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BRATTLEBORO—Gabriel Weiss, a self-employed gardener in his 20s, moved from Maine to Brattleboro in September of 2013 knowing no one here and connected to no group.
He made it work.
In short order on arrival, Weiss became one of 85 new members to join Brattleboro Time Trade (BTT), a not-for-profit organization that facilitates an exchange of services among its members who do business by "time credits," the time trade's self-described "alternate currency" worth an hour per credit.
Those credits add up and can be spent on services from any other member in kind. Different groups refer to this economic arrangement as "time trading" or "time banking."
BTT members create profiles to advertise their skills and needed services, and manage their credits, at www.brattleborotimetrade.org. BTT maintains its office at 15 Grove St. and is open Mondays, Wedesdays, and Fridays.
As of early May, BTT's 250 local members list 163 offers — and 126 requests — for service. The most popularly traded services include child and pet care, yard work, transportation, computer services, and carpentry.
The site says that, in 2013, members performed 2,036 exchanges totaling 6,660 hours traded. To date, according to the directory of American Time Trades, maintained by TimeBanks USA at community.timebanks.org, BTT has facilitated 7,608 exchanges for 22,422 hours traded.
[At the time of this writing, BTT is neck and neck with Montpelier's Onion River Exchange as most active of the state's seven such time trades. Other Vermont time trades are on record in Bennington, Middlebury, Montpelier, St. Johnsbury, and White River Junction, with Bennington's just getting started.]
Beth McKinney, BTT vice president, has been involved in leading the local group since 2012, and says that time trading facilitates the exchange of goods and services within the community for members' benefit. She quotes BTT's mission statement: the group exists "to create a system to connect unmet needs to untapped resources."
Fitting in faster
Weiss says that although he was familiar with the time-trade concept before moving to Brattleboro, BTT was his first real opportunity to participate.
"It sounded really cool — a way of existing with people in a functional exchange that didn't revolve around money," he says.
One of Weiss's first exchanges occurred after his car broke down and he paid a fellow BTT member a time credit for a ride to the grocery store. And from there Weiss says he saw the potential in the group socially as well as materially.
"It would have taken so much longer to integrate into the community without it," he says.
The nationwide time-trade movement was established in 1995 when lawyer and activist Edgar S. Cahn founded the nonprofit TimeBanks USA. There are similar efforts underway worldwide.
According to Cahn, time trading "incentivizes community-oriented work that the traditional monetary economy devalues." In his 2004 book, No More Throw-Away People (Essential Books), he argues that the top-down social aid programs of liberal politics have proven inadequate "because they're not rooted in the communities they serve."
Cahn cites as a more effective model an older idea of community self-help based on the mutual reciprocity of neighbors — and adds that he believes that this ethos had been eroded by the globalized economy and mass culture of the latter part of the 20th century. Time trading, he says, can help counter that trend.
Cahn created TimeBanks USA to promote the idea by providing support for the organizers of local time banks such as Brattleboro's. The work is encouraging and ongoing, he says. He's schueduled to speak on these ideas at the Slow Living Summit, set for Brattleboro June 4 to 6.
Born in a classroom
Brattleboro Time Trade began in 2009 as a practicum conducted by two students, Emma Hallowell and Becca McMaster, at Antioch University New England.
Hallowell, an environmental studies student, was introduced to the time-trade concept when an elective class, "Corporate Power, Globalization, and Democracy," sent her off to research an organization that in her analysis was creating positive social change. She chose TimeBanks USA.
"After diving deep into the history of time banks I became convinced that they were an incredibly useful tool to not only work outside the mainstream economy, but [also] to strengthen the community through positive connection," Hallowell says.
At the end of her presentation, she reports, she found herself saying that she wanted to start a time bank in Brattleboro, where she was living at the time.
With classmate McMaster's help, Hallowell connected with a group of Brattleboro residents also interested in time trading.
From the beginning, BTT was an organization supported by local partnerships. A key early sponsor was the community organizing project Post Oil Solutions, which, according to its founding director, Tim Stevenson, served as BTT's fiscal agent by securing grant funding.
Kipton Tewksbury, BTT's treasurer, says there are many grants that BTT — still a "not-for-profit" organization — will qualify for when it achieves IRS 501(c)(3) "nonprofit" certification, which it applied for last August.
Until then, Post Oil Solutions is essentially extending its own 501(c)(3) status to apply for and receive grants and tax-deductible donations on BTT's behalf. Donations made to BTT directly are not tax-deductible, as donations to 501(c)(3) groups, Tewksbury explains.
The partnership is a natural, Stevenson says, as "community-building is second to none in terms of our mission." He adds that supporting BTT creates greater social sustainability and that "people coming together is the essence of an ecologically sound community."
With Post Oil's support, BTT launched as a pilot program in the summer of 2009 with 30 members and has grown steadily since. Six years on, the community is tracking along as Hallowell expected, she says:
"I would say that the time trade is at the place I imagined: there are active members making exchanges; the leadership has completely changed hands; and it has become a community organization that is relatively well-recognized in Brattleboro."
Room to grow
In addition to finding more than a toehold in Brattleboro, and a needed ride to the store, Weiss found an opportunity to help lead BTT soon after joining. At the group's annual meeting this January he learned BTT was searching from among members for candidates to fill out its team of coordinators. He described himself as "immediately interested" and was hired as a coordinator in March.
An exciting element in all this, Weiss says, is that BTT has the potential to fulfill its mission of community self-help:
"The first couple of years, BTT was a pilot project, and it's only in the past couple of years that it has come into itself as a nonprofit organization."
McKinney agrees: "We're coming from infancy to toddlerhood now, and getting our legs under us."
Abby Mnookin, a BTT member since 2010 and a coordinator since 2012, says that growth has not been without challenges. She points to the need now to shore up the organization's long-term financial sustainability.
Here's why: BTT's financial support comes from two sources: dues paid annually by members — on a sliding scale from $10 to $100, with most paying around $25 — and from schduled fundraisers, which Mnookin says "bring in a couple thousand dollars over the course of a year."
BTT uses this money primarily to address administrative expenses. Mnookin says that stream of revenue is inadequate.
The coordinator team is BTT's greatest permanent expense according to Tewksbury, who points out that federal rules state that anybody who performs the same type of job regularly for an organization shall be classififed as employees. Coordinators such as Weiss are paid regular hourly wages.
The coordinators, who spend 20 hours or more a week in outreach efforts, member services, and planning, are the only BTT staff paid with hum-drum, non-time-credit currency. BTT's president, vice-president, and treasurer are paid in time credits.
Tewksbury says that making the coordinators employees gives them more respect — and benefits such as unemployment insurance: "They do a real job — they're not just helping out as members."
Tewksbury says paying the coordinators wages by self-raised contribution would cost the average member $60 per year — that's just not feasible for many members, he adds.
While it waits for disposition of its application for nonprofit status — and to reduce its administrative expenses and connect with educational institutions — BTT also plans to expand its internship program.
Where previously BTT hosted a pair of interns from Antioch University New England, it is now reaching out to the internship offices of SIT Graduate Institute, Marlboro College Graduate Center, Landmark College, and other Vermont colleges.
Local organizations benefit
And, of course, BTT is sustained by local connections. It continues to receive support from Post Oil Solutions and enjoys a close connection with Guilford-based Omega Optical, a manufacturer of optical filters from which BTT leases its office in Brattleboro. The time trade pays rent on this office with 25 time credits a month awarded for the use of Omega's employees.
Omega Optical is among 12 time trade members that are organizations or businesses rather than individuals. Post Oil Solutions is another such member, receiving help from time traders for its winter farmers' markets.
Other organizational members include Transition Putney, KidsPLAYce, Rich Earth Institute, the Vermont Foodbank Gleaning Program, Food Connect, Root Social Justice Center, Vermont Jazz Center, and Brattleboro Senior Meals.
Emily Wergin is operations manager at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, one of BTT's newest organizational members, which joined in March. BTT members can earn time credits for volunteering at BMAC as greeters, security staff, or event helpers. In return, admission to the Museum can be paid in time-credits.
