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Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection Public Tours
Join a 45-minute public tour of Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection, offered daily at 1:30 pm, March 3 through January 5, 2020. Included with general admission, reservations not required.Read More
See how animals have captivated artists throughout history in the exhibition Stampede: Animals in Art. This cross-departmental exhibition brings together more than 300 objects from the Denver Art Museum's collection to explore the presence of animals in art throughout centuries and across cultures.Read More
Jordan Casteel
Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze features nearly 30 paintings by Denver-born artist Jordan Casteel, who is now based in Harlem, New York. This presentation represents Casteel's first major museum exhibition, and provides audiences with a first look at new work by one of the most acclaimed emerging artists working today.Read More
Serious Play
This exhibition focuses on creative interpretations of play featuring works from 40 groundbreaking designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, Paul Rand, and Eva Zeisel.Read More
The Incubation Effect
Inspired by the natural world, Denver artist Nicole Anona Banowetz has created a larger-than-life, immersive "insect nursery" made from sewn inflatable sculptures and assembled forms. She says, "Forget that the work is art for a moment and have the sort of pure interaction you would have in nature."Read More
Eyes On
Eyes On: Erika Harrsch features a single contemporary installation titled Under the Same Sky… We Dream. Harrsch (who is based in New York and was born and raised in Mexico City) first exhibited Under the Same Sky… We Dream in El Paso in 2017 just as regulations became more stringent for those seeking asylum in the United States. The installation also was featured at B3: The Biennial of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany, that same year.Read More
Eyes On
Jonathan Saiz's installation #WhatisUtopia is comprised of a column covered with 10,000 tiny drawings, paintings, and sculptures. By definition, utopia is "an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens." The artist employs social media to spark conversation and document responses about our ability to re-envision and embody a modern utopia. More than 10,000 artworks were made to be given away after the end of the exhibition.Read More
Treasures of British Art
Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection showcases about 60 paintings gifted to the museum by the Berger Collection Educational Trust (BCET) in 2018. The BCET's gift is the largest gift of European old masters to the DAM since the museum received the Kress Collection in the 1950s. The exhibition presents a chronological selection of works ranging from the 1400s through the late 1800s, telling the story of Britain's rich cultural history.Read More
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East Asian Symbols in Islamic Painting
East Asian symbols are found in Islamic art and architecture since the Abbasid period (9th century CE), but have their meaning migrated with them?
First, the talk presents an overview of the reception of East Asian forms in art of the Islamic lands.
Second, it discusses certain unusual images in Islamic illustrated manuscripts that bear a striking resemblance to the East Asian symbol of the 'Dark Warrior' – an entwined tortoise and snake.Read More
Unplugged: Yoga
Wind down your week in the galleries with Unplugged, a program that explores different ways to turn down the tempo and step into a state of relaxation, reflection, and calm. In May, slow down with all-levels yoga in The Light Show.Read More


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Half-Night Lock-In on March 31, 2017
6:00 pm – 12:00 midnight in the Fellowship Hall church
1st grade – 8th grade
Come by for food, games, movies, & crafts
We will be painting the "He Is Risen Cross." No art supplies needed. Everyone please bring a favorite snack food or drink.
Any questions please call the church office at 870-774-6453 or see Arthur.

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Beach House Bedroom Furniture Design
Beach house bedroom furniture – A beach-themed bedroom can provide a mini vacation in sad seasons. Paint the walls in relaxing colors found on the beach and accessories with souvenirs from beach vacations. The beach theme sets a relaxing tone perfect for a bedroom. Shells an attractive and inexpensive way to accessorize. Contains a collection of small shells in a glass bowl. Arrange large shells on the night stand and shelves.
Use bright furniture. Beach house bedroom furniture with white furniture offers airiest feel, but you can also use bleach or natural wood colors. Dark-colored wood can overwhelm the space and minimize beach look. Go heavy on the beach theme with bedding printed with shells, waves and palm trees. Or use a lighter touch using solid-colored sheets.
12 Photos Gallery of: Beach House Bedroom Furniture Design
Straight lined or curved furniture or a combination of both working for beach style decor, as long as the pieces feel relaxed and not fussy. And also look for light to medium-sized spots on the pine, maple or cherry. And then relax formal furniture with polished or distressed white paint. Then adding texture to the mix with wicker, rattan and bamboo. Upholstered beach house bedroom furniture should be sun, sand and water-friendly. Use simple or elegant shapes, but keep textiles relaxed. Stick with simple solids, stripes and botanical patterns in cotton or linen.Tags :homes with outdoor window shutters


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The joined houses at 4900 East Colfax Avenue have served as a restaurant site for decades, with the likes of Tante Louise, the Cork House and the Cork House Broker filling the space. After a brief vacancy, Red Octave Kitchen & Bar moved in last year, offering a more casual atmosphere with sports on TV and a band stage where owner Phil Long and his cohorts could entertain guests. But the restaurant space is once again vacant; a sign went up at the end of last week to announce Red Octave's closure after only nine months in business.
Red Octave's Facebook page offered the following as explanation:
Thank You All for your warm welcome & support. We hate to close our doors and go, but go we must. The mountains are calling.
We appreciate the support of our friends, family, and loyal guests. We enjoyed serving you and entertaining you over the past year. Unfortunately, we are closing our doors permanently, effective May 25.
We hope to see you at the Vail Chophouse, Beaver Creek Chophouse, and C-Bar sometime soon.
Vail regulars know Long for his frequent musical appearances at the Red Lion over the years. He purchased the Vail and Beaver Creek Chophouses in 2015.
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While the wall to wall 24-7 Michael Jackson death freak show has occupied the attention of the MSM circus attendees, truly catastrophic events have transpired. On Friday June 26th by a vote of 218 to 212 the US House of Representatives passed Waxman-Markey, the largest tax bill in the history of organized
We are duped into believing that we, or the planet, will benefit by the micro-regulation and macro-taxation of our behaviors. Prostituted scientists and "climatologists" in black robes had christened natural, life-sustaining carbon dioxide a "poisonous pollutant." The over-reaching Environmental Protection Agency teamed with the pathetic Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to steamroller legislation before their gig was up. (Way too many inquiring minds had been exposing the AGW urgency, as presented, to be fraud. The Australian Senate is rejecting its own version of Cap-and-Trade. The EPA has been caught red-handed censoring a global-warming study that was inconvenient. New EU Parliament Group includes climate skeptics. The Polish Academy of Science is challenging man-made global warming. The earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of CO2. Green jobs are found to be a cost not a benefit to our national economy.)
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John O'Neill - National Press Club address
"Has the World Cup awoken the 'Sleeping Giant' of Australian Sport?"
Below is Football Federation Australia Chief Executive Officer Mr John O'Neill address to the National Press Club on July 26, 2006.
To the President, Ken Randall, the Board, Members of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, ladies and gentlemen. Firstly can I thank you for this opportunity to address you - particularly at such an interesting time in the life cycle of what we have come to call "New Football".
After all, this new Football organisation is barely 30 months old.
In 2003 when the Federal Government through Senator Rod Kemp and the Prime Minister himself initiated the independent review (the "Crawford Report") into the running of soccer in Australia, much of the game was in a pretty sorry state. Soccer Australia was haemorrhaging money and close to insolvency.
The National Soccer League was generally considered to be sub-standard on the field, and off the field it had lost some $65m in its last three seasons. Its image had been irreparably sullied by many years of mismanagement and ethnically-based trouble.
"Mainstream" it was not!
Our national team the Socceroos had not played in the FIFA World Cup since 1974, and had not even appeared in Australia for more than two years. All our regional and qualifying competition was through tiny Oceania - the smallest and weakest of world Football-s regional confederations. This consigned Australia to barely a subsistence way of life - trying to get by on a diet of meaningless "friendly" internationals, and a single, once-in-four-years do-or-die final World Cup qualifier.
Relations with players were strained and unworkable, sponsorship and media deals flawed and untenable, relations between the various stakeholders in the game were dysfunctional, and Australian Soccer had a somewhat justified reputation for nepotism, parochialism, jingoism and shoddy practices, and was constantly under attack in the media. Indeed it-s credibility and reputation was shot and it was in the news for all the wrong reasons. Things were not good. Then came the "last roll of the dice".
It came as a gutsy and forceful initiative on the part of the Government to demand that the sport embrace the reforms contained in the Crawford Report - this was a bold policy decision accompanied by fundamental structural and constitutional reforms, supported by essential funding; however, and pleasingly, this policy decision has proven to be a correct one, and reflects well on the Government and the ASC which oversaw and drove the process.
