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We've all had to start over. Whether that means moving to a new city, leaving a job, or recovering from an illness, it's tough to start from scratch. But embracing the unknown can lead to new perspectives. In this episode of Relate, you'll hear from a man who was attacked by a white supremacist shortly after 9/11, which led him to find new meaning in his life... and in the life of his assailant.
Featured in this episode:
World Without Hate Founder and President, Rais Bhuiyan
Thrill-seeker and women's rights advocate Carol Murray
Reunited sisters Dr. Michelle Rathgeb and Kristin Carey
On Relate: "Are you too old to pivot? Not when armed with a plan and a glue stick."
SPEAKER: I lost my job pretty suddenly, so that was definitely a moment where I kind of had to figure out what I was gonna do next.
SPEAKER: We had a, I guess you'd call it a home invasion and, I lost everything.
TAMARA STANNERS: I started over in life when I decided to stop doing drugs and became a drug and alcohol counselor.
SPEAKER: I was moving from Tokyo, Japan and I had to rebuild my friendships, my social life. It was very challenging for me, really difficult.
TAMARA STANNERS: So, as you might've guessed this episode of Relate is all about starting over. Think back to a time in your life where everything came to a screeching halt. You lost a job or maybe you moved to a new city and you had to rethink everything about your life. I mean, it happens to everyone, but not everyone deals with these big moments the same way. Coming up on the Relate podcast you're going to hear an unbelievable story of a skydiving trip that did not go well at all. There's the story of a doctor from Pittsburgh who went searching for a family she never knew. And then there's the story of Rais Bhuiyan. I'm not even gonna tell you what he went through now, but the way he rebuilt his life is so inspiring.
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TAMARA STANNERS: I'm Tamara Stanners and this is Relate by Zendesk. It's a show all about relationships. Old ones, new ones, and some that are totally unlikely. We're gonna start off with the relationship that is clearly one of attacker and victim and it's intense, but I think you'll be amazed by how the relationship changes over time.
RAIS BHUIYAN: I left my family and my fiance back home to get the education I wanted and to experience the American dream. I lived there for a couple of years and then I moved to Dallas right before 9/11.
TAMARA STANNERS: Rais Bhuiyan found work at a gas station in a rough part of town. In August he was held up at gunpoint. A man put a gun to his temple and demanded all the money. Then, September 11th happened. Across America there's a spike in hate crimes against Muslims. Then, on Friday, September 21st Rais is at work at the gas station. It's about 12:30 in the afternoon. It's raining outside.
RAIS BHUIYAN: Business is pretty slow. Suddenly I see a customer is walking wearing bandana, sunglasses, baseball cap, and holding a double barrel shotgun. He walks in and I was pretty afraid since I was robbed in the past in the same gas station. I offer him the money. He is not looking at the money, he's looking at me directly. He mumbles a question, "Where are you from?" I'm panicked. I'm very much concerned that why he needs to know where am I from. I say, "Excuse me." And then I hear the sound. The big explosion. He shot me from four to five feet away. It feels like a millions of bees is stinging my face and I scream very loudly, "Mom."
TAMARA STANNERS: Rais decided that he has to pretend he's dying so that this man won't shoot him again. The attacker finally leaves and Rais manages to get someone in the shop next door to call 9-1-1. He's rushed to hospital.
RAIS BHUIYAN: My brain was shutting down, I could not see anything clearly, I could not even think, and was very afraid. I thought I was dying and at the same time images of my mother, my father, my siblings, and fiancee appeared before my eyes and then a graveyard.
TAMARA STANNERS: A few hours after he was shot, Rais lost consciousness and was placed on life support. He had more than three dozen shotgun pellets lodged in his body. He lost vision in one eye. He was at a private hospital and he had no insurance, so he was discharged the next morning.
RAIS BHUIYAN: With that, the second part of my American nightmare just began. I lost home cause I couldn't work and no longer pay rent. My father suffered a stroke when he heard what had happened to me and, um, I lost my sense of security and, uh, developed some sorts of fear that if I go outside somebody would shoot me. So, anytime I went outside I kept looking over my shoulder. I got more than $60,000 in medical bills and I reached out to Red Cross hoping that they would help me to cover my medical bills, but after several communications with them finally they told me I qualified for one week's worth of grocery. I also lost my fiance. She was under the impression that I would never be able to go back home. So, at some point she moved on and married somebody else.
TAMARA STANNERS: The man who shot Rais was a white supremacist with a history of violence and armed robberies. His name was Mark Stroman and he went on a shooting rampage after 9/11, killing two men and severely injuring Rais Bhuiyan.
RAIS BHUIYAN: He told the news media that what he did most Americans wanted to do, but didn't have the guts. He claimed he's a patriot, he's a true American, and he said America was no place for Muslims. Well, when this incident happen I was completely shocked. I couldn't believe that I would become a victim of a hate crime in my dream country and it totally destroyed my life.
TAMARA STANNERS: After a brief trial Mark Stroman was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
RAIS BHUIYAN: And I was told to move on with my own life and there shouldn't be any kind of communication with Mark or with his family or with his association.
TAMARA STANNERS: In 2009, Rais is getting his life on track. He's paid down his debts and is able to make the pilgrimage to Mecca with his mother.
RAIS BHUIYAN: We stayed there for a month and prayed almost 14 to 15 hours per day. And asking God that why did you save my life? And why did you bring me to Mecca? And what am I supposed to do with this life? And I was asking for God's guidance to keep my promise that I made on my death bed that if I get a chance to live I would do good things with my life. And I kept thinking about the shooting incident and I thought about Mark Stroman as well who had been sitting on a death row for several years. And I- I felt for him and I- I realized that by killing him we will lose simply a human life without dealing with the root cause. I- I deeply realized that--that hate and revenge may bring temporary satisfaction, but they never bring peace or solution to any situation. They only bring more disaster and misery. I came back as a changed person. I felt my heart was changed. My heart was replaced with someone else's heart and I was thinking why people commit crime, become violent, kill others? What can we do to stop this madness to save human lives?
TAMARA STANNERS: When he returned to Dallas, Rais started to look into local human rights campaigns. He began volunteering.
TAMARA STANNERS: And he began to connect with the activist community.
RAIS BHUIYAN: And I was introduced with more people and I explained my desire to save Mark Stroman's life. And then, we started a campaign at the end of 2010.
TAMARA STANNERS: Rais made many requests to try to meet Stroman in person.
RAIS BHUIYAN: But, unfortunately it was denied again and again.
TAMARA STANNERS: The appeals for a stay of execution were repeatedly denied. Then, just one month before Mark Stroman's scheduled execution Rais receives a letter.
RAIS BHUIYAN: I wanted to read it when everything is quiet. So, I read the letter at 1:00 am.
MARK STROMAN: Dear Rais, my stepfather taught me some lessons that I should never have learned. I've unlearned some of them and I'm still working on some of them. I don't know who your parents were but obviously they're wonderful people to lead you to act this way to forgive someone who you have every right to hate.
RAIS BHUIYAN: And when I was lying on my bed, I was thinking that I'm a free man in a free world going to bed at night. And there's another human being I came to know. I ... you know, we interacted in a pretty terrible way. Also going to bed at night but in a different environment because he did something pretty bad. And pretty soon, his life will come to an end.
TAMARA STANNERS: Stroman was scheduled to die on July 20th, 2011. Appeals are launched and denied. Rais continues to try to speak with Stroman, always denied. Then something unexpected happens. Rais gets a call.
MARK STROMAN: Rais? How are you doing, Rais? Man, thank you for everything you're trying to do for me, man. You are inspiring. Thank you from my heart, dude.
RAIS BHUIYAN: Mark, I forgive you and I don't hate you. I never hated you.
MARK STROMAN: Thank you for- for being such an awesome person. I mean that.
RAIS BHUIYAN: You will be always there.
MARK STROMAN: Thank you. Hey, say ... you- you've touched my heart. I- I wouldn't never have expected ...
RAIS BHUIYAN: And then he told me, "I love you, bro." And as soon as he said that, I could not hold my tears. I- I became very emotional that this is the same human being who shot me in the face and killed two others because his heart was filled with hate and ignorance. And now he was able to see me as his brother and that he said, "Rais ... you know, they are calling me. I have to go." They were taking him near the execution chamber and that's how this conversation ended. He was in- in peace before he was executed and he felt love from different people from all over the world. He left the world as a peaceful person, not as an angry man.
TAMARA STANNERS: Rais has now dedicated his life to a world without hate. That's the name of the nonprofit he started.
RAIS BHUIYAN: It is pretty sad that, you know, what we are seeing in the world right now, all kinds of hatred and bigotry, it seems that we are going backward. I mean, instead of painting 1.5 billion Muslims with the same brush and that's what Mark Stroman did. He didn't see me as an individual person, as a human being. He saw me a Muslim and he painted me with the same paint brush he used to paint those 9/11 terrorists, those who committed a crime. I'm always hopeful. No matter how long is the night, there is a morning. I pray every single day that all this rhetoric will not only cause, you know, pain and suffering but that it also help open up a lot of human hearts.
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TAMARA STANNERS: Okay, so we're going to move from one heart-palpitating story to another. And this time, the drama unfolds at high altitude. And really, it's a story about being given a second chance at life against all odds and against the law of gravity.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: Skydiving was something that I wanted to do for a long time. I always loved roller coasters, loved doing fun, exciting things and it was just something I wanted to do for a long time.