Wergin explains the relationship works well for BMAC:
"The time trade gives people another way to visit the museum and helps us find volunteers. Most of our methods of finding volunteers were more passive — by word of mouth — but when we put our ad up [on the BTT website] we got two responses within a few days."
Brattleboro Senior Meals, which delivers meals to Windham County senior citizens and hosts a monthly community breakfast, has been an organizational member since 2010. Like the BMAC, Senior Meals has also tapped BTT members to meet its extensive need for volunteer help.
According to Senior Meals director Chris McAvoy, the program puts some 125 volunteers to work every month preparing and delivering meals.
"The bulk of our volunteers came from word of mouth and posters I put up around town," McAvoy says. "Since joining [BTT] we've had about 15 regular volunteers who've participated in the Meals-on-Wheels program."
McAvoy adds: "I like the concept of having volunteers receive a benefit."
Senior Meals allows time traders to spend credits to attend Senior Meals's Brattleboro Citizens' Breakfasts at the Gibson Aiken Center, which includes a meal and a discussion of local issues.
"We've had traditional activities here (at the Brattleboro Senior Center)," she says. "The time trade is something a little nontraditional. It brings different people in and gives us more diversity as a center."
Weiss says he envisions BTT's time credits as an eventual "inter-organizational currency of service" that powers Brattleboro's many human-, social service-, and arts and culture-based organizations from a common pool of interested volunteers — while reaching a greater segment of the community with their own activities.
McKinney agrees, and says BTT is working to lengthen its roster of organizational members: "I see us reaching out to other nonprofits as we become more organized — especially to nonprofits who work for people with less means, and to youth organizations."
Brattleboro's Morningside Shelter, which offers temporary residence to families and individuals experiencing homelessness, is one group considering BTT membership.
Anna Gouznova, Morningside's AmeriCorps service coordinator (and an individual time-trade member) says it is likely Morningside will join.
Should it join, all its residents will be able to make use of and contribute to Morningside's fund of time credits. Alternatively, Gouznova says, they could join as individuals, and Morningside would help them make the best use of the BTT website from the shelter's computers.
"A resident might find out about time trade from their case manager and sign up," says Gouznova.
With regular time trade service, she says, a resident can "meet a wide range of community members and save time credits on his or her individual account. Then, when that resident moves out, they could get valuable help with transportation or childcare by using those credits."
BTT members offering their services to Morningside can earn credits by helping to prepare the shelter's weekly meal, work in the garden, paint, lend a hand on children's activities, and so forth.
Gouznova says she anticipates that Morningside and BTT can form a lasting, beneficial partnership, with community exchange as the greatet component:
"We need to acknowledge that there is still a lot of economic disparity in our community, and the time trade offers a chance for people to meet when they might not otherwise. It could lead to opportunities. Someone here might meet a person through time trade who becomes a link to employment or housing. We want to make those connections."
In addition to recruiting new organizational members, BTT also wants to increase individual membership.
"We'd like to reach out to a diverse population and become visible to a wider variety of people," McKinney says. "Increasing our membership will increase the types of services we offer."
As gaining strength from the social and professional diversity of its members is a feature inherent to the structure of time trade organizations, BTT would like to "do dedicated recruiting of members so we can offer services like basic plumbing and electrical work," McKinney says.
Diversity part of the plan
BTT's leadership say thay also want to increase BTT's diversity by drawing in a range of demographic groups that they feel are under-represented. BTT says it keeps no data about the ages and income levels of its members. This reporter noted an apparently solid representation among members by the middle-class and middle-aged.
Fulfilling its mission of creating social cohesion and reciprocal aid requires BTT bring in members from all segments of the community. According to Mnookin, the time trade is looking to reach "students, senior citizens, disabled people, veterans, low-income people, the LGBTQ community, and families."
McKinney names another group she believes could benefit from BTT membership: "A big time of need is coming up for a lot of folks at Vermont Yankee (Nuclear Power Plant)" in Vernon.
Many of VY's 640 employees will be affected when the plant closes at the end of this year, as the plant's owner, Louisiana-based Entergy Corp., announced in 2013.

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Despite a long history of driving offenses, Uber confirmed that Gilbert had worked as a driver for the ride service in the months before Sunday's incident. Clearly, he was not working as an Uber driver on Sunday when the incident occurred with the police. However, though he drove for UBER for only a short period of time, he was a driver for UBER.
It was reported in the news that according to records from the Registry of Motor Vehicles, Gilbert has received more than 20 traffic citations, including several license suspensions, since 1994. In one year, he was found to be at fault in crashes in Dorchester and Roslindale, and had road violations in Quincy, Dorchester, Seekonk and Bridgewater.
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According to Uber, candidates will be disqualified if they are found to have, in the past three years in the state in which they are applying to drive, violations for driving on a suspended, revoked or invalid license or driving with suspended, revoked or invalid insurance on their records.
Gilbert was ordered held on $50,000 bail Monday after pleading not guilty to assault and battery, drug and other charges in connection with Sunday's incident. Police said a large sum of money and what was believed to be marijuana were found during Gilbert's booking process.
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Talking about Ultrabooks, CEO Paul Otellini said, "We are very pleased with the level of innovation and invention being brought into this category, and are now tracking over 140 Ivy Bridge-based designs in the pipeline.
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96 Maxima - O2 Sensor Code P0130 - Bank 1 Sensor 1
My 96 maxima (V-6, 5 Speed Manual) has had the SES (check engine) light on for a couple years now. It is almost time for emissions inspection.
This is the code that I get when pull the codes.
It is safe to say that I should replace this O2 sensor?
Where is this sensor located? Any tips or tricks to replacing this sensor? Should I use an OEM sensor?
Thanks for the help.
Last edited by 99Frontier96Maxima; 09-26-2009 at 11:04 PM.
Since no one else will reply to this topic, I will. I ended up replacing the sensor myself. Bank 1 Sensor 1 is the sensor on the front of the engine, also referred to as "left". Nothing about its orientation has to do with left, but is what the diagram says.
This sensor is on the back side of the of the lower part of the exhaust manifold, I was finally able to get it off with a crescent wrench. It is a tricky maneuver but I got. The sensor is more or less plug n play. It plugs in on the front of the front valve cover near the top. The wire is about 16" long or so. When you go to purchase you can either buy one with the exact plug on it and the cable mounting points, or you can buy a universal one without a connector or cable ties attached. The latter is about $20 cheaper. I purchased mine at Schucks, both plugs that they offered are Bosch (OEM I think) I chose to go with the exact fit model because of time constraints. You could easily purchase the cheaper one and use butt connectors and splice on the plug from the old one onto the new one. I then drove back to Schucks and borrowed their OBDII scan tool and reset of the code, and have not had any problems since.
Most people already know this, but the big chain parts stores will usually match prices of competitors. I called up a local store (that didn't have the part in stock) they were selling it for $11 cheaper. I went to Schucks and they matched the price.
On a side note, The Bank 1 Sensor 2 is located on the back side of the engine on the other manifold. You can only reach this from underneath the car. I have ramps so I was able to drive the car up on ramps and get under the car. It would be slightly easier to replace if you had to. It is referred to as "right", the only thing right about is that it is on the right side of the rear exhaust manifold.
I have included a diagram that I found somewhere else, I am not sure why its not on this website. It should the system is ok detail.
Previous Information Incorrect
It would seem that the information that I posted previously was not totally correct.
My check engine light came on again a couple days later with the exact same code (P0130, Bank 1 Sensor 1). I then asked a mechanic about the the location of that sensor. He told me that Bank 1 always corresponds to the side of the engine with Cylinder #1 in it. I then did a search for firing order of this engine. I came across this list of Nissan engines:
1996 Nissan Firing Orders
I have attached the image of the firing order from this website. Logically it shows where the front of the engine is, and it is logical to assume that the transmission would always be attached to the back of the block. The transmission in a maxima is on the drivers side of the of car (left). Therefore Bank 1 Sensor 1 is on the back manifold between the firewall and the engine block. Fortunately this one is relatively easier to get to. I have not swapped it yet, but I plan on doing so. I'll post what happens.
same problem
i have the same problem. change both o2 sensors.. one after the catalytic the rear 02sensor. and changed the front one.. but my engine light did still turned on. i was wondering if i changed the wrong one. is it the one in the middle.. behind the engine?
