filled the cottage.
It was the beginning. Beginning of the long weekend, beginning of a relationship, beginning of a whole new outlook. Brand new day. Rick was loving the solitude of the cottage, the white noise of the surf, the feel of the world ahead in infinite possibility, starting with the weekend. Relaxed, calm, untroubled. He lit a roach, took a deep pull, laid back and enjoyed the spreading warmth, from the beginning.
Daniel emerged from the bedroom, freshly showered and dressed for dinner. He shook his head at Rick in a tisk-tisk schoolmarm act, and said, "Well, look at this scene of degradation we have here! You'd better clean yourself up, boy. I believe our reservation was for Daniel and Rick, not Daniel and Dick."
Rick stood up, let the towel drop, then picked it up and started an exaggerated wind-up and pitch. Daniel ducked out of the path of the towel – a curveball, low and outside – and got Rick in a bear hug.
They kissed again, and then just stood there in the living room, lingering for a few minutes, holding hands, enjoying the beginnings of it all together. No words, no sounds, no offices or deadlines or traffic or psychodrama, no appointments, no scrambling through take-out menus, no landlord pounding on the doors. No end to this beginning. Nobody else around, nothing but the gulls and the pounding surf and whatever was to come, that weekend and beyond.
Finally Daniel gave Rick a pat on the ass and said, "Better get to. Don't want to be late." As Rick slinked off toward the shower, Daniel picked up the towel, yelled, "And fachrissakes, will you cover yourself, you heathen?!?" and hurled the towel at his new friend. Rick stood there grinning for a nanosecond, thinking of all the possible comebacks he could unleash. But they both knew, without words, that Daniel had just won the first of many snark wars to come.
Rick picked up the pace on his shower in order to make their dinner reservation. That was the only bit of urgency to the long weekend away.


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Police said that a Durham police officer was charged with running a red light on December 7 in connection to a collision with another vehicle in which personal injuries were involved.
At the time of the accident, Officer L.A. Harvey was responding to a report of a breaking and entering in progress on Washington Street shortly before 8:30 a.m. when his patrol car struck a 1993 Cadillac on the driver's door on Roxboro Road.
Police said that Harvey's patrol car had its blue lights and siren on at the time of the collision.
The Cadillac's driver, Durham resident Avery Hunt, was charged with driving on a revoked license, having no insurance, using a fictitious registration, and having an unregistered vehicle.
The incident is the second in which an on-duty Durham police officer was charged after a wreck.
On December 2, Officer Kevin A. Stewart was charged with DWI and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident after a rear-end collision on Fayetteville Street. He was fired the next day.


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Project Update
For this weeks blog topic is to write where we are on our second quarter project and how we are going to get it done. So far this quarter my partner and I have already had a couple of different topic ideas that we needed to change. First we had a great story and idea. We were going to do it on Nelson Kaai. We had everything set and he even said he will do the project. Then we called him to confirm our time to interview him and he said, "I have to have surgery tommorow so I can't do anything for a month. We were dissapointed at the time but now we have a new idea and are off to a great start.
So now since we changed our idea we are doing it on the Aloha Aina Juice Bar in Puhi. We have been doing great on the project so far. Right now we are shooting interviews and getting some B-Roll in when we can. I think we are a little behind schedule and on schedule at the same time. First I think this is because we got turned down by our first option for our project. The guy said he could do it but soon later we called him and he said he is having surgery and can't do anything for a month. If we still went with that idea we would be way behind schedule.
Second, I kind of think we are on schedule because we are not that far behind most people. We already got two interviews, a lot of B-Roll, and we are still doing more. We did all of this in two days. We already planned to have some more interviews and shoot some more B-Roll next week to finish up the project. I think once we finish up the interviews and B-Roll we will be right on schedule. So far we have not been wasting our time and been getting what we need to be done, done.
Lastly, I think we are on schedule because I think we just need a little more B-Roll and we need to edit. If we need a couple more interviews, thats fine all we need to do is make questions and shoot it. I think we are really moving along schedule and getting everything done on time with the schedule and the limited time we are given.
In conclusion, I think we are moving along schedule very smoothly and getting everything turned in on time. We are following the schedule and even though sometimes we have other stuff to work on we still make time for our project. We want the best possible grade we can get for all the hard work we have put in so far. I think if we keep this paste up we will get a fine grade and get the grade we deserve. Though we had a ruff start with the person turning us done we are still moving along. I think that person putting us done was inspriartion for us and from now on our project will be the best.
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Volume 20, Issue 4, Winter 2002
Help Plan the Future of Bat Conservation
With your help, we can continue that success far into the future. Planned giving - through a myriad of techniques including a bequest in your will -doesn't have to affect your lifestyle, but it will assure that you have a positive impact for years to come.
With your planned gift, you join BCI's Legacy Circle. This is a group of concerned individuals who have invested a small amount of time now to maximize future benefits for bat conservation. As a Legacy Circle member, you will receive periodic conservation updates, helpful financial planning information, and invitations to participate in extraordinary nature tours.
