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Terror strikes Pak mosque at Friday prayers; 10 killed
Peshawar, March 4, 2011
The blast took place near the mosque in Nowshera's Akbarpura area when food was being distributed to the poor after midday Friday prayers, a Reuters report said.
A shrine is also situated near the mosque.
Ten worshippers, including a child, were killed and 30 others injured when a powerful bomb blast ripped through a mosque within a Sufi shrine at Nowshera in northwest Pakistan today.
The explosion targeted the mosque inside Akhun Punjo Baba mazar (shrine) in Akbarpura area of Nowshera, about 15 km from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa capital Peshawar.
Scores of people were offering Friday prayers at the mosque while hundreds had gathered to take food from a 'langar' or community kitchen. Ten worshippers, including a child, were killed, the police said.
At least 30 others were injured and the condition of eight was described by the officials as serious.
The injured were taken to hospitals in Nowshera, Pubbi and Peshawar. A witness told Geo News channel that the blast occurred just after the prayers ended. "The blast occurred within the mosque," he said.
He estimated that over 1,000 persons were present in the shrine. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast. The explosion was heard from several kilometres away.
Reports said the blast was caused by a remote controlled bomb hidden in a cupboard within the mosque.
Footage on television showed caps and shoes strewn within the mosque. Windows were blown out by the blast, which also caused extensive damage to the walls of the mosque.
Witnesses said many worshippers were hit by shrapnel. They added that there was almost no security at the shrine complex.
The Pakistani Taliban are opposed to the practice of worshipping at Sufi shrines and consider it "un-Islamic". The Taliban have claimed responsibility for several recent attacks on Sufi shrines in cities across Pakistan, including Lahore and Karachi.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the bomb blast in the mosque.
In a message, Zardari described the attack as an "abhorrent act" and said its perpetrators were the enemies of Islam.
"The government would continue to take a firm stand against extremist and terrorist elements across the country and would not be cowed down by such acts of violence," he said. Nowshera has been targeted by militants in the past too.
On June 12, 2009, at least six persons were killed and over 90 injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into a mosque within an army supply depot in the city. — PTI & Agencies.
Blast outside police post kills 7 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful explosion targeting police in Pakistan's troubled northwest killed three officers and four civilians Thursday (3rd March,2011) police said.
The attack happened in the Hangu area, just outside the tribal regions along the Afghan border where al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters have long operated, said senior police official Rasheed Khan. It underscored the continued strength of the militants, despite army operations against them.
The bomb was hidden in a vehicle in a residential area where a small police station was located. It went off as a police vehicle carrying officers drove by, Khan said. The blast also wounded 30 people and damaged around a dozen houses, he said.
The U.S. has pressed Pakistan to eliminate hide-outs used by Islamist insurgents, saying they threaten not only American and NATO troops in Afghanistan but also the stability of nuclear-armed Pakistan itself.
But even as Pakistan has carried out some operations against militants, it has found itself challenged on other fronts that threaten to bring down the weak civilian government, notably a struggling economy.
After months of delaying it, the government this week raised fuel prices 9.9% because of spikes in international markets spurred by strife in the Middle East and North Africa.
The price increase has angered opposition parties and even some allies of the ruling party, who have urged the government to reverse the hike. Earlier this year, the ruling party narrowly avoided a collapse of its governing coalition over another attempted fuel price hike.
Public transportation workers in the southern port city of Karachi went on strike over fuel prices Thursday. The strike crippled much of the city, which is Pakistan's most populous with 18 million people as well as its main economic hub. Many schools were closed.
Irshad Bukhari, the president of the Karachi Transport Union, said more than 25,000 buses and other vehicles stayed off the roads. Millions of commuters could not travel as a result, he said, expressing confidence they supported the strikers.
"People respond to our strike call because it is not only the transporters' problem but also the people who have to bear the cost of higher fares," he said.
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West Edge on the Move Again: New Venue, New Operas
December 4, 2018
Burma Road — a vital corridor in World War II history and the subject of books and movies — was built with slave labor through impenetrable jungles and uncrossable mountains between China and what is now Myanmar.
Today, Oakland's Bridge Yard, at 210 Burma Road, has been named by West Edge Opera as the next venue in the company's peripatetic existence. Not quite on the order of its Asian namesake, this Burma Road represents challenges as daunting as any opera company can face — pretty much modus vivendi for West Edge.
From Berkeley Opera's original home to temporary quarters in El Cerrito, the Freight & Salvage, Pacific Pipe, an abandoned train station, the Odd Fellows Hall, and more (in whatever order), West Edge has been all around the East Bay during its homeless years, and once again, the company has located a new unusual venue.
General Director Mark Streshinsky and Music Director Jonathan Khuner will bring their company to this 24,000-square foot, 1930s-era industrial building, now repurposed to serve as recreational anchor for the planned Gateway Park on the shoreline to the south of the Bay Bridge's east end. It was once a repair facility for rail cars that traveled over the Bay Bridge.
West Edge's plan for the 2019 festival, Aug. 3–18, has the same variety and offbeat mix that has characterized the company all along: the Weill-Brecht Three Penny Opera, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, and the West Coast premiere of the 2016 Breaking the Waves by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek.
Elkhanah Pulitzer is stage director for Three Penny Opera — Aug. 3, 11, and 15 — the music director and piano accompanist will be David Möschler. The cast will be led by tenor Derek Chester as MacHeath in his West Edge Opera debut.. The opera will also feature soprano Maya Kherani as Polly Peachum,Catherine Cook (Mrs. Peachum), Erin O'Meally,(Lucy Brown) and Sarah Coit (Jenny).
Orfeo ed Euridice opens Aug. 4, repeat performances are on Aug. 9 and 17. "As perhaps a small correction to our male dominated art form," says the West Edge announcement, "Orfeo & Euridice will be conducted, directed, choreographed, designed, and performed by women. KJ Dahlaw leads the production as both director and choreographer.
Soprano Christine Brandes takes on the musical direction as she begins a new career as a conductor. Presented as a love story between two women, Orfeo will be performed by mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz who last was with West Edge in the role of The Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen. Soprano Shawnette Sulker is slated for the role of Amore. Euridice will be announced soon.
Breaking the Waves — Aug. 10, 16 and 18 — is based on a film by Lars von Trier, it has been hailed as one of the best new operas of recent years. Streshinsky directs and Khuner conducts; in the cast are soprano Sara LeMesh, baritone Morgan Smith, mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich, and tenor Alex Boyer.


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30 Days Hath September 2016 | Day 33 | Editorial Letter by Patricia Spears Jones with afterword by Michael McDermott
October 5, 2016
Words matter said the Democrat Party's candidate at the first television debate. She said that because her opponent seems to think words only matter when can think of them. Well yes words matter and the people who make words matter the most are poets and it has been a thrill to bring 30 new poems from 30 poets as a way to intervene with language in this terribly contentious election campaign.
