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Goodbye NASI and their meshugas, hello Yitti Halberstam who seeks to raise the price of shidduchim beyond the price of pearls and rubies (those are already on the list of required shidduch gifts anyways!) Now you can add elective surgery into the budget along with shadchanus gelt, the long list of gifts, the big wedding, and the after wedding support/help because as we know "money ain't a thing" and eugenics is a yiddishe maise.Were they in denial about the qualities young men are seeking in future wives? Yes, it is somewhat disillusioning that men dedicated to full-time Torah learning possess what these girls might perceive are superficial values, but brass tacks: they want a spouse to whom they are attracted. The young men themselves might be too shy or ashamed to admit it, but their mothers won't hesitate to ask what for some is the deal maker/deal breaker question, namely: "Is she pretty?"Recently, an acquaintance of mine reported the happy news that her first cousin had become a kallah for the first time at the tender age of forty. "She wowed her chasan with her beauty," she said. "That's what gave her an edge over the other women her age." Then she paused. "Let's see…she had a nose job….gastric bypass …botox injections….her teeth were capped…..and she wears violet-blue contact lenses…There's practically nothing about her that's real!" she laughed. "But…guess what? She's getting married next month!"Mothers this is my plea to you: There is no reason in today's day and age with the panoply of cosmetic and surgical procedures available, why any girl can't be transformed into a swan. Borrow the money if you have to; it's an investment in your daughter's future, her life.So, my dear sweet mothers who are bristling with indignation at my thesis and feel deeply offended by my proposition: please do not be hurt by what I am suggesting. I truly want to help. If your daughter's shidduch prospects are being hampered by a flaw or problem that can be banished or remedied, please give her the emotional and financial support to correct it. Yes, I know that we all want to be cherished for who we are inside, but whether we like it or not, appearances do count. And no Yom Tov demonstrates that reality more than Purim.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
And You Thought NASI Was Raising the Price of Shidduchim?!?!
39 comments:
- The Bald Guy said...
I've read this whole article. I'm getting the vague feeling that this article was written tongue in cheek...
- March 20, 2012 11:30 AM
- Orthonomics said...
One would think. . . . . but where is the disclosure with the comments pouring in?
- March 20, 2012 11:32 AM
- The Bald Guy said...
I also believe that the following line was edited from the article:
"Mothers this is my plea to you: There is no reason in today's day and age with the panoply of cosmetic and surgical procedures available, why any girl can't be transformed into a swan. Borrow the money if you have to; it's an investment in your daughter's future, her life."
- March 20, 2012 11:33 AM
Hopefully it is a spoof - the part about young girls in shidduchim appearing without makeup seems to be a giveaway, since few people besides drag queens wear more makeup than girls "in the parsha" and young married chareidi women.
- March 20, 2012 12:02 PM
- Zach Kessin said...
I think this is a demonstration of Poe's law which states:
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
Honestly I don't think it was in any way a spoof, part of me says that based on the writing style there is no way that woman has enough depth to write a spoof.
I kind of think some parts of the community have really jumped the shark!
- March 20, 2012 12:17 PM
If this isn't meant to be serious, it is probably one of the best spoofs I have ever read in many years.
The fact that it's so hard to tell if it's serious or a spoof speaks volumes.
- March 20, 2012 12:39 PM
The "frum world" can keep telling themselves that the "outside, secular world" is all about the physical and the sexual - that the outside world only cares about appearances, is wholly immodest, obsessed with sex and pornography, and degrades people by making them sex objects. A quick read of this article shows how far from the truth this is and how debased and sick frum culture is.
The worst part of it is the sheer hypocrisy of it all. The "outside" world doesn't play any games - victoria's secret doesn't pretend it's products are about anything other than looking and feeling attractive and sexual. Advertisers fully acknowledge they use attractive people because sex sells. There's a refreshing honesty about it.
Not so the frum world. They scream about tznius and pritzus. They yell about ankles and stockings and collarbones. They talk about kedusha and neshamas. And yet they are just as sick and perverse and sex-obsessed as the worst of secular society. Yet, they walk with their heads held high and sneer and look down their noses at everyone else. Kedusha, tznius, and pritzus coupled with you need more makeup, more money, and a nose job. Sickening.
And newsflash: The vast, vast, vast majority of the "outside world" would be appalled if they read this article with its blatant sexist, degrading tone. Compare to the vast majority of frum readers who instead think "maybe it's not such a bad idea. If only the seminaries and rabbis would speak out more about make up and nose jobs!"
- March 20, 2012 12:58 PM
- AztecQueen2000 said...
As a BT, I find this doubly appalling. I left a culture that valued superficial JAPPIness for--a culture that values superficial JAPPIness.
- March 20, 2012 1:17 PM
I don't think the "outside" values superficiality or "jappiness". But, at least those pursuing those objectives are honest about it. When someone is looking to hook up at a bar or club, they're honest about what they're seeking - they're honest it's about looks and sex and being completely superficial. When someone is looking to settle down they're honest about having a different set of criteria - that while looks are important other facets of a person are important as well: personality, career, hobbies, etc.
Frum culture says it's all about marriage and looking at inner beauty and claims to have a process that is dignified and holy and fitting for bnei and bnos torah that eliminates the sexual and superficial. In reality it's even more perverse and degrading. Worst of all, they repeat the lie that it's all about kedusha and tznius and avoiding pritzus.
- March 20, 2012 2:14 PM
Unfortunately, this is not a spoof.
Fortunately, the views of this author do not reflect those of just about any chariedim I know (and as many of you know, I am a card-carrying, black hat Chareidi). I literally am not aware of any chareidim who have undergone cosmetic surgery and while I am certain there are those who have done so, it is certainly very rare.
In addtion,I think most rabbonim would say that purely cosmetic surgery is against halacha.
- March 20, 2012 6:41 PM
I would also add that I would bet that cosmetic surgery is far more common in the MO community than the Chareidi community. Not that it excuses some of the repugnant attitudes and mores relating to shidduchim amongst chareidim but this particular idiocy is not very common.
- March 20, 2012 6:45 PM
I passed a yeshiva couple on a date 7 years ago. He had red hair and a black hat, she had light brown hair, was neat and pleasant-looking, but was not "fixed up" - she was wearing no make up and her hair was simple. As I passed them quickly, I heard a girl call out to me, "Tante Tzeitel!" It was the brown-haired girl out on the date, and she was my niece, Shprintze. She had recognized me and was willing to acknowledge me even though she was on a date. I think this says something about her character. At any rate, this was the first boy she ever went out with, and at first she hesitated because she was not used to red hair. Today Shprintze and the red haired yeshiva bochur have 2 little boys and one baby who are all gingies, and one little boy with light brown hair. Yes, reader, she married him, not "fixed up".
- March 20, 2012 8:38 PM
From Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables series)
There are so many homely people who would actually look quite attractive if they took a little pains with themselves. Three Sundays ago in church . . . you remember the day poor old Mr. Milvain preached and had such a terrible cold in his head that nobody could make out what he was saying? . . . well, I passed the time making the people around me beautiful. I gave Mrs. Brent a new nose, I waved Mary Addison's hair and gave Jane Marden's a lemon rinse . . . I dressed Emma Dill in blue instead of brown . . . I dressed Charlotte Blair in stripes instead of checks . . . I removed several moles . . . and I shaved off Thomas Anderson's long, sandy Piccadilly weepers. You couldn't have known them when I got through with them. And, except perhaps for Mrs. Brent's nose, they could have done everything I did, themselves.
I'm not sure that looking your best is so terrible
- March 20, 2012 9:03 PM
- ProfK said...
Well, I've said before that the attitude towards shidduch making today is skewed, and this article only goes to prove it. Cosmetic surgery as the answer to the "shidduch crisis"? Wearing makeup as the sure road to marriage? Has the author totally taken leave of her senses, always assuming she had any to begin with?
No, I don't believe that it was a spoof--if only! It is so-called solutions like this, that get publication space, that take the place of any real and practical dialogue about how to change what is happening in shidduchim. Hashem Yerachem if this woman also has a daughter who is going to be the recipient of her mother's "sage" advice.
- March 20, 2012 9:40 PM
- rosie said...
Plastic surgery is allowed by some rabbonim and frowned upon by others. One problem is the risk to life and the other is the altering of Hashem's handiwork. Those poskim that allow plastic surgery, do so on the grounds that the offending body part causes great distress to the person. Many rabbonim will sanction the risk to life and limb if it will help with a shidduch or in a marriage; although most plastic surgery is considered low risk. It is basically a quality of life issue. A person who is considering plastic surgery should consult a rav. Some girls are attempting to date in communities where high priorities are placed on "looks". If those girls don't care how they look, they will more than likely be passed over. The girls that she met at the shidduch event were attempting to get dates with boys who were inundated with names already. It did not make sense that the girls attended this event without make-up and hair styling. Did they really think that mothers of inundated boys would select them for their sons?
Yes, I know that the MO on both this site (and the JP site which has hundreds of comments), hate that mode of matchmaking from the get-go, that where the mother of the boy gets to pick her daughter in law, but these girls did attend the meeting of their own free will.
