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Internet Usage Policy
Section 1 – Interpretation
1.1 Definitions
In this Policy:
- Bell MTS includes all businesses owned or operated by Bell Canada and its affiliated companies.
- Customer means a person who subscribes for or purchases Internet services from Bell MTS.
- Facilities means any facilities, equipment, or software provided in connection with the Internet Services.
- Internet Services means the Internet and communications services provided by Bell MTS to Customers, and includes the facilities and equipment incidental to such Internet Services.
- "We", "Us" and "Our" refers to Bell MTS, its affiliates, and employees, directors, officers, agents, representatives, interconnection service providers and suppliers.
- You means the customer who contracts with Bell MTS and includes anyone who makes use of your Bell MTS account.
1.2 Scope of Application
This policy is intended for all Customers using our Internet Services or maintaining domains residing on Bell MTS servers, including regular hosting Customers, resellers and their clients.
1.3 Updating
We shall revise this Internet Usage Policy from time to time, in light of changing business and legal requirements. The current policy will be available at http://www.bellmts.ca/internetusage.
Section 2 – Purpose of Policy
2.1 Our Commitment to You
We provide a variety of Internet-related access services to numerous Customers. This means that we have a responsibility towards each Customer to provide the best service that we can. This policy ensures that these crucial obligations to all our Customers can be met.
2.2 Your Obligations
You must comply with this Policy, any applicable legal requirements and any directives which we send to you.
2.3 Resale of Services
We require all Customers reselling our Internet Services in any way, to ensure that these rules are understood and followed by their clients. Anyone who resells or purchases our Internet Services agrees that we shall not be held liable for any promises that resellers extend to their clients, including quality of service, financial obligations, financial losses or any other claim not expressly promised by Bell MTS to the reseller in writing.
Section 3 – Unlawful Activities
3.1 Illegal Activities
You must not:
- Post, transmit, link to, disseminate or otherwise distribute any unlawful material (such as child pornography or legally obscene material);
- Operate pyramid or other illegal soliciting or fund raising schemes;
- Engage in fraudulent activities including forgery, impersonation, or forging another person's signature;
- Engage in activities which disseminate hate propaganda, contrary to law; or
- Intentionally violate any applicable law.
3.2 Co-operation with Law Enforcement Authorities
Bell MTS reserves the right to report illegal activities to governmental authorities and to assist them in any prosecution.
3.3 Activities which Interfere with the Legal Rights of Others
You must not:
- Disseminate material which violates the copyright, moral rights or other intellectual property rights of others; or
- Defame, abuse, stalk, harass, or threaten others; or
- Otherwise violate the contractual, property or civil rights of others, including rights relating to privacy and publicity.
Section 4 – Unacceptable Use:
4.1 Prohibited Activities
You must not:
- Use the Internet Services to send out unsolicited e-mail, whether of a commercial nature or not, which degrades the performance of the network;
- Send e-mail messages to another individual or another system who has explicitly asked you to stop;
- Distribute chain letters, pyramid schemes, "Ponzi" schemes, or multi-level marketing scams;
- Improperly restrict, inhibit or degrade others' use of the Internet Services;
- Use the Internet Services to breach the security of another user, or to attempt to gain access to another person's computer, software or data, without the knowledge and consent of that person or to attempt to circumvent the user authentication or security of any host, network or account, including accessing data not intended for your access, unauthorized logging into or making use of a server or account or probing the security of other networks;
- Use the Internet Services to interfere with (or encourage others to interfere with) computer networking or telecommunication services to any user, host or network, including denial of service attacks, flooding of a network, overloading a service, or attempting to crash a host;
- Maintain an open Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ("SMTP");
- Distribute (or encourage others to distribute) spamware, mass e-mailing programs or technologies designed to overburden Internet operations;
- Seize or abuse operator privileges;
- Use or distribute tools designed for compromising security, such as packet sniffers, ping bombers, cracking tools, password guessing programs or network probing tools;
- Transmit or disseminate any information or software which contains a virus, cancelbot, Trojan horse, worm or other harmful or disruptive component; or
- Modify, reverse engineer or decompile, disassemble or create derivative works based on Bell MTS-provided software;
- Breach current bandwidth or data storage restrictions to the point where such breach degrades network performance
- Improperly restrict, disrupt or degrade Bell MTS's ability to maintain the network and deliver the Internet Service, or monitor the Internet Service, backbone, network nodes and other network services or components; or
- Otherwise overburden our network or affect our ability to provide services to others.
4.2 Responsibility for Others
You are responsible if any third party misuses the Internet Services that you have contracted for, even if the misuse was unintentional.
4.3 Your Responsibility for Security
Bell MTS takes responsibility for applying reasonable commercial measures to ensure that its services are secure, and that Customers can use the Internet Services safely and with confidence. Because of the nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee safety and security and remind Customers of their responsibility for security. Bell MTS accepts no responsibility, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise for any damage you may sustain in using the Internet Services.
Section 5 – Consequences of Breach of Policy
5.1 If You Breach Your Obligations
You must comply with this Internet Usage Policy. If you do not comply, Bell MTS reserves the right to:
- Cancel your service;
- Terminate our Internet Services agreements with you;
- Suspend the service;
- Require you to remove any content that breaches the Policy; or
- Remove any such content.
Section 6 – Contacts
For further questions concerning Bell MTS's services, please contact customer service at 204-225-5687. Please report any Internet abuse issues to email@example.com.


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Dance and Creative Movement: This class is filled with fun movements, games, dance and more! This class promotes good posture, flexibility and artistic expression.
Story-Time Adventure: Every Wednesday, children see a story come alive. We explore different fairy tales and nursery rhymes while learning to play and imagine together. Children dress up, play, sing, dance and have an adventure!
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Friday, August 1, 2008
Magnetic Field Science for the Visually Minded
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Artists have allways taken charged inspiration from the science of their time. Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor were artists-in-residence at Space Sciences Laboratory and developed this vis of the chosmic forces all arround us. For those of us who connect quickly with the pictures (those visual learners) this kind of art makes the invisible world tangible.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Butoh-a-Go-Go in Moscow
This is a gorgeous performance. I personaly prefer the slower movement aspect of Butoh that is demonstrated here, and its really awesome when the performaers are fit and skilled enough to do balancing and weight sharing with eachother like these two men do.
This is an asthetic I desire to emulate. thus I coninue my search for a male dance aprtner who is skilled and bold enough to try wired shit like this with me.
Butoh-a-Go-Go World Premiere of The Narthex, 5th International Dance Festival Moscow. Sound lights and choreography by Thomas Anfield and Kevin Bergsma.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Ballet on its Head
If you are not one of the 3.3 million people who have allready watched this it is a must see. My obsession for Cirque Du Soleil not withstanding this rendition of Swan Lake by a Chinese acrobatic ballet company is incredible. I have extreme difficulty just performing a decent tendu, much less flawlessly rotating on point in arabesque on a mans head! Amazing... simply amazing.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Moving, Auburn home show, and Art takes Flight
Besides that, the Art takes Flight installation in Placerville is going extremely well. For those of you who don't know, I am working with Big Oak Arts to place a set of 9 life-size, trompe l'oeil birds on storefronts around the Broadway strip, along with related quotations and aphorisms from famous artists throughout time; one of my favorites, "What is art, but a way of seeing?" courtesy of Thomas Berger. So far, we have a pygmy owl and a California quail fully installed, with a next wave of a green heron, great white egret, and a Western bluebird going up as early as tomorrow, with all the kinks painted out by the end of the week. Four of these are painted entirely by yours truly, so please, come check them out! The local merchant's group, the Broadway Village Association, is fully sponsoring these, and making a real effort to revitalize the downtown area as well; really, this is a pretty fantastic project, and a harbinger of larger public art to come in Placerville. I will post pictures of these later!
Well, back to packing up my booth for the show. Ciao!
