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McNally Development, LLC
"We used Firstbank and the SBA 504 Loan Program from MCDC to finance our project on Mackinac Island because the combination worked so well in our prior projects. It was an easy choice to go with the same winning team for this one,"
JPMorgan Chase
"JPMorgan Chase was excited to work with Douglas Family Vision, P.C. who has a long history in the Saginaw community to help them expand and grow their business."
Chemical Bank
"Working with MCDC on this project was easy and mutually beneficial for both West Michigan Eye & Laser, P.C. Chemical Bank. The customer benefited from better terms on both the MCDC portion and the bank portion compared to traditional financing. Another benefit was the smaller equity injection required from West Michigan Eye & Laser."
FirstMerit Bank
"Working with the MCDC, we found the ideal program to continue the expansion of a historic Michigan business. It's been a rewarding project to work on with Eric Kehler at the MCDC, who does a fantastic job of simplifying the process for everyone involved."
River Valley Bank
MCDC helped every step of the way through the entire process. Everyone involved has been very impressed with the knowledge and expertise of Darlene Merritt and the entire MCDC staff.
Northstar Bank
By working with MCDC we helped The Post Local Bistro find the perfect SBA option to help with financing a historic small business in Plymouth. It's been a rewarding project to work on with Jack Johnson at MCDC.
When Jim and Dennis came to us with their request, their enthusiasm and care for their customers was evident and were excited about the opportunity to come to Ann Arbor. The SBA 504 Loan Program through MCDC was an attractive financing plan they could use.
Independent Bank
Through the assistance of MCDC, we found the SBA 504 Loan Program (with lower down payments and beneficial long term interest rates) to be the best fit for this startup company. Scott Vroegindewey and the rest of the staff of MCDC was very helpful throughout the process.
Traverse City State Bank
As a commercial loan officer I'm proud to help a small business succeed because they are critically important to the health of the economy in northern Michigan.
PNC Bank
When Dr. Bosworth contacted me with his request, I knew we wanted to work with him. His care for his patients was evident and the new location would be a nice addition to the Okemos area. After reviewing some options, the SBA 504 Loan Program seemed to be the best fit.
Old National Bank
When Ron, Ed and Mark came to us with their business plan, they were excited about purchasing the old church building on Ann Arbor Street. We knew the SBA 504 Loan Program offered by MCDC would provide low cost financing plus offer the security of the long-term loan as it's amortized over 20 years. We recommended they work with Jack Johnson who took it from there and made it very easy for everyone involved.
1st State Bank
This was a loan that we would have done without the SBA 504; however, Blasius wanted to take advantage of the lower down payment and low long-term rate offered by the SBA 504 Loan Program.
First Federal of Northern Michigan
It was a pleasure working with MCDC to put together a financing package that meets the needs of Austin Brothers Beer Company. Darlene knew the programs that were available extremely well and worked with us to complete everything in a timely manner.
Macatawa Bank
MCDC helped make this project possible and worked side by side with us from beginning to funding. It was nice to have the MCDC team work on the SBA 504 portion to help us put this package together. It was a great team effort.
Consumers Credit Union
We really enjoy working with the MCDC team.
Huron Community Bank
John and Stacy along with Chris on the 7(a) have been great to work with on this project.
Ann Arbor State Bank
I've partnered with MCDC for many years and they're always willing to go the extra mile to help, so when Oscar approached me I knew MCDC could help with his financing needs. Oscar has run a top notch bicycle shop in Ann Arbor for several years and I knew that the community needed him to continue his presence. I've dealt with Oscar myself for my family's bicycle needs and being familiar with the SBA 504 Loan Program through MCDC, I recognized that they would be able to offer an attractive financing package for Oscar.
FirstMerit Bank
"When Jack and Kevin came to FirstMerit Bank with their request, I knew we wanted to work with them. Their enthusiasm and care for their customers was evident and their new location would be a nice addition to the area. After reviewing some options, the SBA 504 Loan Program seemed to be the best fit for them."
Mercantile Bank of Michigan
"By partnering with MCDC, we were able to develop a financing package that met the needs of Spencer Plastics, allowing them to expand into the Cadillac area to take advantage of the tremendous growth opportunities afforded by the rapidly recovering auto industry. Without the expansion, they simply would not have been able to meet customer demand. Through the expertise and leadership of Darlene Merritt, MCDC helped Spencer Plastics complete this project in a timely and cost effective manner"
Ann Arbor Rental-All LLC
The rental business is a seasonal industry and the timing of our acquisition was very important to the success of our company in the first year. Jack Johnson and the rest of the MCDC team understood the urgency and helped us secure our financing to meet our timelines. They made our loan process painless and we look forward to working with them on any future projects.
Master Automatic Machine Company, Inc.
The company started their business in a small gas station. "My grandparents started with one machine, got some business, then started machining components and we grew from there. Today Master Automatic is Doing Great Things for Michigan! We have about 200 employees and we've invested in new technology. Our customers are rewarding us with new business, and with the skilled trades program we've established, it's really helping the company and helping Michigan."
"Our relationship with MCDC came at just the right time, and it was a great one. They helped us at a time when we need help. Economic times were difficult."
MCDC did a great job on pulling this whole thing together and made it very easy for us. It was pretty transparent and we are thrilled today. We have a 20-year mortgage that was put together in a difficult time period. We are still happy with it today. And, we don't have to worry about it anymore. We can stick to what we know best which is manufacturing and doing good things for the community."
Citizens National Bank
"The MCDC helped make this project possible and worked side by side with us from the beginning to the debenture funding date. With the normal construction financing technicalities, it was nice to have the MCDC team work on the SBA 504 portion with minimal effort on our end. Working with the folks from the MCDC was basically seamless."
Davis Lodging VI, LLC
"We were extremely pleased with the process of securing our SBA financing through MCDC for our new hotel property that recently opened in Saginaw. Prior to our relationship with MCDC, we had concerns with the amount of paperwork and the entire process of securing SBA financing. Therefore we were pleasantly surprised with our positive experience and the exceptional service we received from everyone we worked with at MCDC. We look forward to the opportunity to work with them on future building projects."
Tapper Ford LLC
"The SBA 504 was an excellent program and provided us a great opportunity to take advantage of a long term fixed rate. The construction process was very smooth with the lender, and MCDC made the process and final conversion seamless. If the opportunity becomes available for future projects, we would not hesitate to use the SBA 504 Loan Program again."
Morley Companies Inc.
"We are Doing Good Things for Michigan by bringing in highly-skilled, well-paid jobs where people will have disposable incomes to spend money within the area. It's Doing Good Things for Michigan and the Great Lakes Bay area."
