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Safeguarding Resources
Quick Links:
- Parish Safeguarding Dashboards
- National Church of England Safeguarding Policy
- National Church of England Safeguarding Practice Guidance
- Diocese of Exeter Policy and Guidance
- Parish Toolkit for Safeguarding
- Safer Recruitment
- Domestic Abuse
National Church of England Safeguarding Policy
- Promoting a Safer Church (2017): the new national House of Bishops policy statement for Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults. This document is to be supported by more detailed practice guidance, which will be made available in due course.
- Protecting All God's Children (2010): Previous national policy for safeguarding children. Please continue to refer to this until the supporting practice guidance is available for the new policy.
- Promoting a Safe Church (2006): Previous national policy for safeguarding vulnerable adults. Please continue to refer to this until the supporting practice guidance is available for the new policy.
Note: Explanation of duty to have 'due regard' with respect to House of Bishops policy and practice guidance (issued February 2020)
National Church of England Safeguarding Practice Guidance
- Parish Safeguarding Handbook v2.0: the 'need to know' Safeguarding reference guide for parishes. (NB: Where the handbook refers to Parish Safeguarding Officers or PSOs, we refer to them as Parish Safeguarding Representatives or PSRs in the Diocese of Exeter.)
- Safer Environment and Activities (2019): practical guidance that should be read by all activity leaders and PCC members.
- Responding Well To Domestic Abuse 2017 Revised: policy and guidance on how we should respond to victims/survivors of abuse and to alleged/known perpetrators.
- Safeguarding Training and Development Practice Guidance 2017: policy and guidance on what training is required and how it will be delivered.
- Safer Recruitment Practice Guidance (2016): the key practice guidance that all PCCs and Parish Safeguarding Representatives should read to understand the Safer Recruitment process that must be followed for volunteer or paid appointments.
- Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure (2016): the legislation that compels all Clergy and Church Officers to pay due regards to the House of Bishops' guidance on Safeguarding.
- Responding to Safeguarding Concerns or Allegations Against Church Officers 2017: guidance on how safeguarding concerns should be handled when raised regarding clergy/church officers.
- Roles and Responsibilities of Church Office Holders – Practice Guidance 2017: guidance outlining the safeguarding responsibilities of key office holders and bodies in the Church structures in line with current Safeguarding policy.
- Glossary Reference Document 2017: a glossary of key terms used in Safeguarding in the Church context.
- Risk Assessment for those who may pose risk to children or adults (2015): guidance on how the Diocesan Safeguarding Team will assess the risk posed by an individual.
- Safeguarding in Religious Communities (2015): guidance on how Safeguarding policy and guidance should be applied in religious communities outside of the normal parish church model.
- Safeguarding Joint Practice Guidance – LEPs (2015): guidance on joint safeguarding practice in Local Ecumenical Partnerships.
- Safeguarding Records: CofE and Methodist Joint Practice Guidance (2015): joint safeguarding practice guidance on maintaining and sharing safeguarding records.
- Responding well to those who have been sexually abused (2011): policy and guidance on how to respond to disclosures of abuse so as to support victims/survivors and avoid causing further harm.
- The Gospel, Sexual Abuse and the Church: A Theological Resource for the Local Church: a resource that aims to frame the Church's Gospel-based duty to respond well to abuse and to remove any theological argument that might seek to justify abuse in the Christian faith.
- Forgiveness & Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Abuse: a resource that tries to help you answer the question "How do forgiveness and reconciliation, both human and divine, relate to experiences of abuse in our churches?"
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Briefing Note from the National Safeguarding Team: guidance on how churches might support refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
Diocese of Exeter Policy and Guidance
Guidance for all churches, parishes, mission communities and other Church of England bodies within the Diocese of Exeter
In October 2017 Diocesan Synod approved the Diocesan Safeguarding Policy Statement 2017.
This policy replaces the previous May 2014 policy. While we await the revised national practice guidance to accompany the new 2017 policy from the House of Bishops, please refer to the existing practice guidance found here:
Diocesan Safeguarding Practice – Adults – May 2014 (August 2017)
Diocesan Safeguarding Practice – Children – May 2014 (August 2017)
- Flowchart: Responding to concerns about a child or adult at risk: a simple flowchart summarising the actions to be taken when you are in possession of information regarding a safeguarding situation.
- Confidentiality – Information Sharing Guidance for Clergy and Parishes: guidance on how safeguarding information should be handled.
- What happens when an offender wants to worship at your church: guidance on how to respond if you become aware of an offender (or someone else who poses a risk) who is worshipping or wants to worship in your church.
- Safeguarding complaints policy and procedure EDBF: guidance on how to make a formal complaint about the Safeguarding service provided by the Diocese of Exeter.
Safeguarding and Data Protection: detailed guidance on how and why Safeguarding data is held and processed in the Diocese of Exeter in line with GDPR and the UK Data Protection Bill, including data retention periods. In Summary:
- Where it is possible and appropriate to obtain consent from an individual we should do so.
- Where it is necessary to process data for the 'Safeguarding of children and of individuals at risk' it is in the 'substantial public interest' and we have a lawful basis for the processing of that data without consent of the data subject.
- Where we have a 'legitimate interest' we can process data without requiring consent.
National Church Institutions Safeguarding Privacy Notice: This privacy notice explains what to expect when the NCIs collect your personal information.
Parish Toolkit for Safeguarding
- PCC Safeguarding Policy template August 2017: your parish is advised to adopt this template policy based on the new House of Bishops policy. (Please refer to the existing practice guidance until the new guidance is released by the national team that will accompany this new policy.)
- Change of Safeguarding Representative Form (C1): form to register a change of Parish Safeguarding Representative.
- Safeguarding Checklist for Benefices and Parishes 2017: an audit you should undertake in your church to measure how well you are equipped to perform your safeguarding duties.
- Parish Contact Poster: template poster for sharing Safeguarding contact details in church buildings (pages 2, 3 & 4 are specific to your local authority area).
- Parish Responding to Safeguarding Allegations or Concerns Procedure Template: a simple template to help your parish set out the basic procedure for how church officers should respond to a Safeguarding concern in your local church context.
- Church Lettings Safeguarding Statement – August 2017: appendix to add to lettings forms to cover safeguarding responsibility when church premises are hired.
- PCC Use of photographs of children policy (template): policy for the Safe Use of Children's Photographs.
- Model Registration Form: template form to use for registering the details of children and young people attending groups or activities at your church.
- Church Volunteer Worker Safer Recruitment Record template: This spreadsheet is provided as a template for recording your volunteers'/workers' details for Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment purposes. You do not have to use this tool (many of you will have your own systems for recording these details), but we are making it available for anyone who does not currently have a recording mechanism or wishes to move from paper-based to electronic records.
- Examples of Risk Assessments: These assessment templates are not suitable for use without editing, but are a starting point for you to tailor to fit your local context.
- Safer Recruitment Practice Guidance (2016): the key practice guidance that all PCCs and Parish Safeguarding Representatives should read to understand the Safer Recruitment process that must be followed for volunteer or paid appointments.
- Safer Recruitment Diocese of Exeter Flowchart July 2017: a simple to follow flowchart that outlines the basic steps in following the Safer Recruitment process.
- Exeter Evidence Checker Registration Form: new form to register a new/additional DBS evidence checker.
- Confidential Declaration Form 2019: Confidential Declaration form to be localised and used with Enhanced DBS checks.
- Cover Sheet June 2018: Disclosure Cover Sheet for DBS Verifiers to complete and send to the relevant Archdeacon's PA following completion of a DBS evidence check.
- Parish Information Log – June 2018: form started by DBS Verifier and completed by Parish Safeguarding Rep to record completion of the DBS and track renewal.
- Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Sample Parish Policy 2017: a template to be adopted by all parishes to comply with legal restrictions and expectations over the recruitment/appointment of ex-offenders to parish roles.
- Volunteer Agreement for work with Children and Young People: A template to base volunteer agreements on when recruiting for activities involving children and young people.
- Code of Conduct for Volunteers working with Children and Young People: A template code of conduct that accompanies the Volunteer Agreement for Work with Children & Young People, which should be tailored to suit your local context.
- Young Person Volunteer Agreement: A template volunteer agreement for volunteers in your church aged under 18.
- Code of Conduct for Young Volunteers: A template code of conduct for volunteers aged under 18 to accompany the Young Person Volunteer Agreement, which should be tailored to suit your local context.
The role description templates below contain the key safeguarding responsibilities along with generic duties and responsibilities for the specific role outlined. Please adapt the role descriptions to fit your local circumstances:
- Role Description – Bell Ringing Teacher
- Role Description – DBS Verifier
- Role Description – Generic Parish Volunteer
- Role Description – Junior Church Helper
- Role Description – Junior Church Leader
- Role Description – Organist/Director of Music
- Role Description – Pastoral Visitor in RA
- Role Description – Pastoral Visitor not in RA
- Role Description – PCC Member
- Role Description – Parish Safeguarding Representative
- Role Description – Server
- Role Description – Tower Captain (CCCBR template)
- Role Description – Verger
Covid-19: Domestic Abuse Response and Resource Guidance
- Domestic Abuse – National Resources and Advice: contact details for domestic abuse information and support services.
- Domestic Abuse – Parish Statement template: a template statement for parishes to complete to make a clear statement on their position in opposition to domestic abuse and their intention to support victims.
- Domestic Abuse – The Legal Context: an explanation of the legal protections victims of abuse can seek to access.
- Domestic Abuse – Marriage Preparation: guidance for clergy on confronting issues around abuse when supporting couples in preparation for marriage.
- Domestic Abuse – Theology Clarification: a table setting out counter-points to common Bible passages that are miss-used to condone abuse.
- Domestic Abuse – Restored Pack for Churches: a resource to support local churches in tackling domestic abuse in their church and community.
- Domestic Abuse – In Churches Too: a report from the Universities of Leicester and Coventry, commissioned by Restored, that is the first meaningful study of domestic abuse in Church communities. The report highlights how domestic abuse is as prevalent in Church lives as in the wider community and gives some direction on how churches should respond.
- Domestic Abuse – Policy Statement 2018: foreword by the Bishop of Exeter and theological statement.
Domestic Abuse – Discreet Contact Posters
Please display the relevant poster for your locality on the back of toilet doors or other discreet locations where people can privately and safely take the number they need to get help. Use scissors to cut vertical slits between the telephone numbers at the bottom to produce tear-off tabs that people can pull off and keep somewhere safe.


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According to this vision, matrimony does not entirely end with death but is transfigured, spiritualized -- it loses those limits that mark life on earth -- in the same way that the bonds between parents and children or between friends will not be forgotten. In the preface of the Mass for the dead, the liturgy says that with death "life is changed, not taken away"; the same must be said of marriage, which is an integral part of life.Share
But what about those who have had a negative experience of earthly marriage, an experience of misunderstanding and suffering? Should not this idea that the marital bond will not break at death be for them, rather than a consolation, a reason for fear? No, for in the passage from time to eternity the good remains and evil falls away. The love that united them, perhaps for only a brief time, remains; defects, misunderstandings, suffering that they inflicted on each other, will fall away. Many spouses will experience true love for each other only when they will be reunited "in God," and with this love there will be the joy and fullness of the union that they did not know on earth. This is also what happens to the love between Faust and Margaret in Goethe's story: "Only in heaven the unreachable -- that is, the total and pacific union between two creatures who love each other -- will become reality." In God all will be understood, all will be excused, all will be forgiven.
Monday, November 12, 2007
God of the Living
Posted by elena maria vidal at 12:08 PM
God of the Living
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Yes, but what about that anecdote in the New Testament referring to the occasion when someone asked Jesus what happens in the resurrection to a man who was married to two different women in life....who will he be married to in heaven. The answer was that in heaven people are linked as husband and wife.
- November 13, 2007 at 10:09:00 AM EST
- elena maria vidal said...
I think the Scripture passage cited was in reference to the woman who had been married seven times. and Our Lord said: "They shall be like angels, not marrying and giving in marriage." Fr Cantalamessa was saying that husband and wife shall have a special bond in eternity.
- November 13, 2007 at 11:57:00 AM EST
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In 14 Southern states, blacks make up about 20 percent of the population, and it is here that there are more than 100 predominantly black colleges and universities. Since the late 1960s, the major predominantly white colleges and universities also have welcomed black students.
While blacks lag behind whites (in percent of the total population) in earning college degrees, they are gaining. The Southern Regional Education Board recently released statistics for 1977 showing that blacks made up about 15 percent of college enrollments and 11 percent of college degrees.
In the 1976-77 school year, 11.2 percent of all bachelor's degrees awarded in the 14 Southern states went to black students, and 4.4 percent of all doctorates were awarded to black students. Ninety-six percent of all law degrees awarded that year in the South went to whites.
The US Office for Civil Rights, studying BA degrees earned in 1976 at public colleges and universities, found that some 64,000 minority students were among the approximate total of 600,000.
Blacks accounted for some 40,000; Hispanics for 13,000; Asians some 8,000; and American Indians, about 3,000.


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Don't miss this evening of comedy with Keith Price featuring special guests Adam Sank, Blanca Dominguez & NPR's Ophira Eisenberg.
Saturday, March 26 at Laurie Beechman Theatre
Comedian and national radio personality Keith Price, brings his fabulous laugh-filled downtown show LAVENDER SHADE uptown for one night only at the Laurie Beechman Theater, Saturday, March 26th at 7pm. Joining Keith are special guests NPR's Ophira Eisenberg, comedian Adam Sank, and Blanca Dominguez. The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located at 407 West 42 Street. Tickets are $20 (with a $20 food/beverage minimum) at 212-352-3101 or www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
Keith Price served as co-host on the long-running SiriusXM morning show The Morning Jolt on SiriusXM, interviewing some of the most iconic celebrities in the world. As a comedian, Keith has performed his message of love and fabulosity at colleges, Pride events and famed NYC clubs.
Ophira Eisenberg is the host of the weekly NPR and WNYC trivia, puzzle, and game show Ask Me Another. She has appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,
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Adam Sank is one of the most recognized and accomplished openly gay stand-up comics in the country, having been featured on NBC's Last Comic Standing and The Today Show, FOX's Laughs, Vh1's I Love the 2000s and Best Week Ever, CNN's @ThisHour, CNBC's Street Signs and truTV's World's Dumbest Criminals, along with numerous radio appearances as both a guest and fill-in host on Sirius-XM satellite radio. His debut comedy album, Adam Sank: Live from the Stonewall Inn, was released in December of 2015. It immediately shot to No. 1 on both Amazon's list of Comedy Album Downloads and iTunes's New Comedy Releases.
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- Rewind to 1988
Beasant and the 'Crazy Gang' stun Liverpool
This season's FA Cup final pitches David against Goliath in the form of Premier League champions Chelsea and relegated Portsmouth. The same tag applied to Liverpool's encounter with Wimbledon 22 years ago. What ensued is enshrined in FA Cup folklore.
Every great story needs a hero. On May 14 1988, Wimbledon's was 6' 4" tall captain Dave Beasant. That year he would be responsible for two FA Cup final 'firsts', as the first goalkeeper to receive the Cup as skipper and the first to save a penalty kick in a final.
