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Known as the production powerhouse, Bordeaux has more than 20k wine producers in the region. And, you can’t really miss the ‘Entrecote Bordelaise’, a famous dish made of butter, Bordeaux wine, herbs, shallots, and bone marrow. This is a true delicacy of the region!
When you are in France, it is all about food, wine, and romance. The question is – When is the best time of the year to visit Bordeaux? As a traveler and an alien to the wine capital of the world, it is advisable to go to Bordeaux in selective months.
Here’s a quick guide for you to know about the best months for visiting the wine capital.
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While it may sound super romantic to visit France in the month of December and January, you must avoid going to Bordeaux at that time. The wintry months are cold and the winemakers get busy in blending and amalgamating the wine.
You must skip going to the wine capital in the month of July and August as well. These two months are supposed to be very hot, and not the best time to explore the vineyards. Winter season is ideal for Paris, but Bordeaux can be best enjoyed during the spring season.
November gets quiet in Bordeaux as you will not find many tourists flocking in. While winter is not the best time to explore the vineyards, but you can enjoy a wintry Christmas here. Well, France is worth the visit ANY TIME of the year, but Bordeaux welcomes you with a warm smile in the warmer months.
The best time to visit Bordeaux is the month of April. This is the harvest season, and you will find that the vineyards are in full bloom. The month of April gets busy because most of the wine producers hold wine tasting events for the traders. This clearly means that wine producers will have no time to entertain tourists.
Month of April is the harvest season
If you are a trader, then Vinexpo is an event you cannot afford to miss! Harvest time is the most beautiful yet difficult time for the producers. It is best to visit Bordeaux from April to mid-October. October in Bordeaux is like the Indian summer. There is a lot of cheer and fervor in this month!
You can take a long walk in the vineyards in the months of May and November. This is when the vineyard welcomes you with open arms! The weather is perfect for a romantic walk and long conversations.
Renting a car in Bordeaux is not necessary because it is the perfect place for cycling, walking and there are other transport options too. However, a drive would be romantic because you can soak in the view of the vineyards.
Visit Bordeaux during the wine tour season
The scenic beauty of Bordeaux is worth enjoying! Our suggestion to you would be to visit the wine capital during the wine tour season. If you wish to see the buds bursting, then consider going to Bordeaux in the month of June. The fragrance of the wine flowers and the visual treat it offers is priceless. So, don’t miss the summer and spring month because that’s when you can witness the true beauty.
Concluding Thoughts
If you enjoy a glass of Merlot or Sauvignon Blanc, then head to Bordeaux where you can find the finest wine! This is where you can see the entire process and enjoy the scenic beauty of the vineyards. You could opt for a wine tour which can last for a week! This is when you can enjoy the beauty of the blooming vineyards and even taste the finest wines that Bordeaux has to offer.
There is no such thing as having ‘too much of wine’. Don’t forget to buy a bottle of wine for yourself. Although you can enjoy wine the entire week, taking home memories and a bottle of wine seems like a brilliant idea. Whether it is the Naked Vigneron or Chateau Haut Marbuzet, there is no dearth of options in the wine capital. Do your research before exploring the best vineyards. Bordeaux is calling you!
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Out of the Pharmacy Classroom and Into Africa
One Pharmacy Professor’s quest to develop a learning and serving experience in Africa for Pharmacy Students
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A Visit to a Community Pharmacy in Kampala →
Posted on March 26, 2014 by kbohan
This in not an official U.S. Department of State (DOS) blog and the views and information presented are my own and do not represent the Fulbright Program or the DOS.
Vicky and Me outside Naguru Hospital- this was taken in Oct 2013 during my last visit to Uganda
Today I spent the day with Vicky Nyombi, one of the Ugandan Pharmacists who came to the USA to work with me last fall. We started the day early as she picked me up just after 7am to head to the China-Uganda Friendship Hospital in the Naguru part of Kampala (“Naguru” Hospital). This hospital is quite new having opened in 2012 and was build with funds from the Chinese. It is much smaller than the Mulago National Referral Hospital, but nonetheless, it is a referral hospital meant to help decongest the large numbers of people that Mulago serves. Naguru Hospital has a large outpatient facility along with a surgical theater*, labor and delivery and wards for OB-GYN, Adults, Pediatrics, and Surgical patients. One of the things that Vicky has started since returning from the USA where she gained more skills in the provision of Pharmaceutical Care and pharmacy administration is a Medicine and Therapeutics Committee. This is a group of physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other important stakeholders in the provision of patient care and the team serves the hospital by making sure that drugs and policies related to drug use are appropriate and meet the needs of the patients. This morning I helped Vicky look at her drug formulary, the list of drugs the hospital routinely stocks, to see if there were any drugs that could be deleted so that funds could be reallocated to provide other medicines or products. I was able to help her see that a specific combination IV antibiotic actually costs substantially more than if the single drugs were given separately. In the USA we often try to use combination drugs when possible to increase patient adherence and decrease the number of oral tablets they have to take but this was an intravenous med which the nurses administer. Also, the two drugs separately could be combined and infused in one solution the same as with the combination product. So in this situation, the combination product is probably not worth the extra expense. And often, in a resource-poor environment like Uganda, even oral medications have to be given in separate formulations because the cost of combination products is just not affordable. In the USA we often use long-acting preparations as well, again to improve patient adherence, but if these are substantially more costly in Africa, they are not able to be utilized. I’m sure the same adherence issues occur here as everywhere else so sometimes the best healthcare outcomes aren’t achieved due to lack of products the patients can easily take. Back to the formulary, I’m sure that as she systematically reviews it over time she will find more instances that could really help improve her budget. One of the difficult things is that Vicky, although a pharmacist, is now actually in charge of the entire stores* for the hospital. This includes both the drugs and healthcare supplies like gloves, masks, etc. She has to make her yearly budget cover all of the healthcare and drug supplies. In addition, something as basic as stationery* must also be bought with her budget. This latter item is something that we in the USA take for granted. It would be very unusual for us to be told that we can’t complete a project because the budget for stationery has run out for the year and if we want to print something, we will need to purchase it ourselves. So, one of the things Vicky is also implementing since coming back from the USA is a form to document her clinical interventions. Whenever she talks to a physician or clinical officer to make a recommendation about drug therapy or whenever she counsels a patient, she will write it down on this form. In this way, we can begin to gather objective data about what she is able to accomplish on behalf of patients with her new skills and hopefully this will lead to more support for future training for other pharmacists in Uganda. But, if the stationery supplies run out and she has no more money in the budget to purchase them, or needs that money to procure drugs, she is limited to either ceasing to document or using her own funds to purchase the paper. Patrick Opio at Mulago Hospital is also struggling with this basic challenge.
One of the purposes of my visit to Naguru today was to meet with the Hospital Director to discuss the possibility of having pharmacy students from Makerere University complete some of their clinical experiential training at his hospital. The curriculum I’m developing will have a “practice lab” component where students learn skills in a classroom setting and then practice them through role play as they identify and solve drug therapy problems that are in the patient case vignettes they are given. A faculty facilitator helps students to identify problems they missed and works with them on skills techniques like patient counseling. The other critical component is “experiential” where the students go to a healthcare facility and are supervised by pharmacy interns and pharmacists, which is called being “precepted” while they interact with real patients and healthcare providers to put their new skills to work helping patients. Mulago Hospital is the traditional site for gaining clinical experience for Makerere students as it is very large and a walkable distance from campus and it will remain the primary site, but it would be nice for students to have the opportunity to see another hospital setting and work with a pharmacist, Vicky, who has had experience in the USA using these skills herself. (At Mulago they will also be able to work with the other pharmacist who came to the USA, Patrick Opio.) Anyway, the Director was wholeheartedly enthusiastic about this opportunity and will welcome the students. The primary barrier will be transportation to Naguru Hospital, which he can’t provide and I am not sure the University will be able to provide this either. Once again, there is a non-medical barrier to implementation of a program that could help improve patient care. In the USA, most pharmacy students have their own cars and in some cities there is low cost public transportation. This is not true of Uganda. At this point, I’m not sure the transportation barrier will be able to be overcome but at least the Naguru Hospital site is a possibility and if we can’t implement this soon, perhaps in the future.
*Definitions: If you are from the USA and reading this blog there may be some terms that sound “funny”. The term surgical theater is a British term for the operating room. Back when surgical procedures were started, they were held in an ampitheater where all of the medical students and doctors would sit on raised seating around the table in the center so they could watch and learn. Today there is not normally “visitors viewing” for most surgical areas in the USA or elsewhere. The term medicine or medical stores is also probably unfamiliar to Americans. We would call our storage facility for drugs or medical supplies the “stock area” or a “storage facility” or “medical supplies closet” or simply “Central Supply” for the term for the area of the hospital that stores no medicines but stocks all the supplies like patient gowns, equipment, etc. The government of Uganda’s central drug storage facility from where they dispense to healthcare sites all over the country is called the National Medical Stores (NMS) and the central supply from which private facilities order their drugs and supplies is called the Joint Medical Stores (JMS). A similar facility in the USA would be called a “healthcare supplies wholesaler”, and an example is Cardinal Health. Now another term that is not unfamiliar to Americans but its use above is unfamiliar- stationery. In the USA this term is used in a very specific way to denote the paper you use to write letters or thank you notes. Stationery in the USA is often fancy and has designs on it. Paper that is used in printers is simply called paper. In Uganda this term refers in general to the paper supplies that are needed for printing, taking notes, etc. In the USA, the term we use for this is a larger catchall phrase- “Office supplies”- or simply paper products or paper goods.
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one month ago, we saw this great ted talk by cesar kuriyama. every day, he recorded one second of his life, and after a while, edited all the seconds on a video montage. it’s a simple thing… and yet, the result is such a captivating mashup of glimpses into someone’s life, that we immediately decided to download the 1 second everyday app and give it a go.
so… one month later, this is how the past month looked like in our lives:
somedays we almost forgot about it until the last minute and ended up recording something dull (or food), so the result isn’t a showpiece… and still, like magic, every brief second brings to mind a very specific moment, which in turn allows us to instantly remember the whole day!
having a visual reminder of every single day i ever lived is pretty awesome. i think i want do this for the rest of our lives! :D
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Post date April 6, 2013
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The word “church” has a two-fold meaning. The church is the congregation of believers in this world, and it is also the collective body of all believers in the past, present, and future.
So the church in the Bible is not a place to go or a building to sit in. It is made up of people, God’s people. It goes beyond national boundary, ethnic group, political alliance, or social status. With his own blood, Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9). Together, these believers constitute the church (Acts 20:28).
Becoming a church member, however, is not a choice to join an organization for some common interest, but the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. In a social organization, a few like-minded people can come together, set up a charter, and recruit members. But in the church, it is God who chooses people into the church. As our Lord said, “you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit” (John 15:16). Through baptism, the blood of our Lord unites us as members of the church.
Christ is the “head of the church.” Out of his love for the church, he gave his own life for her. So the church must submit to Christ in everything. She must follow Christ’s command and do only what Christ would do and speak what Christ would speak.
The church has a very intimate relationship with Christ. It is “his body, the fulness of him who lls all in all” (Ephesians 1:23). In other words, Christ shines forth his wisdom, power, and glory through the church.
Each believer is a member of this body. Like a family, the church provides for the spiritual needs of her members. The Holy Spirit distributes various gifts and abilities to the members so that they may encourage and serve one another.
Despite the variety of jobs and functions, we belong to one body. “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ” (1 Corinthians 12:12).
The spirit of unity and mutual support is the guiding principle of the church. As members of this family, we need to work together using our God-given abilities to help each other grow. Having the love and grace of our Lord as our common bond, we can always have joy, peace, and strength in Christ.
The Church and Salvation
Our salvation is through Jesus Christ alone. But since the church is the body of Christ, the church is closely related to our salvation. Christ has given the church the mission to preach and baptize for the forgiveness of sins; he also
continues his saving work through the sacraments administered by the church. Therefore, to accept the church is to accept Christ and to be saved is to become a member of the body of Christ—the church. We may not separate the Savior from his body.
“For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior” (Ephesians 5:23). Christ is the savior of the entire body, not of separate body parts. Therefore, we are not saved apart from the church, but as part of the whole church.
One Church
"There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call” (Ephesians 4:4). Since Christ has only one body, and there is only one Spirit, there can only be one true church.
The Bible uses many analogies to teach us that there is only one church. Christ is the Bridegroom and the church the bride. Just as a bridegroom knows onlyone bride, our Lord knows and saves only one church.
Furthermore, Christ is the Shepherd and we are the sheep. Just as a shepherd gathers his sheep into one flock, Christ brings all believers into one church.
To nd the one true church, we need to rst understand that the truth of salvation is what denes the church. Finding the true church does not just mean choosing one congregation over another, but nding the church that preaches the true gospel. The Bible tells us that the church is founded on the teachings of the apostles and the prophets (Ephesians 2:20). It also calls the church “the pillar and foundation of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15). It upholds and proclaims the truth that is taught in the Bible.
“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:4-5). There is only one gospel of salvation. Two churches with different beliefs on salvation cannot be both true, because the true church only has one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
Tens of thousands of Christian churches with different teachings on salvation exist in the world today. It is necessary for every Christian to seek the one faith that the apostles once shared and preached, rather than make choices based on factors such as the quality of the choir or the eloquence of the speaker. In this end time, the Lord himself has raised up the True Jesus Church to preach the only way of salvation. We must come into this church by accepting the true gospel and be baptized into the one body of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 12:13).
The Holy Spirit and the Church
"The body apart from the spirit is dead” (James 2:26).
Likewise, a congregation without the Spirit of God has no spiritual life. The church of the living God must have the Holy Spirit. In other words, believers in the true church are given the promised Holy Spirit, with the speaking of tongues as the evidence. Together, these believers become the dwelling place of the Spirit (Ephesians 2:22).
Through the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ gives the church the authority to forgive sins (John 20:22-23). Therefore, it is the presence of the Holy Spirit that makes baptism effective for the forgiveness of sins (1 John 5:6–8).
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth who reveals the truth of salvation (John 16:13). Thus in the true church where God’s spirit is present, people can hear of the full gospel and walk in the way of salvation.
The Holy Spirit also distributes his gifts to the members of the church, such as the gift of understanding, the gift of healing, and the gift of encouragement. As members of Christ’s body, we may benet from these various spiritual gifts (see 1 Corinthians 12:4,12-13).
The Church and Miracles
Our Lord gave the apostles the authority to perform signs, wonders, and miracles. “He called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every inrmity” (Matthew 10:1). Because the church is the body of Christ, she also carries this divine power.
Signs and miracles serve to testify to the truth of salvation. “And [the disciples] went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and conrmed the message by the signs that attended it” (Mark 16:20). The witness of blood in visions during baptisms in the True Jesus Church, for example, is a strong proof of the cleansing power of baptism.
True Jesus Church
God spoke through the prophet Zechariah, “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6). It is God’s Spirit, not human effort, that establishes the temple of the last days—the church. This was how the True Jesus Church came to be. The Holy Spirit rst revealed the truth of salvation in the Bible to a few humble Christians and then commissioned them to proclaim the full gospel.
The Lord has also conrmed that the True Jesus Church is his church through signs and miracles. Since the establishment of the True Jesus Church until today, many have found the truth of salvation in this church and have experienced the wonder of God’s power.
The name True Jesus Church tells us that Jesus is the Lord of the church. The church is the body of Jesus; everyone who is baptized in the church comes under the Lord’s name (Acts 15:16-17). It is only right that the church bears and uplifts Jesus’ name.
Church Services
While not every church-goer may be a true Christian, every true Christian makes an effort to attend church meetings.
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). Our Lord himself is with us when we gather in his name. He will bless us as we worship him through songs and prayer, and as we study his word through sermons and discussions.
The Lord Jesus also taught us to love and serve one another. By meeting with brothers and sisters in the church, we use our given talents to build up one another. By combining our efforts, we can spread God’s Word more effectively. The body of Christ can only function and grow through unity and coordination.
“Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near” (Hebrews 10:24-25). While we wait for that day (the coming of Christ), we need to strengthen each other’s faith so that we will meet our Lord with condence when he comes.
The Church and Her Mission
Our Lord Jesus gave the church a mission: preach the gospel and take care of his ock. This mission is a continuation of Christ’s ministry in the world.
Before his ascension to heaven, the Lord Jesus said to his disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit*, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Matthew 28:18-20).
The church takes on Christ’s authority and must bring the gospel to the world. It is through preaching that people may have the opportunity to listen and believe. And as people believe and are baptized, the church grows. The church also needs to bring up the faith of the members by teaching them to obey the commands of our Lord.
By fullling her mission, the church is also preparing for the coming of Christ. There will be a great wedding banquet for Christ and his bride—the church. That will be the nale of God’s salvation plan, when the believers will join with the Lord and be with him forever.
The Church and You
God has invited you into his household, the church, to become his child. Come into Jesus’ open arms, where you will nd warmth, forgiveness, comfort, and a new start.
Before Christ comes to judge the world, God has rebuilt the church on earth to call everyone to repentance. He now opens wide the door of salvation through his church.
So we invite you to seek the truth in the True Jesus Church, be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord guide you into the gate to eternal life.
The church being the "pillar and foundation of the truth,” must uphold and proclaim the good news of God’s Kingdom in complete accordance with the Scriptures. Today, the True Jesus Church has faithfully proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide and brought many to the Lord. We invite you to to study the truth with us in this church and walk with us on the path of salvation.
It was God’s will, according to his plan of salvation, that all who receive the redemption of Jesus Christ become members of God’s household. The Bible calls this household of God the “church” (1Timothy 3:15), made up of God’s people throughout history. It is a spiritual community to which every believer of Jesus Christ belongs. Just as he had predestined, God established the apostolic church on earth through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus and the pouring out of the promised Holy Spirit. The church proclaimed the gospel of salvation and was united in fellowship. By the power of the Holy Spirit, the apostolic church spread from Jerusalem to Asia and Europe. The Lord manifested his mighty works through the church, and continued to add to their number those who were being saved. But soon after the days of the apostles, heresy and political power replaced the gospel that was once entrusted to the saints.
True Jesus Church
In 1917, God revived his church by building up the True Jesus Church in Beijing, China. The early workers, having received the Holy Spirit and revelation of the true gospel, began preaching the truth of salvation from the heart of China. The Holy Spirit worked mightily; signs and miracles conrmed the truth that the church preached. Within a few decades, the gospel advanced
swiftly and covered almost every province of
China. The church then expanded to other parts
of Asia. Until today, the true gospel has also
reached countries in America, Africa, Europe,
and Australia.
One Church, One Gospel
“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:4,5). The church is the body of Christ. There is only one true church because Christ has only one body, and this church preaches the only gospel of salvation. In this end time, the Lord himself has raised up the True Jesus Church to preach the only way of salvation. She was founded by the one Spirit that founded the apostolic church; she shares the one faith that the apostles once preached; and she administers the one baptism that the
apostles administered. This is the true church, the body of Christ. So we must come into this church by accepting the true gospel and be
baptized into the one body of Christ.
The Lord Jesus commissioned his disciples two major tasks: to proclaim the gospel to every nation (Mark 16:15-16) and to attend to the spiritual needs of all believers in the church (John 21:15-17).
Relying on God’s purpose and might, the True Jesus Church aims to accomplish this two-pronged commission. Through constant prayer, we trust that the Holy Spirit will enable us to carry the gospel of salvation to all the corners of the world, so that people of all races will come to accept the Lord Jesus Christ.
In preparing for the Lord’s second coming, the church also strives to strengthen the faith and uplift the spiritual qualities of her members through continual devotion to prayer, mutual encouragement, and studying the Scriptures.
Ultimately, the church as a whole may present herself holy and pure to the Lord.
Why “True” Jesus Church?
The God we worship is the true God; thus his church is the true church.
The Lord Jesus called himself the True Vine; The church, which is his body, is therefore called the true church.
The true church preaches the true and complete gospel, which is conrmed by the Holy Spirit, signs, and miracles.
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Today the United States of America is materially the strongest nation on earth. It seems to have it all-absolute super abundance of everything. Many view this incredible abundance as the world's greatest marvel. The country's resources and early settlers played a pivotal role in creating the prosperity and affluence through commitment to moral principles. However, subsequent generations started drifting, eventually plunging the present nation into conditions of social disorder and decay from within. In order for a nation to remain strong abroad, it must be strong at home. Nothing is more damaging to a nation than the decay and collapse from within. God the Almighty has blessed and made this land a country of opportunity, by bestowing on it unlimited natural resources. The federal government is doing what it can to aspire to the high principles and attain the objectives of the founding fathers. But in the final analysis the responsibility lies in the hands of the individuals themselves. Despite such affluence, most are hurting. They are unhappy, committing suicide; homes are breaking up, a complete mess. Why? Where did we go wrong? What is missing that is driving so many to the edge of the precipice. Through time many nations have faced similar challenges. We are not trying to brood over the dark side only. However, analysis of statistics and efforts to meet current challenges indicates darkness instead of light at the end of the tunnel. Such darkness and social disorder is not caused by God, but by the hands of individuals. Statistics on social disorders are alarming and the problems must be dealt with swiftly with practical and innovative solutions. Communism thrives on such social disorders and is around the corner just waiting eagerly to take over. The family is always considered the basis of society. The one parent family is soaring to 26 percent. Three out of four marriages end in divorce; couples do not take marriage seriously. Divorce laws make it easy to obtain a divorce, and the most hated thing to God is divorce, because it shatters the family. Frustrated by such statistics and opting for an alternative, young people these days prefer living together unmarried hopping from one partner to another leading them to nowhere. As they approach their thirties they decide to have a baby without marriage and contract a partner without obligations to have one. According to a federal study conducted on American females in their twenties, reported the following: One out of three single females became pregnant at least once. One sixth risked pregnancy without contraceptives. One third lived with a male. Four out of five engaged in sex at least once. Forty percent aborted their first pregnancy. Never married females have had sexual intercourse with an average of 4.5 men (50 percent with serious relationships and 50 percent with casual relationships.) An estimated 100 million Americans suffer from loneliness and depression, 15-20 million suffer from anxiety, and 100 million are not affiliated with any religion. Extent of sexual abuse of children is mindnumbing. One study indicates that 47 percent (38 percent girls and 9 percent boys) are molested by someone they know before they reach age 18. Consequences are shocking. Psychological damage, exploitation and assault on these children is resulting in depression, poor school performance, aggressive behavior towards peers, poor concentration, pseudo maturity, suicidal feelings, and sexual abuse of other younger children to name a few. More than half of all 17 year olds are sexually active and only one third use contraceptives. More than 11 million unmarried teenagers (15-19 years old) are sexually active with their parents knowledge. Sexually transmitted diseases are out of control. The Gonorrhea rate among girls increased 400 percent since 1965. Chlamydia infections are affecting 4 million annually. Every two minutes a teenager becomes pregnant. Some females are hardly 12 and the father-to-be 14-15. Neither have a job or education. The U.S.A. leads the developed nation's rate of teen- age pregnancies. According to a study by Alan Good-Macher institute, every year one million teenagers become pregnant, 13 million 13- 19 years old) have had sexual intercourse, and 7 out of 10 have had sex in high school. 95 percent of all teenage boys and 81 percent of all teenage girls have premarital sex. Virginity is considered a disease, hopping to bed is considered the fashion. What is the cause of it? Explosion of teenage pregnancies can be attributed to the decline of parental and institutional authority, high divorce rate, wide spread acceptance of acts of fornication and adultery, TV, newspapers, the assault on the traditional values only creates generations of sexually promiscuous adolescents. Of all married men, 66 percent cheat on their wives, and of all married women, 54 percent cheat on their husbands. These extramarital affairs have become a rash. Adultery between single females and married men is fast becoming a fact of life. One out of five females does not have a potential mate resulting in having affairs with married men. AIDS strikes 200 victims a week. By 1991, the death toll is expected to be 179,000. Herpes spread is to reach 38 million Americans and is spreading. Alcohol seems to be out of hand, this topic was covered in The Invitation, Vol. 3, No. 2, May 1986. These are some of the social disorders rapidly gobbling up America. The reality is higher than what the statistics indicate. Where do we go from here? What quality of life are our children going to have? Why oh why do we have these problems in the first place? Does anybody care for these Children? We do, Our hearts go out to these victims and families. Our message is moral, fill man and woman s conscious with goodness. We should aspire and pray we can institute a God-conscious society, a society that operates and implements the laws of God. Such a society alone will instill the value of good deeds into the minds of people. Salvation by faith and good deeds are both tied together integrally in Islam. This is the comprehensive Islamic solution to the social disorders. Good deeds are central, not peripheral to the Islamic life and salvation. Islam gives no blank check of salvation to sinners. Individuals have to earn it, work for it, and deserve it, through a commitment to good deeds. Salvation by faith alone is preached by some other religions, we believe, is too individual centered - i.e. "selfishness centered." It only massages the ego of the sinner, advances him to the inner sanctorum of bliss and paradise, without ever having to do an iota of goodness and good deeds, thus leaving the victims of his sins to the mercy of society and others, someone's sins of pleasure, someone else's problem. Islam condemns such behavior and such approaches to salvation. While faith does help the person formulate his thoughts in a God- conscious manner, but thoughts-i.e. Thinking about doing something doesn't mean anything unless the deed is done. No matter how well intentioned one may be faith or thinking about God is not beneficial to others until the good deeds are produced. Hence a combination of faith and good deeds is the godly perspective on salvation and life of the Muslim. Faith is like a honey- moon considered a part of life (with all pleasure and no work), the deeds are the works after the honeymoon. Deeds, which a person produces, can reach out beneficially to help others and thus 'heat' the segments of society and its preservation. Thus only Islamic salvation -will be a grace to believers and all the people around the globe through the reach of good deeds. How do we know it works? Because Islamic societies do not suffer from such social disorders and family disintegrations. Because Muslims have to commit themselves to doing good deeds. It can be verified: 1. Many of the worst crimes are committed under the influence of alcohol, spending family money on alcohol, leaving the wife and children to starve, mistreating and beating them savagely, etc. Islam prohibits drinking totally and punishes those who drink, This translates to no drunkards in Islamic societies. 2. Fornication, adultery, prostitution or any other promiscuous behaviors are all publicly and sternly punished in Islamicsocieties. No escape from punishment. Consequently, all problems relating to promiscuity and sexual perversions which cause broken marriages, illegitimate children, illicit companionships or affairs are nonexistent in Islamic societies. Marriage is a normal and holy state of life in Islam. No Muslim stays unmarried or single to chase after their lust.' Islam considers sexual meandering the greatest contributing factor to the collapse of the family. Consequently, marital behavior is keyed into the man/woman's life integrally so the society stays chaste. Women are never raped, or allowed to prostitute in the most humiliating and dehumanizing manner. 3. Juvenile delinquencies are a big problem in the west. It is non- existent in Islamic societies. Because it is only a fungus outgrowth of the disintegration of the family and a rebellion against the institution of authority. 4. Loves for all-father, mother, grandmother, grandfather, children, and etc. surround the Muslim home, casting out all loneliness and feeling of depression. Unless a Muslim loves his/her God, their parents, grandparents, and other human beings and creatures, he is not a Muslim. Muslim hospitality and generosity to non-Muslims is exemplary. God created the universe and subjected everything in it for man and womankind, and to build not destroy the earth. God also chartered physical and moral laws. If we follow them we will be successful in this life and in the hereafter, if we do not we will be losers. Those who do not submit to God will be charting their own destruction by allowing Satan to guide them on a one way highway to hell. All the prophets were Muslims and they delivered the same message. God does not contradict himself and the prophets (PBUT) did not change his message, some individuals did, which resulted in division in the religion and led through time millions astray and in delusion. The current decadence may lead rapidly to total collapse at which time it will be too late to do anything. We owe it to ourselves, our children, future generations, the nation and the world, which will evaluate us by what we planned for them. Let us complete this journey by accepting the oneness of God, undivided, and unfractured. Let us submit to God, let us believe in all his prophets, let us follow what was revealed to Muhammad (PBUH) as God asked us to do. If we do that God will guide us to success in this life and in the hereafter. We must revert to God and His comprehensive final revelation and believe in what was revealed to Muhammad (PBUH) the seal of the prophets and who was sent to all man and womankind to improve their character and to remove injected pollution of the earlier revelations. God cited numerous examples in the Holy Qur'an of past civilizations that enjoyed sophisticated technologies and quality of life, but did not last long. Because they were not obedient to his revelations We urge and invite the people of this land to reflect on the current status of the social disorders and to sincerely study Islam and Islamicsalvation before it is too late. God will not send another prophet. To God, religion is Islam, (The Invitation, Vol. 2 No. 2, June 1985).
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The clock has been turned back in Israeli politics. Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu ’ has been voted back to power in the recent elections. Having completed more than a decade in his earlier tenure, he is already the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's history.
The people voted with their feet to show their disgust at the fickle nature of Israeli politics. There was a record turnout at the voting booths, the highest in seven years. In terms of Israeli politics, where coalitions are the rule rather than the exception, Netanyahu and his allies managed to secure nearly 64 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. In contrast, the rival coalition led by Yair Lapid managed to procure only 51 seats. This was a comfortable margin considering that last year, Naftali Bennet cobbled together his government with a razor-thin margin of 59-60, that too with the unprecedented support of an Arab party.
The kingmaker, in this case, was the Religious Zionism party, a close ally of Netanyahu's Likud party (32 seats), which won 11 seats. The leftist and centrist parties have been pushed to the margin by the voters, leaving the field open for the Right Wing. Clearly, the public is sending a message.
This rightist tilt is bound to have wide-ranging implications for domestic and regional politics, more than what meets the eye.
Mr Netanyahu's comeback will be as challenging as his last days in power in his previous tenure. Facing corruption prosecution, he returns with a cloud over his reputation, which his opponents will not tire of highlighting. The opposition party will continue to fan the general perception that Mr Netanyahu's return to power is essentially to protect himself from conviction.
The positive is that Mr Netanyahu is regaining the support of the Likud party, which had waned considerably when there were clouds of corruption allegations over him. Thanks to the general instability which reigned during the entire period when he was out of power, the Likud party had to fall back upon him to try its fortunes in the latest elections, a decision which appears to have proven correct. The closing of ranks with the Religious Zionism Party also seems the right decision at this point, although there might be a political cost to it in times to come. The new coalition would put in power one of Israel's most ultranationalist administrations ever.
The nation needs a robust and stable administration, and the voting trend reinforces this national desire. This is understandable for a country that has gone to the polls five times in less than four years! All previous governments needed more time in power to maintain alliances or enact any notable policies. The only claim to the success of the intervening governments of Naftali Bennet and Yair Lapid was the taming of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, the destruction of the extensive network of tunnels, and the signing of the historic oil and gas agreement with Lebanon.
Iran is Israel's principal adversary, and irrespective of which party is in power, Israel's Iran policy will remain unchanged. There will be periodic escalations like the ones that occurred during the terms of previous governments, especially after Israel's air strikes in Syria and Lebanon. The Israeli public is, in a way, immune to these perpetual threats from their neighbours but would be wary of putting in power a government that does not appear to be fully on top of the security situation. With experienced Prime Minister Netanyahu at the helm, at least the security challenges will be in safe hands.
Israel-Palestine and Arab-Israel relations are the most prominent areas that see policy changes with every new government. The Israel-Palestine relations primarily deal with the government's approach towards the Palestinian population living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. On the other hand, Arab-Israel relations mainly consist of the government's policies towards the Arabs within the country and the relationship with neighbouring Arab states.
Given Netanyahu's prior performance and current coalition partners, the government will undoubtedly take a more confrontational approach toward Israel-Palestine ties. For instance, the Religious Zionism party is primarily pro-Zionist, anti-Palestine, and anti-LGBTQ. Netanyahu must implement measures that benefit all members to prevent the coalition from dissolving. Under the Netanyahu administration, there will undoubtedly be more reprisal for any attack on Israeli entities. Armed organisations in the Gaza Strip, in particular, would be destroyed without regard for the lives of civilians if they chose to challenge Netanyahu. This could intensify cross-border attacks in Syria, which is bound to attract Iranian retaliation.
The demarcation deal with Lebanon and the secret negotiations with Saudi Arabia are two more significant policies that Netanyahu will probably keep. Despite occasional skirmishes between Palestinian militants and Israeli authorities, Israel has been able to improve relations with its neighbours. Repairing ties with an Arab state is an opportunity that cannot be passed up, not even by an ultranationalist government.
Under Netanyahu, U.S.-Israeli ties could take an intriguing turn. President Biden recently backed the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict; yet, with Netanyahu in charge, it will remain a pipe dream. Netanyahu has repeatedly disregarded U.S. counsel during his last term, causing a wedge between the countries. If Netanyahu rejects Biden's intervention in support of the Palestinian people, a similar circumstance might develop. The American-Arab lobby in the U.S. has been trying to put pressure on Israel for proper investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin, but this is unlikely to create a new pressure point on U.S.- Israeli relations. There is no way Israel will convict any of its soldiers for the alleged killing by Israeli forces, whatever may be the pressure, and the U.S. is unlikely to force the issue beyond a point. Despite rough patches, the two sides will keep up their unbreakable friendship. President Biden was one of the first leaders to wish Netanyahu after he had won the elections.
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The Religious Zionism party will take its pound of flesh by demanding cabinet posts. Hardliner Itamar Ben-Gvir appears to be one of the strongest candidates. This will definitely alter the tone and substance of the decisions emanating from the cabinet, making Mr Netanyahu's task to govern a united nation that much more arduous.
The anti-Netanyahu bloc that had successfully engineered Mr Netanyahu's exit last year has been riven by internal rivalries and considerably weakened. Therefore, the new government will be more stable than its predecessors for the sole reason that all parties in the coalition have the same rightist ideals.
He will be safe if Mr Netanyahu follows the narrow path charted by coalition politics. However, any diversion or reversal could again lead to instability and collapse of the coalition.
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If you are looking for a family-friendly activity that will delight and educate any car enthusiast, the Classic Motor Museum of St. Michaels is your answer. I stumbled upon the museum when researching road trips to celebrate my father’s birthday, and I may just win the award for daughter of the year after finding this gem. Even if you know absolutely zilch about cars, you are sure to have a first-rate experience.
My parents picked my fiancé and I up from Baltimore City at 9 am and hit the road after stopping to grab a cup of coffee at Order & Chaos Coffee, one of our favorite cafés in the city. Starting the drive on MD-295, we approached the Bay Bridge in no time, and made it to St. Michaels in about one and a half hours. This was just enough time to catch up on each other’s weeks while listening to smooth jazz (my father’s favorite).
The museum is just off of Talbot Street, the main drag in St. Michaels, and is a stone’s throw away from a rum distillery, a winery, a brewery, and a variety of shops and restaurants. There are three buildings that encompass the museum: The Pinkett House (one of the oldest buildings in St. Michaels dating back to 1851, which was restored and relocated in 2014), the Struthers Family Education Center, and the Exhibit Barn (constructed in 2014). At the time of our visit, only the Exhibit Barn was open.
One could easily walk right by the Exhibit Barn if not for the conspicuous, bright red 1972 Mustang Sportsroof 351CJ that stops you right in your tracks. Upon entering the barn, you will be greeted by one of the docents, who will be ready to impress you with a one-of-a-kind personalized tour. If you find yourself at the barn on a Saturday, you will be lucky enough to be hosted by Bill, whose knowledge of classic cars may surpass Mr. Ford himself.
The museum draws all types of visitors from around the United States, from Corvette clubs to families to couples fatigued by typical museum experiences. The barn features an ever-changing collection of pre- and post-WWII cars, muscle cars, trucks, motorcycles, and even collectibles, including a Texaco Gas Pump from the 1950s.
Some of the cars that caught our attention were: the 1915 Model of the T Truck, the 1966 Pontiac GTO, the 1956 Chevrolet Corvette, the 1971 Dino Ferrari 246 GT, and the 1927 Packard Limousine, among others. Although visitors are not allowed to touch the cars, guests are allowed to climb aboard the 1931 American LaFrance fire truck (a hit with kids and kids at heart). Don’t forget to take a picture!
The most expensive car in the museum is the 1969 Boss 429 Mustang — the engine alone could cost you over $100,000! Yes, the cars are beautiful (your pictures will definitely awe the car-lovers in your life), but the knowledge you gain in just twenty minutes will give you enough anecdotes to impress at all of your family gatherings during the upcoming holiday season.
Did you know that the first automatic transmission using hydraulic fluid was developed by Brazilians? Or that the first Ford Model T cost under $900? And that it became the first mass-produced car? Were you aware that many racing cars have the steering wheel and the stick shift on the right side? Or that the three-point seatbelt we know today was invented by a Swedish engineer working for Volvo? These are just a few of the multitude of facts you will learn during your tour.
Be sure to make a private reservation if you want to see all three buildings of the museum on a Thursday or Friday, or just walk in to see the Exhibit Barn on a Saturday or Sunday. Give yourself 30 minutes to an hour to tour, explore, and take pictures at the barn.
During this trip, we shopped for unique gifts on South Talbot Street and North Talbot Street (my favorite little shop is Take Me Home where I always manage to buy great smelling soaps, lotions, jewelry, and ornaments), ate lobster rolls at Awful Arthur’s, grabbed ice cream at Justine’s Ice Cream Parlour, had a drink from Purser’s Pub inside the Inn at Perry Cabin (and had the opportunity to join in on the Inn’s new tradition of 5 pm toasts), and ate a delicious dinner with a view at Foxy’s Harbor Grille. This charming town known for its food and gorgeous water views will leave a lasting impression.
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Yelena is a litigator and corporate attorney with a deep passion for travel and food. She grew up in Maryland and then spent seven years living in various locations throughout the United States and overseas before returning home in 2007. She now resides in Baltimore City with her fiancé. Follow her on Instagram at @seetheworldeatthefood and on her website: www.seetheworldeatthefood.com.
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What is the most unpopular NFL team?
The Dallas Cowboys are the most hated team in the NFL, according to a study that tracks trashy social media posts. To see also : What are all the cheer positions?.
What is the least valued team in the NFL? The Cincinnati Bengals were considered the least valuable franchise in the NFL at $2.84 billion, which put them behind the Detroit Lions ($2.86 billion).
Which team has the fewest NFL fans? While the Cowboys lead on Facebook, on Twitter, the New England Patriots have the most followers, while the Jacksonville Jaguars are at the back with the least amount of followers on the social media site.
What is the least popular football team? Total Number of Fans In terms of raw fan numbers in the United States, two things have remained consistent over the past five years: the Dallas Cowboys have the largest fan base in the NFL and the Jacksonville Jaguars have the smallest.
Who is the most liked NFL team?
With 8.51 million fans, the Dallas Cowboys are the NFL’s most valued team for 12 consecutive years and are the NFL’s most fan-favorite team. See the article : Is gymnastics or cheer harder?. The NFL is not just a sport for Americans; it’s a tradition that has continued for decades, inside and outside the borders of the United States.
Who is the least liked NFL team? The Las Vegas Raiders are the least liked sports team in the United States. No one wants to be #1, but unfortunately the Las Vegas Raiders top the list.
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Are the Steelers the only team without cheerleaders?
As of 2021, seven teams have no fans: Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, Los Angeles Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers. To see also : What is top girl in cheerleading?.
How many football teams don’t have cheerleaders? But in 2021 it is perhaps more surprising that there are seven teams that don’t. Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Chargers, New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers do not have cheerleaders.
How many teams don’t have cheerleaders? Teams Without Cheerleaders Of the NFL’s 32 teams, six don’t have their own cheerleaders. When you look at the list – Bears, Bills, Browns, Giants, Steelers and Packers – you will notice a similarity between these franchises. They are all located in cool climate cities and play in outdoor stadiums.
Why do the Steelers not have cheerleaders?
The decision to separate was a joint decision between the Rooney family and Robert Morris. Apparently, the cheerleaders wanted to wear more “fashionable” and “edgy” clothing. In response, the owner fired the team.
Do any NFL teams not have cheerleaders?
Los Angeles Chargers The LA Chargers had the Los Angeles Charger Girls as their cheerleading squad in 2020. However, the club did not have a cheerleading squad as of 2022.
Why don’t the Packers have cheerleaders? The team played for 57 years under three different names. In 1988, it was decided that the team would no longer have a professional roster cheering them on. Since 1988, the team has used varsity teams in a limited role to cheer on during home games.
Why don’t the Chargers have cheerleaders? The group was disbanded in 2021 for financial reasons.
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How Much Does the Average NFL Cheerleader Make? Surprisingly, NFL cheerleaders don’t earn as much as you might think. On average, cheerleaders earn around $150 per game. That comes out to around $22,500 a year. They also receive $50 to $75 if they are featured for a public appearance.
Are NFL cheerleaders underpaid? They don’t earn much. They are paid $100 to $150 per game. They get paid more if there are team or NFL promotional events. They have full-time jobs and cheerleading is part-time.
How much do cheerleaders make at Super Bowl?
According to ESPN, the common pay rate for NFL cheerleaders is $150 per game day and $50-75 per public appearance.
What do cheerleaders get when their team wins the Super Bowl? And just as Carol Wilson received a ring from Jeff Lurie, so should the cheerleaders. But instead they get pendants. (I mean, that’s great and all, but WTF!?)
How Much Does the Highest Paid NFL Cheerleader Make? Some NFL teams also make their cheerleaders pay to audition. However, it has been reported that professional or very experienced cheerleaders earn up to $75,000 per season. This salary includes extra bonus money from playoffs and Super Bowl appearances.
How much does the highest paid NFL cheerleader make?
Those are the cheerleaders. So how much do NFL cheerleaders make? The average NFL cheerleader salary is $150 per game day and around $50 – $75 for a public appearance….4. What is the highest salary NFL cheerleaders earn?
$15 – $20 per hour.
$75,000 in annual earnings.
Is NFL cheerleading a full-time job? Most NFL cheerleading teams are part-time jobs.
How Much Money Does an NFL Cheerleader Make? Still, their salary is quite low compared to that of NFL players or other employees. Different media outlets have published that the average pay rate for NFL cheerleaders is $150 per game day and $50-75 per public appearance, which comes out to around $22,500 per year.
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Why don t the Steelers have cheerleaders?
The decision to separate was a joint decision between the Rooney family and Robert Morris. Apparently, the cheerleaders wanted to wear more “fashionable” and “edgy” clothing. In response, the owner fired the team.
Which NFL teams don’t have more cheerleaders? So what are the NFL teams without cheerleaders? There are seven football teams without NFL cheerleading teams: Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, LA Chargers, New York Giants, and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Why don’t the Packers have cheerleaders? The team played for 57 years under three different names. In 1988, it was decided that the team would no longer have a professional roster cheering them on. Since 1988, the team has used varsity teams in a limited role to cheer on during home games.
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Content warning: Discussion of the enslavement of human beings and their rape, torture, and murder at the hands of white enslavers. Yes, we are actually talking about a Jane Austen film adaptation.
“A woman’s poverty is a slavery even more harsh than a man’s.” Hoo, boy, buckle up, this is going to be a doozy.
Sometimes re-watching a film after a couple of decades have passed reveals a gem that you didn’t appreciate at the time. Sometimes, though, it brings into sharper focus the discomfort you felt when you first watched it, as you lacked the words to describe why you were uncomfortable, only the uneasy feeling that something about it felt “off.” That’s what happened when I watched Mansfield Park (1999) for the first time in 20 years. I remembered the movie always had me feeling on edge, but as a young woman, I could never articulate why. Now that I’ve lived some life and read a lot of Feminist critical theory in the intervening years, the vague uneasiness gave way to an immediate understanding that this film was so ham-fisted in its attempt to equate slavery with Fanny Price wanting to marry someone she loves that it defied credulity.
Some of you reading this are no doubt wondering “what about the costumes?” It feels trite to then just focus on the costumes, which are decent (particularly Maria’s), when so much of this film’s problems aren’t in the clothes but in the entire subtext of equating Fanny Price’s unhappiness at not being allowed to the same freedoms as her male counterparts are in any way equal to literal slavery.
Maria does have some of the nicest outfits in the film.
In case you missed the subtext, the film serves up a scene where Fanny contradicts Sir Thomas regarding human chattel and he slides effortlessly into appraising her physical qualities in the same manner — not too subtle equation between being female and being enslaved, which seems a tad overwrought considering how white women in Regency England were still treated better than slaves. At one point Fanny tells at Edmund, “I will not be sold off like one of your slaves!”
Rich white women are slaves, too! Get it?
Fanny only has to return to her family to be treated as an equal, even though they live in relative poverty compared to her affluent relations. Those fleeting references to slavery and enslaved people? Yeah, it strains credibility to the point of being insulting. Fanny’s suffering for love is probably a miserable place to be, but focusing on her wistful face as she recalls the singing of slaves in the belly of a ship ricocheting off the cliffs below her…? I wasn’t OK with it 20 years ago, but I didn’t know why.
… But no man is as creepy towards Fanny as his sister, Mary Crawford.
This scene has always made me so uncomfortable. I could never figure out why it was included other than to pander to the male gaze by insinuating that even Mary has the hots for Fanny, even though Fanny is clearly uncomfortable with Mary’s appreciative commentary about her body. Also corsets didn’t have latching metal busks in 1806. There’s your historical accuracy commentary.
I’m sure there are also some of you reading this thinking, “It’s not fair to hold an old film to current standards,” but I disagree. This film was heralded as a tidy piece of Feminist cinema in 1999, and its reflection on slavery was considered praiseworthy, it has not weathered time well. While the all-white cast gives a passing thought here and there to the suffering of enslaved peoples in the Americas (but of course, not in England, oh no), it doesn’t exactly dwell on it. Even in the climactic scene where Fanny discovers her elder cousin Tom’s sketch book and is horrified to see his drawings of what he witnessed in Antigua (where his father’s plantations are), it’s at such a distance that the effects are quickly abandoned by the film and we are moved on to happier scenes of white prosperity.
Yes, this is exactly like slavery. Mm-hm.
I say it is OK to look back at this with better awareness precisely because I was uncomfortable with it then, but not in the way the movie wanted. It wanted me to agree that like the enslaved people on Sir Thomas’ plantation in Antigua that were subjected to rape, torture, and murder (allegedly by Sir Thomas himself), Fanny Price suffers equally as a privileged, pale-skinned ward of a wealthy uncle who has lived the past 10 years of her life in a level of luxury that even her own mother and siblings can’t dream of. It all seems incredibly tasteless, if not just plain insulting of one’s intelligence.
The family closes ranks after Maria runs off with Mr. Crawford.
The fact that we’ve just been shown a drawing of what is clearly Sir Thomas raping an enslaved woman but now he’s happily promenading around his idyllic property, arm in arm with his wife … Like, what the fuck? Talk about cognitive whiplash.
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Sarah has an undergraduate degree in Clothing & Textile Design and a Master's in Art History and Visual Culture, with an emphasis on fashion history. When she’s not caught in paralyzing existential dread, she's drinking craft cocktails and writing about historical costume in film and television. She's been pissing people off on the internet since 1995.
Karen Anspach November 11th, 2021
This is a good description of a LOT of films produced in the 90s that tríed to be “with it” but just didn’t “get it.” Unfortunately (perhaps fortunately in the case of the film) I have not read the book nor seen the film. How much of this is in the novel, or was this insulting trash invented whole cloth for the film?
Colleen November 11th, 2021
I believe it might have been discussed, but I haven’t read the book recently.
The Scrivener November 11th, 2021
It’s in the novel; Edward Said critiques it in Culture and Imperialism as an example of the moral substructure that underlies 18th/19th century fiction. Austen doesn’t dwell on it, because it would be like Helen Fielding pausing Bridget Jones’ Diary to tell us about the sweatshop workers who made that ugly Christmas sweater.
Fanny Price is a difficult heroine for modern audiences, because she is so introverted and passive, but this adaptation treated her like a spunky time-traveler from the 1990s!
Orian Hutton November 12th, 2021
Fanny puts one mild question to her uncle ‘about the slave trade’ in the novel. The rest of this trash is not there. Fanny, herself, was not the feisty, resentful lady in the film, but a very damaged young child/woman beautifully portrayed by Jane Austen.
Jane Austen wrote the novel just a few years after the abolition of the slave trade by the British Parliament in 1807; may have read (as suggested in one of her letters) Thomas Clarkson’s ‘The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament’ published in 1808; and one of her naval brothers served trying to stop slave ships plying their trade in the Atlantic. But making this novel about slavery in any of its many forms was not the sort of thing Austen wrote about.
Her interest was in her ‘little bit of ivory…on which I work with a brush so fine as to produce little effect after much labour’, not in writing allegories about larger issues.
I hated the book, too: had to do it for A Level.
Austen is a waste of space.
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Jillian November 11th, 2021
This is not an airport, there is no need to announce your departure.
Katie O. November 11th, 2021
I never liked this adaptation – I know it’s not popular here, but I thought the Billie Piper one was much better. Between the horrifying slavery themes and completely changing Fanny’s character to make her more “interesting” it felt like it was barely the same story.
Constance November 11th, 2021
I think JA had tried to make some anti-slavery points in her book so filmmakers feel they have to refer back to it but they are better off leaving it out altogether, rather than comparing Fanny being expected to marry a seemingly promising young man to being a slave. In any event there was no way Fanny was going to make an impression of her uncle on the matter of slavery no matter what remarks she made so it comes off as extremely silly in the various remakes when she tries, imo.
But yes a movie made just 20 or so years ago should be looked at critically for this type of a comparison to slavery being suggested…it comes off as ignorant and honestly did as well the first time I saw it, though I am likely older than the average reader here. (62j
Brandy November 11th, 2021
Looking at you Titanic! The line “To me, it was a slave ship, taking me back to America in chains.” Yes, you poor little rich white girl, being forced to marry a man you don’t love is exactly like slavery! FFS!
Caroline Macafee November 11th, 2021
Having a problem commenting – please forgive me if this appears twice. I found the film nauseatingly sleazy, but my understanding of it was that Sir Thomas had been dehumanised by his actions in Antigua, and Tom had been traumatised by witnessing them. Since Fanny is the central character, we see this reflected in their interactions with her.
Kristina November 11th, 2021
The director is openly lesbian, so claiming that she was pandering to the male gaze is a really bad take.
I agree with most of the rest, though. It seems to me that most Austen fans have hated this movie ever since it was released. In addition to its ignorant and insulting comparison of rich white women’s problems with slavery, it turns Fanny into a cringe-worthy 1990s “not like other girls” stereotype.
MJ November 11th, 2021
This movie was my entry into Jane Austen, so I forgive it a lot on that score, but it is a wholesale cringefest for a ton of reasons. Have to agree with what you’re saying. I don’t ever recommend it mostly because it’s utterly unfaithful to the source, but the fact that it says nothing good about slavery or the plight of women, and conflates the two, is super gross.
Loren Dearborn November 11th, 2021
I never liked it and like you I couldn’t quite articulate why…but it just felt icky. I think you put your finger on the reasons I felt that way.
Gretchen November 11th, 2021
Both Austen and the feminist writer of her day, Mary Wollstonecraft, compared the situation of women in their society to slavery. I see Rozema’s version as illustration of a contemporary line of thought. And she doesn’t celebrate Sir Thomas, rather she says that after he sells out of Antigua he re-invests in another slave labor colony, Virginia, to grow tobacco. Since this is completely made up it seems to underscore his NOT having learned or changed; it’s grim. Other than Fanny getting her love match I wouldn’t call it a happy ending, rather one where people carry on in opium-induced obliviousness.
Roxana November 13th, 2021
It was common to compare women’s social disabilities with slavery in the 19th c. And IMO opinion it is both an invalid and somewhat offensive equivalency. White women had social advantages slaves didn’t. They had advantages of class and wealth and by the 19th c. The right to choose their ‘owner’.
Gretchen November 16th, 2021
Not saying it’s a valid comparison, only that it was a contemporary opinion and therefore not inappropriate in an adaptation. Also I would note that very many privileged women were not actually able to “choose their owner” nor even to choose not to marry, which is why a voluntary marriage with good prospects for safety and love is such a common part of a “happy ending.”
Roxana November 16th, 2021
There were indeed no good alternatives to marriage. But women did make marriage work for them improving their status by catching the right husband.
Jane Austen makes it clear that mercenary marriages were a thing in the early 19th century and sometimes engineered by the woman involved. She also made it clear that she regarded this as a Bad Thing that would lead to unhappiness as surely as an imprudent marriage of passion.
‘Do anything rather than marry without affection,’ Jane Bennet tells Elizabeth. Jane Austen was tempted in Real Life by a marriage proposal from the well off heir to an estate who she’d known most of his life. She was understandably tempted but retracted her consent the next morning. She couldn’t go through with even a friendly marriage of convenience, perhaps especially to a young man she liked who might easily find a wife who actually loved him.
Joe November 30th, 2021
I never understand Americans who erase the centuries of rape, torture and abuse women have endured all because they wants pats for being racially progressive. You sound sexist af tbh. But of course, sexism is fine according to the yanks!
Orian Hutton December 1st, 2021
I am neither a Yank nor sexist, but slavery is not the same as what happened to women in Regency England or, indeed, England throughout the centuries. There are still men who rape, torture and abuse women, but they are not the norm. I am a historian and, perhaps surprisingly to you, many women have frequently been in positions of power over their own lives and often that of their husbands.
Jane Austen often shows how women can run the show. Think Mrs. Bennet and Lady Catherine de Bourgh in ‘Pride and Prejudice’; Mrs Ferrars, Fanny Dashwood and Mrs Jennings in ‘Sense and Sensibility’; Emma, Mrs Goddard, Mrs Churchill and Mrs Elton in ‘Emma’; Lady Russel, Mrs Croft and Mrs Musgrove in ‘Persuasion’. And in ‘Mansfield Park’, Sir Bertram has given up London for his wife, Mrs Rushworth has obvious powers over her son and his home and Mary Crawford is hardly a shrinking violet.
People are people and Jane Austen’s great ability as a novelist is her ability to portray human interactions in all of their complexities rather than some simplistic overview of the human condition.
Lily Lotus Rose November 11th, 2021
Oh, God, am I going to have to watch this movie for a third time now in order to evaluate these claims? Like Sarah, I re-watched this movie last year for the first time since the 90s and wrote practically an entire essay on the FrockFlicks short review thread. (I had waaay too much time on my hands during lockdown.)
Here’s what I’d say re the slavery angle in the 1999 version of Mansfield Park. 1. I think part of the problem is with the source material itself. The book alludes to the slave trade very slightly, but not in any substantive way. And in Austen’s Sanditon fragment, she introduces a character (that we never meet in the fragment) who is a “half-mulatto.” My point is that I think as she matured Austen wanted to broach subjects such as slavery and race which were beyond her normal topics of class, marriage, and a woman’s lot in life. But I think that her decision to write marriage-minded stories centered around the young women of the gentry hemmed her in and that she never really found a way to deal with these topics in her “genre.” Had she lived longer, I think she might’ve found a way to do so. 2. Honestly, for all its problems and off-ness, I think the 1999 version was exactly what it was meant to be. I think either the studio and/or Patricia Rozema (who was so acclaimed for her female-centered I”ve Heard the Mermaids Singing) WANTED to make an Austen movie that pushed the envelope–that dared to bring a discussion of slavery into the mix as well as lesbian desire. I think they WANTED to break the mold of all the other 90s adaptations of Austen.
Orian Hutton November 12th, 2021
Jane Austen famously wrote to James Stanier Clarke, the Prince Regent’s librarian that she wrote ‘pictures of domestic Life in Country Villages’ and that she ‘could no more write a Romance than an Epic Poem’. She meant Romance in the old fashioned sense of the word: ‘one who wrote extravagant fictions’.
Her letters that survive show us a young woman interested in people, their relationships and their foibles. Why we need to modernise her thinking is beyond me. I just delight in how she allows me an entry into the her small world and the opportunity to see her time period through her eyes and in such an intimate way.
Mona Bayard November 12th, 2021
Based on what you say here, I won’t make the effort to see this version. However, may I recommend Helene Kelly’s “Jane Austen the Secret Radical” for an interesting approach. It got a mixed reaction, but as a lover of the books, I found it worth reading.
Sheryl Kirby November 13th, 2021
Seconding “Jane Austen the Secret Radical”. It goes a bit off the rails when it comes to Austen’s own life but it made me go back and read (and watch) Austen’s entire ouevre again. There is SO MUCH subtext in her books that we just don’t get today. Each book had a secondary theme beyond the romance bit, and much of it is very political, presented in a way that wouldn’t get people’s hackles up about young women of the time being encouraged to know what is going on in the world.
As for this particular version… it is not subtle in its messaging, and goes far beyond the pointed but sly insinuations Austen offers.
Wow, that really is a throwback! I saw this film for the first time as part of the first year of my English Lit degree; we had to read Mansfield Park and read the Said essay someone mentioned upthread as part of the module. The combination was an eye-opener for me then, but I haven’t seen it since.
992234177 November 12th, 2021
I like the tv series with Samantha Bond. What I love about that version is that it gets the intermediate position of Fanny. She doesn’t complain about it because it makes sense to her. It shows how very odd class is.
Roxana November 13th, 2021
Jane Austen invariably limited herself to the small world of the country gentry because that was the world she knew. For all we know she had strong opinions on slavery but she would never have ventured to write about it because it was far beyond her personal experience. Sir Thomas’s property in Antigua may have been just an excuse to get the character out of the way but it might also have been intended to imply he is not a good guy. In Emma Mrs. Elton becomes defensive when it’s implied her family is connected with the slave trade and the unfinished fragment, Sanduton included a mulatto heiress. I very much regret that we will never know what Jane had planned for that character.
Charity November 14th, 2021
I really thought the entire thing was dreadful, and not just for the slavery inclusion — everything was so ‘in your face’ (right down to her stumbling in on Maria and what’s his face naked in bed together) that it all left a bad taste in my mouth. Austen is way funnier in her characterizations and subtle in what she suggests that it just felt in poor taste.
Kerry November 16th, 2021
I never really liked the Fanny character because she is a sturdy rock and everyone changes around her but not her. What most miss is that she was able to marry the man she loves because the family took a reputation hit with Maria’s behavior.
This film would have worked if it had stuck to Fanny and her unfailing morality. Especially when she is courted by Henry Crawford.
The social commentary fails. In regards to the picture, I just took it as Tom’s mental instability. The film seems to do the same otherwise it wouldn’t have written off the picture. But it was sloppy and open to misunderstanding.
Roxana November 17th, 2021
I’ve always suspected that Fanny Price was Jane Austen’s attempt to write a conventional heroine; pretty, passive and put upon, and was unsuccessful. Fanny makes phrases like ‘passive aggressive’ echo in my head but on the other hand I’m sympathetic to her almost pathological shyness because I suffered from the same.
IMO the Crawford siblings had a lucky escape and I deeply pity the Rev. and Mrs. Bertram’s future parishioners.
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“30,000 women and a few good men,” the announcement blared through the dark and foggy morning at Union Square at 6 am in San Francisco bouncing off tall building and hotel facades and echoing through valleys of concrete and steel. The announcer was revving us up for the start of the 10th Nike Women’s Marathon; the largest women’s marathon in the world. This race benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society which funds research into treatment for blood cancers and was created by Nike, Inc.
Nike is the Greek Goddess of Victory. In Greek, Nike (Νίκη) means Victory. She is always depicted with wings. She is the goddess of strength, speed, and victory.