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
"Male Cirque Study"
I had an oportunity last week to see an exhibit of the work of Richard McDonald hosted by the "O" theatre in the Bellagio, Las Vegas. During the moments I lingered staring at the marvelous bronze works inspired by Cirque performers I was quite litterealy moved to tears by the grace and prowess of the sculptures before me. I have never been an avid sculpture aficionado, yet these works lit a fire withing me akin to the phenominal passion and reverance I hold for the performances of Cirque Du Soleil.
I now must find out how to aquire the half million dollars I would need to buy my 5 favorite sculptures of his.
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With a beaming smile and pronounced Italian accent, Private Meir Ben Dror yelled, along with about 600 graduates of the Mikve Alon Hebrew Training Base, "I have no other country [but the land of Israel]." Meir, whose birth name was Matthew Pascualito until he moved to Israel, has taken a truly unique path.
Meir grew up in a secular Catholic family in Venice, Italy but never felt a special closeness to the religion he was born into. "I cannot say I left Christianity to convert. I simply joined the Jewish people," he shares. "I feel like I was born Jewish, as if I was a part of this from the first day of my life. Throughout the holidays, I feel as if I've been eating pomegranates on Rosh Hashanah, fasting on Yom Kippur and sitting in the sukkah all the years of my life."
As he tells his story, his strong Hebrew in no way resembles someone who was a stranger to the language until just two years ago. His journey to Israel began at age 20, when he traveled to Poland with a group on a guided tour of the Nazi death camps. "It was a blow to my mind," he recalls. "I remember the feeling of terror in my throat. To be there and see it was terrifying and very upsetting."
The following year, he visited Israel for the first time in his life. "It was just a week, but I really loved the place and wanted to return," Meir said. And indeed he did. In March 2012, not long after he joined the kibbutz movement, Meir went to Israel to volunteer at Kibbutz Yotvata for six months.
After several months on the kibbutz, he realized that he could not simply return to Europe and see the time spent in Israel as a single chapter in his life. "I wanted to be here and take root here," he explains. In August he decided that he wanted to stay and convert. The Italian native began the conversion process right away, flying to New York where he studied to prepare for his conversion. "I wanted to do it abroad because I needed to make sure this wasn't just some passing excitement. I wanted to leave the country, to make the switch, and see if I felt the same thing all the time there too," he shares. "I can honestly say that I missed Israel every day and night."
A whole new meaning to Independence Day
For Meir, Israel's Independence Day is doubly significant, for it is also the day he chose to complete his conversion. "I chose Independence Day because I wanted a date that's significant for me–to join the Jewish people and join Israel as an active Zionist." In June he returned to Israel and in August he reported to the recruitment office and put on an IDF uniform.
"I wanted to immediately join the military and start to pitch in and participate in our great mission: the defense of Israel and its continued development," he says. "I think the army actually accomplishes this–it's not just rhetoric. But beyond that, the army also provides culture, tradition and meaning. We are here as an independent Jewish nation, as sons and daughters continuing what our forefathers and foremothers did for Zionism… Thus, I'm really proud to be a Jew and an Israeli, and to be a private in the army."
While in Europe, Meir studied history, and as a citizen he would like to be a teacher. But for now, he is requesting to serve in the IDF's Education Corps. "I didn't know that the Israeli military has a unit entirely dedicated to education. I didn't think the military could be so invested in education and culture. I think it's very important for the Jewish state to keep our culture, our tradition and our history. This is how we've survived 2,000 years in exile," he explains.
Meir was placed as a non-commissioned officer in education development, and is already planning to become an officer in the IDF.
A New Name
On October 24, Meir received his new identity card which shows his new Hebrew name. The last name "Dror" is taken from the Torah, and for his first name, he explains, "I chose Meir because it has the [Hebrew] root meaning 'light'. The discovery of Judaism for me was like going into the light."
How does he foresee his life down the road? "I would like to have my children grow up in Israel, and serve in the military just like every Israeli."
This article has been reprinted with the permission of the IDF Blog.


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"Margin of Safety"
I finally got my hands on a copy of this book. It's a out-of-print book that is highly in demand. The cheapest version available is $1700 at Amazon. The author is Seth Klarman, head of the Baupost Group. You can read more here:
"The $700 Used Book"
"Notes on Margin of Safety"
After I take care of this whole internship process, I will spend most of my time devouring the book. I'm mulling two offers, but still looking at a few things in the pipeline. One opportunity is with a fund of funds type structure, and another opportunity is with retail equity research.


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Tonight: U2 in San Diego.
Big deal though, because tomorrow is CLOVER... live in concert...
That's right folks, for one night only, in Fullerton, CA, CLOVER is doing a little diddy...
The details: 8pm, this Tuesday, March 29, 2005, at Plush Design Lab with none other than Mike Barnet... You heard it right, Mike Barnet. And there is no cover. And it is all ages. Wow.
This should be a great show. Would you miss that? I do hope not.
Okay, I'm still jetlagging from Thailand... see you Tuesday night!
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There are living systems; there is no 'living matter'.
Jacques Monod Quotes
The scientific attitude implies...the postulate of objectivity that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.
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Suicidal Texas Man Sets His Car On Fire, Injuring Himself And Two Cops In An Explosion!
Police attempted to approach a man in the parking lot of a food mart near Interstate 35 when he got back inside his car. The man can be heard on video telling officers, "I think I'm going to set the car and fire." A few seconds later, a loud pop can be heard on the video and the vehicle is immediately engulfed in flames. An officer said the driver had a lighter in his hand and investigators believe there was fuel inside the vehicle. The driver is shown on video apparently attempting to get back inside the vehicle before exiting the vehicle again. Officers eventually pulled the driver away from the vehicle. He was taken to a local hospital where he is listed in serious condition. Police said they believe the driver was attempting to commit suicide, according to KXAN. Two officers suffered minor injuries in the incident.
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1. August's Intergroup Meeting has been cancelled, the next meeting is Friday, September 11th.
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4. The Host Committee for the CMA World Conference will be meeting on Saturday, July 18th at 3PM. At 4350 North Broadway, contact Ron S or Dan S for details.
5. Tickets are now available for Miss Serenity, Chicago's very own recovery drag contest is on August 1st at the Mayne Stage, showtime is 8PM. See Joey K, Jey S, John O, Michael S, Guy Z or Armand for tickets.
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One of the world's great works of fiction, Gulliver's Travels keeps all its humour and satire in this new retelling, which uses Swift's words in the main, simplifying and clarifying them where necessary.
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Baseball athletes work hard all season. Then, as soon as the in-field dust settles on the regular season, baseball state tournament brackets are announced.And this …
Baseball athletes work hard all season. Then, as soon as the in-field dust settles on the regular season, baseball state tournament brackets are announced.
And this year, Taos won't be one of the 16 teams competing this year in the 4A state tournament May 16-18 in Albuquerque. It landed in the 17th spot.
But how?
As Taos Tiger baseball fans know, the Tigers were 14-12 overall in the 2019 season. They were one game away from winning the district with a 9-3 district record and 1-2 against Los Alamos, who took the top spot in Class 4A District 2. If Taos had beat them one more time, the Tigers would have won the district.
Looking at the bracket, one might wonder how Valencia High School, who finished last in the Class 4A District 5 with a 1-7 district record and a 12-13 record overall, made the tournament when Taos didn't.
Here is the answer.
NMAA Criteria
The New Mexico Activities Association uses six equally weighted criteria to determine the seeding of tournament brackets. Following are the criteria and how the points were are computed in the case of Taos versus Valencia.
• Overall record. Taos' record was 14-12 and Valencia's was 12-13. Point goes to Taos.
• Finish in district. Taos was second of five in District 2 while Valencia was fifth of five in District 5. Point goes to Taos.
• Wins against district champions, regardless of class. Taos beat Los Alamos once and Socorro (a district champion in 3A) once, for a total of two wins against district champions. Valencia had no wins against district champions. Point to Taos.