Poets bring intimacy, faith, rage, beauty, mirth and power –the kind of power that energizes and illuminates us and I thank Ann, Soul, Soraya, Veronica, Patricia, Guillermo, Laurie, Nikia, Maureen, Thomas, Scott, Joanna, Shelley, Luviette, Melissa, Anna, Robin, Marilyn, John, Michael, Cait, Todd, Lauren, Purvi, Seamus, Lydia, Elizabeth, Fay, Amanda and Tammy for their poems.
I thank Terrius Harris, a wonderful student at Ole Miss who happens to be an intern for Black Earth Institute who had to post each of the poems and Michael McDermott, co-founder of Black Earth Institute for asking me to do this project again and he brought a great poem from Patricia Monaghan, the late co-founder of Black Earth Institute, who was a great advocate of connecting poetry, political activism and advocacy. BEI truly supports poets and poetry.
Patricia Spears Jones
Afterword by Michael McDermott
Patricia Spears Jones curated another 30 Days. This time she gathered wonderful poets inspired, frightened or angry about the events in the country and beyond. We had 2400 views on poems with 1001 visitors. This is the second 30 Days with the first preceding the 2012 election with thousands of views there. Patricia took this on and gathered the poets keeping to the daily schedule demands. Her efforts keep poetry timely and pointed. Her work is important and is one way the Black Earth Institute fulfills its mission of addressing spirit, earth and social justice. Thanks Patricia.
30 Days Hath September 2016 | Day 32 | The stress of wild peace by Patricia Spears Jones
October 4, 2016
The stress of wild peace
First it was the broken down weapons
Each piece tag and de-sensitized.
Then the furnace's high heat as what was
Solid, liquefied.
The plastic blaster toys were replaced
With garden shovels. Indeed, there were
Many gardens and many boys and girls
Digging and seeding and chatting and dreaming.
Then the news that treaties were being honored
Except the Russians who just could not sign—illerates?
But elsewhere, the hospitals were re-staffed.
The schools repopulated—children healthy, their teachers
Looked for different books with new stories, peace stories.
While the weather evolved, measures were taken to sustain nurture
Keeping the food stocks in decent supply.
There were people who could not carry this
Tenderness. Their fingers reached for the gun
Not there. Their minds roamed about in search
Of targets—see that boy, that girl, the one with an
Accent? But the guns were not there.
And so they entered the dark caves of libation
Where the song list played many a murderous ballad
Narcocorridas; old style blues numbers—see that Stagger Lee
And country tunes where someone was left behind bleeding.
Their drinks were always generous and expensive.
There was nothing more to do.
Look at the moon. The stars. Think of global circumnavigation
Those men who brought animals and fabrics and new diseases
In exchange for gold and bodies and spices and rum.
We have come far from the bowels of those tightly made
Ships. We have come to a place where peace is in abundance
And those who would carry us back are mad with grief
For the days when a hand could smash the face of another
A hand could pull a trigger and destroy children in minutes
A hand could tie a noose around one's on neck,
A foot could kick the stool.
30 Days Hath September 2016 | Day 31 | After Weather: A Formal Fearfulness Forms by Richard Cambridge
October 4, 2016
After Weather: A Formal Fearfulness Forms
Cumulonimbus clouds are a type of cumulus cloud associated
Cumulonimbus louds are a type of vernacular associated
with thunderstorms and heavy precipitation. They are also a
with thunderous pronouncements of heavy recitation. They are also a
variation of nimbus or precipitation bearing clouds. They are
variation of nimble pre-dictates bearing calumnies. They are
formed beneath 20,000 ft. and are relatively close to the ground.
formed beneath twenty thousand feet trampling souls to ground.
This is why they have so much moisture. Cumulonimbus clouds are
This is why they have so much hatred. Cumulonimbus Louds are
also known as thunderheads due to their unique mushroom shape.
also known as Thunder Heads due to their unquiet mushroom shape.
These clouds often produce lightning in their heart.
These Louds often produce lightning that strikes and kills the heart.
—Richard Cambridge
An interlinear reimagining of "Cumulonimbus Clouds," an article by Tega Jessa, which appeared in Universe Today, updated 24 December 2015.
Richard Cambridge is a Fellow Emeritus of the Black Earth Institute. He curates the Poets' Theatre at the Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Massachusetts. A poet, novelist, and performance artist, his one man show, The Cigarette Papers—A Journey from Addiction, was hailed by the Boston Globe as a "tour de force."
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Lay Down
The day lays down
first summer heat
as we drive
from Clarksdale
past cotton silos
pecan trees
Baptist churches
little swamps with
floating trash
maybe an egret
one-lane roads
leading off
into cotton
or alfalfa fields
and a yellow
gassing up
getting ready
to spray poison
My husband tells me
Dylan's 75 today
first time I heard him
Baez pulled his
scrawny ass on stage
to sing Blowin' in
the Wind maybe
Hattie Carroll
at the Berkeley
Folk Music Festival
where Lightnin'
Hopkins dragged
a straightback
wooden chair
to a single mike
and in that summer
of snarling dogs
on the end of chains
and fire hoses that I'd
watch every night
on TV and vow
never never never
to live in the South
Hopkins sang
I'm gonna walk with
the Prince of Peace
down by the riverside
down by the riverside
Ann Fisher-Wirth's fourth book of poems is Dream Cabinet (Wings Press 2012). Her other books of poems are Carta Marina, Blue Window, and Five Terraces. With Laura-Gray Street, she coedited the groundbreaking Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity UP, 2013, 2014). She has been awarded residencies at The Mesa Refuge; Djerassi Resident Artists Program; Hedgebrook; and CAMAC/Centre d'Art, Marnay, France. Her current project is a collaborative poetry/photography manuscript called Mississippi with the acclaimed photographer Maude Schuyler Clay, which Wings Press will publish in 2017. Photographs and letterpress poems from this project are currently on exhibit throughout Mississippi. Ann is a Fellow 2015-2018 of the Black Earth Institute and the recipient of two senior Fulbrights (Switzerland, Sweden). She teaches and directs the Environmental Studies program at the University of Mississippi.
30 Days Hath September 2016 | Day 30 | Shapeshifter by Tammy Gomez
September 30, 2016
How did you squeeze yourself
through the bathroom window,
to escape from him?
You must be a shapeshifter.
That's what I told her.
She shrugged and said, I didn't think about it.
Physics is not my subject. I just jumped
from the bathtub up onto the window sill,
shoving the window open with my shoulder.
Look how it scraped my skin.
Do you think that he wants you
to be small, all the time?
I think he wants me to shape shift, he
is the one who tries to make me
whatever he needs at the moment.