Because thirty-odd months later, the situation is considerably different. While far from "set for life", Football Australia is now certainly a "going concern". Commercial partnerships - many of which, like those with the Federal Government, Fox Sports, SBS and Qantas, were very much "Leaps of Faith" when they started- now underpin a $60m business which has grown at close to 100% year on year since 2003, and is almost unrecognizable from the morass of Old Soccer-s administration.
The new Hyundai A-League - new Football-s shopfront, built on a one-team-one-city model, a much improved standard of competition, and a strong, fresh, youth-targeted marketing strategy - has enjoyed a remarkable first season. The sold out Grand Final was enjoyed by more than 40,000 spectators at Sydney-s Aussie Stadium and an average of almost a quarter of a million viewers on Fox Sports.
More than a million spectators went through the turnstiles at the 90 matches across the season, with crowds averaging over eleven and a half thousand.
The audience is substantial, but it is also young - and culturally broadly representative of the Australian population. More than 65% of our audience is under 35 years of age. And - touch wood - there hasn-t been even a whiff of the ethnic issues that blighted the old soccer league. In fact, the one-team-one-city model would appear to have both "united the tribes" as well as removing many barriers to supporters which existed in the past. More than 44% of the A-League-s audience in season one was at least second generation Australian. (The population at large sits at 41%).
And more than 40% of our spectators in the first season had never been to a Club Soccer match in Australia before.
All of this would suggest that the new League has already established itself in the "mainstream" of our uniquely competitive Australian sports entertainment market.
It was these figures and the attendant entertainment value and popularity of the League (the fans have effectively voted with their feet) that have enabled an early renegotiation of our broadcasting rights with Fox Sports, paving the way for a $150m seven-year partnership - a deal that was beyond contemplation for the sport eighteen months ago - and one that can provide certainty and sustainability for the A-League and the Clubs. That has never before been available to this game in this country. Clearly, the A-League is here to stay. The shop is open for business.
But it is at the international level that the game is perhaps at its most unrecognizable. Certainly, the success of the Socceroos over the last 12 months has generated a level of support and interest that is quite unprecedented - certainly in Football, but perhaps even in Australian sport. In Australia we love people or teams that do us proud on the world stage, and it is hard to recall a group of young Australians of whom we have been more proud - or one which has excelled on a bigger stage! The change is not just as a result of winning, but through the character of the performances - both on and off the field.
In the space of a few short months since that magical night of Novermber 16 last year when Australia beat Uruguay to qualify for their "Date with Destiny", these Australian athletes have removed barriers to involvement that have been built over decades.
Suddenly any historical stigma attached to supporting Australian Soccer has been replaced by a pressing need to demonstrate a working knowledge of the off-side law - or more specifically, when a penalty should or should not be awarded!
Roy Morgan claim that 6.7 million Australians got up between one and three in the morning on June 27th to watch Australia play Italy! That-s one in three men women and children in the country!
"Liverpool-s Harry Kewell" a boy from Sydney-s western suburbs, has become "Australia-s Harry Kewell", and been joined and even overtaken in our national consciousness by Australia-s Lucas Neill, Tim Cahill, Brett Emerton, John Aloisi, Vince Grella, Mark Bresciano, Mark Schwartzer and Mark Viduka. Who would have imagined - I know they didn-t - that almost overnight they would become household names?
But as huge as the impact of the World Cup has been, the largest and most transforming shift in Australia-s international sports landscape is actually not the World Cup - it is the Asian Cup. The Asian Cup is one of the largest sports events in the world in its own right. The tournament - which is Asia-s equivalent every four years of Euro - draws an international broadcast audience of more than a billion people.
The final alone in 2004 was beamed to 120 countries and watched by 450 million viewers just in Asia - making it the biggest single TV event in the Asian sporting calendar and Japan-s top rating program in 2004.
The biggest shift in our strategic and competitive landscape is that since January this year, we can be part of competitions like this, through our move of membership from Oceania into the Asian Football Confederation. Consider Oceania-s equivalent of the Asian Cup or Euro.
The "Nations Cup" in 2004 had no broadcasting, a total spectator attendance of less than 30,000 and a net financial result of a quarter of a million dollar loss.
Through this one step, Football in Australia has moved from a crippling subsistence lifestyle relying entirely on sporadic "friendly" matches, to the certainty of a regular, rolling four year calendar of scheduled, meaningful, high-quality, high-value qualifying matches for the Asian Cup, and the World Cup - through Asia. The Socceroos, who were absent for 31 months before May 2004, will play no less than eleven matches - six of them at home and three of these Asian Cup qualifiers - in this financial year alone.
The Asian Cup is in July next year, in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Before you say "Where?", you might want to consider figures released last week for the recent World Cup-s worldwide television audience.
The fourth and fifth largest cumulative national broadcast audiences for the World Cup were …Vietnam and Indonesia, with 650m and 589m viewers respectively. One and a quarter billion viewers, and their teams weren-t even playing in the Cup! What can we then expect for an Asian Cup where these nations are not just playing - but hosting the event?
Straight off the back of next year-s Asian Cup, the Beijing Olympics, for men and women, are in 2008, and World Cup 2010 qualifiers, for 4½ Asian qualifying places, culminating with several blockbuster, Uruguay-style matches are here in 2009.
So the landscape has certainly changed. Importantly, engagement and integration with Asia through the symbolic sporting ties which Football provides, is unique and will contribute to enhancing Australia-s overall ties with our neighbours. In one sense, sport has, until now, been the missing link. As I have said before, "normal programming will not be resumed!"
But has the World Cup "Awoken the 'Sleeping Giant- of Australian Sport?"
Well firstly, Football (Soccer) certainly is a giant. Whichever way you look at it, its scale, the "critical mass", is imposing. Football is the biggest participation team sport in Australia by some distance. More than 700,000 players participate in organized Football competition with clubs and schools affiliated to FFA. That does not even include other non-affiliated or informal participants, like church-based competitions or corporate or social leagues. A recent Roy Morgan poll estimated that 1.218 million people in Australia "play football".
To give you a sense of how that compares with participation figures in other major codes, if we take out schools and sampling programs so that we are comparing "apples with apples", Football has over 450,000 registered players. Netball is next with 328,000, then Aussie Rules with 308,000 and Cricket with 274,000.
When you move off-shore, playing numbers become even more astonishing. Quarter of a billion people are playing football around the world. And more than 100 million of those are in Asia.
At the mass entertainment end of the game, too, the number and size of competitions is formidable. The World Cup of course, as we-ve just seen, is the largest, most-watched sports event on the planet. But massive regional international competitions like the Asian Cup and the European Championships, and regional Club Competitions like the European and Asian Champions Leagues are all shoe-horned into a jam-packed international season alongside domestic leagues like our Hyundai A-League.
And all this applies to men and women, indoor and outdoor versions of the game, and to an ever increasing number of age-grades (allowing earlier and earlier identification and development of talented athletes).
This ubiquity is both a benefit and a burden. At any particular time we are running - and funding - eight national teams - only one of which - "The Rainmaker" - The Socceroos - now generates any revenue. We invest more than three million dollars a year so that our seven non-revenue-generating national representative sides can prepare and participate in Asian and world competitions.
So by any measure, it is a giant that we are dealing with.
And I would suggest that the Giant is indeed awake. (It would take some sort of special giant to sleep through the sort of jolt it has had in the last couple of years!)
But while it has opened its eyes, I would maintain that the creature is still some way from truly "Arising"!
Apart from anything else, a creature of this size that has been asleep for this long takes a bit of time to mobilize. We have often said that "repositioning" of Football in Australia is probably a ten year plus proposition, and we are in the very early stages of that life cycle.
But there are a great many factors at play that will influence the pace of Football-s revival.
Firstly, Australia is arguably the most competitive sports entertainment and leisure market in the world. There are a number of very successful, very well-established, mature competitors in the Australian marketplace. The AFL-s numbers, for example, illustrate a great success story over the last twenty years. They have developed to a point where around seven million spectators watch Aussie Rules games each year and around 3,000 hours of AFL is broadcast on television.
AFL-s recent broadcast deal is worth about $780m across just five years. And the AFL is for men only and has no real national teams to fund. So the sort of resources available for Aussie Rules to pump into their domestic league are very substantial. And Aussie Rules is just one of three very well-financed football codes which compete with cricket, ourselves and dozens of other sports for the hearts, minds, athletes and dollars of Australian participants, fans and corporate partners.
