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Claudia A. Fox Tree, M.Ed.
Speaker and Workshop Presenter
Name: Claudia A. Fox Tree, M.Ed.
Nation: Arawak (Yurumein)
E-mail Address: email@example.com (best way to contact me)
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Professional educator, Claudia Fox Tree, M.Ed. (Arawak/Yurumein) teaches courses and workshops on transforming curriculum and culturally responsive teaching practices. She also leads conversations "un-erasing" Native American First Nations People (FNP) ingenuity. She gives voice to First Nation experiences (past and present) and asks allies and co-conspirators to come on the journey with her. Her presentations feature discussions which can focus on identity, culture, contributions, stereotypes, and historical inaccuracies. She lives in Massachusetts (on the occupied land of the Pennacook and their descendants).
Claudia will address assumptions that perpetuate stereotypes and myths, expand ideas about "American history," and explore the role of language. The journey of developing a counter narrative to missing information and misinformation about the First Nations people of this land begins with un-erasing indigenous voices, learning what we were not taught, and continuing to have those conversations with families and friends.
- Deconstructing STEREOTYPES
- Importance of CONTRIBUTIONS
- Understanding CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
- Becoming an ALLY, ACTIVIST, AGITATOR, and CO-CONSPIRATOR
- Relearning accurate information about HISTORY and CULTURE
- Developing a COUNTER-NARRATIVE
- Who's Telling Our Story? Whose History Matters? Adding the Indigenous Voice
- Understanding Genocide, FNP History, and the Impact of Stereotypes
- Indigenous Peoples' Day (IPD): A First Nations Reflection on the Columbus Day Myth
- Thanksgiving: Stuff Your Turkey with Justice
- First Nations Cultural Appropriation and Microaggressions
- Decolonizing Curriculum: Developing the Counter Narrative
WILL SPEAK AT: colleges, conferences, seminars, civic organizations, teacher professional development workshops, etc. As Claudia is a full-time public school teacher, she only speaks to K-12 during school vacations or after typical school hours.
COMPENSATION & FEES * within Massachusetts**
Presentations for smaller groups may be an interactive seminar or participatory workshop. For larger groups, presentations are participatory lecture with a slideshow. Consultation is also available upon request.
• About One-hour ($1500-2500) – an interactive presentation with time for Question/Answer.
* Outside of Massachusetts or more than 75 min. away from Concord, MA incurs additional travel expenses.
** Some consultations may be done in collaboration with a teaching partner, and include an additional fee.
TRAVEL: Generally, will travel anywhere in Greater Boston area. Could be flexible throughout New England and Cape Cod depending on timing. In 2004, was invited to Germany for one week to speak about Native American culture at several United States Army bases. I am willing to travel abroad with sufficient notice, depending of time of year.
- 2018: Curriculum Consultation on Dawnland (independent film) Teacher's Guide
- 2018: Curriculum Consultation K-12 The Park School (Brookline, MA)
- 2019: Tewksbury Public Library: Whose History Matters? The Power of Stereotypes to Shape Identity: Developing Awareness & Understanding
- 2019: Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA): Whose History Matters? The Importance of Co-Conspirators.
- 2018: Winchester Multicultural Network: Decolonizing Our Minds, Through Conversations We Were Never Meant to Have (with Debby Irving) LIVE an onstage conversation exploring how U.S. narratives shaped their understanding of themselves, one another, and the complex world we live in
- 2018: Winchester Multicultural Network: Decolonizing Our Minds, Through Conversations We Were Never Meant to Have (with Debby Irving)LIVE an onstage conversation exploring how U.S. narratives shaped their understanding of themselves, one another, and the complex world we live in
- 2017: Raytheon (Tewksbury, MA); Wheaton keynote at UWC (United World College) Retreat; Framingham State College (Framingham, MA); Emmanuel College (Boston, MA)
- 2016: Winchendon School (Winchendon, MA); UMass (Dartmouth, MA); Springfield Technical Community College (Springfield, MA); Eastern Nazarene College (Quincy, MA); Wheaton College (Norton, MA)
- 2015: Roger Williams University (Bristol, CT); Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Burlington, MA): South Church (Boston, MA)
- 2014: Amherst Public Schools (Amherst, MA)
- 2013: Brandeis University (Waltham, MA); Connecticut College (New London, CT); Hanover Senior Center (Hanover, MA); GBSOCAN (Greater Boston Student of Color Achievement Network) High School Student Retreat to Develop Social Justice Leadership Skills (Brookline, MA); and AISNE (Association of Independent Schools in New England) High School Students of Color Conference.
- 2012: U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center (Natick, MA); Suffolk University (Boston, MA); Ana Maria College (Worcester, MA); Brandeis University (Waltham, MA); and University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth, MA).
- 2011: 350 Year Anniversary Celebration in Newton, MA
- 2010: Cambridge College (Cambridge, MA.)
- 2009: 25th Annual METCO (MDA) Directors' Conference; Creating Cross-Cultural Bridges in Courses on Race and Culture
- 2008: Wheaton College (Norwood, MA); Kiwanis Club (Medford, MA); and Theodore Parker Church (West Roxbury, MA) with Cheyenne Fox Tree McGrath as actor.
- 2007: Boston College, (Massachusetts); Colgate University (New York); and Bates College (Maine).
- 2006: Guest lectured for various classes (psychology, education, social work) and also spoke to student organizations at the following Massachusetts colleges and universities: The University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA); Boston University; Middlesex Community College (Bedford, MA); Framingham State College (Framingham, MA); Quinsigamond College (Worcester, MA); and Boston College (Boston, MA).
- White Privilege Symposium/New England Understanding & Challenging Privilege: One Ally at a Time (Nauset, MA)
- Thirty-Third Annual METCO Directors Conference (Randolph, MA)
- White Privilege Symposium/New England Beyond Diversity and Inclusion: Mobilizing Across Boundaries (Cambridge, MA)
- First Annual Social Justice Conference; Curley School (Jamaica Plain, MA)
- Teachers College, Columbia University, New York: Winter Roundtable: 22nd Annual Roundtable on Cultural
- Psychology and Education - What You Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Native Americans (Before Teaching About them)
- Massachusetts Dept. of Health; Boston, MA: Native American Heritage Month: Native American Cultural Implications in Mainstream Healthcare
- Boston University; Boston, MA: Howard Thurman Center: Looking at Multiracial and Multiethnic Identity of Native Americans
- Lower/Outer Community Coalition, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Health, and Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center: Mashpee, MA: Wuneeshkeeht – Good Medicine: Learning From Each Other Respect, Harmony & Healing: Turning Tables, Experiencing Cultural Incongruities.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA: Boston Asian Students Intercollegiate Conference (BASIC): Panel - People of United Color in Boston
- University of Massachusetts; Boston, MA Native American Student Association (NASA): Panel - Native American Women in Leadership Roles
- Boston College; Chestnut Hill, MA: Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture, Third Annual Diversity Challenge (ISPRC) - presentation with Tricia O'Reilly, EMI & Claypit Elementary - Including Ethnicity in the Racial Identity Dialogue
- University of Hartford; Hartford, CT: National Association of Multicultural Educators (NAME): 8th Annual CT Conference on Multicultural Education - presentation with Elli Stern, EMI - Difficult Discussions: Teaching Identity, Power, and Privilege in The Classroom
- Teachers College, Columbia University, New York: Winter Roundtable: 20th Annual Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education - Turning Tables: Experiencing Cultural Incongruities
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (Please feel free to use whatever you think is relevant in your promotional materials):
Claudia has been a public school special education teacher for over thirty years. She has also taught anti-racism and multicultural education courses to teachers, school staff, and at the college level for over twenty-five years. To find out more about her multicultural consultancy work around social justice, see her blog: http://multiculturalinitiatives.blogspot.com/
Claudia earned a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts (Boston), majoring in Anthropology and Psychology; Elementary (gr. 1-6) and Moderate Special Education (gr. 5-12) certifications from Fitchburg State College; and a M.Ed. from Northeastern University in Educational Research, focusing on Native American identity development.
Claudia is on the board of the Massachusetts Center for Native Americans (MCNAA http://mcnaa.org/) and the Massachusetts liaison for the United Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP http://uctp.org/), headquartered in New York. She has been a presenter at numerous conferences and workshops at colleges and civic organizations across New England, and has also made appearances both in Germany and the Caribbean, the lands of her ancestors. She has spoken to all ages from preschool to adult. See a list of her resources at http://nativeamericanresources.blogspot.com//
Claudia is a self-taught artist who uses polymer clay (Millefiori technique) to create jewelry and accessories inspired by her Native American culture. See her business at: http://arawak-design.blogspot.com/
In January 2017, Claudia was the first speaker at the Boston's Women's March, spoke to over 125,000 thousand people on the Boston Common, and introduced her daughter who sang, "Amazing Grace" in Cherokee and then lead the crowd through the first verse in English.
In 2016, Claudia was the 58th woman to be featured by YM (Eliminating Racism/Empowering Women) Boston Women of Influence Series for the YWCA's 150th year anniversary.
In 2015, Community Change, Inc. recognized Claudia with the Drylongso Award for significant anti-racism work.
In 2011, Claudia wrote a chapter, "Aren't They All Dead? Covert Racism and Native Americans" in Covert Racism: Theories, Institutions, and Experiences, edited by Dr. Rodney D. Coates and published by Koninklijke Brill in The Netherlands.
Claudia is a multiracial/multiethnic Native American whose father is Native American (Arawak-Yurumein) and mother is German (from Mannheim-Feudenheim). Although she spent the first five years of her life in Germany and speaks German, she was born in Boston, has primarily grown up in the U.S.A., and been educated in Massachusetts, where she is active in the local Native American community.
The Arawak are an indigenous Nation who, at one time, ranged from Florida, through the Caribbean, and into the northern part of South America. We are still alive today, living everywhere in the world, and passing on the traditions, stories, and culture of our ancestors to the next generation. Our beliefs were founded upon the land of our ancestors, the Americas, with their unique climate, plants, and animals. There are many words in the English language that are Arawak in origin. These words represent inventions, foods, cooking techniques, and other contributions that are indigenous and include: barbecue, cacique, canoe, cigar, hammock, hurricane, and tobacco.
In 1492, shipboard on his third night in the Indies, Christopher Columbus wrote in his journal, "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased." On his 2nd voyage in 1493, Columbus arrived with 17 ships, 1,500 men, farmers, masons, foot soldiers, carpenters, ironworkers, priests, and 20 purebred mastiffs and greyhounds. He brought seeds, plants, and domestic animals like cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs that completely transformed the environment. His ships also carried chains, medallions, and branding irons. Columbus came with the intention of enslaving. He set the tone and example for later Conquistadors, one of genocide, cultural destruction, and environmental damage. The Arawak survived and continue to pass on their cultural traditions to this day.
Yurumein is the traditional name for my ancestors' island of Saint Vincent.
Native American Resources – Claudia posts the information shared in her workshops and presentations, additional links to articles and video, and many lists of books. In this blog, she shares and updates resources long after the presentations are done and courses she has taught have ended. She addresses a broad range of Native American issues, with a focus on the Arawak (her nation) and Massachusetts (where she lives).
Multicultural Courses & Culturally Responsive Teaching – Claudia teaches several courses under the broad topic of "Multicultural Education," prioritizing social justice issues of access, power/privilege, and narrowing the academic achievement gap. She is a person of color and almost always has a white co-teacher. These courses include topics, such as: racism, sexism, heterosexism, growth mindset in the context of cultural proficiency, cultural appropriation, multicultural literature, transforming curriculum, closing the academic achievement gap, etc. This is a place where Claudia posts information that she teaches; lesson plans for specific activities; and resources used.
Arawak Design Jewelry – Claudia designs and crafts clay beads using the "millefiori" technique, then incorporates the beads into jewelry and accessories. Her art is available at the many local Pow Wows which she attends in Massachusetts, especially those sponsored by MCNAA.
EDCO – Initiatives for Developing Equity and Achievement for Students (IDEAS), a Project of EDCO Collaborative, a program committed to achievement and success for all students via culturally proficient classrooms and schools that honor the individuality of students and families of all racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
MCNAA – The Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness was founded by Burne Stanley-Peters and her late husband Slow Turtle. The mission is to develop and implement programs that assist needy Native American residents with basic needs, college related expenses, and cultural and spiritual enrichment; and to increase public understanding, awareness, and appreciation of Native Americans.
UCTP – The United Confederation of Taino People (UCTP) was established as a Caribbean Indigenous leadership initiative or an "Inter-Tribal authority" inspired by ancient Taino and other indigenous confederacies as well as contemporary initiatives such as the National Congress of American Indians (U.S.), the Grand Council of the Crees (Canada), the Assembly of First Nations (Canada), the International Indian Treaty Council, COICA (Columbia), and CONFANIE (Ecuador) etc.
- 2016 Boston Women of Influence Series The 58th woman to be featured by YM (Eliminating Racism/Empowering Women) on the YWCA's 150th year anniversary
- 2015 Community Change, Inc. Drylongso Award for significant anti-racism work
- 2000 EMI Outstanding Anti-Racist Educator from her School District
- 2020: Speaking out: Sharing Stories of Pain, Frustration and Hope Bedford, MA Panel (80 minutes)
- 2020: Episode 12: Coffee w/the founder & Claudia Fox Tree (36 minutes)
- 2019: Testifying against "mascoting" at Massachusetts State House (3 minutes)
- 2019: Teaching While White: Recovering the Voice of Native Americans in the Classroom Podcast interview (34 minutes)
- 2019: Morning Show On WJOP With Mary Jacobsen – Claudia Fox Tree, Penny Lazarus & Brian Greenberg Podcast interview on Thanksgiving inaccuracies, history, and truths (52 minutes)
- 2017-19: Genocide Awareness March from New England Holocaust Memorial to Armenian Heritage Park
- 4th Annual Walk 2017 (7 minutes)
- 5th Annual Walk 2018 (8 minutes)
- 6th Annual Walk 2019 (7 minutes)
- 4th Annual Walk 2017 (7 minutes)
- 2017: Boston's Women's March January 21 Opening Ceremony (5 minutes)
- 2017: Stacy and The Party: Woman of Steel Music Video (4 minutes)
- 2017: Spiritually Speaking Episode 8 Native Americans: Myths and Stereotypes (23 minutes)
- 2016 : For Many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a Day of Mourning (article)
- 2015: White Eagle Speaks TV Interviewing Claudia Fox Tree on with Host Neil Chaske (20 minutes)
- 2010 – Getting to the Root of It all: Teaching Root Words Across Subject Areas to Enhance Vocabulary Comprehension and Close the Achievement Gap in Target Populations by Lincoln Public Schools teachers: Claudia A. Fox Tree (Lead Facilitator, Special Education Teacher), Bill Burns (Vocabulary Program Leader, English Teacher), Elizabeth Averch (Science Teacher), Brenda Hedden (Literacy Specialist), Rosemary Heffernan (Math Teacher), Keith Johnson (Social Studies Teacher), and Alechia Torchia (Special Education Teacher)
- 2008 – I Say, You Say: Student, Parent and Educator Perceptions of Anti-Racist Teaching Strategies for Students of Color by Claudia A. Fox Tree, Lincoln Public Schools; Melanie A. Sullivan, Needham Public Schools; Michael J. Stern, Newton Public Schools; and Melissa S. Wong, Newton Public Schools.
- Fox Tree, C.A. (2020)
- Fox Tree, C. A. (9/30/2016). "My First Home Was An Arranged Marriage ." Boston Globe Real Estate section.
- Fox Tree, C. A. (2012-current). Several theater reviews for Boston Events Insider.
- Fox Tree, C. A. (2009-2014). Several articles in Turtle Talk. Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (MCNAA). Boston, MA.
- Fox Tree, C. A. (2011). Several poems and short writings. The Ice Cream Stand: & Other Stories & Poems by 21 writers of The Place for Words & Workshops (Volume 1). Ed. Mindy Pollack-Fusi. The Place for Words Press, Bedford, MA.
- Fox Tree, C. A. (2011). "Aren't They All Dead? Covert Racism And Native Americans." Covert racism: Theories, institutions, and experiences. Ed. R. D. Coates. Koninklijke Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Suyemoto, K. & Fox Tree, C. (2006, June). "Building Bridges Across Differences to Meet Social Action Goals: Being and Creating Allies Among People of Color." American journal of community psychology special issue. (vol. 37. no. 3-4). pp. 237-246.
- Fox Tree - McGrath, C. & Van Putten, Hank (Spring/Summer, 2001). "Including All Voices: The Need to Expand." The Activist. pp. 9-11.
- Fox Tree - McGrath, C. (2000). "Letter to My Children's Teacher." Presented at The Third Annual Indigenous Women's Conference: The Voice of Mother Earth on May 7, 2000. Long Island, New York. Published (Summer, 2000) in Turtle Talk Newsletter: A Quarterly Publication of Mass. Center for Native American Awareness. pp. 3-4.
- Fox Tree - McGrath, C. (Winter/Spring, 1998). "Multicultural Anti-Racist Perspective in Science: More than Scientists of Color." The Activist. (vol. 3.). pp. 6-7.
- Fox Tree - McGrath, C. (Spring, 1991). "Spanish Cruelties in the New World" excerpt from The Arawak Nation: A personal discovery. Prisma magazine: A multicultural forum. (vol. 2. no. 1). pp. 13, col. 1-3.