TAMARA STANNERS: This is Carol Murray Rodriguez.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: I would describe my life as someone that had just turned 24 and was figuring out what she wanted to be and what she wanted to do in the world. I really liked just doing fun, thrill-seeking things. It felt freeing in a way when I did a big jump thing one time. And it just felt just so freeing that I'd never felt before and it just looked really intriguing to me.
TAMARA STANNERS: It was almost 20 years ago. Carol and her then boyfriend, Ian, had started dating just a few months before. It was his birthday and they decided to celebrate it by going skydiving but things didn't go according to plan.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: I remember the rain. It rained and rained and rained. And it was the day of Lady Diana's funeral, so I remember hearing that on the radio and the talk was all around. We were both so incredibly tired because we were up late the night before. So it rained so much so that were about eight of us that were jumping that day for the first time on our own, not in tandem ... that by the time we were able to jump, it was getting to late afternoon and early evening. We didn't have anywhere to go so we said, "You guys go ahead. We can go last." We then made it to the plane and we were about to get in and they told us it was too late. We had to come back the next morning. So we come back again early the next morning and we went up in the plane and we couldn't get enough altitude, so we had to land in the plane. And at that point, I said this is ... you know, this ... I have to listen to my instinct here. I don't think I'm supposed to be doing this.
TAMARA STANNERS: And there were more troubling signs that caught Carol's attention.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: They were re-packing the parachutes and they had a 12-year-old son who was helping them pack the parachutes. And I remember thinking that that was really bizarre. And I went to them and I said, "Why is your kid packing parachutes?" And they're like, "Oh, no. He's trained and he knows what he's doing." Looking back now, I wish I would have had more confidence to say this is just wrong. I'm getting out of here.
TAMARA STANNERS: Carol had her doubts but she decided to go through with it.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: I don't have tons of memories from the day. I remember being at the parachute school. I remember hanging around and waiting but my mind has completely shut off. I have no recollection ever ... I never have of getting in the van to go to the plane. I don't have ... I don't remember getting in the plane. I don't remember jumping. I only remember falling. So the first thing that I remember is panic and I think it's related to the sound because I wore a one-way radio. So they could not hear me on the ground but there was a coach on the ground that would speak to me. And they taught us, throughout the day, the things to listen for and- and what you would do. And all I heard the guy saying was, "Look, thumb, pull." And that meant I look to my left and you pull with your right thumb and you pull the reserve chute. And then the first chute is supposed to fly away and the reserve will come out. So I remember feeling the wind was tugging my body around and around and it was really forceful. I don't remember seeing anything but I remember hearing this man yell, "Look, thumb, pull. Look, thumb, pull."
SPEAKER: Look, thumb, pull.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: And every time he said it, his voice was screeching more and more-
SPEAKER: Look, thumb, pull. Look, thumb, pull.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: And I could tell by what I was feeling that things weren't right. And certainly by his voice, it gave me a huge sense of panic.
SPEAKER: Look, thumb, pull.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: I could tell that something was really definitely wrong. And I just remember my body relaxing and fainting and saying, "Oh, God. I'm gonna die." In my mind, I remember fainting but the police reports say otherwise. The witnesses heard me screaming all the way down. It probably wasn't long. I know that it was 3,200 feet and I know that I hit the ground at 90 kilometers an hour. And I know that my right leg and my femur came right out and pummeled right three and a half inches into the ground.
TAMARA STANNERS: Carol's chute didn't open and her backup chute failed too. The instructor testified after that she half-flipped in the air when she jumped out and maybe that's why her chutes got tangled and failed. She says now she doesn't think it matters why it happened, just that it did.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: And then the next thing I remember... I had memories of paramedics telling me to wiggle my toes and saying, "Good girl, you can wiggle your toes." And I woke up in the hospital probably 12 to 16 hours later. And I just remember waking up and saying, "Oh, my God. I'm alive." I felt this overwhelming feeling. It was this really weird sense that I've never felt before that just tingled right through me. I couldn't believe that ... I couldn't believe I was alive and they told me my injuries. And at the time, they thought I'd be okay in 6 to 12 weeks.
TAMARA STANNERS: The doctors were wrong, it took much longer. That initial prognosis of six to 12 weeks, turned into years of surgeries and interventions. Carol had broken both femurs, she'd broken her pelvis, several ribs, chipped a vertebrae, punctured a lung. She had a concussion and stitches in her chin, from the strap of the helmet. Within days of the accident, Carol developed an infection in the right leg. It was so bad, doctors thought they would have to amputate. Finally, the surgeons tried something that had never been done on such a large segment of bone. They removed about six inches of Carol's femur and overtime her right leg rebuilt itself. It was a medical miracle but it was also disturbing to Carol's sense of herself and her body.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: I just remember waking up in my room and being terrified, feeling that something wasn't right. I felt mutilated. I felt almost inhuman in some ways. I almost disassociated myself from my leg because I would move myself and then someone would come move my leg.
TAMARA STANNERS: It was one of the hardest stretches in a long road to recovery. A few months later, she was able to leave the hospital. She says it took about another year and a half before she was able to walk with a cane.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: And I think it probably could have been quicker but I was terrified. I, I had images of putting full weight on my leg and the whole thing crashing down. Like emotionally I wasn't ready. I had aqua-therapy like four days a week. So, I walked in the pool first and then in shallower and shallower water. And I remember the first day that I did it with a cane, outside the water, instead of a crutch. I felt so free. I felt so free. I I went home and wept. I went home and thought, "Oh my god, I'm going to be able to do it." I was then able to start you know, getting myself to try to start looking for jobs and go back on my own again.
TAMARA STANNERS: On her own again because one of the relationships that didn't survive her accident, was her relationship with Ian. They separated three years later, when they were both 27. Carol had recovered by then, from the broken bones and all the procedures that she'd gone through. But now, alone, she faced the fundamental question, why did she survive?
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: I did feel that, I must be alive for a reason and I owed it to myself to work on that and to see what that reason was.
TAMARA STANNERS: Carol was purposeful about the career she chose after her accident.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: So I'm a professional fundraiser. So and I work on the business side of nonprofit. And we help women in all areas of their lives for equality to live in a positive atmosphere and to have livable wages. To have childcare, to have housing, to have support. All those things that are needed. And it's really important to me. It's really, I think, part of my identity. Yeah, the accident actually gave me a lot of confidence, in many things in my life. Because I would say, if I can do that, I can certainly do this. It allowed me to understand, uh, the importance of trying things. And to look at the reasons why to go ahead and try to do something as opposed to letting those obstacles get in my way.
TAMARA STANNERS: These days Carol is reflecting on the meaning of her life. And how the world might have been different had she not survived.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: Well, it's really interesting because we were just talking about my family in Cuba and that's what I think of first, in everything that we do for them. And my husband, who I met, who's from the middle of nowhere in Cuba. I think of their lives and how their lives would still be really impoverished. And, um, not as much hope as they have now and even the whole extended family. So, they're the first thing that comes to mind because of, we've really been able to change their lives. I wouldn't have been there. Oh god, this is a hard one. Probably my nieces and my nephew, I have a good relationship with them. My mom, if I would have died, it would of been the second child she lost. I think I'm a person that does a lot for people and, and I do my part in the world. But I, what wouldn't not have, would of been missing, I think it made you know, I don't think anything really significant. But for my family it would have been, definitely, definitely for my family. I couldn't imagine that.
TAMARA STANNERS: September 7th 2017, will mark 20 years since Carol's accident.
CAROL RODRIGUEZ: You caught me at a really weak time because normally I don't get upset talking about it but you know, once 2017 hit, I said, "Oh my god, it's gonna be 20 years." And again, I feel like, in some ways I feel like I have a debt because I want to make changes and, and be even better. And being honest with people if they've said or did something that makes me uncomfortable. Instead of just letting it happen and not telling them, I just want things to be straight and better. It's more about me this year, yeah. I'm using it as an opportunity to I don't know, to tune up myself. But for me yeah, death is a part of life. And I'm trying to have a healthier relationship with it but I'm not afraid of it. I'm not afraid of it. Just make the best of it while you're here.
TAMARA STANNERS: Okay, so most of us don't have to face our own mortality in such a traumatic way. But we are all confronted with situations where we have to start over, in work, sometimes with our family, maybe in a new community. We've got tips for making the most of these sorts of situations. Including a story on "The Pivot Method" and how you can plan a career or life-shift more effectively. Check out the blog at Relate.Zendesk.com.
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TAMARA STANNERS: Starting over is the theme of this episode of Relate. And I want you to imagine that there's someone out there in the world that you've never met. You don't know their name. You don't know what they look like but you are connected to this person in some fundamental way. I bet you'd want to meet them, right? Well, have a listen to this story about a doctor in Pittsburgh, who set out on a quest to find a family she'd never met. Michelle Rathgeb lives just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She always knew that she was going to be a doctor.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: It's funny, I've known forever. I mean, I can't even trace back. For sure, I remember talking about it in 1st grade.