"Morley Companies has been around since 1863 and 2013 was our 150 year anniversary. In 2009, we had a dramatic increase in employees where we gained 375 people. Since then, we have increased to over 800 new employees. This doubled our footprint and created another 400-600 jobs associated with that building,"
"The first time we dealt with MCDC was during our building project in 2009. Our banking institution partnered with MCDC and the process went very smooth. The financing arrangement was very competitive and we had total cooperation from MCDC to complete the deal; and we completed on time."
Penny S. Flury, DDS, PC
Thank you. I feel very fortunate to have my dream office's finances secured with the SBA program. The fixed low rate is very much appreciated.
American Compounding Specialties
You and all of your people have been a pleasure to work with from the very beginning. Please pass my regards on to them.
Ace Companies
Ace Companies LLC is a Minority Owned Aluminum Recycling and Smelting Company located in Benton Harbor, Michigan. We were pleased to have the MCDC assist us in obtaining an SBA 504 Loan during our efforts to purchase a plant in Benton Harbor. With the help of the MCDC we were able to develop a banking relationship, complete our purchase, hire 10 employees with plans to add 20 additional workers by December 2006. We would not have been able to complete our purchase without the Skill, Knowledge, and Experience of the staff at the MCDC.
Kalamazoo County State Bank
"The 504 program gave us the opportunity as a small community bank to fund a loan for a new Chevrolet dealership from our area that was previously a forth generation owned business, allowing us to keep it in our community. This was a win - win for all involved thanks to the MCDC and Scott Vroegindewey for all his expert assistance in bringing this all to fruition."
Wolverine Bank
"Working with MCDC? It's a piece of cake. Eric Kehler at MCDC made it really simple; he was always there to help. It was a very smooth process overall."
Ark Animal Clinic LLC - Genesis Seven
Marcia and Feras, Tara and I thank you again for a great experience in helping to finance Genesis Seven and ultimately Ark Animal Clinic. You both worked so well together and you kept us very well informed throughout the entire (fast) process. Certainly it appears that the timing of the loan could not have been better with regard to the interest rate! Hope you both have a good productive year.
Dr. Kevin P. Cooper DDS, PC
"Working with MCDC and Old Mission Bank made the idea of building a new, high-tech office for my patients a reality."
Mackinac Island Bike Shop
"Our expansion of the Iroquois Cycle Shop has turned it into a business like none other in the country. Working with MCDC and Citizen's Bank helped me expand my business into Mackinac Island's premier bicycle rental shop."
Huntington National Bank
"The process of working with MCDC ran really smooth. Although there were challenges with the building and environmental issues, Mike Ufford handled everything really well. He made sure that the process kept going according to plan, and I was very happy to have been a part of the transaction. I would never hesitate to work with him and MCDC again."
JPMorgan Chase
Here at Chase, we are Michigan's #1 SBA lender. We regularly tap the expertise of the Michigan Certified Development Corporation (MCDC) and our lenders appreciate that expertise and professionalism. The MCDC staff is highly knowledgeable in SBA guidelines and regularly demonstrates a creativeness in getting the deal to the finish line. The MCDC states that customer service is numbers 1 and they prove it with every SBA 504 deal.
"MCDC made the loan process hands-free, allowing me to focus on my business instead of loads of paperwork. Their great service and SBA loans allowed DiggyPOD to expand and prepare for future growth."
Michigan Small Business Technology & Development Center
The MI-SBTDC is pleased to add the services of the MCDC to its toolkit. Referrals to the organization are answered promptly and professionally by skilled staff. Our clients appreciate the time and effort spent on their behalf by the MCDC staff. Our counselors "call them early" and "call them often" for assistance with SBA 504 lending.
The Heritage
"MCDC's help made it possible for the Heritage to augment the existing services offered to the seniors in the Battle Creek community,"
Synchron Laser
"SBA financing through MCDC made it possible to manage our cash flow effectively and move into a new facility. Their assistance made it possible for Synchron Laser to continue growing despite expansion of our facility."
Morley Companies
"Working with MCDC and Citizen's Bank was an extremely positive experience. They provided us with a terrific solution to make our expansion happen quickly and we are extremely pleased."
KeyBank is the10th largest SBA 504 lender in the U.S. and the only Michigan bank in the top 10. We frequently partner with MCDC for SBA 504 loans in Michigan. The MCDC staff is experienced and knowledgeable, responding to our questions and needs quickly and accurately. MCDC has streamlined the 504 approval and closing process so that it is very similar to using conventional financing.
AG Manufacturing
"Working with MCDC significantly reduced the risk out of investing in my business for Chemical Bank. Without their assistance in securing financing, acquiring my business would not have been possible."
Community Shores Bank
It's helpful to have access to people who can explain how the details of the program apply to the many lending scenarios that arise. MCDC makes the whole process quick, easy & convenient.


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Welcome to my blog!
My name is Phil and I am a landscape and travel photographer based in London in the UK. I started photography about a year ago (January 2018) and have developed a passion for it ever since. I love the feeling of adventure that comes from travelling and photographing different places and aim to share my work and experiences with you through this blog.
So if you like photography and travel, you will surely find something useful here.
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I have written a series of blog posts related to beginner photography tips and travel which can be found here.
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Wellbeing Service
What is the Wellbeing Service?
Based in Doncaster at the Changing Lives Community Hub Building (Oracle House, 2 – 5 Princes Street, Doncaster, DN1 3NJ), it offers a combination of drop in and open access sessions, activities, self help groups, short courses and information about mental health conditions and services. We also offer wellbeing services in Mexborough at various community settings.
"The staff listen and you can have a laugh with them which really helps my mental health"
What do we do?
We help people suffering from mental distress to access appropriate support, either from ourselves or other agencies to aid their recovery and manage their mental health and wellbeing with the aim of having a fuller life. We also offer a wide range of activities, support groups and short courses. Please see our timetable for full details.
"I like to come to Doncaster Mind to meet my friends and mix with new people."
How will this help me?
We do this by giving you opportunities to meet new people, try new experiences and regain an interest in things you used to enjoy.
Many of our activities are either free or subsidised, you can join in for nothing or a small cost. We also hold monthly open meetings where you can have your say about activities and groups you would like to see for the future.
"The walking group is good exercise and I always feel a sense of achievement when I've done a walk."
How can I use the wellbeing service?
You can contact us by telephone, email or in person and we will have a chat with you about the range of groups and activities that we offer to match this to your needs. We also offer one to one initial appointments for you to find out what we can offer as an organisation, what services you would like to access or for information and advice.
What groups and activities are available?