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Training, Consulting & Technical Assistance
The Foreverfamily Model: Surrounding Children with the Love of Family
How do we achieve remarkable results? On one level, it's very simple: we surround all our children with the love of family. But to realize this seemingly simple goal has taken hard work. Over the last two decades we have built a sophisticated, tested and robust programmatic model that has proven to significantly reduce the impact of parental incarceration on children.
The core of our model rests on our core belief that, even in the context of incarceration, family bonds must be safeguarded for the good of the child, the parent, the family, and the community. In the past, maintaining a loving relationship between an inmate and his or her children has been seen as a privilege. Not only does Foreverfamily insist that it is a right, we also insist that it is the right thing to do.
Having pioneered a solution to this growing national issue, Foreverfamily is now looking to share what we have learned with others throughout the country who wish to work on behalf of families of the incarcerated.
One of the key resources Foreverfamily offers the community is intensive training geared to develop, strengthen and enhance efforts to meet the unique needs of children with incarcerated parents. The training parameters are:
- STRATEGY: instructor-led, using, where appropriate, those directly affected by the issue.
- DESIGN: training modules, each module being used as a stand alone piece or in conjunction with other modules.
- TOPICS (see attached module description)
- TARGET AUDIENCE: supervisors and front line staff of child welfare, corrections, juvenile justice, probation and parole, criminal justice and human service agencies, teachers, clergy, family members and others working with incarcerated parents and/or their children.
- MATERIALS: training manual provided.
About the Trainer
Sandra Kay Barnhill, an attorney, is the founder and National President of Foreverfamily, a nonprofit agency created in 1987 to diminish the impact of the parent's incarceration on the children. Foreverfamily is headquartered in Atlanta with affiliates in Atlanta and Louisville, KY.
Sandra's pioneering work in this area has been recognized by the Ms. Foundation who awarded her their Woman of Vision Award, Barrister Magazine which heralded her as "One of Twenty Lawyers Who Make a Difference", Savvy Magazine which selected her as "One of Forty Women Under Forty to Watch" and the Atlanta Business League which recognized her as one of Atlanta's Top 100 Black Women of Influence. She was a 2004 recipient of the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award and a 1997 Annie E. Casey Children and Family Fellowship.
Sandra is a member of the ABA Commission on Youth At Risk and is a consultant for the National Institute of Corrections and a frequent workshop and conference presenter.
Foreverfamily Training Series
Foreverfamily Affiliates: A Model for Supporting Children With Incarcerated Parents in Your Community
Based on our success and national reputation in providing targeted services to this special population, foundations like the Annie E. Casey Foundation—along with a number of churches, faith-based organizations, local nonprofits and community residents— Foreverfamily opened its first affiliate outside Georgia in Louisville, Kentucky in 2008 and plans to take its programming model to other cities across the nation, including Austin and San Antonio, TX.
Drawing upon our two decades of experience, Foreverfamily is approaching these communities using a phased approach. For each phase, we provide a toolkit to guide the leaders of the newly-forming program through key processes such as securing funds, cultivating and sustaining the coalition, community needs assessment, and organizational design. We also provide direct support through onsite training and workshops, as well as ongoing remote technical assistance.
4 Package Series can be purchased as stand alone modules or as a group package. The packages listed below do not include the following expenses: travel, hotel and/or meals. . A discount is given when the modules are purchased as a group.
Phase 1: Exploration. Foreverfamily meets with community leaders to discuss their needs and help them organize a step-by-step process for creating a child-centered response. This phase includes 2 days onsite.
Phase 1 Cost: contact Sandra Barnhill for details.
Phase 2: Coalition building. Foreverfamily and interested parties carry out workshops focused on the theme of sustainable, child-centered support. As we assess the potential for an emergent coalition, we discuss how to begin this work and secure initial funding.
This phase includes 4 days onsite.
Phase 2 Costs: contact Sandra Barnhill for details.
Phase 3: Community organizing. Foreverfamily helps local leaders as they create a network of support within their communities. With this in place, we help local leaders shape the program according to the community's needs.
This phase includes 5 days onsite.
Phase 2 Costs: contact Sandra Barnhill for details.
Phase 4: Program launch. Forever Family provides technical assistance and ongoing support for interested local individuals and organizations to establish these services—either within an existing organization or as a new, independent program. Organizations can decide to become an affiliate of Foreverfamily or pick and choose the technical assistance and resources they need to supplement their own work.
This phase includes 6 days onsite.
Phase 4 Costs: contact Sandra Barnhill for details.
Foreverfamily Mentoring Series
Mentoring Children with an Incarcerated Parent
Foreverfamily is the only national nonprofit with affiliates in two states whose sole mission is to provide programs and services to inspire children with parents in prison to become successful adults – and reduce the chance that they will turn to crime. Over its 23 years of existence Ff has traditionally used group, team and peer mentoring as its service vehicle. However, we support one-on-one or individual mentoring as a viable option. Our limited resources have precluded us from taking on this on as a key component of our direct service delivery.