TAMARA STANNERS: Michelle's home life was great growing up. Although she never really felt that she fit in with her parents and sisters and brother. She always knew she'd been adopted, so she felt that there was something missing in her life. It took the birth of her son to crystallize that feeling.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: When I had my son particularly and he was born in 2003. When I had him, he looks a lot like me and we don't look like anyone else that we know. So, that really ... I said, "My god, who do we look like?"
TAMARA STANNERS: Call it a genealogical itch that just had to get scratched. Her first step was to go to the people who handled her adoption, Catholic Charities and request whatever information they could provide.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: I remember going to the mailbox. I remember seeing this thick envelope with Catholic Charities and I totally ripped into it right away. I really did, I could not put it down. I could not stop reading it. I reread it over and over again, thinking, "Oh my gosh, this is my first information." This is non-identifying information regarding your mother and your father. It, it was unbelievable to read. Just to have something about them, something tangible. You know because I had known nothing. It mentioned their ages. It mentioned their height, their weight, their hair color, their eye color, how many siblings they had.
TAMARA STANNERS: It was equal parts a lot and not nearly enough. The appetizer that lets you know how hungry you really are. And she wanted more so, the nuns who run Catholic Charities, put her in touch with a group called, Worldwide Tracers. Their rule was, if they could find your parents and if the parents wanted to contact the child, they'd get everyone in touch. It took several months until another letter arrived. This time, a thin letter.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: I remember rejection letters from medical school being thin so I was not happy about getting a thin letter. But I opened it up and it, it actually said "we, you know we regret to inform you that your father had passed away in 2006, but we are able to give you his name." And they said George F. Carey, and I'm like, "Wow, I have a name. Oh, my God, I have a name."
TAMARA STANNERS: She also had a lead, a starting point.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: He was an attaché, he worked for the government, he lived over in Poland. That he was a colonel in the United States Air Force. I mean, all this kind of neat stuff. But I could not find an address. It was kind of a generic name, so when you would Google up, George. F. Carey, as well, there were, you know, tons, and tons, and tons of names that would come up. I remember though distinctly being very sad that he had passed away. You know, he passed away in 2006, it's 2007. My God, I missed this search by a year.
TAMARA STANNERS: But, she kept looking for other members of her family. It turned into something of a hobby. Michelle and her team of detectives that soon included her husband Matt and even their nanny, scoured the internet for any links to her family. Eventually, they found an obituary for a man who might have been her grandfather. It seems like that would be a dead end, but it wasn't. The brief writeup yielded a trove of names. You know how obits always say, "The departed is survived by." Well, those are the people they went looking for. They decided to focus on one relative with a unique name and when they found her, or thought they did, Michelle wrote a letter to the woman she hoped would be her aunt.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: You know, there were so many thoughts going through my head like, "Maybe she doesn't even know. Maybe no one knows about me." You know, they gave me up for adoption, he was in college, probably tried to keep it secret, so I thought, "Oh my God, I could be exploding things here."
TAMARA STANNERS: Michelle never heard back and there were other setbacks. They went up to the school where her dad had gone to college to try to get a photo, only to find that the year he graduated there was no yearbook published. But then, on a whim they tried another name.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: Sometimes we would just be sitting in the study at night and Matt would say, "Hey, you know, let's, let's bring up some names, let's see what we can find," and sometimes we would just start Googling and for some reason one night we go to the obituary, we're looking at it again, and he said, "Let's just type in Kristin Carey." I said, "Oh my gosh, that name, I mean six bazillion people are going to come up," and Matt's like, "Oh my God, you have got to see this picture." He goes, "Michelle, um, whoa," and I walk over and I'm like, "Oh my God," because there was something about our eyes, something about our upper face, cheek area. I said, "Oh my gosh, there's really a resemblance. This ... " I said, "No way, this can't be."
KRISTIN CAREY: You know, you look at your phone (phone sound) and scrolling through and it, it said a Dr. Michelle Rathgeb and I thought, "I don't know who that was," and I thought it was an ad for Botox, or, you know, you get those crazy ass ads, right?
TAMARA STANNERS: This is Kristin Carey.
KRISTIN CAREY: For some reason I just clicked on it and, uh, read this beautiful letter claiming that this woman and I shared a father. So I was just ... I sat there for a second and I said, "Well, maybe my dad ... " My dad was really, um, a lady's man, let's say, and maybe he had had another girlfriend before my mom, maybe he had cheated on my mom, because they were college sweethearts. I didn't know. So I called my mom and I said, "Hey, I got this email from this woman, this doctor in Pennsylvania that, that we share the same father. Do you know if dad had a girlfriend, or an affair?" You know, and my mom said, "No." And I said, "Oh, that's weird." And for some reason something popped into my head, I got to tell you, it's that surreal slow-motion kind of thing, and I just said to my mom, I said, "Is this your and dad's kid?" And she said, "No," and I knew from the tone of her voice, I could hear it, that she was lying and then she started crying. My father's family did not want them to have the baby and would not pay for him to finish college if they did. They must've both been about 19, and my mom came from a poor family, and they didn't want to take responsibility, and so they went to Catholic charities and my mom lived there, and had the baby there.
TAMARA STANNERS: The painful irony here is that when Kristin was a kid, all she ever wanted was a sibling.
KRISTIN CAREY: I grew up an only child and I hated every single day of it, I can't even tell you. It was ... It's a sore subject, I used to ask my parents every Christmas for a brother or sister, every single Christmas I would ask, and I would get, you know, a pogo stick, or Atari, or Merlin, or Simon, or any games you can play by yourself I got.
TAMARA STANNERS: But now, with a prospect of actually getting her wish, Kristin could barely contain herself.
KRISTIN CAREY: I felt this incredible desperate need, I had to email this woman back and tell her that I was her full blood sister, not her half sister and that her mother was here.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: I always go down really early in the morning to do my business stuff. I look at my banking and I brought up my email and it said, "Kristin Carey," and I, and I'm not a hokey dramatic person, but I was literally having palpitations. And I opened the email and she said, "Wow, I've always- ... " I'll never forget the first sentence. She said, um, "Wow, I've always wanted a sister and here you are."
TAMARA STANNERS: The email led to a phone call, several phone calls, several long phone calls, and then a trip to Hollywood for Michelle and her family to meet a sister she never knew she had, and a mother she never thought she'd see.
DENNIS: Okay, here we are guys. We're at the airport.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: At the airport.
DENNIS: The girls are nervous and then that's where they're coming out, right from there.
TAMARA STANNERS: Here's sound from a video that Kristin's boyfriend, Dennis, recorded. It's the moment that the two sisters met for the first time.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: Oh.
KRISTIN CAREY: Hi.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: Oh my God.
TAMARA STANNERS: But here's the thing, Michelle had actually seen her sister before. In the Farrelly brother's movie, Hall Pass, though she didn't realize it at the time.
TAMARA STANNERS: Kristin Carey is a Hollywood actor, which is one of the main reasons why Michelle was able to find her. It's why Kristin's name and photo showed up in that Google search. The two women are now as inseparable as people living at opposite ends of the country can get. They talk every week, see each other at least a few times every year.
KRISTIN CAREY: We laughed about every- ... We are so similar, it's kind of freaky and we walk the same, we laugh the same. People that have known me for years, 20, 30 years they're freaked out because how similar we are, and so genetics are pretty powerful. We're both left-handed. We have this thing called myasthenia, I don't know if she talked about it, we have this sensitivity to sounds and we share it. Like people eating too loudly. I mean, it sounds ridiculous, but we share ... And I always thought I was crazy.
MICHELLE RATHGELB:: I mean, it has truly changed my life. I mean I don't want to sound cliché and say, you know, it puts all the pieces together and there's that missing part, but it really, really does.
KRISTIN CAREY: No, I don't have any resentment. I wish we all could have been one happy family, but I told Michelle, she might not have been the woman she is. She wouldn't have met her husband, she wouldn't have the kids. It's like, you change one thing about your past, everything changes for your future.
TAMARA STANNERS: The sisters found each other just in time for Michelle to be Kristin's maid of honor at their beachfront wedding. Because sometimes, even stories that start in Pittsburgh get a real Hollywood ending. That's it for Relate this time around. In two weeks we'll have an episode for you on failure. Now, I know failure might sound like something to avoid at all costs, but it's actually a key component to success. I'll tell you why next time. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss out. For more articles on connecting to your customers in deeper ways, visit Relate.Zendesk.com. And if you want to explore technology built to improve your customer interactions, head over to Zendesk.com for a free trial. I'm Tamara Sanders, talk to you soon.


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ALIEN is co-organizing European Workshop on Software Defined Networking (EWSDN 2014) together with the FP7 project UNIFY. The workshop will be held in Budapest, Hungary between September 1st and September 3rd, 2014.
Call for Demos and Posters for EWSDN 2014 is open with a deadline on 5 July.
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Join us for an experience so significant words can't describe it. Worship, learn and be transformed in the Holy Land! We are planning to take a trip as a church to the Holy Land in 2021. We are working on the details and would like to know if you are interested in going. Please contact Pastor Jeff or Terri for more information.
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For your delight.......some pics of a papier mache bead making workshop which I do. Out of all the workshops I teach, this one's my favourite....so far. I do a little demo using a little triangle of paper and build it up from there. The best bit is getting the soldering iron out and burning the s**t out of it at the end. What a stink!!! The personality of the individual really comes out in these beads and I've had one women make a solitary bead in two and a half hours although it was truly exquisite. Teenagers, on the other hand can make loads to go on bracelets in about an hour. I am planning to teach this workshop at the studio in the Spring/summer and will be
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
11 Singapore paintball teams in World Cup Asia 2010!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Bingo! The state of Singapore paintball...