Football, the world game, however, has a number of important competitive advantages and points of differentiation - some of which I have already highlighted - and several of these are impossible for our competitors to replicate. Besides its scale, and events like the World Cup, Football is also an Olympic sport - for men and women. It is played seriously and recreationally by both boys and girls. It has even spawned its own demographic - "Soccer Mums"!
The building blocks have been established on which Football can cement a giant-sized place in the Australian sports landscape. But the key to truly awakening the giant will be the extent to which we can capitalize on those advantages and leverage the strong foundations built in recent months, in the period ahead.
There are several interrelated keys to the New Football successfully capitalizing on our current strong foundations, and I wanted to share those with you.
The fundamental strength that allowed us to start transforming Football in Australia is the huge participation base - male and female - and broader Football community. Part of our national priorities have to be to strengthen our connection to, engagement with, and support for, this community. Collectively, that community is the primary stakeholder in Football and it is up to the national and state managements to improve the return to this stakeholder and to grow the base.
That may well require real innovation in what is done and how.
The success of our national teams has a critical role to play in galvanising that huge community. Any national governing body in an international sport is rightly obsessed with the success of their national team. Nowhere is this more relevant than here in Australia, where our whole national psyche yearns to prove ourselves through our international representatives, as being capable of competing with - and beating - the best in the world. The "feel-good factor" is impossible to quantify. Football has been anomalous in that regard. In what other serious sport would it be acceptable in Australia to lose honorably to France? Or Italy? Or Argentina? Not at the Davis Cup. Not at the US Open Golf. Not in the Olympic Games. Nor should it be the case in Football.
So if Australia can produce World #1 tennis players and golfers, and can maintain a top-5 finish in the Olympic Games, why should we not be a top ten Football nation? World Cup qualification should certainly be a quadrennial fixture now, but why shouldn-t regular semi-final appearances be realistic in the not-too-distant future?
Since Montreal 1976, when Australia won just five Olympic medals - none of them gold - we have prided ourselves on identifying and developing elite athletes better than pretty much anyone in the world. Once we turned our mind and resources to it, just eight years later we won 24 medals in Los Angeles, and these days we-re pretty disappointed if we don-t come away with 50+. Punching above our weight is a national obsession.
So designing and developing - or aligning - systems, expertise and infrastructure in Australia that can consistently identify and develop very competitive international players is a massive priority for us now. We have to be smarter than the competition if we are to competitive in this world market.
With the Australian Sports Commission, we have been engaged in a groundbreaking piece of research and analysis for some months, looking at talent identification and development programs in the major international Football countries around the world, as well as other relevant sports within Australia. The outputs from the research and analysis will allow us to design an optimal system for talent identification and development for Football in Australia, taking into account the best of the best from overseas, while recognizing the assets already existing in football and in sport generally in Australia, which can be lined up optimally to make a big difference quickly. This project is close to the top of our list right now.
Of course one asset which is very relevant to all this, and which is vital in its own right to the future of Football in Australia is the Hyundai A-League. While the League has a critical role to play as the week-in, week-out mass-entertainment "shop-front" for new Football in Australia, its role as a highly credible step in our elite player development pathway is also crucial. And the two roles are potentially very compatible - even complimentary.
The more successful the A-League is as a sports entertainment product, the more we will be able to pay coaches and players, the more international recognition the League will get, the more senior players we will be able to attract back to finish their careers here, and the longer we will be able to retain young Australian talent here at home. We have to accept that our very best players will continue to go overseas. Indeed it would be concerning if they did not, because it is a measure of how good they have become. But properly integrating their development through the A-League will mean that these vital assets are not lost to us. All of this will in turn continually improve the quality of the on-field A-League product - creating a virtuous circle year on year.
So the A-League too remains critically important for us.
An important part of the A-League-s evolution is its connection from this year with the Asian football and commercial markets through the Asian Champions League. For the first time this season, the top two clubs in our Hyundai A-League will qualify to compete in next year-s Asian Champions League against the best clubs in Japan, Korea and the strong leagues in the middle east.
Our Asian opportunity therefore exists at multiple levels of competition.
But Australia-s opportunity through Football in Asia is much bigger than Football or even sport.
In a broader geo-political sense, it also puts us amongst the world-s youngest and fastest growing trading block. A seminar staged earlier this year by the Lowy Institute for International Policy highlighted this, with the resultant Policy Brief pointing to major new commercial opportunities for Australian business through Football, in sponsorship and media rights, travel and tourism and through business networking. Sport offers a unique platform for relationship building - whether those relationships be diplomatic, political, trading or cultural. No sport offers such a platform for Australia into the Asian environment other than Football.
It is hard to overestimate the importance of this to Australia as a nation. From now on, each and every year, the Socceroos, Matildas and our best A-League teams will be playing in Asian stadia and on Asian TV screens as part of Asian competitions. As the World Cup has illustrated, we are talking an extraordinary number of TV screens here! Think about the subliminal effect of that on people in Asia. It is going to affect their sense, and our own, of Australia-s identity. No other Western country is in that position.
Asia does, after all, represent two thirds of the world-s population, and the world-s biggest consumer market, with 3.6bn consumers - 48% of whom are under 25. China alone has 305m mobile phone subscribers; Korea - with 75% broadband penetration - is the most broadband connected country on earth; Japan remains the world-s second-largest economy; and India will be world-s largest market by 2050, with 1.63bn people. Only one thing talks to all these people! Football.
We have not yet even scratched the surface of this opportunity. Doing so will take some time, but when it happens the impact on Australia - inside and outside sport - will be very substantial. So designing our full engagement with our new Confederation and region is therefore another key priority for us.
That process was helped along significantly by the Socceroos- performances in Germany. We are now the highest placed country of the 46 in the Asian Confederation, and this really enhances our Football credibility in the region.
That sort of "credibility" will be vital if we are to successfully mount a bid to host the FIFA World Cup. And we believe that is a realistic aspiration for us now. The next two tournaments are bedded down - with South Africa to host 2010 and South America apparently promised 2014. But after that, there appear to be some opportunities. We have held some informal and preliminary discussions with FIFA President Sepp Blatter and AFC president Mohammed Bin Hammam, and the early sounding have been encouraging.
Here at home the Federal and State Governments have been strong and unified in their expressions of support. Our priority now is to get our homework done, and design a process and a structure that will afford us the best opportunity to mount a successful bid - and, importantly, one that will create the best possible legacy for the Game in this part of the world.
So these things I believe are the keys for us.
• National representative teams that continue to make all Australians proud on the largest of world stages. • A highly attractive national league, with quality improving year on year, attracting and retaining better and better talent. • Galvanising, mobilizing and harnessing the enormous Football participant community. • Full engagement with Asia, in Footballing and broader national terms, and … • A bid to once again capture the imagination of the nation - only more so, because not only is this one the largest event in the world, but it would genuinely be a national bid for the whole of Australia.
And that-s fitting for this sport…
The Socceroos, and even in their own way the A-League teams, have united Australians in a quite unprecedented manner. A journalist in Brisbane-s Courier Mail last month wrote
"…it is safe to say that one sport has never before crossed social groups and ethnic communities, uniting the elderly immigrant man from Asia to the toddler in Alice Springs. Its stretch connects the banker in Martin Place to the farmer in North Queensland".
And therein lies the core of the opportunity for New Football in today-s Australia. This sport like perhaps no other has the potential to tap into the 21st Century Australian psyche. It can come to embody the progressive ideals of 21st Century Australia.
Today-s Australians are "children of the world" - worldly and curious - they positively seek out and embrace new and different people and experiences. They are strongly independent and quietly aspirational - they want to "make their mark" - but they know where their roots are - in terms of both culture and family. They are comfortable and proud of our place in the world. They love both Vegemite and espresso!
So too does New Football.
The Giant is, perhaps for the first time, alive and well, but there is a great deal that still needs to happen before it can lay claim to the castle. There can be no slackening of effort or creativity among those responsible for guiding New Football.
When "hosting and winning the World Cup" are realistic goals for us, I believe the Giant of Australian Sport will have truly awoken.
And that day may not be too far away.


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Direct current or alternating current?
Direct current, which was Edison's battle horse for electric power distribution in the late 1880s, and was later abandoned in favour of the AC (alternating current) system advocated by Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla, might have a come-back in the form of LVDC.