• Maxpreps Ranking. Maxpreps is a for-profit enterprise owned by CBS Corporation that catalogues high school athletics data. The algorithm that they use to generate rankings among teams is undisclosed, but they do not use opinions of coaches, players, sportswriters or webpage comments as input. It does use, among other things, difficulty of schedule, which means that just playing better teams, whether beating them or not, is favorable to the algorithm. The Maxpreps ranking of Valencia among Class 4A school in New Mexico is 14 while Taos is ranked 21. Point goes to Valencia.
• School input (coaches forms). Coaches send their opinions on the best teams in the state to the NMAA who compiles the data into a list organized by the number of points each team received. According to the partial list The Taos News obtained for Class 4A, Valencia was 14th and Taos 17th. This point went to Valencia.
• Head-to-head competition. Taos and Valencia did not play one another, so this criterion did not apply. In cases of a tie, the results of this criterion are used to break the tie.
In the matchup between Valencia and Taos, Taos wins 3-2.
Why is Valencia in the bracket over Taos?
According to the NMAA, by the time they were considering Taos and Valencia, there were two other schools also being considered: Hope Christian and Bloomfield.
Taos had a better overall record, better district placement and better performance against district champions than both teams.
However, both teams are ranked higher than Taos on Maxpreps and the coaches' poll, and Taos lost to each team early in the season. As the head-to-head competitions are used as the tie-breaker, according to the NMAA's seeding system, Taos versus Hope and Taos versus Bloomfield result in ties, each of which Taos lost.
Valencia beat Hope Christian on criteria and tied and 3-3 with Bloomfield on criteria but beat each of them during the season, so Valencia wins both ties.
None of the four teams beat all three of the others, so the schools were ranked 1- 4 on all six criteria and that data was used to break the tie.
Taos was left with memories of a great season, but no berth at state.
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1980 Bill Garden Pocket Cruiser 20
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And this year, after a two year planning stage, they hosted the first Festival of Women Writers, and writers they had: published, popular, inexperienced, very experienced, poets, non-fiction writers, former Time Magazine journalists, and more.
It was by sheer chance I learned of the festival, and after hewing and hawing, I got into the car, and drove the 78 miles, stopping first at Paper Moon to get grounded.
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At Amy Morris Pickens', Paper Moon proprietor, recommendation, I traveled back South to Table on Ten and it was worth it. Their coffee is great and apparently comes from Irving Farms. I bought 12oz and already made 2 pots of coffee since returning home.
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On Saturday morning, Sophfronia Scott, author of several books, including "All I need to get by," contributor to the Chicken Soup series and quite the dynamic offered, "The Big Fat Journal and Other Ways of Keeping your Creative Life," at Adams Antiquarian Book Shop.
Both workshops were terrific, but I was particularly taken by Ms. Scott's journal workshop and have already taken steps to not quite emulate, but use her system of a binder. I ordered a Doane 1" binder with 150 sheets of graph paper last night, my first purchase from them.
Ms. Scott shared a great number of useful references and read this letter
from the desk of
Chicken — a thought.
Strange, but I feel the world we live in demands that we be turned out in a pattern which resembles, in fact, is a facsimile of itself. And those of us who roll with the punches, who grin, who dare to wear foolish clown faces, who defy the system — well, we do it, and bully for us!
Of course, there are those who do not. And the reason I think is that, (and I say this with some sadness) those up-tight, locked in people who resent and despise us, who fear us, and are bewildered by us, will one day come to realize that we possess rare and magical secrets, and more — love.
Therefore, I am beginning to think that a few, (I hope many) are wondering if maybe there might be value to a firefly, or an instant-long roman candle.
Keep the faith
On leaving the workshop, I went to the Conference Center, the hub of the Festival, to look for a poetry workshop leader I had worked with more than 10 years ago. I couldn't leave without seeing Cheryl Boyce Taylor.
Then I stopped for a second time at Table on Ten for a great cup of coffee, each cup individually made, and bought some flowers & vegetables from The Last Harvest Farm.
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An Economic Analysis of Transnational Bankruptcies
NBER Working Paper No. 6521 (Also Reprint No. r2256)
This paper analyzes the effects of the legal rules governing transnational bankruptcies. We compare a regime of territoriality' -- in which assets are adjudicated by the jurisdiction in which they are located at the time of the bankruptcy -- with a regime of universality are adjudicated in a single jurisdiction. Territoriality is shown to generate a distortion in investment patterns that might lead to an inefficient allocation of capital across countries. We also analyze who gains and who loses from territoriality, explain why countries engage in it even though it reduces global welfare, and identify what can be done to achieve universality.
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Fast forward to Thursday morning of the following week and anxious to get somewhere I'd never been, I left early. If it's one thing I don't care for is being late. I hate to be late. So, plugging the name of the restaurant into the GPS, I immediately noticed that there were two locations. Of course, MMQC and I had talked about the one closer to her, and by leaving early, I arrived with time to spare.
Although I didn't see either Cher or MMQC's cars in the lot, I went inside. Once I saw the line, I was glad I did. Yet it was while I was in line I received a text from Cher which read, "I'm here."
Me: "So am I. I'm inside. Come on in."
Cher: "I am inside. Where are you?"
Me: "In line."
Chris: "So am I."
Me: "Which location did you go to?"
Cher: "What? There's more than one?"
Me: "Yep. I'm at the one close to MMQC's. BTW where is she?"
tick, tock, tick tock...minutes pass as Cher touches base with MMQC
Cher: "She's home! She thought today was Wednesday. #$%^&#$% I'm outa here...going shopping."
Needless to say, lunch NEVER happened that THURSDAY. Cher ended up going shopping and I ended up going back home. Meanwhile, MMQC and I hooked up the next day and lunch was delicious!!
They are known for their "Cheeseburger Platters." The cheese is a special blend of cheese made for them and once draped on the burger while on the grill, the cheese, as you can see, literally gets lightly "crispified" as well. All I can say is....give them five stars!!!!
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On Thursday November 6th 2014 I was invited to a special Japanese Sake presentation and tasting event put on my the Japanese Embassy and hosted by the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. The event was part of ongoing celebrations that mark the 50th year of diplomatic relations between Jamaica and Japan. Two special guests direct from Japan were present. Keisuke Irie who was representing the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association and Noriyoshi Nagai President of Nagai Sake Inc.
Learning about Sake
It was a very educational night where I learned about how Sake is produced and its rich history and cultural significance to the Japanese people. I sampled 6 different Sake for the night all expertly made by Nagai Sake Inc and although my head was a little lighter by the end of the night it was an excellent and very educational event which provided an insight into how sake is made.
My most important lesson for the night was that sake is produced by a brewing process more like that of beer and that it is erroneously referred to as rice wine. The short video below does an excellent job of showing how sake is made from start to finish with the various processes in-between. I was fascinated by the attention to detail.


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To Baldly Go...
...Where No Woman Has Before, Is Rachel Rosenthal's Theatrical Trademark.
By James Reel
APRIL 26, 1999: THICK AND BALD, Rachel Rosenthal sits at a little table off to the side of her performance-art work Timepiece. Rosenthal narrates the proceedings she has masterminded, as if she were a suave observer of life as a surreal nightclub act.
But later, on her feet, she's a distaff Lear railing at an unjust universe. In this universe, we watch a veiled woman in a wheelchair feebly struggling out of her wrappings, like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, only to slide exhausted and most likely dead to the floor.
Another time, a man--an ordinary young man, except that he's wearing wings--is delivered a message, which he reads with dismay: "Change takes time!" He moves toward a hurdle, over which he executes a series of slow-motion leaps and flips, ever so gracefully.
Along the way, Rosenthal declaims about "brain liposuction" and "cosmic geriatrics." It would all be unbearably pretentious if Rosenthal were more solemn. But although she takes the underlying issues very seriously, there's something deliberately arch and subversive about her art.