Be a cook: cook. Be a maid: clean.
Be a puta: suck or fuck.
You are the one to decide
when you want to shape shift,
I insist. Why don't you
become something huge
that can't be defeated?
A big bad-ass Statue of Liberty,
she smiles.
That'll work.
by Tammy Melody Gomez
Tammy Gomez is an activist, performance artist, and writer whose work is published in collections including Women in Nature (2014), and Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (UT Press, 2016). She is profiled in Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History (UT Press, 2003), and was honored by Goucher College (Maryland) with the "Alumnae/i Award for Excellence in Public Service" in 2010. She is a fellow of the Black Earth Institute
Night in Coney Island
Change, I wanted to say. Turn, I wanted to say. Twist
of fate, I wanted to say. Edge of history, I wanted to say. I said: 'news.'
I said: 'flash.' I said: 'extra'. . . extra . . . extra . . . extra . . .
Held in a window. Assigned to descend to the street. Take what
you want from here. There are thousands of voices
vouching for revolutions.There are waves
beyond this rhythm. Know this. There are tides
with different times. Slowly the sky unfolds
in ripples canopies waves. Take the sky cold soda &
water for a dollar one dollar one dollar water a chorus. You
as compared with the week before looking for
yourself through old streets—
A woman on the boardwalk glides by
with two roosters—one tucked under each arm—
dances to the rhythms of the Coney Island night sky and
first city stars: Polaris, Cassiopeia. This New York City vertebrae.
Memory. Nebulous Insomnia. Guy clicking gum chewing gum
boys drinking a bottle of screw top red from a plastic bag.
Night begins. A man with a t-shirt
that reads: Please Baby Please
Please Baby Please Please Please
Note: Epigraph from Vito Acconci's The Red Tapes (1977)
Amanda Deutch's poems have been published widely in journals online and in print. Recent publications include: The Rumpus, 92Y Words We Live In, Revolver, Denver Quarterly, Manhattanville Review, and Barrow Street. Deutch is the author of six chapbooks, including Pull Yourself Together (dancing girl press, 2016) and Fit to Print (Harsimus Press, 2015) a chapbook anthology of 3 artists (Barbara Henry, Rosaire Appel, Amanda Deutch) who use The New York Times as inspiration. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she has been awarded grants, fellowships and residencies from Footpaths to Creativity (Flores, Azores), Then Betsy Writer's Room (Miami, Florida), Poets & Writers and NYFA. Deutch lives in Brooklyn, where she curates Parachute Literary Arts site-specific events and libraries. For more information about her curatorial & community arts work, check out www.ParachuteArts.org.
30 Days Hath September 2016 | Day 28 | Untitled by Fay Chiang
September 28, 2016


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Bribe for an attestation on a TC
At 11.30 am on 15th May 2019 at the BEO office in Yelahanka I had sent my office lady to the BEO office in Yelahanka to have an education officer's signature and stamp in order to attest the TC of my child as per the requirements in his new school.
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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!
Thanks to Scott from Dieselpunk Industries, we're going all the way Down Under with this week's episode of Two-Fisted Tuesday.
A lot of The Shadow episodes are lost to the winds of time, and I mean a lot, like 450 episodes are missing. Thankfully, we still have a bunch of the radio scripts including the missing episodes, and these scripts were recorded in a 1940s Australian adaptation of the show. Starring Lloyd Lamble as the Shadow, Lyndall Barbour as Margo Lane, and Lloyd Berrill as the infamous Announcer, we can enjoy these blasts from the past that were previously lost to the American audience.
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This week's episode is...
The Shadow - Dead Men Talk (originally broadcast in 1940).
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Here is how mustard can benefit your health:
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2. Rich in vitamins
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3. Anti-inflammatory
To produce its yellow colouring, turmeric is also added into the mix.
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Mary Ann was fifteen when, on 8 October 1869,53 and in company with Sarah BLAKE, Sarah McDUFF and Amelia and Sarah Jane JOHNSON, she appeared before the Sydney bench charged under the Industrial Schools Act. Constable THOMPSON stated that the previous night he had found the girls in York Street and one of them had complained to him that they were all leading bad lives and sleeping out at night. The girls stated that they had left their homes on Sunday night and had slept in a place in Sussex Street. On Monday and Tuesday nights they stayed in a house in Hay Street. On Wednesday night they went to Ivory's stables in Bourke Street, Surry Hills, where they were going to sleep with a jockey but were turned out by the police. The girls had promised the police that they would return home but went instead to sleep in an empty kitchen in Kelly's Lane. In court their parents complained that their daughters had left their homes and situations and had been wandering about the streets in company with persons having no lawful visible means of support. Mary Ann's father attended court and gave evidence that he had no control over her.54 The five girls were ordered to be sent to Newcastle and the bench stated that they were of the opinion that all the blame of the present position of these children rested on their parents. Because the pages from the Entrance Book have not survived for the date of Mary Ann's admission, details for her family, education, religion and discharge are not available from this source.
In June 1870, about nine months after her admission, Mary Ann's father, Edward, requested that she be released from the school. CLARKE documented this request in his letter book55 but the original correspondence has yet to be located so any further communications relative to this request have not been viewed. In August 1870, Mary Ann and Isabella COULTER were placed in solitary confinement after they had been found in bed together by CLARKE and Mrs. ELLIOTT.56 On 21 March 1871, Edward, again wrote to the Colonial Secretary and requested Mary Ann's release from Newcastle. He stated that Mary Ann was eighteen and that:
from correspondence I have received from her she is thoroughly reformed and during her residence at the industrial school her conduct will bear favourable investigation. I am her father and getting quite advance in years would much like to have all my family around me.57
Three days later, on 24 March, Mary Ann wrote to her father. Her original letter in its original envelope and addressed to her father remains and may be found in the CSIL however it is stored separately from her father's earlier request. Mary Ann wrote:58
My dear Parants,
I now take the pleasure of writing to you hoping this will find you well[?] all my dear sisters and brothers in good health as it lives[?] me at present dear parents will you be so kind as to sent me some clothing down to come home in and allso my passage money dear parents Mr and Mrs Clarke has gon away from the school and we have got Mr Lucas over us now dear parents you must not give your self any truble for coming down for me for I can come home my self dear parents I will be seen safe on board dear parents I was glad to see Mr kelleard and allso with the things you sent me dear parents give my kind love to my dear sisters and recive the same your self dear parents I have not been in any rillakes[?]59 dear parents I have no more to say at present but remain your most[?]
Affectionate daughter
Mary Ann OHare
God bless you All60
In April 1871 after the change in the superintendents and less than a month before the school moved to Biloela, Mary Ann was finally released into the care of her father. She didn't transfer with the school to the island. Edward died three years later at the age of 59 and it is thought that this may have been the reason Mary Ann's original letter had been sent to the Colonial Secretary.