The curly-haired goalkeeper joined Wimbledon two years after their promotion to the Football League and was a regular fixture as the club climbed up the leagues before achieving promotion from the old Second Division in 1986. Two seventh-place finishes followed as the south-west Londoners established their place in the top flight and a place in the '88 Cup final was a very sweet cherry on top for a club who had been a member of the Football League for 11 years.
The unfashionable and unfancied Dons had beaten West Brom, Mansfield Town, Newcastle United, Watford and Luton on their way to reaching that year's final. Any chance of them winning their biggest trophy to date against a rampant Liverpool side seemed impossible though, as the Reds came into the final chasing their second league and cup double in three years. Having sealed the league title by a comfortable nine-point margin (in an era when a win received two points), manager Kenny Dalglish was able to focus the attention of his players on the final well ahead of the game.
Bobby Gould and his side looked confident as they strode onto the Wembley turf but any sense of calm soon disappeared. The Wimbledon goal led a charmed life from the start as Liverpool contrived to miss a number of good openings and, in the 35th minute, Peter Beardsley stumbled through Andy Thorn's heavy tackle on the edge of the box and coolly slipped the ball over the advancing Beasant. Referee Brian Hill, not realising the potential for the diminutive forward to carry on playing, blew for a foul. Beardsley and Liverpool were clearly aggrieved.
Two minutes later the underdogs were ahead. Full back Terry Phelan, a future Republic of Ireland international, made an energetic foray into the Liverpool half only to see his progress unfairly halted by Steve Nicol by the corner flag. Dennis Wise, 21-years-old at the time, clipped the resultant free-kick towards Lawrie Sanchez, who out-jumped Gary Gillespie to score with a simple glancing header into the far corner.
Half-time came and passed with Liverpool in control and in the 61st minute Wimbledon's luck seemed to have run out. A clumsy challenge inside the area by Dons defender Clive Goodyear on John Aldridge gave Hill another decision to make. Perhaps influenced by his earlier mistake, he pointed to the spot. Aldridge assumed the responsibility of pulling his side level.
Signed from Oxford United for £750,000 in January 1987, Aldridge was an instant hit at Anfield, so much so that Dalglish allowed the prolific Ian Rush to depart for Juventus that summer. He scored 26 league goals in the 1987/88 season, which included a goal in each of the first nine games of the season, making him the First Division's top scorer. His partnership with new signings Beardsley and John Barnes - both recruited in the summer of 1987 - proved a major factor in Liverpool re-claiming the league title from Everton.
Aldridge had taken 11 successful spot kicks for Liverpool but his 12th attempt found the outstretched hands of Beasant, who had denied him only moments before with a one-handed save at point-blank range. Aldridge departed almost immediately.
He would redeem himself 12 months later with a fourth-minute strike in Liverpool's 3-2 win over local rivals Everton in the '89 final, but the disappointment of his missed penalty was clear as he watched on from the sidelines as Wimbledon's athletic midfield suffocated Liverpool's attacking ambitions.
Avram Grant will be hoping for a similar miracle this time around from his Portsmouth side against a similarly dominant Chelsea team, and in David James he might just have a goalkeeper capable of recreating Beasant's heroics.


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I am constantly amazed by how blessed we are to have a connection with one another
When I was in the early stages of my growth as an mixed media artist , I would hole up in my studio immersed in the flow, but once the piece was finished a feeling of melancholy would arrive.
Since then my connection and networking with local San Diego artists as well as many across the country has grown and brought about such a wonderful sense of sisterhood and sharing
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how LUCKY (blessed) is that?
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"A proper understanding of the essential unity of religions is the most effective and powerful factor in bringing about peace in this world. It will remove all superficial differences and conflicts, which create restlessness, discord and quarrels. "
- Swami Sivananda
Articles are by Swami Sivananda unless otherwise stated.
- The Unity That Underlies All Religions
- My Religion, Its Technique and Dissemination
- On the Question of Correct Approach to Godby Swami Krishnananda.
- Religious Freedom. Swami Venkatesananda on how Swami Sivananda "Adapts, Adjusts and Accomodates" people with differing religious viewpoints.
- Authentic ReligionBy Swami Chidananda.
- What Is Religion?By Swami Krishnananda.
- Yoga and ChristianityBy Swami Chidananda.
- Hinduism
- Festivals:
- Dattatreya Jayanthi
- The Divine Trinity (Dattatreya Jayanti Message) By Swami Chidananda
- Deepavali
- The Indestructible Divine Seed
- Can We Rejoice Always? By Swami Chidananda
- Yajna--Quintessence of the Culture of India By Swami Krishnananda
- The Significance of Ekadasi By Swami Krishnananda
- Ganesh Chaturthi
- A Good Beginning By Swami Chidananda
- Lord Ganesa--The Remover of Obstacles By Swami Krishnananda
- Gita Jayanti
- The Ancient Gospel to Modern Mankind
- Bhagavad Gita Yoga
- Message of the Gita
- The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita By Swami Chidananda
- The Gospel of the Bhagavad Gita By Swami Krishnananda
- Guru Purnima
- Hanuman Jayanthi
- Strength and Humility By Swami Chidananda
- Holi
- Krishna Janmashtami
- Gospel of Lord Krishna
- The Human Ideal
- The Divine Advent by Swami Chidananda
- Sri Krishna--The Purna-Avatara By Swami Krishnananda
- Makara Shankranti
- Sun—The Eye of the World By Swami Krishnananda.
- Navaratri
- Dussera Message -- 1942
- A Message To Mothers -- 1945
- Navaratri Durga Puja, Its Significance -- 1946
- The True Significance of Devi Puja -- 1947
- Devi Worship -- 1949
- The Terrible Kaali, The Benign Mother By Swami Chidananda.
- The Quintessence of The Spiritual Quest By Swami Chidananda.
- The Esoteric Significance of the Devi-Mahatmya By Swami Krishnananda
- Pradosha Vrata
- Sri Radha--The Divine Mystery By Swami Krishnananda
- Raksha Bandhan
- Ramnavmi
- Way to Rama Rajya
- Rama--The Apotheosis of Human Perfection By Swami Krishnananda
- Sankara Jayanti Message
- Sankara Jayanti By Swami Chidananda
- Sankara--The Genius By Swami Krishnananda
- Shankara—The First Guru of Kali Yuga By Swami Madhavananda.
- Shivaratri
- Siva--The Mystic Night By Swami Krishnananda
- Skanda Sashti
- Skanda Shashti Message (1945)
- Skanda Shashthi Message (1946)
- Skanda Shashti Message (1947)
- The Divine Commander
- Never Despair By Swami Chidananda
- Lord Skanda--Concentrated Divine Energy By Swami Krishnananda
- The Sport of the Infinite (Rasa Lila) By Swami Krishnananda
- Thaipusam
- Vasanta Navaratri
- Gods:
- Avatara
- The Esoteric Meaning of the Ten Avataras By Swami Chidananda
- Theology By Swami Krishnananda
- Dattatreya
- Devi
- Ganesha
- Hanuman
- Sri Hanuman
- Krishna
- Sri Rama
- Shanmukha
- Siva
- Scriptures:
Buddhism Jainism Judaism Christianity
- A Call to Rebirth by Swami Chidananda
- Behold Jesus In Thy Midst
- Christ-Consciousness by Swami Krishnananda
- Essence of Christianity by Swami Chidananda
- Thy Kingdom Come by Swami Chidananda
The Spiritual Significance of Ramzanby Swami Chidananda Sufism Zoroastrianism Taoism Confucianism Shintoism Spiritual Calendar
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Child's Play is back
The holiday season is standing on our doorstep, ringing the bell and stomping its feet against the cold. That means it's also Child's Play time! Penny Arcade is running their yearly charity drive to get games, toys, books and cash to children's hospitals in the US and around the world (even a children's cancer hospital in Egypt is part of the drive). Last year they managed to raise over a million dollars; I'm sure the gaming community won't disappoint this year either. We're proud to once again sponsor Child's Play – join us and head on over to their site to buy some toys!