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Consent of the Child is Immaterial in Criminal Cases Involving Violation of Section 5, Article III of RA 7610.
Petitioner claims that AAA welcomed his kisses and touches and consented to have sexual intercourse with him. They engaged in these acts out of mutual love and affection. But may the "sweetheart theory" be invoked in cases of child prostitution and other sexual abuse prosecuted under Section 5, Article III of RA 7610? No.
The sweetheart theory applies in acts of lasciviousness and rape, felonies committed against or without the consent of the victim. It operates on the theory that the sexual act was consensual. It requires proof that the accused and the victim were lovers and that she consented to the sexual relations.[30]
For purposes of sexual intercourse and lascivious conduct in child abuse cases under RA 7610, the sweetheart defense is unacceptable. A child exploited in prostitution or subjected to other sexual abuse cannot validly give consent to sexual intercourse with another person.
The language of the law is clear: it seeks to punish
[t]hose who commit the act of sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct with a child exploited in prostitution or subjected to other sexual abuse.
Unlike rape, therefore, consent is immaterial in cases involving violation of Section 5, Article III of RA 7610. The mere act of having sexual intercourse or committing lascivious conduct with a child who is exploited in prostitution or subjected to sexual abuse constitutes the offense. It is a malum prohibitum, an evil that is proscribed.
A child cannot give consent to a contract under our civil laws.[31] This is on the rationale that she can easily be the victim of fraud as she is not capable of fully understanding or knowing the nature or import of her actions. The State, as parens patriae, is under the obligation to minimize the risk of harm to those who, because of their minority, are as yet unable to take care of themselves fully.[32] Those of tender years deserve its protection.[33]
The harm which results from a child's bad decision in a sexual encounter may be infinitely more damaging to her than a bad business deal. Thus, the law should protect her from the harmful consequences[34] of her attempts at adult sexual behavior.[35] For this reason, a child should not be deemed to have validly consented to adult sexual activity and to surrender herself in the act of ultimate physical intimacy under a law which seeks to afford her special protection against abuse, exploitation and discrimination. (Otherwise, sexual predators like petitioner will be justified, or even unwittingly tempted by the law, to view her as fair game and vulnerable prey.) In other words, a child is presumed by law to be incapable of giving rational consent to any lascivious act or sexual intercourse.[36]
This must be so if we are to be true to the constitutionally enshrined State policy to promote the physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being of the youth.[37] This is consistent with the declared policy of the State
[T]o provide special protection to children from all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation and discrimination, and other conditions prejudicial to their development; provide sanctions for their commission and carry out a program for prevention and deterrence of and crisis intervention in situations of child abuse, exploitation, and discrimination.[38] (emphasis supplied)
as well as
to intervene on behalf of the child when the parents, guardian, teacher or person having care or custody of the child fails or is unable to protect the child against abuse, exploitation, and discrimination or when such acts against the child are committed by the said parent, guardian, teacher or person having care and custody of the same.[39] (emphasis supplied)
This is also in harmony with the foremost consideration of the child's best interests in all actions concerning him or her.
The best interest of children shall be the paramount consideration in all actions concerning them, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities, and legislative bodies, consistent with the principles of First Call for Children as enunciated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Every effort shall be exerted to promote the welfare of children and enhance their opportunities for a useful and happy life.[40] (emphasis supplied)