We have a wide variety of wellbeing groups activities taking place in our Wellbeing Centre. These include:
- Social Cafe
- Relaxation Group
- Women's Space
- Men's Space
- Art & Crafts
- Get Outdoors Group
- Millennials
- TUF (Over 50s)
Please visit our 'What's on' page for our latest timetable of weekly activities, as well as the latest programmes for our short courses including Anxiety Management, Confidence & Self Esteem, Hearing Voices and many more.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – Space shuttle Discovery blasted off Friday on a mission to deliver a fresh crew to the international space station, leaving early to beat approaching storms.
The shuttle soared at 5:10 p.m. from its seaside pad, carrying seven astronauts and cosmonauts, three of whom will spend the next four months in space. NASA launched the spaceship five minutes earlier than planned because of thunderstorms moving in from the south.
Launch managers worried throughout the day and right up to the final nine minutes of the countdown that thunderstorms might force a postponement for the second day in a row. But the rain and dark clouds stayed far enough away this time.
"Let's go!" said shuttle commander Scott Horowitz.
The space station was soaring above the Pacific, just west of the Galapagos Islands, when Discovery took off. The shuttle is the ride home for the three station residents, who have been in orbit for five months.
"Tell the Expedition 2 guys, 'Stand by, we're on our way,'" Horowitz called out.
Discovery is due at the space station on Sunday.
Before boarding Discovery, the space station's next commander, Frank Culbertson, held up the same sign that he did on Thursday but with a few additions. The sign read: "Hi Family! I Still Love You!" The word "still" was newly scribbled in.
"Nice to be back," said Culbertson, making his first space flight in eight years. He took time off to manage NASA's space station programs.
Culbertson will move into space station Alpha along with two Russians, Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin.
Station commander Yuri Usachev and his U.S. crewmates, Jim Voss and Susan Helms, were dropped off by Discovery back in mid-March.
They saw a robot arm and air lock arrive during their mission and helped hook both up. The 58-foot arm encountered some start-up problems that kept the crew in orbit an extra month. Discovery was supposed to pick the three up in July, but this shuttle flight and the previous one were delayed because of the robot-arm trouble.
The three also had to contend with computer problems that still are not fully understood. One of the three critical command-and-control computers failed again just this week.
Discovery is hauling up a spare computer, as well as clothes, food, tools, labels, science experiments and a sleeping compartment. The space station has only two bunks; the men slept in those and Helms camped out in the Destiny laboratory.
Culbertson said one of his crew's first priorities will be to set up the new bunk in the lab, for use by Dezhurov. The three men will not have any shuttle astronauts visiting during their stay, but will welcome a Russian Soyuz crew this fall and take in an unmanned Russian docking compartment.
During the eight days that Discovery is docked to the space station, two of the shuttle astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks to attach a container of ammonia coolant, cables and experiments to the outside of the space station.
The shuttle is scheduled to return to Earth on Aug. 22 167 days after Usachev, Voss and Helms rode it into space.
This was NASA's eight space shuttle launch in just under one year. All were to the space station, now almost three years old.


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We had some great activities planned for our beach picnic, so I thought I'd share.
Our loot bags were sand pails. We couldn't find any pink metal sand pails, but we did find these pink plant pots at IKEA. We drilled holes in the side, and sanded them with a metal file. Then we added thick sisal rope and tied it to create the handle.
I found some pink shovels, and filled the pail with other beach treats.
We were planning on a sand castle building contest, so we included these fun flags, made with bamboo skewers, fabric and my trusty glue gun! The birthday girl's favourite candy is Carmel squares, so we added some in these sweet organza bags. I tried to co-ordinate all the labels, including this one for bubbles.
My favourite part of the loot bags, were these sea shell tic-tac-toe games that we made. I spray painted sea shells in pink and red, and then packaged them in cello bags, with a label instructing the guests to create their grid in the sand and have fun!
I set up the loot bags on the kitchen table with a cute picnic table cloth. My mom brought the beautiful roses from her garden, and we added some of the cute flags, to the mason jar vase.
My mother-in-law found some fun pink beach balls that fit with our theme, and mermaid dolls for the little girls to play with in their sand castles. Thanks Grandma!
We were planning on having a sand castle building contest at the beach. I found some fun trophies at the dollar store, and added some pink and red ribbon, and some labels for the winning sand castles. We divided the guests up into family teams and awarded each family a trophy for the Sandiest Sand Castle, the Cutest Sand Castle, the Biggest Sand Caste, and the Most Beautiful Sand Castle.
We had to change our plans a little since we were inside due to the cold, windy weather at the beach, so we drew pictures of the the sand castles instead, which everyone was a really good sport about.
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To warm up for the new ski season there is nothing better than getting some coaching to improve your technique and polish your style. So whether you are a seasonaire, on a one week holiday or on the first of a few trips, join the Snowbusters ski refresher course in the Salzburger Super Ski area to have fun and improve your skiing or snowboarding.
This course is for intermediate and advanced skiers (minimum controlled parallel on blue/red slopes) and snowboarders (minimum controlled linked turns on blue/red slopes). We'll use video coaching and fun training methods to dial in your technique and to take your skiing or snowboarding to the next level.
This intensive course can be run from anywhere in the Salzburger Super Ski area – we'll come to you. The Snowbusters team of instructors, coaches and guides are fully licenced professionals who've dedicated their life to the mountains. They love skiing and/or snowboarding, and want to help you improve whilst showing you around this wonderful ski area.
This course is tailored to your ability. Snowbusters will assess your level and come up with ways to help you get down the mountain safer, faster and with lots more style. Doing a refresher course is the perfect start to the season as you can iron out any bad habits and overcome any weaknesses in technique. All of which will ensure this winter is your best yet.
All the coaching and instruction is done in a fun and relaxed way – afterall you are in the mountains to enjoy yourself. So join the Snowbusters three day ski refresher course to get warmed up for the ski season and to dramatically improve your skiing or snowboarding.
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Data incomplete… Human blood required. Thus spake the computer.
Computers and Satan. Two tastes that go great together! Evilspeak was one of my favorite horror movies as a young teen. It contained all the things a growing boy needed in the '80s- computers, boobies, and Satan. This computerized Carrie stars Clint Howard as the nerdy Coopersmith, who is so tormented by his classmates at the military academy that when he finds spooky books in Latin in the chapel basement, he becomes obsessed with performing a black mass to summon the devil.
Yep, Satanism was everywhere back then. Kids caught it from the heavy metal or the Dungeons and the Dragons, and it made them spray-paint pentagrams under highway overpasses, and sometimes stick shotguns in their mouths. Evilspeak's story begins hundreds of years ago in Spain, where we see Father Esteban (Richard Moll, Bull from "Night Court") being exiled from the church for heresy when they catch him performing a human sacrifice.