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Forget about Puerto Rico in a shamble, people without water or electricity.
Cast North Korea and Kim Jong-un aside.
After all, hydrogen bombs aimed at us shrink in importance when compared with OJ being released from prison.
He is a free man, again, but with restrictions, we are told by prison authorities and law enforcement officials.
The man got away with murder and captivated the nation with this theft of justice so many years ago returns to his uncertain future.
Our future with OJ is also uncertain — except the best might yet be to come.
Nine years he's been gone from us.
Nine years without OJ's blusters and lies; now he is back.
This very popular likeable monster so capable of bluster and smiles who most likely slaughtered his wife and a another man, and got away because the glove didn't fit.
That was then. This is now.
OJ was convicted on armed robbery and kidnapping charges in 2008 and sentenced to 33 years in prison in 2008 for his involvement in the taking of sports memorabilia (which allegedly once belonged to him) from a Las Vegas collector in an armed standoff.
He faces parole supervision for another five years.
With these official words our world has gain been changed or compromised or both.
"The Nevada Department of Corrections, in an effort to ensure public safety and reduce the potential for incident, released Orenthal James Simpson #1027820, on October 1, 2017, at 12:08 AM from Lovelock Correctional Center," Nevada Prison officials wrote.
Simpson first rose to fame in the NFL, playing as a running back with the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers during the late 1960s and 1970s. He later moved into acting and worked as a sports commentator on shows including Monday Night Football.
Then he became a murderer and perhaps the most famous celebrity of his time in America, of any time, defending himself in a California court before the cast of characters who tries to put him away.
Most of us were in a different place in our lives and much much younger when OJ took us all for the televised ride of our lives on the LA Thruway.
With 100 or so police cars chasing him as he sat on the floor of his white Ford Bronco driven by his best friend and former teammate Al Cowlings, the event was broadcast all over the world — the ultimate American Tragedy unfolding before us.
The rest is history, stale history that is.
OJ's effect on us as a television-viewing nation changed our world.
The Simpson verdict was the third most "universally impactful" televised moment of the last 50 years behind the September 11, 2001, attacks and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to a survey by Nielsen and Sony.
After the 2-hour chase ended with Simpson nearly collapsing into the arms of police after surrendering, the police found stashed on his friend $9,000 in cash. Inside the Bronco, they found a fake goatee and mustache and a bottle of makeup adhesive and receipts from a beauty store, along with Simpson's passport and a gun.
OJ said he wasn't running away.
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"Our customers expect to be able to fly their aircraft on time, all the time," said Nicholas Kanellias, vice president, General Aviation at Pratt & Whitney. "The rigging video series is an example of how Pratt & Whitney is constantly finding new ways to offer customers easy access to the support and information they need, when it's convenient for them."
Engine rigging is an art and the Pratt & Whitney engine rigging video series bring that art to life. "A properly rigged engine results in improved aircraft handling, less unscheduled maintenance, reduced operating costs, and better environmental performance," said Kanellias. "The response we received to the 2018 King Air rigging videos was overwhelmingly positive, so we developed a new series for Cessna Caravans."
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Powell's latest is southern-fried, whiskey-soaked. You & Me doesn't rely on intricate plotting — it's just two guys drinking on a porch.
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Somewhere between Bakersfield, California, and Jacksonville, Florida — we think spiritually nearer the former and geographically nearer the latter — two weirdly agreeable dudes are on a porch in a not upscale neighborhood, apparently within walking distance of a liquor store, talking a lot. It's all they have. Things disturb them. Some things do not.
There's about fourteen ounces of this left.
There's a hair in it.
It's okay.
If you said "lard-and-hair sandwich" to her, my mother would gag.
Was that a Depression food?
I think it was a joke, but I'm not sure.
I've heard of butter and sugar sandwiches. But that would hardly be a Depression meal.
I have no idea what the Depression was, or what the war was, or the wars after that, or before — I don't know anything at all, you get right down to it.
So these codgers have something on us.
Yes they do. That is our cross to bear. Everyone knows shit but us.
Let's make the best of it.
Fuck these codgers.
They come over here with that shit, tell 'em to go eat a lard-and-hair sandwich.
I will.
I wish something would move out there.
Out there.On the broad plain of life.
I thought that's where you meant. Me too.
Be nice, some action.
Of some import.
We could say we did something ...
With ourself.
Telling a codger who says quite properly we ain't doing shit to eat a lard-and-hair sandwich does not in the long term constitute a life.
No it does not.
Well if a war doesn't break out on you, and you don't stumble into making money, and you can't play ball, and women treat you wrong, or men, and you aren't a movie star, and you don't have any talent, and you aren't smart, etc., what are you, we, supposed to do, exactly?
Live until we die, without any more pondering than a dog, is my guess.
And that is a good guess, but it seems less a guess than the natural conclusion every hapless human being comes to on his witless own. It's a default position. It supports all dufus behavior.
Yes, it even supports "the pursuit of happiness."
Indeed it does.
Today we are becalmed, as we are daily becalmed.
Every day we are becalmed.
Becalmed is our middle name.
My uncle was named Jake Becalmed. His brother was Hansford Becalmed. Their brother was Cuthbert Becalmed.
No one is named Cuthbert Becalmed.
Wait. The fourth brother was Studio Becalmed.
No mother names a son Studio.
This one did.
Is it Italian?
The name Studio.
We aren't Italian, is all I can say to that.
So this kid is called Studio, and what happens to him?
Well he was killed in the war.
I mean what happened to him as a result of his name.
Nobody razzed his ass.
He was Studio, end of chapter.
As far as I know.
Studio Becalmed.
No, their name was not really Becalmed.
That was a joke.
Of sorts.
We aren't very funny, when we joke.
No. Because we are becalmed.
Studio. I like him.
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Joel Kotkin Debunks the Myth of Deindustrialization - Interview
Hail the working man. Another Labor Day is upon us/has come and gone. But are we still celebrating a blue-collar, industrial work force that barely exists anymore? Lots of people think so, but not city guru Joel Kotkin. As he wrote earlier this month in The Wall Street Journal, the death of manufacturing in America is a myth. In fact, in parts of the South, the Great Plains and Pacific Northwest, high-skilled workers are fueling vibrant local economies and helping America make $1.6 trillion worth of industrial stuff -- 42 percent more than in 1982. I talked to Kotkin (joelkotkin.com) Aug. 29 by phone from his home in the Los Angeles area.
Q: So America's manufacturing work force is not gone?
A: No. It's still there. But it's getting smaller. A lot of it isn't unionized. And it's increasingly not located in what we would call the key industrial belt.
Q: And America's manufacturing sector is not in a long-term decline?
A: Not if you take a look at what's being produced -- and particularly the skilled-job numbers are quite impressive.I have to tell you, almost every place I go in this country, particularly where the economy is growing, if you ask business people what is it that would really help them, they say 'skills.' Machinists. Welders. It's not like there's a Ph. D. shortage, generally speaking. But there is a welder shortage, there's a plumber shortage, there's a machinist shortage. But nobody wants to talk about this. Cities that have lost their industrial base don't want to talk about it, and many cities that still have it are almost ashamed of it. In one of the great historical ironies, the places where they are not ashamed of manufacturing are places like Houston and Charleston and Charlotte. But the places with the great industrial traditions, it's almost as if they are ashamed of their lineage.
Q: Why is manufacturing prospering in places like Dubuque, Houston and Seattle?