The April 24 Centennial Hall appearance presents Timepiece, a 90-minute work given without intermission. It's billed as "a visceral, visual exploration of cosmic and physical time and memory incorporating spoken word, computerized music, and large-scale live and recorded video projections."
That's not the half of it. Rosenthal's company sweeps and jitters across the stage with movement that's inspired by everything from Butoh to modern dance to everyday athleticism. And once in a while the people simply walk around in a circle, rushing through smoke and colored lights and music by Amy Knoles of the California EAR Unit and the Paul Dresher Ensemble.
Timepiece is about memory and its distortion; it concerns time and relativity and survival.
Rosenthal herself knows something about survival. Born in Paris of Russian parents, her family fled Europe during World War II, and a bit of Holocaust survivor guilt has found its way into some of Rosenthal's work. Her family settled in New York, where young Rachel graduated from the High School of Music and Art. After the war, in both New York and Paris, she studied art, dance and theater with the most innovative figures she could find: Merce Cunningham, Erwin Piscator, Jean-Louis Barrault.
Her imagination bursting with the theories of Antonin Artaud and the Paris Absurdists, Rosenthal moved to Los Angeles in 1955 to teach at the Pasadena Playhouse. Her ideas just didn't play in Pasadena. She lost her job, but soon created a new one for herself. Out of group-improvisation workshops she'd been conducting for painters, poets, actors, musicians and magicians, she created the influential underground Instant Theatre. It lasted more than an instant--10 years, in fact.
In the 1970s Rosenthal played a leading role in the L.A. Women's Art Movement. Along the way she indulged in an affair with artist Jasper Johns and a marriage to some fast-food clown named Ronald McDonald. A survivor, indeed.
Since 1975, Rosenthal has focused mainly on writing, teaching and creating new solo and group works (more than 30 of them so far). She founded her current group, the Rachel Rosenthal Company, in 1989 as a vehicle for her latest collaborative, improvisatory, boundary-breaking performances. Yet she aims to attract a large audience--hence her appearance in the 2,400-seat Centennial Hall, an event the sponsors tout as "accessible, entertaining and often amusing" enough to appeal to a wide range of people, although it "contains frank language and adult themes which may disturb sensitive patrons."
However disturbing her work may sometimes be, it is hardly offensive. Rosenthal is everyone's eccentric aunt from California, her mild touch of looniness being her way of confronting issues the rest of us might rather not face. In the 1970s, she shaved her head in memory of victims of the Holocaust, and never grew her hair back. (Her voluntary hairlessness has two unintended consequences: it makes Rosenthal look 20 years younger, and assures chemo patients that bald can, indeed, be beautiful.) Rosenthal describes herself as a feminist, an animal rights activist, a vegan vegetarian and an Earth worshiper, and declares simply that her work centers on the issue of humanity's place on the planet. No shortage of material there.
Even after she retires from touring two years from now, she intends to continue creating interdisciplinary works for her company. Before that, she has one more solo piece in the works. Ur-Boor is described as being set on a space station in the future and exploring "the relationship between politeness and violence, from manners at European courts to the recent boorishness found in the media and entertainment industries, via interaction with a musical, catapulting environment of insult, obstacle and challenge."
If Rachel Rosenthal thinks she can handle all this in a solo, imagine what she can do with her whole company.
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for Elizabeth
I was driving, though Beth could still drive at that point, and although we didn't say it, we wondered if it might be our last road trip. Up Route 5 from Brattleboro to Bellows Falls, through Putney, Vermont, everything around us was buzzing and green, as it is in Vermont in July. All of our road trips took place in the summer, and most had happened nearly twenty years before: the 1994 trip to New Orleans, when Beth had drunk too much Ginseng tea and we drove past Graceland, twice, without seeing it, because we had been looking for leopard-print gates and spangled walkways, and when we finally got there, Beth bought an ashtray with a picture of Elvis and Nixon shaking hands on it, even though she had never smoked. Then the bus ride from Boston to the Lizzie Borden house, where I bought a pen with an eraser shaped like an axe handle, the trip that cemented our certainty that Lizzie was guilty. When the layout of your home requires your entire family to walk through your bedroom to get to basically any other room, killing them makes its own kind of sense. Beth had bought me a pillbox from her tour of the Winchester Mystery House one summer; we had planned to go together someday, the two of us climbing up steps that led into walls and opening doors that led into other doors, in a house created to appease the dead.
Our plans had changed when Beth had been diagnosed with ALS two months before. "It serves me right for making fun of that ice bucket challenge," she had said, and we laughed, because having ALS did not mean that she wouldn't continue to find the phrase "I'm raising awareness" a great, all-purpose smartass answer to any question. When I had seen her the previous winter, she had lost some fine motor function in her fingers, and she could no longer work on the wiring for the radios she enjoyed building when she wasn't writing or teaching. Her voice had become gravelly and weak ("vocal fry," she told me, like the Kardashians.) Her handwriting was shaky, like an old lady's, and later like my three-year-old daughter's, and when she ate, food would sometimes go down the wrong pipe, forcing her to take breaths from the inhaler she now carried everywhere. She who had made her living teaching writing and writing about bodies—mostly women's murdered bodies, crime scene photographs, Elizabeth Short's mangled corpse. A famous author we knew once called her "the nicest death-obsessed person I've ever met," which, as one-line characterizations go, is spot-on. That spring at a writer's conference, as we sat in the building where Mary Tyler Moore had been filmed and watched a group of blonde Minnesotan theater kids dancing up and down an escalator, she had showed me the scar from the muscle biopsy, upon which she had drawn a picture of a pig ("because drawing a pig on something makes it easier to look at") but at that point we were hoping it was Parkinson's or MS, which is like hoping for a hurricane when it might be a tornado. When my phone buzzed while I sat at a meeting a month later, I knew it was bad news. I asked Beth what she needed. "I just want to see you," was her reply.
We both loved the Guinness Book of World Records as kids, Beth and I. Our memories of the 1970s editions remained fresh, because even though she lived in Illinois and I lived in Massachusetts and we didn't yet know each other, we liked the same things even then. I remembered that the best-selling postcard of all time was of a joke I didn't get. It was a cartoon. "Do you like Kipling?" A woman at a cocktail party asked a man. "I don't know. I've never kippled," was his reply. Beth remembered the obese twins in cowboy hats, the ones who rode motorcycles and were buried in piano boxes. We both remembered the tiny Victorian lady, about as small as a water canteen, and the longest fingernails, which didn't grow up and straight, but curled like tentacles. Of the two of us, I was the one who remembered Hetty Green.
Depending on whom you ask, Hetty Green was either a feminist trailblazer for women in finance or the 1ate 19th century's answer to Mr. Burns from the Simpsons. Her nickname was "The Witch of Wall Street," and biographers have called her "America's first female tycoon," "the first lady of capitalism," and "a female Citizen Kane." In equal turn, she is labeled a miser, an eccentric, a genius. She was both notoriously rich and notoriously cheap, worth in 1916, the year of her death, what her biographers estimate was the equivalent of between 1.6 and 2.5 billion dollars today. For a while, she was wealthier than the entire city of New York. Her secret, in her own words, was this: "When I see a thing, going cheap because nobody wants it, I buy a lot of it and tuck it away. Then, when the time comes, they have to hunt me up and pay me a good price for my holdings." She also valued thrift and felt that the road to wealth lay not in extravagance but in never borrowing money. Her own son nearly lost a leg because she refused to pay for his medical care after an accident, lamenting that she would "have had to pay (the doctor) even if he didn't do anything." She would go to the doctor's office in threadbare clothes to avoid paying for her son's care. An anecdote in Janet Wallach's The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green and the Gilded Age describes Ned screaming in pain after reinjuring his leg. She wouldn't take him to a doctor, but she would stay up all night with him while he cried.