Mary Ann married Thomas STANNARD61 in 1875 in Sydney while he operated a shop in Alexandria. The couple travelled often but eventually settled in Charters Towers, Queensland62 where the births of all their children, with the exception of Adelaide, were registered. Mary Ann STANNARD was linked to the O'HARE family in the Death Notice for her sister, Margaret EDMONDS in 1828.63 Thomas STANNARD died in Queensland on 3 July 1913. His obituary identified that he had been born in Norwich, England. It also suggested that Mary Ann may have been his second wife.64 His parents were John and Mary Ann STANNARD.65 His birth location suggests that there may be a connection between Thomas and the man of the same name who had arrived aboard the Norfolk, possibly as a free man.
Mary Ann died in Charters Towers in 1930 at the age of 79. Her place of birth, her father's name and a mother's maiden name, recorded erroneously as TOOHEY, were recorded in in Queensland BDM Index. This maiden name is thought to be an error. Mary Ann STANNARD's obituary, which does contain some factual errors, reads:
The death occurred at her daughter's residence at Hermit Park on November 6 of Mrs. Mary Ann Stannard, one of the old identities of Charters Towers, at the age of 80. Mrs. Stannard was the wife of the late Thomas Stannard, who ran a confectionery and refreshment business in Mosman Street, better known to old Towersites as "The Psychologists' Domicile." The deceased lady arrived on the old goldfield in 1868, and lived there till a few years ago. Pneumonia claimed her a victim after an illness of ten days. She leaves a son and daughter, Mr. Herbert Stannard, Adelaide and Mrs. Rex Rigbye, Townsville, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The kindly old lady will be missed by a wide circle of friends.66
Mary Ann was the daughter of Edward O'HARE and Mary RYAN. Because this was a Catholic baptism, Mary's mother's maiden name of RYAN was recorded. Mary Ann had been born on 12 February 1853, and was baptised by the Rev. John MEAGHER in the Catholic church in Sydney on 22 March 1853. At the time her parents lived at Woolloomooloo.67 No record of any marriage for Edward O'HARE, O'HEIR or O'HEHIR and Mary RYAN can be verified in NSW and no appropriate arrivals with these surnames can be confirmed. Currently no verification of the identity of either Edward or Mary has yet been found although suspicions below may identify Edward. Records available for Mary Ann and any online trees for her known siblings provide contradictory names recorded on the available documents. The couple had more children than those identified here as when their daughter Sarah Vere married in 1886, Family Notices described her as the 'sixth and youngest daughter of the late Edward O'Hehir.'68 Was that other daughter Emma, who was described as the sister of Edward O'HARE when she died as Emma McLEAN in 189369 or was she Catherine MUNNELLY who was born in 184570 before Edward perhaps changed his surname to O'HARE?
The first recorded child for Edward and Mary O'HARE (and variations) was the 1846 baptism for their daughter Eleanor. This date suggests that their relationship began around this time. Edward's death registration from 1874 identified that he had married May CONNOLLY in Sydney although no date was provided. There is no doubt that this registration was that of the father of the Newcastle admission because Edward's place of death, 432 Bourke Street, Surry Hills,71 exactly matched the address written on the envelope of the letter written by Mary Ann O'HARE from Newcastle on 24 March 1871. This address was also confirmed by Edward in his application for Mary Ann's release.72 Sand's Directory indicated that in 1869 and 1870 Edward, recorded as O'HEIR, was living at this address and was a gardener.73 The family had lived at this address since about 1868 but had previously lived in other parts of Sydney. When Mary Ann's brother, Peter, died in 1849, the family was recorded as residents of Surry Street, Sydney,74 and in 1865 and 1866 Edward was living in Langley's Lane, off Liverpool Street, although at this date no occupation was recorded for him.75 Edward described himself as aged when he applied for Mary Ann's discharge76 and he died on 18 October 1874 at the reported age of 59.
At the time of his death Edward was recorded as a fencer and his father, also named as Edward, was recorded as a gardener. The informant was Edward's friend, Edward DAVEY.77 It is unknown why Edward's wife was not recorded as either the informant or being present at his death. There may be a simple explanation for this but it may be in indication that the couple weren't living together at this time. Edward had been born in County Mayo and had lived for 'over 30' years in NSW. Three males and six females were still living in 1874 but one son had died.78 This error by the informant is considered unusual as Edward had had two sons, Patrick and Peter, who had died. The death registration recorded that Edward had been buried on 19 October 1874, at Haslem's Creek Cemetery.79 His Funeral Notice appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 20 October under the name Edward O'HEIR and this notice indicated that he was to be buried that day.80 Edward had been buried in the Catholic Section of Rookwood Cemetery and appeared Rookwood records as Edward O'HARA.81 In the year Following his death a man also named Edward O'HARE, recorded as a carpenter, was living at his former address and it is thought that this record referred to Mary Ann's brother, Edward.82
Although Edward had been dead for 18 years he was referred to as 'esquire' at the time of the marriage of his son, John Thomas, in 1892. When his son Edward married in 1880 he was described as a botanist.83 It is not considered likely that Edward would have been considered of high enough standing as a gardener to be referred to as an 'Esquire'. When John Thomas died in 1935, part of his obituary read:
[John Thomas was a] fluent speaker of Gaelic, which he learned from his father, an eminent Irish botanist and lecturer at Dublin University, who later came to Australia and purchased land in the Monaro district.84
The identity of Mary Ann's mother has not been confirmed but her surname was regularly recorded as RYAN. It is hard to imagine that a Catholic would have lied to a priest at a number of baptisms. This surname was used on Mary Ann's baptism and also on that of her brother, Edward Albert, in 1855.85 Other available baptisms for Mary Ann's siblings are yet to be read but are expected to confirm this surname. When both Edward Albert O'HARE married on 10 December 187986 and Sarah Vere O'HEHIR married on 8 March 1886, the marriage records confirmed the maiden name of RYAN.87 When Mary Ann STANNARD died in Queensland her mother's maiden name was recorded as TOOHEY and it was recorded as CONNELLY on Edward O'HEIR's death registration. It is believed that these two surnames were errors made by the informant at both these deaths. No appropriate arrivals have yet been found for Mary RYAN either as a convict or as an immigrant.