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Adjusting to school and its learning environment can be tough for children. Emotional, social, and developmental obstacles affect students' lives, and family issues and a strained economy contribute to stress experienced by students. The No Child Left Behind Act put pressure on teachers to get all students to pass, even those who were not ready. This put more pressure on students who were already struggling with handling school, increasing the need for social workers. (Diehl and Frey, 2008)
Students who meet with social workers have been shown to have a reduction in behavioral problems. In a study done by Diehl and Frey, students who saw social workers for a six month period had a noticeable reduction in behavior problems in school and at home. (Diehl and Frey, 2008)
Social workers are trained to deal with the hidden meaning in patterns. Low attendance, low grades, and bad behavior is more than just a poor student, it's usually indicative of issues at home or bullying at school. Instead of solely punishing students who don't perform to sufficient standards, a social worker will work with the student in order to find solutions to the problems they face, or at least help the students to learn how to cope with the issues. (class notes)
School social workers have a caseload of however many students are in the school. The need to be efficient with time is necessary, and helping students learn how to help themselves is equally important. Correcting problems quickly and helping students get back on track is goal of the job. The lack of resources and funding make the job tough, but getting through to the students makes the job rewarding. (guest speaker, Sam Bligen III, MSW, 2016)
Sources: Diehl, D., & Frey, A. (2008). Evaluating a Community-School Model of Social Work Practice. School Social Work Journal, 32(2), 2-17.


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A few months old now, but Seth Godin's terrific video presentation from Ted Talks explains how the power of tribes and the Internet change everything we know about advertising, media and "one to many" communications.
The Genie is out of the bottle and it's too late to try and put it back again.
Embrace change, form or join a movement, or die!
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Congratulations to our cross-country team that performed very well at the rainy meet back in September of 2016!
Click the title to find out our school's results.
Grade 3s: Tyke girls received 3rd place. Tyke boys received 4th place. Special mention to Finn Killburn who came in 4th place!
Grade 4s: Atom girls received 1st place! Special mention to Mackenzie Richardson who came in 6th place!
Grade 5s: Bantam girls received 3rd place. Bantam boys received 6th place. Special mention to Drew Emmerton who came in 2nd place!
Way to go Martin Street runners! We hope to see many of you back for track and field in the spring :)
From your coaches, Mme. Hynes, Mme. Christensen & Mlle. Coulombe.
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Spoiler alert. These cats, the biggest surprise to burst onto the Doom Chart in November, have beaten Ponamero Sundown with one point and knocked the amazing Vedesta album off the Top 20 countdown list. But these Aussies have an amazing knack for exploring all facets of atavistic rock, booking excellent time in classic doom, proto metal and bluesy stoner. And this eclecticism only adds to amazing quality of the entire album. Raw, full of grit and mystic power that quickly turns you on to their shamanistic ritual… So, find yourself a dark corner to curl up into and put on your headphones… It's time for…
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More than two years before the 2020 election, President Donald Trump has already raised over $100 million for his re-election bid, with almost $47 million still in the bank, NBC News reported.
The Federal Election Committee filings show a historic amount of money that comes from many small-dollar donations as well as large donors, including $250,000 from venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
The campaign spent $7.7 million over the last three months, according to the data. It also donated $2,000 to more than 100 separate Republican candidates nationwide.
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- Nobodyspecial said...
There is a radio station on my route. It's the only FM music station you can get all the way out there. They claim to be a "mix" station with variety. The problem is that they play CCR (Creedence Clear Water Revival) every 5 or 7 songs. Or, instead of CCR, they play John Fogerty. Which is the same thing.
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This post originally appeared in At Large in Ballard with Peggy Sturdivant.
I was just inspired by blowing leaves to put poetry on my car.
It started on First Hill when I realized that I was in sunshine with dark clouds to the north. Clouds were scudding across the sky as fast as rabbits racing for cover. Northbound on Aurora three lanes were suddenly covered in leaves, which then whooshed up in the air as if lassoed.
As I headed for Ballard I kept seeing leaves circling up and over. A gust of wind rocked the car and it was as though nature itself had knocked to get my attention. On the radio KUOW was broadcasting PRI's The World. A reporter was talking about poetry in Pakistan; how Pakistanis speak to one another in couplets and how they share poetry through "public conversation," putting verses on all their vehicles, from rickshaws to buses.
I always wanted to put poetry on my car. I bought a Magnetic Poetry Kit at Top Ten Toys for "really big words." Not refrigerator poetry but big words that cried out to me, vehicle poetry. What stopped me? The choice of words in the kit is not the most conducive but more likely it was fear of embarrassing my daughter, or more likely myself. We got so far as the word, SO, which adhered to our metal mailbox for years.
On 24th NW there was yet another swirl of leaves, these brighter and smaller. They made me laugh even as I listened to the translation of the verse on the back of a rickshaw written by a Pakistani whose broken heart isn't on his sleeve, but on the rear of his cab.
White caps on the sound, wind chimes singing wild on the front porch, the wind shaking vents…the message is clear. Go to the basement, find the poetry kit and try to capture the wind – in words.


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On this 30-minute ride along the Grand Canal, you have the opportunity to admire some of Venice's most beautiful locations, including ancient palaces and splendid bridges, all in the capable hands of an experienced gondolier.
To make an already memorable journey unforgettable, musicians join your flotilla of gondolas. They perform well-known tunes from Italian films and popular culture, infusing their own unique flair into time-honored traditions.
Just click here to see the itinerary and discover some curiosities about the gondola!
Take line #1 and get off at "Santa Maria del Giglio" stop. Once you get off the vaporetto, go straight to the end of the "Calle" and turn right into "Campo Santa Maria del Giglio". Turn right again back to the waterfront and you will find the Gondola landing stage.
The Gondola landing stage is located in "Campo Santa Maria del Giglio". Once by the Bell Tower in St. Mark's Square, leaving the Basilica behind you proceed straight on to the left corner of the Square (near the Correr Museum). Pass the arches and go straight on until you reach Campo San Moisè. Cross the bridge and proceed along the street "Calle XXII Marzo" until you reach "Campo Santa Maria del Giglio". Once there turn left leaving the Church behind you, go straight on to the waterfront and you will find the Gondola landing stage.