A: Sometimes it's just historical circumstances -- the right industry at the right time. But I think the reason that manufacturing -- particularly at the higher end, which is more and more what is there -- is so important is that -- going back to Jane Jacobs -- it is a classic export industry. If you are in Seattle and you are assembling planes, or if you are in Dubuque and you are assembling and building systems for building roads around the world, you are taking money from other parts of the country or the world and you're bringing that money in to your town. Most of the stuff that has been growing isn't doing that -- it's retail; it's health care, which is basically serving your own people. ...It doesn't have to be manufacturing, but manufacturing is one part of what you have to offer. Manufacturing also has an important sociological impact, which is it provides jobs and opportunities for people who otherwise would be stuck in a job with no upward future. One of the women I interviewed in Charleston had been working in retail making under $10 an hour. Now she's working in manufacturing and she's gone up to $15 or $16 an hour. She's got some health care benefits. She's got a skill. She feels she's got a future.
Q: The U.S. has lost about 5 million industrial jobs since 1970 -- most of them low-skill.
A: What you have today -- at least what that Federal Reserve report showed -- is that a higher percentage are high-skilled workers and high-skilled jobs have increased significantly. We have to look at manufacturing in a somewhat different way than we have. Even somebody who's going to work in, let's say, an auto plant today, going forward is going to be more skilled because you're going to have more robots; it's going to be more computerized. So it's kind of misleading to look at manufacturing as a low-skilled industry. There are pockets of that. But those are the industries that are either being automated or they are really having a hard time holding on. They're holding on to some extent in parts of the garment industry, parts of the textile industry and some food processing, though over time I think a lot of that will get more automated. That's where you've seen a lot of job losses. But fundamentally, this is part of what an economy should be looking to promote. When I look at a place like Pittsburgh, which has this magnificent history, it seems to be -- maybe I'm wrong -- ashamed of it.
Q: What is going on in manufacturing is what happened to farming over the last 220 years -- we're producing more with fewer and fewer people.
A: That's exactly right. And the geography of that change is very interesting because it's moved increasingly to the South and West. But there are pockets in the Great Plains that also are doing very well, which is very interesting. It's much more the Dakotas, Iowa, out toward the Great Plains, than a great revival taking place in Michigan. Some of that may be because of politics. Some of that may be because of culture. States in the Upper Plains have basically fairly high education levels. A high school graduate in Iowa or the Dakotas is generally much more literate than a high school graduate in the Northeast or California.
Q: Is there a secret to attracting new manufacturing or nurturing the old manufacturing bases?
A: I think what you are talking about is nurturing new manufacturing that may be growing out of the old manufacturing. What I hear over and over again is the need for skills, the need for a reliable work force. That has probably more to do with companies' decisions to move than almost anything else. They can't find the skilled workers they want. I remember talking to a guy whose company was just going gangbusters up in Bellingham, Washington, and he couldn't find welders. In Bellingham, Washington, you ride into town and 'Welders wanted' is the first thing you see. Everyone talks about how we're becoming a society of low-end service workers and high-end information workers. But here's something in between -- basically the logistics and manufacturing industry -- and nobody seems to be focused on it.
Q: What can governments do?
A: I would say infrastructure and training are the two big things -- and if you think of the training as part of the infrastructure, it's really one thing. You need roads that go in and out. You need modern industrial space. You need reliable electricity. You need shipping facilities. You need workers who are relatively skilled, trainable and reliable. It's really not rocket science that you can do that and that would promote the manufacturing sector of the economy.
Oddly enough, I find that one of the great ironies -- and I think of myself as a old Pat Brown-Harry Truman Democrat --is that Democrats seem to be much less interested in this than occasionally a conservative Republican is interested in it. This sort of gentry liberalism we have now, they don't really want any of these jobs because, you know what, there is going to be pollution from these industries.
I would argue that if something is going to be manufactured in the United States, it's going to have much less negative effect on the environment than if it's manufactured in China. It's almost like people want to shunt aside all the hard things and have the hard things done by somebody else so they can have their pristine environment. A, that has a sociological effect, since there is no upward mobility for a large portion of the population, and B, you have the stuff built in places that have much worse regulation. In California, they'll put this regulation in and kick the guy out of California; so the guy goes to Texas, where he can pollute twice as much.
Q: Is a city like Pittsburgh doomed, in the sense that there is nothing we can do to regenerate manufacturing?
A: I'm always reluctant to say what a place can do. It's like asking a shrink what your problems are after the first session. But I would try to find out if there are companies that are expanding. Are there companies that would like to expand? Are there companies that want to stay? Ask them what they want. We live in this dream world where we say, 'Well, if we have a fancy stadium with sky boxes, that will keep businesses here.' Well, what do you mean by businesses? Do you mean the gauleiters who represent multinational corporations, so they can hang out at a fancy football game? Or are we talking about somebody who's got 15 people working for him in a shop somewhere in the suburbs and would like to get to 30? What are his issues? Are they tax issues? Are they training issues? Are they regulatory issues? You've got to go ask! I don't see anyone interested in that anymore. It's all 'What does some 23-year-old, footloose student want? Does he have enough jazz clubs to go to?' Or some footloose 50-year-old corporate henchman. 'Does he have enough arts facilities?"
As a country, we're kind of delusional about our economies. I've found a few places in the country where they focus on this stuff, but I'm kind of becoming a persona non grata for raising these issues. I'm not raising them as a conservative, saying we shouldn't have taxes or shouldn't have regulations. I'm just saying, 'How do you provide for a broad-based economic opportunity for your people? Isn't that what's it about?'Unfortunately, for most mayors in America, that's not what's it's about.What it's about is, 'How do I keep the public employees happy? How do I keep the people at the very top of society happy? And how do I put on a good enough show so that everybody thinks I have a hip, cool city.'
Q: You mentioned earlier you were a Pat Brown-Harry Truman Democrat. What's that?
A: In other words, meat and potatoes; get the job done; that you understand that a Democrat is first and foremost a representative of a middle-class party that has middle class values and is the party of upward mobility and is willing to use the public sector where necessary to lead that charge -- that's why I'm not a Republican. But I find that Republicans at least are willing to be occasionally skeptical about some of these boondoggles, where most Democrats are in some sort of 'dogmatic slumber,' as Kant talked about. You can't say a bad word about light rail -- or that maybe a bus rapid transit can get the job done for a third the price, which means the inner-city Pittsburgh person canactually get to a job in the outer areas. Instead we want to build a cute little light-rail line, so that maybe we can convince a couple yuppies to take the train to work for a couple weeks. It's demented. Meanwhile, then they wonder why people keep moving farther out into the suburbs or other cities.
They've expended so much money. Take the $1.5 billion they've spent in Pittsburgh (for stadiums, etc.) -- include your stupid ($450 million) light-rail tunnel under the river. What if you had had a tax reduction for businesses? Or if you had built the best bus and toll way system, so that Pittsburgh became a great place to ship goods in and out of? Or if you built a wonderful park system, so that people would say, 'I want to come live in Pittsburgh because they have the best park system'? There are a lot of ways that you could have spent or not spent that money.
Q: Instead what we have are two stadiums, a gigantic convention center that's empty half of the time or giving away its space and a $450 million light-rail tunnel.
A: I'll tell you the truth, a lot of the blame comes to the journalists. The journalists never ask the tough questions. They basically follow the scripts that they are given.And also part of the problem, and we've talked about this in general about journalism these days, you have got a bunch of young kids who are there for two or three years. They don't understand what crap this is. To them it's all, 'Well, there's an art museum downtown. That'll be good for me.' If there is some 'starkitect' -designed building, they say, 'Wow, that's sort of fun for me.' They don't care.
Q: I've always said the newspapers of America should be indicted en masse for having countenanced 50 or 60 years of the destruction of cities. I bet 95 percent of newspapers have applauded and cheered every boondoggle, every urban-renewal project back in the 1950s, every new light-rail project -- no matter what it was, newspapers cheered them on.