Hetty Green's grave was not on our original agenda. Our plan was to visit an abandoned amusement park on Route 5 in Putney, one that had been closed down due to drug violations and, more tragically, the deaths of eighteen animals who lived at the park. I had been to Santa's Land with my young daughter; it was a shabby, crumbling but strangely enchanting place, angular and glittery with round-faced dolls staring from behind glass in dioramic Christmas scenes, like an episode of Davey and Goliath come to life. The best part was a little train that ran through the park, which was charming until it sped through a tunnel. The shadows of stacks of garbage all piled up in the dark were the first hint that something was not right, but at least then they had bothered to hide the trash. Although the park had been shut down and cordoned off, Beth wanted to see the place, and I could not refuse her. She was writing some new poems about the culture of the roadside attraction, she said, but we didn't need any kind of excuse at all.
Our first stop: The Hetty Green Motel, which has the worst online reviews I have ever seen, and that is saying a lot. From "vomit urine and feces on the bathroom walls and floor! to "mouse droppings all over the beds" to an owner with a habit of "peeking through windows" and "walking into rooms unannounced" but who is also, apparently "very rude" or "extremely rude," depending upon whom you ask, what you have is a biohazard. According to reviewers, the rooms have no phones, no working televisions, and are heated (in Vermont, no less) by small space heaters. On top of it, the owner won't let you use the office phone, and the rooms are too small.
It is hard to know what Hetty herself would think of this motel. On the one hand, it is the very picture of a "budget" hotel, and she would dismiss amenities such as televisions, phones, and housekeeping as wasteful extravagances. It is exactly the sort of property she might purchase, renovate, and sell at a profit. However, she would not have named it, or any building, after herself. Unlike Donald Trump, she seemed to have no desire to create properties or build structures in her own name. Her grave, just up the road in a small church cemetery, is plain and unremarkable. "Well, that was anticlimactic," Beth said, as we walked down the steep downtown streets and back to the car, though it seemed fitting memorial for a woman who died of a stroke while arguing with a maid in defense of skimmed milk.
As we drove to Santa's Land, Beth looked up anecdotes about Hetty Green on her phone. She could still press the numbers relatively easily then, and as she bent over, reading aloud, I nearly pulled over from laughing so hard. It was roadside freak show gold. One of them told how Hetty Green had suffered a hernia, for which she had constructed a do-it-yourself poultice to treat. When she went to see the doctor, finally, she balked at the cost of surgery, jammed the stick back into place, which must have caused no insignificant amount of pain, and took her leave. The richest woman who ever lived, who made her own money, travelling these same streets in secondhand dresses and dirty underwear, her innards secured by a rag and a stick.
The Santa's Land parking lot took up at least an acre, and the signs still stood, as though the park remained open, and all of the scandals about dead animals and drug dealing were just unpleasant rumors. Only the police tape and the "Keep Out" sign indicated that there had been a problem. The winter before, after neighbors had reported a lack of activity at the park, investigators discovered several dead fallow deer, a dead potbellied pig, a pheasant, and a number of other hungry and neglected animals, and reported that the owner's boyfriend had been suspected of dealing cocaine. This news was hard to take in, mostly because I had seen the animals, who looked healthy enough, though the trees in the fenced area where the fallow deer had lived were all bare of bark, which should have been a clue. The donkeys and goats, placards told us, were on loan from local farms—how were we to know that they wintered at the park, that they would be neglected? Still, I remember some discomfort when seeing the small cages for the birds, with no shelter, and also when the underfed Santa had, in my daughter's words, "creeped up on us" when we posed in front of the fun mirrors. Something was off, but wasn't it good that the place hadn't been modernized, Disneyfied? The children's rides still operated, by a young woman, shivering in a parka, who was a mother to a child my daughter's age. She was the only person working there who seemed normal, who looked you in the eye, and as we talked about our children and how verbal they were, I wondered how it was to stand out there all day, in the cold, running the same three rides when there were fewer than five families in the entire park at once. I wonder what happened to her when the park closed for good.
We only hesitated a moment when we saw the police tape. "I can always tell them I have ALS," said Beth, "And that I came all the way from Illinois to see this." We knew that we were trespassing, but it seemed more important to continue on. It was hard not to think of one of Beth's favorite movies, Carnival of Souls, in which a young woman dies after driving off a bridge yet believes she is alive. She feels drawn to an abandoned amusement park, which also repels her. We could not stop until we had seen it.
The entire place looked as though it had been raided and abandoned on a usual business day, and then ransacked later; a Styrofoam coffee cup and a Dunkin donuts bag sat on the train platform, and the Santa statue at the ticket counter was leaning to the side as though drunk. Since the place had been in operation since the late 1950s and most of the attractions had not changed much, the abandonment did not feel recent. We were interlopers from the future. Although the only traces of the dead and neglected animals were the abundant feathers and droppings still covering the floors of the bird enclosures, I saw a fox emerge from one of the buildings after I opened a door to one of the cafe buildings to see what was inside. Big mistake: almost immediately I was knocked off my feet by the smell of rot and garbage.
Right before we left, I insisted that we should at least try to peek inside the gift shop. I don't know what made me tap on the door; perhaps it was open a crack, and I could not believe that it was not locked, or that no police tape blocked the double doors. It had been a strange, depressing gift shop when the park was open; ornaments in one section, dollar store and Wal-Mart toys in another, mugs and magnets in another, but now it looked like someone had torn though it, desperately looking for something before fleeing. Piles of garbage littered the front register table, and dirt and trash lay all around. Some of the toys sat, untouched, on display racks, including a snowman puppet I considered rescuing. Children's books and trinkets, potpourri holders and even an abandoned wheelchair were visible in the shadows. From the fireplace, a doll stared out at us, as though willfully refusing to accept that it was over and done.
We drove back to the only place it seemed right to go, back to Bellows Falls, with the antique store with the chandelier made of bones and the Opera House featuring the No-Film Film Festival and where, near rocks by the Vilas Bridge, you can see petroglyphs that look like faces. Here, where the living and the dead kept comfortable company, the details in the stories of our past road trips were greater than the sum of their parts: the vintage shift dresses Beth and her sister had worn at the Lizzie Borden house where I had taken their blurry pictures, the linguiça we had eaten in the empty diner, the bottles and jars in the old apothecary shop in New Orleans where Beth had bought headache powders and we tried to find a bar where we could order absinthe, just because.
It was only after we returned in the setting sun and the heat of the car that Beth started pulling items from her purse: plastic cups with the Santa's Land logo, a postcard with a looming, menacing 1930's snowman, two Christmas ornaments. She handed me the one with the name "Monica" on it. I presented her with a pen containing a moving Santa and sleigh.
"Just a little light looting," I said, and we laughed about what our husbands would say if we had called them from jail, about how crazy it was that we were two middle-aged English professors acting like the kids we had been in graduate school. Once in the car, we did not even bother to take out my daughter's Ramona the Pest CD, so as we drove Stockard Channing read us the story of how Ramona asked her teacher how Mike Mulligan, who dug the foundation for the new town hall all day and night with his steam shovel, Mary Ann, went to the bathroom. As the highway opened up to us and Beth lay, half asleep, on the passenger side, her hands resting on her lap unnaturally, with the palms up, I had to stop myself from sobbing aloud as it occurred to me that a person could dig all day and all night without stopping, and all anyone would remember is how you went to the bathroom.
Hetty Green kept all of her most valuable possessions in one building—74 Broad Street in New York City. Her son Ned's secretary, Walter Marshall, said that as they stepped into the room "grotesque shadows arose above a great clutter of objects" and he felt faint in the heat. Hetty, who, according to biographer Charles Slack, stood chewing a raw onion to keep cool, went through each object: a dress she had worn to dance with the prince of Wales, a buffalo robe from her father's sleigh, paintings, glassware, and dance programs. Marshall saw tears in her eyes as the robe fell apart in her hands.