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Mr. Alizan Mahadi
Mr. Alizan Mahadi is a Fellow with the Technology, Innovation, Environment and Sustainability (TIES) programme. Previously, he served as the Special Officer to the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister and Chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He is the current Principal Officer to the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Malaysia Chapter.
Alizan is undertaking research on multi-level governance, transitions and transformations and is involved in developing a sustainable development implementation plan for the Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia. His other areas of research include institutions for sustainable development and sustainable consumption and production. Alizan has a Master of Science in Sustainable Development from University of Uppsala, Sweden and a Chartered Surveyor (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors).


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The church, originally built in 1534, is rebuilt a number of times, the present structure dating to 1973. The church also served a refuge to popular icon of the Virgin Mary from Our Lady of the Mount chapel, Bandra from 1739 to 1761. In 1853, the Church witnessed a showdown between vicars Apostolic and the Portuguese padroado order for the control of the Church. In recent history, on 27 June, 2008, thousands of devotees visited the Church to see a reported "bleeding" Jesus Christ's portrait, which was termed as a "miracle" by devotees. Though on further investigation, the red spots on the picture showed no traces of blood.
The weekly Novena services were started in 1948, when a priest Fr. Edward Placidus Fernandes from Mumbai noticed a similar ritual celebrating Our Lady of Perpetual Succour at Belfast, Northern Ireland, during his visit to Europe. Fr. Fernandes brought with him a picture touched to the original Our Lady of Perpetual Succour picture at Rome. On the 8th of September, 1948 - the Birthday of Mary, concurrent with a Wednesday that year, Fr.
Fernandes as the vicar held the first Novena services. Initially, only two services were held every Wednesday, but today from 8:30 am to 10:30 pm, the thirteen services are held in various languages: English, Konkani, Marathi, Tamil and Hindi.Not only Christians, but also adherents of other faiths congregate to pay their respects to the Virgin Mary and attend mass every Wednesday. Devotees believe that visiting the Church on nine consecutive Wednesdays (Novena) will grant their wishes. They offer floral garlands according to the Hindu customs and repeat prayers before the image. Some of them offer wax figures of what they desire, for example, a wax house. According to Father Hugh Fonseca, around 40-50,000 devotees visit the church every week.
When the Marathas conquered Salsette in 1739, Our Lady of the Mount chapel in Bandra was destroyed by the Portuguese at the instance of the British so that its location remained secret to the Marathas. In this time, St. Michael's Church was the refuge place for the image of the Blessed Virgin from the chapel. The image remained in St. Michael's till 1761, when it was moved to its present structure in Bandra.The original St. Michael's Church is believed to have been built in 1534 by António do Porto, a church builder of the Franciscan Order. Back then, the Church also served as Franciscan convent and was based on the bank of river Mandave. It is described to be a "large and beautiful church ... with large veranda before the portal ..." Since then, St. Michael's was frequently rebuilt, retaining nothing but just original plan.
In 1853, St. Michael's Church witnessed a struggle between Bishop Anastasius Hartmann and the padroado order. St. Michael's was in control of the vicars apostolic for nearly 60 years. In 1853, a discontented group decided that the control be handed over to the padroado party. To prevent this, Hartmann as the vicars's leader, went to the church and declared that "he would rather die a martyr than surrender the church to the schismatics". Hartmann and his followers stayed in the church with enough food and water for 15 days. Hartmann's opponents had laid "siege" to the church in this period, blocking all entrances. On the 15th day, civil authorities intervened and insisted that the church be reopened. Following this, Hartmann lost control of the church, passing it to padroado order.
In his 1917 book, Sheppard remarks that St. Michael's was situated on the Portuguese Church Street and is one of the four "only known Portuguese buildings; and of these no distinguishing original feature survives, as they were much rebuilt". The present structure of St. Michaels was rebuilt in 1973.
Reported "Bleeding" Christ pictureEdit
Parish Priest Father Raphael and Father Doneth D'Souza from the St. Michael's church as well as Archbishop cardinal Oswald Gracias declined the miracle claim. Fr. D'Souza explained "It's not a blood stain and it's also not a miracle. Every image of Divine Mercy has a red halo around the heart and in this case, the red colour has run because of the moisture in the air. It will look like a blood stain, but it's not." On 27 June, 2008, thousands of devotees visited St. Michael's to see the picture of Jesus called "the Divine Mercy". The picture showed some red spots which were believed to be blood near the heart of Jesus. The spots were noticed on the day at 8.30 pm on the occasion of the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and were termed as a "miracle" by devotees. Not only Chiristians, but also Hindus and Muslims from Maharashtra and the neighbouring states of Goa, Karnataka and Gujarat, visited the Church to catch a glimpse of the picture. The queue to St. Michael's extended more than a kilometre.
The image was removed and sent to a scientific analysis on the orders of Oswald Gracias. The result of that study was released in the September archdiocesan weekly and it said that the tests "established that there are no traces of blood in the red rays emanating from the Heart of Jesus in this image of Divine Mercy". Monsoon humidity and changes in the air quality were the suspected causes, Oswald Gracias did not explain the exact reasons.


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UM Students Recognized by National Criminal Justice Society
Students from the University of Mississippi Legal Studies Department recently traveled to the 2017 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in annual meeting in Kansas City, Missouri.
Alpha Phi Sigma is the national honors society for Criminal Justice, and several students from the UM chapter of the society, Mu Rho, presented papers and projects at the conference. The hard work earned UM students several awards for their research.
In the Lowering Recidivism panel, Emma Burleson, a graduate student in the Master of Science in Criminal Justice program, presented her paper "Rewiring the Anger: New Responses in the Therapeutic Community." The paper earned her the Second Place Scholarship Award in Alpha Phi Sigma's Best Graduate Paper Competition.
Shannon Ladnier, an undergraduate in the Criminal Justice program, won the First Place Scholarship award in Alpha Phi Sigma's Best Paper Competition at the conference.
And Mu Rho, the UM chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma, was awarded the 2016/2017 Community Service Project Award for their "Interdiction to Addiction" project.
Congrats to all of our students!


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Category Archives: Huntington's
Norfolk's singing neuro nurse is getting the message across
Norfolk's singing neuro nurse is getting the message across
UEA lecturer Steve Smith with his sons Simon and Dan (not pictured) are to embark on a 5000-mile charity motorcycle ride.
Music and motorcycles are helping a University of East Anglia lecturer to raise awareness of serious brain conditions
Steve Smith works at the UEA's school of nursing and midwifery and is an expert in neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, MS, stroke, and Huntington's disease.
Carer helped by support programme
Burnham carer helped by support programme
11:40am Friday 25th March 2011
A BURNHAM carer whose husband, son and daughter suffer the same crippling disease has taken advantage of a vital support programme.
Sylvie Richards has looked after her husband, 43-year-old John, for the last 20 years as he suffers from Huntington's Disease.
To make matters worse for Sylvie, both her son and daughter have also been diagnosed with the devastating illness, and her son, who was diagnosed 12 years ago, now lives full time in a care home.