Mrs Halberstam was simply trying to point out that no one today has to be unattractive. There are alternatives.
- March 20, 2012 10:12 PM
- Dave said...
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- March 20, 2012 10:18 PM
- Dave said...
So, the secular world is supposedly shallow and superficial, and here we have meat markets for young women where what matters is their "enhancements" and dress size.
And "a shikker is a goy", but while secular teen-agers certainly get drunk, I don't recall ever being provided vast quantities of hard liquor by teachers, nor sent around by a school to fund raise while smashed. And amongst my Christian friends, I certainly don't see them making sure that they have the good liquor at Church on Sunday, or insisting that drunken adolescents is a religious requirement.
And while Americans in general are prone to spending more than they should, and saving less than they should, I haven't seen the rest of America justify living beyong their means on religious grounds.
Something appears to be deeply deeply wrong in the Orthodox world.
- March 20, 2012 10:19 PM
- rosie said...
Dave, as was pointed out above, the average Orthodox woman has had nothing done besides orthodontia. Most have their original noses and other parts.
There are numerous problems in the Orthodox world, and nobody denies that. That being said, the Torah itself is still the Truth.
- March 20, 2012 10:27 PM
- Mr. Cohen said...
I suggest correct nutrition and exercise instead of plastic surgery.
My web site for quick divrei Torah sends quick nutrition messages after every devar Torah:
- March 20, 2012 10:42 PM
- rosie said...
People could avoid many problems with proper nutrition and exercise. Unfortunately, there are those who eat no matter what and eventually they become morbidly obese. Gastric bypass is a last ditch effort. Obesity can have fatal consequences.
- March 20, 2012 11:09 PM
Some people here just don't get it. It's not about whether other people are getting plastic surgery. It's not about whether other people put on nice clothes and doll themselves up when on a date. It's not about the number or percentage of chareidim or Orthodox that actually go out and get plastic surgery to get a shidduch.
It's about a culture and society that looks favorably on this behavior, publishes it, promotes it, and sets it up as a norm. It's about the sheer hypocrisy of it all - the incessant screaming and carrying on about modesty, about how the secular world is debased and perverse, while engaging in behavior that turns women in sex objects, valuable only for their looks, and whose sole mission in life is to get married to a "top" boy. It's about cloaking abhorrent attitudes and behavior in religiosity and holiness. It's about using yiddish and hebrew words to mask what's really going on: a meat market is a shidduch scene, a pimp/madam is a shadchan, objectification and dehumanization is a shidduch resume.
Until this is realized, the whole culture and society will continue to deteriorate and collapse. This is the real crisis.
If the article was about, for example, an Indian society in which boys' mothers went down to the local market and surveyed young girls to find the most attractive one for her prized son and said some of the girls had skin that was too dark and wondered why they didn't use skin bleaching creams, you'd all be up in arms and calling them backwards and sexist. What a double standard.
At the very least call a spade a spade and admit it's a man's world, women exist to serve and please men, their personalities and individual characteristics are irrelevant, and girls should be hot to make the sex better for the men.
- March 20, 2012 11:46 PM
- rosie said...
We also have to remember that when we compare the frum community to the outside world, the outside world is lots bigger. These frum girls in Yitta Halberstam's article are all competing for the same small group of boys. The outside world does not have those self-imposed limitations.
I have also seen plenty of overweight and unadorned frum women get married so I don't think that all frum men and their mothers are guilty of shallow values.
- March 20, 2012 11:46 PM
- rosie said...
Our local community (not the frum community but the local community) produces a magazine devoted to local merchants. Many of those merchants are plastic surgeons. Reading those ads leads one to believe that no one every has to grow old, if they have the money to prevent it. I don't think that the average woman is having major surgical makeovers but it is possible and people are doing it. Eventually it might become more commonplace in general society than it is already.
In frum society, I see articles where rabbonim encourage altruistic kidney donation. The donor's body gets zero benefit from the procedure and there is some risk to the donor. I am trying to understand why then, it is such a terrible thing if a woman asks her rav about a surgical procedure that might boost her chances of marrying a Jew? She may also be trying to get a good looking man rather than one who would accept her due to mutual homeliness.
Now I realize that the purists and idealists out there wonder why I would compare a selfless act such as kidney donation to a selfish act such as a high priced nose. My point is that as we as a society, and not just a Jewish society, accept more high tech beauty treatments, this eventually becomes our society's view of beauty. We Jews still live in the world with other people are influenced by their ideas about beauty. This is why a recent law has been passed in Israel, outlawing underweight models.
- March 21, 2012 12:13 AM
- Zach Kessin said...
To my mind the problem is that for everyone of us going "OMG this woman has lost her mind" there are others going "yea she is right", if I just got my 19 year old some plastic surgery maybe it will help her find Mr Right. Clearly this article did not come out of nothing but out of what this woman is seeing around her.
- March 21, 2012 2:25 AM
- ProfK said...
Putting aside the "rightness" or "wrongness" of the woman's viewpoint for a moment, let's focus on the money involved in what she is suggesting.
Insurance companies do NOT cover cosmetic surgery--all expenses are the person's own. Even in cases where medical authorities have shown that a particular "plastic" surgery has a medical underpinning, the insurance companies run the insured through hoops, and may or may not cover all or some of this surgery.
Did the chareidi community suddenly discover a wellspring of free money somewhere? Does this woman truly understand just how much many of the even "routine" surgical procedures she is blithely recommending as necessary cost? I doubt it. So, in addition to yeshiva tuition and the exorbitant costs associated with "must have" elements of making a wedding, we can now add $20-50 thousand in surgery costs?
How nice to live in never-never land, where money grows on trees.
- March 21, 2012 9:20 AM
This article is not in jest. Horrible article.
- March 21, 2012 12:03 PM
Of course the article was in jest. I have been saying the exact same things as this article to my friends for years. Hyperbole is an effective form of satire.
- March 21, 2012 2:12 PM
- Miami Al said...
The author did hit upon a very KEY social skill that is lacking in the Frum sub-culture: situationally appropriate behavior.
These girls were attending a function where they were promoting themselves as marriage material to prospective mother-in-laws. If they were dressed as "homely" as described by the author, then they were not dressed appropriately. They were there to highlight themselves as young women, they should have taken time to prepare themselves to look good as young women.
I see that all around me with people from a RW bent. They have no idea how to adjust their outward appearance and behavior to different social situations.
I see so many people who don't know how to dress themselves up for a party or wedding reception, because they simply aren't taught nor know how to research this. Just as it would be inappropriate to wear a mini-skirt to Shul, it is inappropriate to wear "drab" clothing to a semi-formal or formal affair.
While it is seen as appropriate to bum-rush a Kiddush table and pile food sky high, while eating in front of the table so you can scoop more, such behavior is simply not acceptable at a wedding reception, yet I've seen it too many times.
But the RW Orthodox World is far more sexist and objectifying of women than the secular world. Yes, the secular ADVERTISING world promotes itself with sexist and objectifying messaging to sell product, but those aren't the values of the secular world, those are paid messages to promote something.
The massive requirements of conformity and objective good/bad boy/girl traits basically destroys the ability of a human to be themselves and find someone that they would like to spend their life with for an artificial scale.
And focuses on ALL the wrong things for choosing a life partner.
Ya know, there is a joke about how boys inevitably "marry their mother," I guess in the Shidduch world, the mother gets to insure it.
- March 21, 2012 2:45 PM
As a RWer I am mortified by what is going on in my world. Questions like 'what size dress does she wear' and 'how much per month will you give' are becoming the norm, not the exception.
yes, most mothers of boys have girls too - and I think they are treating their boys as 'payback time' either for what they went thru to get their daughters married or what they will have to go thru in the future.
I ask every one of my friends -'had YOUR mother asked these questions would YOU have have ever gone out with YOUR wife?' and almost 100% of the time the answer is 'NO but it is different now' though no one knows why it is different.
I would like to start a CLUB for RW people. By joining the club you agree that your children go out with club members without asking about money or looks, the boy agrees it is his responsibiltiy to support a family (whether immediately or not is up to the couple), and a few other rules I am still working out. The prblem is that when I floated this idea all I got was potential female members.
My daughter turns 19 next month. So I guess she starts dating in a year. Wish me luck.
- March 21, 2012 3:55 PM
Why luck? What you need is a backbone.
You say you're mortified. You say your "world" promotes and participates in a dating scheme and system of values you don't agree with and don't support. Yet, you resign yourself to submitting yourself and your daughter to this very same system and to continue living in this same world. How does that make any sense?
- March 21, 2012 4:17 PM
Not going to submit - thus I need luck. I have a son too and I am NOT going to do it there either.
As someone I know said when the shadchan asked "how much will you give?" and she answered "if that is your first question, this shidduch is not for us". I would just replace the word "first" with nothing at all.
Will I help with $? Sure, as long as I can...much as I would if he/she was going to Law/B/Med School. But a contracted $ figure? No way.
My own RW son is making his way thru Talmud and Shulchan Aruch but is going to college at night (he attends a more normal RW yeshiva). but as my daughter cannot go out with my son, and vice versa, I need luck in finding matches for both.