How he got to America, no one knows, but centuries later Stanley Coopersmith, the shittiest guy on the soccer team, finds his book in the cellar of the chapel he's forced to clean. There's a fantastic cut when he cuts the topless woman's head off with a jewelled sword, and we see her head flying off into the ocean… and then, a soccer ball flies past Stanley. No one at school likes him, who they cleverly call "Cooperdick." Even the soccer coach says he's forced to play him, but if something "happens" to him, so he can't play, then everything's cool.
Poor Stanley. He's a welfare case that the school has only accepted because they need the money, and the administrators remind him every chance they get. He has one friend- the token black kid named Kowalski- who stands up for him, but he spends most of his time in the cellar typing away on a biege Apple ][e, asking the computer to translate the Latin from Esteban's book. I loved computers in the movies back then- they could do everything.
Finding a good Latin-English dictionary online is difficult even nowadays. But this one even knew how to perform a Satanic black mass! It tells him he needs blood, desecrated host, and corrupted holy water! I couldn't even get my Atari 800XL to GOTO 10 half the time. We had Apple ][e's at school, though, and you bet your ass I tried asking it how to perform a black mass after I saw this movie. It didn't work. So I played Ring Quest instead.
The only other guy who treats Stanley with a scintilla of human compassion is the cook, played by wrestler Lenny "Luca Brasi" Montana. He has a bushel of puppies, and gives Stanley the runt of the litter, which he nurtures in the basement. When "Sarge," the drunken bum who is for some reason given free range of the campus finds out that Coopersmith has taken over the chapel cellar as his little nerd-cave, he gets furious. He wants to twist the puppy's head off. Luckily the Apple, possessed by Evil Father Esteban, helps his new acolyte by breaking his neck via some cheesy computer graphics:
Colonel Kincaid (Charles Tyner, the warmonger Uncle Victor from Harold & Maude), the school leader, loves to bring Coopersmith into his office just to torment him, while his sexy secretary Ms. Friedemeyer sits around and… looks sexy. She's got the big glasses, short skirt and plunging neckline thing going on. Stanley has the book with him, and hides it in the trash can, where she finds it- and tries to pry off its pretty pentacle with her nail file. The evil spirit of Esteban must reside within, for the pigs that they raise on the Academy start going wild. Later, they get their vengeance on her in the bathtub.
By then the jocks have pushed Coopersmith too far. They've killed his puppy. They pull his pants down in front of pot-smoking girls right before the Colonel walks over, so he can expel him for moral turpitude. Now that Stanley has nothing left to live for, he decides to raid the chapel for the chalice, and one of the officers follows him down, to his doom. Now that Esteban's Apple ][ has the final requirement of Human Blood, Coopersmith's wishes are fulfilled- Esteban returns and possesses him, so he can wreak- and scream for– vengeance on his enemies.
Unlucky for the padre, the Reverend is giving a speech upstairs, and when he sees blood dripping from Jesus's wounds on the crucifix, it ain't no miracle. The nails fly out and spike him in the head! The altar explodes, and Coopersmith flies forth, holding Esteban's sword and a haircut somewhere between Eraserhead and Clint Howard's future role as "Rughead" from the evil car movie, The Wraith.
The pigs break out and storm through the complex, gnawing faces left and right. One of the bullies is McDorfus from Joy Sticks, and it's funny to see him eaten by pigs. Satan loves irony. Who the pigs don't get, Coopersmith beheads with his cool new sword. Satan triumphs! Yay, Satan!
Wait a minute! Satan can't win, can he? Better tack on a lame-ass epitaph about how Stanley was admitted to a mental institution for catatonia, so kids won't go sacrificing people. And one more after that, telling us that he will return!
Evilspeak is like no other movie of its kind- combining '80s-era computer geekery with Satanic horror. Name another movie with a title card reading the ominous words starring Clint Howard. I've admired Clint since I saw him as Eaglebauer in Rock 'n Rock High School, but nowadays he only seems to turn up as a bit part in his brother Opie's movies. He's quite the prolific character actor, and his nerds of the '80s are unforgettable. Evilspeak is definitely classic '80s trash, and worth your time if you're in a nostalgic mood for silly horror, or want to remember when we thought our Apple ][e's were magix boxes that could do anything, if we could only program it (and give it human blood).
Beers Required to Enjoy: 2
Could it be remade today? Fear.com, Pulse… sure why not?
Quotability Rating: zip
Cheese Factor: devilishly hot pepper jack
High Points: the Satanic Apple ][
Low Point: weird boobies
Gratuitous Boobies: the devil gave us boobies, but with a catch!


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Pink polka dots with bright floral riding blanket. Yellow hand stitched ears. Super girly!
You're half a year old already! There have been some fun new developments this month. You both found your feet! You play with them all the time, including when Mommy is trying to change your diaper. We also started giving you solid foods! The first thing you had was some of Mommy's pancakes but I also gave you some yummy avocado! Sophia, you talk and squeal all the time now! I love to see you learn. You softly touch Mommy and Daddy's faces to see what we feel like. You can both push yourselves up onto your hand when you are on your tummies but we haven't seen you try to crawl yet! We are so excited to see what happens in this next six months!
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For most of my 20's, many people thought I was crazy.
I was always seeking new experiences and having wild adventures around the world.
I was really into comfort zone challenges, from cold showers to salsa dancing and facing bulls in Costa Rica.
From the outside, it looked like I was the typical millennial "experience junkie", always chasing the next thrill.
But in truth, and everything I did had a greater purpose (yes, even partying in Ibiza and becoming a topless waiter in Australia…).
Underneath the hedonistic appearances, I was using unconventional lifestyle to answer what I believe to be the 4 most important questions in the world.
There was a method to my madness. And now that I've entered my 30's, it's paying off in a big way:
I live in a beautiful Colorado mountain house with the woman of my dreams.
I'm in the best shape of my life and recently won my first ever Spartan Race.
My business is booming and I get to do work I love with people who inspire me.
I feel extremely blessed, and most of it is directly correlated to answering those 4 questions.
In this article, I want to share these questions with you, and how to best answer them so you too can step into the most powerful iteration of your life.
This will set the perfect foundation to reach your full potential, live a life you love, and make your success appear effortless.
But I must warn you: if you avoid these questions (like most people do) you run a high risk of living what Thoreau called "a life of quiet desperation".
Needless to say, this is important stuff. Let's dive in!
Before I share the 4 questions, we need to understand one thing:
Why do so many people struggle with their life?
Don't we live in the most prosperous (and safest) time in history?
Why aren't people happier? Why is life so hard for most?
It's a complex issue but here's what I think it boils down to:
We live in a society that's in an all-out war with introspection.
In other words, instead of reflecting deeply on our lives, we are constantly distracted by instant gratification.
Social media. Email. TV.
Alcohol. Drugs. Porn.
Text messages. Amazon. Etc.