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Red Sevens Singapore in 3rd Asia Paintball Invitational Touranment, Kao Hsiung, Taiwan
Singapore Paintball Series 2010 - Post event report
Recognized by the Asia Pacific Paintball Federation (APPBF) and Paintball Asia League Series (PALS), the SPS is Singapore's top notch tournament organizer which provides a competitive platform for the Singapore paintball community in accordance to international paintball rules and regulations. With aims of creating awareness for the game of paintball, the SPS conducts regular basic paintball courses, workshops and outreach program to introduce paintball to the masses so as to promote competitive paintball in Singapore and in the Asia region.
"SPS 2010 is the first paintball tournament in Singapore to showcase 2 opposing teams competing in electronic paintball markers (guns). We are taking a big step towards the investment of the league so as to promote and develop the local paintball scene", mentioned Jane Koh who is the Tournament Director of the SPS and a member of PALS (Singapore).
The planning of SPS 2010 started as early as April 2010 with a restructure of the organizing committee where several prominent industry individuals are invited into the planning team to organize Singapore's biggest paintball carnival. To ensure that the refereeing standards were up to par with international refereeing standards, Mr. Junaidi Kalil, Manager of the AsiaRef were invited to Singapore to conduct a 2 day refereeing course for budding local referees who are interested to learn more about competitive paintball refereeing. The SPS Referee Level 1 Certification was attended by 9 local participants who were eventually put to the refereeing test during event day.
"The SPS Referee Level 1 Certification will be the de-facto refereeing standards for all Singapore referees. We are working closely with the Malaysia Marshals and AsiaRef body to establish our own local referees. We will also be sending our referees for international paintball events such as the PALS series and the World Cup Asia", exclaimed Mr. Muhamad Azhar who is the appointed SPS Head Referee whose real job is a Sales Manager for a IT firm.
Working with 29 sponsors and partners, Mr. Travis Liauw who is the Sponsorship Manager for the SPS said, "We associate paintball with a corporate identity as the sport focuses a lot on communication and working together as a team to achieve a common goal in the playing field. These values are very much associated with companies who would also like their employees to have." Sponsors and partners of the SPS are also treated with opportunities of advertisements and marketing throughout the event with shout outs, facebook advertisements, webpage inserts, banners, posters, etc. With corporate sectors in mind, a Corporate Division is introduced to the SPS 2010.
SPS roadshows were organized at Republic Polytechnic and Singapore Institute of Management to garner sign up for the newly included Tertiary Division. Posters of the SPS were sent to community centers and tertiary schools to create awareness for the event. Joining the SPS Tertiary Division is a group of Singapore Polytechnic students who were introduced to paintball during one of the paintball roadshows early this year. "One of the many objectives of the SPS is to create paintball awareness to the masses, it is therefore necessary for us to penetrate the tertiary sectors. As a growing and young sport in Singapore, we need a pool of youth players to form the foundation for the sport", remarked Ben Seow who is the SPS Tournament Promoter.
With the closure of the SPS in 2010, the SPS committee is looking ahead into the new year, bringing another wave of exciting paintball scene for local community in 2011. As an established and recognized paintball tournament in Singapore and the Asia region, the SPS is looking towards an international favour in 2011!What our partners say about the SPS:


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Sealed 1981 Embossed Jacket Original With Custom Sticker On Shrink. Light Corner Crease. "It Must Suck To Be The Knack. First Off, There Was The Huge Unexpected Success Of Their Debut Album, Get The Knack, Followed Almost Immediately By The Equally Unexpected Career-Damaging "Knuke The Knack" Underground Campaign. If That Wasn't Bad Enough, Their Superior Sophomore Release, ...But The Little Girls Understand, Was Universally And Unfairly Dismissed As An Inferior Rehash Of The Debut. After Such A Tumultuous Two-Year Roller Coaster Ride, The Boys In The Knack Took A Well-Deserved Breather. When Their Third Album, Round Trip, Emerged In 1981, Doug Fieger And The Boys In The Knack Had Matured Ten-Fold And Had Created Their Best Album To Date. Produced By Jack Douglas, Round Trip Had More Musical Layers Than Any Knack Album Before (Or Since). "Just Wait And See," "Radiating Love," "Boys Go Crazy," And "She Likes The Beat" Were Instant Knack Classics, But With More Skin And Bone. "Lil' Cal's Big Mistake" Could've Been An Unreleased Blood, Sweat & Tears Track. "Africa" Was Weather Report On Pop-Flavored Steroids. "We Are Waiting" And "Sweet Dreams" Sound Like Outtakes From The Last John Lennon Sessions (Douglas Produced Double Fantasy). Two Of The Knack's Best Tracks Are Here, And Both Are Worth The Price Of Admission Alone. "Pay The Devil (Ooo, Baby, Ooo)" Is A Beautifully Haunting Ballad While "Another Lousy Day In Paradise" Is The Knack's Entire Musical Essence Squeezed Into One Three-Minute Pop Song. Brilliant. A Few Weeks After This Brilliant Album Was Released (To Poor Reviews, It Should Be Said), The Knack Split Up. While They Were At Their Creative High, They Were At Their Commercial And Critical Low. Again, It Must Suck To Be The Knack." - Steve "Spaz" Schnee, All Music Guide
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Who doesn't love LEGO? Sure they hurt when you step on them, but LEGO in general always offers incredible playsets.
But most people don't know that they have a section called LEGO Ideas.
This allows people to submit ideas and by other LEGO fans vote and answer some basic information questions about things like how much you would expect to pay and who you think the demographic is for.
There are different milestones for numbers of votes that creators must hit within a certain time frame to continue on in the process.
Past winners include sets like the DeLorean from Back to the Future, Voltron-Defender of the Universe and the Beatles Yellow Submarine.
Currently, there is a contender with a Spaceship Earth playset! I can't express how cool it is!
The model takes you clear through the attraction! Featuring the following scenes:
- Loading area
- Cave drawings
- Young Egyptian pounding reeds flat / papyrus
- Phoenician trade and communication – boat scene (Thank the Phoenicians)
- Romans
- Burning and destruction of the Library of Alexandria (I love the little flames)
- Jewish & Islamic scholars preserving recorded information (The books are saved!)
- Sleeping Monk
- Gutenberg and the first movable-type printing press
- Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (Can't you hear the music?)
- Telephone switchboard
- Mainframe computer
- Building home computers in a garage (The solution comes in, of all places, a garage in California)
- Earth (After 30,000 years of time travel, here we are—a truly global community, poised to shape the future of this, our Spaceship Earth)
Okay so it's so cool, but it's even better! Did I mention it actually moves!
There is a hand crank, that can be replaced with a "medium power functions motor" to spin the interior. It makes it feel like you are moving throughout the attraction model! Click here to see it in action!
The creator also posted a size comparison between the Cinderella Castle LEGO set and the Spaceship Earth model set they created!
I can't stress enough how cool this really is! If you are interested in giving them a vote to help their creation reach consumers go HERE and hit the "support" button on the right hand side. You will have to register to vote. I did because I would actually buy this product!
But this can only become a reality if it gets chosen. Share and spread the word! Make sure to click the "Support" button.


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This review is based on a set courtesy from GEARBEST . Gearbest is an online retailer selling a wide range of electronic, home, gardening, clothing, computers etc. You can see details of them here HERE
The unit came in a plain front light beige/brown box and all the phone details are in Chinese characters. The phone was sent from Hong Kong and is a China based set but phone was rooted and Google Playstore and services were preinstalled
The phone came with 16 GB internal memory ( user available was 10.39 GB) and 2 GB ram. Operating system is Android 5.0
Full phone specifications : GSMArena
Summary :
• CPU: MediaTek MT6752 64bit 1.7GHz octa-core high-speed processing platform
• OS: Android 5.0
• Camera: Dual cameras back-13MP, front-5.0MP
• Screen: 5.5 inch IPS capacitive screen, FHD 1920 x 1080 pixels
• SIM Card: Dual SIM card dual standby, dual Micro SIM
• Bluetooth:4.0
• Support Wifi/3G/4G/GPS/Gravity/Gesture /FM/MP3/MP4
2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100MHz
4G: FDD-LTE 1800/2100/2600MHz
Unlocked for Worldwide use.
In this review I will use a score of 1 ( worst) to 10 ( excellent) to rate the various features. These scoring are personal and might differ with different user. I will approach this from any normal non tech user. I will point out some differences with other phones I had used. This is my first Lenovo experience !!
The phone build is good and sturdy. It comes with a plastic back cover which is very well fitted in. The quality of the back cover is nothing outstanding as it is just a piece of plastic. The feel of it is smooth and good and its best advantage is not a finger print magnet. There is no obvious signs of it being a cover as there are no slots to open it. One would need the fingers to feel around the edge and lift the cover up. It comes up easily and closing it back was easy too with a clicking sound.