Mary O'HARE, the 'relict of the late Edward O'HARE', died at the age of seventy on 1 January88 1898.89 Only two sons, Edward and John Thomas, were named in her Funeral Notice90 but two years after her death an In Memoriam notice was placed in the Sydney Morning Herald by her daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Rupert BEADELL.91 The NSW BDM Index recorded that her parents were Timothy and Mary.92
Mary was not believed to be the Mary O'HARE who was often before the courts during the 1850s and early 1860s as this woman was probably a convict who had arrived on the Surrey (6) in 1833. All the women named Mary on any voyage of the Surrey were too old to have been Edward's wife and having children so late into the 1860s with her last child, her sixth and youngest daughter, Sarah Vere O'HEHIR, born in about 1867.93
It must be considered that either one or both Edward and Mary had been a convict who had assumed a different name at some stage in their life. Their actual identities are currently unknown. No references to any man who could be Edward have yet been found in gaol records. All gaol references found refer to an Edward O'HARA who is not believed to be connected. The marriage of Edward MUNNELLY and Mary RYAN in 1844 in the records of St Mary's Cathedral is particularly interesting and needs to be read.94 This couple had one recorded daughter, Catherine, who had been baptised in 1845.95 This record can't be easily read. A Catherine CONNOLLY died in 1852 at the age of 1196 and this burial may refer to this child. Edward MUNNELLY had been born in about 1812 and had been transported for seven years in 1835 aboard the Surrey (8) from County Mayo charged with the theft of a cow. The Surrey (8) arrived on 17 May 1836. The indent described MUNNALLY as a good gardener who could read and write. He was described as a 5' 3¼" with a sallow pockmarked complexion, dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He had a scar on his left eye-brow, three scars on the back of the little finger of his right hand and a small dark mole on the left side of his neck. Edward received his Certificate of Freedom on 30 September 1842.97 The MUNNELLY family cannot be found in SRNSW or the NSW BDM Index after 1845.
There are many similarities between Edward MUNNELLY and Edward O'HARE. They were approximately the same age. They both worked as gardeners. They were both from County Mayo. The similarity between the names MUNNELLY and CONNELLY is remarkable and it is hard to imagine how a man regarded as an 'esquire' or possibly even a botanist and lecturer could have so much difficulty getting the spelling of his surname standardised. This difficulty could be explained if the surname was a new acquisition. It is believed that Edward MUNNELLY and Edward O'HARE were the same man but finding absolute proof will probably not be possible.
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If you're anything like me, your plans for prettying up your property have managed to amass bucket list of their own. Never mind the countless other tasks, responsibilities and distractions that preoccupy your every waking minute. It's no surprise that home renovations almost always get put on the back burner.
However, ponder this for a moment: your home is your primary environment. It is where we spend most of our time and where a great many of our social interactions take place. The way we experience the space in our private areas is founded on much more than functional means of activity. Space and form shape our experiences; they mediate our social interactions, evoke feelings and inform our attitudes about utilising areas.
Cosmetic refreshment does not necessarily mean a renovation overhaul.
Focusing on small and achievable ways to improve the aesthetic of your 'problem' areas can make a huge difference. Augmenting space changes the way you respond to it. It also increases the value of your home. If you plan on selling in the future, small improvements can set you in good stead for an easy profit. Cost-effective renovations can lift the perceived value of a home by tens of thousands of dollars. Here are a few cost-effective ways to drastically increase the aesthetic and value of your home, with little effort and time.
Increase kerb appeal
The façade of your home is invariably the first thing you and others see. First impressions last the longest and an exterior that sparkles in the sun can make a world of difference. A lick of paint can do wonders to freshen up your home. While an entire exterior paint job may not be viable, there are many cheaper alternatives. Focus on your front door. The most frequently used access point almost always goes unnoticed. A splash of fresh paint on the door and window frames will lift the rest of the façade and provide a focal point.
In lieu of paint, the simplest way to refresh your home is to simply wash it. I know, crazy right? Reach for the trusty garden house. You can pick up specialty nozzles and cleaning kits from your local home improvement store.
One of the cheapest DIY activities, it is an easy way to boost aesthetic appeal.
The ground beneath your feet
Unfortunately when it comes to décor and home aesthetic, function rarely trumps fashion. Dated tiles can unnecessarily age your home and lower the perceived value of your property. If you are looking to sell you home, make sure your floors are up to standard. The signs of a well loved home – faded carpets and grubby tiles – will make it look tired and unkempt.
Resurfacing floors can be an incredibly expensive and slow process. If you're tiles are in good nick, albeit a little grimy, a good deep clean will have them gleaming in no time. This method uses common household products and is also great for ceramic surfaces like your shower, bath or sink.
For surfaces:
When removing built up grime and film, white vinegar is a force to be reckoned with. Apply it to a sponge and wipe across the affected areas. For a deep clean, follow with a generous sprinkling of baking soda on your chosen area (bath/shower) and rub well with a damp sponge before rinsing.
For grout:
Fetch a mixing bowl and add 3 cups of baking soda and 1 cup of warm water, and mix into a paste. Grab an old toothbrush and scrub your paste into the grout lines. Rinse thoroughly and enjoy the results! A simple lather of soapy water on the tiles should have them shining in no time.
The value of your home is more than skin deep, but if you're looking to turn a profit in the future, it's imperative to maintain an aesthetically pleasing household. What seems like a daunting and costly task is actually pretty cheap and simple if you take the time to research and investigate thrifty alternatives. If you're thinking of selling your home, working with an experienced estate agent can help you prioritise these tasks and will have a comprehensive knowledge of local market competition to give your property a decorative edge. LocalAgentFinder.co.uk is a free, no obligation service that helps property owners to compare estate agents in their area, examine fees and services to find the best estate agent for their property. Register your details to get in touch with estate agents in your area now.
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By Chris Goldberg
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The Showcase Lacrosse division of NXTsports has become a national leader in lacrosse recruiting events extending well beyond the company's Philadelphia roots.
To enhance the Showcase experience, NXTsports has launched a new website, seen at ShowcaseLacrosse.com, designed to bring the participant experience to life.
NXTsports incorporated large photography and organized content presentation, which allows users to explore the deep layers of each event. All event registration and application processes have been streamlined, and content is easy to find and dynamically displayed as NXTsports attempted to give visitors a sense for the elite competition at elite venues that Showcase Lacrosse events feature.
The Showcase Lacrosse landing page lists the 2013 events, which include last weekend's Girls' Philly Showcase and Can-Am Showcase (Detroit, MI) and the highly-popular Philly Showcase events (Nov. 16-17 & 22-23). Within each event page users can access an event summary, related education & exposure initiatives, and visual sequence of experience highlights. The visitor may also easily access pertinent documents such as schedules, player lists, rosters, field maps and participating teams.
Most notable, user may explore a rich archival of media unofficially titled 'the drawer'. The drawer includes participant head shots, NXT Game Center live scoring, photos, videos and more. All content is fully responsive and adaptable to its viewing device (mobile, tablet, desktop, etc.).
The site was developed by Colin Ambler, NXT's Chief Technology Officer and Brett Manney, Director of Showcase Lacrosse.
"The site really catches the eye. It's a lot easier to navigate and is much richer with the content that people want and need." said Manney.