Location of O2 sensor
This is taken from http://maxima.theowensfamily.com/tsb/NTB02-051a.pdf
I attached a snapshot from the federal 2000 maxima where it labels all the location of the three oxygen sensors. I need to replace one of the oxygen sensor on bank 1 sensor 1 on my maxima 98 myself. I assume that it is similar with this 2000 maxima.
What do you think?
Bank 1 is at the rear of the engine compartment; Bank 2 is at the front. Sensor 1 in either case is the sensor before the cat; Sensor 2 is after the cat. If there is only one sensor after the cat, it is usually identified as Bank 1 Sensor 2. The drawings use the "LH" and "RH" terminology because if the engine was mounted "fore and aft" (like all engines used to be when most cars were rear wheel drive) insteasd of transversely (as in most front wheel drive vehicles), Bank 1 would be on the right (pass) side and Bank 2 would be on the left (driver) side of the vehicle.
1997 Maxima SE, 5 speed, dark green with tan leather, 235K+ miles and still going strong.
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+1 bobflood.
Absolutely correct!
I have also seen situations where the autoparts store will incorrectly label right and left of an engine and I have corrected them (last time was on a coil pack). Front is right, back is left.
My experience is that the one at the firewall, the back one or the left one is more difficult to change as it is in a very small confined area and one must be sure the exhaust is somewhat cool or you will burn yourself.
The front one (or right one) isn't as bad and the one at the cat is even easier (except for tracing the plug end).
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my car just came up with this same code going to change the sensor
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Dates: 9 Sep – 22 Oct 2016 Location: RMIT Gallery, City Campus Radical Actions presents work by five high-profile Irish artists…
Radical Actions presents work by five high-profile Irish artists who identify with the politics of social agitation, revolution and rebellion.
This year of commemoration of the 1916 Rising in Ireland is the starting point for an international exhibition that is reflexive and responsive to the defining period around the Great War in an international context.
Radical Actions will look at how events in recent and distant history, attitudes to rebellion, revolution and agitation have formed societies and national identities, questioning the role of the artist in imagining future states and explore the impact this revolutionary period has had on Irish citizens.
Revolutions are about antagonism and agitation, and this is above all, true of events a hundred years ago. A dramatic and emotionally driven gesture, the 1916 Rising is rumoured to have inspired revolution in India, Vietnam and many parts of Africa. It was planned by men and women who feared that without a dramatic action of this kind, the sense of national identity that had survived all the hazards of the centuries would flicker out ignominiously within their lifetime.
According to curator Linda Shevlin, the 1916 Commemoration should not be a time for "soft words or a gazing backwards through a green-tinged prism at an idealised past."
"There is an urgency for an assessment of Irish identity within broader international and global contexts. Radical Actions questions the role of the artist in imagining future states and explores the impact this revolutionary period has had on Irish citizens," she said.
Among the works in this exhibition will be the film Bernadette by Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell. One of a trilogy of films, it focuses on female Irish dissident and political activist Bernadette Devlin. Campbell's film works with already mediated images and writings about her in an effort to do justice to her legacy while also striving for what Samuel Beckett terms, "a form that accommodates the mess".
Jesse Jones has been chosen to represent Ireland at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Her work in Radical Actions, The Other North casts professional Korean actors to re-enact scenes from a conflict resolution therapy session in 1970s Belfast. The sessions were organized by American psychologist Carl Rogers, known as a proponent of psychotherapy, documented and long ago forgotten.
The exhibition will also present a piece by one of Ireland's top young artists Seamus Nolan, The 10th President, a political campaign to commemorate victims of institutional abuse. Nolan's recent works include F**K IMMA for 'What we call love, Surrealism to now' in the Irish Museum of Modern Art 2015/16 and What if we got it wrong? Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, while Kennedy Browne, the collaborative practice of Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne will be revisiting their work The Special Relationship which looks at Ireland's position as a neutral State that allows the use of airports as a stop-off point for US military.
As part of its 2016 commemorative programme Culture Ireland is supporting the exhibition of Radical Actions in Melbourne at RMIT Gallery, which is a very fitting location for this important contemporary Irish exhibition. RMIT Gallery is housed in Storey Hall, first built as a Hibernian Hall in 1887 and remodelled in 1995 where its Irish Heritage is referenced in the buildings exterior architecture.
Culture Ireland's international culture programme entitled I Am Ireland is part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. I Am Ireland will enable Irish artists and companies to present their work across the globe. The programme, a key element of the Ireland 2016 Global and Diaspora strand, is one of celebration through contemporary arts while also reflecting on Ireland's cultural journey over the last one hundred years. I Am Ireland marks the centrality of the arts to Irish identity, and acknowledges the key role artists play now, as they did in the 1916 Rising.
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We, at RM Towers, are still riding high after yesterdays glorious Royal Wedding, eugh wasn't it just delicious!!!
Today though, on this royal wedding boxing day we are here to ease you back into the beautiful reality of real weddings and this one is a smasher.
A bespoke bridal gown, DIY decor, and pretty florals fill Cheshire's Owen House Wedding Barn.
The couple's family and friends helped to create some wonderful treats for this wedding. Our personal favourites have to be the parents of the bride making the wonderful cakes, seriously special stuff guys.
Photography by the wonderful Livi Edwards.
"Our wedding was everything we hoped it would be and more. We feel very lucky to have found each other and really are best friends"
Andy proposed by recreating their very first date when he asked Laura to marry him, which was so special and Laura did not have a clue – then the wedding planning began!
Laura the Bride: The fact that we had a fantastic venue in Owen House Wedding Barn and a beautiful church in St Thomas Becket Chapel-en-le Frith meant that we had all the ingredients for a special day right from the beginning. Vanessa and Dan at Owen House could not have been more helpful even from our initial viewing of the venue and they answered question after question in the build-up always re-assuring us and making every effort to guarantee that we could have the day we wanted. We really enjoyed the wine tasting evening they invited us to and they really went the extra mile in terms of advising us on every aspect of the day, right down to how many jam jars we should aim to save!
Reverend Colin Pearson and the parishioners of St Thomas Becket welcomed us with open arms and we have enjoyed becoming a part of the parish community, especially given the fact that Laura's Nan and Grandad married in the same Church some years ago. It is a beautiful chapel and we could not have wished for a better service. Again Reverend Colin made the day extra special with his kind words and his efforts to make everybody feel a part of the ceremony.
Our flowers were from Rachel's Flowers in Chapel-en-le Frith and Rachel was so helpful in terms of meeting with us to discuss the best options and working to our budget, we could not thank her or recommend her highly enough. The Church and venue looked beautiful and the bridal bouquet, in particular, was a work of art.
One of the key factors in how magical our day was the involvement of our nearest and dearest. Our bridesmaids spent a good few evenings helping us decorate jam jars for table decorations and one of them handmade our save the dates and parts of our invitations. They were stunning and totally unique to us. We had a cake table for dessert with homemade cakes from my mum and a 5 tier 'naked' cake that my dad created after several months of practice runs and a variation of sponge mixes and secret ingredients. These DIY aspects of the day allowed us to really put our stamp on everything and helped us to involve people closest to us.
A good wedding demands good food and great entertainment, we had both plenty. So good was Vanilla in all Seasons, that when we were picking the menu we had a second tasting, partly because we were spoilt for choice but mainly because I couldn't wait for the day to taste their amazing culinary treats again. The canapés looked like something off the Great British Menu final and each one tasted amazing. These were followed by a selection of barbecued meats – rib-eye steak, pork belly and chicken – and a selection of wow salads and huge portions of grilled halloumi. Every mouthful was stunning and there was so much food I did fear I might need a lie-down.