I’m not a runner. I hate waking up early. I especially hate waking up early to run.
My younger son Samuel became ill at nine and half months old in 2004. He was diagnosed with Leukemia. He was stoic throughout his treatment, some of which were very painful, yet he never cried; as long as we were with him he endured everything. Samuel died six weeks after being diagnosed. He never said his first word and never took his first step. Our family will never be whole.
My friend Vivian tried to get me to run the first Nike in 2004 as a way of healing after Samuel’s death. I refused. She tried again in 2005, I refused. In 2006 she showed up early one Saturday morning and wouldn’t take no for an answer. She drove me to the Team-in-Training kick-off and signed me up. I told her I would do it for her, this-one-time-only. She laughed.
I trained grudgingly, hating every minute on the track and on long runs over city streets and trails. I hated it because every time I laced up my shoes, it reminded me that Samuel was dead. Seeing my lack of enthusiasm, my coach even asked me why I was there. Vivian, I thought but didn’t respond.
A few weeks later, I was asked to speak at an event. I told Samuel’s story. My coach walked up to me with tears streaming down his face and said, “now I understand why you are here.”
On a Sunday morning in October 2006, I stood shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of participants; some cancer survivors, some like me, mourning lost family members. As I made my way through the streets of San Francisco, I knew that Samuel was at my side.
At Crissy Field, Vivian was waiting. She walked with me for a while and cheered me on when she let me continue. From the flat ground of Crissy Field the course begins climbing upwards through the hills of San Francisco. Vivian’s cheerful encouragement boosted me over the next steep hills. I made it to the end. My obligation done to Vivian, my honouring Samuel’s memory accomplished.
A few years later, Vivian was diagnosed with breast cancer. She went through similar treatments as Samuel but she survived. She died a few years later.
But Vivian was right to laugh that first day when I said only this once. She knew. She knew how important it was to keep Samuel’s memory alive. How important the work that the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society does. Much of the research funded for blood cancers has produced treatments used for other cancers as well, like breast cancer.
Every year since 2006, I wake up at four in the morning to lace up running shoes and head out into a cold dark morning to run from Union Square out to Ocean Beach. Every year, I pass a section in Crissy Field where on my first run Vivian met me to cheer me on and I know that each year since her death that she’s there with me.
Just yesterday, 20 October 2013, I ran Nike. At Crissy Field, I remember Vivian’s bright and cheerful face. I run with Samuel at my side.
I fundraise for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and run Nike every year since 2006. I represent Samuel and talk about him to other Team-in-Training participants. Thanks to Vivian, his memory lives.
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Eating raw garlic could help keep your memory sharp in old age by boosting gut health, study suggests
Older people with poor memories also tend to have less diverse gut microbiomes
Garlic is thought to help encourage the growth of ‘good’ and more diverse gut bacteria
Scientists at the University of Louisville found that older mice that were fed a raw garlic compound had better gut health, long- and short-term memory
Eating raw garlic could help prevent age-related memory loss suffered by Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients, scientists suggest.
The natural compound found in garlic – allyl sulfide – improves the health of bacteria in the stomach and also improve cognitive health in the elderly.
US scientists found the compound restores trillions of microorganisms – also known as gut microbiota – in the intestine.
Previous research has highlighted the importance of gut microbiota in maintaining health.
But few studies have explored gut health and age-related conditions.
Dr Jyotirmaya Behera at the University of Louisville in Kentucky said: ‘Our findings suggest that dietary administration of garlic containing allyl sulfide could help maintain healthy gut microorganisms and improve cognitive health in the elderly.’
A new study suggests that eating raw garlic as you age may improve gut health and, in turn, improve long- and short-term memory alike
Co-author Dr Neetu Tyagi added: ‘The diversity of the gut microbiota is diminished in elderly people, a life stage when neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s develop and memory and cognitive abilities can decline.
‘We want to better understand how changes in the gut microbiota relate to ageing-associated cognitive decline.’
The team tested the theory on 24-month-old mice – an age which correlates to humans aged between 56 to 69-years-old.
The rodents were given allyl sulfide and compared to mice who were younger and the same age and not given the garlic compound.
The results revealed that the older mice who ate the supplement showed better long-term and short-term memory as well as a healthier gut compared to the other rodents who suffered impaired spatial memory.
Further research found that allyl sulfide preserved a gene expression of neuronal-derived natriuretic factor (NDNF) in the brain which is crucial for long-term and short-term memory.
The gene was previously discovered by University of Louisville scientists.
Researchers discovered the mice who were given the garlic compound also showed higher levels of NDNF gene expression as well as hydrogen sulfide gas – a molecule that prevents intestinal inflammation in the gut.
The team plan to further investigate how restored gut bacteria can prevent age-related memory loss and if garlic could even be used as a treatment for conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Garlic has been used for thousands of years to treat human disease and can reduce the risk of developing certain kinds of cancers such as breast and stomach, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes.
Garlic’s unique flavor comes from sulphur compounds.
Like other members of the allium family, the plant absorbs sulphate from the soil and incorporates it into amino acids and sulphur storage molecules.
These sulphur storage molecules can then be broken down into approximately 50 different sulphur-containing compounds when the garlic is prepared and eaten
Garlic could ward off hospital superbugs, a new study revealed.
Ajoene, an active sulphurous compound found in the pungent vegetable, when combined with antibiotics helps break down a bacteria’s defenses.
Scientists hope the breakthrough could fight incurable cystic fibrosis and chronic wounds in diabetics as well as tackling MRSA and common hospital infection P. aeruginosa.
The findings were presented at the American Physiological Society’s annual meeting during the 2019 Experimental Biology meeting in Orlando
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Get Together with Technology for people who are blind or have low vision, an initiative of the Canadian Council of the Blind.
GTT National Conference Call Summary Notes, Lucia Accessible Cell Phone, June 12, 2019
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June 12, 2019
Find the CCB Podcast of this event at the link below:
02 GTT National Conference Call, Lucia Accessible Cell Phone, June 12, 2019:
Robert Felgar, CEO, Raz Mobility attended the GTT National Conference Call to tell us all about the Lucia talking cell phone that is now available for sale to Canadians.
Lucia is an Accessible mobile phone for individuals who are visually impaired, blind, hard of hearing or seniors.
Lucia is a user-friendly cell phone that allows persons who are disabled to remain independent.
Advanced features such as accessible buttons in different colors and shapes, voice guide to transform the phone into a talking companion, ergonomic design, combined with long battery life, make this high-quality, Swiss-made phone the perfect mobile phone for users who are disabled.
Lucia has a powerful battery and can operate for more than one week before requiring a charge (up to 7 days standby time and 10 hours of talking time).
Lucia allows users who are blind to enter their own contacts and move through the contact list to hear the contact names read out loud.
Low vision users benefit from extra large characters and can choose between various color schemes such as white on black or black on white display.
For emergencies, the phone has a dedicated SOS button on its back.
Easy to navigate menus with large and highly tactile buttons. The control buttons are different colors and shapes so that the user always presses the correct button.
Speech interface guides the user while using the phone. It speaks everything that is on the screen, speaks the keys that are pressed and even prompts the user to perform certain functions. Caller ID, amount of remaining battery power, contacts, list of missed calls and text messages are read out loud by Lucia. The user can select between more than 10 different voices.
Lucia is 100 percent accessible to individuals who are blind. Its features make it the perfect phone for individuals who are visually impaired, blind, hard of hearing or seniors.
To assist people who are hard of hearing, the phone has a “sound boost” function that provides additional volume during phine calls with the press of a button. Lucia has premium speakers to maximize clarity and sound experience.
The CCB was founded in 1944 by a coalition of blind war veterans, schools of the blind and local chapters to create a national self-governing organization. The CCB was incorporated by Letters Patent on May 10, 1950 and is a registered charity under the provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
The purpose of the CCB is to give people with vision loss a distinctive and unique perspective before governments. CCB deals with the ongoing effects of vision loss by encouraging active living and rehabilitation through peer support and social and recreational activities.
CCB promotes measures to conserve sight, create a close relationship with the sighted community and provide employment opportunities.
The CCB recognizes that vision loss has no boundaries with respect to gender, income, ethnicity, culture, other disabilities or age.
The CCB understands in many instances vision loss is preventable and sometimes is symptomatic of other health issues. For the 21st century, the CCB is committed to an integrated proactive health approach for early detection to improve the quality of life for all Canadians.
As the largest membership organization of the blind and partially sighted in Canada the CCB is the “Voice of the Blind™”.
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The Albert A. Ruel Road to Blindness A 21 year old man stood on the beach at the Sproat Lake Provincial Park with friends early in May of 1977, and upon gazing across the lake found the Gulf Oil sign missing from the dock-side filling station there. When this fact was shared with his companions they glanced at him with puzzled looks and said, “No Albert, the sign is still there”. That was the beginning of a road through confusion, anger, isolation, loneliness and discovery for me. It all began with a visit to a local Optometrist who could see that my vision wasn’t right, but that corrective lenses wouldn’t help. He then referred me to a General Practitioner, where I received a clean bill of health and an additional referral. This time to an Ophthalmologist. Immediately upon peering through the dilated pupils, Dr. McKerricher was able to see the problem, Retinal Vasculitis. Now, you would think that all would start to improve at this point, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. You see, CNIB, from 1918 until 1985 only served the needs of people who were “Legally Blind”, a level of vision loss I wouldn’t reach until November of 1979. The words of Dr. McKerricher still echo in my mind today, “Albert, I don’t know what has caused this and nothing we’ve tried is helping to stop it, and you’re not blind enough for me to refer you to CNIB”! In the middle of this transition from 20/20 vision to “Legally Blind” came the Motor Vehicle Branch and it’s rules of the road. On August 3, 1978 I drove a car for the last time as my vision had reached the level at which operating a motor vehicle became too dangerous, further intensifying feelings of fear, isolation and anger. Sadly, through this period the only available guidance and support was through family and friends, but not the experienced professionals I needed at the time. Although these support systems are critically important they can often be smothering and facilitating, rather than encouraging and supportive. With gratitude, and some trepidation I finally was able to access CNIB services in November of 1979, and the world opened up then. There I was able to meet other blind people and receive the daily living and mobility skills required to live independently in this sighted world. I learned elementary braille and began to discover technology as necessary tools of independence. Thankfully, in 1985 CNIB’s National Board altered the course of service to visually impaired Canadians forever. They added a third prong to their Mission Statement, “To promote sight enhancement services”. This opened the door to all Canadians who were beginning to lose sight, as well as those who had a fear of vision loss to access the full range of CNIB Support and Rehabilitation Services. So now, whether it’s someone’s Mother who is experiencing Macular Degeneration, or an Uncle experiencing the affects of Glaucoma, all have the ability to seek information, guidance and support as all involved deal with the fear and anxiety that accompanies such life altering experiences. With the help of professional Rehabilitation Workers and Employment Counselors I was able to continue traveling independently within my own community, and even more remarkably anywhere in the world I desired to go. I managed to attend College in Nanaimo and New Westminster, as well as traveling to the Mayo Clinic and to doctor’s appointments in Nanaimo and Vancouver without assistance. All of this while living with some usable vision, but not yet needing a white cane for travel. During the mid 1980’s I was a stay-at-home Dad and did all that was required of that challenging work, from changing diapers to preparing meals, and from cutting the grass to maintaining our home. I even took a woodworking course through Alberni’s Adult Education program and built and restored several pieces of furniture. Of course the 1958 Chevy Impala in the garage was my pride and joy, and I devised ways to do much of the work it required. I also joined and participated in many community activities, like the local Car Club, and a disability support group that catered to the needs of people with many different disabilities. Of course, continued participation in family life remained of critical importance through this period. In 1989 a secondary condition began to extinguish the vision that remained, which set into motion a new stream of professional rehabilitation services and supports. By the spring of 1990 Glaucoma had turned out the lights completely, and the darkness I had feared so desperately was upon me. Strangely though, I found this to be a great relief rather than the tragedy I had imagined it would be. Through several professional rehabilitation sessions, and by joining peer mentoring and advocacy groups I was able to come to terms with this strange feeling, and to learn additional skills and strategies for living with no visual cues of the world around me. This is also about the time that I decided to explore CNIB as an employer, and to see if I could provide the sort of guidance and support to others that had been my pleasure to receive. Those 14 years were a wonderful experience of ongoing discovery for me, as teaching may be the best way to solidify one’s own learning. In other words, those we assist through this transition in turn help us all as we develop best practices and improved service. Following a 14 year career with CNIB I also served the blind community as the first National Equality Director employed by the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC), and as a Basic Computer Literacy Trainer with the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB). Most recently I have enjoyed coordinating the CCB’s newly launched Get Together with Technology Program in Western Canada, which brings to the fore my passion for assistive technology and the power of peer mentoring. Without sight I have continued to travel far and wide, with trips to Conventions of and for the Blind in Anaheim California and Melbourne Australia, as well as to many events and activities in Toronto and Vancouver. Of course my work has taken me to many communities throughout Western Canada, and most particularly nearly all regions of BC and on Vancouver Island. None of which would have been possible without the services and support of organizations like CCB, AEBC and CNIB. For most people blindness generates a fear of extended movement, both within one’s home and community, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Independence comes from personal desire and increased skill. Many community organizations can assist with both through their mentoring and skill development programs. I remember always that life has little to do with what happens to me and 100% what I do about/with it. There is a quote I like to use from the National Federation of the Blind in the USA, “With adequate skill development and opportunity blindness can be reduced to the level of a nuisance”, and nothing could be closer to the truth. Helen Keller said many years ago, “There is nothing more tragic than someone who has sight, but no vision”. She also challenged the Lions Clubs of the world to become the “Knights of the Blind, and to take up the crusade against darkness”. I too joined a Lions Club in 1992 and continue to work on the crusade that Helen Keller began in the 1920-s. View all posts by Albert Ruel
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Rich van Den Broek reports – I thought you and the rest of the alum crew would want to know the latest news re probably the best player ever to wear green, and one of the best D that has ever played anywhere for that matter.
Caught up with him Friday night at this festive event below.
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He’s doing well and is in good spirits. Fully mobile, has cane but didn’t see him need it as he moved around. Same indomitable spirit as when he played.
This event drew a large turnout and thought that the Deerfield lacrosse program and its alums should know his situation.
He said he was heading up to Deerfield mid-April.
Here’s a quick reminder of his many accomplishments as a player. Great football player for DA as well.
Graham Harden began his high school career at New Canaan High School, making the varsity team as a freshman and starting at defense as a sophomore. Graham finished his high school career at Deerfield Academy, leading his lacrosse team to a Western New England Prep School League Championship during his senior season. Graham received All-Western New England honors in 1986 and 1987 and high school All-America honors in 1987.
Graham went on to play collegiately for the University of North Carolina where his teams won four straight ACC championships from 1988-1991. Graham was a captain on the 1991 team which had one of the finest seasons in college lacrosse history recording a 16-0 record and capturing the NCAA Division I National Championship. As a byproduct of his team’s success, Graham received several individual honors. He was name First Team All-ACC and First Team All-America. Additionally, he was named ACC Player of the Year and received The William F. Schmeisser Award as the NCAA Division I Outstanding Defensemen of the Year. In 2002, Graham was one of 57 players selected to the ACC 50th Anniversary Men’s Lacrosse Team.
After college, Graham played lacrosse in the United States Club Lacrosse Association with the Greenwich-based Shearson Bulls in 1992 and with the New York Athletic Club in 1993. He was named First Team All-Club both years. He and his brothers, Boyd and Holmes, were a part of the MAB Paints team that won the 1993 Vail Shootout.
Graham began his coaching career in 1992 at Wilton High School, helping the Warriors to a CT State championship. He again coached in 1998 at the University of North Carolina as the defensive coordinator. In 2005, Graham returned to coaching at the high school level and has not stopped since. While coaching at The Lovett School in Atlanta, he helped lead the team to a state title in 2005 and a state runner-up finish in 2006. Later in 2006, Graham and his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he joined the Mariemont High School coaching staff. In ten years, the Mariemont boys team has played in five state title games, winning three (2007, 2013, 2014). In 2014, Graham was named the US Lacrosse Assistant Coach of the Year for the Southern Ohio region. In addition to his coaching duties for the boys, he has also been a part of the girls varsity coaching staff at Mariemont since 2014.
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Looking for any recommended suggestions for returning to the saddle. I was in a bad car accident, not riding my bike. Been off the bike since August 17, everyday getting stronger. PT comes to the house 3 times a week, I do PT twice a day that is suggested to my best ability. Most important keeping myself positive and knowing that I will be out on the bike.
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I couldnt get my leg over the bike after my hip replacement. Needed to stand on a box. Look back through the threads there are a few of us who have been there and overcome. Stay positive, stay strong
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Best wishes for your recovery myMa64. Like Mikey23 bust my hip back in November 2016 so a different injury to you but just understand what you're going through. It's hard to project forward to see the recovery. Keep doing the right things as you're doing. My hip replacement made me determined to get back to where I was and beyond. The time off work gave me a chance to reflect and evaluate on lots of things too. Made me more determined in lots of other areas too.
Good luck with everything. Keep up the positive minsdset and keep posting too as it will help others going through similar in the future.
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For what its worth, eight months on I'm as good and sometimes better than i was. Turbo trainer and zwift were my friends until i was fit and confident enough to get outdoors again...
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Took me five months after my femur fracture (sub trochanter spiral fx) before I could get my leg over the saddle (just) of my road bike - while it was on a turbo trainer. And that was with much popping. It was 10 month before the surgeon (and the wife) would trust me to ride again outdoors. Two years on, I'm about as bike-fit as I ever was, but walking is still sub-par, and running is pretty much out of the question thanks to the metalwork. the hip did eventually stop popping.
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My wife broke her pelvis in two places affecting the pubic ramus (non-load bearing at the front) in an audax accident at the end of October 2014.
She started on a static spin bike at the beginning of January, and short road rides at the end of January. She started running for very short distances at the end of February, gradually building up distance and successfully completed a five-mile running race in the April.
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Everyone missed their distant family, and everyone missed their country. The sinking of the cruise ship also sank their hopes of leaving the island.
The cries of the children were endless, but the mature faces were so terrified that they could not even cry.
“Boss, so many people are hiding on the island? I think it’s a waste of our manpower. Why don’t we send a bunch of useless people to another island to be used as test subjects for those experimental bases? It just so happens that we are shorthanded recently, right? We have captured almost all the villagers nearby. Furthermore, the doctors said that the effect of the reagent will be different if the race is different.”
More than a thousand people were crammed into a small warehouse, like sesame seeds on a piece of cheese. The warehouse’s windows were tightly shut, and the smell inside was indescribable.
The person speaking had braids, and his rough voice was more frightening than the gun in his hand. In his eyes, the people in the warehouse were like ants, not precious lives.
The person he called boss was wearing a khaki windbreaker, a black hat on his head, and a pair of spectacles on the bridge of his nose that covered half of his face.
“Are you sure that the Divine Doctor is dead?” The man took off the spectacles as he spoke, exposing his dark eyes.
“Indeed. She died in an aviation accident. All the major newspapers reported it, and there has been no news of the Divine Doctor after that. Even his student has delivered a eulogy in her memory,” the braided man said. “The Divine Doctor’s student is from Z country, so other than Z country’s people, the others should be useless. It’s a waste of space to keep them.”
“Then keep the useful ones. Send the useless ones to where they should go.” After saying that, the man pressed the brim of his hat, turned around, and boarded a helicopter not far away.
Except for the two people talking, no one else knew that the people in the warehouse had been classified as useful or useless in less than five minutes.
Their fate would be completely different from then on.
Even though she was a little unhappy before going to bed, Jiang Yao was very happy when she woke up.
She woke up early. When she opened her eyes, it was only half past six, and Lu Xingzhi was no longer by her side.
When Jiang Yao opened the door and walked out, she noticed the person on the sofa speaking quietly. She was taken aback. She had not anticipated Cheng Jinnian’s family arriving so early.
“Sister, you’re awake!” Cheng Jinnian immediately jumped from the sofa when he heard the sound from Jiang Yao’s bedroom. He ran over to Jiang Yao and hugged Jiang Yao’s thigh. In a childish voice, he said, “Sister, Happy Birthday!”
Jiang Yao realized that Cheng Jinnian was, for the most part, no different from other children her age as she observed him.
He was still as childish as before.Continue read full chapters at website:Bon n o v e l.c0m
The birthday girl was in a good mood that morning, so she paid attention to Cheng Jinnian. She patted his head, which had been styled with oil, and she narrowed her eyes with a smile. She asked in a lazy voice, “Have you prepared a gift for me?
‘Yes!” Cheng Jinnian nodded repeatedly and then quickly ran back to the sofa.
He took a scroll painting and handed it to Jiang Yao. “Sister, I drew it myself. It’s for you.”
Jiang Yao was surprised. She was just asking casually, but she did not expect Cheng Jinnian to prepare a gift for her..
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This individual couple’s nuptials are sure to get you in the summer mood today. Think country rustic setting and quirky style all round.
WWW readers Emma and Shaun chose to marry on the 30th May 2015 at the fab York Maze. They envisaged a laid back and fun wedding party. It looked as through everyone had a real blast especially on the giant bouncy pillow.
Emma wore the elegant Persiphone by Wtoo from Leigh Hetherington, while the boys donned waistcoats and chinos and the maids chose mismatched white frocks. So much style! I love the pretty relaxed blooms and the DIY signage throughout too.
Huge thanks goes to Sally T Photography today for sharing these wonderful shots.
THE PROPOSAL | We had been together coming up ten years and we had decided to take The Sun up on their £9 holiday offers and went to one of our favourite places, St Ives in Cornwall. On our first day there we were walking round the harbour and sat down on some rocks looking out over the sea. As we sat down I got a message on my phone so got it out my bag to read, I then hear Shaun say “I suppose you don’t want this then” and as I turn round I see the most perfect engagement ring and although it was something I had been wanting to happen for ages, for some reason, I sank back into the wall behind me, hid my left hand and went all nervous. We then spent the rest of our week’s holiday celebrating and reliving my bizarre reaction. It may not have been your usual down on one knee proposal but anyone who knows us, would say it was definitely our type of proposal.
THE VISION | A rustic, laid back, fun, wedding party.
THE PLANNING PROCESS | Well the planning started years and years ago! I’ve always been obsessed with weddings for as long as I can remember and I would say I had probably been secretly planning our at the time, non-existent wedding, for about 7 years. Once we got engaged though we had every intention of getting married within 18 months but unfortunately, things with the house decided to give up so any wedding funds we had went towards that. Finally after 15 months of been engaged we finally booked our amazing venue and that was when the planning started properly. It was all fairly straight forward and enjoyable, all my friends thought I was going to be a Bridezilla but I was the complete opposite.
BUDGET | We didn’t have a set budget as such.
THE VENUE | The absolutely amazing, York Maze. I first came across it when looking at a wedding held there but thought York was slightly too far away so didn’t really think any more of it. But then after struggling to find somewhere of the style we wanted closer to home, I persuaded Shaun to come and have a look at it so we arranged a visit in April 2013 and that was it, it was just what we were after. The only thing was they wouldn’t know until November if they were going to be doing weddings in 2015 but thankfully they did and by December 2013 we were all booked up.
THE DRESS & ACCESSORIES | My dress was Persiphone by Wtoo from Leigh Hetherington in Newcastle.
My shoes were a bargain from Shoeaholics and were a pair of gold sparkly Carvela heels. My rose gold bracelet was a wedding gift from Shaun which was engraved with our initials and the date of our wedding.
I hired Laura Mac for our make-up and Paula from Reflections in York for our hair. I really struggle getting make up to stay on but it lasted all day and our hair stayed in even after been thrown about on the bouncy pillow! They did an amazing job in making sure that we all looked presentable.
FINDING THE DRESS | The dress was probably my biggest struggle, I knew that I wanted quite a relaxed dress but again like the venue, there was nowhere close by that stocked dresses like that, they were all too structured and formal. So I was over the moon when I found that Leigh Hetherington stocked Wtoo, I went up on a designer day, tried it on then took the plunge to buy the dress there and then. I didn’t have that “the one” moment, but on the day it was just perfect and was everything I was after.
GROOM’S ATTIRE | We decided at an early stage that we didn’t want the lads to be in suits, it’s not particularly Shaun’s style and didn’t go with the relaxed feel of the wedding either. They all wore black chinos and white shirts from Next teamed with a Harris Tweed waistcoats from ASOS (Shaun’s differed slightly to the others) and a pair of black Vans.
THE READINGS & MUSIC | For the entrance, we had Ellie Goulding, How Long Will I Love You and Rudimental, Feel the Love for our exit song. We had one reading within the ceremony from our friend called ‘On Your Wedding Day’. For music throughout the day, we had a Spotify play list which took forever to put together! Then on the night we had a DJ from Hi-Life Entertainment who were amazing, you could choose a certain amount of songs which they would definitely play and you could also choose the types of music you did and didn’t want playing. One of my biggest fears throughout the whole thing was that the dance floor would be empty and no one dancing but fortunately, thanks to Hi-Life, the dance floor was packed all night.
BEAUTIFUL BRIDESMAIDS | I had four gorgeous bridesmaids, three of my best friends and my niece. All the girls got to choose their own dresses, only stipulations were that they had to be white, different styles and no longer than mid length. My friends all ended up going for dresses from ASOS and my nieces dress was from BHS. Although they were all different dresses, each dress had similar elements which tied them all together, along with their gold heels which were from BHS.
THE FLOWERS | Our gorgeous flowers were by a lovely lady called Kathrine from Fleur Adamo in York. I had said that I wanted plenty of gypsophila with a few peach flowers and foliage. Shaun spray painted a load of tin cans in gold, bronze and rose gold, we used large ones for the main centre pieces and then had smaller ones filled with gypsophila on the tables and hanging from an archway and a tree outside. The girls and myself also had gypsophila in our hair and my niece had a gorgeous gypsophila hair garland in place of a bouquet.
THE CAKE | Our cake was a wedding gift from my Auntie. My Auntie is the most amazing baker, we were just after a naked Victoria sponge cake and knowing she was a pro at them, we asked if she would mind making it for us and she kindly agreed. It was absolutely gorgeous and everyone commented on how it was the nicest cake ever.
YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER | Our photographer was the amazing Sally T. I have been following (…stalking) Sally ever since I realised that she was from the same area as myself when she was a real bride on another wedding blog and just starting out in the photography business. I had always said I would love to have Sally do our photos so it was an absolute dream when Sally was free on our date. When we had our engagement shoot, Shaun and myself knew straight away that we had made the right decision, Sally put us as at ease straight away. After the wedding when we were able to view a sneak peak of one or two that Sally had took, we were so happy and when we actually received them all, we were blown away, they were just perfect. After much umm’ing and ahh’ing about having a videographer and reading on blogs that people who had not had one had really regretted it, we decided to just go for it. After much searching of trying to find someone in the style that we were after, we came across Dan from Shoot Me Now Weddings and like with Sally, after our first meeting we knew straight away that we were making the right decision.
On the day Sally and Dan worked perfectly together and just made everything so much easier. When they both came up us to on the evening and said that they were going, we were gutted, it was like two of our friends leaving the wedding.
THE DETAILS & DÉCOR | The maze is pretty much a blank canvas and you are able to decorate it how you like but because we loved it as it is, we decided to keep decorations to a minimum. It was mainly made up of the flowers in the tin cans and tea lights in glass jars. In the bar area we covered one wall with different style hearts and fairy lights which we attached photos to and in the ceremony/evening room, we hired festoon lighting and Shaun made large, free-standing LOVE letters from pallet wood. We also created all the signs ourselves, using pallet wood and the table plan from a sheet of MDF.
In the bar area, we had two tables one had a wooden suitcase for the cards and a crate for any presents and on the other table, we set up a cigar bar and our Fuji Instax guest book. The guest book was just a Kraft paper scrapbook from Paperchase and guests used washi tape to stick their photos in.
For place names and favours, we painted MDF hearts in blackboard paint and then on the front wrote their name and on the back our initials and the date of the wedding. For our nieces and nephews, we put together a little goody bag so they wouldn’t get bored during the meal, it contained a wedding colouring book, crayons, sweets and other bits and pieces.
THE HONEYMOON | We weren’t going to go anywhere for honeymoon but a few weeks before the wedding, we decided to just go for it and booked a relaxing week away to go to the Sensatori resort in Sharm-El-Sheikh. It was exactly what we needed and spent the majority of the time just lying in the sun, recuperating from what had been a hectic couple of months prior to the wedding.
MEMORABLE MOMENTS | Apart from the ceremony and becoming husband and wife, my favourite moment has to be when I decided to do an impromptu speech just to say a massive thanks to Shaun for everything he had done to make the day so amazing, to only go and make the least emotional person ever (Shaun), cry! I was so so proud of myself for what I had accomplished and it turned out, that I had made pretty much every other person cry as well.
During the ceremony, we had an unexpected visitor of a swallow flying around. I felt like I was in a real life Disney film. The animal theme continued when we went to have some photos took and the resident goat decided to do some of the best photobombing I think I have ever witnessed!
I also loved going on the bouncy pillow, it was absolutely hilarious and was sooo hard! I kept on standing on the bottom of my dress and falling over, and then once I was down, I really struggled to get back up. I love the photos from when we were on it and some of the videos that people took are hilarious.
ADVICE FOR OTHER COUPLES | Just try not to stress during the planning and don’t let people try and change your mind, it is a day for the two of you and should be about what is right for you. On the day, my Dad tried his absolute hardest to try and change our minds about doing the speeches outside but we stood by our decision and I’m so glad we did. They had such a nice, relaxed feel to them and I think if we had done them inside, this wouldn’t have been the case.
Photographer | Sally T Photography
Videographer | Shoot Me Now Films
I am going to be hiring out stuff that we had for our weddings, including all the signs, the wooden LOVE and all the jars and tin cans if any readers are interested
Thanks so much to Emma and Shaun for sharing their wonderful story with us xo Lou
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Emma and Shaun your wedding looked amazing! I’m having my wedding in North Yorkshire in June and would be interested in hiring some bits and bobs if you want to contact me? Vicky x
So unique and relaxed, such a lovely wedding, congratulations.
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This looks an amazing wedding, I absolutely love the idea of the Polaroid guest book and would really like to do that for my wedding next summer, would love it if I could perhaps hire the sign for that and some of the others too…if you could email me if this is a possibility that would be great!
Where did you get the bouncy pillow hire? Looks great fun!!
I am interested in hiring out your signs please can you give me more info?
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Expectations. They can be the best or worst thing about carpet cleaning projects, depending on how you look at it. Your expectations for a clean, fresh-smelling, spotless carpet are just as likely to be met as they are to be dashed by what you see after the cleaning company has left your home.
You might not think of yourself as being an idealist in regards to your rugs or carpets, but if you’ve ever been disappointed with the results of a professional carpet cleaning service, you know that those hopes—even when they seem reasonable—can lead to feelings of frustration and anger. Let’s take a look at some common expectations people have for their carpets after they have them cleaned by professionals.
Once you’ve gotten your carpet cleaned, you can expect to see:
Your carpets will look better and feel softer.
Your home will smell clean and fresh.
The deep stains that were once there are now gone!
Why carpet cleaning is important
Your carpet can become a breeding ground for harmful microorganisms.
Stagnant air means less fresh oxygen being circulated in the room, which can lead to respiratory problems like allergies and asthma.
Carpets trap dirt and dust, which can cause allergy symptoms like sneezing and runny noses. Common allergens like ragweed can linger for long periods of time.
Spills such as soda or coffee on your carpet will stain it over time if they’re not cleaned up right away.
Fixing damaged carpet
The carpet cleaning reality is that some carpets are too damaged to be repaired. Only way to get a sure answer is to contact a reputable carpet cleaning professional.
If you have some stubborn stains in your carpet, it might be time to call in an expert.
If you find yourself with a deep stain that won’t come out and is ruining the look of your carpet, don’t worry! You aren’t alone. In fact, it can be difficult for any company or individual to remove these types of stains from carpets.
Fortunately, there are professionals who have experience removing even the most persistent stains from carpets and rugs.
They might use tools like spotters (which act like tiny vacuum cleaners). Or steam cleaners that use heat and moisture to lift away dirt particles along with their embedded stains. These methods usually work well on more superficial stains but may not do much when dealing with really deep ones. Stains like spilled food or drinks can be tough because they penetrate down into the fibers.
Fixing damaged carpet
If you’ve ever had your carpet cleaned, you know that it’s expensive. And if you’ve had your carpet cleaned more than once, you may have noticed the price can go up from there. The same goes for other services like cleaning grout or removing stains from furniture—the costs add up quickly!
How much time and energy is involved in getting them done correctly by a professional? You might live in an apartment building where only one person is allowed to make appointments with cleaners.
Or maybe you don’t have enough space available at work. Possibly because of all those Post-it notes covering every surface (or maybe it’s just me). Either way: Having carpeting professionally cleaned sounds like a good idea until it becomes reality.
If you have pets, you know that pet odor is a common culprit in carpet cleaning. The problem with removing pet odor is that it’s caused by multiple substances: bacteria and urine (which can build up in your carpet), dander, oils, saliva and more.
These substances combine to create a distinct smell that is difficult to remove using conventional carpet cleaning methods.
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The reality is that some carpets are too damaged. No amount of cleaning will fix some carpets. Only way to get a sure answer is to contact a reputable carpet cleaning professional.
Why carpet cleaning is important? Your home’s interior can be susceptible to wear and tear with time, but it doesn’t have to stay in this state if you maintain the appearance of your flooring by getting regular professional cleaning done on them. That said, not everyone knows how they should go about this or what they should expect from their chosen company when they hire them for the job. Here we will look at some of the most common questions people have when hiring professionals for this kind of work and give some answers along with helpful tips on what you should do next time someone comes knocking at your door offering these services at an affordable price!
Carpets can last for years, but only if you’re careful about how you care for them. Some carpet cleaning expectations require a little more than your everyday vacuuming, and going to a professional is the best way to ensure that your carpet will look its best. When it comes down to it, there’s no substitute for a thorough cleaning by an expert—and they’ll guide you through the whole process, from start to finish.
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46 Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means ‘son of Timaeus’), was sitting by the roadside begging. 47 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’
48 Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me!’
49 Jesus stopped and said, ‘Call him.’
So they called to the blind man, ‘Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.’ 50 Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.
51 ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ Jesus asked him.
The blind man said, ‘Rabbi, I want to see.’
52 ‘Go,’ said Jesus, ‘your faith has healed you.’ Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
11 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2 saying to them, ‘Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks you, “Why are you doing this?” say, “The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.”’
4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5 some people standing there asked, ‘What are you doing, untying that colt?’ 6 They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. 7 When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. 8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. 9 Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted,
‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’[b]
10 ‘Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!’
‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
11 Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
This guy was in the crowd the day that the King came to the city. But he did not lay his coat down before the king.
I wonder whether Bartimaeus was the only person who could truly “see” that day. The Jesus’ disciples, the Pharisees, the average city dwellers…. they were all responding to the question Jesus always raised; “Who do you say I am?”. Bart answers – “Son of David”; the first person to name Jesus that loaded name.
For Bart this was all very quick. He had only just been given new eyes to see, just hours before. That is when he lost his coat. Back near Jericho, Bart hears the way the feet of so many are sliding across the stones coming his way. All he can do is listen. They are yelling for this man they really hope is the Messiah.
Some don’t believe he is. But he hears others telling stories of what they already saw Jesus do. Bart concludes, it is now or never. He yells. In fact the words say he ‘screams’. He will not let the indifferent and judgmental crowd dismiss him ‘Kyrie Eleison‘, ‘Lord, have mercy’, “Son of David, have mercy on us!”.
This is royal speak. This what you would greet the Queen with when she came to Elizabeth. Bart seems like the only guy who can see Jesus, even though he can’t actually see him – yet.
Jesus hears Bart’s screaming. For the first time in years, someone actually takes in interest in Bart. “What do you want me to do for you? How can I serve you? Bart could have played it safe and just asked for mercy in the form of money or a better coat that is lying on the ground behind him. But he takes a big risk. He asks for mercy in the form of getting his sight back. “I want to see”, Bart says.
The mercy is given. Everything he ever imagined that he would never be able to see is right there in front of him. What a gift! Sheer grace.
For Bart the sight is more than just seeing. Now he can see a person; Jesus. He is drawn to the giver of the gift and not just the gift given. So much so that he leaves behind his prized and much needed coat to follow this man. Think about that. A coat to a destitute man with a major disability is shelter from sun, rain and wind. It is a shopping bag to carry stuff home. It is a matter of life and death on a bitterly cold night. It is even a bowl to put out when doing the only thing he can do; to beg. But he leaves this coat of safety on the ground! He sees beyond his eyes. He sees that grace of God at work in this man.
Bart, the beggar before God, is captured, captivated, moved and melted by the sheer grace of this man and so he follows. “Who do you say I am, Bart?”. “Grace”, responds the following man.
What does truly seeing Jesus mean for a person? It means that there is nothing Jesus could ask of Bart now – his best coat, his loyalty, his support, his devotion, his direction in life, his money, his conduct in relationships – there is nothing that Jesus could ask of Bart that Bart would not give or do – and gladly.
So, what are you asking for from God today and what is he asking of you and would you give it or do it?
People around Jesus were asking for God’s help. “Hosanna”, “God, save us!”, they yell.
Some in the crowd were asking God for a miraculous show of divine assistance (like Bart did). For some this was merely problem solving. “God, fix my problem, but don’t ask me for a relationship or to do anything or to follow you anywhere, just fix my problems”.
For many today this seeking of God’s help has little to do with a relationship, an ongoing serving, following, giving. It is simply asking God the magic Genie to fix something.
Of course deals might try to be made. “Fix our problems God, and we will follow you” they might say, only to find out that they end up like all twelve disciples inside a week – scattered, alone and ashamed of their inability to keep their end of the deal.
Then there were the people who were not joining in the chorus at all. They had no intention of singing this praise song. All they wanted was the noisy joy silenced and the man gone – and they were working on that!
They were keeping their coat on, thanks very much! It was there coat. They earned it. They had been very, very good. As far as they were concerned their place and status were assured by their disciplined following of God’s law and belief in the promised of God that they were already in, chosen, privileged to be sons of Father Abraham by blood.
Little did any of the people on the march across the bridge this day know that so soon, this man on the donkey would be stripped of his coat after it was destroyed by blood stains. His coat would be treated as mere booty for brutal work completed by a group of soldiers.
Jesus would lay down his coat for these people – yes – these people – all of them – the very, very good who thought they could see, the miracle problem fixers who thought they could see, and the disciples who had begun to see his grace, and one guy named Bart, who was beginning to see that many could not see Jesus because they did not experience his grace, even in the miracles.
a person looking for a fix but not a relationship.
a person with a big need for which you are cutting a deal with God to fix.
a person keeping your coat on because you have earned it or have a right to it by name or membership or paying your dues…
This man Jesus lays down his coat on your path for you to walk on. He lets you trample all over his coat. He said so. he said he came to serve, not to be served and give his life a ransom payment for you.
There is another coat on offer here today– the garment of praise, the robe of his righteousness, a coat of grace and mercy for blind sinners.
You did not ask for this coat of life or deserve its safety or status and you certainly have not earned the invitation or the coat. By the stripping of his coat he has just given you a coat dipped in his holy and life-giving blood.
“Who do you say he is?” and will you take his coat of grace. You need it more than your job, your dreams, your plans, your vision, even your partner or your kids or grandkids.
Pause on the road you travel this Easter. Hear his scream from the cross. Scream out to him for new sight. There is nothing he has not done or given to you.
Leave that old coat of self-earning, working, striving, dealing and fixing. Put on the new coat of underserved love and a life of joyful serving – so much so that if someone asks you for your coat, give them your shirt as well (Matthew 5:40), for he is your clothing, your safety, your status and your sight.
Read the extended text slowly and carefully noting the people and especially Jesus’ words.
Jesus sounds like a general commanding his troops as he directs them to get tell those closest to him to call Bartimaeus over and as he orders his disciples to get that donkey. What do you make of this kind of directing from Jesus?
We said that this is all very ‘kingly’. The words, “Hosanna” and etc are a direct reference to words used for Israel’s kings and their coronation or welcome home after a great victory. What do you think people of our time are asking to save them and from what?
I suggested that some people in the crowd just wanted a quick fix to their problems without any thought of ongoing following and relationship. Some wanted this but knew there are ‘no free lunches’ and so probably tried to bargain with God to get their problems fixed. other did not think they had a problem and were keeping their coats firmly on!
Chat about these three kinds of people and how you see this same kind of response to Jesus among people you know or in our culture.
Think about these three kind of responses in your own life.
And then think about Bart. he seems to be a man who can now see with his eyes and see Jesus with his heart. What would this march into the city have been like for him? What might he have experienced when he figured out he did not have a coat to throw down because he left his only coat back on the Jericho road!? Who would you have been in the crowd that day – palm waver, coat thrower, onlooker, someone wishing it would all go away so you could get on with you day?
The question Jesus demand we ask is “Who do you say I am?” It is THE question of the gospels. This is the question they all respond to as they tell the story of Jesus. Who do you say Jesus is?
Jesus paused and stopped to notice Bart on the side of the road. Many people paused and looked at him dying on that cross. Discuss how you might pause this Easter and see him with the eyes of faith, and the ears that hear his scream “My God, My God, why have your forsaken me!”, and “Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing”, and “it is finished!”.
Reflect on what these words from the naked Jesus whose coat is gambled away underneath him mean to you
Move and melt my heart, Lord Jesus, so that I truly see you this Easter and see my life anew.
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The Douglas County Board of Commissioners are currently accepting applications for various appointments to volunteer advisory boards.
Board eligibility requirements vary. All applicants must be Douglas County residents.
Application Deadline: Friday, December 9, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
Appointments will be made at the January 10, 2023 Board of County Commissioners meeting. If needed, an additional meeting may be scheduled on January 11, 2023.
Advisory committees for the county are generally standing bodies established by the board and appointed by the board to provide ongoing citizen input to major policy areas. Some committees are established as required by the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) and have duties prescribed by law.
Deciding to serve on an advisory board is a great way to get involved in local government and support your community. Appointments vary in length, and the terms are staggered to provide for continuity. All applicants must be Douglas County residents. Additional information and application forms are available in the County Manager’s office at the Minden Inn, 1594 Esmeralda Avenue – Minden, NV 89423 (782-9821). You can also access the applications for each board on their individual site by clicking on the links to the left of the page. Citizen participation on Douglas County advisory committees serves two important purposes:
The Board of Commissioners receives timely input and information regarding issues and potential impacts.
Residents are directly involved in their local government and can positively impact the future of their community.
Boards, Committees, and Commissions Policies and Procedures
Within the county structure, many committees serve in an advisory capacity to the board. Those committees are:
911 Surcharge Advisory Committee
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Genoa Historic District Commission
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Board of Equalization
Douglas County Advisory Board to Manage Wildlife
Library Board of Trustees
Planning Commission
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In the fall of each year, the County Manager’s Office solicits applications from interested residents for appointment / reappointment to advisory committee openings that will occur in January of the next year. Contact the County Manager’s Office at 775-782-9821 for an application form and additional information.
The County Manager’s Office generally provides a Volunteer Board Advisory Training in the first part of each year once appointments are made. At training, staff members discuss and provide new advisory board members with resources such as The Douglas County Handbook for Effective Boards and Committees, Easy Rules for Ethics, and information regarding compliance with the Open Meeting Law.
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The responsibilities of the members generally include holding public meetings to solicit community input on current issues, identifying issues that the advisory committee feels should be addressed by the board or staff, and providing ongoing recommendations to the board and staff concerning specific program areas.
In keeping with Douglas County’s philosophy of citizen involvement, the board appoints citizens to committees to formulate county policy and carry out responsibilities delineated in NRS. The strength and success of the Douglas County government is, to a large degree, reflective of the quality of services performed by these volunteer advisory committees.
In the fall of each year, the County Manager’s Office solicits applications from interested residents for appointment/reappointment to advisory committee openings that will occur in January of the next year. Contact the County Manager’s Office at 775-782-9821 for an application form and additional information.
The County Manager’s Office generally provides a Volunteer Board Advisory Training in the first part of each year once appointments are made. At training, staff members discuss and provide new advisory board members with resources such as The Douglas County Handbook for Effective Boards and Committees, Easy Rules for Ethics, and information regarding compliance with the Open Meeting Law.
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Beer is a beverage brewed from water, malted barley or other cereal, hops and yeast. Pilsner and lager are bottom-fermented beers, the yeast sinks to the bottom. Ales are top fermented, the yeast rises to the top.
The two main categories of beer - ales and lagers - are distinguished chiefly by the type of yeast used to turn sugars found in malt, another main ingredient, into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Hops, for flavor, and water form the final two major components.
The kind of yeast used during the fermentation process that transforms sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide is the main determinant factor in brewing a lager or an ale.
Even the most avid fans would find it difficult to sample a fraction of the thousands of varieties available worldwide. But all this delightful choice is the product of a small number of single-celled fungi called: yeast.
From such simplicity comes the complexity enjoyed the world over.
Most of that enjoyment involves consuming lager in one form or another. Lagers use a slow-acting yeast that, in the common case, settles to the bottom of the tank during the fermentation process.
Though usually associated with lighter colors, lagers run the gamut from pale to medium or darker. Most are highly carbonated, with medium hop flavor, and contain about 3%-5% alcohol.
Fermentation is usually carried out in the moderate temperature range of 7-12°C (45-54°F), then stored at near freezing temperatures for a few weeks to a few months. Lagers are typically fermented colder than ales, and later served cold, as well.
In the extreme case, lagers are made into a variety called 'ice beer', in which fermentation takes place below 0°C (32°F). Gradually, small ice crystals form and the brew takes on a very light, crisp taste.
Like any product that has been around for centuries, there are dozens of sub-categories, and lagers themselves are divided further.
For example, Bock is a strong, German type that can be either light or dark. Dortmunder, (unsurprisingly) brewed in Dortmund, Germany is a another example. Munchener is a highly malted Bavarian beer, usually dark. Marzen, from the German word for March, is stored in cool basements for several months then served at Oktoberfest. Rauchbier is made from roasted malts, suffused with the smoke from burning wood. The Vienna is an amber-red.
But by far, the most popular isn't German in origin at all. The Pilsner lager gets its name from the town in the Czech Republic that gave it birth, Pilsen.
Golden in color, the flavor varies from sweet to dry, light to very hoppy. Made from hard water, the taste is often more bitter than other beers.
The brew recipe has its origins in Bavaria around 1820, but was adapted by a Bavarian emigre, Josef Groll, in 1842. Using much softer water than was traditional his creation spread throughout Europe and later America. Today, nearly 90% of beer sold in the U.S. is essentially Pilsner.
Whichever is your preference, do yourself a favor and emulate the brewers themselves - experiment.
Ale is at the top of the beer pyramid in more ways than one.
The type of yeast used in ales is called 'top fermenting' because of its tendency to float near the top of the tank. But, the results go far beyond providing an easy way to filter the brew.
Techniques used to make ale go back centuries. With that much time for experimenting, it's not surprising there should be such a wide variety. Pale ale, India Pale, October Ales, Barley Wine, Scotch Ale, Saison, Tripel; the choices are endless.
Pale ale, as the name suggests are light, bitter and mild in hops. Originally made from malt dried with coke (a coal product, not the drug cocaine), almost every beer-producing country now has its own variety.
A type known as India Pale Ale is derived from a British October, brought to India during the 18th century. Heavier on hops, the preparation method helped preserve the brew for the long sea voyage.
Despite the name, Barley Wine is a kind of heavy, sweet beer. An English-style ale, the name may come from the fact that the brew is high in alcohol, often as much as 10% by volume. Special yeasts are used that can tolerate the high concentration and the result is a full-bodied copper to dark brown mixture. Sometimes wine yeasts are, in fact, used.
Darker still is the Scottish Ale, with a maltier taste. Though the hops were imported, the Scots produce their own unique style, aided by the colder weather. Some sources put the origins of brewing there as far back as 5,000 years, where herbs were used rather than hops.
Two Belgian-style ales have long been favorites outside their country of origin.
The Saison, from the French word for 'season', has a spicy, earthy taste that's dry and smooth. Traditionally brewed in small farmhouses in winter, each one had its own unique profile. Some types have an alcohol content as high as 8%.
But the very pinnacle of Belgian brewing is achieved by the six Trappist monasteries. Among other brews, they produce the outstanding Tripel. The name derives from the brewing process, in which up to three times the amount of traditional Trappist malt is added. Light golden in color, they're high in alcohol and full of flavor.
Forming creamy heads, with rich aroma, they are mildly to moderately bitter. Body is light, thanks to the use of Belgian candy sugar during the brewing.
Top of line among Trappist Tripel ales is the Westmalle, produced by the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, founded in 1794. Some varieties reach as high as 12% alcohol, but the taste - far from being too strong - is that of a heady mixture of malt and hops.
Whichever type you naturally prefer, do yourself a favor and emulate the brewers - experiment.
Beer is an alcoholic beverage. Alcohol content ranges from 3% to 12% and it is usually ales the ones that are higher in alcohol. Beer styles include lager, malt liquor, ale, Including India pale ale, porter or stout, bock beer, and wheat beer. For the health conscious, there are light beers, with less calories, and non-alcoholic beers. Beer is used in cooking for soups and stews. Substitute beer with chicken or beef stock with a dash of angostura bitter, red wine, or sake when you don't have it and it is listed as an ingredient in your recipe.
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The Athens station is located in the city centre, more precisely in the Zográfou district. It is relatively close (4 km) to a field of FM transmitting antennas that can generate interference.
Location of Athens station – close-up view
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Abortion isn’t a “cultural” issue. The production of children, and who will pay for it, is a key economic battlefront.
Anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators argue in front of the Supreme Court during the March for Life on January 24, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
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For decades, we’ve been told that abortion is merely a wedge issue used by Republicans to split working-class Catholics from the Democratic Party and excite a Protestant evangelical base. “Starting in the 1970s,” feminist law professor Joan C. Williams writes, “Republicans have offered support for working-class anti-abortion views in exchange for working-class support for pro-business positions.”
According to this view, politicians and the one percent really don’t care one way or the other about abortion — they’re just using the issue to get votes. This reading of US politics is so common that if you ask a group of feminists today why abortion is under attack, someone will explain that it is a political ploy to capture the support of conservative “values” voters. Thomas Frank even argues that banning abortion would be against the interests of these political forces because they would lose an issue to mobilize around.
But this explanation has frayed as abortion restrictions have proliferated, with several states now down to one abortion clinic and repressive regulations making abortion difficult to obtain for many and impossible for some. Even “blue” states like Minnesota throw up obstacles to those who want abortions. Several states have banned abortion outright, racing to be the one whose law overturns Roe v. Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized most abortions. Birth control, too, has come under attack, revealing that the stated goal of reducing abortions is a ruse.
While other “cultural issues,” such as same-sex marriage and cannabis legalization have been making progress, we have gone backward on abortion. This is because abortion is wrongly classified as a cultural issue. In fact, the production of children — and who will pay for it — is a key economic battlefront.
Politicians and pundits are in a froth because the US birth rate is the lowest it has ever been: 1.72 children per woman. They fret that the decline in births will create a sluggish economy.
Conservative commenter Patrice Lee Onwuka tweeted in May that “sustained low birth rates can be disastrous for our economy and financial future.” She added that as a new mom, “I did my part to add to the 3.8 mil new babies born last year.” In 2017, then–House Speaker Paul Ryan made headlines for saying, “We need to have higher birth rates in this country,” as he prepared to attack Social Security. But he was just saying what establishment think tanks and policy analysts have been urging for decades. In 2012, conservative columnist Ross Douthat pleaded for “more babies please,” in the New York Times , and the Wall Street Journal regularly warns that if birth rates continue to slide, the result will be economic stagnation and national decline.
Racist versions have been bursting through, too. Iowa congressperson Steve King, a vigorous opponent of abortion and immigration, tweeted in 2017: “Culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t rebuild our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” while Florida Republican state senator Dennis Baxley suggested that Alabama’s abortion ban was good because it would encourage white births.
Even some liberal feminists are convinced that low birth rates demand austerity. In her 2009 book, feminist and now– New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg warns of the “grave threats” represented by increasing longevity and falling birth rates: “There will be fewer young workers to support this expanding elderly population,” and “to maintain pension systems, taxes will have to be raised or benefits cut, or both.”
The fact that fewer people are willing to have children isn’t surprising given the undermining of everything that makes working-class life viable. But it does put the establishment in a bind. If they want to increase the birth rate voluntarily, they will have to put resources into universal childcare, healthcare, paid parental leave, and livable wages and working hours. Naturally, they’d prefer to take away reproductive liberties because it’s a much cheaper way to boost the birth rate. In Texas, where restrictions and regulations closed eighty-two family planning clinics after 2011, birth control use dropped and childbearing rose 27 percent compared to areas that still had birth control access.
While around 70 percent of the US public supports Roe , there’s big money behind the anti-abortion cause. The Texas restrictions, and anti-abortion laws around the country, have been pushed by the pro-business American Legislative Exchange Council and by Koch brothers–created PACs. The Kochs claim to be libertarians, so we might expect them to defend individual liberty in such matters. But while elite men may want their own girlfriends to get abortions, they’re all business when it comes to the rest of us. They want babies produced cheaply, with a maximum of unpaid labor and a minimum of employer expenditure.
The US system relies on reproductive coercion — but this isn’t the only possible response to lower birth rates. In Europe, politicians openly discuss declining birth rates and react with programs that make it easier to combine work and family, providing substantial paid parental leave (480 days in the case of Sweden); universal childcare; national healthcare; monthly payments to parents; ample sick leave; shortened work hours; and other blandishments parents in the United States can only dream about.
In the United States, private health insurance companies have a profitable stranglehold on the medical system, and parents struggle mightily to pay for childcare. Employers don’t even want us to take unpaid family leave, never mind the six months or more of paid leave workers in over fifty countries receive. On top of this, our work hours are longer than those in Europe — we work ten weeks a year more than German workers.
Under these circumstances, even with limited access to birth control and abortion, we are having fewer children than ever. “People say they’re not having kids because it’s insanely expensive,” explained a summary of a 2018 survey showing that the decision to start a family is being weighed down by childcare costs, lack of affordable housing, and overwork. But right now women, and all parents, are blaming themselves when they can’t make it work. This is why it’s important to expose the anti-abortion right as the enforcement arm of an economic system that pushes the costs and burdens of childrearing onto families and relies on women’s unpaid labor.
While lower birth rates are a phony crisis from the standpoint of workers, for the establishment the problem is real. Their profits, and capitalist economic growth in general, rely on a continually expanding workforce replenished with ever-larger cohorts of young people to labor and consume and pay taxes and serve in the military, and to provide for retired workers, either individually through family ties or collectively through Social Security.
Immigration has compensated somewhat for slumping birth rates in the United States. Politicians and employers openly discuss immigration as a way to dump the work and expense of raising the next generation of workers onto the mothers, families, communities, and nations that immigrants leave behind. But pro-immigration Republicans worry that birth rates are dropping in sending countries, such as Mexico. And now, immigration isn’t making up for the deficit in births.
In addition, immigration carries its own political liabilities for the employing class — immigrants may organize against mistreatment, unionize, and eventually vote. Terrorizing immigrant communities is only so effective. That is why Republicans, including Trump, support expanding guestworker programs, which place workers in a no-rights twilight zone where they can be deported should they annoy the boss by working too slowly or demanding their rights.
If the birthrate is the underlying issue, it is no wonder establishment Democrats are “wimpy” on abortion and even birth control. Just like the rest of the ruling class, Democratic elites want to encourage a higher birth rate without additional public or corporate expenditure. And when establishment Democrats do recommend birth control, they emphasize the tax savings. Catherine Rampell writes in the Washington Post , “If you want to . . . discourage people from going on welfare, improve low-income people’s earning potential, and reduce government spending overall, more generous support for family planning services should be on your list.” Raising wages or repealing anti-union laws are not on her list. This is why the black women who coined the term “reproductive justice” answer that we need “(1) the right not to have a child, (2) the right to have a child, and (3) the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments.”
We’ll be stronger in the abortion fight when we recognize that the battle is over our reproductive labor and how cheaply that work will be done. And with a fresh feminist angle showing how attacks on abortion rights and birth control access are about keeping reproductive labor cheap, we have a chance to reach additional women. By connecting our right to refuse reproductive labor to our demands for improved reproductive working conditions, we can move people on this issue. Many women have only been exposed to a feminism of the one percent, which says that any problems you have supporting and raising kids are your personal responsibility. After all, you had a “choice.” Lean in. But socialists and pro-woman feminists insist that women aren’t dumb or brainwashed for having kids — it’s important, difficult work that benefits the whole society.
This is also an opportunity for feminists and the broader movement to leverage the ruling class’s panic about low birth rates to win things we desperately need. The organization I’m part of, National Women’s Liberation, suggests that while we should organize for full abortion and reproductive freedom — our right to strike — we should also use our informal “birth strike” to demand the things that make parenting feasible: expanded and improved Medicare for All, generous paid parental leaves for both parents, a universal childcare system with a unionized workforce (as with public schools), and shorter work hours for everyone with full-time pay.
Abortion is our right to strike against untenable reproductive working conditions. It is time we defend it on that basis.
Jenny Brown is a member of National Women’s Liberation and a former editor at Labor Notes . She is a coauthor of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America and author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work . Her latest book is Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now .
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For decades, we’ve been told that abortion is merely a wedge issue used by Republicans to split working-class Catholics from the Democratic Party and excite a Protestant evangelical base. “Starting in the 1970s,” feminist law professor Joan C. Williams writes, “Republicans have offered support for working-class anti-abortion views in exchange for working-class support for pro-business […]
For decades, we’ve been told that abortion is merely a wedge issue used by Republicans to split working-class Catholics from the Democratic Party and excite a Protestant evangelical base. “Starting in the 1970s,” feminist law professor Joan C. Williams writes, “Republicans have offered support for working-class anti-abortion views in exchange for working-class support for pro-business […]
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For decades, we’ve been told that abortion is merely a wedge issue used by Republicans to split working-class Catholics from the Democratic Party and excite a Protestant evangelical base. “Starting in the 1970s,” feminist law professor Joan C. Williams writes, “Republicans have offered support for working-class anti-abortion views in exchange for working-class support for pro-business […]
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“I think we’ve got to be careful that we don’t make that majestic leap to assume that this is a knockout drug,” the top doctor said of hydroxychloroquine
Updated Apr. 03, 2020 2:54PM ET / Published Apr. 03, 2020 10:44AM ET
Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci left the hosts of Fox & Friends disappointed and frustrated Friday when he threw cold water on their insistence that the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine is a game-changing cure for the coronavirus.
Citing a recent poll showing that 37 percent of doctors around the world feel the drug is currently the most effective treatment of COVID-19, co-host Steve Doocy added that frequent Fox News guest Dr. Mehmet Oz recently touted a small Chinese study that found the drug had some efficacy in treating the virus.
Doocy went on to play a clip of Dr. Oz wondering whether Fauci was impressed with the results of that study. The Fox host asked the top physician to respond to the TV doctor.
“That was not a very robust study,” replied Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force. He also pointed out that while there’s still a possibility of a “beneficial effect,” the scale and strength of the evidence is not “overwhelmingly strong.”