The Philly Showcase has grown into the premier recruiting event in the nation in its five years. The event now covers five days and brings hundreds of college coaches. The kickoff event, the Philly Charity Showdown, will be held at Citizens Bank Park, the legendary home of the Philadelphia Phillies.
"As word has grown and now with more events in our lineup, we have made great relationships with a lot of club programs. We not only attract the best kids from Philadelphia, but the best kids in the country," said Manney. "We also have a whole education component to our events that include skills clinics, recruiting seminars and prominent coaches overseeing each team."
Manney noted that NXTsports covers all areas of lacrosse – training, tournaments, recruiting, club programs and player development on a national level. NXTsports also runs educational programs through Cradle Lacrosse and Trashcan Lacrosse and tournaments through NXTevents.
"Some people think we run clubs, others think just events," he said. "We are a sports and education management company with some very hard-working people trying to execute innovative ideas."
"Whether you are a young player in Cradle Lacrosse or you are a parent of a kid trying to get recruited, we strive to put on high quality programs that exceed expectations."


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- Genres: Comedy and Drama
- Running Time: 124 min.
- Directed by: Hwang Dong-hyuk
- Starring: Na Moon-hee, Shim Eun-kyung, Lee Jin-wook
Synopsis: Seventy-year-old widow Mal-sun is considered a stubborn crank by everyone. Learning that her family plans to send her to a nursing home, she goes off to a photo studio that claims it captures the moments of one's youth. The next day, she wakes up in the body of her 20-year-old self. With no one recognizing her, Mal-sun calls herself Ji-mi and enjoys her youth again.
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Why We Like This Book
One of our book clubs decided to limit our 2011-2012 selections to prize winning authors. The result is an ambitious reading list including Susan Sontag, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and of course, Saul Bellow. While some of our conversations involve why these authors won the Pulitzer, National Book Award, and most notably, the Nobel Prize, we also wondered whether the form and content of these works remain relevant in the 21st century.
In the case of Saul Bellow, the answer would be a resounding yes. The universal questions that Bellow's characters wrestle with, and in the case of Humboldt's Gift and its highly-energized narrator Charlie Citrine, include the soul, death, money, and culture.
According to a Los Angeles Times review published in 2009, "Humboldt's Gift, is both a crazy mess of a novel and an abiding testament to the vital exuberance of Saul Bellow's genius." And in Jeffrey Eugenides smart introduction to the Penquin edition, he writes that Bellow "elevated language and, by doing so, reversed the spirit's atrophy. That's what reading Bellow feels like. What makes Bellow's prose better than just about anyone else's is that it is touched, in every clause, by enlightenment."
Sentences like, "Ah Humboldt had been great—handsome, high-spirited, buoyant, ingenious, electrical noble. To be with him made you feel the sweetness of life. We used to discuss the loftiest thinks….to talk to him was sustaining, nourishing" excite and draw the read into the meditations of Charlie Citrine. In fact, these meditations take the form of a conversation with the reader until the end of the novel when Charlie formally says goodbye to Humboldt.
What makes Humboldt's Gift great is the humanity of our narrator. Charlie lives in the real world, one that we know and also struggle to understand. He makes mistakes and chides himself—his regrets speak to all of our regrets especially those relating to love and friendship. But on his sofa, Charlie explores what makes our lives worthwhile and wrestles with how we might discipline ourselves to make the right choices at the right time.
If you haven't read Humboldt's Gift, you should consider it for your book club. It's not a fast read, but it's great fun while seizing the serious questions about the meaning of life. We all have a little of Charlie Citrine in us, and in the end, that's a good thing.
Discussion Questions
What is Humboldt's Gift about? What kind of journey is Bellow taking the reader on through Charlie's escapades with Cantabile and reminiscences about Humboldt? And, what is Humboldt's gift?
Why is this novel so heavily laden with philosophical and literary allusions? Did you find them helpful or distracting?
Is Charlie Citrine a sympathetic character? How would you describe his behavior, his intentions, his motivations?
How do women function in this very male novel? What are we to make of Humboldt's Kathleen and Citrine's many women (Naomi, Denise, Renata)?
Charlie describes his source of happiness on page 332-333 (I encourage you to re-read this section): "I'm not altogether sure why I was in this glorious condition. It couldn't have been only the result of physical well-being, of sleeping with Renata, of good chemistry. Or the temporary remission of difficulties which, according to certain grim experts, is all that people need to make them happy and is, in fact, the only source of happiness. No, I was inclined to think as I vigorously walked behind Renata that I owed it to a change in my attitude toward death." What does this say about Charlie, and more importantly, about the theme of the novel?
What happens to Charlie while he is left to care for Roger? Is this the last phase of his meditation and his search for evidence of the human soul?


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Much more than a tradeshow, the Southwest Foodservice Expo is the largest foodservice event of its kind in the region. With local foodservice sales projected to reach $55 billion in 2013, this foodservice expo provides an excellent opportunity to network with the decision makers of the Southwest foodservice industry, as well as check out the latest and greatest in the market.
Held in the Dallas Convention Center on June 23th and 24th, the Southwest Foodservice Expo will host culinary showcases with the likes of chef Robert Irvine, host of Food Network's Restaurant:Impossible and chef Tyler Stone. There will also be chef competitions, an Education Idea Center, and the opportunity to check out the most innovative products and services in the country.
One of the things that we find the most interesting about the Southwest Foodservice Expo is its Experts Forum. These one-on-one, or small group chats with some of the foodservice industry leading experts, will provide restauanteurs tips on how to make their restaurants more profitable. Another interesting happening this year is the Northwest Wine Expo, co-located with the Expo, which will showcase a diversity of wines, trends and leading voices from the rapidly growing wine region.
And as every year, the event not to be missed during the Expo will be the Texas Restaurant Association's President's Gala. In the iconic celebration, the the who's who of the Texas foodservice industry celebrates its yearly achievements and induct Texas restaurateurs into the Hall of Honor, the TRA's most prestigious award.
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Kim Jeffery becomes chairman; Tim Brown named as successor
Current Nestle Waters North America Inc. (NWNA) President and CEO Kim Jeffery plans to step down from that role after 20 years, and 34 years with the company, to assume a non-executive chairman position effective Feb. 1, 2013. He will be succeeded by Tim Brown, president and CEO of Nestle Canada, who has been appointed president and CEO of Nestle Waters North America Inc.
Brown has served as president and CEO of Nestle Canada since 2010, overseeing global brands including Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine, Buitoni, Nescafe, Kit Kat and Smarties. The total Nestle Canada business employs 3,500 people in 21 facilities. Prior to that, Brown spent 22 years at NWNA, most recently heading retail operations as executive vice president and general manager until transitioning to his current role.