We had a brilliant singer in James Collins perform during the reception drinks and wedding breakfast and he was then followed by The Royale Band who blew people away and did an amazing version of our first dance song 'I'm gonna be' by the Proclaimers. They were so good friends of ours have tried to book them for their wedding.
Then DJ Grant Niblett of Nocturnal Revolutions closed out the evening for us musically and he again was so helpful and accommodating in terms of discussing playlists and favourites.
The day was captured for us by the brilliant Livi Edwards. Her unique style and approach to the photography was exactly what we were looking for and Livi made sure that the photographs took place without interrupting the flow of the day. She put us at ease and captured so many magical moments from the day. Nothing was too much trouble and she even sprinted from the brides house to the church in the rain!
The Dress
Laura's dress was beautiful and bespoke. She had it handmade by Julie Mitchelmore at Village Bride in Marple Bridge. This enabled Laura to bring her own ideas for design and style and get her perfect dress. Julie did a wonderful job of bringing design ideas Laura had to life and she even dressed Laura on the morning of the wedding just to ensure that everything looked perfect. Laura's mum went to every fitting with her and also had her dress made by Julie. Julie also sewed a sixpence for Laura's nan into the dress which was very special.
Photography by Livi Edwards
- Venue Owen House Wedding Barn
- Church St. Thomas Becket Church
- Flowers Rachel's Flowers
- Catering Vanilla in all Seasons
- Entertainment 1 James Collin
- Entertainment 2 The Royale Band
- Entertainment 3 DJ Grant Niblett
- The Dress Village Bride


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First up is Adrian Warner – who is the Olympic Correspondent for the BBC. You see him on the news all the time – kind of got a nice dry appropriately dispassionate BBC delivery.
He is looking for a local family. Are there any 2 or 3 generations of family living in or around Leabank Square to share experiences of all the changes over the years – culminating in the Olympics?
If you would like to know more – please call his researcher (Summer on 07958 319 251)
Then there is the Simon Mayo show on BBC Radio 5. They want to know what locals feel about the massive Tesco Town being built around the corner. They would like 2 Leabankers – one pro – and one against Tesco building this incredibly large and neighbourhood altering development.
(see: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23756241-tesco-town-planned-next-to-2012-site.do)
If you want to be on this show (Tuesday 20th October) – then please call his researcher (Alice on 0208 6249 504).
We are still a few years away from the actual games – and we can only expect many more of these kind of queries. So if there are any media-savvy residents out there who would like to be on a short-call list – please email me. Thanks!


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Few people have likely ever been so dismayed by the passing of Christmas as the Magi and the prophet Simeon, as least as the poet T. S. Eliot portrays them. In his poem "Journey of the Magi," the Magi travel all night through the "worst time of year" with tired camels while missing the comforts of home, and believing their journey to be "folly." Eventually, they do encounter the Christ child, which makes the journey seem worthwhile. Finally, as one of them says, they return home,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
Their journey has concluded, but the Magi is not set free from its effect. His life has been given a new horizon and a decisive direction, as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI says in Deus Caritas Est, and he cannot ignore that he has met God in the flesh. Though he lives in a society that knows enough to interpret the signs that a King has been born, he does not live in a society that has truly encountered God; they are committed to other gods instead, and having a different horizon to his life, the Magi can only see his countrymen as strangers. As Benedict says in Spe Salvi, even his astrology is transformed, as now, the stars are "moving in the orbit determined by Christ." Once the Magi has encountered God, he cannot find any satisfaction to his desires anywhere else, and this seems a curse to him. Why must his life go on after he has see God in the flesh? Is not that alone enough to fulfill his life? What else could he possibly encounter that would transform his life? His life seems to have been fulfilled, and so it can end now. In death, he knows that he will encounter God face to face again, and so he does not fear it as much as he does the protracted waiting amongst people who cannot understand him. The Magi cannot just let Christmas fade into banality; he is always remembering the birth of a King that is the death of his old life.
The Despair of Seeing God
Along the same lines, in "A Song for Simeon," which, like "Journey of the Magi," is from his collection Ariel Poems, Eliot depicts a weary Simeon as saying
I am tired with my own life and the lives after me,
I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
Let the servant depart,
Having seen thy salvation.
Here, there is none of the exultation that Luke implies in his telling of Simeon seeing the baby Jesus in the Temple, after having waited for so long to see God's salvation. In both the Gospel and the poem, his life, his faithfulness, and his waiting are rewarded with the encounter of God in the flesh, but Eliot's Simeon seems almost resentful that he was made to see God, because he knows that this encounter will be a blessing that dwarfs all else that follows, and he cannot bear to think that his life will continue to go on after it has been fulfilled. After this encounter, his life will be tasteless. He is afraid that that which seemed good before will now fail to satisfy. Furthermore, as Jim Shepherd says about Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "conversion experiences don't stick—or they don't stick for very long. Human beings have to be re-educated over and over and over again as we swim upstream against our own irrationalities… Don't think for a moment that because you've had a brief instant of illumination, and you suddenly see yourself with clarity, that you're not going to transgress two days down the road." Simeon and the Magi have had their epiphany, but is it enough to carry them through the rest of their days? There is always the fear that even though they have seen the face of God, they will turn away.
Life Goes On
Simeon and the Magi are confronted with the awful reality that the moment of epiphany does not provide them with rose-coloured glasses. Conversion is not a passport to Eden, where they will not have to live by the sweat of their brow. To quote David Bentley Hart, "while we know that the victory over evil and death has been won, we know also that it is a victory yet to come, and that creation therefore, as Paul says, groans in expectation of the glory that will one day be revealed. Until then, the world remains a place of struggle between light and darkness, truth and falsehood, life and death; and, in such a world, our portion is charity." Simeon and the Magi see that victory, but also realize that, instead of being able to enjoy that victory in its fullness, the struggle of keeping God's word and being faithful has just begun. Eliot's speaker in Ash-Wednesday begins by saying he does not hope to turn again; he has converted and seen that the world is still a place of struggle, so why should he convert again if nothing shall be new? He could have been comfortable enough with the old gods.
Simeon and the Magi are never quite free of the vice of materialism. While they know that the goods in their lives and cultures cannot satisfy them, they are still jealously enough attached to these goods that when they encounter something greater, they are dismayed by their goods' inferiority. They obey God, and they acknowledge His greatness, but they do not give themselves over to Him entirely, and still seek something else. They are reminiscent of the young man who asks Jesus what he must do to gain eternal life. He follows all of the commandments, but when Jesus tells him to sell his possessions, he is sad, for he has many. If he does this, he will have greater treasure in heaven, but first he must sacrifice that which he knows will give him happiness, be it only a limited happiness. This is not necessarily deliberate rebellion; after all, to give up the habits of a lifetime is difficult, and it is natural to find oneself pining for the goods to which one is used, but it highlights the fear that these men feel at making such a leap of faith in believing that they will find something as satisfying as that which they already know.
Christ the Tiger
The claim God makes on them is absolute; they cannot encounter God and then go about their lives as if they have had a normal and forgettable day, and it is not the case that they have uploaded a new spiritual app among many to their souls. Instead, they must allow their horizons to be broadened in ways that they cannot control. Indeed, in Eliot's poem "Gerontion," the speaker calls Christ a tiger who devours us. Christ is terrifying because of how absolutely one must give oneself over to Him. He is terrifying because, as Pope Benedict says in his 2012 Christmas homily "We want what we can seize hold of, we want happiness that is within our reach, we want our plans and purposes to succeed. We are so "full" of ourselves that there is no room left for God."