“But getting back to what you said just a moment ago that ‘X percent’—I think you said 37 percent—of doctors feel that it’s beneficial. We don’t operate on how you feel. We operate on what evidence is, and data is,” he continued. “So although there is some suggestion with the study that was just mentioned by Dr. Oz—granted that there is a suggestion that there is a benefit there—I think we’ve got to be careful that we don’t make that majestic leap to assume that this is a knockout drug.”
Co-host Brian Kilmeade, meanwhile, pushed back against the disease expert, claiming a large percentage of doctors in other countries are now prescribing the drug to treat coronavirus. He then speculated as to whether those taking the drug for other conditions were prevented from infection of COVID-19.
“I would be very curious, doctor, to see if anyone who was taking this for lupus or arthritis has gotten the coronavirus, that would be one way to go the other way to see about this study,” Kilmeade wondered aloud.
“I mean, obviously this is a good drug in many respects for some of the diseases you mentioned, and the one thing we don’t want to happen is that individuals who really need a drug with a proven indication don’t have it available,” Fauci responded, adding that it doesn’t matter if a large percentage of doctors “think that it works.”
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt then jumped in, suggesting that “Democratic leaders” are preventing patients from receiving hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease and asking Fauci what could be done to make sure we’re giving it to everyone in need.
“Well first of all, this is an approved drug for another indication, and doctors can, and the FDA has made it very clear that doctors can prescribe it on what we call off label,” he explained. “There’s no inhibition for that. So a considerable amount of drug was made available, as you remember, just a few days ago. But the FDA was very clear that they’re not going to be inhibiting anyone from doing an off label prescription of the drug. So they’re free to do that if they want to.”
While President Donald Trump and many Fox News personalities have been bullish on the possibility that the drug is a miracle cure for the virus, Fauci has repeatedly attempted to temper expectations, noting that the benefits have largely been anecdotal and that there are other studies showing no noticeable effects at all.
This isn’t the first time that pro-Trump Fox News hosts have tried to get Fauci to boost hydroxychloroquine. Laura Ingraham, who has been at the forefront of touting the drug, asked the doc last week if he would take it if he were stricken with the virus. Fauci, for his part, said only if it were part of a clinical trial.
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Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand are among the top beneficiaries of Wall Street money, despite their rhetoric about regulating the banking industry.
Branko Marcetic April 22, 2019
If you want to know who Wall Street favors for 2020, just look at the recent FEC filings. (Getty Images)
The 2020 Democratic presidential race has so far featured a common theme: candidates clamoring to demonstrate who will most fearlessly take on corporate America. Across the field, Democrats have staked out progressive — and at times startlingly new — positions on everything from instituting single-payer healthcare to reviving the Glass-Steagall Act, rejected corporate PAC money and refused to take lobbyist cash, all in a bid to prove their progressive bona fides.
Even as these candidates vocally reject corporate America, their latest fundraising reports show corporate America hasn't rejected them.
“These numbers reveal a campaign powered by the people,” said a member of California Sen. Kamala Harris’ campaign about her first 24-hour donation haul. “The system is being rigged by people with money and people with power,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker as he pledged not to “take a dime from corporate PACs.” “I think it’s important for people to know my values are never for sale,” said New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
But even as these candidates vocally reject corporate America, their latest fundraising reports show corporate America hasn’t rejected them. In These Times examined the April 15 FEC filings of the leading Democratic candidates — Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — and analyzed the donations they received from employees of the six largest U.S. banks (J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) and the world’s six largest private equity firms (The Carlyle Group, Blackstone, KKR, Apollo Global Management, CVC Capital Partners and Warburg Pincus).
While these firms don’t represent the totality of corporate America, their profits ride on the continued growth of corporations, and they remain deeply financially invested in maintaining the status quo in policy areas such as taxes, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and the environment.
Wall Street, a fundraising backbone for the Democratic Party, guides many decisions in Washington around these policies. The support a candidate receives from these financial behemoths is instructive in judging how far they would go as president in siding with progressives and bucking moneyed interests. Not to mention that failing to properly regulate and break up the nation’s largest banks — which are now bigger than they were before the 2008 crash and are again engaging in risky lending—could lead to another devastating crash, as Johns Hopkins University economics professor Lawrence Ball has warned.
The findings show that, despite candidates’ stated antipathy toward Wall Street, a number of them are benefitting greatly from executives and employees of these financial firms.
By far the candidate most favored by these 12 firms is New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who received a total of $88,492 from them over the first quarter.
Booker, who jumpstarted and then fuelled his political career with contributions from the finance world, has in recent years attempted to shed his Wall Street-friendly reputation. Booker drew particular scorn during the 2012 presidential campaign, when then-President Obama was leading a populist-tinged assault on opponent Mitt Romney’s time as head of private equity firm Bain Capital.
Booker called these criticisms “ridiculous” and “nauseating.” “Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright,” he said on Meet the Press, appearing to equate criticism of the industry to the racially tinged criticism of Obama’s relationship to Wright, his former pastor, throughout 2008. After getting a call from an Obama aide, Booker walked back his defense of private equity in a YouTube video in which he encouraged scrutiny of Romney’s business record. Then a few months later, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he described it as a “hostage video” and called filming it a “dumb decision.”
Since becoming a senator in 2013, however, Booker has voted consistently against weakening Wall Street regulations (though, unlike a number of other 2020 candidates, he has yet to join the calls for a reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act — the Depression-era legislation that separated commercial and investment banking, and whose partial repeal in 1999 is cited by some as a cause of the 2008 crisis). These latest donations, as well as those registered during the 2018 cycle, suggest Wall Street hasn’t let these votes sour it on Booker.
In total, Booker received a total of nearly $15,000 from eight J.P. Morgan Chase employees as well as $17,750 from nine employees of Morgan Stanley, including one financial advisor who manages the wealth of “a select group of ultra-high net worth” clients comprised of “entrepreneurs, senior executives, multigenerational families and foundations.” Ultra-high net worth individuals are the top tier of the wealthiest 1% — those with $30 million or more available to invest.
But it’s the private equity world that was most generous to Booker, who in the past quarter received a total of $49,500 from four of the world’s six largest firms. Booker received $10,200 from Blackstone, a firm awash in controversy for everything from its slumlord practices after snapping up much of the United States’ foreclosed housing stock to a plan hatched by one of its executives during the 2016 election to put Americans’ retirement savings into hedge funds. Booker received $2,800 from Blackstone’s executive vice chair, Hamilton “Tony” James, who in 2012 echoed Booker’s complaints about Obama’s criticisms of the private equity industry.
Apollo Global Management (AGM) has shown a particular affinity for Booker, with 28 of its employees showering him with a total of $32,100. Donors from AGM included not only investors and portfolio managers, but the firm’s chief legal and financial officers, four of its partners and the global head of its “human capital” division. Like many private equity firms, Apollo has been criticized for its use of leveraged buyouts to acquire businesses, often leading to job losses and even bankruptcy, as when cloud computing company Rackspace laid off 275 employees in 2017 mere months after being acquired by Apollo.
A distant second to Booker is New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who received a total of $46,600 from these 12 firms. Gillibrand took in $30,600 from the six largest U.S. banks, including $11,100 from four Morgan Stanley employees, and $5,600 from two Citigroup executives — chief operating officer (COO) Hamid Biglari and Managing Director Christina A. Mohr.
Like Booker, Gillibrand is also a prolific Wall Street fundraiser with a past checkered by siding with the industry in Congress who has, since Trump’s victory, worked to turn over a new leaf. The protégé of fellow New York Sen. Chuck Schumer — himself no slouch when it comes to soliciting hefty campaign contributions — Gillibrand has said in the past that “raising money is the very same effort as developing a grassroots advocacy.” Gillibrand had previously worked against instituting new rules around derivatives proposed by federal regulators, with the New York Times accusing her of “going against the cause of reform.”
Gillibrand has since moved sharply left in response to public opinion, establishing herself early as a consistent anti-Trump vote, joining calls to abolish ICE and even advocating to bring back Glass-Steagall. Yet she’s also been criticized for reaching out to Wall Street to fund her current bid for the White House, outreach that appears to have been reciprocated.
Gillibrand also received a total of $16,000 this quarter from private equity employees, including Apollo Senior Partner Laurence Berg, Warburg Pincus managing director Cary Davis and Carlyle Group managing director James Attwood. While Booker had the biggest total haul from Blackstone, the company’s president and COO, Jonathan Gray, donated to Gillibrand.
Then there’s California Sen. Kamala Harris, who received a total of $44,947 from these 12 firms. Harris, who was once branded a “bankster’s worst nightmare,” and has touted her prosecutorial record against banks as evidence of her progressive credibility, received donations from five executives of these firms. They include Blackstone managing director Tia Breakley, Morgan Stanley’s new head of international wealth management Colbert Narcisse, Bank of America senior vice president for diversity and inclusion Alex Rhodes, and Goldman Sachs vice president of financial crime compliance Margaret Cullum.
Harris’s most enthusiastic source of support among these firms, however, is Wells Fargo, from whose employees she received a total of $16,713 — the most funding from the bank out of any other candidate examined. The donors span multiple tiers of the bank’s hierarchy, from bankers and consultants, to a regional director and a manager, to executives like National Head of Cards and Retail Services Beverly Anderson, both of whom gave the maximum individual donation of $2,800 to Harris.
Wells Fargo’s generosity to Harris raises eyebrows for several reasons. For one, the bank was one of the key players in the 2008 financial crisis, paying billions of dollars worth of fines for its contributions to the crash, and it has continued to earn legal sanction for doing things like opening up accounts without customers’ consent and accidentally foreclosing on hundreds of customers between 2010 and 2015. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has called the bank “the poster child for greed, recklessness and illegal behavior,” and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has made it a particular target of her campaign, calling for the firing of its CEO and for colleges to stop letting it market financial services to students.
The other cause for concern is Harris’s role in the 2012 foreclosure settlement with Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Ally Bank, a key element of her current campaign pitch. While Harris played hardball to get more money from the firms, reporter David Dayen has called the settlement she helped negotiate “a blight on this country” for its grossly inadequate relief to foreclosed homeowners.
As a senator, Harris has opposed Trump’s rollback of Wall Street regulations and co-sponsored a bill giving state law enforcement the power to subpoena when investigating bank fraud, but has not as of yet called for the revival of Glass-Steagall. Harris has received criticism in the past for failing to prosecute OneWest Bank, run by now-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (who went on to donate to her Senate campaign), for fraudulent foreclosure practices, as well as her Mortgage Fraud Strike Force, which prosecuted a disproportionately small number of cases.
Other notable donations to Harris include $13,600 from investment managers at private equity firm TPG Capital, including Senior Partner Karl Peterson, a Goldman Sachs alum who financially backed Mitt Romney’s GOP campaign against Obama in 2012. Another is Michael Brownrigg, two-term mayor of Burlingame, Calif., current state senate candidate and private equity veteran. Brownrigg has praised “the China miracle in the 1990s,” which he calls a “successful anti-poverty program [that] was based on market incentives and entrepreneurship,” and which shows “private enterprise can be a powerful engine for social benefits” — statements that ignore the vast social and environmental costs of this “miracle.”
For their part, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg have received comparatively little from the six biggest banks — $12,987 and $9,035, respectively — and none from the top six private equity firms.
Both have generally been vague on their policy proposals. But O’Rourke has been criticized for his past votes, joining with Republicans to chip away at Wall Street regulations, including weakening the Volcker Rule, which bars banks from making speculative investments with ordinary people’s money. Buttigieg, meanwhile, described his aims as mayor as “generat[ing] economic growth and maintain[ing] confidence in the business community.”
While a couple of executives made donations to these candidates, such as $500 to Buttigieg from J.P. Morgan Chase COO Michael Ashworth and $500 to O’Rourke from Citibank Director Eric McMichael, most of their donations from these firms appear to be from lower-level employees, and typically number in the hundreds of dollars each, rather than thousands.
That doesn’t mean finance has avoided the two young upstarts’ campaigns entirely, however. Rather, their primary base of support from the finance world appears to be rooted in more regional entities. O’Rourke, for instance, has received maxed-out donations from executives and partners of finance firms such as Sanders Partners and High Desert Capital — both based in his hometown of El Paso — as well as Minneapolis/St. Paul-based Madeira Partners, Chicago’s Wicklow Capital and Denver-based KSL Capital Partners. KSL partner John Ege, who donated $5,600 to O’Rourke, previously worked at Merrill Lynch and for the anti-regulation Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte.
O’Rourke also received $1,000 from Robert Wolf, the former CEO of investment bank UBS Americas, who developed a close advisory relationship with Obama as one of his most loyal and effective fundraisers during his presidential campaigns. Wolf, a high-profile Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal supporter, went on to become the Clinton campaign’s “effective business surrogate” (in the words of John Podesta) and defended her rejection of reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act. Now, Wolf has become an enthusiastic and vocal backer of O’Rourke.
Buttigieg, meanwhile, has received many thousands of dollars from two partners of the South Bend-based private equity firm Great Lakes Capital, as well as an executive and several employees of venture capital and financial services firms Wicklow Capital, Chicago-based Chilmark Partners founder David Schulte, San Francisco-based Tao Capital Partners executive Isaac Pritzker and Seattle-based Second Avenue Partners co-founder Nick Hanauer. Hanauer has actually called for more progressive economic policies, warning his “fellow zillionaires” to reduce inequality.
Buttigieg also received $500 from Staci Barber, whose husband John Barber has served as managing partner of both Citi Private Equity and Cohesive Capital Partners. Other notable donations in Buttigieg’s filing are from 12 employees and three partners of McKinsey and Company, the controversial management consulting firm that has drawn outrage for working for various autocratic governments and ICE. One former McKinsey and Company employee described the organization as “missionaries for capital” (Buttigieg himself previously worked for the company, which he has called his most “intellectually informing experience”). He also received $2,800 from Joe Sifer, the executive vice president of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, particularly notable at a time when the party base is calling for an end to record-high defense budgets.
Sanders and Warren
Unsurprisingly, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who have spent virtually their entire political careers railing against the excesses of Wall Street and pledging to challenge and rein in corporate power, received the least amount of money from the six largest banks.
Sanders and Warren received $7,034 and $2,800, respectively, and their support came exclusively from lower level employees, such as managers, attorneys and bank clerks.
Employees of the top six private equity firms snubbed Sanders and Warren completely, giving zero contributions.
Warren and Sanders are not only receiving the least financial backing from employees and executives of the biggest banks and private equity firms in the world — they have the least support from executives of any financial institutions, period.
In fact, only three donors in Sanders’ and Warrens’ filings appear to be executives or partners at banks or financial firms of any size. Joseph Alsop, partner at venture capital firm Alsop Louie Partners, and Roger McNamee, managing director of private equity firm Elevation Partners, each gave $2,700 to Warren. For Sanders, it’s $500 from Paul Metzger, the chief technology officer of Dynasty Financial Partners, a firm that advises other investment firms how to grow their businesses.
Democratic presidential contenders have made much of the fact that they’re largely rejecting corporate PAC money. But as these early filings show, Wall Street higher-ups are still contributing to a number of 2020 candidates’ campaigns. And only a few months into the long race, as voters begin to survey the growing field, Wall Street already appears to have a clear hierarchy of preferences.
Branko Marcetic is a staff writer at Jacobin magazine and a 2019-2020 Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting fellow. He is the author of Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.
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The cheekiest thing Lester Piggott ever did in racing happened during the Grand Prix de Deauville in 1979. A bit over a furlong from the finish he dropped his whip, so he did what he had to, and stole another. His right hand went out, as he drew alongside at full gallop, towards the left hand of Michel Lequeux, and plucked his whip away. Thus armed, he whipped a path to the finish line.
This combination, exquisite balance and ruthless will, typified his whole career. He won 4,493 races in Britain, including 30 Classics. Among them were eight St Legers, six Oaks, five 2,000 Guineas, two 1,000 Guineas; and, nine times, the Epsom Derby, then the world's foremost race on the flat. When he won it first, in 1954 on Never Say Die, he was just 18; when he reached his ninth, in 1983, he set a record that still stands. At Royal Ascot, usually in front of the queen, he rode 116 winners. All these were on the flat, but he excelled at hurdles too, winning 20 from 56 rides. Eleven times he was Champion Jockey, with the most wins in a season.
Racing pundits said he thought like a horse, and there was some truth in that. He knew how horses felt. As an only child, and partially deaf, he had found it hard from childhood to make friends and get on with people. As an adult he was mostly silent, "Old Stoneface" as some called him, but he could mumble a good riposte if he wanted to. And with horses he had an understanding. He had grown up with them, his family involved in racing and training on both his father's and his mother's side, and at seven had been lifted onto his first racehorse to feel the raw quivering power of it. He could be almost eloquent as he described the secret of his riding: how, because a horse could not change the centre of gravity that lay behind its shoulders, he would adjust his own centre of gravity at every second and with every stride.
To achieve that he first starved his body, keeping it roughly two stone below his natural ten-stone weight: dry toast for breakfast, scraps of protein, no carbs, until his frame, tall for a jockey, was lean as a rake. Then he hit on the idea, when he was still a schoolboy racer, of shortening his stirrups and perching high above the saddle, almost bent in two. There, even at speed, he could keep his balance like a circus rider. Most other jockeys tried to copy him, but he was the first. Having mastered that extraordinary technique, he would then "encourage" a horse, as he thought of it, by laying on the whip in the last stages with a ferocity that could shock spectators, as when he bludgeoned his mount Roberto past Rheingold to win the Derby by a short head in 1972.
Yet it did not always work. Despite his 1979 whip-stealing he came second in that race, later relegated to third, to his disgust. You went out to win. That philosophy was his father's, whom he trotted after round the stables in the same flat cap and jacket: win, win, win. He won his first real race at 12, at Haydock Park, and was set like an arrow from then on. As a teenager he was often penalised for bumping other riders; he cut them up, they cut him up back. There were fewer cameras in those days. At Royal Ascot in 1954, when he was 18, he was suspended by the Jockey Club for reckless riding ("nothing really"). He was also ordered to leave his father's stable and serve his apprenticeship somewhere else.
This made no difference to his attitude. He was never a complacent stable jockey, content to do what trainers or owners wanted. He knew horses, and a rider like him did not need instructions. His best seasons were with Noel Murless, a royal trainer, in the late 1950s and Vincent O'Brien in the 1970s, but he left both in bitterness and, each time, went freelance. For him the only point of a stable connection was to find and ride the fastest horse. If that horse threw him, as one did at Longchamp, giving him a hairline skull fracture and headaches for years, he would be back riding, and winning, much sooner than doctors recommended.
About his mounts he was not sentimental. "He's a good horse" was his highest praise. Even the famous cruising Nijinsky, on which he won the Derby in 1970, "never felt as good to ride as he was". He liked Petite Etoile, a grey filly, for her flying speed as she won two Coronation Cups; The Minstrel, a brave little chestnut, because he triumphed in the Derby with no fear of the whip. On the gallops, rather than carefully assessing how much exercise the horses needed, he just wanted to test their best speed. When an exceptional mount appeared, he insisted on riding it in the next big race—no matter whether it was being kept for another jockey, or not. "Jocking off" was his speciality, and he felt no compunction about picking up the phone to plead his case to the owner.
In search of wins he travelled round the country, from racecourse to racecourse, riding through muck and rain, to win the Champion Jockey title, even though he got nothing for it. It peeved him intensely that in 1963 he lost the title by one race, on the last day of the season, to the great Australian jockey Scobie Breasley, and he made sure he won it for the next eight years. Money, though, was also an obsession. His mother had stressed the importance of getting cash and hanging on to it. If anyone asked him for any, he liked to joke that they were talking into his deaf ear. He gambled, too, and in 1985, after he had retired to be a trainer, he was found to have evaded tax for a decade and a half, which earned him a sentence of three years in jail.
It was all a great waste of time, he thought. The greatest waste was that, adding prison to retirement, he was out of the saddle for almost five years. Meanwhile, the racing world had expanded to take in America and even Hong Kong. He had bristled at the arrival in England of Steve Cauthen from the States in 1979, though he came to respect him. And in 1990 he staged his own remarkable comeback in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park, New York.
He was 54, 42 years older than when he had lifted his first cup at Haydock. For a while, on Royal Academy, he dawdled at the back of the field. Then he picked up speed and finished, by a neck, ahead of everyone else. Confident as ever, plucking the sting of age and disgrace, he won, as he had to. He said it was the most satisfying ride he had ever had.
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June 20, 2022, 12:45:22 AM
Odyssey, Fagle translation. Son is reading The Lord of the Rings to his daughter, so to provide a balanced education I am reading Homer to her. Lots of words for her to hear, and the rhythm appeals to her.
I know it's backwards, but the Iliad is a bit rough in places and I don't think she is ready for that yet.
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July 07, 2022, 07:08:08 PM
Joan by Katherine J Chen. The reviews make it sound like Joan of Arc, superwoman, not St.Joan. Looking forward to being lost in the middle ages.
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July 08, 2022, 12:32:31 AM
hemingway was a master at some things, and an annoying incompetent at others.
some of his stuff is published now from manuscripts that he never finished. some of it, like th egarden of eden, is damned good.
some, like islands in the stream, is good in parts and painfully bad in others.
he was a mixed blessing.
i have given my teenage number three son a collection of his short stories, and a hard copy of for whom the bell tolls, which i consider his finest work.
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July 13, 2022, 11:42:28 PM Last Edit: July 13, 2022, 11:45:10 PM by Shnozzola
.....the premise of sci-fi author Blake Crouch's new novel, "Upgrade".
"The book, which now has a film adaptation in the works, follows Logan Ramsay, who works for the Gene Protection Agency to root out criminals using gene editing illegally. He's also the son of a brilliant scientist who accidentally caused a mass-casualty famine when she tried to eradicate a leaf disease in China's rice paddies using experimental gene technology.
Ramsay finds himself at the center of a plot to upgrade humanity in order to save it from extinction when he's infected with a virus that rewrites huge swaths of his DNA. His genetic makeover gives him ultra-ramped-up memory and focus, perfect control over his autonomic nervous system, the ability to sense micro-changes in other humans, and a method for walling off emotion. But the upgrade has darker implications for the world when he unravels its creator's intentions."
Also slowly reading Metaxas's Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Ironically, the myriad of "god" beliefs of humanity are proving to be more dangerous than us learning that we are on our own, making the way we treat each other far more important
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July 20, 2022, 04:18:41 AM
Chess and chess strategy books:
and two on the way:
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July 20, 2022, 01:23:21 PM
Have you read "The Pride and sorrow of chess"? It is about Paul Morphy.
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July 20, 2022, 05:31:40 PM
Quote from: maritime on July 20, 2022, 04:18:41 AM Chess and chess strategy books:
and two on the way:
Also recommend Pawn Power by whoever.
"If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet ... maybe we could understand something." --Federico Fellini....."Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation" -Jellaludin Rumi,
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July 21, 2022, 03:50:24 AM
Quote from: Dexter on July 20, 2022, 01:23:21 PM Have you read "The Pride and sorrow of chess"? It is about Paul Morphy.
I have not but it looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.
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August 01, 2022, 04:07:26 AM
Quote Still standing at her podium, the distinguished conductor Marin Alsop wiped away a tear. She says she cannot remember the last time she cried onstage, but she was far from alone in feeling moved by the artistry of Lim Yun-chan. Ms Alsop had just conducted the 18-year-old South Korean pianist in Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 3" in Fort Worth, Texas—a performance that last month helped make him the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. A video of his mesmerising interpretation of "Rach 3", as the piece is known by pianophiles, has been viewed more than 5m times on YouTube.
Some classical musicians and aficionados think artists ought to have more experience of life before tackling works that demand emotional maturity, whether late Beethoven piano sonatas or Rach 3. Daniil Trifonov, a superb Russian pianist, decided not to perform the concerto early in his career because he didn't feel ready to convey its intensely passionate arc. But despite his youth Mr Lim "is an old soul", reckons Ms Alsop, as well as a "phenomenal talent" with "jaw-dropping technique", which complements "an innate musicality that is hard to fathom". He also has a fearsome work ethic: Mr Lim explains that his usual practice routine stretches from around 1pm until the following dawn.
A pianist and conductor as well as a composer, Rachmaninoff wrote the 40-minute concerto in 1909 and gave its premiere during a successful American concert tour in the same year. He practised on a cardboard keyboard during the long voyage from Russia. Other pianists of his generation were intimidated by Rach 3, which was mostly ignored until it was championed in the 1930s by the Kyiv-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz (whose recordings of it Mr Lim cites as an inspiration). Gary Graffman, an American pianist who is now 93, has said he regretted not learning the concerto when he was "still too young to know fear".
Rach 3's formidable reputation was reinforced by "Shine", a film of 1996 about David Helfgott, a troubled Australian pianist played by Geoffrey Rush (who won an Oscar); in the movie, Helfgott collapses from nervous exhaustion at the end of the concerto. It is a wildly emotional, lyrical piece that reflects the Russian romantic tradition, which Rachmaninoff continued as his peers experimented with avant-garde sounds. (Stravinsky began the groundbreakingly dissonant "The Rite of Spring" in 1911.) Some scholars have noted echoes of folk and liturgical music in the melancholic d-minor melody that opens Rach 3 and resurfaces throughout, though the composer denied any such influences, claiming the tune wrote itself.
Mr Lim plays this melody with a mournful dignity. At the beginning of the video he sits almost completely still, his hands barely moving over the keys. This initial restraint allows him to slowly build tension as the music ebbs and flows, until he renders the fiery climax of the third movement with exhilarating speed and force. Played by inferior musicians, Rachmaninoff's cascading notes often become a blur, but Mr Lim makes each crystalline, purposeful and often startlingly beautiful. After only two rehearsals, he and the accompanying Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra evince the chemistry of longtime collaborators. Their seemingly intuitive give-and-take imbues the complex score with an increasingly urgent pulse.
He was one of three pianists to take on the piece in the finals of the Cliburn, which bucked current trends and invited young pianists from Belarus and Russia to compete. Anna Geniushene, a Russian who has expressed solidarity with embattled Ukraine, won silver; Dmytro Choni, a Ukrainian, claimed bronze. (The contest is named after an American pianist who won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow at the height of the cold war.) But the headline news was the music itself. Anyone needing a break from doom-scrolling is advised to join the millions of listeners enthralled by Mr Lim's Rach 3.
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August 01, 2022, 05:49:41 AM
i could not do that.
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August 01, 2022, 08:59:04 AM
My college roommate could play that
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August 12, 2022, 03:27:38 PM Last Edit: August 12, 2022, 03:28:36 PM by maritime
Subscribed to The New Criterion. Can be read online though I prefer the hardcopy so anticipating its delivery.
Have a copy of The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester. Finished Wildest Alaska (Lituya Bay and Fairweather Fault history). Order in for George Gilder's Life After Capitalism, out Oct 22. Irving Chernev's The Chess Companion included E. B. White's "The Hour of Letdown", pretty funny. Also includes a few Morphy games that I read and followed on the board, and Bobby Fischer's 1956 match/win (at 13) with Donald Byrne. Had to start over several times; learning to read the notations (not the a-h/1-8 style).
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August 13, 2022, 04:32:04 PM Last Edit: August 13, 2022, 04:45:00 PM by Dexter
An absolutely amazing game. He sacrifices his queen, knowing that by doing so he will force a win in 6 moves. Audacious and incredible.
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August 14, 2022, 04:45:43 AM
Chernev remarks that "Morphy took twelve minutes over this move...."
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September 15, 2022, 03:30:41 PM Last Edit: September 15, 2022, 03:31:01 PM by maritime
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2022/09/07/issey-miyake-saw-clothes-in-a-completely-new-way
Quote In 2016, an elderly woman sent Issey Miyake a sheet of washi paper. It had been hand-made by her in Shiraishi, in northern Japan, from the inner bark of the gampi tree or the paper mulberry bush. Once soaked in water and dried in the sun, the fibres were tougher than those of wood pulp. For a thousand years washi had been used for everyday clothes, toys and priests' vestments; there had once been dozens of factories in Shiraishi. Now the only provider was this woman, who thought Japan's most famous designer might like a sample for his archive. But he did not store it away. His first thought was, what can I make with this?, and his first act was to pin it into the rough shape of a kimono jacket. All clothing in ancient times had started like this, as a simple rectangle of woven stuff from a hand-loom. That simplicity remained the touchstone from which his ideas sprang.
The world saw him as a fashion designer, a highly successful one, the name behind a brand that has around 300 stores worldwide and offshoots into scent, bags and furniture. But fashion itself did not interest him, nor the fame of a name. He hid from the commercial side, leaving that to well-trained deputies, while he stayed as a small cog of creativity, playful but self-effacing, travelling constantly to see local textiles and materials and, over much tea-drinking in his design laboratories, inspiring the team of daring minds he had gathered round him.
A designer's work, he kept insisting, was neither elitist nor frivolous. He was engaged in monozukuri, the art, science and craft of making things, and his vivid colours and extraordinary shapes had a serious purpose. He wanted his clothes to work in real life and to bring people joy. (Fuku, clothing, sounded much like the word for happiness.) That was no small aim. Yet he had to argue his case hard, first as a student who had no chance, as a Japanese male, to study clothing design, and then as a young designer, who had to go to Paris to learn his trade with Laroche and Givenchy when he found no encouragement and no respect at home.
As a maker he cared about every part of the process, from yarn to fabric to machinery. Almost anything could be turned into clothes. He used rattan, bamboo and paper, all of which had been tried in Japan long before, but forgotten. Recycled plastic and bottle caps, with an ingenious tweak in the process to soften their brittleness, were woven into shirts that he wore himself. Yarns derived from petrochemicals, rayon and nylon, were useful rather than despised. He actively favoured polyester, the fabric he used for his "Pleats Please" range, which when heat-pressed in layers of paper produced pleats that never crushed or lost their edge, fitting and swirling as beautifully after weeks in a suitcase as on the very first day of wearing. He had tried silk, but it hadn't worked.
Most fascinating, to him, was the way clothes worked with the human body and the space that lay between fabric and living skin. His clothes were not finished until they were being worn, lived and moved in, just as music was unfinished until it was played. Even his Bao Bao bags, wildly popular constructions of polyvinyl triangles on a hard mesh, changed shape as they were filled and adjusted themselves to the wearer. He moulded his fabrics to bodies in ways that looked hard and sculptural but were flexible and soft, making customers feel cocooned and courageous both at once. As a child he had wanted to be an athlete or a dancer, and on the catwalks of Paris and New York models sometimes danced in his clothes, to reinforce the point.
In Paris, witnessing the student revolt of 1968, he decided that his clothes should be not just for the upper bourgeoisie, but for everyone. (His prices were not exactly mass-market, but reasonable for haute couture.) That principle also lay behind "A Piece of Cloth" (A-POC), a computer-controlled process that produced tubular pieces of polyester jersey, woven from a single thread, which each customer could cut into their own seamless clothes. In 1999 his models launched the idea by parading in one continuous piece of red cloth, each robed slightly differently but all swathed together, like the ribs of a fan.
The first pieces of A-POC were produced on a disused machine that had once made fishing nets. Though he claimed to know nothing about machines, such chance discoveries delighted him. An older process could be used to realise a futuristic idea, technology as much as art. While tradition inspired him, optimism and nagging dissatisfaction drove him on, towards a time when gender in clothes could be forgotten, anyone could wear anything (as men could, and did, wear his pleats), recycled fabric became the norm, and pattern-makers, sweatshops and middlemen disappeared from the world of fashion.
His fixation on the future also had a deeper cause. In August 1945, at the age of seven, he saw the blinding red flash of the atomic bomb exploding over his city, Hiroshima, and the black rain that followed. He was just going back to class after morning assembly; instead he had to run home, desperate to find his mother among the crowds of panicking and burning people. She had survived, but was so badly burned that she died three years later. He himself was soon lamed by osteomyelitis, a disease caused by radiation. Among the striding and dancing models in his free and easy creations he walked with a broad smile, and with a limp.
This story lay hidden until 2009. He did not want to be known as the designer who had survived Hiroshima. The focus had to be shifted away from destruction, towards creation; away from shadows, to the light. As a young man struggling to survive in the blasted city, he had taken up painting, using his fingers because he could not afford brushes. On his way to classes he would pass the city's twin Peace bridges, East and West. The designer Noguchi Isamu, who later became his friend, had built concrete balustrades for them. Those on the West bridge ("To die, to depart"), ended with a broken flower-stalk plunging into the ground. Those on the East ("To live, to build") ended with flowers growing, lifting their heads to the dawning sun. Live, build. Make things.
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September 15, 2022, 03:41:22 PM
^wish I knew how to insert the photo of Issey Miyake
Left off with The Perfectionists by S Winchester. Too detailed, right now.
Also, part way into Belonging by N Krug
Plus, found Roger Penrose's 2004 The Road to Reality
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^not that one; the one from the article
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September 16, 2022, 05:03:31 AM
Quote from: maritime on June 19, 2022, 09:38:26 PM https://www.economist.com/obituary/2022/06/02/lester-piggott-had-only-one-aim-in-view
Quote Lester Piggott had only one aim in view
The best flat-racing jockey of the 20th century died on May 29th, aged 86
The cheekiest thing Lester Piggott ever did in racing happened during the Grand Prix de Deauville in 1979. A bit over a furlong from the finish he dropped his whip, so he did what he had to, and stole another. His right hand went out, as he drew alongside at full gallop, towards the left hand of Michel Lequeux, and plucked his whip away. Thus armed, he whipped a path to the finish line.
This combination, exquisite balance and ruthless will, typified his whole career. He won 4,493 races in Britain, including 30 Classics. Among them were eight St Legers, six Oaks, five 2,000 Guineas, two 1,000 Guineas; and, nine times, the Epsom Derby, then the world's foremost race on the flat. When he won it first, in 1954 on Never Say Die, he was just 18; when he reached his ninth, in 1983, he set a record that still stands. At Royal Ascot, usually in front of the queen, he rode 116 winners. All these were on the flat, but he excelled at hurdles too, winning 20 from 56 rides. Eleven times he was Champion Jockey, with the most wins in a season.
Racing pundits said he thought like a horse, and there was some truth in that. He knew how horses felt. As an only child, and partially deaf, he had found it hard from childhood to make friends and get on with people. As an adult he was mostly silent, "Old Stoneface" as some called him, but he could mumble a good riposte if he wanted to. And with horses he had an understanding. He had grown up with them, his family involved in racing and training on both his father's and his mother's side, and at seven had been lifted onto his first racehorse to feel the raw quivering power of it. He could be almost eloquent as he described the secret of his riding: how, because a horse could not change the centre of gravity that lay behind its shoulders, he would adjust his own centre of gravity at every second and with every stride.
To achieve that he first starved his body, keeping it roughly two stone below his natural ten-stone weight: dry toast for breakfast, scraps of protein, no carbs, until his frame, tall for a jockey, was lean as a rake. Then he hit on the idea, when he was still a schoolboy racer, of shortening his stirrups and perching high above the saddle, almost bent in two. There, even at speed, he could keep his balance like a circus rider. Most other jockeys tried to copy him, but he was the first. Having mastered that extraordinary technique, he would then "encourage" a horse, as he thought of it, by laying on the whip in the last stages with a ferocity that could shock spectators, as when he bludgeoned his mount Roberto past Rheingold to win the Derby by a short head in 1972.
Yet it did not always work. Despite his 1979 whip-stealing he came second in that race, later relegated to third, to his disgust. You went out to win. That philosophy was his father's, whom he trotted after round the stables in the same flat cap and jacket: win, win, win. He won his first real race at 12, at Haydock Park, and was set like an arrow from then on. As a teenager he was often penalised for bumping other riders; he cut them up, they cut him up back. There were fewer cameras in those days. At Royal Ascot in 1954, when he was 18, he was suspended by the Jockey Club for reckless riding ("nothing really"). He was also ordered to leave his father's stable and serve his apprenticeship somewhere else.
This made no difference to his attitude. He was never a complacent stable jockey, content to do what trainers or owners wanted. He knew horses, and a rider like him did not need instructions. His best seasons were with Noel Murless, a royal trainer, in the late 1950s and Vincent O'Brien in the 1970s, but he left both in bitterness and, each time, went freelance. For him the only point of a stable connection was to find and ride the fastest horse. If that horse threw him, as one did at Longchamp, giving him a hairline skull fracture and headaches for years, he would be back riding, and winning, much sooner than doctors recommended.
About his mounts he was not sentimental. "He's a good horse" was his highest praise. Even the famous cruising Nijinsky, on which he won the Derby in 1970, "never felt as good to ride as he was". He liked Petite Etoile, a grey filly, for her flying speed as she won two Coronation Cups; The Minstrel, a brave little chestnut, because he triumphed in the Derby with no fear of the whip. On the gallops, rather than carefully assessing how much exercise the horses needed, he just wanted to test their best speed. When an exceptional mount appeared, he insisted on riding it in the next big race—no matter whether it was being kept for another jockey, or not. "Jocking off" was his speciality, and he felt no compunction about picking up the phone to plead his case to the owner.
In search of wins he travelled round the country, from racecourse to racecourse, riding through muck and rain, to win the Champion Jockey title, even though he got nothing for it. It peeved him intensely that in 1963 he lost the title by one race, on the last day of the season, to the great Australian jockey Scobie Breasley, and he made sure he won it for the next eight years. Money, though, was also an obsession. His mother had stressed the importance of getting cash and hanging on to it. If anyone asked him for any, he liked to joke that they were talking into his deaf ear. He gambled, too, and in 1985, after he had retired to be a trainer, he was found to have evaded tax for a decade and a half, which earned him a sentence of three years in jail.
It was all a great waste of time, he thought. The greatest waste was that, adding prison to retirement, he was out of the saddle for almost five years. Meanwhile, the racing world had expanded to take in America and even Hong Kong. He had bristled at the arrival in England of Steve Cauthen from the States in 1979, though he came to respect him. And in 1990 he staged his own remarkable comeback in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park, New York.
He was 54, 42 years older than when he had lifted his first cup at Haydock. For a while, on Royal Academy, he dawdled at the back of the field. Then he picked up speed and finished, by a neck, ahead of everyone else. Confident as ever, plucking the sting of age and disgrace, he won, as he had to. He said it was the most satisfying ride he had ever had.
how are you gonna make a song called "the thong song" for this?
sounds boring already
how long after I type amen do I get the money?
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If Jesus believed in himself he wouldn't have been Jewish.
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Came to mind after listening to Sister Golden Hair the other day.
Love this story.
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September 21, 2022, 12:24:25 PM
I finished V. It was a lot less of a task than Gravity's Rainbow. I enjoyed it.
Just downloading the works of H.P. Lovecraft onto my kobo now.
will work on a few books from this list soon
I have read Dune, Foundation, Dahlgren, Gravity's Rainbow and 1984.
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September 22, 2022, 04:07:43 AM
That's interesting, a Kobo (company name an anagram for book).
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October 14, 2022, 03:54:06 PM
God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money by Lance Morrow
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October 16, 2022, 06:30:59 PM
Right now I am reading John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. I use "Libby" which is an app to check out books on line from my local library or I guess any library I get a card for. I would like to get a card for the NYC Public Library. I wanted to do it in person sometime when visiting the city but I guess I won't be doing that anytime soon because I broke my ankle in 2 places the other day. I suppose I will be doing a lot more reading in the next couple months.
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Believe it or not, the agency responsible for protecting U.S. currency is the United States Secret Service. The agency was founded on July 5, 1865, as part of the Department of the Treasury to combat the widespread counterfeiting of currency happening at the end of the Civil War.1
Combating counterfeiting remains core to preserving the integrity of the nation’s money.
The advent of high-tech printers and inks continues to raise the bar on what the federal government has needed to do to limit counterfeiting, leading to a range of new strategies.
To make U.S. paper currency more difficult to copy, there have been continual changes to the artwork, paper and ink. Summarized below are some of these recent changes.2
Portrait - The portrait has become much more sophisticated by becoming closer to a lifelike picture than the screen-like background it was previously. On counterfeit bills, the portraits often appear to be unclear or unnaturally white.
Border - The border design is now composed of intricate, crisscrossing lines that are clear and unbroken, distinguishing them from the smudged or broken lines of counterfeit bills.
Paper - The paper is now embedded with tiny red and blue fibers. A polyester thread is also woven inside $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills with “USA TEN, USA TWENTY” printed on it to match the denomination. This makes it nearly impossible for photocopiers to reproduce.
Ink - The ink used is a special, “never-dry” ink that can be rubbed off. This is not foolproof, however, since ink on some counterfeit bills can be rubbed off as well.
Microprinting - Surrounding the portrait are the words “The United States of America” in miniature letters. It appears to be a black line to the naked eye, and is how a photocopier would reproduce it.
Keep in mind that you are not reimbursed for any counterfeit currency that may come into your possession. So you are advised to be careful about the large bills you accept for payment.
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Certain city and government leaders have long-realized positive impacts art and other forms of creative expression can have on communities.
In Atlanta, filmmakers are provided with lucrative tax incentives to work there—a perk that regularly attracts talent, projects, and investments to the area. Meanwhile, non-profit organizations around the country dedicated to art regularly provide creative solutions and funding and embrace innovative thinkers with programs that intersect with a sense of community, advocacy, and social change.
Stacker explored how creatives in some U.S. cities are partnering with municipal leaders to promote cultural art spaces and serve as catalysts to help transform their communities.
For example, in 2016, L.A.'s Department of Cultural Affairs christened the art site "Current, L.A. Water" as the winner of the public art biennial. The goal was for "Current, L.A. Water" to start conversations about specific resources by depicting the narrative of water and its relationship to allied systems in the city. Murals, art, and other forms of expression help to tell a community's unique story by opening dialogue and revealing its history. It can also help to attract visitors to the space.
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Artists partner with community stakeholders in Los Angeles
Through partnerships like the Creative Strategist program, Los Angeles artists work with local community stakeholders to implement art-inspired solutions to social challenges. Initiatives such as the Countywide Cultural Policy link art and culture to the county's plans and policies to promote equity.
In most cases, funding for the arts is at a local level. 2020 funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, along with state and local governments, accounted for $1.47 billion in Los Angeles alone.
Artists conceptualize the urban design of a city in St. Paul, Minnesota
Minnesota's Public Art Saint Paul, in partnership with the city, places artists in roles that can help transform city systems. One such project, "Light the Plume," is a collaborative partnership between local St. Paul artists and STEM professionals that allows for research and development of environmentally friendly projects.
With projection lighting and animation, city residents can foster a relationship through their city's energy sources by calling a phone number which allows them to hear a poem while instantly prompting a plume light show.
Words of inspiration through sidewalk poetry in Cambridge, Massachusetts
To tangibly infuse art and literature into the city, Cambridge has become a municipal hub that embraces public artistic expression through the Sidewalk Poetry Program, launched in 2015.
In collaboration with the Department of Public Works and Cambridge's public library, the program encourages Cambridge residents of various ages to send their poetry to the project. The program embeds creative expression into concrete sidewalks within the community. To date, this collaboration between residents and the government has produced more than 20 poems stamped into the pavement of Cambridge.
New York's track record for creative inventions
New York has been home to a slew of innovators, from George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company or Luther George Simjian, who helped create the first ATMs.
This creative spirit was tapped in abundance during the COVID-19 pandemic when the New York Historical Society and Museum of the City of New York brought the museum experience to visitors in an outdoor setting. By expanding and utilizing this outdoor space, New Yorkers could access exhibits in a safe setting.
Atlanta's booming film industry
Georgia's film scene has exploded in recent years, a trend that will continue with the state Senate approving a $900 million film and TV tax credit in March 2022. The tax credit is meant to incentive filmmakers to experience the benefits of the state's thriving film industry with lucrative funding.
While Hollywood remains the central location for filmmaking in the U.S., Atlanta has dominated the South with TV and film projects such as "Stranger Things," "Atlanta," "Ozark," and "Black Panther" all filmed in the state.
During the 2021 fiscal year, Georgia spent more than $4 billion on film and TV production to equip itself with the proper infrastructure to support tax program incentives.
During the earlier stages of the pandemic, the state worked with filmmakers and streaming industries to ensure that Georgia's film scene would continue—even while other states chose to halt production operations.
The stimulated growth of education, training, and industry networking opportunities, including the Atlanta Film Festival, has allowed filmmakers to create more jobs, strengthen their networks and bring revenue to local businesses with their creative works.
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<section> <header> <ul> <li>Story name: How creatives are helping to reshape their cities</li> <li>Canonical URL: https://stacker.com/art-culture/how-creatives-are-helping-reshape-their-cities</li> <li>Written by: Leesa Davis</li> <li>Description: <p><a href="https://stacker.com/">Stacker</a> explored how creatives in the art world are helping to shape their communities through city and government partnerships. </p></li> </ul> </header> <article> <h2>How creatives are helping to reshape their cities</h2> <p>Certain city and government leaders have long-realized positive impacts art and other forms of creative expression can have on communities.</p> <p>In Atlanta, filmmakers are provided with lucrative tax incentives to work there—a perk that regularly attracts talent, projects, and investments to the area. Meanwhile, non-profit organizations around the country dedicated to art regularly provide creative solutions and funding and embrace innovative thinkers with programs that intersect with a sense of community, advocacy, and social change.</p> <p><a href="https://stacker.com/">Stacker</a> explored how creatives in some U.S. cities are partnering with municipal leaders to promote cultural art spaces and serve as catalysts to help transform their communities.</p> <p>For example, in 2016, L.A.'s Department of Cultural Affairs christened the art site "Current, L.A. Water" as the winner of the public art biennial. The goal was for "Current, L.A. Water" to start conversations about specific resources by depicting the narrative of water and its relationship to allied systems in the city. Murals, art, and other forms of expression help to tell a community's unique story by opening dialogue and revealing its history. It can also help to attract visitors to the space.</p> <p><strong>You may also like: </strong> <a href="https://stacker.com/stories/1490/most-popular-national-parks-america">Most popular national parks in America</a></p> <h2>Artists partner with community stakeholders in Los Angeles</h2> <p>Through partnerships like the <a href="https://www.lacountyarts.org/article/creative-strategist-program-evaluation">Creative Strategist program</a>, Los Angeles artists work with local community stakeholders to implement art-inspired solutions to social challenges. Initiatives such as the <a href="https://www.lacountyarts.org/CEIICulturalPolicy">Countywide Cultural Policy</a> link art and culture to the county's plans and policies to promote equity.</p> <p>In most cases, funding for the arts is at a local level. 2020 funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, along with state and local governments, accounted for $1.47 billion in Los Angeles alone.</p> <h2>Artists conceptualize the urban design of a city in St. Paul, Minnesota</h2> <p><span>Minnesota's <a href="https://publicartstpaul.org/">Public Art Saint Paul</a><span>, in partnership with the city, places artists in roles that can help transform city systems. One such project, "<a href="https://publicartstpaul.org/project/collaboratory/#about_the_project">Light the Plume</a>," is a<span> collaborative partnership between local St. Paul artists and STEM professionals that allows for research and development of environmentally friendly projects. </span></span></span></p> <p><span>With projection lighting and animation, city residents can foster a relationship through their city's energy sources by calling a phone number which allows them to hear a poem while instantly prompting a plume light show.</span></p> <h2>Words of inspiration through sidewalk poetry in Cambridge, Massachusetts</h2> <p>To tangibly infuse art and literature into the city, Cambridge has become a municipal hub that embraces public artistic expression through the <a href="https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/cambridge-chronicle-tab/2022/03/30/public-poetry-project-brings-works-everyday-cambridge/7170567001/">Sidewalk Poetry Program</a>, launched in 2015.</p> <p>In collaboration with the Department of Public Works and Cambridge's public library, the program encourages Cambridge residents of various ages to send their poetry to the project. The program embeds creative expression into concrete sidewalks within the community. To date, this collaboration between residents and the government has produced more than 20 poems stamped into the pavement of Cambridge.</p> <h2>New York's track record for creative inventions</h2> <p>New York has been home to a slew of innovators, from George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company or Luther George Simjian, who helped create the first ATMs.</p> <p>This creative spirit was tapped in abundance during the COVID-19 pandemic when the New York Historical Society and Museum of the City of New York brought the museum experience to visitors in an outdoor setting. By expanding and utilizing this outdoor space, New Yorkers could access exhibits in a safe setting.</p> <h2>Atlanta's booming film industry</h2> <p>Georgia's film scene has exploded in recent years, a trend that will continue with the state Senate approving a $900 million film and TV tax credit in March 2022. The tax credit is meant to incentive filmmakers to experience the benefits of the state's thriving film industry with lucrative funding.</p> <p>While Hollywood remains the central location for filmmaking in the U.S., Atlanta has dominated the South with TV and film projects such as "Stranger Things," "Atlanta," "Ozark," and "Black Panther" all filmed in the state.</p> <p>During the 2021 fiscal year, Georgia spent more than $4 billion on film and TV production to equip itself with the proper infrastructure to support tax program incentives.</p> <p>During the earlier stages of the pandemic, the state worked with filmmakers and streaming industries to ensure that Georgia's film scene would continue—even while other states chose to halt production operations.</p> <p>The stimulated growth of education, training, and industry networking opportunities, including the Atlanta Film Festival, has allowed filmmakers to create more jobs, strengthen their networks and bring revenue to local businesses with their creative works.</p> </article> </section> <script src="https://analytics.stacker.com/tracking/4ed3325a-0ec2-445a-8b8c-21a9e26157ed/script.js?source=republish"></script>
Story name: How creatives are helping to reshape their cities Canonical URL: https://stacker.com/art-culture/how-creatives-are-helping-reshape-their-cities Written by: Leesa Davis Description: Stacker explored how creatives in the art world are helping to shape their communities through city and government partnerships. How creatives are helping to reshape their cities Certain city and government leaders have long-realized positive impacts art and other forms of creative expression can have on communities. In Atlanta, filmmakers are provided with lucrative tax incentives to work there—a perk that regularly attracts talent, projects, and investments to the area. Meanwhile, non-profit organizations around the country dedicated to art regularly provide creative solutions and funding and embrace innovative thinkers with programs that intersect with a sense of community, advocacy, and social change. Stacker explored how creatives in some U.S. cities are partnering with municipal leaders to promote cultural art spaces and serve as catalysts to help transform their communities. For example, in 2016, L.A.'s Department of Cultural Affairs christened the art site "Current, L.A. Water" as the winner of the public art biennial. The goal was for "Current, L.A. Water" to start conversations about specific resources by depicting the narrative of water and its relationship to allied systems in the city. Murals, art, and other forms of expression help to tell a community's unique story by opening dialogue and revealing its history. It can also help to attract visitors to the space. You may also like: Most popular national parks in America Artists partner with community stakeholders in Los Angeles Through partnerships like the Creative Strategist program, Los Angeles artists work with local community stakeholders to implement art-inspired solutions to social challenges. Initiatives such as the Countywide Cultural Policy link art and culture to the county's plans and policies to promote equity. In most cases, funding for the arts is at a local level. 2020 funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, along with state and local governments, accounted for $1.47 billion in Los Angeles alone. Artists conceptualize the urban design of a city in St. Paul, Minnesota Minnesota's Public Art Saint Paul, in partnership with the city, places artists in roles that can help transform city systems. One such project, "Light the Plume," is a collaborative partnership between local St. Paul artists and STEM professionals that allows for research and development of environmentally friendly projects. With projection lighting and animation, city residents can foster a relationship through their city's energy sources by calling a phone number which allows them to hear a poem while instantly prompting a plume light show. Words of inspiration through sidewalk poetry in Cambridge, Massachusetts To tangibly infuse art and literature into the city, Cambridge has become a municipal hub that embraces public artistic expression through the Sidewalk Poetry Program, launched in 2015. In collaboration with the Department of Public Works and Cambridge's public library, the program encourages Cambridge residents of various ages to send their poetry to the project. The program embeds creative expression into concrete sidewalks within the community. To date, this collaboration between residents and the government has produced more than 20 poems stamped into the pavement of Cambridge. New York's track record for creative inventions New York has been home to a slew of innovators, from George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company or Luther George Simjian, who helped create the first ATMs. This creative spirit was tapped in abundance during the COVID-19 pandemic when the New York Historical Society and Museum of the City of New York brought the museum experience to visitors in an outdoor setting. By expanding and utilizing this outdoor space, New Yorkers could access exhibits in a safe setting. Atlanta's booming film industry Georgia's film scene has exploded in recent years, a trend that will continue with the state Senate approving a $900 million film and TV tax credit in March 2022. The tax credit is meant to incentive filmmakers to experience the benefits of the state's thriving film industry with lucrative funding. While Hollywood remains the central location for filmmaking in the U.S., Atlanta has dominated the South with TV and film projects such as "Stranger Things," "Atlanta," "Ozark," and "Black Panther" all filmed in the state. During the 2021 fiscal year, Georgia spent more than $4 billion on film and TV production to equip itself with the proper infrastructure to support tax program incentives. During the earlier stages of the pandemic, the state worked with filmmakers and streaming industries to ensure that Georgia's film scene would continue—even while other states chose to halt production operations. The stimulated growth of education, training, and industry networking opportunities, including the Atlanta Film Festival, has allowed filmmakers to create more jobs, strengthen their networks and bring revenue to local businesses with their creative works.
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Sep 27, 2019
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I had a car sideswipe me while on my touring bike that sent me into a curb and bent my fork on my very low miles almost new condition 85 Schwinn Le Tour Luxe and the fork is toast but somehow the front wheel survived as well as me even after flipping over the handlebars and landing on concrete. The dude took off of course, so much for the 3 foot Indiana law.
So I am now looking at touring bikes. I had my mind made up to get a Masi Giramondo 700c because it ticked all my boxes, even had the best gearing for climbing steep grades loaded...but then I discovered a problem and not sure if I want to pull the trigger now. The rear dropouts are just plain stamped steel and not forged, I contacted Masi about it and they responded quickly and said their dropouts have never failed even when heavily loaded, of course they're going to say that! So I'm wondering what some you think of this situation.
Thanks
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Jul 13, 2004
May 2, 2020
What no replies from the intellects here?
Well just in case someone stumbles onto this question and wants an answer I think I now have it.
When you are considering a used or new steel road bike with small diameter tubing the stays need to be beefed up with using a forged dropout. If you are buying a used or new steel mountain bike and play on using it off road you need a forged dropout. A forged dropout is less likely to bend than a stamped dropout. In my case I was looking at touring bikes, and all the ones I could afford did not come with forged dropouts which concerned me because all my steel road bikes with small diameter tubing all used forged dropouts. However I have an old steel Giant Rincon MTB that didn't use forged dropouts and I rode that one a bit rough with jumps, rocky stuff, etc and they did bend slightly which concerned me with the Masi Giramonda 700c I ended up with, but upon measuring the dropout thickness the Masi is 3 MM thicker than the Giant's 5mm thick dropouts. I also spoke to both Masi and the dealer about this and they both said basically the same thing for loaded touring it will hold up with no problem, but they said it wouldn't be recommended to a take this bike loaded and go do rough off road stuff with it.
So there is your answer, you don't need forged dropouts on a road touring bike, but it would be wise to make sure you know how thick they are before you buy. I personally would not trust a 5mm thick dropout on a road touring bike knowing how they got slightly bent on the Giant, but 8mm thickness would be fine, and probably even 7mm would be ok, but I feel the thicker the better.
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Jun 6, 2020
Froze said:
I had a car sideswipe me while on my touring bike that sent me into a curb and bent my fork on my very low miles almost new condition 85 Schwinn Le Tour Luxe and the fork is toast but somehow the front wheel survived as well as me even after flipping over the handlebars and landing on concrete. The dude took off of course, so much for the 3 foot Indiana law.
So I am now looking at touring bikes. I had my mind made up to get a Masi Giramondo 700c because it ticked all my boxes, even had the best gearing for climbing steep grades loaded...but then I discovered a problem and not sure if I want to pull the trigger now. The rear dropouts are just plain stamped steel and not forged, I contacted Masi about it and they responded quickly and said their dropouts have never failed even when heavily loaded, of course they're going to say that! So I'm wondering what some you think of this situation.
Thanks
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That seems kind of unusual for a modern quality touring bike and it would definitely make me rethink my purchasing decision. After all, you don't buy a new bike every time you plan a tour, so you'd like it to last and be happy with it. I would look for a different bike. However, if everything else on that bike is perfect and it is a really sweet deal. I have a commuter bike with stamped dropouts. It's a 1980's rebuild and on the first ride my rear axle shifted when hitting a bump in the road. I wasn't going to put up with that problem, so I took an old derailleur, cut off the mount and flipped it upside down to install it on the non drive side to stabilize the dropout and provide a stop for the axle. This works just as good as a forged dropout and certainly reenforces the existing dropout. Hope that helps.
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Jul 13, 2004
Jun 6, 2020
#4
That seems kind of unusual for a modern quality touring bike and it would definitely make me rethink my purchasing decision. After all, you don't buy a new bike every time you plan a tour, so you'd like it to last and be happy with it. I would look for a different bike. However, if everything else on that bike is perfect and it is a really sweet deal. I have a commuter bike with stamped dropouts. It's a 1980's rebuild and on the first ride my rear axle shifted when hitting a bump in the road. I wasn't going to put up with that problem, so I took an old derailleur, cut off the mount and flipped it upside down to install it on the non drive side to stabilize the dropout and provide a stop for the axle. This works just as good as a forged dropout and certainly reenforces the existing dropout. Hope that helps.
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Forged dropouts are only necessary on a steel road racing bike that uses small diameter chain/seat stays with thin dropouts to keep the weight down, so they add forged dropouts the the better steel bikes to give it much greater strength. On my 92 Giant Rincon...well it's a cheap bike with cheaper steel, plus I did abuse it on rough off road riding on mountain trails, so after some banging around after some years the dropouts bent just very slightly. Obviously I won't be using the Masi like that, besides almost all touring bikes do not have those forged dropouts UNLESS you buy something like an Atlantis using thin stays and thin dropouts.
I looked at almost a dozen touring bikes at prices I could afford and they all didn't have forged dropouts, brands like Fuji, Jamis, Trek 520 or the 920, Salsa, Surly, Kona, Dawes, Giant, and Raleigh.
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Protected by law but threatened by trade, rare and endangered parrots native to Indonesia are frequently sold via Facebook in the Philippines, a new survey has found.
The analysis of online sales, government seizures and trade data compiled by the U.K.-based wildlife trade watchdog TRAFFIC indicates strong market demand in the Philippines for birds native to Indonesia.
Though officials have stepped up seizures, researchers say regulation of online sales remains absent or inconsistent, and warn that poached birds could potentially be sold from the Philippines to other countries.
Researchers surveyed 20 Facebook groups known to sell wild birds between January 2018 and December 2019, finding 501 posts by vendors in the Philippines selling a total 841 birds native to Indonesia. These species, which aren’t found in the Philippines, were mostly native to the eastern Indonesian islands of Papua and the Wallacea biodiversity hotspot.
Researchers identified 25 different species of birds from the posts, 24 of which were regulated by CITES, the global convention on the wildlife trade.
Serene Chng, one of the report’s authors, said researchers scanned sales posts for visual indications that the birds had been caught in the wild: birds that appeared injured or had missing feathers from being caught, or lacked tags used by captive breeders like microchips or closed rings around their legs. More than half of the posts analyzed advertised birds the researchers suspected were wild-caught.