It comes with MediaTek MT6752 64bit 1.7GHz octa-core processor cum an Arm Mali T760 GPU. These are not high specs and I'd consider it as mid range specs. Details of its performance is reviewed below. The back camera is a 13 MP ( 4128 x 3096 pixels ) with dual LED flash. The front camera for selfies shots is sufficiently good at 5 MP. On the right hand side are the power and volume control buttons. These buttons are very tactile and has a good feel using them. The left hand side is plain. At the bottom right hand side is the microphone. The top has the micro USB port and 3.5mm headphone jack. I do not quite like the position of the USB port and would much prefer it to be at the bottom instead. The phone speaker ( only a single unit) is located at a well positioned top part of the back. Handling the phone is unlikely to have this speaker covered up unnecessary.
The display is 5.5 inches IPS capacitative touchscreen and the phone is definitely not for a single handed user. The glass quality apparently is not Gorilla type quality and has a 71.7% screen to body ratio. Its resolution is 1080X1920 pixels with a pixel density of 401 ppi. Display quality is close to excellent. Colors are bright and quite saturated and I felt is better than Samsung's Amoleds.
Opening the back cover reveals 2 dual sim slot ( both are micro sim) . One is 4G/3G/2G while the other is only 2G. I read those sets for India market, both sim slots are 4G capable. The battery size is sufficiently good size at 2900 mAh. The battery is extremely very difficult to take out. One would need to use a flat tip tool to lodge in the slot to lift it up. Trying to use one's finger nails to do it is a tough job !! One would need to take off the battery to insert the simcards and ext sdcard. On the left of the simcard slot is the slot for external micro SDcard ( supports up to 128GB)
Accessories that comes with the phone are a 2 pin ( USA type) charger and a set of USB micro cable. The charger input is surprisingly low at only 0.5A. Charging from about 5% to full takes about 2.34 hours
USB-OTG works successfully and i have no issues connecting it directly to a 128GB thumb drive
Even though many users will find the phone being too large, I am perfectly comfortable using it. It feels very good in the hands.
The default Android OS is 5.0 and phone has its own user interface VibeUI 2.5. Overall it is quite smooth and slick and I did not feel any lag moving among homescreens and opening apps. I am quite impressed with it ! The slickness and smoothness can easily match LG G4, Nexus 6 and Note 4. However I noted some differences of the phone software vs the Indian sets – there is lacking a Character Settings and Smart Scene settings ( see below) . These would have added more value to the phone with these additional features
One weakness of the default VibeUI is : it disallows other 3rd party launchers ( eg Nova, Action, Google Now) to add widgets to its homescreen ! All such additions will force close Settings. So I had no choice but to use the default Lenovo Launcher. There is no separate app drawer and all apps are displayed in the several homescreens . There is also no way to sort the apps in alphabetical order. So the best way to organize the apps was to create folders for easier access and reduce the number of homescreens showing them.The phone default apps : I do consider some of the apps are bloatware and I could easily freeze/uninstalled it through Titanium Backup since phone is rooted
Upon signing in to Lenovo account, the phone auto download more bloatware apps and I stopped it after downloading several of them. These are examples of the "useless" apps :
The pull down notification bar has a nice display of various toggles available :
I dot not quite like the 3 soft capacitative buttons at the bottom mainly due to it is not even slightly back lit. One would have to get used to it tapping left, center and right to access these !
There is quite a good shortcut by tapping down on the RHS button and it launches a quick shortcut screen for some features :
Its settings menu has a wide range of functions and this is commonly seen in most other Android phones too :
PHONE CALLS and SMS : 9
Phone calls audio is good – is clear and sufficiently loud. The dual sim is both active but only one sim can be chosen as 4G enabled. Dialing through either sim is easily chosen from dialpad itself. SMS window similarly allows one to choose either sim for messaging purposes. However if one wishes to use USSD codes dialing on the second sim, it works only on a single entry. If the process returns a menu listing, I was unable to key in at all any of the choices ! Data downloads through 4G ( tested on Celcom postpaid) is just above average and is lower by about 20-30% versus similar telco postpaid on my other phones ( Mate 7, LG G4)
For a phone with its mid range price and its amazing price ( US$ 159 from GEARBEST ) I would say this phone performance is close to excellent. General day to day use was smooth, efficient and sufficiently fast. Gaming however is not outstanding – I'd rate it as average to above average only. High performance games such as Asphalt 8 will cause noticeable lag and framedrops. This phone is sufficiently good for browsing, email, whatsapp, Facebook, Newsfeed, Tweeter etc
These are some benchmarks I had taken. Benchmarks are just numbers and DOESN'T really reflect true potential of phone performance. I will indicate other phones figures as a comparison too
ANTUTU : It is one of the most popular benchmark apps for Android devices. It tests many parts of your device and assigns an overall score. AnTuTu gives your device an overall numerical score as well as individual scores for each test it performs.
Its score of 46008 is even better than several Snapdragon 801 units
QUADRANT : Quadrant is a CPU, I/O and 3D graphics benchmark.
GEEKBENCH 3 : Geekbench 3 is Primate Labs' cross-platform processor benchmark, with a new scoring system that
3DMark : A gamer's benchmark. Score ( on IceStorm Extreme) is just average vs commonly reported 20-30K scores for other phones
AUDIO an VIDEO : 6
The phone speakers are average quality only. Its default ringtones are mostly soft and quite difficult to catch in noisy environments. I had chosen 3rd party ringtones as a better alternative. Its audio volume on music and video player is too weak and soft versus say LG G4, S6 Edge, Note 4, Nexus 6. Its main advantage lies in its speakers position which luckily is not at bottom of back which will commonly be blocked . Video playback is decent enough for most of the movies I had tested with good smoothness and minimal stuttering.
Camera shots are average. The camera offers only basic features with aspect ratios of either 16:9 or 4:3 and a range of Scene modes ( Auto, Night, Portrait, Landscape, Sunset, Party, Motion, Beach, Firework, Candlelight ). Shutter speed is slow and often takes about a second to take a shot. Lowlight photography will take even slightly longer , probably at least another second more. Hands must be steady too to avoid blurry shots. Most shots I had taken the colors are not as accurate as actual and generally looks paler. Video shot quality is comparatively better – the colors are more accurate and details are sharper. One can choose either 720p or 1080p recording
All shots taken with phone default settings !
I'd say the camera shots are decent enough for social media posting purposes
Video : taken at mid morning with medium sunlight
The phone can easily last a 10 to 12 hour working day usage. I could achieve at least a 4 to 5 hours SOT on a mix of 4G/Wifi usage on 80% internet based stuffs ( browsing, email, tweeter, whatsapp, Facebook, tweeter and several youtubes playing ). I would rate its battery life as sufficiently good
For a phone with its budget price of merely US$159, I would say is a good buy. Its performance is good and smooth. Apps open up fast and with minimal problems. Only weakness is its average camera performance. Overall I would rate a score of 8 to this phone while value for money a 9.
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888 Boylston Street Boston
Piazza all'Aperto is back at Eataly Boston for four dates this summer.
Summer is too short to stay inside, so revel in the peak of the season at Piazza all'Aperto, Eataly's block party series! From smoking grills to clinking glasses, these free evenings have all the ingredients to relax and enjoy summer – the same way an Italian would.
Now, you can experience the magic of an Italian sagra, the bustling food festivals held in the piazza of nearly every town, with endless food, drinks, and free live music in our own Piazza all'Aperto ("open piazza") just outside our doors! Plus, stay tuned to learn about the New England producers and institutions who will be joining us and sharing their quality products and food with lively demonstrations and activities.
Find this event on the patio at 800 Boylston Street every month all summer long. Entry is free; food and drink tickets are available in advance or at the door.
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HARTFORD -- One of MetroHartford Alliance's most anticipated annual events of the season, Tons of Toys, is a spirited and sophisticated gathering combining delicious food, drinks, and festive activities with charitable giving.
Admission to Tons of Toys is one new, unwrapped, toy valued around $20, or $20 in cash, check, or on a credit card. All toys collected will once again benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford. Last year over 1,500 toys were collected, and the hope is to surpass that number of donations at this year's event.
Hors d'oeuvres will be provided, there will be a cash-only bar, and an amazing holiday cake provided by A Little Imagination Cakes. DJ Miles Elliot will be playing tunes all night long, and SnapSeat, a photobooth service, will be back again this year!


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Hand crafted in beautiful wood, this lovely collection of Peter Rabbit wooden toys and nursery accessories will make the perfect gift for a new baby or christening.
Peter Rabbit Collection
Peter Rabbit Musical Carousel
Beautiful wooden Peter Rabbit™ music box, in a carousel design, playing the tune of 'Brahms Lullaby'. This beautifully crafted wooden...
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This lovely wooden Peter Rabbit™ music box is the perfect gift! Just wind up the music box, and enjoy watching Peter Rabbit and Flopsy Bunny...
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These Peter Rabbit skittles are a perfect traditional wooden toy. Stand them up...and knock them down! Peter Rabbit is joined by all his friends,...
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Featuring Peter Rabbit, this bead frame is a perfect traditional toy for kids. Brightly painted in non-toxic paint, with wooden beads in the shapes...
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Our Government > Committees and Boards > Marketing Committee
Marketing Committee
The goal of the Marketing Committee is to promote an image of Dewey Beach as a vibrant, fun, year-round beach resort community that is an ideal place to live and an attractive vacation and event destination for families and singles. Dewey has cottages and condos, single family homes and businesses, each bringing a unique value to the town. The Marketing Committee will evaluate projects, events and initiatives according to the following criteria:
- Do they promote a healthy image for the town?