Federal Mentoring Children of Prisoners Grants
Since its first funding cycle, Foreverfamily has been involved with the Mentoring Children of Prisoners grant program. Our work has ranged from doing workshops at the annual conference to working with nonprofits that received grants. Our work with them has included: (1) program assessment (2) staff training and (3) strategies identification to increase the number of program participants and strengthen the relationship with caregivers and family members. Listed below is more information on the packages we offer and the costs associated with them.
4 Package Series can be purchased as stand alone modules or as a group package. The packages listed below do not include the following expenses: travel, hotel and/or meals. A discount is given when the modules are purchased as a group.
Module 1: More Parents in Prison: More Children Adrift
This module presents national, state and local statistics on incarcerated parents, develops a demographic profile of the families of prisoners and identifies service needs of caregivers, who most often are maternal grandmothers. Additionally, this module highlights trends and approaches other child welfare professionals around the country are utilizing when working with children of incarcerated parents.
Module 1 cost: contact Sandra Barnhill for details.
Module 2: Children with Incarcerated Parents: The Effects of Parental Incarceration
Children who experience parental crime, arrest, and incarceration are profoundly affected physically, mentally, and emotionally. This module first examines the implications that parental crime has for a child's care and placement. It then focuses on the emotional impact of parental incarceration – how children feel and behave when their parents are in prison.
Module 2 cost: contact Sandra Barnhill for details.
Module 3: Staff Development: Understanding and Overcoming Issues Which Complicate Direct Services for Children with Incarcerated Parents
Children with incarcerated parents face many challenges. In order to support them, service providers must be aware of family dynamics, placement and trust. Foreverfamily's social worker and therapist are key participants in this session
Module 3 costs: contact Sandra Barnhill for details.
Module 4: Program Design and Planning
This module is delivered to an agency who wants to create a program that supports children of incarcerated parents. Foreverfamily staff works with the agency to create a program that meets the needs of the children and the requirements of their funding source. Services include an environmental scan, development of job descriptions, training for mentors and mentees and their families.
Module 4 costs: contact Sandra Barnhill for details.
Need More Information?
If you are interested in topics that were not listed above or customized training and/or technical assistance using a videoconferencing format, please contact Sandra Barnhill, Foreverfamily's National President directly at (404) 223-1200.Share this page


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Short pad (cut a piece off discarded sleep pads)
Put on outside of pack for easy access to sit ..resting on rocks and logs (especially when wet)
and pumping water.
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Short pad (cut a piece off discarded sleep pads)
Put on outside of pack for easy access to sit ..resting on rocks and logs (especially when wet)
and pumping water.
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Loosen hip belt and shorten trekking poles uphill. Breathe from belly, bellows power..pause step.
Count steps..stop at fifty or whatever..no longer than five minutes...on to the top before pack off type rest.
Lengthen poles downhill. Adjust various straps often.
This advice for newbies. (You trekkers, obvious stuff)
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Pooping in woods after a few weeks becomes an event.
Well formed **** is satisfying for some weird reason. Go deep into woods and lay hiking stick down pointing in direction of trail. (very important).
Why use privies? Develop your technique early and save maintainers an unpleasant task.
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We prefer you use privies where provided (that's why we have 'em). They are in high-impact areas, so unless you can hold it until you get away from that spot a fair distance, please do use the privies. Although perhaps you only meant don't wait until you get to a pricy, in which case you have a valid point.
Go without a smartphone.
Bring a small notebook and pencil to keep a log. It's always entertaining reading about some of the mistakes I've made over the years.
Remember you DONT have to spend thousands of dollars to walk in the woods!
put some reflective tape on your food bag and on your hiking sticks to help you find the bag in the morning or your campsite if you get up during the night.You can get turned around at night in the dark easily and a well marked pole will look like a navigational beacon in the gloom of night.
I must still be a newbie. I know to shorten polls but Im wondering why you loosen the hip belt when ascending a hill.
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And of course there's a giant difference between my old Nokia call/text phone and a modern Smartphone. My phone is not a camera and can't take pics, can't pull up GPS and certainly will never get online and check Facebook.
The OP started this thread on Low Tech options for backpackers. I recommended going without a Smartphone---no sweat. Personally, I want absolutely no opportunity to get on the Internet with a phone on my backpacking trips. And I don't need a phone to pull up Waypoints or Maps or anything else. Certainly don't need Live Streaming of my trip.
Carrying a small "laptop" computer on a backpacking trip---and getting Online---is not something I ever want to do. My opinion only.
Then again, most of my gear is not low tech---certainly not my spectra fabric backpack or my Trail Pro sleeping pad or my MSR Simmerlite stove etc. Or my camera or little radio. But when I'm out there's no chance I'll ever connect to the world wide web---thank god.