- March 21, 2012 4:46 PM
Out of curiosity I google image-d the author to see what she considers an acceptable look. With all due respect, her amount and style of makeup would be considered tacky in my circles (mostly non-frum, highly educated, high-earning professionals). Especially the lips.
- March 21, 2012 4:58 PM
- rosie said...
Rhinoplasty costs between $3000 and $8000 with the average being $4200. Some insurances will pay if the rhinoplasty is to fix a "deviated septum." I am not saying this to defend the procedure but it is not as pricey as you think. Personally, I am not a lover of plastic surgery but I do think that in some cases it is justified (a person should first speak to a rav since it involves risk of death).
I think that numerous ads in local publications serve to break down the public's barrier to surgery. Seeing so many ads makes it seem "normal" like everyone is doing it. I would wager to say that the vast majority of elective plastic surgery patients are female. If a few people in a neighborhood or social group have the surgery, it becomes even more the thing to do. Advertising works to make the public comfortable with something and see it as a necessary commodity.
- March 21, 2012 8:23 PM
- miriamp said...
PM - I'd be interested in your club. My kids aren't up to shidduchim yet (my oldest son just started high school, my oldest daughter is in 8th grade) but at least I'd add a boy to the mix.
- March 21, 2012 8:47 PM
to getting nervous, I have a boy and a girl, too. I would be interested in joining your club. We are also RW, and my son has a "plan" AND a degree! Ditto my daughter.
- March 22, 2012 12:11 AM
ortho - here is a chance to make some money...become a shadchan! use your site to link like-minded people to each other! Follw the rules - no asking about money, looks, plastic tablecloths and slip on shoes; but only about things that actually make a difference. You can send Rena the email of Getting Nervous and vice-versa and charge prices below NASI and viola!
- March 22, 2012 2:33 PM
It's real and not tongue-in-cheek.
- March 22, 2012 6:21 PM
- westbankmama said...
I have a different take on this issue. Men are "hard-wired" to react to visuals more than women are. In the "outside world" - or where men have a chance to interract with women in other settings besides a shidduch date, they have a chance to see beyond the pretty, or plain, face. Their first reaction is to the superficial, but after a bit they see a woman's kindness, intelligence, etc, and their attitude to the woman's looks changes. Then they can judge a person by other standards. (Women also judge a man by his looks, but usually have more patience to look beyond this).
Fixing the problem shouldn't be to have the girls fix their bodies by plastic surgery - fixing the problem should be by allowing young men and women to interract with each other in other ways besides on shidduch dates. Two examples could be volunteer work in a supervised setting, or shiurim for both young men and women where they can discuss things afterwards.
- March 26, 2012 11:40 AM
- Nose Job Orange County said...
Definitely it not only helps you to improve your attitude, look as well as performance but also give confidence. Good look gives good impression.
- March 28, 2012 5:28 AM


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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Web Inspector gets major improvements
Joseph Pecoraro has made some major improvements to Web Inspector.
It is now much easier to create and much around with the content. Create new CSS selectors with ease; Add content in-line with elements; see color representations of any value.
And, there is more:
DOM Storage
The DOM Storage DataGrids now displays live updates. You don't need to manually refresh every time something changes. Also you can create, edit, and tab through the keys/values. Double click any open space to start creating a new value. Catching on to a theme with my updates? Overall this makes working with DOM Storage just a little more developer friendly.
This was the first feature that required me really digging into WebKit's source, including touching all platforms. With the help of WebKit developers I eventually added support for viewing all cookie information (secure, httpOnly, etc) and deleting cookies for the Mac. All other platforms were able to display basic cookie information available through document.cookie.
Event Listeners
Not having the ability to enumerate the Event Listeners via JavaScript has plagued me, and most likely plenty of other developers, for a very long time. This made viewing Event Listeners an excellent candidate for an Inspector feature.
The implementation as it stands now has some great functionality. There is a new sidebar pane when you inspect an element in the Elements Tree Hierarchy. If the current Node has registered event listeners there is a separate section for each type of event registered (click, mouseover, etc). Within each of these lists is a display of all of the event listeners in the entire event flow for that type. That means you see all the Capturing Event Listeners followed by the Bubbling Event Listeners in the exact order that they execute and on which nodes they are registered.
Natural Sorting of Properties
Who counts "1?, "11?, "12?, "2?, "3?, etc. Certainly nobody I know! So, I implemented a variant of the alphanumerical sorting algorithm for properties when they are displayed in the console. Now you get a much more natural ordering!
Syntax Highlighting
JSON and CSS syntax highlighting is now there.
These are not nearly all of the new features in the Web Inspector. These are just the ones that I worked on and contributed to. To name some other features there are Scope Bars for the Console and Resources Panel, the ability to view Request and Response HTTP Parameters for Resources (great for debugging AJAX), Resource Status Code indicators, complete Serialization between the inspected page and the inspector, and more.
Thanks Joe!
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Beating the Statistics and Having it All
At 30 years of age, Ana-Maria has everything she wants…career, family and an education that will never fail her. All because she chose to pursue her GED with Dallas Can! Academy. Ana-Maria, like more than 40% of Latina teenagers in Texas, found herself pregnant with her first child while in school. Struggling to continue on in school while being raising her child was more than a challenge…it was near impossible. After finishing the eighth grade, Ana-Maria did what many teens with families do. She dropped out of high school. "The summer I got out of ninth grade, I decided to drop out of high school and get my GED [General Equivalency Diploma]," she said. "I tested at Live Oak and was told I could take the GED test within a few weeks without having to attend the regular classes." However, she didn't give up. She went in search of a school that could meet her needs. Then she found Dallas Can! Academy. She chose Dallas Can! Academy, which was located on Live Oak Street at that time, because she wanted to make immediate changes in her life. Dallas Can! Afforded her the flexibility to raise her family while still pursuing an education. "It was such a short period for me, but I enjoyed that there was a program that was tailored to fit my immediate needs," Ana-Maria said. "I was able to get in and get out and move to the next stage in my life." She was able to take the GED test that summer. Earning her GED in 1995, she immediately put it to good use by enrolling at Dallas County Community College District at Eastfield. She quickly earned her Associate's Degree in General Studies, then moved on to the University of Texas at Arlington to earn her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. By the end of December, she will graduate with her Master's of Business Administration. She plans on starting law school within a year. Today, Ana-Maria is the Executive Director of the Jubilee Community Center where she works with hundreds of families and children in the Jubilee Park neighborhood, revitalizing the community. "I was working in Marketing and Sales for another non-profit, but I wanted to work with the community and reach out to kids and families who were experiencing the same struggles I had growing up," she said. "Dallas Can! Provided me the hand up I needed to keep moving."


text: I just stumbled across an interesting item in a blog which looks at the folksonomy/taxonomy debate from a somewhat different angle. It references Clay Shirky's grumpy indictment of formal taxonomy Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags, and contains a passing mention of librarians 'puking' on emergent ontologies. However, read on, because it goes on to propose a way of disambiguating the homonyms which are bound to creep into social tagging practices (using URIs) and suggests that this will keep both the 'Lakoff-ians' (his term) and the librarians happy.


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Piper Fellow Recipients 2011
2011 Piper Fellow Barbara Fenster
"I love the fact that I get up each day and know that the work I do makes life a little bit better for abused children who are so deeply wounded. I've always loved art, but when I see how these children respond to it, and are healed by it, I know that art is magic."
– Barbara Fenster, Executive Director, Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona
After growing up in Tucson and graduating from the University of Arizona, Barbara Fenster moved to Seattle and spent 15 years as a television news and documentary producer. One documentary, about the tragedies of children in foster care, affected her so deeply that she and her husband became foster parents and adopted two of their three children. Fenster spent seven years with a nonprofit working to reform the Washington State Foster Care system. She helped start five new nonprofits to support foster children and their families, and a statewide organization to recruit foster and adoptive parents. She returned to Arizona in 2006. She has worked for Governor Janet Napolitano; headed up Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic; and worked for her family's nonprofit boarding school, The Fenster School of Southern Arizona. At the time of her fellowship she was executive director of Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona.
Ms. Fenster's sabbatical focused on changing internal and public perception of Free Arts; strengthening internal practices to meet the rapidly escalating need for services; and learn more personally about how art therapy affects children. Her attendance at the ALIA Summer Leadership Program in Halifax, Nova Scotia was "enlightening about myself and my strengths and weaknesses in decision-making; about my staff as individuals and new ways we can use their strengths; and, surprisingly, about the children we serve and their internal limits because of age and experience." She also attended a national conference that discussed how the field is on the cusp of having definitive scientific evidence about the positive impact therapeutic arts has on the brains of trauma victims. She also spent two weeks in an intensive art therapy master program where she experienced art therapy first hand; attended a leadership course at the Darden School at the University of Virginia, and spent a life-altering week in a meditative yoga retreat at Rolling Meadows in Brooks, Maine.
2011 Piper Fellow Karl Gentles
"Working in the nonprofit sector is extremely gratifying. We fill a gap that neither the government nor the private sector addresses which brings intensity to everything we do. The children we serve are faced with disparities they can't even begin to understand and are unable advance without help. My passion is to eliminate the barriers and give them the chance to succeed."