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Greg Fernandez Jr. ◊ January 20th, 2018
On January 10th, 2016, at 8:54 pm, Mason Hendricks sent me an instant message on Facebook, a link to Tom Lyden's article on the alleged double-murder suicide committed by David Crowley.
"Thanks for the link," I responded.
"No problem" wrote Hendricks. "Hopefully you all can have some questions answered with all of this."
"I just feel bad for the family," I told Hendricks. I had just learned that Allahu Akbar was written in blood on the living room wall of the Crowley house. I was surprised by this bizarre twist of events. "If David wrote Allahu Akbar in Komel's blood that's Fn disgusting."
"He did," Hendricks wrote back. "And now you see why Sidrah acted how she did. Imagine knowing what her and I knew and because the investigation was still going that you could not talk about what was all done. I've been in the house. I've seen it all. Imagine being her and seeing people write and talk about how great David was. He shot her twice in the head, Rani once. Imagine being the police walking in and seeing what they saw. There were so many government agencies looking into this because of what he wrote and they had to go through 13 hard drives I believe, all the photos, all the videos. So many investigators had to review and sign off."
Hendricks stated he could not talk "about what was all done" during the investigation. Yet Hendricks said he was speaking to the media on behalf of both sides of the family within days of the bodies being discovered. Hendricks first met David at the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011.
In some of the early news stories, Hendricks spoke of the two notes police found and how they didn't answer any questions about the crimes.
Office Bedroom
Kitchen Laptop
I found it interesting that Mason Hendricks was not mentioned in the 94 pages of police reports or the 485 pages of investigator documents later obtained by Dan Hennen. It seemed obvious police had spoken to him at some point, and Hendricks knew about Dan Hennen's first data request from the Apple Valley Police Department.
Hendricks claimed there were "many government agencies looking into this because of what" was written by David. Later, Hendricks stated the BCA were the ones who "messed up" and released graphic images, including photographs of David with his head eaten off and Rani without her right arm, to Tom Lyden.
Hendricks stated there were images that were not supposed to be released at the behest of, possibly, the Department of Homeland Security or the FBI. However, when we asked AVPD Detective Jim Gummert if either agency was involved in their investigation, he responded with, "No."
Backtrack on the Pact
On February 12th, 2015, Mason Hendricks posted a strange statement on Facebook, claiming that even if David was the one who used the gun, Komel could still be part of a joint decision to kill themselves and their daughter.
A year later, his view had completely changed and I wanted to know why. "Well that is a long story," Hendricks responded, "and that is what we were led to believe…No I don't think that. That all changed the day after the first interview. Komel was innocent. It was all David." Hendricks felt the pact theory had originated from "David's family."
Hendricks told me I was free to call him, he just didn't want his phone number shared with the group. "I have no problem talking on the phone," I told him, "but anything said would have to be able to be shared with the group. Other people have reached out to me and I've told them the same thing. I don't want people thinking we are going to have a private conversation and then I turn around and share it in the group, if I choose to."
"Now that this is done," Hendricks reassured me, "I could care less what you post. Just leave my phone number out of it." I also reminded him that I wanted to make sure his statements were accurate and not taken out of context.
Three days later, on January 13th, 2016, at 7:24 am, Hendricks again stated he didn't care what I did with the information he planned on sharing, "Writing back and forth will take way too long. I don't care if you record what we say or any of that shit."
So, I moved on with the interview, with the full intent of using his quotes for proper context and accuracy. Mason Hendricks was working on a photography project when we first spoke over the phone on January 13th, 2016. He claimed to have a degree in law enforcement. After being a troublesome child himself, Hendricks wanted to work with troubled kids as a police liaison. The indoctrinated racism he saw within some police officers made Hendricks change his mind about a future in law enforcement.
The last time Mason saw David Crowley was early December of 2014, somewhere around December 6th, when Hendricks showed up unannounced, to return a camera lens David let him borrow.
"What are you doing here?" David asked.
Usually, David would let Mason in the house, but not this time. Usually Komel would be cooking in the house and Rani would be running around, but this time Hendricks did not see or hear either of them.
"He looked like shit," Hendricks repeatedly said. "He's usually pretty well put together. But I don't know. He looked like he just hadn't been eating much, and smelt bad. Usually you'd hear Rani running around. She wasn't running around. Komel didn't come out. It was just tense." David gave Mason three books related to film and lighting before sending his friend on his way.
Hendricks believed another friend went to David's house on the 16th or 17th of that same year. Whoever the unnamed friend was, David gave him a bunch of books on film.
"Even if [David] didn't know that he was going to end up doing what he did," Mason speculated, "he started eliciting signs. Like giving stuff away, trying to downsize, his whole garage sale. It's almost like his subconscious knew possibly that this was going to happen."
Are we supposed to believe that in the same month David had a garage sale, and was working with Michael Entertainment Group to turn Gray State into a television series, that he was also "subconsciously" preparing to end his life? Yet Hendricks also stated the murders were not premeditated. How can anyone take Mason Hendricks seriously with such conflicting statements?
Hendricks told me he understood why outsiders like me had doubts about David's guilt, "But when you see all this stuff, when you've been in the house, you've seen the bullet hole, the this & that, you see this stuff and you're like, yeah, this was David. This was him."
The House
On January 19th, 2015, Hendricks and a group of friends went to the Crowley residence. Hendricks stated they did a lot of organizing for the family, "We spent a couple of days cleaning, organizing stuff so that when Sidrah came she wouldn't have to go through all of her sister's mess."
Mason stated the group was hoping to find something that left a clue as to why David murdered his family, "Something that one of us would possibly find. We took and tore into everything. You know, ceilings, up in the attics, we were everywhere."
Hendricks and company searched the entire house, including the attic, but didn't find anything to help them understand why David committed a double-murder suicide. Even so, they still continued with the assumption that David was guilty.
Hendricks didn't understand how police missed the bullet hole above their heads in the living room.
It was pretty difficult to not see this hole in the ceiling, "We ended up letting them know that. So, the police had to come back." On January 19th, 2015, police received a call about a suspicious person in the Crowley house.
Hendricks stated police found David's blood on the bullet and confirmed the bullet came from David's gun, "The Christmas tree was in the trajectory path of where it went up and into the ceiling."
The bullet hole in the ceiling was not near the Christmas tree. In the image below, the hole is supposed to be to the left of the light near the front door.
Unfortunately, we do not have a photograph of the bullet hole on January 17th, 2015. We only have the photographs taken a month later on February 18th, 2015. In the image below you can see the hole is nowhere near where the Christmas tree was, before and after the bodies were moved.
Even if the Christmas tree was moved, it was not tall enough to block the view of the bullet hole in the ceiling.
"They had to move stuff around a little bit," Hendricks explained. "I believe they moved the tree right into where the hole went up. Or something like that." Do you believe Mason?
Finger Prints
In one of his last reports, Detective Brian Bone stated the Latent Print Division of the Minnesota BCA "showed that latent prints in blood were found on the pistol recovered in the living room as well as the magazine from that same gun. The BCA found a palm print on the gun and a fingerprint on the magazine."
I asked Hendricks why he thought police were able to prove David guilty, "He would have been the only one to have logged into his computers. His fingerprints were on the gun. His fingerprints had Komel's blood, which were all over the wall…bloody fingerprints on the computer, which were his fingerprints."
But Detective Bone stated something different, "The print from the magazine was submitted to the Midwest Automated Fingerprint Identification Network (MAFIN) and did not generate any matches. The comparison to David Crowley was inconclusive due to limited quality of latent prints. The BCA did not have a comparable known palm print for David Crowley. The latent fingerprints found on the note pad from the office revealed two suitable prints for comparison. One was inconclusive as belonging to David Crowley due to the limited quality of the print and the other indicated the print came from David Crowley's left middle finger. No other meaningful results were discovered in the latent print exam."[note]AVPD Reports pg.91[/note]
Detective Bone told the BCA crime scene lead, Joe Cooksley "that the exam of the indented writings was not needed at this time." Bone's report was written on August 6th, 2015, five months before I spoke with Hendricks.
"If I remember correctly, the dog gnawed off the right hand and ate part of it," Hendricks told me, "and that was found in the basement. But they were able to get partial palm prints, but they didn't actually use the palm for evidence because they didn't need to, because they used the fingerprints from the blood and all that stuff."
Police reported David's right hand was "missing" and gave no indication it was recovered in the basement. Was Hendricks lying, or was this information fed to him?
Terrified Police
"The police were honestly terrified when they went into David's house," Hendricks told me. "They thought that because it said Allah Akbar on the wall that possibly the house was rigged with explosives or something like that."
Hendricks thought police handled the case "very, very well. There's certain things that maybe [they did] not so well…but…one of the police officers had a picture of David, of Raniya, and Komel on his computer that he looked at to remind him who he was dealing with. And this case affected every single one of those officers."
Overall, Hendricks found the police work "impressive," especially when dealing with such a horrifying tragedy.
"For them to handle this with such care," Hendricks continued, "finesse, and to be so, I guess you would say, caring and nurturing with the families means, how they did handle this, it's actually impressive. This shit, it affected them. I mean, some of them have gone to talk with people because the shit they saw was horrifying."
In the end, police were still left without a motive. If they don't have a motive, what do they really have? Just like Hendricks and the others in the Crowley house on January 19th, 2015, authorities were unable to find anything that would help them understand why David committed the double-murder suicide. After the Dakota County Electronics Crime Task Force reviewed "all electronic items" in their possession, on October 6th, 2015, Detective Bone reported, "Detective Klokonos and the DCECTF did not find any information on the related devices that showed motive or cause for what happened during or up to this incident."
"With the conclusion of the review of the digital devices," Detective Bone wrote in the last publicly-released report, "there is no other information available for further investigation. Throughout this investigation the AVPD has not discovered any information or evidence that shows anybody but David Crowley is the perpetrator of these crimes, including the killing of his wife, child, and himself."
After reading the 94 pages of police reports, I was left wondering if the Apple Valley Police Department ever discovered "any information or evidence" to prove David Crowley was "the perpetrator of these crimes." Dan Hennen was able to get 485 pages of police reports and documents, along with over 600 photographs taken at the crime scene. Still, it was clear that police found nothing to help them understand why David committed the crimes, which led to the ultimate question, Did David Crowley commit these crimes?