What's neat is there's a high school in Michigan---the Cranbrook School---which for 50 years has taken many kids out on an annual 11 day wilderness backpacking trip and trip leaders do not allow the students to carry smartphones---for one reason---they want the kids to be immersed in the outdoor experience within their separate groups---and not have any connection to the outdoor world thru smartphone use. No texts from parents, no checking in with distant friends, no scrolling thru old messages, no possible online chats or distractions. Amen, brother.
The last thing they want is to have kids sitting around in a group looking at their separate phones---it ruins the group bonding experience. Instead the leaders want the kids to study their paper maps and plan the day's route.
Here's a pic of some of the kids---
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Different musical art forms have always been under attack in America. Everything from jazz to rock 'n' roll and, yes, rap music, has been castigated as being the cause of what's wrong with the nation. I've largely rejected those arguments, because the reality is that societal ills have long existed well before the advent of specific forms of music. After all, hip-hop culture did not create crack cocaine and the drug's resulting plague of addiction, death and incarceration. It sure as hell reacted to it, but that's another story.
Some rappers have defended their controversial lyrics on the basis that they are simply describing their own (former) circumstances in an honest way. That may be the case, but nothing excuses a disgusting lyric from a recent Rick Ross song. Now, I'm already unimpressed with the idea of a former correctional officer getting rich off the persona of a big-time drug dealer, but hey, he found a way to get rich.
I'm utterly amazed that he would have the audacity to rap:
Put molly all in her champagne/
She ain't even know it/
I took her home and I enjoyed that/
She ain't even know it.
Read that quote again. He's basically bragging about date rape. I was initially going to post a link to the song that this line is from, but decided against it. Ross doesn't deserve the Internet traffic.
Now, music focusing on drugs and sexual promiscuity is nothing new, and had Ross actually stuck to that, it wouldn't have been surprising. It's not that misogyny and drug use are OK, but these elements are normalized in popular culture across the board. But no one can justify bragging about such a heinous crime as date rape. This vile excuse for an entertainer has gone too far. As someone who enjoys rap music, I never thought I'd join the chorus of people who condemn it.
This isn't the first time that I've been horrified by a prominent rapper's lyrics this year. Lil Wayne, an artist who's work ethic I've otherwise admired, courted controversy with his lyric, "beat the p—- up like Emmett Till."
This type of vile insensitivity makes me wonder about what this says about hip-hop culture nowadays. For that matter, it's as though a climate has been created that promotes disrespectful, even criminal behavior. I've long supported artists' right to free speech and dismissed claims that they have contributed to the decline of society. Now, I'm beginning to question my stance.
Listen to Matt Reaves' report on the Rick Ross controversy.
Matt Reaves, who writes a blog called The Crusader, is a senior majoring in broadcast journalism at Howard University.


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"In ballet, if you're over 40, you're a dinosaur," Wendy Whelan said, looking distinctly un-dinosaur-like as she sat at her kitchen table in her Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan last month. Her workday had begun at 10 with a two-hour morning ballet class and ended at 7 after a full day of back-to-back rehearsals. She is 47 ("and a half," she pointed out) and will leave New York City Ballet, for which she has danced for 30 years, with a farewell performance on Oct. 18.
But Ms. Whelan is ready for more. Talking, dancing, seizing her chances. "I still have so much dancing in me, so much to say," she said. "It's not an end."
For the fans who have watched her carve out an extraordinary career at City Ballet, however, it is most definitely an end and a major milestone in the company's history. Her farewell performance — which will include a new work created for her by Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon, two of ballet's biggest choreographic names — sold out within minutes after sales opened to the public.
That's because Ms. Whelan is among that rare breed of artists who have touched the public in a way that transcends the fashions that can make ballerinas (or artists or actors) sensations for a season. Her sinewy physicality, with its tensile, thoroughbred articulation of muscle and tendon, her kinetic clarity and her dramatic, otherworldly intensity have created a quite distinct and unusual identity. She is not made in the ballerina mold of the past, all delicate curves and hyper-feminine prettiness. She is a far more unusual creature: a modern ballerina and a determined player in a world still dominated by male creators and directors.
Ms. Whelan has performed a broader and more varied repertory than almost any other female principal in City Ballet's history, spanning romantic, classical and contemporary roles with extraordinary versatility and range. But although she excelled in, and often seemed definitively to embody, many of the ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins that form the backbone of the repertoire, she has perhaps been most closely identified with the creation of new ballets, as a kind of muse who enables the best work from choreographers.
William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Jorma Elo, Benjamin Millepied, Twyla Tharp, Lynn Taylor-Corbett and Peter Martins, the company's ballet master in chief, have, among many others, chosen her for their pieces. (By her count, she has originated 40 principal roles in the repertory.) But her strongest choreographic affiliations over the last 15 years have been with Mr. Wheeldon and Mr. Ratmansky, who have arguably created their finest works with Ms. Whelan.