- Do they benefit the majority of the town's residents and visitors?
- Do they build the property values (residential and commercial) of the town?
- Do they attract visitors to Dewey who will enjoy our Town but will also respect Town rules and resources?
- Do the events/initiatives add more to the town than they require in town services?
- Promote Dewey Beach in a positive way to attract to attract greater tourism to the community.
- Collaborate with other key civic organizations (Chamber of Commerce, Civic League) to raise awareness of Dewey as an attractive vacation destination.
- Work with Town Council to ensure appropriate ordinances and infrastructure is in place to manage key events in a safe manner, thereby securing Dewey's reputation as an attractive vacation destination.
- Educate the public about the importance of tourism to the Town.
- Educate the public and Town visitors about Dewey's laws to preserve Dewey's quality of life and insure mutual respect.
Key Strategies
- Collaborate with The Dewey Chamber of Commerce and The Civic League to develop a consolidated and centralized calendar of events that is attractive to families, young couples, singles and "empty nesters".
- Develop a regional communications and marketing plan (Baltimore, Washington DC, Delaware, and Southeast Pennsylvania) to raise awareness of Dewey as a vacation destination and educate key stakeholders about the importance of tourism to Dewey as well as about Dewey's laws to insure mutual respect. The plan will also provide event-specific communications in order to support key annual events (specific events TBD).Plan tactics will include both traditional and digital media and could include: press releases, community newsletters, visitor/welcome packages distributed to local rental/real estate agencies, media events to showcase the Town to key travel and tourism journalists. Digital efforts could include a Facebook Page as well as announcements via Twitter.
- Review and recommend necessary changes to current Town Ordinances regarding trash, noise and public intoxication. Work with Town Council to insure sufficient resources are in place during the season to support the Town's Calendar of Events.
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A risky plunge into the unknown
An interview with Kenneth Clarke, a British Conservative politician, on the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.
They call you the Big Beast, because you've held so many high-ranking government positions over the years – no one has as much experience in British politics as you do. With this in mind, do you know how the British people will vote on Thursday?
Kenneth Clarke,a British Conservative MP: I don't have an idea. A lot of people are angry, lost. I am not even sure if they will go to vote and if they do, which way they will vote. Institutes studying public opinion can't determine what exactly the national mood is. Therefore, everything is in the hands of fate at the moment.
How is it possible that a country with such a long tradition of democracy has reached this point?
Just asking the question about EU membership in the referendum is very controversial. It is, after all, a big question which has an impact on everything and which incorporates many smaller issues. And people are meant to answer "yes" or "no" in a black-and-white manner about what our position in the world should be, about the foundation of our economic development, our prosperity. The arguments for this or some other solution are extremely complicated. And public opinion does not have access to all information, there is no way for the public to understand what is going on. The media is describing everything in a very attractive way, as the Boris Johnson and David Cameron show, a clash of personalities, a rivalry based on who can create more fear.
Could Brexit lead to the break up of the United Kingdom, the secession of Scotland and Northern Ireland?
We don't know what impact Great Britain leaving the EU would have on Scotland, Ireland, Gibraltar and several other places. This is only one of several fundamental issues that have not been covered during the campaign, in particular in England.
Did David Cameron make a big mistake in January 2013 when he promised to hold a referendum?
I have never been a fan of referendums. I much prefer parliamentary democracy which, after all, was developed here in Great Britain. This is partially a generational issue. The majority of people of my age would prefer that the decision regarding our position in Europe is made by those that we elected, who deal with politics on a daily basis – in government and the House of Commons.
For many years you were one of the closest aides to Margaret Thatcher and later John Major. Would these prime ministers have organized such a referendum?
In the last few years, it was the media and their publishers who increasingly pushed for a referendum to take place. The referendums are attractive to those politicians who know that they won't achieve a parliamentary majority. By doing so they circumvent the fact that the overwhelming majority of MPs in the House of Commons, from all parties, are in favour of Great Britain remaining in the EU. However, populism plays an increasingly important role in politics today and politics is more dominated by media than in the past, when I started out. Therefore, I hope that neither Thatcher nor Major would have organized such a referendum. But I am not entirely sure. Margaret rejected referendums, saying that for centuries they had been the tool used by dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini. John Major at one point wanted to organize a vote on whether to enter the Eurozone, he was convinced – as was David Cameron – that by doing so he would calm the ultra-sceptical faction within the Conservative Party.
Where is all this frustration coming from that is nudging so many British people to vote in favour of leaving the EU?
It is difficult to sum this all up in a couple of sentences, but as a supporter of integration I am in the minority within my age group. The leading reason behind this scepticism is the extent of change that this group has experienced in their lifetime. On top of this, we had the financial crisis, as a result of which people have had worse lives than they expected upon entering retirement. In this situation it is easy to buy in to the belief that foreigners and Brussels is to blame for everything. They believe in simple slogans, they believe that it is possible to return to more simple times, when the pace of life was slower. This is the reason why there is a generational gap when it comes to voting intentions. The older generation is more likely to vote in favour of leaving the EU, they want to jump out of the speeding train of constant change. For young people this is not a problem.
This bears some resemblance to the roots of Donald Trump's success on the other side of the Atlantic…
It is a problem that exists in every Western democracy. Populists gain support among disgruntled, disappointed people, offering them incredibly simple solutions to all problems. You mentioned Trump, but the same can be said of Marine Le Pen or Beppe Grillo. And in Poland you have a very lively political scene! Granted that Poland does not have such a populist equivalent but the party that is in power does have populist tendencies sometimes.
Why was the Labour Party unable to respond to these frustrations?
Because the Labour Party lost touch with the traditional working class. We no longer have large numbers of industrial workers, everything has become a lot more complicated and Labour Party politicians don't know how to answer these expectations. And again: this scenario is taking place across Europe, where social democrats are on the retreat.
Perhaps if Tony Blair hadn't opened the labour market to Poles in 2004 then there wouldn't be a risk of Great Britain leaving the EU now?
I doubt it. Back then I supported the measure, as a Conservative. How could one have accepted Poland and other Central European countries into the common market without giving them access to the labour market? After all, back then there were 2 million British citizens working in other EU countries! We are talking about a modern, international economy. That is why Blair was completely right to do what he did. Until 2007, our economy was showing splendid growth, when the wave of Polish immigrants came, salaries shot up, Poles did not create any problems. The fall in wages happened later as a result of the global financial crisis in 2007. We then entered one of the longest and deepest recessions since the war, and we are only now starting to come out of it. We do indeed have a problem with immigrants, but a different type of problem. We are talking about those who escaped North Africa and the Middle East, running away from war, violence, poverty and anarchy. This is a problem that the whole of Europe faces and has nothing to do with young Poles or Czechs who, like no other ethnic group, are helping finance the British welfare state. That is why I still don't see anything wrong in maintaining the EU's freedom of movement.
However, the number of immigrants that came to Great Britain was 330,000 more than those who left. It is impossible to stop this pace: the United Kingdom is now one of the most densely populated countries in Europe.
I agree, however supporters of Brexit also don't know how to clamp down on immigration, they don't have any ideas on how to reform migration policy. They only know how to protest. Anyway, the majority of the wave of immigrants consists of students from the European Union. And those who work here – we need the majority of them. Why should we throw out a French finance specialist or a German scientist or Polish builders? I have no idea. This is a red herring. The real problem is related to Muslims, dark and olive-skinned – in short, illegal immigration from outside the EU. This problem can only be solved through co-operation with other countries, only by doing so will be able to regain control of migration waves coming from outside of Europe. This needs to be resolved in a civilized, humanitarian manner. But my views can in no way be considered to be representative of Britain's political mainstream. The majority of politicians see that people are afraid of the scale of migration and latch on to this fear and exploit it.
The full version of this interview was published in Rzeczpospolita daily


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day 113:
second round of vaccinations today. after the first round (day 65) i was completely prepared this time with 'distractions', calpol and a digital thermometer (my lackadaisical approach having abandoned me after i completely let it down last time). i cancelled any evening plans, ready to rock her to sleep (a complete rule-breaker) and made sure that A. wasn't working late so that we could tag-team.
i even considered a friend's approach for a moment....which is to make her partner take care of every vaccination (after she witnessed the trauma of the first round) but decided that A. would never fall for that!
when the first snowy white thigh was exposed and the midwife brought out the HUGE needle i even flinched....but as it went deep into her unsuspecting thigh, did Limi even squeak or squirm....nope.....not one indication that anything sharp and menacing had come near her! same on the other side.....and THEN...i prop her up and she gives the midwife a big GRIN!!!
the midwife was quite startled!
no tears, no fever, no grumpiness!
although....after working myself up for the appointment...i was the one in need of some gentle rocking!


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Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Business Wire
Thursday, August 23, 2012 02:33 PM IST (09:03 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Information technology, Telecommunications; Technology
(BW)(FL-SYNIVERSE)Syniverse to Power Vodafone India's Messaging Hub
New offering will deliver international SMS messages into booming India market
Tampa, Florida, United States, Thursday, August 23, 2012 — (Business Wire India) —
Syniverse has announced that it has signed an agreement with Vodafone India Ltd, one of India's leading telecommunications service providers, to power the mobile operator's messaging hub, which will route international SMS messages into India, aligning message delivery with the requirements of mobile number portability. With advanced reporting and critical five-nines reliability, the hub is designed to provide SMS reach for operators outside India to the country's more than 950 million mobile subscribers.