A: And what happens if you have the temerity to suggest that this may not be the way to go? You're 'anti-city,' you're 'pro-suburbs,' you're a 'neoconservative' -- like I'm Dick Cheney or something. You get name-called. And all you're saying is, 'Look, are we sure that what we are putting our money into is really what matters, given the tremendous pressing needs that every city has?'
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I've been a professional musician for the entirety of my adult life. I've played shows in 46 states & 3 countries. I've written hundreds of songs (at least 20% of them are good) and have released 14 albums, both solo and with various bands. I'm equally comfortable playing music by the Beatles, Chris Tomlin, KISS, Hillsong & the Beatles . I'm currently worship leader for two Methodist churches in Winston-Salem, NC.
I play acoustic & electric guitars, bass guitar, harmonica, percussion, mandolin, ukulele, and bad piano. And I sing too.
Hey! I graduated from college at Columbia International University with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in music and earning my bible certificate. After college, I was the contemporary worship leader at a local church in Charlotte, North Carolina. After my time with that church, I redirected my focus to youth: mentoring some of the girls and working closely within the youth's music ministry. Aside from music and song-writing, I'm pretty competitive. I enjoy playing sports and various random games. Although I enjoy getting out and doing, I still love having time to read or Netflix binge.
I play bass guitar, acoustic guitar and sing.
I'm a Presbyterian pastor currently serving a great congregation in Charlotte, NC. I'm also a musician/songwriter and have served as a songleader for various retreats and conferences for the past twenty years. I am thoroughly ensconced in Presbyterian-ness with degrees from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education (M.A.C.E.), Columbia Theological Seminary (M.Div), and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (D.Min). I'm husband to Lorie and chauffeur to our two boys, Connor and Hunter.
I play piano, guitar and bass primarily, and I sing. I can fake a few other instruments as needed.
I am a multi-instrumentalist who is versed in classical, jazz and blues music. I currently serve as one of two associate directors of music at White Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, NC and have a couple degrees in music from The College of Wooster and the Cleveland Institute of Music. I've led music for a number of Montreat Conferences, the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary and will be the 2020 Director for the Presbyterian Association of Musicians Worship and Music Conference. I am husband to the Rev. Grier Booker Richards and father of Olsen who is 8 years old. I'm also an oarsman and enjoy cooking, swimming, architecture and yoga.
The purpose of a songleader, if you think about it, is essentially counterintuitive – the goal is to ultimately render yourself useless where you are no longer leading the songs, but the gathering is. In many instances when we have led people in song, we've had the pleasure of essentially having our jobs taken away from us by those who eagerly claim the songs as their own. It's a cool feeling when we can literally step back from our mics, stop playing our instruments, and yet the song continues.
Our philosophy and understanding of music leadership with young people is comprised of a number of factors:
First, we strive to find the sweet spot between leading and performing. There is always a performance element when standing on a stage – if you're singing about how you're going to "follow, listen and love God all your days," your face and general disposition ought to reflect that. It's what Homiletics professor Jana Childers likes to call "honest performance," where the preacher (or here, songleader), "makes themselves present in the words."
That said, we understand that it shouldn't be all about performance. There is nothing more frustrating than gathering with others to sing and having a songleader make it all about themselves. The focus needs to always be on the gathering as a whole and the God who lies at the center. A fancy guitar solo or dramatic high note are nice, but we'll save those for our coffee house gigs.
Second, we believe in the importance a diverse and balanced repertoire. People want to sing songs they know, but they also like learning something new. We feel our unique musical backgrounds bear these out quite nicely. Of particular importance to us is the inclusion of songs from various ethnicities and cultures. We are living in an ever-increasing global context, and the Christian faith we hold dear extends far beyond our western scope. We do those we lead music for a disservice if we keep them contained within a cultural comfort zone.
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I'm posting a lot this month. It must partially have to do with the fact that I am at home doing nothing of particular interest. I have been doing yoga, walking my dog, eating food, walking my dog, reading. So I can now fit some blogging time into my schedule. I can also return to one of my favourite pastimes which is watch movies.
Last night I watched a film called Another Happy Day and it was one of the most moving films I have watched in a while. Not only was it a film about a family that had mental issues galore, but it just showed that people are still people and that all our problems are there just accentuated at different degrees. The film starred Demi More, Ezra Miller, Kate Bosworth, and Ellen Barkin. Miller and Barkin produce stellar performances and I recommend that you all take the time to watch this film if you feel that your heart can handle it.
As for music, the song that stood out to me the most from this film was Everything Must Change, which plays at the end of the film. This song kind of feels like a resolution to all the events that took place throughout the film but it foreshadows that things may not exactly change for the better. The version of the song that is heard in the film is by Benard Ighner. It truly is dark but beautiful.


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Restricted census data reveals which businesses are best able to survive a hurricane.
Besides being lucky, the best way local retail and tourist businesses can survive a hurricane is to be big, smartly financed and have lots of revenue for its size.
Those are the conclusions Associate Professor of Economics Emek Basker reached after analyzing detailed, firm‐level data from the U.S. Census Bureau for the four Mississippi counties most damaged when Hurricane Katrina struck the state Aug. 29, 2005. She posted her paper, written with co‐author Javier Miranda of the Census Bureau, Oct. 23, 2014, on the Social Science Research Network.
The census data used for the study — available only at a handful of restricted‐access Research Data Centers, one of which will open in Ellis Library in the next year — allowed Basker to track which businesses either remained open or reopened after the storm and which added or lost employees. The data also contained business locations, which, when coupled with detailed maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told her which businesses Katrina damaged.
Basker looked at retail stores, restaurants, hotels and casinos. Location is key for such businesses, which serve locals and tourists. She chose these because it would be easier to isolate Katrina's effects compared to businesses in a global marketplace.
Basker found two straightforward keys to business survival. In percentage terms, storm‐damaged businesses were 30 points more likely to close than undamaged ones (although the economic disruption of the storm strained even undamaged businesses), and businesses that were more productive (those that had more revenue given the number of employees) were more likely to reopen than less productive ones.
But she also spotted less predictable trends.
For instance, bigger is better. Basker found that, in areas of Mississippi unaffected by the storm, large firms closed less frequently than small ones, independent of how much business they did. But that advantage tripled or quadrupled among businesses damaged by Katrina.
The type of financing used also matters. Firms were more likely to close if they relied on credit cards, rather than traditional loans, to pay for business expansion or capital improvements.
Basker could not say definitively why smaller businesses fared worse but speculated that difficulty accessing traditional credit, limited collateral to borrow against and greater risk aversion might all play a role.
Basker's paper "could not have been done without access to the confidential data maintained by the Census Bureau," she says. Mizzou researchers used to drive as far as Chicago or Minneapolis to reach the nearest data center. "Most of my current research uses confidential census data," Basker says, "and there is no other way for me to answer the sorts of questions I'm interested in."


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It's the 99th birthday anniversary of the master bassist Israel "Cachao" López Valdés (1918-2008). For the occasion, here's a program note I wrote for a 2012 Jazz at Lincoln Center concert devoted to his music, directed by Carlos Henriquez. This link will take you to a documentary about his life broadcast on PBS' American Masters series a few years ago.
The Music of Cachao
By Ted Panken ©2012
His name was Israel "Cachao" López, he came from Havana, Cuba and during his 90 years on the planet he played the contrabass with the imperial authority of Serge Koussevitzky, the kinetic precision of a Yoruba drummer, and the unbridled creativity of Charles Mingus. His old friend Bebo Valdés, a fellow 1918 baby, called him "the king of rhythm."