"I think I first fell in love with the shape of her legs," said Mr. Ratmansky, who had been rehearsing with Ms. Whelan earlier in the day on his newest piece for City Ballet, which had its premiere on Thursday. "The length from ankle to knee and knee to hip is perfectly proportioned, very graceful and strong. The quality of movement really depends on these kinds of structures, and this explained to me a lot about her unusual quality and sensuality. She is a major ballerina, exceptional and different."
That Ms. Whelan is still dancing at a high level, and plans to continue collaborating with choreographers after leaving City Ballet, is itself notable. By dinosaur age, around 40, most female ballet dancers are feeling the severe physical toll taken by the relentless demands of classical technique: turning out from the hips, the constant wear and tear on joints and muscles. Ms. Whelan has been one of the fortunate few who have managed the intersection of technical prowess and mature artistry; until she began to have hip problems in 2012, she was relatively injury free, and after a hip reconstruction last year, she has rebounded with remarkable facility.
"She is creating a whole new work with Alexei with people 20 years younger, and she is doing everything, usually better than everyone else," said Tyler Angle, who has been one of Ms. Whelan's regular stage partners for the last several years. "Even in the last rehearsal of the day, when everyone is tired, and we have shows at night, she never lets the energy get bad. She is always open, always willing to work at a problem and try it until you get it right."
In person, Ms. Whelan is smaller than she appears onstage, and has a softer beauty. The apartment that she shares with her husband of nine years, the photographer David Michalek, features a large nude portrait of her that shows the beautiful musculature and lines of her body, shaped by a lifetime of dancing. In conversation, she is warm and generous, laughing easily, but also displaying the will, intelligence and tenacity that have characterized her career.
Ms. Whelan grew up in Louisville, Ky., a middle child of an accountant father and a mother who taught women's college basketball. At 3, she was sent to ballet as an outlet for her excessive energy. At 8, she asked to audition for the Louisville Ballet's "Nutcracker." Her mother tried to dissuade her. "What if you don't make it?" she asked.
"I'm going to make it," Ms. Whelan told her.
A diagnosis of idiopathic scoliosis, a severe curvature of the spine, at 12, didn't stop her. Wearing a hip-to-shoulder body cast, she continued to attend ballet class at the Louisville Ballet Academy every day.
In 1984, a year after Balanchine's death, Ms. Whelan joined City Ballet as an apprentice; in 1986, she became a full member of the company, then run by Mr. Martins and Robbins. "It was a complicated time," she said. "There was a lot of heartbreak after Balanchine's death, and a lot of insecurity. People didn't know how Peter felt about them."
Ms. Whelan didn't know either. She worried that her aquiline profile was too sharp, her body too angular, that she wasn't pretty enough to be a ballerina. "I never felt I was a favorite, or marked out for success," she said. "And in the end, that was a good thing. It drove me nuts, but I always had to climb to where I wanted to be behind someone else, and that paid off for me. I put in the work, and I never took my place in the company for granted."
Her ascent was nonetheless steady; in 1989, she was promoted to soloist, in 1991, to principal dancer. Over the next decade, she danced an extraordinary number of ballets, including several new works created for the Diamond Project festivals.
But, it wasn't, Ms. Whelan said, until she started to work with Mr. Wheeldon on his breakthrough ballet, the 2001 "Polyphonia," that she began to find herself as a dancer. "I had been striving to be authentic in a world where the choreographic deity, Balanchine, was dead," she said. "Then I turned 30, started dancing with Jock Soto, Chris started making stuff for me, and my world opened up." All this coincided, she added, with a tough breakup with her longtime boyfriend, the dancer Nilas Martins, Peter Martins's son.
"I could feel my heart in dancing for the first time," she said. "All those years of being that strong girl, in control. It took all those factors to go beyond that and find who I was as a dancer — not some idea of what I should be, but me."
Mr. Wheeldon said that their encounter during the making of "Polyphonia," set to Ligeti extracts, had been pivotal to his career. "She launched me as a choreographer," he said in a telephone interview. "She challenged me not to settle, and that was a first. Somehow we unlocked something in each other." Later, he wrote in an email: "What makes Wendy unique is that she has the inexplicable ability to make abstract movement take on a certain poetry through simplicity. A look, a breath, a sculpted shape. Story always hovering in the air around her."
Mr. Wheeldon went on to create 12 more ballets with Ms. Whelan, notably a transcendent pas de deux, with Mr. Soto, in "After the Rain" (2005), in which, whisper-thin in a pale pink leotard, she appeared to float from her partner's arms, air to his earth. In 2006, Mr. Ratmansky picked her for "Russian Seasons," giving her a role, underpinned by notions of death and transformation, that brought out her dramatic gifts and a kind of spiritual incandescence.
The ability to transform an extreme muscular control and technical precision into an unearthly, floating beauty hasn't lessened as Ms. Whelan has grown older. But her roles in the Balanchine and Robbins repertoire at City Ballet had decreased over the years, and Ms. Whelan said that she began to feel increasingly dislocated from the life of the company.