"With a growing footprint in India, strong messaging expertise from providing services to leading operators and enterprises worldwide, plus unmatched service reliability, Syniverse is uniquely positioned to enable this hub," Syniverse Chief Operating Officer Alfred de Cárdenas said. "We are pleased to support Vodafone India on this project, which will help operators across the globe optimize their SMS delivery into one of the world's largest mobile markets."
"Syniverse and Vodafone India share a commitment to excellence, innovation and reliability that make our work together delivering the messaging hub a natural fit," said Naveen Chopra, Director -Vodafone Business Services, Vodafone India. "We look forward to launching this new messaging offering that will help mobile users worldwide seamlessly connect to users in India."
The hub will ensure messages sent from international users are delivered to their contacts in India, complying with all regulations from the India Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Telecoms Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for SMS routing into the country. Syniverse will be providing the core functionality to the hub, including message routing plus an advanced online reporting and invoicing platform. The messages will be delivered via Vodafone India's network.
"Syniverse and Vodafone India have built a strong relationship over the past three years, with Syniverse providing the operator vital data clearing, financial clearing and anti-fraud solutions," said Sanjay Kasturia, India Vice President, Syniverse. "We look forward to growing this relationship with a focus on propelling Vodafone India's business and driving optimal mobile experiences for end users across India."
About Syniverse
Syniverse makes mobile work for more than 900 mobile operators, cable and Internet providers, and enterprises in over 160 countries. With unmatched expertise and 25 years simplifying the complexities of roaming, messaging and networking, Syniverse serves as the force at the center of the mobile communications universe, keeping people connected today and forging new connections for tomorrow. Nobody knows mobile like Syniverse. For more information, visit www.syniverse.com, follow Syniverse on Twitter or find Syniverse on Facebook.
About Vodafone India
Vodafone India is a member of the Vodafone Group and commenced operations in 1994 when its predecessor Hutchison Telecom acquired the cellular license for Mumbai. The company with revenues of over INR 32,000 crores has operations across the country with over 153 million customers. Vodafone India has firmly established a strong position within the Vodafone Group too, making it the largest subscriber base globally. This journey is a strong testimony of Vodafone's success in a highly competitive and price sensitive market.
Serving the needs of an enterprise, Vodafone Business Services is a total communications offering that caters to all their Voice and Data, wireless and Fixed-line requirements. With the advantage of global expertise and experience and the knowledge of local markets, the business is run through the following verticals – Vodafone Global Enterprise, SME division, National Corporate and key accounts. Since its inception, Vodafone Business Services has garnered over 3.3 million corporate customers in India and currently provides services to over 60,000 global and national businesses equipped with a robust and superior network infrastructure and a 24×7 NOC.
Vodafone India has been awarded the 'Best Marketing Company for 2011' in a survey conducted by a leading financial daily. The company received the 'Most Admired Telecom Operator' and 'Best 3G Operator' awards at the recent Telecom Operator Awards 2012. Vodafone Business Services received the "Best Enterprise Service Provider" at the Frost & Sullivan Awards 2012. The company has also received the globally recognized prestigious 'Product of the Year 2012' consumer award for Vodafone Apps Store in the Mobile Services Category. In another survey conducted by Nielsen, Vodafone India was the only telecom player in the Top 10 'Most Exciting Youth Brands' in India.
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When I first saw the 3-pack Field Notes I was thrilled. Here was a gift for my eco-biologist daughter, a woman always in the field, with wet boots, an anorek, binoculars and now I'd be able to give her an alternative to her normal small black Moleskine.
And she was indeed thrilled to receive her Field Notes.
But I also got a pack for myself, and surprised myself with how handy they are for my own field trips--sans binoculars, but occasionally with an anorek and boots, but rarely in the wild.
My field trips are most often a long drive, a short walk or a cafe table--but wherever I go, tucked inside my larger journal and/or day planner, is a Field Note.
I'm often in the "Field"
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I work at a large international company as a software engineer. I'm part of a small specialized team of me and 3 electrical and systems engineers (I'm the software specialist of the team).
In two weeks I'll be taking two weeks of approved PTO, and two weeks after I get back (6 weeks from now), I'm planning to resign and move more than 1000mi (~1700km).
This is my first job (and will be my first resignation) so I tried to do some research here. After reading online, it looks like it's almost never a good idea to give more than two weeks of notice. However, I'm worried it might reflect poorly on me if I take two weeks off and get back and drop a letter of resignation on my boss. I'm on friendly terms with everyone around the workplace and I'm hoping to keep it that way in case this move doesn't work out and I have to ask for this job back.
Should I give my letter of resignation before I take my two weeks of PTO (more than a month before I'll be resigning)?
Edit: If I do end up handing in my resignation after the PTO, it will probably be on Monday or Tuesday (depending on when my boss is free) when I'm quitting the next Friday. Would that be enough for two weeks?


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Sitting here on the back deck of my in-law's beach house, watching the girls playing happily in the blow up paddle pool. A cicada chorus hangs in the air, along with thoughts of summer days, new plans unfolding and the promise of a fresh year beginning.
I had so much hinging on Christmas and this holiday. During all my hard work studying and immersing myself in Yoga philosophy and practice in 2017 I was looking ahead, to the reward, imagining all the making and flourish associated with Christmas, followed by these blissful weeks spent amongst the trees and by the ocean. A moment to pause.
And yet tomorrow, we head home. I start my new job on Monday, two days a week at a not-for-profit I'm incredibly passionate and excited about, and I begin teaching yoga in a few weeks. A new chapter is gently yet persistently unfolding and with that there are new rhythms to establish. Time rolls on, reminding us we are alive, reminding us there is no time like the present.
Aside from work and yoga, my mind has been ticking away (as usual), running through all the things I want to make under my little #birdiesaid banner on @suburban_dreaming this year. I'm thinking more hats for big and small and smaller people clothing, of course, but also some larger human attire too. My dreams are filled with vintage blush and rust coloured linen, delicate florals and, naturally, wool.
The Pixie is starting school this year, and with two children at school and just one little one left at home, life will look very different for twelve months. Without having to rush off to kinder, I'm planning on more days spent walking to school, quality time with my little number three and I will be making a real effort to relish this quiet year. The following we will be back to the kinder and school combo meaning multiple drop offs and pick ups, and less time with my growing clan.
So I open this new year with sunshine in my head and a smile on my face, but also with the trepidation that comes with change. I know myself well enough now, though, to know that everything passes, nothing is unchangeable, and for me, there is always an element of discomfort even with change of the best kind.
And for now, just for now, I'll say goodbye to the dusty blues of the ocean, to the salty scent on my children's skin, to slow and aimless days, to sheltering from the sun at midday, to early dinners and late bedtimes… and hello home, hello new rhythms, hello to the remainder of the school holidays, to a few more slow days, to new beginnings, to fresh projects, dreams and plans.
But, oh, will those green rolling hills, dark and wild seas, and pale blue skies tug at my heart, at the very essence of me, until we meet again…


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Making healthy food choices can help us live a long life as it not only keeps the blood glucose levels within limits, but also promotes healthy growth of body.
Learn more about food and how to make healthy food choices if you have diabetes.
Why eat healthy foods?
Healthy foods give you energy to live, learn, and be active. They help you to:
• Grow at a healthy rate and stay active.
• Keep your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, in balance—not too high and not too low.
• Lose weight slowly, if needed, under your doctor's care.
Do teens with diabetes need to eat special foods? No, they do not. Meals that are healthy for teens with diabetes are great for everyone—you, your family, and your friends.
How does food affect my body?
Food is the fuel that our bodies use for energy. The three main sources of fuel are carbohydrates, protein, and fat. The body changes these fuels into glucose for energy or stores them as fat. Eating a balance of foods that contain carbohydrates (carbs for short), protein, and fat every day will help keep your blood glucose close to normal. It may also keep your weight where you and your doctor want it to be.
Fats are a good source of fuel for the body and help you grow. Fat does not make blood glucose go up but too much fat can make you gain weight. Some fats are better for you than others.
Choose the types of fats that keep your heart healthy:
• Small portions of low-fat salad dressing, mayonnaise, and margarine.
• Small amounts of nuts, olives, and olive oil.
• A slice of avocado.
Choose these high fat foods less often. They are not healthy for your heart:
• Butter, stick margarine, and regular mayonnaise.
• Fried foods like potato chips and french fries.
• Meats with fat on them, bacon, deli meats, and hot dogs.
• Cakes, cookies, pies, and other desserts.
Protein helps build strong muscles and bones. Foods with protein do not make blood glucose go up like carbs do. Having protein in your meal can help you feel less hungry.
Foods that are a good source of protein include:
• Meat and poultry without skin or extra fat.
• Fish, low-fat cheese, and eggs.
• Natural peanut butter and soy products like tofu.
Carbs are a great source of energy for our bodies. Many foods contain carbs. Some are better for you than others. If you eat too many carbs at one time, your blood glucose may get too high. Learn to eat the right amount at meals and snack times to keep your blood glucose in balance.