The most common bird found among the trading posts was Eclectus roratus or the eclectus parrot, with 281 birds found for sale, followed by the sulfur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita, 152 found) and the white cockatoo (Cacatua alba, 80), which is an endangered species.
“These three species, they’re not considered difficult to breed in captivity,” Chng said. “But nonetheless they ultimately continue to be poached from the wild for trade because there’s continued evidence, records of them being poached from the wild, there’s declining wild populations and confiscation from smuggling attempts so we do know that in addition to birds that are bred there’s continuous offtake from the wild.”
Prior to publishing the report, the researchers notified Facebook of the 20 groups that displayed offers for allegedly wild-caught birds. While Facebook removed the 20 groups, TRAFFIC noted that it had found 144 new groups selling birds as of January 2022.
Chng said this is an example of a consistent pattern: researchers from groups like TRAFFIC will alert Facebook or other platforms about illicit sales and the groups will disappear, only for others to pop up in their place later on. Though repetitive, she said, the effort of constantly reporting this activity effectively discourages smaller sellers.
“In established groups that have been there for a while, there’s more opportunities for stronger trader-seller connections to be formed because they have their own network and they’re maintained, but when these [networks] are disrupted … these can take time to be reestablished,” she said.
Boyd Leupen, a program officer for the Monitor Conservation Research Society who has studied Indonesia’s domestic bird trade, says the international sales of birds is a fraction of the local demand. This, he says, could be because the Philippines has domestic songbird populations that would satisfy the market, while Indonesia “has a unique songbird-keeping culture, which may be less present in the [Philippines].”
“Whereas parrots make up 99% of the trade in the [Philippines] report, they are a minority in the [Indonesian] domestic market where their trade numbers are dwarfed by those of songbirds (Passeriformes),” he said, adding that parrots are also in demand internationally.
Though he hasn’t conducted on-the-ground market studies in Indonesia since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Leupen noted an increase in the online domestic trade of songbirds. He pointed to a recent survey that scraped more than 100,000 online sale posts to find 247 different species of songbird for sale in Indonesia’s domestic market between April 2020 and June 2021.
Leupen noted that trade in songbirds and in parrots appear to be largely separate, but both indicate a need for stronger enforcement.
“In 2018 the [Indonesian] Government revised the protected species list, adding many bird species, which could be seen as an effort to better regulate trade,” he wrote. “However, bird trade in [Indonesia] is so culturally entrenched that illegal or unsustainable trade are often not an enforcement priority.”
Chng also emphasized the need for tighter enforcement, noting that while seizures by authorities in the Philippines and Indonesia are increasing, the unofficial trade continues to flourish.
The TRAFFIC report also compared trade data from the Philippine government and other countries, noting that the Philippines reported exports of 1,034 birds of 21 species between 1979 and 2019, but other countries reported receiving eight times that total. And while the country already has legislation banning trade of wildlife from any seller without a permit, the report found exports of six bird species listed under CITES Appendix I, for which commercial trade is prohibited, and for which there are no approved export facilities in the Philippines.
One potential solution Chng recommended is to hold regular inspections of licensed breeding facilities, adding this is an issue globally.
“There’s so many examples of registered breeding facilities that are not actually breeding birds or any other type of animal,” she said. “They are taking animals from the wild and they’re holding them, selling them and passing them off as captive bred.”
An independent inspector, she added, “can have a look at [a] place and say there’s no way there’s breeding going on here.”
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When the sun sets, take a look at the natural features around you to see why they’re so special. Some mountains and waterfalls have trout streams that are perfect for fishing; others have hiking trails that will take you to beautiful valleys or riverside towns.
If you love snowmobiling, be sure to check out the trails in your area. And if hunting is your thing, there’s always an opportunity somewhere…even on city streets during deer season. Finally, don’t forget about nature’s other inhabitants: monarch butterflies, bears and birds of all kinds.
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Sunset is a great time to explore the natural features around you. Watch as the mountains, waterfalls, valleys and rivers come alive with color as the sun sets.
Consider hiking or snowmobiling in some of your favorite scenic areas – there’s sure to be something for everyone on these trails. If fishing is your sport of choice, head for trout streams where you can catch plenty of delicious fish.
Wintertime also offers hunting opportunities: deer, elk and mountain lions are all good targets. Finally, don’t forget about Northern Michigan’s beautiful scenery when driving in your car – take a drive along our Trout Streams or Snowmobile Trails today.
Yes, there is hiking at Sundown Forest. You can explore the forest’s natural features like cliffs, valleys and waterfalls while you’re out hiking. Make sure to bring a map with you so that you know where all of the trails are located.
The forest is open daily from sunrise to sunset, so there’s always something new to see. If you’re looking for more adventures in the area, be sure to check out other nearby forests too.
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Yes, Sundown Forest offers hiking opportunities at any time of day or night. The forest is also home to waterfalls and valleys that offer incredible views of the surrounding mountains.
There are a variety of trails that wind their way through the forest, making it easy for hikers of all levels to find something fun and challenging to do. If you’re looking for an outdoor adventure that will leave you feeling refreshed and energized, Sundown Forest is definitely worth checking out.
For more information on hiking at Sundown Forest, be sure to visit their website or contact them directly via phone or email.
Yes, there are hiking trails at Sundown Forest that will take you to trout streams. The forest is located in the Appalachian Mountains and has a variety of terrain including hills and valleys.
There are several different hikes that can be done depending on your level of experience and fitness level. The forests provides an abundance of wildlife which includes deer, raccoons, foxes and more.
Make sure to always wear proper attire when visiting the forest as weather conditions can change quickly
Yes, there is hiking at Sundown Forest. The trails are well-maintained and offer a variety of options for hikers of all levels. There are several scenic overlooks that visitors can enjoy while on the trail.
Make sure to bring plenty of water and snacks with you because it can get pretty hot out there. Be prepared for mosquitoes, snakes and other wildlife – just like anywhere else in nature..
Yes, there is hiking at Sundown Forest. The forest offers opportunities for hunting deer, turkey and hogs. You can also explore the trails to find hidden treasures or take in the views of the surrounding area.
Please be aware that hunting is prohibited on certain parts of the property, so please read the regulations carefully before you go out into nature. Sundown Forest is a great place to spend some time outdoors with family and friends – make sure to check their website for updated information on how to access this amazing park.
Yes, there are snowmobile trails at Sundown Forest that you can hike on if you want to get a little exercise. The trails are easy to follow and make for a scenic walk through the forest.
Make sure to wear proper safety gear and sensible shoes when hiking in the woods, as accidents can happen quickly in wintertime conditions. Be aware of weather conditions before heading out; bad weather can cause dangerous ice patches on the trails that could trip you up or worse.
If you decide to take a stroll through Sundown Forest, be sure to bring along your camera because capturing beautiful landscapes is definitely worth it.
There is no hiking at Sundown Forest, but there are many beautiful trails to explore.
I have been working in the outdoor industry for the past 5 years.
I have been leading hikes and backpacking trips up to 10 miles in length through some of the most beautiful terrain in New England. But my favorite thing to do is to take people on day hikes and teach them about the area’s natural history, geology, ecology, and wildlife.
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In a speech in Iowa, the former attorney general called voting rights the “defining civil rights issue of our time.”
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at Drake University on February 12, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall/AP
Former Attorney General Eric Holder became the latest in a long line of Democrats to visit Iowa on Tuesday, giving a speech in Des Moines that increased speculation about a presidential bid.
Since stepping down as the country’s first African American attorney general, Holder has chaired the National Democratic Redistricting Trust, which focuses on combatting Republican gerrymandering efforts and making voting laws fairer. Holder emphasized the fight for voting rights in a speech at Drake University Law School, suggesting that he would make these issues a centerpiece of a presidential run.
“In far too many places, elections are not fair,” Holder said. “The system is being rigged by politicians who are willing to bend or break the rules in order to stay in power. This explains why—more than half a century after the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965—for too many Americans, the right to vote and the assurance that every vote is counted fairly remains under siege.” He called the struggle for voting rights the “defining civil rights issue of our time.”
Holder has said he’s undecided about a presidential bid and told me recently he would make a decision by early March. But he certainly sounded like a would-be candidate in Iowa. He played up his personal biography as the grandchild of immigrants and highlighted former President Barack Obama’s “upset win” in the Iowa caucuses in 2008—something he may also be seeking as a long-shot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I am dissatisfied, just as so many of you are dissatisfied, with the inequities that continue to divide us, the injustices all around us, and the refusal of some elected leaders to rise to this defining moment,” Holder told law students at Drake. “That’s why I cannot be silent—and I hope you won’t be silent—as our nation confronts this time of challenge and consequence.”
During an interview in Washington last week, Holder told me he wanted to see the Democratic candidates for president focus more on voting rights issues. “Democracy protection, voting rights, has broken through,” Holder said. “But interestingly, at least for now, it has not necessarily broken through with the presidential candidates. It is something that I think people who are going to seek the nomination of the party and ultimately represent the party should talk about, because it’s a winning one. Also, it’s a critical issue. It’s as important as all the other things that people are focusing on—health care, climate.”
Thank you, Jack [O’Brien], for that kind introduction. It’s a pleasure to be with you and your classmates, with Dean [Jerry] Anderson and Drake Law’s outstanding faculty and with so many distinguished alumni and members of Iowa’s bench and bar.
I’d also like to thank my friend Tom Vilsack for inviting me to join you today. Tom was my colleague in Washington, but he brought Iowa with him. The Obama administration, and the country, are better for his efforts and the perspective he brought to our work.
Thank you all for welcoming me back to Des Moines. I first got to know this city and some of the friends in this room about this time of year in 2007 when I began traveling to Iowa on behalf of a long-shot presidential candidate who inspired me with his optimism and his vision for our country
It was almost a year later, on a cold January night in 2008, when my friend Barack Obama pulled off an upset win in the Iowa caucuses, that the call to put our nation on a new path was first sounded.
That’s why I’ve returned today: to discuss what must be a new chapter in an important ongoing conversation about the challenges we face as a nation, the progress that’s now at stake, and the future we can and must build together.
Like so many of the people I’ve met in this city and across this great state, I was raised by parents who deeply loved this country.
My father was a World War II veteran who, like all four of my grandparents, emigrated to the United States from Barbados. They arrived in New York City with little more than a sense of America’s history and an unwavering faith in the promise and potential of the American Dream.
Their America, like ours today, was not perfect. My family faced discrimination and a legal system that did not provide equal protection to all people. But they seized every chance to improve their circumstances and enrich their community. And they never stopped believing that this nation was constantly moving toward greater freedom and fairness.
They were right.
The progress we’ve witnessed even in my own lifetime, and especially for people of color, is nothing short of extraordinary.
I remember the pride I felt as a young child as I cheered on the first team I ever rooted for, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and their star second baseman, Jackie Robinson.
I remember the awe I felt as a teenager watching the famous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” as two courageous black students, including a young woman named Vivian Malone—who later became my sister-in-law—stepped past Gov. George Wallace to integrate the University of Alabama.
I felt the scope of my own dreams expand the day I saw Thurgood Marshall take his historic place on our nation’s highest court.
And decades later, I was very privileged to serve as our nation’s 82nd attorney general, in the Cabinet of our first African American president.
When I consider the opportunities I’ve had—that my three children have today, but that my parents did not—I feel blessed beyond measure. We have had made enormous progress as a nation.
Yet I recognize, as we all do, that significant challenges remain.
There are still too many adults and children who face discrimination and have limited opportunities because of who they are, where they live, how they look, where they come from, what they believe, or who they love.
To paraphrase Dr. King: We should be dissatisfied about that.
We should be dissatisfied that so many women; Latinos; Asian Americans; Native Americans; lesbian, gay, and transgender Americans; and people with disabilities still yearn for equal opportunity and fair treatment.
We should be dissatisfied that income inequality is expanding unchecked as we live through a new Gilded Age.
We should be dissatisfied that so many black parents need to have the same conversation I’ve had with my teenage son—“the talk” that so many families of color must have in order to protect their children—about how to safely interact with law enforcement.
And as the brother of a retired police officer and someone who’s spent my entire career working hand-in-hand with law enforcement, we should be dissatisfied that the bad actions of a few have sown fear and mistrust of so many dedicated, selfless, honorable women and men who wear the badge and who risk their lives to keep our communities safe.
We should be dissatisfied with an administration rife with corruption, stunning incompetence, and shameful intolerance.
Most of all, we should be dissatisfied by that same administration’s total abdication of moral and policy leadership and its failure to address the many other urgent challenges we face:
A democracy that’s under attack.
A climate crisis that’s ignored.
And racial and cultural divisions that are weaponized and exploited for political gain.
The unfortunate fact is that even today, two decades into the 21st century, America’s long struggle—to overcome injustice, to eradicate violence, and to eliminate disparities—is far from over. The age of bullies and bigots is not fully behind us. And so much of the progress that has defined and distinguished our great nation now hangs in the balance.
There is still work to do. There are still hearts to open and laws to change. And there is an urgent need for leaders who reflect—or, at the very least, understand—our nation’s core values.
Instead of trying to build consensus toward common goals, some are obsessed with building walls. And far too many are willing to stoke fear and anger among a small faction of voters just to gain short-term political advantage.
They are willing to separate families at our borders, to take babies from their parents, to deny the contributions of immigrants and the gift and strength that is our immigrant heritage, to exploit DREAMers as a political bargaining chip, and even to shut down our government, subjecting thousands of families to hardship for an ineffective, medieval border control solution.
They question the credibility and competence of judges, erode the protections of our Constitution, and undermine the independence of both federal law enforcement and the Justice Department.
They put the press at risk, labeling its members “enemies of the people.” They favor corporations over our environment, alienate our closest allies, unravel beneficial international agreements, and even flatter dictators—including the one who interfered in our elections.
They demonize those who kneel in peaceful protest while defending those who march with Nazis. To them, even acknowledging the simple fact that black lives also matter is enough to spark outrage.
The true outrage is that all of this—the fear they stoke, the divisions they exploit, the basic facts they wage war against every day—it all amounts to little more than a political strategy: a destructive and deeply cynical attempt to scare people and win elections.
The good news is that cynicism doesn’t work for long, and that the vast majority of Americans are not cynical people.
I’ve seen this firsthand. During the Obama administration, I became the first attorney general in history to visit all 50 states, and in the past year, I’ve been back to 25 states. I’ve spoken with hardworking Americans from Detroit to Atlanta, from Las Vegas to Charleston. So you can take my word for it: America is better, and America is bigger in heart, than our small-minded leaders imagine it to be.
Intolerance and cynicism may appear to be gaining strength, but that’s simply not the case when our elections are fair and the true spirit of our people is accurately reflected.
The bad news is that in far too many places, elections are not fair. The system is being rigged by politicians who are willing to bend or break the rules in order to stay in power.
This explains why—more than half a century after the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965—for too many Americans, the right to vote and the assurance that every vote is counted fairly remains under siege.
To me, this is the defining civil rights issue of our time, because it strikes at the heart of who we are as a country. The ability of all eligible citizens to have an equal voice in our democracy is not a privilege—it is a right.
Yet many Republicans are doing everything they can to make it more difficult for our government to express and execute the will of the people, through brazen gerrymandering, discriminatory voter ID laws, active voter suppression, or the unnecessary purging of voter rolls.
If you think I’m exaggerating, consider this: The first bill introduced by Democrats in the new Congress would make Election Day a federal holiday. This would strengthen our democracy by making it easier for Americans of all political persuasions to cast a ballot.
So, how did Republicans respond?
The Senate majority leader called it a “power grab”—because he knows the best strategy for Republicans to keep their majority is not to make their case to the people, but to make it as hard as possible for the people to vote.
This isn’t just shameful; it’s antithetical to our system of representative government.
Democracy itself should never be a partisan issue.
But unfortunately, the strategy is working.
In 2012, 1.5 million more Americans cast votes for Democrats for Congress, yet Republicans won a 33-seat majority.
In 2016, despite winning fewer than half of all votes for Congress, Republicans again won a 33-seat majority.
And this past November, after Democrats won the midterm elections by 8.6 million votes—the most decisive and lopsided margin since Watergate—Republican gerrymandering prevented that blue wave from becoming the tsunami it should have been by preventing many voters from being heard.
That’s not fair. It’s not just. And it’s not how our elections are supposed to work.
That’s why, after I left the Justice Department, I helped launch the National Democratic Redistricting Committee to stop this assault on voting rights, to restore the power of every voter to participate in our democracy, and to make our electoral system more fair.
And through the National Redistricting Foundation, we’re supporting a group of individuals, from Maryland, Florida, Texas, Nevada, California, and Arizona, who are challenging the administration’s unconstitutional attempt to play politics with the 2020 census.
Let’s be clear: Getting an accurate census count isn’t partisan. This critical effort should appeal to our shared values. And it should unite Americans from across the political spectrum.
So it’s disappointing that we can’t seem to persuade Republicans to join us.
I would welcome their help, and I’ve repeatedly asked for it. But I haven’t found much engagement, or any meaningful partnership, from those on the other side of the political aisle.
Perhaps they’re just too busy figuring out how to “make America great again.”
You know, every time I hear that phrase, I wonder: When, exactly, do they have in mind? When do they think America was great?
What time period do they want to wind the clock back to?
What century? What decade? What year?
Certainly it was not when people were enslaved.
Certainly it was not when segregation was the law of the land.
Certainly it was not when women were disenfranchised, or when LGBTQ Americans were denied their most basic rights.
This sort of thinking, this “make America great again” mindset, is not only flawed. It’s rooted in a fear of the future. And it’s inconsistent with who we are and who we’ve always been as Americans.
Americans have always embraced the possibility of an uncertain future over the comfort of a lived past. It is this attitude that has made the American nation—in its totality, despite its imperfections—truly exceptional. And unless you are descended from native people or from those who were brought here by force, it’s what inspired you or your ancestors to set out for our shores in the first place.
Like my own parent. Like the people I’ve met here in Iowa and all across the country, my reverence for America runs deep. Yet after spending my career as a prosecutor and a judge; as a US attorney; and, for six years, as attorney general of the United States, I am clear-eyed about the realities we face, and about the fact that America’s promise of equality, opportunity, and justice has not yet been achieved.
I am dissatisfied, just as so many of you are dissatisfied, with the inequities that continue to divide us, the injustices all around us, and the refusal of some elected leaders to rise to this defining moment.
That’s why I cannot be silent, and I hope you won’t be silent, as our nation confronts this time of challenge and consequence.
Together, we must call out and throw out public officials who seek power by bringing out the worst in us. Now, in that effort we must seek civility—but not at the expense of either truth-telling or the protection of treasured principles.
The fact is: America is at its best when we face difficult questions and hard truths.
America is at its best when we open our arms and widen the circle of opportunity for everyone who loves this country enough to make it their home.
America is at its best when our politics reflect this country’s bold and generous spirit, and when our leaders summon the vision to lead us toward a brighter future and the resolve to deal honestly with the world as it is, not how they imagine it to be.
Think of how Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, held our nation together as political divisions were spilling into violence and splitting it apart. America had never faced such a crisis. Yet Lincoln responded with moral clarity and with unwavering strength. He called this nation to enormous, bloody sacrifice in the hope that our Union might be preserved and the evil of slavery abolished. Iowa sent over 10 percent of its population to fight to create a free America—more than any other state—and lost over 2 percent of its population in the struggle.
Lincoln’s true genius wasn’t his political savvy, his skill as a public speaker, or his mastery of the law. It was his capacity to ultimately see all Americans as human beings: as citizens who deserve dignity; as individuals whose rights must be protected; and as women and men, all created equal, who have roles to play in advancing our great American experiment.
The effort of Lincoln is now ours to take up.
It is yours to take up.
After all, you share his profession.
You will soon be much more than students of the law; you will be stewards of our justice system, which means you will come to know firsthand that the law is not an abstraction.
It is an instrument of justice.
It is a force that affects people’s lives, for good or for ill.
And it is a powerful tool for transforming our society into one that serves the interests of the many rather than the few.
How you will use this tool and how you will rise to this moment in history is up to you.
Will you accept and be satisfied with things as they are? Or will you dare to envision a better world and spend your life helping to create it? The law is an instrument not merely to make a living but also to make a difference. Your obligation is not to do well but to do good.
Throughout history, our nation has been elevated by leaders, and very often lawyers, who have reached for something better, who summoned our better angels: by standing up for the rule of law, by fighting on behalf of the vulnerable, by tearing down walls of division, and by leading the struggle for equality.
The capacity for monumental change is within us. It is within you.
So I ask you to join me in rededicating ourselves to America’s enduring values, to our common goals, and to our collective responsibility—as lawyers and as citizens—to serve the country we love.
I urge you not to give in to disappointment, frustration, or anger. Because I still believe what my parents so often told me as a child: that America’s best days are yet to come.
As I look around this room, especially at the young people who will soon begin their legal careers, I have no doubt this is true.
I stand at this great law school this afternoon knowing that though we are separated by decades in age I am united with all of you in important ways. Our country has come a long way since the years I was at law school, yet it is still in need of talented, young lawyers like you. Today more than ever we need to lift each other up, empower one another to make our country a better place, and dedicate ourselves to the creation of that more perfect union. I am optimistic that together, we can create a nation that is finally true to its founding ideals. I look forward to working with all of you in this great endeavor.
Thank you.
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Its been a while since I saw a crapfest such as this. From the start it was clear that I was going to despise the flick, although the full frontal nudity in the beginning wasn't half-bad. Why anyone, especially a female, would want to skinny dip alone in a old secluded lake is beyond me, but we get alot of that here. In fact there's one sequence where a group of seven girls, just finish a basketball game and decide to get fully naked and take a dip in the lake. Although this was supposedly set in the 50s it was clearly made in the 80s, and I guess bathing suits weren't a necessity back then. The story revolves around a town that's plagued by rumors of missing people around the 'lake of the damned' a name dubbed after a number of German soldiers were massacred and thrown into the lake.The story behind the lake goes back to the times of the inquisition where the lake was once thought to be a place of sacrafice to please the gods, and without one, they will rise from the depths of the lkae wrecking all sorts of havoc. This leads to our dead Nazi rising from the lake and doing harm to anyone who decides to trespass; apparently they weren't properly sacraficed.
There's a 20 minute sequence explaining everything, or more specifically, showing us what happened since there's little to no dialogue throughout the entire sequence. In fact, there are many scenes in the movie that have no dialogue, which probably would'nt have done the movie much good anyway, especially with its incredibly slow pacing. There are even some scenes that last entirely too long, while others are just poinless. Whether it was intentional or not,there a funny scene involving a zombie returning home to greet his daughter(who wasn't born when he died),giving viewers what we want while watching a zombie film -- faimly bonding and much needed dramatic pauses.
Speaking of dumb zombies, the basic make-up is green -- yes there are no huge gashes, or clearly rotted flesh, but instead we have zombies that are just a little too moldy . On the plus side, there is a decent part in the film where the zombies decide to run amok in the town, although you wouldn't know it since it was way too damn dark to see what was going on, which was another continuing occurrence thoughout the film. You hardly guess this was a zombie movie since there was zero gore. Thats 90 minutes of my life I will not get back. I've seen some pretty bad zombie flicks in my years and this is another one to add to that list.The only thing that made it watchable was all the excessive nudity, but even then it was barely worth anyone's time. Avoid at all cost!!
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The opening went very well, thanks for asking. Lots of lovely people turned up and I think we all had a time of it. Thank you to everyone who was able to come and show their support. I was getting so nervous I could hardly tell which way was up, but usually someone would grab me and show me where the ground was located. The show looked great and the folks at The Duke were amazingly attentive and let me be as fussy as I pleased.
I even sold a picture!
In other crazy news Im no longer working for my Dad. I don’t know if I could really explain what happened, but I decided that it would be better for our relationship if I wasn’t an employee – and the result of that is currently that we don’t have a relationship at all! That sure backfired! At any rate, I’m not grinding my teeth in my sleep anymore so on some level it must have been the right decision. I just hope Dad comes to that conclusion too before he tells all of Adelaide and the world in general what a horrible little ingrate I am, which from what I have gathered is his current position on the matter.
Happily for me Louise from the UniSA School of Art gave me a call and asked if I would be interested in teaching more classes this semester. Synchronicity is a marvellous thing. So I’m only very temporarily unemployed – which is wonderful otherwise I’d have to sell the newcarpayment. As much as I hate to admit it, it really is so very nice having some shiny wheels to get about in. I get so much done!
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tatiana on February 26, 2005 at 7:58 pm said:
{hello-hello) and big congratulations! looks swell and i wish i was there! want more pictures though
'relia on March 1, 2005 at 2:50 pm said:
we missed you, it would have been totally the coolest ever if you could have been there, but maybe next time, eh?
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Aodh Ruadh maintained their impressive start to the season with a 1-8 to 0-13 away win over Buncrana. The Inishowen outfit were the better side in the first half and went in leading 1-5 to 0-5 at half time. Ballyshannon kicked on in the second half, but still had Paul Kane to thank for the win. He showed great bravery to pull off a wonderful last minute save that ensured Aodh Ruadh took the points, but left him singing soprano on the bus home. Elsewhere Barry Ward had an outstanding game at corner forward, while Donagh McIntyre's surging runs from half forward played a major role in opening up Buncrana. Injury returnee, Michael Lawless, put in a very effective shift as did Packie McGrath who was, once again, excellent in defence. Another in a good vein of form is Kerry Ryan, slotting in a wing back this time out and proving difficult to handle.
The reserves were unlucky to lose out to Buncrana by a single point 1-8 to 1-7. Aodh Ruadh got a great goal from Gerard Ferguson, who had a great match in general play. Ferguson was unlucky not to get a second after a magnificent decoy run by Sean Perry!
The seniors and reserves are down to host to MacCumhaill's this Saturday in division two. The reserve game throws in at 5pm to be followed by the seniors at 6.30pm.
The thirds fell to their first defeat of the season on Saturday when they lost to a very strong Pettigo side by 0-3 to 2-6. Early good weather proved misleading. As soon as the whistle went the heavens opened and the temperature plummeted. Aodh Ruadh's scores came from Dermot Slevin, Paddy Kelly and Diarmuid Keown. There were some positives to be taken from the performances of a number of minors who were getting their first exposure to adult football. Conor Thomas was one who did very well in what were brutal conditions. No thirds fixture had been set for this week at the time of writing.
Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh is to get its official opening on Friday 29th May. Donegal are down to take on Sligo on what will be a very proud day for the club. With a massive push now on to finish the Munday's field site and considerable outgoings to be met it is more important than ever that members sell their Club Centenary Draw tickets and return monies urgently. Sold tickets and returns can be brought back to Tom Daly, Conal Gallagher, John Magee and Terence McShea.
As part of the nationwide L na gClub festivities Aodh Ruadh has planned an action-packed day of fun and games for young and old. The day kicks off with the raising of the GAA 125 flag at 2pm. After that there will be youth blitzes in hurling and football; A long puck competition for the older hurlers; A penalty kick competition; A ladies and gents long kick competition; Novelty competitions including a wheel barrow race, Adult and under 8 child piggy back race and a Mother and Fathers relay. The action concludes with an all-comers one mile race. There will collection on the day which will be split between local charitable causes and the Aodh Ruadh club. It all promises to be great fun and everyone in Ballyshannon, no matter your background, is invited to come and make Father Tierney park their own for the day.
In this, our centenary year, Aodh Ruadh are issuing an open invitation for a senior team sponsor. This represents an unrepeatable opportunity to secure a unique place in one of the most significant years in the club's history. Anyone who would like to discuss sponsorship can contact Terence McShea on 071-9852512 or 087-2360815.
Aodh Ruadh under 14 hurlers took part in the Ulster Féile on Saturday last. They beat Castleblayney of Monaghan in the first game and lost a very tight second game to eventual division six winners, Rasharkin of Antrim. The boys then travelled to Dungannon where they took part in a very colourful parade with over 90 clubs from all over Ulster taking part.
The annual Alan Ryan / Seamus Grimes tournament took place on Bank Holiday Monday in very difficult conditions. Coolera / Strandhill won the Alan Ryan trophy and Aodh Ruadh retained the Seamus Grimes trophy. A full report on the day's activity will be available in due course.
A busy few days finished with the under 12s beating Lisbellaw in a brilliant display of passion and commitment to go top of the Fermanagh league. Both teams put on a great display of hurling in very difficult conditions.
Training for under 8s, under 10s, under 12s and under 14s is on this Sunday at 1pm due to L na gClub. It is hoped that all parents will take part in this fun family day. Any enquires to John Rooney on 086-2587793.
Intermediate ladies training continues in the park at 10:30am every Saturday morning.
Training for the under 12 and under 14 girls continues at 6-7pm in the park every Tuesday evening.
Under 10 girls training continues, weather permitting, in Father Tierney Park this Wednesday, 6th May at 6pm.
The minors trip to Donegal town to take on Four Masters was postponed from last Wednesday to Wednesday coming, 6th May. Throw in is at 7pm.
Aodh Ruadh's under 16s topped the round robin section of the division one league with a 2-6 to 1-8 win over Naomh Conaill last Wednesday. It was a big-hearted display from the Ernesiders against a very accomplished Glenties side. Ballyshannon had the breeze in the first half and went in at the break five points up. It was a war of attrition in the second half as Ballyshannon held off a determined Naomh Conaill fight back. Ronan McGurrin, Ruairí Drummond and Conor Patton all gave simply superb performances in what was a real nail biter of a match while Marcus Harley, who played a stormer at midfield, is developing into a very fine footballer. That result puts Ballyshannon into a final next Monday, 11th May, against Naomh Conaill, who won a play-off against Ardara on Bank Holiday Monday. The venue and time had yet to be decided at the time of writing.
Congratulations to the Colaiste Colmcille under 14 and half side which recently won the Mallon cup. They beat Aquinas of Belfast by 4-17 to 3-7 in what was an exhibition of football in Healy Park.
Aodh Ruadh finally managed to get their under 14 Féile final against Saint Eunan's played on Bank Holiday Monday. The venue was Bundoran and apologies are due to anyone who travelled to Donegal town where the fixture had been initially penciled in for. It was a desperate day for football with rain and a strong crosswind, but Ballyshannon played the more intelligent football to take the county title by 1-4 to 0-3. There was a particularly strong performance from the back line with Eamon McGrath, Matthew Maguire and Paddy Gillespie showing a lot of composure, not only in their tackling, but also in their distribution of the ball out of defence. With the half time score at 1-1 to 0-2 the game was well in the balance coming into the second half, but It was Aodh Ruadh who were better able to take their chances. David McGurrin ended up with 1-2 and Darren Gettins also sniped of a point while Jamie McDonald took the final insurance score with no small amount of class. McDonald's point secured a very satisfying win and Aodh Ruadh's first county silverware in their centenary year. Congratulations lads! That win means players now have two further dates to enter into their diaries. The Ulster Féile takes place in Owenbeg, south Derry on Saturday 16th May. The All-Ireland Féile Peil na nÓg event is hosted in Kildare this year and runs from Friday, July 3rd until Sunday, July 5th.
There was back to back wins for the under 12s last Friday. They travelled to Killybegs and emerged 6-4 to 8-15 winners. Everyone played well in a display where Aodh Ruadh kept their heads against plucky homesters. Kieran Kelly continues to demonstrate outstanding potential with his reading of the game and passing from centre half back really lighting up the match. It was good to see Gavin McDaid back after his injury last week and he showed no ill-effects doing very well at full forward. Ryan Gallagher was another standout player on the forward line where he benefitted from brilliant work by Shane McGrath and Philip Patton at half forward. The next target for Aodh Ruadh is Bundoran this Friday 8th May. That game is down for Father Tierney Park with the throw in at 7pm. Players are to be at the park for 6.15pm. This is Ballyshannon's last game in the round robin section and they need a win in this game to be in with a chance of making the regional semi-finals, so a good show of support would be appreciated. Under 12 training takes place on Wednesdays at 5.30pm in the park.
The first blitz of the year takes place in Killybegs on May 9th with Naomh Conaill and Ardara also taking part. The bus leaves the park at 9.30am sharp and the players are expected to be back in Ballyshannon around 3pm. Children are to be supplied sensible snack and drink and no more than 3 for the shop stop. Any queries call Peter Gallagher on 087-9794280. A note for the diary - Aodh Ruadh host the Community Games on Sunday, May 17th. Further details in due course.
Under 8 football training continues this Friday weather permitting outside on the Colaiste Cholmcille pitch this Friday evening at 6pm. If the weather is not good, it will take place in the Mercy Hall. Well done to last week's players of the week Nathan and John. Training finishes at 6.45pm, please collect your children at that time. Any parents or coaches wishing to help out in any small way are more than welcome. Please call up about ten minutes prior to training. There will be an under 8 game at 2pm this Sunday 10th May at Munday's Field as part of the L na gClub and also to celebrate the opening of the new Aodh Ruadh Centre of Excellence. Any players who are 7 or 8 years of age are invited to attend. Players to be at Father Tierney Park for 1.45pm. All players should have club socks and shorts. These are available to buy in Culkin's sports shop (Ballyshannon Shoe Company).
5 May
A massive thank you is extended to all those who attended and supported the Ladies Beach Party fund raiser in Max Bar on Sunday night. It was a fantastic night of craic and a rip roaring success. Vital funds were raised to keep the Intermediate ladies ticking over for the season. Hopefully we can emulate the success again next year.
A big congratulations to Tara Khan who received the "Woman of the Match" for her part in the county minor victory at the weekend when they took on Cavan in Convoy. The minor panel put in an impressive display to emerge convincing winners. Congratulations to Anna Rafferty and Dearbhaile McNeill who were part of the county under 16 side at the weekend. Donegal came out on top and now progress to the Ulster final. Next up for both the under 16 and the minor girls is Tyrone, with both finals to be played next weekend. Thanks to all those who travelled on the day to support the girls.
Under 12 and Under 14 girls continued their league season this week. The under 14s registered a fantastic victory on Monday night when they played Naomh Bríd. The Ernesiders emerged the victors on a scoreline of 4-8 to 3-5. The under 12s took on the challenge Saint Naul's last Friday evening, but fell foul of a skilled Mountcharles forward line, with the final score wrapping up at 4-1 to 2-3 in favour of Saint Naul's.
All ladies training details correct as noted in yesterday's mailing.
Still no news on a venue for the under 16 regional final against Naomh Conaill at the time of writing. Likewise no word on a fixture for the thirds this weekend.
11 May
Aodh Ruadh extends its sincerest sympathies to our secretary, John Magee, on the death of his sister, Bridie Treacy, who passed away earlier today. She will be buried at 12 noon, Wednesday in Garrison. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal.
Aodh Ruadh unbeaten record in division two was maintained in impressive style last Saturday when they beat MacCumhaill's by 0-14 to 0-11. The main stories of the match were the performances of Pauric Buggy and Brian Roper. Buggy bagged 0-8 in frees, some of really outstanding quality, while Roper scored 0-6 from play, again many were from the top drawer. MacCumhaill's started very brightly, but Aodh Ruadh got on top of them as the first half wore on and were good value for a 0-7 to 0-5 half time lead. In the second half Ballybofey again started the stronger, but the Ernesiders gained a midfield stranglehold thanks to the work of Michael Gurn, Michael Lawless, Stephen Ward and Fiachra McIntyre. Garret Blake also did well playing in around the midfield and leaving a two man full forward line of Roper and Buggy to wreak havoc up front. Once again Paul Kane was called on to make a vital save, this time it came just after half time, but by and large the defence was extremely sound. There is a full match report available on aodhruadh.org
The reserves also had an impressive win. They defeated MacCumhaill's by 1-12 to 0-5. The highlight was a bravura performance by the peerless Val Murray, who scored 1-8.
The seniors are to host to Gaoth Dobhair in Father Tierney Park this Sunday at 3pm. With Gaoth Dobhair reserves involved in a championship play-off game against Malin there will be no action for the Aodh Ruadh reserves this weekend.
No thirds fixture had been set for this week at the time of writing.
Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh is to get its official opening on Friday 29th May. Donegal are down to take on Sligo on what will be a very proud day for the club. With a massive push now on to finish the Munday's field site and considerable outgoings to be met it is more important than ever that members sell their Club Centenary Draw tickets and return monies urgently. Sold tickets and returns can be brought back to Tom Daly, Conal Gallagher, John Magee and Terence McShea.
Unlikely as it seemed earlier in the week, the sun smiled on Ballyshannon for its L na gClub celebrations. Ulster President, Tom Daly, raised the GAA 125 flag to get proceedings under way. One of the early high points was the sight of the young footballers, ladies footballers and hurlers of Aodh Ruadh christening the new facilities at Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh. There were numerous other activities during the day including a tightly fought penalty kick competition which saw senior footballer, Darren Drummond, and club chairman, Terence McShea, going toe to toe for ultimate honours. Rumours that the Chairman is putting it about that he let Darren win are nothing more than scurrilous innuendo. Elsewhere Paul Kane and Tanya O'Shea took the laurels in the ladies and gents long kick after some heated competition notably from Peter Boyle and Katie Flood. There was plenty of novelty races run and one of the highlights was Mark McGlynn making like Tony McCoy and bating the oul fella, Martin McGlynn, to victory in the parents piggy back race. Minor panelist, Ronan Drummond, won the concluding event of a fun packed day, the all-comers mile. The club extends their thanks for everyone who turned up and helped make the day such a success, not forgetting those who put in so much hard work to make the day go so smoothly.
Congratulations to young hurlers Eugene Drummond, Kieran Kelly and Deva Ayres who were part of the victorious Donegal Cumann na mBunscoil team that defeated their Tyrone counterparts in Letterkenny last Saturday during the Ulster championship game between the two counties.
The under 12 hurlers continued on their winning ways on Monday defeating Knocks in Donagh in a Titanic battle by 2-4 to 1-1. The under 16 s play Knocks in Father Tierney park on Thursday, 14th May at 7pm.
Well done to all the young hurlers who took part in the games in Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh to mark L na gClub.
Training for under 8s, under 10s, under 12s and under 14s is on this Sunday at 12 noon. Any enquires to John Rooney on 086-2587793.
We offer our sympathies to the McLaughlin and Downey families and the Burt club on their recent tragic loss.
Congratulations to Anna Rafferty, Dearbhaile McNeill and Tara Khan who were part of the county minor panel who seized the Ulster title at the weekend. Tara took her place, once more, at corner back to see off the challenge of Tyrone. They now progress to the All Ireland semi finals with the final prize in sight.
The under 16 county girls will play their Ulster final this Saturday in Convoy, where they too will face Tyrone. All support on the day would be greatly appreciated.
Under 12 girls will travel to Glenties this Friday evening as their league campaign continues. An under 14 fixture for this week has yet to be announced.
Big thanks to all those who represented the Ladies teams at the L na gClub.
Intermediate ladies training continues in the park at 10:30am every Saturday morning.
Training for the under 12 and under 14 girls continues at 6-7pm in the park every Tuesday evening.
Under 10 girls training continues, weather permitting, in Father Tierney Park this Wednesday, 6th May at 6pm.
The minors trip take on Bundoran in Father Tierney Park this Wednesday, 13th May. Throw in is at 7pm.
Monday 11th was a wonderful day for Aodh Ruadh's under 16s. They beat Naomh Chonaill by 2-15 to 0-14 in the Southern Regional final at Fintra. It was a top class game of football with Glenties having the better of the opening exchanges. The movement of Conor Patton to centre half back helped to stem the attacking tide and put Aodh Ruadh on the front foot. Good work by Sylvester Maguire set up Niall Murray to palm into the net for a first half goal that left Glenties playing catch up for the remainder of the match. Aodh Ruadh went in at the break leading by 1-8 to 0-4, but Naomh Chonaill fought back gamely and came to within three points at one stage. As always Ruairí Drummond and Ronan McGurrin were powerhouses for Ballyshannon and increasingly dictated the pace of the game. McGurrin ended the game with six points to his credit, five from placed balls The introduction of Fergal Meehan in the second half also reaped significant dividends as he went on to bag himself 1-2, the goal a real peach slotted home after beating two defenders. Stephen Clarke was another who prospered in the Ballyshannon forward line where he was a consistent source of frees. At the back Martin Gallagher had another fine game in nets, making two great saves. One he did well to palm over for a point, while he managed to hold onto a second goal bound shot. Great credit has to go to everyone associated with this team. This was a great result for a bunch of lads who have been there or there about over the years, but who never quite got the results their efforts deserved. The under 16s now face a county league semi final against Saint Eunan's, the date, venue and time for that have yet to be decided.
Aodh Ruadh's under 14s travel to the Ulster Féile in Derry this Saturday 16th May. They will be based in Ballinascreen for the group stages of the competition. The first match is against Monaghan Harps and throws in at 12.45pm. That match is followed by games against Ballinascreen and Bellaghy respectively. Players will be informed of travel details in due course. Parents and players can also expect further detail on plans for the trip to the All-Ireland Féile Peil na nÓg in Kildare at the start of July over the course of the week.
The under 12s final game against Bundoran was postponed to this Tuesday 12th May. That game is down for Father Tierney Park with the throw in at 6.30pm. Players are to be at the park for 5.45pm. This is Ballyshannon's last game in the round robin section and they need a win in this game to be in with a chance of making the regional semi-finals, so a good show of support would be appreciated.
Last week's blitz, which was scheduled for Killybegs was cancelled at short notice on Saturday morning due to a waterlogged pitch. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Outdoor training continues for under 10s this Saturday 16th May at 11.45am in Father Tierney Park. Children can be collected after training at 1pm sharp. Ballyshannon hosts the Community Games this Sunday, May 17th and Aodh Ruadh are taking part. Please note that for community games purposes your birth date MUST be AFTER 31st July 1999. The under 10 team management need to get a copy of eligible player's birth certificates at training on Saturday, or on Sunday when the Community Games take place. Players who aren't able to supply a copy of their birth certificate will not be able to play. Players should be at the park for 11am on Sunday.
Under 8 football training continues this Friday weather permitting outside on the Colaiste Cholmcille pitch this Friday evening at 6pm. If the weather is not good, it will take place in the Mercy Hall. Well done to last week's players of the week Owen and Cillian. Training finishes at 6.45pm, please collect your children at that time. Any parents or coaches wishing to help out in any small way are more than welcome. Please call up about ten minutes prior to training. There will be an under 8 challenge game against Bundoran on Saturday, 23rd May at 12 noon in Bundoran for all 7 and 8 year olds. All players to be up at the park for 11am. The bus will leave the park at 11.15 am. Any player wishing to play for the club must have club socks and shorts. These are available to buy in Culkin's sports shop (Ballyshannon Shoe Company). As always, any parents wishing to help out on the day would be more than welcome.
18 May
Aodh Ruadh's tie against Gaoth Dobhair was postponed last Saturday. This Saturday, 23rd May, sees the seniors and reserves go into championship battle against Saint Michael's in Father Tierney Park. The reserve game throws in at 6pm with the seniors following on at 7.30pm. A big show of green and white support is asked for at what is a crucial game for the club.
The thirds made the long trip to Malin in division five and got back to winning ways winning by 0-13 to 2-2. No thirds fixture had been set for this week at the time of writing.
There continue to be clashes over access to pitches. It is critical during that ALL bookings AND cancellations for Father Tierney park, Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh and the school field go through Peter Conlon to ensure the smooth operation of facilities. Call Peter on 9851386 or 087-6838024.
Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh is to get its official opening on Friday 29th May. Donegal are down to take on Sligo on what will be a very proud day for the club. With a massive push now on to finish the Munday's field site and considerable outgoings to be met it is more important than ever that members sell their Club Centenary Draw tickets and return monies urgently. Sold tickets and returns can be brought back to Tom Daly, Conal Gallagher, John Magee and Terence McShea.
Brian Drummond took some shots of the L na gClub celebrations last Sunday week. We hope to get a selection of these pictures published on www.aodhruadh.org over the coming week.
Congratulations to young Aodh Ruadh hurlers Bryan Ward, Barry Kelly, Patrick Harron, Daire Doyle and Brendan Gillespie who took part in the Cumann na mBunscoil half time game during the Donegal v Armagh Ulster senior hurling championship game in Letterkenny last weekend.
The under 16s lost at home to Knocks on Thursday last in the Fermanagh league.
The under 12 hurlers beat MacCumhaill's in a keenly contested challenge game in the magnificent new Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh on Sunday morning.
Aodh Ruadh are hosting an under 10 blitz this Sunday morning, with play commencing at 11am.
Training for under 8s, under 10s, under 12s and under 14s is on this Sunday at 12 noon. Any enquires to John Rooney on 086-2587793.
Congratulations to Anna Rafferty and Dearbhaile McNeill who represented the club with the Under 16 Donegal ladies at the weekend. The county side secured the Ulster title taking them one step closer to All Ireland glory and following in the footsteps of the county Minor side.
The under 12 girls side continued their league season last Friday when they travelled to Glenties. It proved to be a nail biting game with both sides evenly matched. The affair ended all square on a scoreline of 5-4 apiece.
Intermediate ladies training continues in the park at 10.30am every Saturday morning.
Training for the under 12 and under 14 girls continues at 6-7pm in the park every Tuesday evening.
Under 10 girls training continues, weather permitting, in Father Tierney Park this Wednesday, 20th May at 6pm.
The minors had their second game of the league last Wednesday. They battled hard against Bundoran and a 4-8 to 5-13 victory rather flattered the Gaelic Park outfit. Aodh Ruadh were undone by an under-powered first half where Bundoran were allowed to run up a big lead. Ballyshannon came out a different team in the second half and with ten minutes to go were within a point of the seasiders. However Bundoran to strike a goal and two points in the closing stages to seal their win. Chris Goan was Aodh Ruadh's man of the match, he was absolutely outstanding as he played a roving role from his half forward berth. David Dolan and Peter Boyle were both very good in midfield, never allowing Bundoran to get comfortable in this sector. Conor Patton and Briann Drummond excelled at half back, while Francis McShea was also very lively and positive throughout. In the final game of their league programme the minors take on Four Masters in Donegal Town, but no fixtures has been made for this game as yet.
Two big games in the space of five days are in prospect for the under 16s. First up will be their county division one league semi-final against Saint Eunan's. That takes place in Convoy, this Wednesday 20th May at 7.30pm. Five days later they are out in the championship when they take on Ardara in their first round, first leg match in Father Tierney park on Monday, 25th May, throw in at 7pm for that one. These are two massive games and this team really deserves a big, big show of support from everyone associated with Aodh Ruadh. Please come along if at all possible.
The under 14s were in south Derry last weekend at the Ulster Féile on what was a wretchedly cold and wet day. They drew with Monaghan Harps in their opening game before beating Bellaghy and Ballinascreen to progress from their section to the semi-final stage. There they came up against the Derry Féile champions, Ballerin who managed to halt the Ernesiders progress. An information pack for players and parents on the trip to the All-Ireland Féile Peil na nÓg in Kildare at the start of July will be distributed after training this Thursday, May 21st.
It's be a week of ups and downs for the under 12s. The up was a 8-9 to 2-8 win over Bundoran last Tuesday. Aodh Ruadh played a very controlled game against the seasiders containing them well in the first half as they played against the breeze. In the second Ballyshannon filled their boots to run out 19 point winners. Philip Patton was immense at centre half back, as was Oisín Roper at midfield. Oisín Kerr's work on the full back line in the first half in particular helped put Aodh Ruadh in good shape at half time. Shane McGrath was a real handful on the full forward, adding handsomely to an already bulging points haul for the year so far. There was a negative note though as Gavin McDaid sustained another injury. This time it was a concussion after an awkward fall. This has ruled him out for two weeks, so we all wish Gavin a full and speedy recovery. That result set Aodh Ruadh up with a play-off against Dungloe in Ardara on Monday, to decide who will play who in the Southern Divisional under 12 semi-finals. Ballyshannon lost out by a single point on a scoreline of 4-11 to 5-7, Aodh Ruadh didn't get out of the blocks in the first half on what was an ideal night for football and found themselves on the wrong side of a 13 point deficit at half time. There was a massive turn around in the second half though as Shane McGrath went into full forward where he plundered four goals to put Aodh Ruadh back in it. Dungloe were clinging on at the end, but they had done just enough to take third place and book a match against their Ardara neighbours. Oisín Rooney was real quality in goals and his bravery helped keep Ballyshannon in contention. Conor Kennedy displayed similar bravery and determination at half back. Kieran Kelly and Ryan Gallagher were two other players who really had stand out games. Up front Shane McGrath got four goals, while Ryan McKenna also got in for a well-taken goal. Aodh Ruadh's loss means they will be pitted against Naomh Conaill in the Divisional semi-final on Friday, 22nd with a venue and time yet to be decided. The lads are now 60 minutes away from a divisional final, a big show of support would be much appreciated on another big night for Aodh Ruadh. There is under 12 training on Wednesday 20th May at 5.30pm at the park.
Aodh Ruadh under 10 boys were winners of the Community Games Football competition in Father Tierney Park last Sunday, beating a gallant Bundoran team in the final. There were sterling performances throughout the field. Aodh Ruadh now go through to represent Donegal in the Ulster Community Games finals in Monaghan. Outdoor training continues for under 10s this Saturday 23th May at 11.45am in Father Tierney Park. Children can be collected after training at 1pm sharp.
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A big support would be appreciated as our under 8s take on Bundoran in a challenge game in Gaelic park, Bundoran this Saturday at 12 noon. All players should be at Father Tierney Park for 11.00am. Any player wishing to play for the club must have club socks and shorts. These are available to buy in Culkin's sports shop (Ballyshannon Shoe Company). As always, any parents wishing to help out on the day would be more than welcome. Well done to last week's players of the week Kyle and Adam. Please note, there will be NO under 8 football training this Friday night.
25 May
Friday, May 29th, sees Donegal take on Sligo in a championship build-up challenge in Ballyshannon. The occasion for the challenge is the official opening of Ballyshannon's new GAA park, Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh. The culmination of over two years work, the facilities at Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh are a magnificent addition to Ballyshannon's main pitch at Father Tierney Park. Brian Roper will be captain for the day with Johnny Gallagher vice captain. Admission is ten euro, with children admitted free. Funds generated by the challenge will go towards payment of the debt generated by the construction of Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh.
Throw in is at 7pm and everyone is welcome on what will be a great day for Ballyshannon.
The Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh Opening Programme is as follows:
5.00pm: Parade led by marching band from Muldoon's Spar to Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh
6.00pm: Pre-opening reception
6.30pm: Formal addresses, prayer service, cutting of the tape and unveiling of plaque
8.30pm: Post game reception - open to all
The Club Centenary Draw will be made in Aras Aoidh Ruaidh on Monday night, 1st June. It is vitally important that members get their tickets sold and returned as soon as possible. Sold tickets and returns can be brought back to Tom Daly, Conal Gallagher, John Magee and Terence McShea.
The seniors slumped to a 0-13 to 0-15 defeat against Saint Michael's in the first leg, first round of the championship on Saturday evening. It was a game where Aodh Ruadh were oddly out of sorts and not assisted by some pernickety refereeing. Saint Michael's started briskly going into a 0-3 to 0-1 lead in the first ten minutes, but after that Aodh Ruadh took over. Points from Pauric Buggy, Barry Ward leveled it up before Buggy was indecorously hauled down in the area and the referee gave a penalty. Pauric took the penalty and sent it over the bar. Sticky Ward was introduced on 25 minutes and his first action was to drive over a stylish point to make it double scores at 0-6 to 0-3. Moments later Sticky was in action again, this time drawing another foul in the area and Aodh Ruadh's second penalty of the game. This time Buggy struck the crossbar, but Barry Ward was able to fist a point from the rebound. Two quick Saint Michael's points left it 0-7 to 0-5 to Ballyshannon at half time. The Dunfanaghy outfit were level within two minutes after the break and the sides exchanged points before off the ball ructions intervened. Brian Roper had been receiving special attention from the Saint Michael's defence all through the match, and his ultimate reaction ten minutes into the second half saw him getting a straight red card. Garret Blake also got a straight red after the same sequence of play and some felt it was a harsh decision. Down to 13 men, it was just too big an ask for Aodh Ruadh, although they still battled gamely. Saint Michael's made clever use of their extra men and were deserved 0-13 to 0-15 winners. That result leaves Ballyshannon going to Dunfanaghy needing a win to keep their centenary championship aspirations alive. A full match report should be up on aodhruadh.org later in the week.
The reserves were handsome winners against their Saint Michael's counterparts. A late goal by the visitors meant that the game finished 2-11 to 1-11.
The seniors will be looking to get back into a winning groove when they travel to Malin on Sunday in the next round of division two. That game throws in at 3pm and is preceded by the reserve game which throws in at 1.30pm.
The thirds are scheduled to travel to Pettigo this Saturday, 30th May for their latest outing in division five. Throw in at 7.30pm.
The monthly senior club meeting takes place on Thursday 28th May in Aras Aoidh Ruadh 8.30pm. All committee members are asked to attend.
The seniors began the Donegal League with a hard fought win over Saint Eunan's at home last Wednesday coming from five points down with two minutes to go to win by a point on a scoreline of 3-8 to 2-10. A Kieran Kilgannon goal put Aodh Ruadh back in with a shout but the highlight was Anthony Coughlan's effort from 95 yards out, which dropped into the net. The seniors next match is against Strabane Shamrock on Wednesday night in Father Tierney Park at 7pm.
Congratulations to Colm Kelly who won the county under 14 Féile skills competition. He will now go on to represent Donegal at the national Féile in June. Check out aodhruadh.org for a picture of Colm being presented with his award.
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The under 14s went down in a tight tussle against Strabane Shamrocks last Saturday, losing by a goal. They play Burt in the county league semi-final this Thursday evening in the park at 7.30pm.
On Sunday morning we hosted an under 10 blitz, which was attended by Strabane Shamrocks, Letterkenny Gaels, Four Masters and Dungloe. Aodh Ruadh performed very well winning all their games. An interested spectator at this blitz was the legendary Jim Treacy of Kilkenny, who was up in the north west on his holidays. Jim has ten Leinster medals and six All-Irelands in the back pocket, not to mention two All-stars to his credit from his playing days in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He made favourable comment on the level of skill and the enthusiasm on show.
Young hurlers will be taking part in the parade as part of the opening of Pirc Aoidh Ruaidh. Players should assemble at the Abbey Centre for 4.45pm.
Training for under 8s, under 10s, under 12s and under 14s is on this Sunday at 12 noon. Any enquires to John Rooney on 086-2587793.
Intermediate ladies training continues in the park at 10.30am every Saturday morning.
Training for the under 12 and under 14 girls continues at 6-7pm in the park every Tuesday evening.
Under 10 girls training continues, weather permitting, in Father Tierney Park this Wednesday, 20th May at 6pm.
There will be Bord na nÓg meeting in Aras Aoidh Ruaidh at 9pm on Tuesday, 26th May. All committee members are asked to attend.
In light of some incidents all underage players are reminded of the following three provisions from the code of conduct they signed up to at the start of the year. 1: Be polite and respectful to team trainers and team officials at all times. 2: Be polite and respectful to fellow players at all times. 3: Be polite and respectful to referees and match officials at all times. Disciplinary issues are dealt with during monthly committee meetings. Penalties, if deemed necessary, are applied as follows. Yellow Card Offence: Suspension, from three Club events, i.e. events such as training, matches, club discos, etc. Red Card Offence: Suspension, from all club activities for the remainder of the year. Any further incidents that come to the attention of Bord na nÓg will be prosecuted fully under this disciplinary system.
If the under 12s had their ups and downs last week, it was the under 16s turn this week. First the down. That came in the form of a 1-4 to 1-8 defeat against Saint Eunan's in the county league semi final last Wednesday. Aodh Ruadh dominated the first half, but were unable to make that dominance show on the scoreboard and went in trailing by 0-3 to 1-3 at half time. After the break the Ernesiders showed some more incisive form and drew level after Ronan Drummond set Alan Finan up for a well taken goal. However Saint Eunan's were the more economic in front of posts and were able to see out the game securing a four point win and a county league final meeting against Cloughaneely. Among Aodh Ruadh's best performers was Ruairí Drummond who consistently battled hard at midfield. The display by the half back line was another plus with Eoin O'Malley Daly in particular and Sylvester Maguire displaying a never-say-die spirit. Once again Conor Patton gave a refined performance, this time at full back. The up came in the form of first round, first leg championship victory over Ardara on Monday night in Father Tierney park. It was a scrappy affair with plenty of tension evident. Niall Murray continued his goal-scoring habit with a neat effort past the Ardara net minder to help Ballyshannon to a 1-3 to 0-1 half time lead. Ardara came out a reinvigorated side in the second half and battled back to within two points of the Ernesiders. However Fergal Meehan grabbed a timely goal going into the last quarter to take the wind out of the Ardara comeback and Ballyshannon closed the game out in last five minutes. Tommy Patton gave a brilliant performance at half back, really getting stuck in for every ball. Likewise PJ Gillespie gave an exhibition at corner back. Up front James Barron had an indifferent first half, but showed guts in the second period and delivered when the pressure came on.
The beginning of league action is imminent for the under 14s with their first match of the division one campaign being penciled in for Wednesday 3rd June away to Saint Naul's with the throw in at 7pm. An information pack for players and parents / guardians on the trip to the All-Ireland Féile Peil na nÓg in Kildare at the start of July is now available
The under 12s bowed out of the league when the fell to a 4-19 to 2-7 defeat against Naomh Conaill last Friday. Glenties were the larger, better team, but Aodh Ruadh still played well throughout, giving it their all despite the quality of the opposition and can take heart from their performance. Gavin McDaid did well in goals, while Eugene Drummond continues to deliver quality performances in the full back line, as does Philip Patton at half back. In the forwards Shane McGrath was the pick and never dropped the head. There is under 12 training on Wednesday 27th May from 6.00pm to 7.00pm at the park. The final event in the under 12 season is the Willie Rogers tournament. That takes place this Saturday at Father Tierney Park and Pirc Aoidh Ruaidh with action getting under way at 11am. The under 12s are taking part in the parade as part of the opening of Pirc Aoidh Ruaidh. Players should assemble at the Abbey Centre for 4.45pm.
Outdoor training continues for under 10s this Saturday 30th May at 11.45am in Father Tierney Park. Children can be collected after training at 1pm sharp. The next under 10 blitz takes place in Mountcharles on Saturday 6th June, where Saint Naul's, Aodh Ruadh, Naomh Ultan, Ardara and Pettigo will all be competing. Club jackets for under 10s can now be ordered from team management for the subsidized price of 15. The team extends its grateful appreciation to Mr. Gs for their kind and generous contribution which made this discounted scheme possible. Any under 10 players wishing to participate in the parade as part of the opening of Pirc Aoidh Ruaidh should assemble at the Abbey Centre for 4.45pm. Blitzes should commence at 5.20pm and wrap up in less than an hour.
Heavy rainfall forced the under 8 game against Bundoran to be played indoors at the new school hall in Ballyshannon. However despite the weather the day was a great success with 20 players getting to play their first game for Aodh Ruadh against a well drilled Bundoran outfit. John Patton and Aaron Darbon starred in what were great performances from the boys. Pictures from this match are available to view. This Friday night the club celebrates the opening of the new Pirc Aoidh Ruaidh with a parade and a series of underage blitzes. Children should be present at the Abbey Centre for 4.45pm to get ready for the parade. It is hoped the blitzes will start at 5.20pm in the new park, formerly known as Munday's field. Children can be collected anytime after 6.15pm.