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Adjacent to the Ananda Temple, the Thatbyinnyu Temple (or Sabbannu in Burmese) stands out even from a distance. With its 61-meters-high (201 feet), the Thatbyinnyu is the tallest structure in Bagan.
The feeling is, no matter where you are in Bagan, every time you get a sight of those vast plains you will see the Thatbyinnyu and its beautiful golden tips.
With a design very close to the Htilominlo and Sulamani temples, the Thatbyinnyu differs from those and many other structures in Bagan because of its white and grey façade (most of the temples use red bricks on their constructions), and because it does feel spacious, not claustrophobic as the Shinbinthalyaung, for example.
A Sikhara tower forms the top of the pagoda. This tower is smaller and not gilded as the one on Ananda. The temple has four levels and the corridors enshrine a large number of Buddha images on pedestals and, outside of the temple, it is possible to see the Tally pagoda. The story says that for every 10,000 bricks used on the Thatbyinnyu, one was put aside for the Tally construction.
On the terraces, more than 500 tiles depicting the Jataka tales are missing, only leaving the indentations they were before.
An earthquake in 1975 left the Thatbyinnyu very damaged and a restoration happened years later. Unfortunately, in order to preserve the temple from further deterioration, the upper floors, as well as the terraces are now closed.
Although the interior of the temple is bland, the views from the outside are great, the same to say about its brickwork, excellent as the unfinished Dhammayangyi, the largest temple in Bagan.
It is a great alternative if you do not like to visit crowded places. Especially for the sunset, since most people prefer to go to Ananda its famous neighbor.


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The third quarter might have been the Thunder's best of the season. An 11-point lead at the break became 28 after Oklahoma City outscored New Jersey 31-14 in the third. The Nets were held to 4-of-20 shooting in the quarter, missing 11 of their first 12 shots.
"We got the stops we needed and we got the scores we needed," forward Kevin Durant said. "I felt like every time down the floor, we could score."
Though it's an extreme case -- no team routinely wins quarters by 17 -- those 12 minutes Monday offer up a recipe for success.
"We built a lead because we played contest-every-shot defense and we did a good job of moving the ball," coach Scott Brooks said. "In that third quarter it was really good to see. We spaced the floor and guys really stayed within themselves and they did a good job."
THUNDER 114, GRIZZLIES 102 (OT): Oklahoma City gave away a surefire win at the end of regulation Wednesday night, but made up for it in overtime by blasting visiting Memphis in the extra period. The Thunder (11-35) was up 100-94 with about a minute left before the Grizzlies scored six straight to extend the game.
After Memphis scored the first basket in overtime, it was all Oklahoma City. Kevin Durant (35 points) keyed a 14-0 run that clinched the Thunder's eighth win in the last 14 games. Jeff Green scored 23 and connected on a career-high five three-pointers. Russell Westbrook added 16 points.
Rudy Gay (25 points) topped Memphis, which has lost 11 in a row and the first two games under new coach Lionel Hollins. O.J. Mayo scored 17, while Mike Conley and Marc Gasol added 15 each.
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Poop in space: The de-classified conversations of the Apollo 10 mission
Space: The final frontier for poop jokes.
NASA recently declassified the recorded conversations of astronauts from the Apollo moon missions and the astronauts from Apollo 10 had an uncommon problem on their hands toward the end of their trip.
There were three people in a tiny space for nine days during the moon mission Apollo 10. And on day six, on the return route to Earth, there was an unidentified flying object in the command module.
Commander Thomas P. Stafford, Pilot John W. Young and Pilot Eugene A. Cernan were on board at the time. The crew were in the middle of a conversation about power supplies and usage after exiting lunar orbit when suddenly:
"Oh – who did it?" Young asked suddenly.
"Who did what?" Stafford replied.
"What?" chimed in Cernan.
Nobody was willing to take the credit.
"Who did it?" Stafford said again, now laughing.
"Where did that come from?" asked Young.
"Give me a napkin, quick. There's a turd floating through the air," Stafford finally clarified.
"I didn't do it. It ain't one of mine," Young said.
"I don't think it's one of mine," Cernan added.
"Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away," Stafford said.
"God almighty," laughed Young.
The crew proceeded to clarify that yes, there was still lots of room in the waste receptacle for which poop is normally intended. Then they proceeded to keep talking about power consumption aboard their space craft.
The entire document is copied below for your perusal. The portion in question is on page 417, if you're curious.
Of course, bodily functions in space aren't new questions, but they are perennial questions. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield answered that very question for school children not long ago, as part of his well-documented education campaign aboard the International Space Station.


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Case closedPosted: November 12, 2014 Filed under: guide dog access | Tags: access, equality, no further action, resolution Leave a comment
In my last post,
The dark side of guide dog ownership
I wrote about what a horrible experience i had at Mollys restaurant in Ballymoney.
I contacted the equality commission yesterday and within a couple of hours, they rang me back. They told me that i should try and contact the restaurant owners first before pursuing the case. They said they could not legally represent me but if i wanted to, i could apply to them if the matter was not resolved. I said i didn't want to go to courte if i didn't have to so they sent me a guide for restaurants detailing a persons rights withan assistance dog. They advised me to send that to them in an email, and to explain that under the disability discrimination act, it was illegal to refuse a person with a guide dog or offer them a lower service. So i reluctantly sent the guide and a letter.
I got a phone call last night from the owners wife at the restaurant. They apologised to me and said that once we left they felt horrible. They explained that they had learnt a valuable lesson. They have sent me out some vouchers. I am not going to go any further as that would just be petty. I know they apologised on the night and that maybe i should have called them after rather than going to the equality commission, but i just felt so crushed that night that i didn't particularly want to resolve it then because i just felt so disheartened.
I must say a weight has been lifted as i do not like causing bad feelings or complaining for the sake of complaining. At least it had a good outcome as it could have gone the other way.
I just hope i never experience something like that again. Sometimes all it takes is a little reminder about the law. I don't want to make a habbit of this, so let's hope i don't have to.
I guess alls well that ends well.
Thank you everybody for all your support through facebook etc. I had never experienced it before so i was very confused as to if i was doing the right thing or not.
The Dark Side Of Guide Dog OwnershipPosted: November 9, 2014 Filed under: guide dog access | Tags: access, equality, humiliation, refusal 1 Comment
I still can't fathm why this post even happened, and as i go through it in my head, it still baffles me. I keep reliving the whole thing in my head. Anyway, i hope you're comfy as this is a long one.
On Thursday night i had an event i wanted to go on in Ballymoney. I was staying with my friend in Holywood and i had suggested a few days earlier that i could ring and find out if she could come. All was okay on that score, so we got the train down from Belfast. Ballymoney is about 20 minutes away from Ballymena.
The weather had been awful all day so we decided to leave earlier and get some food when we got there. I asked on facebook if anyone knew anywhere nice to eat in Ballymoney and a restaurant called Mollys was recommended to us.
When we got there, a nice lady called Nolene helped us over the bridge at Ballymoney station. Boy but that's a long trek. We really appreciated it. We asked if we could walk to Mollys from the station and my friend thought i was expecting her to do it but i would never do that. Turns out the restaurant was only about 5 or 10 minutes up the street, so Nolne offered to walk us up there. Again it was really appreciated. Unfortunately things started to get ugly when we got to Mollys.
When we walked in, the woman serving shouted over to the owner that there were two guide dogs. We thought this was grand, but then she asked if we could tie the dogs up in the alley outside. I jumped straight in and said that they were guide dogs and they were clean. She then went on that because they served food they couldn't let us in. She then said that they had never encountered a guide dog so weren't familiar with the law. So the owner was off to ring the counscil (this was at a quarter to 6, so no chance of anyone being at the counsil). When we asked if they would read the menu, they wanted poor Nolene to read it as she was still with us. She didn't mind of course, but we told her to go on and thanked her emmensely. She even said that guide dogs were allowed in restaurants but they weren't having any of it. They said it would take half an hour to read the menu and started asking Nolene what we liked. By this stage i certainly was feeling very rushed and stressed as we still hadn't been seated. So i asked for a stew. You'd have thought i asked for some really strange exottic dish, as they said that that would be something only a caffe would do and that a bar/restaurant wouldn't. They then said some of the things that were on the menu but were still very vague. So i said i would like a sausage supper with beans. They hesitated before agreeing to make it for us, commenting that they only do that really for kids. This made me feel very very awkward in deed and that i was just being picky which i honestly wasn't. Before all this, the woman had said that shecould put us in the back so they wouldn't get complaints, and it wasn't them who made the rules. So eventually we wer seated away from everybody else in a rom which seemed to have quite a few tables, but it was beside the toilets.
When we were shown our table, the owner asked if we had someone meeting us afterwards. I told him that we would order a taxi after we had finished. The taxi was ordered there and then for 7 o'clock by the owner. I hadn't even sat down since i was getting Ushi's harness off. By this stage, both of us were feeling very humiliated. I especially felt bad for my friend coming all the way from holywood, only to be nearly refused from a restaurant.
The owner explained to us while we were waiting for our food that in all his 10 years of having a restaurant, he'd never encountered the "issue" of a guide dog before so wanted to make sure he knew the law. He then said he would be liable if anything happened and a dog bit someone. Turns out when he was "phoning the counscil", he was actually phoning his wife to look up the law on Google probably. He was very apologettic after, and i explained that it shouldn't happen again. He said we were welcome any time. It was too little too late.
When our food came and i asked for the salt, it was practically thrust in to my hand. And i got cocktail sausages. We were then left to eat alone. By this stage, i couldn't really enjoy my meal because of what had happened. I just felt so low and as if we shouldn't be there. We tried to make the most of our meals though, even though nobody even came in to the room to sit with us. The only time people came in was to go to the toilets.
When we had finished our meals, and it was time to pay, the staff were very, very over the top with talking to the dogs, and how lovely they were and all. The apologies still kept coming too. When our taxi came, they parted with an "sorry again about what happened earlier-it won't happen again". Boy were we glad to get out of there. My friend said it was like stepping back in time, which it was.
I keep going over the events in my head and i keep wondering was it because the dogs were wet that they were being so fussy? We couldn't control the weather and we were all wet. And i wonder was i given cocktail sausages so that i wouldn't have to cut anything up? I'm still very shaken up by the whole thing. Never in my 4 years of owning Ushi have i ever been refused, or had the slightest hint of a refusal thrown my way. All my friend and i wanted to do was to have a nice meal, just like everyone else. We'll not be going back there again, i can tell you.
So what happens now? Well i have to find a way of writing out what happened more formally and sending it to the equality commission, the counscil and guide dogs. I'm not sure i want to take it to courte, but if that's what needs to happen, then so be it. I'm hoping that the equality commission will just make them aware of the law and that they know in future. When it's written down, it seems like i'm making a mountain out of a mole hill :(. I'm very confused.
Thanks to all the comments supporting me on facebook and telling me that i'm not being silly reporting it. I just hope it never happens again.
Thank you for sticking with me-i told you it was a long one :). I needed to get it written down though. My confidence has certainly been knocked over this whole thing.
I just hope the restaurant learn from this case. I know i certainly have.