As I write this, Beth is confined to a hospital bed in what was once her dining room, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit playing endlessly on cable. Her pill organizer is divided into twenty-eight separate compartments. Her bed moves up and down in three different ways, and so does the chair next to it, and the oxygen cart wheels wherever you need it to go—everything is made to move in ways a sick body cannot. Soon, she will be given a device that will allow her to communicate using only her eyes. It's a miracle that something like this exists. The gifts I have brought her I also opened for her: three new colors of nail polish, a figurine of Homer Simpson, season four of Little House on the Prairie, all stacked on the end of a table like bribes.
"Let's go outside," I say, gesturing to the wheelchair in the corner. "It feels like spring out there." It would take at least half an hour to get the motorized chair ready, to move Beth into it, and to navigate her outside to the porch. My chirpy enthusiasm sounds stupid, so I'm almost relieved when Beth indicates that she would rather not. Special Victims Unit is almost over, but another episode will almost surely follow. Beth knows them all by heart. She always knew how every story was going to end, sometimes even after the first few lines. "He's dead," she had announced in the theater during the first ten minutes of The Sixth Sense. I didn't even have the chance to watch it one time through, or to watch it a second time to pick up the clues I had missed. She couldn't even give me that.
It is 1977, and two little girls are on summer vacation. The smart one, the one who always knows how things end, has brought her book into her Springfield, Illinois backyard to escape the ceaseless crying of her baby sister. A storm is coming. The sky is hazy as she sits in the swing, marveling over the largest collection of lip balms, or fishing lures, or sheep-related memorabilia, or about conjoined twins Chang and Eng, or the world beer drinking competition back when drinking alcohol was allowed to make the record books. The other little girl, from her bedroom in Lowell, Massachusetts, surrounded by the crumbling remains of a glorious planned city of industry and prosperity, reads about Charlie, the world's fastest tortoise, and the heaviest vehicle pulled 100 feet by one woman, and the longest hair. The American dream on amphetamines: the tallest buildings, the most stuff, the fastest planes, and oh, the bodies, growing out of control, growing hair, going numb, dying, decaying, and all for our boundless and ravenous consumption.


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And Max explained reality to him ...
'Nuff said.
While being interviewed recently for MOST AWESOME CATS IN THE UNIVERSE MAGAZINE, Max was asked a potentially divisive question. To wit: Who is in charge, in this multiple kitty household? Sitting beside Jake the Wondercat, she thought about it for a moment ...
Jake muttered something about him being in charge, being the guy and all ...
And Max explained reality to him ...
"I'm not only in charge," Max told the interviewer, "I'm the reigning QUEEN of this little corner of the Universe."
'Nuff said.
6/26/2012 04:58:20 am
Too precious and delightful for more words than that, Nikki :) Just caught up on some of your cat blogs..still tearful over those about Scully. My old kitty, Sierra, got me thru mother-sitting then asked to be let go on the day I finished writing the last chapter of my memoir. The way you sling your words together is so refreshing, flavorful and fun (fav words!). Thanks for connecting on Twitter so I could make a visit to your wonderful blog!
7/3/2012 10:37:31 pm
I say thank you, my kitties say thank you (and they also want to know, Does that lady have any TREATS?), and I'm glad you enjoyed your journey through CatWorld. I hadn't read any of it in quite a while, and forgot how lighthearted it was at the beginning. I had just started blogging and it gave me a place to just have fun and not worry about whether I was doing this blogging stuff right. I'll always miss Scully. When I have time, i should write more about Jake. He maintains the required level of wackiness in this kitty household. ;-}
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At the close of applications this week, the total number of claims for support with fees and living costs was 87,738 which was 0.3%, or 264, less than the same time last year.
Returning or prospective students in further and higher education courses can continue to apply to Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) for financial aid. But, with around 17,000 more people still expected to apply, priority will be given to those who did so up to Thursday night's deadline.
After several consecutive year-on-year increases, the number entered for Leaving Certificate exams in June was almost identical to last year, at just under 56,600.
From among those students, the number who applied to third-level colleges through the Central Applications Office (CAO) is 47,629, just 15 fewer than at the same time in 2016.
But an increase in Susi applications may have been expected due to Education Minister Richard Bruton's announcement in Budget 2017 last October that postgraduate students will be eligible again for maintenance support.
Although they have continued to be entitled to support with college fees, living costs were not considered for postgraduate students since a range of cuts to the student support budget in 2012
While numbers of postgraduate applicants to Susi are not yet known, they are likely to be up on recent years when only assistance with fees had been available.
However, Susi believes that any increase may have been offset by more people deciding not to apply because of improved family circumstances.
"While the Government decision on grants may make them more accessible for lower-income postgraduate students, incomes have also grown in recent years, so more people may have deemed themselves ineligible to apply," said Susi head of communications Graham Doyle.
The ability for prospective applicants to get a better idea of their likelihood to qualify for assistance using an eligibility reckoner on the Susi website was a factor in some reductions in business last year.
Mr Doyle said the 3,000 applications fewer than was originally expected last year was very similar to the fall in the number of applications which were unsuccessful.
Of applications received by Thursday's deadline, just over 47,500 were from new applicants and the remaining 40,200 were by those who received assistance in the last college year and are seeking aid again for 2017/18.
Mr Doyle said that 45,000 of the 77,500 applications which were received by last Monday had already been decided, with about 4,000 turned down.
Of the 41,000 who have been provisionally approved for grants or full cost of fees , or both, 11,000 were among this year's first-time applicants. The vast majority of these 11,000 are from among this year's Leaving Certificate students, Mr Doyle said.
"This is really positive news and this number will only increase before the issuing of Leaving Certificate results and CAO offers in August. These students can then make a more fully informed decision when deciding if they are to accept their college offers," he said.


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Date: 21 Aug 2009 - 23 Aug 2009
Headliners: Hawkwind, The Pogues, The Levellers, and The Blockheads
Venue: Escot Park, Devon, UK
UK Festival Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year's UK Festival Awards have been announced.
Richard Thompson pulls out of Beautiful Days
With just one day to go, Richard Thompson has had to cancel his appearance at Beautiful Days.
Beautiful Days 2009 sold out
Tickets have sold out a month in advance for the seventh edition of The Levellers' annual festival, Beautiful Days, which takes place at Escot Park on 21-23 August.
Beautiful Days 2009 close to selling out
Those hoping to get to Beautiful Days this August had better act fast, with tickets close to selling out.
More acts announced for Beautiful Days
Dance chameleon Tom Middleton heads up the latest acts confirmed for this year's Beautiful Days.
Loads more added to Beautiful Days line-up
Richard Thompson, The Blockheads and Britpoppers The Wonder Stuff are among the latest names to be revealed as part of this year's Beautiful Days line-up.
Virtual Festivals' weekly news round up
Welcome to Virtual Festivals' weekly news round up. Here are the big stories you may have missed over the last seven days...
The Pogues to headline Beautiful Days
The Pogues have been confirmed as headliners for this year's Beautiful Days festival.
HOT TICKETS: Beautiful Days 2009
Tickets for next year's Beautiful Days festival went on sale at 9am this morning (5 January).


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School had been in session for just over a week when Lissette Deleon received a text message Thursday morning from her daughter with news that no mother wants to hear.
"Mom," her daughter said. "I'm scared."
Police had locked down Balboa High School after a student allegedly fired a gun in a classroom at around 11:15 a.m. Officers swarmed the area armed with assault rifles and tactical gear. Rumors swirled that there had been a school shooting.
"Just be calm mami," Deleon texted her daughter, asking what classroom she was in. "Baby everything is ok just stay in there am on my way."
Students sat quietly in the dark and waited for over an hour as police searched the school. As of the afternoon, police said one student was under investigation for firing the gun, and three others were being questioned for assisting the shooter after the fact.
One student suffered minor injuries in the incident and was released to parents at the school, according to police. The student was not shot.
A ninth grader told the San Francisco Examiner she was in study hall when she heard a loud bang in the room three rows behind her and a student ran out of the classroom.
"It just exploded," said the student, who asked not to be named. "It was really loud. My ears hurt from it."