As a child, Cachao played bass for a theater orchestra that accompanied silent movies. At 13, he began a 30-year run with the Havana Philharmonic. He moonlighted in dance bands, including one called Arcaño y Sus Maravillas that included his older brother, the pianist-cellist Orestes López, with whom, in 1938, he composed "Mambo," introducing a swinging groove (nuevo ritmo) for the final section of danzón, an elegant, ritualized form—and Cuba's national dance from the latter 19th century through the 1950s—that involves composing four separate episodes, each in a different tempo. Bandleader Damaso "Perez" Prado popularized the rhythmic weave, and it exploded onto the international stage, including the dance floors of New York City, where it evolved into the lingua franca beat of Latin Jazz.
Cachao's mambo also propelled a series of recorded jam sessions (billed as descargas, after the Spanish verb meaning, among other things, to discharge electricity and speak one's mind) with the best-and-brightest—and jazz-aware—Cuban dance musicians employed by the nightclubs and casinos of Batista's Havana. They directly influenced the evolution of salsa as articulated by Tito Puente (Cachao composed "Oye Como Va"), Tito Rodriguez, and Eddie Palmieri, all of whom hired Cachao after he migrated permanently to the United States in 1964.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, directed by JLCO bassist Carlos Henriquez, will address both the danzón and descarga on this evening's celebration of Cachao's legacy. Now 32, Henriquez is a thoroughly 21st century musician, able to navigate the multiplicity of idioms that fall under the jazz umbrella, among them the clave and swing dialects, "without an accent."
That this is no small task was made clear by the great jazz bassist Ron Carter himself. Speaking on WKCR in 2001, he analogized the jazz feel to "four beats straight up and down, like a picket fence," while describing clave as that "picket fence leaning over to one side so all the beats move at 45 degree angles from the straight line." Carter continued: "Jazz isn't so filled with counter-rhythms, but Latin music has four or five rhythms going all at once in one tune, enough rhythms to last you for a week, held together by the clave beat. All the choices can overwhelm you. I'm amazed that they always pick the right ones."
Cachao himself was no stranger to jazz. "When I first started listening to jazz, bassists weren't soloists yet," he told me during a 2005 encounter. He recalled an informal encounter with bass pioneer Milt Hinton, in Havana with Cab Calloway, perhaps in the late 1940s, at which they "played the songs of Duke Ellington together, one doing the melody and the other doing the bass." Still, he "spoke jazz" in an accent infused with the infinite permutations of clave.
For Henriquez, the son of a trombone player and a dancer—both of whom were connoisseurs of swing and salsa—the "accent-less" approach is his birthright as a product of the South Bronx "melting pot." It didn't hurt to receive hands-on mentoring from the likes of clave wizard Andy Gonzalez and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra predecessors Reginald Veal and Rodney Whitaker, as well as such distinguished prior employers as Danilo Perez, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Tito Puente, and Eddie Palmieri.
"I use Cachao's concepts all the time," Henriquez states, noting that the maestro, who learned the bongos even before the bass, extrapolated the rhythms of each component of the Afro-Cuban bata drums, but most notably those associated with the low-range tumbador, and incorporated them into his bass playing. "He learned the instrument with finesse and style, with accuracy and technique. But he also incorporated his life into the music. There's a side that's very street-oriented, ferocious, strong, dark, and powerful, which I love, but there was a sweet, beautiful side, too.
"The concept of tumbao [a syncopated, repetitive rhythmic pattern], of playing a fundamental part that becomes a leading part, is widely misunderstood. In African music, the bass is actually the moving line—focusing on the root rhythm and creating that as a solo. That attracts the whole band to you. Cachao was a magnetic force; he was the core of everything."


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On a brighter note we drank the Tesco Crozes Hermitage which was one of three I bought here. It was very pleasant, a little bit fruity, a little bit "Rhoney", also, the phrase "well integrated tannins" springs to mind, so I'm going with that.
As we watch the first episode of the last season of Lost, big WTF at the half-way mark (it's a "feature length" episode), we are sampling the Tesco finest Valpolicella Ripasso I picked up a couple of days ago. I was a little apprehensive about this wine as I loved it last time out and now it has been reduced to a mere €8-35, I was wondering if I had been overly generous previously.
Happily I have been vindicated altho' it took a couple of hours. Even after having been decanted for a good hour this wine was a little sharp and not what I remembered. Another hour down the road however and I'm loving it. It has all come together most triumphantly with plums and a hint of bitter cherries and is now tasting like a wine of twice the price. If you can afford the waiting time (I'd give it the full 2 hours), and you can afford the price tag, (there's not much you can buy for less that's drinkable), what are you waiting for?
BTW - As I was perusing The Gloss magazine, Herself buys it - I only read Mary Doweys wine column, and as fate would have it, what wine is she recommending? The Tesco Valpolicella Ripasso, she says "finding a decent version [of Ripasso] at this price is a miracle." I can't find a link to the article, you'll have to take my word for it...


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If you already have a trust or are simply thinking about establishing one, it is important to consider who you name as trustee because the trustee is responsible for carrying out your trust's purpose. Along with this responsibility comes a heightened level of fiduciary duties. For most of us, it is easy to think that a trustee is merely someone who manages financial affairs for someone else. However, a trustee's role is much more than that of someone who collects income, pays bills and taxes, invests, provides for beneficiaries, and keeps accurate records. A trustee must have the knowledge, skill, and training to make the best impartial decisions for the overall health of the trust, and do so.
Should I Fly Solo?
Should you name yourself as trustee? Depending upon the purpose of your trust and the type of trust you establish, it may be perfectly fine to make this choice. For example, you can choose to be trustee of your revocable living trust. Revocable living trusts by their nature suggest a greater level of flexibility that comes with the right to change one's mind. As your needs and assets change and grow, however, you may be better off making another choice.
Understandably, no one likes to surrender control, particularly when it comes to their valuables. But, it is important to keep in mind that naming someone else as trustee or co-trustee with you does not mean you will lose control. In fact, in most circumstances you can replace your trustee should you have a change of heart. Also, it is worth mentioning that there are certain types of trusts where you do not have the ability to choose yourself as trustee (i.e. certain irrevocable trusts).
A Few Options
You, however, do not have to be your own trustee. For those establishing revocable living trusts, choosing a family member, relative, or a trusted friend to be trustee may be a good choice. Others may decide that naming co-trustees (two people who are familiar with the trust's assets and purpose and manage it together) is their best choice. For example, married people are often co-trustees of their joint revocable living trust because their assets are often collectively owned, each spouse has a greater familiarity with the assets that are being managed, and there is a greater level of protection against interruption of trust administration should one of the spouses become incapacitated or die.
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Certain situations may arise where choosing a professional or corporate trustee is your best choice. You may find that managing your own money is not as profitable as you would like. You may also wish to protect your assets from potential tax consequences, but you lack the education, skill, and training to adequately do so. Or, you may simply find that those who are closest to you lack the time and ability to take on the onerous task of managing your trust. In such scenarios, naming a professional or corporate trustee may be the best option for you. Should you decide to go this route, for a management fee you will likely benefit from efficient trust administration, a reduction to your workload, and tax and investment strategies from folks who keep up with changes in the law.
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SP 1567 July
From Waalt
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July 1567, Anno 9 Eliz
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Jul 1
- TNA SP 12/43, 22. Letter, Lennox to Cecil, solicits a loan of 1,000l. from the Queen
Jul 7
- TNA SP 12/43, 23. Letter, Keys to Leicester and Cecil, to intercede with the Queen for his pardon, Lady Mary Grey's husband
Jul 13
- TNA SP 12/43, 24. Letter, Grindall to Cecil, for a licence to make a collection for ransom of captives in Algiers.
Jul 18
- TNA SP 12/43, 25. Bond, Vaughan, of Talgarth, to Earl of Northumberland for the Lady Eleanor Vaughan.
- TNA SP 12/43, 27. Letter, Mildmay to Cecil, Throkmorton's legation, Scottish affairs, Irish affairs.