"I always thought the 30-year mark would be a good time to retire," she said. "My body at the 30-year mark was ready, too. My body has been so good to me and my surgery, saving my hip, was so miraculous. It's time for me to be good to it back."
Mr. Martins, who said he was sad to see Ms. Whelan leave, added that she had probably worked with more invited choreographers than any other dancer in the company's history. "She has had an unbelievable career," he said.
It's not over. Last year, Ms. Whelan put together "Restless Creature," a program featuring four duets — by the contemporary choreographers Kyle Abraham, Joshua Beamish, Brian Brooks and Alejandro Cerrudo — that she performed at the Jacob's Pillow festival in Becket, Mass., with each man.
Alastair Macaulay, the chief dance critic of The New York Times, has frequently been critical of Ms. Whelan's dancing, describing tension in her shoulders and a lack of upper and lower body coordination. But reviewing "Restless Creature," he wrote: "She's uncompromising, generous, bold, enthusiastic, adult, at the same time decisive and investigative. Few dancers in any genre show better that a work should be a process of self-discovery."
Her hip surgery forced a postponement of an American tour, but Ms. Whelan and her four partners will take "Restless Creature" around the country from January to May next year, and she will perform a program of new work with the Royal Ballet principal Edward Watson in London in July 2015.
She has other projects up her sleeve, including a collaboration with Mr. Michalek, and the puppet-maker extraordinaire Basil Twist, and an appointment at City Center as an artistic associate. For the moment, she said, she isn't interested in running a ballet company.
"More than anyone, I think most about Misha Baryshnikov as paving the direction I hope to follow," she said. "He is the consummate artist, always trying new things with the widest range of people across so many different disciplines."
Later, she leaned back in her chair, and smiled, her eyes flashing. "It doesn't have to be all dance," she said. "I'm up for anything."


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United return to North Lincolnshire with a point, the very least they deserved after an impressive showing in a 1-1 draw at Bradford.
The hosts had gone in front on the half-hour through a Rory McArdle curler and the Iron battered on the Bantams door all game in search of an equaliser.
An inspired 'keeper in Jordan Pickford prevented United from finding a way through until the second minute of injury time when substitute Hakeeb Adelakun slammed home in front of the travelling support to give United a point.
Mark Robins elected to make three changes to his side following the midweek FA Cup marathon replay which ran into extra time and penalties at Worcester. Luke Williams, Liam O'Neil and Richard Brindley came in to replace McAllister, Lyle Taylor and Alex Davey.
City came into the fixture following back-to-back wins against Chesterfield then Dartford in the FA Cup. Phil Parkinson made just the one change from the 1-0 win over the Spirites with Billy Knott coming into the side in place of Andy Halliday who drops to the bench.
The Iron started things brightly. Two passages of play inside the opening five minutes saw United battling down the left flank through McSheffrey and Madden. City's defence warded the Iron off with both moves eventually running for goal kicks despite intricate Iron play.
Bradford stayed on task on five minutes as a long ball gave Madden a sniff on the chase. Rory McArdle was across to shepherd back to Jordan Pickford between the sticks in front of the Kop end at Valley Parade.
The hosts then came back at United after that opening five minutes with a foray forward from ex-Chelsea youngster, Felipe Morais. The winger darted down the right before cutting inside Williams to fire a low cross through the 6-yard box. Jon Stead was waiting at the back post but Slocombe was there first to smother. Boyce then combined with Slocombe to deal with another low ball in from the right; defender seeing it back to 'keeper with Bradford bodies lurking.
City continued in the same vein up to the quarter hour mark. The threat was from out wide, earning two corners after resolute work from United at the back. Stead directed a tame effort on goal that was blocked behind. That followed the first corner which was comfortably taken by Slocombe from underneath his crossbar.
On 18 minutes United's travelling support thought Boyce had put them ahead. Madden instigated an attack of his own doing, striding in from the left flank at a back-peddling Bradford back four. A tackle came in handing possession to Luke Williams inside the right edge of the box. His cross-shot earned United a corner. Boyce climbed highest and nodded across the face of goal, into the top corner. Referee Gibbs adjudged the centre-half of pushing his man in the process though, and the effort was chalked off.
Up the other end Jon Stead was called out for doing the same to Boyce as he rose to meet a hanging Morais cross. The effort fell a foot wide of the post in any case.
Play swung the way of the Iron for the next ten minutes. McSheffrey twice burst through into the box only to be caught by Bradford's defenders. He met Andrew Davies then James Meredith in turn as he looked to get a shot away. Madden played him in after a raking pass into the Irishman from Llera. Meredith's challenge to halt this move in particular was perfectly executed, as it has to be in the box, prising McSheffrey off the ball before clearing to touch.