We want happiness that we can be sure of, even if it is lesser than the happiness that we can find when we take that leap of faith and let go of what we know. We want to be the ones grasping on to something, instead of letting ourselves be grasped. To let ourselves be grasped would be to give up power and control. It would be to allow another person to define us, instead of having the licence to define ourselves. Karol Wotyla, later Pope St. John Paul II, says in Love and Responsibility that freedom is for love, and love is an emptying of oneself; it "means to limit one's freedom on behalf of the other." However, accepting this limit requires trust in the other person, that the beloved will fill the emptied lover with something good. We know that the materials we cling to are at least somewhat good; we have learned not yet learned to trust that the tiger who devours us is better. And that is the virtue of hope: that the ultimate loss of self, death, does not have final victory. On the one hand, Simeon and the Magi despair of their lives, seeing them as suffering and delay, believing that they cannot sacrifice all to which they had clung before. On the other hand, they have hope not just that death will end their waiting to see God again, or that it will remove them from the alien lands in which they live, but that they can be emptied of all to which they cling and be filled with that which is fully good. In their decrease, they know Christ will increase.


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Mom to Zachary Logan
Passed away November 3rd, 2010 at 2 months gestation
Bellingham, Washington
This is 4 weeks from the loss of my baby Zachary Logan. I have searched for resources, for people who have been through something similar and I have grown frustrated with little support for people who have had abdominal pregnancies. So I figure there are others out there who are feeling this way too - so I am writing this for those searching for someone else who has been there.
My story is unique. I did not know that I was pregnant - in fact i was doing my darndest to not be pregnant. I had an IUD. I had a lot of vaginal pressure at work in the morning - thought my IUD may be falling out, and called the Dr office. They got me in at 11:00. I found out at 11:10 on Thursday November 4th that I was pregnant. Although the initial reactions was intense shock - it turned into joy and trying to figure out how to tell my husband and family. (since they all were going to be as shocked as well).
(I am going to attach the timeline that I wrote down while I was in the moment of what was going on... incase that helps someone else, I am just going to summarize everything here.)
Later in the day I knew something was wrong - I was in too much pain, I couldn't sit for more than 10 minutes. I called the Dr again and they ordered a STAT ultrasound. I had not peed other than the small amount at the Dr office to do the urine test... and still could not pee - this became a problem at the ultrasound and continued until I got a cath later. At this point I called my husband, mother -in-law, and family. I was scared. The ultrasound did not go well - and after an hour or so of trying I was told to go to the ER because they could not find the baby and there was a "shadow" on my uterus - which they said meant that I had an Ectopic pregnancy.
We got to the ER and the nurse and Dr were great, holding my hand, comforting, explaining what was going on WITH ME - but no one put it bluntly that hope was gone. Somewhere in my brain I thought - "well the baby is in the fallopian tube, put some water in there and slip it down to where it is supposed to be" - - - no one connected it for me, I think they all thought someone else had done that.
7:20 pm Zachary ruptured in my abdomen. The physical pain that came out of that is not even comprehendible. I had 5 shots of dillaudid in my system already. I cant imagine the pain if I had not had that on board already. I did not know that was what was happening - - - I started screaming "my ass is exploding" - that is how it felt.
The on call OB - WITH HORRIBLE bed side manor and difficult to understand came in and said that I had to go and have emergency surgery because the baby was in the fallopian tube. Ok - still hope right?!?!?! Surgery happened, and when I woke up I found out that Josh <my hubby> was told that I was never pregnant, that it was a "cyst releasing a pregnant hormone." So that news was one more crush. 3 hours later the OB with the horrible bed side manor came in. He was frustrated by our questions, told me that I was pregnant - that the baby ruptured in my abdomen and "it was full of tissue and blood, full full, you had about 3 hours before you died. Ok well all looks good you are ready to be discharged." (It has taken me the last 4 weeks to comprehend this one sentence alone.)
My amazing primary care dr saw me as soon as I left the hsp and she was GREAT. She explained everything to me. it all sank in - sank.
I had to recovery from a physical surgery, from emotional shock of being pregnant and losing Zachary Logan - and moving forward from here.
We decided to name our baby - I loved the name Zachary Logan - Zachary means "the Lord remembers." and Logan means "Dweller of a little hollow." I loved the imagry of my son being the dweller of a little hollow - since he was where he should not have been.
Right now I struggle with where to go from here - how to cope with my anger, sadness, and fear. It is my hope that my story will reach someone who has gone through this as well - someone who has searched for someone who has been there too.
(the outline is below - the play by play for anyone who is interested in it)
This is the outline of my last 2 days.
I found out that I was pregnant, then I found out that I had lost the pregnancy.
11/3/10: 10am – I started to have abdominal pain. I thought my IUD was falling out.
10:45 – phone call to my dr office because it was getting worse. Appt at 1100 with a different dr in the office – Dr Anderson.
11:00 – check in for appt. Talk to the nurses (one student and one RN). Let them know about the pain, my concern about the IUD falling out. They ran a standard pregnancy test and I waited for Dr. Anderson.
(during this time I talked to Kelly – my amazing nurse of my amazing dr – Dr. Jessica Bloom – I told Kelly what was going on, and that I had better not be pregnant – totally joking).
11:05 – Dr Anderson came in to ask if I got the pregnancy test results. I said no, he said he would go and check on it.
11:10 – Dr Anderson came in – white as a ghost. He said the test was positive. I said "you are shitting me" – then his nurse came in – she was holding one of the 4 tests that she said that she ran. She was shaking as she explained that the two lines mean "pregnant!"
11:11 – Freaking out, crying, emotional. Totally in shock. I asked for Kelly to come in (since I knew that she was sitting in the hallway) – she came in and held me while I cried. This was not our plan – this was a HUGE shock. Kelly said that it would be ok, and Dr. Bloom would come in when she was done with her patient that she was with. She said that I will have to talk to her about the IUD coming out.
11:13 – I asked Kelly for a favor. Do not tell Dr. Bloom – since this is her fault (she placed the IUD) I wanted to be the one to tell her. I asked for the test to be left on the table.
11:17 – Dr. Bloom comes in "hay Kristen what's up." I just gestured to the exam table, and pointed to the test. She looked at it, I started crying again, and she got excited. I let her know that if she wanted to see me more often than she just had to call, she did not have to make me pregnant. She said that I had to get the IUD taken out but I would have to have an ultra sound to check on the position of the IUD in association with where the baby is. They scheduled me an ultra sound on Tuesday the 9th and follow up with her on Tuesday the 16th (she is on vacation next week, which I informed her will be the last vacation she takes for the next 10 months). Kelly said she tried to have the ultra sound earlier – but they had no appts.
11:30 – I called Mount Baker Imaging – and told them what was going on with the IUD and pregnancy – so they moved up my appt to November 4th at 12:30. I called Kelly and let her know that I got it moved up – to which she congratulated me for being who I am and she is amazed that I get that kind of results. She moved up my appt with Jessica Bloom to 4:00 that day to remove the IUD.
12:10 – freaking out, went to my Mother In Law's work – emotional and crying. I showed her the test, she embraced me. She asked "well who is this little one going to be?" I responded "we used out names, we are going to spend the next 10 months fighting about it!!!" I was so worried about people being mad at me and what the fall out was going to be. She made me feel better.
<I went back to work, saw a few clients, but the pain got worse and worse, It felt like labor pressure – I could not sit for more than 15 minutes>
3:00 – I stop at Dairy Queen. I had bought another pregnancy test, because I wanted to physically do one of my own – just incase. That is when I found out that I could not pee. Something was wrong, something was really wrong. I ate a kids grilled cheese sandwich and drank 24 ounces of water and then sprite. I peed enough to do the test and it said "PREGNANT" So – I was sitting in my car, letting everything sink in, and the pain got worse and worse. I called the dr office at 320. Jessica Bloom had gone home at this time so I talked to the nurse for Dr. Anderson <who was the poor man to tell me I was pregnant>. He called for a STAT ultrasound scheduled at 400. They told me to drink 24 more ounces of water.
3:20 – Phone call to Josh. "So, this is not how I wanted to do this, but you need to get dressed (he had worked the overnight), and meet me at mount baker imaging. I am pregnant and something is wrong." – He responded with some sort of "you are kidding me." But he could hear in my voice that something is major wrong, and he said ok he is on his way.