– Karl Gentles, Executive Director, Back-To-School Clothing Drive
Karl Gentles has worked in the nonprofit arena for the last 15 years and began his tenure as Executive Director of Back to School Clothing Drive in 2007. Driven by his passion for helping children, Gentles has revolutionized the organization's business model, more than doubling revenues through social enterprise and substantially increasing the number of partner schools. He formerly held senior leadership positions with USAA, Bank One, and Greater Phoenix Economic Council and has served in pivotal roles for nonprofits such as Phoenix Industrial Development Authority, Southwest Leadership Foundation, and Arizona School Facilities Board, among others.
To further grow Back to School Clothing Drive's retail social enterprise, Karl Gentles planned a comprehensive fellowship that combined visits to best practice sites and study at leading executive education programs. By spending time at Better World Books Gentles learned first-hand how to implement a "triple bottom line" approach and gained further insights about the challenges of growing a program exponentially without losing sight of its mission. He also attended a leadership program at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
2011 Piper Fellow MaryLynn Mack
"The Desert Botanical Garden has allowed me to celebrate the simple freedoms I enjoyed as a child—nature, beauty, and exploration. I consider it an honor to serve the community by connecting people to the desert in a personal and meaningful way."
– MaryLynn Mack, Deputy Director, Desert Botanical Garden
MaryLynn grew up in Ohio and learned the value of volunteering from her family at a young age. After serving in the military and working at a for-profit organization, she wanted
to use her skills and experience giving back to the community. MaryLynn worked for ten years in the health and human services and museum fields before moving to Phoenix in 2003. At the time of her fellowship, she served as deputy director and co-leader with the Executive Director responsible for the vision, planning, and growth of the Desert Botanical Garden, a cultural institution in Phoenix.
With her Piper Fellowship, MaryLynn Mack focused on immersing herself into the many different learning experiences of a child to help her plan and design a new children and family garden space that would connect families back to nature and attract new collaboration opportunities with other child-focused organizations. She visited institutions across the country including the New York and Brooklyn Botanical Gardens; and the Exploratorium, Bay Area Discovery Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Center for Childhood Creativity Think Tank in California. Ms. Mack also participated in a five day program at the Disneyland Leadership Institute and spent a week at the Sesame Street Workshop. She finished her traveling with reflection at Ghost Ranch in Abiqui, New Mexico.
She reported that "Although I started out with the primary focus of learning about children's spaces and experiences, I learned much more about myself as a leader. I was reminded why I love my career so much and feel exited and renewed about the contribution I can make to the Garden."
2011 Piper Fellow Darlene Newsom
"Being a leader in the nonprofit sector has brought me immense joy and monumental challenges—but nothing beats the feeling of accomplishing what some said was impossible."
– Darlene Newsom, UMOM New Day Centers
At the time of her fellowship Darlene Newsom had worked in the nonprofit sector in Arizona for over 35 years and was Chief Executive Officer at UMOM New Day Centers overseeing an $8 million budget and 165 employees. Under her leadership UMOM expanded its capacity and improved the services offered to families experiencing homelessness. Previously she was the Director of a shelter for homeless youth in Tucson and also founded a homeless shelter for children in Yuma. She is widely recognized as an expert on issues affecting homeless families.
Her objective was to gain new skills and expertise that would contribute to goals such as expanding UMOM New Day Centers and growing the agency in ways that support breaking the cycle of family homelessness. Newsom participated in leadership and customer service programs at the Disney Institute, studied the success of FareStart, a job training and placement program for homeless individuals, and attended the National Conference to End Family Homelessness in Oakland, California.
2011 Piper Fellow Jared Sakren
"I believe in the power of language, in the ways in which communication can affect positive change in people's lives. I am passionate about Shakespeare and the classics and I believe words can change the world."
– Jared Sakren, Producing Artistic Director, Southwest Shakespeare Company
Growing up in rural Connecticut and moving to Manhattan to attend the Juilliard School as part of the first graduating class of the Drama Division, Jared has sustained an unbroken commitment to the professional theatre his entire life. Upon graduation from Juilliard he became a founding member of The Acting Company, performing on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and on National Tours. During his career he has performed and/or directed for major theatres and programs around the world including Yale, Juilliard, NYU, The Mark Taper Forum, ACT, Oxford, and many others. At the time of his fellowship, he was celebrating 12 years as Producing Artistic Director for Southwest Shakespeare Company.
Jared Sakren's Piper Fellowship focused on conducting research at several large iconic Shakespeare companies to learn about best practices for producing and marketing Shakespeare. Through meetings with theatre leaders of organizations including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Globe Theatre in England, Sakren brought back ideas and lessons learned in order to create new festival and destination events for Southwest Shakespeare Company. He also participated in an intensive seminar in nonprofit management held by the American Management Association to better serve his organization and create new revenue streams.


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The Freescale Kinetis device families in the MDK-ARM microcontroller development kit are now supported by Keil.
The Kinetis portfolio of ARM Cortex-M4 processor-based MCUs consists of five families with over 200 pin-peripheral and software compatible devices offering outstanding performance, memory and feature scalability.
The portfolio includes a comprehensive selection of peripheral options and innovative FlexMemory technology.
MDK-ARM microcontroller development kit
Developed together with Freescale, the latest release of MDK-ARM supports all Kinetis K10, K20, K30, K40, K50 and K60 devices.
MDK features the industry-standard compiler from ARM, the Keil µVision4 IDE, the full featured RTX RTOS and sophisticated analysis tools. It is specifically optimised for single-chip, high performance devices such as the Kinetis Cortex-M4 family.
MDK-ARM v4.13a is available for download now. The Freescale OSJTAG drivers that enable MDK to connect to the Freescale Tower evaluation system without using a ULINK adapter can also be simultaneously downloaded.
Keil products from ARM include C/C++ compilers, debuggers, integrated environments, RTOS, simulation models and evaluation boards for ARM, Cortex-M, Cortex-R4, 8051, C166 and 251 processor families.
ARM designs the technology that lies at the core of advanced digital products such as wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions as well as imaging, automotive, security and storage devices.
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text: TV / Video ABC News, NBC News Snipe Over Paying Sources NBC gloating over ABC's policy change prompts return fireBy D.M. Levine|July 26, 2011 Share By D.M. Levine|July 26, 2011 Share As ABC News moves away from checkbook journalism, its competitors are starting to gloat—and distance themselves from similar practices. "We were happy to hear about this change in ABC News policy," a spokesperson for NBC News told Adweek. "We agree that their recent activity has been bad for journalism and the news industry. And we welcome them back to the practices that we work hard to uphold." An ABC News insider, flabbergasted by the NBC comment, fired back saying, "NBC News lies about its practices, does not disclose the habitual payments it makes for interviews, and then has the gall to get up on a high horse. Someone ought to remind NBC News that the higher they get up on that horse, the farther they will fall as their rank and recurring hypocrisy is exposed." ABC had come under fire amid recent revelations that it was habitually compensating its sources by way of large "licensing fees"—cash payments ostensibly for the use of proprietary photo and video material in its news segments. The network's news division paid Casey Anthony $200,000 for the use of photos in a story it ran in 2008 and promised $10,000 to the woman who claimed she regularly injected her child with Botox (though that cash offer was rescinded last May when the woman's story began to unravel). Like nearly every other television news operation, ABC has an explicit policy barring its news division from paying for interviews, but some in the industry have accused the network of skirting its own guidelines through the wide use of such fees. But other outlets have compensated sources through licensing fees as well. For example, in May, Adweek reported that NBC News and CBS News, as well as ABC News and cable outlets like CNN and the National Geographic Channel, had all licensed photo or video material at one time or another from a British photographic and reporting agency called Barcroft Media, which in turn, frequently paid its story sources outright (and, in some cases, even helped concoct the stories it pitched to these American news outlets). Sources at the other broadcast networks are now distancing themselves from those practices. "We use licensing fees for what they should be [used for]. They're fair market value, and they're in no way ever used to cloak a form of payment," one ABC competitor told Adweek. CBS declined to comment officially on ABC's policy shift, but a source close to the network said "after the change in management [when Jeff Fager and David Rhodes were named chairman and president of CBS News, respectively, last February], CBS News moved away from paying licensing fees." The source also pointed to a comment Fager made to The New York Times in June, in which he said "money is being asked for more and more of the time. . . . If you're in the business of having to pay people to get a story, it can't be worth it." Share http://adweek.it/2jJiyWc copy Adweek Adweek


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Vibrations shift as Moon exits from the safe grounds of Virgo, to let go into free-falling Libra. Emotionally, our safety net is set aside so that we may reach outside of our comfort zone. Our experiences are intellectualized under the Libra Moon, so we seek advice and information from other sources, other than from ourselves. Energy is favorable for socializing, decorating, creating peace, artistic pursuits, romantic connections, and creating inner balance.