Bradford, though, were first to pounce as they struck on 32 minutes. United were back in numbers as City worked forward from midfield. A speculative effort from distance was initially blocked by Boyce before McArdle swept home from the edge of the box, first time and curled into the top corner to Slocombe's right. An effort any striker would have been proud of from the big centre-half – Slocombe left grasping at air.
Scunthorpe continued as they had before the goal on 34 minutes, remaining on the front foot. Bishop flicked neatly into Luke Williams' path as the midfielder broke forward at pace. He knocked the ball on to try and beat the last man but McArdle was across in time to slide in and intercept, much to Valley Parade's joy.
Five minutes before the break, Bradford earned a chance at notching their second. McSheffrey looked to carry the ball away from a well-defended Bradford corner but was caught in possession. The ball was played square for Billy Knott who rushed his effort slightly with the Iron still out of shape after that City corner. Slocombe needn't have moved as it landed 5 yards wide.
With two minutes to the break United thought they had found the equaliser twice in quick succession. A reverse ball from Osbourne found McSheffrey's clever run in behind. He cut back across for Madden 6-yards out but Pickford rushed off his line to sprawl, preventing the tap-in. Flashing across the face, the ball then landed at Brindley's feet. The full-back twisted and took his time to pick his spot. Pickford was quickly across his goalmouth to block on the line. A combination of the 'keeper, a defender and the post bundled the ball behind for an Iron corner, which was defended competently by the Bantams and was also the last real action of the first period.
United started the second half with a purpose, earning a corner with just a minute played. McSheffrey hung it up, forcing Pickford into clawing away at his back stick with bodies around him. Luke Williams drilled the rehearsed corner into McSheffrey 25-yards out and unmarked. He could only slice high over Pickford's goal after a heavy first touch gave City's defence the chance to break out and meet him.
On 52 minutes, United again went agonisingly close to drawing level. Some brilliant one touch passing from Osbourne, McSheffrey and Luke Williams saw the latter free inside the box. Osbourne did well initially to weave himself into the area before sliding across for Williams. He had time and space but saw his strike palmed away by Pickford. United were in control and their football merited an equaliser.
United were harrying and hassling, giving Bradford no room to breathe. Pressure told once more as the hosts conceded a free-kick perfectly placed for Gary McSheffrey to strike. He beat the wall but not Pickford, who got down impressively to palm wide. The Iron support thought McSheffrey had done enough.
With an hour gone the atmosphere kicked up a notch. Isiah Osbourne's late challenge sparked a ruckus in the centre-circle – a yellow shown by the referee. Phil Parkinson looked less than impressed down on the touchline as he remonstrated with Ned Kelly.
The hosts then garnered a spell on the ball for the next ten minutes, without looking overly threatening. The scuffle on the hour seemed to cut into United's prior momentum.
United still looked the more likely to find the second goal of the game, however. On 69 minutes Madden broke. He cut inside onto his right to shoot on goal. The angle favoured Pickford though and the 'stopper parried well.
A minute later, United had the ball in the back of the net for the second time on the afternoon, only for it to be ruled out. Liam O'Neil span inside the box and hit goalwards where McSheffrey and Madden were lurking. McSheffrey poked home but the linesman's flag was up.
With Scunthorpe chasing the equaliser Bradford had the opportunity to produce a sucker-punch. Jon Stead almost provided it, twice in a minute with a quarter-hour to play. First, free in the box, he shaped for the far corner but curled straight at Slocombe. Then, he bustled around the outside of Boyce and into the area before firing across the face of goal. Osbourne was across to block away.
There were opportunities aplenty and at either end as the Iron were next to produce something. An impeccable stop from Pickford on 77 minutes saw him catch and hold a Madden free header. It looked a banker for the Irishman but the equaliser still evaded United.
As the game entered the final ten minutes United were again on top. Madden struck once more inside the area. A Bradford man slid to block and the ball looked to have bounced up onto his arm. Claims for a penalty were rebutted by the referee. Bradford were leading a charmed life as they looked to hold onto their one-goal lead.
Mark Robins added Hakeeb Adelakun to the fray in place of McSheffrey as the search for an equaliser continued.
With five minutes to go Bradford again escaped conceding with Pickford to thank. Madden sprung the offside trap and strode in on goal, controlling with his forehead before half-volleying on his left. From only ten yards, Pickford had no real time to think. He instinctively tipped over when it looked certain that it was going to beat him.
United then added Lyle Taylor in their bid to equalise with Osbourne making way on 90 minutes.
Time was rapidly ebbing away and it looked as if United were going to go away pointless, despite an excellent display.
Two minutes into four added on Miguel Llera lobbed a ball into the box from halfway. It shaped away from goal and was nodded onto Adelakun who took it down on his toe and inside his man, ten yards out. He stepped on the accelerator, looked up and smashed home across goal. Just desserts for an impressive Iron who went home with a point as time ran out – the very least they deserved. But for Pickford, United would have gained all three.