During his time at Nestle Canada, Brown oversaw the introduction of popular new products, developed the Nestle Canada Vision and Values with inputs from across the workforce and initiated a continuous excellence process to meet a Nestle worldwide standard. Under Brown, Nestle Canada was recognized as one of the Best Workplaces in Canada in 2012.
Jeffery joined the company in 1978 as central division sales manager, and advanced over the years to assume the company's top position in 1992. Jeffery has been at the vanguard of the rapidly growing bottled water industry. Under the leadership of Jeffery, NWNA has grown organically from a $650-million-in-revenues business 20 years ago into the leading bottled water company in North America. With sales of $4.4 billion in 2011, the company holds seven of the top 10 U.S. brands, including Poland Spring, Arrowhead, Deer Park, Ice Mountain, Ozarka, Zephyrhills and Nestle Pure Life.
Brown will assume his new position at NWNA in February 2013 and joins the CEOs of the other Nestle U.S. operating companies, including Nestle Nutrition, Nestle Professional, Nestle Purina PetCare and Nestle USA. In Canada, Brown will be succeeded by Shelley Martin; she is currently president of Nestle Canada's frozen division.


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[TOKYO] Japan's pro-casino lawmakers submitted to parliament on Tuesday a bill to legalise casino gambling, the latest bid to establish an industry analysts say could generate US$40 billion a year and which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sees as key to economic growth.
Parliamentary records showed that members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the Japan Innovation Party and the Party for Future Generations had submitted the bill, but it was unclear when it would be discussed or voted on.
The lawmakers have said they hoped the bill would pass before July or August, when the current parliamentary session is expected to end.
Attempts to legalise casino gambling in Japan, which industry experts say is one of the world's last major untapped gaming markets, have been delayed repeatedly amid opposition from lawmakers worried about addiction and organised crime.
Some members of the Buddhist-backed Komeito, a junior partner in Mr Abe's coalition government, oppose legalisation. Lawmakers in the pro-casino camp have said this opposition made it hard for them to push for the bill even though supporters slightly outnumber opponents in parliament.
Failure to pass the bill would also delay the drafting of a crucial second bill on implementation which outlines details on regulations.
Companies such as Las Vegas Sands Corp and MGM Resorts International are vying to win licences to operate casinos in Japan, a market that brokerage CLSA estimates could generate annual revenue of US$40 billion.
Analysts have said it was already looking difficult to build resorts in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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If all goes as planned, Hesperians won't have to travel to Victorville to get to a high-octane, family-fun restaurant. Kids Planet, which will feature an arcade, restaurant with diverse menu, and sports bar, is expected to open on the south side of Main Street near Hickory by the end of 2008.
"I think she's going to have a gold mine," Mayor Pro Tem Thurston "Smitty" Smith said of owner Edith Avilez following last Wednesday's ground breaking ceremony.
"We're going to have it all," Avilez said.
Avilez's plans include a pizzeria, arcade, party rooms, sports bar and lots of tasty food.
"We're going to have an executive chef."
Besides a variety of pizzas, the restaurant will feature hot Italian sub sandwiches, natural juices and birria, a Jalisco-style meat stew made with roasted peppers, onions cilantro and lime. "And we're going to have homemade tortillas."
Kids Planet will also feature a "banana boat" ice cream station with loads of ice cream and tasty accoutrements.
The project is being designed by Tom Steeno, one of the most active commercial, business, industrial and residential designers in the Victor Valley.
"Kids Planet is going to feature progressive architecture," said Steeno, whose Steeno Design Center is located on Hesperia Road in Hesperia.
Featuring tall ceilings, the facility will include a total of 9,800 square feet with 6,600 dedicated to the restaurant.
Not only will Kids Planet provide a family-fun location for residents, the project will likely lead the way for others. Through a partnership with the city, the project will help bring a sewer line to that area of Main Street.
"This will speed up the development," Smith said. "There are about five others waiting in line between 11th Avenue and Maple Street. It will be a good thing to get it started. They're five in line. They're might be five more behind them."
For Avilez, Kids Planet is more than just a restaurant project. It's a fulfillment of a dream.
"This means a lot to me," she said while addressing guests during last week's event. "It's a dream that we've been working on for a long time."
Over the past six years, Avilez has built a successful real estate business, which opened the door to more opportunities.
"Two years ago I had the opportunity to buy this land."
Crediting Golden State Bank for funding the project and a good working relationship with the city, Kids Planet will soon become a reality.
"She's on the right path," Smith said.


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Perkins+Will Builds a Sustainability Beacon
Building technology research center features wood, integrated photovoltaics, and green wall.When John Robinson began formulating a vision for the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), he did not start small. Robinson, who is responsible for integrating academic and operational sustainability at the university's Vancouver campus, dreamed of constructing the most sustainable building in North America, a monument to and testing ground for energy-generating strategies. Invited to join the project in 2001, architects Perkins+Will sought an approach combining passive design and innovative technology. Featuring a facade of locally manufactured wood panels, high performance glazing, solar shading with integrated photovoltaics, and a green wall sunscreen, CIRS is a living laboratory for the research and practice of sustainable design. The initial concept for the building included 22 goals centered on three themes, explained Perkins+Will's Jana Foit. First, CIRS was to have a net positive environmental impact. In addition, the structure was designed to provide an adaptive, healthy, and socially generative workplace for researchers, staff, and students. Third, CIRS would utilize smart building technologies for real-time user feedback and testing. The building envelope was a critical component of the project's overall environmental strategy on both conceptual and practical levels. "The overarching design idea is to communicate sustainability, to make it visible and apparent," said Foit. In terms of pragmatics, the architects focused on reducing heat gain and providing 100 percent daylighting to the interiors.
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- Location Vancouver, BC
- Date of Completion 2011
- System wood rain screen, fixed sunshades with integrated PVs, green wall, high-performance glazing
- Products Multiple Ply Cedar Panels from Silva Panel, Kawneer glazing, Green Screen vegetated screen, Solarity PVs


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The NCAA has approved a policy to govern athletics participation by transgender athletes who have transitioned to another sex. The new rule, which takes immediate effect, allows a transgender athlete who has transitioned from male to female to participate in women's sports after one year of hormone treatment that includes female hormones (estrogen) and agents that suppress the effects of male hormones in the body (testosterone blockers). The rule also clarifies that athletes who transition from female to male by taking testosterone are not eligible for women's sports, but may receive a therapeutic use exception* and be eligible for men's sports. A transgender athlete who transitions socially but not physically is still eligible for the sport that matches their birth sex. For example, Kye Allums plays women's basketball for George Washington, even though he goes by "he" as has not undergone any physical transition that involves testosterone.