3:45 – I got to the imaging place. They did not have my orders yet. And I was to wait for them to come in. I sit down outside and start crying. "How can this be happening……. What is going on……. I am scared for my health and the health of the baby……… I just need Josh…….."
3:55 – Josh showed up. He walked up the stairs and grabbed me and hugged me. He let me know the thoughts running through his head.
4:00 – I found out my appt was at 415 – and I really have to pee. I told her that I would just go a little, not too much. It was at this time that I found out that I could not physically pee. It was horrible! I could not sit, walk, be comfortable by any stretch, lay down or do anything.
4:15 – I get called back. She does the ultrasound. She notices some CYSTS on my ovaries <I just had one removed from the right one 7 weeks ago>. She also does not see a baby. But the IUD is in perfect place.
4:18 – she tells me to pee so she can finish the ultrasound. I try for the next 45 minutes, and nothing barely comes out. It is only when Josh tried to bore me to death with Fantasy Football talk that I finally peed a little. She attempted to finish the ultra sound.
5:00 – the radiologist comes in. Ok – so for those of you who have always had perfect ultra sounds, you never get this. When I was pregnant with Eddie with his kidney complications, I got used to this. Seeing this person = something is really wrong. He lets me know that he saw an abnormality on the ultrasound. They can not see a baby, but they do see something abnormal in the uterus. He states that what he is seeing with the combination of having an IUD most likely equals an etopic pregnancy. He said that I am to go to the ER immediately.
My hopes broke – crushed – I was freaking out – I was scared, I had got happy about having this baby, about being able to move forwards, Upset because although when I found out I was pregnant the initial response was "OH SHIT" it turned into feeling ok which turned into being happy….. which got crushed.
5:15 – walked into the ER. They asked me why I was there. I said "Etopic Pregnancy" - and started crying. Got all checked in. and Waited.
5:55 – I got my room <I had also gotten my labs drawn by then, and he got it on the first poke – which is remarkable!> you know that you are bad, when you go the ER and you have a private room and a nurse who comes in every few minutes to check on you. I had a great nurse – her name is Jamie – and the Dr was even better – his name was Jim but I informed him that I was going to call him Jimmy and he was ok with that.
6:15 – still no pain meds. Still no pee. I am BEGGING for a catheter – now how often does that happen?!?!?!
6:20 – Jamie tires to get the IV in – nope. Jamie tires to get the catheter in - - - - Nope……
6:40 – Another nurse came in and got the IV in and the catheter in – 550 cc's later – RELIEF!
6:45 – I started getting my pain medications. IV Dillaudid – I got 4 hits of it and I was still in pain. But it was significantly less.
7:20 – HORRIBLE pain – Josh said that I was screaming that my ass was exploding. The pressure was horrible and the pain was worse. I could barely breathe. I can not imagine what that would have felt like without the 4 shots of Dillaudid on board already!
840 – the on call OB came in. He said that he was going to be taking me to surgery. He was sure that it was an etopic pregnancy and He would have to go in and remove a fallopian tube, because he believed that was where it was.
955 – wheeled to the pre- op room. I was all hooked up to what they needed me to be, and the wait started.
10:45 The anesteologist was the best on the PLANET!!! She was so wonderful. She had a great personality and she was approachable, and she took the time to care for what was going on. She talked to me for almost an hour – about what was going on and how she was going to be there to take care of me.
12:00 AM – I get wheeled into surgery. As promised the anesteologist was waiting at the OR door with a cocktail of medications that made me go to sleep! I woke up 3 hours later being wheeled to the observation unit for my overnight stay.
3:00 am - I am back in the room – emotional, in and out of consciousness and doped up on medications!
3:30-8:00 – I was in and out of consciousness. I was on dillaudid – and that was helping a lot with the pain. However, during this time the nurse on call told josh hat I was never pregnant – going off of the OB's notes, that I just had a cyst that broke.
8:30 – Josh told me about what the nurse had said to him. I was upset further. It was so hard to cope with this. The emotions were so much. I am in pain, not sure what to think anymore. – Everyone was coming over to visit – We had Fotis <our neighbor>, Pastor Keith, Auntie Barbara and Uncle Scott, and Dad.
11:00 am – the OB dr came in. He said that the surgery went well. He said that I was pregnant at least 2 months. He said that the baby fell into the abdomen – where he "ruptured" last night. He said that when he got in there there was a lot of blood and tissue in the abdomen – which needed to be cleaned out and sent to pathology. He also said that there was a 5cm cyst on my right ovary – which he let the fluid out of. He also let me know that he removed the IUD. He was frustrated with all of the questions that we were asking, and said "well that is what I am trying to explain to you." So we knew that we would ask my dr about it later today.
11:20 – Josh called my Dr office and told them what was going on. He asked if we could come and see Jessica today. Jessica said that she would see us at 200 or whenever we got there. She had read all of the notes and she was up to speed on what had happened. She said that she could just talk to us on the phone if we would prefer – but Josh let her know that I wanted to see her face to face.
1:00 we were discharged from the hospital. We dropped the script off at Walgreens <what a joke like they could actually get a script done on time>. And we drove to the dr office.
2:00 – meeting with Jessica Bloom. I was immediately taken to a room when I got there. Jessica had it all arranged. Kelly came in first, I was crying at this time. I was emotional for not being able to carry the baby, feeling like I had done something wrong, and being sad to be in this position. Jessica came in next. She had read everything that had happened, she was engaged with us, talking about the process that we have gone through. Jessica was able to encourage us, affirm the fact that we were pregnant and help us move towards healing.
You can contact Kristen at email@example.com


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How To: Play "Casey's Song" by Dallas Green on guitar
Want to learn how to play Dallas Green on the guitar? With this tutorial you can learn how to play "Casey's Song" by Dallas Green on the acoustic guitar. This version is a simplified version of the song and is not exactly how Dallas Green plays it. This lesson is geared towards intermediate guitarists because it assumes prior knowledge of guitar playing. Watch this how to video and you will be able to sing and play along to "Casey's Song" by Dallas Green.


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Let's Find the Happy
Since I hardly ever have control of the remote, as the tv is usually on Sprout, Disney, or ESPN, I decided to watch the news. What a mistake that was...the government shutdown is ridiculous and depressing as hell. Apartment fires and police chases are disheartening. Murders and other assorted crimes are downright frightening. The only reprieve in the gloom was the weather report which included the words "cold front."
So in order to muster up some happy today, I'm hooking up with some other bloggers to focus on The Good Things. I promise we will find them. And then maybe the bad things won't keep us awake tonight.
My 10 Happy Things:
- The 8 Days of Jenny. Husband has been doing this since we first met, and I still get all giggly when it's time for me to pick a surprise for the day. My birthday is on the 8th of October, and he gives me a gift every day, starting on the 1st. Some gifts are small, like a Starbucks gift card, or a new power cord for my phone. Just little things that I wouldn't normally get for myself. Some gifts are bigger (yay!). He puts them all in gift bags, and I get to pick one each morning. How lucky am I?? No, he doesn't have a twin who's single, sorry, ladies.
- Wonderful family like Aunt Leslie, who will come babysit my children while we go out to dinner at a restaurant that does not serve chicken nuggets.
- No homework for my 3rd grader next week!!! Yes, they're doing standardized testing, which is a whole other source of stress, but I'll take no homework any way I can get it.
- I may get to actually wear something long-sleeved tonight, thanks to the aforementioned cold front that is heading towards Houston.
- Waking up this morning all on my own, NO ALARM CLOCK.
- Having the opportunity to visit with several different friends this past week, in person and over the phone. Love that I have such a diverse group of old and new buddies to do life with.
- Baby Boy getting the hang of potty training. That is all I will say about this.
- The yard service we FINALLY hired, so that Husband doesn't have to spend all day Saturday
avoiding usworking in the yard.
- Finally coming out on the other side of a three-day Migraine From Hell. Life is good when your head doesn't feel like it's going to explode.
- That I've had a few spare, quiet moments to put together this list of Happy Things and share the love with you!