Those are all easy ways to obtain a quick dopamine hit… but sadly, they take us away from the most important thing we can do:
Understanding who we are, what makes us come alive, and how we can improve our life.
As a result, most are chronically disconnected from themselves, and are failing to apply the original personal development admonition: "Know Thyself."
Most people have no idea who they really are. That's why they struggle, and barely survive rather than live it up.
Is that how life is really meant to be lived?
The Greek philosopher Socrates would have disagreed. As he once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Strong words…. but think about it:
How can you live a life you love if you don't know who you are, and what makes you tick?
Answering life's deepest questions is not easy.
These inquiries are challenging, messy and confusing.
To make matters worse, we've never been trained to answer multi-faceted questions.
Remember what school was like? There was always one right answer and everything else was wrong.
What's 2+2? 4.
Who was the first US president? George Washington.
How many elements on the period table? 118.
And so on.
But when it comes to understanding ourselves, it's not so simple.
Answers to existential questions don't come easily.
They can't be studied or memorized.
They must be contemplated, experienced, and distilled over time.
Most men can't (or choose not to) handle that.
Instead of trying to figure things out, they crack open a beer, turn on the TV or rub one out on Pornhub.
They choose short-term pleasure at the expense of long-term happiness.
And it's one of the most destructive decisions one can make.
How can we do things differently, and live a life that would have made Socrates proud?
I believe there are 4 questions we need to answer to do so.
I'm going to share each one, explain it briefly, and then we'll look at a simple framework to help you answer then effectively.
This is the most foundational of all questions, and perhaps the hardest one to answer.
But if you're going to "Know Thyself", there's no avoiding it.
Fundamentally, this question encompasses 3 facets:
a) Your preferences:
What do you love?
What do you dislike?
What makes you come alive?
b) Your strengths:
What are you naturally gifted at?
What valuable skills do you posses?
What is your Zone of Genius?
c) Your shortcomings:
What do you struggle with?
What's your Achille's heel?
What mental blackholes do you get caught in?
Understanding this will be deeply helpful in optimizing your decisions, and creating life conditions that allow you to thrive instead of merely surviving.
2. Why am I here?
Now that you have a better grasp on who you are, it's time to figure out why you're here.
I believe that all of us are born with unique talents, interests and gifts, and that our role is to figure out how we can use them to make a difference in the lives of others.
That's our purpose. Our mission.
My brother, you're not born to do a boring job just to pay the bills.
You're born to do the work that only you can do, in service to all humanity.
Here's are the 2 sub-questions to help you do that:
If you accurately answer these 2 questions, you'll have the foundation to a successful career that will give you both financial freedom and deep satisfaction.
3. Where do I want to spend my life?
Now that you have a solid understanding of who you are, and why you're here, it's time to choose where you want to build your life.
We live in an extremely fortunate time in history- it's easier than ever to move to a new city and build a life there. We're not bound to live in the place we grew up.
In my case, I was born in a small town in Canada but I realized that Boulder, CO was the perfect place for me. I rolled up my sleeves, and put in the work necessary to build a great life here. It's one of the best things I've ever done.
Based on my experience, I sincerely believe that finding a city that aligns with our answers to Questions #1 and #2 radically increases the odds we'll live a great life and put a dent in the Universe.
Here are some powerful questions to help you figure out what that place might be for you:
a) Do you prefer big cities, small towns or nature?
b) Do you prefer a city that's more progressive or traditional?
c) What are the top places in the world for your kind of work?
d) What city has always mysteriously called to you?
Once you find the right place for you, your power (and happiness) will increase dramatically, and you'll be set to answer our fourth and final question.
4. Who do I want to spend my life with?
Now that we've answered the first 3 questions, we're almost there… but we're missing a big piece:
Who do you want to spend your life with? And how do you find that person?
This is not an easy question to answer (and one I struggled with for years) but I've finally figured it out.
Here 2 sub-questions that will help you:
1) What barriers have you built against love?
The Sufi poet Rumi once said, "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
This is such a powerful idea. Most of us have been emotionally banged up through our lives, and chances are part of you has become afraid of love.
Part of you wants a relationship more than anything. But chances are, another wants to avoid it like the plague.
When I realized this was happening to me, I went to Bali for 4 months to work with a spiritual teacher who helped me open up my heart, trust again, and let go of my women-related fears.
5 days after coming back to Boulder, I met the woman of my dreams (and have been with her ever since).
2) What do you most love to do?
Most people seeking a relationship nowadays are spending inordinate amounts of time of dating websites/apps.
Personally, I've always known deep down that wasn't how I would meet my life partner.
If you feel the same way, I suggest a change of approach:
Instead of spending your time and energy on Tinder/Bumble/Match.com, challenge yourself to spend more time out in the world doing cool stuff.
Go to interesting events. Attend workshops. Seek spiritual gatherings.
Go outside your normal circle, and meet new people. Sounds simple but so few people do it these days.
If you're an inspired man, living a life you love, and bring good energy wherever you go.. you'll naturally attract the right people when you walk into a room, and magic is bound to happen.
As a recap, here are our 4 questions:
Inevitably, sitting down and writing your answers will lead to dead-ends.
We can't think our way to these answers.
I believe we need to figure them out experientially, not intellectually.
Which brings us back to the reason why I was so wild in my 20's.
I had figured out that the best way to answer these questions… was to try new things, have fun, and pay close attention to the results.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "all life is an experiment. The more experiments you do, the better."
That's why I went to all sorts of foreign places.
That's why I did all these crazy comfort zone challenges.
That's why I took on projects I didn't know how to complete.
Because every time, I was learning about myself.
About the world.
About life.
And I was getting closer to answering the 4 questions.
There's nothing stopping you from doing the same.
Here's my invitation to you: become the kind of person who sees everything as an experiment.
Because really, it is. When you try something new, it either works (which is awesome) or you learn (which is awesome too).
When you see things this way, fear of failure disappears.
It gets replaced by the trepidation of endless possibilities.
You become bolder, more adventurous, and more attractive to others.
You see life as your playground, as your lab, as an adventure to be experienced.
People might think you're crazy.
But you'll be evolving and learning about life 100x faster than them.
Because every day you'll be acquiring new data points about yourself, your life and the world around you.
That's how we become wise and capable of showing up at our best in any situation.
So go to new places. Try new activities. Talk to new people.
Experiment, experiment, experiment.
Next thing you know, you'll be figuring out your life at a radically accelerated rate…
And who knows, you might even find yourself living it up in Ibiza or facing a bull in Costa Rica.
All in the name of knowing thyself, of course.
Much love,
PS. Now I'd love to hear from you: which existential question are you currently stuck on? And what are you doing to find your answer? Let me know in the comments below.