The NCAA's new policy incorporates the recommendations of the report issued issued last year by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Women's Sports Foundation. It is receiving praise from advocates for equality and inclusion because it avoids many of the restrictions, such as genital surgery and legal sex change which do not affect athletic ability -- both of which are required, in addition to a 2 year period of hormone treatment, by the International Olympic Committee and other sport associations. The policy recognizes that in an educational setting, one in which one's opportunity to participate is limited to a short period of time, it is important to have requirements that do not go beyond what is necessary to promote equity on the field. There is no medical evidence that shows athletes who have transitioned with hormones compete at an advantage relative when competing in their transitioned sex. Medicine also suggests that it takes one year for physical changes in response to hormone treatment to be complete. Therefore, it makes sense to impose just a one-year requirement for hormone treatment, rather than the two-year period, plus surgery and legal sex change, that IOC requires.
*Therapeutic use exceptions are already granted to male athletes with conditions that result in lower-than-normal amounts of testosterone in their bodies. It is an "exception" because otherwise exogenous testosterone is a banned, performance-enhancing substance.
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NCAA Adopts Policy for Including Transgender Athletes
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Life in China for a cryptocurrency user is full of surprises. I'm hoping 2018 will not supply more.
Way back in 2013, when Bitcoin was reaching its then-all-time high of $1.000, China was the Wild, Wild West. No regulations at all. Buying Bitcoin was as easy as linking your bank account to an exchange like BTC China or Huobi (no identity verification required!) and clicking a few links. The exchanges even had no fees for most transactions, and were very generous with margin accounts, so it's no wonder Bitcoin prices went through the roof.
Then the central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC 中国人民银行 Zhongguo Renmin Yinhang) told all the nation's banks they could no longer do direct business with cryptocurrency projects. That ended the easy transfers from fiat to Bitcoin (then the only game in town), and even third-party payment processors like WeChat Wallet or Alipay, were banned from funding exchanges. We had to use vouchers sold on TaoBao, or rely on LocalBitcoins.com to exchange fiat for crypto. The markets eventually recovered.
We went on like this until last January, when the regulators once again clamped down. The exchanges were forced to suspend fiat-crypto exchange activity and all withdrawals pending government investigations of their operations. Once identity verifications were in place, operations were allowed to resume by June last year.
And then in September the PBOC got strict again, banning ICOS and all fiat-to-crypto exchanges entirely. Now the only way to obtain Bitcoin (or any other crypto) in China was to use OTC exchanges or to find individuals on Telegram to do business with or use services like Uphold.
Now there is the possibility the PBOC may close even those channels. [Link goes to an article translated from Chinese.] News reports have quoted government sources as saying Beijing will force any Chinese companies with offshore exchanges to cease operations and will also force any OTC exchanges based on the mainland out of business. Banks and third-party payment processors WeChat and Alipay will also be expected to monitor P2P transactions for suspicious activity, and report them to authorities.
Whether this latest FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt) has anything to do with the sudden drop in the crypto markets this month is hard to ascertain, but it certainly could be a factor. Some OTC providers are in Hong Kong, where the PBOC regulations do not (as yet) apply, but choking off the main fiat channels of bank transfers, Alipay and WeChat Wallet will drastically cut mainland users off from those exchanges. Chinese buyers and sellers will be restricted to finding each other on the encrypted messaging service, Telegram, which naturally is blocked on the mainland. As a VPN (also now illegal) is required to use Telegram, fewer Chinese will be able to access even that avenue.
As I mentioned last week, Uphold has an arrangement with China UnionPay — the country's homegrown credit and debit card service — enabling users to transfer up to $150 (1,000 Chinese yuan) at a time to the service to exchange for a variety of currencies and assets. If that arrangement can stay intact, I'll still have a way to buy cryptocurrencies, at least in small amounts, if the OTC exchanges are cut off. The same cannot be said for the many Chinese who would still want access to the cryptoverse.


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I feel that after that last post I need to express thankfulness for our many blessings. Sean came home from Iraq alive, and all things considered, in relatively good condition. We have three wonderful children (if you overlook the teenage stuff ha ha!). We have a home, a car, food to eat, money to pay the bills. Sean has doctors who care about him and work hard to find ways to help him. Sean is moving forward with his cycling goals. I can afford to stay home and care for him. We are surrounded by family who cares for us.
I have a tendency to get very dark, but I do see the bright side. It is hard for me to look beyond sometimes when there seems to be one thing after another assaulting us.
We are extremely fortunate to be here, to be together, to have each other as we learn to live this new life.


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Subject: Pre-Algebra
If a car moves 60ft in 24secs. How far will the car travel in a minute.
To solve this problem we need to find the rate. Since we know that distance=rateXtime. Since we do not know the rate we will have to divide the distance by the time. 60/24 = 2.5 . So this means that the car is moving 2.5 feet per second. Now we take 2.5 and multiply it by 60. Now we know that in a minute the car will travel 150ft/sec.
Subject: Algebra
Describe an absolute number and give an example of how you write and evaluate them.
An absolute number describes how far away the number itself is away from 0. In essence an absolute number is the positive equivalent of the number. The absolute value of -31, which is written as |-31|, is 31.
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Solve this problem simplify (x-3)/6 = (x+7)/4
You must begin the problem by cross multiplying. This changes the equation to 4(x-3) = 6(x+7). You must them multiply throughout making it 4x-12=6x+42. Then you must subtract 42 from both sides and also subtract 4x from both sides. The equation now looks like 54=-2x. Finally you must divide by -2 and the solution is x=-27
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The Spanish era had contributed a lot here in the country. Their influence was so rich that even now, most of the Spanish culture and traditions are still very well practiced in random parts of the whole Philippine archipelago. The Spanish language or Espaniol is still partly practiced in Zamboanga City down the southern part of the country which happened to be the only Latin city in the country and Asia as a whole as well. The culture and some old traditions are still well lived in most of the homes of the Filipino families up North. The delicacies are still appreciated and served on most Filipino tables as to some ways of living are still observed by most Filipinos. A lot of prestigious Spanish places are also preserved and open for public views.
Yet, there's one place in the country that's indeed the most popular preserved Spanish place for all the buildings and houses up to the streets were purely preserved from the Spanish era. Though some were already repaired if not reconstructed, the atmosphere itself and the sense of being there indeed takes you back to the Spanish era when they still had the country under their government. It's The Heritage Village, Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
The above photos are just few of the many outstanding beauty of the Spanish era that still lived and preserved in this certain one-Spanish street popularly known as Calle Crisologo to the locals. It now served as a Spanish Heritage Village as called for itself where all houses displayed used to be real houses and building enterprises of Filipino residents during that time.
Visit the country this summer and experience the Spanish-influenced atmosphere and get captured along nostalgic lane as you travel back in time.
All the above pictures were taken and captured by Chris Saunil, my teacher friend during his Pilgrimage weeks before Holy Week last year.