Some of Brian Drummond's shots from the recent L na gClub celebrations can now be viewed.
There continue to be clashes over access to pitches. It is critical during that ALL bookings AND cancellations for Father Tierney park, Pairc Aoidh Ruaidh and the school field go through Peter Conlon to ensure the smooth operation of facilities. Call Peter on 9851386 or 087-6838024.
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comes a very impressive performance by the Razorbacks. I will give Coach Anderson credit. He had this team ready to play, and we did play one of our best games of the year. The guys played hard and pretty danged well, I thought. I was not real impressed with Kentucky. If they are the best team in the country…college basketball has sunk to a new low.
I liked how we ran our offense…spread the floor and let the guys work. Why have we not used that much before? It suits us well.
Did anyone in the SEC think the refs were going to give us the ball on that out of bounds play? You know the Kentucky fans never ever broke a sweat on that.
keithguthrie February 27, 2019, 3:09pm #2
comes a very impressive performance by the Razorbacks. I will give Coach Anderson credit. He had this team ready to play, and we did play one of our best games of the year. The guys played hard and pretty danged well, I thought. I was not real impressed with Kentucky. If they are the best team in the country…college basketball has sunk to a new low.
I liked how we ran our offense…spread the floor and let the guys work. Why have we not used that much before? It suits us well.
Did anyone in the SEC think the refs were going to give us the ball on that out of bounds play? You know the Kentucky fans never ever broke a sweat on that.
[/quote]Yes other than getting a free time-out, if I were Anderson, I would just tell the officials when a review situation arises for Arkansas just give the decision to the other team and lets move on. I do not seem to remember many, if any, reviews going our way and everybody knew the outcome before the review when Kentucky is involved.
razormac February 28, 2019, 1:19pm #3
Auburn just blew out the hogs, then Kentucky blew out Auburn. They are college kids, they figured this was going to be a walk in the park. Kentucky was not ready to play and it showed big time in the first half. It made me think about how far we had fallen, from being a serious contender, a team that you had better be wary of in March, to a team that is just a tune up game for when the real competition comes to town.
generalhog February 28, 2019, 2:23pm #4
Auburn just blew out the hogs, then Kentucky blew out Auburn. They are college kids, they figured this was going to be a walk in the park. Kentucky was not ready to play and it showed big time in the first half. It made me think about how far we had fallen, from being a serious contender, a team that you had better be wary of in March, to a team that is just a tune up game for when the real competition comes to town.
Or Anderson had our guys fired up and they came out executing the plan to perfection.
pghawg1 February 28, 2019, 2:44pm #5
Auburn just blew out the hogs, then Kentucky blew out Auburn. They are college kids, they figured this was going to be a walk in the park. Kentucky was not ready to play and it showed big time in the first half. It made me think about how far we had fallen, from being a serious contender, a team that you had better be wary of in March, to a team that is just a tune up game for when the real competition comes to town.
Looked to me the HOGS came ready to play. People should give them a little credit with the year we have had
armyhog February 28, 2019, 3:20pm #6
Auburn just blew out the hogs, then Kentucky blew out Auburn. They are college kids, they figured this was going to be a walk in the park. Kentucky was not ready to play and it showed big time in the first half. It made me think about how far we had fallen, from being a serious contender, a team that you had better be wary of in March, to a team that is just a tune up game for when the real competition comes to town.
Looked to me the HOGS came ready to play. People should give them a little credit with the year we have had
I give the hogs credit for playing hard and being ready! What I don’t like is during the Kentucky run in the second half the refs allowed the same defense LSU used to erase out lead. Pushing shoving and grabbing. It’s hard to play 5 on 8!
The jump ball when Herro was over the back of Joe was pitiful. Joe can make free throws. The steal at half court where Joe was bumped multiple times before the ball was stolen. The calls the refs didn’t make were the difference. Kentucky has always had the refs in their back pocket just like Tennessee had them in theirs back pocket last night.
Refs in the SEC are getting hammered by national media for being sorry!
I hope the hogs play hard and compete that’s all I expect of them. WPS!
hogjohn February 28, 2019, 4:17pm #7
Does anyone remember the NO CALL at the end of the Indiana game that could have sent them to the line, with a chance to win the game…I’m sure a foul would have been called if it was AT Indiana? Also, we got the benefit on the road at Mizzou, with the push off by their guard, trying to get open for the in bounds play, but the in bounds play we called, wasn’t executed properly. All fans complain about referees calls at the end of close LOSSES. Another thing, in a loss, fans complain about how the TV announcers are always for the team.
hogbacker February 28, 2019, 4:52pm #8
Does anyone remember the NO CALL at the end of the Indiana game that could have sent them to the line, with a chance to win the game…I’m sure a foul would have been called if it was AT Indiana? Also, we got the benefit on the road at Mizzou, with the push off by their guard, trying to get open for the in bounds play, but the in bounds play we called, wasn’t executed properly. All fans complain about referees calls at the end of close LOSSES. Another thing, in a loss, fans complain about how the TV announcers are always for the team.
Careful HogJohn your seeing both sides of calls, always heard that Losers complain and winners explain. There will always be a call that someone can point at and say that changed the outcome of a game and sometimes it’s true but usually it’s the lack of making plays and turnovers that cost you the game. We have passionate fans and as the game is being played we post things out of the heat of the moment, but I will say many will cool down by the next morning while watching replays and come to the right conclusion most of the time as we do have some very knowledgeable fans.WPS
randyreece February 28, 2019, 6:18pm #9
Auburn just blew out the hogs, then Kentucky blew out Auburn. They are college kids, they figured this was going to be a walk in the park. Kentucky was not ready to play and it showed big time in the first half. It made me think about how far we had fallen, from being a serious contender, a team that you had better be wary of in March, to a team that is just a tune up game for when the real competition comes to town.
A little of both really.
mrmojorisin March 2, 2019, 7:46am #10
Seems like a life time ago since the hogs have had a team to be feared. No matter the effort level, the talent isn’t and hasn’t been there, period. Too many poor effort games and the occasional close call against top competition followed by a litany of excuses. The most common of which is the officiating. Simply put, UK was coming off a blowout win and looking ahead to the UT rematch. Hogs are fortunate things played out as they did. Think about the outcome had the circumstances been different.
generalhog March 2, 2019, 1:42pm #11
Seems like a life time ago since the hogs have had a team to be feared. No matter the effort level, the talent isn’t and hasn’t been there, period. Too many poor effort games and the occasional close call against top competition followed by a litany of excuses. The most common of which is the officiating. Simply put, UK was coming off a blowout win and looking ahead to the UT rematch. Hogs are fortunate things played out as they did. Think about the outcome had the circumstances been different.
Looks like you are the one making excuses.
armyhog March 2, 2019, 5:07pm #12
Does anyone remember the NO CALL at the end of the Indiana game that could have sent them to the line, with a chance to win the game…I’m sure a foul would have been called if it was AT Indiana? Also, we got the benefit on the road at Mizzou, with the push off by their guard, trying to get open for the in bounds play, but the in bounds play we called, wasn’t executed properly. All fans complain about referees calls at the end of close LOSSES. Another thing, in a loss, fans complain about how the TV announcers are always for the team.
How many times this year has Gafford but knocked down slapped and grabbed with no call period! How many times have Arkansas players been fouled with no call and if we touch someone there’s a whistle?
keithguthrie March 2, 2019, 5:16pm #13
Seems like a life time ago since the hogs have had a team to be feared. No matter the effort level, the talent isn’t and hasn’t been there, period. Too many poor effort games and the occasional close call against top competition followed by a litany of excuses. The most common of which is the officiating. Simply put, UK was coming off a blowout win and looking ahead to the UT rematch. Hogs are fortunate things played out as they did. Think about the outcome had the circumstances been different.
[/quote]Aren’t you just a ray of sunshine! So there are explanations as to why Kentucky did not blow us out, yet Hog fans are wrong for noticing the impact of missed or questionable calls. One would have to be blind as to not question what continuously appears to be officials protecting higher profile programs in calling games, not limited to Razorback games.
If these programs are as good as advertised, one would think they could compete favorably, even on the short end of officiating.
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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the 2020 Victoria Playhouse Festival Season has been cancelled. Emily Smith, Executive Director, expressed the sentiments of the company in her letter to patrons and ticket holders: "I'm very sorry to announce that, bearing in mind the recommendations of our Chief … [Read more...] about Festival Season Cancelled
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I’ve been on enough vacations now to know that vacations have an expiration date. A vacation may not turn stinky, putrid and puzzling like meat or milk; but a day comes when it stops feeling exotic and adventureful and turns into a routine just like being at your stuck house. This was the day that this adventure expired.
We had worked our way over to the dry side of the mountains, where there weren’t as many flowers and the air crackled with the same dryness as we have at home in California. The trees’ branches were too spread out, and the trees too socially distanced from each other to make much shade, and a trail of dust flew up behind me like the cloud that follows a galloping horse in an old western. As Mom walked, the dust poofed out like under an elephant’s paw. I got dusty in my fur and in my eyes, and it covered Mom in a gritty dryness that made her join me at the drinking river to wash her face and hands.
Look what I bagged! If you think the antlers are huge, you should have seen the deer they came off of.
Before long we left the river and started climbing the day’s mountain, and the blades of jagged, waxy rocks pushed the trees even further apart. There was a rumbling up ahead that sounded like a motorboat. “Do you hear something?” Mom asked.
“I think someone’s mowing the lawn,” I explained, not because it was true but because it’s rude to not know the answer to a question.
Suddenly a motorcycle came around the corner, and the Power Ranger on top put down his feet and waited for us to climb off the trail. He must have been very lost to be a mile up a mountain, and another mile from the trailhead, which was another 10 miles from the nearest road. But when he spoke, he didn’t ask for directions. Instead he asked if we were headed to the top of the mountain, and then he and Mom jabbered about the incredible views, even though Mom had only seen them in photos. He may have been dressed like a fierce superninja, but he had the voice of the kind of friendly man who keeps treats in his pocket just in case he meets a charming stranger-dog.
People haven’t wanted to talk to each other much this year, and Mom has been especially scared of the “kinds of people” who use big motors in the wilder-ness, because people “like them” don’t like people “like us.” I’ve never met an aggressive countryfolk, and don’t see how anyone who loves the wilder-ness and dogs could be bad people, but Mom worries about a fight all the same. Plus, everyone hides their face now and pretends like everyone else is invisible, so it was surprising to look deep into his buggy face and find a smile in the Power Ranger’s eyes that said he was happy to see us.
Higher up on the mountain there were a few balconies to look at the mountains around us. In the center of the balconies, dark, mean-looking rocks stabbed out of the ground and glinted in the bright sun. They looked both beautiful and mominous, like a freshly sharpened sword. Behind the shining rocks, the mountains had a yucky kind of beauty. They were steep and dusty like the one we were standing on, with only a few trees and no white dirt to smooth over their harshness. In the center of them all, like the jewel in the middle of Vlad the Impaler’s crown, was a mountain so sharp and severe that it looked like an evil castle where some devious monster lurked inside its depths.
So far the climbing had been easy and gentle, but things changed when we reached the shoulder of the mountain where I could see clear to the mountains on the other side.
“Welp, the reviews said that we would turn up to the summit at the stick with a string on it, and… there’s a stick with a string on it,” Mom said. I turned, looking for a fishing rod, or a fun toy, or a mystical symbol, and instead found a little stump with a regular old piece of twine wrapped around it like someone had broken a trip wire.
“Well that’s a weird thing to do,” I said.
The final mile to the summit was steep; so steep that Mom’s heel wouldn’t reach the ground while her floppy toes were on it, and she climbed gripping with her tiptoes like she was sneaking up on the mountain. But after almost a week in Washington, we were used to steep. Finally we came out of some trees and the mountain finished like an ice cream cone, in almost a perfect point of drab-shiny rocks the color of rotting and dog doo.
Behind us was the evil castle-mountain and its brown lumpy henchmen. On the other side gleamed Mt. Rainier-Than-What, and the spiky artistic shapes of the mountains we’d been staring at all week. Standing on its tip, claw of the mountain didn’t just have scenery, it had a sound too. All around us was the buzz of zillions of flies. It sounded like a movie when they want to show you that a thing has been dead for a long time, but up here the worst smelling thing was Mom who hadn’t cleaned herself in a week since she’d peed in the river.
On the way back down, I waited in the shady spots while Mom took tiny steps like someone had tied her shoelaces together so that she wouldn’t slip on the steep loose dust. In between feeding me mouthfuls of brunch, she paused to pick blueberries from the side of the trail and popped them in her mouth like treats. We had passed the string on a stump and were working our way down the regular trail when I smelled a lady on the trail ahead of us. When I sniffed up into the air, the scent of her hiking partner hit my nose. It was familiar in a way I couldn’t place. I was trying to remember where I smelled his face from when Mom grabbed me by the collar, pulled me off the trail, and put my leash on. Then it dawned on me.
“IT’S A HORSE!!!!” I wagged. “Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! I can’t wait to bark at him!” I’d seen horses before, but I had almost never seen one quite so close up. I sat waiting for him to come within conversation rage, and trying to decide the most impressive thing to bark at him when he did.
I was still trying to find my words when the most amazing thing happened: the horse stopped right in front of me!!! “Hi, I’m Oscar and I’m gonna gotcha!” I shouted. It wasn’t true, I was on a leash and didn’t have the guts to see what would happen if I chased him, but I wanted him to be impressed. He wasn’t.
“Sorry!” Mom said, making me sit, which I did right away to show him how smart I am. “He’s a bit starstruck. Is that animal going to make it all the way to the summit?!”
To my excitement, the horse stayed so that Mom and the lady could talk. “You used to be able to ride all around these mountains,” the horse-lady said. “But now there’s no horse trailer parking anywhere, because of everyone coming over from the city and filling the parking lots so you can’t turn around.”
“Oh! I know all about having trouble with parking and not being welcome on the trails,” I told the horse, excited that we had something to bond over. He snorted and flicked his tail snobbishly.
“…I know that they bring in the money and all, but I have nowhere to ride!” the horse-lady went on. “And the Forest Service won’t clear the blow-downs because you can’t have a chainsaw up here, so they have to break them all up with a cross-cut.” Mom nodded knowingly, proud that she knew that a cross-cut was a kind of saw. “There are only like 6 Forest Service guys to clear this whole section of forest. I can get around some of the blow-downs with my mules, but not my horses.”
“It seems to me that if the Forest Service just asked, those city people would be happy to volunteer to do trail maintenance,” Mom said.
“Or what about any of the out-of-work loggers?” the horse-lady said. “There are plenty of them.”
“Right! Isn’t that how we got out of the Great Depression?” Mom added.
And then they said together, “The Civilian Conservation Corps!”
“Jinx!” I barked, to impress the horse with my quick wit, but then Mom shushed me and made me lie down.
“The CCC built all these trails,” the horse lady agreed when Mom looked up again. “All those jobs!”
“And I still don’t understand why the bathrooms are closed,” Mom said, picking up the same old crusade that she’s been fighting since the boogeyvirus came along. “They don’t even flush!”
Before they moseyed along down the trail, the Horse Lady gave me a horse treat the size of a hot dog which I ate in 3 big bites to show the horse that I was the kind of guy you could share a horse pellet with. Then Mom wished her and the horse a great afternoon and we started walking. “He’s a mule!” The lady shouted over the horse’s rump.
“Ha!” Mom shouted back. “Shows what I know!”
“Mom, did you notice something about that lady?” I asked. I had mostly been staring at the horse, but since he wasn’t talking to me I had overheard a few things that Mom had said.
“Well, she thought that city people were the problem with the forest. Did you notice that? She said that now that there was the internet and everyone has Witches in their pockets, her trails were ruined. But we come from The City, and we found this trail on the internet. She was talking about us, but she liked us.”
“Yeah, country people are kind of territorial about how to use their land.”
“You guys were friendly, and she even shared her horse treats with me. You guys weren’t suspicious of each other, you agreed about everything.”
“Yeah. It seems like country people blame city people for misunderstanding them and ruining everything. And city people blame country people for misunderstanding them and ruining everything. That’s a lot of why people are so mad lately, they’re so busy fighting that they forget that we all want the same thing.”
“The liars, of course.”
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The post production of a video is the most detailed and complex process of our work, due the selection of the best footage, color correction, grading, music selection, and some other important points that I consider to deliver the best product that you could have and that made the particular essence of LunArts.
This means I usually deliver your films about 12 to 16 weeks after the event depending upon the time of year,(april, may and June, and november – december are high season), but also depending the package that you choose.
If we have an idea of how we would like the film laid out will you be able to accommodate our requests?
As with music, we are open to knowing the vision you have of your video before beginning the editing process. But before that I would like to ask you to trust in our way of doing our work, since with our experience and skills we believe that we are capable of building a beautiful piece of memories that you will be very proud to watch and share.
Let us create something epic for you!
Will we have an input on music selection in the videos?
This is an important topic:
Here in LunArts we take care in to built a very unique video for you. For that reason normally I always choose the music, specially for the highlights (short film), which is the video that you will share the most and we will use for comercial purposes, for this matter we only use music with licence of use. Infringing this detail could cause problems such as not being able to share or watch your video via internet on different platforms.
Is there anyway for us to get that raw/unedited footage as well?
Honestly, I would say the answer is no. Raw footage is just as it sounds, “raw.” It is a meal that has not yet been cooked. It is not sequential, since we have clips from multiple cameras all capturing the same event in different positions, moving around without stop, which means that not all the material is good to watch. Raw footage is not color corrected, as that is a process that occurs in the editing room. And this footage does not contain usable audio. To get the best sounding audio from toasts, speeches, vows, etc. we use professional audio recording devices that are completely separate from the video recording.
Just as a chef would never hand customers a bucket of uncooked ingredients, we prefer not to hand our clients uncooked footage. I consider our recoring and editing process as an art form and we are skilled in determining which footage belongs where and how to tie everything together into a beautiful recap of your wedding day.
Overall, please trust in our skills and experience to handle the footage. It will save you so much time, money and confusions.
Do you use a drone for aerial coverage?
Yes, packages includes aerial footage. Unlike others, we do not charge extra to include aerial scenes of the locations and other aspects, we try to include them if the conditions are fulfilled to fly the drone such as the weather conditions, availability to use it, and venue permission* . That said you might understand there are occasions when we can’t use that camera.
What is your payment policy for booking and save the date?
To save the date, we kindly ask to make a 30% deposit of the total price of the package of your preference or 50% deposit if you book 2 months before the event. The rest to be paid at least 1 day before the event.
All payments via wire transfer.
We also send you a service contract with all details and other important information. Once we receive the deposit and the signed contract we save the date exclusively for your event.
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Title from "The Connoisseuse of Slugs," by Sharon Olds. Also posted at my LJ at http://azephirin.livejournal.com/127158.html.
“Seriously?” Kirk says. “Never?”
“No, Jim,” she replies, eyes steady and voice even. “Never.”
“But…why?”
The hand that smoothes the folds of her long skirt is the only sign of discomfort. Otherwise, she sits across the room from him, on the edge of her bed, with crossed legs and perfect posture, poised and unruffled. “It was not logical.”
She’s beautiful, she’s brilliant, and she’s the strangest person he’s ever met. “You're gonna have to explain that one to me.”
“Until recently, I had encountered no one with whom I wished to experience intimate contact. Thus, it would have been illogical to do so.”
“Until recently?”
She doesn’t smile, but Kirk can read the amused affection anyway when she clarifies, “Until very recently.”
“And well you might be.”
He’s still stuck on the earlier point, though. “You never wanted to try it just because it’d be fun?”
“There are a variety of recreational activities in which I participate. It would be neither necessary nor logical to attempt another simply for the sake of augmentation.”
“How about for the sake of the fact that it feels good?”
“I am quite capable of achieving that on my own.”
Well, there’s an image he’ll be jerking off to for the rest of his life. Her skin bare and luminous; dark hair loose on her pillow; elegant fingers moving slowly between her legs; maybe even, in a moment of weakness, biting her lip and moaning, neck arching.
“Uh, yeah. Sorry. I just…that was quite a picture.” At her raised eyebrow, Kirk adds, “You’re just going to have to trust me on that one.”
“As you wish.” There’s a pause, and then she says, “Then I am not incorrect in concluding that you are not averse to performing this act with me?”
“Wow, Spock, that was like four double negatives in a row.”
She is sitting perfectly still, hands neatly folded in her lap. “Two, I believe.”
A Vulcan girl’s way of asking, Are you really sure you want to do this with me?
He gets up, crosses her quarters in two long strides, and kneels in front of her. He covers her hands with his and laces their fingers together, then raises one palm and kisses it. “Not a single thing in the world I’d rather be doing.”
She doesn’t shift position, but her legs uncross, and she lets him lean closer. He settles his arms around her hips, and she reaches, cautiously, to run her fingers through his hair and down the nape of his neck. It’s not precisely that they haven’t done this before: They’ve kissed, and touched in places that clothes don’t cover. But they’ve never done this behind a locked door in the intimacy of her cabin, with the knowledge that the rest of the crew is on shore leave for the next three days and with the understanding that, sometime soon, whether minutes or hours, they will both be naked and tangled together.
He stays still while she traces the rim of his ear, the line of his jaw, the arch of each eyebrow, the curve of his mouth. He meets her eyes, and her fingertips come to a stop on his lower lip. They’re both frozen for a moment—he’s suddenly breathless in a way he hasn’t been since before he left Iowa.
She breaks the silence with, “It would please me if—” For the first time since he’s known her, she falters. “It would please me if you would join me. Here.”
“It would please me, too,” he says, and he’s completely serious.
She lies down, looking at him with unreadable dark eyes. He’s about to lie next to her when he notices something that makes him smile despite himself. “This whole effort will probably be a lot more comfortable if you take your boots off.”
Her eyes flicker down to his feet, then back again. “I might note the same of you.”
“Then boots off all around,” he says.
She starts to sit up, but he puts a gentle hand on her shoulder. She pauses, and he says, “Let me.”
Warily compliant, she lies back down, watching him. He draws up her skirt only enough to grant him access to the knee-high black boots she prefers: sleeker than the Starfleet standard-issue, and with an old-fashioned wooden heel, but still no-nonsense, even with civvies. He draws the zipper down and removes first the right, then the left, then sets both carefully beside the bed. She’s wearing grey tights, thick enough that a human woman would probably wear them only in the dead of winter—certainly no skin is visible through the knit. He wants to run a hand up her calf, just enough to outline the lean muscle and let her feel the weight of his fingers, but something tells him that, even over the impenetrable wool, it would be too much too soon. Her eyes remain fixed on him as he unlaces his own and drops them on the floor with considerably less care, then stretches out next to her.
She moves to put her head on his shoulder and a hand on his chest—no words spoken, but demonstration enough from this most undemonstrative of women. He moves, too, so that she’s mostly on top of him, and he cups a hand over the thick coil of her braids at the same time she leans down to kiss him. She's tense at first—they tend not to do this lying down, and no matter how close you stand to someone, even if you’re pressed up against them, it’s not the same as lying on top of someone and letting your body sink into theirs.
He strokes her back and whispers, “Just kissing. We’ve done this before. Doesn’t have to go any farther than this.”
She looks down at him, and he wants to pull the pins out of her hair and let it cascade around them, but that’s definitely too much too fast. Her eyes are intent but unreadable; then she shifts, moves to her back and nudges him until he gets the hint and settles himself along her side, not quite on top of her but enough that he’ll be the one driving. He’s overwhelmed by the sudden urge to say something stupid--it's OK if you're nervous, I won’t hurt you, I’m yours--but manages not to, thank God. Instead he kisses her eyelids—two of them, anyway—and her temple, smiles at her because he can’t help it, and this time when she shifts, it’s to pull him into another kiss.
He feels her relax incrementally as they kiss, his hands on her face and in her hair, hers on his shoulders and back. She shifts again, and he feels her hand on his hip—it’s another nudge, he realizes, and a firm one. Her lips don’t quite curve up when he gets into the position she wants, their hips fitted like puzzle pieces, his leg between hers. She arches up against him, just a little but enough that he can feel it, and he breathes, “Yeah,” and kisses that not-quite-smile.
His eyes fly open when he feels two warm palms slide underneath his T-shirt.
Her shirt is as conservative as the rest of her dress: long sleeves, high collar. But at some point she discovered a tailor, because the curves of breasts are visible, inviting his hands and mouth even covered as they are. Her nipples are hard, and he traces exploratory fingers over them, feeling her shiver at the touch. He presses his lips over one, and she surprises him by undoing the top three buttons to the shirt. “This fabric is delicate, and I am disinclined to explain such a marring to the laundry operators.”
“Well, in that case,” he says, “are you sure you even want it on at all? I mean, I’d hate for anything to happen to it.”
“Indeed, your concern for my wardrobe is touching.”
He shrugs, as innocently as he can manage. “I’m just saying, maybe you should be wearing something more appropriate for the circumstances.”
“Do you have any suggestions, Captain?”
“I leave that matter to your considerable discretion, Commander.”
She undoes two more buttons. He undoes the rest.
He’s spent some time wondering—and dealing with the aftereffects of these wonderings—what type of undergarments the formidable Commander Spock might permit herself. Of course she’s not going to be a skanky Frederick’s of Betazed girl, but he’ll admit to hoping that she’s got more than granny-panties going on under there.
The bra is black, sleek, unornamented.
Perfect.
He pushes a cup down so that he can put his mouth there—her nipple the color of a Key lime, with an aureola the shade of a white grape. Her hands fold into his hair, and when he introduces fingers to the other breast, she gasps satisfyingly. “I think,” she manages after a moment, and Kirk tries not to feel proud that he’s gotten her hot and bothered enough that the words are just the slightest bit rushed, “that this endeavor might be best achieved with the removal of certain obstructions.”
He tongues her nipple for a few more seconds, then looks up and grins. “Aw, Spock, you sweet-talker. Does that mean ‘yes, Jim, please take my bra off’?”
She glares. In a not-glaring sort of way.
“I’m just saying. I wouldn’t want to perpetuate any tactical miscommunications.”
She glares some more.
He moves up to kiss her mouth. “Yeah, yeah, I get it. Here, sit up, and we’ll take care of this.”
He pushes the shirt back from her shoulders, but lets her get up to lay it neatly on the chair. She apparently wasn’t kidding about the delicate fabric. Then she turns back around, and stands in front of him wearing her very proper gray skirt, and her bra.
He gets up. “I really, really want to do this part.”
“Yet I observe that we are operating under conditions of inequality, Captain.”
He strips off his T-shirt and tosses it onto the floor. “OK. Done.”
But instead of letting him remove the bra, or doing it herself, she steps forward and traces his collarbone with two fingertips, then draws a meandering line down his chest, outlining the planes of muscle and then stopping at the barrier at his hips, where the black waistband of his briefs peeks out from under his jeans and belt. She strokes her knuckles over the hair on his belly—then curls her fingers around his belt and pulls him closer.
He unfastens the front closure on her bra, and she shrugs it off. He kisses the places on her shoulders where the straps lay. He wants to touch all of her at once, devour her with his hands, and judging from the way she’s roaming over his skin, she wants the same thing.
She unbuckles his belt, and it goes pretty quickly from there.
Her underwear are equally black and unadorned—not a thong or anything (the idea is so uncharacteristic as to be actively weird), but definitely something he could happily look at every day of his life. He thought she’d be shy about being naked, or almost naked, but she’s looking at him with frankness—and hunger, there’s hunger there too—along the same lines as his.
When they kiss this time, she nudges him back towards the bed. He has to work to keep from smiling.
She’s not a small woman—shorter than Kirk by less than an inch, and gifted with Vulcan strength. Still, she fits in his lap like she’s meant to be there. His hands return to her hair, and he kisses her throat and asks, “Can I take it down?”
She looks at him for a silent moment. “No one since my mother, when I was a child, has seen my hair unbound.”
He moves his hands, rubs the small of her back, lets her work it out.
In quick, decisive movements, she pulls out four pins and shakes her head slightly. Her two thick braids fall straight from their tight twist.
Kirk combs them out with his fingers.
Loose, her inky-black hair falls about halfway down her back. It’s perfectly straight, with the not-quite-coarse texture of unspun silk. He thinks he could probably touch it for hours, just sit with her head in his lap and stroke her hair until her eyes close. He thinks he could also probably spend a few—or a lot of—hours on his back, watching her hair spill around her shoulders as she fucks him. Could go to sleep with his face buried in it; could wash it for her in the shower and then go down on her for a while.
He’s getting ahead of himself.
She’s watching him with eyes that, as always, are steady, but her posture is back to the perfect poise she adopts when she’s nervous. He kisses her, holds her close, says, “Your hair is beautiful. Thank you for letting me see it.”
“It is pleasing that you find it satisfactory.”
He can be absolutely sure that nobody has ever said that to him during sex before.
“You know why it’s satisfactory?”
“I could not presume to guess.”
“It makes you look like a goddess. And it’s amazing to touch.” He lifts some of it to his face and ignores her bewilderment as he inhales. “Just like I thought, it smells good, too. But you know what the most satisfactory part is?”
Her spine has lost its perfect straightness, and she’s resting against him just a little. “Once again, the task of surmising exceeds my capacities.”
“The best part,” Kirk says, “is that no one gets to see it but me.”
“You are most illogical at times,” she informs him, and pushes him onto his back.
He’s fine with that analysis.
It’s not quite his fantasy of her riding him like she’s some kind of pale-skinned goddess, but the view from this angle is pretty awesome, the curve of her belly and the soft peaks of her breasts. And the way she’s looking down at him is also pretty excellent, like he’s a feast and she’s not sure which part she wants to start with first.
He can’t tear his eyes away when she bends down to unfasten his jeans. Her fingers, ever skillful, nevertheless fumble a little—she doesn’t wear things like this, and obviously she’s never unbuttoned a pair from this angle before. Experimentally, she rubs the outline of his cock, through the denim; he arches into her touch, and she looks at him with the unsmiling but pleased expression he’s come to know well. He sees her reach for the briefs, and he props himself up on his elbows because the image of her hand on his cock for the first time is one that he needs to capture very clearly for use throughout the rest of his life—
But then she stops, as though she’s nearly omitted some crucial step and must pause immediately to rectify the situation. “Do you consent to my touching you in this fashion?”
Kirk collapses back on the mattress, laughing and throwing an arm over his eyes. “Baby, any part of my body—it’s yours to do what you want with.”
“That endearment is illogical. I am certainly not a child.”
He moves his arm so that he can see her again. “Did you seriously just point that out to me?”
“I merely noted that the epithet, though intended with affection, was inaccurate.”
“I have never tasted a heart and thus cannot evaluate their flavor.”
“I am comparable to a liquid sweetener used by humans and produced by insects?”
“Spock,” he says, “I can’t believe I’m asking you this when you’re about to do what you look like you’re about to do, but will you please come down here so that I can kiss you?”
In this matter if in no other, she is compliant. He smiles against her mouth and wraps his arms around her. She allows it, but then pushes herself up and says, “I would like to return to my previous task, if you do not object.”
“Oh God, no. I mean, yes. I mean, I don’t object. I mean—”
His words get cut off by a gasp as the heat of her hand wraps around his cock.
She’s inexpert, but it’s not like Kirk’s ever known her to be anything but a fast learner. She learns (or perhaps researched ahead of time—he wouldn’t put it past her) that the head is more sensitive than the shaft, and that rubbing hard on the glans makes him whimper.
“Please raise your hips,” she requests, and it’s not like he’s about to deny her anything right now. She slides briefs and jeans down his thighs, and they take them off him together.
Who then decides to stretch herself out between his legs and take his cock into her mouth.
He gets out, “You don’t have to—” before she pins his hands with hers, and, holy shit, that’s the hottest thing ever. And just like before, maybe she didn’t go into this knowing anything, but she catches on fast, and she pretty obviously figures out what his breath and heart rate do when she licks around the slit. And her mouth is so hot, and her grip on his wrists is so strong—
“Stop,” he gasps. “I don’t want this to be over yet.”
She raises her head. Her lips are swollen and her eyes are gleaming.
“Let me up,” he says. His voice is hoarser than he’d realized. “I want to eat you out and then fuck you until neither of us know our own names.”
She releases his wrists and folds herself back to sit on her knees. He has a sudden and piercing image of her in front of him like that—sitting on her knees, hands on his thighs, sucking him while he buries his fingers in her hair. He has to clear his throat before he can say, “Let’s get those off you.”
She stands, and right now it’s him dropping to his knees in front of her. He tugs the black silk down her long legs; she steps out of the underwear and he pushes it to the side. On a whim, he bends to kiss the fine metatarsals of her right foot; he glances up to see her eyebrows doing the restrained Vulcan equivalent of “what the fuck.” He grins to himself and presses his lips to the knob of her ankle, the hard length of her shin, and the plateau of her knee. He kisses the other knee, too, then guides her back with his hands until she sits on the edge of the bed.
He wants to know what she tastes like, wants to know what her clit will feel like in his mouth, but he’s got a few things to do before he gets there. He licks the insides of her thighs, runs his hands up the length of her calves, traces the soft skin behind her knees and at the crease of her hips. The shirring of hair on her legs is soft, as black as that on her head—he never gave it much thought, but apparently Vulcans do not share the shaving customs of humans. This texture on a woman’s legs is new to him, but it’s nice, a different sort of sensation from bare skin.
He spreads her thighs a little wider and draws a path with his tongue where he knows it will feel good. They both moan.
She tastes like the ocean.
Her hands go to fists in his hair, and he hears her gasp, feels her fall back. He looks up to see that she has caught herself on her elbows and is staring down at him with fathomless dark eyes.
“Feel good?” he asks.
She nods.
“Want me to keep going?”
“Yes,” she whispers.
He can’t help giving another kiss to the delicate skin of her thigh. “Whatever you want, baby.”
She doesn’t object to the name, this time.
She sighs and rocks up into his mouth as he explores her. She’s wet under his lips, and so, so hot, her normal temperature elevated with arousal. He flicks his tongue over her, works two fingers up to tease the outer lips of her cunt, and she whispers, “Yes,” low but definite.
He strokes her clit with the tip of his tongue, slow and playful. Every sound she makes is a victory. He sucks it into his mouth and she cries out, fierce and guttural; he rewards her with a finger inside. He’s careful, wary of any barrier—but either she lost it or Vulcans don’t have one, because the path is slick and unimpeded, and she rocks forward, encouraging him. He gives her a second, and goes faster and more insistent on her clit; this time her cry is a desperate “Jim!” He doesn’t stop, no mercy, and she convulses around him, all heat and slickness and urgent staccato consonants. He still doesn’t stop, and she does it again, with cries so breathy that they might be pleas.
He pulls away and stands up. Her face is flushed the pale green of early-spring shoots, and there’s actual sweat at her temples. She touches two fingertips to his face, and he realizes that he’s wet with her—marked, he thinks, or claimed. She touches the tips to her mouth, face speculative, then raises an eyebrow at him.
He pushes her onto her back, and he’s inside her with one hard thrust.
With horror, he realizes that this isn’t how you’re supposed to do it—a girl’s first time is supposed to be slow, gentle, let her get used to it and to you. Except that Spock’s got one hand in his hair again, pulling him into a deep, hard kiss, and the other on his ass, urging him just as ferociously. She's moving with him, against him, all lithe limbs and lean muscle, and he bites his lip, gets himself under control. He maneuvers his hand between them and gets back to her clit; her eyes fly open in surprise and she breaks their kiss, stutters his name.
She shudders around him in orgasm, and he can’t hold back anymore—he pours himself inside her, comes until he’s trembling with it, held close in her arms, cradled in her thighs. He buries his face in her neck and lets it rush out of him, moaning into her throat and leaving a bite on the arch of her shoulder.
They stay like that, both breathing, wrapped around each other. After a few moments, reluctantly, he moves to lie next to her, and there’s some rudimentary cleaning. When that’s done, she cups his cheekbone and he rests a hand on her hip, and they spend a little while just looking at each other. He strokes her hair some more, because he can. He’s languorous, sleepy, ready for a nap and then maybe some food when they wake up. But of course his Vulcan girl is wide awake and ready for life, like always.
“You are tired?” she asks.
“You wore me out,” he says. “But just give me a minute, and I’ll be back online.”
She shakes her head. “Sleep. And we will partake of a meal when you awaken.”
“But—”
“It would please me if you would rest,” she says.
“Okay,” he relents, because you don’t fight Spock on certain things.
She turns them, so that her chest is to his back, and gathers him into her arms. It makes him the little spoon, but whatever—they’re on leave and no one has to know. It’s like being watched over, taken care of, and it’s actually kind of nice.
She holds him a little closer, and he wonders whether he just communicated that incredibly wussy thought to his favorite touch-telepath. Probably.
Whatever. It feels good.
He tangles their fingers together and drifts into hazy, peaceful dreams.
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The Colombo Port City (CPC) Economic Commission Bill, one that will surely have profound implications for both Sri Lanka and the entire region for decades to come, was adopted on Thursday after a controversial two-day debate in Parliament. In the end, the Bill was passed comfortably, with 149 votes in favour and just 58 against [...]
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Both sides of House came out all guns blazing; in the end, it was smooth sailing for Port City Bill
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The Colombo Port City (CPC) Economic Commission Bill, one that will surely have profound implications for both Sri Lanka and the entire region for decades to come, was adopted on Thursday after a controversial two-day debate in Parliament.
In the end, the Bill was passed comfortably, with 149 votes in favour and just 58 against at the third reading – a majority of 91. The second reading was passed with 148 votes in favour and 59 against. Three separate votes were also held for amendments proposed by Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Dr Harsha De Silva to clauses 9, 23 and 73 of the Bill, but the Government used its numbers to reject all three of the SJB’s amendments. The Opposition also registered its protest against many other clauses of the Bill which were approved without a division.
SJB members protesting at the Parliament roundabout
The debate saw plenty of heated exchanges between the Government and the Opposition, with the SJB and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) even resorting to public protests near the Parliament roundabout.
On Tuesday, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena read out the Supreme Court’s (SC) determination regarding Fundamental Rights petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Bill, where it was revealed that the SC had found certain clauses of the Bill to be inconsistent with the Constitution. The SC had noted that some clauses needed both a ⅔ Parliamentary special majority and a referendum to be adopted. However, the Court had noted that the inconsistencies would cease if the amendments it proposed were included.
Opposition parties had repeatedly called for a postponement of the debate on account of the ongoing third wave of COVID-19. On Tuesday, Chief Opposition Whip Lakshman Kiriella once more protested the decision to have the debate in such a situation, likening the Government’s haste to push through the Bill to Emperor Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned.
Opening the debate for the Government on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announced that the Government would include all amendments proposed by the SC to the Bill during the third reading.
Economists have forecast that Sri Lanka could attract investments amounting to USD 15 billion for CPC within the next five years, the PM said. About 200, 000 new jobs and livelihoods will also be created in those first five years due to construction work on the Port City. Economists have also forecast that the first five years will also see the creation of about 83, 000 permanent job opportunities at the CPC, Mr Rajapaksa added.
Given the level of competition among countries to attract foreign investment, a country must ensure that it provides potential investors with high quality incentives, facilities and services, he pointed out.
“Our Government has proposed a single window facilitation process for foreign investors who invest in Port City, enabling us to provide all facilities and services they require for them to invest in this project smoothly,” he explained. To do that, the CPC must be efficiently managed by a competent commission that will allow new investors to invest freely by minimising undue obstructions that have often frustrated foreign investors, he remarked.
The SJB was not opposed to CPC, but the Government did not provide enough democratic space to question the contents of this Bill, Colombo District MP Dr Harsha De Silva pointed out. The Government’s conduct meant that there was only one day available for citizens to go to court against the Bill, while the Speaker had still not appointed Parliamentary Oversight Committees to which the Bill could have been referred to. What was worse, the Government did not submit the Bill to Parliament’s Committee on Public Finance, which was functional, he charged.
He questioned why the President has been given sole authority to appoint members of the CPC Economic Commission under the Bill.
“We don’t know who will become President after 20, 40 or 50 years. Why are we giving authority of appointing Commission members to people who we don’t know? Don’t give one person the authority to appoint members to the Commission. Give that power to Parliament. There is no reason why you should not do that,” Dr De Silva told the Government.
The Government needed to provide more opportunities for Foreign Direct Investment, State Minister of Money & Capital Markets and State Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal stressed. “We need a new burst of at least USD 3 billion to come into the country on an annual basis in order to ensure that we maintain growth rates of at least 6% in our country. We have identified certain key projects as being ones that will take the country forward. The Port City is one of them. It has tremendous potential and we have to ensure that it is one of the drivers of the development activities in our country.”
He added that the Government has already agreed that the Commission, which would consist of five to seven persons, would have Sri Lankans in the majority, with the Chairman also being a Sri Lankan. The CPC Economic Commission would be the single window that would provide all the services and guidance to potential investors. It will be able to liaise with all relevant institutions to assist investors, he told the House.
The Government, which came to power by selling ‘patriotism’ is now trying to deprive the country of its freedom through Port City, SJB National List MP Eran Wickramaratne charged. “We have suspicions whether this Government is trying to play political football with China, India and America while staking our freedom.”
Mr Wickramaratne scoffed at the Government’s ‘billboard patriotism’ and questioned its MPs whether their conscience allows them to vote for a Bill that violates the country’s sovereignty.
Charges levelled by the Opposition that the Bill would exempt the CPC from coming under Parliament oversight were preposterous, Leader of the House and Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena stated. “Regulations that are made by the CPC Economic Commission will be submitted to Parliament for approval. It is also completely false to say that the Auditor General won’t have powers to oversea their activities. The Auditor General will be able to audit them and report the findings to Parliament.”
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa described the Bill as a “national tragedy”. He questioned whether the people of the country, who are being battered by the pandemic on all sides, gained any benefit by the rushed debate on the Bill. “This Government is trying to pass the Port City Bill that will betray the country while plunging the country into the abyss of this deadly pandemic,” he asserted.
“The Government may now claim that it will accept and incorporate the amendments suggested by the SC, but the original draft Bill that it presented contains the true vision of what the Government wants for this country. That vision is one that blatantly violates the Constitution,” Mr Premadasa further said.
The country had to provide tax breaks to attract investors and this was the case for Port City, but the power to decide when to give tax breaks and under what conditions will continue to be vested with Parliament, Education Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris insisted. “Regulations regarding tax breaks for Port City must be tabled before Parliament and approved. If those regulations get rejected, the tax breaks won’t be provided.”
Seven key Acts that are important to the country’s financial sector will not apply to Port City under the Government’s Bill, National People’s Power (NPP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said. The Bill also gives the CPC Commission powers to draft regulations that would make it exempt from a further 14 Acts that apply elsewhere in the country, he claimed. “This will create a section of society that will not come under laws passed by this Parliament.
He also alleged that contrary to the Government’s assertions, Parliament’s Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) will not be able to summon officials of the CPC Economic Commission before it. This is despite state funds being used for the building of Port City and Parliament being entrusted with the control of public finances under the Constitution.
One has to be practical when speaking of investment, Justice Minister Ali Sabry noted. “Foreign investment is not foreign aid. If investors didn’t invest USD 1.5 billion, there would still only be a section of Indian Ocean where Port City is situated today. If investors are willing to invest a further USD 15 billion into Port City now, they too would expect a gradual return on their investments. That is how special economic zones are run everywhere in the world.”
He claimed that the Opposition’s criticism of the Bill was motivated purely by jealousy. “The Supreme Court has asserted in its ruling that the CPC is a property of Sri Lanka and comes under the Colombo district. It will be governed completely by Sri Lankan Law. The Criminal Law and Civil Law there will be Sri Lankan Law. Even arbitration concerning disputes will be done in Sri Lanka if parties agree. There are no other exceptions to this,” he asserted.
Once the amendments that were passed by Parliament are incorporated into the Bill by the Legal Draftsman, it will be signed by the Speaker, thus making it into law. Parliament will reconvene on June 8.
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2010-05-03 12:25:55 These guys re-upholstered my truck ceiling. They were quick and did a great job. They even did the sun visors as well. I would highly recommend this shop if your car's "sky is falling". —Avenamia
2011-07-09 12:25:09 I had them re-upholster my truck headliner recently. Well, they were courteous and did do the job quickly, but the quality of the job was lacking. The color is off (it doesn't match the sun visors which they didn't do), they got glue on the "new" liner which probably won't come off, and they left the truck with the old degrading foam material all over for me to clean up. And, at $150 for a single cab pickup, that's a pretty steep price to pay. But, this is the only place in Davis that will do this that I know of, so I went with them. —ibirdie
2011-07-23 11:44:46 I just had a headliner done here, and I have to say they did a pretty impressive job. The guys at the shop were willing to accommodate my work schedule and managed to get the job done quickly. The color was a little off, but I can't complain the quality of the work and the turn around time did more than compensate for the slight color difference. I recommend these guys to anyone who has any upholstery concerns, they are one of Davis' secret treasures. —markaddler
2011-08-08 11:14:55 The leather seats in my 2004 Accord had worn out in a couple of places. A co-worker recommended Tawana at Davis Upholstery. She had her couch re-upholstered there and thought he did a good job. Tawana gave me a cost estimate and said he would do the repairs Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday so I’d have the car back before Monday. He gave me his business and cell phone numbers and called with a progress report. I picked up the car Sunday afternoon and was very impressed with the quality of his work. Tawana also offered to drive the car to my house because I didn’t bring an extra driver with me. Tawana is very nice and does quality work. In my case, the final bill was $50 less than the original estimate. —nowhereman
2014-11-23 The new owner, Zach, does good work for a reasonable price. He's also really nice. He came to our apartment and fixed our injured 'donation station' couch for us. The back supports had popped out. I thought I could push them back in, but of course it was more complicated than that. I can't afford a new couch, and this one (repaired) is nicer than many we could find second-hand, so I called Davis Upholstery to see what it might cost to have a professional fix it. At first he was going to refer me to a carpenter he knows, but instead he came over to see if he could do it himself first. He figured out how to repair it properly but cost-effectively. It only took him an hour, so it didn't even cost as much as he quoted! We had to wait a couple of weeks because he is busy, but it was totally worth it. Our couch looks and works great now. I highly recommend him. —KirstenOlson
2015-03-12 01:11:00 Zack, the new owner, just reupholstered an armchair and rebuilt back cushions for our couch. Zack does beautiful, careful work and we'll continue to take all our work to him. He saved us having to get new furniture. He is a true craftsman. —jescheib
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Technology has become a necessity in today’s society. It is very useful in many ways, but could it be tearing apart social bonds?
Danielle Stone, Staff Writer
May 8, 2015
The recent evolution of technology has enabled activities that were previously thought to be impossible; our grandparents never dreamed they would have the ability to communicate with friends, play a game, and lay in bed at the same time. It is almost a given that everyone has a smart phone, a computer, and a television. These advances have defined our era: but are they reversing the evolution of humanity? People barely speak to each other unless through text on a screen, and kids rarely play outside because they have the ability to watch TV or use social media. Eventually, we will end up just like the people in Wall-E: obese and antisocial.
Social media is meant to connect people who cannot speak in person, but it is ripping apart people who actually see each other. While never looking up from a screen, people miss valuable opportunities and lose the ability to properly communicate. Instead of actually enjoying the company of friends while hanging out, people usually end up posting photos of themselves and friends on social media to put others under the impression that their life is far more interesting than it really is. Instead of truly living life, they post a false one online.
Not only has social media proven to be an overused method of communication; the privilege of texting has also been unnecessarily abused. Nothing is ruder than when someone is talking, and the listener pulls out their phone to text someone else because, obviously, the person they are currently hanging out with is not good enough company. Even when looking at people on dates, one sees they are texting others instead of enjoying each other’s company.
Even children are affected by technology taking over our lives. Kids barely play outside anymore because why would they go outside when they could play video games or watch TV? Not only are their social skills impacted, but the rate of childhood obesity is rapidly increasing.
Not only is the average weight of children being affected, but the mass (and girth) of adults is also ever-growing. Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1980. America has been a main contributor to the technology boom, but it is also one of the most obese countries in the world. These numbers could be completely independent of each other, but it is more likely that the obesity is derived from laziness due to sitting on the computer or watching television all day.
The positive aspects of technology, of course, outweigh the negative, but it is the negative effects that are influencing our society the most. For example, medicine and agriculture are great for health, but computers and television ruin it by decreasing time spent being active. Social skills are impacted by a lack of verbal communication, and opportunities are missed by spending time glued to a screen instead of experiencing the world.
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Clemson University officials today announced the 2021 First Friday Parade will be held on September 10, one day prior to the opening home football game against South Carolina State. The parade is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. and will return to its traditional route along Highway 93. The parade will feature President Jim Clements, other dignitaries, student organizations, spirit groups and Tiger Band.
This year’s theme will be “Clemson Tigers: Stronger Together.” Befittingly serving as this year’s grand marshals will be former Clemson football player Ray-Ray McElrathbey (years) and his brother, Fahmarr. The story of the two brothers was the inspiration behind the 2020 Disney film, Safety. It detailed the story of Ray-Ray, who raised his younger brother on campus after an unsteady home life. Ray-Ray earned the FedEx Orange Bowl Courage Award and Keith Jackson Award of Excellence in 2006.
The parade route will begin at the intersection of Cherry Road and Hwy 93 in front of the Hub at Douthit Hills and end as participants turn left onto Williamson Road. Participants involved in the parade will be asked to line up in the area near the police substation of the Hub at Douthit Hills.
Intersections at both Douthit Hills and where Hwy 93 and College Avenue meet will be blocked just before the start of the parade. Roads will re-open to traffic once the parade has concluded. Parking is available to spectators in the downtown Clemson area, as well as the C-3 Lot (IPTAY Lot 5) next to the WestZone beside Memorial Stadium.
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Non-medical services are provided to individuals in their own homes and communities, who need assistance caring for themselves as a result of old age, sickness, disability and/or other inflictions. It could include: Companionship, Homemaking or Personal Care. Companionship may include providing good social company, encouragement and emotional support. Homemaking may include light housecleaning, laundry, meal preparation, transportation, companionship, respite and assistance with cleaning and household activities. Personal Care may include showering/bathing, personal hygiene, toileting, self-administering medications, grooming, dressing, transferring.
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How will I pay for services?
We accept Visa, Mastercard, and we charge your credit card the day after service is provided.
How soon will I begin to receive services?
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Will insurance cover the cost of non-medical home care?
In some instances long term care insurance policies will cover services after the deductible has been satisfied. Your policy may make provision for this. It is best for you to check with your insurance carrier.
How do I arrange for service to begin?
Please contact our office found at the top right of this page or you can fill out the contact form on our home page to email us your information. A representative from our company will contact you to answer your questions. An in-home assessment is the next step.
How do you match caregivers with clients?
From the in-home consultations, we have an idea of your interests, your preferences. We match our caregivers to clients based on the needs of the client and the background and skills of the caregiver.
Are your caregivers insured?
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There are several times in the Gospels where Jesus had encounters with storms at sea. Keep in mind that two of the things symbolized by the sea are life and people; and some of the things symbolized by storms are adversities, opposition, and difficulties. In Matthew 14:22-23 Jesus sent His disciples on a boat trip […]
October 23, 2018 Written by David
The final name or title given to Jesus in Isaiah 9:6 is Prince of Peace, which, in Isaiah’s language, meant that as Prince He would be the head person, such as a chief or captain, of Shalom which includes safety (and figuratively) well, happy, friendly (and abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, and peace. As His […]
Have You Been Robbed? (Part 2)
July 18, 2017 Written by David
Once again we are reminded that we have a common enemy that is out to rob us of everything God intended and has planned for us, (John 10:10). Satan’s first hatred is against God Himself, originally trying to dethrone Him, according to Isaiah 14:12-15; failing in this, his next attack comes against God’s prime creation, […]
April 2, 2017 Written by David
In Mark 4:35, Jesus had just concluded a teaching service where a multitude of people had gathered, and verse 2 says, “He taught them many things by parables”. Parables are short stories of things familiar in life that illustrate and convey spiritual truths. On this day, He taught them things pertaining to the kingdom of […]
January 22, 2017 Written by David
In John 14:27 Jesus promised His followers peace, His peace. Peace is not only the absence of war and strife, which is rampant in the world, but more importantly peace is a state of tranquility, rest, and calm regardless of the surrounding circumstances. This is the kind of peace Jesus promised in John 16:33 when […]
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April was the last time I sat down and wrote anything for fun. Honestly, my job is killing me, and I’ve not had the energy to sit down and write for fun. There is, however, a backlog of things to write about, so as long as I find some motivation, then I can fill some pages.
In May I made a break from work and the not-so-warm weather and headed to Sal, Cape Verde. Cape Verde is a country in West Africa, located off the west coast of Senegal. Sal is a small island, and there is not much to do on the island but relax on the perfect, white sandy beach and enjoy the perfect weather and clear clean water. The entire week I spent on the island was 25, and there was only one cloudy day. I was honestly looking for just that environment. I stayed at The Morabeza Hotel which had really pretty grounds and some no-frills rooms that had a lovely balcony. The hotel was situated next to where the fishermen worked, so I could watch them walk fresh fish from the sea to the restaurant. The food was really tasty. They even have security staff that walk around the hotel grounds to keep everyone safe.
Armed with a book of crossword puzzles, a sci-fi novel and a massive bottle of SPF 50, I was determined to get a tan and relax. Little did I know that the island was also filled with dogs who run wild on the beach and are very happy to hang out with humans. Between that and the warm weather, I was in complete heaven.
I fell in love with two of the dogs. I even looked up what it would take to bring them back to Scotland with me. Then I decided it was probably better if I moved to Sal because the puppies at the beach had sunshine and warm weather, and I couldn’t give them all of that in Edinburgh. I was forced to leave a big piece of my heart on the island with my puppy protector. The part of the island where I stayed is almost 100% dependent on tourists, so the locals are constantly trying to get you to buy trinkets or go on a tour of the island, and while the resort keeps them off the property, they can’t keep them off the beach. While none of the people made me feel unsafe, I did feel a bit uncomfortable. This dog came and sat with me and would growl at anyone that got too close to me. As you can see from the photos above, he napped when he felt I was safe. On the days the dog wasn’t around, I hung out at the pool and enjoyed a soft lounge chair, a warm salt pool and views of the ocean.
The only downside to the holiday was I really was on my own. I didn’t really speak to people, and I did miss that a little. Usually, when I travel solo I go on tours, I have a lot of things to do to keep me busy, and I don’t really mind if I don’t speak to a lot of people. This time, there wasn’t much of that, and I did not feel super comfortable wandering outside of the resort on my own. I did walk to the local Irish pub (about 4 mins from the hotel) a couple of times to get dinner, and the staff there were lovely, and the food was amazing. If I returned to the island, I’d do it with someone just to ease that loneliness a bit.
All in all, though, I felt very relaxed when I came home, and enjoyed my first introduction to Africa. I enjoyed a different type of vacation than I am used to, actually felt a bit more relaxed when I got home, got enough vitamin d to last until summer really started.
Posted on April 1 by erranteditor
By day 5 I was tired. I’d walked, I’d explored, I’d eaten, and I needed to rest. I stayed inside most of the day and watched Netflix and wrote in my adventure diary. In the afternoon, I did my favourite thing: I got tattooed. I went to Dot and Daggers Tattoo (https://www.dotsanddaggers.com/) and they were able to fit me in last minute. I’d booked in a session with them in November, but it got cancelled when they went back into lockdown. The shop was my favourite type of shop: good music, friendly staff and amazing artwork. I got a hummingbird skull and some flowers to go with the desert happening on my arm. It was worth every second.
My last day in the city was a sunny and warmish day, so I spent the day in the park. But not just any park. The park at the Schönbrunn Palace. This was the summer palace for the Habsburgs. According to Wikipedia:
The 1,441-room Rococo palace is one of the most important architectural, cultural, and historic monuments in the country. The history of the palace and its vast gardens spans over 300 years, reflecting the changing tastes, interests, and aspirations of successive Habsburg monarchs. It has been a major tourist attraction since the mid-1950s.
I bought a new duck and ended the day finding an old mosaic of a cow and a wolf playing backgammon. According to Atlas Obscura:
IN THE 15TH CENTURY, ENEA Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, better known later in life as Pope Pius II, described all the fine houses of Vienna as being painted inside and out with fabulous scenery. Like the marginalia found in illuminated manuscripts, the houses would have featured religious and historic portraiture, along with some humorous imagery for good measure.
These medieval murals have mostly been destroyed by time, but one, of the humorous variety, can be seen today on a house in Vienna’s historic center. The facade of the Hasenaus (“Hare House”) features a wolf and a cow in spectacles engaged in a game of backgammon. Behind the board are the legs of a man, who appears to be holding a fly swatter, perhaps to attend to the players.
One explanation for this absurd scene is that it is an allegory for the political tensions between Protestants and Catholics. It’s not clear who’s winning. Others have suggested that the man behind the game is a furrier eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the game so he can take the hide of the loser.
The wall painting dates approximately to 1509. The house would have been originally been covered with scenes of medieval life, in particular one large motif of a rabbit hunt (hence the name). But when it was refurbished in the 18th century, all but the backgammon game was lost. Luckily, it has been carefully preserved so that Viennese and visitors alike can admire it, wondering what it’s supposed to mean.
The mural was down an unassuming side street, and I am glad that I detoured to find it. I returned to Scotland feeling like I’d had proper time off, got some good culture and allowed myself to separate from my work for a bit. It was a really good way to end my 34th year.
Totally ready for the next adventure. s
Posted on March 24 by erranteditor
My trip to Bratislava meant that I got to cross an item off my bucket list: Listen to the Bratislava Hot Serenaders in Bratislava. I first saw them in 2016 (I think) and the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival. They were amazing and fun. If you’ve never heard of them enjoy:
I’ll admit, when I went to see them I was painfully ignorant about Bratislava. The only thing I knew was it was the capital of Slovakia. I enjoyed the performance so much though that I thought it would be great to one day visit the city and experience a little Slovakian culture.
Flashforward to 2022. I hopped on a bus in Vienna and 1 hour later I was in the town square. According to Wikipedia:
Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia at the foot of the Little Carpathians, occupying both banks of the River Danube and the left bank of the River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two sovereign states.[6]
The city’s history has been influenced by people of many nations and religions, including Austrians, Bulgarians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Serbs[7] and Slovaks.[8] It was the coronation site and legislative center and capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783;[9] eleven Hungarian kings and eight queens were crowned in St Martin’s Cathedral. Most Hungarian parliament assemblies were held here from the 17th century until the Hungarian Reform Era, and the city has been home to many Hungarian, German and Slovak historical figures.
Today Bratislava is the political, cultural and economic centre of Slovakia. It is the seat of the Slovak president, the parliament and the Slovak Executive. It has several universities, and many museums, theatres, galleries and other cultural and educational institutions.[10] Many of Slovakia’s large businesses and financial institutions have headquarters there.