Jul 20
- TNA SP 12/43, 26. Examination, of Morris Freman about Lord and Lady Strange
Jul 21
- TNA SP 12/43, 28. Letter, Barham and Wotton to Cecil, foreigners in Maidstone, as in Sandwich
Jul 22
- TNA SP 12/43, 29. Letter, Grindall to Cecil, articles for foreigners in various towns for trades and manufactures
- TNA SP 12/43, 29. 1. Petition, foreigners driven from the Low Countries on account of their religion, to settle in towns
- TNA SP 12/43, 30. Foreigners to Pembroke and Cecil, manufactures to be carried on
Jul 23
- TNA SP 12/43, 31. Letter, Humfrey to Cecil, The house for manufacturing wire is in readiness for use
Jul 27
- TNA SP 12/43, 32. Letter, Winchester to Cecil, plans for the tomb of Henry VIII. to be put up at Windsor
Jul 31
- TNA SP 12/43, 33. Letter, Foedary of the East Riding of Yorkshire to Cecil, repair of Gallow Clowe, Hull, Stapleton wardship. Incloses,
- TNA SP 12/43, 33. 1. Mayor of Hull to Foedary of the East Riding, repair of Gallow Clowe Hull, Stapleton wardship
- TNA SP 12/43, 33. 2. Vverdict, finding Stapleton and Hawldenbye liable for the repair of the Gallow Clowe, Hull, Stapleton wardship
- TNA SP 12/43, 33. 3. Estimate, repair of the Gallow Clowe Hull inheritance of Mr. Stapleton, Stapleton wardship
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- TNA SP 12/43, 34. Account, collectors of the subsidy from the laity
- TNA SP 12/43, 35. Note, of the first payment of the subsidy by the clergy
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Case Detail
John Doe
Case Details
Case Type: Homicide
Height: Unknown
Case Status: OPEN
Weight: Unknown
Identifying Marks:
Incident Date: 05/21/1979
Agency: Denver Police Department
City: Denver
Date of Birth: Unknown
County: Denver
Date of Death: 05/21/1979
Agency Case #: 79-051249
Age: Unknown
Judicial District: 2nd Judicial District
Gender: Male
Year Solved:
Race: Other Race
NamUs Case #: Unknown
Eyes: Unknown
NCMEC Case #: Unknown
Hair: Unknown
About this Case:
May 21, 1979 the unidentified victim was found burned to death in an arson fire at 728 28th Street. Anyone with information regarding this case, is asked to please contact the Denver Police Department.
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About the Award
The True and Pure Book and Movie of the Year award is an unofficial, created-by-me award. I recognize what I consider the best book I read and the best movie I saw in the previous year, along with a runner-up in each category.
I make an effort to choose more modern books, since we can all agree that classics are classics for a reason, and my goal is to help you find amazing media that you might not have heard of or be unsure about. But the award in general is not limited to media that was released this year. I choose out of everything I read and watched in the course of the year, not only things that are brand-new.
You can find previous awards here:
Book of the Year: Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley (2015)
Runner-Up: Greenglass House by Kate Milford (2014)
About the winner:
Do you believe in magic? Micah Tuttle does.
Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn't approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful flying birdwoman, and the magician more powerful than any other—the Man Who Bends Light. Finally, Grandpa Ephraim offers proof. The Circus is real. And the Lightbender owes Ephraim a miracle. With his friend Jenny Mendoza in tow, Micah sets out to find the Circus and the man he believes will save his grandfather. (from Goodreads)
If you loved The Night Circus, or if you have any kind of interest in magical circuses, or if you like children's books that feel deep and meaningful and old-fashioned in the best way, Circus Mirandus is for you. The magical-circus atmosphere is lovely, and the story is wonderful. It doesn't use magic as an excuse, presenting realities of life in a way that doesn't deny their weight. But it does it in a childlike way, balancing innocence and hope with the pain.
I've been really enjoying children's books lately, and it's always a delight to find more recently-published books that have this kind of quality and depth. Unlike the runner-up, this one isn't a Christmas read necessarily, but the magical feeling lends itself very well to this season. It would be a great family read-aloud, a great one to give to younger siblings, or something to read by yourself on a cozy winter day beside the light of the Christmas tree.
About the runner-up:
It's wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler's inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. Then rings again. And again. Soon Milo's home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. As objects go missing and tempers flare, Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, must decipher clues and untangle the web of deepening mysteries to discover the truth about Greenglass House-and themselves. (from Goodreads)
This is another more recently-published children's book that has an atmosphere very similar to The Mysterious Benedict Society. I love it because it has the innocent feeling of childhood, but yet is a complex and deeply meaningful story with real conflict. The characters are interesting and complex, the family dynamics between Milo and his parents are really enjoyable, and the plot has plenty of twists and turns and different elements that all weave together really nicely. It takes place leading up to Christmas, so it's a great one for the season, or to read at any point during the winter, and would also make a great family or sibling read-aloud!
Movie of the Year: The Truman Show (1998)
Runner-Up: The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
About the winner:
In this movie, Truman is a man whose life is a fake one… The place he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him, are actors who play their roles in the most popular TV-series in the world: The Truman Show. Truman thinks that he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea about how he is exploited. Until one day… he finds out everything. Will he react? (from IMDb)
This is one of the most thought-provoking movies I've ever watched. It's entertaining, definitely, with plenty of humor and an intriguing premise. But when you start to think harder about the premise, you realize all of the questions that the movie is really raising, and what a serious movie it really is. It leaves you searching, trying to put words to its themes, raising questions of ethics in media, of what reality TV does to our society, of consumerism and entertainment culture. And it does all of this in a carefully crafted story, in which no detail of cinematography, costuming, setting, etc. is overlooked, and in which we are equally made to laugh, cry, and think.
About the runner-up:
Two young gentlemen living in 1890's England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities… (from IMDb)
I love this play, and the movie is an excellent adaptation in which everything was done pretty much exactly as I had imagined it. The whole story is an absolutely hilarious comedy of errors, making this probably the funniest period drama that exists. The actors are amazing as well: the cast features Colin Firth and Judi Dench. Overall, it's just a quality movie that's full of innocent fun, one that can be watched over and over, on rainy days and sick days, with other people or by yourself, a movie that, at least for me, will never get old.
Have you read/watched my selections? If so, did you like them as much as I did? What are your favorite books and movies of 2018? Share in the comments!
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You might want to take a minute to say goodbye to your personal liberties. They're flying right out the window -- and, as usual, it's all in the name of "protecting the public."
You knew this was coming...After the failed terror attempt on Christmas day, the federal Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has decided to step up its security screenings. Their solution? Strip-search every passenger. It's not by hand, mind you, but it may as well be.
The TSA plans to begin using full-body X-ray scanners that would essentially strip passengers of their clothing -- and their dignity. With these new scanners, no details would be left to the imagination -- which is just how the feds like it.
Yup, Big Brother is a big perv.
But I'm not sure which is worse: The threat to your privacy or the threat to your health.
Like X-rays, the new machines use radiation to create these indecent exposures. The experts claim that the low dose of radiation is perfectly safe -- even for children and pregnant women.
Exposing pregnant women to radiation can lead to grossly disfigured babies or can even cause women to miscarry. It's no coincidence that five female security guards had miscarriages after working with these supposedly safe machines.
And it's not much safer for adults. Radiation can damage DNA and cause structural damage to your cells -- both of which can lead to cancer. In fact, Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, believes that 50 percent of all cancers are caused by the radiation from medical tests -- the same ones meant to "protect" you by detecting cancer early!
Bottom line: If you don't want to be fried with ionizing radiation every time you fly -- and if you'd rather not have airport workers paid to be peeping toms...you won't stand for this outright invasion of your rights.
When it comes to these full-body X-rays, I don't care how low the dose is. There is no safe level of ionizing radiation. Period.