Sleeping beauty…
During the early years of electricity distribution, DC was the standard for the US (United States). Incandescent lamps and motors, which were the principal load, worked well with this system. Excess energy produced could be stored directly in batteries. However, voltage drop due to resistance of the system conductors was so high that generating plants had to be located within 1 to 2 km of the load. While, in theory, high voltage DC can be transported over long distances – as is increasingly done today – at the time there were no efficient low-cost technologies available that would allow reducing those high voltages to the 100 or so volts that were needed in a household of the time. Obviously this has changed fundamentally.
…finally wakes up
With increased distributed energy generation and storage, the question of DC has again come to the forefront, especially for buildings and uses that require constant and high levels of quality energy supply. Such is the case in data centres, telecom central offices and could be the case in a later step in hospitals and certain types of commercial buildings.
Huge cost and efficiency advantages
LVDC seems to offer a number of advantages with regard to energy quality, cost, reliability, efficiency, EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) and the ability to store electrical energy while reducing the need for power conversion. This will result in fewer points of failure. More efficient use of DC-based current is predicted to have a positive impact on lighting, variable speed drives, EV charging and more. But all these possible advantages still need to be analysed and confirmed.
For example, in many containerized data centres the dominant design is already DC, obtained through multiple AC/DC power conversions. LVDC distribution at voltages around 400V reduces the need for power conversion, producing better quality power and resulting in fewer points of failure. Compared to AC, there may well be significant reductions in the costs of electricity, operation and maintenance and the space needed for the electrical infrastructure. The approach may also allow for easier integration of renewable energy and direct energy storage.
Tough challenges and little experience
If the advantages seem overwhelming, the hurdles seem equally high. Because nobody has worked with LVDC distribution in houses and buildings in over 100 years, there is currently very little experience with this technology, practically no tests and very few products that are beyond the development stage.
Among the challenges are increased fire hazard and electric shocks due to potential insulation faults and arcing.
New design approaches, specifications and testing
Many of the components that are now used in AC would need thorough analysis and might have to be completely redesigned. For example: because DC is constant, there is no easy way to "break" the current. When a DC circuit is disconnected, the current cannot be turned "off"immediately and a DC arc is produced. This requires a complete redesign of circuit protectors/interrupters and fuses and also of insulation materials. The effect of the constant power supply on individual components – so called corrosion – will need to be evaluated and may require design modifications in products and devices. Overall, new specifications and test methods will need to be developed to ensure the safe and efficient operation of LVDC.
Commercial uses first
And while a number of devices in private households already operate with DC via external or internal power supplies (consumer electronics such as TVs, PCs, cell-phones, electric razors, battery operated vacuum cleaners, etc.) it is unlikely that LVDC will be "coming soon to a home near you". The sheer number of installations that will need to be updated may put off the LVDC revolution in the residential sector for a number of years or even decades.
Accelerating domestic adoption
Hybrid solutions that combine AC for certain end-uses (heaters, ovens and some outlets) and a DC infrastructure made up of low voltage (up to 48V for lighting, PCs, and other small devices) and high voltage (up to 390V for air conditioners, refrigerators and DC outlets) might be able to accelerate the domestic transition process to LVDC. But the need remains to find the right compromise between energy efficiency (high voltage – 400V) and safety (low voltage – 48V).
Standardized plugs and voltages
Ultimately, the broad application of this new technology, standardized globally, might offer the additional benefit of ending the plug and socket dilemma, providing standardized voltages for equally standardized applications. No more transformers, no more travel adaptors. Futuristic…but not utopic.


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
January Secret Agent #16
GENRE: Memoir
What must I do, I ask the monk, to stay?
This city was not always in my blood. There was a time when its wooden houses were not reefs in me, when its paper-covered windows did not slow down the sun I saw. In that time, I did not know the clouds that its cherry trees bloomed in spring, nor the wisteria hanging from its summer trellises. I did not know that if I reached for a scent, I would drown in lilac.
I had never tasted the green of the year's first tea. I had not heard the city's monks teach that nothing lasted, nor its poets mourn because nothing had. I did not know that sleeves belonged to the grammar of the heart, nor that passing through a rock could bind your fate to another's.
I had not seen a dyer's indigo hands. I had not felt swordsmen brush past me as they ran, chasing revolution. And I had not gone to search for words written in fire in the mountains.
There was a time when I did not hold Kyoto inside.
But it stole in through my eyes, through my ears, it unfolded on my tongue. More than a year after I saw the city on holiday, its voices still would not leave. So I cut myself away from my life in Singapore – a life of safe work and safer ties – and moved to the heart of old Japan.
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I think you have some beautiful images in this opening. The wooden houses and the wisteria and the indigo hands--those are lovely, whimsical but concrete images.ReplyDelete
However, I do think it also gets a little purple, and there are some metaphors that either I don't understand or might be reaching too far in terms of meaning. Like "sleeves belonged to the grammar of the heart." I feel like I'm missing something here, b/c this doesn't make sense to me. Same with "passing through a rock could bind your fate to another's." I don't think you mean literally passing through a rock, but it's hard to tell the way it's phrased, and what does this have to do with anything?
I think you carry on far too long about all these mysterious facets of Kyoto. Even though the imagery is nice, it's all telling, and I would rather learn about the city of Kyoto through experience rather than being told all these things. I would suggest sticking to a few concrete images to keep the set up you've got here, and then saving the rest for a more natural integration later on.
Having said all that, this is definitely something I would continue reading in order to find out why the narrator has to leave Kyoto, and to learn more about this city that pulled him/her away from a life elsewhere.
I would start out: "The city was not always in my blood. There was a time when I did not hold Kyoto inside." Love those two lines! Then use some of your lovely images such as the swordsmen and the indigo hands, but not all of them. Then jump to the wisdom of the monks. I wonder if English might be a second language to you? A few of your sentences suggest it, and I think in a good way. It has an exotic feel. I would like to read more!ReplyDelete
- onehandJanuary 25, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Hi Betsy, thanks for your comment.ReplyDelete
English is my first language though. : )
I am intrigued by the sentences at the end and would perhaps like to "see" that moment when the narrator falls in love with Kyoto and made the life-changing decision. There are some lovely poetic images earlier in the passage along with some that confused me. Maybe a little less of the description (though it is pretty) and a little more "action" or conversation with the monk?ReplyDelete
Just my 2 cents of course, and although this doesn't sound like the type of book I would normally read, I did find it intriguing.
This is really beautiful, and reads like a literary work. The sleeves description reminds me of how they use geisha kimono to signify their status in the community, and I dimly recall something about a rock or an arch where if you stand with your loved one, you could be with them forever. I'm Asian though, so you might need more knowledge of Asian culture to understand some of the descriptions (although even I can only make a guess at some of these!)ReplyDelete
So lovely!
I very much enjoyed this elegant opening. Such a clear sense of place. I want to take the journey with you (yes, I am hooked.)ReplyDelete
Wow, you can paint a beautiful picture! I loved your last paragraph, very moving! Nicely done and good luck :)ReplyDelete
Nice, vivid writing and lovely description, but I thought they went on for too long. Perhaps pick out the ones you like best and confine it to one paragraph.ReplyDelete
I also agree with the poster who suggested you start with - There was a time when I did not hold Kyoto inside. The city was not always in my blood, then give a few examples and move on to the story. That's what I'm interested in.
- Secret AgentJanuary 29, 2012 at 6:44 PM
There's something very special about the "haiku" quality of the opening--the language itself tied together with the mention of the monk, etc.--but it extends past its haiku-ness with too much description (as others have noted), and I think pulling back would make a big difference. Not that you'd necessarily need to be more specific in clarifying what exactly is going on, since we're okay experiencing vagueness in this haiku-ish context, but it would feel less like you're avoiding something concrete about the story if the descriptions were shorter...really interesting approach, though!ReplyDelete


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This article represents partnership work carried out with librarians across the NHS, local authority and SSKS (Social Services Knowledge Scotland) in North Ayrshire to help social workers better access online and other sources of information to support their practice, and improve outcomes for service users.
The development of this initiative began with an email received by the Learning and Development team within North Ayrshire Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP):
'Dear L&D team, please could you purchase the attached article for me, as this seems relevant to the family I am currently working with.'
What did this tell us? First, this social worker seemed to be a reflective practitioner who recognised the limits to her experience, and the need to gain a wider perspective and knowledge on her case. And second, that she clearly lacked the skills to research this herself!
This is not a new phenomenon. Research carried out by Gordon, Cooper and Doubleton in 2009 (How do social workers use evidence in practice?, Open University) found that lack of time was a barrier to searching out evidence, as was the validity of such exercise as a necessary part of the social work role when there are other competing pressures – e.g. 'when reading books or reflecting on practice could be interpreted by colleagues as a luxury'.