After hibernating for several weeks in the frozen ice castles of Aquarius, Venus (values, love, and money) finally begins to thaw as she enters the gentle stream of Pisces. What may have been motionless, cold-hearted, and building distance… begins to display movement and inspiration. Hearts become inviting again as they warm up from the temporary deep freeze. As a cycle ends, this allows flexibility to be created. Barriers become magically nonexistent, which encourages healing. With forgiveness, passion is revived. In Pisces, we can run away from responsibilities and our reality. We are tempted with romance and imagination, and fall into the arms of our fantasies and dreams.
Venus in Pisces is magical, fun, and delicious. We want what we want, and do what we need to, to get it. We melt, we bleed, and we slowly transform ourselves. We can mold ourselves into something that we are not, in order to curb our inner craving. This is what happens when our 'needs' become enticed with the dream. Dark shadows of gluttony and greed can surface in Venus in Pisces. Deceit and manipulation can help us to get what we want, when laziness dominates. We can become easily seduced during the weeks ahead, because we want to simply trust what we feel. It's important that I say to have fun during this period of enchantment, because it is sweet and gooey. Just remember, too much sugar has consequences. Don't cheat yourself from some old-fashioned common sense to keep level-headed. Later this evening, kindness and appreciation spread like wildfire as Venus sextiles Jupiter. Magic expands and materializes. "Living is easy with eyes closed." John Lennon. Tarot guidance from Six of Swords rx, Queen of Swords: We restrain ourselves and strategically plan our next move.
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Halloween has come early this year, and I'm not talking about today's release of Windows 7. Engadget reports (and I find it difficult to share this with you, dear readers, because I know it will cause you discomfort), in April last year, Apple filed a patent application for (shudder) an ad-supported operating system. That's right. Mac OS X festooned with ads.
The abstract of the patent reads as follows:
Among other disclosures, an operating system presents one or more advertisements to a user and disables one or more functions while the advertisement is being presented. At the end of the advertisement, the operating system again enables the function(s). The advertisement can be visual or audible. The presentation of the advertisement(s) can be made as part of an approach where the user obtains a good or service, such as the operating system, for free or at reduced cost.
Oh Steve, say it ain't so. Tell us Patent Application 20090265214 is the result of too many late nights in "creative meetings" with your minions at Cupertino. Tell us it's a misguided concept you've since abandoned (and wish had never made it through the red tape, to be filed with the USPTO). To hell with it, you can even tell us you're just patent trolling, and that'll still be preferable to the unthinkable, horrifying possibility that you actually took this idea seriously.
What on earth would motivate Apple to consider something like this? It can't be the competition. The upcoming Chrome OS from Google may well be ad-supported in some manner, but we have to hope it'll be implemented the same way Google currently injects ads into Gmail. Perhaps Apple explored the possibility of an ad-supported OS as a means for offering cheaper Macs? But the cost of a Macintosh computer is tied closely to its hardware and besides, since when did Apple start searching for ways to deliver cut-price computers? This isn't Dell (s dell) we're talking about.
Here's an extract from the (typically lengthy) patent description:
The operating system is configured to present one or more of the advertisements to users of the computer device. In some implementations, the operating system can disable one or more functions during the presentation of the advertisements and then enable the function(s) in response to the advertisements ending. That is, the operating system can disable some aspect of its operation to prompt the operator to pay attention to the advertisement.
This paints a picture of some twisted low-level hijacking of the OS while ads are played. For example, imagine your pointer suddenly stops responding to mouse movements (or disappears altogether) only to be restored after a commercial or two (for products you don't want, or simply can't afford) finish assaulting your senses with bright colors and boisterous music. What makes this worse is that you hit the mute key ages ago, but the OS temporarily turned the sound on again. You know, because you can't enjoy all the subtly exquisite levels of torment an ad has to offer unless you get the full audio/video experience.
Yep, that's a cold sweat that just broke out on your brow. Sadly, there's more of this horror. The patent also describes an OS-provided framework of which third-party applications can take advantage to deliver the same ad-driven pain:
The software platform provides a framework upon which one or more application programs (e.g., programs, services, user interfaces) may be executed. For example, the operating system can disable input to, or output from, one or more of the application programs while the advertisement is being presented.
So imagine, if you can bear to, an ad-supported version of iWorks. You're writing that essay or juggling multiple documents to prepare that report that was due yesterday. You're lost in a world of footnotes and references, utterly absorbed in your task when suddenly, boom! — every Pages window freezes. There's not a blinking carat to be seen anywhere. Then a horrible ad for life insurance starts playing — you know, that one you hate so much that, when it plays on TV, it sends you diving for the remote in a mad dash to hit the mute button. But you've already learned that mute won't help you now.
It plays for 30 skin-crawling seconds. You're desperately trying to stay focused on your suspended workflow, grinding your teeth as you endure this torment. But then — the horror! — it's followed by another ad, this time for Microsoft Office (s msft)!
30 more seconds (and severely worn tooth enamel) later, you're settling back into your document… then boom! It's time for the OS to hang, because Burger King wants to tell you about its new Windows 7 Whopper…
OK. Dry those tears. Have a stiff drink. This isn't real. I mean, it might have been prototyped (gods forbid) but just because there's a patent for this ghoulish monster, that doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Not yet, anyway…


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Plans are afoot in a bid to expand the existing airport at Coventry (Baginton) Airport,details were revealed and outlined despite the controversial plans to build a new airport in the area at nearby Kings Newnham/Church Lawford,this in itself would involve the flattening of a very large area of land and the uprooting of a large number of people which understandably is causing much concern locally.
Anew passenger terminal is on the books at Coventry together with a serious attempt to try and attract a budget type of airline to begin operations from here,this in itself is a long overdue move.
Plans will be submitted to Warwickshire County Council within the next few months for the new passenger terminal which it is said will cater for four to six flights per day increasing to ten by the year 2004.
The idea seems to be that Coventry will operate as an annexe to Birmingham airport and they are keen to develope the existing airport as a way of complementing rather than competing with the airport at Birmingham,it also reveals plans to extend the existing runway by a further 300 metres to the West in order to cope with a wider variety of aircraft types,at the moment aircraft up to the size of the Boeing 757.
When asked about the plans to create a new airport nearby the airport spokesman dismissed these as a complete non starter,lets hope he is right as the opposition is very strong against this move in the area.
Warwick Crown Court 12-04-2002-
Following a dispute with the airport manager at Coventry airport a helicopter pilot commenced a trail of terror for airport staff during October 2001,what has been described as a sick parody of September 11th.
Following the loss of his medical certificate the accused had been banned from the airport and when the pilot arrived during October by helicopter he landed at the intersection of the main runway calling over the intercom 'This airport is closed' this caused immediate havoc as a Cessna in the circuit had to pull up to avoid hitting the helicopter.
He then proceeded to fly towards the control tower hovering very closely from the large glass window and started to shout again over the radio 'You are now going to see the worst of my flying' barely coherent he then flew around the tower lowering the nose of the helicopter as if he was going to ram the buildings,by this time the staff fled the tower fearing for their lives,a resident flying instructor described the antics of this pilot as 'An act of terrorism'
The pilot was jailed for three years following being found guilty of endangering the safe operation of the airport and recklessly causing an aircraft to endanger people.
On 3.12.2001 pilot Durk Venema from Bailum in the Netherlands took his employers (T.R.Van Der Meulen) Cessna 182 (PH-JSA c/n 18260367) without permission filling it with more than £300,000 worth of cannibas,filed a flight plan to Birmingham International but changed his mind in flight after panicking and opted for Wellesbourne airfield in Warwickshire.
These actions alerted Birminghams controllers who directed the him to Baginton airport in order to clear customs,when he landed and was questioned about his flight he admitted that there was 99 kilos odf cannabis on board,the aircraft was seized together with the cache of drugs,it is understood the pilot was to get more than £11,000 for the trip but things went terribly wrong on his change of flight plan.
As the authorities have pointed out on many occasions enthusiasts can be of great help in alerting the police of any suspiciousd flights especially those terminating at remote airstrips,these flights are usually undertaken at very low level below radar although they are detectable under the right conditions,the cargo dropped or landed and the flight continued with,this has happened twice in the past year with consignments being dropped at Walkeridge farm,Hampshire where the passenger fell into the propeller off the wing of a Grumman AA-5 and at Baxterly airstrip in Warwickshire where the pilot was also caught flying a Cessna 182 aircraft.
Information extracted from the Air Accident Investigation Branch bulletins.
13-04-2002 OY-JRW GAF Nomad crashed when it failed to get airborne from RAF Weston-On-The-Green airfield in Oxfordshire,three or four parachutists on board where injured but are now out of hospital.
30.5.2001 G-BGFT Piper PA.34 Seneca belonging to CSE Aviation made a wheels up landing at 22.OO hours at Baginton airport,the runway was blocked for two hours and aircraft were diverted to Birmingham airport.
G-BXRL/XT630 Scout AH.1 formerly based at Charity Farm,Baxterly fell into the quarry at Mancetter,Nuneaton in 1999 following apparent engine failure,the helicopter was finally salvaged by crane and now appears on display outside a shop in the Midlands,this photograph was taken by Dave Peace at Tatenhill PFA rally on 20.6.99
G-AMYJ DAKOTA 6 made its final journey on 18.12.2001 in a convoy of two low loaders heading to the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington,the aircraft was dismantled at Baginton by the Smash and Crash team from RAF St Athan and was loaded up making the two hour journey North to be lovingly retired and cared for by the enthusiastic members.