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Historia vol.55 n.2 Durban Nov. 2010
A welcome and reliable companion for students and scholars
Edward M. Spiers
University of Leeds
Fransjohan Pretorius, The A to Z of the Anglo-Boer War
Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2009
569 pp
Scarecrow Press are to be congratulated for bringing out so quickly an affordable paperback edition of this volume, which will surely become a standard work of reference, a welcome and reliable companion for scholars and students alike who are working on the Anglo-Boer War. The book is a superb piece of research, scholarship, and clearly the product of many years of careful labour, reflection, and precise exposition. Embellished with maps and a chronology, it has a useful introduction and overview of the origins and course of the war, and contains over 600 cross-referenced entries, covering nearly every conceivable facet of significance in the war. The bibliography, beginning with a scholarly six-page review essay, spans 58 pages and must be the most up-to-date bibliographic source available.
The scope of the book extends far beyond the principal protagonists; their political and military leaders (all described with shrewd and perceptive commentary); their weapons; organisations; battles (again reviewed in a clear, succinct and comprehensible manner); and their tactics. By beginning with a reference to the poem, The Absent-Minded Beggar, Pretorius reminds his readers of the immense emotions aroused by the war in Britain, then at the zenith of its empire, and the popular support for the British soldiers and their families as reflected in the £340 000 raised by the poem. He reminds us, too, of the many distinctive features of this war: armoured trains, whose use evolved throughout the conflict and reflected a war dominated by the use of the railway; blockhouses, 50 of which remain as a legacy of "one of the most remarkable fortification-building projects in world military history" (p 47); the role of black people, including the Kgatla who fought with the British; the commando system that produced a Boer force that was a "classic example of a citizen army" (p 97); the role of women on both sides; and the contributions of Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and irregular forces in support of the imperial war effort. Mobility was crucial on the veld, hence the importance of horses on both sides, with Pretorius quoting General Koos de la Rey that "Without the horse, the Boer is a useless fighter" (p 189). Of importance, too, were the adoption of drab field uniforms and the challenges that had to be overcome in sustaining the flow of supplies and providing medical support across a vast and difficult terrain. Finally, Pretorius reflects upon the calculations among the 60 Boer delegates at Vereeniging that led to the peace settlement, and the many administrative problems that bedevilled the post-war processes of repatriation and compensation.
What makes the book even more interesting is that it exhibits the diverse interests and encyclopaedic knowledge of the author. There are fascinating sections on the art, poetry and photography of the war; the systems of communication employed on both sides; the treatment of prisoners of war; the three naval skirmishes; and the demands upon a postal service in Cape Town that had to handle the weekly arrival of 190 000 letters, 300 000 newspapers and packets and 8 400 parcels. In his excellent coverage of the three sieges, Pretorius recalls how The Times History described the manufacture of the "Long Cecil" gun in Kimberley as "one of the most remarkable events in the history of the beleaguered garrisons" (p 248). He also provides a balanced coverage of the concentration camps, reminding readers that the British did not invent the concept, and that the high mortality rates in white and black camps derived from various causes, even if underpinned by British maladministration and the indifference of Kitchener. He notes, too, that the conditions in the camps were one of the factors that influenced the delegates in Vereeniging, and that their memory contributed to the ideology of Afrikaner nationalism that gathered momentum in the first half of the twentieth century.
Other forms of memorial might have been mentioned (as they were in the case of Canada) inasmuch as they proliferated in Britain and South Africa after the war. They reflected the depth of feeling aroused by the war in Britain and the popularity of the volunteers involved as Britain's "citizen soldiers" and of new formations, such as the Lovat Scouts. These memorials of course were soon eclipsed in significance by the memorials of the two world wars, and preoccupation with those conflicts undoubtedly accounts for the ebb and flow of British writing on the Anglo-Boer War (as mentioned in the bibliography). Yet in many respects those two world wars, like the military preparations during the cold war, were aberrations. Modern wars, as aptly described by General Sir Rupert Smith, are now once again "wars amongst the people".1 In this respect, the Anglo-Boer War is not just "the first of the twentieth century wars" (p ix) but is also the harbinger of wars in the twenty-first century. If scholars wish to reflect on the many and diverse facets of such conflicts, they might profitably begin by reflecting again upon the war in South Africa, and for this they could hardly consult a more authoritative volume than The A to Z of the Anglo-Boer War.
1. R. Smith, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World (Allen Lane, London, 2005), p xiii.


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- 2 fish fillets (of your choice)
- Olive oil
- Garlic salt
- Black pepper
- Dill weed
- Sliced green onions
- Lemon juice/slices
Preheat oven to 400 degrees and pull out enough aluminum foil to make two packets. Place the fish in each packet and rub with olive oil, garlic salt, black pepper, and dill weed. Squeeze lemon juice on the fish, add the lemon slices and green onions, and seal up the packets. Bake in oven for about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the size of the fish fillets. Serve with side dishes of your choice (I went with rice and corn, staples in Mr. L's diet) and enjoy!
The cleanup was SO easy. I love foil recipes! I'll post Mr. L's verdict later...I'm thinking I needed to be a little bit more liberal with my seasoning, so we'll see :) And obviously, since it's an easily interchangeable recipe, alter to your tastes!
VERDICT: "It was very tender with a distinct, zesty lemon taste. Delicious, two thumbs up!" - Mr. L


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MINNEAPOLIS — Glen Taylor isn't blind.
Sitting courtside at Target Center, the Minnesota Timberwolves owner sees the scores of empty seats that surround him.
The Timberwolves, like many NBA teams, are losing more than just games these days. In the middle of a rebuilding project that team officials acknowledge will take at least three years, fans in the sports-saturated Twin Cities are choosing to spend their entertainment dollars elsewhere while the young Wolves learn on the job.
So Taylor challenged his marketing team to come up with a plan that would make them want to stick with the team through the hard times.
They responded with a drastic proposal: Fans who buy or renew season tickets in March can purchase seats in the lower bowl at discounts of up to 50 percent off this season's price, with some as low as $10 per game.
"I told them to be creative. So they come back to me with something like this," Taylor said with a chuckle.
Teams across the league are finding that they have to offer more in these difficult economic times to entice fans to spend money at their arenas.
According to a survey conducted by Team Marketing Report, an Illinois-based sports research firm, the average price for a ticket to an NBA game this season fell for the first time in eight years. In addition to the 2.8 percent drop, more teams are offering incentives such as meet-and-greets with players, free parking or separate concession lines for season-ticket holders.
So, after years of the average fan grumbling about being priced out of professional sporting events, are we seeing a market correction in some cities?
"Absolutely," said Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist and the Robert A. Woods professor of economics at Smith College. "Well over half the teams in the big sport leagues are engaging in discounting of one kind or another. The Timberwolves are probably on the far end of the discounting, both because of the size and the explicit nature."
Timberwolves president Chris Wright calls it "a body play." While the team may have difficulty making money with ticket prices at that level in the short term, Wright says the team views itself as a "growth stock" in the commodities market right now.
"If you're in the commodity business and you have more inventory than you have demand, your price is low," Wright said. "The idea is then to flip that on its backside and make sure there is more demand for the inventory that you have. We're not there. Obviously we're not there."
Neither are the Sacramento Kings, who will cut nearly every season ticket in the lower bowl next year by 6 percent. The Kings are also offering season-ticket holders 20 games of free parking and their own line at the concession stands.
"The main thing we're doing is listening," said Mitch Germann, the Kings' vice president of business communications. "We've always been listening, but I think we've listened more carefully than ever before."
Detroit is another team that is cutting prices. It's just a matter of determining how much.
"We are going to make some adjustments with our ticket prices, reducing most if not all of them, because we have to be responsive to the economic situation we're all in," Pistons CEO Alan Ostfield said Thursday.
Some teams, such as the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers, haven't had to reduce their prices. And the Miami Heat have told fans ticket prices will rise next season, but have not laid out a specific plan yet.
Ticket prices are staying the same in places like Phoenix and Memphis, which has frozen prices for five straight seasons. Other teams are making deep cuts, including the Golden State Warriors, who will reduce prices by as much as 28 percent next year.