My first stop was a Synagogue because Bratislava has a very proud Jewish culture and history. I started at ŽIDOVSKÁ STREET (JEWISH STREET). This was the only place that Jewish people were allowed to live from 1599-1840. There is a memorial there to commemorate the space. The synagogue wasn’t open when I was there, but I made sure to go by for a visit. The next spot I went to was the CHATAM SOFER MEMORIAL. According to their website:
The Chatam Sofer Memorial in Bratislava is a unique Jewish heritage site – the sole remaining part of the centuries-old Jewish cemetery that was destroyed in 1943 when the nearby tunnel was constructed. Only the most important section, with 23 graves surrounding the Chatam Sofer’s tomb, was preserved as an underground compound. In 2000-2002, the whole site was redeveloped and the gravestones were restored. The architect Martin Kvasnica designed a striking new complex that adheres to the strict requirements of the halakhah (Jewish law) as well as to the highest standards of contemporary architecture.
Chatam Sofer is said to be the father of Orthodox Judaism, and his tomb is a pilgrimage site for many Orthodox Jews.
At first, I was a bit confused about the memorial. I wasn’t sure if it was something that anyone could visit, or if you had to be guided. I passed a very serious Hasidic Jewish man and then a family who was being guided by someone who worked nearby. When I asked him if it was a place that anyone could visit, he immediately launched into a well-practised spiel about how it was not a museum but a very serious place of worship for Jewish people. He explained that he had a bus full of Hasidic men from Tel Aviv about to arrive on a pilgrimage and that it was a very serious place. I explained to him that I was Jewish, that was part of the reason for the visit and that I had done my homework before coming down, so I understood the importance of the memorial.
I’m not sure he was convinced, but because I was wearing modest clothes and my head was covered, he was willing to take me into the women’s section and allow me to pray for a bit. He made me feel like I wasn’t Jewish enough to be there, and I was a little embarrassed that I had misunderstood the space, so I thanked him for his willingness to let me in, but I would respect the seriousness of the place and not enter. As I walked away, I felt really strange. I am Jewish, but having to prove my ‘Jewishness’ made me feel like I was somehow an imposter. I would say I am more of a cultural Jew, the history and the importance of the culture is more important to me than the religious aspects, but the fact that I was made to feel like an ‘other’ for that didn’t sit well. So, I did the most Jewish thing I could do and felt guilty for even thinking I could enter the space. I let my imposter syndrome win. I may not be as learned in the Torah, and not as deeply religious as those men on the bus, but I had every right to enter that important space and take in the history.
I continued my wander around the city, visiting the Blue Church (The Church of St Elizabeth), the castle and looked for two famous statues, NAPOLEONIC SOLDIER (NAPOLEÓNEC), and RUBBERNECK (ČUMIL)
All in all, I enjoyed my day in the city and even found a rubber duck to represent my visit. The people that I met in the shops when I got lunch and when I got the duck were nice, but not overly friendly, and I am not sure if I would need to visit again, but I am glad that I made the trip.
Posted on March 23 by erranteditor
I woke on day 3 feeling sore. I was not used to walking so much and not just being sat in front of a computer all day, and my poor feet were mad at me.
My first stop was at the Jewish Museum. I try and visit the Jewish quarter of every country that I visit, and the Jewish culture in Vienna is especially important as they were all but wiped out by the Nazis during WWII. The first museum houses the remains of the temple that was destroyed in 1421 and marks where the Jewish quarter used to be. At that time, Jewish people were rounded up and murdered, and their history and culture long buried.
The women’s section of the synagogue destroyed in 1421.
The museum also includes a look at the Jewish culture today and how people feel about living in Vienna. One of the exhibits was called The Vienna Rothschilds. A Thriller. According to the museum:
‘The exhibition presents the history of the Rothschild family in Vienna and Austria. Since the activities and accomplishments of the Viennese Rothschilds have faded from memory, it is important to call them to mind with this exhibition and to make their traces visible.
The rise of the Rothschild family began in the early 19th century with Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a Jew from a humble background in Frankfurt. He carved out a career through hard work and sent his five sons out into the world, one of them to Vienna: Salomon von Rothschild. As a banker to the Austrian State Chancellor Metternich, he quickly became one of Austria’s leading entrepreneurs. The name Rothschild served as a positive symbol for a Jewish success story, but also a negative cliché in antisemitic propaganda.
The story of the Rothschilds in Vienna and Austria reads in parts like a thriller. They had to assert themselves against competitors, became ensnarled in conflicts and were confronted with antisemitic stereotypes. But they repeatedly stood up for their oppressed and persecuted fellow believers and established numerous educational and charitable foundations for the general public.
In 1938, the Gestapo arrested Louis Rothschild and held him hostage for a year to extort the Rothschild’s entire fortune. After the end of the Second World War, a large part of their stolen property was restituted, but they had to forcibly “donate” important works to Austrian museums. The restitution proceedings have dragged on to this day. Yet the story of the Rothschilds in Austria continues.’
I’d never heard this story before, and it was ridiculous. Imagine being robbed and then robbed again under the guise of ‘donating’ to museums for the enjoyment of others. The way that Jewish people are treated in some countries is almost beyond comprehension. My next stop was at the Shoah Memorial. It is in the centre of the Judenplatz (‘Jews Square’). The memorial is beautiful and tragic at the same time. British artist Rachel Whiteread designed the memorial. Around the outside of the memorial are the places in Austria where the Nazis murdered Jews and the memorial itself looks like a large concrete cube, but if you look closely you will see ripples in the cube that look like books. There are 65,000 books, one that represents the story for each of the Jewish people who died in one of the camps.
Once I had gotten my spiritual fulfilment, I walked to the Albertina for more art. I almost skipped this museum. I’m not sure what made me go in, but oh boy, it was one of the best parts of the trip. The Albertina holds amazing works by Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, Degas, Klimt, Kandinsky, Miro and Warhol. Basically all of the artists that I love. I had no idea that there were so many Warhols in Vienna, and even more shocked to see three Miros! He is my favourite artist. I have one of his paintings tattooed on me. This little unexpected surprise was amazing. I could have cried I was so happy.
I gave my poor feet a break and spent the rest of the day enjoying the funky hotel and eating cake. I really wanted to plan some day trips one to Czechia and one to Slovakia so I spent the evening trying to figure out if there was a way I could make it happen. I miss the pre-Covid days when it was just a matter of getting on a train or a bus. Czechia was unfortunately ruled out pretty quickly because of their Covid test rules, but I was able to figure out how to get to Bratislava quite easily. God love public transportation.
Posted on March 23 by erranteditor
I’m finding it difficult to find the time to write out all of the amazing things that I got to see in Vienna. Most of my energy went into applying for my own job and being sad about having stepped on a scale and seen how much I actually weigh.
But back to the important things: sightseeing in Vienna. Day 2 was just as great as day 1. I started the day in a library. The State Hall of the Austrian National Library was stunning.
The State Hall – built in the 18th century as part of the former Court Library – is a breathtaking 80 metres long and 20 metres high. An intricately decorated dome and numerous frescos provide an imperial flair. This baroque jewel is home to over 200,000 tomes. Four magnificent Venetian globes, each with a diameter of over one metre, provide the finishing touch to the heart of the Austrian National Library.
The photos that I took do not do the library justice but suffice to say, I was a very happy Kim.
My next stop was Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. This museum is known for housing the Habsburg art and antiques. There was a lot of gold plated and bejewelled everything. The museum had artefacts from ancient Greece, from Egypt and a picture gallery full of amazing art. I spent a good three hours here wandering around. The only bummer was there were not a lot of English translations, so there were some things that I couldn’t follow along with, which was a bit of a bummer. I did a bit of googling though and that helped.
The last stop of the day was to the Vienna Naschmarkt. The smells of spices and sausage and fresh fruit and veg just seep into your pores when you enter the market. I did a lot of browsing, but did not buy anything.
In addition to the market, I was also on the hunt for the Ampelpärchen, or diversity themed traffic lights inspired by Eurovision. They were so fun to spot, but difficult to photograph. I ended the day getting sausage in a giant bread roll from one of the street vendors and enjoying the view in the popular historic square. I don’t usually eat meat when I am on vacation, but you can’t really go to Vienna and not eat a Vienna sausage. It was every bit as good as I hoped it would be.
Posted on March 12 by erranteditor
For the first time since 2018, I actually went on holiday that wasn’t California and wasn’t in the UK! I’ve been trying to get away since Nov 2021, but lockdowns and Covid mean having to be flexible. Instead of a Thanksgiving holiday, I snuck away to celebrate my last week of being 34.
I’ve been really struggling since 2018. The end of the PhD, the horrible viva and rewrites, and then the pandemic have really done a lot to corrode my already tenuous mental health. That coupled with isolation, no travel and a stressful work environment have left me pretty burnt out. I haven’t been writing for fun, haven’t been writing for work, and haven’t done a whole lot to help myself become an adult.
To sort myself out, I decided to head to Vienna for a week. I’ve never been to Austria, and there are a lot of great places to visit that are only an hour by train or bus….and I just needed out of the UK.
I booked a stay at the Student House Vienna. This is a hotel/student dorm. It was fantastic. The people were friendly, I couldn’t hear the people living above me or next to me, and it was right next to the metro, so it was easy to get to city centre.
The first thing I did was buy a week’s pass for the U-Bahn so that I did not have to walk if I did not want to. My first stop was the Museum of Modern Art. According to the museum’s website:
With its collections based on Pop Art and Photorealism, Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme as well as Viennese Actionism, the mumok combines highlights of societal and reality-related art as well as performance art of the 20th century. The collection comprises around 9,000 works: paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, graphics, photos, videos, films, architectural models and furniture.
The museum did not disappoint. Pop art is the type of art I enjoy the most, and the gallery had so many floors to wander about. I actually wandered the museum without a murder podcast playing in my ears and it was nice to have a bit of silence.
The next place that I went was the Natural History Museum. According to their website:
The Natural History Museum preserves, expands, researches and presents its extensive biological, geological, anthropological and archaeological collections in a building designed as a total work of art. It conveys the diversity of nature, the evolution of planet earth and life as well as the associated cultural development of humans and offers an inspiring meeting place where dialogue and exchange between science and society take place.
It is a stunning museum, the building is amazing and everything is presented so well. It is also like a maze. There are so many rooms and corridors that at one point, I was glad that I had a granola bar in my purse.
There was something really nice about wandering the city, not being sat on my couch all day, and not emotionally eating because I am sad and feeling stuck. Even the GPS gods smiled on me and kept me right the entire time. Vienna is really easy to navigate and I have the directional sense of a bee in a paper bag, so being outside, walking, and not once getting lost made me really happy. I even navigated the metro like I knew what I was doing, and I love any time that I can feel a bit less like a tourist. I ended the day with my favourite thing: cake. There was a market in the metro station, so I was able to get nibbles and eat in the dorm at the end of the day. I was not 100% keen on eating out alone, so being able to get a salad and water and amazing bread. It was a great start to the vacation.
Posted on March 10 by erranteditor
I am behind on the list of things that I’ve cooked each week. The last one that I posted was a complete disaster, so I thought it would be smart to ditch the baking and go back to trying to cook simple recipes.
And shocker, it worked! I made a simplified version of a Pad Thai, and it was delicious.
The recipe came from Delish.com. They have been my go-to for simple recipes and fun meals to ease me into the cooking life. The recipe can be found here: https://www.delish.com/uk/cooking/recipes/a29468997/easy-pad-thai-recipe/, but in case it ever gets pulled down:
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 pepper, thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 eggs, lightly whisked
Freshly ground black pepper
2 spring onions, thinly sliced
In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook noodles until al dente. Drain.
In a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat, heat oil. Add bell pepper and cook until tender, about 4 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute more. Add the prawns and season with salt and pepper. Cook until pink, about 2 minutes per side.
Push the prawns and vegetables to one side of the pan and pour in the egg. Scramble until just set then mix with the prawn mixture. Add the cooked noodles and toss until combined. Pour in the lime juice mixture and toss until the noodles are coated.
Garnish with spring onions and roasted peanuts before serving.
Pad Thai was not something that I tried until I was 18. There was an amazing place in Merced and the owners loved the uni students and always took care of us. When I moved back to Edinburgh, the flat I settled in was tucked in behind a Chinese food place that also made amazing Pad Thai. I used to order it a lot when I was working on my PhD. Unfortunately, they were a casualty of the pandemic, which is why I wanted to learn a simple version that I could make on my own. I am going to add this one to the list of things I will make again.
Posted on February 7 by erranteditor
This one should actually be called the failed cooking corner. The big huge it looked like cat vomit instead of sauce fail.
I somehow ended up with a bag full of shallots when I did my last grocery order, and for the life of me, I can’t remember if I’ve ever cooked with a shallot. I did what any good researcher would do and took to the internet to try and find a good recipe that would allow me to use some of my shallots.
You’ll never guess what I found…..an entire recipe dedicated to the use of shallots. I picked one that seemed easy: Caramelised shallot pasta. Seemed easy enough, and the shopping list was simple.
60ml olive oil
8 round shallots, sliced very thinly
Salt and pepper, to taste
25g anchovy fillets (about 6 anchovies), drained but not rinsed
Heat the olive oil in a large heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium high heat. Add the shallots and thinly sliced garlic, season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the shallots have become totally softened and caramelized with golden-brown fried edges, a solid 15 to 20 minutes.
Add chilli flakes, anchovies, sundried tomatoes and olives. Stir well and cook for a further 4 minutes.
Meanwhile, fill another large pot with salted water and bring to a boil. Add the bucatini and cook according to the package instructions. Save about 2 ladles of pasta water when draining.
Add the cooked pasta to the pan of sauce. Slowly begin to pour in the remaining pasta water and toss to combine with the sauce. Continue adding a little bit of the water at a time to help loosen up the sauce and coat all of the pasta.
I went to the big Tesco near my house and picked up everything that I didn’t already have in my pantry. It has now become a bit of a fun ritual for me: finding the recipes, going to the shop, listening to a podcast as I browse the aisles. This time it was Sweet Bobby (which is a story for another day, because damn, that is one ridiculous story). I came home and washed everything that needed to be washed and prepped everything according to the instructions.
Except I made one crucial mistake when I was ear deep in a crazy 10 year catfish saga: I bought sardines instead of anchovies. Even worse, I didn’t notice I’d made this error until after I added it to everything else. Instead of a sauce, I got cat vomit city.
Cat vomit disguised as part of the caramelised shallot pasta.
Me, learning after making the fatal mistake
The only good part of this was that I hadn’t mixed the pasta in yet, so dinner wasn’t totally wasted. Butter, garlic powder, mixed herbs and the fresh parm saved the day. I sent the photos to the family group chat, had a good laugh and crossed this recipe off the list of the success stories. I guess when I had the idea to try a recipe a week, I thought they would all be a success story. The first couple worked out so well. I got cocky. I started to believe that maybe I wasn’t hopeless at cooking.
There is one thing I can say with confidence though: I still do not know how to cook a shallot.
Posted on October 25, 2017 by erranteditor
I saw this on another blog, and decided that with the sudden influx of new readers (hello everyone!) that I have, it might be fun (not to mention a good break from my PhD) to answer some questions.
How did you start your blog?
I started this little beauty 7 years ago because it was cheaper than therapy. When I got accepted to the University of Edinburgh, I decided that it would be a way to tell my family and friends about what I was doing.
What made you decide to begin blogging?
I liked writing, and knew it would be easier for people to share my time in Scotland with me.
Are there other types of writing you enjoy doing?
I love all types of writing. I am working on my 4th degree, so I’ve gotten very comfortable to academic writing, but storytelling, creative writing, travel narratives, I love them all.
Why do you write?
Because it is cheaper than therapy. Because it is the way I process what is going on in my life. Because I have a lot to say, and yet spend a majority of time alone. Because my mom told me I’m good at it.
Do you see yourself as an optimist, pessimist, or neither?
Leader….but only because I am way too impatient with how slow people walk to be a follower
I’m a little bit of both, depends on who you ask really.
Broad-minded or opinionated?
I have really strong opinions, and I always think I am right, but I would like to think that I am open enough to listen to people and what they have to say before I then try to convince you that I am right and I know best.
Introvert. Don’t you dare ask me to dress up for a themed night out, and if you even try to sing happy birthday to me when we are out to dinner, I will kill you with the dessert spoon.
What’s your next adventure?
I’m headed to Switzerland in November, and then to Denmark in January. I’m sure I will try and fit a few more city breaks in there as well because not travelling makes me antsy.
What’s your favorite place in the world to be?
At the dinner table with all of my family.
If you could live anywhere in the world for 3-6 months where and why?
Australia or New Zealand
Beach. Give me some sun, sand, clear blue water and a surfboard and I would be a very happy girl.
What is your favorite place you’ve ever traveled to?
I don’t think that I have ever been anywhere that I haven’t enjoyed in one way or another….well, maybe Albania. I think Riga, Latvia stands out, as well as Sydney.
What do you do in the evening to ensure you’re in the swing of self-care and feeling super duper mindful?
I don’t. I’m supposed to. For awhile I was really good about doing yoga and mindfulness meditation. I battle crazy depression and anxiety, so it is worth it for me to keep going with it, but when I’m stressed it is hard for me to focus on anything other than eating bad foods and taking extended naps.
How do you inject happiness into those days when you’re not feeling as positive as you’d like to?
Baby animal videos. Photos and videos of my nephews and my cat. Talking to my friends. Hugging strangers’ dogs.
What is your favorite time of day?
Anytime that I can sit down and get some writing done. I have a lot of words that need to get on the page right now, so anytime that I can sit down and get some of them from my brain to my Word doc I am a happy girl.
The world ends in 48 hours and you’ve lost your bucket list. What two things would you like to do?
If the world is going to end then I don’t really care about my bucket list. I just want to get home to my family.
If you could have dinner with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
What is your dream job?
Trophy wife. professional napper. I’d like to be a travel writer. I’d love to get paid to travel all over the world and tell people about it. I’m also not giving up on my literacy foundation to help people all over the world learn to read (in their native language and then in English or another language should they choose).
Do you have any pets?
In my mind I have a small farm of pets. In reality, I have a cat who lives with my parents. I’m not sure he remembers me.
What book(s) have made you cry?
“Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet”
What is your favourite song?
The Scamp in Bosnia
Posted on July 19, 2017 by erranteditor
…and now for the final post of my epic adventure. This also happens to be one of the highlights of the trip for me. The surprise favourite. A friend of mine told me that Sarajevo was perhaps the most beautiful capital city that he had ever been to, and he’s been to a lot of capital cities, so I was both curious and excited to see what surprises the city had in store for me.
Let me tell you, it did not disappoint. I had no idea what to expect when I got to Sarajevo, but the beautiful fusion of East and West in the ‘plains around the palace’ offered me a regular feast for my eyes. We got into Bosnia a bit late in the evening, so after checking into a lovely hotel, we went to perhaps one of the best houses in the city for dinner.
The Spite House has a very interesting story. According to Atlas Obscura:
An elderly Bosnian fellow named Benderija refused to agree to the destruction of his house, even after being offered more money than the property was worth. Without the land under his house, there would be no way for the city hall to be built at the desired location, right next to the River Miljacka. Lengthy negotiations ensued between the old man and the city (with even the Austro-Hungarian Minister of Finances getting involved) until finally, in 1895, he agreed to sell his property for the extravagant price of a sackful of gold ducats, but only under one condition: the authorities would have to move his Ottoman-era house, brick by brick, and rebuild it on the other side of the river.
Benderija got his way; in the popular account of the story, the old man spent every day of the move sitting in the middle of a nearby bridge, smoking cigarettes and carefully watching the workers transport each brick across the river. When the house was finally rebuilt, it was aptly named Inat Kuća, or the House of Spite.
Today, this proud symbol of Bosnian stubbornness serves a more practical purpose: it was converted into a Bosnian restaurant in 1997.
The government got the last laugh though because while the man’s favorite spot used to face the river, it now faced a mountain.
We were treated to a tour of the city by a local guide of about my age. He was full of the typical stories, and showed us the site where the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand happened. It was an odd bit of history to walk over, and the unfortunately for Sarajevo, it was not the last of the struggles that happened there.
It was interesting to see the influences of the West on side of the city, and the East on the other. There are markets that look much like I imagine the markets of Istanbul to look, and they sell Turkish coffee, Turkish delights (which are not a delight), and beautiful weavings, jewelery and tourist fluff. There are traditional bars and fancy brand name shops there as well.
We were able to take a trip outside the city to see the Sarajevo War Tunnel. Before this trip, I was pretty ignorant to the history of Bosnia, but I was aware of the war that plagued them in the early 90s. I remember seeing news reports of fighting, and hearing that bad things were happening, but I was little and did not really understand what it meant, or who was actually in the wrong. The Tunnel of Hope is just one of the examples of resistance.
According to Wikipedia (I know, I hate that site too, but it is the best place for quick summaries to help paint a clear picture to a complicated story):
The Sarajevo Tunnel (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: Sarajevski tunel / Сарајевски тунел), also known as Tunel spasa (Тунел спаса, English: Tunnel of rescue) and Tunnel of Hope, was an underground tunnel constructed between March and June 1993 during the Siege of Sarajevo in the midst of the Bosnian War. It was built by the Bosnian Army in order to link the city of Sarajevo, which was entirely cut off by Serbian forces, with Bosnian-held territory on the other side of the Sarajevo Airport, an area controlled by the United Nations. The tunnel linked the Sarajevo neighbourhoods of Dobrinja and Butmir, allowing food, war supplies, and humanitarian aid to come into the city, and allowing people to get out. The tunnel became a major way of bypassing the international arms embargo and providing the city defenders with weaponry.
We got to go through a small part of the tunnel, and the house that hides it (and well, a lot of buildings in the city) or still covered in bullet holes.
In fact, bullet holes, and bullet shell are quite the popular tourist attraction. Many of the trinkets that tourists can buy are made with spent casings. I found this to be really dark, and somewhat distasteful, but plenty of people seem to think it is a good idea. We had some time to wander after the tour, and while I would have liked to hike to the old bobsled track, I instead went in search of Jewish people. I dragged the Golden Girls to an old temple and got to see the Jewish people of the city lived, and how many of them were protected by the Muslims in WWII. It was rare on this trip to be able to see this little bit of culture, but I am glad that the girls indulged me and let me have a wander in the sacred space.
The Golden Girls and I completed our day climbing the fortress and looking out over the city. We were hot and sweaty, but it the views were lovely.
One of the hidden gems of the city was the bar that is decorated like a granny’s house. It is called Zlanta Ribica. I’d go back there are put on a funny hat and some big sunglasses and drink cocktails until the day is done.
We left Bosnia to head to Mostrar, one of the most important cities in Herzegovina. I do not remember most of what we were told about the city, but the famous old bridge. It was built in the 16th century and is said to be one of the best examples of Islamic architecture. It has become famous with the tourists because the men of Mostrar jump off the 25 meter bridge to transition to manhood. It looks crazy, and scary, and one of our very own did it while we were there. It has been completed almost 500 times, and I get to say that I know someone who has done it and survived.
The end of the guided tour took us back to Split, and I spent the last day of holiday laying on the beach and wishing that I had 17 more days of warm weather. This trip was truly one of the most fun adventures that I have ever had, and although I did complain about some of the people, it would not have been the same without the people I was with. I have a sincere hope that I will get to meet some of these people again, whether in my home or in theres.
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Once upon a time I was a single girl living in Hermosa Beach in Los Angeles, California. LA is where I met the husband, got married and then had one precious baby boy named Greyson. We moved from Hermosa to the Central Valley of California just 3 years ago.
It's kind of like Spring Break all the time in Hermosa. On occasion during the weekend I found myself attending an organized pub crawl. They began early, often around 11am and went until the wee hours of the night, although I never was able to make it that long. I'm not a big drinker. You would bike with a group of friends traveling together from bar to bar.
And that's exactly what I did tonight... except instead of bars, I went from grocery store to grocery store. Yes, that's what I did with my 2-hour babysitting window. I went to 3 grocery stores in all. It was just like a pub crawl in Hermosa, but instead of riding my bike, I drove. And instead of getting sloshed, I got groceries. And instead of looking cute, I was sweaty and unshowered. And instead of being surrounded by friends, I was alone, yet happy.
Bob Dylan was right... The times- they are a changing.
And here I am now, simmering in my so called life. I'm wondering what I did to deserve it so good. And I'm grateful that this moment is perfect and even more grateful that I have the ability to recognize it.
Enjoy every moment is not something that will be muttered from my mouth. Some moments are forgettable. Some moments are painful. Some moments deserve do overs. I think the key is being able to recognize the outstanding moments as they play out. Give them a standing O and ask for an encore. They will come back around.
And admit that the waters Around you have grown
And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'
Sometimes God reveals the world to us in layers. I usually think I want to see it all at once, but God knows best. The layers don't always make sense until we see the big picture. Sometimes the big picture takes months or days or years or even a lifetime to make sense. Don't wait for the big picture. Enjoy your current birds eye view.
If you haven't yet- please read the People are Good post written last week. I shared that post with the folks working for the City of Fresno...and last night I was humbled and touched to receive one of my favorite emails ever.
This is Frank, your City of Fresno green waste driver. I had to let you know that my boss did make it a point to make sure I received your beautiful story, and how touching it was! You are so right when you said "you have no idea the impact you have on a Wednesday". I truly had no idea. Your story moved me to tears as well as many others throughout the City. Words can't express how it touched my heart and how it brightened my day. Also, your pictures are outstanding! You seem to catch the very essence of life. I think I will print out the picture of Greyson sitting in my truck and post it up in the cab, to remind me every day how precious life is. With so much negativity in today's world, experiences such as these are so uplifting. My wife and I took the time this evening to go to your blog site and read about your son Greyson and your wonderful family. I can tell that Greyson & Parker, have such a wonderful, special mom and dad and you have two special boys! Like you mentioned in one of your blogs, they truly are Gifts from God! Even though this imperfect world hands us challenges that we don't ask for, our Heavenly Creator can help us meet those challenges as long as we rely on him for that help, he never expects for us to carry the load on our own. As long as I am the green waste driver for your area, I will continue to look forward with expectation every Wednesday to see Greyson's smiling face.
And Friend, it's just so good it hurts. All of it... At the time Frank thought he was making one little boy and his Mom happy, but over 7,000 people read the post and were touched by his gesture. We all have that ability to impact a life, we just don't always get to see how it plays out. There's just so much I want to say to you about the beauty in the world that my words get all jumbled up and my throat gets tight and I just want to cry. God creates direct paths to people we are meant to meet. Opportunities for us to inspire and be inspired by. It's so easy to go through life choosing to look down and just going through the motions. I wonder, has life always been this painfully beautiful, or am I just noticing it for the first time?
Today, look up. Engage. Every person can be an opportunity to connect. Be open to the gifts that are being sent your way. You deserve it. And like Frank said, know that whatever load you are carrying- you don't have to do it alone.
Come connect with me on Facebook. That's all. And I love you.
Oh wait, one more thing- when I went to upload my pictures for tonight's post- my card reader and camera card broke. I'm working through it. I'm deep breathing. I'm practicing not sweating the small stuff. I stink at it so I am PRACTICING. I didn't say I was PERFECTING.
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MonaBoneJakon July 2, 2013 at 11:21 PM
Thank you for letting me be one of your stops for your grocery crawl. So good to see you!
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teechrmom7 July 3, 2013 at 2:16 AM
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
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Anne Marie July 3, 2013 at 2:53 AM
Thank you for starting my day with such wonderful thoughts and words. Will be mindful of sending out pebbles. Love Frank!
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Brenda Saulnier July 3, 2013 at 4:50 AM
This blog has given me so much hope and inspiration regarding my own son. I read it daily and am always so touched by you writing and your beautiful boys!! Thank you!
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Anonymous July 3, 2013 at 5:36 AM
All of this - just beautiful. I'm so glad I found your blog. So, so glad.
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Unknown July 3, 2013 at 5:43 AM
How awesome. This is really what life is all about. Thanks for the reminder.
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Susan Meyer July 3, 2013 at 5:58 AM
Frank's letter made me cry because it is yet another reminder about all of the good in this world that is so often overshadowed by so much negative, tragic, and depressing news. Loved it! Thanks for starting out my day in a fantastic way. Now we have to pack for a 12 hour road trip with our 5 and 7 year old. Have a great holiday!
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Annie July 3, 2013 at 6:48 AM
So touching. Amazing how things get shared so fast. To think of all the lives that are now touched from one seemingly simple gesture. How it can mean so much and now to get shared and shared and shared. Love your analogy.
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Sarah Ochoa July 3, 2013 at 6:55 AM
whew! amazing.
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Heather July 3, 2013 at 7:16 AM
The tears are streaming down my face. AMAZING!!! Love that guy, Frankie and his sweet wife! Put that email in a book to read over and over...especially on those days that you need the extra love.
I am so hooked on your blog...I don't know what mesmerizes me more; your words or captured still moments. I feel a deep need to read your words daily...for myself and my own two boys. I'm trying, just like you. One day at at time. You're right, it's not the big picture...It's all those moments to lead up to it. Thank you, Chrissy, for the love you share with all of us and the constant reminder of keeping life real and true to ourselves.
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Natalie Burke July 3, 2013 at 7:27 AM
Oh man, this brings tears to my eyes. How awesome that he emailed you. I would consider that one of my favorite emails too. Hope you all have a happy 4th.
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Angela July 3, 2013 at 9:40 AM
Oh, Chrissy. Sometimes small acts of kindness and love are so BIG that they can't be contained in a heart, in a moment, in even one life. Such is the story of Greyson, Frank, and the Wednesday green waste truck.
I LOVE that God chose to bless your family, Frank's family, and all of us - AFTER your guest post, when so many more were watching and listening.
Our little seven year old friend's leukemia relapsed yesterday after only a couple of chemo-free months. Her name is Lola. Our hearts are re-broken, re-shattered, and I've been searching the morning for good news and small mercies. This was a particularly fitting day to receive the blessing of this post. Drinking it up.
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mommykelly July 3, 2013 at 10:56 AM
PRAYING for Lola right now. Keeping watch for her with you. http://lifewithgreyson.blogspot.com/2013/05/keeping-watch.html
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Anonymous July 3, 2013 at 9:45 AM
LOVE!
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monicac2 July 3, 2013 at 12:37 PM
This is all just so *good.* Thank you!
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Anonymous July 3, 2013 at 9:56 PM
Amazing!! Thank you. Thank you.
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Unknown July 3, 2013 at 10:59 PM
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Unknown July 8, 2013 at 11:36 AM
Tears running down my face! What an amazing post! Thank you for everything you do! I have officially read every single blog post since I googled Autism and I am so thankful to have clicked your link. I don't feel so alone and scared anymore. You have been such an inspiration to me and all I can do is say THANK YOU!! Your boys are so beautiful, I always look forward to seeing their pictures. Whether it's Greyson jumping and running or Parker in the pool, they're both so amazing in their own ways!! Thank you! You have a wonderful family Chrissy!!!
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On March 3rd, 2019, Little Yellow Magnet was published and sent out into the world. It’s the most difficult book that I’ve ever written. Thus, it’s also the one that I’m most proud of.
In 2018 I sat down to write a little book on positivity. People were always asking me how I stayed so positive living with Multiple Sclerosis and Cerebral Palsy. Being a writer, I thought I would write a book on positivity and positive thinking that would hopefully help others.
I called it Mastering Self, see what I did there? I thought to link the title to MS in some way as the MS had truly taught me what I was capable of. The only problem? I got to page twenty-nine before I realized that it wasn’t working.
By focusing on only the positive elements of my experiences with Multiple Sclerosis, I was ignoring all the work that I had done on myself and ignoring everything that I had been through. Just focusing on the positive wasn’t working. It was like the Coles Notes version of my life.
I had learned a lot from the dark. I learned what I’m capable of and how to sparkle as brightly as the stars. In the darkness, I could finally see how brightly I shone. I had been through so much to get to where I was that I knew that I had to write everything, every moment, not just the happy ones.
When I started writing Little Yellow Magnet, really started, it felt like I was coming home to myself in a way. Someone asked me during the writing of it why I felt I had to write the book. I said that it wasn’t so much that I felt I had to. I was compelled to write it. It was my hope that if Little Yellow Magnet helped just one person, then my book had fulfilled its purpose.
It was so wonderful to let everything out, too. During the writing of Little Yellow Magnet, I realised how much I had been holding on to, how much I still hadn’t let go of. The memoir was a cathartic adventure through my life and I could finally see how very high I had been able to climb.
To celebrate Little Yellow Magnet’s second Birthday, I have two gifts for you.
The first one is that you can read Little Yellow Magnet for free. From March 4th to March 8th, you can download the ebook of Little Yellow Magnet from Amazon. If you read it, all I ask is that you review it on Amazon, or anywhere else you like to post book reviews. You can download it here:
The second gift that I have for you is that you can also read the original seed for Little Yellow Magnet: Mastering Self. It contains all twenty-nine pages of the original attempt at what became Little Yellow Magnet. I like how you can see what the memoir would become, even within those twenty-nine pages. It’s like a companion to the memoir, the seed that grew into full bloom.
I hope you enjoy it and that it inspires you to read Little Yellow Magnet so you can find what happened. You can download it here free. It’s in PDF format and free to read.
Little Yellow Magnet is available in ebook, paperback and audiobook. Whichever way you read it, I hope that the story takes you on an adventure.
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another meeting , which was a good sign , and showed the flourishing condition the lodge was in . The gentlemen he had initiated , he believed , would prove worthy members of the lodge and an honour to the Craft . He , therefore , asked the brethren to join with him in drinking the health of their newlymitiated brethren . The toast was received with due honours . — w ii ^' ' " rcturnc ' thanks on the part of the initiates . —The W . MASTEB said the next toa 3 t was equallv leasing to him
one p , as it was the health of those brethren who did " them the honour of visiting them . Tho Domatic Lodge was always pleased to see present a goodly number of visitors , and they offered them a trul y Masonic welcome . He gave the health of their voting brethren . —Bros . STETENS , S . W . of the Albion Lodo-e ( No . 9 ; ATTWOOD of the Garden CitLod Yorkand
, , y ge , Now , two other brethren returned thanks for the kindness and hospitality with which they had been received , and said they felt delighted at their visit to the Domatie Lodge . —Bro . H . lnoiiPsoN , I . P . M ., said the W . M . had for a short time delegated his authority to him , and for the brief period which he should possess it , he would endeavour to make the best use of it , and that was to propose the health of their W . M ., Bro . Osborne not
. He was only entitled to their respect and esteem for his exalted position , but for tho kindness and goodwill he had at all times manifested towards them . He ( Bro . Thompson ) was proud to see him in the chair , after having worked up from the lowest office in the lodge ; and he trusted that the brethren would receive the toast with all the honours it so well deserved . Under his rule the Domatic Lodge promised to become one of the most numerous in the Craft , and , therefore , he asked the brethren to drink the health of their W . M . The
toast was most cordially responded to . —The W . MASTEB , in returning thanks , said lie felt greatly obliged to their I . P . M ., Bro . Thompson , for the very kind manner in which he had proposed his health , and to the brethren for the cordial way in which they had received it , and he could assure them that it would be his constant stud y to do all he could to promote the comfort of the brethren , and the interests and prosperity of the Domatic Lod . —Bro . JOSEPH SMITHP . G . Purst .
ge , , P . M ., and Treasurer of tho lodge , said he had obtained the permission of the W . M . to propose the next toast . Ho said he was quite sure that he only spoke the unanimous feeling of the members of the lodge when he said they were under great obligations to their I . P . M ., Bro . Thompson , for the manner in which he had performed his duties whilst presiding over him , and for the very satisfactory state iu which the lodge was now
placed , both as regards its funds and its respectability . What he had done met with his ( Bro . Smith's ) entire concurrence , but he would have been unable to carry out what he proposed , unless he had been so well supported by the members , aud they were very much obliged to him for it . He also thanked him for the very efficient way in which he had discharged his duties in the lodge , for he was able to perform all the ceremonies in a correct aud impressive manner , and in that respect the credit aud honour of the lodgo had been fully maintained . It was their intention at their last meeting to have bestowed upon him
a small testimonial of their esteem for the way in which ho had discharged his duties ; but as it was not then ready , he had now the honour of placing on his breast the testimonial voted by the lodge as a mark of their esteem , and for the ability with which he had presided over th ' em , and he trusted he might live long to wear it as a token of the goodwill of the brethren of the Domatic Lodge towards him . Bro . Smith then presented Bro . Thompson with a handsome jewel , manufactured by Bro .
Piatt , of Beaufort Buildings , Strand , and which bore the following inscription : — " Presented by the Domatic Lodge , No . 177 , to Bro . H . Thompson , P . M ., in testimony of their esteem , and to evince the high sense they entertain of his valuable and distinguished services iu the lodge , and for the admirable manner in which he has discharged tho duties of W . M . during his year of office . December 12 th , 1864 . " The toast was drunk with great cordiality . —Bro . HENEY
THOMSON , P . M ., said he really felt a loss to find suitable terms in which he could express his thanks for the manner- in which the brethren had drank his health , and for the handsome jewel they had presented to him ; but from the bottom of his heart he thanked them for the honour they had conferred upon him . It was their custom to show kindness to any brother who might be placed in the exalttd position of presiding over them , but his ( Bro . Thompson ' s ) year of office had been rather of an exceptional character , for he had to ask their kindness to an extent that had rarely been given to any one who was placed
in his position ; but they had nobly supported him iu the hour of trial , and for which he should ever feel deeply grateful to them . He had done what he considered to be only due to the dignity of the lodge and the independence of those who had been selected by them to fill the honourable position of W . M ., and the way in which he had been supported by the brethren would be remembered to the latest period of his life . That he possessed their good opinion the splendid jewel which they had
presented to him that night was a sufficient proof , and he should always wear it with pride and satisfaction , as an evidence of the esteem in which he was held by the brethren of the Domatic Lodge . Their Bro . Smith bad been pleased to allude to the manner in which he had discharged his duties in the chair in the lodge , and he was happy to find that this part of his duty had given satisfaction , for in the performance of the different ceremonies it had always been his desire to impress
candidates with the value and high importance of Freemasonry , and to adhere to the ritual to the best of his ability . He would take that opportunity of thanking his brother officers for the very able manner in which they had performed their duties , and for their very punctual attendance ; and he had no doubt that the W . M ., during his year of office , would find the value of their services . He again thanked the brethren for the honour they had conferred upon him ; he wished them health and
prosperity , and peace and happiness in their dwellings ; and whenever an honourable career in this world might be brought to a close , he trusted they might one and all be successful candidates to the Grand Lodge above , where the world ' s Great Architect lives and reigns for ever . ( Cheers . )—The W . M ASTEB said the next toast was that of the P . M . ' s of tbe Domatie
Lodge , Bros . Thompson , Carpenter , Elmes , Smith , Marshall , and Russar . —Bro . CAEPENTEE , in one of his droll and characteristic speeches , returned thanks on behalf of the P . M . 's of the lodge . —It was announced that Bro . JONES , a member of the lodge , had placed in the hands of the W . M . the sum of ten guineas , to be appropriated to the Masonic Charities ; and on Bro . Jones's health being proposed , he said he did not anticipate receiving from the brethren that mark of their approbation .
When he entered Freemasonry , he felt desirous that he should carry out its principles , and being associated with the members of the lodge he thought it to be nothing but his duty to do something to help others who were not so fortunate as themselves . That being so he thought he could not do better than hand to the W . M . a small donation to be applied to the society which he considered the most needy and the most deserving ; but at the same time ho had no wish that his name
should be associated with the matter further than to awaken in others the feelings of charity . —Bro . JOSEPH SUITE :, P . M . and Treasurer , suggested to Bro . Jones , if it met his approbabation , that five guineas should be given to each of the funds for Aged Freemasons and Freemasons' Widows , which would make him a Life Governor of both of those institutions , to which Bro . Jones assented . A subscription was then entered into , and in a few minutes five guineas move wero raised , which were placed in Bro . Smith ' s hands to be forwarded as the
subscription of the Domatic Lodge to the festival for Aged Freemasons and their Widows to be held on the 25 th inst . — "The Officers of the Lodge" was the next toast proposed , which was responded to by Bro . SLUPSON on the part of himself and brothers , who said it was their earnest desire to give satisfaction . Two or three other toasts were given , a very pleasant evening was spent in tho true spirit of Freemasonry , and the bre « thren adjourned before eleven o ' clock .
LODGE OF JOPPA ( No . 188 ) . —The lodge was held on Monday , 2 nd inst ., at the Albion Hotel , Aldersgate-streot , Bro . Israel Abrahams , W . M ., in the chair . After initiating five gentlemen into the Craft , and passing several others to the higher degrees , Bro . J . Phillips , P . M ., in the name of the brethren of the lodge , presented Bro . Israel Abrahams , P . M ., with a magnificent gold jewelelegantlmounted in brilliantsas a mark of esteem for
, y , his valuable services as W . M . during the year 1864 . Bro . Israel Abrahams , P . M ., in an eloquent speech , returned thanks , aud congratulated the brethren on the prosperity of the lodge , baring funds in hand amounting to £ 147 , likewise £ 804 , to the credit of the Benevolent Fund . Bro . II . M . Levey was installed as W . M ., and about eighty of the brethren then sat down to a banquet .
EUPHRATES LODGE ( NO . 212 ) . —A meeting of this lodge was held at the Masons' Hall Tavern , Basinghall-street , on Tuesday evening , the 3 rd of January inst . The lodge being opened in the first degree , the minutes of the hist meeting were read and
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another meeting , which was a good sign , and showed the flourishing condition the lodge was in . The gentlemen he had initiated , he believed , would prove worthy members of the lodge and an honour to the Craft . He , therefore , asked the brethren to join with him in drinking the health of their newlymitiated brethren . The toast was received with due honours . — w ii ^' ' " rcturnc ' thanks on the part of the initiates . —The W . MASTEB said the next toa 3 t was equallv leasing to him
one p , as it was the health of those brethren who did " them the honour of visiting them . Tho Domatic Lodge was always pleased to see present a goodly number of visitors , and they offered them a trul y Masonic welcome . He gave the health of their voting brethren . —Bros . STETENS , S . W . of the Albion Lodo-e ( No . 9 ; ATTWOOD of the Garden CitLod Yorkand
, , y ge , Now , two other brethren returned thanks for the kindness and hospitality with which they had been received , and said they felt delighted at their visit to the Domatie Lodge . —Bro . H . lnoiiPsoN , I . P . M ., said the W . M . had for a short time delegated his authority to him , and for the brief period which he should possess it , he would endeavour to make the best use of it , and that was to propose the health of their W . M ., Bro . Osborne not
. He was only entitled to their respect and esteem for his exalted position , but for tho kindness and goodwill he had at all times manifested towards them . He ( Bro . Thompson ) was proud to see him in the chair , after having worked up from the lowest office in the lodge ; and he trusted that the brethren would receive the toast with all the honours it so well deserved . Under his rule the Domatic Lodge promised to become one of the most numerous in the Craft , and , therefore , he asked the brethren to drink the health of their W . M . The
toast was most cordially responded to . —The W . MASTEB , in returning thanks , said lie felt greatly obliged to their I . P . M ., Bro . Thompson , for the very kind manner in which he had proposed his health , and to the brethren for the cordial way in which they had received it , and he could assure them that it would be his constant stud y to do all he could to promote the comfort of the brethren , and the interests and prosperity of the Domatic Lod . —Bro . JOSEPH SMITHP . G . Purst .
ge , , P . M ., and Treasurer of tho lodge , said he had obtained the permission of the W . M . to propose the next toast . Ho said he was quite sure that he only spoke the unanimous feeling of the members of the lodge when he said they were under great obligations to their I . P . M ., Bro . Thompson , for the manner in which he had performed his duties whilst presiding over him , and for the very satisfactory state iu which the lodge was now
placed , both as regards its funds and its respectability . What he had done met with his ( Bro . Smith's ) entire concurrence , but he would have been unable to carry out what he proposed , unless he had been so well supported by the members , aud they were very much obliged to him for it . He also thanked him for the very efficient way in which he had discharged his duties in the lodge , for he was able to perform all the ceremonies in a correct aud impressive manner , and in that respect the credit aud honour of the lodgo had been fully maintained . It was their intention at their last meeting to have bestowed upon him
a small testimonial of their esteem for the way in which ho had discharged his duties ; but as it was not then ready , he had now the honour of placing on his breast the testimonial voted by the lodge as a mark of their esteem , and for the ability with which he had presided over th ' em , and he trusted he might live long to wear it as a token of the goodwill of the brethren of the Domatic Lodge towards him . Bro . Smith then presented Bro . Thompson with a handsome jewel , manufactured by Bro .
Piatt , of Beaufort Buildings , Strand , and which bore the following inscription : — " Presented by the Domatic Lodge , No . 177 , to Bro . H . Thompson , P . M ., in testimony of their esteem , and to evince the high sense they entertain of his valuable and distinguished services iu the lodge , and for the admirable manner in which he has discharged tho duties of W . M . during his year of office . December 12 th , 1864 . " The toast was drunk with great cordiality . —Bro . HENEY
THOMSON , P . M ., said he really felt a loss to find suitable terms in which he could express his thanks for the manner- in which the brethren had drank his health , and for the handsome jewel they had presented to him ; but from the bottom of his heart he thanked them for the honour they had conferred upon him . It was their custom to show kindness to any brother who might be placed in the exalttd position of presiding over them , but his ( Bro . Thompson ' s ) year of office had been rather of an exceptional character , for he had to ask their kindness to an extent that had rarely been given to any one who was placed
in his position ; but they had nobly supported him iu the hour of trial , and for which he should ever feel deeply grateful to them . He had done what he considered to be only due to the dignity of the lodge and the independence of those who had been selected by them to fill the honourable position of W . M ., and the way in which he had been supported by the brethren would be remembered to the latest period of his life . That he possessed their good opinion the splendid jewel which they had
presented to him that night was a sufficient proof , and he should always wear it with pride and satisfaction , as an evidence of the esteem in which he was held by the brethren of the Domatic Lodge . Their Bro . Smith bad been pleased to allude to the manner in which he had discharged his duties in the chair in the lodge , and he was happy to find that this part of his duty had given satisfaction , for in the performance of the different ceremonies it had always been his desire to impress
candidates with the value and high importance of Freemasonry , and to adhere to the ritual to the best of his ability . He would take that opportunity of thanking his brother officers for the very able manner in which they had performed their duties , and for their very punctual attendance ; and he had no doubt that the W . M ., during his year of office , would find the value of their services . He again thanked the brethren for the honour they had conferred upon him ; he wished them health and
prosperity , and peace and happiness in their dwellings ; and whenever an honourable career in this world might be brought to a close , he trusted they might one and all be successful candidates to the Grand Lodge above , where the world ' s Great Architect lives and reigns for ever . ( Cheers . )—The W . M ASTEB said the next toast was that of the P . M . ' s of tbe Domatie
Lodge , Bros . Thompson , Carpenter , Elmes , Smith , Marshall , and Russar . —Bro . CAEPENTEE , in one of his droll and characteristic speeches , returned thanks on behalf of the P . M . 's of the lodge . —It was announced that Bro . JONES , a member of the lodge , had placed in the hands of the W . M . the sum of ten guineas , to be appropriated to the Masonic Charities ; and on Bro . Jones's health being proposed , he said he did not anticipate receiving from the brethren that mark of their approbation .
When he entered Freemasonry , he felt desirous that he should carry out its principles , and being associated with the members of the lodge he thought it to be nothing but his duty to do something to help others who were not so fortunate as themselves . That being so he thought he could not do better than hand to the W . M . a small donation to be applied to the society which he considered the most needy and the most deserving ; but at the same time ho had no wish that his name
should be associated with the matter further than to awaken in others the feelings of charity . —Bro . JOSEPH SUITE :, P . M . and Treasurer , suggested to Bro . Jones , if it met his approbabation , that five guineas should be given to each of the funds for Aged Freemasons and Freemasons' Widows , which would make him a Life Governor of both of those institutions , to which Bro . Jones assented . A subscription was then entered into , and in a few minutes five guineas move wero raised , which were placed in Bro . Smith ' s hands to be forwarded as the
subscription of the Domatic Lodge to the festival for Aged Freemasons and their Widows to be held on the 25 th inst . — "The Officers of the Lodge" was the next toast proposed , which was responded to by Bro . SLUPSON on the part of himself and brothers , who said it was their earnest desire to give satisfaction . Two or three other toasts were given , a very pleasant evening was spent in tho true spirit of Freemasonry , and the bre « thren adjourned before eleven o ' clock .
LODGE OF JOPPA ( No . 188 ) . —The lodge was held on Monday , 2 nd inst ., at the Albion Hotel , Aldersgate-streot , Bro . Israel Abrahams , W . M ., in the chair . After initiating five gentlemen into the Craft , and passing several others to the higher degrees , Bro . J . Phillips , P . M ., in the name of the brethren of the lodge , presented Bro . Israel Abrahams , P . M ., with a magnificent gold jewelelegantlmounted in brilliantsas a mark of esteem for
, y , his valuable services as W . M . during the year 1864 . Bro . Israel Abrahams , P . M ., in an eloquent speech , returned thanks , aud congratulated the brethren on the prosperity of the lodge , baring funds in hand amounting to £ 147 , likewise £ 804 , to the credit of the Benevolent Fund . Bro . II . M . Levey was installed as W . M ., and about eighty of the brethren then sat down to a banquet .
EUPHRATES LODGE ( NO . 212 ) . —A meeting of this lodge was held at the Masons' Hall Tavern , Basinghall-street , on Tuesday evening , the 3 rd of January inst . The lodge being opened in the first degree , the minutes of the hist meeting were read and
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The first shipment of Ukrainian grain arrived in Ethiopia today, one month after it set sail from a Black Sea port. The delivery - six truckloads - is just a fraction of what's needed in Africa.
Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of being greedy. NPR international affairs correspondent Jackie Northam has been analyzing that speech and joins us now. Hi, Jackie.
CHANG: OK, so this deal to allow shipments of Ukrainian grain - that was agreed to back in July, so why did it take so long to get to Africa?
NORTHAM: Well, it's not just Africa. You know, there are about 90 ships so far carrying Ukrainian grain. And at the beginning, there were concerns about getting the ships out of Black Sea ports. The waters were mined, and there were other security issues. Also, one of the conditions of this agreement is that the ships need to go to Turkey, where they'll be inspected by officials - you know, Turkish, U.N., Ukrainian, Russian. All these officials need to look at what's in there before they can go on to their next destination, and so that takes time. But, you know, it doesn't fully explain why more ships haven't got to Africa, especially as so many have arrived in developed nations already.
CHANG: Well, on that, you know, as we mentioned, Putin is accusing the West of being greedy, of taking most of those first shipments of wheat and other commodities instead of routing them to poor countries. Can you tell us a little more about what he said exactly?
NORTHAM: Well, Putin was talking at an international economic forum in Vladivostok in eastern Russia, and he said only two ships have delivered Ukrainian grain to developing countries under the U.N.'s World Food Programme. Let's have a listen for a second here.
NORTHAM: And Putin went on to say that European countries continue to act as colonizers, he said, and, you know, and they're cheating developing nations.
CHANG: He is saying only two of the ships have made it to poor countries. Is that actually correct?
NORTHAM: Well, yes. I mean, he's not entirely wrong that these grains aren't getting to, you know, undeveloped nations. You know, the U.N. organization that's monitoring these ships gave a breakdown today, and it said 17% of the grains went to the whole of Africa. And if you look at Somalia, which is on the cusp of a widespread famine, it got just 1%. Nearly half the total of grains headed towards Asia, and that includes Turkey, which is actually milling the wheat into flour and sending it on to other countries.
But yeah, one third of the shipments have gone to Europe. And I spoke with Cullen Hendrix, and he's a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and he also studies the relationship between armed conflict and food insecurity. And he said Putin isn't inaccurate, but he doubts his concern for poorer nations. Here he is.
CULLEN HENDRIX: I think he's being a bit disingenuous in terms of his concern for the developing world in this case because if he were really all that concerned about it, he probably wouldn't have engaged in the kinds of policy choices that would kind of disrupt and add a lot of uncertainty in the global food markets in the first place.
NORTHAM: Yeah, and also, Hendrix says, you know, Putin framing this as Western greed probably has something to do with Russia's deteriorating position on the battlefield.
CHANG: Sure. Well, is there any concern that Putin's comments could jeopardize the grain deal?
NORTHAM: Well, his speech, he suggested that new routes could be drawn up, and that led some people to think maybe he's trying to wriggle out of this or reshape the deal - unclear at this point. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that tons of Ukrainian grain will be arriving in Somalia in the couple of weeks, so we'll just have to wait and see.
Jackie Northam is NPR's International Affairs Correspondent. She is a veteran journalist who has spent three decades reporting on conflict, geopolitics, and life across the globe - from the mountains of Afghanistan and the desert sands of Saudi Arabia, to the gritty prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and the pristine beauty of the Arctic.
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The remains of a carousel destroyed during the Russian invasion stand on the grounds of Dobropark, a children's theme park on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Friday. The park will reopen next week.
As Friday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:
Between 100 and 200 Ukrainian troops are being killed on the front line every day, Ukraine's senior presidential aide told the BBC. That's double the combat toll previously estimated by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as battles for the country's eastern regions grind into another week. Despite billions of dollars in military aid from the U.S. and European allies, Ukraine still says it's outgunned by Russia, and Kyiv continues to plead for more weapons.
Concerns are growing about a possible cholera outbreak in the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol. The city's mayor, now based outside Mariupol, said 20,000 civilians may have died in Russia's siege of the southern port city, and corpses have been contaminating the wells. The British Defense Ministry said medical services in Mariupol are near collapse, as Russia struggles to provide public services in occupied areas.
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace met with Zelenskyy in Kyiv, and pledged to continue supporting Ukraine with military and other aid. The United Kingdom is also pushing for the release of two British nationals convicted of "mercenary activities" and sentenced to death by a court in the pro-Russian separatist Donetsk region. British officials said they were working with Kyiv to secure the soldiers' release.
Russia's central bank cut its interest rates to their prewar level, citing slowing inflation. The bank chopped its key rate to 9.5%, more than Western economists had expected, as Russia eases back from the 20% emergency rate hike when the war began and Western sanctions followed. Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said the effect of sanctions so far has been "less acute" than feared, though she acknowledged they haven't reached their full effect.
War displaced two-thirds of Ukraine's children. Keeping them safe isn't easy.
Rebranded McDonald's in Russia unveils a new logo, but keeps its name a secret.
A Russian blockade in Odesa disrupts Ukrainian farmers' grain exports.
Russia threatens to kick out U.S. journalists unless the U.S. treats Russian media better.
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You can read more daily recaps here. For context and more in-depth stories, you can find more of NPR's coverage here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR's State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day.
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Adrian Purtill serves as Business Development Manager at Vector Global Logistics, where he consults with importers and exporters in various industries to match their specific shipping requirements with the most effective supply chain solutions. Vector Global Logistics is an asset-free, multi-modal logistics company that provides exceptional sea freight, air freight, truck, rail, general logistic services and consulting for our clients. Our highly trained and professional team is committed to providing creative and effective solutions, always exceeding our customer’s expectations and fostering long-term relationships. With more than 20+ years of experience in both strategy consulting and logistics, Vector Global Logistics is your best choice to proactively minimize costs while having an exceptional service level.
Joshua is a student from Institute of Technology and Higher Education of Monterrey Campus Guadalajara in Communication and Digital Media. His experience ranges from Plug and Play México, DearDoc, and Nissan México creating unique social media marketing campaigns and graphics design. Joshua helps to amplify the voice of supply chain here at Supply Chain Now by assisting in graphic design, content creation, asset logistics, and more. In his free time he likes to read and write short stories as well as watch movies and television series.
Director of Communications and Executive Producer
Donna Krache is a former CNN executive producer who has won several awards in journalism and communication, including three Peabodys. She has 30 years’ experience in broadcast and digital journalism. She led the first production team at CNN to convert its show to a digital platform. She has authored many articles for CNN and other media outlets. She taught digital journalism at Georgia State University and Arizona State University. Krache holds a bachelor’s degree in government from the College of William and Mary and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of New Orleans. She is a serious sports fan who loves the Braves. She is president of the Dave Krache Foundation. Named in honor of her late husband, this non-profit pays fees for kids who want to play sports but whose parents are facing economic challenges.
Vicki has a long history of rising to challenges and keeping things up and running. First, she supported her family’s multi-million dollar business as controller for 12 years, beginning at the age of 17. Then, she worked as an office manager and controller for a wholesale food broker. But her biggest feat? Serving as the chief executive officer of her household, while her entrepreneur husband travelled the world extensively. She fed, nurtured, chaperoned, and chauffeured three daughters all while running a newsletter publishing business and remaining active in her community as a Stephen’s Minister, Sunday school teacher, school volunteer, licensed realtor and POA Board president (a title she holds to this day). A force to be reckoned with in the office, you might think twice before you meet Vicki on the tennis court! When she’s not keeping the books balanced at Supply Chain Now or playing tennis matches, you can find Vicki spending time with her husband Greg, her 4 fur babies, gardening, cleaning (yes, she loves to clean!) and learning new things.
Founder, CEO, & Host
As the founder and CEO of Supply Chain Now, you might say Scott is the voice of supply chain – but he’s too much of a team player to ever claim such a title. One thing’s for sure: he’s a tried and true supply chain expert. With over 15 years of experience in the end-to-end supply chain, Scott’s insights have appeared in major publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and CNN. He has also been named a top industry influencer by Thinkers360, ISCEA and more.
From 2009-2011, Scott was president of APICS Atlanta, and he continues to lead initiatives that support both the local business community and global industry. A United States Air Force Veteran, Scott has also regularly led efforts to give back to his fellow veteran community since his departure from active duty in 2002.
Host, Logistics with Purpose
Allison Krache Giddens has been with Win-Tech, a veteran-owned small business and aerospace precision machine shop, for 15 years, recently buying the company from her mentor and Win-Tech’s Founder, Dennis Winslow. She and her business partner, John Hudson now serve as Co-Presidents, leading the 33-year old company through the pandemic.
She holds undergraduate degrees in psychology and criminal justice from the University of Georgia, a Masters in Conflict Management from Kennesaw State University, a Masters in Manufacturing from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Certificate of Finance from the University of Georgia. She also holds certificates in Google Analytics, event planning, and Cybersecurity Risk Management from Harvard online. Allison founded the Georgia Chapter of Women in Manufacturing and currently serves as Treasurer. She serves on the Chattahoochee Technical College Foundation Board as its Secretary, the liveSAFE Resources Board of Directors as Resource Development Co-Chair, and on the Leadership Cobb Alumni Association Board as Membership Chair and is also a member of Cobb Executive Women. She is on the Board for the Cobb Chamber of Commerce’s Northwest Area Councils. Allison runs The Dave Krache Foundation, a non-profit that helps pay sports fees for local kids in need.
Host of Supply Chain Now and TECHquila Sunrise
When rapid-growth technology companies, venture capital and private equity firms are looking for advisory, they call Greg – a founder, board director, advisor and catalyst of disruptive B2B technology and supply chain. An insightful visionary, Greg guides founders, investors and leadership teams in creating breakthroughs to gain market exposure and momentum – increasing overall company esteem and valuation.
Greg is a founder himself, creating Blue Ridge Solutions, a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in cloud-native supply chain applications, and bringing to market Curo, a field service management solution. He has also held leadership roles with Servigistics (PTC) and E3 Corporation (JDA/Blue Yonder). As a principal and host at Supply Chain Now, Greg helps guide the company’s strategic direction, hosts industry leader discussions, community livestreams, and all in addition to executive producing and hosting his original YouTube channel and podcast, TEChquila Sunrise.