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Sniffing the emails
Tunisia is among the first country in Africa that started harassing cyber journalists. The country was in the business of blocking websites that were critical of the deposed President Zine el-Abidine ben Ali, long before other African countries even started communicating on line. One of the means the Tunisian leaders used to monitor the online communication was by persuading people to use the local internet hosting services – most of which were owned by the President's own family – instead of the popular webmails of Yahoo and Hotmail.
The online communications of supposed dissidents were wiretapped much easier from the local service providers than the others whose servers are spread across Europe and America. To frustrate Tunisians from using webmail, opening a Yahoo mail in Tunis at the time was said to be taking about 20 minutes.
To put that in an Ethiopian setting, the government would be discouraging people from using email@example.com in favor of email@example.com . The information on the latter's account would be available on the servers of Ethio Telecom found around the La Gare area. That kind of arrangement would make it easier for the government to have access to citizens' email exchanges; at least it has control over the infrastructure.
The suicide bomber from Arat Kilo
But the powers in Addis had been in total darkness when it comes to handling those kinds of situations. Every website that was perceived to have a different view from that of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) was blocked. Human rights groups, journalist rights advocates and media owned by foreign governments – even when they were bankrolling the regime – were not spared of the onslaught.
At times the blocking could become so desperate; it turned out to be suicidal. When Blogger (a free service owned by Google) which was hosting millions of blogs was blocked in Ethiopia some years back, even the blogs of TPLF supporters had to suffer the consequences. In fact, a top level Ethiopian diplomat was among the bloggers in that platform. As the government couldn't sift through the subject and the position of the blogs that were popping with each passing day, they decided to go the suicide bomber way by blocking the entire platform. The same thing happened when they thought it was time to block Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT). They knocked their own ETV off the air for several days.
Chasing after passwords
Intolerance to dissent coupled with ignorance is at the heart of the latest repression of journalists and activists in the country. People are being arrested without evidences. The courts have no problem granting indefinite amount of time to the security forces to keep the journalists behind bars while the "evidences" are gathered.
In that regard, email account passwords have been the most prized pieces of information that security agents vie for. Almost all the detainees in the past six months have been forced to surrender their email account passwords. Most have been tortured and some have been put in solitary confinement for weeks in an attempt to force them in to revealing that piece of information. Most of them had no choice.
The surrender of that particular information has had a double edged sword effect on the "suspects". Personal information can be used by the shameless agents to blackmail the detainees unless they confess to the imagined acts of terrorism. But most important, as the journalists are in jail with their passwords surrendered, the security agents can send any information to that account and receive same, all in the name of the suspect. There have been reports that Woubshet Taye, deputy editor- in- chief of the now defunct Awramba Times, was said to have received information from a "terror accomplice" many days after he was imprisoned.
Woubshet was detained on June 19, 2011 and the prosecutor brought to the court an email exchange dated June 30, 2011 as an evidence. Reeyot Alemu, the high school English teacher and a columnist for the Amharic weekly Feteh, had her mail box stuffed with messages that she didn't know. Her plea to the court about the emails fell on deaf ears.
The prosecutor also produced dubious messages sent to the opposition leader Andualem Aragie that he never opened. Moreover, they were not exchanges between him and other parties. They were rather unsolicited emails, the origins of which are known only to the head of National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Getachew Assefa.
TPLF investigators also forced three journalists of Yemuslimoch Guday (Islamic Affairs), the Amharic monthly magazine, to surrender both their email and Facebook page passwords.
The security agents are known for planting bombs in public transport systems and blame it on others. Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, who was Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Addis, is an ardent supporter of TPLF. Even she couldn't help hiding the facts. "An embassy source, as well as clandestine reporting, suggest that the bombing may have in fact been the work of the GoE (Government of Ethiopia) security forces," she wrote in a 2006 report dispatched to the State Department. In light of that heinous crime, what they are doing to the jailed journalists and opposition leaders may look like a favor.
In order to silence the private press, the government can simply stop issuing press licenses and close its Broadcasting Agency which would actually save it some money. It is hard to sell the idea of Reeyot Alemu, Woubshet Taye, Eskinder Nega, Andualem Aragie and others plotting terrorism. If their writing has terrorized Arat Kilo, well that is another issue. That will simply enforce the adage the pen is mightier than the sword. For over six months the government has been looking for incriminating evidences all in the wrong places. As our online activities usually are not much different from what we do off line, it is time to realize for the TPLF henchmen to sober up a bit. It is also better to divert the resources to fix the shabby internet infrastructure of the country than planting fabricated messages on innocent citizens' mail boxes.


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Some of the many benefits include:
Martial Arts Programs:
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Pre-School - T.K.D. Tigers Program
Children's - Taekwondo Program
Teens and Adults - Taekwondo
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Raster is an anti-racist research network that seeks to connect researchers interested in questions of racialisation, racism and ethnic boundary-making, understood as socio-cultural practices and structures. Both as a societal phenomenon and as individual experiences, racialisation and racism intersect with differences and inequalities related to gender, class, sexuality and generation.
The network aims to analyse, question and create change in relation to these processes through research and participation in the public sphere. It provides a discussion forum for researchers addressing questions of racialisation and racism. The network cooperates with anti-racist civil society actors and engages in discussions with the general public. It also seeks to raise questions of the exclusionary processes within academic culture and institutions.
Raster is a network for researchers who work in Finland. The network has an e-mail list for communication. If you are interested in joining the list please contact Minna Seikkula (minna.seikkula at helsinki.fi).
The network's contact persons are coordinator Minna Seikkula (University of Helsinki) and editor-in-chief Leonardo Custódio (Åbo Akademi University). For contacts please e-mail the coordinator: minna.seikkula at helsinki.fi.
The language of the network and its e-mail-list is English. When participating in public discussions we also use Finnish and Swedish. Raster continues the work of a previous anti-racist research network that was called Rasmus-researchers.
Previous activities
Critical Interrogations on Whiteness
Time: Monday 6.11.2017 at 10-16
Place: P674, Pothania, Yliopistonkatu 3, University of Helsinki
Whiteness is the unmarked and invisible norm against which others are evaluated and defined. On the other hand, it is increasingly visible in fierce nationalist agendas and other kinds of identity politics. Given this duality, it is important to examine what whiteness is and how scholars should examine it theoretically and empirically. What are the relations between embodied experiences, structural inequalities and cultural meanings in the (different) understandings of whiteness? What is the relationship between whiteness and racism, and for what purposes do we need the concept of whiteness? Does the study of whiteness re-center the norm and how can we prevent that?