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Welcome to our first volume blog of 2017, reviewing door drop volumes in the opening quarter of the year.
We came into 2017 on the back of two years where our weekly statistics showed come consistency, with 2015 recording an average of 7 items, which increased fractionally last year to 7.1.
Regular readers will know our statistics show door drop volumes to be higher than the official Direct Marketing Association's.
DMA stats for 2015 were just 4.2 and the 2016 data is due to be published by no later than May, given that all members should have submitted their information by now (we have!).
We would still predict the DMA volume for 2016 to be much lower than ours, but their publication should coincide with our 6 month review, so something to re-visit then.
So far this year, our weekly average is still in the same zone at 7.3, but though relatively early in the year, there are some interesting changes when looking at the detail.
Last year Royal Mail door to door enjoyed 34.5% market share, but in the first quarter of the year that has fallen to 29.5%.
In comparison, the local solus/shared market has jumped from 60% last year to 67.3%, not only taking up the RM shortfall but a little from free newspapers whose 5.5% share in 2016 has fallen to just 3.2% this year (only three items in 13 weeks).
It is of course still quite early in the year and it will be interesting to see if and how this changes in the months to come.
Retail still continues to dominate the statistics at 48.4%, though that is slightly down on last year (54.2%), with local business standing at 24.2% up from last year's 20.4%, though again time may well even those figures out.
Our overall view at this stage of the year is therefore that the medium continues to perform strongly in the face of some challenging times on the horizon for many clients, with the threat of GDPR looming.
But, is GDPR really a threat to door drop users?
More about the potential positive effect of GDPR on door drops in blogs to come.


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Chatterbox is a library to send notifications and messages over whatever service you like, whether it be email, Twitter, Campfire, IRC, or some combination therein. The goal of Chatterbox is to be able to send a message from your application via whatever service the user prefers simple by tweaking the configuration hash that gets sent to Chatterbox.
Publishing and subscribing to notifications can be decoupled easily, so bring your own message queue, web service, database, or whatever to act as an intermediary. Or keep it simple and wire Chatterbox directly - its your choice.
Installing and Running
For plain old gem install:
gem install chatterbox
To install within a Rails app, add the following to your environment.rb file:
config.gem "chatterbox"
Then run:
rake gems:install
Services are used to send notifications in Chatterbox. Chatterbox comes with an email service for use out of the box, which uses ActionMailer and works pretty much how you would expect.
Email Service Configuration
Register the email service to handle messages that get sent to Chatterbox:
Chatterbox::Publishers.register do |notice|
Then, wherever you want to send email, do this:
= {
:summary => "your subject line here", :body => "Email body here",
:config => { :to => "[email protected]", :from => "[email protected]" },
You can configure defaults for the email service:
:to => "[email protected]",
:from => "[email protected]",
:summary_prefix => "[my-prefix] "
Then when you deliver messages, the provided options will be merged with the defaults:
Chatterbox.notify(:message => { :summary => "my subject" })
To: email@example.com
From: email@example.com
Subject: [my-prefix] my subject
While the following overrides the default to and from addresses...
= {
:summary => "my subject",
:config => { :to => "[email protected]", :from => "[email protected]" },
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
From: email@example.com
Subject: [my-prefix] my subject
Exception Notification
One of the most handy use cases Chatterbox was developed for is exception notification. Chatterbox can be configured for Rails exception catching from controllers, and can be used in a plain Ruby app as well.
To setup Chatterbox for Rails exception notification, install it as a gem with the instructions above, then configure it inside an initializer:
Chatterbox::Services::Email.configure :to => "[email protected]", :from => "[email protected]"
Chatterbox::Publishers.register do |notification|
then wire the
RailsCatcher in your
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include Chatterbox::RailsCatcher
And you are done! Exceptions thrown in controllers will automatically be processed and sent by Chatterbox, and then raised to be handled (or not handled) as normally.
Bugs & Patches
Please submit to Github Issues.
All patches must have spec coverage and a passing build.
Bugs/Issues: http://github.com/rsanheim/chatterbox/issues Docs: http://rdoc.info/projects/rsanheim/chatterbox
- Rob Sanheim (creator)
- Chad Humphries (API ideas)
Copyright © 2008-2009 Rob Sanheim under the MIT license


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Equestrian world lovers? The adventure may well continue beyond the borders of your country. Imagine hiking in the Grand Canyon, or escapades on the Andes. In short, you could try horseback holidays around the world.
Escape in the distance
Every person needs a change of scenery, need to leave their habits and see New Worlds. In the long run, the holidays could get boring if you only talk about the beach or the mountains. You could then try new activities. Nowadays, centers organize horseback riding in various countries of the world. You could then get on your stallion with a french used saddles and go on an adventure in a place where you never set foot. The dream of any horse lover is to be able to combine their passions and relaxation. You could then see in this activity a new opportunity to take a liking to life if you are a beginner. If you are already an equestrian enthusiast, this will give you new horizons to explore with your stallion.
Choose a trip
There are indeed several criteria to arrive at a choice in the destination. First and foremost, you will need to evaluate your equestrian level. This could be based on your horseback riding experience. Then comes the budget. You will have to provide a sizeable amount of money since fares often start from 1200 euros and this includes flight. This rate will also vary depending on the destination you prefer. Usually, people take tickets to Texas where they think they can experience the lives of cowboys. In addition, the type of hike is a factor that will define your type of trip. There are old-fashioned hikes that offer real adventures on horses and there are prestigious hikes that combine luxury and passion. In any case, you will be accompanied by a guide who will instruct you in any situation. And this is a great opportunity to realize your dreams of becoming a cowboy in the Wild West.


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Scene: A dimly lit historical bar with famous sandwiches, downtown Los Angeles
I knew immediately when I saw him that I had to make him mine- if only for a moment. We were both doomed. I just didn't know how much at the time.
Little did I know just how much the wind was going to be knocked out of me that first time we saw eachother… and to think it almost didn't happen.
It had been a long day at work. I was exhausted and just wanted to go home and go straight to bed. Some Friday night huh?
He and I had chatted in textboxes previously. He claimed he had never met anyone online before but the "friend" connection we shared seemed to calm him down a bit.
"Let's see where this goes." He'd later tell me would be the reason he went through with it.
Before our introduction there had been a few flags of caution. Politically we were very different people. And then there was one major break: despite mutually knowing a fellow artist, he abhorred art. Those two degrees of diametrical separation are arguably enough to make people run from eachother. But hey who listens to signs anyway?
I got there late. He was to meet me at one of my favorite historical cocktail bars downtown- Coles.
I took a deep breath as I walked up to the door.
"Haven't seen my friend in awhile have you Wally?" I smiled to the doorman.
"Nope." He smiled back.
"Wish me luck. I'm off to meet his potential replacement."
Wally laughed and opened the door.
"You have a good night tonight."
"Always." I said with a wink.
And then time slowed down a bit… as it tends to in moments that…
Sitting at the bar was the man from the picture- clad in a black velvet blazer, dress shirt and tie. He was even better looking in person… and holy hell that was a feat in it of itself.
"Hi Jen."
Oh my…
How is this my life?