Choose carbs that have lots of fiber:
• Whole grain foods—whole wheat bread and crackers, oatmeal, brown rice, and cereals.
• Lentils and dried peas or beans such as kidney, black, white, split, or black-eyed. These foods are also a good source of protein.
• Fresh fruits and vegetables from every color of the rainbow—red, orange, yellow, white, green, blue, and purple.
• Other good sources of carbs include non- or low-fat dairy foods, soy milk, pasta, potatoes, corn, squash, and yams.
Choose these carbs less often:
• White bread
• White rice
• Sweetened fruit drinks
• Regular soda
• Sweets and desserts
What should I eat?
"Your Healthy Food Guide" gives ideas about what kinds of foods are good for you. Remember, this is only a guide. Ask your doctor or dietitian about making a meal plan just for you.
Your Healthy Food Guide
Choose dark green and orange vegetables as often as you can.
Aim for 2 1⁄2 to 3 cups a day. Here are choices that equal 1 cup:
• 1 cup cut up raw or cooked or vegetables
• 2 cups leafy salad greens
• 1 cup vegetable juice
Aim for 3 cups a day. Here are choices that equal 1 cup:
• 1 cup nonfat or low-fat milk or yogurt
• 1 1⁄2 ounces cheese
Choose fresh whole fruits as often as you can.
Aim for 1 1⁄2 to 2 cups a day. Here are choices that equal 1 cup:
• 1 cup cut up raw or cooked fruit
• 1 cup fruit juice
• 1⁄2 cup dried fruit
Choose fresh whole fruits as often as you can.
Choose whole grain foods for at least 3 of your 6 choices.
Aim for 6 to 7 ounces a day. Here are choices that equal 1 ounce:
• 1⁄2 cup of cooked cereal
• 1⁄2 cup cooked rice or pasta
• 1 cup ready-to-eat cereal
• 1 slice of whole grain bread
• 1⁄2 small bagel or 1 small muffin
Choose whole grain foods for at least 3 of your 6 choices.
Aim for 5 to 6 ounces a day. Here are choices that equal 1 ounce:
• 1 ounce lean meat, fish, or chicken
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon peanut butter
• 1⁄2 ounce nuts
• 1⁄4 cup cooked dry peas or beans such as kidney, white, split, or blackeye
• 1⁄4 cup tofu
One serving is
• 1 teaspoon vegetable, olive, or canola oil
• 1 teaspoon tub margarine
• 5 large olives or 1⁄8 avocado
• 1 tablespoon low-fat mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons low-fat salad dressing
How much should you eat?
You get most of the fat your body needs from other foods you eat—so choose only a few extra servings of these heart-healthy fats each day.
If you choose to eat these foods, have a very small amount and not every day.
What about sugar, sweets, and desserts? Am I allowed to eat them again?
Most people like the taste of sweet foods. Small amounts of foods that contain sugar can be part of a healthy meal plan.
Desserts such as cakes, muffins, pies, cookies, and ice cream contain a lot of fat as well as sugar. If you choose to eat any of these sweet foods, just have a small amount at the end of a healthy meal. Have a piece of fruit if you are still hungry.
Avoid regular soda, sweetened fruit drinks, and sports drinks as they are all high in sugar. Drink water instead.
How much should I eat?
The amount of food you need to eat each day varies with your age, sex, height, and activity level. The amounts in "Your Healthy Food Guide" are right for girls age 11 to 17 or boys age 11 to 14 who get 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity each day.
Ask your doctor or dietitian about making a meal plan just for you, especially if you need to lose weight. Being active and eating smaller amounts of food and fewer sweet or fatty foods can help you lose weight in a healthy way. You will keep your heart healthy, too.
It is best to spread your food out over the day. Eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack—check out your options with your doctor or dietitian. You will have a good supply of energy and you will not get too hungry.
Putting it all together
• Learn about healthy foods and make healthy choices at each meal and snack.
• Ask your health care team to help you make and use a healthy eating plan.
• Choose water to drink.
• Be physically active for at least 60 minutes every day.
• Take the correct amounts of insulin or pills, if you need them to manage your diabetes, and check you blood glucose at the times planned with your health care team.
• Keep screen time to two hours or less a day. This includes time watching TV, playing video or computer games, and using the computer.
• Use this tip sheet to help you reach your goals!
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Great granite stones
squat on the deserted shore;
abandoned deities of an atavistic cult ..
worshippers of sun and moon
and of a natural law.
The sculptress sea
has smoothed and honed their features
into grey obscurity.
But the invocations to those faceless gods
are heard for ever more
above the tumult of the wind and waves,
carried in the seagulls' plaintive cries
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Three-Day Promotion Offers 20% Off Select Models, Free Silicone Case
(Vannes, France) – TecTecTec – maker of technologically-advanced yet affordable golf laser rangefinders and an Amazon top-seller in its category – is celebrating this year's Amazon Prime Day with 20% off select rangefinder models available for a limited time through Amazon.com and also on the TecTecTec website starting Monday, July 16 through Wednesday, July 18.
"Amazon is the world's largest online retailer and we're proud to be the top-selling brand in its popular laser rangefinder category," says Renan Lore, Director of TecTecTec. "Each TecTecTec rangefinder is manufactured to the highest standards and priced affordably, guaranteeing a quality purchase on any budget."
TecTecTec offers a variety of cutting-edge models that feature three unique scanning modes: Pinsensor measures overlapping targets including flagsticks and wooded areas, Target Priority displays distance of the closest subject, and Scan Mode helps read distances to hazards. Each model is available in standard and "S" editions which feature PinSlope Technology to calculate elevation-adjusted distance to the target.
Precise within one yard, the company's renowned products have an ultra-clear, multi-layered optical lens for excellent visual clarity and 6x magnification with diopter adjustment. Additionally, all TecTecTec laser rangefinders are equipped with a CR2 battery, wrist strap, microfiber cleaning cloth and quick start guide. Every purchase includes free shipping, 24/7 access to customer service, a two-year warranty and 30-day full refund guarantee when ordering online at www.us.tectectec.com.


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School organizations, clubs or teams may make requests from our General Fund. This is similar to a grant process. We will evaluate your request to make sure it is consistent with our funding policies. We generally have more requests than we have funds available. Plan to make a presentation at a Board Meeting and provide written documentation. Students are encouraged to make the presentation.
In an effort to keep the Boosters successful, we ask that all groups/clubs make an effort to earn money through concessions and independent fundraisers in conjunction with Boosters support to reach goals. High School is the perfect time to teach life lessons in hard work and perseverance to achieve goals. The Boosters are honored to assist in that lesson as a team effort.
Funding Guidelines:
- We reserve funding for extra-curricular activities, outside the classroom expenses and events/activities that occur outside the normal school day.
- Funds will not be allocated for out-of-state travel expenses
- In-state travel funds are limited to CHSAA-sanctioned events
- We do not provide funding for expenses that are ordinarily covered by District taxpayer funds.
Funding Preferences:
- We prefer to give matching funds for groups that are doing their own fundraising.
- We prefer to partner on events where the Boosters and another parent or student organization work collaboratively and share the profits.
- We prefer to give seed money that is paid back.
- We give high priority to Student Council needs.
- We give high priority to groups that support MHS and CU concessions.
- We prefer not to award more than $2000 in any one year to any one organization or event.
Funding Requests:
- Funding requests must be submitted in writing – see link below to access form – at least one week prior to the Board Meeting.
- Request forms should be placed in the Boosters mailbox in the school office.
- Mr. Eisentrager will review and approve all funding requests before they are considered by the Boosters.
- We ask that a representative attend a Board Meeting to present the request in person.
- Contact the Boosters at least two days prior to the meeting and request to be added to the agenda.
- Be prepared to make a brief, informal presentation.
- Bring the completed Funding Request Application.
- Be prepared to answer questions.
- We will respond to you funding request within one week.
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Sunday 24th March 2019 | Sydney Park | St Peters
RBC Race for the Kids brings everyone together for a family-friendly fun run and festival to raise awareness and funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities Sydney.
Fun Run
The race consists of 2 courses at Sydney Park: a 5km fun run and 2km family run. Participants of all ages and fitness levels are encouraged to take part by foot or on wheels (prams, wheelchairs, scooters and bikes are welcome!) The most important thing is to have fun and raise as much money as we can for Ronald McDonald House Charities Sydney.
The fun doesn't stop at the race - a family festival will keep everyone entertained and having fun. There will be food, beverages, special guests, live entertainment and plenty of activities to wear out the biggest of kids!
Top 5 Individuals
Top 5 Teams
Cause for the Kids!
All funds raised during RBC Race for the Kids will go towards helping RMHC Sydney build a community that nurtures and empowers seriously ill children and their families.
We need your help to continue delivering services that support health, education and wellbeing.
$35 helps pay for basic pantry essentials
$55 provides 1-hour of tutoring
$102 assists the Learning Program
$135 supports Family Room Facilities
Donate directly or sponsor someone who is running!
On behalf of Ronald McDonald House Charities Sydney families, thank you!!


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Gift certificates are where it's at! Immediate digital delivery or printable versions that you can package up all pretty. No lost shipments. No stolen packages. (Seriously, so rude!) And they'll get exactly what they've been wishing for - and you look like a rock star for making it happen.
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