Please register for the seminar at
Welcoming words: Suvi Keskinen and Gwenaëlle Bauvois
Steve Garner: The Moral Economy of Whiteness and its Political Uses
Ylva Habel: 50 Shades of White Fragility: Taking Stock of Recent Debates
Lunch (at own cost)
Faith Mkwesha: Unhu-Ubuntu Feminism: Incorporating Sahwira Relations in Nordic Feminist Practice
Daria Krivonos: Welfare Chauvinism At The Margins Of Whiteness: Young Unemployed Russian-Speakers' Claims to Whiteness and Worker-Citizenship in Finland
Aleksi Huhta: "All Men Are Equal but Chinamen?" Finnish-American Socialists and the Debate on Asian Immigration in the Early Twentieth Century
Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji & Leonardo Custodio: Responding to Challenges Faced by Racialized Scholars in the White Academia
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Closing words
Professor Steve Garner from Birmingham City University (UK) is a sociologist who has written extensively on whiteness and racism. His recent study The Moral Economies of Whiteness analyses the main ways in which white people make 'race' through talking about immigration in current neoliberal society. http://www.bcu.ac.uk/social-sciences/about-us/staff/steve-garner
Dr. Ylva Habel is Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies, who works at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Study on Racism at Uppsala University (Sweden). She has published widely on anti-black racism, whiteness, black feminism, African diaspora, media and visual culture. Of specific interest in her research has been the affective economy of Swedish exceptionalist, colorblind discourses. http://rasismforskning.uu.se/research/#Ylva_Habel
The seminar is organised by the antiracist research network RASTER, the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU), the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) at the University of Helsinki, and the project Postethnic Activism in the Neoliberal Era: Translocal Studies on Political Subjectivities, Alliance-Building and Social Imaginaries (2014-2019, Academy of Finland).
Decolonizing education -workshop 17.3.2017
Raster-network organises a workshop on Friday 17.2.2017 at 12:00 – 16:00 at Åbo Akademi University, Arken, aud. Westermarck, Turku.
We will discuss ho to challenge the white and western curriculum at the universities. The seminar includes a panel discussion with short presentations and a workshop session.
Antiracist activism and the challenging of normative whiteness –panel
Raster-network organises a discussion panel at the Antiracist Forum on Saturday 1.10.2016 at 11:15-13:15 at Cultural centre Caisa, Mikonkatu 17C, Helsinki. The panel members will tell about the kinds of antiracist activism they are organising/participating in and discuss how to challenge normative whiteness. Combining researcher and activist views, as well as perspectives from France/Sweden/Finland and different organisations the panel seeks to bring new insights to the field of antiracism and the understandings of racism.
The following researchers and activists will participate in the panel:
– Wendy Francis, Arga flickor-podcast and Interfem, Sweden
– Araia Ghirmai Sebhatu, Black Coffee-movement, Sweden
– Suada Gruda, StreetGäris-network, Sweden
– Anna Rastas, University of Tampere
– Leena Suurpää, Finnish Youth Research Society
The panel is organised by the antiracist research network Raster and the project Postethnic Activism in the Neoliberal Era.
The politics of (anti-)racism: perspectives on research and teaching –seminar
Date: Thursday 15.10.2015 at 10 – 16:30
Place: The University of Helsinki. Building: Economicum, seminar room 3-4.
Address: Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki.
The first seminar of the Anti-racist Research Network Raster discusses what anti-racism means in research and teaching. In current times, we encounter the need to analyse racism and its different forms when following media and political debates, everyday interaction and structural inequalities. Moreover, the historical legacies of racial thinking and colonialism bear a role in today's societies, although they are often bypassed. How can one practice anti-racism in research and teaching? How do researchers participate in public discussions and other civil society activities while seeking to challenge ethnic and racial hierarchies?
10:15 – 10:20 Welcoming words
10:20 – 11:05 Gavan Titley (University of Ireland, Maynooth): The Debatability of Racism
11:05 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 13:00 Aminkeng Atabong (University of Helsinki): Anti-racism education in Finland? A personal research journey
13:00 – 13:30 Kari Saari (Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences): Experiences on face-to-face interviews with young nativists in Eastern Finland
13:30 – 14:30 Discussion about the network activities and future plans
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 15:15 Pauline Hortelano (Åbo Akademi University): Anti-racism: Of unlearning and norming
15:15 – 15:45 Camilla Haavisto (University of Helsinki): Teaching for solidarity and anti-racism: Some obstacles and solutions
15:45 – 16:15 Markus Himanen, Mikko Aarnio, Hanna-Maria Seppä & Hannele Huhtala (Piilosta näkyväksi-project): Practices of Administrative Detention of Foreigners in Finland
16:15 – 16:30 Closing words
In the evening we organise a panel discussion that is open for the general public. This event is in Finnish, but you can comment or ask questions also in English.
Both events are organised by the Raster-network, CEREN (Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism), the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki and the project Postethnic Activism in the Neoliberal Era.
Please register for the seminar and/or the discussion event at the seminar's registration page. (Closed)
Rasismi ja sen haastaminen nykypäivän Suomessa
Aika: torstai 15.10.2015 klo 17:30 – 20:00
Paikka: Festsal -luentosali, 1. krs, Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolan, Helsingin yliopisto, Snellmaninkatu 12, Helsinki
Onko rasismi vain yksittäisten ihmisten ennakkoluuloja ja tiedon puutetta? Miten rasismia voidaan ymmärtää yhteiskuntaamme laajemmin kuvaavana ilmiönä? Keskustelutilaisuudessa pohditaan, mitä rasismi oikeastaan on ja miten sitä voidaan haastaa ja kyseenalaistaa. Millaista rasismia Suomessa esiintyy ja millä keinoin kansalaisaktiivit, julkiseen keskusteluun osallistuvat kirjoittajat ja tutkijat sitä toimillaan pyrkivät purkamaan?
Maryan Abdulkarim, kirjoittaja-aktivisti
Ahmed Al-Nawas, monikulttuurisuus- ja taideasiantuntija, kirjoittaja
Veronika Honkasalo, tutkijatohtori, Nuorisotutkimusseura
Koko Hubara, blogikirjoittaja ja toimittaja
Kari Saari, tutkija, Mikkelin ammattikorkeakoulu
Seminaarin ja keskustelutilaisuuden järjestävät rasisminvastainen tutkijaverkosto Raster, CEREN (Etnisten suhteiden ja nationalismin tutkimuskeskus), Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolan, Helsingin yliopisto ja tutkimushanke Postethnic Activism in the Neoliberal Era.


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Most of the times I get a book on ebay I am extremely happy with it. A lot of the sellers will ship the book right away and the conditions are fairly accurate. Unfortunately, there are times when the books are not exactly what you expected.