It is however an expectation by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), the registration body for social workers and other care sector staff, that those registered demonstrate their post-registration training and learning. Indeed, the SSSC explicitly states that training and learning can include, 'reading books, Scottish Government policy information, journal articles, newspapers and online publications'.
How did we respond?
North Ayrshire HSCP Learning and Development (L&D) team recognised there was a need to support the 'research mindednesses' of our Social Work practitioners to help them have the skills and knowledge to access relevant sources of practice information.
A number of factors propelled this learning initiative. The first was the integration of community based NHS health services and local authority Social Services within North Ayrshire in April 2015. This enabled Social Services staff to access NHS library services. Additionally the opening of Woodland View Ayrshire Central Hospital and library in Irvine (May 2016) improved access to social services staff based in North Ayrshire to access this excellent library service. This is in line with NHS Ayrshire & Arran's corporate objectives to deliver transformational change and to deliver better value through efficient and effective use of all resources.
The second factor was the role played by North Ayrshire Council's (NAC) Education Resource Service. In particular, the move away from being a schools-based resource to one that supports and promotes the continuing professional development of staff across all local authority sectors. Operational plan objective to 'develop CPD collection to support NAC and NAHSCP staff, and encourage library membership' also supported this initiative.
An additional impetus was provided by Social Services Knowledge Scotland (SSKS), an online resource funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by NHS Education for Scotland (NES), enabling social work and care workers to gain access to a NHS Scotland OpenAthens account and the thousands of online articles that this facilitates. Conversations with the outreach librarian at SSKS confirmed a similarity in aims and perspectives in taking library skills training 'out' to practitioners.
These factors led to our unusual 'alliance' of an L&D advisor and three librarians, all committed to helping social workers develop their skills and knowledge in accessing relevant information, texts and journals, to ultimately improve their practice with people who use our services. A half day training course in research skills (Accessing evidence for your practice) was subsequently developed. This combined experiential exercises in using online resources, registering for SSKS membership and an Athens account, joining the NHS library and NAC Education Resource Service, as well as clear signposting to the most relevant sources of knowledge and information.
What was achieved?
A pilot course was publicised across the Partnership in 2016 and was booked up within a week. This was unexpected! Therefore a further course date was arranged for a month later.
Three courses have now been offered with all library partners contributing, and a total of 34 staff attending.
- The analysis of feedback from participants revealed some interesting findings. In particular, the training increased staff confidence in accessing on-line resources, by supporting participants past the first hurdle of becoming registered for these resources. As participants stated:
- 'I enjoyed the practice tutorial, and being supported and talked through the search process.'
- 'Accessing information was more straightforward than I thought. I feel more confident in accessing research.'
- These sessions helped staff to recognise the volume and extent of accessible information, and the support that is available to help them access this information. Comments on this include:
- 'First experience of SSKS and I was impressed. I am now aware of websites, databases and resources that will be valuable in my study and work.'
Running in parallel to these training courses, our L&D and library alliance group attended events to promote library membership, disseminated the SSKS publication (Finding evidence to inform your practice; a guide for social workers, February 2017), and actively encouraged all social work staff and students to access these resources for both their work and study.
So has this actually improved social work practice for those receiving our services? Some evidence supporting this has been provided by two social work practitioners who attended the training:
Case study 1
'Moira' (children and families social worker) had been working with a young man who sexually abused his sister. Moira only had experience of adult sexual abusers, so felt 'out of her depth' with this case. She recognised this gap in her knowledge, and was able to seek out a text within the local NHS library and relevant online journal articles. These helped clarify that such abuse may be driven by needs for power and control, as opposed to sexual attraction, an understanding that subsequently informed her practice with both the young abuser and his sister.
Case study 2
'Alison' was working with a child of dual heritage going through the adoption and fostering process. Having attended recent training and undertaking research in this area, Alison felt much more confident in undertaking life story work with this child that promoted her dual heritage identity.
Through our joint working, we also found that those involved in this alliance communicated better across our sector and service boundaries, using each other to request research help, to promote library membership, to give recommendations on the purchase of new social work texts and to discuss any queries encountered. This led to our initiative being adopted for the NES (NHS Education) and CILIPS (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland) 'Right Decision' campaign, as an example of ways that NHS libraries can help improve outcomes for people who use our services. A poster presentation about our partnership working was also displayed at the annual 2-day NHS Scotland Event 2017.
In conclusion
This training and work undertaken to promote each organisation's services and supports has helped social work practitioners to find the space and time to access the library resources to support their individual learning and practice. Our initiatives have overcome perceived hurdles in registration process and access, as well as raising awareness of the wealth of material and resources 'out there'. We have observed a growth in staff confidence in using these resources and this in turn has contributed to better outcomes for local people.
Current plans include further research sessions and the active promotion of all library services to North Ayrshire HSCP staff. With increasing numbers of social care staff required to be registered with the SSSC, the need to maintain training and learning as part of their registration will affect ever more workers. We therefore anticipate that this library access initiative will play an ongoing role in this process - as well as affording all social work practitioners the learning space needed to gain new knowledge and develop new approaches, to the benefit of those individual, families and communities we work to support.
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Advanced BioStructural Correction™ (ABC™), also called Advanced Biostructural Therapy™ (ABT™), is a "subluxation"-based system that uses postural analyses to determine the patient's alleged problems. It was developed by Jesse J. Jutkowitz, D.C., a chiropractor whose license was revoked in 1996 and who now teaches his ideas through "at-home seminars." This article is based on an analysis of his promotional materials and my experience in working for him for a few months in 1998.
ABC is centered around the idea that poor posture, caused by anterior displacement (subluxation) of vertebrae, causes compensatory misalignments that predispose the spinal cord to injury from excessive stretching of the meninges (the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord). Jutkowitz claims that vertebrae that get displaced forward get stuck because there is no muscle to pull them back and that other vertebrae compensate for this by twisting. Jutkowitz describes this as "the major problem in the human body" and claims to relieve the problem by "unlocking the meninges." [1] His introductory video likens the meninges to a twisted rubber band which compresses the spine, preventing chiropractic adjustments from realigning it [1].
Jutkowitz claims that ABC is the most effective system of diagnosing and treating structural (biomechanical) problems of the spine ever devised [2]. According to him, his method is "consistent and predictably effective" and can precisely diagnose patients through either special physical examination procedures or by comparing measurements of sitting and standing full-spine x-rays [3]. He claims his system alleviates musculoskeletal, neurological, and organic pathologies through "applying spinal cord relaxation." Although he claims that his theories are supported by the work of a Swedish neurosurgeon named Alf Breig, critics believe that he has misinterpreted or misrepresented Breig's findings [4].
Jutkowitz has marketed his approach in chiropractic trade publications, a web site, and solicitations on chiropractic discussion forums. For $699, chiropractors can obtain a home-study kit that includes audiotapes, manuals, videotapes, and telephone consultations. A second kit, available for $299, provides audiotapes and photographs of patient x-rays which illustrate the x-ray analysis upon which the system is based. His Web site also states that 800 doctors are using his methods.
The conditions that ABC is claimed to relieve or cure include amyotropic lateral sclerosis, asthma, cerebral palsies, carpal tunnel syndrome, cervical myelopathies, deafness, elbow problems, fibromyalgia, heart disease, knee problems, low back pain, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neck pain, post-traumatic myelopathies, rhizopathies, trigeminal neuralgias, and urinary incontinence [2-3]. However, no research has validated these claims, and published research shows that the sitting x-ray views upon which his system is based are unreliable [5-8]. The meningeal release procedures do not make biomechanical sense because they are performed with the patient seated upright or with the patient's chest in extension, positions that relax the spinal cord. These procedures appear to be mere lateral flexion manipulations of upper cervical spine. There is no long-term evidence that the treatment can improve posture. Because of this, repeat treatments to accomplish what he calls "unwinding" of the spinal cord are unwarranted.
Because ionizing radiation is potentially harmful, responsible practitioners restrict the use of diagnostic x-rays to situations where the potential benefit outweighs the likelihood of harm. Full-spine x-rays expose the patient's sexual organs to a large amount of radiation while offering little or no useful information. Jutkowitz's videotape states that he subjected patients to four full-spine sitting and standing x-rays every 2-6 weeks while developing this method [1]. Criticized for excessive use, he now states that his methods have been sufficiently researched that treatment can be administered without doing x-ray examinations [9]. However, he continues to sell instructional materials for his x-ray analysis.