Host of Supply Chain is Boring
Talk about world-class: Chris is one of the few professionals in the world to hold CPIM-F, CLTD-F and CSCP-F designations from ASCM/APICS. He’s also the APICS coach – and our resident Supply Chain Doctor. When he’s not hosting programs with Supply Chain Now, he’s sharing supply chain knowledge on the APICS Coach Youtube channel or serving as a professional education instructor for the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistic Institute’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) program and University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Center for Professional Education courses.
Chris earned a BS in Industrial Engineering from Bradley University, an MBA with emphasis in Industrial Psychology from the University of West Florida, and is a Doctoral in Supply Chain Management candidate.
If there’s one Supply Chain ‘Pro to Know,’ it’s Karin. She’s earned the title for three years and counting – culminating in her designation as the “2020 Supply Chain Pro to Know of the Year.” Karin is also an award-winning digital supply chain, business strategy and technology marketing executive. A sought-after speaker at industry conferences, you will find her quoted in a variety of supply chain publications – and active in forums like ASCM/APICS and CSCMP.
With more than 25 years of supply chain experience, Karin spearheaded strategy and marketing for Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader and IDC MarketScape Leader, Logility. Karin has the heart of a teacher and has helped nearly 1,000 customers transform their businesses and tell their success stories. Today, she is a sought-after advisor helping high-growth B2B technology companies with everything from defining their unique value propositions to introducing new products and capturing customer success. No matter their goals, she makes sure her clients have actionable marketing strategies that help grow global revenue, market share and profitability.
Kevin L. Jackson is a globally recognized Thought Leader, Industry Influencer and Founder/Author of the award winning “Cloud Musings” blog. He has also been recognized as a “Top 5G Influencer” (Onalytica 2019, Radar 2020), a “Top 50 Global Digital Transformation Thought Leader” (Thinkers 360 2019) and provides strategic consulting and integrated social media services to AT&T, Intel, Broadcom, Ericsson and other leading companies. Mr. Jackson’s commercial experience includes Vice President J.P. Morgan Chase, Worldwide Sales Executive for IBM and SAIC (Engility) Director Cloud Solutions. He has served on teams that have supported digital transformation projects for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the US Intelligence Community. Kevin’s formal education includes a MS Computer Engineering from Naval Postgraduate School; MA National Security & Strategic Studies from Naval War College; and a BS Aerospace Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Internationally recognizable firms that have sponsored articles authored by him include Cisco, Microsoft, Citrix and IBM. Books include “Click to Transform” (Leaders Press, 2020), “Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions” (Packt, 2018), and “Practical Cloud Security: A Cross Industry View” (Taylor & Francis, 2016). He also delivers online training through Tulane University, O’Reilly Media, LinkedIn Learning, and Pluralsight. Mr. Jackson retired from the U.S. Navy in 1994, earning specialties in Space Systems Engineering, Carrier Onboard Delivery Logistics and carrier-based Airborne Early Warning and Control. While active, he also served with the National Reconnaissance Office, Operational Support Office, providing tactical support to Navy and Marine Corps forces worldwide.
Enrique serves as Managing Director at Vector Global Logistics and believes we all have a personal responsibility to change the world. He is hard working, relationship minded and pro-active. Enrique trusts that the key to logistics is having a good and responsible team that truly partners with the clients and does whatever is necessary to see them succeed. He is a proud sponsor of Vector’s unique results-based work environment and before venturing into logistics he worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). During his time at BCG, he worked in different industries such as Telecommunications, Energy, Industrial Goods, Building Materials, and Private Banking. His main focus was always on the operations, sales, and supply chain processes, with case focus on, logistics, growth strategy, and cost reduction. Prior to joining BCG, Enrique worked for Grupo Vitro, a Mexican glass manufacturer, for five years holding different positions from sales and logistics manager to supply chain project leader in charge of five warehouses in Colombia.
He has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business and a BS, in Mechanical Engineer from the Technologico de Monterrey in Mexico. Enrique’s passions are soccer and the ocean, and he also enjoys traveling, getting to know new people, and spending time with his wife and two kids, Emma and Enrique.
Host of Dial P for Procurement
Kelly is the Owner and Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point and MyPurchasingCenter. She has been in procurement since 2003, starting as a practitioner and then as the Associate Director of Consulting at Emptoris. She has covered procurement news, events, publications, solutions, trends, and relevant economics at Buyers Meeting Point since 2009. Kelly is also the General Manager at Art of Procurement and Business Survey Chair for the ISM-New York Report on Business. Kelly has her MBA from Babson College as well as an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and she has co-authored three books: ‘Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals’, ‘Procurement at a Crossroads’, and ‘Finance Unleashed’.
Mary Kate Soliva is transitioning from active duty in the US Army. She is currently in the Doctor of Criminal Justice program at Saint Leo University. She is passionate about combating human trafficking and has spent the last decade conducting training for military personnel and the local community.
Host
Jeff Miller is the host of Supply Chain Now’s Supply Chain is the Business. Jeff is a digital business transformation and supply chain advisor with deep expertise in Industry 4.0, ERP, PLM, SCM, IoT, AR and related technologies. Through more than 25 years of industry and consulting experience, he has worked with many of the world’s leading product and service companies to achieve their strategic business and supply chain goals, creating durable business value for organizations at the forefront of technology and business practices. Jeff is the managing director for North America at Transition Technologies PSC, a global solution integrator, and the founder and managing principal of BTV Advisors, a firm that helps companies secure business transformation value from digital supply chain technologies and their breakthrough capabilities.
Chief Marketing Officer
Amanda is a marketing veteran and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience across a variety of industries and organizations including Von Maur, Anthropologie, AmericasMart Atlanta, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. In 2016, Amanda founded and grew the Magnolia Marketing Group into a successful digital media firm, and now she develops modern marketing strategies, social campaigns, innovative operational processes, and implements creative content initiatives for Supply Chain Now. But that’s just the beginning of her supply chain impact. Amanda also served as the VP of Information Systems and Webmaster on the Board of Directors for APICS Savannah for several years, and is the face behind the scenes welcoming you to every Supply Chain Now livestream! She was also recently selected as one of the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain by Supply Chain Digest and IBM. When she’s not leading the Supply Chain Now marketing team, you can find Amanda with her and her husband Scott’s three kids, in the kitchen cooking, or reading.
Clay is passionate about two things: supply chain and the marketing that goes into it. Recently graduated with a degree in marketing at the University of Georgia, Clay got his start as a journalism major and inaugural member of the Owl’s football team at Kennesaw State University – but quickly saw tremendous opportunity in the Terry College of Business. He’s already putting his education to great use at Supply Chain Now, assisting with everything from sales and brand strategy to media production. Clay has contributed to initiatives such as our leap into video production, the guest blog series, and boosting social media presence, and after nearly two years in Supply Chain Now’s Marketing Department, Clay now heads up partnership and sales initiatives with the help of the rest of the Supply Chain Now sales team.
Administrative Assistant
Trisha is new to the supply chain industry – but not to podcasting. She’s an experienced podcast manager and virtual assistant who also happens to have 20 years of experience as an elementary school teacher. It’s safe to say, she’s passionate about helping people, and she lives out that passion every day with the Supply Chain Now team, contributing to scheduling and podcast production.
Host of Dial P for Procurement
Billy Taylor is a Proven Business Excellence Practitioner and Leadership Guru with over 25 years leading operations for a Fortune 500 company, Goodyear. He is also the CEO of LinkedXL (Excellence), a Business Operating Systems Architecting Firm dedicated to implementing sustainable operating systems that drive sustainable results. Taylor’s achievements in the industry have made him a Next Generational Lean pacesetter with significant contributions.
An American business executive, Taylor has made a name for himself as an innovative and energetic industry professional with an indispensable passion for his craft of operational excellence. His journey started many years ago and has worked with renowned corporations such as The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (GT) leading multi-site operations. With over 3 decades of service leading North America operations, he is experienced in a deeply rooted process driven approach in customer service, process integrity for sustainability.
A disciple of continuous improvement, Taylor’s love for people inspires commitment to helping others achieve their full potential. He is a dynamic speaker and hosts "The Winning Link," a popular podcast centered on business and leadership excellence with the #1 rated Supply Chain Now Network. As a leadership guru, Taylor has earned several invitations to universities, international conferences, global publications, and the U.S. Army to demonstrate how to achieve and sustain effective results through cultural acceptance and employee ownership. Leveraging the wisdom of his business acumen, strong influence as a speaker and podcaster Taylor is set to release "The Winning Link" book under McGraw Hill publishing in 2022. The book is a how-to manual to help readers understand the management of business interactions while teaching them how to Deine, Align, and Execute Winning in Business.
A servant leader, Taylor, was named by The National Diversity Council as one of the Top 100 Diversity Officers in the country in 2021. He features among Oklahoma's Most Admired CEOs and maintains key leadership roles with the Executive Advisory Board for The Shingo Institute "The Nobel Prize of Operations" and The Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME); two world-leading organizations for operational excellence, business development, and cultural learning. He is also an Independent Director for the M-D Building Products Board, a proud American manufacturer of quality products since 1920.
My name is Chantel King and I am the Social Media Specialist at Supply Chain Now. My job is to make sure our audience is engaged and educated on the abundant amount of information the supply chain industry has to offer.
Social Media and Communications has been my niche ever since I graduated from college at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco. No, I am not a West Coast girl. I was born and raised in New Jersey, but my travel experience goes way beyond the garden state. My true passion is in creating editorial and graphic content that influences others to be great in whatever industry they are in. I’ve done this by working with lifestyle, financial, and editorial companies by providing resources to enhance their businesses.
Another passion of mine is trying new things. Whether it’s food, an activity, or a sport. I would like to say that I am an adventurous Taurus that never shies away from a new quest or challenge.
Lori is currently completing a degree in marketing with an emphasis in digital marketing at the University of Georgia. When she’s not supporting the marketing efforts at Supply Chain Now, you can find her at music festivals – or working toward her dream goal of a fashion career. Lori is involved in many extracurricular activities and appreciates all the learning experiences UGA has brought her.
Katherine is a marketing professional and MBA candidate who strives to unite her love of people with a passion for positive experiences. Having a diverse background, which includes nonprofit work with digital marketing and start-ups, she serves as a leader who helps people live their most creative lives by cultivating community, order, collaboration, and respect. With equal parts creativity and analytics, she brings a unique skill set which fosters refining, problem solving, and connecting organizations with their true vision. In her free time, you can usually find her looking for her cup of coffee, playing with her puppy Charlie, and dreaming of her next road trip.
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Ben Harris is the Director of Supply Chain Ecosystem Expansion for the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Ben comes to the Metro Atlanta Chamber after serving as Senior Manager, Market Development for Manhattan Associates. There, Ben was responsible for developing Manhattan’s sales pipeline and overall Americas supply chain marketing strategy. Ben oversaw market positioning, messaging and campaign execution to build awareness and drive new pipeline growth. Prior to joining Manhattan, Ben spent four years with the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Center of Innovation for Logistics where he played a key role in establishing the Center as a go-to industry resource for information, support, partnership building, and investment development. Additionally, he became a key SME for all logistics and supply chain-focused projects. Ben began his career at Page International, Inc. where he drove continuous improvement in complex global supply chain operations for a wide variety of businesses and Fortune 500 companies. An APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Ben holds an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration (EMBA) and bachelor’s degree in International Business (BBA) from the Terry College at the University of Georgia.
Host, The Freight Insider
Prior to joining TeamOne Logistics, Page Siplon served as the Executive Director of the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics, the State’s leading consulting resource for fueling logistics industry growth and global competitiveness. For over a decade, he directly assisted hundreds of companies to overcome challenges and capitalize on opportunities related to the movement of freight. During this time, Siplon was also appointed to concurrently serve the State of Georgia as Director of the larger Centers of Innovation Program, in which he provided executive leadership and vision for all six strategic industry-focused Centers. As a frequently requested keynote speaker, Siplon is called upon to address a range of audiences on unique aspects of technology, workforce, and logistics. This often includes topics of global and domestic logistics trends, supply chain visibility, collaboration, and strategic planning. He has also been quoted as an industry expert in publications such as Forbes, Journal of Commerce, Fortune, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, American Express, DC Velocity, Area Development Magazine, Site Selection Magazine, Inbound Logistics, Modern Material Handling, and is frequently a live special guest on SiriusXM’s Road Dog Radio Show. Siplon is an active industry participant, recognized by DC Velocity Magazine as a “2012 Logistics Rainmaker” which annually identifies the top-ten logistics professionals in the Nation; and named a “Pro to Know” by Supply & Demand Executive Magazine in 2014. Siplon was also selected by Georgia Trend Magazine as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Georgians” for 2013, 2014, and 2015. He also serves various industry leadership roles at both the State and Federal level. Governor Nathan Deal nominated Siplon to represent Georgia on a National Supply Chain Competitiveness Advisory Committee, where he was appointed to a two-year term by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and was then appointed to serve as its vice-chairman. At the State level, he was selected by then-Governor Sonny Perdue to serve as lead consultant on the Commission for New Georgia’s Freight and Logistics Task Force. In this effort, Siplon led a Private Sector Advisory Committee with invited executives from a range of private sector stakeholders including UPS, Coca-Cola, The Home Depot, Delta Airlines, Georgia Pacific, CSX, and Norfolk Southern. Siplon honorably served a combined 12 years in the United States Marine Corps and the United States Air Force. During this time, he led the integration of encryption techniques and deployed cryptographic devices for tactically secure voice and data platforms in critical ground-to-air communication systems. This service included support for all branches of the Department of Defense, multiple federal security agencies, and aiding NASA with multiple Space Shuttle launches. Originally from New York, Siplon received both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering with a focus on digital signal processing from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned an associate’s degree in advanced electronic systems from the Air Force College and completed multiple military leadership academies in both the Marines and Air Force. Siplon currently lives in Cumming, Georgia (north of Atlanta), with his wife Jan, and two children Thomas (19) and Lily (15).
Host, Logistics with Purpose
Kristi Porter is VP of Sales and Marketing at Vector Global Logistics, a company that is changing the world through supply chain. In her role, she oversees all marketing efforts and supports the sales team in doing what they do best. In addition to this role, she is the Chief Do-Gooder at Signify, which assists nonprofits and social impact companies through copywriting and marketing strategy consulting. She has almost 20 years of professional experience, and loves every opportunity to help people do more good.
Host, Logistics with Purpose
Kevin Brown is the Director of Business Development for Vector Global Logistics. He has a dedicated interest in Major Account Management, Enterprise Sales, and Corporate Leadership. He offers 25 years of exceptional experience and superior performance in the sales of Logistics, Supply Chain, and Transportation Management. Kevin is a dynamic, high-impact, sales executive and corporate leader who has consistently exceeded corporate goals. He effectively coordinates multiple resources to solution sell large complex opportunities while focusing on corporate level contacts across the enterprise. His specialties include targeting and securing key accounts by analyzing customer’s current business processes and developing solutions to meet their corporate goals. Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn.
Sofia Rivas Herrera is a Mexican Industrial Engineer from Tecnologico de Monterrey class 2019. Upon graduation, she earned a scholarship to study MIT’s Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management and graduated as one of the Top 3 performers of her class in 2020. She also has a multicultural background due to her international academic experiences at Singapore Management University and Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg. Sofia self-identifies as a Supply Chain enthusiast & ambassador sharing her passion for the field in her daily life.
Host, Logistics with Purpose
Jose Manuel Irarrazaval es parte del equipo de Vector Global Logistics Chile. José Manuel es un gerente experimentado con experiencia en finanzas corporativas, fusiones y adquisiciones, financiamiento y reestructuración, inversión directa y financiera, tanto en Chile como en el exterior. José Manuel tiene su MBA de la Universidad de Pennsylvania- The Wharton School. Conéctese con Jose Manuel en LinkedIn.
Demo Perez started his career in 1997 in the industry by chance when a relative asked him for help for two just weeks putting together an operation for FedEx Express at the Colon Free Zone, an area where he was never been but accepted the challenge. Worked in all roles possible from a truck driver to currier to a sales representative, helped the brand introduction, market share growth and recognition in the Colon Free Zone, at the end of 1999 had the chance to meet and have a chat with Fred Smith ( FedEx CEO), joined another company in 2018 who took over the FedEx operations as Operations and sales manager, in 2004 accepted the challenge from his company to leave the FedEx operations and business to take over the operation and business of DHL Express, his major competitor and rival so couldn’t say no, by changing completely its operation model in the Free Zone. In 2005 started his first entrepreneurial journey by quitting his job and joining two friends to start a Freight Forwarding company. After 8 months was recruited back by his company LSP with the General Manager role with the challenge of growing the company and make it fully capable warehousing 3PL. By 2009 joined CSCMP and WERC and started his journey of learning and growing his international network and high-level learning. In 2012 for the first time joined a local association ( the Panama Maritime Chamber) and worked in the country’s first Logistics Strategy plan, joined and lead other associations ending as president of the Panama Logistics Council in 2017. By finishing his professional mission at LSP with a company that was 8 times the size it was when accepted the role as GM with so many jobs generated and several young professionals coached, having great financial results, took the decision to move forward and start his own business from scratch by the end of 2019. with a friend and colleague co-founded IPL Group a company that started as a boutique 3PL and now is gearing up for the post-Covid era by moving to the big leagues.
Host, Supply Chain Now
The founder of Logistics Executive Group, Kim Winter delivers 40 years of executive leadership experience spanning Executive Search & Recruitment, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Corporate Advisory, Motivational Speaking, Trade Facilitation and across the Supply Chain, Logistics, 3PL, E-commerce, Life Science, Cold Chain, FMCG, Retail, Maritime, Defence, Aviation, Resources, and Industrial sectors. Operating from the company’s global offices, he is a regular contributor of thought leadership to industry and media, is a professional Master of Ceremonies, and is frequently invited to chair international events.
He is a Board member of over a dozen companies throughout APAC, India, and the Middle East, a New Zealand citizen, he holds formal resident status in Australia and the UAE, and is the Australia & New Zealand representative for the UAE Government-owned Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZA), the Middle East’s largest Economic Free Zone.
A triathlete and ex-professional rugby player, Kim is a qualified (IECL Sydney) executive coach and the Founder / Chairman of the successful not for profit humanitarian organization, Oasis Africa (www. oasisafrica.org.au), which has provided freedom from poverty through education to over 8000 mainly orphaned children in East Africa’s slums. Kim holds an MBA and BA from Massey & Victoria Universities (NZ).
Host, Logistics with Purpose
Nick Roemer has had a very diverse and extensive career within design and sales over the last 15 years stretching from China, Dubai, Germany, Holland, UK, and the USA. In the last 5 years, Nick has developed a hawk's eye for sustainable tech and the human-centric marketing and sales procedures that come with it. With his far-reaching and strong network within the logistics industry, Nick has been able to open new avenues and routes to market within major industries in the USA and the UAE. Nick lives by the ethos, “Give more than you take." His professional mission is to make the logistics industry leaner, cleaner and greener.
Alex is pursuing a Marketing degree and a Certificate in Legal Studies at the University of Georgia. As a dual citizen of both the US and UK; Alex has studied abroad at University College London and is passionate about travel and international business. Through her coursework at the Terry College of Business, Alex has gained valuable skills in digital marketing, analytics, and professional selling. She joined Supply Chain Now as a Sales Support Intern where she assists the team by prospecting and qualifying new business partners.
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Aye, and I saw Sisyphus in violent torment, seeking to raise a monstrous stone with both his hands. Verily he would brace himself with hands and feet, and thrust the stone toward the crest of a hill, but as often as he was about to heave it over the top, the weight would turn it back, and then down again to the plain would come rolling the ruthless stone. But he would strain again and thrust it back, and the sweat flowed down from his limbs, and dust rose up from his head.
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Hail to the matriarchs: important lessons from my mothers
July 10, 2017 By casey Leave a Comment
Mama told me when I was young, Come sit beside me my only son, And listen closely to what I say, And if you do this, It will help you some sunny day…
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Why majoring in English was the best decision I made for my career (and life)
April 26, 2017 By casey Leave a Comment
Majoring in English can be scary. It’s not for the faint. People look at you weird–especially when you switch majors from something technical with guaranteed career paths. You get made fun of, looked down on. You get told reading is boring, writing is hard. Or worse: there’s no money in it. Right?
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Conservationists are fighting to save hundreds of animals from dying on ‘Starvation Island’ in northern Zimbabwe, where rising water has covered almost all grazing land.
The Island, which was once a site for rescued animals, was named because wildlife died there from hunger during the building of the Kariba hydroelectric dam. During the dam’s construction, thousands of animals were herded inland as the dam filled with water. Others were captured and relocated from high ground and outcrops like Starvation Island, in a programme known as Operation Noah
But in recent days, the Island has threatened to live up to its name for the first time in 50 years, with conservationists warning that at least 200 animals are currently under threat of starvation. The Kariba lake surrounding the Island, has risen dramatically, separating the usual five square kilometre Island into four tracts of land. As a result, the animals have become trapped without enough food, while some have drowned in the rising waters while trying to swim to safety. The largest piece of remaining land is reportedly the worst for grazing because of sandy soil.
Wildlife guide Richard Vickery told the Associated Press (AP) this week that seven impalas drowned on Tuesday after about 20 of them plunged into the surrounding water. Some managed to swim to safety while others had to be assisted by a boat of rescuers, who help the animals up by their horns to keep their heads above water.
Funds are now being raised by conservationists, including the SAVE Foundation of Australia, to take hay bales and food blocks to the animals who remain on the island.
“We would rather try to feed them, than dart and capture them, and bring them out because they are weak and have not been exposed to predators except for crocodiles,” Vickery told AP.
The rising water is being attributed to high seasonal rainfall in central Africa, which feeds Lake Kariba.
Ecology of fear in a South African savanna
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Cameroon: Wouri coastline mangroves are becoming empty as fish population slumps due to corruption and lawlessness
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Climate change could wipe out southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert by 2027
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The Church of Christ consists of 15 Local Orthodox Churches. The Albanian Orthodox Church is one of them. What do we know about the history of Orthodoxy in Albania, a country that was the first to declare itself an atheist state and almost completely wiped out its Christian identity?
Situation in Albania. In the 20th century, Albania was one of the poorest countries in Europe, with a population living in difficult conditions while retaining amazing hospitality that is rarely found in wealthier countries. Poverty is especially visible outside the city, where life has changed little over the centuries. When the communists came to power, they established some order after the devastation of the war years. They attempted to revive the economy but began to destroy Christianity and the Orthodox culture of the populace. After the fall of the Hoxha regime, the country experienced a protracted crisis in all spheres of life. Poverty and despair gave rise to crime: the Albanian mafia is known for its atrocities throughout Western Europe and America. According to statistics, when the borders opened in the 1990s, almost a third of Albania’s total population (3.2 million people) left their homeland in search of work in a foreign country. Most of them have become illegal immigrants.
Church in Albania. Religious repression began immediately after the German occupation ended and the partisans took over. It is still not known for sure how many people died in the course of persecutions, executions, and exile to prison camps. There was almost nothing left of the 1600 Orthodox churches by 1990; those that weren’t destroyed were turned into restaurants, warehouses, and stores. Christians were forced to keep their faith secret. There is a story of a woman whose icons were confiscated by the police. When the police were leaving, she said: “You missed another icon.” They said, “Bring it to us.” She made the sign of the cross and replied, “Here it is. No one can take it away from me.” They would sentence anyone who made the sign of the cross in public to ten years, and anyone who had icons at home to twenty-five years.
Marika Siko was one of the amazing Christians of Albania during the Communist rule. She made her house available for the Eucharist, Baptism, and Matrimony for many years. Services were carried out in the dead of night in a remote room. There was a congregation at her home, headed by a hiding priest. The members of this congregation organized unceasing prayers lasting for forty days; everyone prayed for the persecution to end. The priest in hiding, Father Cosmas Kyrio, was very poor. “He had 7 children with whom he lived in a one-window mud house. When we were talking with him, we knew we were talking with an apostle. He was not well educated, but he read the Bible in the moonlight, and God enlightened him,” Marika recalled. “On Thursday, we made candles and baked bread for the Eucharist. Then on Friday Father Cosmas arrived, and we were able to receive Holy Communion on that night!” “I am a priest,” Father Cosmas said, “I will serve the Church, even if the Church has no places of worship.” He was employed as an industrial worker, like other priests.
According to Archbishop Anastasius, the head of the Albanian Church, the “culture of fear” that formed during the years of the communist regime is worse than poverty. The “culture of fear” is hard to heal and generates suspicion and mistrust even among neighbors. According to one old man, “if you don’t like fighting dragons like St. George, you must carefully conceal the slightest political dissent or religiosity.”
Archbishop Anastasius, the head of the Albanian Church
Albanian Resurrection. It was only in the early 1990s, after the death of the communist leader, that things began to change. Archbishop Anastasius arrived in the country and began to actively revive Orthodoxy on the Albanian soil. He was met by only twenty-two priests, who were old and weak, some of them almost on their deathbed: that was all that survived the persecution of the Albanian Church. Anastasius was Greek, so the government put all sorts of obstacles in his way, including slander. His life was in jeopardy more than once, especially during the 1997 civil war. In the early 2000s, His Eminence showed his guests a bullet stuck in a double window glass. A dove laid an egg in a flowerpot not far from the bullet in the same year. According to Archbishop Anastasius, “The bullet and the egg are excellent symbols of Albania at a crossroads.” His friends repeatedly urged him to leave the country, but the archbishop always refused. “I am the captain of the ship. Others may leave, but for me there is no other option than to stay.”
His Eminence has achieved much in the cause of revival of Christian life in the country both with his personal example and his pastoral attitude to all people. They say that one day a modest man approached the archbishop and said: “I am not baptized, I am a Muslim, but could you please give me your blessing?” Not only did the archbishop bless the man, but he also said that the man was a bearer of the image of God.
When it comes to the Albanian Church, the word “Resurrection” usually comes to mind. “The Resurrection is not after the Cross, but on the Cross”, Archbishop Anastasius reiterates. Many of the restored churches, a seminary, and a church newspaper are named after the Resurrection of Christ. All this has become possible due to the way of the Cross, which had been traversed by hundreds of thousands of Christians in Albania.
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March 4, 2019
Ever agreed wildly with someone at a party because you couldn’t hear what they were saying? What if a vibrating device could help you understand their speech?
A project headed by Language Sciences members investigated how vibration against skin might help people understand speech in noisy environments. Co-investigator and Cognitive Systems alum David Marino (BA 2016) explains how such a device could be of benefit to workers and hard of hearing populations - and just whether vibrators strapped to our necks is a future possibility.
This project used a vibrating device to try and help listeners understand a speaker in a noisy environment – how might this be useful?
You've undoubtedly found yourself in this situation: you're at a noisy social event, a friend is talking to you, but despite your best efforts, you can only make out half of what they're saying.
You can cup your ears to funnel the sound, but this requires use of your hands. You can circumvent this by taping fun paper cones to your ears, or using a microphone, but augmenting audition alone may not be desirable since there are other sounds you may want to pay attention to.
You could look at the speaker's face, but there are some situations where this is not always possible, such as an industrial shop floor where workers are involved in a collaborative task.
Or, you could use touch. You can place a small vibrotactile device anywhere on the body, freeing up your hands, and relieving you from the need to be facing the speech source.
What is the device, where do you wear it, and how does it work?
It currently consists of a small loonie-sized vibrator which is hooked up to a computer that translates speech to touch. The system will take a digital audio signal (speech), slice it up, and analyze each increment to determine whether or not the vocal folds are vibrating. If it seems likely that they are, then the vibrator activates, with the intensity corresponding to the loudness of the source.
We explored wearing the device in various locations on your body, such as the fingers, or even in the notch of your throat, right by where your vocal folds are. In an exploratory pilot study it looked like all placements are similar in their efficacy.
Pictured: Co-investigator and Cognitive Systems alum David Marino wearing the device on the throat.
What are some of the potential practical applications?
Consider workers in an auto shop. It's an environment where they cannot maintain eye contact while working, and where ambient noise is critical to safely operating the equipment. Using the tactile modality to enhance speech is thus ideal here.
This could also be of use for hard of hearing populations. While there has been a fair amount of research looking at using multi-channel (multiple vibrator) vibrotactile devices to enhance speech, there haven’t been many evaluations of single-channel (only one vibrator) devices. This is an interesting area because many people already own a single-channel vibrator, such as a phone or smartwatch.
So if proven effective, this system could easily be implemented in these everyday objects. I should note that most of the evaluations we have done with this system so far have been in a non-clinical population, and that affects its design.
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We also found that latency between hearing the speech and feeling the vibrations didn't matter so much--so this bodes well if implemented in a realtime system.
Can we expect vibrating neck devices in the near future?
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The project is exciting in its very diverse range of application areas, and just the idea that feeling someone's voice through your skin helps you hear them better is super cool!
This project received funding from the Language Sciences Initiative and involved Language Sciences members Computer Science professor and Principal Investigator Karon MacLean, and Language Sciences co-director and Linguistics professor Bryan Gick.
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Register today for the 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, which will be held on 5 April 2013 from 9am to 6pm in Salt Lake City, Utah. Speakers will address the themes of Mormonism, Transhumanism and Transfigurism, with particular attention to topics at the intersection of technology, spirituality, science and religion. Previous conferences sponsored by the Mormon Transhumanist Association include the 2012 conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, the 2010 Transhumanism and Spirituality conference, and the 2009 Mormonism and Engineering conference. The conference is open to the public.
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Eating disorders are a serious mental and physical health issue that plagues our society and can impact anyone, regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity. According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States will be affected by an eating disorder at some point in their lives. It can not only have a negative effect on one’s health, but also on one’s self-image, personal relationships, performance in daily tasks, and overall quality of life. Eating disorders can significantly influence the body's ability to get adequate nutrition, which in turn can lead to many other health problems. Eating disorders are life-threatening, but fortunately are treatable.
Types of eating disorders(mostly related to oral health)
Anorexia is a common eating disorder characterized by an extreme fear of gaining weight. Individuals with this condition often consider themselves to be overweight, which typically leads to dangerous behaviors including starvation or excessive exercise. Individuals with anorexia may even rid food from their bodies through self-induced vomiting, laxatives, or enemas.
Bulimia, like anorexia, is also characterized by fears of gaining weight. This condition involves periods of excessive eating followed by purging through self-induced vomiting, or using laxatives or other medications.
Binge-eating disorder
Binge-eating is a common disorder that has been found to affect both men and women at a similar prevalence. This eating disorder involves repeated periods of excessive food consumption. Individuals often feel a lack of control when overeating followed by guilt and/or shame. These periods of overeating are not accompanied by purging behaviors such as in individuals diagnosed with bulimia. Diagnostic criteria for the binge-eating disorder include the behavior of binge eating occurring on average at least once a week for a period of 3 months, according to NEDA.
The effect of eating disorders on your oral health
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Symptoms that you may have an eating disorder in your mouth
Surprisingly, dental professionals are often the first people to see the negative effects of eating disorders just by taking a look inside the mouth. Vomit can cause severe harm to your oral health due to the erosive effects of stomach acid contacting the teeth and surrounding oral tissues. This can result in worn down and translucent teeth, sensitive teeth, tooth decay, dry mouth, inflamed salivary glands, trouble swallowing, and other oral health issues. Individuals with eating disorders also may lack necessary nutrients which can lead to gum disease, bone loss in the jaws, oral sores, and bad breath for instance.
Prevention and measures to avoid eating disorders and to keep your mouth healthy
If you believe you or someone you love is suffering from an eating disorder, it is important to seek help. Eating disorders are very complex, often involving help from a team of health professionals, including your dentist. Early diagnosis and treatment can significantly improve one’s recovery. To keep your mouth healthy, it is important to practice good oral habits including toothbrushing at least twice a day and flossing daily. Be sure to visit your dentist regularly for check-ups and cleanings. Avoid tooth brushing immediately after vomiting or oral exposure to harmful acids as this can cause further damage to your teeth due to their weakened state. Instead, rinsing with baking soda or a fluoride-containing mouth rinse can help neutralize the acidic effects. Your dentist may recommend in-office fluoride treatments or prescription fluoride toothpaste to help strengthen your teeth and protect against cavities. If you are experiencing dry mouth, your dentist may recommend sugar-free gum containing xylitol or saliva substitutes.
If you or a loved one is battling an eating disorder, one of the most important things that you should know is that help is always available. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) offers a helpline focused on supporting all who are impacted by eating disorders. Trained helpline volunteers can help offer guidance, resources, and treatment options for anyone in need, and it is all confidential! You can call NEDA’s helpline at (800) 931-2237, or text to chat at (800) 931-2237. NEDA also offers a 24/7 crisis text line for emergencies that can be accessed by texting “NEDA” to 741741.
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The Year 1 Foundation Training in Shamanism is for you if you wish to go deeper in your self-development while walking your spiritual path. It is also for you if you wish to develop your gifts further and engage into year 2 with shamanic practitioner teachings by answering a call from Spirit to become deeply connected with your medicine.
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This course will take you further in the path of connecting deeply with your medicine in this wonderful path of service and heart. The practitioner group meets every 4 to 6 weeks. Training at Practitioner level includes theory, demonstration, practice, case studies and access to support and supervision. Practitioners can, after completing all modules of the course and case studies, be insured to practice on a professional level. Ceremonies and nature are at the heart of shamanism and are also included in our weekends.
When we suffer a trauma, be it small or major, a part of our soul, a part of our essence flees our body departing to safety leaving us to cope or survive. Sometimes it can also happen that we give away parts of ourselves to someone we love, or through abuse or neglect we may lose a soul part. Soul loss is a process that helps us cope mentally, physically and emotionally with trauma. Part of being human is having this adaptation mechanism for our survival. That part of us - our essence or life force - has the ability to live in other dimensions because we are, by nature, multidimensional beings. When soul loss occurs, we are left with a feeling that something is missing but we are not quite sure what that is. Sometimes it is a sense of not being here, not being present, sometimes it is a sense of confusion, not being able to have clarity or direction, sometimes it is being stuck in enacting suffering and pain, depression may set in, suicidal thoughts haunt us. Childhood trauma is also a very common reason for needing soul retrieval. With the intervention of a shamanic practitioner, the guides will tell and retrieve the soul parts that need to come back to help solve a specific problem. When a healing takes place at a soul level, when the re-union and integration takes place, very often, it has an effect in all other levels: physical, emotional and mental. Soul retrieval, although very simple, is one of the most powerful shamanic healing one can have.
Developing a bit further, challenging all our assumptions, we will now explore the process of taking a step back and simply facilitating a soul retrieval by guiding the client. How to identify if the client is empowered enough, how to monitor the process, how to trust and let Spirit do the work. There is no better feeling then the feeling of seeing your client empowered and in charge of their own healing process. When your client is fully empowered is when real healing takes place.
Extraction work
A very common type of energetic illness and complain brought for Shamanic practitioners to work on is the removal of intrusive energies. If for whatever reason we have a hole in our energy field, negative energies can come and stay in that space. Those energies can manifest themselves as negative thoughts, physical illnesses or pain and sometimes even suicidal thoughts. Those energies can also be coming from other people e.g. envy, bad thoughts, anger or rage. If they are there for a very long time, they become entities who have their own mind and are able to control the person's thoughts and feelings. Fully formed entities can also attach themselves to people and zap their energy. During the weekend we will learn to identify when an extraction work is needed and how to perform an extraction. This is another ancient healing technique where the shamanic practitoner has to have sufficient power, therefore, the importance of learning to be ruthless, yet compassionate, is fundamental for this work.
Psychopomp work: One of the most important roles of the Shamanic practitioner is to help lost souls to complete their journey into the afterworld. Compassion and unconditional love are the essential powers to accomplish this work.
House Cleansing: removing trapped energies, transforming places of negativity, space and house clearing are also part of the teachings this weekend.
As the veils between the spiritual and the physical worlds are becoming thinner and thinner, past life problems and memories have been one of the main causes for people to seek shamanic help. We are all multidimentional beings and on the shamanic path time does not exist, therefore we can journey back into past lives for healing purposes.
We will finish the course celebrating who you are and sharing your shamanic gifts with your people. With the Creative Community work we want you to explore how is it to step into your power and fully become a shamanic practitioner. You will be given the opportunity to share your gifts and unique ways with others in the group by facilitating 1 1/2 hours of shamanic work for your group.
Exchange for the Training
The Year 2 course is offered on a sliding scale, according to your financial means you choose which one of the following you will pay. We do not ask info about your salary, basically you decide yourself which scale applies to you.
Sliding scale: high income £210 | medium income £193 | low income £176 | benefits £144 | others £127
You pay every weekend we meet: £210 | or £193 | or £176 | or £144 | or £127
Others are: people on benefits who cannot afford £144, pensioners, students, and people that a family member or partner is paying for them as they have no income)
Important Notice: Once accepted in the course you are commited to paying all weekends including the ones you miss and you will be able to do your catch up on the following year if you really need to miss a weekend.
It is our wish to include everyone who feel drawn to our work and are ready for this course, therefore, the prices for our courses are on a sliding scale. For those restricted financially, you can divide the weekend cost in instalments. If you need that, please talk to us, or if you need to pay in a different date that your group meets, that is also fine; we are flexible and happy to help.
You can use the PayPal button below for your deposit or your deposit can be done via bank transfer. This deposit secures your place after your application has been accepted. The email we will send you accepting you in the course, will have the account number to make the deposit if you choose bank transfer.
What you will need
A notebook you can use the whole year for the course, a pack lunch and a blanket. We normally take 1 hour break for lunch around 2pm. There is also a Co-operative 3 min by car where you can easily buy something for your lunch.
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Please note: we are not able to offer accommodation, we recommend these B&Bs nearby.
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The 7 Gateways of Consciousness: South, West, North, East, Above, Below and the Centre.
This advanced work is an opportunity for you to go deeper into your medicine. We will work with the 7 Gateways of Consciousness, study and practice how to help your clients to heal through ceremonies. Empowerment, integrity, authenticity and individual Ceremonies for healing your people is the foundation of this advanced work. Come to empower your community and be empowered.
East Gateway: Filled with Spirit
Guided Meditation Teacher training. The meditation techniques within this course are drawn from thirty years of intuitive guidance, inspirations and healing experiences to create a safe, comfortable practice of healing (for self and others), relaxation and inner growth. Our guided meditation practice aims to awaken the inner senses, the deeper gifts of perception which lie within each of us. It is through these inner senses we connect to a greater reality within and can glimpse a vision of our true selves as well as root a deep practice for healing and long term well being for the self and for others. For each physical sense, we have five corresponding internal senses and more.
South Gateway: Comming from the Heart
Here we will work with the inner child and Sacred Council to heal the heart. 90% of the problems people come for shamanic healing is childhood trauma related. With this work you will develop the appropriate skills to support the healing of traumas for your clients. You will connect with your Sacred Council for healing, advise, insights and empowerment. One can only come from the heart if the heart is open, strong and free from past childhood traumas.
Working with the shadow self and the ego self: Here we deepen our understanding of the shadow and expand our awareness of how the ego limits beliefs and thoughts. Through this gateway we can assist our clients to engage with the shadow and the ego to heal, transform, transcend and embrace spiritual gifts and powers.
Through the consciousness of the North gateway we walk the ancestral path to reconnect with our own lineage for healing. The North gateway holds the consciousness of service to the community. Included in this weekend is DNA work, changing the DNA in the ancestral line for healing purposes and also ceremony to undo curses and black magic, untanglying the energies for healing to unfold.
With this work you will transcend time and the self. Helping your clients manifest a positive life path, learning to manifest supportive loving relationships, rewarding jobs and careers. What is for the good of all is in line with the laws of the Universe. Learn how to receive inspiration from above and manifest it in the middle world.
Below Gateway: Solo in Nature
Here you will have the opportunity to fully immerse with our Earth Mother with a ceremonial weekend working in Nature with the 4 Shields. With your full connection with your guides and being held by Nature, you will be taken through the 4 shields to receive guidance and teachings to take back to your people and help them with their healing journey. Sharing and mirrowing the spiritual story back to you are part of this weekend.
Centre Gateway: Inner knowing
As multidimensional beings our work is to recognise and integrate the fragmented parts of ourselves and connect deeper with our Spirit. As we become more aware and integrate the different aspects of ourselves through the 7 gateways, we have the opportunity to fully become who we truly are with integrity and authenticity, grounding more and more our spiritual life purpose and powers. The essence of this work is to help you centre yourself, connect deeper with your trueself, access deeper inner knowing, cennect deeper with your guides, gathering and sharing that wisdom in service to your community.
Exchange for the Training
The Year 3 course is offered on a sliding scale, according to your financial means you choose which one of the following you will pay. We do not ask info about your salary, basically you decide yourself which scale applies to you.
Sliding scale: high income £210 | medium income £193 | low income £176 | benefits £144 | others £127
You pay every weekend we meet: £210 | or £193 | or £176 | or £144 | or £127
Others are: people on benefits who cannot afford £144, pensioners, students, and people that a family member or partner is paying for them as they have no income)
Important Notice: Once accepted in the course you are commited to paying all weekends including the ones you miss. You will be able to do catch up with another group in the futue if you really need to miss a weekend.
It is our wish to include everyone who feel drawn to our work and are ready for this course, therefore, the prices for our courses are on a sliding scale. For those restricted financially, you can also divide the weekend cost in instalments. If you need that, please talk to us, or if you need to pay in a different date that your group meets, that is also fine; we are flexible and happy to help.
You can use the PayPal button below for your deposit or your deposit can be done via bank transfer. This deposit secures your place after your application has been accepted. The email we will send you accepting you in the course, will have the account number to make the deposit if you choose bank transfer.
What you will need
Drum, rattle and other shamanic tools you have. A notebook you can use the whole year for the course. Please bring a pack lunch and a blanket. We normally take 1 hour break for lunch. There is also a Co-operative 3 min by car where you can easily buy something for your lunch.
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Report from the ‘Beyond the Fracking Polemic’ panel discussion – Energy Vulnerability and Urban Transitions
Addressing scientific and policy challenges at the interface of energy system transformations, the environment and cities
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Report from the ‘Beyond the Fracking Polemic’ panel discussion
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We recently hosted a panel discussion titled ‘Beyond the Fracking Polemic: Energy Futures and Vulnerability’. The event took place on the 7th of October at the University of Manchester. It was supported by the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre and organised by Craig Thomas, whose own work on the issue of shale gas development is discussed in a recent CURE blog, available here. There were approximately 70 attendees. The event featured an interdisciplinary panel of four speakers, plus Stefan Bouzarovski who chaired the discussion. This was an opportunity for the speakers to each present from their own academic perspective on the implications of fracking on energy vulnerability in the UK and to exchange research findings, expert knowledge and professional opinions across the divides that traditionally separate the social and natural sciences. The panel sought to place the debate within a context of energy vulnerability which is, broadly speaking, concerned with social and environmental (in)justice and understanding how different energy scenarios impact on actors from a household to supranational scale of governance. The implications of fracking for real world issues like risk, energy poverty, social licence and how regulation and mitigation measures might work in practice were looked at afresh from the perspectives of our expert speakers.
The event was widely attended by University members, local decision-makers, business representatives and NGO advocates.
The panellists
The event commenced with Erik Bichard (School of the Built Environment, Salford University). Erik’s book, The Coming of Age of the Green Community includes a chapter on the anti-fracking movement in the US, and he referenced empirical observations from the chapter in his presentation. Erik observed that the anti-fracking movement differs from previous environmental movements in two key ways. First, they are organised into smaller groups that operate in alliance with each other. Second, public debates on ‘fracking’ in the US environmental movement encapsulate global and local environmental issues in a way that other environmental campaigns, for example on climate change, have not achieved. Erik talked about the range of motivations for being involved in the anti-fracking movement which include climate change corporate greed, injustice, civic pride, health, concern about corruption and risk to local environment.
The second speaker was Ernest Rutter (School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester). Ernie highlighted that the shale gas industry in the UK is still at a very early phase of development, with six exploratory wells drilled to date. Ernie focused on the energy security issues that the UK will face in the coming decades and argued that a shale gas industry could replace coal and that this was in the national interest. Ernie also talked about food security, focusing on links between the capacity of the UK to feed itself using domestically grown produce and the availability of chemical fertiliser which is used in conventional agricultural processes. Fertiliser is produced by the chemical industry and large quantities of natural gas are required in its production. Looking ahead, Ernie recognised that a shale gas industry could not proceed without public acceptance and suggested that public education about the processes that underlie the shale gas industry was necessary to ensure informed discussion, with more engagement from academics in this area needed.
The third speaker was John Broderick (Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester). John focused on the policy context in which a shale gas industry could develop in the UK, in particular our domestic commitments to meet the targets of the Climate Change Act and instigate a low carbon transition over the coming decades. In order to avoid a two degree rise in climate change, two thirds of fossil fuels available will need to remain in the ground and so key questions that need to be asked are which fossil fuels will be left untouched, and who will bear the costs of not exploiting available resources. John observed that while gas extracted from shale in the UK could replace coal as a source of energy, this won’t reduce international emissions without supra-national regulations that limit the extraction and use of coal.
The final speaker was Karen Bickerstaff (Geography, Exeter University,). Karen talked about a crisis of democracy around the role of public participation in the roll out of technologies which has been evident with a nascent shale gas industry. Public engagement has focused largely on instrumental involvement that allows only a limited role in the critique of technology pathways. Karen suggested that with innovation in technology on energy there should be a sense of responsibility as to the effects of those technologies on society and the environment. There is also a need to create transparency and open up decision making in the development of technology pathways and both industry and government have been left wanting in this regard on infrastructure development related to the shale gas industry.
Questions from the audience
Questions were enlivened by the range of people that came to the event, which was well attended. The audience was diverse, with local and national government, planners, students, academics, activists and members of the public in attendance. The range of people who were there, on a Tuesday afternoon, is testament both to the importance fracking in the public sphere and the reach of CURE beyond academia. On such a sensitive issue, it is refreshing to see that CURE was able to provide a space in which polemical argument was avoided and voices heard from across fields of expertise on how fracking relates to issues around energy futures and energy vulnerability.
Concluding the event
To sum up the event, Stefan Bouzarovski talked about the common themes that came out of the panel discussion. Each of the panellists tied the local issues of ‘fracking’ and a nascent shale gas industry into larger concerns that touched upon energy security, energy vulnerability and energy futures. Questions around the impacts a shale gas industry and ‘fracking’ could have on our energy futures cannot be answered without first considering whose future we are talking about. Energy underpins the organisation of society and it is important to question the extent to which the direction in which we are moving with regard energy and the low carbon transition remains socially and environmentally just.
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What makes the world go ‘round? To the average person, their answer may be air, water, or food. To some, they may argue that it is actually oil.
Crude oil, which is a type of fossil fuel, is a naturally occurring petroleum product comprised of hydrocarbon chains and organic materials, which can be refined to produce a variety of products including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. These types of fuels have been traded and consumed since well before 1900 and continue to arguably be the lifeblood of the world economy. With the title of being the so-called lifeblood of the world economy, comes great responsibility – the price of oil can largely affect country and global economies.
What is the history of oil?
The history of oil goes way back. How long exactly, you ask? The first commercial oil well was drilled in Azerbaijan almost two centuries ago – in 1847. The world’s top producer of oil (the United States) discovered oil approximately 12 years later with the first oil discovery in Pennsylvania. Initially, early demand for oil was quite low, but soon after the first commercial well that was capable of mass production was drilled in Texas, producing more than 100,000 barrels of oil in one day. In the Middle East, oil was first discovered in Iran in the early 20th century, and shortly after the first large-scale drilling projects began in 1908.
Oil was, and continues to be a hot commodity, given the dependence of countries’ economies on their energy sectors and large volumes of consumption throughout the last century.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that global consumption for petroleum and liquid fuels averaged 93.4 million barrels per day in July 2020.
What are the supply factors to the price of oil?
With any type of market, there are various different supply factors that can affect the price, including the price of oil. Some supply factors are The Organization of the Petroleum (OPEC), non-OPEC factors and external supply shocks.
We are sure you have heard of OPEC at one point or another. If you haven’t, don’t worry, that’s what we’re here for. Here’s a quick background: Established in 1960 at a conference in Baghdad, OPEC is a permanent intergovernmental organization of 13 oil exporting nations that coordinates and unifies the petroleum policies of its members countries. OPEC, which controls approximately 40% of global oil supply, aims to unify a view on oil production quotas to protect against overproduction and rapid price depletion of oil, which therefore ensures the stabilization of its prices in international markets. But, nothing is perfect. Imperfections in OPEC’s policy do continue to exist including unexpected outages, regional politics driving for market share or non-compliance by member states to adhere to the agreed upon quotas.
Countries that are not members of OPEC, such as the United States, can also have huge effects on oil prices. For example, the United States went from one of the world’s largest consumers of energy to one of the world’s largest producers of energy. They didn’t stop there – they are now the world’s top oil producing country in the world. This has been achieved largely because of its shale oil production in the last decade, giving them a lot of power over oil prices.
Events that are not directly related to supply can also have an effect on oil price, ranging from geo-political events – such major weather events – to geopolitical or regional instability. The Arab oil embargo of 1973, also known as the first “oil shock,” saw the oil price rally by approximately 230%. More recently, in 2017 OPEC decided to curtail its production, which also led to an oil price rally approximately 7%.
Major weather events can not only cause major destruction to infrastructure and markets, but they can also affect the oil price. A recent example of this is when Hurricane Katrina barreled through the United States in 2005, causing major damage to oil supply infrastructure in the region, leading to a supply shock to global markets.
What are the demand factors to the price of oil?
In addition to supply factors, there are various different demand factors that can affect the price of oil. This includes most notably the performance of the world’s biggest economies, market sentiment and alternative energy.
Economies that provide major demand for oil in the world include the United States, China, Europe and India. Healthy economies typically lead to increased demand for oil, while stagnating economies usually have a limited demand for oil. Therefore, if there are any factors impacting healthy economies, the oil market will surely feel it in the form of a demand shock. The most recent example of a demand shock has been the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen countries enter into and out of lockdowns beginning in early 2020. With domestic and international travel restricted, businesses and industries have limited their operations, which in turn has had a direct effect on demand for oil.
Market sentiment and speculation in the market is often another major contributing factor to the price of oil. The oil market is highly sensitive to speculation driven by factors such as economic indicators or rumors. This includes any speculation about future events, such as impending sanctions being placed on an oil producing nation, which would in theory equate to a cut in oil supply and in turn raise the price of oil. On the other hand, news of an OPEC announcement to increase production would lead to an increase in the oil supply to market and the result would lead to a decrease in the oil price.
Green energy, or alternative energy, is also beginning to present itself as a major factor affecting oil demand. In the last ten years, alternative energy has made its way to center stage and governments have been increasingly looking to sustainable energy given the positive impacts on the environment, among other reasons. Technological developments in sustainable energy sectors are making it an increasingly viable option and this trend is expected to grow over the next few decades.
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There are a lot of questions about Goldenseal; what's the benefits of Goldenseal, is Goldenseal dangerous, and why is Goldenseal so expensive? I hope to answer these questions in this article
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I first learned of how to naturally grow my eyelashes at about 14, I have been using this technique on and off for years. It does not harm your eyes and is all natural, but most important, it works.
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Everything starts with Dr. Dennis Colonello. An all-natural therapist, he began exercising as a chiropractic physician in Canada before resolving in Los Angeles. He utilized his deep understanding of biomechanics to aid people who had actually never ever discovered relief before.
Word went out that there was a guy with recovery hands who could change your back to essentially unlock your body’s true potential. He was quickly discovered by a who’s that of Hollywood actors, specialist athletes and also CEOs (like Cindy Crawford, Elon Musk, Tony Robbins, Lewis Hamilton– to name a few). He additionally became the group chiropractic specialist for the L.A. Clippers, dealing with famous professional athletes like Shaq and Blake Griffin.
It was these clients that inspired the concept for the original BackStrong chair. They ‘d leave his office pain-free, after that return to Dennis (sometimes flying in from midway all over the world just for a modification).
The common measure? They were investing a lot of their time sitting. No matter just how active, fit, as well as busy they were, resting still on trips, sets, and also offices left them aching.
Dennis invested years considering a remedy to aid his customers escape this cycle of pain. He recognized he needed to locate a method to let his patients’ bodies work like they do when they stand– the way bodies are designed to work. Something that would certainly relocate all 33 vertebrae.
The All33 BackStrong C1 Chair is an office chair that attracts attention from the remainder. No mesh, no space-age look, no dazzling aluminum, no half-dozen adjustment handles and levers. Rather it appears like a cross between a workplace chair and also a lounge chair– cushioned, on castors, with a lot of black plastic on display, and also a bit of a retro ambiance. Made by “LA’s leading chiropractic doctor” as well as an industrial designer with BMW debts, this chair makes use of a distinct method with an independently-tilting seat that promotes all-natural motion of the hips and also back when seated. It’s asserted to assist customers “really feel energized, discover adaptability, gain back as well as core strength, as well as attain greater productivity.” Those are big insurance claims, and also all33 backs them with a variety of celeb endorsements. The BackStrong C1 has actually likewise been included on Shark Tank.
The BackStrong C1 is priced at the higher end in terms of office chairs. Its MSRP is $1299, although that is currently decreased to $799 on All33’s web site. Still not a cost-effective chair. Is it worth it?
Setting up and Construction
When I cracked open the BackStrong C1’s box, it was right away offputting. This is an $800 chair (which allegedly retails for $1200, but I’ve never ever seen it at that rate), so I expected … much more. It’s nearly like every little thing was simply thrown in with some bubble cover as well as cardboard (I desire I would’ve taken pictures. Alas.). Not a wonderful first impression.
Setting up is quite simple here– it’s a couple of screws, and you’re done. When it’s all finished, you get a pivoty little chair inside a larger chair that can elevate as well as reduced. The arms additionally fold to finish if you need, but they do not increase or lower, nor do they have any kind of kind of tilt or angle change. The height of the chair is inevitably where your modification choices start as well as finish. This really did not trigger any kind of problems for me as I don’t usually use armrests when I type, however it’s something to think about for the armrest fans available.
The develop top quality likewise leaves me desiring daily– I’ve made use of chairs less than half the rate of the BackStrong C1 with better construct quality. The chair rocks from side to side (in a manner that it shouldn’t), making the base really feel less-than-stable. The left arm is also loose, so it goes up about an inch very quickly– the right is far more grown as well as takes a little bit of pressure to actually lift. That’s how they need to both be. The armrest cover is additionally a little separated on the left side, and it’s resembled that given that the day I took it out of the box (image at the bottom of this review). There’s simply a lot of quality assurance problems here.
And afterwards there’s the sound. Ugh, the sound. When I first started using the C1, individuals on video telephone calls would certainly talk about how loud it was when I moved. Because it squeaks, stands out, beeps, florps, as well as whatever onomatopoeia you can think about. I lubed up all the joints as well as pivot factors, which assisted, but after a couple of weeks, it drew back.
Once more, not what I anticipate from an $800 chair. And even a $500 chair. Possibly not even a $300 chair.
Past that, nonetheless, it starts to get better. The top quality of materials is good– not terrific, but excellent. The back is primarily a “vegan” leather (read: artificial leather) compared with difficult plastic. I’ve seen various other reviews ding the chair for the use of plastic, yet I honestly don’t mind it. It’s practical and also functional. And the entire thing is simple to clean– which you’ll need to do fairly typically since the factor where the cushion satisfies the plastic is a large ol’ gap for crap to collect in. The pivot factors where the bottom half of the chair fit with the top component are chrome. It looks fine.
Definitely perfect back convenience as well as support
Light-weight as well as good-quality wheels make this chair unusually mobile
You can turn up the armrests entirely if you intend to belly-up snugly to a desk or table
Distinctive, retro-futuristic great appearances
275-pound customer weight restriction.
Lots of revealed plastic.
Marginal padding, of moderate top quality.
The “vegan leather” upholstery we evaluated is ideal described as “acceptable” (there’s also a material alternative we did not receive or evaluate.).
Can not change armrest height.
Can not lock tilt anywhere however totally upright.
Final thoughts
Individuals could claim the existing rate of this chair is $800 and also it’s true that it’s an expensive chair. With all the unique ergonomic functions this chair will certainly be an excellent financial investment for your posture in the lengthy run.
Using a conventional chair for prolonged hrs can hurt your reduced back, lower blood circulation, and can develop a great deal of health-related concerns.
Even if this chair costs a premium price tag, you truly should buy an ergonomic chair if you being in front of a computer system all the time. That’s why I very recommend this chair. You can check it out here.
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Britain's King Charles III, looks at flowers outside Buckingham Palace following Thursday's death of Queen Elizabeth II, in London, Friday Sept. 9, 2022. King Charles III, who spent much of his 73 years preparing for the role, planned to meet with the prime minister and address a nation grieving the only British monarch most of the world had known. He takes the throne in an era of uncertainty for both his country and the monarchy itself.(Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)
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Published: Oct. 2, 2022 at 9:16 AM EDT
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LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has decided not to attend the international climate change summit in Egypt next month, fueling speculation that the new monarch will have to rein in his environmental activism now that he has ascended the throne.
The Sunday Times newspaper reported that the decision came after Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss objected to Charles attending the conference, known as COP27, when she met with the king last month at Buckingham Palace.
While there was no official rebuttal, other British media quoted unidentified palace and government sources as saying that Charles made his decision after consultation with the prime minister and that any suggestion of disagreement was untrue.
Under the rules that govern Britain’s constitutional monarchy, the king is barred from interfering in politics. By convention, all official overseas visits by members of the royal family are undertaken in accordance with advice from the government and a decision like this would have resulted from consultation and agreement.
Before becoming king when Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, there had been speculation Charles would travel to the summit in the role he then held as Prince of Wales.
Charles attended the previous climate summit,COP26, last year in Glasgow, Scotland, but his attendance at this year’s conference was never confirmed. COP27 is taking place Nov. 16-18 in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
When he was Prince of Wales, Charles was accused of meddling in government affairs, including allegations that he inappropriately lobbied government ministers.
But Charles is now king, and he has acknowledged that he will have less freedom to speak out on public issues as monarch than he did as the heir to the throne. At the same time, his advisers would be looking for the right time and place for Charles’ first overseas trip as sovereign.
“My life will, of course, change as I take up my new responsibilities,’’ Charles said in a televised address after his mother’s death.
“It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others.”
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To build trusted AI and trusted technology we need to admit there is a trust gap with the people behind AI. Photo by Alex Knight from Pexels
What Is Trust?
As I was leaving for a three-month family leave, a Director assigned to temporarily support my team came to my office to wish me the best.
“You can trust me,” the Director said as I walked out.
That was my plan. I had no reason not to.
“You know how there are people who blame the last guy for anything that goes wrong?” he said. “Well, I’m not going to do that.”
“Oh,” I said. “OK.”
Who says that? I thought. Only the guy who is about to screw you over.
If trust means reliance on others to meet the expectations they set, the Director was explicitly telling me to trust him, but implicitly, he was warning me not to. Or at least dropping an obvious hint. When short-sighted self-interest drove him to seize control of my high-performing team permanently, I was disappointed but not surprised. Did he break my trust? Not really. With that parting comment, the Director had already lost my trust. But I never imagined a colleague would be allowed to go that far. Both the individual and the system had failed.