"This is the right thing to do," Warriors' president Robert Rowell said in a statement announcing the plan.
Even some of the league's best teams are going above and beyond to keep fans coming back. The Dallas Mavericks sold out their 351st straight home game on Tuesday night, a streak made possible in part by offering tickets for as low as $2 to some home games. The Mavs also cater heavily to groups.
"Bottom line is that the upper bowl is becoming a smaller and smaller part of our total revenue," owner Mark Cuban wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "So we would rather have a full house than make a couple dollars more. More fans means a better home-court advantage, it means a better fan experience, which in turn means more sales."
Professional sports have become more dependent on the corporate dollar, from expensive luxury suites and courtside seats, rather than the lower-revenue producing seats in the nosebleed sections, Zimbalist said.
"Because they're more dependent on those high-income sources of revenue, they're more vulnerable to the economic cycle than they were before," Zimbalist said. "As the financial sector collapsed, that's what hurt them more than anything else. Now what's hurting them is the high unemployment rate."
And, in the Timberwolves' case, rebuilding in a crowded sports market. The Vikings and Twins have both fielded playoff teams, the University of Minnesota basketball team is in the NCAA tournament and the Wild are always popular in this hockey-loving state.
The Wolves averaged 14,792 in paid attendance, 25th in the league, through 34 home games. But rarely have that many actually showed up to the games.
So Wright said the team, which has not been to the playoffs since 2004 and is still at least a year or two away from getting back there, had to do something to get the attention of area sports fans.
The plan got Taylor's attention, too.
"It's a competitive town and we have a lot of sports," Taylor said. "We aren't in a position where we can tell our fans that we're going to (make a big) jump from this year to next year. So we've got to say, 'Buy in and build with us.'"
The early returns have been promising. In the first two weeks of the campaign, the Timberwolves sold more new, lower-level full season tickets than all of last year. They sold more new season tickets in a one-week span than they had since the league announced a franchise was coming to Minnesota more than 20 years ago.
"When prices came out we thought this is too good to be true," said Kim Hanson, a new season-ticket holder. "We can hang in here and this is a good way to start and we went for it."
A 10-month payment plan, and hosting season-ticket holders at the team's practices, have also contributed to the brisk sales. The Wolves had to get approval from the NBA for their proposal, and Wright said league officials had plenty of questions before responding with their support.
"The concerns of our fans are always our concerns for all of the teams," said Chris Granger, NBA vice president for team marketing and business operations. "Especially when the economy gets tighter and people have to make harder choices with their money, our teams have to be very in tune with their markets."
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Rather than talk about my undying love of Kimmy Gibbler, we need to discuss the Fuller House theme song as sung by Carly Rae Jepsen, the Alanis Morissette of her generation (minus the whole "going down on Dave Coulier in a theater" thing).
She sings, "When you're lost out there and you're all alone, Aaliyah's waiting to carry you home." Isn't that a crazy thing to say? Aaliyah died in a tragic plane crash, so she can't really carry anyone anywhere. Unless the song means that if you're lost out there, an angel who used to be a pop goddess will guide you toward what is rightfully yours while a stirring rendition of "Are You That Somebody?" is played by all the seraphim on their harps and all the cooing babies of heaven provide the background tracks.
So, that's that. This episode of Fuller House is a great summation of the season, because it contains every one of the show's obsessions.
Eating: As if it weren't enough that Kimmy Gibbler has a Liz Lemon–esque attack of the night cheeses, she also demolishes an entire wedding cake with the help of D.J., Stephanie, and Ramona. Steve also threatens to eat three pizzas, because that is what Steve does.
D.J. being selfish: D.J. has three young children at home, but wants to go to her best friend's bachelorette party. What is a girl to do? Oh, just saddle Uncle Jesse with babysitting duties without asking him. Yup, that's the responsible thing to do!
Reliving the '90s: I knew that we were going to get some cameos from the old cast in the season finale, so it wasn't that surprising when Uncle Jesse and Becky showed up to renew their vows. Joey pops up, too, with his hand in a beaver once again. But the most '90s moment of the whole thing is all the girls coming into the house singing the Spice Girls. What, hasn't there been a pop song made in the past 20 years that they could slaughter?
Mildly homophobic jokes: When Joey comes out wearing his priest vestments, Uncle Jessie asks why he's getting in touch with his feminine side. Really? Are we even reliving social mores of the '90s?
Crazy parties in the backyard that no one attends: Is there not one single event venue in the San Francisco Bay where these people can throw a party? No, they all happen in the backyard and the only people who RSVP are people already living under that roof. It's like they have no friends or acquaintances outside of a 10-meter radius.
Getting to first base: No one gets laid on Fuller House, not even slutty Stephanie. Even her walks of shame are chaste. In the finale, Jackson finally gets a kiss from Lola, Ramona's friend, because that is as good as it's ever going to get for him. In this universe, a kiss is all it takes to wind up with three children, so Lola better start using a mouth guard.
Making fun of Michelle: We get it, the Olsen twins didn't want anything to do with this show, but do we have to make more jokes about them? On the other hand, if I had Mary-Kate and Ashley's cell phone numbers I would call them up drunk at 2 a.m. and recite all their catchphrases to them, too.
Catchphrases: While we're at it, this show is definitely obsessed with repeating its former laugh lines as often as possible. Not only did we have Michelle's litany, but Uncle Jesse got in one last "Have mercy!" Luckily, Max did not bust out a "Holy Chalupas!" because that is the last thing I need.
In the end, Fuller House is most obsessed with being a classic sitcom. There is nothing more like a classic sitcom season finale than this. You know how it goes: Something comes into the environment — a job change, a big move, an argument — which threatens to upend the order of everything we hold dear. Someone is going to move away, break up, or stop talking forever.
That's what happens with Kimmy Gibbler's wedding to Fernando, which threatens to drag her and Ramona out of the house and away from this new family. The same thing is going on with D.J., who has to choose between Starving Steve and Hunky Vet Matt in the most dramatic Bachelorette rose ceremony yet. (I do give them props for the spot-on parody of the speeches on that show.) But none of that happens. Kimmy Gibbler decides to stay and just be engaged to Fernando, which is probably for the best (because he's gay). In the most predictable Bachelorette twist ever, D.J. decides to choose herself and both of the guys decide to stick around and wait even longer for her to make up her mind.
This is how it always goes down. At the last minute, there is a reversal that reverts everything to the status quo so we can keep on having the show that we love and so no one ever really grows or changes. These characters are just like model trains, going around and around the same track, passing the same milestones, and making the same mistakes over and over while we're lulled into submission by the familiarity of it all.
Meanwhile, that leaves Steve and Matt, who put himself through school as an underwear model, heading off to the bar for a whole bunch of beers and a few pizzas. After competing over a woman for so long, they find it odd that they're enjoying each other's company so much, their stools inching closer and closer as the night goes on and the fizzy buzz of Michelob Light takes over their heads. There is one slice of pizza left; they both reach for it at the same time. Steve's hand lands on top of Matt's and they look at each other and neither of them can fight it, the pull that draws them together, reliving that one moment that neither of them can get out of their heads: The kiss.
They do it again, this time voluntarily. Matt is excited at how strong Steve's embrace is, something that he's never felt before. Being matched with a body that is his equal. Steve isn't quite sure how he feels about that scruff rasping against his, the two manly faces pulling at each other on a cellular level. It ends as suddenly as it started, and they find it hard to go back to just being two dudes sitting at a bar, drinking beer, whining about D.J., that same old train track of pursuing and being rejected — attract and repel. Why should they fight their feelings any longer? They can get off that track, or at least change cars. They can explore the scenery of this whole new world together.
Just as they're about to go in for some more beer-and-pizza-flavored intimacy, they each feel a hand on their shoulder. "Well, it looks like tonight is going to be a lot of fun," Fernando says to them as they all smile and Matt and Steve each slide an arm around him, each grabbing a cheek.


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