Once part of the Jersey Airlines fleet 'Mike Yankee Juliet' has had a very busy and full life and it is a good candidate for preservation.
Built as a C-47B-25DK military specification 44-76384 for the US Air Force with c/n 15968/32716 it was used for military trooping flights with the serial XF747 and later became KN353 and then for a spell as SU-AZF in Egypt,the aircraft served with the Air Atlantique Pollution Control fleet in whose colours she appears above at Baginton on 15.6.97 after accumalating some 30,000 hours of flying!
Former Air Atlantique Dakota G-AMPZ has been sold in Germany following ferrying to Southend for respray,G-AMPO another Air Atlantique Dakota was taken by road to RAF Lyneham on 22.9.2001 for possible display there.
G-AMPZ was painted up as KN442 to represent an aircraft of the Berlin air lift period,the aircraft has now been repainted silver at Southend and sold to Air Service Berlin l;eaving Baginton on 28.9.2001
G-AMHJ Dakota fitted with pollution control equipment shown here at Baginton on 14.7.89,the former MPCU aircraft are now lying derelict northside of Baginton minus engines and control surfaces,the days of the Dakota in Air Atlantique service are now fast drawing to a close.
Historic photograph of G-AMRA,PH-DDA,G-AMPY flying in formation over Baginton 25.5.86 at an airshow organised by Air Atlantique
11.11.2000 Douglas Dakota G-AMSV was used to drop poppies over a war memorial at Nuneaton,on returning to Baginton one of the crew members who was a qualified parachutist decided to jump out of the aircraft,on contact with Coventry Air Traffic control the flight crew requested to 'come overhead at 1,000 feet and throw one of our passengers out' because of the informal nature of the request they initially regarded it has a joke,the aircraft eventually made a pass across the airfield with one quarter flap lowered and the parachutist exited striking his left arm on the aircraft and breaking it (possibly hitting the spraybar as the aircraft was normally used for pollution control work) the decent became violently unstable and he struggled to regain stability before releasing his parachute,with the height rapidly decreasing he attempted to release his reserve chute but once again found difficulty in doing so and resorted to deploying the main parachute but this was made impossible by the low height of 200-300 feet and he eventually landed on his back on top of a hangar roof sustaining injuries to his ribs and internal organs.
9.8.2000 Baginton,G-BYBZ Jabiru SK,right wing lifted during taxi for take off in crosswind conditions,aircraft tipped forward and propeller struck the ground.
13.11.2000 G-BWVG Robin HR200/120B was damaged beyond repair when it forced landed 2 miles south of Caernarfon airport due to fuel starvation when it is believed the fuel cock was accidently knocked to the off position,the aircraft was part of the Air Atlantique training fleet at Baginton and recently suffered a forced landing at Draycott Water due to a loosening of the cylinder head.
7.2.2000 Agusta A.109C of Irvine Aviation had to make a forced landing near Baginton due to vibration problems caused by a loosening of one of the rotor tip caps which failed in flight.
1.7.2000 G-JEAP F.27/500,Over ran runway at Baginton,parts used on G-CEXG
28.8.2000 N88PL Piper PA-46 Malibu lost power on take off from Grove Fields farm strip,Wasperton the aircraft landed ahead going through a fence into the next field,a previous accident similar to this one occured in August 1999.
Pictured at Wellesbourne on 11.4.99 Dave Peace took this photograph of this sleek high performance executive aircraft.
Pictured at Wellesbourne on 2.12.2001 following work by RGV Aviation at Staverton during April and August N88PL looks fit and well despite her ordeals at the Wasperton airstrip,she is a model PA-46-310P c/n 46-8508099.
30.7.2000 G-AWWN Jodel DR1050 struck a small tree at Baxterly airstrip during a go round damage to the aircraft included the lower wing,aileron and pitot head.
2.6.2001 Venom FB.50 G-GONE flown by Clive Rustin made a belly landing at Biggin Hill,pilot unhurt.
Venom FB.50 in trouble at Biggin Hill 2.6.2001
3.6.2001 The Fighter Collections Bell 63A Kingcobra G-BTWR stalled,flipped inverted and spun in at Biggin Hill,British Airways Captain Guy Bancroft Wilson was killed in this terrible accident,a bleak weekend for vintage aircraft.
N62822 The Fighter Collections first RP-63C-5BE Kingcobra which also crashed on 4.6.90 catching fire near Paris killing John Lancombe,this picture was taken at the the Confederate Air Force airshow at Baginton on 6.8.88.
(U.S Dept of Defence photograph)
This was updated on 4.3.2001
G-AVLT PA-28-140,L.I.Bailey,Wellesbourne
G-BPNL Quickie Q2,J.R.Benson,Longbridge
G-BXLX Enstrom F.28F,Dixons Developments,Coventry
G-BZLY Grob G.109B,M.Tolson,Husbands Bosworth G-HAIR Robin HR.400-180 Regent,Racoon International and Arden Ridge Developments,Coventry
G-HURN Robinson R22B,R.M.Weyman,Coventry
G-LYNC Robinson R22,Whirlybirds Ltd,Birmingham
G-RAYC Robinson R44,Whirlybirds Ltd,Birmingham
G-BVNL RC.114 S.J.Healey & G.S.Lockyer,Birmingham
G-FTIM Robin DR.400,M.S.Bird,Wellesbourne
G-EAGL Cessna 421,Moseley Group & Clowes Estates,Birmingham
G-MELV Rallye Gabier,J.W.Busby,Bidford/Bickmarsh
G-MWSI Pegasus Quaser,J.A.Ganderton,Turweston
G-OMJB Jet Ranger,Hanroe Ltd,Wellesbourne
G-PROD Eurocopter AS.350B2,Softbreeze Ltd,Banbury
Convair 440 CS-TML seen here in its short lived Atlantic Airlines livery which was shortly afterwards changed to Agroar titles due to Portuguese civil aviation rules,the aircraft had recently undergone an engine change and has been seen compass swinging at the airport,history is delivered 29.7.59 to Mohawk Airlines as N4402 with c/n 484,it is also ex N357SA,N28KE,N28KA,N4402 thanks to Dave Peace for the use of this photograph.


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- Christopher Bellew said...
In my experience the Search feature is of most use to the blog author. I can never remember if I am repeating myself when I'm composing a post. Incidentally, a friend of mine says Ding-Dong when I embark on the same story for the umpteenth time.
- 1 November 2016 at 06:28
- Timothy Belmont said...
Absolutely, I use it myself quite a lot.
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Universal Virus Sniffer is a light software solution that can help you scan your computer for all kinds of virus threats, infections and remove them.
It's an application that enables you to perform scans on an operating system image, remote computer as well as on the one on which it is currently running. Universal Virus Sniffer displays a user-friendly interface, which makes it easy to access all its features, of which it has an excessively large number.
After you select from one of the scan modes that it makes available, the application jumps right into the search phase. No time is wasted and it finishes a complete checkup of your system or the target one in a relatively short time, just a couple of minutes.
Once the scan is complete, it displays the name of the found file, its location, status and the manufacturer it belongs to. You can then choose an entry and bring out the context menu for it which contains a number of additional actions that can be perform. You are able to add the file to a database, upload it to websites that specialize in virus scanning, reset its attributes as well as delete it.
In case you're looking to analyze a specific file type, Universal Virus Sniffer provides a very large list of file categories that you can choose from. From it, its quick and easy to direct your attention to processes, services, drivers and system modules, browsers, AUTORUN.INI, GISTS, DNS, tasks, processes without visible windows, network activity, missing objects and much more.
Universal Virus Sniffer also enables you to generate scripts that are used for real-time system protection. The scripts can be executed from a file or from the Clipboard and then saved. They can be checked and the application makes it possible to import virus signatures from an existing script.
In closing, there is a lot more to discover about Universal Virus Sniffer, as it offers you a considerable amount of other features and tools than the one mentioned above.
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Baie dankie vir die patch Universal Virus Sniffer22 February 2018, Antonio said:
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Please do not spend more than R300 on the contents of a Shoebox of Love. Rather 'adopt' another child or pensioner and make up another.
Please check out our list of drop-off points before pledging a Shoebox of Love.
Please make sure you select a drop-off that is conveniently close to you and one which you will be able to reach by 31 October 2019. You can find a list of our drop-offs here.
Please do not drop your shoeboxes off anywhere but at the drop-off point you selected at registration, so that we do not have to play hunt-the-box!
Unfortunately this means that the child or pensioner you have 'adopted' will not receive a Shoebox of Love or care package this year.
The deadline of 31 October 2019 is cast in stone and if you miss it, there is no way for us to find another gift for your pensioner or child at this late stage.
Please take time and budget considerations into account before registering as a donor. If you are on a tight budget, rather just pledge one shoebox or care package and ask friends and family to do the same. Every single gift counts - you can be the snowflake that starts an avalanche!
Yes, we do. This is why we ask you to close the box with elastic bands. We will seal the boxes ourselves before they are dispatched.