Bradford City: Pickford, Darby, McArdle, Davies, Meredith, Morais, Liddle, Knott (Halliday, 76), Yeates, Clarke (Hanson, 82), Stead (Zoko, 90).
Substitutes not used: Williams, Sheehan, Kennedy, Routis.
Scunthorpe United: Slocombe, Brindley, Boyce, Llera, M. Williams, Osbourne (Taylor, 90), O'Neil, Bishop, McSheffrey (Adelakun, 82), L. Williams, Madden.
Substitutes not used: Olejnik, McAllister, Canavan, Hawkridge, Davey.
Attendance: 12,831 (485 away)
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In todays Tribune : Saach Pas , the third route or at least starting point for Leh , from Chamba in Himachal Pradesh , opens today. Including " tourist traffic and pedestrians". Stiff hike up to 4413 meters.
In todays Tribune : Saach Pas , the third route or at least starting point for Leh , from Chamba in Himachal Pradesh , opens today. Including " tourist traffic and pedestrians". Stiff hike up to 4413 meters.
Arrived in Manali yesterday , with a half meter of snow being dumped on the Rothang La during my bus ride from Delhi. News talk of a number of vehicles ( figures strating from sixty ) being trapped in the pass , and snow cutters now working their way up. Had some fresh snow thrown at me from Gulaba , the highest open point this morning ( i.e. 3000 meters ) .
Also mentioned in the news : Srinagar-Leh also closing the same day (!) , snowfall in Kalpa (13 cm ) and Keylong ( 18 cm) , Saach Pass ( more than a meter ) and over the Kunzum La , closing the Manali-Kaza route on a second point.
UPDATE : BRO talks of having the road cleared within two days , according to a official quoted by Himvani.
UPDATE , OCTOBER 26th : Srinagar-Leh has been posted as open today , and I'm heading for Leh tomorrow morning from Manali.
American cyclist Jewel Edward seems to be the first casualty of the June misweather in Lahaul . Apparently he became separated from the rest of the group in what is described as snowstorm , and died near Chattru after having crossed the Kunzum La pass. Along the same route students and teachers were finally airlifted out from Batal , where they had been forced to take shelter more than a week ago. Evacs were done to Koksar – Rothang to Keylong is open.
Later in the week 1300 sheep and goats were killed in one fell swoop by a massive avalanche near the Baralacha La , but the shepherders managed to stay out of harms way.
Higher up in the pass a number of truck drivers are more or less contentedly munching away at their provisions , after being stranded about a week.
Weather forecasts promises a final day of rain & snow on the 18th in Lahaul & Ladakh, to be followed by two clear sunny days .
Saach Pass opened on the , after being closed since December.
UPDATE , JUNE 20TH : Mixed weather forecast from Leh , Lahaul forecast says rain four out of the five coming days. There is a rumor of the road being open for light vehicles :
third hand report from a single poster on a forum , no vehicles seen coming in to either Manali or Leh … and now , a couple of hours later there is confirmation from Manali : first bikers from Leh have arrived.
This weekend meant snow at last , in Kinnaur , Lahaul and Manali, maxing out in Keylong : sixteen centimeters of snow. In lower regions it came down as rain , feeding both irrigation and the the starving hydel power plants that have been been down to fifty per cent of normal capacity after the long dry winter. Kalpa in Kinnaur was coldest at -2.5 degrees , and had less snow : snow is a warm weather phenomenom.
The Manali-Leh road was closed for lighter vehicles from Kothi , at the 2500 meter level , with snow falling all the way up to the Rothang pass the BRO had to call it a day early in the afternoon.
Chamba region also reported heavy (no numbers given ) snowfall , probably affecting the clearing of Saach Pass.
UPDATE 25/3 : Two more feet of snow around the Rothang and Marhi , work to resume when the weather gets better. Road open to Gulaba (with eight inches of fresh snow, BRO crew just short of the Rothang.
A winter with low snow levels and the upcoming elections means that the opening of Saach Pass may be preponed (lovely Hinglish expression) before June :
"Though the highway is officially opened for vehicular traffic in the first week of June every year, now with the announcement of election schedule efforts would be made to reopen the highway in advance before the prescribed date so that transportation services could be resumed,"
Swedish trekker henko went over the pass last year in July (photo below) , and mentions snow stiil being cleared from the road. Haven´t been able to pin down the actual opening date.
The harsh weather at Saach Pass caused many to retreat to lower elevations , but a group coming from Pangi judged that conditions were manageable , and continued. Sadly they were proven wrong , and all four perished in an avalanche.
Chamba, July 1
The highest road from Chamba to Killar crossing over the Saach Pass situated at an altitude of 4413 metres linking the Pangi tribal valley with Chamba was reopened for vehicular traffic on Friday, Jagdev Singh Pathania, resident commissioner of Pangi, told The Tribune over the phone.
Pathania said the pass overlooking the snowy Pir Panjal ranges of Jammu and Kashmir was closed for traffic due to snowfall in November last year. — OC


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