Disciplinary History
Jutkowitz himself has been disciplined four times by Connecticut's chiropractic licensing board. In 1987, the board fined him $5,000, suspended his license for one year to be followed by three years of probation Public documents in the case indicate that during at least five visits he had inappropriately inserted his fingers into a female patient's rectum to administer a "coccygeal-meningeal procedure" that he said would cure her of acne and migraine headaches. Later the woman's husband sought treatment and was advised to have the same procedure and told that his health would suffer if he did not receive it. The board concluded that the woman's treatment was inappropriate and that Jutkowitz had taken too many x-rays. It also ruled that Jutkowitz's treatment of a man with scoliosis was "incompetent." [10]. Jutkowitz appealed through the courts, which upheld the board's decision, but the process delayed implementation of the board's order until 1991 [11].
In 1990, the board fined Jutkowitz $3,000, suspended his license for one year to be followed by three years of probation for engaging in "negligent or incompetent practice." The board's decision was based on two cases in which Jutkowitz had inserted his fingers into the rectum to "adjust" the patient's coccyx (tailbone). Neither patient had complained of tailbone discomfort; and Jutkowitz's management of the second woman included five full-spine x-rays over a 15-month period and lack of adequate records to show the patient's progress as of each visit. The board concluded that "no coccygeal adjustment of any kind was clinically substantiated" and that it was not medically necessary to x-ray the second patient five times [12]. Jutkowitz appealed and lost, but the suspension did not become became effective until after the appeals process ended in 1995 [11].
In 1993, the board fined Jutkowitz $2,000 and suspended his license for one year for "incompetent and negligent conduct." The board concluded that Jutkowitz had improperly managed a patient and taken too many x-rays on the day the patient consulted him. It appears from the records that the patient had carpal tunnel syndrome (a wrist problem) but Jutkowitz diagnosed a neck problem without taking a proper medical history or examining the man's arms [13]. Jutkowitz appealed through the courts, which upheld the board's decision in 1996, but by that time the board had voted to revoke his license [11].
In 1996, after hearing evidence that Jutkowitz had continued to examine and treat patients, the board revoked his license [14]. This time he could not get the revocation delayed, and his appeal was dismissed in January 1997 [11].
Following the revocation, Jutkowitz opened an office in California, which had licensed him in 1992. In March 1998, I accepted a job in his office, which was in Los Angeles. Although I knew that his Connecticut license had been revoked and that he was a Scientologist, I had found his articles interesting and thought he had come up with a genuine advance in chiropractic methodology. I personally observed him treat patients in his clinic, which was next to a Scientology headquarters where he attended classes. One day I became alarmed when he promised to cure a man of multiple sclerosis, a promise he could not possibly keep. Not long afterward, I resigned and informed the California Board of Chiropractic about this and his de-licensing in Connecticut. It turned out that he had violated California law by not notifying the board that his Connecticut license has been revoked. On July 2, 1998, the board ordered his license to be revoked as of August 1, 1998 [15].
Following the loss of his California license, Dr. Jutkowitz taught postgraduate license-renewal courses to chiropractors in California through the Logan College of Chiropractic.Without a current license, Jutkowitz was not actually eligible to teach postgraduate courses. In March 2001, Ralph Barrale, Logan's director of postgraduate education, told me Jutkowitz had not disclosed his license revocations when he had applied for approval of his course, but that the school no longer had a relationship with him and anticipated none in the future [16].
- Jutkowitz J. Advanced BioStructural Therapy Intro Tape. Videotape, distributed 2000.
- Jutkowitz, J. Chiropractic and other biostructural therapies can actually work as they are supposed to and help every patient truly get well. Undated reprint distributed in September 2000.
- Jutkowitz J. Standing and sitting full-spine x-ray analysis primer—A first look at what's been missing in full spine analysis of spinal biomechanics. Undated reprint distributed in September 2000.
- Ward RW. The research of Alf Breig: Setting the record straight. Dynamic Chiropractic 15(13):21, 1997.
- Black KM and others. The influence of different sitting positions on cervical and lumbar posture. Spine 21:65-70, 1996.
- Majeske C, Buchanan C. Quantitative description of two sitting postures. With and without a lumbar support pillow. Physical Therapy Oct:1531-1535, 1984.
- Bendix T. Hagberg M. Trunk posture and load on the trapezius muscle while sitting at sloping desks. Ergonomics 27:873-882, 1984.
- Bendix T, Biering-Sorensen F. Posture of the trunk when sitting on forward inclining seats. Scandinavian Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 15:197-203, 1983.
- Jutkowitz J. X-rays not needed. ABC Web site, accessed March 7, 2003.
- Memorandum of decision. Connecticut State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Petition No .831102-07-010, July 23, 1987.
- Codero J. E-mail to Allen Botnick, Feb 20, 2001.
- Memorandum of decision. State of Connecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Petition No. #890103-07-001, p. June 17, 1993.
- Memorandum of decision. State of Connecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Case No. 85072607-07-006, March 28, 1990.
- Memorandum of decision. State of Connecticut Department of Public Health, Petition No. 950505-07-011
- Default decision and order. In the matter of the accusation against Jesse Jacob Jutkowitz, D.C. Board of Chiropractic Examiners, State of California. No 98-31
- Barrale R. E-mail to Allen Botnick, D.C., March 5, 2001.
Dr. Botnick, who operates Chirotalk Forum, is active in the fight against quackery.
This article was posted on March 7, 2003.


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Steven Horace Williams. And the Tempest on which He Came
Now, thanks be to God, I have three children! TWO of them sons!
Steve — named for my lost cousin, and my father — came into this world Tuesday morning amidst a whirlwind of activity.
Usually, when I play gigs, all I have to do is show up and blow. However some church members recently asked the church band to play their wedding reception. And they asked if I would play the wedding, too. I wound up being the point man for the function, which meant I would have to meet with the couple, get their requests for material, negotiate the price, get the music out to the guys, and hire the sound man and players. (Most of the church guys had other gigs.) A lot of extra work.
Now, when I took the job, I didn't put it together with the fact that it was happening FOUR DAYS AFTER MY BABY'S BIRTH, and that Kathy would be having her third c-section! I just looked at the fact that it was January, and as I had been jobbed out of my New Year's Eve gig, the money would be cool.
We have experienced record cold temperatures the last two weeks or so. Weekends are tough for me. I usually don't get to sleep Saturday nights until 5 AM, and I have to be at church at 7:30. We have two services, and I'm usually done at 12:30 or so. I then go home, help Kathy get the kids fed, and we usually go to my parents' house for dinner. I try to get a nap in there somewhere, and we're home by 8 to feed the kids again. But I don't get to sleep until about 4 or 5.
Mondays used to be my recovery day, with the only work I had to do was raise the kids. But the club switched our night from TUESDAY and Thursday to MONDAY and Thursday.
So, with all that, I went to work Monday night, and got to bed after 5 since I was too nervous to sleep. We had to get to the hospital at 7:30 for the birth. I was dead tired, and it was 15 degrees outside! By 10 AM, Steven Horace was here! Another nine-pounder!
After a long day of visitors and everything that comes with having a child, late that night, I decided to brave the sub-twenty degree weather to go get something to eat.
There was no one on the road. The car was driving funny, and I thought it was because the engine was still cold… I pulled into the turning lane to get out and see if a nudging fear I had was legitimate, and I found a blown-out tire! I rode verrry slowly down the turn lane looking for a place with enough light to get my thoughts together, and found a church parking lot. Kneeling on the ground to get to work, the cold crept up into my bones and took residence!
I was done and back on the road in about twenty minutes. But now, the thought in my mind was that tires for this car cost almost $300! And we just had a third baby in three-and-a-half years! I was juggling figures in my mind. And a snowstorm was in the forecast, so I couldn't be driving around with a donut on the front of a front wheel drive car.
I had a rehearsal the next night at 11:30 PM, so I would have to take the car home, turn the faucets on to keep the pipes from freezing, say hello to my kids (who were being kept by Kathy's mother Tuesday and Wednesday), get my truck, and go to the rehearsal. As I arrived at the club, the "CHECK ENGINE" light popped on!! What next?!? This could be big, or it could be small. But with single-digit temperatures and possible snow, 2 AM wasn't the time to gamble!
After — prayer– and practice, I headed home. I had to spend the night at home because Kathy's mom had to work and couldn't keep Max and Diana, so I had to get them up early, dressed, and fed, and take them to my folks' house to stay until Saturday afternoon. Soooo tired. After I did all that, I went back to the hospital for a couple of hours with Kathy and Steve before I had to leave for my Thursday gig.