We reserve the right to repack boxes that do not comply with standard size restrictions and will remove items such as liquid glues, toy weapons and guns, marbles and vitamins / medication as well as any second-hand items as we ask that these not be included.
The charities that benefit from Shoebox submit their lists in June. These are often transient communities with children moving in and out all the time. Generic boxes are used in instances when a new child arrives just before the drop off. There can be nothing worse than having one child left out. It is also true that sometimes sponsors are unable to meet their commitments, that is they pledge boxes but do not deliver the promised boxes. As many as 10% of pledged boxes do not arrive each year. Generic boxes are used to make up the shortfall.
Please visit your local SA Post Office and take a look at the number 3 size post box. Boxes should be no bigger than these. Please also avoid using boxes that are flimsy or made from thin cardboard, as these can get damaged - we stack hundreds of Shoeboxes of Love on top of one another during the sorting and distribution process. A photocopier paper box is also a great idea - just trim the box down so it fits inside the lid.
Thank you for your generosity. Please click here to visit our donations portal on givengain. Givengain is a 100% secure donations portal and will allow you to make a donation via credit card or secure EFT.
We are always on the lookout for volunteers to help with moving the boxes from the various drop-off points to a central sorting hub where the boxes will be checked and sorted before being distributed.
Please email email@example.com if you would like more information or want to register as a volunteer. Please use 'volunteer' in the subject line of your email. The sorting takes place at multiple locations on Saturdays in November each year.
No we are not. Operation Shoebox is an independent, accredited non-profit organisation. We focus exclusively on children's charities and centres for the aged in the Western Cape and Gauteng. We are not affiliated to Operation Christmas Child, the Santa Shoebox Project or any similiar organisation.
Our marketing material, flyers, website and other collateral all carry our trademark name, our very distinctive ribbon device trademarked logo and our NGO number. If it doesn't say 'Operation Shoebox' then it's not us. If in doubt, please email us.
Over the past 7 years the Anna Foundation and Shoebox have developed a wonderful relationship with the common goal of improving the lives of our rural children. The Shoeboxes of Love have become a highlight of the year for the Anna Foundation learners. We are very grateful for this beneficial initiative.
Shoebox came to our rescue in 2017 as we did not have the sponsors to make up 180 boxes for the children at Masizakhe. We are in awe of the Shoebox Team as they efficiently handle their work load and cater to every beneficiary's needs. These gifts are the most important part of the year for some of the children, as they are the only gift the children get, and we look forward to working with Shoebox into the future.
Masikhule is immensely grateful to Shoebox for their wonderful initiative to distribute gift boxes to the underprivileged children in our community. The magic they bring is immeasurable – and the joy in the eyes of the kiddies is very special to all of us. We appreciate being part of your outreach!


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A cold front moving through the region is causing sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph.
Gusts of up to 50 mph are possible, according to the Weather Service.
The wind could make driving tricky during this morning's rush hour commute.
The latest forecast from the Weather Service predicts between 1 to 3 inches of snow to fall Wednesday. Most of the snow will fall before 4 p.m. Wednesday night will bring bone-chilling temperatures, with a wind chill making it feel like one below zero.
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(Memphis) The Sears Crosstown Building has been mostly vacant for 30 years, and revitalizing the building is so big the owners say it will take multiple partners and big tax breaks or it may fail like revitalization attempts in the past.
The Downtown Memphis Commission typically gives a maximum of 15 years for property tax breaks for big revitalization projects.
They're making an exception for Kemmons Wilson Companies by adding 5 years to the max, which is about $8 million extra in breaks.
The private owners say they would have defaulted on their loan payment without the extension.
"It could have had very negative consequences for the projects. So now we're looking forward," said McLean Wilson with Kemmons Wilson.
Construction is set to begin at the beginning of next year and is expected to pump over $300 million into the local economy and create more than 1,000 construction jobs.
Paul Morris with DMC says it's not just about money but the revitalized building will start a wave of revitalization in the entire neighborhood.
Here's how the tax breaks work:
When a property is rundown, like the Sears building is now, the property value is low so the taxes on it are low.
When you start improving the property the taxes go up with the value.
This deal keeps the rate low for two decades, but some argue with a city strapped for cash tax breaks aren't the way to go.
Morris says it makes sense in the long run.
"The property value increases and the county gets more money from property taxes after the first year. The city gets money from the sales tax immediately from the construction project, and once the program rolls of the city and county see a huge increase from taxes," said Morris.
It's expected to take two years to finish the project and the owners say they want everything that makes up a good neighborhood to be in that building including retail space, medical offices, over 200 apartments and entertainment space.


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Sonoma Coast State Beach is actually a series of beaches separated by rocky bluffs and headlands extending 17 miles from Bodega Head to Vista Point north of Jenner. As with all north coast beaches, swimming is not advised, and sudden ground swells and heavy surf can make even beach-combing hazardous. Snowy Plover protective measures are enforced. Developed camping and picnic areas are available at Bodega Dunes, located along Highway One about 1 mile north of Bodega Bay. Some accessible features may be affected by service reductions. Please visit the Sonoma Coast State Park main page or phone (707) 875-3483 prior to visiting the park for more information.
Bodega Dunes Campground: Four campsites are generally accessible. Blown sand may affect surface firmness. Four restrooms with flush toilets and showers are generally accessible. Designated accessible parking is adjacent to the restrooms.
Wright's Beach Campground: has 3 accessible campsites. A generally accessible restroom with flush toilets is available.
Pomo Canyon Environmental Campground: This walk-in campground has 2 accessible campsites, a generally accessible non-flush restroom, and designated accessible parking space. It is approximately 200 feet over hard pack (in dry weather) from the accessible parking space to the campsite. April 2014: This campground is currently closed due to poor conditions and service reductions.
Willow Creek Environmental Campground: This walk-in campground has 2 accessible campsites, a generally accessible non-flush restroom, and van accessible parking. Route from parking to the campsite is accessible. April 2014: This campground is currently closed due to poor conditions and service reductions.
Picnic Area
Bodega Bay vicinity: Campbell Cove, West Bodega Head, and Bodega Dunes have accessible picnic sites. West Bodega head and Bodega Dunes have van accessible parking. Campbell Cove and West Bodega Head have accessible non-flush restrooms while Bodega Dunes has accessible restrooms that flush. April 2014: Campbell Cove is currently closed due to service reductions.
Jenner vicinity: Wright's Beach, Goat Rock and Vista Point have accessible picnic sites. Van accessible parking is available at Goat Rock. Accessible non-flush restrooms are available at all three locations.
The Vista Trail is a 0.7 mile asphalt trail at the northern boundary of Sonoma Coast State Beach. The trail offers sweeping views of the rugged Sonoma coastline. Accessible parking, picnicking and restrooms are available. April 2014: This area is currently closed due to service reductions and lack of trail maintenance.
The Kortum Trail (Segment 3) from Carlevaro Way to Wright's Beach is a 0.8 mile trail that meanders along the coastal bluffs and slightly inland. The primary trail surface is compacted aggregate with a short section of boardwalk. The trail offers outstanding views of the Sonoma Coastline and Pacific Ocean. Accessible parking is provided at both trailheads.
The Kortum Trail (Shell Beach segment) is a short 0.24 mile aggregate base trail beginning at the north end of the Shell Beach parking lot. The trail leads to a bluff overlooking the Shell Beach area. Designated accessible parking and non-flush restrooms are available at the Shell Beach parking lot.
The Bodega Head Nature Trail is a 1.9 mile loop trail originating from the western most parking lot at the end of Westshore Road. The trail offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean, Tamales Bay, and Bodega Bay all on the same hike. Accessible parking and restroom facilities are available at the trailhead. The trail surface is constructed of compacted aggregate.
Beach/Shore Access
Beach wheelchairs are available. Call (707) 875-3483 for more information.
A 675-foot-long boardwalk and ramp runs through the dunes to the beach from the Bodega Dunes day-use parking lot. It is designed accessible but due to quickly changing site conditions, including blowing sand, this route may not always be passable for people in wheelchairs. Visitors who want to use the ramp should call (707) 875-3483 to inquire about current conditions on the boardwalk.
The Jenner Visitor Center/Park Store has been modified and is accessible, including exhibits. Van accessible parking and a non-flush restroom are available.
The Salmon Creek Ranger Station is a small information center/administrative office and is generally accessible. Van accessible parking is available.


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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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Western blot analysis of extracts from Drosophila S2 cells, untreated (-) or treated with either cycloheximide (10 μM, 5 hr; +) or actinomycin D (0.7 μM, 5 hr; +), using Cleaved Drosophila ICE (drICE) (Asp230) Antibody.
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Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA and 50% glycerol. Store at –20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.
For western blots, incubate membrane with diluted primary antibody in 5% w/v BSA, 1X TBS, 0.1% Tween® 20 at 4°C with gentle shaking, overnight.
NOTE: Please refer to primary antibody datasheet or product webpage for recommended antibody dilution.
From sample preparation to detection, the reagents you need for your Western Blot are now in one convenient kit: #12957 Western Blotting Application Solutions Kit
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
Load 20 µl onto SDS-PAGE gel (10 cm x 10 cm).