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Cats are petty tyrants....lol, they are cautious creatures, but once one trusts you, they are yours for life. They are every bit as loyal as a dog, in their own way. I've only had cats for 3 yrs, formally a dog only person, but have gained much respect for felines. The difference is they don't mind as a dog will. They do as they please, but if you love them, they love you back, hard! :) I kind of like their independence.
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Professional Background
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Oklahoma State University
From 1988 to 1997, I was a Unix system administrator for Oklahoma State University, Computer Science Department for almost nine years. While working there, I published several papers in the proceedings of the USENIX organization. Among the later works is my paper on UAMS, the Universal Account Management System. This was an attempt to provide a way to manage multiple user accounts across a wide variety of computers in a university environment. It was presented at the USENIX LISA or Large Installation Systems Administration Conference.
Over the course of the last 14 years, I've been the system administrator for a diverse collection of machines, networking hardware, etc. Among the more interesting are:
From 1997 to 2000, I was a professional services represenative for Esker Inc., which I hired into as "Teubner and Associates, Inc.", but was later bought out. I worked on a very cool product called "Corridor - the Web to Host System". It allowed the non-stated WWW world to intact with old 3270 based host mainframe applications. It had a fairly straight forward, powerful, extensable scripting language underneath, called "AppTags" that controlled how the product converted the 3270 screen data into HTML for presentation to the WWW user. The same langugage controlled taking the response and applying it to the 3270 application. In that role, I was supporting four platforms, WindowsNT Server, 4.0, IBM OS/2 and AIX, and Sun Solaris 2.x. As most of these were things I'd dealt with in the past, it really wasn't a big stretch.
Some of the things that I helped to customize our product around include a number of applications for the City of New York, a couple of insurance applications, etc., but most of these are intra-net only.
After I left the company, the product was shelved. Some of the ideas live on, as most good ones do, in other products. Included are 'Pulse' by Esker Inc. and 'HostBridge' by Hostbridge Technology Inc..
Over the years, I've become fairly fluent in several programming languages. Among the painful list are:
ASP, JavaScript, Perl, and the web have been more "recent" additions to my skill-set (maybe the last seven years or so). I have to say that up front, I am a card carrying, bonafided, disapprover of a certain software giant from the first...however, ASP isn't quite as evil as I once thought it was. I wouldn't give much for the rest of their product line, but that's just me.


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It's hard not to love a good raw lasagna. It takes all the best elements of a quintessential comfort food and turns them on their head, transforming a typically heavy, calorie-laden dish into something light, summery, and delightfully unexpected.
Category Archives: Vegan
Flourless Vegan Pumpkin Brownies (gluten free, vegan)
This recipe probably looks pretty familiar to some of you. If it does, don't worry – you haven't gone mad.
I have decided to revamp and reshoot some of my old recipes (in between posting new content) in order to give them the love and attention they truly deserve. After making these many times over the last year I've come up with a few little tweaks which I think make them even better, which, to me, is a natural part of the cooking process. It would be unfair not to share those improvements with you. More importantly, my photography skills have improved significantly since I began this blog just over a year ago. A quick peek at some of my earlier recipes will make that abundantly, cringe-worthily clear. It requires a real effort in mindfulness for me not to agonize over some of those earlier photos! At the same time, it is also really rewarding to see how far I've come.
No-Bake Sprouted Buckwheat + Apricot Granola Bars (gluten free, vegan)
This recipe has been a rather long time in the making. It started with a feeling of nostalgia, evoked from photographs of our travels in Austria. I can still recall the sublime beauty of that country as if I had just returned this morning. I remember the overwhelming awe and gratitude I felt in the presence of the vast mountain range that surrounds Salzburg, and the sense of wonder, of having travelled through time, while exploring the ruins of Durnstein castle, once home to an imprisoned Richard the Lionheart.
Spaghetti Squash + Fiddlehead Pasta Primavera (gluten free, vegan)
I'm absolutely in love with this dish. I've been making a variation of it for the last year or so, and it always makes for a perfect dinner. Satisfying, wholesome, and flavourful, it can be ready in under 40 minutes but tastes (and looks) like it took two hours. The marriage of classic Italian flavours – parsley, basil, olive oil, and sundried tomatoes – with the rather more Canadian textures of the squash and fiddleheads is really quite exciting. On weeknights it makes for an indulgent-feeling meal, but since there's no pasta, it's hardly an indulgence in the usual sense of the word. You'll be full without feeling overly stuffed, which is something I will always endorse.
Romanesco and Crispy Tofu Quinoa Bowl (gluten free, vegan)
Quinoa bowls are kind of amazing. Endlessly versatile, packed with nutrients, and incredibly satisfying, they make for an ideal packed lunch, especially on days where you've hit the gym before even getting to the office.
They're also a lot of work.
Okay, let me rephrase that. Making all of the individual elements which make up your bowl is a lot of work, but it's a labour of expediency. Put in the time to pull everything together on the weekend, and you're set for lunches for the rest of the week. I would never make a single-serving quinoa bowl – it takes the same amount of time to make a small batch as a large, so why not do future you a favour and avoid having to make a lunch every night?
Coconut Java Cookie Dough Balls (and what to do with leftover almond pulp) – gluten free, vegan option
It's probably too soon to be sharing another cookie dough ball recipe. I thought long and hard about whether I should just tuck this recipe away for a rainy day. But the last couple of weeks, aside from being overwhelmingly busy and exhausting, have seen a lot of unsuccessful recipe testing and unfortunate photo taking. It happens. Some weekends it seems like everything I touch in the kitchen turns to gold, and others… well, let's just say I ate a lot of waffles yesterday and enjoyed very few of them.
Peppermint Pattie Smoothie (gluten free, vegan)
Happy day-before St. Patrick's Day!
Whoever first thought to combine chocolate and mint deserves some kind of lifetime achievement award, at least in my books. It's one of my all-time favourite sweet pairings, so much so that I was rarely found without a box of Junior Mints in my purse during my high school years. These days, I eschew those high-fructose corn syrup droplets of yum in favour of more natural alternatives. I have found some pretty fantastic organic dark chocolate + mint bars over the last few years that satisfy the craving and taste infinitely better, but today I wanted to give a nod to the Irish side of my heritage and celebrate the holiday in a healthful way.
Cream of Tomato and Basil Soup (gluten free, vegan)
I had tomato soup for the first time in my life about three months ago. Yes, you heard that correctly. In my twenty seven tomato loving years on this planet, pretty much all of them have been tomato soup-less. I have no explanation for this, other than the fact that my early encounters with the dish involved staring at red goop from a can and politely (and not-so-politely) refusing. That basically turned me off the whole thing for good. I assumed it would be an experience somewhere in between drinking straight tomato sauce and hot tomato juice – eeyuk! How ignorant I was. Continue reading
Vanilla Cashew-Almond Milk (gluten free, vegan)
I will admit to being a little late in jumping on this bandwagon, as I am with many things in life. But I am so, so glad I started making my own nut milk a couple of months ago. It was always just one of those things that I avoided for no real reason; I assumed it would be too time consuming, too expensive, too… hard. How wrong I was. If you have ten minutes, a handful of nuts, and some fabric – you can make nut milk. Continue reading
Pumpkin Pecan Freezer Oatmeal Cups (gluten free, vegan)
On my off-days from the gym, I usually make a smoothie and drink it on the way to work, but if I'm hauling ass and lifting weights at 6am, you can be sure I want something a little more substantial. And since I'm even more pressed for time than usual on those mornings, I need something that can be prepared quickly. As promised, I'm going to be sharing with you as many of my on-the-go breakfast solutions as I have to offer, and this is one you won't want to miss out on!


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Instead of Back to the Future, the people of Italy's Piacenza region are Leaping to the Future thanks to a virtual bridge.
You don't need a DeLorean to get there, just 3DVIA Virtools and a few engineers, architects and urban planners.
For over 30 years, the people of Piancenza have been waiting for the construction of a bridge to cross the Trebbia river. Price-tagged at 26.5 million Euros, the bridge promises to bring significant improvements to local infrastructure.
The virtual bridge was "constructed" to anticipate work procedures, but it will also be used to feed local curiosity. Once the 2-3-year period construction phase begins, citizens will be able to take virtual tours through the Piancenza government's website. You can take a video sneak prevue here.
Now if only I could take a virtual tour of the Greater Paris architecture competition! And what about letting citizens vote for their favorite proposition?
Have you ever gotten to do that, as a citizen and consumer of urban development?