I drove the truck, so after work, I went back home to check on the house, turn on the faucets, and switch back to the car since I needed it to take Kathy and the baby home in the car seat.
Now, all during the week, I'm corresponding with the groom, the sound man (who thinks he might have pneumonia!!) and the guys in the band. I had to make CD's with the tunes on them, and e-mail others out to guys with whom I couldn't contact. I had put together a GREAT collection of players!
Friday was even busier than the other days… After getting Kathy and the baby home, I left right out to get a tire for the car. The wedding gig was far out, and I couldn't trust the truck to make it. After I got the tire, I came home, got the directions to the venue and headed straight back out to the wedding rehearsal! I wasn't even home ten minutes!
And it was about 8 degrees outside. On the way home from the rehearsal, I treated Kathy and myself with Papa John's!
So, we're sitting at home, chillin', after a long week, eating pizza, and I get up to go wash my hands, and the doggone water won't come on!!! The pipes are frozen!! It's Friday, and my troubles are just starting. Kathy: "Oh, yeah… Mama told me something about the water wasn't running…" Would've been cool to know that a whole lot earlier in the day. (in fairness to Kathy, she turned the bathroom sink on, and when it worked, she thought everything was cool. But THAT sink never froze.)
I turn up heat, turn on blow-dryers, space heaters, and the ENTIRE STOVE to try to get the water running again. My friend, Tim, came over to help, and I wound up going to Wal-Mart to buy a replacement line for the kitchen sink — which, being next to an outer wall, was the biggest trouble spot.
More running around and less rest for me. And the next day, Saturday, was the busiest day. And the bride and groom and all their visiting family didn't care about my problems! The show must go on.
I got up very early to go and pick my kids up from my parents' house, and would head right out to a noon set-up and soundcheck. The wedding was at 6, and the reception was right after at 7. I wouldn't be coming back home until about 11 PM when it was all over.
Kathy called me at about 2. I thought she was calling to tell me that the faucet was running again. She was at home with three children, 3 years old and under, four days after having a baby cut from her womb, and I had booked a gig at the wrong time!
"You need to come home! You need to come home RIGHT NOW!! There is water coming down through the cabinets and all over the kitchen!! Water is gushing all outside!!!" I could hear my kids laughing and oblivious in the background.
It took me twenty minutes to get home (at 100 miles an hour!), and I couldn't get the water turned off at the street because the valve was faulty. By the time a plumber got there, another thirty minutes had passed!
When would it end?
The plumber gave me an INCREDIBLY low price and said he would NOT have to cut through the walls! Kathy stopped crying when I told her that.
Turns out, he had to tear the cabinets out and cut through the walls. Still incredible price though!
My wonderful parents came and got Kathy and all three kids, and I went back to the gig.
The drummer got pulled over for speeding and we had to stretch two tunes for twenty-five minutes until he got there.
The gig was cool. Everybody was happy, the band got cash, and the sound man didn't fall out. And I had to turn around and get up for church with one hour of sleep, work Monday… I still haven't rested. And Kathy is just as tired, plus major surgery.
The thing is, though, that with all the drama and running around, I had to do… I never got frustrated. I usually would crack a LITTLE bit, but not this time. It was like God opened the valve — pun intended — a little at a time so that by the time the BIG disaster happened, I had built up enough confidence in His work to know that He would come through.
So, my second son, Steve, rode in on a tidal wave of action and turmoil and amid it all, he is the epitome of peace. I can learn a lot from him.
When God's will and mine, serenely intertwine
I have three sisters. No brothers. ALWAYS wanted one.
My father, who was raised as an only child and found out at age 35 that he was adopted, had three sisters and no brothers. One of them had died when they were in high school.
That is a long, good story that Kathy insists I write down.
I have a cousin whom I first met back in the late eighties. He and his wife, Shelene, own a martial arts training studio in Pasadena, Ca. Were he alive now, he would be in his early sixties and would look maybe 38.
He made a profound impact on me from the first. When I did a series of gigs out west back in '92 (during L.A. riots), he came and got me and showed me the sights and introduced me to family who treated me like a visiting dignitary. I will NEVER forget that. A few years later, he did the same thing, taking me to Venice Beach, his studio, Rose Bowl stadium, and many other places. We almost hit Kareem Abdul Jabbar when he pulled out in front of us.
He was a multiple-degreed black belt martial artist in many different disciplines, and trained with Bruce Lee. He trained English Mastiffs and Rottweilers to respond to hand signals! Very impressive! And with all of this, he was the most mild-mannered, peaceful dude you'd ever seen!
He and Shelene met Kathy soon after we were married at a family reunion that I missed because I am known for not missing gigs. (I missed out on a lot of things because of that. I'm going to change.)
They swept her up and made her like one of their own! But Kathy has a personality that will do that to you…
A couple of years ago, they said he had cancer. But when I talked to him, he said everything was fine. Never thought I would never see him again.
His death hit me harder than anything I had ever felt. I have been blessed to have all my cousins, both parents, all but one uncle, and all of my aunts still here. My mother's father died when I was a child. I was grown when my grandmothers died, but one was in her nineties and afflicted with Alzheimer's, and the other… long, tough story.
I could not go to the funeral. It was in L.A., and I couldn't afford a ticket, and I had to work. But really, I just couldn't bear to see my cousin not alive when I still had so many things to learn from him. The funeral was broadcast online, and while Kathy watched it and said how beautiful it was, I couldn't do it. I lay in the other room — in earshot — and cried so hard my head hurt. All day. Between bouts of vomiting because Max had gotten me sick when he threw up all over me three days earlier. (And I had to go to work.)
His name was Steve Hearring.
I don't think anyone in this entire world loves my daddy as much as I do. And I know he's flawed. Who isn't? But, as with God, my cousin, and all my heroes, I admire strength and power. That's why leopards, bulls and rhinos are my favorite animals. And my father epitomizes strength and power.
Despite the rough time I had growing up (which is a positive story in light of the way things turned out between us) I always sought his approval and respect. I heard the stories about the things he did as a boy and as a man, and I wished I could be as tough and as calm. Indulge me one story…
Back when he was in his twenties, as a high school coach, he and his team had an Away game against a heated rival. My mother, known for her tactlessness in awkward situations, was — according to her — talking some trash in the stands.
Apparently, one of the guys behind her took offense. Someone pointed him out and whispered to my mom that he had a gun and ill intentions toward her. When the game ended (Home team won), my mother made her way to the locker room with the guy following her through the crowd. When she got to the locker room and walked in sheepishly, my pop, who was mad about the team losing and in no mood for foolishness, asked her what she was doing there. She NEVER went back there.
Out of fear for the OTHER guy(!) she refused to say. He made her tell him. Mom pointed the guy out still lurking outside the locker room.
Daddy acted out for me what he did next: Ma had an umbrella — the kind with the point on the end. He, unarmed otherwise, took it from her and went to find the dude.
The thug had his right hand in his pants pocket and Pops figured he was holding the gun. He went up to the guy, grabbed a handful of wrist and pants (He almost sprained mine acting this out. Adrenaline…) so he couldn't get the gun out!, shoved the umbrella deep up into the soft meat under the guy's chin and proceeded to threaten his very life with well-chosen words that I can't repeat! He held the guy until the cops got him, and there was indeed a gun in his pocket!
It was all so unbelievably smart and strong! Even with his finger practically lifting me from the ground, I was smiling HARD! "That's MY Daddy!" I thought! "Did I inherit any of those guts?" My daddy was like a cross between 007 and Jim Brown!
I've got a bunch of those stories — all true — and he won't even tell me any more. He is so understated and modest about it all, saying that he was just crazy.
He was the biggest, the strongest, the toughest, the bravest, and the fastest, according to those who grew up with him. Yet he stressed reading and learning with my sisters and me. As did my mother. He took pride in figuring things out, he loves brain teasers and The Discovery Channel. He got up every day and went to work, sometimes spending too much time working his players. They would have basketball practice at 5 AM before school AND after school. But he single-handedly turned them from chronic losers to winners.
He never called in sick, he taught me how to use wrenches and how to box. He taught me stuff that I don't have the heart to do unless my life is threatened. He made me do push-ups, lift weights, run track, and fight when scared.
He hated, I'm sure, when I focused more on model cars and cartoons and being in the band than trying out for teams, but he loves it now. He was hard! Hard as steel. Scared me to DEATH!! But he changed.
He learned and I learned. And from the first time I knew what it meant, I always said that I wanted to name my son not after ME, but after him! His name is Horace.