My first experience with books not exactly as advertised were when I purchased a few Astonishing Tales issues featuring Deathlok. The issues did not come in bags and boards for one. Who does that? Who has comics books without bags and boards, but more importantly who sells and ships comics without the bags and boards? Just wrong. The second problem was the fact that there was a gummy bear stuck in between two of the issues. How does that happen? The poor stray sweet ursa was some how dropped while these books were being laid together. A person handling old comics and eating candy repulses me as a nerd, but also baffles me as an ebay member.
The comics were extremely cheap and I guess the above complications were reasons why. A book that is going for a much lower price than the comic's worth is usually a sign that something is up, and that is exactly what happened when I purchased Wolverine #1.
Wolverine #1 was supposed to be in about near mint (NM) condition. I know that when getting a comic online to expect a slightly lesser value than quoted and so I was expecting a comic in fine(F) condition...which I was fine with. When the issue came it appeared to be beautiful. Very clean looking and wonderfully crisp on the edges. But then I opened the bagged and boarded book. The back had a crease right down the middle! The crease automatically bumped it down in value. I was so bummed.
Needless to say I did not give that seller a 5 star review; however, I did not give them an incredibly poor review either. The book may not have been in the condition advertised, but I never asked for addition images of this comic of the day. I could have asked for some pictures of the back of the book, but I got excited and just bid and won right away. Though the seller was shady, I still blame myself for not being thorough. May Wolverine #1 be a lesson to all ebay buyers. Make sure you know what you are getting before you bid and then hope the images weren't fake.
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Thanks to the pressures of grad school (including a time- and energy-consuming struggle to get my online work taken seriously as creative nonfiction), I haven't been able to draft the longer essays I'd like to do for Church History Thursdays. If I get authorization to use these blogs for a thesis project, I'll be able to write more consistently again--wish me luck!
For now, I'll leave some notes about things I'd like to discuss to at least give you some idea where we're headed:
1) I think Joseph Smith made mistakes that contributed to discontent over the Fall of the Kirtland Bank--and that we can learn something productive from recognizing both what mistakes he might have made and what positive long-term affects the Kirtland Bank experience had on the church in spite of its flawed execution.
2) You may have heard that Joseph Smith once got into a fist-fight with an Apostle--who also happened to be his brother. Could the human details of this story become part of our understanding of a dynamic restoration?
3) Missouri's "Mormon War," in which the Governor issued an order authorizing the extermination and/or forced removal of all Mormons from the state, figures prominently in LDS cultural memory. I'd like to speculate on what might have motivated Joseph Smith, Lyman Wight, and Thomas Marsh to take three separate courses before and during the war, each of them problematic. I'd also like to talk about how my rougher version of history can be spiritually instructive today.
Thank you for your patience thus far--hopefully it will be rewarded in the near future.


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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A Question of Human Rights
Keeping the F1 Racing Series Out of Bahrain
by Dave Zirin
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On April 22nd, the royal family of Bahrain is determined to stage its annual Formula 1 Grand Prix race. This might not sound like scintillating news, but whether the event goes off as planned is a question with major ramifications for the royal Khalifa family, as well as for the democracy movement in the Gulf kingdom. It will be viewed closely by the US state department and human rights organizations across the globe. From a renowned prisoner on a two month hunger strike to a British billionaire fascist sympathizer, the sides have been sharply drawn.
For the Bahraini royals, staging the Formula 1 race is a chance to show the people that normalcy has returned following last year's massive pro-democracy protests. In 2011, the race was cancelled to the rage of the royals. Now, the royal family is hoping that the 60 people slaughtered by Bahraini and Saudi forces, as well as the thousands arrested and tortured can be forgotten in the roar of the engines.
For those protesting in the name of expanded political and personal freedoms, the return of the F1 racing series as a slap in the face, given all they've suffered in the last year and continue to suffer today. Now the protest movement and human rights organizations are calling upon Bernie Ecclestone, the CEO of Formula 1 Grand Prix, to cancel the race.
Maryam al-Khawaja, head of the foreign relations office at the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, said:
"The government promised changes last year but no changes have taken place because there is no incentive to make them. And tortures are still taking place. The government want the message to go out that it is business as usual. But today armored vehicles went into residential areas for the first time since last year's martial law ended in June. I have heard reports of protesters being thrown from rooftops and others having legs broken. That it is why Formula One should make a stand and call this race off."
At a mass anti-F1 rally, Ali Mohammed commented to the AP, "We don't want Formula [1] in our country. They are killing us every day with tear gas. They have no respect for human rights or democracy. Why would we keep silent? No one will enjoy the F1 in Bahrain with cries for freedom from the inside and outside of the race."
Then there is prominent activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has been on hunger strike for more than 50 days. Calls for his immediate release have merged with calls for the F1 cancellation. Protesters are described as holding al-Khawaja's picture in one hand, and a "no to F1" sign in the other.
1996 F1 champion Damon Hill, who is now a commentator for Rupert Murodch's Sky News also expressed his concern, saying, "It would be a bad state of affairs, and bad for Formula One, to be seen to be enforcing martial law in order to hold the race. That is not what this sport should be about. Looking at it today you'd have to say that [the race] could be creating more problems than it's solving."
One might think that all of this would pose a moral and ethical quandary for 81-year old Formula 1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone. One would be wrong. The multi-billionaire Ecclestone, the 4th richest man in England, has done little more than roll his eyes. In February, when hundreds were arrested and tortured for protesting on the anniversary of the 2011 uprising, he was asked if the F1 race would be pulled, He said, "I expected there was going to be a big uprising today, with the anniversary. But I think what happened, apparently, was that here were a lot of kids having a go at the police. I don't think it's anything serious at all."
In March, Ecclestone said of the plans for Bahrain, "It's business as usual. I don't think the people who are trying to demonstrate a little bit are going to use anything to do with F1. If they did they would be a little bit silly…The good thing about Bahrain is it seems more democratic there than most places. People are allowed to speak when they want, they can protest if they want to." There is no word as to what color the sky is in Ecclestone's world or if at the conclusion of this interview, he released the hounds.
Not to shock anyone, but this 81 year old British billionaire has in the past expressed sympathy for Adolf Hitler, and by "past" I mean 2009. During an interview in July of that year, Ecclestone said, "Apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people able to get things done…..If you have a look at a democracy it hasn't done a lot of good for many countries — including this one."
This is an ugly twisted old brute, but say this for him: at least he commented when asked about Bahrain. That's far more that we can say for President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a consultant to Human Rights Watch, wrote, "President Obama... loses his voice when it comes to Bahrain." This isn't just oversight or happenstance. Bahrain happily houses the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, and has pledged to do so for another 50 years. It appears that this favor has bought silence and that's exactly why we need to be loud. The call has gone out form inside of Bahrain to call upon Formula 1 to cancel this race. We should do our part.
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