NOTE: Loading of prestained molecular weight markers (#13953, 5 µl/lane) to verify electrotransfer and biotinylated protein ladder (#7727, 10 µl/lane) to determine molecular weights are recommended.
NOTE: Volumes are for 10 cm x 10 cm (100 cm2) of membrane; for different sized membranes, adjust volumes accordingly.
* Avoid repeated exposure to skin.
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revised November 2013
Reprobing of an existing membrane is a convenient means to immunoblot for multiple proteins independently when only a limited amount of sample is available. It should be noted that for the best possible results a fresh blot is always recommended. Reprobing can be a valuable method but with each reprobing of a blot there is potential for increased background signal. Additionally, it is recommended that you verify the removal of the first antibody complex prior to reprobing so that signal attributed to binding of the new antibody is not leftover signal from the first immunoblotting experiment. This can be done by re-exposing the blot to ECL reagents and making sure there is no signal prior to adding the next primary antibody.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalently purified water.
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Cleaved Drosophila ICE (drICE) (Asp230) Antibody recognizes endogenous levels of the large 21 kDa fragment of cleaved drICE. This antibody also detects low levels of full length drICE (35 kDa).Species Reactivity:
D. melanogaster
Polyclonal antibodies are produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to amino-terminal residues adjacent to Asp230 of Drosophila ICE protein. Antibodies are purified by protein A and peptide affinity chromatography.
Cell death in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is regulated by many of the same stimuli as mammalian cell death (1). The Drosophila genome contains seven caspase genes; three encode initiator caspases and four encode effector caspases (reviewed in 2). drICE is a cysteine protease that cleaves baculovirus p35 and lamin DmO in vitro and acts downstream of rpr (3). drICE is proteolytically processed during apoptosis into active p21 and p12 subunits. Comparison of the in vivo activity between drICE and Dcp-1 has shown that drICE is a more effective inducer of apoptosis than Dcp-1, which plays a role in determining the rate of cell death (4).
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WASHINGTON - In a startling report issued today by researchers at the Center for Science in the Pubic Interest, statistics show that teenagers are 78% more likely to have sex if they wear white shirts with collars.
News of the report's findings sent shockwaves through many parochial and private school administrators. White shirts have been the rule rather than the exception for over a hundred years at many of these schools. Public school principals as well have taken to monitoring hallways on the lookout for students in white shirts.
The report revealed other surprises as well:
- Boys who wear baggy "gangsta" pants rarely think about sex.
- Girls who never wear makeup usually get pregnant before graduation.
- Teenagers who wear red or blue shirts are three times as likely to engage in sexually deviant behavior.
Alarmed by the thought of their teenagers engaging in pre-marital sex, parents have begun rummaging through their son's and daughter's closets. Goodwill and various thrift shops across the country are seeing hundreds of bags filled with white shirts left anonymously on their doorsteps after dark.


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Packaging for a holiday always involves painstakingly planning out my holiday makeup bag and then haphazardly chucking clothes into a suitcase and hoping for the best. This trip wasn't any different…
Base wise I managed to take quite a few new bits for my holiday makeup to test out, including the Makeup Forever primer (I put my thoughts here) which is a bit of a dream for parched complexions. It also handily comes in a smaller size, so it didn't take up too much room. Also new in for me was the Dior Forever foundation – I will have a post on this later on in the week, but it's pretty fabulous so far and it lasts on the skin beautifully.
I picked up the Rimmel Insta contour stick whilst on holiday (too many chats about wtf contouring is with my family), which seems pretty decent so far. Very easy to use, although the highlighter is not metallic enough for my tastes. Also worth mentioning is the It Cosmetics bye bye under eye concealer which managed to handily hide any dark circles from late nights involving too much wine…
Some older favourites were the Stila magnificent metals shadow (shown here in Kitten Karma) because glitter is an everyday essential as far as I'm concerned. I absolutely love wearing all of the shades, and it also makes it look as though you've put in far more effort than you really have. The Glossier balm dotcom comes everywhere with me, and is one of the very best balms around. Also I needed about twenty-five identical lipsticks, but Charlotte Tilbury Liv it Up was a favourite and has definitely cemented itself as one of my top five lipsticks… ever!
Skincare wise, it was mainly La Roche Posay with lots of SPF – I couldn't really be bothered to do anything too elaborate, but made sure I did a quick double cleanse in the evening and tried to drink lots of water throughout the week.
Are you as bad at packing lightly for holiday makeup as I am?


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Ah February 29th. Leap Day. The one not celebrated holiday that by all rights should be. After all, most known holidays, Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Groundhog Day, Halloween, St Patrick's Day… more, they all happen once a year. No celebrations for Leap Day. Not even a day off work. (We should totally get a day off work.)
When the uniqueness of this particular day dawned on me a few years ago I gained a strong appreciation for it. Shocked no holidays ever formed around it.
Why no 'Leap Day' Resolutions?! The far superior adjunct to New Year's Resolutions where you would vow to have completed it by next Leap Day. It seems perfect. But no, nothing, nada.
Back on Leap Day February 29th, 2008 I decided this would be the day to do something random, something unpredictable, but it had to be good, something to remember for years to come. (or at least four years anyway)
I mean this year it had fallen on a Friday – that was fate. Something had to be done!
My first plan was shot down rather quickly. It involved driving to Sydney, a 3.5 hour drive from home, and urinating off the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Knowledgable people told me it being a suspected target for terrorism it was patrolled fairly regularly and might land me in jail with a public urination charge.
While this would certainly be memorable, I didn't particularly want the day to be remembered as the day I got a criminal record.
It was in the afternoon of that day that it dawned on me I had the perfect idea! I would grab a friend, go to the airport, jump on the first flight to Queensland, go to the first bar we could find and celebrate. It would be epic. It all go on my ready waiting credit card. It was crazy. The memories would last a lifetime. Pure awesomeness. If I was covering the costs surely a friend would be willing to join me?
You would think finding a friend to join me on this quest would be easy and the friend was an integral part – just doing it on my own didn't feel right. With a friend it's a fun zany adventure. On my own it's one of those stories that people shake their head and go 'why?'
And so I called every one of my friends that was in town.
First friend I called couldn't come because they said they'd help a friend, we'll call him DeeDum, film a short film for the annual Lights Canberra Action competition.
Quick background on Lights Canberra Action, it happens once a year, you get a theme and list of locations to use in your film and you have a week to make a film.
Second friend had a gig the next day and couldn't come.
Third friend was helping DeeDum with his stupid film.
Same for the fourth.
And the fifth.
Next was working.
And so forth.
Everyone including my housemate was busy.
And the worst bit?! DeeDum's film didn't even get made that weekend! It was postponed because he couldn't come up with a script!
Eventually I sat on the couch sulking and in a last ditch attempt, and I knew it was a long shot, there was a friend of Alyce's I was interested in… but I'd only just met her… and I didn't have her number.
Alyce hypothesized that the girl in question might react badly to a guy she barley knew asking her to fly to Queensland with him for the evening. In my mind it would have gone either one of two ways:
1) "Erm… what? Are you kidding me? Sure, take me to another country part of the country guy I barely know. There's no chance I could get married in that scenario! What is wrong with you?!?!"
2) "Well this is a crazy idea but I'm in!"
So understandably when Alyce didn't want to give up the number for fear of 1) happening I decided she might have a point. Especially in light of the fact I asked out the girl in question a few weeks later and she said she just wanted to be friends.
Years later I asked said girl about this and she was fairly certain she would've been up for it.
Ah well, what's done is done.
And while that night involved me reading one of my favourite books for the first time (I Love You, Beth Cooper) it did NOT involve a random trip to Queensland to speak of for years to come.
I still reminisce about that night. And I still think maybe something equally awesome will happen on a future Leap Day.
2012 was out both due to the fact it was a Wednesday and I costs probably prevented any such endeavour. And here we are in 2016… where I have just started a new job, Leap Day fell on a Monday, and any such unpredictable trips seemed unwise.
There is always 2020 I guess. It falls on a Saturday that year. Of course planning anything would take away the fun of the day. Hell, maybe I'll even have a girlfriend by then, and she can join me on crazy quest.
I mean it's like four years in the future. Surely by then I'd have a significant other!
Legitimately I probably said this on the last two Leap Days as well.
But 2020 will be a change! I'm sure of it. Definitely. Without a doubt. Certain.
With it's uniqueness and blank slatedness for awesome things to come, Leap Day may be my favourite holiday after all.


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Recent News
December 2017 – Pure Yoga Ottawa gives classes in support of SchoolBOX
When Susan McNaughton Griffin and Mark Ford started to plan their wedding, they realized they didn't need any gifts because they already had everything they needed in each other, their family and friends. Instead, they wanted to raise money to build a new school in Nicaragua for children who truly are in need of education and hope.
On Friday December 8th, and Friday December 15th, Susan asked if Pure Yoga Ottawa would donate the proceeds of their Karma Power Yoga classes to support she and Mark's school build, they they said YES!
Get your power yoga poses ready for these two amazing classes with IMPACT. Karma Power yoga in support of SchoolBOX takes place at 7:30pm Friday Dec 8th & 15th.