The student said the bang occurred before a bell rang and the class flooded out of the room, not realizing what had happened. She said the school went on lockdown as soon as she went into her next class.
Students said a lockdown announcement went out over the intercom warning them to watch out for an African American male with a Spider-Man backpack and a red hoodie.
Roberto Arevalo, 13, said a security guard told his classroom to sit on the floor in silence away from the door or else a possible shooter would hear them. They had locked the doors and covered the windows so no one could see them.
"I was just worried," said Arevalo, a ninth grader. "But I wasn't making any noise. I always had in mind that everything would be okay."
School officials began letting students reunite with their parents at around 1:30 p.m. A school worker reassured a crowd of anxious parents pressed up against a fence in the back of the school that "your child is safe." But tensions grew when the students were then allowed to leave from the front of the campus.
The incident also locked down the adjacent James Denman Middle School, Leadership High School and San Miguel Early Education School. Those lockdowns have since been lifted.
Heavily armed #SFPD are on scene at Balboa High School with tactical gear and assault rifles. The school is on lockdown pic.twitter.com/u1wvz4LhC9
— Michael Barba (@mdbarba) August 30, 2018
A mother with two daughters inside rushed to Balboa High School when her daughter texted her the campus was on lockdown. "Mom," she texted. "I'm scared." Officials say students are safe https://t.co/q92y1FioXh pic.twitter.com/PnavYXxGm5
— Michael Barba (@mdbarba) August 30, 2018
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A motivational book to encourage overwhelmed moms find time to be creative again in order to be her best self.
If you are a momma with kids at home, you need to read this book and learn that this is not just a season to survive, but this is your time to grow and thrive.
As a new mom, I struggled to balance my new role as 'Mom' with the need to take care of myself. Creative Momma empowered me to let go of the mom guilt and set aside more time to fuel myself through creative pursuits.
EMILY // mom of 1
I've heard so many times that the chaos of motherhood is "just a phase" as if we're supposed to be okay living in survival mode.
Enough is enough.
Twenty months ago I had my second little girl and life was tough. I felt like I was suffocating, my life felt worthless, and every day was the same. After a tough six months battling PPD, I finally realized I couldn't do it on my own. I got on medication and began seeing a counselor regularly, but the true healing started to come as I got out of the fog and realized I had lost myself.
I was no longer Amanda, a recovering perfectionist, introvert, and creator who likes to feel accomplished.
I was a mom. From sunup to sundown I poured my everything into my girls and I lost myself.
As I worked through the details of my life and how to move forward, I realized I needed to make myself a priority and do something fun every day. I committed to taking time each day to be creative in some way—and to say it helped would be an understatement.
I found joy again. I found laughter and abounding creativity. I cherished my girls. I loved my husband better.
Let's stop just "surviving" and instead focus on THRIVING. As we explore in Creative Momma, self-care and creativity are a necessary and crucial part of being a momma.
You're a Mom.
Struggling, overwhelmed, loving life, exhausted, happy... If you're a momma with school-age kids or younger, this is for you!
You Struggle with Your Role.
If you don't know who you are anymore besides 'mom' then this is for you.
You Want a Tribe.
Feeling alone or haven't found your people... Community is SO important, especially in this season. Creative Momma will help you.
You've Lost Your Time.
If you go to bed each night wondering where your time went... This book is for you with a whole chapter dedicated to finding and managing your time.
Find your tribe. Love them hard.
This is a self-empowering book for mom's to reclaim their lives through creativity. As someone who almost buckled under postpartum anxiety, I applaud that Amanda is raising her voice to talk about how important it is to value mothers as individuals.
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I felt like Amanda was talking right to me in this amazing book! I was reminded that it is MY job to take back my creativity and get back to who I really am. Exhausted mamas with shirts covered in spit up, you need to read this book!
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The Journey of One's Life
I then got in the car to pick up a buddy from high school. We headed to our 30th high school reunion and reconnected with old friends. I took one last tour of my high school, knowing that it was about to be rebuilt and the building I know so well will become a municipal center.
On Saturday, I was back at work attending a Staff Parish Committee workshop on fostering healthy communication and conflict resolution, such an important ministry in any church's life. I enjoyed the hospitality of those who provided lunch and the thoughtfulness of all the material.
Afterward, I did some yard work to get ready for Father's Day. Then it was time to pick up my son, for Godspeed had arrived after a wonderful week in Missouri on their choir tour and mission trip.
On Sunday, two families told me they are planning to become members of the church. I had both the blessing of serving through worship leadership at 8:30 in sermon and song, and the blessing of being ministered to by our youth choir at the joint 10:45 service. We surprised our music director with a recognition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Godspeed.
After services, we headed to a delightful Father's Day lunch with my Dad and my children. After some Sunday afternoon rest, it was time to take my family out for pizza to spend time with two old high school buddies again. We talked and talked of memories, of children, and of transitions in our lives.
I reflect on all this to say that so rarely, in one weekend, do we experience so many aspects of life. I found myself pausing to consider where God has been at work in it all … from death and grief, to memories of days gone by, to important vocational work of the present, to vital worship, to support for children, to love for families of origin, to wrapping the experiences up with a late night visit with old friends.
Do you ever have times when it all seems to come together? Life is a journey with many rhythms. I am reading Joan Chittister's The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life in which she says "We are all seekers of the God who is here but invisible to the blind eye; who calls to us but is unheard by those who do not listen; who touches our lives wherever we are, but is unfelt by those whose ears are closed to the presence of God – who is everywhere, in everyone, at all times."
Throughout all the rhythms of life, I hope we always remain seekers of God together.
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Labels: Personal, Spiritual Formation


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A man has been arrested in the US state of Kansas and accused of planning to detonate a suicide car bomb at an airport, authorities have said.
Terry Lee Loewen, 58, has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Mr Loewen, an aviation technician, does not appear to have been affiliated with any religious group, police said.
Authorities said Mr Loewen was snared by undercover FBI investigators and the public was never in danger.
"There was no breach of Mid-Continent's Airport's security," said Kansas US Attorney Barry Grissom in a statement.
"At no time was the safety of travellers or members of the public placed in jeopardy."
'Good guys won'
Mr Loewen was charged in federal court on Friday with attempting to detonate a car bomb at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.
He has also been charged with attempting to damage property by means of an explosive and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organisation.
If convicted, Mr Loewen could face a sentence of life in prison.
Authorities arrested Mr Loewen on Friday morning after he attempted to enter the airport tarmac and drive a vehicle loaded with what he believed were high explosives, authorities said.
The US justice department said he spent months developing a plan to use his access card to carry out the plan.
"He planned to pull the trigger on the explosives himself and die in the explosion," the department said in a statement.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback thanked the law enforcement authorities who captured Mr Loewen.
"In our ongoing war on terrorism, the good guys won one today," he said.
Reproduced under licence from BBC News © 2013 BBC


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As organizations continue to battle spam and phishing attacks, GFI offers a dedicated email security solution to manage the daily onslaught of malware-laden messages
In order to help small to medium-sized businesses (SMB) in the fight against email-borne threats, GFI® Software today announced the availability of GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection. The solution features robust anti-spam functionality, now combined with up to five virus detection engines, including the award-winning GFI VIPRE®antivirus, to give SMBs comprehensive protection against phishing, spam and virus-carrying emails.
Email is a critical business function that is also a conduit through which malware can enter an organization and wreak havoc. A continuing battle for organizations of all sizes, spam emails represent more than 70% of all emails sent on a daily basis and a recent GFI survey of SMBs found that nearly half of respondents (44%) had suffered a data breach as a direct result of email-borne malware. 84% of those surveyed said the volume of spam in their organization had either increased (52%) or remained the same (32%) in the past year. One of the main reasons SMBs are still struggling with the influx is that 48% simply rely on the anti-spam component of their antivirus solution to block spam, rather than employing a dedicated email security solution. GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection combines GFI's top email security technologies to deliver a spam capture rate greater than 99% with low false positives and multiple antivirus engines, mitigating the risks associated with malware-laden email.