When I returned, I relied on my confidence to recover and build a new team and a new set of projects. The Director acted like nothing unusual had happened. Like his lying didn’t matter. But losing my team and projects affected how I showed up. At work and outside of work.
When we want to build trust through our businesses, products, teams, and community, we must ask one fundamental question. Are we able to be honest with ourselves? Variations of this ultimate trust question could include:
Are we able to be honest and transparent (in a relevant way) with others?
Are our existing structures and systems trustworthy?
Do we want to take on the responsibility of trust?
Do we want to win trust now but are willing to break it later when others don’t have a choice or we can get away with it?
Let’s explore that last bullet with follow-up questions. Do we want to win our users’ trust to use a “free” service while also littering the back end with complexities and loopholes that allow us to sell or use their data? Do we feel they have enough clues to discern? Like, what part of “cost of free” did they not understand? Do we do it because everyone else is doing it? Do we do it to survive? Or do we have options to engage with integrity? Are we looking to build long-term partnerships and loyalty? Find a way to do the right thing for us and the right thing for users?
These questions are especially relevant when machine learning and AI (Artificial Intelligence) are used to establish trust-based connections between recruiters and job seekers, between content and consumers, between caregivers and caretakers, parsing out relevance, inferences, and recommendations. These systems and algorithms are perpetually optimized based on the metrics we use to reward or penalize, the data we give them access to use, and the autonomy of decision-making. They are critical when the stakes are high — think law enforcement or surveillance that encroaches on our autonomy, privacy, and intentions.
Trust involves a leap of faith. When we ask if we can trust AI, we are really asking: Can we trust the people who are vouching for the AI: designing, paying for, making, and using the systems? It’s ultimately and almost always, about us.
What Does Trust Mean in Artificial Intelligence?
In Feb, 2020, EU released the intention of defining and ultimately regulating trusted and transparent AI, prompting Google’s CEO to support AI regulation as “too important not to” while nudging them to take “a sensible approach” while the White House released its own letter to the EU advising it not to kill innovation. In June 2020, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft joined the San Francisco and Seattle bans on facial recognition. The definition of “sensible” has evolved as trust in our systems — human and machine — around policing and facial recognition are under increased scrutiny. Even prior to the post-riot awareness of racism in America, heads of AI and data science departments in China, Europe, and Asia, leading researchers, and public interest groups have been asking a common question: How do we build trust in AI? And can there be a consensus on approach and solution to the answer and to our need for trusted technology?
When industry organizations and institutions like IEEE and EU forums use keywords like “Trusted AI,” “Trust in AI,” and “Trustworthy AI,” they are talking about how to ensure, inject, and build trust, ethics, explainability, accountability, responsibility, reliability, transparency into our intelligent systems. They ask for transparency: How closely do the systems meet the expectations that were set? Are we clear on the expectations, the data, and methodology used?
This is a tricky concept for many reasons. But mainly because AI is a technology used by people, businesses, products, and governments. So the trust and confidence is ultimately placed in the people, businesses, products, or governments who have their own assessment about the reliability, truth, ability, and strength of their AI-powered solutions. It is often not one person or one system, but a series of interconnected systems and people. And any definition, methodology, or system can be used for different purposes depending on our hopes and fears. It can be changed, improved, or misused. The industry is finally banning facial recognition because it can no longer deny that we can’t trust the people who are going to use it.
What Will It Take to Build Trusted AI?
Trust in AI involves at least two key sets of dependencies.
This includes leaders and entities — institutions, countries and companies who are building these solutions. What we know about them matters. Who has a seat at the table matters. Their goals and motivations matter. It all goes into, three key questions:
How much do we trust the decision makers? And those influencing them?
Are they visible? Can we figure out who is involved?
Do they make it easy for us to understand where AI is being used and for what purpose (leveraging which data sets)? Which loops back to the first question.
Trust with AI depends on the leader’s and entity’s track record with other decisions. Do they tend to pick the trustworthy partners, vendors, solutions or even know how to? Drive accountability? Bring in diversity? For example, when the current pandemic hit, consider, who did we trust?
Dependency Set 2: Build trust into our AI systems.
This second set of trust dependencies cover the technical practices or tools that give the decision makers the ability to build reliability, transparency, explainability, and trust into our AI systems. This is where most of the debates are happening. I have participated in technical forums at Linux Foundation, IEEE, and for Machine Learning performance benchmarking along with many industry and university debates. Almost every forum begins with principled statements leading to practical strategies and realistic considerations of time and cost.
Alignment on definition: What do we mean by explainability? Where is it applicable?
Technical feasibility: What is possible?
Business & Operational consideration: What is practical and sustainable?
Return on Investment: How much trouble/cost are we willing to bear to try to prevent potential consequences?
Motivation & Accountability: How likely are we to be found out or held accountable? What can and will be regulated?
These are not easy questions to answer. Since AI is entering almost every system and every industry, relevancy becomes important. For example, transparency can bring much needed accountability in some cases (criminal justice). It can also be used to overwhelm and confuse if too much information is shared in difficult to understand formats (think liability waivers). Or be entirely inappropriate, as in private and sensitive scenarios.
Open source and technical, policy, and public interest communities around the world have been trying to drive consensus. While companies and institutions building, selling and using AI systems continue to make their own decisions. Regulations have always trailed innovation. And they have their own set of accountability challenges.
So, what do we do?
An open-ended question that continues to challenge us is how we will build self-regulation and motivation into AI when businesses are measured on short-term gains and market shares — time and money.
Motivation and accountability is needed for responsible AI, trusted AI, and ethical AI. We need a common framework or at least a common set of values — a set of definitions, principles, best practices, tools, checklists, and systems that can be automated and built into products to become trusted technology.
All the while, we know our second set of considerations are almost always influenced, usurped, manipulated, or ignored by the first set, the people using AI. Their goals and their metrics. For real change, we need business cases for long-term impact that can be understood and developed.
This is where we have a potential glimmer of hope. If we design amazingly robust, trustworthy technology and systems, could it be harder for people to misuse or abuse them? If the shortcomings, biases, and insights into how decisions are made are clearly visible and we are able to anticipate outcomes by running different simulations and scenarios, we would be able to correct the inequities and unfairness of our past much faster? Could the relevant transparency, built into our systems and processes, give us an opportunity to create checks and balances as well as a level playing field and steer our institutions and leaders towards greater trustworthiness and reliability by proxy . . . rather than waiting to be shamed or found out?
Yes, in many ways, this is naively optimistic. The same tools could end up giving those with power a stamp of approval without anything really changing. It’ll become a more sophisticated opportunity to confuse or subterfuge. A coverup. Move people’s attention to AI, to technology, rather than those who are using it to wield power. But this is where community becomes critical.
We humans may be slow in getting there, but when enough of us become determined to solve a problem, something we never thought possible, becomes possible. Even normal.
The current pandemic and public outcry against racism has shown us that once leaders and institutions take a stand, once the public takes a stand, people with good ideas and solutions, who have been doing the thinking and the work in the background can step into visibility. Excuses to keep the status quo appear shallow and stale. We can collectively get to somewhere better than before. But we have to be honest with ourselves and each other for it to last.
Can we do that?
Most companies and institutions have ethical guidelines, best practices, and now AI principles. But we don’t really expect them to meet them. We know the difference between PR, spin, and reality.
What if it was normal to align our actions to the value systems we advertise? As we are starting to do with our biases and racism right now? And need to keep doing even after our collective attention moves elsewhere. Start with listening to people who have been thinking about this challenge in a complex and multidisciplinary context for a long time. And are likely already working at our companies. Understand what has worked and hasn’t worked. Be honest about where we are individually and collectively. And shift from our different starting places. From our here and our now. As we know from life, design, and engineering, everything is ultimately a navigation problem. Sometimes it’s a simple step that gets us going in the right direction. Get beyond talking to doing. For trust and AI, could we start with integrating trust into AI design instead of considering it optional? And now, instead of waiting for regulations later?
After all, do we wait for regulations to innovate?
Is Trust in AI Trustworthy?
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No matter how hard I try, I can’t come up with a single idea that would put even a tiny dent in the toxic polarization that is dividing Americans.
Frankly, I’m not sure anybody is taking these divisions seriously enough, including our current president who not long ago said that Republican governors who want to open up their states for business were guilty of "Neanderthal thinking." And just a few days ago called Georgia's new voting law "Jim Crow on steroids." So much for unity from the man who told us he wants to unite our country.
"One might have thought a viral pandemic would bring the country together. Not a chance." as Dan Henninger put it in the Wall Street Journal.
Everybody knows – or certainly should know – that having differences is one thing but hating the other side is something else altogether. I don’t know how things will end but I do know they can’t go on like this much longer. Something really bad is bound to happen.
An intelligent friend of mine floated the idea that we should divide the country – formally – into red states and blue states. Conservatives would live in the red states and liberals in the blue states. And I’m not at all sure he was kidding.
It started long before Donald Trump came onto the scene, but his combative nature poured gasoline on the fire. So did many in the news media who have become more and more blatantly partisan in recent years. Cable TV news is a major contributor to the problem.
Want proof? Consider this: For the next four years – or as long as Joe Biden is president – there’s a near 100 percent chance that you won’t hear one good word about him from conservative opinion hosts on Fox News. Not one good word! The business model forbids it. People don’t tune in to Fox to hear anything good about Joe Biden or any other liberal Democrat. But let’s be clear: It was no different for the past four years when liberal channels like CNN and MSNBC didn’t have a kind word to offer about Donald Trump.
You might think that Joe Biden would do one thing in four years that conservatives on Fox could get behind – or that Donald Trump might have done something that progressives at MSNBC could have supported. But the bottom line for partisan media outlets is the bottom line -- and dividing Americans is what brings in ratings, which in turn brings in money.
And the advent of social media only added to the divisions, suddenly making it easy for people hiding behind made up screen names, people both passionate and often angry, people who previously had no voice, to use their digital megaphone and join the give and take — frequently adding more polarizing heat than unifying light to the conversation. If you want to lose faith in humanity, read some of the comments posted beneath an online political column. Some of these screwballs should be committed.
And then there was the second Trump impeachment trial. GOP Senator Ben Sasse, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict former President Trump, said this after the trial: “But here’s the sad reality: If we were talking about a Democratic president, most Republicans and most Democrats would simply swap sides. Tribalism is a hell of a drug.”
He’s right, of course. Imagine if Joe Biden were to deliver an incendiary speech to his most passionate left wing supporters, a speech that tears into Republicans for just about anything. And imagine if his loyal fans rioted. Imagine if they broke windows, ransacked office, battled with police and said they wanted to hang some prominent Republican. You think a vast majority of Republicans would blame only the rioters but not the man who riled up the crowd? Or would they do what Senator Sasse said they’d do: impeach the Democrat and then vote to convict him, along party lines?
Tribalism really is a hell of a drug.
I’ve even tried to come up with crazy scenarios to see if there’s anything that would bring the two sides together.
What if the North Koreans launch a missile that lands in California? Wouldn’t that unite us like the 9/11 attacks did? Probably not.Democrats likely would blame Donald Trump for going easy on the North Korean dictator and Republicans would blame President Biden for being soft on communism.
I don’t think it would be much different if we were attacked by aliens from outer space. That might unite us for about 10 minutes. But after that each side would find something to pin on the other side.
So that no one gets the wrong idea, I’m not arguing that we should surrender our deeply held beliefs or surrender our values for the sake of unity. But at the risk of sounding like Pollyanna, standing up for what we believe in is not the same thing as believing that we alone have access to “The Truth,” that our side has a monopoly on what’s right and that the other side is composed of deplorable morons.
Polarizing people may be a good way to win political points or make money in the media … but it’s also a good way to destroy our country.
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The Vancouver Island Film Commission is set to move into a City of Langford-owned building at 2826 Bryn Maur Rd. in Langford. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Vancouver Island Film Commission moving from Victoria to Langford
City of Langford approves lease in city-owned building on Bryn Maur Road
Jul. 22, 2022 5:05 a.m.
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The Vancouver Island Film Commission is moving its offices to Langford after city council approved the lease of a strata lot in a building at 2826 Bryn Maur Rd.
Also moving into the building is the Sea-Isle Centre, which runs day programs for people with traumatic brain injuries. The centre had been looking for a space to continue offering its programs during renovations of its previous home and council agreed to a lease price of a dollar a year, to “support their charitable purpose and enable them to remain in Langford during their renovations,” according to a city staff report.
The third tenant will be iMagic Productions, which is buying one of the lots from the city for $350,000. The media production company has been looking for a new space since the city bought its old space on Goldstream Avenue to allow for intersection improvements at Leigh Road and Goldstream Avenue.
Langford bought the building in late 2021 as part of the development of the neighbouring property.
The film commission move comes as the City of Langford looks set to approve a film studio sound stage on Millstream Road. City council passed second and third readings at its June 20 council meeting, with a vote on adoption yet to be scheduled.
Speaking during the public hearing for the project on June 20, Kathleen Gilbert, film commissioner for the Greater Victoria Film Commission, said the studio will create hundreds of jobs and be an economic driver for Langford and the wider region.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media on the situation in Afghanistan on August 24, 2021. | Photo: Sean Gallup / POOL / EFE
With the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban, the possible exodus of Afghans who fear living under the new Islamic regime is fueling the expectation of an immigration crisis in Europe, like 2015-2016, when millions of people fled the Middle East to Europe. continent and settled there.
However, Afghans who try the path of the European Union will not find the same opening for welcoming immigrants that once existed in the bloc.
Germany, for example, was one of the countries that welcomed immigrants the most during the previous crisis. In 2015 alone, 1.5 million people fleeing war and poverty settled in the country; the overwhelming majority of Syria and North African countries.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the time, repeatedly rejected internal pressures aimed at making it difficult for immigrants to arrive at her country’s borders. She saw the refugee issue as a duty and called on other countries to do the same.
Countries resist
The socio-political situation is different now. In a month, the Germans will go to the polls to elect a new federal parliament, and the new chancellor. Angela Merkel, the country’s leader since 2005, has said she will retire from party life and certainly does not want to harm her party with another refugee crisis. In addition, the rise in terrorist attacks on European soil in recent years has pushed governments to tighten immigration controls.
Merkel, warning of a possible new wave of refugees, focused more on the need to help the neighboring countries of Afghanistan: “It is mainly a question of helping the neighboring countries to which the Afghan refugees can surrender, ”she said.
The message follows directions that Germany and other countries in the bloc were taking even before the riot at Kabul International Airport made headlines. Germany and five other countries (Austria, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Greece) have already defended the need to continue deportations of Afghans in a letter to the European Commission earlier this month.
Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said last week (17) that he did not want his country to become the EU’s entry point for Afghans fleeing their country.
“We are making it clear that we will not and cannot be the gateway to Europe for refugees and migrants who might try to enter the European Union,” Mitarachi told ERT public television. .
Also last week, France demonstrated harmony with other countries in the bloc, whose President Emmanuel Macron said the EU would present a “robust” plan to protect the bloc from a possible wave of immigrants.
“We must anticipate and protect ourselves against the large irregular migratory flows that would endanger immigrants and could encourage trafficking of all kinds,” Macron said in a televised address.
The French president intends to involve the transit countries in “an effort of solidarity and cooperation”. On the problematic exit of the United States from Afghanistan, the president insisted: “Europe cannot assume the consequences alone”, concluded Macron.
The EU wants the collaboration of neighboring countries
This Tuesday at an extraordinary G7 meeting, Italian Prime Minister Mauro Draghi stressed the need to provide humanitarian aid and manage migrants. Draghi said it is necessary to call on the G20 countries to resolve the crisis.
“To achieve these goals – concluded Draghi – I believe that the G7 must also show itself united by opening relations with other countries. In this, the G20 can help the G7 to involve other countries which are very important because they have the capacity to control what is happening in Afghanistan: Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and India. .
The Europeans want the neighboring countries of Afghanistan to take in refugees. The European bloc on Monday announced its commitment to quadruple humanitarian aid this year, to around 200 million euros, in order to meet urgent needs in Afghanistan and neighboring countries.
Diverting migratory pressure from Europe to neighboring countries of Afghanistan will require strong political pressure and a huge increase in funding for humanitarian aid, as neighboring countries have struggled to welcome Afghan immigrants for decades. years.
Pakistan is already home to 1.4 million refugees, while Iran has nearly one million, according to early 2021 data from the United Nations Refugee Agency.
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A tournament is comprised of two sessions. The morning “round-robin” session determines which bracket a team shall play during the afternoon session. The championship and consolation brackets are each double-elimination (or WinNAdvance).
Available contracts: 0-6 or doubles as trump, and no-trump (aka follow-me, “Doubles-High”).
Scoring is by marks, not points, to 7.
Round Robin
A round-robin morning series of games shall be determined by random draw.
Two brackets will formed based upon round-robin team performance. A championship bracket shall be formed, and if enough contestants as decided by the judges, a consolation bracket shall be formed.
Teams shall be selected and seeded (ordered) as follows:
Teams with the highest win record shall be seeded first.
In the event of a tie, teams with the highest number of total marks earned shall be seeded first.
If still tied, teams with the least amount of marks scored against them shall be seeded first.
If still tied, team seed order shall be determined by the play of one hand, or drawing of one domino by each team, as decided by the judges (with input from the teams involved).
Games are to 7 marks. Teams shall be awarded all marks scored.
Byes, if any, shall be scored 7-4. Byes shall occur in the initial bracketing.
Player Conduct
No deliberate slow play. Suggested bid time is 20 seconds and 10 seconds to play a bone.
Communication (aka Table Talk)
Players shall have no communication related to game play during game play. Communication includes:
verbal statements such as announcing a bone led, a bone played, the trump suit, who is winning the trick, how many points are on the table or still out, etc.
physical cues to their partner to indicate particular bones (such as left-/right-hand leads, crossing the arms, rubbing the nose, etc.)
Violations shall be considered a renege.
No eating, drinking, or smoking during play. Only bones and score pads may be on the table.
Spectators may watch any game.
Spectators may not disturb players during game play.
Spectators may not comment on player actions or rule infringements during game play.
Delay of Game: If a team is more than 5 minutes late after the official start time, the team shall forfeit that game.
Time Limit: Each round-robin game shall have an initial time-limit of 25 minutes. When time is called, the hand in progress shall be completed. A hand is considered in progress if one person has already bid. After hand completion, if the game is tied, one more hand shall be played to decide the game.
Reneges: A renege is an action that results in the loss of the hand (such as not following suit, playing out of turn, talking across the table, etc.). The hand is immediately over and the opposing team shall be awarded the mark(s).
Officials Request: If any player believes any rule has been broken, but the table disagrees, play shall stop immediately and a tournament official called to the table to render judgment.
Shake and Draw
Initial Shake: The initial shake shall be made by the player that draws the bone with the highest number of dots. If two or more players tie, the tied players shall repeat drawing until one player wins.
Drawing of Bones: Non-shaking team draws first, followed by the shaker’s partner and finally the shaker.
Positioning of Bones: Bones may not be held (except for initial viewing) and shall be lined up in front of the player in two horizontal rows stacked 4-3 or 3-4, maintained consistently from hand to hand and game to game. Bones may not be moved nor pushed together once play begins.
The player to the left of the shaker has first bid. Each player may bid once with the shaker having the final bid. Successive bids must each be higher than previous bids. The player with the highest bid wins the bid.
Bids are 30-42 or multiples of 42, where 42 is one mark. Bids over one mark (42) shall be in increments of one mark (42) each. A bidder may not bid more than two marks (84) unless a two-mark (84) bid has already been made. Successive bids over two marks (84) may only be in one-mark (42) increments.
The bid is ONE WORD only – pass, 30, 31, 36, 41, 42, two marks, 126, etc.
Bids are final – once a bid is made it cannot be changed. If a player bids out of turn, the bid shall not be changed. If the bid is no longer available when it becomes the turn of the player bidding out-of-order, the player shall pass.
There is no forced bidding. If all players pass, the shuffle passes to the next player.
If a bone is accidentally turned over during bidding, the opposing team member after the player turning over a bone shall immediately decide whether or not to re-shake. Should a re-shake occur, the same player shall shake.
Playing
Playing of Bones: Bones shall not be touched except to play. Players should not hesitate over one bone and play another. Bones should not be tossed, slid, whirled, slammed, etc.; rather placed directly in front of the player. If one bone is accidentally revealed during play, it shall be left face up and played at the first legal opportunity.
Declaring Trump: The bid winner shall declare the trump suit prior to the first lead. If no declaration is made verbally when played, the high side of the first domino led shall dictate trump.
First Lead: The bid winner shall lead the first bone.
Leads, Following Suit, Trumping: Any bone may be led at any time, including trumps. Highest end of bone (unless trump) indicates suit led. Players must follow suit if they can. Not following suit is considered a renege. If a player cannot follow suit, they may play any bone.
Playing out of Turn: Playing out of turn (lead or follow) shall result in a renege.
Trick Stacks: Each team shall keep only one set of tricks won. In the event of marks bids (42 or higher), tricks may be either single-stacked or double-stacked (alternating back and forth) – per choice of the bid winner – in the middle of the table. Opponents may choose the orientation.
Declaring Laydown/Made Bid/Set: Any player may declare a laydown, that they have the bid made, or their opponent set (usually in order to save time). However, if the opposing team challenges and can demonstrate any possible way the declarer could be incorrect, the declarer shall forfeit the hand. [Note: It is suggested that the player wait until they are in the lead and then lay their bones down in order of play. During a challenge, ONLY the “actual” dominoes held by the players may be used in the challenge, regardless of whose hand they are in (other than the bidders).]
Showing Bones: If a bid is made (or set) before all bones have been played, all remaining bones shall be turned face up allowing for inspection by both teams.
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For those who have been raised in a church, and even for those who are new to your church, passing the offering plate is a ritual that gives them the opportunity to show their faithfulness through their stewardship to God and His Church.
In a time like now, when church doors are not able to be open due to COVID-19, it’s important to still provide ways your church family can continue faithful stewardship. You have more than likely already implemented online giving, or are in the process of doing so. But how can you help your congregants become more comfortable with these new ways of giving?
Clearly Communicate How to Get Started
Online giving is so important to your church right now because it is truly equipping your congregation to be able to give anywhere anytime. Be sure you are communicating that to your church, including the multiple avenues that are available to them. For those who are new to online giving, you will want to make sure you are including clear and easy-to-follow instructions. These instructions may be in a post in your church management software, in an email to your church members, or in a short video that your pastor records to encourage online giving among your congregation. Share those instructions, as well as any graphics and other online giving tools on social media and any other outlets that reach your members so they are fully aware of their options to give.
If you are using Realm for your online giving, be sure to check out the giving resources available, and if you are new to online giving in Realm, there are more launch resources to help you get started.
Many churches are turning to livestreaming and pre-recorded videos to be able to continue ministering to their members during this time. Just as most of you include announcements in your normal worship services, continue that by reserving a few moments of each announcement video to remind your members of ways to give. Right now, we are hearing COVID-19 so often that it has become part of our daily language and thoughts. In the same way, if you continue to mention the many ways to give, you are building a comfort level within your congregation that will encourage them to adopt online giving moving forward.
Remind Your Church that Gifts are More Than Money
So many times, we get in the mindset that our gifts have to come in the form of money, but what your church does with it is why online giving is so important. Churches are the core of many outreach efforts during COVID-19 and other disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakes. By enabling eGiving in your church, you are enabling your congregation to continue supporting those in need and reminding your congregation to show faithful stewardship with what God has given the Church. Remind your members of the many efforts your church is a part of that are helping your community so they know that their gifts are just as important now as any other time, because we all know that ministry happens outside of the church doors. And if you are using Realm church software, now is a great time to use custom giving forms for those relief efforts for which you may be needing financial support.
While COVID-19 has many of us feeling overwhelmed and disconnected, using online giving and clearly communicating its value to your church family will keep them connected to ministry and ease their worries when it comes to answering God’s call to be His Church during this time.
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The NFL was in a struggle for survival as the manpower shortage created by World War II put a strain on the league’s primary resource, healthy young men. The War Manpower Commission had first dibs on able-bodied young men and it did not take long for the depletion to evoke improvisational counter measures.
A player’s physical talent became a secondary characteristic; his availability to his team was paramount. Many of the players signed during this period of belt-tightening had been turned down by the armed services. Fullback Bill “Bazooka” Paschal was one such example. Scar tissue in his knee made him undesirable to the Army, but the New York Giants were happy to have him in for a tryout on the recommendation of Grantland Rice, who had seen him play at Georgia Tech. Paschal set New York’s single-game rushing record with 188 yards in his first season in 1943, and led the NFL in rushing yards in 1943 and ’44, the first man to do so in back-to-back seasons. He also led the NFL in rushing touchdowns both years.
Sometimes healthy specimens made their way to the gridiron, as in the case of tackle Al Blozis. The Army believed his 6’5” 250 pound body was too large to be of use for them. The Giants selected him in the fifth round of the 1942 Draft, and Blozis went to become a consensus All-Pro in 1943. While Blozis usually draws acclaim for his defensive prowess, much of the success Paschal experienced running the ball came from following Blozis’ powerful blocks. Blozis even scored a 15-yard touchdown on a tackle-eligible play that year. Ultimately, Blozis followed his higher calling. After multiple attempts, he finally persuaded the Army to waive their size restrictions for him and Blozis was commissioned in 1944. During a furlough late in the season, he returned to play for the Giants while awaiting deployment. Blozis was killed by German fire in France in January 1945 while searching for members of his squad.
By February 1943, 330 NFL players were in the armed forces. The Brooklyn Dodgers had just seven players return from their 1942 roster when they opened training camp. Among the contingencies enacted by the league to manage the manpower shortage were various forms of contraction. The Cleveland Rams suspended operations and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles merged into the Pitt-Phil Steagles in 1943. Attempting to stay in the good graces of the Office of Defense Transportation, the league lowered roster limits from 33 to 28 (though some teams would choose to carry less), and the schedule was shortened from 11 games to 10.
The Rams resumed operations in 1944, but the talent pool depletion worsened. Of the 330 prospects selected in the NFL Draft, only 12 appeared in a football uniform. The Eagles re-emerged as an independent team and the Steelers merged with the Chicago Cardinals. They were officially known as The Card-Pitt Combine, but the 0-10 team was so dreadful they became tagged as the “Carpets” by fans. The Steelers and Cardinals resumed independently in 1945, but the Brooklyn Tigers (formerly the Dodgers) and Boston Yanks merged into one franchise without a city designation. They played four of their five home games in Boston and the other versus the Giants at Yankee Stadium.
Instituting their own version of a recall, the NFL looked to some of its heroes from the 1930’s. Mel Hein had told the Giants he was retiring after the 1942 season, but Head Coach Steve Owen was amenable to Hein’s request to miss practices during the week, being designated a “Sunday Center.” Hein would spend the next three years working at a Naval training program at Union College in Schenectady, NY for five days, and then riding the Amtrak to New York to meet his team. Ken Strong, who had not played since 1939, returned as a kicking specialist. His terms were that he not be required to wear a helmet or shoulder pads.
Arnie Herber, the former passing great from Green Bay who battled the Giants for the NFL title in 1938 and ’39, was wooed out of a three-year retirement by Owen, who sought to stabilize a roster that was otherwise mainly filled with first- and second-year players (including three who did not play college football.) Only five players remained from the 1941 Eastern Division Championship team: Hein, wingback Ward Cuff, tackle Frank Cope, guard Len Younce and all-purpose back and defensive star Hank Soar. The veteran Soar was an Owen favorite who also had an arrangement where he worked at an Army camp in Pennsylvania during the week and arrived on game day. He would not finish the season, however, as his unit would be deployed overseas. Paschal had enlisted in the Maritime Service, but was granted a special dispensation for leave on game days.
New York opened their 1944 regular season with an unremarkable win at Fenway Park against the Boston Yanks. The Giants offense was far from a well-oiled machine as the young, old and slightly-damaged parts had yet to fully integrate. Herber struggled as he was still playing himself into shape. He completed just one pass for 12 yards, was intercepted twice and fumbled once, the latter being returned for Boston’s only touchdown. The Giants defense was its formidable self and the special teams made clutch plays. The defense recorded a safety and Cope blocked a punt that was recovered for a touchdown by Victor Carroll. Strong made both his field goals in the 22-10 victory.
Frank Cope (36) and Len Younce (60), New York Giants at Brooklyn Tigers (October 15, 1944)
The Giants offense struggled even more the following week as they gained a paltry four first downs in front of 25,854 fans at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn against the re-christened Tigers. New York completed just six passes on the day, but two were for touchdowns from the arm of Soar. The second came in the fourth quarter and lifted the Giants to a 14-7 win.
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The Giants opened their home schedule the following Sunday before 40,734 faithful and treated the fans to a feel-good 23-0 win over The Card-Pitt Combine. The passing game improved and the running game was dominant. New York totaled 224 yards on the ground and Paschal rushed for three touchdowns. Cope blocked a punt through the end zone for a safety while the Giants defense recovered five fumbles. If the game felt somewhat like a scrimmage, it was because Card-Pitt was a recent convert to the T-Formation that was gradually gaining favor over the Single and Double Wing throughout the league. While Card-Pitt lacked the talent to run the T-Formation effectively, the next opponent on the schedule did.
The Next Wave
The 1940 NFL Championship Game was a seminal moment. George Halas’ Chicago Bears obliterated the Washington Redskins 73-0 with his new version of the T-Formation with wider line splits and a man-in-motion. Just a few days later, the NCAA’s only T-Formation team, the Stanford Cardinal, headed by Halas associate Clark Shaughnessy, defeated Nebraska in the Rose Bowl 21-13. The Bears led the NFL in scoring from 1941-1943 after winning the 1940 title and coaches everywhere took notice as Halas proved the T-Formation was no fluke. Chicago repeated as champions in 1941 when they defeated the Giants 31-9 in the title game, had an undefeated regular season in 1942, and made it three titles in four years in 1943 when they defeated Washington 41-21 in the NFL Championship Game.
The first NFL team to jump on the T-Formation bandwagon was the Philadelphia Eagles in 1941. The results were not immediate for Earl “Greasy” Neal’s team, as colleges were slow to convert from the Single and Double Wings. But Neal was a believer in the new system and committed to it. The Eagles saw incremental improvement each season.
The 1944 NFL Draft was a major coup for Philadelphia. The talented and relentless halfback Steve Van Buren from LSU vaulted Neal’s offensive attack straight to the top. The T-formation was still primarily a running offense, with two halfbacks and a fullback lined up behind the quarterback under center. Its success came from the balanced offensive line and the added deception provided by a skilled ball-handling quarterback. The Eagles would finish the season first in rushing yards and total points scored. Van Buren was fast, powerful and a team leader. He contributed 444 rushing yards and led the NFL in punt return yards his rookie season.
Owen spent extra time preparing for the Eagles and their T-formation at practices that week. A major challenge for Owen was overcoming the unexpected absence of his best defensive halfback and leader, Hank Soar, who wired Owen the night before the game that his unit was being deployed overseas. The 42,639 fans at the Polo Grounds watched Owen’s preparation pay off beautifully for the game’s first 25 minutes. After the Giants defense spotted Philadelphia a field goal, they stifled the Eagles’ attack. The Eagles fumbled the ensuing punt and Frank Liebel returned the loose ball for a 20-yard touchdown. This ignited a 17-point run for the Giants, who seemed to be getting by without defensive leader Soar. Paschal added a 68-yard touchdown himself and the Giants had a 17-3 lead with about five minutes left before halftime.
However, Philadelphia quarterback Roy Zimmerman found a rhythm and engineered a drive that culminated with a 6-yard Van Buren rushing touchdown to trim the lead to 17-10 at the intermission. Throughout the second half, the Giants offense sputtered in fits and starts while the Eagles T-Formation engine purred, accumulated yards and moved the chains.
Typical of many latter-day Giants-Eagles contests, Philadelphia found an uncommon way to score. Midway through the third quarter, the Eagles had the ball on the New York 22-yard line. Zimmerman connected with end Tom Miller on a 7-yard pass. As Miller was being tackled, he lateraled to the trailing Zimmerman who ran for pay dirt from the 15-yard line. Zimmerman then kicked the point-after to tie the game at 17-17.
The Giants hung on through much of the fourth quarter, and seemed likely to escape with a tie after Zimmerman missed a 48-yard placement attempt. However, Van Buren intercepted a Howie Livingston pass at midfield and returned it to the New York 36-yard line. A handful of Van Buren rushes set up Zimmerman’s 1-yard quarterback sneak for a touchdown. The Giants did not quit, but they had more fight in them than luck. After New York’s desperate advance moved them into Philadelphia territory, the game came to a close with two Herber passes into the end zone. The first seemed like a sure touchdown to Liebel until it was defensed by Ernie Steele at the very last instant. The second was intercepted by Steele off of a tip by receiver O’Neal Adams as the clock expired. The 24-17 loss dropped the previously unbeaten Giants into third place at 3-1 behind Philadelphia and Washington.
The Giants released their frustrations on the Boston Yanks the following week. The 28,634 fans at the Polo Grounds cheered on as Paschal led the way with 113 rushing yards in the 31-0 win. Owen and his team couldn’t afford to get complacent though; the next game scheduled was a trip to first-place Philadelphia.
Shibe Park was a raucous, packed stadium with a record 33,248 enthusiastic fans, who reveled in the home team’s performance. Van Buren’s 97-yard first-quarter kickoff return touchdown triggered a 21-point run. The Eagles led the Giants 21-7 after three quarters. The comeback role was reversed in this re-match and Herber finally found the rhythm the Giants passing attack had lacked all season. The stunning rally began with just under 6:00 on the clock, and it occurred with the Giants best offensive threat, Bill Paschal, on the bench with a leg injury. The first score was a 22-yard Herber strike to Livingston, who caught the ball in the middle of the end zone while surrounded by three Philadelphia defenders. Strong’s placement trimmed the lead to 21-14. The New York defense held and Herber went back to work. Another long-ball from the Giants 42-yard line was caught at the Eagles 24-yard line by Liebel, who outraced Steele – the hero from two-weeks earlier – to pay dirt. Strong’s placement was successful and deadlocked the score at 21-21.
New York’s defense again held and the Giants got the ball back quickly. Herber advanced the Giants deep into Philadelphia territory with just seconds left. Strong was good on his field goal from the 43-yard line, but the field goal was waived off on a late flag for delay of game. The next attempt from 48 yards was blocked as time expired. Owen exploded. His first argument was that on the play before Strong’s initial attempt, it appeared that Herber had completed a pass to the 20-yard line after a catch-and-run. However, an official had ruled that the receiver had stepped out on the 35-yard line. Secondly, while Owen argued, the clock mistakenly continued to run. The Giants were forced to attempt the field goal without a huddle. Owen’s third grievance was that Philadelphia had put a soft ball in play before the second try that was blocked.
Although the Giants did not get the win to move up in the standings, Owen at least had to be somewhat satisfied the Giants had avoided a seemingly imminent loss that would have crippled their championship chances. Plus, the passing game which had struggled most of the season finally showed signs of life. Herber was magnificent in the clutch as he completed 5-of-6 passes for 114 yards and two touchdowns. This was welcome news as the stretch run promised to be a grind.
A season-high crowd of 56,481 jammed the Polo Grounds to watch the 4-1-1 Giants entertain the 7-1-0 Western Division-leading Packers. Most were surprised by the efficiency displayed by the Giants defense as they confounded Green Bay’s prolific offense in a 24-0 shutout. The primary star of the game was Livingston, who Owen challenged by locking him up one-on-one with the NFL’s premier pass catcher, Don Hutson. In past encounters, Owen employed zone configurations to contain the Packer passing attack. But on this occasion he followed a hunch to play man coverage. This handsomely paid off as Hutson was limited to four catches for 31 yards. Livingston also had the first of the Giants five interceptions on the day. The other star for New York was Younce, who plowed open holes for the Giants 221-yard rushing attack. Cuff led the way with 103. Younce also had an interception on defense.
Good news arrived on the out-of-town scoreboard as well; the 5-1-1 Giants moved up to second place as Washington fell to Philadelphia. New York maintained their position in the standings the following Sunday in a tough 7-0 win over Brooklyn at the Polo Grounds. Most of the 28,387 fans would probably agree that the 0-9 Tigers were a feisty unit with a tough defense. After scoring a first-quarter touchdown, the Giants fought for every inch of turf. Strong missed two field goal attempts in the second quarter and the Giants defense twice halted Brooklyn drives inside the 10-yard line. The unsung hero was the newly-commissioned Lt. Blozis, who arrived at practice the Friday before the game. The New York Times said, “It’s doubtful the Giants would have won without him.”
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A leaner Blozis, whose weight of 242 was eight pounds lighter than the previous season, was just the boost Owen felt his team needed with back-to-back games against 6-1-1 Washington to close the regular season. Spirits were high in practice as the Giants had moved into a first-place tie with Philadelphia when the Eagles lost to the Bears. Owen acknowledged the Giants had no miracle fixes in store for their inconsistent offense. They spent the week at practice stressing fundamentals and fine tuning their rugged defense that had already shut out four opponents.
The sensational Sammy Baugh split passing duties during 1944 as the Redskins made a mid-year switch from the Double Wing to T-Formation. Statistically, Baugh appeared to be off his game, but as always, he had the Redskins in contention by season’s end. He was backed up ably by Frank Filchock. Not only did the duo combine for the most passing yards in the league, they were most efficient in doing so. Washington’s 56.9 team completion percentage was well ahead of the second-place Bears (49.3). The Giants 37.6 completion percentage placed them in eighth place in the 10-team league.
It was almost always a forgone conclusion that the Giants-Redskins games would decide the Eastern Division title. Since divisional play began in 1933, New York won the Eastern Division six times and Washington five times. The 1943 regular season culminated in the rivals engaging in a playoff. The Giants had chased the Redskins all season and eventually caught them at 6-3-1 after winning the two head-to-head games in the final weeks. The chase apparently drained New York however, as Washington trounced the Giants 28-0 in the Polo Grounds.
The Polo Grounds crowd of 47,457 braved intense cold, ready for revenge. Baugh went most of the way for Washington and had the visitors ahead 13-10 with 5:00 left in the fourth quarter. But Livingston intercepted Baugh and returned the ball to the Washington 35-yard line. Herber once again was strong in the clutch. He completed two passes before Cuff’s 21-yard reverse set up Paschal’s 2-yard touchdown plunge with approximately 3:30 left. However, the Giants did not make the critical point-after. Baugh, who finished 25-of-35 for 273 yards on the day, fearlessly led the Redskins down the field. Joe Aguirre kicked a 36-yard field goal to tie the game, but that kick was nullified by a holding penalty. The subsequent 52-yard attempt (holding was a 15-yard penalty at the time) fell well short. The Giants won 16-13.
Philadelphia defeated Brooklyn and moved up to second place at 6-1-2, while Washington dropped to third at 6-2-1. Nevertheless, the Eastern Division title was still up for grabs. If 7-1-1 New York won the finale at Washington, the Giants would win the Eastern Division title. If Washington won, they would be tied with the Giants at 7-2-1, making the Philadelphia-Cleveland game critical. If the Eagles won, they would take the Eastern crown. If Philadelphia lost, for the second consecutive year, a playoff between New York and Washington would decide who advanced to the NFL Championship Game. In the event of a Philadelphia victory and a tie between Washington and New York, the Giants would play the Eagles in a playoff. Unfortunately, New York would be without Blozis, who was called away for military duty.
The capacity crowd of 35,540 at Griffith Stadium was silenced early. Baugh fumbled on the first two possessions and the Giants capitalized both times. The first was a 25-yard Herber-to-Cuff touchdown connection less than four minutes into the contest. Then Herber connected with Liebel from 11 yards out for a second touchdown. Owen’s defense quashed any hopes of Baugh leading his Redskins in a comeback. Filchock relieved Baugh in a desperate attempt to spark a reversal of momentum, but the results were the same. In all, New York intercepted six passes on the day, en route to their fifth shutout of the season.
Limping to the Finish Line
The enthusiasm of the 31-0 victory was dampened after the game when the Giants learned that league-leading rusher Bill Paschal had severely sprained his ankle in the second quarter and his availability for the NFL Championship Game was in doubt. Worry increased during the week as Paschal tested the ankle several times during the practice but was unable to go full speed. Rookie Len Calligaro took Paschal’s reps in practice and Owen had the team focus on sharpening the passing game that had shown improvement over the latter course of the season. The good news for the Giants was Blozis was on a short leave and available to play. The Packers on the other hand were healthy and rested, not having played a game in three weeks.
An NFL Championship Game record 46,016 fans nearly filled the Polo Grounds on a crisp but not unpleasant afternoon. Commissioner Elmer Layden declared before the game that if the score was tied after 60 minutes, there would be no overtime period. Green Bay and New York would be declared co-champions.
Owen devised a new scheme to deal with Packer receiver extraordinaire Don Hutson, who had led the NFL in catches and yards for the fourth consecutive season, and who was tied with Paschal for the league-lead in touchdowns with nine. (Hutson’s were all receiving, Paschal’s all rushing.) The Giants deployed a five-man line. But when a pass play was read, Younce would drop back from his middle guard position and assist in covering Hutson.
This strategy worked through the scoreless first quarter while both teams repeatedly exchanged punts. The bad news for the Giants was Calligaro severely injured his shoulder making a tackle on the first play of the game and did not return. Meanwhile, Packers coach Curly Lambeau countered New York’s defensive strategy by sending halfback Ted Fritsch or fullback Joe Laws, who’d had just one carry all year, into Younce’s vacated position in the middle. Fritsch began a long drive with a 21 yard ramble from the Green Bay 25-yard line. Laws followed several plays later with a 15-yard rush to the Giants 27-yard line. On the next play, Fritsch crashed through right tackle to the 1-yard line. New York’s forward wall tightened up for a goal-line stand. Two rushes by Fritsch each lost a yard, and Laws advanced back to original line of scrimmage on third down. Lambeau went for it on fourth down. Fritsch took the ball, found a crease behind Charles “Buckets” Goldenberg and went over for the score. Hutson was good on the point-after and Green Bay led 7-0.
The Giants offense struggled badly. With Calligaro out, Owen was forced to put the injured Paschal on the field as little more than a decoy. Making matters worse, the passing game was out of sync. New York punted every time they had the ball, netting a paltry 24 yards in the first half with no first downs.
Green Bay began their final possession of the second quarter on their own 38-yard line. On third-and-three, Hutson shook free from coverage and hauled in a 24-yard pass from tailback Irv Comp to the New York 30-yard line. On third-and-eight, the Giants obsessive focus on Hutson would prove costly.
As Comp received the snap, Hutson crossed the New York secondary from his left end position, drawing multiple defenders with him. Noticing this, Fritsch alertly released to the vacated left flat. Comp pump faked right to Hutson, and then lobbed the ball to Fritsch at the 11-yard line where he jogged into the end zone untouched with just over one minute on the clock. Hutson’s point-after was good and the Packers had a seemingly-comfortable 14-0 halftime lead.
Fight to the Finish
The Giants returned to the field in the third quarter with a new urgency. Paschal gave it one more try on the first possession before his ankle gave out and he returned to the bench for good. New York engineered two first downs despite his absence and advanced to midfield before punting. The defense held and the Giants moved from their own 14-yard line to the Green Bay 42 on four plays, including two completions by Herber and one by Cuff. But Laws halted the drive with an interception.
Livingston got the ball right back for the Giants with a pass theft of his own on the New York 45-yard line. Herber kept to the air as New York capitalized on the good field position. Following a pass interference penalty on the Green Bay 42-yard line, Herber launched a deep pass to Liebel, who was initially covered by Comp before the defender lost his footing. Liebel made the catch and was pushed out of bounds on the 1-yard line as the third quarter expired. Cuff finished the drive on the first play of the final quarter. Strong’s point-after was good. The Giants were within one score of at least a share of the NFL title at 14-7.
From this point both teams played the clock. The Packers kept the ball on the ground while Herber valiantly fought for the tying score with his arm. Both defenses held strong for most of the period. Herber led the Giants on one final drive into Packer territory but was intercepted inside the 20-yard line by Paul Duhart with less than five minutes to play. This essentially settled the outcome and preserved the title solely for Green Bay.
1944 NFL Championship Game, Green Bay Packers at New York Giants (December 17, 1944)
Herber and Cuff were valiant in defeat for the short-handed Giants, but both defenses ruled the day. The Packers and Giants combined for seven interceptions against 11 completions. Hutson was limited to just two catches for 47 yards. “Don’t let anyone tell you the Giants are not a good team,” the All-Pro receiver said after the game. “Defensively, they are the best in the league. They always hamper our offense when we play them.”
Blozis and Hein were cited for their powerful line play while Paul Berezney and Charley Brock received similar accolades for the champion Packers. Owen lamented key injuries but was complimentary to Green Bay: “We didn’t have it today. They did. We were bottled in our own territory throughout the first half and had to kick on third down repeatedly. Without Paschal to threaten them, the Packers were able to play wide open. We went as far as we could.”
Looking back on the season as a whole, the 1944 New York Giants performance was historically great for the defense. Over the 10-game regular season, New York surrendered only 75 points. The 7.5 points-per-game average was well below the league average of 18.0. The next closest team from the start of the T-Formation era in 1940 was the unbeaten 1942 Chicago Bears who allowed 7.64 points per game (84 points over 11 games). The Giants defense surrendered only eight touchdowns during the regular season: five rushing and three passing. They were third in total yards surrendered, second in yards-per-play at 3.6 (Philadelphia was first with 3.5), first in rushing yards allowed, and first in take-aways with 45. Paschal and Younce were recognized with All-Pro status for their individual contributions.
The Giants legacy entering their 90th season of play in 2014 includes the most post-season appearances of any franchise with 31. When the NFL was aligned in its two division format from 1933 through 1966, New York won the Eastern Division/Conference 13 times, more than any other team. Their record in the NFL Championship Game was three wins against 10 losses. Those teams that fell just short of the title are woven into the fabric of New York history and are part of the standard to which today’s New York Giants teams are held.
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A report from my first visit with somewhat Chow-ish work colleagues at the end of March: So five of us hit Lin's for lunch today, eschewing the 6.99 lunch specials as we had a big enough group to try out the a la carte options. We ordered the XLB (6 for 4.99, number 6 on the menu "Shanghai style juicy dumplings", handmade in front of us 'cause we had the back table near the kitchen), tan tan noodles 5.99, number 36), lemon chicken (10.99), fried green beans Szechwan style (9.99), braised beef noodle soup (6.29, numbeer 44), pan fried dumplings (6 for 4.99, number 7) and sizzling house special fried noodles (9.99, number 96). The last two items were add ons when we decided we hadn't ordered enough food. General comments: The room is pleasant and a bit cosier than many Chinese restos IMHO. The service started out well but fell apart a bit in the latter stages, as it appears all servers serve all tables (potential for chaos and wasted steps very high with no overall plan). Oh and we had to ask for tea which was a bit strange. Communication was a bit of an issue as one of the servers only spoke Mandarin, as we discovered when one of my Cantonese-speaking fellow diners attempted to request something. In their defense, they were pretty slammed by 12:20 and stayed busy for the full hour and a bit we were there. On to the food: the XLB were X-L-ent (sorry, couldn't resist). I'm no expert but yum. I forgot to warn one XLB newbie about the squirtiness but hey we've all been there, right? We would have had another order but by the time we asked for it they had run out (downside of making them by hand I guess). Tan tan noodles: very different than any I've had before, crushed peanuts on top only, broth very dark (almost black) and super garlicky with almost none of the sweetness that often characterizes this dish. The noodles themselves were delightful, soft but firm, I suggest housemade or at least super fresh. I really liked this version of a favourite dish. Lemon chicken: I have a soft spot for this dish when done well (thin coating, yellow not nuclear pink/orange sauce, tender chicken) and we all gave high marks to Lin's version. Green beans: really well executed, done to the perfect tender crisp, dried garlic topping not too gnarly but flavourful, perhaps slightly less spicy than the other local contender at Szechuan Chonqing, which I think these beat. Another winner for all. Braised beef noodle soup: same noodles as tan tan and just as good, beef was tender and not gristly (except for one small piece), group was split on the broth, which a couple found an odd colour and oddly spiced but others liked. All but one felt it might have benefited from the addition of spinach or sprouts. Pan fried dumplings: very tasty, thin but not too thin wrappers, nicely fried, not too greasy House noodles: probably my least favourite as it was basically a version of chow mein which I'm not a huge fan of. The veggies, chicken and shrimp were all nice but likely would not order it again because I think there are other more unusual dishes to try. Summing up: no failures, some really great dishes and some good dishes. We paid $14 each including tax and tip. Will definitely be back to try more of the dumpling options. Great to have this option so close to both work and home. *Note: I have seen the service issues mentioned in postings on other boards so I think this may be a bit of an on-going issue.
April 14, 2008
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grayelf replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
I've been back a few times since as well. I have to say my favourite dishes there are now the sesame flatbread with cumin beef (served as a deliciously spicy and crunchy sandwich), the lamb dumplings, and the shan-xi noodle soup (one of the chefs makes it with a nice spice kick). ← Vancouver, that cumin beef dish is so tempting but every time we've been back it's with new people. I just have to get the Peaceful roll so they can try it and I've resisted getting the cumin beef on the grounds that it may be too similar. Can you comment? Also thanks for the tip on the shan-xi noodle soup. We tend to focus on the snacky things they do so well and have been missing out on the noodle soups.
April 13, 2008
Chinese
grayelf replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
Do you mean MOTOMACHI SHOKUDO? It is owned by the Kintaro chef and offers a "healthier" alternative with only chicken-based broths, which might explain your reaction. I haven't been yet but have read several good reviews which commented not only on the quality of the soup and noodles but also on the attractive decor. ← Two things: At Kintaro you must ask what is the best today, never chose for yourself. On Saturday Kitaro does a special ramen (I think it is chicken based)....worth the hour wait in the winter rain with a hang-over. ← On your first point, that's good tip that I for some reason never thought of applying at a ramen place (have certainly done it many times in other Japanese restos).
April 9, 2008
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Openings and closings (2006–2008 part 2)
grayelf replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
Too bad if they are gone for good. In addition to the Hungarian food (plate size schnitzels etc.), they had some killer old school pastries. Specifically, a very decadent and large Mille Feuille. ← NOOOOOOOOOOooo!! I loved their Transylvanian Wooden Platter with spaetzel The Alpen Club on Victoria Drive is sadly just so-so, and the Old Bavaria Haus in New West is good, but Budapest Cafe's schnitzel was GREAT... they will be missed... Has anyone tried Jagerhof Schnitzel House on Lonsdale? ← I just did a quick Google and can't find any other references except DineHere which says it is closed. No more langos and goulash on cold days -- sniff.
April 8, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in Food Media & Arts
Or how about no qualifier at all: "We have a sundried maple serrano ham with a yogurt whisky reduction and a poppy pollen garnish."
March 28, 2008
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March 27, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in Food Media & Arts
Could be, but I would say that Chef McEwan and his staff in Toronto do show a lot of class and professionalism sans the F'ing word. I see you hail from Vancouver? Wonderful restaurants in your city. ← Joking aside, I've never witnessed the kind of Ramsey-esque profanity that you are describing in any restaurant I've eaten in, either here in Vancouver or elsewhere. It hardly seems the sort of behaviour that would promote a world-class dining experience, especially in a smaller venue where it would be hard to hide it from the patrons. PS We don't get Top Chef till later on Food Network so I suppose I am risking spoilers by following this thread, but I'm still looking forward to watching it. PPS We are indeed blessed with many and varied good restos here, but what I am coming to realize is that the secret ingredient is value: our prices are still so low compared to other cities such as San Francisco.
March 24, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in Food Media & Arts
Maybe Canadian chefs are less prone to swearing than American ones
March 23, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
Do you mean MOTOMACHI SHOKUDO? It is owned by the Kintaro chef and offers a "healthier" alternative with only chicken-based broths, which might explain your reaction. I haven't been yet but have read several good reviews which commented not only on the quality of the soup and noodles but also on the attractive decor.
March 22, 2008
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Patrons with Tea bags
grayelf replied to a topic in Restaurant Life
Prasantrin, you and Lonefoodie bring up an interesting point. What is considered acceptable in North America may not be (and vice versa) in other parts of the world. edited to correct typo
March 21, 2008
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grayelf replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
Perfect, I'm in the picture now, and onto the list goes Tequila Kitchen... such a long list...
March 21, 2008
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grayelf replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
Thanks for the clarification. Cobre is definitely pan-Latin, and I'm probably mis-using the term fusion but I would say it does not hew too closely to "traditional" foods of any of the countries rep'd. Which is not to say it isn't great food with recognizable nods to many Latin American cuisines I have sampled in situ. I like their interpretations very much, and it sounds as though the same could be true of Tequila Kitchen albeit more focused on one area of Mexico. I'm always nervous about using quotation marks to describe food but that's a whole 'nuther discussion along the lines of the "authentic" argument (and here come the quotation marks again )
March 20, 2008
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Patrons with Tea bags
grayelf replied to a topic in Restaurant Life
Fun topic, that actually addresses two issues that are pet peeves o' mine: 1) is the resto serving the tea "properly" -- pouring boiling water over the teabag in a receptacle devoted to tea making (not a coffee carafe or <shudder> a cup) and 2) do they offer a variety of teas including but not limited to "real" black tea? Things here in Vancouver are pretty good re variety but I still often run into the "here's your hottish water and separate tea bag" scenario. Perhaps they are worried about overstewing the tea? I generally find if I remember to ask ahead they will add the tea bag first. Being picky about both tea and coffee (often left sitting too long which is sad given all the coffee preservation options available these days) leads me to not order them as I prefer to end my meal on a high note. I don't know if I could bring myself to bring tea bags to a dinner out though. The one exception to the bring your own tea bag scenario for me: I used to go to a resto that had a breakfast special that included a bottomless pot of tea or coffee. I would often spend a couple of hours there solving the world's problems with my brother, and would drink way too much caffeine (no decaf available, it was a greasy spoon after all). So I hit upon the idea of bringing my own decaf tea bags. Worked a treat, and the owners didn't seem to mind as it was the same amount of work and actually saved their teabags. I sure miss the Nemoto...
March 20, 2008
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grayelf replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
I second the thanks for the great report, Vancouver. I keep hoping that our Mexican offerings will expand to include more than "restaurant" Mexican and I see positive signs in the success of the redoubtable Dona Cata and the more fusiony if I may use that word offerings of Cobre and now TK. Speaking of Cobre, if you have been there, can you offer any comparisons?
March 20, 2008
24 replies
grayelf replied to a topic in Food Media & Arts
Not to go too far OT but I believe that you have to be born to Marmite to love it. I am surrounded by English rellies who adore it but have yet to meet anyone who has acquired a taste for it past childhood
March 18, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in Western Canada: Dining
From City Food today: Tequila Kitchen will open for lunch this Wednesday (March 19th) with a “Soft Opening” limited a la carte menu. Soft opening remains until March 31st with a limited a la carte menu at lunch and dinner as well as an evening tasting (or sampling) menu at $25 per person. Lunch 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
March 18, 2008
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Would frozen tomatoes do? One of the vendors (Klippers, I think) at the Winter Market had frozen tomatoes on offer. They were whole, in their skins and would be suitable for cooked dishes. ← While you're at the Winter Market, pop across to Bosa's. I know they have jarred tomato paste, maybe whole tomatoes too? Worth a look...
March 18, 2008
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grayelf replied to a topic in California: Cooking & Baking
I've never met another person who posts on or reads eGullet -- I guess I'll have to settle for the virtual Rancho Gordo but since I just discovered you have a great blog that should be enough Will definitely look up the RG staffers in April though. Enjoy your Saturday sleep ins!
March 17, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in California: Cooking & Baking
Did I read that right? No more Rancho Gordo at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market? Not even on Saturdays? I can't tell you how many directives I have received to visit your booth, and now that I am coming to SF in mid-April, I hear this? May have to rethink the entire visit... Seriously, though, might one of your special appearances happen to be on April 19? edited to fix typo in date of visit ← The booth and the product are still there -- more than aptly manned by his trusty side-kick, Joan. But the Man Himself, Steve Sando, I believe is now taking weekends off after working 7-days a week for the past five or six years... ← Many thanks for the clarification. While it would have been great to meet Mr Bean (sorry, couldn't resist) himself, I'm sure Joan can help us out. ← Wow, I guess it was my lucky day back in September when I met Steve on a Saturday. ← I don't know when Sr Steve stopped working weekends (sounds like it was well deserved though) but I must say I was looking forward to meeting him after hearing so many good things about him and reading his great posts. Guess I'll have to head to Napa again one of these days...
March 16, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in California: Cooking & Baking
Did I read that right? No more Rancho Gordo at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market? Not even on Saturdays? I can't tell you how many directives I have received to visit your booth, and now that I am coming to SF in mid-April, I hear this? May have to rethink the entire visit... Seriously, though, might one of your special appearances happen to be on April 19? edited to fix typo in date of visit ← The booth and the product are still there -- more than aptly manned by his trusty side-kick, Joan. But the Man Himself, Steve Sando, I believe is now taking weekends off after working 7-days a week for the past five or six years... ← Many thanks for the clarification. While it would have been great to meet Mr Bean (sorry, couldn't resist) himself, I'm sure Joan can help us out.
March 15, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in California: Cooking & Baking
Did I read that right? No more Rancho Gordo at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market? Not even on Saturdays? I can't tell you how many directives I have received to visit your booth, and now that I am coming to SF in mid-April, I hear this? May have to rethink the entire visit... Seriously, though, might one of your special appearances happen to be on April 19? edited to fix typo in date of visit
March 14, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in Food Media & Arts
It would appear we Canucks will have to wait to meet Spike and the gang. No sign of the new season on the local provider here in Vancouver, anyway. Anybody out there know when the show will be aired in Canada?
March 12, 2008
grayelf replied to a topic in Food Media & Arts
Why am I not remembering a San Francisco epsiode of "No Reservations"?? ← It has not aired yet. Tony mentioned all the upcoming shows in his blog on TC. That is where the list comes from. ← ahhh. OK. I guess I got confused somehow. I thought grayfel was listing odd episodes that he would be seeing in Vnacouver in the near future. Thanks for clearing it up. I look forward to seeing Tony spending more time in San Francisco. We only got a small taste in Cooks Tour since most of it revolved around TFL (not that there is anything wrong with that!!) ← My bad if my post was confusing -- I only wish that we were getting new eps (this season or next!) in Vancouver. There was some info about the new (4th) season on the Travel Channel blog which was indeed what I was referring to. And FYI (although you'd have no way of knowing it) grayelf is a female elf
March 12, 2008
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grayelf replied to a topic in Food Media & Arts
Not sure but apparently they've already taped four and will start taping more in the summer...
March 12, 2008
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grayelf replied to a topic in Food Media & Arts
Since we are still not getting new eps here in Vancouver (they are now repeating the Malaysia ep), I thought I'd check and see what was in store next season: Laos Tokyo-Kyoto Uruguay Colombia "an haute-heavy" Spain show Egypt San Francisco Azores/New England, Portugese nexus Papua New Guinea I am particularly keen to see the Colombia and San Francisco shows, as it adds a certain frisson to see what he does in places I've been/really like. I'll have to DVR the Uruguay one for my brother who lived there for a while. Looks like a good lineup...
March 12, 2008
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