My wife had a very bad time as a child with her father. She says he wasn't really one at all. From the moment she met my parents, she loved them to death. She raves about how great her in-laws are. But she loves my daddy to the point that I sometimes feel that I have not a wife, but a fourth sister as it relates to him. She sees him as HER father, and is not ashamed to tell it.
I love Diana more than my life. But when Kathy got pregnant this current time, I prayed hard for it to be a son. I never had that brother I longed for, and I wanted Max to have someone with whom to stand back-to-back in this sickening world. I wanted him to have that thing that brotherhood means.
I wanted Diana to have two boys to keep the fools at bay! I wanted to be a little bit like Jacob with all those sons.
And I wanted to give my father that legacy. I wanted his name to continue. Since he was adopted, he was the only Williams. And until I got married and had Max, it was looking pretty bleak for the team! But God apparently said otherwise…
Now we can be sure that there will be more Williamses.
My sisters all named their kids after their maternal grandfather — which is cool! But what about my daddy?
And Kathy, having loved Steve so much for the same reasons I did, saw this as an opportunity to honor what she described as two honorable and strong men. She has already said that the new baby has the pressure of keeping that great name clean!
Two weeks ago, in a dark room, God granted our sweated prayers! We are having a boy. And it means so much more than just having somebody to throw to and wrestle with and teach about girls and smoothness and heartbreak and fidelity (although it is all of that, too!). It means that God actually DOES know me, and LIKE me, and that He does actually act in my life. He is faithful and true!
And if this minor thing is real, I shudder at the thought that He DID create the universe and that He meant — means — all that stuff in the Bible! He is not an illusion or a figment. He is my friend. In every profound way. I am undone.
With that, we await the healthy arrival of Steven Horace Williams!
I've got so much to tell him!
The Rest of the Story
I said that when I got more time, I would write more on what happened when Diana was born. Seeing how things have been this last week, I know now that I'll NEVER have any more time!
Kathy began having real contractions Wednesday night. By Thursday, they were coming steadily enough so that our friend, Megan who is trained as a labor and delivery nurse, took basically her whole day — Excuse me. Both babies just woke up yelling and crying from different rooms at the SAME time!!!— to walk Kathy through a nearby park in order to bring on the true labor Kathy wanted. (Our last birth was a c-section, and Kathy really wanted to have a conventional birth!) Megan homeschools her kids, one of whom was sick, and she forsook that all to spend hours helping my wife!
Thursday night/Friday morning at around three, She started to have strong contractions at from six or seven minutes apart to four or five. Even though I'm a night owl, going to sleep at around three or four every morning, I was really sleepy. Kathy was taking one of thee thousands of showers she had been taking all day to soothe her pain when I finally fell off to sleep. As soon as I did, she came into the room and said that she was ready to go. Wishful thinking made me stay in the bed.
"When I get dressed, I'm goin' to tha hospital, whether you're ready or not!" she said, rummaging through her drawers. It took her forty minutes to put some clothes on. It takes longer when you have to stop and pray to Jeessussss every four minutes…
"Oh," I croaked, "You were serious?"
"Yeah! This is IT! The contractions have been four minutes apart for an hour."
We got to the hospital at 4:45 AM. Megan, the angel, had met us at the house and followed us. My parents, who were going to keep Max for us, were waiting for us when we got there. They took him home with them shortly after Kathy was admitted.
Kathy was scheduled to have a c-section on Saturday, but she and her doctor wanted her to try to have her "the regular way." Max was a c-section baby, and weighed in at nine pounds, six ounces! She was more than a week past the due date and the baby was only getting bigger. We felt now that the Lord had answered Kathy's fervent prayer in the affirmative with all these labor pains and stuff.
Kathy's friends, Heather, and Lisa, who took all those pictures, arrived at between 6 and 8 am. They both have families, and left them to stay with Kathy. Her mother came to town to stay with us for a week, and got to the hospital at around 9 am. We all thought that, at this rate, she would be having the baby by no later than twelve noon or one at the latest. HA!
I had a gig that night which Kathy had no problem with me making, and since it started at 10:30 that night, we both knew I would make it ok. HA!
Her contractions were coming steadily (every two or four minutes) for hours, and she took them like a champ until around 10 am or so when she asked for an epidural. This involves injecting an anesthetic through a catheter inserted into a canal in the doggone spine! And how is this better, I wonder…?
To make a long story long, Kathy endured the process of physical and mental stress (which was probably worse) until 7:30 pm. The doctors and she were trying to wait for her cervix to dilate to the point where Diana could pass naturally. "I don't want to be gutted like a fish!" Kathy would repeatedly say, only partly in jest.
Just as with Max, it would never happen.
Through all of this, Heather and Lisa stayed! Hour upon hour of stress, tedium, pain, and varying opinions on what to do and they just called husbands, arranged for kids to be picked up, and stayed right there with her. Never had we experienced such friendship and dedication. Even after I left to work, (musicians don't have workman's compensation! No play, no pay! Kathy's maternity pay is a little bit less than her regular pay, so I had to go get it!) Megan returned, and Lisa and Heather stayed into Saturday morning until I told Kathy to have them go home!
I am so blessed (Kathy, too…) to have people who love my wife so much. She is not from Memphis, and used to fret about not having ties here. This is an answer to that prayer, because she has friends now from all strata who love her like family!
Yes, they attend that church I rave about. (And Heather wants me to tell you that in spite of the name, she IS black! 🙂 )
It was obvious after all these hours that Diana was not going to push her way out. There was a lot of back and forth about what should happen, so the nurse — at Kathy's request — cleared the room. Kathy, now crying, called me back, and while I had a whole line prepared — excuse me, Diana just started to wail again — about how God knows better than we do what is best, and that this is His will, and that we have to get in line with that will… But she wasn't crying about having to have another c-section. Suffice it to say that she was worried that her friends' feelings would be hurt through all of this.
So, after much travail, much of which would be politically and socially improper for me to tell, Diana was pulled into this world at exactly eight o'clock looking just like her brother did, and suspiciously like a little Eskimo lady. (Kathy spent four years living in Alaska…) Actually, my grandfather had a white father and a Cherokee mother, so that is why they come out looking so U.N.
I spent an hour or so with them and left for my gig with my wife's blessing. They started late waiting for me.
For the next two weeks in what is apparently a tradition in many churches (NOT the one I attended!), we will be receiving meals cooked by different women in the church. When this happened with Max, we were blown away! It is a wonderful thing to see the Body of Christ work in such fluid and effective fashion.
And just as we cannot do anything to warrant God's Sacrifice and favor, we have not done anything to deserve being loved in so great a way by so many!
For Unto US (Kathy and Me) a Child is Born
Diana, our new daughter, was born on Good Friday! She weighed nine pounds and one ounce, and was 21 1/2 inches long. Even though she was in pickle juice for nine months, she is beautiful. (She looks like the little "Ice Age" baby) Kathy was basically in labor from Wednesday on, and we went to the hospital at 4:45 AM. Diana was born by c-section at eight PM!
Many beautiful things happened, but as I am just getting home and getting adjusted to the exponential increase in work and DEcrease in sleep, I will have to write about it all in detail in a day or so.
You can see pictures of the process at http://kiralisa.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/a-precious-baby-is-born/where my friend and churchmember, the great photographer Lisa Thomas, has chronicled our experience.
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When a person dies, the liquidator of the succession (refer to the definitions) must file the deceased's income tax return for the year of death (refer to the definitions) and for any previous years for which the deceased has not filed. In certain cases, the liquidator has the option of filing more than one return for the year of death. Principal return In the principal return, the liquidator must report all income earned by the person up to the time of death, regardless of whether the amounts were received during his or her lifetime. This includes interest, rentals, royalties, annuities, salaries, wages and other forms of income that accumulate daily in equal amounts during the period in which they are payable. Separate returns In certain cases, the liquidator has the option of filing, in addition to the principal return, up to three other separate returns for the year of death. In this way, the income of the deceased person can be split, and the income tax payable in his or her name can be reduced or brought down to zero. A separate return can be filed to report
Deemed disposition An expression used to mean that property is considered sold or disposed of, even if no actual sale or disposition has taken place. Liquidator of the succession A person who liquidates, administers or controls a succession (that is, an estate) on behalf of the heirs. Year of death The year beginning on January 1 and ending on the date of death of the person for whom the income tax return is completed. Codicil A testamentary act that modifies, supplements or cancels a previous will. Holograph will A will that is written out entirely by hand and signed by the testator.
Persons who complete the income tax return(s) of a deceased person
Taxation Act , CQLR, chapter I-3
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