To help SMBs protect their networks and intellectual property from email-based threats, GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection has bolstered its robust anti-spam and anti-phishing capabilities by adding GFI VIPRE and Bitdefender virus scanning engines to its protection capabilities. For heightened protection, administrators may also license additional engines from Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and Norman. By integrating robust virus detection into GFI MailEssentials, IT administrators can now deploy a complete, easy-to-use email security solution, all managed from a single, redesigned and intuitive, web-based dashboard.
Existing GFI MailEssentials customers* will be able to easily upgrade to GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection and enjoy the same reliable spam detection they have come to value and expect, together with the benefit of award-winning antivirus capabilities. Similarly, GFI MailSecurity* customers will be able to upgrade to GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection and avail themselves of top-notch spam filtering in addition to the robust email security they have grown accustomed to.
GFI MailEssentials Unified Protection also provides:
· Flexible and granular user-based attachment and keyword filtering
· Advanced content filtering
· Added email security through Trojan and email exploit detection and HTML sanitation
· Powerful email reporting capabilities
"It is clear that email-bornethreats are as dangerous as ever, and although spam is not a new problem, it is one that SMBs still need to adequately address," said Phil Bousfield, general manager, Infrastructure business unit, at GFI Software. "Spammers and malware writers are well aware that even the most savvy end-user can be fooled into clicking a link in an email and infecting their computer or entire company network. GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection gives administrators more peace of mind, knowing that far fewer spam and virus-carrying emails will make it to end user mailboxes."
"SMB administrators want solutions that provide robust features and capabilities without requiring heavy management and time commitments," continued Bousfield. "With GFI MailEssentials UnifiedProtection, they will be getting a powerful, complete, best-in-class email security solution that allows them to spend more time addressing the needs of their end users and less time worrying about them clicking on malicious links contained within their emails."
To learn more about GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection, visit
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Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills is Now Open
Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced the opening of the first Hyatt Place hotel in Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Telangana. Developed by BGR Mining & Infra Ltd., Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills offers a fresh perspective on the uncomplicated stay experience that is a hallmark of the Hyatt Place brand.
The Hyatt Place brand is rooted in extensive consumer insights indicating that guests seek stylish, comfortable, seamless experiences that accommodate their lifestyles and familiar routines. To embody this, the brand offers casual hospitality and purposeful service in a smartly designed, high-tech and contemporary environment.
"We are excited to introduce Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills as the third Hyatt-branded hotel to open in the city of Hyderabad, joining Park Hyatt Hyderabad and Hyatt Hyderabad, Gachibowli, which have already created a strong affinity for the Hyatt brand among travelers," said Kurt Straub, vice president of operations for India, Hyatt. "Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills has been designed specifically with our guests in mind, blending comfort with convenience. Our guests are constantly on the move, and we want to make sure our multi-tasking guests can easily accomplish what they need to do while on the road, making their journey easier, more productive and successful."
With a strategic location in the heart of Hyderabad, Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills is the perfect place to experience the city's southern Indian charm. The hotel's central location makes it easy to get around the city, with shopping, sightseeing and the business hubs of Hyderabad all in the vicinity.
"This new addition to the Hyatt portfolio in Hyderabad will offer a different type of experience, as Hyatt Place hotels are a new generation of hotels that offer casual hospitality and purposeful service in a smartly designed, high-tech and modern environment," said General Manager Swarendra Sahay, Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills.
Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills offers:
- 147 roomy rooms and suites with separate spaces to sleep, work and play
- Comfy Cozy Corner with sofa-sleeper in the rooms, which are the perfect spot to recharge and watch
- 43" flat screen TV
- Free WIFI throughout the hotel and guestrooms
- Gallery Kitchen Breakfast for guests available daily in the Gallery Kitchen, featuring an array of breakfast favorites
- 24/7 Stay Fit Gym offers Life Fitness machines with built-in TVs, free-weights and exercise balls
- Outdoor pool with deck beds is the ideal place to sit back and relax
- The E-Room which has modern conveniences that guest's need, from a range of computers to printing services
- Meeting Spaces offer more than 5,000 square feet of indoor meeting space for a small or mid-sized event, as well as a pre-function area measuring 3,571 square feet; meeting spaces are spread over two floors – each floor has a large meeting room measuring 2,475 square feet and 2,528 square feet respectively that can be used as a whole, or divided into three equal parts for smaller meetings and events, and the 5,000-square-foot open terrace is the ideal space to host corporate and social events
"We are delighted that Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills has come to Hyderabad. This opening not only raises regional expectations, but will also prove to boost guests' inflow to the destination," said Umapati Reddy, managing director, BGR Mining & Infra Ltd. "The Hyatt Place brand offers an innovative service concept and a modern design that will be successful in Hyderabad. BGR remains highly committed to providing modern and affordable accommodations and services that cater to the needs of visitor's in this great city."
Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills Leadership
Hyatt Place Hyderabad/Banjara Hills is under the leadership of General Manager Swarendra Sahay and Director of Sales and Marketing, Chandan Kumar Chanchal. In his role, Sahay is directly responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the hotel, including overseeing the hotel's 120 associates and ensuring guests encounter the purposeful service for which the Hyatt Place brand is known. Chanchal is responsible for providing sales service and support to travelers and meeting planners frequenting the Hyderabad area.
For more information, please visit hyderabadbanjarahills.place.hyatt.com.
The term "Hyatt" is used in the release for convenience to refer to Hyatt Hotels Corporation and/or one or more of its affiliates.


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NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – Major crimes in city parks rose by 24 percent last year, but in the city's most famous park the increase was even more dramatic.
WCBS 880's Peter Haskell reports crime in Central Park jumped 50 percent in 2010, and parkgoers are troubled by the increase.
WCBS 880's Peter Haskell talks with residents in Central Park about the crime spike
"I think it's a little scary. We're paying a lot of tax money, where are the cops?" said one parkgoer.
Most tell Haskell they still feel absolutely safe.
"I'm very comfortable in the park and have been for ten years," said one resident.
The number of rapes jumped from zero to seven, drug arrests rose from 34 to 71, but police say the spike in crime rates can be attributed to theft of unattended property.
A spokesman for the NYPD said, "While any crime increase concerns us, Central Park remains the safest precinct in the city."


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With crime spiraling out of control here, Rabbi Yossy Goldman, spiritual head of the largest Orthodox congregation, has been in the forefront of a campaign against crime.
A sermon the rabbi recently delivered at the Sydenham-Highlands North Hebrew Congregation led to a recent motorcade of 650 vehicles that went from the northern suburbs — where the majority of Jews live — to the city center. The cars were participating in a citizen-sponsored "Drive Against Crime."
The rabbi's wife, Rochel Goldman, and 2-year-old son were nearly killed recently when their minibus was hijacked.
At the city center, motorcade participants gave a petition to Jessie Duarte, a minister of safety, who expressed support for the demonstration.
Goldman told motorcade participants, "How sad, how tragic, that one short year ago our country was full of hope, jubilation and euphoria. Today we are paralyzed by fear and oppression."
Most of the demonstrators were victims of crime, especially car hijackings.
Other residents of the northern suburbs have not been as lucky as Rochel Goldman and her son. Hijackings, armed robberies and murders occur daily.
Hijack victim Sue Lazarus warned against complacency.
"We have to make the country safe for the youth. They are our future," she said.
Although white South Africans, including Jews, are generally happy under the government of Nelson Mandela, the escalating crime is causing many of them to emigrate.
Goldman, an American who is determined to remain here, has coined the slogan "Don't Emigrate, Demonstrate."
"I cannot accept that our political leaders who were able to find a solution to the most complex problem of our time — South Africa's unique political problem — cannot find a solution to the problem of crime," he said.
"Every country has to deal with crime. There are effective ways and means."
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